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VOL. X — No. 15 NEW YORK, N. Y., SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1946 PRICE: FIVE CENTS TRUMAN URGES MILITARIST POLICY Protectors O f Plutocracy Strikers Fight Seeks Extension Of Draft, Universal Training For War Westinghouse By A rt Preis ■President Truman’s Arm y Day speech in Chi­ cago on April 6 served notice that American im­ Union-Busting perialism is pushing the mightiest and most ruth­ Westinghouse Electric Corporation, aided by municipal less program of m ilitarism ever conceived. v and state authorities, and police forces is conducting a bru­ tal offensive to smash the three-month strike of 75,000 Behind the th in screen of Truman’s diplomat­ members of the CIO United Electrical, Radio and Machine ic phrases could be heard the rattle of the saber. "Workers. His speech and program This bitter strike against were a bellicose procla­ one of the most powerful Atomic Energy mation that Wall Street and ruthless international Labor Press Hit trusts has become the most Remains Under imperialism intends to critical labor struggle in As Monopolists impose its rule on the America today. Military Control whole globe by force and Since General Motors failed threat of force. in its attempt to beat the CIO Grab Newsprint United Auto Workers, Westing­ By Charles Carsten The swaggering arrogance a t house Electric has become the Many labor, fraternal and Last week the Senate A t ­ American capitalism flaunted 11- self in Truman’s pointed asser­ spearhead for the union-busting veterans’ papers have been omic Energy Committee un­ program of the big corporations. tion: "The United States todajr delayed or threatened with animously adopted a revised Is a strong nation; there is none The intentions of the We'sting- version of the Vandenberg suspension because news­ stronger. This is not a boast. house moguls to hold out against amendment to the MacMa- I t is a fa c t . . the u nion ’s demand fo r an 18t4 print manufacturers are divert­ hon bill for control of atomic en­ cent an hour raise, such as was ing their supplies to more lucra­ ergy. Congressmen, liberals and GRANDIOSE PROGRAM wrested from General Electric tive markets. This was revealed scientists, who had denounced To assure this position of su­ preme might, Truman made plain and the GM Electrical Division, when a delegation of labor edi­ the original Vandenberg amend­ has been made clear by a series ment because it gave veto pow­ that the whole American people tors meeting in Washington of actions in the past three er to the military, have hailed are to be regimented and Prus­ weeks. April 2, asked the Civilian Pro­ the revised amendment with Ju­ sianized through a grandiose TRICKY OFFER duction Administration to re­ b ila tio n . m ilitarization program. sume government controls on A group o f 4,000 atom ic scien­ The heart of Truman’s speech Several weeks ago, the com­ was his three-point program for pany made a tricky offer to new sprint. tists and the “liberal” newspa­ settle the strike for what It Since the lifting of govern­ per PM approved the new amendment with declarations claimed was an 18 V4 -cent raise. ment controls on January 1, See Editorial This proposal was ballyhooed by that it upholds those who oppose supplies to independent printers m ilitary control of atomic energy. *War-Making Powers’ the company in huge newspaper have been drastically slashed. Yet at the same time Chief of ads. Page 4 Two New York concerns print­ Staff Eisenhower and others On examination, this claim of ing some 50- different labor, who have pressed for military an 18'A-cent offer was proved to control expressed their satisfac­ the maintenance of a military be an outright fraud. Even the fraternal and trade papers have tio n. machine capable of sweeping any company representatives had to received 40 to 50 per cent less opponent or combination of op­ BRASS HATS WIN admit that with the conditions paper than they were previously ponents from American imperi­ attached to the offer it "really” allocated. Harassed Veteran In reality the Senate commit­ alism ’s path. amounted only to 15.1 cents. The delegation represented tee’s proposal represents a vic­ Truman demanded: “First, Federal mediators, who with­ many of the papers affected: Writes Congressman Senate Passes Death Sentence to ry to r the military caste. All unification of all our armed ser­ An ex-GI from Missouri drew from the negotiations and Max Danish, editor of Justice, that has been said in condemna­ vices in a single department; sec­ wrote Rep. Gillie (R-Ind.) in assailed the company’s conduct, organ of the AFL International tion of the original Vandenberg ond, temporary extension of the Washington this letter. stated: "The company’s offer is Ladles Garment Workers Un­ amendment remains true of the? Selective Servicq Act; third, uni­ “The Army says I can’t substantially less than 15 cents ion; John Edelman, columnist On 6 5 -Cent Minimum Wage B ill present version. versal training.” wear a uniform after I ar­ an hour.” for Textile Labor, monthly or­ The present “compromise” Truman proposes the complete rived home because I ’l l be im ­ By Larissa Reed It is, in fact, as the union gan of the CIO Textile Work­ amendment introduces no streamlining of the armed forces personating a soldier. The •howed in detail, an offer of 9.7 ers; Lowell Chamberlain, editor Millions of America’s most exploited workers, now changes of a fundamental na­ In keeping with technical, ad­ stores say I can’t buy a suit cents. Large numbers of the of Pilot, organ of the CIO Na­ toiling for wages of 40 cents and less an hour, face con­ ture. Under cover of more ob­ vances, particularly atomic war­ of clothes because they strikers, in clu ding 10,000 lam p tional Maritime Union; W. E. tinuation of living standards below 1929-39 relief levels. scure verbiage and through a fare, which have outmoded the workers, are assured of no in­ Blade, editor of Guild Reporter, haven’t my size. The police slightly more devious procedure, previous m ilitary structure. Wall say I can’t go on the streets That is the meaning of the creases at all. Women workers CIO Newspaper Guild; and Hen­ Standards Act to cover an addi­ the m ilitary retains Its control Street wants a m ilitary organi­ naked because It Is against Senate’s actions last week on tional four to six million under­ face a cut of more than six cents ry C. Fleisher, associate editor the Minimum Wage Bill. Atom Bomb A Day of atomic energy. zation designed to Inflict atomic an hour because of the com­ of CIO News. the law. I would gladly stay paid workers was defeated. If the military committee destruction to the maximum. off the streets but I can’t find After having been blocked for Among these are some two m il­ Keeps Doctor Away pany’s refusal to eliminate dif­ Other papers already hit in­ which will be “attached” to the Simultaneously, it wants the a house to live in and with almost a year, the 65-cent lion white collar workers in big “ TOKYO, Apr. 4. (Reuters) — ferentials as ordered by a War clude The Hat Worker, organ proposed Atomic Energy Com­ extension of the draft—origin­ the shortage of lumber I Minimum Wage B ill was batter­ department and chain food stores, The atomic bombs dropped on Labor Board directive Issued last of the AFL United Hatters, Cap mission objects to anything clvil- ally passed as a “temporary” can’t buy a barrel. Having ed around during the last three mail order houses, service com­ Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where December 29. Proposed elimina­ and Millinery Workers; Ship­ (Contlnued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 6) been wounded, the Arm y won’t weeks by the Big-Business panies, etc. Also some three m il­ they kille d and in ju re d 102,150 tion of a day workers’ bonus yard Worker, Local 16 CIO In­ take me back because I ’m not dominated Senate. It was fi­ lion "first processing” workers and 77,425 persons respectively, would mean a slash of 7% cents dustrial Marine and Shlpbuild- physically fit.” nally passed with such object­ in fcsh and food plants, can­ (Continned on Page 8) (Continued on Page 8) also had ‘certain beneficial ef­ ionable "riders” as to virtually neries, gins, dairies and on fects’ on the sick and aged, it HOUSE GROUP VOTES BILL ensure its Veto by President Tru­ farms in agricultural areas of was reported at a meeting of the man. production. Japanese Internal Disease Soci­ MILLIONS NOT COVERED The only expansion of cover­ ety today. The study of hundreds TO HELP BOOST PRICES New York Veterans' Group Before the bill’s passage, a age contained in the bill, as it o f cases showed th a t uranium ra ­ crippling "rider” was attached was passed, was the autom atic diation had Increased the num­ The House Banking and Currency Committee on to provide a simultaneous rise In Inclusion o f some two m illio n ber of white blood cells from the 5 approved a year’* extension of the Office of Price Ad­ the price of farm products and workers earning less th a n 65 norm al 8,000 to 35,000, c o n tri­ ministration to June 30, 1947. But at the same time M Pushes Housing Program thus boost food costs to the cents an hour, plus an unde­ buting greatly to early recovery.” American consumers by $4,500,- • # • tacked on two amendments aimed to cripple price-control termined number of merchant and aid the Big Business ln -; 000,000 (b illio n s ). President seamen, who, however, would Studying technique double-talking agenpy Is assur­ By Evelyn Atwood guarantees fully rented property Truman declared that if the bill not be permitted to collect pay flatlonary drive to slash the at high rents. Profits are their reached the White House with Steven Nathan, 46-year-old living standards of the ing the American people that NEW YORK, Apr. 6—Thousands of homeless and des­ of time and a half for work sole consideration. They are in­ the "rider” attached, he would done after eight hours daily. Army cryptographer and regular American people. it Is “holding the line” against perate veterans in New York City, where the housing crisis different to the sufferings of the veto the whole measure. A 1944 D epartm ent o f Labor visitor to the meetings of the The Committee voted 15 to 6 price rises. has reached an acute stage, are being rallied behind the homeless veterans who have re­ In addition, a clause in the study of living costs proved that United Nations Security Council, to prohibit the OPA from re­ The CIO’s Cost of Living Com­ progressive Program For Action On Housing, submitted by turned from the wars.” bill to expand the Fair Labor (Continued on Page 2) was interviewed by a N. Y. quiring retailers to absorb the mittee has prepared a list of 32 the American Veterans’ Com­ The AVC Council also demands World-Telegram feporter. Na­ higher cost of certain manufac­ price increases which are im­ dwellings into adequate hous­ mittee’s Housing Committee immediate passage of the original than, a veteran of both world tured products, such as auto­ mediately felt by the consuming ing units. Patman B ill and the Wagner-El- wars, said he was interested in mobiles, refrigerators and radios, public. These include price to the AVC Metropolitan learning "how they get the next Arqa Council and approved DENOUNCE RICH lender-Taft bill, “despite thqir Expose Army Plot To Clear until these had maintained a pre­ boosts on milk, meats, canned INTERESTS obvious inadequacies.” It further, one ready.” war level of production for six goods, fresh grapefruit, canned by ‘that body on April 3. * * $ The AVC Council denounced asks for low-rent public housing months. These higher prices meats, pepper, bread and bakery The Council is making this w ill be passed on directly to the products. In clothing the list campaign for aggressive action the “powerful lobbies in Wash­ projects for veterans and others Lichfield Torture Officers Vanishing Act ington which oppose construc­ earning less th an $50 a week, as Capt. Carroll refused to be a par­ Roscoe S. Conkling, former consuming public. This amend­ includes price hikes on shoes, on the housing problem its By Mike Cort ment, it was revealed, was draft­ shirts, shorts, pajamas, work primary business. tion of new homes.” Foremost well as low cost cooperative ty. In a seven-page letter of re­ selective service official, speak­ among these, it stated, is the dwellings and low-cost private A Brass Hat conspiracy to signation on April 4, he charged ing before the Senate M ilitary ed by the National Association clothes, house dresses, men’s and The Council’s program calls of Automobile Dealers. boys’ suits, and all other textile upon the Federal government house construction with veteran whitewash high army officers that the trials are being "fla­ Committee, against extension of By a vote of 15 to 5 the Com­ products. Other items include and the New York State and City priorities. guilty of ‘disciplining’ wound­ g ra n tly m ishandled” so as to the draft laws, said that early in Reports On whitewash the high ranking of­ 1944 the Arm y was “ crying fo r mittee also voted a gradual ter­ radios, fans, toasters, builders* administrations to proclaim a PLAN MASS RALLY ed American soldiers by order­ Housing Crisis ficers really responsible for the more men”. “Then abbut April mination of the government’s hardware, kerosene, fuel and housing emergency, and to take Larry Noble, AVC Organiza­ ing them clubbed and beaten two billion dollar annual subsidy crude oil. lumber, automobiles. the following immediate meas­ See Page 2 was blown wide open this week. cruelties. 5 of that year someone decided tional Secretary, located at 139 The tactic devised by the army to cheqk up a bit and discovered program, forcing the govern­ CIO President Philip Murray ures to alleviate the housing East 57th Street, told this re­ Captain Earl J. Carroll refused ment to reduce subsidy payments on April 4 charged Chester Bow­ shortage: to play the role assigned to him hierarchy in th is case is to de­ they had lost tra ck o f 300,000 National Association of Real porter that they hope to push mand a separate tria l for each of inducted men, that they had by 25 per cent over the year be­ les. Director of Economic Stabil­ SIX-POINT PROGRAM Estate Boards, representing the this program through the New and resigned from the prosecu­ ginning July 1 and get out of ization, and Paul Porter, head of tion staff set up to handle the the accused enlisted men, thus 300,000 more men than they 1. Take over for the veterans big banking and Insurance in­ York City Council. "Two points the subsidy business by June 30, the OPA, with increasing prices case o f the L ic h fie ld detention dragging out the case so th a t It knew they had.” all unoccupied housing. terests. are already under consideration * * * 1947. These subsidies include "far beyond anything necessary center, now being tried in Lon­ would be problematical whether 2. Mak^ available an increas­ The AVC revealed that the by the City Council,” he said. payments designed to hold down to offset higher wages.” don. the Lichfield officers would ever ed percentage of the quarters in Producers’ Council has a five One is the question of halting What?s In A Name? food costs. It was at Lichfield prison in be brought to trial. In the words all clubs, hotels and resorts to million dollar war chest to pro­ On the veto of the Stalin gov­ projected highways in the Bronx England that American soldiers of Captain Carroll, this tactic DOUBLE TALK house veterans. ernment, the projected confer­ ON THE INSIDE tect the Interests of the big and in Brooklyn, because that suffered a virtual reign of terror would “necessarily impair the The OPA, In Its effort to ap­ 3. Halt the wrecking of all ence of the Big Powers to be Oil In Iran ...... S building material monopolists would mean the tearing down of throughout the war and were government’s case against the pease the profiteers and gain an­ housing suitable for veterans. and that the National Real Es­ a number of dwellings. higher-ranking officers.” held in France w ill be called “ the Crumbs for Starving? ...... -..7 tortured for the slightest Infrac­ Conference of Paris” and not other year’s lease on life, has Miners Remember Their Dead....8 4. Take over and utilize all tate Foundation campaigned for The second point, Noble said, tion of rigid army regulations. The first step in the campaign been throwing one price conces- tax-delinquent land and proper­ five million dollars to fight low was a resolution in the City “of peace.” Phlla. Westinghouse Strike .... .8 When news of this American to unload all blame upon the en­ ♦ • * sioir**aiter another to these in­ ties to ease the housing crisis. rent housing projects. Council asking the city to take Dachau finally reached the pub­ listed men, occurred last Feb­ satiable hogs. Numerous price COLUMNS AND* FEATURES o. Take alt possible measures "These and other powerful lob­ definite action to make available lic early this year, the Brass ruary when Sgt. Judson Smith Iranian Victory boosts have already been author­ Trade Union Notes ...... t to utilize available appropria­ bies are responsible for blocking "In some way” more homes for Hats attempted to avoid respon­ was court-martialed for cruelty “There was a good demand for ized and many more are in pros­ Veterans Problems ...... _ ™ ._ 4 tions to build decent houses any effective housing program,” veterans. sibility for their torture policy to prisoners and sentenced to Anglo-Iranian Oil on the news pect. Workers Forum ...... 5 now. the AVC Council stated. "The The AVC Council is planning by court-martialing the enlisted three years hard labor. from the U. N., the price rising In the past six weeks alone the Shoptalks on Socialism ..... „ „ . . 6 A. Where feasible and practical, only ones to benefit from the to hold a rally on May 4 at City men assigned to Lichfield as The day after Capt. Carroll’s three-sixteenths.” (Reports from OPA has granted price hikes on The Negro Struggle ...... 7 to transform available struc­ housing shortage are the real es­ Hall Park to press for action on guards. resignation, the defense counsel London stock market, N. Y. 76 Items, all affecting basic com­ Diary of Steelworker ...... 8 tures other than sub-standard tate Interests. A homing shortage the housing crisis. It was this maneuver to wMeh (Otattaned m Page 8) Times, April 5). modities. At the same time, this Notes Of A Seaman ...... » SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1941 PAGE TWO THE MILITANT SCAN DALOUS HOUSING CRISIS EXPOSED Chicago Vets Demand Housing ‘Medals Don't Mean A Thing' Detroit Veterans By Joseph Keller To Landlords, Veterans Find The Bigger The Lie . . . the UAW delegates overwhelm­ Seek Homes In Vain ingly voted down all proposal* By R. Egan Someone observing Dally Worker reporter George Morris to strengthen the hand of the By Jim Ross (Special to The M ilitant) slowly and laboriously punching top bureaucrats. (Special to The M ilitant) “ Do you want a picture of me throwing my medals in away at his typewriter in the • * • the furnace? Medals don’t mean a thing when it comes DETROIT, Mich., Apr. 3 — The veteran in Detroit is press room during the CIO Unit­ Rail Arbitration seething w ith rage at the Home Owners’ Association for to finding a house in this town. All of us veterans have ed Auto Workers convention last its stand in defying the OPA by denying veterans and found that out. Sometimes I think of a!ll those homes Gives Bitter Fruit their families a place to live. That this is a planned con­ I helped to knock down on bombing raids. I ’d like to have week, wisecracked: “ Well, crea­ Two failway labor arbitra­ spiracy of the Real Estate Board to up the rent on their one of them, now.” tive writing is always harder tion boards on April 3 handed property and to keep out This remark was made by Ar-®- than straight reporting ” down a decision for a 16-cent tlons of the newspapers carry Federal Government inter­ mand Conti on November 16, Morris gave an example of hourly wage increase for 1,220,- 1945, to representatives of the whole columns of desperate Stalinist “creative” writing in vention in the housing sit­ 'wanted to rent’ notices. 000 railway workers. This is in uation, is a fact known and Ex-GI Dreamed Cleveland Press. A t that time the March 26 Dally Worker where Armand Conti, his wife and his Meanwhile the mayor and the contrast with the average 18 ^ proved by the despicable he described the UAW conven­ Of Home, Can’t two year old son were living with city council and other so-called tion debate on the proposal for cent awards approved by the method used by the land­ Mrs. Conti’s parents. Their bed— interested bodies have been d ili­ the establishment of a special government for most of the big lords. for all three—was a % size mat­ gently kicking the problem Executive Board post for a Ne­ CIO unions which wefit on strike. One of the most heartrending Find One Now tress made up on the living room around in the hopes that it will gro representative.’ Bqth the Fifteen non - operating rail ttories is that of a young Detroit­ floor. get lost. There has been the us­ Thomas-Addes group, which the unions had been demanding a er—a friend of mine—who was A veteran in Detroit sent us ual plethora of words and the Stalinists supported, and the 30-cent increase. Three operat­ “ My wife’s folks can’t keep us usual paucity of action. drafted into the army and forced the following letter describing forever,” Conti continued. “ I ’m Reuther group opposed the pro­ ing brotherhoods had demand­ to give up his home and move his own experiences with the so sore about this I can hardly posal. Both groups in this re­ ed a fla t $2.50 daily raise, in ­ his wife and baby into a small housing shortage. work.” spect catered to the prejudices stead of the $1.28 the govern­ apartment. On his return home, Union veterans demonstrating in front of Mayor Kelly’s of the more backward among ment proposes to allow them. this veteran, whose family had Editor: The Contis had been looking Vets’ Families office in Chicago on March 30 carry placards demanding 1m- - fof a place to live ever since his the white delegates. Leaders of most of the rail now increased to three depend­ I ’m not. a fancy w riter and mediate action on housing. High point of the demonstration In Morris’ story, however, we unions, except for the engineer* ents, had to vacate his apart­ discharge from the army two I can’t tell things like I like came when veterans pitched pup tents on the sidewalk in months previously. At first they In Portland Get learn that “ the debate for the and trainmen, had agreed to ment because the landlord could to hear' them from The M ili­ front of City Hall. Reuther forces was led off by j binding arbitration of the issues. make more money by renting it had hoped to build, but after tant. But sometimes things talking'to builders and being told Squalid Shacks Trotskyite Ben Garrison” in op­ Now they are making an outcry to couples. just happen to you and you position to the proposal. against an award which is typi­ In searching for a new home that they would have to wait feel like telling somebody and months, they abandoned the SPECIAL TO THE MILITANT It is true that Garrison, a cal of the rotten deals the work­ for his family, he was turned ers' usually get from arbitration, away everywhere because of the then you feel better. idea. They would like to buy a PORTLAND, Ore., Apr. 2 — member of the convention Reso­ Wife Of S t. Paul Vet B. M.-Jewell, chairman of the children, and because the owners I am a returned veteran from house but prices are beyond The Portland area has lost lutions Committee, made a vic­ National Conference Committee preferred to keep their places the South Pacific where I spent their means. They find it impos­ little of Its extra wartime ious and red-baiting speech of the 15 non-operating em­ vacant rather than yield to the over a year in the Jungles of New sible to rent because of their against, the proposal for a Negro population. The war workers board member. But, contrary to ployes unions, declared "the OPA rent ceiling. Guinea.' All us boys dreamt child. Tells Housing P light who left since V-J Day have Morris’ account, Garrison “ led award is wholly unsatisfactory. Countless numbers of such about while we were there was ‘ALMOST SORRY’ HE’S OUT Angered by the housing shortage in St. Paul, a veteran’s wife been-replaced by returning o ff” the debate for the Thomas- . . . There is no justification in oases have been reported in De­ the nice home we could return This situation is duplicated wrote the following letter to "The M ilitant,” calling for the ex­ veterans. The housing crisis Addes group — he subsequently the world for expecting railway troit, but to no avail. The law­ to. The loneliness of the jungle with minor variations in the lives reminded us of the fancy prom­ propriation and immediate use of empty homes and hotels. is still acute. Veterans’ families made the nominating speech for employes to accept lessor rates making bodies of the city have of thousands of returned service­ are doubling up or living in rejected every attempt made by ises the papers and everybody Editor: former UAW Präsident R. J. of pay than workers in other in­ men in the Cleveland area. The squalid shacks and trailer camps. Thomas. And delegates who dustries. . . .” He further com­ the Government to build houses gave us. “ Nothing is too good Every once in a while there is a story on housing in the bitterness felt by “these home­ and projects for the destitute for our boys.” I guess that’s what A few weeks ago, four young were sympathetic to Trotskyist plained that the railway work­ -paper, and I get burned up all over again. To make me less veterans was given expres­ ers “ have absorbed the shock of and homeless veterans. they said in the first world war, children were burned to death views supported the proposal for still more angry, today I passed an empty house “ for sale” sion by Wencel Frank, who had three defeats—one in 1941 one The returned servicemen are too. Well, they kept their prom­ in a Portland fire. They were liv­ a Negro board member. on St. Paul’s exclusive Summit Avenue. A large well con­ been trying for weeks to find a ing in a woodshed. Photographs in 1943 and this one today.” learning that the landlords who ise because when we came back home for himself and his fam­ talked so loudly of their patriot­ that’s what we got, nothing. structed stone home that of the miserable hut where these This admission of three de­ looked as if it could accom- ily. children lived—three of them Doing the D irty Work feats is a sufficient commentary ism, are Just greedy capitalists I had lived in Detroit for Frank had been an Infantry who wish to profit all at the twenty-two years before but modate easily and In com­ Veterans Plead slept In one bed with their moth­ For The Bureaucrats on the policies of the rail union corporal with 14 months' ser­ er, the baby in a bureau drawer leaders who have opposed m ili­ workers’ expense. The need for when I got back and finally dis­ fort four or five workers’ For Decent Waqe vice In the European theater, 7 Aside from supplying the charged there was no place to beside the bed—shocked Port­ tant struggle. It wasn’t arbitra­ Federal housing projects cannot families. Four war veterans, mem­ of those months In a German Thomas-Addes clique with most live. I t ’s funny how the govern­ landers. They wrote Indignant tion but strike action that won be denied, as the population of Then I came “ home” to the bers of the CIO Food and To­ prison camp. of its slanderous ammunition ment spent millions of dollars letters to local papers asking why bigger gains for the CIO unions. the city has increased twenty- two light-housekeeping rooms bacco Workers, flew in a “ In the prison camp I used to against the militants in the Reu­ for big‘ factories to give to the this family was living in such ♦ • • four per cent, and families have that my husband, baby, and I chartered plane this week to think about the home we were ther caucus, the chief function rich but couldn’t spend any conditions. Why didn’t the wel­ multiplied due to the many mar­ were lucky—really lucky—to Washington to plead for pas­ going to have when—and if—I of the Stalinists at the UAW con­ money to build houses for the fare authorities do something Goodrich Local 5 riages of returning veterans. find when he became a “ Mis­ sage of the 65 cent minimum ever got back here. I might as vention was to take the lead in poor people who fought this war. about it? One of the main reasons for ter" again. And then I decided wage bill without any crip­ well be back in prison camp be­ arguing for all organizational Sets Record Straight I waited in line many hours this rebuff of the Federal Gov­ that the one place where I knew pling amendments. cause we don’t have a home, AUTHORITIES KNEW measures calculated to strength­ Air Bag, the excellent' paper of at the Housing Commission for ernment’s attempt to build homes I could let off some steam Is Marcellus Perm, whose rate can’t find a builder who can en the top bureaucracy. Akron Goodrich Local 5, CIO something. The few places that I t turned out that the welfare is the desire of the landlords to in The Militant. of 62 cents an hour nets him guarantee us anything, can’t When none of the top officers Rubber Workers, in its April Is­ I saw wouldn’t have any kids, authorities knew all about the continue renting their old, rotten about $20 a week at the R. J. find a house to rent or even an were willing to “stick their necks sue nails the misleading accounts so that left me out. I have a St. Paul has had a housing case. The mother was the wife property which should long since apartment big enough for us. I out” in open support of such pro­ in such papers as the Cleveland daughter four years old. The shortage for years. For example, Reynolds Tobacco Company. of a veteran, a lumber worker have been condemned. That the Winston Salem, N. C,, said: tell you it is not pleasant when employed in a town South of posals as increasing the length of Plain Dealer and N. Y. Time* Board of Health is not seriously other soldiers who waited looked each spring several blocks of “ What they promised us a man is almost sorry he got out Portland. The woodshed was officers’ terms, doubling the dues which tried to give credit to gov­ interested in city health is veri­ Just how I felt inside. I guess workers” homes near the airport when we went into service is of the army because there is no considered a satisfactory resi­ and raising officers’ salaries, the ernment conciliators for the fine fied by its policy of approving they are sick of the mess too. are half Submerged In water for short of what we’re getting. I place for him to live. It ought dence by the welfare agency — Stalinists obligingly did the dirty settlement won by the rubber the rental of properties unfit for I guess this cock-eyed world weeks at a time. But the cur­ have four dependents, a wife, to be good for re-enlistments.” after all, It Is difficult for a work for them. It was the Stalin­ union in its new contract. human beings. is all shot. I ’ll sure be glad when rent shortage is even worse. child, mother and nephew. I family with young children to ists who made the loudest and "The fact is that no govern­ To ask for a Federal investiga­ the ideas that The Militant talks There are no longer even any CAN’T LOOK FOR WORK don’t know myself how I get find a place to live! longest speeches in favor of these mental agency had any form *! tion is useless, because the facts about w ill come around. filthy, rat-infested tenements for by. I have no reserve. Grocer­ Daniel Grace, realizing that Smallpox, which has broken proposals. part In these negotiations. On are already known. What the There, I feel better now. workers and veterans and their ies alone take half my salary house-hunting is a full time Job, out In the Northwest, now One of the big laughs of the the contrary this was an out­ people need, and most of all the F. R. families to rent. each week. We’re just lucky put off going to work on his re­ threatens all the families living convention was to hear Stalin­ standing case in which the union veterans, is action. Detroit LIVE IN PARK nobody’s been sick since I lease from the army, until he in these trailer camps and shan­ ist* delegates solemnly affirm representatives and company And what solution is the city was discharged from the had found a place to live. By ties, where sanitary conditions that the officers should be given representatives fought it out offering? They have erected a Army last September 26.” prospective renters he was asked are very poor. two-year instead of one-year without any outside interference Minimum Wage B ill Receives few *o-called “ Quonset” type such questions as “ How-riarge is Nothing has been done to pro­ terms in order to “ eliminate fac­ or government meddling,” states huts in a park, ¿ettled veterans your bank account? How is your vide additional housing for vet­ tional politics.” They even the A ir Bag. tween their standard of living credit standing?” and their families there, and erans. On the contrary, housing brought in a minority report of “ We do not believe it is neces­ and ours If we lived too near He finds that landlords will then charged them $30 and $33 projects at Guild’s Lake and the Constitution Committee to sary to go through complicated Death Sentence In Senate a month rent for a temporary them? not rent unless he is working, Vanport have been partly torn increase the top officers’ annual governmental machinery and red but if he is working he will not (Continued from Page 1) dwelling with stove heat and no Nor are thesé two homes the down, because real estate inter­ salaries by $1,500, instead of the tape. The results of the nego­ plumbing or sanitary facilities. only ones vacant. have time to look for a place to ests are afraid of the “ «ompeti- $1,000 proposed by the commit­ tiations show that it is better live. a family of three persons, even than even the legal minimum of These working-class mothers Personally I believe the home­ tlon” they might offer private tee majority. to battle it out union to com­ must use laundry and sanitary Frances Murlaugh, who had enterprise. at that time needed an income 40 cents. less workers—veterans and non­ Despite the Stalinist pleadings, pany directly.” The inadequacy of even a 65- facilities in a central permanent been trying for months to find a at $1,950 after income taxes, in house, and who had given up order to break even. cent minimum wage today, was building. And even then the veterans—should demand the ex­ emphasized by the majority of workers would be thankful for propriation and immediate „use building after talking to con­ Today, with living costs at tractors, remarked that he the Senate Committee on Ed­ these small, overcrowded, tem­ of all empty homes or hotels, ‘least 50 per cent higher than hadn’t thought it coujd be this Monopoly Of Atomic Energy when the present 40-cent m ini­ ucation and Labor, when it sent porary homes if at least the rent together with the quartering of the bill to the Senate for adop­ were reasonable. bad. “ It kind of makes a guy mum became legal, and with homeless families in all homes wonder what he was fighting tion three weeks ago. According Over three months ago the St. prices soaring further week by for.” to the April 1 Advance, the Paul Dispatch carried a story of left empty or partially used by Remains In Military Hands week, millions at the 40-cent Stories such as these could be wage level are forced to subsist Committee stated: two mansions on Mississippi Riv­ “ absentee owners.” I f immedi­ repeated by the thousands. How ® - o q er Boulevard, another of St. (Continued from Page 1) an annual income of $800, MINIMUM STANDARDS ate steps are not taken to carry crucial the situation is will be require that the United State* at $16 a week for 50 weeks. A Paul’s exclusive areas. These “ The Committee recognizes out such expropriation and quar­ illuminated by a few statistics ians do or fall to do, it is em­ lear energy, the Authority shall discontinue such manufac­ mansions are tax-forfeited prop­ $16 wage today admittedly pro­ that 65 cents sin hour;—$26 a tering to solve the immediate taken from the local War Hous­ powered to make requests for would gradually divulge 'theor­ ture either upon the proposal of erty now owned by the city. With vides one-third less purchasing week or $1,350 for a fu ll year’s severe shortage, then homeless ing Authority. During the week Presidential veto through the etical knowledge and production the plan or upon the inaugura­ a little remodeling the two houses power than a WPA wage in 1939. work—does not provide a m ini­ workers should simply occupy of October 1, only 28 of the 347 War and Navy Secretaries. know-how in several stages. tion of the international agen­ would provide homes for 12 fam­ In this the richest land in the mum American standsird of liv­ these places. applications were satisfied, and The military will thus retain cy.” ilies, with larger quarters and The first stage, writes Stone, world, even at the height of the ing for the average family of Not only would such action all 28 were for single rooms only. power to block attempts to de­ The committee’s report makes more convenient ones than most “ would release certain informa­ war production boom in 1945, four . . . Even the Inadequate ease the Immediate shortage — There simply are no apartments velop atomic energy for civilian it clear that Washington hopes of the workers have had before. tion necessary for discussion of - almost half of the American maintenance budget developed but it would put pressure where or houses. At that time there purposes. The War and Navy alternative control proposals by to use such a UNO Atomic De­ wage earners secured less than for families on w; rk relief would NOTHING DONE it hurts on the big shots, to pass were 927 on the waiting list. Departments will continue stock­ the UNO Atomic Energy Com­ velopment Authority not only to 65 cents an hour. cost $1,700 at current prices.” And yet in *the three months and start work immediately on At present writing there are piling atomic bombs and devel­ mission and the UNO itself.” secure a world monopoly of nuc­ According to figures submit­ a large-scale, low-cost public The Committee further point­ that have passed, nothing has more than 8,000 applications on oping other atomic armaments. The second stage would come lear energy but also as a bat­ ted to Congress last year by the housing program . . . which of ed out that today, “ with a na­ been done to convert these file for living quarters. This fig­ In a word, m ilitary monopoly of when the Atomic Energy Author­ tering ram to undermine the Pepper Senate Committee on course is the only real perma­ tional Income of $160-blllions, homes. And this primarily be­ ure by no means gives a com­ atomic energy is assured by this ity had finally been set up by sconomic structure of the USSR. wartime substandard wages, nent answer to this question. a 65-cent minimum yields the cause of the exclusive zoning plete picture since a great num­ latest version of the MacMahon the UNO. "The third sta^e," To participate in the plan the there were more than 17,000,000 Yours for a decent home for sub-standsird worker a smaller laws which the bosses use to ber of veterans do not bother to bill. Stone goes on, “ would be reached Kremlin must give the Author­ workers who received less than every worker and his family. proportion of the nation’s In­ protect the privacy of their* register at the WHA. They rec­ But the War chiefs in Wash­ when the Authority was ready to ity ’s inspectors free access to any 65 cents per hour; 5,000,000 who creased wealth than a 40-cent home neighborhoods. Could it be Jean Paddock ognize that registration is a fu ­ ington are not satisfied with a begin industrial production of part of the Soviet Union. Next received only 50 cents an hour St. Paul, Minn. minimum yielded him with a that they are afraid we will dis­ tile gesture. The classified sec- monopoly confined to the United fissionable material.” the USSR must turn over control and 2,000,000 who received less $64-billion income In 1938." cover the actual discrepancy be- of all her uranium deposits to States. They have visions of ex­ These stages would take many the UNO Authority. Russia must tending it. years. Time is required for the agree that the Authority is to A Board of Consultants and a UNO discussion, for a geographic CHICAGO VETERANS DEMONSTRATE own and direct all mines, plant* Mail This Coupon With 50c For A 6-Month Subscription To State Department committee survey of the world, for taking and other facilities' used in the headed by Under-Secretary of over uranium deposits, for be­ development or production of TO DEMAND IMMEDIATE HOUSING State Dean Acheson have drawrt ginning the mining operations atomic energy. Products of the up a plant for “international” and the construction of plants. Nick Bradford plants and laboratories would be control of atomic research and The fourth stagç, in which U. THE MILITANT (Special to The M ilitant) disposed of as directed by the development. This plan pro­ S. information regarding the Authority, or in other words, by A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER The Chicago Labor Coun­ now, and endorsement of the poses extension of Washington’s production of the atomic bomb Washington and London. 116 UNIVERSITY PEACE, NEW YORK 3, N. Y. cil of Union Veterans held monopoly to the rest of the would be revealed, is to come Patman, Ellender Housing B ill world. If the Soviet Union does not a demonstration Saturday, about only sometime in the dis­ accept this plan, the Anglo- Published in the interests of the working people. and of W yatt’s proposals on vet­ tant future. March 30, 1946, in front of U. S. DOMINATION American imperialists can then erans’ housing. “ In other words,” Stone de­ The only newspaper in this country that tells the Mayor Kelly’s office to demand accuse the USSR of refusing to The veterans chose a commit­ With the avowed intention of clares, “ other nations would be immediate housing. Six leading cooperate with UNO, thus “ justi­ truth about labor’s struggles for a better world. tee to present their demands to averting an atomic armaments asked to hand over control of unions, chapters of the American fying” their continued monopoly Mayor Kelly personally. When race, the plan calls for the es­ uranium deposits and presum­ You may start my *ub«criptlon to The M ilitant for 6 months Veterans’ Committee of World of atomic secrets. the committee reached the May­ tablishment by the UNO of an ably to end their own atomic- I #ndo«# 50 cent* (coin or »tamp«) □ War n , and the Union Legion­ or’s office they were told that he Atomic Development Authority. bomb work at the beginning of naires of the American Legion Send me The M ilitant »t your regular rate of $1 for 12 months, was ill and was not in his of* Such a body, like the UNO, would the process in return for a prom­ were participants in this demon­ I enclose $1 (coin, stamp* or Money Order) □ fice. The committee returned to be under the domination of ise that at its end we would stration. the demonstration and George Anglo-American Imperialists. As make the bomb know-how The highlight or the demon­ I. F. Stone stated in the April Nam® ...... , ------m 11 im Danfleld from the Union Legion­ available. But what if we (Please Print) stration was reached when the naires reported back to the dem­ 6 Nation, it “ Is to take over the changed our minds?” veterans pitched pup tents on the onstrators. He stated that this world’s uranium deposits and to For the present and foresee­ ...... Apt iin iw tH twme« sidewalk in front of City Hall. was only the beginning of the have a monopoly of facilities for able future, the committee of Each pup tent had a sign stat­ fight for veterans’ housing, and producing fissionable materials.” five says, “ the United States C lty_..^.,„...... Postal Zone ing which groups were repre­ that the Chicago Labor Council In return for the ownership will continue the manufacture sented. Most of the placards will have another demonstra­ State ...... and operation of all mines, man­ of (atomic) bombs.” ' Emphasiz­ carried slogans demanding hous­ tion when the Mayor gets back ufacturing plants and research ing this aspect the committee ing now, not seven years from to his office. facilities used to relation to nuc- continue« ‘The plan does not SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1946 THE MILITANT PAGE THREE Atomic Destruction Control Of Oil Land In Middle East And World War I I I

This is the fourth of a series of articles on the death-dealing Involved In UNO Dispute Over Iran loeapons in the hands of the imperialist warmongers who in their tw it for world-domination, threaten the destruction of modern In presenting his government’s case against the Soviet civilization. The first article told how the destructive powers of Union last week before the United Nations Security Coun­ warfare have multiplied. The second described the new air weapons, cil, Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala fleetingly referred and the third discussed the use of disease germs as a war weapon. Threaten Death Sentence For to oil. He was promptly cut off by the U. S. Secretary of By Eugene Varlin State Byrnes who said: “I respectfully suggest that the ousting the imperialists from Before August 6, 1945, it seemed that people could no Leading BulgarianTrotskyists there. Iranian representative might During World War II, Amer­ longer be shocked by the mounting slaughters of the im ­ SPECIAL TO THE M ILITANT be instructed to confine his perialist butchers. The cities of Europe were in ruins. Sixty ican imperialism took advantage A letter from Bulgaria, dated February, brings news of remarks . . .” to the issues of Britain’s difficulties to muscle m illion men had been under consideration. in on her Middle East oil mon­ bombs withm two to five years.” the survival of the Trotskyist movement in that country. elaughtered on the European Organized into the Internationalist Communist Party, the Apparently Hussein Ala had opoly. The Texas Oil Company battlefields alone. Furthermore, according to Pro­ shown poor taste — and poorer fessor Oppenheimer, bombs can letter says, the Bulgarian revolutionists stand fully on the and Standard Oil invested $100,- In the months before August, Judgment — in mentioning so 000,000 in a new venture, the be produced cheaply by the tens of the Fourth In- thousands of Superfortresses had program crude a subject ,as oil after the American Arabian Oil Co. Roose­ of thousands. ternational. That party is peal to comrades and friends bombed the cities of Japan with everywhere to protest to the Bul­ British representative Cadogan velt came to their assistance incendiaries. Every Japanese DEADLY BY-PRODUCTS forced to function illegally garian government against the had been declaiming about the with a government-financed pipe city with a population of more Moreover, the radio-active by­ and has not, up to the pres­ persecutions and to demand the “ confidence in the sanctity of line running across Saudi Arabia. than 100,000 had heen burned products of the plants which are ent, been able to organize its legalization of the ICP. respect for treaties” and Byrnes I. F. Stone had the following out. Millions of charred skeletons manufacturing the atom bombs legal press organ. had been proclaiming the need to say about Roosevelt’s policy lay in the shambles. Mankind are deadlier than any poison gas Several of the leading »em­ to defend "the rights of small in the Nation of February 26, was becoming accustomed to heretofore known to man. Dr. bers of the Bulgarian ICP have nations.” 1944: “To go into a colonial horrors without end. Men shrug­ M. L. Oliphant, British atom been arrested and imprisoned. Plot Whitewash ‘FLOATING ON OIL’ country and buy oil concession« ged their shoulders at the bomb scientistrwxote “ They could They have been threatened with It does not take deep drilling by favors to desert sheiks, to mounting statistics of destruc­ be . . ..sprayed or otherwise dis­ death sentences. Of Lichfield beneath the surface of thè pres­ embark on a long-range program tion. tributed over an enemy terri­ The "Fatherland Front” gov­ ent dispute to strike oil. For Iran for the exploitation of natural Then, on August 6, a lone tory in sufficient concentration ernment led by the ex-Fascist is one of the richest sources of resources which belong to an­ American Superfortress, man­ to prohibit the survival of any Georgieff supported by the Stal­ Army Brass Hats oil in the world. One commenta­ other people, is imperialism, ned by a crew of ten, dropped a living thing in thousands of inists, has conducted particular­ tor has described it as “ floating however we choose to disguise (Continued from Page 1) bomb on the Japanese City of square miles of country.” ly vicious persecutions against on a sea of oil.” It contains at it.” Hiroshima. The whole world was There is no defense against the the Bulgarian Trotskyists. At the for one of the accused enlisted least 8 billion barrels of oil re­ The U. S. High Command was aghast at the consequences. atom bomb. It is so small that same time, fascist organizations men, charged that Maj. Gen. serves. In 1944 alone, 102,000,000 eager to obtain an assured oil What had happened? enough bombs could be planted are permitted to function openly John T. Lewis, commander of barrels of oil flowed from Iran’s supply in the Middle East for its Simply this: one bomb car­ inside a country during peace­ and legally. the European western base sec­ gushers. naval and air bases encircling ried by one plane had wiped a tion, was trying to railroad nine the globe. Working closely to­ time to destroy it completely MILITANT RECORD For over 40 years Iran has city of 343,000 people off the immediately after the outbreak guards and "let the accused of­ gether with, oil industry repre­ The Bulgarian ICP has a rec­ been a victim of capitalist greed map. A force had been intro­ of a war. Atom rockets could ficers off.” Counsel Frank A. and a bone of contention among sentatives, Roosevelt’s Secretary duced into warfare, which in its be launched from distances of ord of militant struggle against Johnson explained that accused of the Interior Ickes negotiated fascism and against the Nazi rival imperialists. In 1901 the first test, proved to be twenty over 5,000 miles from their tar­ enlisted men had been visited British financier William Knox an Anglo-American Oil Treaty thousand times more powerful gets. Those rockets travel at oppressor. W hile the Bulgarian by members of General Lewis' WALL STREET'S MAN BYRNES which was very pleasing to the Trotskyists were carrying on the D’Arcy bought 60-year monopoly than TNT. This force was atomic speeds of more than 5,000 miles staff and offered reduced sen­ rights to four-fifths of Iran’s oil monopolists. On the basis of energy. an hour. There is no stopping fight against the Hitlerite in­ tences if they would plead guilty this agreement, Standard Oil and vader, the Stalinists received the oil. England came into conflict HORROR AT TRIUMPH them. and refuse to call witnesses who with Czarlst Russia over this Sinclair Oil began dickering for Small wonder then that the Wehrmacht with flowers in wel­ might implicate the officers in concessions in southeast Iran. Since 1901, scientists had SUGAR BARONS PLUNDER monopoly. A compromise was atom scientists live in deadly coming demonstrations at the charge of the camp. known that by destroying a very reached in the Anglo-Russian KREMLIN WORRIED fear of this Frankenstein of their time when the Stalin-Hitler pact Johnson also charged that the tiny quantity of matter, tremen­ Treaty of 1907 which divided own creation. They know what was s till in effect. Today, the court-martial, itself composed of Alarmed by the penetration of dous quantities of energy could PUERTO RICAN PEOPLE Iran into British and Russian it can do. Dr. A. H. Compton Stalinists attempt to cover up nothing but Brass Hats, had de­ Anglo-American imperialism and be released. Solar energy which spheres of influences. Iran was, warns that no city of greater their tracks with the usual cal­ prive?! the enlisted men of their Conditions in ‘El Fanguito,’ one of several equally poverty seeking supplementary sources of for billions of years had been of course, not consulted. The than 100,000 population will sur­ umnies against the Trotskyists rights and that the "higher stricken sections of San Juan, Puerto Rico, give an in ­ oil, the Kremlin made its own traveling 75,000,000 miles to heat only issue that concerned these vive the first hour of World War as Hitlerites, etc. headquarters” was "biased and dication of the dreadfully low living standard suffered by bid for a share of Iran’s oil. k i the earth, is produced in this rival robbers was how to divide 1944, reversing the policy oi III. Professor Oppenheimer be­ The Bulgarian Trotskyists ap- prejudiced.” way. For over forty years scien­ the Puerto Ricans. In Dynamite On Our Doorstep, Wenzell the booty. Lenin and Trotsky which scru­ lieves that forty million Ameri­ CONSCIOUS POLICY Brown describes this section Through this treaty the Brit­ tists grappled with the problem cans would be killed during the pulously respected the rights of of producing atomic energy ar­ Col. James A. Kilian, former of San Juan. Since Brown ish-controlled Anglo-Persian oil small and weak peoples, Stalin first night of an atomic war. commanding officer of the Lich­ is anxious to cover up the Freedom From W ant Co. took over the oil fields of exerted pressure upon the Iran tificially. Success, they felt, The world-renowned physicist. Report First would mean an era of un­ field army prison, heads the list crimes of Wall Street, there — Greece, 1946 southern Iran. Today British government for concessions in Albert Einstein, declares that, of the six officers who face oil concessions in the Near East dreamed-of advancement for hu­ can be no question of exag­ “ While Greeks are dying in the northwest. Under counter- if war comes again, two-thirds Strike In USSR court-martial should the m ili­ constitute the key source of sup­ manity. Atomic energy would geration. hovels In the city’s outskirts pressure from the ..British and of the world’s population will be tary hierarchy’s whitewash at­ ply for her Navy and air-force soon replace all existing sources from lack of food, the center American governments, the I r ­ slain. tempts fail. That the Prussian- “Ho one knew how many peo­ —and thereby maintain her Em­ of power—coal, oil, electricity. In 20 Years (of Athens) boasts some of anian regime delayed the grant­ CITIES W ILL PERISH like brutality practiced at Lich­ ple lived here in the Little Mud,” pire. Now, at last, they had succeed­ For the first time in more he wrote. “Perhaps five thou­ Europe’s richest cafes, their ing of any new oil concessions. ed. And the world recoiled in An official inspection of the field was no accident, but the windows crammed with delici­ EXPOSED IN 1918 Now these behind - the - scene than two decades the Krem­ result of conscious army policy, sand people were crowded here, horror at their “ triumph.” In the ruins at Hiroshima was made for ous pastries, cakes and fancy The Anglo-Russian Treaty en­ conflicts over Iran’s oil have en­ lin censors have permitted was proven last February dur­ perhaps eight thousand. hands of the imperialist war- the United States government kinds of bread, titillating the abled a Russian industrialist, tered a new phase. On April T news of a strike in the USSR ing the first court-martial of "The only pathway was of makers, the first fruits of their by Philip Morrison, a nucleur palates of those who can af­ Kochtaria, to obtain concessions Iranian Premier Ghavam an­ to be cabled abroad. Even more one of the enlisted guards. loose planks, crudely nailed to­ success were the annihilation of physicist. In the recently pub­ ford the luxuries, and tantal­ in northern Iran in 1916.. How­ nounced a fifty-year oil agree­ significant is the fact that this It was revealed at that time gether, and raised three or four Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the lished book, “One World or izing emaciated Greeks who ever, the Bolsheviks broke with ment with the Soviet Union in strike action was authorized by that Col.v Kilian had instructed feet above the ground. The hands of these war-makers, ato­ None,” he pictures what would can never hope to buy such these imperialist traditions oi north Iran. the highest trade union body. one of his subordinates on the houses were on stilts, but some­ mic energy could destroy civili­ happen to New York City if it things,” wrote Thomas E, Czarlsm. ' One of the first acts This news w ill please neither Text of this important Associat­ proper method of handling p ri­ times the flood waters seeped zation. should be h it by an atom bomb Healy in the April 5, N. Y. Post. of the Soviet government under the big oil corporations which On September 27, Walter H. ed Press dispatch follows from soners. He bra’&ged about “ the into them. The bay brought rust­ Lenin and Trotsky in 1918 was have long looked upon Iran ’s oil like the one that devastated “ The Greek government,” Judd stated before the House Hiroshima. Moscow: way we used to do it in the ca­ ed tin cans, soggy paper, orange to denounce the Anglo-Russian as exclusively their private pre­ skins into the yards. declared Healy, “ shows no In­ of Representatives, “We face the 300,000 people would die im­ MOSCOW, April 6.—The cen­ valry,” and explained the way Treaty and declare the Koch­ serve, nor their diplomatic rep­ terest in regulating food so prospect in the next half cen­ mediately. 300,000 would be in­ tral committee of an electrical he’d handle a "w ilful” prisoner: SEWAGE FLOWS IN taria concessions void. resentatives, Byrne« and Cado­ tury of a return to the cliff trade union has ordered tem­ " I ’d take him down to the rifle that nutrition shall not be the Thereupon Kochtaria sold the gan. They are really concerned jured. 20,000, who seemed to “ The ground on which I trod,” dweller or cave-man stage of porary cessation of work in the range where it couldn’t be seen right of only those who can Anglo-Persian Oil Co. and Stan­ not about the “sanctity of inter­ have escaped unscathed, would said Brown, “ was black with hu­ civilization. The scientists who polishing and galvanizing de­ and work him over: Just don’t buy it on the black market.” dard Oil of New Jersey equal national obligations,” th« "right« die of after-radiations. This pic­ man feces, caked, made solid, a created the atomic bomb have partments in a Moscow factory, break too many bones.” shares in these same forfeited oil of small nations” etc., but about ture is “unreal in only one way,” part of the earth itself. During spent sleepless nights on the the trades union newspaper Trud What a "working over” meant months. One third of the work­ concessions in northern Iran. The strategical advantage« and th * he said. In a future war, the storms the marshy water flood­ question of what to do with their reported today. to the men imprisoned in Lich­ ers cannot find Jobs during the Soviet government then stated seizure of material things like bombs will come, not by ones ed the land, cleaning it a little, brain child.” field was revealed in a series months of highest employment. that it opposed the granting of that black, sticky stuff called oH. or twos, but in hundreds and The newspaper said the venti­ taking away some of the filth, Today, the atomic bomb is an of exposes i written by Charles U. S. “LIBERATION” oil rights to the imperialists in The immediate outcome of th« thousands. And the bombs will lating system for the last two pushing still more of it into the American monopoly. No scien­ Carsten for the M ilitant last Feb­ the former Russian sphere. As “Iranian dispute,” far from im­ be infinitely more powerful than and one-half years had caused dank blackened earth. Sewage The United States has owned tist believes that this state of ruary. Up to the time of the a result, a movement arose proving relations among th« the one that destroyed Hiro­ numerous employee complaints flowed In streams between the the island for nearly half a cen­ affairs will last very long. On shima. M ilitant articles, the capitalist tury. When American armies among the tribes of northern “Big Three,” win tend ortiy to which the director did nothing to houses. October 1, 1945, a group of atom He concluded, “ If the bomb satisfy. press had barely mentioned the came in 1898 during the Span- Iran which was successful in aggravate them still further. scientists declared, "There are gets out of hand, if we do The union's central commit­ gruesome story. “ The stench of sewage was ish-American War, they were no longer any fundamental se­ not learn to live together so that tee ordered a new ventilation The Carsten articles revealed horrible,” Brown continues. “ I hailed as liberators. The Puerto crets about the atomic bomb . . . our science will be our help and system and other remedies. a few of the many cases of sad­ felt my gore rising and had to Ricans thought the United States Even those nations with lesser not our hurt, there is only one Although the director promised istic cruelty practiced in the pri­ fight being sick. I was in the was aiding them in their four- Trotskyists Jailed In Egypt resources than the United States sure future: the cities of men on to carry out the order, the news­ son. Prisoners had their heads heart of El Fanguito, which oentury struggle for freedom. will be able to produce atomic rammed against a cement wall, means ‘The Little Mud’;” earth will perish.” paper said he never did. l But in the wake of the Ameri­ and at least one of them — This is not a description of can armies came Washington- As Reaction Attacks Masses Private Eril Bolton — died from India or China, but of a section this treatment. Others were appointed officials to impose the SPECIAL TO THE MILITANT of Puerto Rico, where U. S. im­ yoke of another imperialist pow­ given the spread-eagle treat­ perialists rule. People £re forced PARIS, March 21—According to a feature article hr Imperialist Terror In Greece- ment, and clubbed on the er on the people. Soon American to live in these filth y slums be­ capitalists had bought all the E. Sablier in today’s Monde, the Egyptian government hM stomach until they vomited cause of their unbelievably low announced that those involved in mass arrests at the be­ blood. best land for cane plantations. wages and long periods of un­ The sugar barons turned the Is­ ginning oi the year for “communist propaganda” wear* Background Of The Elections The recital of Lichfield disci­ employment. plinary methods reads like an ex­ land into a sugar factory. They Trotskyists. Furthermore, the announcement declares the The average income of work­ drained the country of its wealth government had discovered" (The Greek elections of March 31 ended unth the pro­ pose of the concentration camps ers on this little island in the of numerous unions and fac­ and mined out the land. appease and reassure these tor» monarchist Populist party receiving a majority of the votes cast. of Nazi Germany. Carribean was $135 a year in a secret printshop of the lat- tories in the industrial centers cles. Sablier further commettort However, little less than 50 per cent of the registered voters went Just as the Nazi defendants at 1940. That Is about 40 cents a The power and wealth of the ter in which the two il­ of the country. Party life with­ "In a new country like Egypt, to the polls. The following article, written before the elections, Nuremberg are now trying to tell day, and living costs are about sugar companies has steadily In­ legal revolutionary commun­ in the labor movement is now progressive ideas are still to« graphically reveals the conditions under which the Anglo-Amer­ the world that they had no the same as irf the United States. creased as the people have been ist newspapers Truth and more intense than ever. driven to ever more desperate prerogative of small groups a t ican engineered elections were held. knowledge of the tortures com­ There is little milk on the is­ Revolutionary Opinion were The effectiveness of Trotsky­ mitted in German camps, *o poverty. intellectuals. Those among th e n SPECIAL TO THE MILITANT land, about a teaspoonful a day published. who devote themselves w ith­ ist work in Greece is evidenced American m ilitary leaders are per person If it were distributed W ith fu ll justice the Puerto ATHENS, Greece—Greece cal in character, are at present by the fact that the Stalinists engaged in a campaign to con­ Ricans hate the Wall Street ban­ The author of the article re­ out prejudice to the study etf to all, and still less m ilk that Is Marxism find the opportunktn continues to be agitated by sweeping the country. The work­ direct increasingly bitter tirades vince the people that they were fit to drink. Even the water sup­ dits who are sapping the coun­ veals that, In line with the great of the official communists (Stal­ open civil war and revolu­ ers are everywhere demanding against the movement. An im ­ ignorant of what went on at ply Is contaminated and unsafe. try ’s life-blood. Time and again strides towards industrialization tionary ferment. the postponement of the elec­ portant section of the resolution Lichfield. That the Brass Hats they have demanded indepen­ made by Egypt during the war, inists) today hardly intelligible. tions and an end to reactior-ry of the plenum of February 15 RAVAGED BY POVERTY a fu ll fledged native workers’ Thus they are drawn for the moat The defeat of the revolution­ not only directed Lichfield po­ dence in huge demonstrations terror. This current strike wave of the Stalinist Party is devoted All the diseases of poverty and movement is in process of rapid part towards the undiluted Leni­ ary movement of December 1944 licy, but witnessed its execution, which were often suppressed with is the second to occur in the to the need of combatting the near starvation ravage the popu­ development. nism which is incarnated by th« provoked the counter-revolu­ was proven by Col. Kilian him ­ bloodshed. course of the past two months. growth of Trotskyism in Greece. lation. The infant mortality rate Trotskyists. tionary terror. Reactionary and self who said that in one month Not until recently did Wash­ Early in January the first Hundreds of thousands of Here is what it says: is the highest in the world. “ Moreover, while the solicitude fascist bands thereafter commit­ eight generals had visited his ington pay tire least attention to great strike in the history of the workers, office employes and “ In the course of the past What Is the cause of this ter­ evidenced by Soviet Russia tor ted daily acts of violence and guardhouse and found it "well- their protests. Now legislation *ls country took place. I t was a two government functionaries have months Trotskyism is displaying crime against workers’ organ­ conducted.” rible poverty in Puerto Rico? before Congress which would al­ weeks’ strike of 15,000 textile the Arab peoples is visibly In­ demonstrated against the ter­ increasing activity, inspired by One fourth of the arable land izations. The gendarmerie, the low the Puerto Ricans to decide workers which completely shut spired by its own startegic or ror and the high cost of living. the foreign enemies of our peo­ ic held by sugar companies for army and the British occupa­ their status by a referendum. Un­ down 25 mills in the Cairo area. diplomatic interests, Trotskyist The militancy of the strikers in ple.” And further on in the cane farming. The rest of the propaganda is based on the in ­ tion forces participated in this der provisions of this bill they Mass arrests among the strike Athens, Pireus, Salonica, Kavala text the members of the Stalin­ land is poor quality; some of it terests of defending the prole­ organized terror. could vote for 1) outright inde­ leaders forced the workers to re­ and other cities is in marked ist party are called upon to re­ has been “ mined out” by cane turn to their jobs, but a new tariat. But in spite erf the m ilitary pendence: 2) annexation to the contrast to the capitulationist cognize the fu ll seriousness of growing. This land oannot pro­ outbreak of the strike movement and financial support of British United States as a state; or I) “Furthermore, Trotsky and hit policy of the Stalinist and re­ the “Trotskyist danger” and to duce nearly enough to feed some form of dominion status. i* expected. revolutionary doctrine are fear­ imperialism, the capitalists formist leaders. reinforce their struggle against Puerto Rico’s 3,000,000 people. have not been able to improve The bill, however, contains APPEASE STALINISTS ed as much if not more, by the "For the first time since it. The resolution slanderously Four American owned sugar another Im portant proviso. official communists as by the the chaotic situation in the ‘liberation’,” writes the Trotsky­ refers to the “ terrorist and companies control the sugar Among those arrested in re­ country, nor establish any po­ Whatever the outcome of the reactionary circles. Thus, by ap­ ist weekly Workers’ Struggle, Fascist past” of the Trotskyists, plantations and mills. Three of referendum, the United 8tates cent raids are Yousef el Man- plying the label Trotskyist to the litical stability. "the working class of our coun­ who lost their best leaders in the these companies netted profits will retain all naval, m ilitary and darek and his fellow delegates people arrested, the Egyptian W ith the approach of the elec­ try is undergoing a veritable fight against Nazi occupation. and distributed dividends, to air rights on the islands. Wall to the World Trade Union Con­ government is seeking, no doubt, tions (set for March 31 by Lon­ mobilization to reorganize its In this same resolution ihe owners in New York and Boston, Street thus seeks to assure It­ ference held last year at Paris, to avoid Soviet remonstrances of don, in agreement with the re­ forces. A series of trade union Stalinist leadership absolves the of about $80,000,000 between 1920 self continued domination over as well as the well-known social­ the type which Ankara recent­ actionary Monarchist wing of conventions has been held, top­ members of the notorious Fasc­ and 1935. The Puerto Ricans who the political Hfe of Puerto Rico. ist leader Salama Moussa. All ly experienced during the anti­ the Populist party), disorders ped by the 8th national con­ ist organization which is at worked for them, acoording to are held Incommunicado and communist demonstrations.” are growing and reflect the ex­ gress of the trade union con­ present terrorizing the country, an article in the November 3, without formal charges being ceptionally strong pressure ex­ federation, which was a com­ as well as those elements which 1945 Coiner’s, were paid an av­ Subscribe To lodged against them. erted by the militancy of the plete success.” previously belonged to the in ­ erage of $3.48 a week. The Egyptian government’s masses. Even Premier Sophoulis In spite of the defeats which famous Security Sections form­ Puerto Ricans are almost en­ announcement, according to the regards the elections as lacking the Stalinist leadership has ed under the German occupa­ tirely dependent on the sugar in­ Monde writer, came as a result the most elementary guarantees brought about, the Greek prole­ tion by the Gestapo and the dustry for their livelihood. The of its fear of pressure from Mos­ of freedom and as designed to tariat continues its liberating quisling Rallis. The Stalinists cane planting season is short. cow. The -Stalinist M. P. Piratin bring about a crushing victory struggle with a high morale. now call upon these elements to 48 Pages 10 cents Peak employment occurs during had protested in the House of for. monarchist reaction. The Greek Trotskyists partici­ reconcile themselves with the PIONEER PUBLISHERS the harvesting and grinding sea­ Commons against the arrests. A new wave of strikes, pohtt- pated In the strike committees Stalinist party! I t i Unlveietty PI., N. Y. S, N. Y. son which lasts only four or five The announcement was made to PAGE POUR T M I MILITANT SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1946

utmost contempt for labor’s demands, the Wall Street legislators could knife a bill whioh might raise millions one small grade above PROBLEMS FACING t h e MILITANT starvation living levels. Published In the Interests of the How can they dare to do this? Primarily Working People because these Senators realize that labor is tied to the political machines of Wall Street WAR VETERANS VoL X —No. WS M irlv , April 1*. 194* by its present leaders and is in no position to ------By CHARLES CARSTEN ------Published Weekly by counterpose Its own independent political THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASS’N power against capitalist reaction. What Minimum-Wage Fight Means »t 11« UnlTerjitT Piece. Now Tor It J, N. T. The time is rotten ripe to put an end to the To Vets Telepohno: AL«onqe(n 1-11M Big Business rule which wants to m aintain $16 FARRELL DOBBS, Menerfm BdttOt An Army recruiting advertisement reads: “ Book a week wages. But th at w ill never be ac­ Your Foreign Tour With the Regular Army.—Mil­ t h e MILITANT follow* tho poller *1 permitting n* complished until labor builds its own political contributor! to present their own slews In signed article!. lions yearn for extensive travel! . . . Best seller« These riewe therefore do not neeessarCr represent the Instrument, a labor party that will fight for policies of THE M IL IT A N T which ere espreeeed in Its are based on the romance and mystery of foreign editorials. political power for the working class. Only through an independent program and party lands—the stuff of which dreams are made . . . the Subscriptions: «1.00 per rear; »0« fee • months of its own w ill labor be in a position to smash Rer^tlar Army offers a job with a future . . . oppor­ Foreign: «.00 per rear, 11.00 for • months. Bundle orden: 3 cents per eopr In the United States; the political rule of the profiteer-parasite class tunity for education and advancement.” 4 oenU per oopr In all foreign countries. Single eoples: I cents and ensure decent living standards. These ads, now blanketing the country, must in ­ deed appear ludicrous to ex-GIs who spent year* "Entered as seoond class n u tter March 7, less at the poet office et New York, N. I , under tbs act of Marsh ». 1879.'' in the “ conducted, tours” of the Army. Food Relief Policy At the same time in Washington, D. C., Senator Smith denounced the 65 cents an hour floor ott A fter this war which was supposed to bring Only the world rev­ wages proposed by the minimum wage bill a« an olution con save the “freedom 'from want,” 500 million people are attempt to "go too far too soon.” The proposed USSR for socialism. in dire need of food to keep them alive. changes in the minimum wage law, he asserted, While these starving millions beg for bread, “ may undermine a sound minimum wage program But the world revolu­ and might affect the whole national economy. W« tion corries with It the American imperialists, who are sitting atop should 'digest’ the advances” of a much lower in ­ the Inescapable blot­ the greatest available food sources and sup­ crease “ before making further advances mandatory.** plies, are haggling amongst themselves within The connection between the Army recruiting post­ ting out of the Krem- ers and the attack on the minimum wage bill by th« Hn oligarchy. such agencies as UNRRA over the precise Senators may not be immediately apparent. How­ amount of food they shall send abroad. ever, viewed in the light of a recent statement by — Leon Trohky That Is the main point of the dispute be­ the National Citizens’ Political Action Committee that “ veterans offered less than 66 cents an hour tween retiring UNRRA Director Lehman and are reenlisting for better pay,” the connection be­ Herbert Hoover, now in Europe as chairman “ You coward! For heaven’s sake get down before the help sees comes obvious. of the Famine Relief Committee. Neither of The minimum wage increase bill would raise War-Making Powers these spokesmen for W all Street is prim arily you—or they'll ask for a raise!" wages from the present 40 cents an hour minimum While the earth «till reeks from the de- concerned about relieving the immeasurable to 65 cents an hour this year and to 76 cents aa misery and agony of the masses or In remov­ hour by 1950. The bill proposes to extend the cov­ itructlon and death a t World War n, President ing the root causes of famine. Behind the erage of the law to 4.000,000 or 5,000,000 "white col­ Trum an in h i* speech on Army Day ha* braz­ propaganda of sweet charity, each is inter­ lar" and "first processing agricultural workers.” enly heralded another war—World War Three ested in forwarding the deadly game of im­ Abdut 2,500,000 manufacturing workers would be affected "by f the increase. Raising their wages to ¡which threatens to obliterate civilization. perialist power politics being played by Wall Street. the proposed minimum "would require an increase Only yesterday the American people heard of 2 per cent of the total 1945 wage bill,” accord­ Food is an important element In American ing to Senator Barkley. the official propagandists assuring them that monopoly capitalism’s plans for world dom­ » victory in the Second World War would bring Even this slight increase for workers, who are ination. Power-drunk U. S. imperialism is us­ OPEN CITY, a Minerva* Film him into hiding in a monastery. actionary forces. Do you think not earning enough to buy sufficient food at the “peace, democracy, security and freedom." ing food today, just as it did after World War (Italian) with English sub­ But the following day, the that when you occupy the city present high prices, is considered “ inflationary” by Today, the President of the United States I, as a weapon against revolutionary move­ titles by Pietro Di Donato, and Gestapo dragnet again goes out. —or liberate it, as you call it— the Senators. A bare subsistence wage of $26 a week, demands an unprecedented ‘‘peacetime’’ pro­ ments of the masses and to bolster the most Herman O. Weinberg. Directed Francesco, with ^dozens of other the alliance with the monarchist which the minimum wage bill would guarantee, is corrupt regimes. by Roberto Rosselini; released partisan workers'; is arrested, and crew will last?” in their opinion too much for workers. gram of militarisation to ensure Wall Street’s But the agents of Wall Street are at the through Foreign Film produc­ Pina is shot down by storm Manfredi has no answer ex­ They had a different opinion about legislation control and exploitation of the whole world. same time determined not to ship an ounce tions, Inc. Now showing at troopers. cept to spit in the face of the which handed billions of dollars from the public In place of the promised “peace, democracy, more of supplies than Is required to accomplish World theater, New York City. THE BETRAYAL Nasi. But the taunt lays open treasury to the big corporations in the form of tax Open City Is a simple and pow­ the terrible crime of Stalinism. rebates. That was neither “unsound” nor “infla­ security and freedom,” the capitalist^ rulers these reactionary ends. Not how much can Francesco escapes, and with erful story of the Italian parti­ By its false and futile alliances tionary” in the mjnds of the Senators. The gov­ be sent, but how little is needed to prevent Manfredi spends the night at of America are bent upon Prussianizing Amer­ sans, courageously fighting un­ with capitalist reaction, Stalin­ ernment grants price increases to the corporation* the apartment of Manfredl’s ican life. They seek to impose the cost and mass revolts abroad—that Is what Hoover and der the iron heel of the Nazi ism betrays not alone the Man- and the Senators raise no objection. Lehman are really arguing about in such cyn­ oppressor. Its actors axe men, actress sweetheart. Goaded by fredis who are themselves in part burden of a permanent war machine on the fear of poverty and a craving for American people and threaten to thrust the ical fashion. Meanwhile the representatives women and children who lived responsible for propping up Stal­ Why War Department Objects of American imperialism haggle like pawn­ , through the heroic years of drugs supplied by a woman Ges­ inism. I) betrays also the masses nation into another war at a moment’s notice. tapo agent, Marina betrays the On this question of the minimum wage bill the brokers with bankrupt regimes over what sup­ struggle. It« scenes were shot of courageous working people Senators are working hand in glove with both Wall Twice within 25 years the American people, in Rome, and on the walls are two men. who in every country fought for like the masses under capitalism everywhere, plies the latter will receive in return for sub­ Manfredi and the priest are Street and the War Department. Wall Street want* mission to the dictates of W all Street. still scrawled in chalk the sym­ an end to capitalism, only to find a big Army with which to impose its domination were deceived and dragooned into war. They bols ,of the peoples’ aspirations— arrested; Francesco by chance the Stalinist leaders tying them never wanted war. They would never, of their The American workers and farmers will eludes the storm troopers. upon the peoples of the world. The War Depart­ Viva Lenin! and the hammer with new ropes to the most re­ ment finds it difficult to make Army enlistment own free w ill, have gone to war. But they gladly provide as much food as they can for and sickle. At Gestapo headquarters, the actionary forces. the famine-stricken peoples in other countries. excruciating torture of Manfredi attractive enough to fool veterans who know the were denied the right to decide this life and This is no Hollywood picture Open City provides honest But they do not want the food they produce begins, while the Gestapo of-i truth about it. Therefore the Big Brass banks on death question. lauding the role of the Allies. ficials lounge in sound-proofed glimpees into the struggles of using economic compulsion to drive ex-servicemen That decision was made by a handful of to be misused as an instrument of imperialist There is no reference to the self- these working people. The food- back into the Army. subjugation and oppression, as UNRRA and rooms. The Gestapo chief and highly-placed conspirators in Wall Street and styled "liberators,” except in a his woman assistant are skll-' riot, which Pina smilingly ad­ Despite the low-paying jobs ex-GIs are being Washington. That decision was made by the other capitalist-dominated agencies ate doing. single sharp incident. "Do you fully portrayed as sadists and mit* »he helped to start, centers forced to take, they haven’t reenlisted in^any great To ensure that relief supplies go to the believe there really are Ameri­ perverts, the scum of society. on the raid of a bakery. As the numbers. Any increase in wages would tend to cut financial magnates, the big monopolists, the hungry men and women scatter, needy many, and are not abused by the greedy cans?” the printer Francesco down recruitment' even further. So, the War De­ privileged military caste who alone profited asks Pina. EVADE PROBLEM with their precious booty, a black from the war. few, administration and control of food and partment is dead set against Increasing the m ini­ Pina looks bitterly at a bomb- But it is here, in the scenes market operator brazenly ap­ mum wage and Congress is cooperating wholeheart­ They not only prevented the people from other supplies should remain in the hands of proaches them with offers of food shattered tenement home, a which purport to explain fas­ edly. having any real voice In the question of war, labor and farmer organizations, from their col­ skeleton against the dreary sky. cism, that the picture Is weak­ at fantastic prices. Francesco lection in this country to their distribution in "Of course. There Is proof.” est, for the producers do not dare chases him off, burning with in­ On the other hand, the labor movement is mak­ but they opposed by every means at their ing a vigorous fight for enactment of the minimum command any proposal to give the people con­ foreign lands. In Open City the entire strug­ to go beneath the surface of the dignation at the abundance to gle Is one between the Italian problem. They attempt to show be had by the rich. wage bill in its original form, because it would raise trol over the war-making powers. the wages of millions of the lowest paid workers. Now in their new drive along the road to people and the Nazis. The cen­ that fascism is a matter of char­ Children of the partisans, with tral character is Giorgio Man- acter, a psychological problem On this issue as on others, the unions are demon­ war, tho Big Business bandits are trying to their own heroic little band un­ strating that they are the only force in the country Free Press fredl, a heroic Stalinist who tied to an "inherent” and "Ger­ der the leadership of a crippled that really fights in the interests of the worker keep the usurped war-making power concen­ fought against Franco in Spain, man” lust for domination. That boy, appear again and again “Freedom of the press” Is a hallowed slogan veterans. trated completely in their own bands. and now, as an official of the it is the degeneration of capi­ throughout the picture. They be­ That power must be wrested from them. of the so-called “democracies,” and on« of Committee of National Libera­ talism itself which produces the come a symbol of the continu­ The American people must demand the dem­ the four freedoms promised to the war-torn ! tion, carries funds for the un­ scum and pushes the vilest in ­ ing struggle, fearlessly fighting ocratic right to decide for themselves wheth­ world. But what is the real status of “freedom ! derground movement. dividuals into power, is carefully on when their parents fall. Tracked by the Destapo, Man- concealed. Although Open City fails to UAW Convention Assails er or not this country shall again be dragged of the press” in the United States today? into war. Truman’s militaristic Army Day fredl takes refoge In the home Manfredi refuses to give In­ tell the full truth of the work­ In this issue of The Militant we report a of Francesco and Pina, the wi­ formation about the partisan proclamation gives added urgency to the de­ ers’ struggle against fascism, it dangerous threat to the labor press. C urtail­ dow he is about to marry. Pina movement, though he is tortur­ is unquestionably the best pic­ Jim Crow, Race Hatreds mand: LET THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES VOTE sends her little boy to find Don ed into unconsciousness. Des­ ture yet produced as a record of ON THE QUESTION OP PEACE OR WARl ment of newsprint deliveries to two New York Pietro, a partisan priest who suc­ perate, the Gestapo chief tries the Second World War. It is a printing concerns has already menaced 50 la­ ceeds in delivering the money to a new attack: picture which should be seen In a resolution adopted March 23 at its National its appointed place. Don Pietro "You are a communist,” he and remembered. bor, fraternal and veterans’ publications. Convention, the "'CIO United Auto Workers assailed .then prepares false papers for taunts Manfredi. "But your party Reviewed by Minimum Wage "When a labor journal can’t print for lack Manfredl, and arranges to send has made an alliance with re- Ruth Johnson racial discrimination and sharply protested against The Senate lost week gave another vivid oi paper, it means th at it is suppressed,” wrote recent anti-Negro outrages in Columbia, Tennessee the Hat Worker, organ of the AFL United Hat­ demonstration otf the kind of "progressive vic­ and Freeport, New York. ters, Cap and Millinery Workers. “No news­ The resolution warns that "forces of reaction’' tory” (as the CIO-PAC leaders called it) Amer­ print, no Hat Worker." Congressmen At W ork are attempting to divide labor and the Negroes, ican labor won in toe November 1944 elections And it might be added that if a paper does “ by increased attacks against the Negro people through the policy of supporting capitalist not meet post office requirements of regular and other minority groupings.” “friends of labor.” publication, it con be deprived of second class I t ’s not every day that Con­ in building battleships that will It cites other manifestations of discrimination, gress gets something as exciting Those “friends of labor” In effect scuttled mailing privileges. Thjs would be a further prove to be useless in years to including the "quota system” which limits the num­ means of crippling the labor press. to experiment with as the atom come.” ber of Jewish students in schools: the failure of the the bill for the establishment of a minimum bomb. " I have not been able Representative Vinson of government to increase immigration quotas to save 65-cents an hour wage. After stalling and The Big Business press faces no danger of to get it ouli of my mind,” re­ Georgia explained in greater de­ displaced Jewish persons in Europe; and the United haggling for a year, the Senate passed the a paper shortage. The major capitalist pub­ marked Representative Voorhis tail precisely how this "saving” States Employment Service's acceptance of discrim­ lishers own vast tracts of forest, pulp mills of California on March 11, "that bill with "riders” attached that were deliber­ Is to be accomplished: “ We are inatory work orders. when mankind comes to the ately calculated to ensure its presidential veto. and paper mills, guaranteeing them a steady ooming here in a day or two place where the fundamental en­ Hits Tennessee Terror Even a 65-eent minimum wage means the flow of newsprint. They have ample funds asking for three and a half bil­ ergy that is to the basic element barest subsistence standards for tens of mil­ from their advertising revenue to gobble up lion dollars to support the Navy. In Tennessee, the UAW charges, Democratic Gov­ out of-which all things on this lions who now recieve less. But the depart­ additional millions of tons of newsprint on the You would be In a far better ernor McCord has “ done nothing to prosecute the earth and in this universe are position knowing what effect the members of a white mob who stormed the Jail . . , ment and chain store magnates whose profits open or black market. Their monopoly of the made, when mankind comes to most modern destructive weapon in an effort to lynch James C. Stephenson, a 19- increased 1,500 per cent during the war, the major sources of newsprint is supplemented the place where he can release ever devised would have on the year old Navy veteran and his mother, who were tjto cannery and corporation-farm Interests, all the by control over the radio and movies, through that energy and does so, he is ships of that Navy. I t will guide innocent victims of an assault by whites. He has which they spread their anti-labor poison at unlocking the ultimate store­ rich exploiters of low-pay labor — put their the Government in the building done nothing to prosecute the officers responsible hooks into the Minimum Wage Bill. win. house of God Almighty Himself." likewise concerned about mak­ ing sure World War H I is not of its future navies. for the deaths of two prisoners in their custody. For reasons of political expediency, the Big W hile the Big Business papers expand in m fact the majority of Con­ gressmen consider the atom only an atomic war but one wag­ Of course. I recognize the He has done nothing to assure a fair tria l to the Business agents in the Senate didn’t dare put size and circulation, they choke off supplies bomb so sensational that they ed with the most destructive fact, and so does the gentleman, 68 Negroes indiscriminately arrested after a carload themselves on record as opposed to a miserly formerly allowed the labor press. Workers’ are even willing to postpone ap­ atom bombs that can possibly be that the atomic bomb can de­ of whites raided the Negro area of Columbia.” minimumdncome of $26 a wepk In this period papers are being told, first that they would propriating money for the Navy devised: “ In my opinion the m il­ stroy a city. We recognize the The UAW demands that local and state official! of soaring Inflation. But they made sure the have to cut the number of pages in half, and until they know what the new itary forces might do the same fact that it will kill human be­ in Tennessee prosecute members of the white moll bill was passed in such a form as to guaran­ “then that they would not be able to print explosive power will do to a bat­ thing they did in World War I ings. But cities Trill continue to and the officers who killed their prisoners. M tee its defeat. even half a paper," the Hat Worker reveals. tleship. Consequently most of and refuse to admit the effect be built and human beings will further demands the immediate release of a ll p rt* them heartily approve the mid- of this bomb as they refused to continue to be bom. We are go­ soners held without charge, and a fair trial to th«M The brutal and cynical politicians of the Thus it is clear that despite formal “free­ admit the effect of the bombs who are under charges. dom,” the workers’ publications are ait the Pacific experiment in which a ing to try to find out if it can Republican and Democratic parties of Wall that Billy Mitchell dropped. We In New York, Republican Governor Dewey tow mercy of the labor-hating manufacturers and $460,000,000 fleet Is now sched­ destroy navies. Regardless of the Street are interested in only one thing—to use uled to be blown sky-high by an do not want to prepare for an­ result, we know that In all prob­ likewise Ignored a murderous assault upon NofW the powers of government to protect the prof­ black marketeers who can silence their oppon­ atom bomb about the middle of other war with the methods ability nations will continue to veterans. The UAW declares: its and privileges of the capitalists. They have ents by withholding supplies. July. which have been used in. the war build navies, but you would build "The Governor of the State of New York tow just ended and which are now handed tens of billions of dollars from the The Hat Worker says it “raised holy hall your navy based around the re­ done nothing to bring to Justice those reepeculbfc Whan soma of the Congress­ obsolete because of the develop­ public treasury to the big corporations. And and got some paper” for its March“ 15 issue. sults of tests that w ill be made for the recent slaying of two Negro war veteran! men spoke worriedly about the ment of atomic enerf.” they want to ensure the continuation of super­ I t exposed the stand of the American News­ cost of Including 10 or 20 brand . . . Why shoold you appropri­ and the inflicting of injury to a Negro member d profits even at the expense of millions who paper Publishers’ Association, organization of new ships as part of the target SAVING FOR ALL! ate billions and billions of dol­ the armed forces in Freeport, Long Island.” If now work for “not enough to live on and just the big publishers, which heartily approves fleet. Representative Anderson Rankin of Mississippi, on* of lars to build submarines when the Freeport case as in the Columbia terror, th ! too much to die on.” the diversion of more and more newsprint of California asked cuttingly: "If the most cunning and cagey par­ you do not know what effect the UAW calls for prosecution of the persons guilty a wa do not try out the atom liamentarians ih Congress, met atomic bomb w ill have upon the the assault upon the Negro victims. The entire labor movement backed the de­ away from the labor press. submarines you are building? I mand for adequate minimum wage legisla­ The voice of labor must not be gagged I Ev­ bombs on some ships that are the economy-minded minority on The resolution further called for the establUfo modern, how w ill we know how their ground: "And this experi­ say again I consider it a wise ment of a permanent Fair Employment Rraetioa tion. Yet a handful of corrupt capitalist poli­ ery workers’ organization must "raise holy to design ships in the future that ment will probably not only save thing to find out exactly what Committee on both a” federal and state beats, MM ticians can thus brazenly disregard the will of hell” and keep on raising it to make sure that will resist the attacks of the this country billions of dollars effect the atomic bomb will have It Instructs all departments of the UAW to tain 15,000,000 organized workers and millions of adequate newsprint is assured to every work­ atomic bomb?” but will save the other nations on ships.’’ action to eliminate discrimination in hiring an other progessi ve minded people. With the ing class pubilcati on. H olifield of Californi a was of the world b illons of dollars (To be con ti ued.) upgrading of workers in the auto industry. SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1946 THE MILITANT PAGE FIVE Scab Murders Union Head O f Fam ily Pioneer Notes

"A small section of Atlantic The Workers' Forum columns are open to the opinions of the readers of " The M ilitant” . Letters City’s Boardwalk took on a red a rt welcome on any subject of interest to the workers. Keep them short and include your name and glow during the past week and it Delegates and visitors to the "So far 66 people have written address. Indicate if you do not want your name printed. wasn’t the reflection of a resort United Automobile Workers’ in, and after they have had an sunset. Convention in Atlantic City had opportunity to see what The Exposes Red Cross Overseas 3 Years “ At 2227 Boardwalk, in the an opportunity to get a Marxist M ilitant represents we will write INDONESIA shadow of the big Municipal Au­ analysis of the convention issues and ask them for a regular six- As Political Weapon Drafted For More ditorium, where 2,300 United through distributions of several month or one-year subscription. Heaps of burned and twisted Editor: Auto Workers, (CIO) were in ses­ thousand copies of the March 30 “ This radio station has quite O f Imperialism rags, I met my friend Jim on the Editor: sion, the Pioneer Publishers, 116 and April 6 issues of The M ilitant a varied coverage and include« Flung about with lack of grace; street the other day. He was University Place, New York, has at the Civic Auditorium. among other points, Sharon, Pa., On the time clock, this morn­ wearing khaki pants and had a ing, u I punched in still sleepy- Here, no glory, pomp or flags— set up headquarters.” Many of the participating del­ West Virginia, Ashtabula, etc. In discharge button in his lapel. He any case, you can’t complain that syed and tired, I noticed a com­ This, that was a market place. So writes the reporter for the egates were well acquainted with was Just celebrating his twen­ Atlantic City Press in a story The Militant. They had seen it Youngstown is neglecting The pany announcement in glowing Awkward things they seem to be, tieth birthday, but be didn’t tad heartbreaking terms, to be which appeared on page 1 of the fighting side by side with them M ilitant.” Some alt up, and others lay; seem happy about it at all. on the picket lines in Detroit, • * * •srtaln to contribute to the Red March 30 issue. The story goes Strange, this bloody misery — "W hat’s the matter, Jim?’’ I Flint, Los Angeles, and other From Philadelphia we received A o n . Donate a day’s pay, just on: asked. “ Aren’t you happy to get Mrs. Ella Mae Campbell, widow of an organizer of the South­ this note; “ The consistent and She that, and enlighten the Once was children at their “ Two representatives of the automobile centers and had come out of that outfit?" and I point­ ern Cotton Oil Company in Little Rock Arkansas, who was to recognize It as “ their paper.” evergrowing attendance at the heavy hearts of the millions of play . . . publishing firm —of undoubted ed to the button. knifed by a scab because of his union activities. Her daughter foreign extraction ( I I I) stood In addition a good many of them forums and socials of the Phila­ poverty stricken peoples through- He smiled bitterly. "Yeah, I Eddie Dumaine is five years old. The murderer was let off scot free. The barricaded behind counters were subscribers to The M ilitant. delphia branch is indicative of *ut the world. thought I got out of that outfit. same jury sentenced three of Campbell’s fellow-pickets, mem­ heap 1 with literature ranging * • • the effectiveness of The M ilitant The Red Cross pretends .im­ I sneaked in when I was sixteen bers of Local 90, CIO Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Work­ from Wartime Crimes of Big and how well it is accepted by because I looked older. They sent Murray Jackson of New York partiality in aiding all who are W e'll A ll Be Free ers, to a year in jail. Business to Jobs for All . . . workers in our area. In need. Friend and foe alike. me over to Burma for three sent ,us this note regarding one O r A ll Be Slaves Among the thousands of pamph­ of the distributions in which he “W ith 10 newsstands »potted Very well, then, let the Red Cross years. That taught me. They fi­ lets on sale for from five cents in all sections of the city carry­ ixplain why they did not offer Editor: nally found out about my age participated: to 25 cents, Stalinism and Bol­ “On Thursday morning an en­ ing The Militant, we And that this assistance to the needy.OM I suppose I have always been and discharged me. And now, Ex-Sailor Exposes Privileges shevism and American Workers our paper is being readily ac­ strikers and the many other a m ilitant person even before I after spending three years over thusiastic group of comrades Need a Labor Party were hawked from New York, New Jersey, cepted by the workers of SKF, workers who found themselves ever Joined the Socialist Workers there, I get a letter to report to to the interested stroller who Baldwin Locomotive Works, In dire -need because of the arro- Party. I have always stood for my draft board. Pennsylvania, and Connecticut Enjoyed By Navy Gold Braid halted at the stand.” mobilized In front of Pioneer Westinghouse, General Electric f&at attitude of the capitalist the things that are right, re­ "You see,” and Jim gave me Among the many “ interested” and the Budd plant.” »lass in their attempt to smash gardless of race, creed or color. a knowing look, ” 1 never was in Editor: Bookstall on the boardwalk for strollers were large numbers of copies of The M ilitant to be dis­ The Tampa Bulletin, a lead­ the unions and usher in an era ■ If the political parties would officially. Now I got to go and I am sending on for the information of Militant read­ UAW convention delegates who ing Negro paper in Florida, re­ practice what they preach they serve my turn.” tributed at the morning session if open shop "free-enterprise” ers, excerpts from a letter on the m ilitary caste system. stopped to look over and buy printed another of Charles Jack- would see that this fight for a Yes, Jim knows that this im ­ of the convention. K » petition. The letter signed by Albert McCrady, originally appeared the literature and take sub­ son’s column In it« March 90 Labor Party and the FEPC Is perialist army will stop at noth­ “ We covered tie front en­ To assist in a case like this, scriptions for The M ilitant and edition. The reprinted column ing to keep its forces to one m il­ In the “ to the editor” column trances as well as the side- they w ill argue, still pretending for real democracy. The case of The Fourth International. Oth­ appeared originally in The M ili­ lion men. And what do the Brass of the Portland Oregonian. streets in order to reach as many Impartiality and benevolence, the Ferguson Brothers, the Ten­ Submits Poem er pamphlets which interested tant of March 9, and was entitled nessee riots, and the many other Hats care if a kid of sixteen "No American wants to be delegates coming to attend the will encourage the continuation these union workers were Trade "Origin and Significance of Jim Crow ideas and practices (after all the propaganda about treated like a serf or a coolie. session as we could. The M ili­ of the strike. We can add On W ar Slogans Union Problems by Farrell Dobbs, ‘Race.’ ” have to go. Jim Crowlsm ha« got saving democracy!) was foolish Yet the .Admirals and generals tant with its headline: ’UAW • • • therefore, namely, that hunger E ditor; and The Case for Socialism — to go, before we’ll all be free. If enough to sneak into the army. persist In upholding their medi­ Delegates Face Key Issues’ k used as a weapon to drive the Recently I chanced to find t the four attractively boxed Our statistics place March it doesn't go, we’ll all be slaves. Laura Falk eval m ilitary system with its following poem while rummagf caught the eye of all passersby workers back and accept the pamphlets on the famous Minne­ and I could hardly give out the among the top ranking Militant R. B. Trotskyist Youth Group grossly unfair differential In through some old school not terms of the bosses. apolis Trial. A Practical Pro- papers fast enough. Army months. The M ilitant has Philadelphia New York City privileges between officers and I do not know who the auth If assistance to the striking Tram to K ill Jim Crow, The “ This was my first experience been introduced to«42 new read­ enlisted men. is but I am sure there is workers w ill encourage and pro­ Struggle for Negro Equality and in distributing The Militant, and ers. h i addition 401 renewals “ As an ex-enlisted man with place for his poem in The Mi. long strikes, by that same token, Negroes In the Post-War World it was a real source of satisfac­ have been secured. A breakdown some years of service in the tant — the most courageous bai Mslstance to the war victims of were also sold In large numbers. tion to me to see these workers of the various categories follows: The Privileged People And navy, the situation is not one tier in the United States again? Imperialist greed will, too, en­ The reporter goes on: accept copies of our paper. Later 465 new six-month subscrip­ courage and prolong wars. of hearsay with me. Contrary capitalist wars. tions, of which 100 were obtained to- popular misconception, en­ “They readily admitted that on in th i hall, I saw The Militant But imperialist wars are strug­ « • * they were disciples of Lenin, In many workers’ pockets to be from striking workers. gles strictly in the interest of Workers In The Soviet Union listed men generally are not 77 new one-year sub«. complaining about social in­ Trotsky and Marx and preached read at their leisure, while oth­ the capitalist class: and it ’s April, 1946, under the title “Rus­ SLOGANS the precepts of Communism to ers were reading It prior to the 229 six-month renewal«. Editor: equalities, or differences in uni­ “ Carthage must be destroyed 172 one-year renewals. wonderful for the working peo­ sia’s Privileged Class.” all Boardwalk strollers who stop­ opening morning session.” ple to finance the healing of When I read "The Revolution form, or the saluting custom, an old man spoke, 15 new and 28 renewals on the Hersey’s speech was not all ped listen. But they disavowed * * * or other such minor annoyances. And thousands, answering n combination offer to The M ili­ their own bruises. The capitalist Betrayed” recently, I found chaff. Some of the grain is of Premier Stalin of Russia and “ Our complaint lies in the cry, George Wetssman of Youngs­ tant and Fourth International. eless w ill even spend ten m il­ particularly revealing that por­ significant Import! ”... Russian decried ‘his breakup of the Com­ wasteful and useless way in Laid down their lives — their town writes: "Incidentally we’re 22 of the new subs, of which lions of dollars to advertise for tion of Trotsky’s masterful creative artists are among the. munist International a few years Ihe Red Cross to receive ten times which our labor and material Bright young lives, that foreig competing with your office In 8 were for six months and 14 analysis of the Soviet state deal­ most wealthy, influential and went to maintain officers, even ago.’ mailing out copies of The M ili­ the amount from the pockets of gold “ They asserted that the world for one year, were sent to us on ing with the social aspects of honored people in the Soviet in the war zone, in an artificial tant. Wd went on the radio for well meaning workers. Might flow unchallenged Into is one big economic unit and ’we The M ilitant coupon clipped from Union. This fact both rewards and Ridiculous position of exal­ 15 minutes to answer a Stalinist The Red Cross is an institu­ the bureaucracy. The revolting Roman marts. believe that Communism as page 2. them for their hard work and tation. . . . attack on us and since we didn’t tion of the capitalist class and spectacle of a highly privileged constantly reminds them of their preached by Marx, Trotsky and “ I served some time at a New “A war to end all wars!” or if want to waste all our time on tued as a political weapon by responsibilities as engineers. Lenin should be spread all over Subscribe To social stratum In a country Guinea base where the officers that seems •;hem. we told the listeners what that class. Has the Red Cross "The best paid people in Rus­ the world.’ ’’ where the workers took power .nightly ate steaks from white Too wild a dream, "A War to The M ilitant’s program was, and assisted the victims of the Inde­ sia today, aside from the high­ For any of the literature men The M ilitant and seriously hoped to erect the tablecloths and were served Make the world Safe for offered anyone who was Inter­ pendence Movements in India, est ranking officers of state anc tioned in the Atlantic City Press classless society on the back­ drinks by white-coated stewards’ Democracy.” ested a trial copy. Use Coupon On Page 2 Java', Indonesia, Egypt, etc.? I army, are writers, composer: story, write to Pioneer Publish­ ward foundations of Russia, is mates, while the enlisted men Again they went, the youth have never heard that they have. • actors, movie stars, musicians ers, 116 University Place, New particularly repugnant to class­ stood in line in the rain and With souls uplifted, giving all Perhaps The M ilitant can answer conscious workers in general, architects, directors, painters, York, 3, N. Y. this question. mud to receive their rations of they had to give. and revolutionary Marxists In sculptors and dancers. Last bread and beans. We must extend our willing year Dm itri Shostakovich earn­ OUR PROGRAM: particular. O, wild-eyed youth who look at hand to all the victims of Im­ ed about 250,000 rubles”—at the “ I served on a PT tender in perialist rapacity. The alms given To the allegations that the Philippine waters where the sup­ war today 1. Full employment and job security for all Stalinist bureaucracy is living standard rate of exchange, t* them by the Red Cross will ply of fresh water was limited And see It as It Is, beware the Youth Group like a collective leech on the $50,000. workers and veterans! prevent the pangs of hunger for and water was turned on for time real creators of wealth in the A skilled Russian worker at most a day. Their only salva­ only an hour daily in enlisted When those who deal in death A sliding scale of hours! Reduce the hours of Soviet Union,—th» toilers in eames 1,000 rubles a month, and Activities tion lies in the overthrow of the men’s washrqoms, with no Shall find the words work with no reduction in pay! city and country,—the skeptics a member of the “ aristocracy of system that makes the Red Cross ; talent” earns 250,000 rubles cash showers or clothes-washing per­ For some new slogan—with Its . A rising scale of wages! Increase wages to meet have demurred: “ You Trotsky­ NEW YORK — The Trotskyist a necessity, which is an organiz­ a year and lots more . . . "thing«; mitted. Yet the officers’ showers shining lie. ists,” they say, In effect, "are all Youth Group meets at 116 Uni­ the increased cost of living! ation that attempts to camou­ which no amount of rubles have1 were turned on 24 hours a day, Jack Miller wet when you speak of sharp versity Place. Send name and Government operation o f all idle and government- flage the brutality of its hypo­ been able to buy in wartime Rus­ and one of the chief consumers Philadelphia differentiations in the Soviet address for information. critical masters. sia,” including a car, country of fresh water aboard the vessel built plants under workers’ control! Congratulations to • The M ili­ Union. To be sure, there is no was the officers’ laundry which Sunday educational and dis­ complete equality, but there is home, etc. A Correction On Unemployment insurance equal to trade union tant which speaks for our solu­ Sam Taylor supplied freshly starched khaki cussion, 8 p.m., Chelsea Workers wages during th e entire period of unemploy­ tion. no marked disparity in living uniforms for them. Meanwhile Piecework In UAW Center, 130 W. 23rd St. standards, and anyway, the Madison, Wis ment ! Fred Riggs enlisted men would come up Sat., April 13—Youth Surprise situation is Improving.” Editor: Detroit from a day's work in the torrid There Is an inaccuracy in The Party, Chelsea Workers Center, 2. Independence of the trade unions from the Trotsky threw this lie into the Steal Worker's Wife engine room and try to remove Militant of March 30, 1946. I.re­ 130 W. 23rd St., 8 p.m. Dapping, government! faces of the ostensibly "object­ grease stains from their cloth­ entertainment. ive observers” of the “ Russian Sends News Stories fer to the article, "General Mot­ NEW YORK es and bodies writh salt water ors S till Tied Up on Local Is­ Harlem: Every Monday, 8 No restriction on the right to strike! experiment.” Editor: from over the side.” Youth Social The author of “A Bell for Enclosed you w ill find $1 for sues." Toward the end of the ar­ p.m., class on "Fundamentals of 3. Organization of the war veterans by the A Reader ticle, one of the paragraphs Socialism,” Dick Guerrero, in­ Adano,” John Hersey, sheds a year’s subscription to The^ M il­ Portland, Ore. trade unions! Sat., April 13 some more and recent light on itant. I find it very interesting. states that the Stalinists foisted structor, 10S W# 110 St., R. 23. Dancing Entertainment the situation. In an address Somehow I can hardly believe the piecework system on some Bronx: Youth class on “What locals under their control during 4. Full equality for Negroes and nationai mi­ before the New York Herald that the things that I read can New Reader Praises Is Socialism,” Thursday, 8 p.m., norities ! Chelsea Workers Tribune Forum, he reported on keep going an in a civilized the war. The article goes on to at 1034 Prospect Avenue. "Militant" Reporting state: "A notorious example of • * • Center his recent visit to the Soviet world! I am sending you two Down with Jim Crow! Union. The speech was reprint­ clippings from our local paper, Editor: this is the Fisher Body Plant in 130 W . 23rd St. 8 p.m. Cleveland, where the workers are BUFFALO — Militant Youth 5. Build an independent labor party ! ed in "International Digest,” the Allentown Morning Call. As a recent subscriber to The Club meets every Sunday, 7 p.m. M ilitant I want to praise the ob­ now fighting to get rid of the “ (One clipping is a photo of two incentive pay system the Stalin­ Discussion, music, dramatics. 6. Tax the rich, not the poor! Chicago oops brutally dragging jective way in which you coter Refreshments served. M ilitant ■the news and particularly the ist Local 45 leaders had shoved No taxes on incomes under $5,000 a year! a woman picket to a police wag­ down their throats.” Forum, 629 Main St,, 2nd floor. on, while a third officer looks on, unbiased reporting of the Free­ .1 . . . 7. A working class answer to capitalist mil - Write h r Your Free Copy smirking. The incident occurred port, Long Island murders. It is The facts are as follows: Dur­ refreshing to read the news mi­ ing the war there was no piece­ PHILADELPHIA—Youth For­ tarism ! during a strike at the W. A. Jones ums held every Saturday, 8 p.m. Foundry and Machine Company. nus the capitalist smear that work in any of the GM plants Military training of workers, financed by the gov­ under contract with the UAW. 1303-05 W. Girard Ave., 2nd O f The New The second clipping tells of the dominates the majority of news­ floor. ernment, but under control of the trade unions ! papers today. The piecework system is used as arrest on an assault and battery • • • Trade union wages for all workers In the armed charge, of veteran Charles Ken­ a method of pay in automobile Enclosed is an article I found production. It was eliminated in forces ! drick, member of the CIO Steel­ LOS ANGELES — Write to Pioneer Catalog in the New York Herald Tribune a majority of plants in the strike workers. When scabe tried to SWP headquarters, 145 8. of March 10, and in its proper of 1937, but remained in about 8. Solidarity with the revolutionary struggl«« crash the picket line at Everson Broadway, for information on setting—the financial section of a dozen plants. The Fisher Body of the workers in all lands! Electric Company, one man re­ Youth Group activities. Books and Pamphlets on Socialism the paper. There are so many plant is one of those. W ith the ceived a broken noee. A striker, * • * For the complete independence of the colonial appropriate titles that article end of the war and the resump­ not a scab, was arrested.) and Hie Labor Movement could be given. tion of automobile production, Watch this column for further peoples! Thanks so much for sending including piecework was re-established on details on youth aettvitie«. Withdraw all American troops from foreign so il! me The Militant after my sub (The article, complete with pic­ the production lines. The union had run out, I would have renew­ tures, describes how the Free­ 9. For a Workers' and Farmers' Government! raised as it« chief local demand they ever pushed piecework pro­ • works on the American Labor Movement ed sooner, but m y husband, a port, Long Island Bank provides the elimination of piecework and posals. steel worker, was out on strike relaxation for it« customers. It • pamphlets on the Negro struggle presents daily organ recitals, and the establishment of equitable The corporation is responsible and so we were very low on funds. for piecework. The Stalinists on special occasions such as day rates. • works by Leon Trotsky Thanks again for sending me tried their best to help the corp­ Christmas, adds loudspeakers to During the war, the Stalinists The Militant until I wa able oration during the war. Fortun­ • resolutions of the Socialist Workers Party to send the money. transmit the music to passers- tried to interest the workers in their incentive pay proposals. As ately they were blocked by the Mrs. K. 8. by.) workers, who had too much ex­ • documents of the Fourth International Allentown, Pa, If there are any musicians sub­ late as last spring, the Stalinist Fenster wrote an article in the perience with piecework to per­ scribing to The Militant I suggest m it anyone to shove such finky • books and pamphlets by James P. Cannon they write a composition to be Local 45 paper, criticizing Reu- ther for opposing the incentive proposals down their throats. played on that organ for the cit­ The union has taken up the fight PIONEER PUBLISHERS izens of Freeport. The work pay proposals. He claimed this would bring wage Increases to against piecework, suspended in 116 University Place should be entitled: 1941, and this time it aims to “ Capitalist Sonata for Bank the General Motors workers. If New York 3, N. Y. the union had accepted this poi­ clean It out completely from the Organs” (in three movements) General Motors plants. I-8cherzo — Allegro molto— sonous advice it would have □ Send me a free copy of your new catalog. meant the réintroduction of David Lands or Whistle While You Feed Our Cleveland, Ohio Tills piecework in all the General Mo­ □ Send a free copy of your new catalog to all ©f tors plants, and would have crip­ II- Marcia Funebre — Andan­ te con Variazioni — or The pled the struggle against it after the names which I enclose. the war. Freeport Disgrace IN TA C O M A Fortunately, the Stalinists Buy "The M ilitant" Nome ...... — I I I - Finale—Allegro Vivace—ornever got to first base with their We Shall Always Aim to D i­ incentive pay proposals in the a t these stands: Street ...... *...... vide and Conquer UAW. The reaction of the work­ 9th and Pacific Anyway, I am passing the ar­ ers against it was so unanimous ticle on to you. and so hostile, that the Stalinists Pacific bet. 12th and 13th New Subscriber were forced to drop it. Now they (above 'Midway Amusements’) Zone ...... State...... Baltimore, Md. are trying to bury the fact that THE MILITANT SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 194« PAGE SIX "MIL IT A N T " FUND SCORE RISES TO $ 3 ,9 6 9

$1,350 Received SCOREBOARD How the Factory Worker Was Born PER- By V. Grey During 3rd Week QUOTA PAID CENT Was your father a worker in the shop like you? Maybe. NEW YORK YOUTH ...... 50 50.50 101 Was your grandfather? Not very likely. How about your By Justine Lang ROCHESTER ...... 50 50 100 great-great-grandfather? Why, no. Definitely no. He was Campaign Director PORTLAND ...... 25 25 100 a farmer, or a farm laborer, or maybe a skilled craftsman ...... 25 15 60 Inspiring support from comrades, friends and M ilitant Baltimore ...... on his own. Hardly anybody’s great-great grandfather v u San Francisco ...... 1000 551 65 readers to the M ilitant Sustaining Fund Drive has resulted Minneapolis ...... 500 297 55 a factory worker. in the largest weekly total contribution to date of $1,350.85! St. Paul ...... 250 115 46 If you question typical American steelworkers you w ill This brings our total at the end of the third week of our Milwaukee ...... 100 37.60 38 see that they come from Poland, Ireland, Hungary, Serbia M ilitant Fund Drive to $3,- F lin t ...... 100 35 35 (Yugoslavia), southern U. S. — and If they dldn’4 that’s 969.17. The scoreboard now der for $17.60 which brings our Newark ...... 300 100 33 where their fathers came from. If you question the auto records 27 per cent of our total up to $37.60. Of course, Buffalo ...... 500 157.50 32 workers you will find that many came from the mid-west, we w ill keep sending in weekly New York City ...... 3500 1,047.72 30 national quota of $15,000 al­ payments. One comrade is tak­ from Kentucky and Tennessee. And their fathers and Akron ...... 300 82 27 grandfathers from Ireland, Italy, Germany, England, Po­ ready realized. ing a collection list into the ...... 250 65 Cleveland ...... 26 land, etc. *A11 of them farmers or farm hands before they Many of our comrades and shop (UAW -CIO) where he Connecticut ...... 100 26 26 friends in Detroit, Buffalo, Flint, works and where we have a core Detroit ...... 1250 305 24 came In the shop. Youngstown, Pittsburgh, Cleve­ of subscribers. Another comrade, Boston ...... 400 85 21 Everybody says we live in a changing world. Well that’s land as well as other steel and a brewery worker, is circulating Chicago ...... 1500 299.35 20 part of the changing of It. People changed from farmers auto centers, after long weeks of a list among his friends from Bayonne ...... 75 15 20 and craftsmen into factory workers—from working for being on strike, have now gone whom he previously had obtained Youngstown ...... 400 61 15 themselves to working for a boss- whom they never even back to work and have begun subs.” Philadelphia ...... 500 70 14 see. This has happened on a tremendous scale. The num­ payments on their pledges. De­ Clara Kaye of Chicago: "The Los Angeles ...... 2000 368 11 ber of American workers has jumped from a few hundred spite all their other heavy obliga­ campaign is coming along very Seattle ...... 500 50 10 tions, they are stepping up con­ well in Chicago with most com­ thousand In 1846 to forty m illion today. Reading ...... 7.50 8 A person can’t help thinking. Where did the forty tributions from those particular rades pledging a minim um of St. Louis ...... 50 5 10 centers. $25. Sympathizers too are re­ Allentown-Bethlehem ... 75 0 0 million come from? Suppose they did come from the fairns A check of our scorekrard sponding very readily. The other Cincinnati ...... 0 0 and tiny shops of Europe and America? There were farms shows some interesting changes day we received $5 from a sympa­ Los Angeles Youth ...... 75 0 0 for thousands of years, weren’t there? What did the forty over last week. thizer who is an international Philadelphia Youth ...... 25 0 0 million do then, when no charitable Henry Ford gave them We’re especially proud to list executive board member of a Pittsburgh ...... 100 0 0 Jobs to sweat In the nerve-racking din of the production the achievement of the New York prominent trade union. San Diego ...... 100 0 0 line? Trotskyist Youth Group. In third "Now th a t we have a car we Toledo ...... 200 0 0 plan to send squads of comrades It used to take a lot of people to run a little farm. When place last week with only 54 per General ...... 575 49.00 8 they cut wh^at and oats with a hand scythe, it took more cent of their quota realized, they visiting our sympathizers in the than the hired man to do the work. The farmers used to quickly rallied support from their evenings. TOTAL ...... 1 5,000 3,969.17 27 members and friends and climb­ "In addition we have a big run to big families. Their sons and daughters found it a ed over the 100 per cent goal to chart up on the bulletin board full-tim e Job to do the chores and keep the beans hoed, attain 101 per cent. They have tracing- the progress of the drive. to plant and harvest the grain and weed the com. When thereby established themselves One line on the graph signifies McCormick Invented the reaper in the 1840’s he gave as the champion section nation­ the norm, travelling in a straight Flint NAACP Protest Rally Henry Ford many thousands of his labor Iprce. Only Ford ally. We hope the Philadelphia diagonal line from 1 to 1500. did not get them at that time. and Los Angeles Youth Groups The other shows the actual pro­ gress being made in relation to Instead of throwing people off the farms, this Inven­ w ill recover from their silence Hears Talk By SWP Speaker tion led to more farms being started up — and the great and give New York some lively the norm.” mid-west being opened up to wheat production. The coun­ competition. Douglas Snyder of Flint: "Am By Jerry Kirk enclosing $15 as part payment try was still expanding. The farmers’ surplus sons started GIVES LUNCH MONEY (.Special To The M ilitant) The spirit of our New York for the Flint branch towards the new farms. Youth is evidenced in this note Militant Fund Drive. Now that FLINT, Mich., Mar. 31 — A large protest meeting held But when all the land had been taken up, and the from their campaign director, the strike is over and we are under the auspices of the National Association for the reaper had been surpassed by the harvester and combine, Grace Wayne: "I would like to back at work, we hope to go over Advancement of Colored People, heard a rousing talk by more and more farm boys had to go to the cities to “seek our quota.” pass on to* you a most inspiring I Genora Dollinger, representative of*the Socialist Workers their fortunes.” And now with the tractor methods and incident that occurred at our last Among others, the "I Want To still more advanced farming equipment, whole communi­ Help” coupon this week brought Party, condemning the re-' membership meeting. At our pre­ ties of farms and buildings are wiped off the earth (as vious meetings, the youth have us a $1 contribution from an cent bloody assault against been urged to contribute as gen­ anonymous Militant reader in In Oklahoma and Arkansas) to make way for the big erously as possible to the M ili­ Baltimore. We hereby acknowl­ the Negro people In Colum­ St. Paul Meeting capitalist farms. And thus new recruits Join the industrial tant Sustaining Fund Drive, and edge its receipt and express our bia, Tennessee. Mrs. Dollin- army. evidently our words made a deep thanks. ger, a well-known UAW Protests Terror The farmers of Europe starve (and want to leave impression on them. Sam Taylor of Madison, Wis­ there) for a different reason. America’s wheat Is pro­ unionist in Flint and Detroit, “ W hile I was collecting for consin clipped the Militant Col­ duced so cheaply that it can undersell the rest of tide the fund, one of the comrades lection List printed on our cam­ delivered the1 main address. Against Negroes world. The ox-drawn plow and the man with the hoe or came over to me, extended his paign page two weeks ago, cir­ Other speakers who addressed SPECIAL TO THE MILITANT scythe cannot stay in business and prosper. American capi­ hand and dropped 30 cents into culated it among kis friends at the 150 present were Jesse Gov­ ST. PAUL, Minn., Apr. 1— talism makes the European children come and work for mine, and said: ‘Here!s 30 cents the University of Wisconsin, and it, or wait for work at the plant gate. I saved from my lunch money sent it to us filled with a $5 col­ ernor, president of the Local An inter-racial group of 250 When capitalism first started in England, it got.lt« last week. I t ’s not much, but I lection. His letter is featured else­ NAACP branch, Joe Brandt, Or- perspus gathered here last want to help the Militant Fund where on this page. ganzer of the Flint Communist labor force even more brutally. Besides running the hand­ night to protest the reign of Drive’.” George Lengel, the Reading Party; John Young, Flint attor­ workers out of business, and hiring their children at W ith three of our cities already steelworker who sent in the terror against the entire Ne­ literally starvation wages, the capitalists passed special law« ney, and George Stevens, candi­ “over the top,” other branches forthright letter printed in The gro community of Columbia, forcing people off the land. They made begging a crime, of the Socialist Workers Party M ilita n t of March 23, also cir­ M ilitaristic Program date for State Legislature on and paupers were put in a work-house so horrible that they the Democratic ticket. Tennessee. The meeting was are very steadily aiming in that culated a M ilitant Collection List were glad io work In the mills for a few pennies a day. Mrs. Dollinger reviewed the held under auspices of the St. direction, as illustrated in the among his shopmates and ob­ The modern wage worker was whipped, driven and tained $7.50 on it. facts behind the recent wave of climb being made by Baltimore, Paul Branch of the National As­ forced into his present servitude. The factory system, which San Francisco and Minneapolis. We're extremely grateful to all Demanded By Truman anti-Negro terror sweeping the sociation for the Advancement of The latter two branches have these staunch M ilita n t friends country, terming it a part of Colored People. produces so much and has the power to emancipate the proportionately high quotas to and urge other readers to write (Continued from Page 1) the boss offensive against the Giving an account of intimida­ worker iron* his chains, is now his master. To get his free- wartime measure. This is but a meet, and have by the end of the in for these collection lists to gering campaign and diplomatic labor movement. "The powerful tion, clubbing, and "legal lynch­ aom the worker must master the factory system. And to stepping stone to permanent th ird week of our campaign at­ circulate among their fellow offensive' against the Soviet Un­ unity of the workers in the re­ ing;” in Columbia, Rev. Joseph G. accomplish this, he must understand the secret of capitalist conscription of America’s youth ion. tained over 50 per cent of their workers and friends. cent huge strike wave,” she de­ Moore, main speaker of the eve­ into the bloody services of Amer­ exploitation. He must understand the product he makes respective goals. The response to our call for What is the purpose of this clared, “has shown the capital­ ning, major in the Chaplains’ ican imperialism. a and how the boss makes his profit out of the worker’s labor Interesting data has been re­ a minim um of $1,000 per week gigantic militarization that Tru­ ist rulers how great, how mighty on it»» This demand is brazenly pro­ Corps during the war, declared, ceived from all sections of the nationally has so far been gen­ man demands? Truman assert­ is the working class united . . . " I have seen areas in the P hilip­ claimed after millions of GIs (Next Week: The Things We Produce) country this week. Below we erously met by our devoted com­ ed first that "victorious nations The bosses recognize this threat pines and Luzon that didn’t look abroad, now forced to serve 'as quote in part from some of these rades and friends. We hope the cannot, on the surrender of a to their imperialistic interests tools for tyrannizing over con­ as bad as the Negro district In communications: pace w ill be continued. Let's vicious and dangerous enemy, and are beginning to build up Columbia.” quered and colonial peoples, have B. Colman of Milwaukee reach one third Of our goal or turn their backs and go home.” their fascist organizations to asserted demonstratively their Rev. Moore visited Columbia City Payroll Tax Opposed writes: “Enclosed is a money or­ $5,000 by next -week! But;, no one w ill believe that spread their gospel of hate and desire to come home at once. while martial law was still in American imperialism fears shat­ poison among us.” effect. He interviewed members tered and prostrate Germany and HYPOCRITICAL ASSERTION STANDING OVATION of the terrorized community, On top of .this, Truman wants Japan. Clearly, it is against re­ A t Polls By Toledo Labor Advocating an independent la­ against whom the violence of 1,- to impose universal military volting peoples of conquered and 000 state police was employed in Wisconsin Students Give To training—"not conscription,” he colonial countries that mighty bor party, she continued, “The By M. Walker politicians of the rich in our order "to keep a certain minor­ (Special to The M ilitant) blandly assures, “ unless Congress occupation armies are to be ity in its place.” declares an emergency and calls used. Congress at one and the same . ° - APr- 5—Next Thursday, April 11, the v o t­ time kill FEPC and draw up PEOPLE TERRORIZED 'Militant’ Sustaining Fund upon them to serve in the armed WORLD-WIDE PRESERVE ers of Toledo go to the polls to vote up or down on a one forces . . .” That is, whenever legislation to smash labor Interviews with Governor per cent payroll income tax to finance the city. This ta x But Truman’s main threats unions.” James McCord of Tennessee, the Wall Street’s political agents de­ are reserved for his “ allies” , above was passed by City Council after the electorate had voted Militant Fund Campaign Director: cide to make war. In conclusion she stated, “ The state police and the National down every levy and bond' all the Soviet Union. Hypocrit­ Socialist Workers Party, which Guard during which Rev. Moore Enclosed find $5 for the M ilitant Sustaining Fund, con­ Just a few months ago the ical American imperialism, which Issue proposed by the admin­ make $100,000 a year you also tributed by students here at the University of Wisconsin. tide of popular protest and in­ I represent, w ill leave no stone was told tales of Negro insurrec­ pay just one per cent. is maintaining vast military unturned until the Columbia tion—"the Negro is getting too istration last fall. The pay­ Many of the students are doing part-time work to defray dignation against such proposals forces throughout the world, is roll tax provides fôr a fla t one Representatives of the CIO for universal militarization and Tennessee victims are freed and uppity” — contrasted strikingly their expenses at college; others are holding to a narrow shaking its mailed fist at the vindicated and their murderers with the facts he uncovered; per cent of income to be de­ have pointed out that to take 10 budget under the $65-a-month GI Bill. That explains the regimentation was so strong that Soviet Union. “ We expect recog­ cents from a man making $10 a only the most outspoken m ilitar­ placed behind bars. The Social­ shops with doors smashed in and ducted from earnings, with no small individual contributions. nition,” Truman sharply warned, ist Workers Party w ill leave no stock tom from the shelves, bul­ exemptions whatsoever. week is to take a loaf of bread ists and reactionaries were open­ from the mouths of his children. (Listed as contributors are: J. G. 50 cents; M. P. 25 “that we also have an interest stone unturned until this rot­ let holes ten inches from the This tax plan has been op­ ly calling for such measures. in m aintaining peace and secur­ But to take one per cent froha cents; R. Z. 15 cents; Anonymous 10 cents; E. R. 10 cents; Since then a monumental ten system of discrimination, floor (the m ilitia had said they posed by the Railroad Brother­ ity” in the Far East and “insist the man whose Income is in the B. W. 10 cents; H. J. 25 cents; J. B.-S. B. 25 cents; E. M. 50 propaganda drive has been un­ wars, poverty and misery is re­ shot too high to injure anyone) hoods and by the CIO Political that the sovereignty and integ­ placed by a system of true equal­ and a people so terrorized that five-figure bracket, still leaves :ents; B. G. 25 cents; G. B. 10 cents; D. G. 25 cents; and leashed to ready public opinion Action Committee. The PAC in ­ him more than he can use. Fur­ rity of the Near East and Middlfe ity and justice and real liberty all the lights were out each night, itiated petitions to put the pay­ S. T. $2.20). for a new blood-bath, a third East must not be threatened ...” ther, they have shown that the World War. The Army Day for all.” and one frightened man 'bald, roll income tax proposition on American imperialism, he thus tax falls less heavily on the Thousands of workers are beginning to recognize The proclamation of American im­ Her address was greeted by " I can't tell you anything be­ the' ballot in a special referen­ proclaims, has staked out world­ higher income groups due to Militant as a forthright fighter with and for them against perialism’s leading political rep­ a standing ovation from all pres­ cause I ’ve got to live here and dum. The balloting next Thurs­ wide preserves. provisions of the federal income the boss class. Sam Taylor ent. The audience composed p ri­ I ’ve got a black face.” day is the result of its successful resentative was timed to take ad­ Though the greatest slaughter tax laws. Madison, Wis. vantage of the terrific warmon­ marily of GM workers and their Other speakers were Rev. C. petition campaign. in human history ended only a wh-es, contributed $165 for the T. R. Nelson, president of the OPPOSED BY SWP few short months ago, Trum an defense of the Columbia Ten­ local branch of the NAACP, who TEST CASE The Socialist Worker» Party is already warning that "on short nessee victims. characterized the recent outbreak The outcome of this tax pro­ branch in Toledo has opposed notice, each man must be ready in Tennessee as the worst since posal in Toledo is being watched this tax and has applied for time to take his place and go forward World War n began, and Milton with great interest by the muni­ on the radio to explain our views —not at the end of a few months, Siegel, assistant district director cipal politicians of scores of oth­ on this unjust tax. Whether we or a few days, but immediately.” NEWARK of the United Packinghouse er cities. If it is successful in will get time is still uncertain. Truman has thus spoken for Workers of America (CIO). Toledo it will undoubtedly be in ­ Members and friends of the a new war, for American imper­ April Dance Reading the resolution passed by itiated elsewhere. SWP are active in the campaign ialist domination of the globe his organization, which called The city administration in To­ of the CIO and the Railroad or­ and for military regimentation Sat., April 13 for impeachment proceedings ledo reports that dozens of in ­ ganizations, urging the workers and repression at home. Music Refreshments against Governor McCord, Sie­ quiries have poured in from other of Toledo to go to the polls That program of Wall Street gel stated, “ I t ’s about time we cities all over the country which Thursday and de»at this “ Soak can be halted only if the Amer­ 423 Springfield 8 p.m. start looking for the black mar­ are considering the same type of the Poor” tax bill. ican people rise in their wrath Auspices: ket in human lives.” taxation. Minneapolis is report­ and mobilize their full powers Socialist Workers Party The meeting contributed over ed to have already taken steps of organized resistance against $350 to the Columbia Defense to introduce a payroll tax there. BRONX it. Fund and passed a resolution The CIO is leading the cam­ "condemning this flagrant vio­ paign for the defeat of this Open Forum lation of civil rights by the law measure. Fighting for it are the BALTIMORE enforcement agencies” and de­ United Toledo Committee, the Eyewitness Report on manding "that all guilty parties business associations, and the Open Forum On are brought to Justice and that daily press. The favorite argu­ 'UAW Convention the constitutional rights of the ment of the proponents of the "Postwar World and Tasks of Labor" Negro defendants be protected.” And Its Lessons' Speaker: TED BARR Payroll Income Tax is that it is Speaker: SARAH ROSS, the1 most just form of taxation, SUNDAY, APRIL 14 Subscribe To You see, it is a fla t one per cent Sunday April 14 Progressive Labor Lyceum The M ilitant regardless of the amount of your Questions Discussion; income. If you make $10 a week 1029 E. Baltimore St. 8 p.m. 1034 Prospect Ave. 8 p.m U«e Coupon On Pafe 2 r a n p m one per oeni. K yon SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1946 THE MILITANT PAGE SEVEN Anglo-American Imperialists Haggle Over Crumbs For Starving Millions By Felix Morrow ATLANTIC CITY, March 29—Florello LaOuardia was Detroit Transit Workers Vote Strike A Letter from “Home” fa»tailed today as the new Director-General of UNRRA Brooklyn R ally Lashes The following is an imaginary message which is beinf land immediately began to whitewash the Truman ad­ written, not in ink, but certainly in blood by the forces of m inistration—which .very much needed the whitewash capitalist reaction In this country. I t is addressed to all after the revelations made ostensibly providing a 20 per Negro Vets of World War II. by former New York Gov­ M urder O f Fergusons “Dear Nigger Joes: Then he shot and killed in per­ cent cut In feeding grain to fowl ernor Herbert H. Lehman, SPECIAL TO THE MILITANT “ Just in case some of you are fect style both Charles and hla who resigned yesterday as and cattle, actually applies only brother Alphonso. Joseph Fer­ BROOKLYN, N. Y., Mar. 31 — Over 150 workers crowded still laboring under the Illusion Director-General. to grain purchased and not to guson was wounded in , the Paragon Hall here tonight, In protest against the Jim- that you fought and helped win grain and corn raised by feed­ shoulder and the other brother, Lehman allegedly resigned be­ Crow murder of the Ferguson brothers at Freeport, Long this war for the purpose of ob­ cause of his health, but mean­ taining equality and democracy; Richard, was taken to Jail where ers, which is most of that fed Island. They gave serious at­ our judge sentenced him to 100 while has consented to run for to cattle. erously to the collection of $42. )ust in case you think you are now U. s. Senator if named in the tention to the many speak- going to enjoy freedom from fear days or $100 fine. The Truman administration About half indicated their in­ “ Some of these radicals made current ALP-Democratic nego­ ers and to proposals for fu ­ terest in future activities df the and minority persecution; just in doesn’t want these growers to such a protest that we called our tiations. His immediate reason ture action. Brooklyn branch of the SWP. case you expect to be treated no get into the habit of selling own lily-white grand jury made for resigning was Truman’s Clifton Hall, chairman of the A resolution was unanimously longer as a dog but as a man, we sending Hoover abroad on a food Strike Committee of the Amster­ address this message to you. up of the upper crust officials grain and corn in the market adopted protesting the Ferguson and landlords of Nassau County “ sdrvey” without even consult­ because eventually that would dam News workers, who recent­ murders and demanding a Pub­ “Expect nothing of the sort in ing Lehman. But this was mere­ ly won their demands after a who promptly exonerated Joseph add to overproduction. That in lic Committee of Investigation this, the America of reactionary Romeika, the cop, who had so ly th e last straw. militant three-week strike, call­ monopoly capitalism. In fact ex­ the interim tens _ of millions composed of representatives of efficiently taken care of the Fer­ For over a year now, Lehman ed. for unity. He told how much pect to be treated even worse might be saved from starvation labor, Negro and other minority guson family. has vainly sought the support he and his fellow strikers had than the other sections of the in Europe and Asia If these organizations to probe this case “Just in case a review of thia of the Truman administration learned of real solidarity in la­ and all conditions in Nassau Negro poeple because the other farmers did sell grain and corn bor struggles, and what that case does not convince you to to r drastic steps to provide food County which violate the civil sections are not yet as m ilitant stay in your own place, let us re­ for the starving continents of now scarcely seems to bother means for the Negro people. Truman, Anderson and the rest rights of Negro and other min­ as you, not as ready to fight as mind you of a couple of others. Europe and Asia. Still a loyal “ The same unity of purpose,” orities. you, and probably not expecting of the government. said Mr. Hall, “ will bring results “ Another one of your democ­ Democrat—his proposals were as much in the way of equal racy-filled Negro veterans re­ PROFIT FIRST in the protests of the murder of simply a more far-sighted pro­ treatment as you. sented a sign In a Birmingham gram in the interest of U. S. Requisitioning and rationing. Undaunted by Detroit anti-labor Mayor Edward J. Jeffries (.he Ferguson brothers. My people “ You are coming back here to have been looking for a long time bus saying; ‘This end of the imperialism—Lehman resigned Lehman asked that the govern­ threat to break their strike, bus and trolley operators shown Workers Drawn the states expecting too much and bus for the Negro race.’ He took ■without denouncing the Truman in the wrong direction for sal­ ment continue its wartime prac­ above cheer, and demonstrate as they leave Detroit Labor Tem­ we intend to cut you down again the sign down. Our alert bus administration’s crimes. But vation.” tice of set-asides whereby a giv­ ple after voting on April 2 to strike for a wage boost. to your proper size. We tire pro­ driver, however, saw him and Lehman’s speeches and reports To Tacoma SWP en percentage of all products •MAKE REAL NOISE’ ceeding to do this right ¿long* shot him four times on the spot. would go to the government Maude B. Richardson, Chair­ but sometimes a little review of He then called a cop who, after See Editorial which would turn it over to man of the Four Freedoms Com­ At First Meeting the previous lessons is a good having heard what this Negro UNRRA. Certainly it is the most mittee, protested dre Bilbo-East- thing to help Imprint it on your did, put another bullet into hi» TACOMA, Wash., Mar. 28— *Food Relief Policy’ efficacious means of providing CIO And AFL Support land-Ranklin tactics used against mind. dusky head to make sure that he The newly organized branch Page 4 food for the world. But whereas Negro soldiers. “ As long as there “ For that reason, even though would not live to pull such an the government was driven to it is a racial group being trampled of the Socialist Workers it has been a few months ago, let arrogant trick again. to win the war, it is reluctant to under the feet of oppressors, you Party in this city, held Its us recall to you what happened “Then you all know what hap­ to the General Council of do it in peacetime. Requisition­ Detroit Transit Strike and I and all of us, brothers and first public meeting here to­ pened in Columbia, Tenn. When to the Ferguson brothers up in UNRRA during its 15-day ses­ ing in order to smash its im­ sisters, black and white alike, are night, w ith Herb Cappy, Ta­ Freeport, N. Y. a white radio repairman merely sion here constitute, despite their perialist rivals—that's one thing. By John Saunders also being trampled.” coma SWP • organizer, speaking “ As you no doubt remember, slapped a nigger wench for talk­ diplomatic coverings, a terrible But requisitioning in order to (.Special to The M ilitant) She urged those present to on “ 1946—Prosperity or Depres­ they were assembled on a re­ ing back to him in his store, her indictment of the U. S. govern­ save tens of millions of starv­ DETROIT, Apr. 6—Backed by the overwhelming ma­ bring the case before clubs and sion?” union after three of the four had son, one of these Negro veterans, ment. ing humans—what’s the point churches with which they have jority of Detroit people, the 5,200 striking conductors, mo- The speaker presented an ar­ returned from serving in this had the nerve to strike the white In his acceptance speech, for private profit? tormen and drivers of the city-owned Detroit Street Rail­ contact. "Let’s make a real man. They were both booked Likewise with rationing. ray of facts proving that produc­ past war. Figuring that they had LaGuardia said Truman "wants way,' , members of Division 26 of the AFL Association of noise,” she continued, “ that will tivity per man-hour has increas­ had some part in saving the for lynching after this but they to do everything that is human­ UNRRA officials, in private con­ be heard all over the United Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes, are ed so moch in the past years, that world from Hitlerism and its doc­ somehow got away. Anyway we ly possible to alleviate suffering versation, understood well States ^ mass- unemployment is here to trines of racial supremacy, they got even because we called in and hunger anywhere in the enough why the U. S. had gone holding firm to their slo- Gloria Wall of the Trotskyist really roused public sentiment stay. Capitalism in the United had the gall to stop at the Free­ our State troopers who thor­ world.” Lehman’s speeches and off rationing and wouldn’t re­ gan, “ No Contract — No Youth Group spoke, she said, for States, therefore, is facing a port bus terminal and ask to be oughly shot up the colored sec­ reports considerably modify this turn, despite all the figures Work.” against him. all youth and for Negro youth crisis of tremendously Increased served just like they were white tion and took away all valuables glowing tribute. presented to Truman by Leh­ On the eve of the strike Jeff­ in particular. She described the After six days of strike, they production with a shrinking do­ men. found on the Negroes. They ar­ man a year ago: “The Chinese ries threatened: "The city wl.l discrimination they face in rested 101 of them and killed FUTURE EVEN WORSE remain unmoved by Mayor Jeff­ mestic market. and the Czechs don’t vote here, schools, on the job, and in every­ “Naturally, the proprietor re­ two in jail. The Truman-Hoover ballyhoo ries’ strikebreaking threats, the be without transportation only and this is an election year.” day life. This must lead to a wide hunt fused them even over their pro­ “We review these examples for that the food crisis w ill last only capitalist press lynch editorials until public opinion is sufficient­ Washington had garnered cheap­ and the radio lies, the scabby “ Perhaps,” said Gloria, “ the for markets in the rest of the tests. After they left he properly you, ‘lest you forget.’ We’ve got 120 days until the next harvests ly a certain amount of popularity statements by Edwards and Cas- ly aroused to justify the turmoil older people are tired of fighting, world, Comrade Cappy pointed called in our police force. One our own fascists here to spear­ to Europe, was designed to evade by ending rationing and wasn’t that accompanies the breaking but the youth are not and they out, as Wall Street seeks outlets of our star policemen, Joseph head our drive and our own taking more fundamental steps tator, the so-called labor men going to rock the boat now. of a strike.” are ready to go on fighting in­ for Its huge surpluses of money Romeika, immediately respond­ storm troopers in the uniform of to alleviate the situation. Leh­ on the City Common Council, as Moreover, renewal of rationing well as by advice from their own justice everywhere because they and goods. Slpce the same thing ed. He arrested the four and city, county and state. As con- man said of this: would turn public attention to "Public opinion” veered more is occurring in all capitalist was taking them to jail for dis­ international union officers, to sharply than ever behind the know there is no hope of any cerns the police force let’s hear "On the evidence available to embarrassing questions: why it countries, this struggle for world turbing the peace. Having been arbitrate. strikers. Not only the militant better life for Negro youth or no more of you Negro veterans UNRRA on this subject, I be­ was ended if it should have con­ markets is leading inevitably to­ evidently very well trained in the auto workers, but even the most any youth as long as this capital­ talking about ‘The law—always lieve that the reported views tinued; why, instead, all-out At & Cass Technical High ward World War III. The speaker art of preserving “ law and order” conservative white collar work-' ist system continues.” bad—down with the law.’ both of the Secretary o f Agricul­ production hadn’t been encour­ School meeting on Thursday predicted that 1946 would see (capitalist style), he correctly ers are backing the transit strik­ Sylvia Long of the City-wide "Let’s hear you get back to ture and Mr. Hoover do not re­ aged; and just what is being morning, April 4, some 3,000 this process unfold with increas­ began shoving and kicking them ers. Everywhere one hears the Youth Committee, whose mem­ that tune of Uncle Tom If you cognize the fu ll scale of the done with all the food that is strikers voted unanimously to ing clarity. around. One of these smart- refrain: "We ought to get rid bers cooperated with the SWP want to keep being live niggers: emergency. We have absolutely being produced. remain on the picket lines until alec Negroes protested. they win their just demands. of Mayor Jeffries.” and the Trotskyist youth to pub­ A number of interesting ques­ ’The Law—good or bad—still the no right to plan on any basis Whloh brings us to the key licize the meeting, also spoke of tions were asked by the audience, "That was good enough for law? More than a dozen , rank and The transportation tie-up is other than that the situation question: who controls the youth’s role in the struggle and two workers signed cards our cop and he promptly lined "W ith greatest disrespect—as file speakers, incensed by the accepted cheerfully by the pop­ next winter may be even worse world’s food? Not UNRRA, in against discrimination. stating that they want to join them up against the wall with ever, strikebreaking tactics of Mayor ulace because they want the than the present crisis." which some 48 nations sit, but William Farrell, Militant staff the Socialist Workers Party. their hands above their heads. “Your capitalist America.” Jeffriqs, demanded continuation strikers to win. Both the AFL On March 22 Lehman notified which has no voice in allocating reporter on the Ferguson case, of the walkout. Their local and CIO support the strike. the UNRRA Council that there food. gave a detailed account of the president. Jack Storey, who had was in sight from the supplying What is generally not known Yale Stuart, field representa­ Ferguson family and the events spoken against the strike the Come and meet other ‘ M ilita n t9 R eaders authorities “less than one-third is that thé real world power over tive for the CIO State, County following the murders. He re­ previous Sunday, was forced to — I repeat, one-third — of our food is In the hands of a Com­ and Municipal Workers, which lated how Edward Ferguson, a make a m ilitant speech in de­ At these Local Activities of ¡minimum requirements” of bread bined Food Board, consisting of has 1,800 DSR maintenance brother of the two slain men, told fense of the walkout. cereals for April. "This situa­ only three governments: the members, declared; “ We don’t him that the only reason he is tion dan spell only disaster and U. 8 „ the British and Canada. Even the small minority of believe in strikebreaking. In ­ alive today is that he wasn’t' The Socialist Workers Party death.” For the first quarter of How this world dictatorship em­ members who originally voted structions have already gone out with his brothers that night. 1946 UNRRA had shipped only ploys Its power for Its own in­ against the strike were complete­ to our membership not to par­ Farrell described the campaign 53 per cent of grain require­ terests—that is the most in­ ly won over to Its continuation. ticipate In any strikebreaking at­ of intimidation unleashed at the AKRON — Visit The Militant Lens, Ave., 2nd floor. Open forum» ments, 20 per cent of rice re­ teresting story of all, most of it As one worker said; “ I was tempts.” Nassau County Court House Club, 405-6 Everett Bldg., 39 SAN PEDRO, 1008 8 . Pacific, Friday, 8 p.m., current topics. quirements, 4 per cent of edible still unrevealed, but with broad against the strike at the start Both the Detroit and Wayne against any witnesses daring to East Market St., open daily Room 214. Classes on “ State and Re­ fats requirements. hints provided by the documents but when I read that Jeffries had except Sunday, 2 to 4 p. in.; Wednesday, 8 pm.; Dialec­ County Federation of Labor appear in defense of the Fer­ volution," every Sunday, 7 p.m. Nor had the terrible gap be­ and speeches of the UNRRA threatened to break it, I changed (AFL) and the Wayne County gusons. Negro-hating, labor-hat­ also Monday, Wednesday and tical Materialism. 9 pm.; His­ Office and bookshop open tween amounts supplied and Council session. my mind. I ’U-support the strike CIO CounGil are giving full sup­ ing and anti-Semitism pervaded Friday, 7:30 to 9:30. Current tory of American Trotskyism. UNRRA requirements—careful­ (Next week: The Role of the to the end.” port. Frank X. Martel, presi­ the atmosphere. events discussion Wednesday Friday, 8:30 p.m.; American every day. Combined Food Board.) History. ly computed on a malnutrition ASK 18-CENT RAISE dent of the AFL Council, in a ROOT OF PROBLEM evenings. PITTSBURGH—Militant Read­ level for each applying country The union is asking for an four - page statement pledging Farrell ended with a plea that ALLENTOWN - BETHLEHEM — MILWAUKEE — Visit the Mil­ —begun in 1946. Of UNRRA ing Room, Seely Bldg., 5908 18-cent hourly wage increase support to the 'strikers, con­ In addition to holding protest Open meeting every Friday, waukee SWP branch, 424 E. requirements for the second half demned the city officials for meetings, we h it at the root of 8 p.m., at Militant Labor Wells St., evenings from 7:30. Penn Ave., corner Penn. Ave. Wright Speaks similar to raises granted In auto, & Beatty St., E. Liberty. Open of 1945, there was actually ship­ stalling negotiations for three the problem. Forum, S. E. corner Front and MINNEAPOLIS—Visit the Labor steel and other Industries. Their Monday, Wednesday, Friday, ped: carbohydrates, 84 percent; months. He attacked them as “ The working class,” he said, Hamilton Streets, Allentown. Book Store, 10 South 4th St„ edible fats 24 per cent; vege­ demands are especially just be­ 6:30 to 9:30. Sundays at 7:30: In Philadelphia cause Jeffries and his Big Bus­ well as the newspapers for creat­ “ must strike three blows for ev­ Public Forums—First Sunday open 10 a m . to 5 p m . daily. table proteins 50 per cent; ani­ “ News of Week in M ilitant.” iness cohorts on Jaunary 1 boost­ ing the false impression that the ery one aimed against them. each month, 2:15 p.m. Forum every Sunday, 3:30, mal proteins 46 per cent. PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 29 — strike violates the city charter. ed bus and car fares from six They must build their own poli­ BOSTON—Office at 30 Stuart NEWARK—Branch meeting ev­ PORTLAND, Ore. — Visit the What could be done to alle­ The largest audience yet assem-, tical party, a genuine iabor St. Open Saturdays from noon SWP headquarters, 134 S. W. viate the situation? bled at the new Philadelphia to ten cents, against the protests GIs IN FOREFRONT ery Friday at 423 Springfield of virtually all Detroiters. party. If seribus, they must work until 6 p.m.; Wednesday and Washington, 3rd Floor. Tel Governor Lehman’s own oft- headquarters of the Socialist As in all recent strikes, returned Ave., at 8:30. Reading room Sam Sage, secretary of 'the to destroy the system of pri­ Fridays, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. ATwater 3992. Open 1 to repeated and unheeded recom­ Workers Party, 1303 W. Gerard GIs are in the forefront. At and office open Mondays- Wayne County CIO Council, in vate profit which encourages BUFFALO — Every Saturday 4 p.m., daily except Sunday, mendations provide us with a Ave„ tonight heard John G. the meeting which voted the Thursdays, 4 to 10 p.m. a radio broadcast Thursday discrimination and inequality night, Current Events Discus­ and 6 to 8, Tuesday, Friday. useful framework for analyzing Wright, associate editor of walkout, veteran Paul S. Mich- M ilitan t Readers’ Discussion night, asserted that “ all demands and replace it wjth a socialist sion and Open House; M ilitan t Fridays, 8 p.m., Open House the situation and what could be Fourth International, speak on aelewskl answered a plea for ar­ Group Sunday, 7:30 pm. being made by union men could society.” He urged those present Forum, 629 Main St., 2nd floor. and Round Table Discussions. done about it. "Soviet Russia in the Postwar bitration by stating: " I am a re­ NEW YORK — CENTRAL, 116 be met and the fares still be to join the SWP and work to­ CHICAGO — Visit SWP, 160 N. All-out production. Lehman World.” turned GI and I am telling you University Place, GR. 5-8149. READING, Pa— Militant Labor lowered.” He stated further that ward this end. Wells, R. 317. Open ll-a .m . to puts this first. I t is a notorious Workers from all sections of we want to strike and end this Sat., 4:30 p.m., Tues, 7:30, Forum, Market Bldg., 10th and the DSR had an $8,500,000 sur­ The audience contributed gen­ 8 p.m. every day except Sun­ fact that since the end of the the city, representing a good damned business once and for rehearsal of Trotskyist chorus. Penn St„ Room 202. Public plus, a fact which “ Jeffries does day. Tel. Dearborn 7562. war the U. S. Department of cross section of local industry, all. The people of Detroit all Militant readers invited. forums every 2nd and 4th Sun­ not want made public.” asked by this reporter whether Classes every Wednesday, Agriculture has been discourag­ were present. Also attending want us to strike. They know Apr. 14, 8:15—“Is MacAr- days at 2:30 p.m. Headquar­ The Big Business politicians he thought Jeffries would really 7:30 and 9:00 p.m. ing farmers from expanding were a number of Stalinist sym­ what Jeffries and his rotten thur Bringing Democracy to ters open Mondays and Wed­ who rim the DSR had, during attempt to break the strike, lo­ SOUTH SIDE: 354 W. 63rd. grain and dairy products, seek­ pathizers who were interested in commission are doing to us.” Japan?” nesdays from 8 to 10 p.m., also the entire three months of nego­ cal transit union president Stor­ Meetings Thursday evening. Fridays from 1:30 to 3 p.m. ing to turn them to “ diversified learning the attitude of the So­ Jeffries’ call upon the governor ey answered: " I Wish he would HARLEM: 103 W . 110 St., agriculture,” i.e„ toward sub­ tiations, offered absolutely noth­ SAN FRANCISCO — Visit the cialist Workers Party toward the to enforce a 30-day cooling-off try. He’ll get what’s coming to CLEVELAND — Militant Forum Rm. 28..MO. 2-1866. ing to ■(the union. Not until Just San Francisco School of Social sistence farming instead of pro­ Russian Revolution. period failed to frighten the him.” every Sunday, 8:30 pm. at Sun., Apr. 14, 8:30 p.m. duction for the world market, In before the March 31 strike vote, Science, 305 Grant Ave., cor­ The question and answer pe­ strikers for they are fully aware Meanwhile the capitalist news­ Peck’s H all 1446 E. 82nd St. “China Today.” preparation for the time when less than '24 hours before the ner of Grant and Sutter, 4th riod was a long and a fruitful that this is not mandatory and papers and radio commentators DETROIT—Forums on topical BRONX: 1034 Prospect Ave., economic recovery elsewhere will one. The numerous questions re­ contract expired, did the DSR the law cannot be enforced. The 1st floor, phone T I 2-0101. floor: open from 12 noon to make a counter-offer of 15 cents. are howling for new legislation questions every Sunday. 8 pm , curtail U. S. exports. flected the eagerness of the threat to bring in strikebreakers Friday Class., 8 p jn . “State 3 p.m., Monday through Sat­ But there was a joker. to outlaw strikes in public util­ at 6108 Linwood. Office open Along the same line, Secre­ audience to learn more about merely aroused them to further and Revolution.” urday, and 7 to 9 p.m. Mon­ The DSR also demanded a ities. Councilman O a k m a n daily 10 to 6. Phone Tyler tory of Agriculture Anderson socialism, the Russian Revolu­ strengthen their picket lines. Sun., Apr. 14, 8:30 p.m., day through Friday. number of contract changes brought up an amendment to the 7-6287. has resisted Instituting full-scale tion and the program of the “India’s Struggle for Free­ which, in the words of a union The whole labor movement Is city charter to make it illegal for SEATTLE—Visit our Headquar­ measures for encouraging farm ­ SWP. Many workers continued KANSAS CITY — SWP Branch dom.” spokesman, would mean “ giving standing by to teach Jeffries DSR employes to strike, to for­ ters, 1919^2 Second Ave. ers to sell their grain Instead of to discuss the lecture for two meets Saturday, 8 p.m. Rm. BROOKLYN: 635 Fulton St„ up some of the working condi­ that scabbing is not an easy or bid city officials to negotiate ST. LOUIS—Visit our headquar­ feeding it to cattle and hogs. hours after the conclusion of the 203, Studio Bldg., 418 E. 9th Phone ST. 3-7433. tions we had succeeded In bar­ profitable profession in the work­ with strikers, and to deprive ters. 1023 N. Grand Blvd.. Rm. His order, at last.Issued today, question period. St., for study and discussion. Sun., Apr. 14, 8:30 p.m., gaining for during the 50 years ing class city of Detroit. When strikers of accumulated civil ser­ 312, open Monday, Wednesday, LOS ANGELES — Visit SWP “India’s Struggle For Free­ of our existence.” Company pro­ vice and pension benefits. Friday, 7:30 to 9 p.m. Forum» headquarters, 145 S. Broadway, dom.” posals included payment of over­ every Thursday, 8:30 p.m. WANT LABOR MAYOR Open daily, 12 noon to 5 pm. CHELSEA: 130 W. 23 St„ time rates only after 48 hours Phone Jefferson 3642. NEW YORK FORUM Flint, Mich. On one point the office of Phone VAndyke 7936. phone CH 2-9434. of work instead of 44 as at pres­ TACOMA, Wash.—For inform­ Frank X. Martel is unusually Sunday, 11 a.m., Trade Union Branch meetings, Thurs­ ent. Socialist Workers Party ation, write P.O. Box 1079. "Is Mac Arthur Bringing Democracy silent and evasive. No one will Problems: Speaker’ J. Dali. 12 days, 8:30 p.m. % to Japan?" STRIKE POPULAR Meeting speak about the AFL support of noon; Marx’s Capital: Speaker, YO R K VILLE: Discussion TOLEDO—Forums every Tues­ Never has a strike here been Mayor Jeffries in the last elec­ C. Charles. Group, 146 E. 84 St. Meets day, 8:00 p.m., 213 Michigan Speaker: more popular. Everyone is down EVERY SUNDAY tion. But if AFL officials are Tuesday, 8 pm.: Elementary second and fourth Fridays. St. Open evenings, 7-9. ALVIN ROYCE on the city administration be­ silent, the men are not. “ I f we Economics: John Patrick. 9 OAKLAND, Cal.—Meetings Wed­ YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown cause of the recent fare boost. YWCA had a labor mayor there would p.m.; History of American nesday, Odd Fellows Temple, School of Social Science. 225 Sunday, April 14 Transportation service, bod be­ First Street And Harrison be no DSR strike today,” is the Trotskyism: M . Weiss. 410 - 11th St. For information N. Phelps St., open to public fore the fare raise, is now worse common sentiment voiced among Thursday, 8 pm.; American write to P.O. Box 1351 Tuesday and Saturday after­ T16 Univèrsity Place 8 p.m. 8 p.m. Admission Free than ever. But it was Jeffries’ the street car men as well as a History: J. Hawkins. 9 p.m.; PHILADELPHIA — SWP Head­ noon from 2 to 5: also 7:30 to strike-breaking statement which large section of Detroit workers. Dialectical Materialism: B. quarter», 1303-05 W. Girard 9:30, Monday to Thursday. PAGE EIGHT THE MILITANT SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1946

Diary Of A Steelworker By T. Kovalesky We bled the iron out of the trough, and in a always saw them pushing their way up stub­ The Miners Will Not Forget Their Dead!' few minutes the bright orange light had faded bornly out of the ground. You can’t kill them, from the furnace floor. A dull red glow piled I thought. They are rough and uncultured. mistily up to the high They are unloved by the farmers. They are crossbeams, and beyond attacked time and time again, but they always it, through the long ven­ return to the fight. Small as they are, they Writes West Virginia Striker To 'Militant' tilating slots in the roof. are strong in their numbers. The following story was sent to the " The M ilitant” by one of I saw a translucent blue. It didn’t take long for the idea to h it me. “ Daylight already,” I The weeds, the wild trees, these are the workers! Where Mine Owners' Greed Brought Disaster the miners now on strike. " I hope you w ill be able to use it." he said to Slim. I t ’s this way. They dont’ want us to get at wrote. We know our readers w ill find it a powerful argument for Slim yawned. He looked their cultivated flowers, and they cut us down. the miners' fust demands for adequate safety measures and a tired just as all of us They cut us down when the ancient slave re­ welfare fund to protect their union brothers and provide for the did on the night shift. bellions were crushed. But we grew back up bereaved families of men killed through the mine-owners’ greed. “ Springtime,” he answered, adding hopefully, again. “ Time to go home pretty soon.” They cut us down when they cut down the By Gus Nikolias I thought of the bitter cold of the steel plant Paris Commune, the first workers’ government (Special To The M ilitant) during the long winter months. The early in the world’s history. WHEELING, W. Va, April 1 — Today the men who toil dawn made me feel good: it meant no more Over here in this country they cut us down snow, no more screaming blasts of wind that at Haymarket. They cut us down in the rail­ in the, dark caverns far down in the earth w ill not go into froze the sweat on your heavy underclothing. road strikes and the mine strikes. They cut the pits, for this day is their traditional holiday in honor I wanted to talk about it, wanted Slim to talk tc us down in the steel strike of 1919 and they of John Mitchell, pioneer of the 8-hour working day. And i t me about it. cut down ten of our brothers in 1937 at Chi­ is also the beginning of the national soft-coal miners’ “SpringtimeI” I said to Slim. "It won’t b' cago for trying to organize the steel plants. BUT so tough around here for a while.” WE GREW UP AGAIN! They can’t beat us. strike. “ Yeah.” They can NEVER beat us, for we have the will Parades are scheduled in several communities, w ith "F eel a little more like a human being.” ind the stamina they lack. Welch, deep in southern West Virginia, expecting one of “Yeah!” In the never-ceasing class struggle, the cap­ the largest crowds in history. Also the miners from Webster, “ Winter sure is hell on a blast furnace.” italist class is like a bed of rare orchids. They Monongah, Marlon, Harrison and Taylor Counties will “Yeah . . . Say, I wonder what time it's get are weak and must be guarded. They have their parade through the streets of Fairmont, W. Va, in one of ting to be?” gardeners with their scythes, who keep cutting the northern coal fields’ larger celebrations. W e picked up the water hoses to cool down down the weeds as they come creeping toward th e runners. Slim yawned. Silly to talk about the orchids. They cut them down to protect Yes, it seems strange that the men who labor against th e weather, I thought to myself, but spring­ the expensive crop, but the weeds keep spring­ the greatest odds of any found in American industry could tim e does something to a man. When you feel ing up, keep closing in. have cause to celebrate. As a personal witness to the W il­ It coming, you don’t want to let it go . . . The time will come when gardeners and low Grove explosion and Powhatan mine fire, I can find no breezes that don’t hurt, no more snow to trudge scythes wont’ be enough to keep the weeds out words to describe the horror that the gaunt black tipples, and slip through, green things growing. of the flower beds, and then the crop will be the burning piles of gob; the crushed, burned bodies car­ My thoughts had been jostling around, all choked off, and the weeds will reign supreme, This Is Pineville, Kentucky, where 24 miners died on December 26, 194R, because the ried out of the dark pits, some in rubber bags, brings to th e different pictures of springtime bumping because they have the stamina, the hard-bitten mine owners place profits above human life. Relatives and friends of the SI men trapped in my mind. Nor of the human suffering, of waiting brothers, strength to survive. together. Then one picture began to stand out, an explosion, gather at the entrance of the mine (indicated by arrow). The dismal shacks wives and mothers, of grim children clinging to their moth­ the picture of green things growing. This thought was in my mind the other morn­ in the foreground are the “homes” in which t he miners are forced to live. I began to think of fields and forests and ing as Slim and I watered down the trough and ers’ dresses. Nor of black coal dust, methane, and black meadows full of green life springing up from the runners, cooling them so we could clean the damp, of which one-half per cent concentration in air ea rth . Some of these things, I mused, were scrap iron and slag out of them. I started to will kill Immediately, watched over, cared for, cultivated. I f that mention it. but then I thought it would sound Small wonder then, that the American coal miner is care were taken from them, they’d die or grow sort of silly ... like a fairy tale. But the thought Westinghouse Strikers Parade the most militant of the earth’s exploited. up stunted and malformed. But the great trees stuck with me, and going home I put the fin ­ Here are some figures. Fellow workers, look at them: of the forests, the sturdy, timeless ones, these ishing touches to it, the part that really sounded had no care. These stood off the elements and like a fairy tale: FOR EVERY 350,000 TONS OF COAL, ONE HUMAN grew and grew, gained strength and size. After the weeds conquered the whole earth, Around Philadelphia City Hall BEING MUST GIVE HIS LIFE. And the weeds: try as the gardeners and far- I thought, that’s where the magic would come March 6, 1000—Red Ash, W. Va, 46 killed. mers might, the weeds would always spring up in. The whole world would turn into a garden! SPECIAL TO THE MILITANT May 1, 1900—Scohfleld, Utah, 200 killed. again. Even though they were pulled out by It may sound funny to you . . . but think it PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 29 — M ilitant members of strik­ Motors in the same Industry have May 19, 1902—Coal Creek, Tenn, 184 killed.: th e roots and burned each year, the next spring over. ing Locals 107 and 111, CIO, United Electrical and Radio settled the strike, which began July 10, 1902—Johnstown, Pa, 112 killed. January 15, for an iuy2-cent an Workers, today paraded through 60 blocks of the busiest hour wage increase. Westing­ June 20, 1903—Hanna, Wyo, 169 killed. downtown section here in protest against Westinghouse house, however, is trying to force Jan. 25, 1904—Ceheswick, Pa, 179 killed. Notes Of A Seaman By A rt Sharon Electric’s continued brazen its workers to accept a settle­ Feb. 20, 1905—Virginia City, Ala, 108 killed. refusal to grant the just that every ward-heeler and poli­ ment, falsely claimed to be 18i/z Jan. 29, 1907—Stuart. W- Va, 85 killed. tician could hear them. fia the March 22 West Coast Sailor, organ of The w ater-front unions had come through a minimum demands of its 10,- cents, which would amount in Dec. 6, 1907—Monongah, W. Va, 361 killed. the A T X . Sailors Union of the Pacific, there is tough battle and were preparing to fight again 000 employes in this area and BUMPER TO BUMPER actuality to only a 9.7 cents av­ Dec. 17, 1907—Jacobs Creek, Pa, 239 killed. • picture of the leading figures at the unveiling for their right to existence. The “street” and against Republican Mayor For half an hour the union erage raise. I t has also attached Nov. 28, 1908—Marianna, Pa, 154 killed. ceremony of a memorial especially the shipping fraternity there were ter­ Samuel’s order barring mass autos, rolling bumper to bump­ conditions to its wage offer that Dec. 29, 1908—Switchback, W. Va, 50 killed. monument to the SUP rified at the rise of the new young labor giant. picketing. er, circled City Hall. Unable to are aimed directly at undermin­ Nov. 13, 1909—Cherry, H I, 259 killed. war dead. In the middle The shipping parasites were determined to force A cavalcade of 50 sign-covered break the auto picket line as ing and eventually destroying April 7, 1911—Scranton, Pa, 73 killed. the union. of the picture stands the seamen and the longshoremen back to their autos and two sound trucks they had the picket lines in the April 8. 1911—Littleton, Ala, 128 killed. Earl Warren, present ore-strike status of virtual slavery, when they called the attention of hundreds recent General Electric strike, INSULTING OFFER March 26, 1012—Jed, W. Va, 80 killed. the mounted police, known as governor of California, were at the complete mercy of Montgomery of thousands of local citizens to The last insulting offer of Oct. 22, 1913—Dawson, N. M , 263 killed. flanked on one side by Street. the union-busting offensive of “ Cossacks,” and other city Strike­ Westinghouse provides no wage Harry Lundberg, secre­ the company and city officials. breaking forces merely stood by April 28, 1914—Eccles. W. Va, 181 killed. But these were new times and the maritime increase at all for lamp workers. March 2, 1915—Layland, W. Va, 112 killed. tary of the SUP, and on unions organized in a Maritime Federation of Thousands lined the pave­ and watched closely. It would slash six cents an hour April 27, 1917—Hastings, Col, 121 killed. the other by C. J. Haggerty, secretary of the the Pacific were exchanging blow for blow. ments and cheered the protesting Despite the dramatic and ef­ from the present basic wage rate California State Federation of Labor. Warren Montgomery Street had met its match. To the strikers. Office workers high up fective character of the large of women workers and eliminate Feb. 8, 1923—Dawson, N. M , 120 killed. as the guest of honor made the principal address. shipowners organized in a Waterfront Employ­ in the windows of the city’s sky­ demonstration and the great re­ the policy of equal pay for equal March 8 1924—Castle Gate, Utah, 171 killed. To thousands of west coast seamen Warren’s ers Association it looked as if the day pf ex­ scrapers threw confetti, waved sponse of the local populace, the work which the union won years April 28, 1924—Benwood, W. Va, 119 killed. name is associated with the bitter days during propriation had arrived. and shouted encouragement to boss-controlled press here gave ago and which the NWLB ap­ May 19, 1928—Mather, Pa., 195 killed. the demonstrators. As the parade only the barest mention of the and shortly after the 1934 maritime strike, when In the midst of a tanker strike going on at proved by a directive at the start March 21, 1929—Parnassus, Pa. 46 killed. moved into City Hall square, the demonstration and concealed the the newly-reconstituted maritime unions fought that time an engineer on a ship was mysteriously of the war. It would reduce va­ Dec. 17, 1929—McAlester, Okla, 61 killed. union sound trucks roared out issues behind the protest. for survival. Warren played a particularly vicious killed. Earl Warren, then an obscure District cation pay. There are other Oct. 27, 1930—McAlester, Okla, 30 killed. the demands of the workers so General Electric and General anti-labor role, for which he was eventually re­ Attorney in Alameda County, had his oppor­ tricky wage proposals, all of Nov. 5, 1930—M illfleld, Ohio, 79 killed. warded with the governorship. tunity to serve Montgomery Street. He became which taken together would av­ Jan. 28, 1931—Dugger, Ind.. 28 killed. erage out not to the claimed He was the organizer of the notorious frame- the crusading hero of the shipowners. Arresting Feb. 27, 1932—Bolssevaln, Va, 38 killed. up of King, Ramsey and Conner, Marine Fire­ two officials and one militant rank and filer 18 V2 -cent raise but to a miser­ Reading Rail Shop Crafts Men ly 9.7 cents. Dec. 9, 1932—Yancey, Ky„ 23 killed. men’s Union members, who were railroaded to of the Marine Firemen’s Union, King, Ramsey Dec. 23, 1932—Moweagua. I ll, 54 killed. San Quentin penitentiary. and Conner, he led the hysterical campaign for UNION-BUSTING CLAUSES Sept. 2, 1936—Macbeth, W. Va, 10 killed. Warner displayed such zeal as a District A t­ their conviction as alleged murderers. These in­ Protest Undemocratic Policy Aside from its phony wage July 15, 1937—Sullivan, Ind, 20 killed. torney in the King-Ramsey-Conner frame-up nocent men were railroaded to San Quentin offer, the company proposes March 11, 1937f-Macbeth, W. Va, 18 killed. that his political fortune was made with the fo r long sentences. Earl W arren’s political fo r­ SPECIAL TO THE MILITANT that the union give up virtual­ shipping fraternity on Montgomery Street in tune was made. READING, Pa, April 1—Vigorous rank and file protest ly all Its hard-won contractual Oct. 15, 1937—Birmingham, A la, 34 killed. San Francisco. Montgomery Street marked him well. He against the undemocratic practices of the leadership of safe-guards for Union security April 22, 1938—Grundy, Va, 45 killed. Although Sacramento is the capital of the traveled the road of political preferment to the the local railway shop craft unions was witnessed here at and agree to "company secur­ Jan. 9, 1940—Bartley, W. Va, 91 killed. s tate of California, and presumably its political governor’s seat and was even seriously con­ a local general membership meeting yesterday to discuss ity.” Its brazen proposals would March 16, 1940—Willow Grove, Ohio, 73 killed. center, the real power is in the offices on Mont­ sidered as a presidential nominee two years ago. the layoffs which have h it eliminate seniority clauses and July 5, 1944—Powhatan Point, O, 66 killed. • « • gomery Street in San Francisco. There side by the Reading shops. at thè meeting were: “ I t ’s time to permit the company to fire the Dec. 26, 1945—Pineville, K y„ 24 killed. best union militants for strikes side are th e big banks, brokerage houses, oil Another hero of the shipowners also occupies The main opposition arose a- clean house” ; “ We must elect Jan. 17, 1946—Welch. W. Va, 13 killed. »orporatlon offices, the shipping operators and a political post now. Roger Lapham, leader of a leadership that will fight for that may be provoked by the round the action of the top lead­ company. SUPPORT THE MINERS’ STRIKE Ih e s ilk -h a t "farmers” of Montgomery Street, the Waterfront Employers Association, today is ership in changing Rule No. 27 in the demands of the member­ oorporatlon owners of California’s giant agri­ mayor of San Francisco. A few years ago he ship” ; “ The battle for union Among the banners being car­ Let the capitalists and their servants whine on the March 1945 without consultation ried by the strikers before the cultural “factories in the field.” was the particular “buddy”' of Harry Bridges, or approval of the membership. democracy is of utmost impor­ day of the big strike. But the miners will not forest th#ir In th is “ Wall Street of the West” the parftsite Stalinist leader of the CIO longshoremen, who tance to every union member.” two closed Westinghouse plants dead! Rule No. 27 originally provided here are: “ Prices going up, How Shippin g fraternity plays the dominant role. appeared with Lapham on the public platform for a reduction of hours and di­ CHAIRMAN BOOED about wages?” ; “ Westinghouse Itie lr leadership on the “street” goes back for and exchanged mutual compliments. vision of the work to prevent lay­ Other pointed references were made profits from both sides” ; pour seventy-five years of California history, At that time the SUP was Justly indignant offs. I t was revised to perm it made to the conduct of the lead­ “ 30% of Mitsubishi owned by they are the chief manipulators of the capitalist at Bridges’ fraternal embrace of a shipowner maintenance of a 48-hour week WESTINGHOUSE STRIKERS ership „and the necessity for Westinghouse” ; “From bayonet.- potttieal machines. Governors’ and Mayors’ of- spokesman. But memories are short. And Mont­ regardless of layoffs. closer cooperation of the d if­ to riot sticks” ; “ We get storm A m are decided by them. gomery Street, which never forgets, won a lit­ Despite protests and resolu­ troopers—No work” ; “ Everyone B ari Warren came to the attention of Mont­ tle victory out at the Olivet cemetery at the SUP ferent craft memberships: tions opposing the change, the “Every railroad worker must be settled but Westinghouse” ; and RESIST UNION-BUSTING gomery Street at a very critical time. The 1934 ceremony. General Chairmen proceeded to aroused to the undemocratic "Lockout at Westinghouse.’’ general strike In San Francisco had Just passed. (Continued from Page 1) Rotten politics makes strange bedfellows. put the revision into effect. This tactics of the General Chairmen has resulted in continuation of an hour for 45 per cent of hourly continue negotiations or meet and the leadership” ; “Either workers. the 48-hour week white numer­ with the union unless its wage you (General Chairmen) abide Although the company ads offer was accepted in full, to­ By Wil liam F. Warde ous workers have suffered un­ by the decision of the majority Labor Press Hit Success Story employment. lied that it was paying higher gether with its refusal to ex­ of the membership or we w ill rates than the other major com­ tend the contract for a reason­ Among the most familiar of capitalist-inspired of opportunity” only for the rich and well-con­ WANT UNION DEMOCRACY vote you out of office” ; and “ We As Monopolists panies, a comparison study made able period, created conditions fables is the one entitled: “ Poor Boy Makes nected? Do you have to belong to the aristocracy That the railway shop work­ must band ourselves together re­ by the union, and never chal­ that made mediation impos­ Oood In a Big Way.” This theme has become as of wealth and privilege in order to get a place ers here are fed up w ith the gardless of craft membership lenged, shows that Westinghouse sible.” standardized as Heinz catsup, Campbell’s Beans at the top? and fight for complete union de­ bureaucratic, undemocratic tac­ Grab Newsprint has paid substantially lower The company is being strength­ • r Truman’s speeches. In answer to these questions we should like to tics of the leadership was de­ mocracy.” wage rates than General Elec­ (Continued-frqm Face 1) ened in its strikebreaking of­ Story writers for the popular fiction magazines submit the case of Riccardo Salmona. His un­ monstrated by the big turnout at One General Chairman was tric, the largest corporation in ing Workers; Electrical Union fensive by the generous finan­ •ynically refer to it as “literary sandwich filling orthodox success story is told in the April 3 yesterday’s meeting. I t was the roundly booed, to his visible the industry. World, AFL International Bro­ cial aid of the federal govern­ between advertisements.” Hollywood’s scenario N. Y. World-Telegram, by Charles Ventura in largest of its kind in many years embarassment, when he tried to On April 1, Westinghouse dis­ therhood of Electrical Workers; ment. Even if the company writers term it “the gimmick.” University so­ the column appropriately headed "Society To­ despite efforts of leaders of some claim that the railroad setup Is continued its previous union the American Veterans’ Com­ makes no profits in 1946, the ciologists give it the fancier label of “ The Ameri­ day.” of the crafts to discourage at­ the “ most democratic” union contracts. This was a prelude mittee Bulletin; the Catholic carry-back provisions of the ex­ can Dream.” “ For years Ricky went his graceful way play­ tendance. Among the unions structure in America. to an attempt to launch a back- War Veteran; Catholic Worker; cess profits tax law will net it Everyone knows the basic elements of the ing a fair game of tennis, being a charmin' represented w,ere the black­ to-work movement. The com­ FOR WORKERS’ CONTROL Jewish Examiner; and the Co- $11,200,000 from the public story. Poor boy: hard-working, ambitious, loyal, companion at bridge and doing useless thing smiths, boilermakers, carmen pany is trying to make separate A highlight of the meeting was Operator, organ of the Eastern treasury. I f it loses $10,000,000, likeable. He attracts the attention of the big well. He and his attractive wife, the forme: >nd machinists. settlements with local unions. the remarks of a Machinist un­ Co-Operative League. it w ill get a refund from th® boss by some unusual stroke. After amazing, Daphne I. C. Kane O'Connell, flitted about from Member after member spoke The previous contracts liad been ion member, who said; ‘ “ If the The delegation ¡uso requested same source of $19,750,000, outwitting and confounding enemies and com­ Newport to Palm Beach to Paris, and life was and pulled no punches in their concluded in several instances management can only operate The corporation is striving to petitors, he arrives at the end of the last reel or just one long carefree idyll. attacks against the General with local unions rather than the shops by laying off workers starve out the workers, drive’ a paragraph with the boss’s daughter in one hand “ Overnight Ricky’s whole life has changed Chairmen, whose chief interests See Editorial with the International Union. to maintain its profits, lèt’s cut wedge in their ranks, conclude and a top job or lush contract in the other. He now has one of the most Important jobs ir seem to be to collect their sala­ Now the company is trying to out the profits and let the work­ “Free Press” separate local agreements cm its An increasing number of workers, who have the Kaiser-Frazer automobile company. Did lye ries and dupe the membership. take advantage of this to break ers operate the shops. Then terms and break the strike with watched this version of life and labor in these burn the midnight oil? Did he marry the boss’s Some typical statements heard Page 4 the unity of the strike. there will be no layoffs.” a back-to-work movement aided United States unfold on the movie screen, have daughter or do any of the things young men This was greeted by a cheer COMPANY EXPOSED by injunctions and police force. become skeptical about its correspondence to are advised to do to succeed? The answer to all an investigation to "see if there that would have given the pro­ In both Philadelphia and East reality. Looking around them at work and in these questions is no. is a black market in newsprint.” The fu ll power of the labor HARTFORD fiteering rail barons little com­ Pittsburgh, where Westinghouse their neighborhoods, they haven’t noticed their “ Ricky took his little daughter to have her Such a black market would movement and, its material sup­ fort. has two of its biggest plants, the relatives or acquaintances mount the ladder of hair fixed one day. He met Mrs. Joseph Frazer, Militant Readers! necessarily work to the advan­ port can ensure a victory for the business success in any such spectacular fash­ who was an old friend, in the elevator. She in­ The membership at the meet­ tage of the Big Business press company has secured injunctions courageous Westinghouse strik­ ion. Most of them remain fixed in the same vited him to a cocktail party. Mr. Frazer was Discussion meetings ing determined to push their which can afford to pay a pre­ and court orders to ban mass ers, who at this writing have picketing. Local police forces are sort of jobs or occupations, with little or no there. Mr. Frazer was an old friend. fight until union policies and ac­ mium for paper. been battling on the picket lines of M ilitant readers will being used to attack picket lines advancement. “ Ricky said (just for a laugh), ‘How about a tions are returned to the mem­ No promise of fair allocation for 81 days. A defeat for the soon be held regularly and herd scabs. The use of state On the other hand, they see a billionaire’s job, Joe?’ Joe said, ‘Sure. You’re just the man bership -where they rightfully be­ of newsprint was made by the Westinghouse workers would be police has been threatened. grandson like Henry Ford II jump clear to the to handle our foreign agencies. Report to Harry in Hartford. For in­ long. CPA, whose administrator, a heavy blow against all organ­ presidency of the giant Ford Motor Company Dodge. formation, write to: Suggestions to have regular John Small, said he would op­ That the company has no in ­ ized labor. The unions every­ before he reaches the age of thirty. And the son “Mr. Salmona leaves this Friday via American meetings of this type were met pose any action “ forcing a paper tentions of bargaining in good where must be rallied to a united of the Morgan partner Stettinius moved ahead Airlines for Europe.” Box 905 with approval. The Indications to shut down entirely,” but did faith with the union has been defense of the UE picket lines at so fast that he became head of U. S. Steel, Sec­ • • * are that the rail shop workers not commit himself on the grave admitted by government media­ Westinghouse and to provide re­ retary of State, and permanent U. S. Delegate So you see, all it takes to make good under Main Post Office here are going- to play an im­ danger that the size and circula­ tors. In withdrawing from the lief and material aid to the strik­ to the UNO in one decade. capitalism is honesty, hard-work, sobriety, per­ Hartford, Conn. portant progressive role in the sharply curtailed.tion of the labor press may be caae, they reported: ers’ families. All-out aid to the Can It be that America today is "the land severance, intelligence, initiative, etc, etc. next period. “ T h e re fu s a l o f th e c o m p a n y to Westinghouse strikers!