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. The national Demo Briggs militants and by the cold of her body in a cast because of rather because they have been cratic administration was direct rooms, 5 baths. blooded and calculated brutality a broken collar bone. more successful in camouflaging ly responsible for this shameful Elect Simmons * * * of labor’s enemies in employing their real program, in creating Jim Crow practice in the army TOLEDO, Oct. 19—Speaking Why He Qualified professional thugs against a Her face is still cut and swollen San Francisco Machinists an APPEARANCE of concern for and navy. before several hundred voters in completely defenseless and un and her head “ one big ache.” Complaining about the recent the plight of the Negroes and Legislation prohibiting the poll the Onyx Club Ballroom, M al suspecting woman unionist and After flashing a light on her, the working class. (Continued on Page 7) colm Walker, organizer of the desertion of Stalinist Daily Work mother. her assailants had silently and Toledo Branch of the Socialist er editor Louis Budenz to the Following the posting of a $500 methodically aimed blows with Prepare For Major Battle Workers Party, explained why Catholic Church, Elizabeth Gur reward by Local 212 and Its ur either iron pipes or heavy black Special To THE M ILITANT hiding behind government the SWP supports James B. Sim ley Flynn, Communist Party na gent requests for action, the jacks at her face. This was the boards, refused to renew their mons, independent Negro candi tional committee member, wrote: UAW-CIO International Execu diabolic means used by the boss By Bob Chester agreements. ‘Vote Labor,' SWP date for city council. A benefit “That such an unreliable and tive Board on October 24 ap es to attack a pretty, popular SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24.— dance sponsored by the Simmons When the union .struck to dishonest individual could oper pointed a three-man committee and m ilitant member of Briggs Tense relations between San campaign committee was in maintain their contracts, the ate in our party for 10 years is to conduct a thorough investi local/and intimidate her fellow- Francisco trade unions and the progress. WLB referred the case to Presi Says In Detroit the tragedy, now that we are rid gation. A statement on the at unionists. employers will come to a cli Urging everyone to cast their dent Roosevelt for government DETROIT, Oct. 27. — Arthur British Labor Party scored its of him. We had in the instance tack from Local 212 officials and Although it was still an effort max on Monday, October 29, the first choice vote for candidate seizure, but the combined at Burch, Detroit organizer of the landslide victory last summer of Budenz a dull writer, a pros its investigating committee for her to talk, Genora displayed date set by AFL Machinists Simmons, Comrade Walker told tack against the union shook Socialist Workers Party, today that the American workers aic speaker and an inadequate points out that “only the inter undiminished the spirit and Lodge 68 and the CIO East Bay the assembled cro’Wd that the neither the leadership nor the delivered the second of three sensed that the time was now editor on our hands.” ests of the corporation gain by courage which has marked her Machinists Local 1304 for joint Socialist Workers Party supports men. Thus, with the help of radio addresses over Station ripe for creating their own party * * * such acts.” as a participant in labor’s strug- strike action if their demands Simmons on the issue of minor the government, the employers WXYZ on “Why the Trotsky of labor. Today I visited and inter- (Continued on Page 2) are not met. I f these two key ity representation in the city were able to avoid signing con ists Support Detroit Labor’s The Socialist Workers Party Jobs For A ll unions' go out, all the other wa council. tracts. supports Detroit labor’s candi “ Help wanted—Male, Refined, Candidates.” His concluding talk “ When we decided to support terfront unions will be affected However, Lodge 68, through dates, Frankensteen for mayor, Reliable gentleman to clean toi immediately. w ill be broadcast Saturday, No this candidate,” said Walker, the loyalty of its members, re vember 3, at 11:45 a.m. The Doll, H ill and Edwards for Com lets . . . ” (Ad in the Seattle Post- NEW YORK LONGSHOREMEN The basic demands of most of “ wc did not ask, is he a good Intelligencer.) tained unofficial job control and following are extracts from to mon Council, because it knows man or a bad man for city coun the unions center around the union conditions in these shops * * * day’s talk. that their victory will serve to cil. We asked, what is the issue FORCE MORE CONCESSIONS slogan “ 48 hours pay for 40 hours during the entire war. Now the give greater impulsion to the in the campaign? We found that Heaven Can Wait By F. J. Lang longshoremen throughout the work” and other demands such union is taking action to once Last week I discussed the movement for a labor party in the issue, one of great importance harbor area, led by Chelsea Lo as vacations with pay, holiday again obtain signed contracts. Commenting on the DAR’s re NEW YORK, Oct. 27. — The question of jobs for all and this country. in a Negro community of 15,000 cal 791 of -the ILA, took job- pay, and a guaranteed weekly • * * fusal to rent Washington’s Con UNITED ACTION showed how the election of persons, was that of Negro rep determined 18-day strike of AFL action by refusing to build loads income. Negotiations between Frankensteen would aid toward LESSON OF THE PAST stitution Hall to a Negro concert the employers and the union Working jointly, AFL Lodge resentation in the city govern artist, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt longshoremen which ended here exceeding the safeweight lim it. the solution of this pressing The workers in Detroit will re October 18 has forced ILA-AFL representatives have not yet 68 and CIO Local 1304 simultan ment . . . For this reason, we said: “ The DAR is made up very problem. Today I shall take up call how they were once duped FORCE RENEGOTIATION achieved agreement on any ma eously presented the same de consider this to be a very prog largely of older people, and it Dictator - President Joseph P. the urgent need of building an into relying on Big Business in As a result of the militant jor point, nor has there been any mands on the employers and set ressive move on the part of the is very much harder for older Ryan, who opposed the strike, independent party of the work the economic field and how they stand of the workers and the indication that the employers’ the same deadline for strike ac- Negro people and well worth our people to break with traditions to renegotiate his proposed un ing class and show how the elec unsuspectingly flocked into com sweeping rank - and - file revolt association w ill permit their -(Continued on Page 2) support.” they have lived ir . . . . but I think ion contract. It h'as also brought tion of the labor candidates on pany unions. I t did not take against his rule, Ryan has been members to accede to the un INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE perhaps we ought to have pa in its wake general discredit to the 6th of November will mark the workers long to have their forced to seek some more con ion’s demands. Comrade Walker went on to tience and hope that eventually the Stalinists who diverted the ON THE INSIDE eyes opened. When these com cessions from the employers. a long stride in this direction. explain that Simmons is an in they will see the light.” original job-action of the long CONTINUATION OF FIGHT Toledo Glass Workers Strike ....2 Labor is quickly beginning to pany unions flagrantly violated dependent candidate, not a ffili shore rank-and-file into an at They have now agreed to 20- Lodge 68 is conducting the French Elections ...... 3 * * * man gangs, two shape-ups a day, realize that its interests are sep the true interests of labor, the ated with either of the two capi tempted CIO raid upon the ILA- test for whole sections of the Biography of Farrell Dobbs .....7 arate and apart from, and in workers resorted to the simple talist political parties. He told Let Freedom Ring! AFL. and a compromise formula for well-organized Bay Area labor Stalinist Line in Elections ...... 8 direct opposition to the inter device of walking out of the the audience that the SWP con W illiam Kleitz, vice president The demand of longshoremen penalty meal hours, which movement. I t was this union COLUMNS AND FEATURES ests of Big Business which com company-dominated unions and siders independent working class of New York City Guarantee for a safe load lim it of 2,240 grants a longshoreman $1 extra which fought a magnificent Trade Union Notes' ...... 2 if he works a six-hour stretch pletely controls the two capi forming their own. political action and the formation Trust Co., recently said: “I think pounds has forced Ryan to re struggle against the combined Internationa] Notes ...... 3 without a meal period. On the talist parties. Republican and The workers could never have of a Labor Party, to be the only depressions are inevitable under negotiate a proposed contract forces of the* employers, the War Veterans Problems ...... 4 Democratic alike. Both in Mich successfully struggled to improve solution for the burning prob the free enterprise system . . .” which made no mention of this workers’ key demand for a lim Labor Board, and the Navy dur Workers Forum ...... 5 igan and in other states labor] their economic conditions had lems of all workers. The New York State Chamber demand and which he was ready ited safe sling-load, the employ ing the course of the war. Pioneer Notes ...... 5 has already taken the first steps they remained shackled to these He explained further how the of Commerce adds: “ Depressions to sign on October 1. Accept ers have refused to budge. When the union’s contract The Negro Struggle ...... 7 toward the formation of its own company unions. It is high time Trotskyists have been in the are the price we pay for free ance of the original contract These new proposals of the with the employers expired in Diary of Steelworker ...... 8 party but it wasn’t until the (Continued on Page 8) (Continued on Page 8) dom.” was blocked on that date when (Continued on Page 2) April of 1944, these employers, Slioptaiks on Socialism ...... 8 FARRELL DOBBS VOTE TROTSKYIST LOUISE SIMPSON For in the For Mayor New York City Elections, Nov. 6 City Council THE MILITANT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1945 GAGE TWO 4,000 Glass Workers Go Out On Strike In Toledo
After Two Years O f Fruitless Palaver With Bosses By Joseph Keller By Ted Reading cents increase in hourly rates, tj) Most Popular Strike ed and ferocious attacks on the All this while the cost of living capitalist press against Frank- I f a vote of the American work TOLEDO, O., Oct. 22.—Three skyrocketed some 47 per cent! Women Strikers On The March ensteen’s election is a full-page ers were taken on what corpora processing plants of the Libbey- Akos explained that while the editorial in the Detroit (so-call Union Woman Slugged, tion they would most like to see Owens-Ford glass company were union had made concessions in ed) Free Press, October 19, en brought to its knees by strike quiet today as some 4,000 strik an earnest attempt to reach a titled: “ Must We Have Govern action, we are sure the over ing workers remained away from settlement, the company made ment by Violence Instead of by whelmingly popular choice would work, their patience exhausted no concessions from its original Blames Corporations Law?” be Montgomery Ward & Co., by two years of fruitless ’ nego counter - proposals. The union This choice b it of hysteria, all tiations with the glass barons. asked originally for a flat 20- (Continued from Page 1) mer, she has devoted the major headed by notorious Sewell L. part of her time to union activ Avery. in large type and with appro- “ We’ve conceded enough,” cent hourly increase together gles for many years. Her chief ity, including work on the Lo priate~iHustrations, wasn’t deal stated W illiam Akos, president with a 4 cent adjustment for la concern was for the welfare of The announcement last week cal 212 investigating committee ing with the police massacre of of Local 9, Federation of Flat bor and maintenance classifica the union and she expressed em by Samuel Wolchok, president and in the PAC campaign for scores of Negro workers in the Glass Workers, CIO. “ The 4,000 tions. The union is now ask phatically the conviction that of the CIO United Retail, Frarikensteen. fascist-inspired pogrom against workers of Toledo together with ing for a 10.7-cent hourly i n - : the attack against her was aimed | Wholesale and Department Store She has been active in the Employes, that the union’s ex the Negro community two years some 15,000 other workers na crease and a 2-cent adjustment. really at her union. ago under Mayor Jeffries, nor union since the organization of ecutive board had unanimously tionally will remain out until The company is still holding to the recent police clubbing of “COMPANY AGENTS’* the UAW - CIO. During the authorized strike action at the wage demands are met and a its original offer of 8 cents! peaceful pickets protesting the “In my opinion,” she told me, Flint General Motors strike of “opportune” moment at 13 key contract is signed.” “ The last conference began meeting of Fascist G.L.K. Smith “ It was more than just coin 1936 she organized the famous units of Ward’s can evoke from In an interview with this rep October 1,” stated Akos. “ T h e . in a public school. cidence that the assault was women’s emergency brigade labor’s ranks only the hearty ex resentative of The Militant, company politely met with us The Free Press horrendous but we gotf nowhere. Finally In maide at a time when labor in which played an important role hortation, “Go To It!” Akos revealed a long story of picture of chaos and blood-run Ottawa, Illinois, when 365 men Detroit is fighting on the eco in winning the strike. She spent W ith typical arrogance the the patient attempts of the ning in the gutters was evoked walked out in protest against a nomic front for a 30 per cent six months in the hospital recov company has initiated an inten workers to reach some settle by the simple prospect of a un return to the pre-war incentive wage increase and on the po ering from the effects of police sified union-busting campaign ment with the glass company, ion man, spokesman of the auto methods, the company broke off litic a l front to elect Frahken- tear gas used against the strik since the recent withdrawal of ohly to be met' by stalling and workers who represent the over evasive tactics and a lack of negotiations, using this episode steen and other labor candidates ers. government control, instituted to city office. No good union Although busy raising her two December to break a strike, whelming population of the city, bargaining in good faith. as a pretext.” occupying the mayor’s seat in member would ever do such a small sons, she still found time Union bulletin boards have been DRAWN-OUT FIGHT stead of some crooked and cor TWO YEAR STALL thing. Whoever paid those thugs to act as recording secretary of ripped down and five active un rupt agent of the big auto cor “ This is the sixth conference In reply to a public statement could have been acting only as the F lin t WPA and Unemployed ion members, including the sec we have had with the company by John D. Biggers, president of agents for the company. The Workers Local 12, organized by porations. retary-treasurer of Local 20, • • * in a period of two years,” the Libbey-Owens-Ford, that "this sooner such types are caught and the UAW. In 1942, she took up have been fired. Union bargain union official stated. “ Our de strike could have been avoided," exposed, the better it w ill be residence in Detroit, where she ing rights and seniority provi Why Did Lewis Do It? mands were referred to the WLB Akos said, “ That is absolutely for all labor.” became a member of Budd Lo sion have been ruthlessly abro When John L. Lewis suspend in February, 1944. The WLB correct. This strike could have cal 306 for nearly two years and A militant all-female picket line picketing the Whitman Genora stated that she wel gated. ed the recent strike of 200,000 settled none of the basic is been avoided if the company had then went to work in Briggs in Candy firm , Philadelphia, in a recent strike. The marchers comed the appointment of the Wolchok has stated that the coal miners, called in support of sues. They succeded only in bargained in good faith and 1943. are members of Local 439, AFL Bakery and Confectionery three - man investigating com union “ will first exhaust the the supervisory employes’ de Throwing the whole matter back made any reasonable counter Workers Union, who walked out demanding “ We want a nickel” mittee by the UAW Executive LABOR’S REACTION processes of negotiation and mand for collective bargaining in our laps. proposals. This they refused to more an hour added to their miserable wages. Board. “ This is just what our mediation,” and is “ willing to of rights, the wiseacres of the cap “ We met with the company do. Hence fu ll blame for the She is vice-chairman of the local investigating committee, to fer to submit all issues to ar italist press had a brief field- again in April of this year in present stoppage must fa ll upon Briggs Local 212 stewards’ body which I was elected, asked of bitration.” We don’t know what day telling the world that the another attempt to' solve our the company.” and chief shop steward, as well the International last summer there is to arbitrate—the WLB United Mine Workers was “ los problems. The matter was again as having served in 1943 and The glass companies are not after the beatings of two of our had issued directives to Avery ing its grip.” referred to the WLB only to 1944 as a member of- the local’s working on government orders N. Y. Dock Workers leading members, A rt Vega and two years ago which he still More stober commentators, have the same thing happen Educational Committee. at the present time, hence no Roy Snowden. I feel sure that boldly flouts. however, anxious that no illu again. The WLB referred the The result of this attack on legal pretext for government if the International had made a The only kind of "arbitration” sions be spread in the boss class, whole thing back to us for re an outstanding woman union seizure exists, Akos said. Force Concessions thorough investigation then, and m ilitant, has had the reverse ef that will get the Ward workers emphasized Lewis’ . statement negotiation. Further consulta The union is preparing for a anything is mass picket lines that “ future efforts to abate claim credit for shaking Ryan’s had offered a large reward, the fect desired by the bosses. It tions again proved fruitless. Wc fight which may be long and (Continued from Page 1) around every Ward property and this controversy w ill be resum grip upon the ILA. They secured assailants would have been has inspired the auto union took a strike vote under the pro drawn out. They intend to hold employers were unsatisfactory to a national l&bor boycott—say ed at a later and more appro an injunction last Thursday from caught and there would have ranks and their local leaders fo visions of the Smith-Connally weekly meetings as morale build- the ILA negotiating committee, just preceding and during the priate date,” and reminded that j Supreme Court Justice Carroll been no further attacks.” greater unity and determination Act and 92 per cent of the work < ers and to inform members of whose overwhelming vote reflect to fight the gangster methods of Chnstmas shopping season the coal- contracts come up for G. Walter, enjoining Ryan from FIRED LAST SPRING ers voted in favor of strike. We j latest developments. In the ed their certainty that even this renegotiation next spring. They signing a contract until it is the corporations, whose press stopped work in June and re event that the strike is pro- revised contract would be re Last spring, she related, she warned that the recent walkout turned in 10 days only after the voted on by the i&embership. and police department had at GM Strike Vote i longed to the point where hard jected by the membership. Ryan and six other Briggs local mili tempted to foster the impres was intended principally as a WLB had solemnly promised a pleaded last Wednesday that
the streets, together w ith the returning veterans, face an immediate critic»! emergency. W ithout jobs and without income, they face hunger and t h e MILITANT homelessness. PROBLEMS FACING Published In the interests of the The most the capitalist government offers Working People the unemployed is starvation rations under a red-tape system of “ states rights” unemploy WAR VETERANS VoL IX —No. 44 Saturday, November 8, 1945 ment “ compensation”— averaging less than $12 ------By CHARLES CARSTEN— ~- Published Weekly by weekly and doled out for an average of only THE M ILITAN T PUBLISHING ASS’N 13 weeks. What Happened To Job Promises 7 at 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. Everyone knows that this country has the Telephone} ALgonquln 4-8547 resources, the plants and the labor power to Two questions are uppermost in the minds ot re FARRELL DOBBS. Managing Editor turning servicemen: Where are the big-s»l»ri#d Jobs provide plenty for all. The tremendous volume we’ve heard so much about »t the battlcfront? Where THE MILITANT follows the policy of permitting its contributors to present their own views In signed articles. of production achieved for war has reaffirmed are the jobs in which we can utilise the skills we These views therefore do not necessarily represent the this. If the workers are unemployed, it is only learned in the army and navy? policies of THE M IL IT A N T which are expressed in its editorials. because the profit-bloated capitalists refuse to Propagandists insistently nurtured the false im permit operation of the plants at full capacity. Subscriptions: $1.00 per year; 60o for 0 months. pression that high-salaried jobs were waiting for Foreign: $2.00 per year, $1.00 for 0 months. Therefore, the workers are entitled to unem those who received technical training in the armed Bundle orders: 3 cents per copy in the United States; 4 eents per copy in all foreign countries ployment insurance that w ill enable them to forces. In order to get servicemen to work hard IP Single copies: 5 cents. maintain a decent standard of living during the learning special techniques, brass hats argued that it '‘Entered as second class m atter March 7, 1944 at the post entire period of unemployment imposed on would help them get better jobs and jobs they would office at New York, N. Y .. under the act of March 3, 1879.° them by capitalism. like in civilian life. Doubtless many soldiers were skeptical of thase Solidarity W ith The Revolutionary glowing assurances. Nonetheless, even the dubloua Struggles Of The Workers In A ll were influenced enough to put in the additional Only the world rev effort required to become specialists just in easo olution can save the Lands: it might be useful when they had to make thoir USSR for socialism. The M ilitant consistently characterized Amer living outside the armed forces. \ But the world" revolu ican participation in World War II as imperial Many were convinced of the opportunities. They ist. We said that W all Street was out to assure wanted to believe that the long dull years of army tion carries with it the domination of American Big Business over or navy life would yield some personal compensation. the inescapable blot the entire world. From Start tp finish, we Trot They wanted to believe that they would not have to ting out of the Krem skyists opposed this imperialist war. The lead return to the insecure and monotonous jobs at low pay they had known as civilians. lin oligarchy. ers of the Socialist Workers Farty, including the editor of The M ilitant, were imprisoned for their Their association in the armed forces w ith men — Leon Trotsky irreconcilable opposition to the war. of varied experiences gave many servicemen a broader When the Italian people overthrew the fas view of life. Many firm ly decided not to return to the humdrum existence of their pre-service years. cist regime and began a revolutionary struggle Most servicemen leave the armed forces determined to establish a form of government in accordance to live a better, more interesting life than they had with their own interests, Anglo-American im before. Our Program perialism intervened w ith armed might and Rut when veterans begin hunting for jobs the imposed a servile puppet regime on the Italian Illusions they formed quickly evaporate.'It doesn't In this issue of The Militant we have intro people. A t that time The M ilitant raised the duced several important changes in Our Pro take long after being demobilised for them to find slogan, “ Hands off the Italian revolution 1” out that the technical training they received In the gram,” printed on page five. These changes re As the Allied conquerors followed the same army or navy either isn’t acceptable to civilian flect profound development* since the end ot counter-revolutionary policy in Algeria, Greece, bosses, qr there is an over-supply of men skilled In the war which affect every worker s life. Belgium and other lands, our slogan was broad the particular trades they learned. They find that We want to make clear from the start that ened to “ Hands off the European and colonial THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, tains its validity today. That is later. By this time Stalin had they do not have the experience required for favored our fundamental program is Marxism, today peoples 1” A t the same time we implemented by James P, Cannon. Pioneer because both of Comrade Can usurped the power in the Soviet positions- Jobs requiring only the limited training veterans have are few and far between, None of the known as Trotskyism. It is embodied in the this slogan by calling for withdrawal of the Publishers, New York. 32 pp., non’s speeches were solidly based Union for many years; his crimes programmatie documents of the Fourth Inter 10 cents. upon the Marxist principle of against the working class were jobs they can get have much of a future, none pt Allied Occupation Troops from Europe.. them nay well. national and in the classic works of our great The Russian Revolution still working class internationalism many and monstrous; blit he had working-class teachers aftd leaders, Marx, En For the complete independence of the stands today as the greatest tes and the revolutionary program r,ot yet succeeded in destroying instead of what they had hoped for and what gels, Lenin and Trotsky. colonial peoples! timony to the power of the work consistent with it. the fundamental conquests of the they had been led to expect,- many of them find This fundamental program expresses the ing class and Its ability to take The dominant note in the Russian Revolution made in Oc themselves among the unemployed. Conservative speech delivered in 1923 is’ the basic historic aims of the world working class Today, the counter-revolutionary policies of its fate into its own hands. That tober, 1917. economists estimate that by spring, 3,008,000 veterans is why today the European spirit of proletarian internation will be jobless. The jobs veterans ean get are gen to do away w ith the vicious capitalist system the Allied conquerors are being applied through STILL LIVES out the world. The Allied conquerors are ruth masses find inspiration and ex alism pervading every phase of erally miserable and under-paid. They won’t will of war, unemployment, racial discrimination ample in Red October. And that Soviet life. This speech gives a The Russian Revolution, which ingly accept jobs such as those offered by a Wall and want, and to replace it with a socialist order lessly shooting down peoples wherever they are has shown that the proletariat struggling for freedom and independence, par is why today James P. Cannon’s graphic first-hand account of Street brokerage firm which said it needed two run based on production for use, with a genuine pamphlet, “ The Russian Revolu life in the Soviet Union follow can take power, and once in ners, “ twp fine disciplined men, Just the sort army ticularly in the colonial countries. Thus, the and lasting world peace. tion,” is of such vital Interest to ing the Civil War and the adop power can set up a system of training produces.” Adding to the insult, these w»r- The will and capacity of the working class same W all Street plunderers whose agents club every serious worker. tion of the New Economic Pol planned economy which is su profit-blpated parasites said they would pay $25 perior to any economic system to achieve the goal of socialism is developed and shoot down American workers on the The pamphlet consists of two icy. Comrade Cannon quotes the a week. ever known to mankind —» this picket lines, are similarly attempting to put speeches. One was. delivered by speech of welcome of a young Young men matured rapidly in the armed foreee, in the process of a constant, daily struggle revolution still lives. down and exploit the working people of the rest Comrade Cannon on the occasion Red Army commander to a num they became accustomed to thinking out their prob against the forces of capitalist reaction, in the “ Never surrender a position be of the world. of the fifth anniversary of the ber of delegates to the Congress lems and taking action to obtain what they were constant, daily struggle for improvement of the fore it is lost,” said Comrade Russian Revolution in 1923, after of the Communist International: after. These men know what they want now—better workers* standard of living. T- his class stiuggle The revolutionary struggles of the workers Cannon in 1942. “ We know all his trip to the Soviet Union and jobs at living wages. They feel that the government in all lands, the fight of the colonial peoples A WORKERS’ ARMY the defects of the Soviet Union. is expressed in , conflicts between labor and following his return from the and employers have deceived them. Their attitude to for complete independence is today being con “ Comrades, we greet you as We know all the crimes of the capital on all the burning economic, social and Fourth World Congress of the wards both is becoming belligerent. ducted against the same W all Street enemy comrades and brothers in the bureaucracy. But we know also political issues of the day. I t is in the struggle Comintern. Comrade Cannon Aware of this, politicians fear a recurrence of that confronts the workers here in America. same army with us. We do not all that mighty power of those over these issues, which assume an ever broad was a delegate to this congress demonstrations such as the Bonus Maroh of 1B33 and want you to think of us as sol conquests of the progressive rev er and deep-going character, that the workers Thus, every blow struck against W all Street from the Workers Party of know that this time they will extend mueh further. diers of Russia, but as soldiers olution which remain still intact, develop revolutionary consciousness and be- imperialism abroad strengthen? the hand of America, whloh was then the In an attempt to avert thoroughgoing economic American labor against the W all Street ex of the international proletariat. and therefore, we continue to and political action by veteran and non-veteran eomed organized, trained and tempered for the legal form of the Communist Ou. army is a working class ploiters here at home. Party. defend the Soviet Union.” workers, so-called full-employment legislation has final victorious battle. army and the working class of We defend the Soviet Union been introduced and discussed in Congress. The M ili These issues of the day become the focal The second speech was made the world is our country. We will despite its deepening degenera Withdraw all American troops from in 1942 at a meeting of the So tant has exposed the utter ineffectiveness of there points of the class struggle around which the be very glad when the workers tion under Stalin’s regime, in the proposals. Surely the veterans w ill recognise such slogans in “ Our Program are formulated. foreign soil! cialist Workers Party to cele of Europe rise in revolt and call only way it can be defended — brate the 25 th anniversary of the panaceas for what they are: an extension of the These issues do not necessarily have a perma Millions of American troops are being kept on us for assistance; and when by calling upon the international fake promises made while they were in the armed abroad for occupation forces. They are being October Revolution. that day comes they will find us working class, the true allies of forces. nent and fixed form. They frequently become All the capitalist political par ready.” forced to act as brutal imperialist police in the the Soviet Union, to follow the The employment problems of veterans cap be solved modified and changed in the development of ties, as well as their petty bour How different is this revolu interests of W all Street. These troops are the example of the Russian proletar only by a program which includes reducing the hours objective conditions and the shifts in the rela geois camp followers, squirm tionary spirit from the reaction iat and overthrow their capital tionship of political forces. sons, brothers, husbands and loved ones of when confronted with what they of work with no reduction in pay,' the operation of ary nationalist slogans of the ist oppressors, who today con government built plants under workers’ control, and We can best illustrate this by an explanation the American people, particularly the work said yesterday, if they haven’t Stalinized Red Army. But we can stitute the greatest menace to ing class. The greatest immediate service the already openly repudiated it, for unemployment insurance equal to trade union wages of the changes we now make in the slogans in be sure that many Red Army the workers’ state. during any period of unemployment. “Our Program.” American workers can perform for world work their expressions change to meet fighters and Soviet workers are Every worker who wants to ing class freedom and m their own interests is the diplomatic needs of Big Bus still animated by these traditions know the Trotskyist position on No Restriction On The Right To Strike: to compel the American imperialist government iness. But, although an interval and ideas. the Russian Revolution and the to withdraw all American troops from foreign of 20 years elapsed between the This same Marxist-Leninist workers’ state that issued from We have introduced this slogan to replace two speeches contained In this our previous slogan of “ Rescind the no-strike soil. spirit of working class solidarity it, should read this pamphlet. Big Electrical Trusts pamphlet, every line has with is expressed by Comrade Cannon Reviewed by pledge!” stood the test of events and re in his speech delivered 20 years At the beginning of the war, the trade union Miriam Carter In Cartel Conspiracy officialdom, in collaboration with the capitalists Wall St. Militarism and their government, imposed a no-strike policy on the American workers. This deprived As one of the results of the Second World The third in a series of “trust-busting” suits the workers of their most powerful weapon. It W ar for “ peace, freedom and democracy,” Congressmen At W ork against the gigantio U. S. electrical combine was served to shackle labor while Big Business Prussian-type militarism is now making Amer begun on October 9 when the Department of Jus raked in the greatest war profits of all his ica its home. Drill-ground, heel-clicking, Jim- Mrs. Rogers of Massachusetts be dedicated to all the uniden tice filed charges against the General Electric and Westinghouse companies, together with their in tory. Crow militarism has grown so powerful in is a well meaning soul. She be tified heroes, everyone who has The workers resented this policy and re America that President Truman could casually lieves that American boys who a son missing or everyone who ternational subsidiaries, for cartel activities In Asia, mention in his Navy Day address : “ And just the knows that a son has actually South America, Africa and Australia. sisted it as best they could under conditions of participated in the Second World Through this huge cartel, the government re war time repression. Their increasing w ill to other day, so that on short notice we could War should get the same breaks given his life in this war, and whose burial place is unknown, veals, the international partners exchanged pat break the bonds of the no-strike policy was ex mobilize a powerful arid well-equipped land, *ea as those who fought in the First ents, limited competition and fixed prices. A ll and air force, I asked the Congress to adopt would feel that the son actually pressed most sharply and clearly in our slogan World War. And so she took the business was allocated by mutual agreement, and universal military training.” was buried there at Arlington and to rescind the no-strike pledge. By last spring floor in the House of Representa that the monument covered their a “sum called compensation” paid to the members of the cartel not getting the business. our slogan began to take on flesh. and blood W all Street, quite evidently, is pulling every tives October I I to present a b rll son.” on hundreds of picket lines throughout the Working in great secrecy, these big business political wire in its hands to impose universal liant suggestion that would guar Congress has not yet debated country. I t became fully realized in life at the military training on the youth of America. conspirators operated through the Electrical Ap antee equality of treatment in the the resolution submitted by Mrs. close of the war when the last prop of the no Brass Hats, Gold Braid and capitalist m ili Rogers. But when Wall Street’s paratus Export Association. This organization was tribute paid the Unknown Sol representatives eventually get set up in 1931 after G. E. and Westinghouse made strike policy was washed out by a great flood tary experts were paraded before Congress, and dier: of strikes. their propaganda favoring such training was around to discussing this vital agreements with leading German, British and Swiss “Mr. Speaker, I introduced last question, it might be well to de manufacturers. According to the Christian Science But the right to Strike faces new dangers. displayed on the front pages of the entire capi week House Joint Resolution 251, war to be buried in Arlington cide what to do about the future Monitor, the government charges that the trust is The capitalist Congress is preparing new vicious talist press. which provides for bringing back Cemetery the public would feel World Wars that are inevitable “ cutting up the world into slices of pie . . . not legislation to hog-tie labor by prohibiting or Two weeks ago, the capitalist press gave to the United States the bodies that this war was just a continu available to others outside the combine.” ation of the First World War. In so long as the capitalist system limiting the right to strike and by imposing sensational headline prominence to the Bien of two unknown Americans who continues. But the electrical magnates are grieved by the compulsory arbitration. These are some of the nial Report of Gen. Marshall to the Secretary were members of the American visiting the grave of the Un suit brought against them, even though they know known Soldier in Arlington they Should the number of bodies main features of the Ball-Burton-Hatch bill. In of War. This Report, which in reality was a forces who served, one in the it will remain on paper. They protest that the European theater of war and the would think that it was all one brought back be increased at a addition, state and city laws and ordinances blueprint for the Third World War,‘ended with war.” geometric ratio with each im EAEA was "lawfully” organized under the Webb- other in the Pacific theater of Pomerene Act and its activities reviewed by the against picketing are being revitalized every a demand for universal military training. war.” Mrs. Rogers believes that it is perialist war? Or should a law be where. And we already witness the increasing Then, after having debated military training passed limiting to an arithmetical Federal Trade Commission. (The Webb-Pomerene One might wonder why two very important to show that Act was endorsed by President Wilson and passed government use of armed intimidation and vio for a number of months, Congress met in a bodies should be brought back In something new has been added in Increase the number of bodies In 1919 to give the U. S. monopolists a freer hand lence against peacefully picketing workers. the Seoond World War as com the Second World War; brought back. For instance, in highly dramatized joint session October 23 to In grabbing up world markets.) Thus G. E. and Consequently one of the focal points of the pared w ith one body Iq the First World War m , which Wall Street hear their former colleague, Truman, urge them “My thought was that these Westinghouse feel that they are now “ being slapped World War. Mr. Rogers ex Is now preparing, shall the num class struggle in America today is opposition to make universal military training—the long- two men should be burled on by the left hand” of their government partner-in to any and every restriction on the right to strike hated, long-despised European system of uni plains; either side of the present mem ber of Unknown Soldiers permit ted in Arlington Cemetery for crime “ for doing precisely what the right hand had and picket. . versal military training— a basic law of Amer “My thought was that the un orial to the Unknown Soldier of been urging them to do.” known hero brought back from ica. World War I now In Arlington that war be set at three or Nothing of course is mentioned about the super- Unemployment Insurance Equal To the Pacific area would be either Cemetery. My thought also was The Washington columnist, Drew Pearson, should it be set at four? In cynical manner in which this cartel conspiracy cut a marine or a sailor, because it that It would be a fine plan to Trade Union Wages During The Entire World War IV shall the number across the battle lines of the Second World War revealed October 27 under the heading, “ Ghost- is important to have both the have a big light over the three Period Of Unemployment: W riter General,” that “ The man who wrote Navy and the Army represented graves there in Arlington In or be four or eight? In World War “ for democracy.” While tens of millions of work Throughout the war, The M ilitant warned most of Pres. Truman’s able speech on peace in the bringing back of the men, der that the people in Washing V. shall it be five or sixteen? ers were slaughtered on both sides in the war, that one of the immediate consequences of the time conscription was the Chief of Staff, Gen. A soldier could be brought back ton and the surrounding country Axis and Allied industrialists jointly thrust their Second World War would be mass unemploy Marshall.” Apparently the Wall Street militar from the European theater of always see that light even from bloody paws into the fat profits. Only recently, ment. We foretold that the monopolies would war.” a great distance, and could see the Mitsubishi Electrical Engineering Company In ists wanted Truman’s speech to Congress tailor Japan cordially urged their U. S. cartel partners to IMPORTANT REASON the white shape of those monu seek to shut down or scrap plants built with pub ed strictly in accordance with Brass Hat tastes. Vote Trotskyist! "come and get their dividends,” which, they pointed lic funds. We have called for continued operation A further important reason for ments in memory of these brave Truman was only too glad, it seems, to humbly men.” for out, had been carefully protected and safely held of these plants under workers’ control. With oblige W all Street’s newly-fledged but political- doubling the number of bodies for them during the war. the shutdown of hundreds of plants and the ly-powerful Prussian-type military caste. Thus brought back was advanced by SATISFYING VOTERS DOBBS & SIMPSON Now that the latest suit has been filed, it will firing of millions of workers at the end of the it was the voice of pure unadulterated m ili the thoughtful Mrs. Rogers: The astute Mrs. Rogers is probably follow the course of the two previous one*, “ I f we are fortunate enough to war, this part of our program has today attained tarism which spoke through the lips of the clearly concerned about satisfy In the Corning covering the electrical trust’s activities In Europe, have this measure passed, it is ing all those voters who lost sons Canada, Newfoundland, Soviet Union and the col burning urgency. Pendergast machine politician who fell heir to my feeling that if we did not in the frightful-conflict: N. Y. ELECTIONS onies of Spain and France. Nothing has since been But the millions of unemployed now walking Presidential authority. bring back two heroes of this “While the monuments would *******“* * - ~~i~i~i~i nn an. heard of the first two suits. tATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1945 THE MILITANT PAGE FIVE October "FourthInternational Exposes War Guilt In Pacific What is the truth behind the japan into committing the first divulged some very damaging “surprise” attack by Japan on overt act. Li Fu-jen shows step evidence thaL the State Depart The Cerise»’?’ Forum columns are open to the opinions of the readers of "The M ilitant”, Letters ment was anxious to eonceal. Pearl Harbor — was it really as by step how this was accom welcome on any subject of interest to the workers. Keep them short and include pour name and plished. They did so “ in order to defend Local New York comrades and qji Independent Labor Party was didress. Indicate If you dp not want your name printed. unexpected as Washington themselves against charges of friends are utilizing the election to the American worker, and also claims? Do the Japanese imper ROOSEVELT STRATEGY incompetence and dereliction of campaign not only to acquaint advocate reading The M ilitant, two months, and it looks worse der the hardships my people Misery Increases ialists alone bear the guilt for Roosevelt, he writes, “ was ob duty” brought on by the inquiry workers with the program of the said: 'For 26 years I ’ve been a all the time. There's a lot of talk have endured bo bravely. the terrible war in the Pacific? liged to pursue this strategy in into the Pearl Harbor disaster. Trotskyist Party (ballot desig Tammany Hall bell ringer. Noth You see, Mr. Hansen, knowing For Italian People about how fast the boys are get In an informative article on “ War order to be able to brand Japan nation of the Socialist Workers ing was ever achieved in Harlem you desire' to bring socialism to *41«ar: ting home, but not much seems Guilt in the Pacific,” published as the ‘aggressor’ and stampede REPORTS SUPPRESSED Party) on which Farrell Dobbs where I Jive. Housing, juvenile Hnelosed is a letter which I to be happening here. You hear my people just as much as I do, in the October issue of the the people of the United States The reports were suppressed is running for mayor, and Louise delinquency are worse than ever. Masatly received from my father a lot of crap about transporta it is my firm desire to enlighten Fourth International, 14 Fu-jen into a war to which the majority for almost a year — not for m ili Simpson for city council, but also I ’m switching my allegiance, an* iA Italy. You may print It in The tion difficulties— you to a few facta you must have shows how the Roosevelt admin of the nation had been stead tary reasons, but because of their to sell subscriptions to The M ili would like a subscription to The m utant. “ A merchant marine skipper, overlooked. I f you hope to bring istration bears its share of re fastly opposed . . . This made it “ explosive political quality.” In tant. M ilitant to read more about what “Dear Bon having an empty ship to take socialism to the Negro people sponsibility for the outbreak of necessary that the United States these report? Roosevelt, “ out of Lou Cooper relates one experi it represents’.’’ ‘"Due to the scarcity of writing back, told the commodore in you cannot start with anti-re- the war with Japan. should be ‘attacked’ so that the the mouths of his own generals ence at a street corner meeting: e * » ligioug teachings a^d my letter paper I have not written you charge of Service Division 10 During the very period when drive of Amerioan imperialism and admirals, was convicted as “ When I got off the speakers’ Although new subscriptions are was to “ The Negro Children.” sooner. that he had room for 600 men, Roosevelt was cynically proclaim for mastery of the Pacific could a war conspirator . . Without stand, a Negro worker having recorded in the campaign score "Her* * they say the war 1« over He was promptly told to mind his First we must interest the peo ing “ I Hate W ar!” he knew that be presented in the guise of a war doubt, Roosevelt ordered these heard me explain how important board, renewals are not. The even w ith Japan and I hope own business. ple w ith the part of socialism the conflict was inevitable, be for national defense and sur incriminating documents kept branches are not neglecting this everything turns out all right. “ Not only that—there are, I that appeals to them. Once they cause “the imperialist brigands vival.” under cover, the author states, phase of activity. Here is a par "Here the political parties are would estimate, about 500 as are interested they w ill read the of Wall Street feared that the L i Fu-jen's conclusions are in order not to endanger his tia l list of this week’s renewals: Issuing a lot of propaganda and sorted ships in this particular literature approved by the party. rich Far East would come under based upon the official docu chances for re-election for the Bayonne—10 six-month no one seems to know what the section of Okinawa. Why can’t Again, I think my reader for the permanent domination of ments of the U. S. Army, Navy fourth term. Pioneer Milwaukee—4 six-months, 2 result is «sing to be. they send about nine-tenths of got the letter was to “ The Ne their Japanese rivals.” The main and State Department. In these An interesting sidelight is the one-year "In the cities there are many this outfit back to the States? gro Children,” not to learned concern of the U. S. imperialist recently released reports, the solidarity of both the Republl San Francisco—2 six-month, t murders being committed, in the Most of these ships are doing socialists. My sole purpose in policy makers was to maneuver high military officials involved can and Democratic political Notes one-year T illages not so much. nothing here but taking up space, writing the article was to touch parties when their Joint capital Chicago—1 six-month "You said in your last letter and the rest are here for the the hearts of roy people and all ist interests are involved. When Minneapolis—1 six-month Sbat you have sent me a pack- purpose of servicing the former. oppressed people by appealing to In the last report on the sale • * • THE SCARCITY PLAN Thomas E. Dewey was running of the new Pioneer pamphlet use. I have not received it as yet, One repair dock alone could eas them along the channel that in 1944 against Roosevelt he was Pearl Spangler, pace-setter Subsidy paid and government planned JOBS FOR ALL! by A rt Preis, as soon as X do I w ill write to ily be converted into a floating they think; that is the only way from Connecticut, summarizes informed about these facts, yet .labor editor of The M ilitant, we yon and let you know. I wish barracks that could transport 1,- to bring the masses to socialism. Pay the farmers for not cropping land her first week's subscription sell he joined the conspiracy of si were unable to include all of the you could send me a pair of over 000 men in reasonable comfort. Their hearts must be touched so K ill little pigs: plow under cotton ing experiences: “ We sold a larga lence. Had he revealed the truth enthusiastic letters we have been alls and thread. Here it costs a “I think the unemployment as to bring them to socialism, number of subscriptions to re The scarcity plan is not forgotten. he might have been swept into receiving from the SWP Hra a yard. I would also like problem is playing a much hig not to drive them away from it. office by an outraged American turned war veterans. They are a her role than the transportation In true comradeliness let roe branches. For instance, from *om* needles, here they cost five Tax everything all it can pay public. Instead he preferred to disillusioned group: glorious Ira s apiece. problem.” say to every person in the So Youngstown we hear: Let widows weep and cowards pray make a personal political sacri promises that were made to them T his year the harvest is very A Reader cialist Workers Party, if you hope fice in the Interest of U. S. im “ As I said before, both the Ne never materialized, and they’ve to bring the masses of Negroes to Use the army to eower workers had, i t has not rained since Feb- New York perialism as a whole. gro and white workers responded come back to poor paying Jobs- w a ry and everything Is dried up. socialism, leave religion to each And protect the pious shirkers. very well to our pamphlet sales RICH MATERIAL provided they can find a Job— We won’t even reap a pound of Reply to Hansen individual, so long as it is not and we’re quite sure we can go and bad housing. corn. It didn’t even come up; taught by your members. Even Let the prices upward soar In this illuminating article, Li back to them with more of our “ Ona veteran pointed out to potatoes—there aren’t any. I By Victor Howell then I suggest you make it a Tax the people more and more Fu-jen not only gives a full po literature to acquaint them fur me, ‘Out in the fox holes we had private affair so as not to drive litical analysis of the Pearl Har ther with the program of our thought I would reap a pretty To Joseph Hansen: Keep taxes high and wages low some pipe dreams about the G. L pood grape crop but on the 25th I read your letter in The M ili away many who would serve the bor reports, but also a summary party for a Socialist sooiety.” Bill of Rights. I wanted to open Of July we had a big hall storm. tant in answer to my letter of cause faithfully. Remember, to To help a civil war to grow. of the unfolding conflict between Davis Dusenbery, And from Chicago, where more a tavern with one of my buddies. J " I am In a miserable condi the previous week "To The Ne be a true revolutionary party, American and Japanese imperial than 500 of the pamphlets had Rochester, N. Y. Boy, we learned quickly enough tion. We have a little grain but gro Children.” you must bring the most op ism over the past half century. been sold wh~n the report was that the G.I. Bill of Right* the authorities say they are going I accept your letter with all pressed people to you. ‘‘War guilt? Yes! But It rests sent in: "Our reception with this doesn’t apply to worker*!’ Hi* ta requisition It and ration it back its ideas, facts and advice in the I agree wholeheartedly with as heavily on the Wall Street bri And in a few minutes it’s all over. come into being through the pamphlet is very good. We have wife added: ‘The homes the Gov to us at Uie rate of a pound of best of spirit. I t is not my desire the fact that the capitalists of gands and their government in Just so some big shot general united effort of the so-ealled made a number of very fine con- ernment promises to soldier’s bread a day. I don’t know how or intention to instruct even “My the world have used religion as Washington as It does on the tacts.” , could view you on the stand! common people, not by the graci families. Sure they have a few We ean ever live on that, we go Children” in the doctrines of re a tool and I am well aware of it defeated Imperialists of Japan,” “ Then they tell you some gen ous generosity of those who claim Los Angeles reports: “ We found homes to offer, but we'd have barefooted and in rags, but the ligion as I am not an authority, and would pen much on the sub the author establishes. eral is coming through. They private ownership of the earth that, on the whole, the sale of to pay $65 a month rent. That’s stomach can not stay empty. The but because I know and under ject, but with respect for my make you prepare for a week. and the fulness thereof. The October Fourth Interna the pamphlet was more success quite a joke, so we’re remaining peasants say they are going to stand the Negro heart, I feel reader’s beliefs I shall not ven Make you G I (scrub) the floor Divided we are fallen. United tional is rich in additional mate ful in the Negro neighborhoods in our $23 a month hovel,’ hide it from the Government. certain my letter was more ac ture into the subject as it re I don’t know how many times. we can stand. Work for a united rial on Japan and the Far East. than in the white ones. We are “I pointed out Charles Car- "I hate to disturb you with all ceptable to them than it could quires much- time and a very Everything in the barracks must Labor Party in Amerioa. “The Situation in the Far East," also continuing to sell the sten’s 'Problems Facing War Vet this misery but I have no one to ever be to those well-schooled delicate touch. be Just so or your name is mud. Robert H. Miller, by E. R. Frank and an editorial phamphlet before the USES of erans’ column, and have no doubt tu rn to except you who are my in socialism, which my people I assure you, I w ill continue Carbon, Ind. on "American Rule of Japan” fices with good results.” that these veterans w ill read it have yet to be. to serve the socialist movement I t ’s a gruelling affair. •on. gives the reader a comprehensive Toledo writes: “ We have tried avidly.” "Please answer soon and don’t As a Negro, I am a part of the because I realize that under cap “ Discipline in the army is * * * italism my people will always be picture of imperialism at work selling door-to-door, at the fetep me in suspense. most oppressed people in the rough. We can’t go to the mess A Major Looks today across the Pacific. A Los Angeles reader sends in crushed, and for that reason I hall in T shirts for supper. We USES offices and outside union "Best regards, world and because I am from To Next War this plea: “My moving may be Your Father" that group I know the things must appeal to them not as a weren’t allowed to wear T-shirts meetings, Our most successful Single copies of Fourth In sales w
“ Labor with a u/hite shin 2 1917 Russian Bolshevik Revolution cannot emancipate itself as where labor with a black ¡ 3 The NEGRO skin is branded." ~ —K arl M ara 9
Pointed The Way For All Workers STRUGGLE by CHARLES JACKSON = By Larissa Reed ^Twenty-eight years ago, out of feat, and a period of reaction Louise Simpson Interviewed 'the slaughter and agony of the set in. The capitalist class had Hear Ye, Harlem first Imperialist world war, the a breathing spell in which to SWP Candidate Dobbs There is no doubt about the Negro’s willingness to stabilize its power. And in the Russian Revolution triumphed young Soviet Union the begin fight against Jim Crow. He is ready and anxious to reg and blazed its message of .hope nings of the monstrous growth ister his protest against this Intolerable system at every ■throughout the world. The first of bureaucracy took shape. Has M ilitant Record opportunity. However, outside of activity in the revolu tionary socialist party, we seldom have a genuine chance victorious workers’ revolution, As Stalin consolidated the By Grace Carlson led by the Bolshevik Party of power of this bureaucracy, he to show how we feel about capitalism and the second-class The 1945 New York City elec and Local 544 broke out in the Lenin and Trotsky, stirred all of destroyed the great Bolshevik citizenship to which it condemns us. Party built through 30 years of tion campaign takes place dur spring of 1941, he returned to That is why the voters of New®- enslaved humanity to its very sacrifice and uncompromising ing a strike wave that is reach Minneapolis to aid his union York City have a golden oppor Of course, at election time all ■depths. For the first time in struggle. He murdered a whole ing tremendous proportions. brothers. W ith 17 other 554-CIO tunity in the present election. candidates SAY that they stand history the workers of the whole generation of Bolsheviks, includ Thousands of New York’s trade and 'Socialist Workers Party The voters of New York have a for racial equality. But the test world could see in action the ing the" leadership which, with union militants are demonstrat leaders, Farrell Dobbs was rail chance to go to the voting booths of a politician is not what ha only way out of the slaughter Lenin, had led the Russian ing on the picket line that they roaded to prison on December and show the whole world just SAYS but what he DOES! What house of capitalist rule. masses to victory. ’ know how to fight for their just, 31, 1943, for his devotion to the what they think about capitalist- is the record of the Republican economic demands. But the strik principles of trade union demo fostered discrimination. In New and Democratic politicians In The Czarist Empire, most STALINIST BUREAUCRACY ers are met at every turn cracy and revolutionary social York the Trotskyists are run New York City? Any sincere reactionary government which Stalin, the betrayer of the by government strikebreaking. ism. ning Farrell Dobbs for I mayor person who makes an honest had existed up to that time in Russian Revolution‘ is today the Working class representatives Released from the Federal and Louise Simpson for City examination of the record can Europe, appeared to be all pow most treacherous enemy of the are needed in the City adminis Penitentiary in Sandstone, Council. quickly find the answer. workers w ithin their own ranks, erful. But Czarism was thor tration—union men who w ill Minnesota, in January of this These two candidates and Republican and Democratic committing his foul crimes in give their whole-hearted support politicians have controlled New oughly rotted at its foundations. year, Farrell immediately return ONLY these two candidates have the name of the working class. to the workers «in these labor ed to his party work. He is now a program that really strikes at York Citjj for decades. This long I t needed only the mighty blow The workers of the world paid, disputes. the editor of The Militant, the the roots of discrimination. They record of capitalist rule is lit for the degeneration of the Rus of the organized masses to hurl American Trotskyist weekly. are not only FOR NEGRO tered with the wreckage of brok sian Revolution under Stalin Farrell Dobbs, the Socialist it into oblivion, where it belong RIGHTS—as probably all the en election promises! I t was the through the rise of fascism and Workers Party candidate for Some men excuse themselves ed. This historic blow was de Republican and Democratic ag the second imperialist world Mayor of New York is a tested other candidates would have you livered by a young Russian pro ents of the capitalist class who slaughter. working class representative. believe — but they are also letariat in alliance with the The greater part of his adult life AGAINST CAPITALISM, the made Harlem into one of the many millioned peasantry, un And yet so tremendous were the conquests of the October Louise Simpson (right), Trotskyist candidate for New has been devoted to the organ system which Is the basic cause worst slum areas in the coun der the leadership of Lenin and York City Council, is interviewed by Grace Carlson, for “ The ization of workers into the trade of discrimination and the only try. During all these years Jim Trotsky. Revolution that, despite the crimes of Stalin and his betrayal Militant.” The interview was published in last week’s issue. unions and the revolutionary benefactor from Its revulsive Crow has been warm and com NEW EPOCH of the world revolution, the So socialist movement. Among wide practice. fortable in the nest built for him viet Union was able to repel the circles of trade unionists, the in City Hall! The Russian Revolution open SUPPORT TROTSKYIST German armies which penetra thirty-eight year old Trotskyist Harlem’s Negro citizens are ed up a new epoch in history. I t CANDIDATES forced to pay outrageously high was the first step of a section of ted as far as the gates of Mos candidate is known as a tried I am devoting my column this rents for dingy flats in unsafe the world working class to de cow. For the nationalized prop Farrell Dobbs Urges and trusted workers’ leader. liver itself from tyrannical op erty created by the October Re Born in Queen City, Missouri, week to a recent broadcast which tenement buildings. Republican pression and enslavement. volution still exists, despite the on July 25, 1907, Farrell was was made over station WNEW in The Russian Revolution prov Stalinist degeneration. The Rus taken to Minneapolis when he behalf of these two candidates. For sian masses had something to "Vote Trotskyist!" was six years old. He graduated This broadcast speaks for itself. ed to toiling humanity evcry- Socialist Workers Party ■ifrhfere that the working class fight for — this remaining basic from North High School there I want to sincerely urge every conquest of the revolution. (Continued from Page 1) the gangsters and hoodlums and in 1926 and a year later married reader of The M ilitant to act can create out of its own ranks operators, the news deliverymen racketeers with whom both he Branch Activities a revolutionary party that is Marvel Erickson, one of his now in getting as many friends TROTSKYISM SURVIVES and the dock workers on strike and Goldstein mutually accuse capable of leading the workers classmates. Starting out as a as possible out to the polls on See Page 5 for better wages, decent hours, each other of consorting? Is it ,to victory. It proved rthat only Today the Trotskyist move wire man for the Western Elec November 6 to vote for Dobbs safe working conditions—fig ht to protect the Jewish people, the the working masses can establish ment alone throughout the tric Company, he was promoted and Simpson. Here’s your chance and Democratic political mach the foundations of a new social world holds high the banner of ing for a tiny measure of secur peacefulNegro citizens who are rapidly to more skilled jobs. But FARRELL DOBBS to prove that you mean what ines protect the profiteering ist society. And all over the the October Revolution. The ity. being Increasingly molested by the crash of 1929 and the long you say. landlords. Harlem's citizens are Troskyist movement despite a fascist-inspired hoodlums? No, from taking part in the strikes world the workers, peasants, co How does it happen that in depression which followed, end In this way, Negroes can show forced to buy inferior grades of long list of martyrs, has sur O’Dwyer has no such splendid and struggles of the working lonial slaves were inspired with not one single case did either ed this employment—and also the ruling class where we Stand clothing at jacked-up prices. vived the blows of reaction, motives. class because they have families tremendous enthusiasm, new C’Dwyer or Goldstein or Morris ended his dream of becoming a on this business of discrimina Republican and Democratic pol fascism and war. I t is active to support. Not so, with Farrell _ hope, new courage. come out openly and squarely But there is every likelihood planning engineer. tion and segregation and, what’s iticians are always found on the and growing. In the United Dobbs! His wife and three The Russian workers achieved and say: the fight of these strik that this tremçndous increase in more, we can show that we really side of these gouging merchants. States the Socialist Workers ORGANIZING WORKERS children, Carole, age 17; Mary tj(ils colossal victory because, un ers is just, their demands are the police force is aimed directly understand who is behind racial The latest report of the FEPC Party, despite persecutions and Through his father, who work Lou, 15; Sharon, 12 are all ac der the guidance of the Bolshe reasonable, give them your sup at the workers who dare to ex prejudice and what type of ac points out that since V-J Day vik Party, they were taught to imprisonments, is stronger than port. The capitalist candidates ercise their legal rights to strike ed for the same company, Far tive in the Trotskyist movement. Negro workers in the New York ever. tion it will take, to change the depend upon their own pro were either silent, or they open and peacefully picket. Police rell got a job as a coal yard As the Trotskyist candidate for City area have lost jobs more Today, despite their seeming worker in the Pittsburgh Coal Mayor of New York, Farrell set-up. program—the program elaborat ly supported the strikebreaking swarmed the water front during The text of this important than twice as fast as other work ed by Marx and Engels, Lenin power, the Imperialist “ victors” campaigns of the employers. the recent strike of the long Company’s Minneapolis yards. Dobbs summed up his whole life’s ers. W ithout exception, the broadcast is as follows; and Trotsky. They were taught are no more Impregnable than What is the real attitude of shoremen. Only yesterday, police In the early 1930’s, Minneapolis record in the closing words of employers who fire these Negro to build their own organizations, were the Czarist tyrants in 1917. the Big Business candidates to banned peaceful mass picketing was an, open shop town. All his October 26 speech over Sta workers support Republican and rely upon their own strength. Thè whole bankrupt capitalist labor’s demands? Let us take at LaGuardia airfield and ar around,him, Farrell saw poverty, tion WNYC: In the Trotskyist election Democratic candidates in this system is rotting and putrid; its But such a Bolshevik leader the case of O’Dwyer, the Demo rested five CIO strikers. misery, ftisecurity. “At all times ahd under all platform, a prominent ^ place is ëlèdtion ''campaign. burial is long overdue. ship was lacking in other and cratic candidate. This week he And we well recall how a huge When Vincent Dunne, Karl conditions, I and the Socialist given to the problems of New Today, as in 1917 a mighty VOTE FOR DOBBS more advanced countries in Eu gave us a broad hint as to how mobilization of Mayor LaGuar- Skoglund and others began an Workers Party which I represent York City’s Negro citizens. Far rope. Even though revolutions blow from a united and organ AND SIMPSON he might treat striking workers dia’s police in February, 1939, organization drive among Minn stand on the side 5f the workers rell Dobbs, the Party candidate took place in Germany and other ized working class, inspired by The Trotskyist candidates are and their just demands, if he rode down and clubbed the anti eapolis coal yard workers in AGAINST the profiteering em for Mayor and Louise Simpson, countries they went down to de- the program of the October Re completely different from these were elected mayor. fascist workers—led by the Soc 1933, he joined them. Farrell ployers. My record stands 100 its Councilmanic candidate, are volution, can rid the world for candidates. They mean what A t a meeting on Octobe’r 23, ialist 'Workers Party — who Dobbs’ mind was made up—his per cent on the side of the ex campaigning on a platform which ever of this bloody and barbar- they say. Their election prom O’Dwyer promised that if he demonstrated against the Nazi life was to be dedicated to build ploited—let my Wall Street op calls for fu ll equality for Ne our system. Armed with the ises are consistent with their READ were mayor, he would increase Bund meeting at Madison Square ing the trade union movement ponents make the most of it ! ” groes and national minorities. methods of Lenin and Trotsky, records. Unlike the capitalist the police force in this city from Garden. and fighting for better condi the working masses can today tions for the working class. politicians who try to divide ‘THE FOURTH the present 14,000 to 25,000. For my part — as a working go forward to the building of a O’Dwyer proposes to almost dou In the historic drivers’ strikes -wfkite and colored workers, Far workers’ society under a social class mayor—I would use my of 1934, which made Minneapolis rell Dobbs and Louise Simpson ble the police force. powers of office to the hilt, not Louise Simpson Attacks INTERNATIONAL’ ist system. , What for? Is it to clean up a union town, Farrell Dobbs was have spent all of their time and to protect the profiteering em in the center of action. Here is energy promoting the idea of ployers, not to defend gangsters the way Farrell’s strike activ Jim Crow In Radio Talk working class solidarity. As ac and strikebreakers, but to up ities are described by James P. tive trade unionists and as rev hold the right of the workers to Cannon, National Secretary of (Continued from Page 1) and Bilbos impose Jim Crow olutionary socialists, they are Celebrate With The Trotskyists! strike and picket. the Socialist Workers Party, in tax has never been able to pass upon the nation! opposed to anything that divides A working class administration The History of American Trot the Congress controlled by the Are we to conclude, then, that the working class. _ —and that is what we Trotsky the labor and Negro vote should skyism: Democratic Party. The Trotskyist candidates in 28th Anniversary of the ists advocate—would certainly “The ‘dispatcher’ in the May swing to the Republican party? office will do everything in their not permit the employers to use strike was a young man named During these past 13 years, as By no means! The Republican power to establish fu ll social, the government machinery Farrell Dobbs. He came out of always, the Negro has been last Party is no less reactionary, no political and economic equality against the working people. We a coal yard in Minneapolis into to be hired and first to be fired less Jim Crow, no less a creation for the Negroes and other ra RUSSIAN REVOLUTION would not permit the corpora the union and the strike and in the factories and shops of and a tool of the ruling capital cial minority groups. A vote for tions to hide their greed for then into the party. He first be America. A recent FEPC report ist class. ■ . Farrell Dobbs, a militant white profits behind pleas for what came known to us as a dispatch discloses that colored workers in Race discrimination is rooted defender of the rights of all New York City have lost their N e w Y o rk they call "law and order.” er who shot out the squad cars in the capitalist profit system minority peoples and for Lou In a strike, I would say to such and the pickets. A t first the jobs at a rate double that of which is based upon the ex ise Simpson, a m ilitant Negro Anniversary Meeting and Election Rally an employer: “ You say you want pickets went out barehanded but white workers since V-J day. This ploitation of man by man. That proponent of working-class soli Hear the Progrant of the Trotskyist Candidates to settle this strike peacefully? they came back with broken is true all over the country. And is why we Trotskyists declare darity, will be a vote for a gen Good! But you say you can’t pay heads and injuries of various despite the shameful record, that Jim Crow can be uprooted uine struggle to kill Jim Crow! In the municipal Elections! higher wages? We’ll see about kinds. Then they equipped legislation against discrimination only by a radical transformation Vote Trotskyist! Vote fo r that. While the strike remains themselves w ith shillalahs for has been unable to get past the of the present social system. Only Farrell Dobbs for Mayor and unsettled, you are forbidden to the next trips. A shillalah, as Democratic Congress! Socialism can remove the undpr- Louise Simpson for City Council SUNDAY, NOV. 4 operate w ith scabs or strike any Irishman can tell you, is a During these 13 democratic lying causes which nourish all and drive Jim Crow out of his Speakers: breakers. Meanwhile, we w ill blackthorn stick you lean on in years, men and women In all forms of hatred, fear, exploita nest in City Hall! appoint a commission, including case you suddenly go lame. Of parts of the country have been tion and oppression. representatives of the strikers, course, it is handy for other pur prevented from entering hotels Read: JAMES P. CANNON, National Secretary, SWP THE ONLY ROAD to examine your books and re poses, too.” and restaurants and theatres .. . FARRELL DOBBS, Trotskyist Mayoralty Candidate cords. We w ill publish a report simply because of their color. The Negro people can achieve of your profits. We will expose UNION LEADER Hazel Scott was prevented from their Just demand for fu ll econ LOUISE SIMPSON, Trotskyist Councilmanic Candidate every fraud you may have com From 1934 to 1939, the mem playing in a Washington audi omic. political and social equality mitted. We demand that your bership of Teamsters’ Union torium because she was brown only by breaking decisively with' HOTEL DIPLOMAT employes receive just treatment.” Local 544 repeatedly elected him instead of white. And mind you, the capitalist political parties That’s what a labor mayor to the position of Secretary- the Daughters of the American responsible for upholding the 108 West 43rd Street . . . 8 P. M. would say to an employer in a Treasurer. In 1937, he was elect Revolution who controlled - that Jim Crow system and by taking strike. ed Secretary of the newly form auditorium, used as the excuse the road of independent political SAN FRANCISCO CHICAGO Furthermore, as a labor mayor, ed North Central District Drivers that they were following pre action. I would immediately grant the Council. Out of this Council, in vailing customs in Washington, Politics is doomed to remain Sunday, November 4 Russian Revolution wage demands of the transport which Farrell Dobbs played an D. C. the monopoly of corrupt mach ation workers and all the other outstanding role, grew the Eleven ine bosses until the workers or THE PARTY OF BILBO Hear: Anniversary Meeting workers who perform the useful State Area Committee, of which ganize their own independent he became the Secretary. As Washington, as you know, is F. Ricco and R. Chester Sunday, November 11 civic tasks of the community. labor party, based on the trade I would Inaugurate a compre spokesman for this Committee, governed by a committee select unions apd embracing the m ili speak on Hear: hensive program of public works, he negotiated a contract which ed by' the Democratic Party. B il tant Negro organizations. Only won better wages and working bo was made chairman of this JAMES P. C A N N O N low-rent housing, decent schools, a firmly knit political alliance of The Russian Revolution playgrounds, nurseries and every conditions for 250,000 over-thc- committee and by virtue of this the exploited working people fact became the Mayor of Wash SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL National Secretary, SWP other benefit the workers need. road drivers. and the oppressed and persecut BUCKINGHAM HALL Who would pay for this? The Farrell joined the Trotskyist ington, D, C. The nation’s capi ed national and racial minorities of SOCIAL SCIENCE rich, not the poor. The war movement in 1934, Five years tal . is governed by one of the can achieve economic and pol 59 16 pages ..... * Ç cents E. Van Buren St. 8 P. M. profiteers, the Wall Street con later, he resigned his post with nation’s outstanding Jim Crow itical equality. 305 Grant Ave. 4th floor 8 P. -M. PIONEER p u b l is h e r s trolled realty interests and all the International Brotherhood practitioners! The Trotskyist Party, ballot ROSTOV of Teamsters and became Nat 116 University PI., N. Y. 3, N. Y . LOS ANGELES other Big Business interests Lynchings of Negroes are a designation of the Socialist Russian Revolution would be taxed—and taxed heav ional Labor Secretary of the Soc common occurrence at the Workers Party, is in the fore See ily—to pay for this program. ialist Workers Party. hands of white democrats below front of the movement for la Anniversary Social At the same time I would halt When the struggle between the Mason-Dixon line. Yet, no bor’s own independent party, IN THE COMING Daniel Tobin, the bureaucratic ‘Ten Days That Shook the W orld' Saturday, November 10 the outrageous practice of pay anti-lynch b ill has been able to running independent candida Documentary Film of the ing out public funds to the ra head of the Teamsters Union get by the Jim Crow Democratic tes on a labor program. New York Elections Brief Talks by: pacious banks and rich bond bloc in Congress. A vote for the Trotskyist can VOTE FOR: October Revolution Antoinette Konikow » Fred Mauer holders In the form of so-called Dobbs, mayoralty candidate of That is the program of the didates, FarreU Dobbs for Ma Socialist Plenty irterest payments on tricky bond the Trotskyist Party. Pull the Democrats, as far as the Negroes yor and Louise Simpson for City Socialist Prosper Saturday, November 10 Followed by issues. first lever bn the bottom row of are concerned. To strengthen the Council, is a vote for indepen Followed by Dancing and Social Dancing and Refreshments That’s what a labor govern the voting machine. Mark your Democratic Party, as the sup' dent working class political ac Socialist Peace ment in City Hall could do paper ballot “ No. 1” for Louise porters of O’Dwyer now ask us tion! A vote for independent Vote for 617 Venice Blvd, nr. Figueroa, 8 P.M. 30 Stuart St. 8:15 P. M. That’s the program you can help Simpson, Trotskyist candidate to do, is to strengthen the ins working class political action is DOBBS1 & SIMPSON* advance by voting for Farrell for City Council. trument by which the Rankins a vote to smash Jim Crow! a tu r d a y ovember PAGE EIGHT THE M SliTANT S . N 3 1945 1 How American Stalinists Support
.By Ihoodoro Kovahaky. Capitalist Reaction Under Foster By V. Grey I t ’s queer the way we get used to being dirty. A t first it comes By Felix Morrow “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever d^es sort of hard, but then, somehow or other, we Just seem to fa il anything. This socialism stuff is all right but it’s just a lot of The Communist Party has Labor Solidarity In Movie Strike into it naturally. <• talk after all . . .” come out against Truman’s uni I t ’s true that we revolutionary socialists talk. We talk morn I remember one of the first jobs I had when I was*a kid. versal m ilitary training plan, ing, noon and night to spread the ideas of socialism. And we-' I was working in a little machine shop, nam ing a d rill press. In and indeed it could scarcely do act. At every point where we can advance these ideas even one the same shop there was a grubby little guy named Adam, who otherwise today, when even the inch along the pavement of reality, we act. This we do in union .always used to work on cast iron. AFL executive council is oppos Every day at lunch time I used ing the peacetime conscription activity, anti-fascist demonstrations, strikes, etc. But mainly we talk. Even in the middle of the biggest ac to run over to the filth y old sink proposal. in the comer of the shop and tions, we talk. Even while strikers are learning for themselves The working class has sound that the capitalist cop is their enemy, we drive home the lesson wash my hands w ith some sort CLASS arguments against Tru of scouring powder they had and explain why the club is descending on us, the strikers, instead man’s plan. • But the Commun of the strikebreakers. there. The stuff almost took the ist Party line being what it is, There is a big difference between straight talk and hot air. skin off, and it smelled terrible, comes forward with the most Everybody knows the fellow who’s always 'yelling at the boss but I never ate without trying cockeyed argument against “ the (under his breath)—and making dark predictions of what he’li to get my hands clean. President’s big Army and Navy do if he catches the blank, blank louse in so and so’s saloon. Only But every day I used to see plan/' as follows: Adam munching apples that he the boss never goes to so and so’s saloon. And the guy just gets “ The American people didn’t drunk and shoots his mouth o ff to whoever is hanging around. held in hands that looked as vote for that kind of foreign though they were wearing black The fellow who won’t sign a grievance,' the fellow' who’s so policy. They voted for the loud in the locker-room and so quiet at the union meeting — rubber gloves. The carbon of the Roosevelt foreign policy—which ¿hat’s the kind of a guy you have in mind when you talk about iron he machined was all over President Truman has been his hands, his face, and his scrapping ever since he entered “hot air.” But remember how just a couple of fellows worked so lunch. Adam never bothered to the White House." (Oct. 25 hard giving out leaflets to get the place organized? — how Slim take time out to wash. Daily Worker, p. 2.) and Pop talked so much>at the plant gate they both had to whis per at work the next day? Why some of us thought they wero As the years went by and I FALSE ARGUMENT worked in different shops, I learned to wipe my hands on a rag crazy. But what they said wasn’t hot air. Not by a long shot. before eating instead of washing them. In the first place there If that were the kind of argu Most of the fellows joined the union during the first 6trike* wasn’t much time set aside for eating. “ You get paid to work, not ment on which the workers’ case They had gone on strike because they were fed up with the com to eat,” the foreman used to say. And then, too, you get used against. Truman had to rest, we pany’s dirty tricks. But it was lucky that Slim and Pop had got to the oil, metal, and other forms of dirt that you get all over you. would be licked right now, be a few of us guys into the union before that strike—because Here in the steel plant you probably won’t have any place cause Roosevelt was the pioneer we had talked together for quite a bit about how to run a strike to wash before you eat, unless you want to try the drinking fountain of peacetime conscription: as and how to win it. When the rest of the fellows saw that we . . , and the rest of the gang might have something to say about Assistant Secretary of the Navy, knew what we were doing and knew how to organize a picket 1917-1920; as Democratic vice- that. So when it’s time to eat, you take off your gloves and wipe line- to fight the company, they joined the union and followed our your hands together to get rid of the sweat and then dig into presidential candidate in 1920 lead. And we made out pretty well. when, as the historian Ferdi your lunch. I f you work on the furnaces your sandwiches probably nand Lundberg says in “Ame A magnificent demonstration of labor solidarity is shown by these car loads of Lockheed get a little gray where your fingers touch them. If you work in I t Takes Action to Convince People rica’s Sixty Families,” his “ cam workers, members of Local 728, AFL Machinists, speeding to bolster the picket lines of the It’s the same way with preparing the socialist revolution. the stockhouse, your food takes on a reddish color from the iron paign speeches were newbie movie strikers at Warner Bros, studio in Burbank, California, after hundreds of strikers I t ’s considerably bigger than a strike. So you have to do con ore on your hands. But you eat it . . . and you never think about chiefly for their callow militar were beaten and arrested by a huge mobilization of city police. siderably more talking for it. You won’t convince everybody. Not it any more. ^ istic bias. He advocated, among In the summertime, the clothes you put on at the beginning other things, universal military all at once. Not before the revolution itself, any more than we convinced everybody before the strike. of every shift are still wet w ith the sweat of your last shift. training in the schools. Early When you slip them on over your head you hold your breath be in his presidential career he re I t takes action to convince most people. And the funny part cause of the smell. Your socks are clammy and filthy. But you vived some of these sentiments "Vote For Labors Candidates," of it is that their own actions convince them thé best—like when wear them. You’re used to them. You can’t have them washed in a saber-rattling speech be we went out on that strike, the men felt the union was strorig every day, and wearing them one day in the heat makes them fore the American Legion in because they were striking. So they joined it. ready for the laundry. In fact, after you’ve been working one Chicago.” But right now every real socialist, everyone who reads The hour in a set of clean clothing, you’ve sweated so much and gotten Truman follows in Roosevelt’s Burch Urges Workers In Detroit Militant, is in the same boat as Slim and Pop were at first. They’ve got to talk and talk to every friend and fellow worker. ' so much other dirt on yourself that you might as well have been footsteps. That’s the first thing (Continued from Page 1) apron strings of the two capital could not battle for the inter wearing your things for a month. If they can’t talk to him, they sell him a sub to The Militant and to understand If one really for the workers to learn from ist parties? ests of the middle class if labor wants to fight the imperialist * * * did not have the gumption to let it do the talking. And The Militant’s kind of talking is this experience and put an eqd preparing the stewards and picket captains for the Socialist Another Thing To Put Up With policy that Truman represents, Big Business is aware of this fight for its own interests. • • * to company unionism in the po Revolution. Well, so what? Does all this prove that we’re a bunch of litical field. The British work even if some labor leaders are Just to make sure everybody DEMOCRATIC PARTY slobs because we’re used to it? Or does it mean that our life is ers have shown the way. Are not. The monopolists dread the Intolerable because we have to get dirty on the job? understood the connection be idea of labor’s entering the. po The role of the Democratic American workers less capable Party in this campaign is very in No. I t doesn’t prove, much of anything. Only, it ’s just another tween Truman and O’Dwyer, litical field in order to fight for and alert than the English work structive. How eagerly and hur Toledo SWP Asks Labor of the little things that we have to put up with. We don’t like Truman invited the New York its own interests and those of mayoralty candidate aboard his ers? Of course not. riedly did this moth-eaten Demo to be dirty. On our day off we get dressed up like anybody else. * * * the middle class. How the capi special train when it arrived in cratic donkey jump on Franken And if we get a dirty fork by accident at the dinner table we talist newspapers fume and rant the big city Saturday morning THE MIDDLE CLASS have something to say about it to the little woman. against Frankensteen. They don’t steen’s band wagon. The capital To Vote For J. Simmons a few hours before Truman’s The claim is advanced, most object to him personally or even ist press attributes this support to (Continued from Page 1) I t ’s just, as I said, another of those things that you have to Navy speech. The night before, often by official labor leaders, an alleged fear that labor’s can mons expressed his appreciation to what he says. In the words forefront of the struggle against put up with if you’re a worker; and it’s not all necessary either. underlining the fact that a vote that if labor forms its own party, didates could not possibly win of the support of the Socialist of the Free Press editorial of racial discrimination and segre- Workers Party and stated that Very few jobs have to be as dirty as they are, but it would cost cast for him is a vote for Tru Big Business will rally the mid without such support. This is a October 2: “ I t is not Franken gaton in this country and how he had known the party to be an_ the companies a few extra pennies to clean them up . but man’s policy, O’Dwyer said in dle class to its banner and there deliberate piece of deception. steen the individual but Frank they fight for the rights of all outstanding fighter for racial the clean people who own the companies and look down on us a speech: "We on our side are by isolate the workers. Nothing Actually the reverse is true. Big ensteen the symbol.” For the oppressed national and racial equality. ' for our grime, aren’t willing to spend those extra pennies. firmly lined up behind the poli is further from the truth. Business, which dominates the tical philosophy set forth by Actually the middle class very reason Big Business op minorities. Simmons is the director of the I t won’t be until we, the working people, own the factories poses Frankensteen, namely, as Democratic Party, fears that la Roosevelt and now being put hates and fears the monopoly bor is strong enough to win Following the address, Sim- Mass Movement League, the most that we’ll be able to control our working conditions. And then we’ll the symbol of labor, we Trotsky into practice by Truman.” capitalists. Big Business grabs without this support; and under m ilitant mass Negro organiza be able to go about our jobs like men instead of pigs. ists support him. The Commufnst Party and its for itself the lion’s share of the no circumstances does Big Bus tion in Toledo. The Mass Move Daily Worker have likewise been profits, pressing the small bus Frankensteen’s candidacy on iness want labor to realize that ment League has conducted an insisting on the fact that a vote iness men more and more to the the one hand has inspired' con it can stand on its own feet. SWP Answers active fight for job opportunities for O’Dwyer is more than a mere , wall. Next only to the workers, fidence among the workers and, for Negroes in Toledo plants antj.- What a world of difference municipal issue. Except that— taxation presses hardest on the on the other, has plunged Big was directly responsible for se between this mayoralty election Auto Workers In Baltimore hold tight,to your hat now—they middle class. They are only too Busines into a thick cloud of Radio Attack By curing jobs for Negro bus drivers and that of two years ago. At say that a vote for O’Dwyer Is a anxious to break with Big Busi gloom. It has given new hope with the Community Traction that time it was labor that held vote against Truman’s political ness and turn to labor. But how to the middle class who until Co. Simmons is further support on to the coattails of the Demo Detroit Mayor Resist Union-Busting Move philosophy! As for us, we’ll take can they possibly do so when now have hesitated to back la ed by. the National Association the candidate’s word for it that cratic politician Fitzgerald. The Special To THE M ILITANT additional 2,200 workers. Now labor itself remains tied to the bor because they felt that labor DETROIT, Oct. 26. — Arthur for the Advancement of Colored he stands for what Truman Socialist Workers Party was the management, which has re Burch, Detroit orgapizer of the People and the Interdenomina'- By Dorothy Lessing stands for. only tendency in the labor move tional Ministerial Alliance. mained the same through con ment at that time which did not Socialist Workers Party, tonight version and reconversion, states James A. Farley, campaigning issued the following reply to an BALTIMORE, Oct. 26. — CIO for O’Dwyer, "spent a great part support Fitzgerald. We are proud MEANING OF SUPPORT that it will need 1;600 workers United Automobile,Workers Lo of his speech denouncing Com of our record. The correctness attack against labor’s mayoralty The Socialist Workers Party candidate, Richard Franken cal 239 (Fisher Body) and to start production again at munism, Communists and the of our position was confirmed supports Simmons on one Issue Local 678 (Chevrolet) voted over Fisher Body and is willing to Communist Party,” reports the when in the course of the cam steen, made earlier in the eve only, that of minority represen whelmingly in favor of strike take back 800 men who worked October 26 Daily Worker. “ Far paign Fitzgerald vied with Jef ning over Station WWJ by May tation in city council. He has ndfe action against General Motors in there before the war, but refuses ley lauded O’Dwyer’s earlier an fries in anti-labor and anti- or Jeffries: expressed himself on any of the the national NLRB poll on Oc to rehire the rest on the basis nouncement that he did not Negrb attacks. Our stand was “Mayor Jeffries .tonight ac fundamental economic and po tober 24. In addition to na of seniority at Eastern Aircraft. want support of Communists.” further confirmed by the fact cused Frankensteen of receiving litical problems facing the Ne tional demands for a 30 per cent UNION-BUSTING MOVE Therefore? Therefore vote for The American ship operators, the war effort — accepting any that the workers stayed away his support from sources outside gro people and the labor move wage increase, Local 239 is de The officers of Local 239 see O’Dwyer, says the Daily Worker. their banker-sponsors and their discrimination on the^part of for from the polls on election day. Detroit. Among the alleged ‘in ment as a whole. manding that the rehiring at this as an attempt to weaken the Why? Hold on to your hat, wer stooges in high government posts eign governments which m ilitat Today the situation is differ vaders,’ he named PAC repre The movement of the Negro Fisher Body take place on the union and intend to see that going through a tunnel: “Far were all present at the nineteenth es against the carriage by Amer ent. In this election we have sentatives from other cities, and people in Toledo toward repre basis of the seniority accrued at this demand is won. As the f i ley is said to believe,” the Daily annual convention of their Pro ican ships of a substantial vol the gratifying example of labor in addition lashed out against sentation in the city government Eastern Aircraft. nancial secretary of the local Worker goes on, “ that a low la peller Club in New York City, Oc- ume of American cargo, without choosing one of its own union my radio broadcasts in which, is very important. This is a mass Before the war the Fisher expressed it, “ These new men bor vote for O’Dwyer would open • tober 17,18 and 19. They praised adopting retaliatory measures”— leaders to run for mayor. And in the name of the Socialist attempt to secure Negro political Body plant had 800 workers. and women who came into the the doors again for Farley’s re each other for their “great war John J. McAuliffe, president of now we see the laughable spec Workers Party, I call for sup representation as a means of When the plant converted to war union were good union members turn to leadership In the Dem time achievements,” and in order Isthmian Steamship Co. tacle of the Democratic ma- port of Frankensteen. fighting the discriminatory pol production it changed, its name and we are going to fight for ocratic Party and, therefore, a to get set for the period ahead, • chinej an empty shell without “I wish to point out that our icies of the lily-white city coun sharp swing to reaction on the to Eastern Aircraft and hired an them.” they held what they called “ The “ The chief barrier to the ex labor support, clutching with broadcasts are sponsored by the cil, an august body which, time' part of the party.’” American Merchant Marine Con pansion of America’s foreign might and main at the coat Detroit Branch of the Socialist and again, has trampled on the ference.” Everyone made a What would Farleys return to trade will not be lack of demand tails of labor. Workers Party, a branch com rights and crushed the aspira leadership add to what Truman speech. The following, are some on the part of foreigners for our posed of Detroit residents and tions of the Negro population of ; excerpts from their speeches. CRITICAL SUPPORT is already doing, which for goods but rather their inability an integral part of Detroit labor. Toledo. months has been characterized • to obtain dollars they need to I t is common knowledge that For this reason, the Toledd>, by the Dally Worker as a swing “ However, we Trotskyists wish “ In our two great disastrous buy our goods”—Frank J. Taylor, we Trotskyists are the prin- to state that our national or branch of the SWP is giving to reaction? Don’t ask such em experiences fortune smiled on us” president American Merchant ! cipled opponents of Franken barrassing questions, just vote ganization is fully behind our critical support to Simmons in —L. Lewis Luckenbach, head of Marine Institute. steen and his fellow officers in local efforts in the Frankensteen for Farley’s and Truman’s can Luckenbach Steamship Co. and the councilmanic election and • side the CIO United Automobile campaign and has given and will didate if you’re a loyal follower chairman of the conference. urges all workers in the city to of the Fosterline. “There is no incompatibility Workers. We hâve consistently continue to give us all possible • » • • of ideas in fighting for business opposed his wrong policies in aid in our efforts to get Frank cast their first choice vote tar “ I cannot conceive of the Many a Communist Party in a peaceful world.”—R. Earle side that union and we shall ensteen elected.” him. ' * ' American people who, in th e -12 member and sympathizer, dis Anderson, Director of Finance, continue to oppose such policies. months ended June 30, 1945, gusted with support of O’Dwyer, U. S. Maritime Commission. Nor do we indorse h*is political looks upon the electoral gains of spent $40 billion plus for the con • program in this campaign. We struction of vessels, other than the French Communist Party as “ We must not lose sight, how- support him for mayor because something very different which naval vessels, and who through | ever, of the fact that our Govern he is labor’s choice: and against the War Shipping Administra he would like the American par ment at the present time is prob I the candidate of Big Business, ty to follow. tion, on August 1, 1945, had 4,- ably going to be the principal ¡labor must close its ranks. Already, however, the Daily 270 vessels of which 3,538 of a financier of the United States total deadweight of 34,772,000 ! This is one election where no Worker is preparing this type of tonnage and this situation will : worker dare stay away from the fellow for the next shock. tons were dry cargo carriers, 732 prevail for some considerable pe vessels with a deadweight of 10,- i polls. We all know that every An editorial in ¿he October 23 riod of time.” —J. A. W. Richard 1 agent of Big Business, every Daily Worker declares: 841,000 tons were tótikers, six son, assistant vice president, special oré carriers with a dead member of the National Associa “French reaction, now center Chemical Bank and Trust Co. tion of Manufacturers and of ed most clearly around deGaulle weight of 82,000 tons and colliers • or other bulk carriers numbering the Detroit Automotive Council, and seeking support from the “ Jealously watch the factors every follower of Reverend G. 59 with a deadweight of 549,000 that basically are going to effect U. S. and Britain, will try to L. K ., Smith, Father Coughlin marfeuver the Socialist and tons—practically all engaged in the industry which supports and the Ku Klux Klan w ill not Catholic deputies for anti-Com- you.”—Advise to the shipowners stay at home on November 6th. munist and anti-Soviet purposes now centered most clearly around by Admiral Howard L. Vickory, To thwart such plans is now the de Gaulle?” vice chairman, U. S. Maritime The Socialist Workers Party major problem of the French The editorial doesn’t say—not Commission. calls upon the people of De Left. And this is especially true yet—but, being experts at deci • troit to support labor and for because de Gaulle has seven phering this kind of double- “ In the broadest sense, peace the first time in this city’s his months of dictatorial powers as talk, we’ll make a safe predic is a normal condition in a world to ry elect a labor mayor to of a result of his two-to-one victory tion: where all the peoples have pros fice. Labor’s victory in Detroit on the second part of the con 'the French Stalinists are go perity and security to a degree will be an inspiring example for stitutional referendum.” ing to “stop” de Gaulle by . . . in keeping with their respective other cities to follow and the And how do you think the entering de Gaulle’s next cabi standards of living.’’;—Lewis D. building of a labor party will Communist Party is going to net, just as they are now in his Parmelee, executive vice pres then be much nearer to fulfill fight against “French reaction, cabinet. • ident, AGWI Lines. ment. ..