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EIGHT YEARS AFTER TROTSKY’S DEATH (See Page 2) THE MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE

Vol. X II - No. 34 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1948 PRICE: FIVE CENTS The Wounded Killer Grace Carlson MINNEAPOLIS CIO Addresses Ford ASKS RESTORATION Union Meeting OF RIGHTS OF 18 DETROIT, Aug. 15—Dr. Grace Carlson, Vice-Presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers Party, opened her Michigan campaign, by addressing the largest section of the largest Local Stalinist-Ruled Council Forced to Reverse Union in the world, the Motor®the Stalinist Party — to its eter­ Building section of Ford Local nal disgrace and shame — sup­ Union 600 of the CIO auto union. ported the government drive Wartime Stand Against Smith Act Victims The meeting was attended by 200 against the Socialist Workers of the best militants employed in Party leaders and the fighting MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 16—The Hennepin County CIO Council here has adopted a the Motor Truckdrivers Union of Minnea­ resolution demanding that the Truman administration restore the civil rights of the 18 Socialist Building. “ The polis and the Northwest area. Workers Party and Minneapolis Drivers Local 5 44-CIO leaders imprisoned during the war under Socialist Work Now the very same act is being the infamous Smith “ Gag” Act.®------ers Party can­ utilized against the Stalinist time of the famous Minneapolis didates fig h t This resolution, adopted Aug. cialist Workers Party members Party.” Labor Trial and the subsequent in 1941.” 365 days in the Dr. Carlson read from The 11, completely reverses the posi­ tion of the CIO Council at the federal imprisonment of the 18 In addition to demanding the year in the M ilitant the recent appeal for Trotskyists. quashing of the indictments workers’ inter­ united front action against the The Minneapolis CIO, in the against the CP leaders and repeal ests, unlike Smith Act addressed by the Po­ of the Smith Act, the resolution the vote-catch­ past as now under the domination litical Committee of the Socialist Wallace Demagogy of the Stalinists, opposed the de­ states: “ We demand that all vic­ ing capitalists Workers Party to the Central fense of the 18 Trotskyists during tims of this viciously un-Amer­ who are inter­ Committee of the Stalinists. The the war and sought to sabotage ican law in the past be restored ested in the (IP has not as yet responded to On Capitalism aid by other unions. Now 12 lead­ to all of their civil rights, of workers only the united front appeal. “ We will ers of the Communist Party itself which they have been unjustly at election continue our efforts,” concluded Exposed by Dobbs are under indictment on the same deprived.” time,” said Dr. Carlson, “ to forge a united count of the Smith Act for which STALINIST TREACHERY Dr. Carlson. front movement, involving the Farrell Dobbs, SWP presi­ the Trotskyists were railroaded to She was greeted with a big millions of workers whose unions dential candidate, issued the prison — “ advocacy of the over­ Shortly after the sentencing of round of applause as she ended came to the defense of the 18 in following statement in response throw of the government by force the 18 SWP leaders on Dec. 8, her talk in which she called for the Minneapolis Trial, against and violence.” 1941, the Dec. 19 Daily Worker to Wallace’s August 12 radio ran a big article by Carl Winter, a Workers and Farmers Govern­ the Smith Act and the other ac­ Stalinist forces in the CIO ment which would establish a tions of the Wall Street govern­ speech: headlined “ Minneapolis T rial In his radio speech of Aug. 12 Council last week attempted to Shows Labor Wary of Trotsky- society of peace, plenty and pros­ ment designed to smash the op­ push through a resolution dealing Henry A. Wallace characterizes ites.” The article, datelined Min­ perity in the United States. position of America’s working with the Communist Party case, international capitalism as “the neapolis, bemoaned the fact that * * * masses to the new war drive.” but making no reference to the truly great menace which needs the SWP leaders were being ra il­ * * * first and only convictions under CHICAGO, AUG. 11 — Speak­ bridling1 and roaded to prison as Marxists and ing before an audience at the IN D IA N A HARBOR, Ind., Aug. our own coun­ the Smith Act which set the pre­ revolutionary socialists instead of University of Chicago this after­ 11 — The Calumet Branch spon­ try is the head cedent fo r the present CP indict­ being framed, Moscow Trials ments. noon, Grace Carlson, SWP candi­ sored an open meeting for Grace Colonial Revolts Stagger quarters fo r style, as a “fifth column to Hit­ Carlson, SWP vice-presidential date fo r Vice-President, declared interna- RESTORE CIVIL RIGHTS lerism” and fo r “ service to inter­ that the United States is heading candidate, this evening at its tional big busi­ A rt Hopkins, a Council delegate national fascism.” The article fu r­ toward a new war because of the local headquarters. ness. Our own from CIO Auto Workers Local ther gloatingly reported: failure of Wall Street imperialism Comrade Carlson gave such a G ov ernment 722, introduced a counter-resolu­ “ The local labor movement gave to solve its underlying problems clear picture of the role American today is doihi- tion which linked the case of the no support [to the defense of the during and since World War II. capitalists are playing in both' Imperialists in Far East nated by th e 181. Early in the trial the local CP to the case of the Trotskyists. The topic of her speech was world affairs and at home that men of inter­ CIO central body voted down a no indirWtmi could Leave that hall I t contained the demand for the “ Why .1 Went To Prison.” Grace Colonial revolts continue to known as the Anti-Fascist Peo­ The authorative U. S. News national b ig restoration of civil rights to the request for financial assistance to without his eyes having been Carlson was the only woman sweep the Far East. Guerrilla ple’s Freedom League, is break­ and World Report sums up the business.” 18 who had served prison senten­ the defense. The same body, on among the 18 Minneapolis Labor widely opened. They knew she ing up under the pressure of FARRELL Nothing so Nov. 16, called fo r a Congression­ bands roam throughout Malaya, situation in the Far East as ces of 12 to 16 months in 1944 and Socialist Workers Party was telling the truth, as the conflicting social groups and the follows: DOBBS much as this al investigation of the fifth col­ disrupting communications and for their socialist anti-war stand leaders imprisoned during World every-day experiences of these premier, Thakin Nu, has resign­ “ Western powers, on their part, statement shows the inconsistency and m ilitant defense of labor. umn activity of isolationist groups union workers in the mills pro­ endangering British imperialist ed. In Arakan and Central Burma, seem unable to get things right and demagogy of Wallace. On among which it named the Social­ War II under the Smith “ Gag” By a big majority, the CIO vide positive proof that the capi­ holdings. The British forces, armed bands control wide areas side up in Asia. A ll of them— May 24 at Portland, Oregon, Wal­ ist Workers Party. Then the fin­ Act. “ The Smith Act,” declared Council delegates voted to instruct talists, intend to oppress the under the direction of Malcolm of the countryside. The London Dutch, French, British, Ameri­ lace described himself “ as the ancial assistance given the Trot- Dr. Carlson, “ represents the most the resolutions committee to com­ workers into complete submission MacDonald, British Governor- Economist takes a dim view of best friend capitalism has in skyites by the National Office of flagrant violation of civil rights cans—are in trouble. bine the two resolutions, includ­ in order to maintain their vicious General of Malaya, are trying to the whole situation. “ The political the United States today.” There is Labors Non-Partisan League and in America since the notorious ing a section on the case of the 18 p rofit system. Carlson’s remarks stem the revolt by the most future of Bunina,” it declares, “ is IN TROUBLE only -one inference that can be John L. Lewis did not reflect the Alien and Sedition Law of 1798. and the demand fo r their civil savage repression. On Aug. 15, “ Americans have their hands drawn from these speeches and attitude of the local labor move­ The Socialist Workers Party was were enthusiastically greeted, es­ now overclouded with threats of rights. The resolution- was re­ the United Press reported that fu ll in China, not to mention that is that Wallace is ready to ment.” the firs t to be prosecuted under pecially by the Negro workers further violent upheaval.” drafted and passed. Twin Cities it because the party remained present, when she carefully ex­ four Chinese and one Malayan Burma differs considerably from Japan. I t ’s trouble with labor in defend the vicious system of capi­ talism despite the fact that it is UAW-CIO Local 722 has adopted BACK 18 firm and steadfast in its refusal plained the difference between were hung without trial, under India as the former has no native Japan, and a continuing un­ the government’s emergency “ the tru ly great menace.” a similar resolution. Actually, hundreds of labor, to abandon its opposition to im­ the SWP program fo r racial strong and wealthy bourgeois certainty over U. S. policy in decree, fo r carrying arms. An But apparently that is not the The resolution condemns the Negro and civil rights organiza­ perialism and capitalism after the equality and fa ir employment class. Almost all capital in Burma China. No one expects present impression that Wallace wants government’s “ all-out war on civil tions, representing more than five war broke out.” practices, against that of Presi­ AP dispatch meanwhile brought is in British and foreign hands. the news that the British are fly­ aid program to do much good; to leave with the working class. liberties” and charges that the million members, gave the 18 “ The arrest of the 18 was pro­ dent Truman’s sham civil rights Thus Burmese nationalism vents ing in headhunters from the few are sure what to do. Without showing how he would planned frame-up of the 12 CP Smith Act victims financial and tested by over 5 million organized bill. its full fury on the foreign im­ Borneo jungles to help track turn the trick Wallace promises leaders under the Smith Act is moral support. workers, supported by Jewish, Dates fo r the Carlson tour are perialists. Under- the implacable “British are fighting a war in down insurgents in their jungle to transform the capitalist rattle­ part of a pattern to turn this The SWP and its presidential Negro, and other minority as follows: mass pressure, even the recent Malaya, against Communist guer­ hiding places. snake into a cooing dove. A vain country into a “thought-control and vice-presidential candidates, groups,” continued Dr. Carlson. Aug. 24-26 Cleveland government, which collaborated rillas, are also worried about hope. Marx long ago predicted police state.” with Britain, was forced to pass Farrell Dobbs and Grace Carlson, “ While these organizations saw Aug. 27 en route A DIM VIEW Communist threats in Burma* the course of evolution fo r the a bill calling for the nationaliza­ By contrast with the Council’s are being commended in labor the serious danger of the Smith Aug. 28-30 Toledo At tlie same time British dif­ capitalist system. The monopolis­ wartime opposition to labor sup­ tion of the British-owned Irra­ Big investments, exports are at circles here fo r their principled Act, an act signed by Roosevelt Aug. 31 en route ficulties are mounting in Burma. tic and imperialist character of port for the 18 Trotskyists, the stand in calling fo r working-class waddy Flotilla and about a third stake. and upheld by Henry Wallace, Sept. 1-3 Akron The present ruling coalition, capitalism flows from the dynam­ present resolution states that of the foreign-owned teak forests. solidarity and a united fro n t to “ Dutch can’t seem to come to ics of capitalism itself. Wallace “ such indictments have in the past defend the indicted CP leaders In Indo-China, the native Viet- terms with the natives in the must either accept this evil or been prosecuted for lack of a unit­ from a frame-up, in spite of the Nam is winning the war to drive East Indies. work for the overthrow of capi­ ed mass protest of the labor move­ shameful policy pursued by the out the French imperialists. The Bass Seeks Presidency “ French admit privately that talism. He cannot have his cake ment, as witness the indictments Stalinists against the 18 convict­ fight is costing France 200 m il­ and eat it. of the 18 Minneapolis CIO-So- ed Trotskyists. lion dollars a year and pulling their situation in Indo-China is The Socialist Workers Party the French empire apart. going from bad to worse.” agrees with the characterization Of CIO Rubber Workers of international capitalism which Wallace made in his August 12 By Joseph Andrews speech. But the only cure fo r “ the Youngstown SWP Candidate BIG ITU LOCALS URGE tru ly great menace” is the na­ AKRON. Aug. 15—George R. Bass, m ilitant president of Goodrich Local 5, today an­ tionalization of industry and its nounced that he would fight for the Presidency of the CIO United Rubber workers of America operation under workers’ control. at its coming convention, in order to put into effect a program to establish a master contract That is the road to socialism. That Fraudulently Ruled off Ballot in the rubber industry. ; A CONGRESS OF LABOR is what the Socialist Workers YOUNGSTOWN, Aug. 16 — At the first meeting the Board policy of divided strength, then Party stands for. According to an. article in the union. The International Policy The 90th annual convention of the A F L International found the petition over 200 signa­ I will most certainly be a candi­ * * * The Mahoning County Board Akron Beacon Journal, Bass Committee voted prior to the Typographical Union, which is currently meeting in Milwaukee, tures short. The local Trotskyists date,” Bass asserted. of Elections, at a stormy session declared he stands for the miners’ last wage negotiations to fight was highlighted on Aug. 17 by - Two public meetings, a radio thereupon rolled up their sleeves, “ I am prim arily interested in for industry-wide bargaining. But today, ruled that the name of slogan, “ One union—one con­ broadcast, a press conference and and in four days of strenuous policy,” he said. “ I am w illing to Buckmaster did no more than appeals from two of the union’s (ion to win the strikes and lock­ Harry Braverman, Trotskyist, tract.” He bluntly charged In­ a campaign social are scheduled work uncovered an additional 170 do whatever necessary to imple­ write leters to the various rubber largest locals, Chi.cago and outs now in progress regardless would not appear on the ballot ternational President L. S. Buck- fo r Dobbs during his stay in the signatures of registered voters ment what I believe to be the companies requesting an in­ New York, for the convention to of size or place, and regardless this November as a candidate for master with failure to mobilize Twin Cities. A public meeting on the petitions. The candidate correct and necessary program.” dustry-wide meeting. When they call a Congress of Labor in Wash­ of time and expense.” 19th D istrict Congressman. The the strength of the union in the will be held on Friday, Aug. 27, and his attorney brought this re­ Thus, for the first time since refused, he instructed the policy ington of the AFL, CIO, Rail­ Randolph went on to attack the Board hearing was held at the recently concluded negotiations. at 8 p. m., in the Brunswick Room sult in to the Board hearing, to the struggle for industrial union­ committees of the respective cor­ road Brotherhoods, United Mine other printing unions for their demand of Bravçrman after the “ I am firmly opposed to dividing of the Andrews Hotel in Minneap­ the great discomfort of the Board the strength of our union and to ism against William Green, and porations to negotiate separately. Workers and other independent lack of solidarity in the ITU olis where Comrade Dobbs w ill Board had held at a previous strikes. “ That these other p rint­ members and clerks. negotiating on a one-at-a-time his stooge Coleman Claherty, the The results of the one-at-a-time unions to plan a concerted cam­ speak on “ A Socialist Program meeting that the petition was in­ ing trades have been benefited Prior to that time, the Board basis,” Bass declared. “ By nego­ rubber workers union is in the bargaining w e re settlements paign against the Taft-Hartley for American Workers — the sufficient and invalid. had claimed that even if the tiating one-at-a-time we only dif­ midst of an open struggle for which provided less than gained Law. It is significant that this .immeasurably from our efforts is Only Road to Peace.” On Sunday, obvious,” he stated. “ That they BOARD ACTION signatures thrown out on the tech­ fuse our power.” leadership, based upon clearly by the auto workers. The Fire­ demand against the Taft-Hartjey Aug. 29, Dobbs wall address a pub­ nicality were allowed, the peti­ Bass also struck at the two divergent policies. stone group, dominated by Buck- Law for a Congress of Labor have failed to recognize the lic meeting at the American A t the hearing, the Board, run year agreements signed by Buck- Heretofore this union has seen master, signed a two-year freeze comes from the two sections of danger of the situation and do House in St. Paul at 8 p. m. He by the Republican and Democratic tion was still short 160 names. something about it is also obvi­ master, which he said would fights fo r posts, but always in and set an 11-cent pattern. The the union which have been in the w ill make a 15-minute radio parties, admitted the validity of By finding 170 signatures, the ous. That the employers have “ seriously hamper efforts of the the form of power blocs organiz­ Goodyear group, hy holding out forefront of the fight against the broadcast over station WDGY on 1,503 signatures, against a re­ Trotskyists succeeded in throwing been w illing to pet them and rubber workers to better .heir ing purely on the basis of a per­ a little longer, managed to get a Taft - Hartley Act and who, Tuesday, Aug. 31, at 6 p. m. quired 1,501. However, it insisted upon the Board the onus of bar­ reward them for their attitude conditions in the future.” Good­ sonal struggle for power, with 20-month contract plus the 11- through their own experience, During the firs t week of Sep­ upon throwing out some 80 signa­ ling Braverman from the Con­ and that they are anxious to rich local unions were the only the rubber workers kept com­ ccnts, plus an additional week’s have learned the necessity fo r a tember, Dobbs w ill tour the state tures on the grounds that six gressional ballot on a pure tech­ accept such favors is likewise group to get a one-year contract pletely in the dark as to the issues vacation pay for men with 15 united labor campaign to smash and plans to make either personal sheets each contained one signa­ nicality. This fact has received in the wage negotiations in at stake. years service and over. The this menace to free unionism. shamefully clear.” or radio appearances in such cen­ ture from another county. This prominent, publicity in the local rubber last June. Bass’s statement performs the Goodrich chain wrested a one- Whether the ITU is going to Randolph gave fu ll credit to ters as Duluth, Virginia and W ill- arbitrary and high-handed action press. service of acquainting the rank vear contract, 11-cents and the continue to spearhead the fight the Chicago newspaper strikers, mar. was taken despite repeated as­ Braverman was represented at CALLS FOR UNITY and file of the union with the vacation award from the com­ against the Act is the question cut since last Nov. 24, for the Open house w ill be held in the surances from the Board in ad­ the hearing by Clyde Osborne, In calling for.an industry-wide issues and problems involved, pany, after taking a strike vote. that is dominating all convention agreements that the union was Minnesota Campaign Headquar­ vance- of the filing of the pet­ outstanding local attorney, whose policy in bargaining, Bass stated: which are due to be settled at the It was obvious to the rubber proceedings. W’oodruff Randolph, able to force through in New ters, 10 South Fourth Street, in itions that on no account would presence at the hearing occasion­ “ We need the greatest possible 13th annual convention of the workers that the fault of the ITU president, made it clear from York and elsewhere. The union’s Minneapolis on Saturday evening, an entire petition sheet be thrown ed considerable local comment. unity in pressing for our union, to be held in Omaha, negotiations lay in the one-at-a- the start that he proposes to attorney, Gerhard Van Arkel, Sept. 4. out. The Braverinan campaign He was accompanied by T.G, demands. We must present a Nebraska, beginning Sept. 20. time strategy. A unified fight carry on the fight without any declared that the ITU has been * * * committee prepared its petitions Selander, Ohio State Secretary common m ilitant front if we are would have forced the rubber letup. The ITU, he declared in the spearhead of labor’s fight The next Dobbs tour dates are carefully exactly in accordance of the SWP, and by a stenogra­ to make gains for the rubber BUCKMASTER’S SELL-OUT barons into a settlement at least his address, “ w ill not take a against the Taft-Hartley Law as follows: with the Board’s instructions. The pher who kept records of the workers. I f that is what it takes The issue of one-at-a-time as good as that won by the Gen­ backward step in upholding our and that the 8-month strike of August 24, Plentywood, Montana Board now claims that a new statements made. The local Wal­ to substitute a progressive policy versus industry-wide bargaining eral Motors and Chrysler work­ legal rights and prerogatives as ihe Chicago workers was “ the Aug. 25-26 en route ruling has been made in the two lace group had an observer at of unified strength for the present is particularly acute in this ers. free men. . , It is our determina­ tip of that spearhead.” Aug. 27-Sept. 4 Twin Cities I weeks since that time. the hearing. Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, August 23,1943 Eight Years After the Death of Leon Trotsky By Art Preis We need but look at recent de­ reactionary nationalism and aban­ own “ socialist” regime with the country to country and thought to I Its Second World Congress was velopments in Yugoslavia, at donment of the international revo­ stolen goods of others. settle the issue once and for all ettended by delegates of sections Eight years ago on August Tito’s break with Stalin and the lutionary socialist program, Stal­ We hear the cry from the by driving a pick-axe into Trot­ in 19 countries, from all contin­ 21, 1940, the greatest teacher issues involved, to realize the in's henchmen howled him down. cadres of the Stalinized Yugoslav sky’s brain. ents. Adhering to the program and leader of the international universality and import of the Few could then see the subsequent Communist Party about the “ de­ But Stalin has again proved of the Fourth International today working class in our times, ideas for which Trotsky lived, degeneration of the Soviet Union; generation of the Soviet Union.” what history has long taught. are groups and organizations in Leon Trotsky, died from a pick­ fought and died. The problems the liquidation of the Old Bol­ What are they speaking of but You can murder men; you cannot 32 countries. confronting the Yugoslav work­ sheviks; the tremendous expan­ murder ideas. The ideas of Trot­ axe driven into his brain by the predictions of Trotsky in 1923 The Second World Congress of ers and peasants are precisely sion of the parasitic bureaucracy; sky are today an indestructible made real today? the Fourth International cemen­ Stalin’s hired killer. The assas­ those foreseen and analyzed by the corruption and destruction of force in the world — an organ­ sination of the co-organizer, with ted together more firm ly the Van­ Trotsky and the movement he the international revolutionary For already in. 1923, Trotsky ized force. They live on, more guard of tjie world revolutionary tiehin, of the Russian Revolution, founded. Their solution has long party of Lenin; the counter-revo­ wrote his articles gathered toge­ dynamic, more powerful, more builder of the Red Army and socialist movement. It drew up a since been illuminated in his b ril­ lutionary betrayal by Stalin of ther in the book, “ The New wide-spread by fa r than on the program of action, wortd-Whip in founder of the Fourth Interna­ liant writings. the German, Spanish, Chinese, Course,” in which he described day he died. For Trotsky left the tional, was a truly symbolic crime. scope and objective, to rally and Twenty years ago, in 1028, French and other revolutionary the growing bureaucratism with­ inheritance not only of his pro­ mobilize humanity for the trium­ Its very method — a blow at the in the Soviet Union and the Rus­ there was published in this coun­ workers; the sellout of the world gram, but of his organization, phant struggle for international brain befitted the intent of proletariat. Yet all these, as Trot­ sian Communist Party and warned the Fourth International, the Cain-Stalin, as Trotsky had try the program of the Trotskyist socialism. opposition, under the title, “ The sky predicted, were products of of inevitable bureaucratic degen­ World Party of Socialist Revolu­ branded him, to wipe out in blood eration if the Soviet leaders did The building of his world party, Real Situation in Russia.” It con­ the false theory of “ socialism in tion. wllat the Kremlin despot feared i.ot return to the paths of party the continuation and development tained the platform of the Rus­ one country” — the theory that a Last April the Fourth Interna­ cf his struggle through this party, most — Trotsky’s ideas. single, backward country could democracy. tional held its Second World Con­ Reaction through all ages has sian Left Opposition, drafted in ; is the greatest monument to achieve socialism by itself, in a gress in France. Since Trotsky’s always used violence and murder 1926, dealing ' exhaustively with TROTSKY’S PROGRAM Trotsky's memory. He would the question of the method by world of hostile capitalism, with­ death and during the war, it had in its vain effort to halt the As against reactionary nation­ have wanted no other. which the small-proprietor class out successful socialist revolu­ been forced to work without the marcH of ideas. When Socrates alism, Trotsky represented revo­ of Russian peasants could be tions in the more advanced capi­ living guidance of Trotsky’s was handed the bowl of hemlock This rare picture shows Leon Trotsky, then co-leader with lutionary internationalism. A s transformed into a sector of a talist countries. genius. But armed with his pro­ poison, when the Inquisition Lenin of the Soviet Union, as he addressed the Second World against bureaucratic repression, classless, socialized economy. Today the question of socialism gram, it survived the cruelest burned Bruno at the stake, when Congress of the Third International irt 1920. Trotsky stood for working-class blows ever dealt any revolution­ It pointed out that the solution in one country does not appear th -e slaveholders’ government democracy. As against political ary organization. hanged John Brown, these were of this problem — so crucial to could tide Soviet economy over, which Trotsky fought the Krem­ as a “ sectarian quibble” to the collaboration with the imperial­ the survival of the Soviet Union Yugoslav peoples. It is an imme­ In some countries, whole sec­ desperate attempts to destroy but could not free it from crisis. lin bureaucracy from 1924 to his ists and Peoples Frontism, Trot­ tions of the Fourth International — could net be achieved by diate life-and-death question fo r ideas . by physically destroying In 1934 and 1932-came the great death. sky called for international had been physically exterminated bureaucratic violence and force. them. We read the declaration of their creators and proponents. revolt of the peasants, the forced workers solidarity and unremit­ L-y war, disease and famine, by History records the ultimate That it was first of all. necessary Even leading members of the Tito that he recognizes the lim i­ collectivization, the death of m il­ Russian Bolshevik Party, co­ ting class struggle against im­ H itler’s Gestapo or Stalin’s GPU. futility of such attempts. to make a distinction between tha tations' of a small, backward lions by famine. workers with Lenin, failed to per­ perialism. As against Stalinism, But the Fourth International en­ Great and correct ideas, de­ poor peasant and rich kulgk, and Today, the issue about which peasant country, that he does not in short, Trotsky upheld the pro­ then to demonstrate the superior­ ceive the tremendous implications seek to' achieve “ socialism in one dured, revived and emerged from rived from mankind’s needs and the Russian Left Opposition gram of Marxism-Leninism. the war stronger than ever. ity of collective farming and the cl the slight phrase, "socialism country” and appeals fo r econo­ guiding its upward climb, have fought in 1926 and 1927 in Russia, To destroy his implacable foe in one country,” that Stalin had mic and political cooperation of an immortal life of their own. advantages of a nationalized eco­ the issue of collectivization that armed with the power of a cor­ Once, born, they thrive and grow, nomy. To do this, if was essential firs t slipped obscurely into a the other East-European coun­ $eemed so remote and obscure pamphlet in 1924. As fo r the rect program, Stalin mobilized all acquire ever more power and to industrialize the country acr to the outside world, is among the tries, and above all, of the Soviet TROTSKYISM press and commentators of the Unioh. the resources of a great state, vitality, sweep aside opposition cording to plan and to provide the most urgent questions fo r the lie sought to expunge Trotsky’s equipment so indispensible for bourgeois world, they could not IN ALBANIA and, in the end, conquer. Yugoslav people, as fo r the peo­ name from the Russian text begin to grasp the issue at stake NO AID FROM STALIN The forthcoming August is- the superior collective method in ples of all Eastern Europe. The books, to rewrite history. He un­ AFTER EIGHT YEARS agriculture. ; when news of the conflict be­ j sue of Fourth International struggle of Trotsky iu Russia But the Soviet Union under loosed a campaign of falsification, Judged by the time-table of Stalin and his gang of bureau­ tween Trotsky and Stalin began . carries information about the more than 20 years ago. is proving Stalin — that prime example of vilification and slander — not history, we can say that Trotsky’s cratic usurpers brutally expelled to leak out. They treated this spread of Trotskyism into still no abstraction, but . of buttling “ socialism in one country” — without encouragement and sup­ ideas are steadily advancing. In Trotsky and the Left Opposition­ historic struggle of ideas as a another country, Albania. An timeliness to the Yugoslavs. gives no aid. The Nationalistic port from the camp of imperial­ eight brief years, those questions ists from the Russian Communist personal feud, a clash of person­ article on Trotsky by E. Ger­ Kremlin clique can only try to ism — such as the world had of theory and principle, which Party in 1927. Then, in 1928, the THE KEY QUESTION alities — although their sure class main states the following: ioot from the Yugoslav people never known. He murdered Trot­ appeared so academic and ab­ unfolding economic crisis in Rus­ Let us take another example, instincts impelled them to nod The history of the young the little they now have. Stalin'— sky’s co-thinkers in Russia by the stract to most people when the sia forced Stalin to adopt — iq the question of “ socialism in one favorably in the direction of Stal­ Albanian Communist Party, the author of the theory of “ so­ tebs of thousands. He staged exiled Trotsky died his m artyr’s highly distorted form — Trotsky’s country,” that bedrock deviation in as against Trotsky. which we shall soon publish, cialism in one country” — comes monstrous frame-up trials in death in Mexico, have now become program for industrialization. of Stalinism from the principles will provide another proof of When Trotsky pointed out that to the other peoples not as a which the leading Old Bolsheviks real and concrete for millions the Bureacratic planning, devoid of cf Marxism and Leninism. That the theory of “ socialism in one socialist emancipator, but as a this. It shows how, 20 years were represented as “ agents of after Stalin’s- victory, in a world over. mass initiative and participation, was the key question around country” marked a turn toward brigand trying to maintain his Hitler.” He hounded Trotsky from country completely bereft of Marxist traditions, under con­ ditions of military control by the Stalinist machine, an en­ The True Aims of the Socialist Revolution tire generation of young Com­ munist leaders has been brought — by their class in­ This is the final instalment of the Manifesto issued by the production; active participation of the masses in elaborating, ol Long Live l rotsky” on their lips—all this has not been in Second World Congress of the Fourth International. executing and checking production plans'; intervention of the stinct and by their education in JROTSKY WAR MINISTERS! vain, loday Bolshevism lives again on five continents, its ideas Marxism, distorted though it Program of the Communist Revolution human factor on an ever more decisive scale at all levels of are spreading and its organizations are gaining strength. For was, received in the Stalin economic life, ever greater subordination of production to the This Fourth International is not attempting to patch up every lost martyr ten new militants are arising. Having survived schools — to a complete break needs of consumption. with the policies and organ­ the capitalist system, nor does it seek substitutes for "too the terror of Stalin and the fury of Hitler, the Fourth Interna­ These are the indispensable elements in the economy after izational methods of Stalinism. Ohio State Picnic radical” solutions. Its program is one of mobilizing the masses tional is confident of its future, for in it lives the sole Marxism the overthrow of capitalism; and they constitute so many “When they used to accuse us all day for the overthrow of capitalism. That is why the transitional ol our epoch, all the unconquerable emancipating will of the of Trotskyism,” we were told indices of the real progress of society towards socialism. That SUNDAY, SEPT. 5 demands bear no trace of a “ conformist” or “ evolutionist” world proletariat. On the scale of a human life-span, its progress by their leader who has just is why a drastic reduction of the body of professional func­ at the CABIN CLUB, on the Spirit. Leaping over the old antithesis of minimum and maximum may seem slow. On the scale of history, its victory is already joined the ranks of the Fourth tionaries, the fusion of legislative and executive functions and International, “we did not even Akron Peninsula Road programs, these demands on the contrary, link up each day-to- assured. their exercise in rotation by a growing number of educated know what Trotskyism was, speaker: day problem with the most burning problem of our epoch, the Locked in a life-and-death struggle with the Stalinist workers constitute the clearest indices of the definitive liquida­ and we used to protest violent­ GRACE CARLSON revolutionary conquest of power. A ll propaganda is sectarian bureaucratic -usurpers, the Fourth International proudly lays ly. Today I understand that tion of counter-revolution, of stabilization of the new society ** softball, barbecue, games, which lim its itself to repeating this general goal of the move­ claim to the traditions, ideas and lessons of the October Revolu­ at that time we actually were and of the drastic decrease in its internal contradictions. Trotskyists, without being fun for all— dancing ment like a ritualistic formula, without supplying the working tion. A ll the crimes ol Stalin w ill not succeed in stamping out The program of the communist revolution is that of the aware of it. . . ” EVERYONE WELCOME class with the means of acquiring an understanding of it in the from the hearts of the workers everywhere the memory of the emancipation of all nationalities, of the granting of the right course of its own experience. A ll propaganda is opportunistic most titanic overthrow in the history of humanity. Confronting of self-determination to all peoples, including the right to •which introduces, even if surreptitiously, a conception of strug­ capitalism in its ever more hideous decay, the Fourth Interna­ secession. Eliminating all exploitation and oppression of one gle by stages, "momentarily” limiting itself to immediate tional- raises on a world scale the central idea of the Bolshevik people by ¿mother by eliminating the exploiters in each nation: JUST OUT! demands, transforming each transitional slogan into an end- revolution: “ A ll Power to the Workers and Poor Peasants.” giving each nation the possibility of freely developing its own in-itselfr and considering the workers as too backward to have Confronting, the miserable agents of the class enemy inside the A NEW PAMPHLET cultural; entity, the revolution w ill at the same time destroy the the program of communist revolution explained to them right labor movement, the Fourth International forges the decisive soufees of chauvinism, w ill pursue nationalistic and racist front the start. instrument of the proletarian victory: -the world Bolshevik mysticism down to its last refuge and w ill eliminate everything The Voice of Socialism In the face of the frightful prostitution of communism by party. Confronting wars, ruins and devastation, the Fourth which could prevent the realization of a genuine universal Containing the full text of eight speeches recently broad­ the Stalinist bureaucracy anil the resultant innumerable distor­ International firm ly follows its historical mission : TO PREPARE federation of the peoples of the entire world. cast over nation-wide networks— by FAR RELL DOBBS, So­ tions and falsifications, it is necessary today to reaffirm the THE WORLD-WIDE OCTOBER. cialist Workers Party candidate for President; GRACE CARL­ The communist revolution w ill not only release the enormous fundamental characteristics of the communist revolution. Today, in these proud days of celebrating the first cen­ SON, SWP candidate for Vice-President and JAMES P. CAN­ NON, National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. It means the expropriation of the bourgeoisie and its productive energy of the masses on the economic plane. It will tennial of scientific communism, on this M ay-D ay 1948, the destruction as a class; it means the taking over by the proletariat penetrate into all spheres of society and w ill everywhere liberate day of struggle of the workers of the world, the Fourth Interna­ CONTENTS of the means of production and exchange. It means destruction the great creative potential pent up among the masses. Educa­ tional, amid the gathering of its best militants from all the • Military Dictatorship or a Socialist America pf the bureaucratic state machine of the capitalists and its tion, scientific and technical training, the artistic and literary continents in its World Congress, pauses in remembrance of all • The Two Americas replacement by the proletariat organised as the ruling class movements, Organization of public health, building cities and the heroes who have fallen in the struggle for the emancipation • Capital and Labor in 1948 into workers’ councils, in which proletarian democracy rules. shaping human behavior will for the first time be opened to of the proletariat. The fighters on the barricades of June 1848, • The Struggle for Civil Rights Collectivization of the means of production and exchange, millions of proletarians and peasant poor whose economic the soldiers of the Paris Commune, the workers of the First • Why American Workers Need a Labor Party concentration of all credit establishments into a single State slavery now . systematically cripples their countless talents. Petrograd Soviet, the victors of October and the Russian C ivil • The Only Road to Peace Bank which is collective property; setting up a monopoly of Thereby the very nature of all these activities will in turn War, the Spartacists of Germany and the fighters of the Hun­ • For a Workers and Farmers'Government foreign trade; establishment of a planned economy—-all these undergo a radical and continuous trasformation. Upon finally garian, Bavarian and Cantonese Communes, the dynamiters of • Socialism or Barbarism are not in themselves the goals of the revolution; they are becoming the master of its own fate, humanity w ill by means Asturia and the militiamen of Barcelona, the warriors of the merely the means of progressively raising the standard of living of critical thought and method penetrate beyond the last remain­ Vienna Schutzbund, and the Greek and French partisans, the 32 pages 10 cents- ing shadows of the unknown and the spiritual growth and and cultural level of- the masses, of decreasing the length of the countless soldiers of the colonial revolution—they w ill remain Order your copy now from work day to the point where the immense m ajority of the transformation of man’s own nature will become the ultimate forever enshrined in memory as proof of the determined effort workers w ill be able to administer the economy and public object of the permanent revolution. From the kingdom of of the exploited class to tear the world out of the chaos of PIONEER PUBLISHERS affairs, where the division of society into classes w ill disappear necessity mankind w ill pass into the domain of freedom. exploitation. The memory of all these warriors together with 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. and where the State w ill wither away. That is why there must In a society which is running the risk of foundering into the already long list of its own martyrs, the Fourth International be: the establishment and development of workers’ control of barbarism, but which is still pregnant with all these glorious entrusts to the young generations of the world working class. possibilities, the Fourth International considers as realistic only To be worthy of their example means today to take one’s place that program which firm ly sets for itself the goal of communism. under the banner of the Fourth International. To consecrate one’s life today to the cause of the revolutionary SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SUB emancipation of humanity is the only way to preserve human Workers of All Countries, Unite! rades got 26 subs Saturday. “ We dignity amid the nightmare of the world in agony. To bewail The Second World Congress of the Fourth International, Michigan Leads the decline of civilization without offering the peoples a way to new have covered the whole world party of socialist revolution, calls upon the exploited and In Sub Sales housing project,” wrote B. Allen. THE MILITANT a better future is in reality to convert oneself into one more oppressed of all lands, to unite in the struggle against all forms "We plan a big street rally there 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE NEW YORK 3, N. Y. factor in the prevailing process of social decomposion. Only the Detroit with 496 new subs and of slavery, against all governments and their agents. The strug­ Flint with 291 still lead the Presi­ with Grace Carlson as speaker. program of communist revolution merits today sacrifices for gle of the workers throughout the world is today one and the dential Campaign subscription “ A big mobilization is planned 15 25 its realization. Only this program gives the Fourth International same— it is the struggle for the communist revolution. drive, while a number of other this Friday. We have been prepar­ the right to appeal today to the advanced workers of all coun­ branches keep a steady stream ing for Grace’s Detroit meeting, weeks cents Workers of the old revolutionary citadel of Paris, unite tries to group themselves under its banner. of subs pouring in. Last week after which we can concentrate with the uncflhquerable young revolutionists of the Viet-Nam, nearly 500 reached this office on subs again.” Comrade Allen Under the Banner of the Fourth International! ' who are in revolt! and this week promises to be sent in 85 subs this week. I I Special 15-week subscription 25c Miners of the Urals, unite with your fellow warriors of nearly as good. M * Twenty years ago Stalin brought, the heavy hammer of his the United States! * * * Copies of nearly all issues of state- machine down upon this program. Fanatically brutal, Break out of your ruins, German workers, and unite with Flint leads this week with 70 The M ilitant containing radio Regular 6-month “ 50c Stalin allied himself with the police of all countries in order to speeches of Farrell Dobbs and the workers of Great B ritain! more subs obtained in Saginaw pursue, ja il and assassinate the precious revolutionary cadres and 21 in Flint. In Saginaw “our Grace Carlson have been sent to Unite, workers of China, India and all the colonies, with I I Regular 1-year “ $1.00 who remained faithful to Leninism. A reactionary wave without comrades stood on street corners all persons w riting for any radio the workers of the mother countries in a single battle against and approached passers-by with speech. Some other issues have parallel submerged the world. Today, after countless sacrifices imperialist slavery! The M ilitant,” the comrades write also been sent. Only those who and on. the eve of- new blows, the fighters of the Fourth In­ us. “ They find this better on subscribe w ill continue to receive N a m e ...... WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES UNITE under the ternational in 25 countries can proudly state that they have Saturdays than going door to the paper. Subs were received passed the test of this dark period of history. The example of banner of the Fourth International, so that this old war cry door.” And in Flint, “ by the time this week from radio listeners Address...... the heroes of the Russian C ivil War who refused to capitulate of the C O M M UNIST M ANIFESTO w ill become on the morrow our campaign ends we are going in Florida, Washington, D. C. t.o see to it that every GM plant California and New York. We to Stalin’s police; the example of the m ilitants of the Russian the sovereign emblem of Communism triumphant! City ...... has a good-sized group of M ili­ now have them from nearly every Left Opposition struggling to the last breath of their lives in Second World Congress of the Fourth International M ay 1. 1048. tant readers.” state. Only Delaware and New State ...... 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Vol. X II - No. 34 Monday, August 23, 1948

“The human race has a right to be proud of its Aristotle, Quotas in Election Fund Campaign Shakespeare, Darwin, Beethoven, Goethe, Marx, Edison and Lenin. But why arc they so rare? Above all, because almost without exception, they came out of the upper and middle By William F. Warde, National Fund Director classes. Aparjt from rare exceptions, the sparks of genius in the suppressed depths of the people are choked before they The first two branches went over the top this week in the $25,000 SWP Election Cam­ “Meat Strike ” can burst into flame. But also because the processes of creating, paign and Party Building Fund. Allentown, Pa. and Rochester, N. Y. are the first members developing and educating a human being have been and re­ of the One Hundred Percenters Club. main essentially a matter of chance, not illuminated by theory Allentown proudly reports that and practice, not subjected to consciousness and will. . . So­ it hopes to continue sending ad­ cialism will mean a leap from the realm of necessity into the tinuously open the sore of racial porters tike John Miller, we’ll do ditional contributions. And Ro­ realm of freedom in this sense also, that the man of today, slavery in the South. You must the job. Next week Campaign with all his contradictions and lack of harmony, will open the chester deserves considerable constantly dwell on World War I Manager George Clarke is send­ road for a new and happier race.” credit for fulfilling its quota so and I I as classic examples of ing a personal appeal to all TROTSKY LENIN speedily despite adverse condi­ capitalist crimes and 'betrayals. M ilitant subscribers to help fin ­ ______— LEON TROTSKY, Copenhagen Speech, 1932. tions. You must keep accusing and in­ ance the Dobbs-Carlson Campaign The collections last week dicting. Keep them always on Fund. But you don’t have to wait amounted to $1,447. This lifted the defensive. for his letter. You can anticipate the total to $9,029 or 36 per cent. “ Whatever you do, keep your it by sending your donation now This is somewhat behind the paper going.” to 116 University Place, New Dixiecrat Fascism weekly average that has to be With the help of more sup­ York 3, N. Y. maintained if the entire $25,000 The Dixiecials movement headed by South This Dixiecrat movement makes no bones is to be raised within the time (Carolina’s Gov. J. Strom Thurmond is more about its intentions to defy and violate all set. A little quickening of the SCOREBOARD FOR ¿25,000 than a mobilization of the Southern lyn- laws for the protection of civil arid demo­ contributions will take care of that lag. chocracy for the preservation of "white cratic rights. Its very composition, the very Youngstown writes that their SWP ELECTION FUND supremacy’’ below the Mason-Dixon line. It adherents it has attracted are proof positive pledges exceed the $600 quota and is the rallying center for the native fascists that this movement bases itself upon, "lynch they feel confident of reaching of the entire country. law.” it without too much difficulty. Let no worker dismiss the Dixiecrats as Tacoma and West Virginia Almost half the delegates at last month’s should soon pass the 100 percent some two-bit assemblage of "crack pots.” ft Birmingham convention of the so-called mark, Cleveland has started its “ States’ Rights” Democrats were connected already has deep roots in the official gov­ rise on the scoreboard while Flint with such fascist outfits as the Ku Klux ernmental structure of the South. Its seed is continues to be among the most Klan, the anti-Jewish Party, the Christian falling upon a rich political soil of reaction, regular remitters to the Fund. Here is what one Militant read­ Nationalist Crusaders, etc. Among the foun­ fertilized by the manure of bigotry and prej­ udice. It is a sign of the times, a sign that er, John M iller of Harrisburgh, ding delegates was Gerald L. K. Smith, the Pa. wrote when he enclosed his most prominent fascist in the country. the class struggle is sharpening in this second contribution last week. “ I country. only regret I am not able to give Thurmond stressed the national character This fascist rally is a warning to the labor more. It is truly a tremendous, This New York demonstration against the outrageous price of his movement in his speech at Houston, and m inority movements that it is not enough staggering indictment of Amer­ of meat is pari of the farcical “meat strike” organized by the Texas, where he bellowed, “ this is no sectional to simply fight for the passage of laws ican ‘Democracy' that in one sin­ Stalinists, which is totally ineffective in bringing down priced. A or regional matter. It is as important* to the reinforcing and extending democratic rights. gle four-page paper atone can I real program to fight the high cost of living has been presented one learn tire real truth. by Farrell Dobbs, SWP presidential candidate: 1. For a sliding people of Arizona as it is to the people of At a certain stage- the capitalists mobilize Alabama; as important to the people of “ You must never give up. Y ou' scale of wages in all union contracts. 2. For mass consumer com­ their fascist hordes and brush aside and must remain a lighthouse to those ! mittees of workers, housewives and dirt farmers empowered to California as il is to the people of Con­ violate their own laws, as they did in Italy who are drowning in the sea of j fix prices and enforce price ceilings. 3. For the nationalization necticut.” in 1922 and in Germany in 1933. Labor capitalist injustice. You must of all basic industries and their operation under the democratic T his is in fact, the most ambitious fascist must therefore mobilize into massive and keep banging away at the work­ control of the workers. Federated Pictures ing man with meetings and movement yet launched in .this country. As militant formations, prepared to defend its pamphlets, whether you win the convention, excepting the ideas in such it is directed not alone against oppressed organizations and rights. vance this program (for workers’ election or not. Someday the peo­ control of military training) to contradiction with the general minorities like the Negro people, but against The Negro people, especially, must take ple w ill wake up. front position without regsrrd to line.” all progressive movements, and particularly cognizance of this new development and act “ You must never stop defend­ its immediate effectiveness.” Lens and Weiss voted fo r both the labor movement. The Dixiecrats are accordingly. Their fight for civil rights ing the oppressed. You must con- This contains three factual er­ motions. mobilizing for nothing less than the physical legislation w ill henceforth have to he viewed rors; B. Lens D. Weiss destruction of organized labor and the total as simply a part of the general sttuggle to 1) Lens and Weiss introduced enslavement of the Negro people. They aim build a powerful mass movement, ready, only one amendment to this reso­ to .impose their own dictatorial regime over w illing and able to resist the lynchers and lution (the amendment dealing Letters on Broadcasts with the way to fight Stalinism). the whole United States. secure their rights. The essence of this was accepted unanimously by the convention FROM PITTSBURGH, PA. fo rt and effect. Why can’t we dition in America while the vari­ ous warring “Socialist” factions qnd w ill appear in the final draft. I listened in amazement to the all get together to help ourselves ? R.M. quarrel over whose blueprint 2) On the subject of the inade­ radical proposals made by your CIO News on SWP * * * must be- used. What in hell dif­ quacies of the firs t draft o f the speaker over KOKA tonight. ference does it make who brings Last week, The M ilita n t reprinted an item to fight against attacks on the working FROM OCEANO, CALIF» document in its explanation of Raise wages up and up but socialism to America, just so it why the SWP advocates- military from the CIO News commenting on the class by its capitalist enemies. never down, although cost of liv ­ Please send me a cogy'of the gets here? training under workers’ control Socialist Workers Party proposal to the Com­ The use of the Smith “ Gag” Act against ing might be in a downtrend! I speech delivered by your presi­ Besides, the Soviet Union has (the draft offered as the reason, munist Party to form a broad united front the Communist Party is an attempt by the am fo r fa ir wages for all work­ dential candidate on the radio on a working socialist society, and to “prevent indocrination of the Aug. 6. This was the most truth­ to fight the Smith "Gag” Act, under which capitalist government to sharpen a weapon ers, but has it not been shown it ill becomes anyone claiming to youth by Fascist-minded of­ that higher wages bring higher fu l speech I have heard in the 18 SWP leaders were imprisoned during the that can and w ill be used against any and all have the interests of the working, ficers” ) Lens and Weiss offered' costs in a never-ending spiral — campaign. class at heart, to spend nine- the motion: “That the incoming war-and 12 CP leaders are now indicted. sections of the labor movement. We call for and is one of thé causes of our Mrs. E.T. While reporting the facts correctly, the class solidarity in the struggle against this * * * tenths of their time and effort National Committee shall amplify present day inflation? A few criticizing and condemning this and strengthen the section of the CIO News article contains one very serious infamous law. workers benefit, the majority are Believes Russia firs t socialist country, and con­ resolution on the M ilitarization error. It states that the SWP and our Presi­ We have always defended Stalinists when injured. demning it in much more vitriolic of the United States and the Confiscate without reinburse- dential candidate, Farrell Dobbs, have called they were being made the victims of anti­ Has Socialism terms then you ever did British Tasks of the SWP, dealing with ment all private industry and on the CP "to forget” our profound political democratic and anti-labor laws and attacks. Editor: imperialism or our own brand of our proletarian military policy; nationalize same! Great Britain exploitation fo r instance. that they shall seriously seek differences for the purposes of a united front We opposed the railroading of Earl Browder tried it — is still struggling with Someone sent me a copy of In the current warfare going every practical means to apply against the Smith Act. to prison in 1940. We defended Harry Bridges it and the people, the workers, your paper in the mail, and as on inside the CIO, I find the this slogan in our press and in The SWP and Dobbs never propQsed to against deportation in 1944. are worse o ff than ever before. a loyal member of organized labor, I want to express an opin­ members of your particular fac­ the mass- movement.” forget the differences that separate T rot­ In the same spirit, we would defend Philip Would anyone be safely able to tion giving all help possible to own his own home or farm ? ion or two. For some time now, It is obvious that the motion skyism from Stalinism. We have proposed a Murray or William Green—with whom we I have been watching and wonder­ the Reuther-Murray-NAM-Roman does not make it “ mandatory. . . Why are the Socialists so hate­ hierarchy axis. How come ? specific united front for a limited and specific have the most profound political differences fully critical of our American ing just which one 'of the various to advance this program to front end IN SPITE OF our unbridgeable political — if they were attacked by the reactionary way of life? A system which has groups supposed to be fighting J.C.H. position without regard to its differences. government and bosses. We abhor John L. madf America the grandest all for “ Socialism” really desires so­ Los Angeles, Calif. immediate effectiveness.” cialism, or if you are all just We do not intend for one second to abandon Lewis’s politics and dictatorial methods. around benefactor, to a greater Ed. Note: 3) Lens’ and Weiss’ criticisms trying to kid someone. of The M ilitant’s' past treatment or even modify our mortal struggle against Nevertheless, we have consistently defended proportion of its people than any 1) The Manifesto of the Fourth other country in the world ? Why Socialism, to me, is that state of this point in our program was Stalinism. Stalinism is a cancer in the labor him and his union when they were under of society wherein -all the means International on Page 2 restates not voted upon by the convention. is an honest p rofit so abhorrent the Marxist understanding of movement. We have fought for 20 years and capitalist attack. to a socialist? Is a profit not of production, distribution and Their motion quoted above was what a socialist soeiety is. The will continue to fight to destroy this deadly If the whole labor movement becomes im­ needed to restore worn out tools, exchange are, socially owned and defeated in favor of .the substi­ Russian Revolution of 1917 de­ disease within the working class. bued with this same spirit of class solidarity, equipment, machinery, plant etc., operated on behalf of the people tute (for the whole) motion of stroyed capitalism" there, but tc provide the means by which a and without profit. If this defini­ Comrade Stein, which was “ That But we have always regarded it as an it w ill be able to settle its internal differences present-day Russia, with its low good job is provided fo r the tion is not correct, then I wish the convention accept the general elementary class duty to unite with all by democratic processes within its own ranks, standard of living, its monstrous THE M ill TANT is y o u r worker and a small recompense someone would enlighten me. • line of the document and empower elements within the labor movement, how­ while maintaining an impregnable wall of inequalities, its slave labor, its os well for the thrifty who save I fu lly agree that such,a social the incoming NC to edit it in final newspaper —- huge bureaucracy and its police ever much we differ from them politically, defense against its common class enemies. seme of their wages fo r insurance, system would establish an econ­ form, bearing in mind the discus­ regime, is a long way from being fo r savings accounts, etc.? What omic heaven on earth, and am sion that has taken place in this SUBSCRIBE TODAY! socialist. And what is more ser­ would you, under socialism, sub­ willing to do everything within ious, under Stalin, the trend is stitute for all this ? Where Would my power to bring it about. The not toward socialist equality and Russian School Teacher and Stalinism you get the money to replaee ? Socialist says he wants socialism; freedom, but back towards cap­ Activities of ‘M ilitant’ Readers and the How would you tax? What miser­ the Trotskyist says he wants The sensational development of the Russian strength and has expanded its influence over italist barbarism. able doles would you hand out to socialism'; the Socialist Laborite school teacher who jumped out of the third 2) Our conflict with the Stal­ half of Europe, the Stalin regime can only those who have worked all their tells us that he alone w ill bring inists is over basic principle, story window of the Soviet Consulate in New rule by the most naked terror against Its own lives, saved nothing, and are no us a socialist society, while the SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY certainly not over who is going York has for a few days driven all other news subjects, and outrages progressive public longer able to produce? Communist says that socialism is already in operation in the Soviet to get credit for bringing Social­ off the front pages of the country’s news­ opinion everywhere by its arbitrariness, its H.R.D. AKROJi—4 So. Howard St., 2nd S. »on. 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Reuther-Murray-ACTU machine FLINT—Socialist Workers Party Hall, Sunday evening discussions on “ The Revolution, under Lenin and Trotsky, the Here in America we have an 215 E. Ninth Street. Phone: 2-2496. SWP Election Program” . Every week, An incident of this type should open the ex-preacher named T h o m a s, in the CIO. We oppose it. Open House Saturday evenings. 7:30 P. M. Soviet Union was a shining beacon for the LOS ANGELES—Militant Pub!. Assn., eyes of many misguided militants who still claiming to be a “ Socialist,” who * « * ftoom 201, 124 W. 6th St. Phone VAndyko SAN DIEGO (Cal.) — For Information oppressed and exploited throughout the think that Stalin carries on the traditions is more bitter in his criticism of 8061. write P. O. Box 857. TOLEDO! SAN PEDRO—Militant, 1008 S. Pacific SAN FRANCISCO—1739 Fillmore Ave. world. At a time when the Soviet regime was of Lenin, or who think that the bloody the Soviet Union than even Ran­ Takes Issue with 4th fl. Phone F l. 6-0410. Dally excep GRACE CARLSON, SWP Vice- Room 214. Sun., 12-4:30 p. m. beset by countless enemies inside and outside dolph Hearst. WATTS—Militant. 1720 E. 97th 8t. Kremlin clique enjoys the, support of the Presidential candidate will speak Militant Report- SEATTLE—Maynard Bldg., iBt Ave, the country, right in the midst of civil war, I f a socialist society has re­ LYNN, (Mass.)—44 Central So., Rm. South & Washington. Phone Main 927* Russian people. at a PUBLIC MEETING placed capitalism in the Soviet Editor: 11, Sat. 1-5 p. m. Discussion, Tues., Mon. through Sat., 12-5 p. m. BrancJ the government of Lenin and Trotsky r :30 p. m. meeting, F rl., 8 p. m. Library, bookstor< Socialism w ill again resume its victorious Saturday, August 28, 8 p. m. Union, (and I feel sure it has) The July 12 M ilitant, in report­ MILWAUKEE—M ilitant Bookshop, 608 ST. LOUIS—1023 N. Grand Blvd.. R a practiced the widest kind of democracy. Be­ march, and the Soviet Union itself w ill be Kapps Hall, 413 Summit Street then what is all this hullaballo ing the SWP National Convention S. 5th St. Mon. through F rI., 7:30-9:30 312. Forum, Thurs.. 7-30-10 p. m cause of this, it attracted to its cause not p. m. Phono BRoadway 9645. ST. PAUL—540 Cedar St. Phone Qar> regenerated when the workers break with top floor (admission free) about the wicked “ Stalinists” etc, discussion oh the resolution, MINNEAPOLIS—10 So. 4th St. Phone field 1137. Open daily. Bookstore. only millions of workers everywhere, hut the etc. Or are you just peeved be­ "Militarization of the USA and Main 7781. Daily except Sun., 10 a. m.- TACOMA (Wash.)—W rite P. O. BoX perfidious Stalinism and group themselves RADIO BROADCAST 6 P. m. Library, bookstore. 1079. Meeting, Wed., 8 p. m.. Odd Fellow best of the bourgeois intellectual world, around the banner and program which pro­ cause the Russian workers got Tasks of the SWP” , says that Hall. 6th & Fawcett. GRACE CARLSON in an in­ out from under ? “the Convention rejected their NEW BRITAIN, (Conn.)—M ilitant Dis­ TOLEDO — Weekly meetings every? writers, scientists and professional people. terview over station WTOD cussion Group every F rl. 7:30 p.m. M ili­ Friday night at 7:30, ICapps Hall,- 415 duced the first victorious workers revolution Moreover, there w ill be precious (Lens’ and Weiss’) amendment tant Labor Club. 165 Main St, (next to Summit, Room 1, top fl. Today, when the Stalinist rulers boast that in Russia in 1917. Today that banner is Monday, Aug. 30, 1 ;00 p. m. on the grounds that it made it Strand Theatre). YOUNGSTOWN — 234 E. Federal 3t.} little progress made toward any NEW HAVEN — Labor School 855 Phono 3-1355. Wed., F rl., Sat., 1:30 to the Soviet Union is at the peak 'of its carried by the world Trotskyist movement. improvement in the workers’ con- mandatory for the Party to ad­ Grand Ave., 3rd fl., Tues. 8-10:30 p> pa. ! 4 p. m. Supply and Demand t h e MILITANT ------By Art Prêt» ------NUMBER 34 Whenever you pin a good Republican to the the suffering public. So now the government VOLUME X II MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1948 wall and ask, “ What is your program to combat freights and ¿hips potatoes at the cost of an­ inflation?” he’ll answer quick as a jack rabbit, other 40 cents per bushel and sells them to al­ “ Supply and demand!” cohol processors fo r 9. cents a bushel. Some of This mysterious little formula — sometimes the potatoes it mills into flour and sends to Ger­ spoken of as “ the natural law of supply and de­ many and elsewhere at a cost of another 70 cents mand” — is supposed to provide the answer to all per bushel. Maritime Unions Face Battle economic questions. This year we are going to pay, through the gov­ However the capitalists — and that goes for ernment, another 70 million dollars so we can Republican and Democratic varieties — don’t have the privilege of buying potatoes at twice demonstrate in practice any too much confidence or three times the price they would be without in the workings of their all-inclusive “ law of sup­ “ price support.” And that goes fo r corn, wheat, ply and demand.” oats, cotton, beef and other essential products. On Crucial Hiring Hall Issue You don’t see food prices coming down any, The latest Department of Agriculture estimates fo r instance, through the operation of this “ nat­ reveal that the grain and cotton crops this year ural law.” And the reason is very simple. The w ill be the greatest on record — fa r exceeding By Art Sharon anything expected by the government or farm Kids for Sale government is taking hundreds of millions of NEW YORK, Aug. 18 — your tax money and giving it to the big grain, experts. Do you hear the Republicans clamoring TRA1N0R DENIED PLACE potato and meat producers to “prop up” prices. for the “ law of supply and demand?” Not on Negotiations have been con­ Read the 1948 Republican platform from cover your life! cluded in the maritime industry to cover and you won’t find anything about the The Aug. 16 N. Y. Times reports that Chicago by the A F L Seafarers Interna­ government’s policy of spending your money to Board of Trade memliers claim “ that the Gov­ ON DALLO! IN MASS. tional Union and the CIO keep up food prices. The Republicans even boast ernment’s support of prices fo r grains are the By / . J. K e lly National Maritime Union. Wage about what they’ve done for “farm support” — only preventives against a decline in the market.” settlements calling for a $12.50 meaning government financing of inflated food A decline in the market means a decline in BOSTON, Aug. 17— In an unbridled display of arrogance, monthly increase were made hy prices. profits — and that’s a fate worse than death for the State Ballot Law Commission of Massachusetts at its hear­ the two,unions which take in all Right now, the government is buying potatoes the capitalist. So you don’t hear any talk about ing ruled Lawrence P. Trainor of the Socialist Workers Party unlicensed seamen on the East fo r $1.55 a bushel to keep up the prices. You “ the natural law of supply and demand” when it Coast and the Gulf. This increase get soaked twice — first you pay high taxes for comes to letting that "law” operate to the detri­ off the ballot in the 12th Con- * of 6 per cent follows the previous ers, “ Let’s get out of here.” Their “ price support” and then you pay the high price ment of the commodities speculators and food gressional District. Unknown increase of 5 per cent won in departure was so sudden and fo r the tax-supported potatoes. (Trusts. That's when Republicans and Democrats protesters represented by Roy S. January of this year. The all-im ­ quickly executed that it lobked But that’s not all. In 1946, the government alike say “ to hell with the law of supply and de­ Remer claimed that enough of portant hiring hall issue, however, staged. spent 90 million dollars for potatoes that it mand” and vote with both hands for “ price sup­ Trainor’s signatures were forged has been' by-passed. dumped or burned. This raised an outcry from port” — that is, inflation. to bar him from a place on the To refute the decision of the Both the unions and shipowners obviously biased Commissioner ballot. have agreed to accept the present would require a court action. This Chairman James J. Hurley of hiring hall setup and wait fo r the would call'for the expenditure of ruling of a “ competent court” the Commission showed his de­ hundreds of dollars that the work­ Palmer Raids termination to throw Trainor off as to its legality. ers of the Socialist Workers Party Simultaneously timed with the the ballot in every way possible. cannot afford. Thus the capitalist B y F . Forest Stanley Epstein, lawyer for the announcement of the final settle­ politicians once more have suc­ ment, the National Labor Rela­ Socialist Workers Party, was This pamplet * on the red hysteria following 1477.) Interestingly enough, the editor of that ceeded in barring the road to in­ tions Board issued a ruling that heckled and told “ his place” time World War I is a timely, well-documented piece radical Negro newspaper was A. Philip Randolph, dependent class politics to the the hiring hall was illegal under of work. Despite the “ progressive” Popular Front- who currently again figures in the news because and again by Hurley. Trainor. workers of Boston. the Taft-Hartley Act. The NMU ish style the Stalinists use in presenting the facts, of his courageous stand against a Jim Crow when making his summary state­ has announced it w ill challenge the facts themselves are indisputable. From these, Army. No wonder that to those who remember ment was likewise heckled with the ruling in the courts. many valuable lessons can be learned by us who the Palmer raids the present words of Senator such childish questions as, “ If The NLRB decision constitutes live in the era o f the Smith Gag Act and the Wayne Morse had a fam iliar ring when he shouted you had a million doflars, would NAACP Fights a stiff blow at every maritime Taft-H artley Slave Law and are daily fed by spy at Randolph: “ I t may very well lead to indict­ you still believe in this stuff?” union in the country. The hiring scare stories, war mongering, red-baiting and gov­ ments for treason and very serious repercussions.” While Democratic and Republican hall is the most prized possession ernment by injunction. Discrimination 3. Moves against foreign-born. The present defendants were allowed every of the seamen and its elimination As is well known, the red hysteria after World campaign against foreign-bom is not far re­ possible leeway, given every cour­ would spell a body blow to union­ War I culminated in the notorious Palmer raids. moved from the 1919-1920 deportation proceedings tesy possible and permitted to Policy at Sears ism in the maritime industry. The raids carried out on the night of January 2, against “ alien bomb throwers.” Although no arms question the motives of their ob­ Mrs. Lucille Challifoux turns sobbing from the camera after 1920 by the then Attorney-General A. Mitchell of any kind were found in the illegal wrecking COURTS SERVE OWNERS jectors, Epstein and Trainor were By J. Hawkins putting this sign in front of her Chicago home. She and her Palmer and his right-hand man, J. Edgar Hoover, activities conducted by Attorney General Palmer, told by Hurley to “cut it out,” husband, jobless and facing evictions, can no longer feed and The leaderships of both the in arresting without warrant, and throwing into and the present head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. “ we’re not interested in. that shelter their four children, aged 2 to 6. Federated Pictures A F L and CIO maritime unions ja il, no less than 6,000 persons, are without this did not prevent third-degree grillings and 8—The local branch of the Na­ story” and “ Are you trying to tional Association for the Ad­ have placed great hope in various precedent. But the general character of the pres­ actual deportations. legal formulas and evasions to tell the Commission how to hold vancement of Colored People ent government-sponsored red hysteria is the 4. Finally, railroading of revolutionary social­ the hearing?” get around the Taft-Hartley Act. same as the previous one. We need but state ists. Just as the Government in World War I voted at its monthy meeting F ri­ The Socialist Workers Party day night to continue its boycott The shipowners rest secure in the four instances to see the deadly parallel: moved against those' who opposed the firs t im­ Chevrolet Workers in Flint knowledge that the NLRB and the collected 4,270 signatures. After against the Sears and Roebuck perialist slaughter and solidarized themselves courts plan to do the job on the 1. The campaign against the trade union move­ having almost 800 thrown out by store because of the store’s with the Russian Revolution, so with "the out­ hiring hall which they themselves ment. The concerted drive against organized labor the Boston Election Board the racial discrimination in hiring. break of World War n, the Government railroaded are not strong enough to do. in 1919-1920 decimated the trade unions. I t took SWP came to the hearing with The latest offer of the store Strike Against GM Speed-up to jail 18 Trotskyists for their opposition to the Six other maritime unions are no lesa than 16 years before the steel workers only a margin of 9 surplus signa­ management to upgrade a Negro Second World War. work, corporation officials fran­ still negotiating their agreements. could again organize and force the Steel Trust tures over the required 3,484. janitor to stock clerk, hire a jBy Emmett Moore to recognize the union. I t is true that the union The campaign of the World W ar I period to tically called the union and in­ Four of these are seamen’s unions As reported in the Aug. 9 Mil­ Negro window dresser and reserve movement today is too strong to be wiped out destroy the IWW is farther paralleled by the FLIN T Aug. 11— A two-day j sisted they get the men back on who have been waiting for the itant, a w riter of the Boston f u tore warehouse jobs for w ith one stroke. But the Government again rules present campaign to destroy the radical organ­ the job or face suit under the wage pattern to be set on the Negroes has been turned down stoppage of 8Û key crankshaft by injunction and the labor movement is saddled izations as well as the Concerted effort to wipe Herald, mouthpiece of State Taft-Hartley law. The hesitant Edst Coast. The other two are by the negotiating committee. bafancei job workers shut down w ith the Taft-Hartley Slave Law. out the Stalinist; movement. Street, practically called for way in Whieh management took the longshoremen’s unions in the The branch also voted to appeal filé huge Chevrolet - Motor Plant The Palmer raids wefe so flagrantly unconstitu­ Sbttieone to protest the nomina­ action, and the bluff to sue the industry which are at present 2. The attacks upon the Negro people. Pre­ to the national NAACP to enter this week, affecting 5,000 work­ tional that they provoked a mighty protest move­ tion papers. union,, indicate that Chevrolet deadlocked over several important cisely because this most oppressed group forms into national negotiations with ers;. After.the local unión leaders) ment not only on the part of labor but also of wanted motors. I f the leaders had issues. a natural bulwark against capitalism, the Gov­ ONLY CLUE Ihe store, to institute a nation­ the; regional-director and Reuther many liberals. Thus Francis Fisher Kane, U. S. supported the strike they could The CIO International Long­ ernment is especially sensitive about its own The only' clue as to who the wide boycott against the Sears refused' .to,. authorize the’. strike, District Attorney in Philadelphia, resigned his have settled and won the imme­ shoremen’s and Warehousemen’s crimes against this tenth of the nation and moves office in protest against these illegal raids. Rem­ protesters are is the fact that Company, and protested against the men’ returned, to work. Todgÿ diate issue of speedup in this Union on the Pacific Coast is un­ the more viciously against them. In the hear­ iniscent of the “ Worst 80th Congress” of our day, Roy Remer, the lawyer, was a the issuance of a temporary in­ the Company, made its first hiové department. der a Taft-H artley 80-day injunc­ ings of the infamous “Committee Investigating was the action of the Congress of 1920 when im ­ member of the now defunct junction in Superior Court against •of retaliation by suspending- six Seditious Activities” headed in 1920 by the New tion which expires Sept. 2. The peachment charges were brought against As­ Friends of the Soviet Union in the picketing of the store. balancé job unión men. York state senator Clayton R. Lusk, an attempt R ES ENT M EN T M 0 UN TIN G AFL International Longshore­ sistant Secretary of Labor, L. F. Post, fo r his 30!s, and was a defender of Stal­ The NAACP branch meeting For five months, the crankshaft was made to prove that The Messenger was the Workers’ resentment is mount­ men’s Association on the East expose of the raids and his freeing of hundreds inism during that period. Thus was hectic, as the branch presi­ balance men have demonstrated mouthpiece of the Soviet Government because it ing daily. Already there have Coast is due to come under a who had been illegally held fo r deportation. there is the possibility that the dent and his suporters beat o ff great ■ solidarity in th’g teeth of was “ committed. . . to the proposition of organ­ been more wildcat strikes in Flint similar injunction this week. Charles Evans ’Hughes best summed up that Stalinists are involved. efforts by the Stalinists to disrupt the Company efforts to .speed up izing Negroes fo r the class struggle.” (“ Revolu­ than at any time since the early shameful pagi,,!4r; American history. He said: Remer confronted the Com­ the meeting and capture the their’Ajobs. Over the ldst eleven OVERTIME PAY tionary Radicalism, Part I, Revolutionary and organizing days of 1937-38. This “ We may well wonder in view of the precedents mission with a so-called “ hand­ branch. The disrupters, who have years they have put out 40 cranks Subversive Movements Abroad and at Home,” p. is an entirely new development. The principle issue deadlocking now established whether constitutional govern­ writing expert,” Elizabeth Mc­ only recently joined the branch, an hour. The Company, in line Formerly, the rigid GM contract longshore negotiations is over­ ment as heretofore maintained in this republic Carthy, who was sure that “ 49 have never done a lick of work to with the GM speedup policy in­ kept the men in tow. Wildcatting time pay. Operators are seeking •THE PALMER RAIDS, Edited by Robert W. could survive another great war even victoriously signatures are invalid and per­ build the branch or assist in its sisted that production be raised to eliminate premium pay for indicates the explosive nature of Dunn, International Pub., 30c. waged.” haps more.” When Epstein handed participation in the fight against to 51 cranks. A fter a score of night, Sunday and holiday work. the grievances. Reuther’s stock, her a paper with the name Lawr­ Sears. penalties and one firing, the union A recent Supreme Court ruling as a result, has dropped to a new ence P. Trainor written 10 times REPEATED BLOWS voted for strike action against held that this premium pay was the Company by a 7 t o l maigin, low here. base pay and overtime work had and asked her to determine which The NAACP branch has suf­ Politics of the Spy Scare with 8,000 Chevrolet workers par­ Both Fisher Body 1 and 2 are to be paid over and above this had been written by Trainor she fered internal demoralization be­ ticipating .in the balloting. in the process of taking strike base. Back claims under this replied that it would take a day cause of the succession of blows By Joseph Keller Immediately after the strike votes over speedup. Many work­ ruling add up to a considerable to give an answer and was d if­ it has received from Sears and vote the Company penalized three ers wonder }f there is any pur­ sum due to dock workers. In des­ Spy scares are a standard and well-worn part the Stalinists leaders be framed under the in­ ferent from “ picking out obvious Roebuck and the federal govern­ more men to bring the total to pose to this when Reuther re­ peration, the operators and the of the political techniques of all reactionary re­ famous Smith “ Gag” Act for the patently false forgeries in nomination papers.” ment—and now, the Communist 15. This action precipitated the fuses authorization after they treacherous Ryan leadership of gimes. They are whipped up artificially for the charge of “advocating overthrow of the govern­ When Epstein suggested the pos­ Party. Fighting for its very purpose of smearing political opposition and pro­ ment by force and violence.” sibility of error he was told by ■walkout; but not until the work­ fu lly comply with the union con­ the AFL longshore union are ap­ existence as the organization ers learned that Reuther had stitution. It is the contention of pealing to Congress for legisla­ viding a pretext fo r its suppression. By this procedure, the Truman Administration Hurley to get an expert to coun­ speaking independently for the tiirned thumbs down to the re­ many workers that Reuthers’ ac­ tion to outlaw these claims. Mean­ The current spy scare in this country is no hoped to avoid the necessity of producing evidence ter-act McCarthy. This was done Negro community, the action by quest for strike authorization. tion in Chevrolet has all the ear­ while the operators are seeking exception. It is strictly politically motivated. It in court which, if closely investigated, might prove and George Smith, former expert the branch Friday night is the is intended to whip up “ anti-communist” and war embarrassing to the Democratic Administration. for the Boston Police Department, When the key motor division marks of a “gentlemen’s agree­ to eliminate premium pay from first sign of re-awakened deter­ ment” reached at the signing of hysteria among the more gullible section of the For, of course, during the wartime honeymoon testified that outside of a couple supplying most Chevrolet assem­ longshore contracts. mination to carry on. the last contract. The negotiations of twelve sep­ public nourished on the cloak-and-dagger type of between Washington and the Kremlin, there was of duplications on the part of bly plants w ith motors stopped The Post Office Loyalty Board arate maritime unions, the ma­ popular spy fiction and movies. a considerable free interchange of information husbands-wives he saw nothing has not lived up to its promise to jority of whom deal with the same Truman, it is true, is now squealing “red her­ and collaboration of their intelligence services. wrong with any of the alleged inform the NAACP branch presi­ Not that they didn’t try to hold out on each other boss, are proving to be lengthy ring” because the Republican-controlled Congres­ forgeries claimed by McCarthy. dent, Frank H. Barnes, within 15 sional committees have turned his spy scare into and do considerable spying on each other. But and increasingly difficult to con­ When Epstein started to make days, of his fate. Several months REACH PETITION GOAL that was understood and winked at by both sides. clude. The old process of collec­ a smear of the Democratic administration itself. capital of this point, Hurley, who after suspending Barnes from his But that is only an ironic and incidental aspect Principally, the American and Russian intel­ tive bargaining on a pure and was plainly embarrassed, threat­ mail carrier’s job, the Post­ of the spy hysteria being generated by Washing­ ligence services co-operated in tracking down simple trade union basis is break­ ened to end the hearing by order­ master General sent a loyalty ton. working class revolutionists and suppressing anti­ IN i l NEW YORK COUNTIES ing down. The government has ing the two experts to work with board to g rill him unmercifully. The fact is that the Truman Administration for capitalist movements in Europe. In this country, taken over on an increasing scale the Commission. Three weeks after returning to the past three years has been building up a spy the Stalinists were the chief wartime agents of By Irving Beinin, N. Y. State Campaign Manager the fight for the shipowners. In Trainor, in his summary state­ Washington, there appeared on scare as part of its “ cold war” propaganda the government in putting the finger on militants the latest NLRB action, it has the scene FBI agents, who have against the Soviet Union. The spy scare is a in the unions. ment, questioned the testimony -Aug. 17—The New York State petition campaign went over challenged the very existence of been going about the Negro natural complement of Truman’s highly-publicized of a witness produced at the last the top in all 61 counties this week. A total of 22,000 signatures maritime unionism. Neither the Roosevelt nor the Truman ad­ neighborhood, inquiring into “ loyalty purge” of government employes, his polit­ minute by Remer. The witness For many years Stalinist con­ ministration was greatly disturbed about the Barnes’ political affiliations and were rolled up in 24 days. This ical blacklist of “ subversive organizations” and had not one identification with up this Saturday night with large trol of the NMU made unity of known criminal activities of Stalin’s secret agents opinions. The attempt to frighten impressive achievement was the frame-up now being attempted against 12 in­ him — no social security card, no open air political rallies in Har­ the maritime unions all but im­ on American soil as assassins of Stalin’s political the local Negro population out of made possible because of the dicted Communist Party leaders. auto license, no billfold. While lem and the East Side of Man­ possible. Their crooked manuevers opponents. There was the case of the murder of continuing the fight against exceptional enthusiasm and de­ I t was, in fact, Truman’s Department of Justice Trainor was talking, Hurley rose hattan. Thanks are being extend­ to seize control of the industry Walter Krivitsky in Washington itself. And most votion by the party membership and FBI which introduced the testimony of self- and said to the other Commission- Sears will not succeed. ed to the workers of these areas only brought damage to maritime flagrant of all, the assassination of Leon Trotsky in this state. I t safely qualifies confessed former GPU agents before the Federal for helping to put Dobbs and labor, and disrupted all attempts in Mexico, long known by the FBI to have been the party and its candidates for Grand Jury that indicted the CP leaders. But Carlson on the ballot. to build one union for the indus­ prepared, in part, in this country according to the a place on the ballot. The elec­ after getting the Grand Jury steamed up over the The opening campaign rally try. self-implicating confessions of former GPU agents LEON TROTSKY MEMORIAL tion law requires a tjta l of 12,000 spy testimony, the government recommended that has been scheduled for Friday The recent elimination of the Louis Budenz and Elizabeth Bentley. signatures in the state including MEETING evening, Aug. 27 in the Hotel Stalinists from leadership in the at least 50 in each county. The Diplomat, in conjunction with NMU and the rise of a consider­ SWP campaign committee, how­ And Presidential Campaign Rally the Trotsky memorial meeting. able opposition in the West Coast ever, set as its goal 150 signa­ The launching of the firs t presi­ 1 longshoremen’s union, still under tures in each county and 26,000 Notes from the News Speakers: dential campaign of the SWP is their control, has removed the E. R. FRANK, Editor, Fourth, International in the state. This has now v ir­ the most fittihg tribute to the biggest barrier to unity. Now the tually been obtained, N. Y. AFL CONVENTION — The just-con­ C IVIL LIBERTIES LAW — Breaches of civil GEORGE CLARKE, National Campaign Director, SWP memory of the founder of our A FL and CIO maritime leaders A mobilization of all boroughs cluded N. Y. State AFL Convention went on a liberties and the spread of anti-red hysteria have MIKE BARTELL, New York City Organizer movement. can no longer duck their responsi­ of New York City last Saturday bility for forging a united front real i-«d-baiting spree. They first proceeded to reached heights comparable only to the Palmer Motion picture of the SWP Convention, launching night netted over 2,000 signatures. unseat 29 duly elected dele­ raid days of the 1920’s, declared A rthur Garfield its first presidential campaign in the maritime industry against Marion Winters of the Central the Taft-H artley Act and its gates because they were “ com­ Hays, counsel for the 'American Civil Liberties “ SWP ON THE MARCH” branch set a new record for the munists.” Then, they solidariz­ Union. union smashing apparatus. That * * * campaign with a score of 152 sig­ ed themselves with Catholic * * is the crying need of the hour THE M ILITA N T CHORUS censorship by commending the natures in one evening. in this crucial period of mari­ action of the New York Super­ DIE CASTERS A F F ILIA T E — The CIO auto HOTEL DIPLOMAT The mobilization concluded with time labor unionism. intendent of Schools in ban­ union executive board approved an agreement a highly successful social event ning The Nation for its critical for the affiliation of the National Association of 108 West 43rd St. FRIDAY, AUG. 27 sponsored by the B’klyn Branch. articles on the Vatican. This action, it was re­ A humorous skit was presented Support the Die Casting Workers, involving approximately New York City 8 P.M. which demonstrated the difficul­ ported, was passed unanimously. That means 20,000 workers. The Die Casters withdrew from Dobbs-Carlson the phony liberals of the needle trades unions ties encountered in getting signa­ Auspices: Socialist Workers Party voted for it along with the other “ labor states­ the Stalinist-dominated Mine, M ill and Smelter tures in the upstate counties. Fund! The petition campaign w ill wind men. Workers in June.