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NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1954 PRICE: 10 Cents McCarthy Gets Govt. Witch Hunters Share Hard Blow, But GOP Rift Widens Guilt in Remington’s Murder By Daniel Roberts DEC. 2 — The United States Senate voted to censure Tangle over aCo-existence” Sen. Joseph McCarthy today. This is a sharp rebuke decreed Parochial by the dominant sections of Big Capital' who want the His Blood Is on Hands 'McCarthyite fascist movement curbed for the time being. A ll Schools Give Democratic Senators and the Of 2 Administrations Ringside View Eisenhower Republicans (a party majority) voted for the action. McCarthy Aid President Eisenhower himself Of McCarthyites* “ urgently wanted censure to be NEW YORK, Nov. 29. — Re­ That Framed Him Up accomplished,” according to the ports in local newspapers re­ New York Rally Dec. 2 N. Y. Times. veal that Catholic parochial By Art Preis However, the censure vote school children in this area are William W. Remington, a framed-up victim of the gov­ By Dick Richards deepened the r if t in the Repub­ being mobilized to get signa­ NEW YORK, Nov. 30 — There lican Party. Fully twenty Sen­ tures for the anti-censure peti­ ernment anti-“Communist” witch-hunt, was brutally beaten was no crowd around Madison ators — or almost half of the tions of fascist Sen. Joseph Mc­ under mysterious circumstances in the Northeastern Square Garden last night where Republicans who voted on the Carthy. Robert. L. McCaffery of Federal Penitentiary at Lewis- the rally protesting the censure issue — supported McCarthy. Tuckahoe, N. Y., has charged burg, Pa., on Nov. 23 and died move against Senator McCarthy They included the Senate Repub­ that his two children in one the next day of a crushed skull. was being held. There were quite lican floor leader, Sen. Knowland Westchester County parochial The 36 - year - old ex - govern­ a few cops though not more than (Calif.), and several others who, school were being subjected to ment economist had been ra il­ you would expect at a large like Knowland, are not McCar­ “ brain washing.” roaded to prison after a num­ political rally. thyites but are determined op- ■McCaffery protested in a let­ ber of loyalty board hearings I saw a man giving out tickets ponets of the new Eisenhower ter to Cardinal Spellman that and jury trials growing out of so I stood around and asked how foreign policy of slowing down “ on Nov. 23 a new low level allegations hy the sinister Eliz­ I could get in without paying. In the cold war. was reached when each of my abeth Bentley that Remington less than a minute some fellow Although the issue was not children (in the elementary had turned over government walked over with a whole bunch explicitly raised during the school) was requested by the secrets to her when she was, of tickets in his hand and of­ debates, McCarthy was censured nun to sign one of the petitions according to her claim, a cour­ fered me one. because the dominant sections of being circulated to obtain 10,- ier for a Soviet espionage ring. Inside, the meeting was not Big Capital are opposed to his 000,000 names. In other words, Conflict between Republican factions over foreign policy FBI and federal prison au­ packed and there w^re prac­ attacks on the traditional institu­ the proponents of Senator Mc­ has come to a head with Eisenhower’s shift toward a reducing thorities are trying to make the tically no people in the third tions and parties of capitalist Carthy are using Catholic of cold war tensions through a “ modus vivendi" with the Soviet (rilling out a case of attempted tier. The m ajority of the rule. schools to obtain what amounts bloc and China. The President, shown left, is sharply opposed robbery and murder by other audience appeared to be well- But so bitter is the present to forgery.” He added that an­ by Senate M ajority Leader William Knowland (R-Cal.), shown prisoners. They are attempting dressed people over th irty years conflict in the Republican party other daughter was attending p above left, who has called for a blockade of China which Eisen­ to deny any political implica­ of age though there were many that Knowland and his support­ parochial high school where the hower says would be a “ warlike act.” Knowland is shown con­ tions in Remington’s death. young people. Women appeared ers, such as Sen. Kuchel (Calif.), versing with Senate Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.) civics class was “ used to teach WHERE THE GUILT LIES to make up about one-half the lined up with the outright Mc­ McCarthyism.” after they had joined forces recently in announcing opposition audience. It was a “ respectable” Carthyites because of the for­ The Nov. 18 N.Y. Times had to admitting China to the United Nations. See story on “co­ But whatever the immediate looking audience in the main — eign policy disagreement. This previously reported that St. existence” developments in first column of this page. circumstances of Remington’s only a handful of work jackets adds significantly to McCarthy’s Rosalia’s Parochial School in death, the fact remains that he should never have been in pris­ were visible. strength in the rear guard strug­ Brooklyn gave upper grade pu­ on in the firs t place. He was gle he has been waging since the pils 110 petition forms to take SOME OF THE TYPES the victim of a coldly-calculated Watkins Committee recommended home to parents. The school The hall was set up like a poli­ frame-up by government witch- WILLIAM REMINGTON censure. It also helps to entrench principal said more would be tical convention with the names hunters who hounded him ruth­ the McCarthyites and gives them distributed as soon as they could o f states all around. I was seated School Integration Fight lessly for six years until they sional committees that have room for maneuvering in a now be obtained. in a New Jersey section. Sitting got a ju ry that would convict whipped up the smear campaign sizable wing of the Republican On Nov. 28, the Times re­ on my left was the fellow who him — not on a spy charge — and anti-“communist” hysteria. Party. ported another complaint that a had given me the ticket. He kept but on trumped-up charges of It reddens the hands of Eisen­ saying “ that’s rig ht” when speak­ parochial school was being used Knifed by Administration MCCARTHY’S CAMPAIGN ■perjury in a previous federal hower and his Attorney General by nuns as a base for distribu­ ers lambasted past and present The censure motion was brought trial. Brownell who have continued tion of the pro-McCarthy peti­ By Jean Blake into consideration. He reiterated all laws requiring or permitting administrations in Washington. to a vote with the cooperation of Remington’s blood is on the and expanded Truman’s govern­ tions. The charge was made by that ‘segregation w ill not he it are invalid. Towards the end of the rally he McCarthy himself. Right after The Eisenhower Administration hands of everyone connected ment purge and persecution of a public employee whose job ended in Georgia at any time.’ ” (2) Return of the test cases remarked: “Eisenhower won’t the Senate reconvened on Nov. added another “giveaway” to its with the government purge and political dissenters. brings her in contact with pu­ from Virginia, South Carolina, like this, but that's just too bad.” BACKED BY EISENHOWER the anti-“ red” drive. It stains “This is not a tragedy of 29, he agreed to close debate and pils of the school. She requested record in its brief on public Delaware, Kansas and the Dis­ proceed to the decision. The ten- Truman’s hands — he initiated mine alone — but also of the On my right sat a drunk who that her name not be made pub­ school desegregation tiled with That Brownell’s brief has the trict of Columbia to the lower day “ elbow filibuster” (during the government purge and the country,” said Remington’s be­ yelled and applauded but wasn’t, lic. Perhaps she read that on the Supreme Court last week. full support of the Administra­ courts where t hey were first which the Senate recessed be­ witch-hunt campaign. It drips reaved wife, Jane, on learning of very coherent. Two seats over on the day McCaffery’s letter was tion was made clear at the Presi­ heard for further action in line cause McCarthy went to the hos- The Justice Department recom­ from the hands of the Congres- my left sat another drunk — a published he received four tel­ dent’s press conference Nov. 23, with the Supreme Court’s de­ (Continued on page 4) mendation, signed by Attorney (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 2) ephone threats to kill him, and when Eisenhower said the matter cision. asked for police protection. General Herbert Brownell Jr., of “decentralizing desegregation” (3) Entry of orders in the Further evidence that Cath­ would nullify the effect of the was being explored. lower courts directing the school olic clerics are helping to or­ Supreme Court decision of last “ Decentralizing desegregation” boards involved to submit within WORLD SCIENTISTS WARN ganize the McCarthy forces was May 17 declaring segregation in is, of course, entirely consistent 90 days a plan for ending China Incidents Test revealed when a unit of the public schools unconstitutional. with the Eisenhower Republican segregation in their districts “ as Holy Name Society received The brief proposes: policies of decentralization in soon as feasible.” tickets to the McCarthy rally, other fields: in labor legislation (4) Unless a satisfactory de­ ON H-BOMB RADIATIONS (1) To turn control and en­ and enforcement of standards, to segregation program is sub­ at Madison Square Garden to­ forcement of desegregation back Scientists both here and abroad agree that H-bomb Shift in Foreign Policy night.- An accompanying form turn control back to the most mitted to and approved by the to the local districts, and letter said the tickets were sent reactionary local authorities; in lower court, the entry of an radiations and radioactive fallouts of wind-borne dust By Joseph Keller at the suggestion of the Rt.. (2) to make the Jim -C row public power and property, to order, by that court, directing churned up by atomic blasts have a cumulative effect and lower courts the judge of how DEC. 1 — Two events involving conflicts between Rev. H airy C. Graham, national hand these over to private in­ that non-segregated schools , be can contaminate the earth’s at- director of the Holy Name So­ fast or how slow the desegrega­ terests directly or through the operated at the beginning of the mosphere for long periods. There possibility that the new super- China and the United States within the past week have ciety. A spokesman for McCar- tion process should be. states; and now, in a major field next school term. is a difference of opinion on H-bombs produce i m m e n s e tested the Eisenhower administration’s avowed intentions thy’s anti-censure committee Whatever some double-talking of civil rights, to leave im ­ (5) Upon submission of a de­ precisely how this contamination amounts of nitric acid that could of pursuing a policy looking said: “ I understand that Father politicians might have to say plementation of school desegrega­ segregation plan, hearings by the w ill be caused, but none on the dangerously alter the composition toward a lessening of tensions that 13 Americans, who had been Graham gave in a list of friends about Brownell’s brief, that rabid tion up to local officials com­ lower court to determine whether fact of contamination itself. of the atmosphere. seized inside China, were accused foe of desegregation, Gov. Her­ mitted to maintain segregation. arising from the “ cold war” or associates of his to whom it provides fo r the transition “ as This is illustrated by the dis­ Dr. Eugene Rabinowitch, Uni­ against the Soviet Union and of espionage and had been tickets were to be sent.” man Talmadge of Georgia, expeditiously as the circum­ cussion aroused by recent views sentenced to imprisonment for WHAT BRIEF PROPOSES versity of Illinois physical chem­ China and of achieving some form These events confirm previous acknowledged the government’s stances permit.” expressed by Prince Louis de ist and editor of the Bulletin of terms ranging from four years to Specifically, Brownell’s brief of “ co-existence” or “ modus evidence that Cardinal Spellman proposal for what it is. Accord­ Broglie, Nobel prize winner and the Atomic Scientists, disputes life. proposes: TIED UP IN COURTS vivendi.” and a powerful sector of the ing to a Nov. 25 United Press secretary of the French Academy this opinion. But he affirms that Up to recent weeks such an It doesn’t take a Philadelphia One was the administration’s Catholic hierarchy are giving report, Talmadge “ said that the (1) A Supreme Court ruling of Sciences, and by his colleague "what we should really be think­ announcement would have evoked lawyer — or even a South reactions to a reported attempted sub-rosa encouragement to the move is a sign that the Ad­ that racial segregation in public Prof. Charles Noel Martin. The ing about is the danger from Chinese “ invasion” of Wuchiu Is­ (Continued on page 3) fascist McCarthyites. ministration is taking ‘local folks’ schools is unconstitutional and (Continued on page 4) French scientists warned of the radiation released by the bomb.” land in the Strait of Formosa. He said (hat “ experts who know Wuchiu is in the hands of Chiang most about such things are Kai-shek’s Nationalist troops. genuinely concerned about the The report came from Ohiang’s long term effects of radio­ Defense M inistry in Formosa. Why Churchill Bared Plan to Arm Nazis activity” and warned that “ we On Nov. 26, the day after the should pay serious attention to Field Marshal Viscount Mont­ opening phases of another blood­ casts new light on Truman’s use bombs oil crowded cities with- that the Soviet government, so-called “ invasion” move, Pen­ By Joseph Hansen what American geneticists have gomery, who was in command bath so frigh tfu l and destructive of the atom bomb on the civil­ out warning was “ not so much whatever one may think of it tagon officials were demonstra­ During the preliminary laud­ to say. Many of them are alarm­ of the Northern Army Group it can mean the end of mankind. ian populations of Hiroshima the last m ilitary act of the sec­ in other respects, indicated in tively non-committal about using atory meetings leading up to ed by the possible consequences of the Allied Expeditionary This is the meaning of Gen. and Nagasaki. The excuse of­ ond World War, as the first every possible way outside of the U-S. Seventh Fleet to defend the main celebration of Sir on future generations.” Chiang’s forces anywhere but in Winston Churchill’s eightieth Force in Germany at the time, George C. Marshall’s Biennial fered at the time for this mass act of the cold diplomatic war abject surrender, that it sought Report to the Secretary of War.” Formosa and the Pescadores is­ birthday, the octogenarian boast­ confirmed Churchill’s revelation. murder was that “ it would save with Russia." “ peaceful co-existence.” The danger, of coure, is im­ lands. This came after Chiang ed about his 1946 Fulton, Mo., According to reporters, Mont­ Marshall’s report, calling for American lives.” This explanation would seem Now (he evidence is conclusive measurably more immediate and had complained about Washing­ speech that launched the “ cold gomery appeared surprised that the rearmament of the U .S. However, it was revealed short­ to be well confirmed now by that even before World War U direct in actual warfare. In Dr. ton’s silence on the question of war,” and revealed for the first such a damaging admission had with atomic weapons and ocean- ly after the war that the Jap­ Churchill’s confession that in ended, British and American Raibinowitch’s own state of the Chinese coastal islands which time a secret order he issued been made by the war-time spanning rockets, and demand­ anese government had offered A pril of 1945, before the atom ruling circles were already Illinois, the entire state, includ­ Chiang had hoped to use as a as head of the war-time British Prime Minister, but he repeated ing universal military training to surrender before the bombs bombs were dropped, he ordered planning war. with the Soviet ing downstate farm areas, are springboard for invasion of the government showing how early over and over, “ I t ’s true.” for America’s youth, clearly re­ were dropped. The deliberate German arms stacked fo r easy Union. now considered danger areas be­ Chinese mainland with support of he began to plan for World War Churchill’s confession w ill not vealed Wall Street’s intention destruction of Hiroshima and re-issue to German soldiers in cause of proxim ity to Chicago or to use the end of World War Nagasaki thus seemed to be a POSTPONE WAR U.S. planes and ships. III. The statement, made Nov. surprise any readers of the M il­ a projected conflict against the St. Louis. Robert M. Woodward, There are indications that 23, is as follows: itant whose subscriptions go I I to begin preparations for macabre case of mass murder Soviet Union. Churchill's order It would even seem that they state civil defense director, some sort of agreement or under­ “ Even before the war had end­ back to 1945. In our Oct. 20, World War III. fo r no other reason but to ex­ thus constituted not so much thought of an early attack. This recommended on Nov. 28 that all standing has been reached be­ ed and while the Germans were 1945, issue we called attention Churchill’s admission of his periment with the newly devel­ one of the last acts in the war project, however, was blown sky- areas “ must be prepared to tween Washington, Moscow and surrendering by hundreds of to a report by Gen. George C. order to stack German arms oped atom bomb. against imperialist Germany as high by the action of American detect and identify any radio­ Peking whereby the U-S. w ill thousands, I telegraphed to Lord Marshall, outlining military so that they would he easily A leading British atomic one of the firs t acts in rearm­ soldiers overseas who started a active fall-out. developed from an limit its fleet activity to For­ Montgomery, directing him to •plans for the United States for available for use by the Nazi scientist, P. M. S. Blackett, of­ ing imperialist Germany as an “ Get Us Home” movement after air-borne attack.” mosa and the Pescadores and be careful in collecting the Ger­ the coming period. Here is what armies in a conflict with the fered a political explanation. In ally in the. attack planned Japan surrendered. This move­ The Nov. 29 Chicago Daily T ri­ China w ill not press m ilitary man arms, to stack them so that we said : Soviet Union, now shows that his book, “ Fear, War, and the against the Soviet Union. ment was irresistible. I t could bune comments: “ Hitherto down- operations to regain control of they could easily be issued to a common understanding exist­ Bomb,” Blackett argued that the A ll of this confirms what the have ended with revolutionary state Illinois has been considered Chiang’s main strongholds. the German soldiers whom we WAR PLANS ed between British and Amer­ bomb was dropped hastily to M ilitant has repeatedly pointed consequences had Wall Street a support area to handle refugees should have to work with if the “ The Third World War is al­ ican ruling circles at the end secure the surrender of Japan out about, the origin of the attempted to oppose it head on. or otherwise aid a stricken A SHARPER TEST Soviet advance continued.” ready in the blueprint stage. of World War II about turning before Soviet troops could be “ cold war.” The capitalist pro­ Wall Street therefore temporized, metropolitan area like Chicago in An even sharper test of the This order, as Churchill him­ Even before the official termin­ upon the USSR and utilizing moved against that country and pagandists claim that it was conceded to the pressure and event of a successful enemy "modus vivendi” policy occurred self stresses, was issued in A p ril ation of the Second World War, German imperialism as an ally to terrorize the Soviet Union the attitude of the Soviet Un­ postponed the projected conflict. air attack. Now . . . virtually all with the announcement by the 1945, that is, before the surren­ Wall Street’s newly fledged m il­ in the attack. with the new weapon. The deli­ ion after the end of World War Shortly thereafter a great up- Illinois becomes a possible ta r­ Peking government on Nov. 23 der of either Germany or Japan! itary caste has projected the Churchill’s admission also berate dropping of two atom I I that caused it. The fact was (Continued on page 3) get.” Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, December 6, 1954

Warfare in the Schools By Joyce Cowley What’s Ahead for the American Economy? THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE by Evan Hunter seems to believe That this is a con­ By John G. W right cession,” the “ second best” higher levels. They, and their of would-be regulator of the en­ tory of the process of expanded Hunter. Simon & Schuster, New York. dition peculiar to vocational high schools in In the last two months we peacetime year, and the rest apologists, immediately add the tire economy. reproduction under capitalism. of the official propaganda, the 1954 stock boom is not at all In the post-war years, there Price $3.50. New York City. If he had only gotten a break have seen the first signs of eco­ I t is the state as a “ super- and been a teacher in an academic high school, rulers of this country were bad­ the 1929 stock boom. That’s cor­ corporation” that props up for­ have already been two warning nomic revival since the slump be­ ly scared. Had the fa ll upturn rect. In economics, as in politics, Judging from the advertising spread they •things would have been different, he thinks. 1 eign trade. As the dispenser of signals. The firs t came in the gan in the summer of 1953. The failed to materialize, it would there are no mechanical repeti­ defense orders, the state bol­ depression of 1948-49, out of gave this novel when it first came out, the have news for him. First-hand information index of production has finally have been dire news indeed. tions of one and the same phe­ sters the capital goods sector. which the American billionaires about academic high schools (1 have a fifteen publishers consider it a major book. Review­ started edging upward, nothing Only twice in the history of nomenon. Approximately one-fourth of the escaped by plunging into Korea. year old daughter) discloses that gangs, American capitalism has an in­ One marked difference be­ country’s national income is The second came in the 1953-54 ers, too, compared it to GRAPES OF WRATH spectacular but a steady rise delinquency and violation of discipline are dustrial upswing failed to come tween the gyrations of Wall spent today in the production depression out of which these and indicated it was a book of profound social nonetheless. This revival has been in the fa ll — the firs t time Street today as contrasted with not confined to boys studying manual trades. of t)he means of destruction. same billionaires seek to escape content, and exposure o f New' York schools sparked by steel, whose output was in 1929, when the Great 1929 is that in 1929 the finan­ Newspapers carry sim ilar reports about class­ Agriculture is held up from through inflation and have evid­ which would startle and arouse an apathetic has climbed to near 80% of ca­ Depression started, the second ciers and the speculators were bankruptcy by the Commodity ently thus fa r succeeded. room conditions from every large city in the pacity; by auto, now turning out time was in the depression year betting on the continuation of public. 1 know something about the miserable Credit Corporation, the single When w ill the third, and per­ United States. new models; by the continued of 1937. the BOOM whereas in 1954 they conditions in New York schools and I believe biggest corporation in this coun­ haps'decisive warning comp? To Hunter doesn’t have anything much to say boom in construction; and, last But in the fall of 1954 the are betting on the continuation try and, by the same token, in a great social novel could be written about the try to guess the date is to as­ about the schools. Apparently the only thing but not least, by a new splurge upswing did materialize and this of INFLATION. A far safer the world’s history. The OOC sume the role of a crystal gaz­ neglect and miseducation o f our young peo­ of defense orders. bet, to be sure. wrong with them is the pupils. He doesn't means that there is a possibility now holds mountains of wheat, er. We leave that to Eisen­ ple. This is not the book. There appears to be enough for the capitalists to stabilize A most powerful inflationary corn, cotton, tobacco, butter, hower’s economic advisers. No mention overcrowding or double shifts. He factor is the federal debt which The publishers announced that BLACK­ power behind this upswing to their economy temporarily at cottonseed, etc., a hoard of fiber one knows, least of all the finan­ says nothing about buildings so old and in carry it over into the first quar­ approximately the existing lev­ ¡has been growing at a rate un­ and food that may shortly pass BOARD JUNGLE was the result of Evan ciers and speculators in Wall such bad repair that they are physically ter of the next year and even els, with an army of unemploy­ exampled in peace - time years. the eight billion dollar mark. Street. The direction of current Hunter’s experience as a teacher in a vocational dangerous to the children attending them. longer. Barring unexpected de­ ed meanwhile edging upward be­ This fiscal year there will be Or take the construction boom. economic processes, that is, their a huge federal budget deficit, high school in the Bronx. One critic wrote in Also omitted is the problem of low pay for velopments, such a prospect is cause of further rationalization Would it have been possible tendency alone can he predicted. to the N. Y. Times that Hunter had spent quite realizable and realistic. of production (automation) plus with another deficit looming in without the fast tax “write-off” teachers, which creates a teacher shortage by the next year’s budget. The exactly seventeen days teaching in this school. (Among the unexpected develop­ the inability of industry to ab­ program and the government INFLATION AND SLUMP forcing competent men and women into other ments, apart from war, we might sorb tlhe annual accretions of same situation is duplicated on a guarantee of home mortgages? 1 haven’t checked, but after reading his book Inflation does not exclude de­ jobs where they can make a living. list a sudden shrinkage of for­ 750,000 to 1,000,000 recruits to state and local scale. Private We have by no means exhaust­ pression. I t can only postpone it seems quite probable. 'Above alii, he never asks why these young­ eign trade or a further contrac­ the labor force. For the capital­ debt, too, has reached an all-time ed the government intervention depression for a longer or short­ Hunter is painfully superficial. He gives a sters are at war with authority. Presumably, tion of domestic markets which ists such a stabilization would high, and after a brief pause is in economic life. But the facts er span of time. Let us not fo r­ heading higher once again. fairly realistic picture of boys in a vocational from his account, because they have a low would be. signaled by the failure indeed spell “ prosperity.” we have cited suffice to show get that the 1953-54 downswing of Christmas retail sales to how massive it has become. came at the height of the post- high school as they appear to a prejudiced, i.Q. It doesn’t occur to him that their hostility BET ON INFLATION MARKETS AND ARMS come up to expectations — nei­ Korea inflation and lasted for Wall Street is betting that middle-class teacher. But even from this one­ to authority is based on the kind of persona! ther of which appears likely at The regained self - confidence A “ SUPER-CORPORATION” months without any significant foreign markets w ill be sus­ sided point o f view he does not attempt any experiences they have had with various types this writing.) of the American billionaires It is this massive economic signs of deflation, except for tained by government “give­ background, any motivation, any analysis of of authority. finds its crassest expression in intervention of the state that the jobless and fo r lowered farm CAPITALIST STABILITY away" programs supplemented how the boys fait and why they acted as they The world in which these kids grew up was the 1954 stock market boom. sums up all of the 6o-ealled income. The next downswing, Among the capitalists there The 1929 levels have been by 'huge, private bank loans (the did. He cannot conceal his contempt and hatred never very warm or friendly. They did not “built-in stabilizers” about which when it comes, may well repeat has been a resurgence of self- cracked and the financiers con­ program for Latin America, the capitalist economists have been the same pew experience. for these boys. Among them there may be a receive much affection or understanding or confidence. For all the public fidently predict that the stock “little Marshall-Plan” for Asia, boasting so much in the post­ few that can be salvaged, he infers, but the etc.). Finally, the economic down­ respect. Most o f them have been kicked around boasting about a “ limited re­ market is heading for much war years. Just as the great swing does not necessarily have vast m ajority are a bunch of anti-social morons since they were old enough to take their first Wall Street is betting that the trusts entered as a new factor markets at home w ill be sus­ to manifest itself at a single who can’t absorb any education and obviously tentative steps, so it’s not surprising they in economic life at the turn of stroke, in the shape of an ab­ tained by cheap credit (facili­ this century, so the new econ­ don’t need it. •learned to kick back. Since Hunter himself Censure Committeemen tating installment buying, credit rupt decline over a relatively omic role of the state as a brief period of time, as was the One fact does emerge with striking clarity. neither liked nor respected the boys, he w'as purchases, mortgages, etc.). “ super-corporation” enters into not in a position to find out how they might Wall Street is betting on ex­ case, say, in 1929 or 1937. It What goes on in these classrooms is definitely the economic processes in our can come as a series of pro­ not just boyish mischief. It’s war, a war waged respond to some-one who considered them panded arms expenditures in the time. next budget, particularly to re­ tracted and relatively “mild” against all authority with sustained intensity human anil attempted to understand their arm Germany and Japan, as The evolution of the trusts dips with an alternation of com­ and bitterness. problems. well as increasing appropriations was hailed in its day as the paratively brief and unstable for the U. S. armed forces. A birth of a “ new capitalism,” do­ phases of upswing. fairly safe bet judging by the ing away forever with the vio­ There is no way of telling pronouncements of the Demo­ lent levelling out of all the ac­ in advance. The scientific task A Crime to Remember cratic leaders who w ill control cumulated contradictions of a is to follow closely the current­ the next Congress. capitalist boom, that is, abol­ ly unfolding revival, analyzing ■ 1 ■ - by Amargo ------ishing crises. Wlhat the trusts the way in which the individual STATE INTERVENTION actually did was to invest cap­ factors are being joined toge­ The American people must not be allowed to workers and farmers of Guatemala have only The chief peculiarity of the italist contradictions with new ther, studying the new manifes­ forget Guatemala. News of this Latin Amer­ the right to pray. American economic scene in tihe manifestations. At a certain tations of the accumulating ana And in this country there is silence. Where stage the role of the trusts as ican land has all but disappeared from the post-war years lias been the im­ sharpening contradictions which, are the liberals and intellectuals to protest the perious intervention of the cap­ “ regulators” was turned into its amid the upswing, are prepar­ daily press. Only a few months ago, the con­ opposite — they were disclosed smashing of political parties and the suppres­ italist state into economic life. ing the next downswing, and stitutionally-elected government W'as overturn­ State power represents not only as the greatest disrupter of an which w ill manifest themselves sion o f all freedoms? Where are the labor lead­ expanding economy, as the true ed by what was undeniable force and violence. a political force but also an and unfold not in some single ers to denounce the destruction of trade un­ economic one. Its traditional architects of the greatest depres­ The overturn was carried out by a gang of particular branch of capitalist ions? Where are the mass meetings, the com­ powers have been in monetary sion the world had ever witnessed, economy, but, literally, in any hoodlums and thugs with the open collusion, mittees, the organizations of aid to the victims policy, in credit, taxation, tar­ sandwiched between two world sphere. support and leadership of the government of the terror? Where is that minimum of ac­ iffs. To this might, be added wars. which claims to act in the name of the peo­ tiv ity to make the American people aware of the production of the means of We understand quite clearly destruction for the maintenance that the massive economic role ple o f the United States — a government the crime that has been committed in their EVEN HBARiST’S FOR IT. which, in its own country, ruthlessly punishes of standing armed forces in of the Super-Corporation-State Doing a fli.p-flop, the Hearst name and to make the world aware that there peacetime and for m ilitary oper­ is not and cannot be a simple press is now beating the drunri fo r not only force and violence, not only "advo­ is still a conscience in America? ations in war. mechanical repetition of the role “ co-existence.” W illiam Randolph cacy" of force and violence, but even alleged During the darkest days o f Hitlerite Nazism In the years of capitalist as­ of private capitalist trusts. Not Hearst Jr. wrote in the Nov. 21 ^conspiracy” to "advocate” force and violence. and Mussolini Fascism there were a Thomas cent, the bourgeoisie required at all. Capitalist contradictions Hearst Sunday papers: “ I think the state to act merely in the have over the years expressed How can we ‘forget that American planes Mann and an Ignazio Silone to express, even the entire nation w ill agree with role of policeman in society as themselves in entirely new man­ President Ike that in this era of were used to, drop American napalm bombs if only from exile, the conscience of the Ger­ a whole and also w ithin those ifestations. So will the new role potentially total destruction, on the Guatemalan .people? How can we for­ man and Italian people. Where are the James economic domains' that were the of the capitalist state. there is no alternative to get the picture of the posturing U. S. Ambas­ T. Farrells, the Sidney Hooks and the Max state’s prerogative. A qualita­ peace. . . There’s no reason to TWO WARNING SIGNALS sador Puerifoy, that combined image of Wall Lerners, so quick to denounce oppression in tively different role is demand­ believe that God-fearing demo­ Street, and Hollywood, swaggering around Sen. Arthur Watkins (R-U tah), seated left, who headed the ed in the epoch of capitalist de­ Nevertheless, at a certain cracy will not prevail in a long- Czechoslovakia or Outer Mongolia? As for the six-man Senate Committee who brought in the recommendation Guatemala C ity with his six-shooter in his cay. As the state merges more stage, from serving as a “ reg­ range showdown with God-less official union piecards on the payroll o f the for a Senate censure of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Standing left to and more closely with the bil­ ulator” or a "built-in stabilizer” Communism even though we belt, brazenly deciding who should rule the U. S. State Department — we know where they right arc committee members Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss.) and lionaire monopolies, it adds to the capitalist state w ill emerge move into the phase of ‘peaceful Guatemalan people? How can we forget the are. They’re down in Guatemala organizing Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.). See story on censure vote, Page 1. the role of policeman, the role as the greatest disrupter in his­ co-existence.’ ’’ fact that this creature claimed to speak and scabby government-run company unions. act in our name — the name of the American Intellectuals, liberals and official labor lead­ people? ers have shown ample cowardice, gutlessness Look how Guatemala has been restored to and hypocrisy over the years and throughout ... McCarthyites’ Rally ...McCarthy Gets Blow the “ Free W orld.” A ll ‘political parties have the world. But never has this breed reached been banned. Trade unions have been dissolv­ the depths of degradation they have achieved (Continued from page 1) in the section reserved fo r the (Continued from page 1) Big Capital may also have have undertaken a successful ed. The extremely modest agrarian reforms in America in 1954. Never have so many of real-gone alcoholic type, though U.S. Armed Forces. He pretended pital with a conveniently injured more immediate and partial uses public demonstration against Mc- have been nullified and the peasant "squatters” them (with a few shining exceptions like Dr. not shabbily dressed. When a to be reluctant to speak hut elbow) was used by the McCar­ for the McCarthyites. They are Carthyism — namely, the labor speaker attacked co-existence and quickly “ gave in” to the popular stiil the best witch-hunters. Big have been forcibly removed from the estates of Albert Einstein) been frightened so much by thyites in an attempt to marshall movement, — did not launch any asked, “ Who wants to shake the demand. He took the floor briefly Business can use them as a club independent activities. Most labor •the feudal landlords. The United Fruit Co., so litttle. And truly this is a thing of shame imposing public sentiment against bloody hand?” this drunk yelled and in his concluding words said censure. The response — as over the Democrats .to cut down leaders simply relied on the that giant U.S. exploiter of the Guatemalan •for us. “ Eisenhower,” while another that this was a fight of “ Catholic, measured by their failure to pack the demagogic promises the Democratic Party to curb Mc­ and other Central American people, is again But, with or without these gentlemen, the shouted “ Lehman.” Protestant and Jew, of black and Madison Square Garden in New latter make to the working peo­ Carthy. living high o ff the hog. Thousands have been crime in Guatemala will be erased. It will be An elderly woman sitting in white, of all Americans.” York (See Dick Richards’ ring­ ple. A new speeding up of the But this policy of dependence imprisoned without trial and hundreds have erased by the Guatemalan people with the aid front of the alcoholic, who seemed The speeches were for the most side account of the rally in this cold war also could bring the on the Democrats, if maintained happy only when some high of­ part of the “God and Country” McCarthyites back into play in in the face of a new McCarthyite been tortured and killed. Of freedom of expres­ o f the American people. And the beginning of issue) — must have indicated to ficial was being exorcised, tried type and pro-war. Almost every the attempt to whip up the offensive, can prove fatal for the that job is to make militant American workers the McCarthyites that they had sion. there is nothing. O f that "sanctity of the often but unsuccessfully to shush speaker attacked the Eisenhower nothing more to gain from delay­ population against the “ commu­ working people. The record shows individual” for which Dulles and Eisenhower aware of what has happened and is happen­ him by 6.aying that women were administration. ing the vote. On the contrary, nist menace.” that in a social crisis when fas­ are waging a crusade, there is nothing. The ing in Guatemala. present. The phrase from the they risked advertising that their I t was because of such im­ cism gains real momentum capi­ AMONG THE NOTABLES platform that really moved this effective strength was less than mediate'needs of the capitalist talist politicians, including the alcoholic was the description of A Catholic bishop had given they had claimed. class for their sendees that the liberals, know only how to the invocation so a Rabbi M erritt McCarthyites rose to prominence Eisenhower as a “ crybaby gen­ Just the same, it would be a capitulate and thus pave the way was asked to give the closing during the last four years. This eral.” serious error to write o ff the for realizing fascism’s union- Notes from the News benediction. He told how he had culminated in McCarthy’s great McCarthyite movement just be­ smashing objectives. SOME ROUGH STUFF come all the way from Los surge forward last winter, when cause the Madison Square rally Two incidents occurred in my Angeles fo r the meeting and how the Republican high command, did not come up to the expec­ M AIN U.S. EXPORT. Fully half of the 3,- U.S. EMBASSY WIVES in French-controlled immediate vicinity. One was the proud he was of Roy Cohn. Then determined to maintain control of tations of its sponsors. The ma­ EVEN CHARITY 1'S RED. The 278,000 members of the U.S. armed forces are southern Viet Nam are assembling “ welcome” throwing out of a young woman. he blasted the “ eggheads.” This Congress, launched an all-out jo rity of the 13,000 present were Special House Committee which estimated to be abroad. A t the latest count they kits for war refugees sent by the Foreign Opera­ As she was escorted out under a was the end of the meeting and red-baiting campaign against the hardened McCarthyites from the investigated educational a n d had with them 305,100 dependents. They are tions Administration directed by Harold Stassen. barrage of catcalls and yells of people were already leaving. Democrats. New York and New Jersey area, philanthropic foundations has scattered from Kwajalein in the South Pacific to These kits contain plastic toilet articles and a “throw her out,” some one near There was no discernible anti- They sent McCarthy on a na­ and that is a lot of fascists. The issued a report that grants made French Morocco, whose people are now fighting bottle of Vaseline hair tonic “for dry scalp.” me shouted, “ I thought she look­ Semitism although I understand tional speaking tour last February McCarhyites still enjoy the back­ by these foundations have a fo r independence from French imperialism. The Ferdinand Kub reporting this from Saigon adds ed like the Greenwich Village many race-hating leaders such as to speak about the Democratic ing of a minority wing of Big “Fabian socialist” tinge, if not biggest concentrations of U.S. aimed forces are “ and this, if you please, where survival adds up type.” I later learned that she Gerald L. K. Smith, Joseph P. Party’s “ twenty years of trea­ Capital, which includes the ag­ worse. in Western Europe and Japan. Korea, still on a to a bowl of rice and a drink of clean water.” was a Time-Life magazine photo­ Kamp and others were present. son.” This was conceived as the • * * gressive Texas oil group. near-war basis, is the only major area where grapher named Lisa Larsen and Such “ celebrities” as Westbrook opening gun in the 1954 election soldiers’ dependents are still barred. The govern­ FOR SPEEDY INTEGRATION. The American had tried to photograph some of Pegler and Ham Fish were in­ The decision of the dominant campaign. The McCarthyites ment pays cost of travel and shipping, estimated Veterans Committee filed briefs with thé Supreme the McCarthyite brass on the troduced from the platform. sections of Big Capital to curb seized this opportunity to build Detroit Fri. Night to run about $54 million this year. Court last week asking for immediate racial platform. McCarthy is not .permanent. They their own movement within the Socialist Forum * * * integration in the public schools. “ There is an The other incident also in­ TURNOUT DISAPPOINTS still prefer to rule through the Republican Party and to a lesser MORE FOR COWS TH AN KIDS. Carl J. impressive body of evidence which supports the volved a photographer, a tall slim The crowd was disappointed by traditional means. In preference extent, within the Democratic The Communist Party: Megel, president of the AFL American Federa­ position that gradualism, far from facilitating young man with glasses. A well- its own size — around 12,000. The to the fa r more drastic and costly Party. Similar opportunies for What It Is and tion of Teachers, refused to sign a report of a the process, may actually make it more difficult,” dressed, middle-aged man grab­ Garden seats 20,000. The. gather­ method of fascism, for the time sudden growth may be extended Where It ’s Going subcommittee on Federal Responsibilities in the the b rief said. “ Our submission is that this bed him and twisted his arm be­ ing was spirited but far from being they w ill even choose to to the McCarthyites again. Friday. Dec. 10, at 8. P. M. Field of Education because it writes off Federal (segregation), like many wrongs, can be easiest hind his back. Immediately some filled with fiery enthusiasm or run the country through a Demo­ Speaker: John Austin aid as “ unnecessary.” He told a New England and best undone, not by ‘tapering off,’ but by cratic-Labor coalition. LABOR PLAYS NO ROLE of the onlookers started to rise zeal. Many people knew one an­ • conference of his union: " I t is a perversion of forthright action.” and I could hear the aggressor other and hellos were constantly I t would require a deep social The censure fight brought a The Role of -the Middle Class logic when the Federal government accents the * * * say, “ Don’t start taking my being shouted back and forth. crisis and the serious threat of certain amount of public mobiliza­ In American. Society responsibility of financing the raising of cows DANGEROUS BOOKS. The Post Office has picture.” Finally the photo­ The outfit running the rally, the working people taking power tion fo r censure, but nothing that Friday, Dec. 17, at 8 P. M. and pigs, but denies the country’s children.’’ He (held up delivery of 75 copies of Lenin’s “ State grapher wrenched himself loose the Ten Million Americans fo r the main sections of Big could compare in volume or noise Speaker: Sarah Lovell added: “ I have had occasion to visit nearly 500 and Revolution” mailed to Brown University by and made for the exit amid cries Mobilizing fo r Justice, had plan­ Capita] to support the program with the campaign waged by the schools in the last several years, and can say a Moscow printer, because the package contained of “ throw him ou(.” ned to hold simultaneous meet­ of fascist dictatorship. McCarthyites. According to the • without reservation that the condition of our “ subversive literature.” Material of this nature, ings in Chicago and Los Angeles. Nov. 29 N. Y. Post, a League of No forum • Christmas Eve. schools is a disgrace to our great nation.” cannot be mailed unless it is sent to members of COHN’S LITTLE ACT These were cancelled and it was McCa r t h y it e p r o s p e c t s Twenty Million Americans for There will be a New Year’s * * * the diplomatic corps or to a registered foreign A young fellow sitting in front said that the advance notices But precisely because it keeps the Censure of McCarthy was Eve Party Dec. .31 starting 9 PROSPECTS BRIGHT, BUT — While the agent. The post office said: “ Exceptions have of me, dressed in a jacket and had been an “ error.” While some this variant in mind, Big Business formed in Massachusetts. Peti­ P. M. Regular weekly forums Labor Department in its latest survey says that been made in certain cases where such matter corduroy pants, said: “ If he takes 1,2,000 backers of fascist Senator does not want to smash the Mc­ tions of this group circulated in w ill be resumed Friday, Jan. 7. prospects “ point to a further brightening in the is addressed to universities which undertake to riiy picture I ’ll crown, him.” He McCarthy in the New York area Carthyite movement. The ■ Mc­ the Bronx, N. Y., received ex­ • over-all economic picture to the year end” and Carthyites therefore retain plenty cellent support. At Harvard Uni­ study such propaganda and, of course in no way was also one of the few that is not a smiling matter, it is A t 3000 Grand River the Federal Reserve Board sees “ some expansion” promote its dissemination.” Samuel Arnold, yelled “ we want Cohn” when the satisfying to note that both the of room for consolidating their versity a sim ilar petition gained Donation 25c. Of business ahead, the Labor Department also Brown University provost, stated he would notify spotlight was turned on Roy backers and opponents of Mc­ forces and cementing protective 3,000 signatures and there were anticipates a “ seasonal” lag in employment early the Post Office that Lenin’s work will be used Cohn, former chief investigator Carthy were surprised that more alliances which will allow their other sporadic signature drives. Free to Unemployed in 1955. along the lines set forth in the post office letter. fo r McCarthy. Cohn was sitting could not be mobilized. movement to stay alive. However, the force that could THE MILITANT — Page T h re e

Prof. J. Burnham Spins .. .Why Churchill Bared (Continued from page 1) Eisenhower, in moving toward surge of revolutionary forces oc­ a temporary period of “peace­ A /#Web of Subversion" curred in many countries, the fu l co-existence” is troubled by most important being in Europe the blind and stubborn opposition By Carl Goodman who broke w ith Marxism be­ holds office? The conspiracy and in the Far East. The vic­ of the wing in the Republican THE WEB OF SUBVER­ cause it wasn’t truthful or moral still goes on. It has not yet been tories of the colonial peoples in Party headed by Senator Know- "Boss Politics Doesn’t Pay !" SION, Underground Networks enough dishes up the testimony uprooted. There are more years China, Korea and Indochina land. Eisenhower’s political au­ in the U. S. Government, by of such professional informers of “treason” ahead. “Actually a forced further postponements of thority is not great enough to as Elizabeth Bentley, Paul number of the now exposed cells the war. Finally, production of curb this opposition and make While a large part of the labor movement, the boss. The labor union as the agent of the James Burnham. John Day Co., New York. 248 pp. Price $.8.75. Crouch and W hittaker Cham­ and individuals were only half­ atomic weapons, including the them shut up. as indicated by the recent election results, is workers. It is a long established principle that This book is the- first offering bers. underground anyway. . . The hydrogen bomb, by the Soviet .Churchill, however, is the- el­ still willing to give the Democratic "friends of an agent cannot serve two masters.’' It con­ of James Burnham in his new Is more proof required? There underground that remains, and Union brought new delays. The der statesman of the world cap- labor” another try in preference to the openly cludes : role of propagandist for the is the refusal of countless w it­ perhaps even expands . . . will series of defeats and setbacks made still worse the unfavor­ pro-Big Business Republicans, not all opinion “On the political front we must follow the McCarthyite movement. nesses, fingered by these stool- be still harder to uproot.” amongst organized labor continues to cling to In 1940, when Professor Burn­ pigeons, to answer the questions “ From the fact that fishermen able diplomatic position of Wall same principle. Free ourselves from sharing have caught a good many fish Street, giving additional impul­ the bankrupt policy of supporting one or ham deserted the working-class of Jenner, Velde, and McCarthy our political agent w ith our economic enemies. movement, he repudiated Marx­ by invoking the Fifth Amend­ in it, you don’t conclude that a sion to the Eisenhower admin­ another of the capitalist parties. Labor must have its own political party. ism — the principles of Social­ ment. They must be guilty, lake is empty.” istration to reach a temporary We were glad to read in the November MESA Merely voting for labor's friends is not ism derived from a scientific Burnham asserts, “ or else they “ modus vivendi” w ith the Soviet nEART OF DEMAGOGY Educator, organ o f the Mechanics Educational enough.” understanding of society. He are perjuring themselves when Union. Society o f America which recently merged with claimed this science was a “ dog­ they say that a truthful answer And now Burnham comes to “ILL-TIMED”? This is sound reasoning and 'supported by ma” and was “ immoral” into would tend to incriminate them.” the heart of the McCarthyite the CIO United Automobile Workers, a strong the whole weight of evidence not only in this the bargain. But Burnham’s own demagogy. The real danger In view of Eisenhower’s cur­ , This specious McCarthy argu­ rent moves toward a temporary argument for the building of a labor party. country but throughout.the world. The workers writings after he became a ren­ ment has been thoroughly shat­ does not lie in espionage, he deal with the Malenkov regime, The article was entitled: "Boss Politics Doesn’t can get nowhere so long- as the machinery of egade have all been travesties tered by such eminent lawyers says. I t lies in the way the Churchill’s revelation of his se­ Pay!” political rule -is in the hands of those who of objective thinking. In The as Dean Erwin N. Griswold of Communists “ exploit and deepen Web of Subversion, he finally conflicts that already exist” and, cret 1945 order has been criti­ Describing the build-up, of government exploit labor. And the exploiters keep this the Harvard Law School and abandons all pretense of social through the “ underground” and cized, especially in England, as Leonard B. Boudin. Individuals “unwise” and ' “ ill-timed.” The agencies and laws to curb and cripple labor machinery — the government — through their thinking based on an honest ex­ plead the F ifth Amendment, the “ dupes,” influence policy to during a generation of backing “friends of control of political parties built and operated amination of social trends. their advantage. conservative London Times used they demonstrated, to protect its Nov. 25 lead editorial to de­ labor” in politics, the article says that this for the capitalists’ own class interest. themselves from - frame-up by “CONSPIRATORS” ALL “ I do not think that the Com­ plore Churchill’s disclosure, de­ policy "has no-w culminated in a semi-police VVe believe that further experience with the the witch-hunters and to keep munist victory in China was ‘in­ claring that it would not help What Burnham serves up is from informing on others. evitable’,” Burnham proclaims, state for labor.” It calls for organized labor to forthcoming Democratic-controlled Congress, a more polished, more urbanp, to convince Russians that the "re-evaluate and reanalyze its position and echoing McCarthy. “ I believe Western powers were straight­ dominated by Southern white supremacists and but no less monstrous presenta­ WAVES LOGIC ASIDE that it would not have occurred attitude toward using the various government tion of the gigantic frame-up forward in their declaration of Dixiecrats, will further 'demonstrate the need Burnham waves this aside. He without a breakdown in U. S. boards and agencies.” and lie contained in McCarthy’s peace today. for a labor party. I f the Democrats are elected is not concerned with genuine policy, and that this breakdown Churchill, however, brushed charge of “ twenty and twenty- proof or logic. The fascist move­ could have been avoided . . . The article continues that "the only rights to power in the White House in 1956, they one years of treason.” all this aside and even emphas­ we have as working people are those we make will only conclusively confirm that they are ment does not seek to win ad­ if not fo r the influence of the ized that in May 1945 he urged “ During the 1930’s and ’40’s,” web of subversion.” for ourselves. No political friends o f labor, enemies of the working people. The time w ill herents by these means. It seeks General Eisenhower, then Su­ he says, “ an invisible web was to capitalize on the feelings of no government board is going to protect our come, in the not too distant future, when the spun over Washington” — name­ preme Allied Commander, not to insecurity in the middle class. BURNHAM’S PROGRAM destroy captured German arms. rights.” It points out that on the economic views expressed in the MESA Educator w ill ly, the “ underground Communist Frenzied under conditions of so­ CHURCHILL apparatus.” What’s to be done, according “ We may have great need of front “ we have learned long ago, we must become the overwhelming opinion of the entire cial crisis, they can be won with There are “ dupes,” “ victims',” to Burnham ? The “ conspiracy” these some day,” he said he told the * demagogy that the nation ita list class, one of their last maintain our unions free from influence of labor movement. and “unwitting helpers” — must be rooted out. The propo­ Eisenhower at the time. is rotted with “ treason” and sals he sets forth explicitly are The old Tory war dog argued remaining political brains. The “ spiders and flies” — in this must be rescued by a strong- facts of life indicate that the “ web of subversion.” The “ con­ to scrap the F ifth Amendment, that the present situation, where arm savior. capitalist class, headed by Wall spiracy” managed to penetrate permit wire - tapping, send an understanding with tjie Ma­ The West Point Debate Incident Once Burnham has “ proved” more spies into the “ Commu­ lenkov regime seems to be well Street, must come to at least all branches of the Federal gov­ a temporary agreement with the ernment, including the White the existence of a conspiracy by nist underground,” strengthen advanced, stands in contrast to The controversy over whether West Point mitted to debate a proposition that contradicts McCarthyite logic and facts, he such Congressional “ investigat­ the tension of A pril 1945. And Soviet Union. In throwing his House staff. H arry Dexter weight in this direction against and Annapolis students should be 'permitted to the administration’s ¡policy, how w ill future White, Alger Hiss, the Rosen- broadens it out in all direc­ ing” committees as those head­ also that rearmament of Ger­ debate the recognition of China arose out of officers learn to think for themselves, some­ tions. President Roosevelt, he ed by Jenner, Velde and Mc­ many must be the basis for any the Knowlands and know-noth­ bergs, Owen Lattimore — all ings, Churchill reminds them of two factors: first, the prevailing national thing that is presumably a necessary qualifica­ the victims of the witch-hunters' charges, allowed the “ subver­ Carthy. approach to Moscow. sives'’ into the government in a his authority in the question by atmosphere of fear and thought control; tion for commanders? persecution and McCarthyite But a great deal more is left This sounds, of course, like time when “ the White House to the imagination. What Burn­ pure poppycock, which is only citing his record as the leader second, the shift, dictated in the highest Big smears — are listed by Burn­ who launched the policy of re­ Also, the speed with which other colleges ham as part of the “ Commun­ climate was not unfavorable to ham seeks to create is the de­ natural since that is what it Business circles, toward a slowdown in the war removed the issue from their debating schedules ‘left wing’ and even pro-Com- mand for strong arm methods. is. The spring of 1945 marked arming Germany as well as the ist infiltration.” policy of “ cold war” and that, drive. showed how the witch hunt reflex has become munist persons and ideas.” Storm troopers, lynch law and the highpoint of Soviet popular­ WHERE IS THE PROOF? But how do things stand now a fascist dictatorship — this is ity. The public knew of no ten­ therefore, when he calls fo r a It is embarrassing to the administration to ingrained in the institutions of education. temporary turn in line it is with Where is the proof that this that Roosevelt is no longer the solution Burnham implies in sions, because the propaganda of good reason. put the issue of diplomatic recognition of the One sidelight illustrates how deep the fear of giant conspiracy exists? The man president and that a Republican The Web of Subversion. the time stressed the friendly Republic of China on the list of verboten controversy runs. A student from Duke Uni­ relations existing with the war­ In political language he is topics at exactly the time when, for reasons of versity, not a m ilitary academy, wrote to the time ally. The rearmament of telling the Knowlands that a temporary understanding with its own, it wants to move more flexibly on this Library of Congress to request its brief on the Germany today occurs amid the Soviet Union is now» in the and related questions. sharp tensions. And the actual “ pros and cons of recognizing Communist rearmament w ill surely lead to interests of the capitalist class China." The student, Edwin Thomas Chapman ...Cfi/ita Incidents Test But there is ample evidence that in the even sharper tensions tomorrow». on a world basis, that it is not proper to try to take factional m ilita ry there is a ,powerful faction which ha’s Jr., was referred to his Congressman, Edward (Continued from page 1) reluctance to pursue a warlike ment. And this is good business REAL MOTIVE advantage of this against Eis­ favored a mad plunge into all-out war. The J. Robeson (D-Va.) for the document. policy that could mean their for provident loans are usually the most war-like threats from The real motive behind Chur­ enhower, and not to worry about story has just been “leaked” from the White T he N. Y. Times, Nov. 24, reports that the Washington and a blood-thirsty annihilation. This leaves the U.S. repaid with interest. . .” only the course, fo r the time, chill’s declaration is not difficult getting on with the eventual House that Eisenhower vetoed a. recommenda­ student received “ in reply a fatherly note of campaign in the capitalist press This stress on “ the most to discern. He took the occasion being, of competing economically' war — he, their elder states­ tion from the Joint Chiefs o f Staff, endorsed caution.” Rep. Robeson wrote to him : “ I cer­ for forceful retaliation. But the capital” which America has piled of his eightieth birthday, not to man, has had it in mind since initial reaction of the White with the non-capitalist countries. up and which seeks investments by Secretary of State Dulles, to allow Chiang tainly hope you will not underfake to debate engage in some vainglorious April 1945 and he hasn’t for­ House and State Department was ‘Reston describes Washington’s that are “ good business . . . boasting, as some m ight assume; gotten it today. That’s why he Kai-shek to bomb inland China and to commit the positive position of this subject as quota­ the assurance to relatives of thè “ genuine apprehension over the repaid with interest” hits the American planes to join in the bombing if but to perform a political ser­ is backing the rearmament of tions from your statements may embarrass you imprisoned men that the U.S. long-range trend” in Asia, the heart of the dilemma, the in­ vice fo r Eisenhower. Germany. Quemoy island was attacked. fo r the rest of your life.” government would do everything greatest center of world popula­ soluble contradiction of American tion. This “ apprehension” is This shows hoW the m ilitary were determined The Congressman apparently believes the possible “ w ithin peaceful'means” capitalism. to get the Americans released. based not on any desire to im ­ to push matters to a decision in Asia. It is clear witch hunt will last forever. He tells America’s Sen. William F. Knowland (U- prove the lot of the Asians but CHOKED BY CAPITAL however, that for the time being this tendency youth not to seek the truth but to play safe, Calif.), who has been the most on the fact that “ Communist Why should the accumulation is not dominant in policy-making circles of 'protect 'themselves in advance from future outspoken in attacking the ad­ China is concentrating on capital of capital fo r investment con­ World Events American capitalism. witch hunters: This kind of shameful advice, ministration’s “new look foreign development” and “ capital de­ stitute such a terrific problem for policy . . . a calmer, more con­ velopment is going on much the American capitalists? The The incident around the ban on debating coming from educators, politicians and other ciliatory policy,” as a Scripps- faster in China than in India,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce KARL MARX, co-founder with ened the most reactionary China recognition obviously arose from the “ leaders” w ill not be heeded by the awakening Howard commentator called it, a capitalist country. Moreover recently published a pamphlet, Frederic Engels of the modern elements, particularly the m ilitar­ conflict between the belligerent current in the young minds in our universities. Neither the tried to use the occasion for a capital investment in the Soviet “ Investment fo r Jobs,” which school of scientific socialism, died ists 'and the neo-Nazis. m ilitary hrass and the new “ co-existencc” m ilitary brass nor the thought-control brass big blast at Eisenhower’s course. Union is increasing “ at the rate says that rising population w ill on March 14, 1883, at the age of * * * require 1,000,000 new jobs a year 65. He was buried in London’s decision of the top policy makers. w ill stop debate, discussion and enlightenment. He demanded a blockade of China of between 6 and 7 per cent per THE REPRIMAND of the for the next twenty years, backed Highgate Cemetery. Countless Meanwhile, we got another glimpse at the The authors of this kind of “fatherly advice,” to force release of the Americans. annum, which is faster than Laborite left, which has a power­ by $13.3 billion annual invest­ thousands of workers, from all In a lengthy foreign policy capital development in the United ful mass following, was a milder depth of the witch-hunting atmosphere in this and not truth-seeking students, w ill have cause ments fo r new factories and countries have since then visited statement broadcast to the coun­ States.” move than the one taken by the country. Debating is supposed to be part of the for real embarrassment for the rest of their equipment. The insurance com­ •this historic site. The flow of try, Secretary of State John rig h t wing on Nov. 23, when. THE ECONOMIC FACTOR panies alone must invest more training of students. If no one is to be per­ lives. Foster Dulles stated on Nov. 29 those who wish to honor Marx’s Attlee and Company moved to William H. Stringer, chief of than $1 million every day of the memory has grown so much that that “our first duty is to exhaust exclude seven members of the the Christian Science Monitor’s year. Shouldn’t an addition of a new and bigger site has been peaceful means of sustaining our House of Commons from the Washington Bureau, described on 1,000,000 jobs every year relieve decided upon by the authorities. international rights and those of Laborite parliamentary fraction. “Architect of the Atomic Age" Nov. 29 how “ the Soviet rulers the pressure of this accumulated A large memorial w ill soon be our citizens, rather than now Aside from McGovern, who voted are staking their own popularity capital ? erected. Marx’s body has already resorting to war action such as “ yes” on West German rearma­ The death of Dr. Enrico Fermi at the age help provide a new and effective approach to a naval or air blockade of Red rather heavily on peace and But that’s the hitch. I t can’t .been reburied in the new plot, the treatment of the very cancer which took prosperity, for the present at any ment, six others bad voted “ no” of 53 removes from the world one of the most China.” The White House prompt­ be done profitably. So, private along w ith the bodies of his wife on pacifist grounds. None com­ irate. An atomic wst — any war Jenny, and Helene Demutli, their gifted scientists of the 20th Century. Me has Fermi’s life while he was still at the height of ly backed up Dulles with a press capital investment totaled $23.3 mand a large mass following. which ‘hit home in the Soviet been called both “ the architect of the atomic his creative scientific powers. statement saying that a blockade billion in 1953; fell to an estimat­ devoted servant and almost a Yet a motion merely to reprimand Union — would smash these would amount to a “ war action.” ' ed $21.8 billion this year; and is member of the family. failed to pass by only 21 votes. age” and the "architect of the atomic bomb." That treatment might well have been avail­ fondly held dreams of ‘pie in the * * * expected to decline another 5%, ¡The motion to exclude, coupled He made not only the epochal experiments able by now if Fermi’s discoveries had not THE NEW SLOGAN sky.’ Any war would reverse the THE RIGHT WING OF THE to $20.7 billion in 1955. Yet the iwith a strong “hint” by the Part of the resistance to Eisen­ reconstruction under way since that led directly to the discovery of uranium been used to a very large extent for purposes net working capital of American BRITISH LABOR PARTY, head­ ■Attlee right wing that no further hower’s shift toward emphasis on World War II.” fission but he was the chief creator of the of death and' destruction. The government corporations by June 30, 1954, ed by Clement Attlee, at the Nov. disciplinary action would be “ co-existence” is nothing more As fo r China, writes Stringer, atomic "pile” or reactor which permitted conr spent $12 billion to .perfect the atomic bomb reached an all-time high of $94.1 24 Executive Committee session ¡taken, was carried by 131 to 93, than objection to use of a phrase the prospect that this vast back­ billion. “This imposing total of of the party, voted to reprove also an embarrassingly narrow struction of the first atomic ¡bombs. and more billions are being spent each year to originated by Moscow. Thus, some ward land of 580 million people three editors of Tribune, news­ working capital,” reports the Na­ ¡margin for the right wingers. Dr. Fermi’s life work thus sums up the con­ perfect the even more horrible H-bomb and to union leaders, anxious to show might be “ able, "through suc­ paper of Aneurin Bevan’s left tional City Bank of New York in The excluded seven retain their their “ alertness” to the “Com­ cessive five-year plans, to become tradictory aspects of science in the age o f the stockpile both. its Monthly Letter of Nov., 1954, wing, for their attacks on Arthur party membership. decline of capitalism. He gave the world the If only a fraction of the vast sum of money munist menace,” complain of the a modem industrial giant — this “ contrasts- w ith approximately Deakin, chief of the Transport slogan “ peaceful co - existence.” prospect gives shudders to Wash­ and General Workers Union, for * * * g ift of the potentially greatest source of con­ spent on» atomic bombs had been used for $52 billion at the end of 1945, and The AFL International Associa­ ington officialdom.” only $25 billion in pre-war 1939.” his strikebreaking policy during THERE WILL BE NO MORE trolled power- for industry and transport. Me cancer treatment study, if the scientists who tion of Machinists leaders, in the In short, it is taken for granted the recent British dock strike. NATIONALIZATIONS in Boli­ helped the world to obtain the most murderous had been mobilized by the government and Dec. 2 Machinist, claim that that Russia and China, given NO CONFIDENCE Tory reactionaries and Laborite via, announced President Estens- weapon that mankind has ever confronted. given every facility for speedy perfection of “ what our diplomats and our long-term peace, can reach and But there is no confidence that lories had hoped fo r the ex­ soro in an interview on Nov. 23. It is ironic to contemplate that Fermi might the deadliest war device had been provided United States Information Agency surpass American industrial de­ American capitalism can, in fact, pulsion of the three editors, Henceforth, he and his regime velopment. Why, then, would propose to cuddle up to th'e im ­ still be alive now, might still be making vast equal means to seek the cure of cancer, we have failed to provide is a phrase profitably invest these vast sums Jennie Lee, Michael Foot and J. or a name fo r our own foreign these countries want war at any in Asia or Africa or South perialists in order to “lure” might today be free of fear of the greatest P. W. Mallalieu. contributions to humanity, if the war uses of •policy that w ill explain our pur­ time? The capitalist propagand­ America, » let alone to create a * * * foreign capital. his atomic discoveries had not blocked the killer disease. poses as honestly as the Com­ ists can give not one single million more jobs every year in BERLIN SPORTPAI.AST, * * * possibilities for the full development of atomic Fermi was an Italian Jew who escaped from munist slogan is dishonest.” reasonable argument to sub­ this country. The Nov. 26 Wall w»here H itler, Goebbels, Streicher DEIFICATION of those in fission for peacetime purposes. For there is Mussolini’s rule in 1939 and secured refuge in This objection has already been stantiate their claim that Russia Street Journal, writing editorially and others held many a meeting, power is an indispensable in­ reason to believe that radioactivized elements this country. He saw no prospect ¡for the defeat satisfied. The administration has and China are “ aggressive.” Their on “ Competitive Co - existence,” w»as the scene, on Nov. 23, of a gredient in the rule of the Stalin­ o f fascism except by support o f American im ­ come up with, the slogan of own reports on economic pro­ concedes that “it is not evident neo-Nazi outburst. A t a German ist bureaucracy. Since Stalin’s produced in the fission process may one day “ competitive co-existence.” As ex­ gress in these two countries that the Soviets have tons of party rally (this party supports death, not individuals but the perialism, and he himself first suggested the plained by James Reston in the make such a claim silly, unless extra rubles to pour into uncom­ Adenauer’s government), mem­ Central Committee as a whole, possibility o f utilizing atomic fission .for an Nov. 23 N. Y. Times, “ What is we are to believe the Soviet and mitted Asia,” but it is skeptical bers of the audience who refused has been the subject of deifica­ atomic bomb. He lived to see the day when- his new is that the Eisenhower Ad­ Chinese leaders are psychopaths of American capitalism’s pros­ to sing “ Deutschland U b e r tion. But recently a new and not Their Morals and Ours life's work and achievement, as embodied in ministration, which emphasized who plan to go to war for (he pects with all its capital. “ What Alles” were assaulted and jeered too subtle, change has become the new H-bomb, filled the nations of the the m ilitary aspects of security love of it. we would respectfully request at as “ Jewish swine.” Among discernible. Especially in the case By LEON TROTSKY early in its term, is now reconcil­ Dulles, in his foreign policy the gentlemen in Washington to the favorite taunts w»as: “ You of Malenkov. The latest volume earth with their greatest fear. ing itself, not to ‘peaceful Co­ talk on Nov. 30, pointed to the abandon is the wishful and seem to have just escaped the of the Big Soviet" Encyclopedia All the “moralistic” arguments of anti- That fear will never be lifted until the day existence,’ but to competitive co­ real economic basis fo r “ com­ foolish thought that dollars alone gas chamber.” Strong protest to reach this country carries a Marxists — from the hoary charge that when the working .people o f the world end the existence and to placing more petitive co-existence” rather than w ill keep Asia from Commu­ from the trade unions, Jewish new biography of Stalin's suc­ Lenin and the Bolsheviks were “ amoral” to rule of war-breeding capitalism and establish emphasis on the long-range “ peaceful co-existence.” He com­ nism.” organizations, and others com­ cessor. To believe this version, it the current accusation that the guiding world socialism, the international classless aspects of economic policy.” plained that the nationalized A ll that is left for Wall Street pelled the embarrassed West was Malenkov, not Stalin, who In actuality, what has deterred planned economies of the Soviet is to choke on its cancerous Berlin Parliament to pass a reso­ was at all the critical fronts in Marxist maxim is that “the end justifies society based on a planned, cooperative, non­ •the ruling capitalist circles in bloc countries and of China “ have growth of giant capital until it lution condemning this outburst wartime, including Stalingrad. It the means” — are answered in this classic profit economy. Only then w ill Fermi’s great America from a more belligerent a certain fascination for the peo­ strikes out in sheer desperation, of “ anti-Semitism and violence” was he, not Stalin, who played work. achievements come into their own. The day course leading to an open attack ples of the underdeveloped coun­ in an agony of economic crisis, as reminiscent of the “state- the role of m ilitary genius and w ill come when he w ill no longer be remem­ on thq Soviet Union and China tries who feel their own eco­ for a forceful solution of its destroying radicalism of 1933.” at every front “carried out great 84 pages 25 cents is fear of the consequences to the nomies are standing still.” distress. That is why the capital­ (United Press, Nov. 25.) The work in organizing the forces for Order from bered as the "architect of the atomic bomb” but as a great benefactor who helped pave the U.S. in an H-bomb war, the ■But, he says, the United States ist press speaks of “ co-existence” resolution naturally avoided men­ struggle with the German-Fascist PIONEER PUBLISHERS isolation of the U.S. from large “ has the most capital available to as “ a 'cool peace’ ” and an tioning that the U.S. sponsored usurpers.” Stalin became a way for the conquest of cancer • and other sections of the world outside the help to develop other countries. “ armed truce,” while the m ilitary program fo r West Germany, plus “ genius” exactly in the same way, 1141 University Place New York 3, N. Y, diseases and one of the true architects o f the Soviet bloc, the suspicion o f We must find a way to make our spending continues at record the pi-ojeeted rearming of West through the repeated rewriting of' atomic power age of plenty. Washington’s allies and their capital work fo r such a develop- “ peacetime” peaks. Germany, has obviously embold­ “historical” documents. IVegro Struggle VOLUME XVIII — By George La va n ----- MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1954 NUMBER 49 The root cancer of Jim Crow in this country is Southern agri­ Serve Soup to Sitdoivners culture. This is the economic base and point of origin for Gas Toll Rises; super-exploitation of the Negro people in all other sectors of the ILA Dockers Win economy and their second-class citizenship in social and political N .Y . Landlords fields. A good picture of actual peonage is given by the tale that Union Shop Pact managed to break through the Scoff at Laws curtain of silence surrounding a NEW YORK, Nov. 29. — This a 17-cent hourly package in­ bi-state Waterfront Commission. typical back country Mississippi By Marvel Scholl city’s dock workers scored a sig­ crease — 13 cents in wages and The capitalist N. Y. Times plantation.- NEW YORK, Nov. 29 — A Brooklyn magistrate who nificant victory on Nov. 25 when 4 cents in pension and welfare complained on Nov. 28 that contributions. Last October, the “over the past two years, a mas­ A young Negro sharecropper, the independent International named Lofton, desperate beyond “ doesn’t like all this hysteria” on Nov. 19 refused to grant IL A won an 8-cent hourly in­ sive array of legfcl, political fe!rr, ran away from a Delta a delay in the trial of Abraham A. Hitzak, landlord of the Longshoremen’s Association ne­ crease retroactive to Oct., 1953, and economic artillery has been cotton plantation to Jackson, building at 475 Chauncey St., gotiated a two-year contract after a two-day walkout which leveled against the notorious In ­ Mississippi and sought out the Brooklyn, where a man and his in this case was that their land­ with the New York Shipping completely tied up the New York ternational Longshoremen’s As­ National Association for the Ad­ wife met death on Nov. 7 from lord was their own daughter. Association. The contract grants harbor. sociation in an effort to break vancement of Colored People. He gas fumes of a defective hot- On Nov. 27, four more vic­ the IL A a union shop and there­ The new contract marks a de­ its hold on New York’s 30,000 told his story to them and to water heater. tims narrowly cheated death ■— by puts an end to the A FL drive feat for the employer and gov­ dock workers . . . The one thing reporters for the Northern press. Judge James E. LoPiccolo also from a side-arm hot-water to supplant the IL A with a new ernment inspired drive to break these salvoes apparently never He had fled the plantation of told defense attorney Harold J. heater. They were women work­ union more firmly tied to the the ILA and sets back their succeeded in accomplishing, how­ A. A. Mabus, a small feudal Levy, who had requested a con­ ers assembling cartridges for employers and the government. drive to regiment the longshore­ ever, was to turn the majority kingdom of several thousand tinuation in the case, "N ot in bail-point pens in the basement The contract also provides for men through the means of a of the dock workers against the acres, located ten miles from the the face of all the hysteria go­ factory of the G & R Swiss I.L.A.” nearest highway. He and his ing around. We judges are sub­ Screw Company on lower Broad­ family along with about twenty ject to hysteria and pressure way. The women realized their BACKGROUND OF BATTLE other families are sharecroppers groups we don’t like.” danger in time to call fo r help. Until 1953, the employers sup­ there. Thus, the kingdom contains What the Judge called “hys­ A ll were rushed to the Colum­ ... Remington Murder ported the gang-ridden rule of about 100 peons. The rules are teria” is the mounting protest bus Hospital for emergency Joseph “King” Ryan in the IL A simple. As Lofton explained: in slum tenement areas where, treatment. (Continued from page 1) harmless information about rub­ as a means of disciplining the (Meanwhile, what is being done rank-and-file. They supported “ Everybody has to pick cotton within the firs t 24 days of this his horrible death. “ I t is terrible ber production. Miss Bentley re­ to stop the mounting death toll? Sitdown strikers at the New York Shipbuilding Corp. yard every day in picking time, and if month, nineteen persons have that something like this can peated her allegations before the notorious shape-up method Dr. Leona Baumgartner, city in Camden, N. J., line up near gates waiting for a wives’ com­ you miss one day, you get a beat­ been killed by lethal fumes from happen.” the Senate Investigating sub­ of hiring, with its evil system Health Commissioner, is carry­ ing and then are put in jail until defective gas appliances instal­ mittee to serve soup. The week-long sitdown of 2,000, provoked She added that Acting War­ committee on July 30, 1948. As of favoritism and kick-backs, as ing on an intensive “ educational the man says let you loose. A in’t led in cold-water flats without by firing of two union officers employed at the yard, was settled den Fred T. Wilkinson had told a result, Remington lost his job. a way of eliminating the mil­ campaign” in the newspapers, no charge except that you wasn’t central heating. The landlords her that “as far as they knew But when Elizabeth Bentley itants. The employers bribed designed to acquaint cold-water by agreement between the company and Local 801, A FL Boiler­ picking cotton.” are coining millions every month it was not a personal attack was requested to testify under the racketeers and bureaucrats fla t tenants of the dangers of makers. Lofton told how he and his wife from these death-traps. against Bill for what he had oath before a U.S. Loyalty Re­ freely, since this was cheaper using defective gas hot-water had picked nine bales o ff their done, but just the actions of a view Board, she refused to ap­ for them than granting the FUNNY JUDGE heaters for heating purposes. plot even though his wife had to couple of hoodlums who got all pear where she could be cross- workers substantial gains. ■On Nov. 17, Justice James V. She has issued a warning to the bring their sick baby to the field worked up by all the publicity examined by Remington and his But beginning in 1945, the Flood indulged himself in some 3,000 licensed plumbers of New and leave it on the wet ground ... SCHOOL INTEGRATION about Communists.” attorney. dock workers in New York and “judicial humor” at the trial of York, warning them against the while they picked. Was there an even more im­ She made a lot of jack out other East Coast ports repeated­ the elderly brother - landlords, installation of defective equip­ Finally the nine - month old (Continued from page 1) ed schools are outlawed and must mediate and direct inspiration for of the 'publicity she got from ly launched unauthorized strikes. Benjamin J. and Victor L. Weil, ment, and of the loss of their baby caught the flu and Lofton Carolina lawyer — to see how be abolished forthwith — who the murder than the general her Congressional appearances, The longshoremen tore through owners of the building at 176 licenses if they are found guilty told his wife not to go to the field Brownell’s proposals lend them­ would enforce the decision? witch-hunt atmosphere generated through book, lecture and radio the sell-out agreements negotia­ W. 87th St. where, more than of installing such equipment. but to stay home with the child. selves to the strategy already I f the ruling recognized that by all elements of capitalist reac­ fees. On Sept. 12, 1948, she ap­ ted by Ryan and forced the em­ a year ago, Edward Brandeis, Only one more bale of cotton Unlicensed plumbers found mapped out by white supremacists Jim-Crow state and local au­ tion? Was the whole thing plan­ peared on a National Broadcast­ ployers to grant concessions. It 32, was killed by carbon mon­ remained to be picked anyhow. guilty of installing defective from Georgia to Hillsboro, Ohio, thorities must not be trusted to ned, with the connivance of per­ ing Company television show, was clear that Ryan had lost oxide fumes from a defective Mrs. Lofton went to the com­ equipment are to be prosecuted. for tying up desegregation in the carry out the decision, enforce­ sons who had access to the pris­ “ Meet the Press,” sponsored by the power to straitjacket the gas refrigerator. An inspector pany store to get the day’s provi­ In every building where deaths courts for generations. ment would then rest with the oners, and wanted to make a the General Foods Corporation. workers. It was only then that from the health department had sions. The zealous storekeeper have occurred, all other gas Tactics already in effect, rang­ same Justice Department which frightful terroristic lesson out She repeated her fantastic story the employers raised a hue and testified that he had tested the called Mabus, the plantation equipment is being tested and ing from rc-zoning school dis­ has already made it clear that of the beating of Remington ? about Remington. Remington cry against gangsterism in the amount of carbon monoxide in owner, to report that she was not the landlords served with warn­ tricts where segregation is illegal its policy is to “ decentralize sued her, NBC and General Foods ILA . The A F L executive board the kitchen of the Brandeis’ in the field during work hours. ings. Inspectors from the health to provisions for abolishing the desegregation.” FBI HUSH-HUSH for slander. A federal judge on and the Dewey Administration fla t with a mitie safety appliance Mabus had no patience for any department are supposed to be public school system where it is There is small likelihood that Dec. 7, 1949, ruled that her in New York followed suit. To­ gauge. Whereupon this pixy The result of suoh a situation explanation about a sick child so making an exhaustive check of not, provide adequate models for we shall find out the real facts. statement was slanderous on the gether they offered to “liberate” judge asked the witness to test can already be seen in the anti- he beat her up and knocked her all tenement dwellings using gas maintaining Jim - Crow schools The investigation of the murder face of it and refused to dismiss the longshoremen from the very the atmosphere in the court labor rulings of the National down in front of the store. When equipment. under Brownell’s proposed Su­ was promptly placed in the Remington’s suit. hoodlums whom the A FL tops room because “ laymen frequent­ Labor Relations Board and in she tried to run away he caught Dr. Baumgartner’s campaign preme Court ruling. hands of the FBI, which main­ The slander case against her and Dewey had supported up to ly suspect that judges and law­ the program of the Housing her and beat and kicked her may stop a few people from But even if, taking what seems tained a hush-hush attitude for was settled out of court for the that time. yers give o ff lots of gas.” Authority which is bluntly op­ again. using the only heating devices the less likely variant, the Su­ several days, then claimed that sum of §10,000 paid to Reming­ While the judiciary either posed to public housing. BOSSES’ ALTERNATIVE She finally got to her shack they have. But the people who preme Court should reject the the act was done by three pris­ ton. complain of “ pressure” or wise­ The fu tility of trying to But the alternative the em­ where she took up her baby in­ live in cold-water flats live in Administration’s wishes in the oners in the course of a raid tending to go to her parents’ crack about cases involving them because they are cheap. acheive thorough - going social and attempted robbery of Rem­ USE NEW GIMMICK ployers held out was only a new matter and decree that segregat- reforms through the Democratic shack on the same plantation. landlords of tenements where The tenants are workers and ington’s cell. But the government’s attor­ way of policing the longshore­ Mabus caught up with her and murder instruments of silent they are all poor. Many of them and Republican parties and their But Acting Warden Wilkinson neys figured a different gimmick men. They offered rigid gov­ proceeded to give her another death are in operation, the are unemployed and on relief. government is made even clearer immediately stated that “ there which would not require Miss ernment control of hiring and beating. Then he called the local death toll from carbon monoxide They can’t buy coal or oil, even Hit Defense Dept. by the fact that the only alter­ was nothing in Remington’s Bentley’s “spy” testimony, for firing through hiring halls run constable who put both her and poisoning, chief killer, continues if they could use such equip­ native to relying on the courts is room of any value. Only cigar- which there was not an iota of by the Waterfront Commission the baby in the local jail. to mount. ment. in the flats. Therefore they appeal to Congress. And Congress ets, a few candy bars and per­ proof. He was accused of deny­ and instituted compulsory regis­ This accomplished, the constable In most of the cases, the de­ have a grim choice to make — For Union-busting — the newly elected Congress — sonal items. Absolutely no mon­ ing falsely before' a federal tration and fingerprinting of went to the cotton field and fective devices have been side- use the gas and die of carbon has merely changed from a ey.” grand ju ry in 1950 that he was longshoremen. Although osten­ DETROIT, Nov. 27 — The U.S. arrested her elderly parents and arm hot-water heaters which are monoxide, or stay cold and die Republican - Dixiecrat dominated Why would other convicts risk ever a member of the Commun­ sibly directed against crooks Defense Department, headed by threw them in ja il where they the only means to heat either of pneumonia. body to one in which the Dixie- their necks fo r such triflin g ob­ ist Party. and racketeers, this regimenta­ remained for five days without water or atmosphere in thope former General Motors President crats hold senior partnership. Remington’s' divorced wife, tion was really to be used LAW FULL OF HOLES jects ? Why didn't they wait un­ any charges being lodged against vile slums. C. E. Wilson, was accused today who was personally bitter against the militants. The boss of “actively participating in THE ROAD TO TAKE til Remington was out of his them. Thus on Thanksgiving Day, New York City’s building code, cell and they could rob it w ith­ against him, testified for the elements also backed a new Dr. A. H. McCoy, head of the Rudolph Stolve’% 77, his wife revised recently, is as fu ll of holes' strikebreaking and union-busting The road to abolition of Jim- prosecution. As a result, he AFL-sponsored union headed by activity” by giving a $2 million Crow in schools, as in every other out resort to violence or the Mississippi N'AAOP, took Lofton Rosa, 67, and their boarder, as a sieve. The landlords thumb danger of his giving an alarm? was convicted and sentenced to Dave Beck and Paul Hall that order for shells to the strike­ phase of American life, is. hot to see Governor White. He prom­ Rudolpn Tittman, 70, died of their noses at the warnings and Whatever the answers, the smell five years fo r alleged perjury. alienated a majority of the long­ bound Kohler Company at the blind alley of reliance on the ised to investigate. The “ in­ carbon monoxide poisoning in summons. And even if they are of political violence arising from But a U.S. Court of Appeals shoremen with its support of Kohler, Wis. parties of the bosses and the vestigation” took very little time. their cold-water Queens flat. hauled into court, it doesn’t cost anti-“red” terrorism clings to threw the conviction out. government control over hiring CI'O United Automobile Work­ white supremacists. The only A phone call was made to the The old people had closed off them too much. Take the case this case. So the Justice Department and firing. sheriff of the area, lie reported the kitchen and bathroom in involving the Weil brothers, ers Secretary - Treasurer Emil path to victory is uncompromis­ drew up completely new charges The longshoremen saw no that Mrs. Lofton had been beater order that the hot water heater mentioned above. Mazey wrote Wilson that the ing struggle of the Negro people STINKS OF FRAME-UP — that he had perjured himself reason why they should ex­ because she was disorderly in the could both heat their bath water Edward Brandeis died on Sept. union “ was shoeked to learn” on all fronts — legal, legislative, The Remington case has stunk in the first trial. This time they change one group of labor lieu­ company store. The parents hat and warm up the two rooms so 26, 1953. For thirteen months that the order was given to a industrial — in alliance with the of frame-up from start to fin­ “ got” Remington. A hand-picked tenants of the shipowners for been arrested for “ selling liquor.” they could bathe and dress ir: and through eight adjournments, plant “ where a strike for eco­ only force with the same basic ish. ju ry convicted him and a hand­ another. By voting for the ILA , The runaway Lofton, said this comfort. They were preparing this case hung fire. Now it has nomic justice has been in pro­ interests and needs, the labor The key witness against him picked judge sentenced him and the militants hoped to force voice of Jim-Crow law, had raised for what was to have been a been brought to trial. Under the gress since A pril 5, 1954.” movement. was Elizabeth Bentley. She a hand-picked Supreme Court Capt. William V. Bradley, who no crop this year and owed the gala Thanksgiving feast at the original indictment the Weil bro­ The Kohler strike, led by UAW claimed before the House Un- upheld the verdict. He entered replaced Ryan as president of master money from last year. home of their married daughter thers were charged with twelve Local 833, has been one of the American Activities Committee the Lewisburg prison on A pril the ILA , to purge the union of The governor was satisfied. in Brooklyn. separate offenses. They are be­ longest and most bitter of recent WORKING WIVES. 94% of the in 1948 that she had received 15, 1953. racketeers and grant democratic To this Lofton says: “ Last year But intead o f going to a hap­ ing tried now on only one of years. The company, which • women college seniors engaded to war secrets from Remington in During Remington’s final ap­ reforms. I picked 14 bales ol' cotton off py fam ily r ' ’“ y, the three old the twelve. smashed a strike with force and be married report that they ex­ 1943'when he was with the War peal before imprisonment, it was BATTLE NOT YET OVER my plot. When it was sold I was people went io their death. The I f they are -convicted they violence in 1934 and remained un­ pect to work after graduation Production Board. Subsequently disclosed that John Brunini, due to get §1,400 minus the §132 next day their daughter came face a fine of §500 or one year organized for two decades, is and plan to continue activities Remington told how Bentley had foreman of the first grand jury The long battle of the long­ Mr. Mabus had advanced me for to find out why they hadn't in jail. attempting a repeat performance. outside the home as long as come to him representing her­ which indicted Remington and shoremen for a democratic u- provisions. Instead he only gave come to the dinner. She found Five hundred dollars or one The company has offered an in­ possible after marriage, a recent self • as a newspaper reporter which had opened the way for nion serving their interests is me §250.” His main concern now, their bodies. The ironical thing year in jail. For murder. sulting three-cent wage increase. survey discloses. and he had given her perfectly the two trials, had an arrange­ not yet over. The militants will however, isn’t loss of his shart ment with Miss Bentley to col­ now have to wage a determined of the crop — sharecroppers are laborate on a book that is said struggle against the gangsters used to being cheated — but how to have netted them both a con­ and former Ryan machine men to rescue his wife and baby. siderable sum. for control of the IL A . They will have to prevent the officials "They Are Speaking for Labor Solidarity” WARNING TO LABOR from using the no-strike clause Remington’s death, as his wife in the contract against the rank- The shop begins to buzz. Those NEW YORK By A Westinghouse Worker company said amounted to But then, after all, you don’t truly said, is a tragedy for the and-file’s aspirations. who picketed most regularly in §1.000,000 and not §2,600,000) BUFFALO — I t ’s just about dawn when the Buffalo have to know everything, do whole country. It is a warning to Furthermore, despite the gains CHRISTMAS 1951 grow tight - mouthed with and that the company reneged, Westinghouse workers begin to straggle into the huge you? Isn’t it enough to know the American people — especially made under the new contract, anger. This attack on the ASR refused to sign the contract that BAZAAR that your brothers are out on to the organized workers and the longshoremen do not yet plant. It is Friday. In little stands in the entrance the local strikers is an ugly thing. It has they themselves had written. Hand - made leather belts — strike? In the lavatories, on the racial minorities — of the police- control hiring and firing. The union paper is waiting for them. a smell of strike-breaking. They don’t know that this Enamel over copper jewelry assembly lines, men and women state menace of the witch-hunt Waterfront Commission contin­ Sleepily they take copies, stuff benches, propped up in the The Union Member paints a “generous offer” was phony from — Guatemalan hand-strung & are talking about the company and the fearful dangers to civil ues to determine the livelihood lavatories. The shop wakes up. beautiful picture of the razor the very start, even before the knotted beads — Childrens them into pockets, fold them propaganda Westinghouse put liberties that confront us. of the dockworkers under its Lathe men glance at the paper company’s offer. It calls it “very company wrote it, that they had toys and books — Women’s & under their arms with Hie morn­ out during their own strike three Had a mighty protest led by power to screen. What the long­ while their machines cut. One generous” and quotes Eisen­ up their sleeve a plan that would childrens clothes — Hand­ ing paper, carry them through years ago. They are remembering organized labor resounded against shoremen need is a union hir­ after another the workers read hower’s Secretary of Labor, who void it completely . . . a clause made aprons, hats & purses — the aisles of machinery, assembly the slash of the pre-dawn wind, the persecution of Remington, ing hall enforcing rotary hir­ with unbelief . . . and then with terms it “a statesmanlike ap­ that would prevent the union Appliances — and many other lines, storerooms, deep into the the snowdrifts they waded the frame-up that led to his ing such as the longshoremen anger. Their union paper, the proach.” It tells how the company from even speaking out against articles. plant. Sometimes they look at through on picket duty. They murder “would have failed. have on the West Coast. Union Member, the official pub­ investigated the Virginia town the company’s moving to the Sat. Dec. 11, from Noon on them but not often. I t ’s just lication of Local 1581, CIO In­ know the ASR strikers are fight­ about dawn, and the world isn’t where it planned to move and south and would hold the union ing hard, fighting against the Militant Hall ternational Union of Electrical found it had adequate “ facilities responsible if anybody else spoke awake yet. Workers, the voice of the m ilitant odds, fighting like they fought 116 University Place for recreation, for worship and out against it. themselves three years past. The whistle blows, and the ma­ Westinghouse workers — this for education.” I t says ASR of­ The Buffalo workers don’t And it hurts. It hurts and it First English Translation (near Union Square) chinery begins to turn. The ham­ paper has turned strikebreaker! fered to move the families and know there would be a terrific rouses them to anger to read REFRESHMENTS mers, fall, the shears scream. The whole front page is devot­ households of all its people who wage cut when the ASR started their own union paper support­ The union papers lie on work ed to a story, entitled “Mis- would go to Virginia, run news­ operations in Virginia. And there ing the company and attacking leadership,” giving not the paper ads to get jobs for those are other things they don’t know the strikers. WHAT IS ECONOMICS? union’s, but the company’s ver­ who wanted to stay in Brooklyn, either. About a quarter of the sion of the American Safety and sign a pension and severance ASR workers are Negroes and. So what’s next? This can’t go Razor strike in Brooklyn. The pay agreement into the contract, Puerto Ricans. Others are Cath­ unanswered, and it won’t. The paper (speaking fo r these Buf­ as well as a §2.00 a week pay olics and Jews, and all of these Union Member is supposed to By Rosa Luxemburg Subscribe! falo Westinghouse workers who raise. This, says the Union Mem­ would face vicious discrimination speak with their voice, but it only three years ago starved out ber, would cost the company §2,- in Virginia. There is inadequate isn’t. Their voice hasn’t been 54 pages (mimeographed, stiff cover) Start your subscription now. Clip the coupon and mail it a three-month strike of their 600,000. Then it ends up by claim­ housing in the new location. heard yet. But listen awhile. It in today. Send $1.50 fo r six months subscription or $3 for a full own, who froze on the picketline ing that the strike was com­ Many workers are too old to pull w ill be heard. They are speaking $1.00 year to The Militant, 116 University Place, New York 3, N. If. and worried about the coal bill at munist-led and inspired — you up stakes and settle anew, friend­ in the shop, on the job and in home, who saw week after week know, “ un-American.” less in a strange place. the cafeteria. They are speaking full page newspaper ads malign­ The Westinghouse workers These points aren’t brought wherever militant workers gather Order from ing them and their union, who don’t know all the issues. They in the corners and the corridors Street •«•«.»••••»....••....*••• Zone ...... ■ ■ ■ ■ out in the Union Member. Even fe lt company pressure and work in Buffalo, and this strike the critical problem of runaway of the factory. They are speak­ ing in angry whispers that are Pioneer Publishers 116 Universify Place City —...... — State ...... ——------attacks in their own strike) this is in Brooklyn, four hundred, miles plants isn’t mentioned, and this paper is attacking the strikers away. They don’t know that the problem is a terrible menace to growing louder. They are speak­ □ $1.50 Six months Q $3.00 Full year □ New □ Renewal New York 3, N. Y. at the American Safety Razor union accepted the company’s ever greater numbers of the ing for labor solidarity, and they Company in Brooklyn. “ generous” offer (which even the American workers. w ill be heard!