Support Mushrooms for March on Washington 6) ------— — — Unions Charter Buses, Trains THE MILITANT For Members PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE W ORKING PEOPLE By Henry Gitano Vol. X X I - No. 18 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, MAY 6, 1957 P R IC E 10c While a cheering throng greeted the raising of a 35-foot banner blazoning forth: “Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Washington, May 17 at 12 noon” across Harlem’s -S' main thoroughfare at 125th St., one old man, bent with age, was heard saying: ‘‘It don’t matter Southern Racists how I get there, but brother I’ll be there with bells.” From coast Deal Out a Fresh to coast and across the mid Jordan Military Dictatorship lands, his words are being echoed 50,000 and 100,000 times Dose of “Justice” over, as ¡preparations for the march on Washington are swing •Last week, the world was pro ing into high gear, spurred by vided with what it needed continued racist violence in the least—a new example of South South. ern racist “justice” in action. In Birmingham, Ala., a Negro Mahalia Jackson, world famous Product of U.S. Intervention was sentenced to death for al gospel singer announced, April -< h leged ¡burglary and in Texas a 30, that she would be “delighted white man who freely admitted to sing” at the May 17 mammoth Mass Demonstration in Jordan the wanton killing of a Negro rally. Rev. Martin Luther King youth was released in short or of Montgomery; A. Philip Push Drive State Dep't Backs up Hussein Randolph, president of the der. ii , Brotherhood of Sleeping Car In the Alabama case, Charles Porters; and Roy Wilkins of the Hamilton received the death sen NAACP, who constitute the pil For Laws to In Wipinq out Democratic Rule tence, April 24, after a one-day grimage strategy staff will trial and less than an hour of By Fred Halstead address the greatest mass deliberation by the jury. Hamil demonstration against Jim Crow. ton was arrested last October in The United States Government in its first use of the Eisenhower Doctrine One thousand students from Hogtie Labor the home of >a white couple who has enabled a reactionary, feudal king to overthrow the democratically elected gov Howard University will sing claimed they found him standing hymns. Marian Anderson who By Herman Chauka ernment of Jordan and establish a bloody dictatorship in its place. The doctrine has outside their grandmother’s bed once sang before 75,000 on the been invoked in Jordan as part of the plan of the U.S. government to beat back the room door. Hamilton insisted While still treading softly, both Lincoln Memorial Grounds after that the grandmother had led the Eisenhower Administration rising Arab national independence movement and to consolidate U.S. domination of him into the house indicating she being refused premission to sing and Democratic Congressmen are the Mideast through usings had been robbed a*nd needed in the DAR’s Constitution Hall moving ahead to utilize the Sen the feudal monarchies of is expected to attend. help. ate labor probe as the vehicle to The demonstration of support loist new restrictive legislation Iraq, Saudi Arabia and The jury turned in its verdict for the fighters for equal rights, on the unions. Jordan as its main props. Bring the Sixth after the prosecutor declared, (Continued on page 4) "True, Hamilton did not ravish W ith pious talk about holding The government openly pro anybody. But are you going to back stringent anti-labor legisla claimed support for King Hus Fleet Back Home! wait until a man like this ac tion, Eisenhower and Secretary sein, when he labelled his op of Labor Mitchell announced, complishes his purpose before position “communist.” This is An Editorial A p ril 25, a series of legislative giving the extreme penalty?” A the “ code word,” according to measures they were proposing 1935 Alabama statute provides Joseph C. Harsch in the April to Congress. These included reg The American working people should demand the the death sentence for “night 26 C hristian Science M onitor, time burglary.” Hamilton was istration, reporting and disclo immediate withdrawal of the Sixth Fleet from the sure of funds deposited under “which can invoke United States not accused of having actually aid.” Under cover of the atomic Mediterranean. The U.S. Navy, equipped with nuclear taken anything. welfare and pension plans. Mitch weapons, was sent into the vicinity of Jordan, not to ell indicated that the adminis armed US Sixth Fleet (with the ■On the same day, Perry Ros§, tration would follow up with a aircraft-carrier Forrestal in the defend that small nation from the mythical “communist a white defendant in Longview, Tart of demonstration in Jordan, April 12. Banner in fore proposal for Congress to author van) and backed by offers of an menace,” but to bolster a reactionary monarch in his Texas, was found guilty but giv ground reads: “The people in cooperation with the Army ize the Labor Department to immediate $10 m illion grant en a five-year suspended term demand formation of a strong' national union government that attempt to establish a dictatorship. .make public the financial reports from the U.S., Hussein is con after he confessed that last Oc would reject the Eisenhower'¡.Rian and achieve confederation which unions are required to file ducting a pui’ge of all opposi The United States is using its military might, not tober, after a drinking bout, he with Syria and effect purge in the internal front.” under the Taft-Hartley law. tion to the puppet government to guarantee the independence of Jordan as the State and several other white hood which he appointed April 25 Later, Mitchell said, the admin Department claims, but to destroy the measure of inde lums decided to “go on a raid— istration may ask Congress for after dismissing the elected gov which was the name used fo r authority to review and audit ernment. He has outlawed ail pendence th a t was won by the revolutionary Arab masses shooting at the Negroes.” John 1,500 Turn Out for United these financial statements. political parties and declared when they expelled their British exploiters. E a rl Reece, 13, died from their martial law. bullet fire and two other Ne Meanwhile, Sen. McClellan King Hussein at the instigation of the U.S. plotters (D-Ark.), head of the Senate’s groes were wounded. The defense A. PHILIP RANDOLPH, Muy Du y Rully in New York A HATED GOVT. provoked the Jordan crisis by dismissing a cabinet that President of the Brotherhood labor-probing committee, pro attorney argued: “This boy All political leaders who op expressed the anti-imperialist sentiments of the people (Ross) wanted to scare some of Sleeping Car . Porters, posed in a recent television in By Harry Ring posed Hussein’s coup, including body and keep the niggers and shares official leadership of terview that the courts rathei NEW YORK, May 1—A thousand New Yorkers jammed .of Jordan. The elections of last October recorded their than international union oliicers the m a jo rity of the elected 40- whites from going to school to Prayer Pilgrimage movement into Central Plaza tonight to join in a united May Day desire for unity with the other Arab nations against all should be empowered to put member parliam ent, have been gether. > . , This is the result of with Roy Wilkins and Rev. imperialist powers. unions into receivership where celebration, and an additional 500 were turned away for arrested or forced into hiding or other trouble.” M. L. King. the union did not have "proper” lack of space. Called fo r 8 o’clock,® exile. Hussein’s appointed1 gov It is highly doubtful that King Hussein, with only the main auditorium, which holds meeting. In both audiences a leadership. ernment, according to all ob the backing of reactionary Bedouin chiefs, could impose 700 people, was filled to capaci- splendid, animated spirit of unity servers including those from the' Employers confronted with his will on the revolutionary people of Jordan. The Big militant unionists in the leader ty by that hour. A second hall, and solidarity prevailed. “Soli- U.S. capitalist press, is bitterly Move to DeportCalifornia ship of a local certainly would holding 300!, was filled in a mat- darity Forever” and “ Hold the hated by the majority of Business government in Washington understood this from not pass up the opportunity to ter of minutes. As representa- Fort” , were sung with gusto, Jordan’s population. It remains the beginning and undoubtedly gave Hussein advance send a company stooge into court tives of various radical view- Solid applause greeted Clif- in power, all agree, only because assurance of U.S. military backing. to sue fo r a court-appointed points finished their speeches in f ° rd T. McAvoy as he welcomed U.S. finances and the threat of Packinghouse Organizer the main auditorium they went everyone to the first joiitr Sixth-Fleet intervention are sup union receiver. While it is true One can understand Wall Street’s desire to establish a down to address the second May Day meeting in almost LOS ANGELES. April 25 — The United states that in several unions, the in porting Hussein’s army, in its dictatorship in Jordan that will serve the interests of meeting. 1 thirty years of various social- brutal suppression of the popula Immigration and Naturalization Service has initiated ternational officers have helped U.S. imperialism. Big profits are at stake in the Middle out ,the employers by taking over The meeting in the auditorium j st trends and declared his ¡h°Pe tion. (Hussein also has commit proceedings here to secure ‘the deportation to Hungary of ,control of militantly-led locals, was chaired by Clifford T. Me- that the (meeting would be “just ments of military support from East. But the American people have no desire to enslave John Janosco, a western field'® — in many other unions, Avoy, chairman of the Commit- the beginning .in ¡building unity Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Syria the people o f other lands. tee for Socialist Unity, which in action ¡of all {those who (strive and Egypt, in the light of U.S. representative of the United penalties.9 the top officialdom can’t get That is why the American people must intervene. Packinghouse Workers of Amer- Morrison further saw the away with such high-handed sponsored the united rally. The for a ¡socialist ¡America.” intervention, have remained of iea, AFL-CIO. The deportation possibility that the successful practices. The , McClellan pro noted civil liberties fighter, Cor- "The main immediate purpose ficially non - committal toward We must demand the immediate withdrawal of the Sixth proceedings are based on alleged prosecution of this case would posal would give tne employers liss Lamont, accepted a last min- of this meeting,” McAvoy de- Hussein’s action but both have Fleet and an end to the threat of nuclear destruction membership in the Socialist encourage the government of- a new recourse against the m ili ute draft to chair the second (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 2) now menacing the revolutionary people in the Arab world. Workers Party, a charge which ficials to feel free to decide tants. Janosco denies. The proceedings what type of economic or pol- As the anti-tobor objectives of mark the first effort by the itical program was “unconstitu- the McClellan committee become government to apply the tional” in the meaning of Fed- increasingly apparent, a grow McC&rrari - Walter Immigration eral law. ing number of union leaders are Fryer Report on British CP Convention Act to the Socialist Workers The deportation hearing re- beginning to speak out against selves the right to interpret Party, thus broadening a policy cently held to hear Janosco s the threat that it represents. At By Peter Fryer cillor Solly Kaye. m u n i s t Party.” Communist debated nor voted on. It was them at every sign of a real Screeched Kaye: “ You’re an democracy, as Lenin practiced it, •only by accident th a t the press which previously limited such dc- plea to the charges, was in- the recent state convention of LONDON, April 26 — When portation proceedings to charges definitely continued to permit the challenge to their authority and enemy of the people.” Imme does not mean packing a Con got hold of them. the Virginia AFL-CIO, I. W. ever the rebel side looked like of membership in the Communist Immigration and Naturalization domination. diately the delegate went to the gress with full-time party func Phony! And everybody knew Abel, Secretary-Treasurer of the scoring a goal, the government Party. (See Editorial, page Service to bring witnesses to Those who stage-managed this Congress Appeals Committee. tionaries, who depend on their it. W6uld the leadership have United Steel Workers of Amer side had a device for moving three.) Los Angeles. travesty of a Communist Con B u t someone else had been orthodoxy' and docility for their permitted it to be held if they ica, denounced the Senate com the goalposts back a few hundred gress managed to whip up quite quicker. bread and butter. It means a had not been sure of a victory Janosco, who has the support Marshall Ross, attorney fo r mittee as seeking not to expose yards. And when this failed, an atmosphere of intimidation “Yes, comrade, we’ve already free, frank and hard-hitting on every disputed point? of his union in the case is Janosco, stated at the hearing corruption but to smear the la hidden machine guns mowed and hatred. Compare for in heard about you,” said the chair exchange of ideas, w ith every But for all its “heads I win, charged with membership in the that he would also call witnesses bor movement. down the rebel team. stance, show-of-hand opposi man sweetly. z tendency properly represented. tails you lose” character-, this SWP from 1937-40 by the Im - f r0m Minneapolis and St. Paul, Similarly, A1 J. Hays, Pres The Hamnieiismith Congress migration Bureau, which asserts where Janosco was active in the tion votes, ranging between Let there be no misunder Congress did present certain ident of the International Asso of the Communist Party was for Out o f the more than 2,000 that the SWP “advocates over- union movement during the 20 and 70, with the secret ballot standing either about the char positive and encouraging ciation of Machinists recently de all the world like that night amendments of the three main votes of 188 for working-class acter of the CP today or about features. throw o f the government by years 1937-40, to prove he was clared: “Th# hue and cry over mare football match in Rex documents (the Draft political force and violence.” not a - member of the Socialist rebel B rian Behan, who had been the nature of its 25th Congress. Resolution, majority and minor I t blasted once and fo r all the labor racketeering, kindled by W arner’s The W ild Goose Chase. In a statement issued here Workers Party. He indicated sacked from the Executive Com The party is no longer a ity reports of the Commission idea that the only rebels in the current Congressional investiga Not only did the team :n today, the Regional Director of officials of the Socialist Work- mittee for uaiing to criticize, M a rxist party. M arxism is based on Inner-Party Democracy, and party are wooly intellectuals tions and fed by a circulation- power make the rules by which the Packinghouse W orkers ers Party would be called to and 100 for ‘ intellectual” rebel on a philosophy which bids its the revised text of the party nursing bruised consciences. hungry press, is ¡but one facet of the Congress game was played union, Arthur E. Morrison, prove that the organization, -at Hyman Levy, whose moving adherents start from facts, ob program — The British Road to Beltringer Johnnie McLoughlin, a resurgence of anti-unionism.” out. They reserved to them- declared that his union was no time, advocated overthrow speech was ihe clim ax of the servation, experience, practice, Socialism) only a handful, chosen the victimized shop steward at giving Janosco full support, not 0f the government by force or Congress. and base th e ir ideas and policies by the p a rty bosses, were dis Briggs Motor Works, scotched only because of a desire to violence, or other unconstitu- How many more delegates on these. cussed. And the ones chosen fo r th a t one, especially when he protect one of its officials, but tional means, Socialist Workers Party Fund Drive would have voted for the right The King Street bureaucrats debate were — as one delegate shouted at Andrew Rothstein: also because it saw in the In a column today, Jerry of free debate in their party do just the opposite. Lacking the. asserted — those formulated in “You are the enemy, you lying proceedings, “a serious breach Maher, labor ¡editor of the or for solidarity with the Hun ability to start out from their the most extreme way, i.e., those old swine.” of civil rights that could in- Mirror-News, points out that the Goes Over Top - $19,281 Collected garian people — if those votes own ideas, which they clothe, in on which the opposition vote This was ihe voice of the volve many union members not “ SWP has been on the U.S. A t- had been secret? the most threadbare gobbledy- would be lowest. working class raised in instinc there are several pledges out only under the immigration laws, torney General’s list of sub- By Constance Farr Round the hall stood watch gook, they blindly adopt those Again, out of 257 delegates tive protest, against the bureau standing which they are sure of but in other civil and criminal versive organizations since 1947 Party-Building Fund Director ful stewards. District secretaries of . whichever of their big who asked to speak, only 87 cracy that battens on it, lies to collecting. kept a menacing eye on their proceedings. — seven years after Janosco is APRIL 30 — Members and brothers happens to be 'on top could get in, and the balance it and betrays it. It was “ Red Csepel” proudly defying ithe “By attempting to extend the alleged to have left it.” friends of the Socialist Workers There is no doubt, from flocks. Delegates were extremely at any time. was heavily on the side of the deportation sections of the Maher also reports that Jan- Party have a special reason for reports received throughout the careful whom they spoke to. Those facts which don’t hap E. C. Russian tanks and the AVH. It McCarran-Walter Act to the So- osco, who was never naturalized, celebration on May Day 1957. 3%-month campaign, that many Those who wanted to read the pen to fit are suppressed or Does anyone want more was the Leningrad factory work cialist Workers Party,” Mor- applied for citizenship many For as of this date, our Party- of our members and friends had literature sold or given away glossed over. This pattern was evidence? Look how the panel of ers shouting down Mme. Eurt- rison said, “ the Immigration De- years ago, but that proceedings Building Fund reached its goal to make substantial sacrifices in by enthusiasts outside went repeated at Hammersmith. recommended members of the seva. partm ent is giving notice that were held up because he could o f $19,256 w ith $25 over ju s t order to meet their generous down into the lavatories to do Hence the fierce, rampant hatred new E.C. went through without If there is any future for the any organization within the not prove through which port to make sure that the 100% pledges. There is also no doubt so. of the hand-picked delegates — a hitch. One factory delegate Biit.sh CP it lies in the hands labor movement will be subject his parents entered the United was safe. that the enthusiasm was high This sounds fantastic, I and more than half of them were said to me: “ It’s quite clear the of fighters like McLoughlin and at all times. to scrutiny and that any associa- States. Janosco was a year old New York, Philadelphia and know. B ut i t is true. One delegate handpicked for their ability to old Executive elected the new Behan, Who are mortally sick of tion with such organizations will when he was brought to this Los Angeles all sent in substan In fact, it has been a long who began helping me distribute put their hand in the air at the Executive.” being lied to and browbeaten. time since the prospects for the There are hundreds more like subject persons to threats of country. tial sums in time for the dead my appeal against expulsion right time. And a whole duster of hard deportation, loss of citizenship Janosco, 48 years old, has a line. New York, having achieved fu tu re o f the p arty have been outside the hall was treated to a The party has no longer any hitting branch resolutions was them. Their impact was felt at and other civil and criminal wife and two children. its $5,000 quota, reports th a t (Continued from page 2) verbal lashing by Stepney Coun real claim to the title “Com- simply suppressed — neither (Continued on page 2) Page 2 THE MILITANT •Monday, May 6, 1957 An Undelivered Speech Prof. Hyman Levy's Speech (The following is the text of on the walls of gam bling dens the old is composed- of H orthy- 1905 and 1917, will settle ac the speech 'which. Peter 'F ryer and brothels? Our Party had to ite dregs of humanity who would counts with the gang of un would have delivered to the 25th be told of this plague that was serve any regime that paid them scrupulous vodka diplomats and hucksters, filing clerks and ideo A t the British CP Convention National Congress of the Com sating at the heart of the Hun well. On October 23, 1956, the m unist P arty i f he had been a l garian P arty, even i f many com Hungarian workers rose to free logical fortune-tellers who have [The following are excerpts The loss of 7,000 members is character, as we are told. I have lowed to make his appeal against rades refused to believe, the truth themselves from the domination robbed the Russian proletariat from the remarks by Professor liquidation. I am not going to be been a M a rxist too long to be expulsion 'before the full Con when they heard it. And how of these thugs and their masters. of its power. . . . Hyman Levy at the recent Brit deluded that the liquidation is lieve that kind of thing. gress. Fryer distributed the text little it becomes this leader Had it not been fo r Russian agr Secondly, and no less impor ish Communist Partv Congress. “arising from revisionism.” It It had been growing and de in mimeographed form to the ship to complain of my using, the gression they would have won, tant, the Hungarian revolution — Ed.] was not “revisionism” that lost veloping for years. It was part of delegates. — Ed.) capitalist Press for this puipose and the workers’ councils—this has once again proved the resi us these 7,000 members. the history of Socialism that we I propose to tell you what I when they themselves welcome magnificent reawakening of lience and viability of the So The greatest revolution in the Marxists had to know about and This Congress will almost cer think is the objective truth, and to this very Congress a- repre the Hungarian- soviets of 1919— viets as organs of insurrection history of man took place 40 had to understand. Without this tainly confirm my expulsion. I will tell it I hope, with sub sentative of the — Daily Ex would have taken, over control of and of- popular self-government, years ago— 40 years of history understanding, our Marxist edu That grieves me. I cannot feel jective honesty. I am a worker, press, while refusing to issue a •their, country’s economy and as the highest expression of the of terrific moment to all Mai'x- cation was incomplete. any other emotion at being ex Press ticket to Tribune, a So brought into being, socialist de even a t my present age, and I ists. • I say in all seriousness that cluded from a' movement I joined creative initiative of the the pro cialist weekly. mocracy. letariat. The political revolution have never le ft the w orking class the failure of the party leader fifte e n years ago because I into which I was born. I may be TERRIBLE BUREAUCRACY Not a single delegate to this in Russia will see the flowering ship to cope w ith this can be seen wanted to fight for the emanci f r a m e - u p an intellectual, but I earn my Congress, i f he had seen what. I. once more of this long-buried but Marxism arises from analysis in the present unprecedently low pation of man from every kind IN O FFIN G living with the sweat of my of history. If it is not that it is level' of Marxist understanding of chain that fetters him» I joined saw at Magyarovar last October unquenchable form of working- While the fascists are rallying brain, as it were, and I refuse not anything. . . . among our members. I have been the Communist P a rty because I 27— the bodies of eighty men, class struggle. There will be so to the support of Kadar there to make any distinction between We know now some o f the te r in our branches, and believe me, saw in every man who fights women and children vilely mur viets again in the Soviet Union. are sinister signs of an approach a worker and an intellectual. . . rible things that happened. The never in my experience in the for liberty a brother and a com dered by a Stalinist police force —would have tolerated any gag ing show trial of the Hungarian CONTRADICTIONS We have lost 7,000 members great positive achievements, of party have I realized that the rade. The African who fights for PETER FRYER this year. 'But have- we had anal whatever which the British Sta Communists- who resisted Stalin REMAIN course, coupled with a cast-iron party could sink to the present liberty against the hideous ysis of how we lost them ? Where linists sought to impose on him. ism. In a speech in the K rem lin the murder by Stalin of the lead The contradictions between the bureaucracy, a terror and a fear low level of Marxist understand crimes of imperialism, the Hun is that analysis? I want to hear Palpce on March 27, reported in ers of the- Bolshevik P arty and Socialist economy and the rule —a form of gangsterism that ing. garian who, though his chains Not a single delegate, with the bodies of those victims of Stalin No. 359(9 of Soviet News ¡but. not of -Rajk, Rostov and1 Slansky. of the bureaucracy force the lat something about the 7,000 mem battened on a- sound social and The kind of statements made, are decked with “people’s demo bers. If we could say we gained ist inhumanity and terror lying ■}n theDaily Worker, N. A. Bul And should" we then be t61d, ter to twist and turn, to make economic basis, made me blush. I had hardly re cratic” flowers, fights for liber 7,000 members, what an enthu there before him, would', have ganin. spoke as follows: after five, ten, twenty years, concessions, to make admissions 1 All of this did not spring into alized that the party has sunk to ty against bureaucracy and tyr siastic gathering this would have failed to vow to wage the most "One must- make particular that Nagy and Losonczy, too, about the past, to zigz'ag between ex-istence suddenly, out o f the this low level. anny—these are my brothers and 'been! . . .. were victims of a- "violation of de-iStalinization and re-Staliniza- 'blue, out o f one h a lf of S talin’s my comrades. Do you ask of , me implacable fig h t agtynsfc. every mention of the sinister role which' Here is what really lies closest ¡Socialist legality,” of a “mis tion, to adopt grandiose plans to my heart. I went to the So that I should stay silent while rotten trace of' Stalinism inside Was played foy the Im re Nagy- take” ? When, comrades, do we and scrap them. ¡But the contra one or the other is crushed and the British Communist Party. Losonczy group in thè staging of viet Union, and I saw and heard have the right to say that we can broken by his oppressors ? Much This crime, and the incom the counter-revolution- in Hun dictions remain, and will be things that shook me to my foun gary. The. undeniable facts make no longer and shall no longer solved by the workers in their ...British CP Convention dations. In the fortnight I was as it grieves me to be cast out parably greater crime of Novem countenance these perversions of from the party, it would grieve ber 4, were committed' in the it abundantly clear that long foe- own way. Then the flames of (Continued from page 1) calls “doubts"? Many of them there I literally got my bellyfull everything Socialism has ever me still more to stay silent about name of resistance to ai fascist for tke October events in 1956, freedom lit at Berlin and re the Congress, even though their are convinced that those who. of what will last me for the rest stood for. I suggest that we have the sufferings and gallant resist conspiracy, to protect the Hun Imrp Nagy, masquerading as a plenished at Poznan, flames few representatives were steam left the Daily Worker, for in o f my. life . the right now, and must exercise ance of the Hungarian work garian people from counter-rev Communist, was in fact in the which sprang up afresh in Hun rollered on every issue. stance, are all insincere people, I have been to branches. . I ers. . . . olution and White Terror. But in. service of the enemies of the it. gary for twelve unforgettable But one thing is certain: they whose sole motive is lining their have not told all but I have told Hungary tore the last veils Officially I was expelled for a report on the present situation H ungarian people. He and his days, w ill become a cleansing are not going to spring to atten pockets. them sufficient. off the decay and degeneration using the D aily Express as a in Hungary, The Times wrote on group, while coming out under fire th a t no secret police, no cen tion to carry out the Hammer of political life of the Socialist I t was sad to see the p la t WHAT DID LEADERS KNOW platform from which to declare A p ril 15: the false banner of a 'new deal sorship, no imprisonment, no tor smith decisions. Many of them States. It was the third in the tures, no murders, no yellow form put up Bob Steward to say During the period that this has my support for these comrades "With so little co-operation, in building Socialism,’ were in will openly declare their re fact; working to weaken the series (but the first really full- Stalinist terror, will extinguish something along those lines, been happening, how much of [Hungarian Communists who from the people, the regime is jection of these decisions and scale, mass example) of political or withstand. since Bob Steward’s own son-in- that did our party leadership played leading roles in the Hun having to make use of almost yoqng, people’s democratic State their refusal to operate' them. revolutions by the proletariat of law was murdered by Stalin in know? If they knew and kept garian uprising] and to tell the anyone, even those; with fascist and push- it off the road to So When th a t day comes B ritish Instead of walking tut they w 11 these States. These revolutions, the late thirties: quiet, then they were misleading truth about the revolution they background, in, itf>. adm inistra cialism. But it-was not until Imre Communists w ill have to decide cba'lengc Ihr Stalinists to d • forecast by those who in the dark you as regards your M a rxist ed helped to prepare and lead. But tion.” Nagy took the reins ' of power whether they are on the side of their worst. And a rank-and-file “I suppose you’re rolling in years of Stalinist theoretical de ucation. The subject was taboo... if I were given the task of stick So the Radar government, like -that the true face of this group the workers or the bureau rebellion w ill do a power of money now,” one delegate hissed cay kept alive the priceless heri John Gollan [party secretary- ing up posters in a town, to warn the Rakosi-Gero regime whose Was revealed completely. Every- crats. . . . go<*d. a t me as I was sipping my tage of the Marxist tradition, general] has sworn to me, blind the inhabitants about an out worthy successor it is, must re ■one: remembers the tragic days This is my appeal to the Con Yes, the opposition was weak at half-pint of bitter one lunch are in -essence attempts to over ly, hand on heart, that he didn’t break of plague, ought I to re cruit fascists as officials. The of* October! last year when the gress; not for my reinstate Hammersmith. But it was the break. What’s the answer to that throw a bureaucracy which has know anything about it. Has frain from sticking my posters new, AVH [political pplice] like Im re. Nagy and Losonczy men ment, but for something infinite weakness of infancy, not of old kind of attack? Those who usurped the rule of the workers. Johnny Gollan had a relative came- out into the open in an at ly more important—the trans age. There has been no such make it have been trained, like They are not aimed- a t restoring imprisoned across there or has tempt to destroy the. very foun formation of this Party into the Marxist opposition at any CP Pavlov’s dogs, to snarl and capitalism, but at preserving anf he not? dations of the people’s demo revolutionary Marxist vanguard Congress for 25 years. It gave’ dribble when they see a critic. strengthening the Socialist econ I must have the truth' about cratic ' State.’’ of the British working class, ex the bureaucrats several bad Weekly Newsletter Service ! But the snarling and the this matter. I' am not the only omy and allowing it full sco-pe Bulganin' went on to accuse ercising the right to intrepret moments. It will give them -for its development by remov slandering can’t alter the truth. member of the party who has ■'‘the Imre Nagy group” of or and apply Marxism itself, giv more. ganizing “a reign of murderous ing those bureaucratic obstacles And I venture one prediction: been deluded by the leadership, Announced by Peter Fryer ing to members the right of free NO PROBLEM SOLVED th a t .before the year is out by Pollit [top British Stalinist]. terror against the revolutionary •which fetter it. and forthright controversy. Such None of the problems the Polliti, Gollan and Dutt — oh How often has he told people to Peter Fryer has announced that beginning May 10 ;forces- of- the Hungarian work ■ The Hungarian revolution was a party, cleansed of the filth ing class,” described Nagy and ruthlessly crushed. But it was Congress was called to solve — yes, and Peter Kerrigan, too — keep their mouth shut? he will publish a regularly weekly bulletin entitled “The : and dross and poison of the Sta subservience to Russia, stifling will be finding their chairs I am not standing by while the Losonczy as "traitors” and com the harbinger of further political linist theory and practice, its Newsletter” that will contain news, and documents of : of discussion, deep anxiety about growing warm beneath them. working class is deluded. I have pared ■ them with "the ringlead revolutions, which will not be members enriched with an un interest to socialists. •-$— ¡ H ungary — has in fa ct been And when the day of reckon spent my life on this matter. ers • of the counter-revolution of confined to the outer rim of the derstanding of the real Marxism solved. The crisis is deeper than ing comes not even the p o rtra it Isn’t it the truth that the In a brochure announcing The F a'ro> an
Mtoorlption 98 per yeax; article« by ooatrlfe- 91.60 fo r 6 m onths. F oreign: store do not necessarily rep resent The M ilitant's policies. ft.no per y e a r; 62.So fo r 6 rm MUTANT These are expressed la, Its months. Canadian: $3.50 per Published Weekly in the Interests of the Working People editorials. " A New and Welcome year; fl.75 for 8 months. THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION “ Entered as second olass Germany and in. the Soviet Union Bandle Orders: 5 or more 116 U n iT e rs itj PI., N . Y . 3. N . Y. Phone: A L 6-7466 m a tte r M arch 7, 1944 a t the (T ext of speech by M yra Tan suffers, can be completely right. The smallness of our numbers copies 8c each In U .S., 7o Post Office at New York. ner Weiss, 1956 Vice-Presiden I t is the only force that has the at this particular stage in the itself—are moving to liberate Editor: DANIEL ROBERTS N.Y., under the act of March each In foreign countries. tial -Candidate of •’ the Socialist revolutionary capacity to, organ class struggle is not very sig themselves from the bureau Business Manager: FRANCES JAMES 6. 1879.*’ Workers ‘Party at the United ize for the taking o f power and nificant. Marxists do not live cratic caste that has dominated the building of a socialist so them for so long. In their strug VoL XXI - No. 18 Monday, May 6, 1957 May-Day rally in New York. See merely, in the moment. Just three story of rally on this page.) ciety. years before- the-first revolution gle to restore Soviet democracy Our demonstration of u n ity on I know that this audience is ary victo ry of the w orking class, 'as it existed under Lenin, the this May Day marks a new stage class conscious. You, understand the Russian Revolution of 1917; workers are saying to their com in the development of the Amer the role of the workers in mod Lenin and his small party also rades in other lands: if you want The Janosco Case ican socialist movement, a new ern history. It is elementary— looked small and insignificant. peace, as we do, get rid of your and very welcome stage. A-s a the ABC of- Marxism. But in as B ut in that ¡small group o f (work own oppressors. The stand taken by District 5 of the out trial) are then put in the position of matter of fact, we’ll have another sessing the present stage of the ers, locked in prisons, exiled in Y et fwe /need mot look to the United Packinghouse Workers of Amer trying to prove themselves innocent after opportunity this month to dem class struggle and the tasks that the wastes of Siberia, op isolated progress being made by the rev the verdict is handed down. onstrate our capacity to unite lie ahead, it is necessary to be in small emigre circles, were olution in other lands for our ica in support of John Janosco against gin with the most simple truths. •germinating the ideas, the pro Meanwhile, the Attorney General’s when all of us here, plus sev confidence and optimism here at threatened deportation under the Mc- eral thousand more, on May 26, The oppression of capitalist gram that would bring the first home, The labor movement in “ subversive” lis t is used to enforce such C arran-W alter A ct (see story, page one) take a /boat ride up the Hudson society weighs down most heavb workers state into existence. The America has 'been quiet fo r many vicious laws as the McCarran-Walter Act. ly on the w orking class. The Bolsheviks were right and the is soundly motivated. The statement by under the auspices of the Com years, but we already see before Under this act hundreds of persons al mittee to Secure Justice for Mor American workers are the- most many who opposed them were Us the firs t symptoms of the mew UPW Regional Director Morrison makes leged to be past or present members of ton Sobell. Our common demand productive in the world. Yet we wrong. upsurge of labor. The class strug clear that the union not only wants to must work long hours at intense1 In estimating our position to the Communist Party have been sub •for the freedom of this victim gle has its ebbs and its flows. protect one of its officials against un of the witch hunt, sentenced to speeds in the heat and the cold; day we must first take note of The ebb of ,15 years was a long jected to deportation proceedings. With just attack, but also that it recognizes thirty years in prison, will Out of our pay cnecks the gov the fa ct th a t on a w orld scale, one. B ut f t is coming to a close. the current move against Janosco, the ernment demands the biggest we have powerful allies. The co the government attack on Janosco as “a strengthen our fight against the The revolutionary struggle of scope has been broadened to include al whole frame-up technique of the sacrifices in taxes to- pay for the- lonial revolution continues in :the Negro people is the first MYRA TANNER WEISS serious breach of civil rights that could full vigor. Everywhere in Africa leged members of the Socialist Workers capitalists. biggest war budget in peace-time stage in the new upsurge of la involve many union members.” May Day is an international history.- And in the future- the and in Asia the. century-old do bor. It could not be otherwise. civil liberties, civil rights—to be Party. Can there be any question that capitalist, can offer us either Morrison put his finger on the heart working claSs holiday. It is not a mination of the imperialist pow The Negroes are an integral part solved all of these problems re persecution will be further extended to death in war or insecurity in ers is being challenged. „ • of the American labor move- quire independent working class of £he issue when he points out that suc holiday for captialists, big or alleged members of other organizations little, liberal or conservative, — peace. The w orking class is The workers of West Europe, m?nt> B ut they are its most op political action. The right to or cessful prosecution of Janosco would on the “subversive” list or of organiza but for workers. Others can ioin taught by the whip of the cap and England, despite the defeats pressed section. Therefore the ganize unions was won in the italist masters all the weariness -suffered in the Thirties and the further encourage the government in its tions which may be added to the lis t in in our celebration. We invite lead had to come from them. Thirties. Progress will he marked practice of arbitrarily deciding what po them too. and misery that is our lot in- this blood-letting of World War I1! It is our task to do everything by the building of a .labor party. the future? system.. For this reason it is out are still powerfully, organized This task, too, requires a fight litic a l or economic programs it deems THE ONLY FORCE in our power ‘to aid their strug The Janosco case, which deserves the class .that can, feel the power of and pro-socialist. They Still have gle with the great potential against' the labor bureaucrats “ unconstitutional” and subject to civil But May Day is a workers’ support of the entire labor movement, the impulsion toward the new ¡to build a revolutionary party strength of the labor movement. who, with utter servility, subor holiday, an event for men and or criminal or civil penalties. society of socialism. capable of taking power,'but the Yet nowhere do the present la dinate the labor movement to a underscores the need fo r repeal of. the women who work in the factories, You who have gathered here very existence of their organ bor officials show their stupidi corrupt and discredited Demo Such illegal procedure has been the reactionary McCarran-Walter Act and in the shops and on the farms. tonight represent the most class ized strength is a challenge to ty, their incapacity, their weak cratic P arty. In the eyes of m il basis of the witch hunt right from the elimination of the equally reactionary I t is our holiday, not because conscious workers in-. America .capitalist rule. ness so much as in th e ir fa ilu re lions, with valid reason, this par workers are always right. They today. Many of you have' spent start. Its keystone, the Attorney Gen “subversive” list. By featuring a union And most important of all, the to come to the aid of the em ty was responsible for the ter are often very wrong. But the eral’s “ subversive” list, has been expanded organizer as the target of the govern years in the class struggle, learn most advanced' and class-con battled Negro people in the south. rible war in Korea; we know the working class is the only social ing how to fight. We are not to include several hundred organizations scious working class in the world, The A FL-C IO promised a big oi’- witDorothy Day, editor' of the their heroic struggle. W e must cheers, opposes anti-Semitism, proposing tell Congress we are tired of this ableness, into bloodthirsty jingoes, spout Party, but will be extended to retary of the Socialist Workers Catholic Worker and a veteran John T. McManus of the Na cruel, farce on civil rights a settlement of the Israeli-Arab problem intimidate anyone who has the Party, speaking as one who had fighter against capitalist injus tional Guardian, paid tribute to ing crude propaganda lies and working farce perpetrated not ¡only by the in a Mideast federation. Conversely, courage to speak up against the already served a prison term un tice described her recent expe May Day as the world symbol of cheek by jowl with blatant reactionaries’. Southerners ¡but equally by the war preparations,” declared Otis der the Smith Act, joined with rience at Koinonia Farm, an in working-class solidarity and ex Lerner’s darling of the moment, King Northern Democrats and Repub Such a spectacle is now being furnished Archer Hood at «■ meeting here Hood in expressing gratification terracial communal farm near pressed regret that the Socialist Hussein, while carrying out the mass im licans. by the pro-Zionist liberals of whom Max tonight sponsored by the Social “at this showing of inter-party Americus, Georgia, which is now Party-Social Democratic Federa tion had refused to participate Lerner, New York Post columnist, is a prisonment of members of the Baath ist Workers Party in defense of solidarity against the class en the target of racist, terror and “We must put the responsibil the Massachusetts victims of the ity where, it belongs,” Lynn con in the rally. He read to the meet prim e example. Party and alleged Communists, tries to emy.” He expressed confidence violence. Mrs. Day declared, “ The whip up anti-Semitic feeling against Sm ith Act. that the meeting would give fur way they are holding out there tinued, as he scored' Congressman ing a letter from Norman Thom This “crusading” liberal is a champion One of six in this area now Emanuel Cellar (D.-N.Y.) for as advising th a t he could not them. In his radio speech proclaiming ther drive and meaning in action is a demonstration of the new of the Ben Gurion regime in Israel, and under iSmith Act indictment and to the working-class principle spirit abroad today, a readiness recently absenting himself from support a united action which in martial law, the King denounced those a leading Communist Party a House committee meeting con cludes "Communists of either voices its favorite propaganda line that th a t “ an in ju ry to one is an in to resist injustice in every way.” being arrested en masse as “ brothers and spokesman for the past 25 years. jury to all.” Bert Cochran, editor of the sidering civil rights legislation, the ¡Stalinist or Trotskyist vari it is bringing progress to the Middle East Hood 'was deeply moved by the thereby preventing the assem ety.” collaborators of Communist Jews” who .Discussing the projected trial American Socialist, welcomed meeting's demonstration of work bling of the quorum necessary to as against “Arab feudal reaction.” But of Hood and his co-defendants, the meeting as a- symbol of pro A collection was taken at the received orders from the Israeli capital, ing-class solidarity and urged act. Arab leaders denounced yesterday as Dobbs hit at the use of pro test against the witchhunt and rally for a special civil liberties Tel Aviv, “the center of Communism in continuation of such a policy in The same appreciative ap benighted, feudal, reactionary a n t i- fessional inform ers a t the a determination to continue until defense fund to be administered defense of all witch-hunt vic plause was extended to the noted the Middle East.” (N. Y. Times, April 26.) thought control trials. “A crop the tide of reaction- is reversed. by Corliss Lamont, A. J .Muste Semites, the moment they are bought Negro historian, Dr. W. E. B. In the April issue of Liberation, the tims. of stool pigeons will be produced Myra Tanner Weiss, speaking and C liffo rd T. M'cAv.oy. Resolu over to the Eisenhower Doctrine, are Relating the civil-liberties fight Du Bois as he branded the Re pacifist magazine, Brijen Gupta, an at the trial,” be 'said, “each tell for the Socialist Workers Party, tions were.ladopted calling for an to the battle of the Negro peo publicans and Democrats as “ one transformed for Lerner into courageous, ing ;a more fantastic lie as the evoked a rin g in g ovation as she end to muclear ¡tests, fo r the with Indian socialist objectively describes the ple for civil rights, Hood called ¡party with two names.” progressive, clean-cut types, as with King trial proceeds. The stool pigeon opened her address with an ap drawal of troops of all nations on the audience “to help in every Heartening new support for various Arab governments. Using the is a necessary prop in all polit peal for those present to demon from other countries, fo r the res Hussein of Jordan. At the very least, a way possible and to participate terms “democratic” to mean government ical frame-ups, and the F B I has strate the same unity in action' '.the fight to win justice for Mor toration of the jBill of Rights and quick moratorium is proclaimed on in the great struggle of the Ne ton Sobell came from an impor for full support to the Negro by elected representatives and “progres the money to create such ele to assure the success of the May gro people against segregation.” tant quarter .as A. J. Muste of people in their battle for equal references to them as cruel slaveowners, ments.” 26 Hudson River boat ride organ sive” to mean a policy of undermining F a rre ll Dolblbs, National Sec- Liberation magazine, told1 the ity. as in the case o f K ing Saud of Arabia. feudal relations and of attempting to Reverend Hugh Weston, a ized by the Committee to secure Justice for Morton 'Sobell. Her rally that his recent study of the Taking a leaf from the book of Senator alleviate mass poverty and illiteracy, Mr. noted civil liberties fighter, con case has convinced him th a t “ out gratulated the SWP for sponsor description of the rising world McCarthy, Lerner shouts that Syria and Gupta writes: “At least three govern socialist forces and her eloquent side of the Department of Jus ing "this meeting for opponent tice there are very few people Egypt, the leading anti-imperialist Arab ments in the Middle East can 'be classified party members who are under call for the building of a left Newark Symposium wing in the union movement to left who don’t believe that at the countries, are “ controlled by international as democratic progressive: those of persecution due to the vilest law very least Morton Sobell is en communism.” Similarly, he justifies King America’s ever passed by Congress.” He combat the reactionary labor bu Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. Egypt has a reaucracy were also greeted with titled to a new trial.” scored as a political frame-up “American Socialism Hussein’s overthrow of parliamentary government which is authoritarian but manifest enthusiasm. (¡See text George Blake Charney of the government in Jordan as the prevention government efforts to convict and the Future” progressive while Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Road to the Communist Party as "an o f her speech this page.) of “a Communist coup against him.” He Yemen, as well as the Persian Sheikdoms, agent of & foreign power.” The rally was equally positive HARRY BRAVERMAN Ed. Board, American Socialist is highly pleased by the round-up in have authoritarian reactionary regimes.” The meeting rose in silent in its reaction as Conrad' Lynn, JUST OFF THE PRESS Jordan of militant nationalists and their It is significant that U.S. policy, to the tribute to the memory of the late DAVID DELLINGER incarceration in concentration camps. plaudits of the Zionists, is that of rally Socialism Edward 'Strong, who had been The Santana Gase Liberation Magazine Urging instant readiness to throw U.S. one of those included in the ing the reactionary regimes against by present indictment. Tragedy of a DANIEL ROBERTS troops into battle in the Mideast, his com The IWW Editor, The Militant Syria, Egypt and the popularly elected Appealing to the audience ‘‘to The Great Anticipation Puerto Rican Youth plaints against the State Department are government of Jordan. JAMES P. CANNON help as much as possible” in fi By James P. Cannon MAX SHACHTMAN mainly that it is too soft with Egypt and The author also shows that while the nancing the defense of the Smith By Joyce Cowley Nat’l Chair., Ind. Socialist League Syria and that it did not recognize Israel’s 80 pages 35 cents Act victims, Mrs. Frances Hood, “The CIO movement. . . Is (An American Youth for whole Arab world opposes Zionism as only a small downpayment on MARTHA STONE invasion of Egypt as the most moral and Treasurer of the Massachussetts Socialism Publication) pro-imperialist and expansionist, the • Smith Act Defendants Commit the demands presented to the N. J. Communist Party most unaggressive act of the century. reactionary feudal regimes promote anti- tee, explained that legal defense future by the pioneers who 17 pages 10 cents Order from Fri., May 10 — 8:30 P.M. Ironically, the Ben Gurion regime, Zion Semitism to divert the masses from will run into “tens of thousands assembled at the 1905 Con vention to start the IWW Order from: ism and Max Lerner are presently cham social change. On the other hand the Pioneer Publishers of dollars before the case is Tunis Mansion over.” on its way.” — Cannon. Pioneer Publishers pioning the worst anti-Semitic elements progressive, anti-imperialist forces are 116 University Place W ith iabout- 70 present at the : 44 pages 25 cents 116 University Place 929 Bergen St. in the Arab world and aiding in re the least anti-Semitic and in their social Order from: New York 3, N. Y. meeting, there was a collection New York 3, N.Y. Contrib. 75 cents pression of those least infected with anti- ist vanguard consciously oppose anti- of $120 which was turned over Pioneer Publishers S’emitism and even those militantly op- Semitism. to the defense committee. ##############################« The Negro Struggle rue MILITANT By Ronald Jones . VO LU M E X X I M O ND AY, M A Y 6, 1957 N U M B E R IS On a Bus Out of Montgomery This is D ixie — deep in the heart of is a surge forward, for many are only Dixie, the cradle of the Confederacy. This now becoming aware of what is happen is Montgomery. It’s about 11:00 P.M. It ing. B ut coolness prevails. . . . Unions Backing Pilgrimage is hot and sticky. The humidity is very The driver roars back: (Continued from page 1) special Freedom Train of its support. A New York Mothers high. I have just boarded a Greyhound “Buddy, you know what the law is. I will include New York’s Retail, own. Day Parade on M ay 11 w ill be bus. Its destination is Atlanta. I am can’t move anybody. You can move or get Wholesale and Chain Store Food Locals of the International dedicated to the mothers who o ff. . . .” Employees Union, Local 338. Ladies Garment Workers Union walked to work during the seated a little more than one-half of the Montgomery bus boycott. Mrs. way to the front. The bus is now full, Joseph Oreton, a union officer, are subsidizing and chartering The would-be Hitler interrupts con stated th a t 10 buses subsidized buses; the Amalgamated Cloth Rosa Parks, a seamstress, who overfull. There are seven, eight maybe fusedly, “ I don’t like the law or your . . .” by the union alongside of an an ing Workers are reserving sparked the historic Alabama nine passengers standing in the aisle — H is words become meaningless chatter as ticipated 100-car motorcade will coaches; New York’s auto work struggle, w ill be guest of honor. three to the fro n t of me. A ll the seats the driver walks away. move out' from union head ers are planning car pools. The In Chicago, the International are occupied, except one. I t ’s tw o seats The air is still thick, but the tension is quarters 312 W. 125th St. at 6:30 May 17 performance of “ A Land Executive Board of the United A.M., May 17 to swell the mush Beyond the R iver” w h l be can Packinghouse Workers has en directly in fro n t o f me. subsiding. Everyone seems so alive now. rooming rally in the nation’s celled to facilitate the cast dorsed the pilgrimage. District “ W hy doesn’t some one take that seat,” .There are smi'les, there are stares. capital. attending the mass rally. A 1 locals of this union announced I remark to my companion. “Aren’t they My companion and I notice the driver District 65 of the Department motorcade of cars provided by at their recently-held conven aware . . my voice tails off abruptly. discussing the situation with a dispatcher Store workers which has thrown auto dealers will help take New tion that they expect to par A student, who was standing in the its full weight behind the York marchers to Washington. ticipate. and another driver. They seem somewhat march, held a meeting of its On May 3, an open a ir ra lly rear, is now inching past me toward the In contrast to the Southern amused, for they are smiling. Spanish Affairs Committee. This at the Hotel Theresa will hear freedom fighters and their allies vacant seat. committee announced that it is Rev. King and Randolph speak The driver returns to the bus and who rely on disciplined mas3- “Is this seat being held for anyone,” mobilizing for the pilgrimage on final plans for the freedom shouts, “Everyone standing in the aisle “ because Puerto Ricans suffer march; transportation tickets piotest action, with confidence he asks the man (who appears to be in get off this bus and get on that one over his early 30’s) seated in the adjoining s im ila r discriminations.” A w ill be made available to the in the future, racists express there.” spokesman for the union said: assemblage. . themselves through terrorism. seat at the window. The upholder of southern traditions “We have a tradition of fighting Congressman Adam Clayton In Birmingham, two bombings “Nah” is the reply. discrimination on any level — and only four or five of the others get Powell Jr. and his powerful occurred on April 28, minutes The student sits down. The man in whether i t ’s in an individual shop Abyssinian Baptist Church are o f f and board the second bus. A ll of the apart, at the Allen Temple, a stantly reddens and calls out frantically or on a national scale. We carrying out a full scale mobiliza latter sit near the front and go about it Negro church and at the home and angrily: spearheaded the tremendous rally tion of New York churches and as i f nothing has happened. of 100,000 in protest o f the T ill fraternal groups in “Operation of Negro labor leader Asbury “Driver, driver!” murder; right now our big job New York.” Nationally, the chal Howard, International V i c e- The driver enters the bus and is greeted The storm is over. The air is thinner, is the actual organization of Rev. Ralph Abernathy (left) and Rev. Martin L. King, lenge fro m 8,000 pulpits w ill be Prcsident of the United1 Mine, with, “ Why don’t you git another bus?” the breathing lighter. The tension has transportation for our members “to stand up and be counted; two of the leaders of the Montgomery bus-protest movement, M ill and Smelter W orkers The tension, which has been gradually subsided. There are more smiles, less to Washington.” District 65 to give a day fo r freedom on stand beside one of the station wagons used fo r jitn e y service building up, is accentuated. The driver stares. found the response so great that May 17.” Prince H a ll Masons (Ind.). Fortunately, no one was in that victorious fight. These same wagons will help bring a it is a considering sending a looks around, sees the situation as well It is now 11:15 P.M. and the bus is and the Elks have pledged their injured in either explosion. large Montgomery contingent to Washington, May 17. as the standees, but, apparently realizing pulling out of the station — 20 minutes from past experience that the standee behind schedule. problem would be solved before arriving Yes, this is Dixie, not the Dixie of a at the next major ¿top — only forty miles year ago but the Dixie of today — alive HOW GHANA WON ITS INDEPENDENCE away, he says nothing. and ever changing. This is the South By George Lavan ly aims at regaining the stolen The exploitation of the Gold wide strikes by the cocoa fa rm tion, they discovered the masses lands of the people — that is, were still with the CPP. Of the The “offended” passenger jumps up after the heroic struggles of the freedom The Negro press in this coun Coast was primarily commercial ers and boycotts of British goods. strikes at -the very heart of the 38 seats to be filled 'by voting fighters of Montgomery and Tallahassee. try has given extensive coverage exploitation. Cocoa, which a na In 1937, by which tim e a so out of his seat and rushes to the front mode of exploitation. the CPP won 34. The alternatives to the -recent ceremonies mark tive, not the British, introduced cialist consciousness had come of the bus shouting at the driver. The incident of a moment ago is but an West Africa was originally ing the attainment of independ became the -most im portant crop into the nationalist movement in now before the British were to episode in the ever unfolding struggle, used by the imperialists as the “Do you set niggers with white folks ence by Ghana, formerly the toward the end of the last cen the colony, an eight-m onth cocoa let Nkrumah out of prison to hunting grounds for their slave on this bus?” being waged daily, aginst the oppressive British colony called the Gold tu ry and is today one of the strike and ¡boycott took place. It head his party in the Assembly trade. After slavery in the New or to face an insurrection. They It is as if lightning had struck. The Southern Jim Crow system. This is the Coast. The coverage was well biggest dollar earners for the was notable for the solidarity of World was destroyed this most chose the form er. justified for 'the unaided con British sterling bloc. African the farmers and the city work air is thick, the breathing heavy. There new South in birth. profitable business ended. But quest of political independence farm ers raised this crop— -but ers.- Though head of the Assembly, the fertile land of West Africa they had to sell it through a In 1948 another boycott of for N krum ah never ceased denounc by the people of an African col was never taken away from the ony is a truly historic event. British monopoly which cheated eign merchants was organized to ing the Constitution as a fraud, Africans. For West Africa was them unmercifully. Similarly, all demanding real self-government. The capitalist press too has force down exorbitant’ prices. known as “ the w hite man’s This mistrustful, intransigent An Authoritative History Chicago Forum paid attention to the emergence manufactured and even basic During it the police fired on a grave.” Malaria and yellow fever stand forced concession from the of the new nation. But it tries to foods had to be imported—again peaceful * demonstration. The prevented the settling of enough British culminating in the recent spread the illusion that imper through B ritish monopolies, provocative killings set off pro whites to make it feasible to granting of political independ Mobilizes tor ialism gave Ghana- its independ which cheated the consumers un test demonstrations throughout steal the land and set up a plan mercifully. Thus the exploitation the Gold Coast. The, British im ence. Of the IWW Back in Print ence and th a t this proves im tation economy. For this reason perialism (British, French and was a two-way commercial prisoned every nationalist leader For the ty-pe of exploitation in THE I.W.W. — A Study of American Syndicalism, by Paul F. i t has been suggested by A frican particularly U.S.) has reformed squeeze, in addition to usury, —conservative and radical. Kenya, political control is essen Brissenden. New York, Russell and Russeil, Inc., 438 pp. Price Washington nationalists that Ghana erect a payment of high salaries to Brit- Among them was Kwame Nkru tial to imperialism. For the type $5.75 (Distributed by Pioneer Publishers, 116 University Place, and is no longer the brutal- slave- state to the mosquito—the car CHICAGO — The Washington itsh officials, etc. mah who -had ju s t returned to of explota-tion in Ghana, political New Y ork 3, N. Y .) driver and exploiter of yester rier of the fevers—which saved Park Forum has pledged and is year. The class struggle in the Gold the colony after studying in the control is not absolutely vital, the people’s lands. Coast took the form of colony- though, of course, it makes it now "devoting its full energies This is false on both count®. U.S. and England where he easier. Imperialism exploits not Professor Brissenden’s study vincial outlook of tha craft-union toward sending "the largest pos The Negro people of Ghana were worked with anti-imperialist and only colonies but semi-colonies. of the IWW, long out of print bureaucracy with its policy of sible Idelegation” to the May 17 not given their independence toy socialist groups. The latter are countries which and now republished w ith a class collaboration based on the civil rights mobilization in Wash “fair-minded” British imperial What They Ate Fighting For To'placate 'the colony, the im are exploited economically even short preface by the author, is concept of an identity of interest ington. A .free speech forum on ism. Independence was conquered perialists decided to grant a Con though politically independent. an authoritative and objective between master and slave, the the ¡South [Side of Chicago, the by the people of Ghana under the stitution that would give the In Africa, Liberia is an example account of the birth and develop- Wobblies advocated the policy of Washington Park Forum has a miliant leadership of Kwame trimmings of ; self-government but actually keep control firmly of an independent country which ment of the peculiarly American militant mass action through 29-year tradition of struggle for Nikrumah’s Convention People’s is exploited by Firestone Rub form of syndicalism embodied revolutionary industrial unions, civil liberties and civil rights. Party. Moreover, as the bloody in . the Governoris hands. The es ber Co. As a consequence, its in the theory, structure and As against the discriminatory 'A resolution unanimously examples of Kenya, Cyprus, Al tablished leaders of the national government is a mere puppet of practice of the Industrial Work- policy of the AFL the Wobblies adopted by the forum’s mem geria, Madagascar, Equatorial ist movement were willing to ac the U. S. State Department. ers of the World; more popularly preached the necessity of organ- bership declares: "This great and ¡South A fric a show, 20th cept this window dressing. To escape fa llin g into the sta known as the “Wobblies.” izing the unskilled workers in mobilization, reaching out for Century imperialism is just as Nkrumah refused, demanding “self-government now." In the tus o f' Liberia, Ghana must con The present generation of the mass production industries support across the nation, can b ru ta l and ruthless as ever. working class militants can have regardless of race, color, sex or demonstrate the will of the ensuing split the youth and rank tinue its fight against imperial only the vaguest notion of the creed- to challenge the power of American people in the struggle KENYA AND W. AFRICA and file went with N’krumah and ism on two fronts. The fir s t an furore created in the American monopoly capitalism then for their righteous demands; for Viewing Negro Africa in the founded the Convention People’s economic struggle against eco labor movement by the ap- spreading its tentacles through- the enforcement of the now three- past period, two high points of Party. The CPP anti-Constitu- nomic exploitation toy British pearanCe of the IWW which out the whole of American in year-old 'Supreme Court decision struggle are seen: the -Gold Coast tion campaign rallied the whole capital (and also by U.S. which carne into being at an “In- dustrial and economic life, against school segregation; and in West Africa and Kenya in population. The QPP called a is everywhere taking over from dustrial Union Congress” held The irreconcilable class-strug- for an end to the crime of racial East Africa. Imperialism ex great convention and' drew up a the B ritis h ). The second an ex in Chicago in 1905. American gle policy of the IWW earned discrimination in every walk of ploits the sections in different constitution embodying real self- tension bf the Neg-ro liberation syndicalism was a reaction to for it the savage hatred of the life .” ways and consequently reacts to government and demanded the movement throughout Africa. Ni the parliamentary cretinism of ruling class and its labor lieu- the nationalist movement of the British accept it. A campaign of geria, which borders Ghana, is the Socialist reformers and the tenants. Bitter battles were ACTION PROGRAM two areas in different ways. In “ positive action,” i.e.' non-violent already traveling Ghana’s road. “business unionism” of Gompers’ fought, not only on the field of The resolution was presented Kenya the course has been one of non-cooperation was scheduled Nothing must be allowed to sto-p craft-ridden American Federa- union organization but in 'he by the forum’s President, the bloody suppression. In the Gold by the OPP fo r Jan. 8, 1950. The it — fo r this would not be a loss tion of Labor. militant “free speech” fights Reverend Joseph P. King. Speak Coast, repression- was combined Governor declared martial law, in -itself but would endanger the The militants of the iIWW in- which made American labor his- ing for the resolution, Chairman w ith the granting of concessions. European “storm troopers” were independence won by Ghana. But troduced new methods of strug- tory. With the advent of the John Hamilton declared that “it ■In Kenya the economic exploit deputized and armed. For two further, Ghana must aid in every gle and new Concepts of union firs t W orld W ar thé ruling class is going to take more than good ation of the native people months they raided, beat and way possible the emancipation organization which had an his- unleashed an unbridled reign of intentions to put the resolution is based on taking away their shot. The CPP was outlawed, its movements in those parts of A fri toric impact on the development terror against the embattled into action.” He then outlined lands for the white settlers Farmers at w ork drying cocoa beans near Accra, the property confiscated, its leaders ca where the mode of exploita o f the American labor move-1 Wobblies through state and na- a program of action, already un including Nkrumah framed-up who then operate them as huge capital of Ghana. One of the country’s richest crops, it was tion is based on th e ft of the land ment. Brissenden points out tional legislatures, courts, police derway, to help finance a marx- plantations at starvation wages and sent to prison. long a source of fabulous profits for British imperialism. Long and the slave labor of the people that: “The industrial-union idea and vigilantes. That Professor imum delegation for the march. that the landless Africans are When the reign of terror was made marked headway among Brissenden could write an ob- Plans include a benefit party forced to accept. Every national years of rapacious exploitation of this crop by British monopoly over and the imperialists tried to on farms and in mines. A totally the trade unions of the United! jective account of the IWW in to be held immediately, a raffle ist movement in Kenya natural helped spark the Ghana battle for independence. institute their phony Constitu- free 'Africa remains the goal. States during the first year of. the year 1918 is testimony to with prizes' of home appliances the existence of the IWW, and his courage and integrity, already being offered, anda wind this was very largely due to Professor Brissenden docu- up rally to be held Saturday eve the influence and example of ments the conflict within the ning May 11. 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