Vote Trotskyist, Dobbs Urges In THE MILITANT Radio Address PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—Urging New York workers to cast their votes for a worklngclass program and genuine labor candidates, VOL. IX — No. 44 NEW YORK, N. Y „ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1945 Jarrell Dobbs, Trotskyist candidate for mayor, tonight exposed PRICE: FIVE CENTS the “friends of labor” claims of the three Wall Street mayoralty candidates, Tammany’s O’Dwyer, the Republican Goldstein, and La Guardia’s “No Deal” Morris. Dobbs spoke for 15 minutes over municipal radio station WNYC in a slashing attack upon the real Big Business connec- Sons of the major party candidates. He refuted their claims of Profiteering Auto And Steel Barons "sympathy for labor” by pointing to their record of failure to support, or open hostility to, every strike struggle of New York workers for higher wages and better conditions. The Trotskyist candidate contrasted to this the record of fighting support that he and Louise Simpson, Trotskyist candi­ Arrogantly Reject Wage Demands date for city council, and the Socialist Workers Party have given to every strike action and demand of New York workers. He challenged the boss candidates to make known where they stand A Graduation Gift From Truman on labor’s demand for a 30 per cent wage raise. Dobbs told the vested interests of Wall Street that as mayor Allies Increase GM,Chrysler Workers Vote he would initiate a comprehensive program of public works, low- rent housing, decent schools, playgrounds, nurseries and every­ Armed Pressure thing else the workers need, by taxing “ heavily” the rich, the Overwhelmingly For Strike profiteering corporations, the real estate interests, the parasitic bondholders and all the capitalist leeches who have been bleed­ On Indonesians By A rt Preis ing the city for decades. The following are extracts from Dobbs’ By Joseph Hansen OCT. 29.—American labor moved one step fighting address: Everybody loves labor—just®---------------------------------------------- Open fighting has broken out closer to a major showdown on its demand for a before election time. We would ers of New York City are in­ between the Allied imperialists 30 per cent general wage increase as the General never suspect from the speeches clined to vew with a skeptical and the forces of the Republic Motors and Chrysler workers last week voted ov- of the boss-controlled mayoralty eye the solemn promises of these of Indonesia. British troops oc­ candidates—O’Dwyer, Goldstein pre-election lovers of labor. cupied Soerabaja October 26. As e whelrmngly for strike action and the CIO or. Newbold Morris—that the Nothing in the record or actions they tightened their control and ^ Steelworkers Union an­ power lines of their political or political connections of these ordered the Indonesians to give nounced it was filing for machines stretch right down into Wall Street candidates supports up their arms, the Indonesians SKF Strikers Wall Street. their vote-catching declarations.' responded by throwing up street a strike vote. After decades of experience Here in New York City we barricades. On October 28 the These were the key develop­ w ith Democratic, Republican, have witnessed such terribly ex­ Allied press reported that Indo­ Resist Brutal ments of the past few days In a No-Deal, Raw Deal and Bum ploited workers as the elevator nesians “ opened fire on British looming historic labor struggle, Deal administrations, the work­ (Continued on Page 7) Indian troops.” Police Terror as the giant auto and steel cor­ According to Aneta, the o ffi­ Special to THE M ILITANT porations, swollen with war prof­ cial Dutch news agency, Dr. its and grown supremely arro­ Mustepo, leader of the Indones­ By Max Geldman gant, contemptuously dismissed ian nationalists in the area said the just wage demands of two Simpson On Radio the situation was “like an unex­ PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 25. — The strike to unionize the inter­ of the most powerful industrial ploded bomb which is liable to unions in America. go off at any moment.” national roller - bearing trust, SKF, now going into the fifth Both General Motors and U. Attacks Jim Crow The British continued to land S. Steel, m ulti - billion dollar troops at Soerabaja. A t Batavia week, is holding solid despite The following are excerpts What are the issues in this brutal police attempts to break trusts, are pouring out tens of from a speech delivered, over election! I mean . what do the British landed a light tank millions from their union-bust­ regiment. The Allied drive to up the continually swelling ranks radio station WMCA, on October the Democrats say the issues of strikers. Since Monday, the ing slush funds in a flood of 28, by Louise Simpson, Trotsky­ crush the independence move­ radio and press propaganda are? Senator Robert P. Wagner, ment in Indonesia is thus reach­ main SKF plant at Erie and ist candidate for New York City Front Streets has been a battle­ against the union demands. Council. in speaking for O’Dwyer, said, ing a new stage of violence. The They are pleading “ poverty” and “A democratic vibtory in the Allied despots are following a ground, as pickets, determined not to permit misled office work­ threatening huge price rises if By Louise Simpson City of New York will strengthen sinister pattern in their moves the union demands are met. the Democratic party every­ against the Indonesians. ers to enter, faced continued at­ tacks by club-swinging police. The Negro people are today where. And that is the first big SINISTER PATTERN LIES EXPOSED issue in this municipal cam­ Reinforced by volunteer steel- receiving many promises from On October 15 the Netherland Their lying propaganda was paign.” helmeted pickets from CIO un­ the politicians of the capitalist News, published by the Dutch dramatically exposed through a ions here and in Camden, a daily “leak” from Washington last parties. And these promises— DEMOCRATS AND JIM CROW government, declared: “ The Jap­ Union Women, Beaten By Thugs, picket line of 2,500 union men week. This was a report, intend­ All right, let’s start from anese are still in control—under made to us so easily, so casually, and women has withstood one ed to be secret and confidential, there. What we must do is to Allied orders of course—of most savage police attack after an­ at campaign time—are just as made to Truman by the Recon­ make up our minds whether or areas of Java. So few Allied other, and to date the plant re­ easily and casually forgotten Blames Attack On Corporations version Advisory Board and pre­ not we want to strengthen the troops have arrived that except mains closed. No one, including pared by government economists. after the election is over. Democratic Party. And to de­ for Batavia the occupation of > Special To THE M ILITANT pl^nt executives, is permitted to This report contained full data This year both the Republican cide this, we must first make Java is still in what might be enter. By Kay O’Brien disclosing that wages in this sure that we understand whc called the unreal stage.” and . Democratic Parties are de­ IN THE NEWS POLICE BRUTALITY country could be raised no less voting much time and money controls the national Demo­ On October 16 International DETROIT, Oct. 27.—Last week The M ilitant reported In four days of battle, a num­ than 24 per cent without any ancr effort to swing the Negro cratic Party, and what its pro- News Service reported “ authori­ Shocking news that Genoi^JohnsQn pollinger, 8. chief ber of union m ilitants have been additional price' increases'- and vote into their-: camp. I t is my gram regiljLjs..w n , s ... tative sources disclosed today steward in Briggs Local 2i2, CIO United Automobile Work- clubbed, punched and mauled in still permit the corporations purpose, in this speech, to ex­ The Democrats have been in that Great Britain has determ­ Solves Housing Problem I ers, had been severely beaten by two unknown assailants typical storm - trooper style by higher profits than in the “nor­ amine their promises in the light power in Washington for th ir­ ined to lend its full support to Two days before 1,500 angry i who entered her home around 5:30 a.m. on October 16, the picked bruisers of the Phila­ mal” pre-war period. of their record. teen long years. During those 13 (Continued' on Page 3) war veterans at a mass meeting while she and her husband® delphia police force, led by In ­ With the drastic reduction in * Today, I should like to discuss years, Jim Crow practices have protested the New York City Sol, and h er tw o sons, D enny viewed Mrs. Genora Dollinger at spector La Reau, whose reputa­ excess profits taxes, tax rebates the Democratic Party and its spread—and have been intensi­ housing shortage, retiring Mayor and Joddy, were asleep, the Receiving Hospital here. The tion as a soft-speaking tough and the elimination of much ov­ campaign for Negro votes. I fied. Let anyone deny those two facts! LaGuardia announced he won’t cop has won him the gangster- ertime pay, the corporations can have selected the Democrats not Toledo SWP The entire Detroit labor move- Physical effects of the attack were still evident 11 days after ish name “ Baby-Face.” easily pay 30 per cent higher because their real program is es­ Colored men were segregated, go homeless. He has purchased a ment has been aroused by this $40,000 Tudor-style stone and the beating. She lay propped up So far three strikars have been hourly wages and still make prof- sentially different from the pro­ persecuted, exploited in the arm­ latest gangster attack against Urges Voters To stucco “ shack” in the Bronx, 15 by pillows, with the upper part (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) gram of the Republicans, but ed forces.