Socialists Begin Preparations for 1960 SWP Convention Calls For Political Challenge To Big Business Parties By M urry Weiss The Socialist Workers Party concluded its Eighteenth National Convention last week after three days of inten­ sive work in an atmosphere charged with self-confident realism and revolutionary social- ist optimism. The participation election which the resolution of some 250 delegates and visi­ characterized "as the next major tors from every branch in the political action" facing the country marked a high point for American socialist movement. the party since the 1946 Chicago While some intensification of Convention on the eve of the the class struggle as a result of cold-war and witch-hunt period. the capitalist offensive against the living standards of the work­ NAACP Delegates Face Among the delegates was a large representation of youth ers is to be expected, Dobbs held that “we cannot bank on along with founders of the American communist movement, any immediate change in the veterans of the trade-union mass movement” in 1959 in time movement and front-line fight­ to make a labor party develop­ m ent in 1960 a practical possibility ers in the Negro struggle. Thus, . the vitality and continuity of Thus the urgent task in the the Marxist movement in the presidential elections is to in­ Crucial Policy Questions United States was personified in tensify propaganda for indepen­ the convention by socialists dent political action as an al­ whose records go back to the ternative to continued support IWW, the pre-1917 Socialist At the Soviet Fair of the Democratic Party. Party left wing, the early years Deny Equal Dobbs discussed the prospects ‘Self-Defense,’ Political of the Communist Party, the for a united socialist presiden­ founding period of American tial ticket, citing the resolution: Trotskyism, and by newer strata “If sufficient forces can be Justice in Independence and Mass of youth coming from different brought together in agreement tendencies in the more recent to make the effort feasible and history of the American radical worthwhile, we favor putting a movem ent. Rape Cases Action Are Key Issues broad socialist ticket (on ac­ An active role was played by ceptable lines) in the race in The International spotlight, By the Editors delegates who broke from the order to advance and popularize which focused on the South's Some 2,000 delegates are gathering in New York City July Communist Party after the double standard of justice in the idea of independent socialist 13 for the fiftieth annual convention of the National Association Khrushchev revelations and who rape cases during the recent political action.” for the Advancement of Colored People. renounced the counsel of despair Tallahassee trial, continues to However, the facts should be W ill this be just another routine yearly gathering at which and capitulation to “democratic’' play across the Southern scene. faced realistically. “A complex delegates dutifully sit and listen to lengthy speeches by their capitalism offered by such form­ In the Tallahassee trial, Florida of factors outside our control top officials and by a long string of invited politicians and other er CP leaders as John Gates. maintained its tradition of the makes a united socialist ticket dignitaries? Or w ill it be a convention at which the delegates These militants broke with Stal­ death penalty for Negroes only an uncertain prospect.” themselves do their share of the talking — and, what’s more im­ inism, not socialism, and they in rape cases by according Therefore, “in view of the dif­ portant, decide on policies, for the organization’s coming year of mercy to the four white at­ have learned that membership ficulties and uncertainties of work? in the SWP is the path for gen­ tackers of the 19-year-old Negro realizing this (united ticket) un­ There are a number of accomplishments in the past year on uine revolutionists who are de­ co-ed. A flood of demands that der present conditions, the SWP which the NAACP may congratulate itself, but these weigh little termined to carry on the fight Florida accord the same mercy will make all the necessary against the mountain of injustice crushing the Negro people in against American capitalism. to five Negroes facing execution preparations to run its own can­ this country. An objective survey of the past year indicates that Another contingent of dele­ for alleged rapes o f white wo­ didates so that in any event the in the battle against Jim Crow, the NAACP is, at best, just inch­ men has brought partial results. gates came to the SWP as a re­ message of socialism can be ing along; and, at worst, standing still. sult of the struggles of the left- A hasty second trial of a 16- brought to the American people Let us hope that this fiftieth convention w ill adopt policies wing youth within the reform­ year-old Negro farm hand, in the 1960 elections.” and plans suitable to the tasks ahead, so that the official slogan Jimmy Clark, resulted in a life ist Social Democracy in the last Dobbs discussed the interna­ sentence. Moreover, the State “Free by ’63” w ill regain its ring of confidence and the perspec­ few years. In the course of their tional situation, the growth of tive of achievement. battle with the “socialist” sup­ feelings of insecurity among Board of Pardons, has ordered a 30-day delay in the execution Among the many issues facing the delegates three are para­ porters of the State Department workers and particularly the m ount: of Samuel Odum. they fused with the SWP youth youth as a result of the recur­ This reprieve fo r Odum is, (1) Reversing the suspension of Robert F. Williams, president and launched a new, nationwide rent boom-bust cycles of the however, very short and tele­ of the Union County, N. C., branch for his statement urging Ne­ socialist youth movement. capitalist economy, the intensi­ grams and letters from organi­ groes to fight back against racist attacks, meeting “violence with fication of the Negro struggle for POLITICAL RESOLUTION zations and individuals to the violence” if necessary. Most Negroes (and most whites who are full equality, and the balance Board of Pardons in Tallahassee Model of Soviet automated plant, one of industrial exhibits that attracted American for full equality for all) favor Williams’ position, which is nothing The major discussion at the sheet of the regroupment process are still vital to save Odum and crowds at Exhibition of Achievements in Science, Technology and Culture at New York's more than the traditional and legal right of self-defense . convention occurred around the since 1956. the three other Negroes now Coliseum. Models of the Sputniks, of atomic power plants and of new medical devices also The NAACP national office appears to be straddling on this report on the Political Resolu­ The convention adopted the facing the electric chair on rape impressed visitors favorably. The fair opened .June 29 and w ill run to Aug. 10. In first six issue. In words it says that the NAACP is for armed self-defense tion given by Farrell Dobbs, line of the political report by charges. days, an estimated 250,000 people packed the show. (See story on page three.) where necessary. (These words lose most of their strength since SWP National Secretary and Dobbs and the Political Resolu­ An aftermath of the Tallahas­ the only place they appear is in the document suspending W il­ three times the party’s candidate tion by a large majority vote. A see case is the newspaper a t­ liams.) But actions speak louder than words — and the action of minority of three delegates sup­ for president of the United tention to cases of w h ite men the NAACP top brass was to remove Williams from his elected ported a resolution in disagree­ States. raping Negro women. Such com­ Steel Bosses Spearheading post. His report centered on prep­ ment with the party’s regroup- monplace occurrences are cus­ What conclusion can those Southern branches, which are arations for the 1960 presidential (Continued On Page 2) tomarily hushed up by officials faced with the same racist violence as Williams’ branch, draw or ignored by the white press. Drive to Beat Down Wages from the national board’s action against Williams? And this at In past weeks two white men the very moment when a survey by three unimpeachable national in Little Rock were arrested for By Lynn Marcus termination to sharpen the class work” laws. Finally, as Raskin organizations shows a mounting wave of violence against Negroes Plan ‘Moderate’ Curb the rape of a 27-year-old Negro Throughout the post - war struggle. As Business Week says, after their defeat last since the Supreme Court decision. woman. She had been brutally years the steel companies have says, “An era in labor-manage- November on the “right-to- If the NAACP is the democratic organization it claims to be, beaten and all her front teeth never been compliant in their ment relations is at an end.” w o rk ” issue, “ Em ployers have the delegates can bring the issue of W illiams’ suspension to the knocked out. In North Carolina negotiations with the steel The steel union “is feeling the turned to . . . the impact of convention floor, debate it and take a vote. On Equal-Time Law a white man has been arrested workers. Repeatedly since 1946, brunt of a critical struggle . . . wages upon prices. Industry’s (2) Should the NAACP remain an organization devoted almost for raping an 11-year-old Negro they forced the United Steel by all major industries against battle cry is that union-enforc- exclusively to lawsuits, lobbying and education; or should it ex­ JULY 7 — Senate and House committees concluded g irl. Workers of America to strike a union policy of pressing for ed increases in labor costs have pand its activities to include mass action? Why do movements like public hearings last week on a cluster of bills intended The first death sentence w ith­ before coming through with ‘more and more and more’ every been the chief culprit in infla­ the Montgomery and Tallahassee bus boycotts, the Youth March in memory for a white man year; more pay, more social tion.” for Integrated Schools, etc., have to organize outside the NAACP? to destroy or substantially modify Section 315 of the concessions. This year, however, guilty of raping a Negro wo­ the steel bosses are particularly benefits, more of everything.” As in the case of previous It is not because the people in these movements are anti-NAACP; Federal Communications Act* man was handed down in Beau­ arrogant in refusing to extend A. H. Raskin, labor editor of assaults on the unions, the boss­ it is because the NAACP offers organizational resistance to move­ which requires radio and TV appearance of the incumbent on fo rt, S.C. In th is case the ju ry new gains. They are demanding the New York Times, writes in es are promoting their aims ments of mass struggle. several TV newscasts that clear­ broadcasters to provide equal was mainly influenced by the a wage freeze and elimination the July 5 Magazine Section of through the government. “Pres­ Local struggles, like that of the NAACP Youth in Oklahoma ly served to advance his can­ use of their facilities to all can­ prisoner’s record of attacks on of the cost-of-living escalator his paper that “The strike ten­ ident Eisenhower publicly warns City against Jim Crow restaurants and drug counters, and picket didacy. didates for public office. while women and children. clause in the union contract as sions that have developed in that the country will not stand lines against anti-Negro, stores in Manhattan and Brooklyn, show According to inform ed guesses In his statement to the House Almost simultaneously a Ne­ well as changes in working steel and other industries are for a settlement that pushes the desire for mass action in the branches. The convention should on Capitol Hill, Congress is ex­ committee, Price said: “ The case gro was sentenced to death for rules that would seriously un­ somber tokens that we are mov­ prices up. Congress hints at endorse and encourage such branch actions and project suitable pected to approve this session for amendment or nullification attempted rape of a w h ite w o­ dermine union conditions in the ing into a new era of bad feel­ price controls and tighter anti­ national mass actions. a “moderate” bill exempting of Section 315 is being promoted man. The full penalty of this mills. ing in labor-management rela­ trust laws.” (3) Finally, the slowdown of school desegregation and the “newscasts” from the equal time by hysteria and is framed in dis­ savage law is reserved exclu­ According to the July 4 Busi­ tions." The charge that wages are hidden-ball tricks of the Democratic and Republican politicians requirement. This would break tortion. The Daly decision is not sively for Negroes. ness Week, the steel barons In mounting their offensive the cause of inflation is a plain on civil rights show the need for the Negro people to declare their the ice for ultimate realization as far-reaching as the public has That the old pattern general­ now feel that they have been against the legitimate demands lie. No competent economist independence of both Big Business parties. of the long-standing aim of the been led to believe. It does not ly prevails however, is shown too soft in their dealings with of the labor movement, the em­ and no informed businessman Wherever the Negro vote is strong, candidates should be run broadcasters — complete elim­ require that news of all minority by a letter from Jonesboro, Ark., the unions in the past, that this ployers have used the McClel­ or politician really believes that as representatives of the Negro community and in opposition to ination of Section 315. candidates be given equal time. in the Chicago Defender (July is the time to really draw the lan Committee investigations to wage increases cause inflation. Republican and Democratic nominees; and, nationally, Negro Testifying before a House It simply extends the equal time 4) telling how police hushed up line and fight. smear the unions with the brush And every serious economist leaders should lay the groundwork for collaboration with or­ Commerce subcommittee July 1, formula to the newscast format a white man’s attempted rape of Nor are they alone among big of “corruption.” They have knows that lowering wages w ill ganized labor for the formation of a new party dedicated to civil Frank Stanton, president of the when in the judgment of the an 8-year-old Negro girl. business employers in their de­ sought to enact slate “right-to- (Continued on Page 2) rights and serving the interests of the working people. Columbia Broadcasting System, FCC, the appearance of a candi­ reiterated the industry’s arro­ date constitutes ‘use’ of the fa­ gant threat to blackout election c ility . news coverage unless “relief” “ W e welcome this interpretation The Delegates Found It "Wonderfully Different" from the equal time proviso is as the logical extension of granted. the responsibility of broadcast­ By Harry Ring experiences, to really enjoy the to such gatherings. In tune with waistline felt that roast beef for difference between this and the Stalin's crimes extended to all As in his performance before ers, licensed to operate in the comradeship you find among the times, delegates to this con­ lunch and half a roast chicken conventions I've been used to. parts of the country. A con the Senate committee, he claim­ public domain for the public in­ A socialist convention on a socialists when they get together. vention came by train, bus, plane for dinner was inconsiderate. There was a greater spirit of struction worker from St. Louis • * • * * * ed that the broadcasters could terest. Such a ruling, we believe, summer week end in New York and car. Several scooters were collectivity here than I've ever whose activity goes back to the not continue to grant free time The decision of the SWP to in the parking’ lot. One family A group of teen-aged SWP seen. I never got the feeling we days of the Debs movement said is in fact long overdue.” . . . The picture is familiar — a to the Vegetarian and Prohibi­ rent the facilities of Mountain from Seattle and another from supporters helped parents solve were 'rubber stamps' for the it was particularly heartening in A statement by Farrell Dobbs, tion parties. crowded steamy hall. Clusters Spring Camp for its convention Los Angeles brought trailers. the thorny baby-sitting problem leadership or just being given a his area. "A ll the radical groups National Secretary of the So­ A t the House committee hear­ of delegates on a hot sidewalk was not made without some mis­ Two people from the Midwest by volunteering their services chance to let off steam. The po­ in St. Louis, including ours, had cialist Workers Party, assailed ing he was called on this by the givings. The estimated attend­ came in a two-seater plane. Just for a day-care program. In ac­ litical resolution was realistic. It been isolated for a long time,'' the moves of the major parties debating where to eat and often next witness, W illiam Price, ex­ ance was in excess of the camp's before hopping the lust hedge cepting the thanks of the con­ didn't leave me with the feeling he explained. "But last year we and the broadcasters as intended winding up with a tasteless but ecutive secretary of the New normal dining and sleeping ca­ they were forced down by log. vention for this contribution, a I was out of this world." were able to set up a Socialist to “further the process of expensive meal. Stuffy hotel * * * York United Independent-So­ pacities. As the reservations be­ They lost a day and a half. A spokesman for the group ob­ Educational League with month­ stifling all voices of opposition to cialist Committee. rooms at stiff prices and equally gan pouring in, it became clear battered jalopy from the same served that children are no This was the first SWP con­ ly discussion meetings. I've nev­ Big Business rule in America.” Price proposed that Stanton stiff mattresses. Delegates rare­ that attendance would be con­ area made it in less time. problem when their parents vention for a young New York er seen walls broken down so He urged united action by all * * « submit a memorandum to the ly getting the opportunity for siderably greater than expected. aren't around. worker of Latin-American ex­ quickly as at these discussions committee detailing the amount minor parties and supporters of But the camp management and To provide for the overflow of * * *• traction who had previously be­ more than a nodding acquain­ among supporters of different of free time given to these par­ free speech to preserve the equal staff met the problems w ith a visitors, a high-fidelity amplify­ One of the most attractive longed to the Labor Youth groups. We've gained a little ties. He based his challenge on time law. tanceship with one another. professional smoothness, precis­ ing system piped the convention sights was the New York girl League. The high point of the ground for the first lime in a the fact that the broadcasters The Socialist Labor Party, in The convention held by the ion and know-how that won a proceedings to the comfortably who arrived in her high-school gathering for him was the panel long while and I think we'll ringing vote of appreciation from have consistently discriminated a June 25 statement to the Sen­ Socialist Workers Party at a furnished sitting room of the graduation gown. She made it in meeting where delegates from make some more headway.'' the delegates. In a special cere­ camp lodge. One visitor, curled * * * against minor parties in granting ate committee, branded the pro­ camp in the foot hills of the time by leaving directly from coast to coast reported and dis­ mony, "hero" badges were tim e. posed bills as designed to "con­ Poconos was wonderfully differ­ up in a spacious easy chair, sug­ the commencement exercises. cussed their experiences in the A socialist book stall at the awarded to each staff member. * * * The propaganda basis for the fer upon the major parties what ent. The long, windowed hall gested a T V screen to make it movement for Negro equality. convention enjoyed a brisk busi­ But it was difficult for the dele­ perfect. Another, who enjoys current drive to give the Repub­ amounts to a monopoly on the looked out on green rolling hills. A number of delegates, form ­ “It was an eye-opener,” he said ness. K a rl M arx, w ith his recent­ erly members of the Communist licans and Democrats a total use of the air waves, which are Meals were top notch. Between gates to fully express their ad­ floating in an inner tube, spoke “I had felt we weren’t doing all ly translated “Economic and miration for the magnificent job up for extending the speaker Party, were especially impressed monopoly of free broadcast time the private property of no man sessions you could take a dip in that we could. I didn’t have any Philosophical Manuscripts of is based on a recent FCC ruling or group of men.” that was done. system to the pond. by the democratic character of idea how much the comrades 1844,” was best seller. K a rl the pond, a stroll along wooded • * * * * * granting a total of nine minutes William Price w ill report on trails, or just relax on the lawn the convention. A Negro worker were really doing.” Kautsky was runner up with of free time to Lar Daly, a can­ During the depression, hitch­ who had been a leading figure * * * the equal time fight at a public in the cool shade of a tree. One complaint was registered “Thomas More and His Utopia” didate for mayor of Chicago in meeting Sunday, July 12, 8 p.m., hiking and riding the freights about the menu. A delegate who in the West Coast CP for more The process of socialist re- and “Communism in Eastern 1958. at the Penthouse Terrace, 10A, Best of all was the chance to were common if not favorite has been waging a long, losing than two decades said: "It's a l­ groupment sparked by the Europe at the Time of the Re­ The decision was based on the 59 W. 71 St., New York City. get better acquainted, to swap ways of travel among delegates battle against an expanding most impossible to describe the Khrushchev revelations about formation.” Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, July 13, 1959 So We Went to See Balance Sheet Drawn Up on 'Regroupment' The Political Resolution adopt­ running on a capitalist ticket the United States. The rem­ ed by the recent Socialist Work­ should not disqualify a candi­ nants of the die-hard Stalinists The Slums of Glasgow ers Party convention draws a date from receiving socialist A Salute to have been reorganized on a con­ SWP Greets favorable balance sheet on the support. Illusions remain about siderably reduced basis. The By Marvel Scholl results of the struggle for revo­ the appearance once again of a British Marxists great bulk of functionaries and. Trotskyist Party A small item in a recent issue of the Sparklingly clean, yet so overcrowded lutionary socialist regroupment Wallace-type third capitalist In reply to greetings from members who have left the British socialist weekly, the Newsletter, date- that there scarcely seemed room to breathe, let since the crisis in the Communist party. And many of those who British Marxists fighting in party in the past three years In Ceylon lined Glasgow, tells of a fight brewing between Party following the Khrushchev turned away from the CP on the the Labor Party for a pro­ have failed to set up any sem­ alone live, this “apartment” had been Abie Delegates to the SWP con­ the dock workers and the National Dock revelations. question of its opportunist pol­ gram that can really defeat blance of organization, except and Betsy’s home since their marriage. vention were inspired by ac­ Labour Board and the employers. Beginning with the stage of icy towards the Democratic the Tories and establish a So­ for the ultra-Stalinist Vanguard The Scotch lawmakers are very moral counts of working-class strug­ Conditions are being undermined due to wide discussion in 1956, the res­ Party still cling to fundamen­ cialist Britain, the SWP con­ group. They have either retired people indeed. One couple whom we visited gles led by the Ceylonese NDLB violations of an agreement limiting the olution traces the process tally Stalinist attitudes on the vention sent the following from active radical politics al­ had a son just 10 years old. Now that the boy Trotskyists, organized as the number of men assigned to each dock. At the had reached that age it was no longer legal through the period of common struggles of the Soviet workers cablegram: together or are playing Demo­ actions in the field of civil lib­ against the bureaucratic caste. cratic Party politics learned in Lanka Sama Samaja Party, KGV docks there is little enough work for 150 for him to sleep in the same room with his two “The Eighteenth National erties and the united political “In our united action with the Stalinist school.” the. largest working class men, yet the Board sends 50 additional men sisters. Therefore Alex and Ellen, who live SWP Convention w arm ly campaigns of 1958 to the pres­ such radicals,” the resolution de­ party in Ceylon. They voted to vie for jobs. Dockers are granted 12 shillings in a genuine “single end,” were eligible for welcomes your fraternal Although a large number in ent stage. clares, “ we sought to emphasize to send the following message a day when they do not work, but of late the one of the new Council Flats under construc­ greetings. We salute the for­ pro-Soviet circles are “no long­ “In the united campaigns we points of agreement rather than to th e LSSP: employers have refused to grant even this tion. mation of the Socialist Labor er under direct domination of could put forward only part of reject collaboration because of “The Eighteenth National miserable stipend (about $1.70) unless the men Abie and Betsy’s son is only seven. They League. Your militant de­ the CPUSA, some of them are sign in for all three shape-ups. our program,” the resolution de­ remaining differences. While SWP Convention sends fra­ must wait their turn another three years. fense of the program and displaying a more and more un­ This small item brought back vividly the clares. “But this did not cancel maintaining and exercising full ternal greetings to your party There has been no housing constructed in movement of revolutionary critical attitude toward the bur­ time we spent in Glasgow last year. Our hosts out their value as a means of freedom to present and defend which is so valiantly organ­ Glasgow since 1916. That was when the Rent socialism against such form­ eaucratic regimes in the Soviet for that visit were 32 dockers, shipyard work­ drawing broader socialist forces our entire program in the press izing and leading the socialist Control Act went into effect. Rents were idable enemies in Britain is bloc. Moreover, many of them, ers, machinists (they call them engineers), frozen and if a landlord failed to carry out into positive action on the key and public, we joined in action vanguard under the banner of an inspiration and model to in the absence of any extensive building laborers and other workers who be­ necessary repairs, the tenants were allowed to issue facing American labor — with them on agreed political Trotskyism in preparation for all your co-thinkers across mass pressure for independent longed to the socialist wing of the Labour deduct 10% of th e ir rent. independent class political ac­ issues and hoped to influence the establishment of a Sama- the Atlantic.” political action, exhibit a strong­ P arty. Landlords were unwilling to spend any­ tion as against support to cap­ them further toward full revo­ samaja government in Cey­ The cablegram was ad­ er disposition to support ‘pro­ They told us, “You must see the slums of thing on repairs so tenants took the 10%. To­ italist parties.” lutionary views.” lon.” dressed to Brian Behan, chair­ gressive’ candidates on capital­ Glasgow. Nowhere in the world are the slums day thousands of buildings in that grim city The resolution cites the con­ “Over the past three years,” The cablegram was address­ man of the Socialist Labor ist party tickets in order to beat worse.” have been abandoned by their owners. They tradictions that are apparent in the resolution says, we have ed to S. M. Perera, LSSP League, and was signed by some ‘reactionary’ at all costs.” So we went to see the slums of Glasgow. are still occupied by tenants who pay no rent. the position of those socialists shown “our willingness to co­ chairman, and signed by James P. Cannon and Farrell What do these inescapable We went into the homes of these friends. And But the condition of those buildings is almost who collaborated with the SWP operate w ith socialist-minded in­ James P. Cannon and Farrell Dobbs. facts indicate, in relation to this is what we found: beyond description. in the 1958 election campaigns. dividuals and groups of differ­ Dobbs. The Socialist Labor League, prospects for fusion of revolu­ Abie and Betsy, with their three small At present construction of the city-owned Some of those who joined in ing political views in specific under proscription by the La­ tionary forces into a new Lenin­ children, occupied a “single end” apartment. “Council Flats” is underway. Five gigantic pro­ common electoral activities with issues in v o lv in g c iv il rights, the bor Party’s Right-wing bur­ ist-type party in the U.S.? The ternal relations and common en­ The house, containing about 20 families, had jects circle the city. The one we visited will the SWP in 1958 believe that labor movement, the Negro eaucrats, has mobilized con­ resolution sums these up as fol­ terprises which have been es­ not been repaired in 40 years. Great gaping house 40,000 when it is finished. The fl ats con­ struggle and the cause of social­ siderable party support lows: tablished with so many people holes in the concrete walls, broken sidewalk tain four or five sizeable rooms, with that al­ ism. We have exchanged ideas of different tendencies in the in the “close” (entry), a single toilet in a most unheard of luxury — a private bath! against expulsion of its ad­ “The regroupment policy w ill on programmatic questions past three years should be main­ closet in the hall for each floor. The project had its Tenants League and Convention Greets herents. probably retain its validity as a without raising ultimatistic con­ tained, wherever possible. But Abie and Betsy’s apartment was unusual; its own newspaper. When we were there the method of approach to new ditions which would have shut it would be unrealistic to per­ it had two rooms —one a bedroom just large League had just won a fight to keep the city Rose Karsner - break-away currents reacting to off discussion before it could which we first applied in revo­ sist in our campaign for organ­ enough for a double bed for the two girls and from raising the rents. another big shake-up in the So­ start. Our party intends to con­ lutionary socialist regroupment izational regroupment along pre­ a cot for the little boy. Most “single ends” During our visit to Scotland the London Pioneer Trotskyist viet orbit or, more importantly, tinue along this line.” activities of the 1930’s, does not vious lines. The significant have just one room. busmen were on strike and the workers we as an approach to new transi­ The Socialist Workers Party (The resolution stresses that imply and never implied any in­ changes in external circumstan­ The main room was about 12 by 10 feet, talked to were filled with admiration for the tention on our part to build a tional formations which may convention sent greetings to the growth of influence and the ces noted above curtail the pros­ with a double bunk-bed sunk into the far strikers. But one man voiced chagrin: arise out of the mass movement Rose Karsner, a life-tim e increased vitality of the SWP is politically heterogeneous organ­ pects for organizational fusion wall for the parents. In one corner was a “Every big strike wave we have ever had in the early stages of coming lighter for revolutionary so­ a significant counter-trend to ization at the expense of revo­ small fireplace, in another a gas stove. The in Great Britain before this one began right disturbances within U.S. cap­ with forces now visible on the cialism now living in Cali­ the disintegration and demorali­ lutionary principles w ithout sink was built into the window ledge. One here on the Red Clyde. Now the Londoners italism. Meanwhile, all the fra- scene.” fornia. zation that has so weakened the which no effective and enduring wall had a dish cupboard, the other a buffet. have taken the lead. We’ll have to do some­ revolutionary vanguard party Rose Karsner served on the Am erican radical movem ent Between these two stood the dining table. thing about that!” can be created. As explicitly staff of The Masses, was a over the cold-war years. The There was just enough room between the From the Newsletter I get the impression stated in our original declaration militant in the Communist gains of the SWP, which open other furniture and the table to pass sideways. that the Clyde-side dockers have begun to on socialist regroupment in the Party and the International the way for a revitalization of Not one square inch of that room was unused. do something. U.S., we have been guided by Labor Defense until 1928 and the socialist movement in the the undeviating aim of promot­ was a founder of the Ameri­ U.S., can be credited to the pol­ ing the ideas, programs and can Trotskyist movement. The icy of active participation in methods of Trotskyism in oppo­ ...Steel Bosses Leading Drive following is the text of the the regroupment movement. "By a negative outlook," the sition to the programs and prac­ monetary authorities utilized all gerous bank credit and monet­ convention’s message: (Continued from Page 1) resolution points out, "by mere­ tices of Social-Democratic re­ the major instruments at their ary expansion that developed “We regret that you could not stop inflation. ly repeating our formulas and formism and Stalinism or any disposal to ease credit condi­ under the harness of direct not participate with us in this But big businessmen and criticizing from, the sidelines, other political formation sharing tions and to expand the lend­ price, wage and material con­ largest gathering of recent capitalist politicians know, too, the cause of revolutionary so­ their ideas to one degree or an­ ing capacity of the banking trols. The suppressed inflation years. We are carrying on our that tens of millions of Ameri­ cialism would have gained noth­ other.” cans feel cheated by inflation. system . . . these actions pro­ that resulted, we are now well work with the spirit and ex­ ing but would most certainly The resolution pin-points the By advancing the big lie that vided the basis for a record aware, burst forth eventually in ample you have set since the have lost ground." conclusions to be drawn from labor’s demands cause inflation, peacetime expansion in the a very rapid depreciation of start of our movem ent. See Underscoring precisely , what the three-year regroupment pro­ they hope to mobilize enough money supply.” It was this that the dollar ...” you at our next convention. the regroupment policy of the cess: “ The crisis provoked by anti-labor sentiment to scare caused the alarming rise of So that even when wages With affectionate greetings. party is, the resolution states: the Twentieth Congress disclos­ the unions off from - making prices in the first few months were frozen during the war SWP Convention Delegates.” “But this method of approach, ures has about run its course in sizable demands. They also hope of 1958. the monetary expansion attend­ to fool many union members Inflation is caused by the ant on arms production created with their propaganda and manipulations of public and inflationary pressures that make them more willing to ac­ private credit by government eventually "burst forth." And cept a token settlement on the agencies, the big banks and the inflation, fed from the same ... Socialists Prepare for 1960 grounds that since a wage in­ big corporations. (These man­ source, has continued uninter­ The trade-union panel heard the groundwork for the big task crease allegedly would boost ipulations are closely tied to the ruptedly in the post-war period. (Continued from Page 1) reports on the struggle against of 1960 —• to reduce publication prices, it is not worth fighting astronomical federal budgets, What worries the big bankers ment policy and the assessment the “Right to Work” laws, the commitments and make other for anyway. whose bulk goes for arma­ who shape economic policies in made by the majority resolu­ significant movement in Michi­ cuts in the budget during the To ascertain what big busi­ ments.) This was admitted by the country is that the increase tion on the prospects within the gan to organize the unemployed immediate period ahead. ness economists really consider W. McChesney Martin, Chair­ in production stimulated by in­ labor movement. through the trade unions, the At this point the participants to be the cause of inflation one man of the Federal Reserve flationary credit policies is al­ INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK situation in the steel industry, offered an inspiring demonstra­ has only to read official gov­ Board, speaking before the ways less in real value than the A highlight of the convention tion of the fighting mood of the ernment publications. For in­ Ways and Means Committee of increase in the money supply was the report by James P. Can­ the tactical problems of the parly. One delegation after an­ stance, the May 1959 issue of the House of Representatives which results from this credit. non, National Chairman of the struggle for trade-union democ­ other consulted on the spot and Survey of Current Business, on further extension of bank Thus, in the post-recession pe­ party, on “The Struggle for So­ racy, the New York hospital rose to announce that in order published by the U.S. Depart­ credit through the Federal Re­ riod, the bulk of economic cialist Internationalism.” In a workers’ strike, the experience ment of Commerce, says: “An serve System. growth so-called has not been two-hour speech the founder of of various unionists in spreading to prevent any curtailments in increase in the volume of liquid “When such a program was real growth. It has been prin­ the American Trotskyist move­ the idea of a labor party and party activities whatever they assets was facilitated by Federal adopted during and following cipally the growth of public ment traced the efforts of the independent labor candidates, would pledge to raise a special Reserve operations as the re­ the war,” he said, “ . . . it pro­ and private debt. The top bank­ working class to form its world and the problems of women and fund within a few weeks over cession deepened in 1958. The moted and facilitated the dan- ers know that this trend spells socialist organization since the youth within the labor move­ and above all commitments for ever-worsening inflation. Communist Manifesto of Marx ment. fund drives in 1959 and 1960. The only way to keep the and Engels in 1848 which closed These reports, given by active Within an hour or two the dele­ economy expanding as in the with the words: “Workers of the unionists, were impressive testi­ gates had set quotas among past is to use the Federal Re­ World Unite!” mony that despite years of rabid themselves for a special fund of serve System as an “engine of He sketched the rise and fall witch-hunting, screening and $5,500. inflation,” in W. McChesney of the First, Second and Third blacklisting, the socialist cadres In the same spirit, a proposal Martin’s words. But to stop Internationals and Trotsky’s ten­ in the unions have survived and that came out of the panel on runaway inflation — to try to acious struggle to build a new continue to work with tenacity the socialist press aroused en­ slow down inflation to a “safe Fourth International after the and effectiveness. thusiasm. This was to launch a rate”—the big bankers must collapse of the German Commu­ The panel on the Negro strug­ Socialist Press Truck tour across tighten up on credit expansion. nist Party in the face of Hitler gle heard reports from many ac­ the country to break new ground This means higher interest in 1933. tive participants in the recent for socialism in preparation for rates for the big corporations For the convention as a whole, civil-rights battles in the North the 1960 campaign. The project and reduced opportunities for but particularly for the many and South. Here too, the party is now being ca re fu lly consid­ huge profit swindles at home. young and new members of the was able to show how it had suc­ ered by the incoming National To make up for these reduced party, this was undoubtedly the ceeded in retaining important Committee with a mandate from chances at super-profits, the outstanding point of the con­ links with the most advanced, the convention to undertake it employers want to dip into the vention’s three-day gathering. m ilitant sections of this m ilitant if feasible. wage envelope. That is the real The perspective for building mass movement. meaning of their arrogant stand a revolutionary parly in the U.S., In his report on organization against the unions and of their the stronghold of world capital­ and finances, Farrell Dobbs Statement on brazen lie that wage increases ism, against the background of re a listica lly assessed the p a rty ’s “cause” inflation. the world-historical movement situation. The party, he said, of the socialist working class, had suffered losses over the China Communes was the concluding theme of many years of the cold war and China's communes, which had Cannon's report. the witch-hunt, but by demon­ been under consideration in the The convention schedule was strating its capacity to react to SWP for a number of months, packed with activity from early every opportunity, however were discussed under a special morning ' until the late hours. modest, it had more than made point of the convention agenda. Three well-attended panels met up fo r these losses. Though delegates expressed d if­ to hear more detailed reports on Dobbs then told the conven­ ferences of emphasis in their the trade-union movement, the tion that after the most careful appraisal of the communes, the Negro struggle and the socialist assessment of finances, it might convention was able to adopt a press. be necessary — in order to la y statement on procedure unani­ mously. This is to begin treating the Resolution on Marcyites question publicly “with a posi­ tive, unambiguous statement of A small split-off from the Socialist Workers Party the progressive character of the last February, headed by Sam Marcy of Buffalo, was communes as a new stage and a step ahead in the economic reported at the convention. The following resolution on and social development of China the walk-out was adopted unan- to which we, as partisans of the imously by the delegates: recognition. Chinese revolution, give our “The Marcy group quit the “The Marcyites feared to sub­ support.” SWP at the beginning of our mit their pro-Stalinist views to “To preserve needed balance pre-convention discussion. This the judgment of the party in the in the presentation of this was the logical culmination of free and full discussion pro­ policy of support it is necessary their growing adaptation to Stal­ vided by our democratic pre­ to relate the communes to the inism, most flagrantly evidenced convention procedure. The de­ entire complex of social rela­ in their support of the Kremlin’s parture of these numerically in­ tions in China and to our con­ brutal suppression of the Hungarian significant defenders of the cept of the character of the Mao revolution and their sub­ crimes of the Khrushchev re­ regime as set forth in the sequent apology for similar gime against the Hungarian [SWP’s] 1955 resolution on abominations, notably the exe­ workers testifies, not to any ‘cri­ C hina.” cution of Nagy. During the ten sis’ in the SWP, but rather to The statement also provides years of their existence within the political solidity of its ranks that the discussion of differences our party as a dissident organ­ and their firm adherence to the on the commune question be ized tendency, they were grant­ principled positions of Trotsky­ continued “throughout the party ed full democratic rights and ism .” in the ensuing period.” Monday, July 13, 1959 THE MILITANT Page Three The American Way of Life

Nuclear Hideaway A scheme to increase the number of possible survivors, Eisenhower "Helps" McDonald should New York be hit by H-bombs, was announced July When a union confronts a united ceded to his request just like that, with­ 6 by Gov. Rockefeller’s Special Task Force on Protection front of employers determined to inflict from Radioactive Fallout. The out even insisting on retroactivity. plan is an application of official against radioactive fallout.” defeat on the workers — and this is the But that’s not all that McDonald federal policy “that it is the re­ Drawing on experience in de­ sort of foe that the steel union faces in sponsibility of the citizen to signing interiors of model space yielded to the steel barons. In a letter to ships and the atomic submarine, the current negotiations — only one kind Eisenhower, June 27, which prompted the maintain himself for at least two weeks following an atomic Nautilus, the author offers in­ of strategy can smash the bosses’ plans. latter’s request for a postponement of the valuable hints for coping with The union must stake out clear and firm attack.” strike, McDonald asked the President to The key proposal is a state “the human problems of lack of demands, capable of arousing the workers’ help the union negotiate a “non-inflation- law that would require con­ privacy and monotony” of living enthusiasm, and prepare for a test of ary” wage increase “such that in your struction of thick-walled shel­ for at least two weeks in the cramped shelters. strength and endurance on the picket line, words the ‘price [of steel] is not com­ ters in all existing and future For example, "The family David McDonald and his fellow pelled to go up’.” homes and buildings. The Task Force estimates that might have a library of tapes bureaucrats in the United Steel Workers Earlier in the negotiations, the union the shelters could be built on a . . . These tapes might play the of America are going about the showdown leadership had scored the corporation’s do-it-yourself basis for about ordinary sounds of a house — struggle with the steel owners in exactly phony argument that a wage increase "And I told the guide at that Russian exposition that if they think $150, w ith a professional job the refrigerator going on and the opposite fashion. They are surrender­ running around $500. (The off or the traffic outside. Or it would cause a new price increase. The they're going to seduce us with their vodka . . might offer the sound of wind ing the union’s positions in advance of president of the Home Builders union had proved by unimpeachable Association says this estimate is in the trees or music . . ." (Or the fight. Their treacherous behavior can statistics that inflation was caused by fac­ “premature,” indicating it may maybe the drunk next door prove costly to the steel workers. tors totally unrelated to wage increases, run a bit higher.) yodelling at three in the morn­ McDonald has already ' pared down but very much connected with the steel Soviet Technology, Medicine The projected law would not ing.) “Color schemes can also help. the union’s demands considerably over barons’ profit-making. The union leader­ deal harshly with builders and landlords. “Exceptions” may be The experimental living area for what he indicated they would be at the ship had also denounced the Eisenhower necessary and “full compliance the space ship used blue on the outset of negotiations. (He never spelled administration for backing up the steel Impress Crowds at N.Y. Fair might be excused” if the cost ceiling, green on the walls and out these demands clearly but had talked corporations in their hue and cry about of installing a shelter is deemed earthy beige underfoot. The ex­ about big money gains, reduction in hours, “ inflationary” wage increases. By Henry Gitano and unskilled worker’s wages the glaring omission from the excessive. Where shelters are planation: ‘This scheme would help the occupants remember and settlement of outstanding grievances and how did a family budget its exhibition of figures about the provided, such improvement In this connection, the AFL-CIO Ex­ Going up the escalator at New income. Our guide didn’t answer Russian workers' living stan­ would be tax-exempt. which way was up.’ over working conditions.) ecutive Council said: “The basic issue in York's Coliseum, a vista of So­ the last two questions. dards. The scheme would prod land­ “The colors also, as they did Next, he agreed to postpone the strike, the steel negotiations is whether an in­ viet power emerges. The uni­ One of the visitors wanted to Here are some of the criti­ lords into vigorous action. They in the Nautilus, recall the out­ scheduled to begin July 1, and continue dustry which is swollen with profits. . . verse, portrayed by an alum i­ know w h y there was so much cisms: “Dear Mr. K. Why don’t would be told to tackle “radi­ side world.” Despite this imaginative de­ negotiations without securing an agree­ can terrify the country with phony, ap­ num shell sweeping upward machinery and so few exhibits you put in your exhibit how the ation traps” With the dispatch sixty feet provides the backdrop Russian people really live.” they now display in regard to velopment of the Task Force ment from the employers that any gains peals to the dangers of inflation. . . .” of how the Russian people ac­ for life-size models of the three tually live. The engineer point­ “One more question, if Com­ fire traps. scheme, Gov. Rockefeller pulled they would be forced to grant would be W ell it looks as if McDonald has been sputniks that the Soviet Union ed to his machinery and replied: munism is so wonderful, why do Statewide distribution of "sur­ his neck back after a hasty in­ retroactive to July 1. terrified. For what he proposed to Eisen­ hurled into space. Nearby one's “Machine is the base for all pro­ you need a secret police?” vival kits" for use in the shelters itial “full endorsement.” Now he says the people may not go imagination is given a further duction. If this machine can give “Very, very interesting, but is envisaged. These would in ­ It is true that McDonald did not cede hower is that bargaining proceed hence­ fo r it. lift by a model of the Soviet 120 tons of coal an hour, make does not depict that average clude "a water container( ten this vital bargaining point to the steel forth on the fraudulent premise that wage Perhaps a lot of people re­ cosmic rocket's last stage — the shorter work day and higher liv ­ prices are beyond the average gallons per person) . . . de­ companies directly. In fact, he refused to call Edward (‘Father of the increases do cause inflation. And he is first artificial object to circle the ing standard for all people. We reach.” hydrated food, candles, a m ini­ abandon retroactivity two weeks ago when asking the political flunkeys of the cor­ sun. w ill overtake the U.S. in better mum radio . . . a radiation de­ Bomb’) Teller’s gloomy 1957 the employers proposed it. But then Presi­ porations — who say that any wage in­ The tremendous successes living for the people.” HOUSING DISPLAY tection device and a container forecast. Survival in an atomic flowing from the Russian revolu­ In the health section of the for excreta." attack, he said, will require dent Eisenhower — whom the union had crease whatever, even one under the cost- A modern three-room apart­ tion have clearly impressed most Since human survival is at hiding out in “deep under­ exhibit, we examined a display ment is on display. One and a denounced as in cahoots with the steel of-living escalator clause in the old con­ of the 250,000 visitors w ho v ie w ­ stake, the Task Force makes ground shelters” where food of Soviet preventive medicine, half million such dwellings are barons — came along and asked for a tract, is inflationary — to help determine ed the Soviet Exhibition of the drastic suggestion that “con­ could be stored in such a way an apparatus for artificial blood scheduled to be completed this strike postponement, and McDonald ac­ the size of a “ non-inflationary” wage rise. Achievements in Science, Tech­ circulation to substitute for sideration be given” to the idea that “we still could feed our year. The target for 1965 is 15 population for, let us say, two nology and Culture at the Coli­ heart and lungs during opera of distributing the kits “at re­ million new city apartments. years. In two years we would seum during the first six days of tions, an illustration of the duced cost.” its 42-day run. transplantation of organs in ex­ Because of the pressures that The one major gap in the pro­ have had enough time to find out where food can be grown Oil and Taxes Don't Mix The sputniks and lunik are at periments, a “sewing machine” the Soviet working class has gram is considered in a remark­ again.” Do you ever get the feeling that you resource. Standard, for example, paid the center of the exhibit; dis­ designed to prevent bleeding been exerting on Khrushchev's able article on the household plays of the heavy industry, sci­ following an operation. Finally, bureaucratic regime, the hous­ page of the July 8 New York Incidentally a less suggestive are being boiled in oil when you add up about $350 million in taxes abroad as figure than 12 square feet per ence and technology from which we joined a crowd gathered ing exhibit’s sparkle could well Times. “The most important the dollars taken from your wages for against $53 million in this country. (That person might be chosen for the they stem surround them. around a former ship’s doctor reflect a genuine movement project the fam ily decorator may income taxes, sales taxes, entertainm ent shelters. That’s what a standard was on a gross profit of over $1 billion.) The visitors see scale models who acted as guide. toward raising the living stan­ have to face is furnishing what coffin measures. taxes, “ lu x u ry ” taxes and dozens of other Lest you begin feeling sorry for the of a 10-billion-volt atom smash­ Behind him posters declared dards of the Soviet working peo­ may be the newest room in the . ple. house — the survival shelter — Herman Chaulka sim ilar levies? oil barons, however, remember that the er, the Stalingrad hydroelectric that "The USSR has a single But those in the oil racket don’t feel Treasury Department permits them to station, the atomic icebreaker planned system of public health" “Lenin,” an ultra-modern air­ and that while in 1913 there was that way. It seems that oil and income subtract taxes paid abroad as a “cost” be­ port with dummy control tower one doctor per 10,000 population, taxes just don’t mix. The June 15 United fore making out the U.S. tax forms. and guidance devices, the today there are 17 per 10.000. M ine Workers Journal offers some instruc­ It’s pleasant to know that at least world’s largest passenger air­ Another placard read: "The en­ Headlines in Other Lands tive facts about this oddity. somebody gets a break on taxes in this plane, a metallurgical and a syn­ tire population of the USSR is thetic rubber plant. provided with qualified medical Canadian Striker In the new cabinet to be set week produced a ‘black’ edition The giant oil corporations not only country. However, it’s also quite a luxury The accent is on machines — assistance free of charge." up, with Sukarno at the head, of 45,000 copies. The attem pts pay far less income taxes than other cor­ for it means $1 1/2 billion a year in tax and on the future. A legend The audience was surprised. Faces Death Penalty the army is expected to receive to get the paper out of the porations but the bigger outfits pay less revenue that the average person has to reads: "On the basis of wide­ “Suppose someone is ill at home, heavy representation. Whether works ran into a solid wall of than the smaller ones. help make up. spread mechanization and auto­ what then?” In Frame-Up Trial the Communist Party will be pickets . . . Newsagents had mation of industry and agricul­ represented was being discussed their scab papers torn out of A few examples: Ten of the largest How is this done? Standard O il in­ The doctor replied: “The pa­ ture, the USSR shall have the tient telephones, and a doctor Earl Laing, a Newfoundland officially in Jakarta according their hands, ripped to shreds corporations in 1957 paid 44% of their de­ dicated the answer in its 1957 report to shortest working week in the arrives.” woodworker, faces the danger to the July 6 New York Times. and scattered over the road­ clared profits in income taxes. But a stockholders. Payments to the U.S. and world with simultaneous in­ Another wanted! to know: “If of being railroaded to death in In a statement on July 6, way. Attempt by the manage­ benevolent government took only 14% of foreign governments added up to $2,300,- crease in the welfare of its pop­ a doctor has more patients, does a frame-up trial arising out of Sukarno denied any intention ment to get a van loaded with a bitter strike last March. the admitted profits of the ten biggest oil 400,000. Of this, the company put $400 ulation." he get more money?” “What if of acting as a dictator. He said papers out of the main gate An inscription that goes with a patient has a chronic disease,” Laing will go on trial for al­ he would confer with the Peo­ failed completely.” corporations. million in the kitty. The rest was made legedly killing a constable, fat­ a national map of power installa­ someone asked. ple’s Consultative Congress ally injured during a fight be­ That’s the average figure. The five up by consumers who coughed up between tions states that the same The physician answered: “We when it is assembled. Under Strike Paralyzes tween police and strikers. The “smaller” oil outfits paid more taxes than six and nine cents a gallon each time they amount of electric power is now have specialized hospitals.” the 1945 Constitution this body fight began when the Royal bought that precious stuff at a gasoline produced every three days as One man said to his neighbor: must meet at least once every Colombo Harbor the five really big ones. In fact, the big­ Canadian Mounted Police as­ was generated during an entire “We’ve got everything they’ve five years. gest octopus—Standard Oil of New Jersey, pump. saulted striking loggers at Despite the Bandaranaike year prior to the 1917 Revolu­ got; but who can pay for it?” Badger, Newfoundland. government’s use of troops to with greater declared assets than any How do the oil companies get away tion and that by 1965 the pres­ We strolled past displays of The prosecuting attorney in Britain's work cargo, the port of Colom­ other corporation in the world—paid only with it? Easiest thing in the world. A ent generating capacity w ill be “consumer” goods — furs, car­ the Laing case sits on the board bo, Ceylon, remained virtually doubled. 7% of its 1957 “net” in income taxes. thoughtful Congress permits them a 27.5% pets, caviar, rich confectionary, of directors of the struck Bo- Buchenwalds paralyzed in the ninth day of “depletion allowance.” Their pumps may liqueurs. The Soviet automo­ a harbor strike that began June Standard was still far behind the NO UNEMPLOYMENT waters Paper Corporation. By In Kenya spectacular 1956 record of the Arabian- suck oil out of the ground for a couple of biles are in the same area. Two enforcing a technicality, the 24. Fifteen thousand port work generations and they may get back their A Soviet mining engineer of these are dead-ringers for employer - dominated govern­ Britain’s “Buchenwald” is how ers answered the United Port American Oil Co. Aramco pumped $280- American luxury cars — com­ Workers Union’s strike call in initial investment in a few years. But shows an American miner an ment of the province has in ef­ Tribune, a British socialist million from the lake of oil under the aggregate unit consisting of a plete with gaudy lights, chrome fect prevented Laing from ob­ weekly, describes the Hola de­ protest against the govern­ Saudi Arabian desert and didn’t let go each year they start out w ith 27.5% of coal plow, conveyor and sec­ trimming and plush upholstery. taining counsel from outside tention camp in Kenya. (Buch­ ment’s attempt to cut wages. of a thin dime in U.S. income tax! their yield tax free. tional hydraulic propping cap­ “That’s for the bureaucrats!” Newfoundland. The only law­ enwald was one of the most The UPW is led by adherents of the Lanka Sama Samaja Of course the oil companies do have Why not a depletion allowance for able of extracting 1,000 tons of someone remarked. There was yer the ' International Wood­ notorious concentration camps laughter. “Limousines and ca­ Party, a revolutionary socialist their burdens. Some colonial governments wage workers? Nothing to it. Just put soft coal daily. He and the other workers of America could ob­ under the Nazi regime in Ger­ spectators shake as the Russian viar — that’s not for the ordin­ tain for him is a man who will m any.) organization. The LSSP is the largest working-class party in insist on at least a trickle of their natural some people you control into Congress. momentarily presses the button ary guy.” Some expressed doubt also defend Premier Smallwood Last March the British gov­ Ceylon. to engage the cutter-loader. that even the small cars are against a libel suit filed by ernment was forced to conduct The harbor workers’ strike The miner’s wife sized up the within reach of working people. three IW A officials. (Smallwood an investigation of the Hola has dealt additional blows to monstrous machines and won­ “Where are the price tags?” One played a leading role in mo­ detention camp after eleven the Bandaranaike government The "Security Risk" Decision dered out loud: “How many man asked. bilizing police and vigilante at­ prisoners died of beatings ad­ which enjoys only the slimmest miners have been put out of In the cultural area, however, tacks against the strikers.) ministered by the guards. A Like any other group of capitalist pensive, drawn-out court fight. The secur­ support in Parliament and may work with these machines?” the statistics created a better The Workers Vanguard, a so­ coroner found that the beatings fa ll any day. I f it does, new politicians, the Supreme Court justices ap­ ity program has been a basic component of impression. Illiteracy has been cialist publication in Canada, had been “entirely unjustified The guide replied: “We have elections w ill probably ensue. preciate the value of taking some of the the overall witch-hunt which has corroded no unemployment. We mecha­ completely eliminated, whereas has urged the creation of an and illegal.” Earl Laing Defense Committee curse off a reactionary decision by follow­ American public life for the past dozen nize more; miners have to work forty years ago only a minority However, says Tribune, these to mobilize labor and liberal ing up w ith a relatively liberal one. The years. less. P lenty of w o rk to do in the of the population could read and eleven deaths were not excep­ Jazz Duo Rocks support to save his life. latest example of this came when the high Soviet Union. Plenty work for write. More than 50 m illion peo­ tio n a l cases. B ack-breaking la ­ Yet the court evaded the constitution­ ple are currently studying; 1.1 Tchaikovsky Hall court dealt a crippling blow to the First everybody!” bor and torture resulting in al issues involved, deliberately confining This prompted a young white- billion books are published year­ Sukarno Assumes deaths are regular features of Amendment with its June 8 Barenblatt In Moscow itself to a technical decision, and one that shirted man to ask: “What about ly ; there are 400,000 libraries, Dictatorial Powers the detention camps that Brit­ and Uphaus decisions. Three weeks later, easily lends itself to reversal. It merely prison camps?” The engineer- 853 museums and 1,400,000 ama­ ish imperialism set up in Ken­ Hot jazz finally came to the in its first ruling on the government’s in­ ruled that neither the President nor Con­ demonstrator replied, “Sure we teur actors. The emphasis in the President Sukarno of Indo­ ya to prevent the growth of the Soviet Union last month when dustrial security program, it held that a have prisons, but for criminals entertainment field at the fair is nesia assumed dictatorial pow­ national independence move­ two American Negro artists gress have authorized the firing of w ork­ on ballet and music, but the cir­ ment. defense plant worker cannot be fired as only.” ers when he reinstated the 1945 gave an impromptu concert at ers without the right of confrontation of The questioner persisted: cus, stage and movies are also Constitution by decree on July Thus, “On June 9, the Deputy Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conser­ a “security risk” without the right to con­ accusers. “What about political prison­ well represented. 5. His order dissolved the elect­ Public Prosecutor of Kenya re­ vatory before some 500 music fro n t and cross-examine his accuser. In considering the industrial security ers?” ed Constituent Assembly and ported on Manyani camp. He students. The students and their GUEST BOOKS threw out the 1950 constitution instructor went wild with en­ The court certainly was presented ruling, it is also instructive to note that The technician said, “Sure we found that a legless man had had political prisoners, but now Placed at strategic points that provided for a modified been made to work; that a de­ thusiasm over the performance. with a happy opportunity to resume its the sole justice to uphold the rig h t of type of parliamentary govern­ tainee had been subjected to The two artists were Willie “liberal” posture with this particular no more. Now only criminals in throughout the exhibit are guest federal star-chamber purges was Tom prisons.” books inviting you “to write ment. the water torture; that another Ruff and Dwight Mitchell, issue. The entire security program so Clark. As Attorney General under Tru­ We asked about the role of your comments.” The techno­ Sukarno’s move had strong had been beaten with a plastic pla yin g the piano and bass crassly violates the B ill of Rights that the man’s “fair deal,” he was the man who trade unions. “Supposing a logical achievements, the free backing from the Indonesian hose on the testicles and that fiddle. The two are a renowned court would have been hard pressed to grievance could not be settled medical care and education, the army, whose top officers are others had been made to stand duo in this country. “We came issued the original “subversive” list on said to have demanded that he here as ordinary tourists,” Mr. amicably, can the workers stamping out of unemployment, facing the sun holding stones give it its blessing even if it wanted to. which the security program is based. institute a “strong” regime. Ruff said. “We just came over strike?” the confidence in the future — above their heads.” The eight to one majority testifies to this. Sukarno’s move to personally to the conservatory and told (People are fired on the basis of real or The genial engineer tried pa­ these have hit the mark with assume all governmental pow­ them who we were, where we The issue at hand was nicely under­ alleged membership in one or another of tiently to explain: “With us dif­ many visitors. ers also had the backing of the British Printers had studied and asked if they ferent than in United States. stated in a July 1 New York Times edi­ several hundred organizations arbitrarily Pages in the books read: “Awe Nationalist Party and the In­ wanted to hear us.” Professor Our workers,” and he knocked Block Scab Edition torial which said: “Our security programs branded as “subversive.”) Clark’s reward inspiring, you have advanced a donesian Communist Party. Lev Vlasenko then arranged — the one for government employes even for this service was appointment to the his fist against his head for em­ hundred years.” “They said it These two parties sought to re­ British print-shop workers the concert. phasis, “they are conscious, they bench. couldn’t be done — from what I store the 1945 constitution sev­ are m ilita n t. A b o u t 200,000 of Asked how he squared his more than that for industrial workers — understand, that’s why they not saw, they did it.” have an unhappy history of unfairness.” eral weeks ago by action of the them are currently on strike enthusiasm for the duo’s per­ The court’s decision can be used in strike.” By far the greatest number of Constituent Assembly but fail­ for the 40-hour week. Here is formance with the official So­ Thousands of “security” victims have the fight to end the vicious industrial Others asked how much he comments reflect criticism of the ed of the needed two-thirds an example cited in the July 4 viet ban on jazz, Professor been summarily fired from their jobs. At “security” program; but militant unionists paid for his suit (he said, over lack of balance between heavy vote. The Moslem parties op­ Newsletter of their fighting Vlasenko said, “The authorities $100) w hether his shoes were industry and the production of best they have been offered the opportun­ would be well advised not to mistake this posed the move when they fail­ ability: “The West Herts, and just do not like bad jazz. And made in Russia (they were); consumer goods. This is rein­ ed to get special provisions fav­ Watford Observer, which norm­ this was high art . . . This was ity of a star-chamber hearing and an ex­ as the end of the witch-hunt. what was the buying power of forced by suspicion aroused by oring their religion. a lly sells 85,000 copies, last the best type of music.” William Price of the United In- VOLUME XXIII MONDAY. JULY 13, 1959 NUMBER 28 Prejudice in Texas dependent-Socialists as telling An Inside Look at Arouses Mexicans a Senate hearing that Gene Debs Housing Swindle ran for President from prison in Want Public Schooling Editor: 1916. I know it was probably a Editor: Condemns There was a very encouraging typographical error, but that’s The current revelations about story in the paper on June 26. an important date in American the Title I housing scandal re­ "Title I ' — Fancy The M exican governm ent is history. minded me of a similar type of finally doing something about Debs was railroaded to jail swindle that I got a first-hand A-Weapon the insults and discrimination for opposing the first world war look at while working on a con­ that Mexican people suffer in in September 1918. He drew ten struction job. It was a so-called this state. years under the Espionage Act. “cooperative” apartment project Give-away sponsored by the Federal Hous­ Name for an Old The Mexican consul in the It was in 1920 that the Socialist ing Authority. Pending legislation to provide town of Lubbock, Miss Cecilia Party nominated him to run The initiators and sponsors of nuclear weapons to West Ger­ Molina, said that two ladies on from his cell. A year later W il­ the “cooperative” , were the many, Greece, Turkey and other her staff made an appointment son took a look at the million builders who had more ways .of members of the NATO military to have their hair done at one votes Debs piled up and let him out. Like they say on television squeezing money out of the deal alliance was opposed by the New Game of Profits of the local beauty parlors. But York United Independent-So­ when they got there they were — I was there. than you could shake a stick at. By Gordon Bailey cialist Committee in testimony turned away. The paper says Old Tim er And they didn’t have to worry In the ten years since it went into effect, the Title if anything went wrong since before a subcommittee of the the owner told them, “We re­ New York the entire enterprise was insured Joint Congressional Committee One Slum Clearance Program has offered little to New serve the right to refuse service York tenement dwellers hoping for better housing. But to anyone. We don’t cater to by the FHA. on Atomic Energy July 2. To begin with, the builders it turned out to be a bonanza to Latin Americans and so in­ Should New UI-SC spokesman W illiam area before it is sold to a spon­ owned the land that the FHA politicians, real-estate sharks formed the Mexican consulate.” Price also» strongly urged th a t sor. That is left to the profit- “selected” for the project. But and racketeers out to make easy Miss Molina told the papers Party Be the committee extend the dura­ minded private interests with no instead of selling the land to the money at the expense of ten­ that the Mexican foreign min­ tion of its public hearings so more than consultation with the Socialist? co-op they leased it for 99 years ants and taxpayers. istry has issued an order not to that other groups and individ­ committee. at a nice rental. The measure was passed by contract any more laborers for Editor: uals could be heard and so that In practice the redevelopers Then, of course, there was the the public might have an oppor­ Congress in 1949 to aid cities in chopping cotton around Lub­ The debate in your June 28 have found it more profitable to profit on putting up 14 buildings tunity to be informed of the replacing slums with new apart­ bock. She said there are be­ issue, “ Should Progressives continue to collect rents from tween 3,000 and 4,000 Mexicans that cost about a m illion dollars grave issues involved. ments, stores and public build­ Work in the Democratic Party?” the present slum tenants than to working there now and that apiece. This profit was rounded Otherwise, he declared, “The ings. Under its provisions a city attracted my attention. I have A group of students at Hall high school in Little Rock put up new buildings. In many they Would finish out their con­ out by having the builders ap­ American people w ill find them­ buys slum property, guarantee­ been an independent all my life voted a resolution last September urging immediate reopening cases the syndicates have no tracts but that the contracts pointed as the management firm selves irrevocably committed to ing its owners a good profit, and because I have no confidence in of their school — closed by Gov. Faubus to prevent integra­ funds available for construction. would not be renewed unless for the project when it was com­ a policy which upon sober analy­ then sells it at a lower price to either one of the old parties. If tion — "even if qualified Negro students . . may be assigned The H arlem group had $5,000 fo r the discrimination stops. pleted, for which service they sis can bring shudders to a private interests, who are sup­ I voted at all it was for the one to classes." New school board in L ittle Rock recently decided building new apartments after An official from Washington received a monthly fee. peace-loving citizen.” posed to redevelop the area on I thought best qualified for the to reopen the schools next fall, even with token integration, making a down payment on the said that the Mexicans had no There was also a layer of icing Charging that the nuclear a profit-making basis. office. Thus I do not agree with a fte r federal court order voided Faubus' school closing law. property. right to do anything like this on the cake. When the land was arms give-away was intended as One-third of the city's loss is either speaker, although I do After five years of operation unless there was agreement by leased to the co-op a small cor­ a means of encircling the USSR met by local taxpayers; while agree on many points of their the syndicate wound up with both countries. Miss Molina told ner of it was kept aside by the through the militarization of un­ the federal government makes him the American government argum ent. builders. On this little plot they up the other two-thirds. $8,891 to meet debts of $236,757 democratic regimes, Price also Eaton Sees $3-Billion although stockholders and their has nothing to do with it. I believe in a third party that put up a shopping center. Mer­ reminded the committee that the In New York many of the pro­ If a few more officials acted is independent of both of the old chants were waiting in line for jects have bogged down in a relatives had been paid a total spread of atomic weapons itself of $409,244. lik e she does, they w o u ld n ’t be parties. I t can be either pro­ the opportunity to pay a stiff increased the risk of war. morass of profiteering, fraud so quick to k ic k the Mexicans gressive, labor or liberal. But rent for one of the stores. One of Soviet Trade Prospect and scandal. Insiders have coin­ Sponsors of the Manhattan- "Much has been said," he town project, which produced around. socialism should not be mention­ the builders, in a fit of enthusi­ ed hundreds of thousands of dol­ pointed out, "about the possi­ $173,164 a m onth in rent, had a T.L. ed because of so much prejudice asm, told me one day that it By Lillian Kiezel lars without tearing down a bility of an accidental pushing working capital for construction Texas against the name alone. So many would have been worth putting “ Practicing capitalists” like Cyrus Eaton favor expand­ single slum. Persons with racke­ of a button which could fire off o f $12,650. minds have been poisoned by the up the project for nothing just teer connections have entered one of the missiles we may soon ing U.S. trade with the Soviet Union. However, they are It has recently come to light public press that many would to have the shopping center the lucrative field. Where slums It Was 1920 have poised in a ring around the up against stiff opposition from the State Department. that Thomas Shanahan, vice- not even read the platform' if so­ along side it. He was all for co­ have actually been torn down Soviet Union. Eaton, who is chairman of the president of the Slum Clearance Editor: cialism was once mentioned. operation. luxury apartments have been “It is also true that in a time Board of the Chesapeake & cold war — hot war impasse Let’s keep the record straight. L. H. P. H. C. built instead of low-rent projects Committee, has made profitable of panic, it is unlikely that a Ohio railway, points to the and building up brisk and pro­ loans to sponsors of Title One In your July 6 issue you quote Salisbury, Md. New York fo r the displaced tenem ent small U.S. armed forces group “view with alarm” school and fitable business between the projects, through the Federated dwellers. would be able to assert sov­ says “they have narrowed our United Stales and the USSR. In one case reported by the Bank and Trust Company of ereignty over any stockpile of prospects down to two unpalat­ Russia is determined to push its which he is president. Shana­ New York Times, the NYU Bel­ nuclear warheads. Some time able choices: cold war, with a modernization and expansion levue project, a tenement prop­ han’s duty is to pass on the fi­ ago the Journal of the United crushing burden of taxation, or program at an accelerated pace. nancial reliability of prospective erty in mid-Manhattan, was States Naval Institute published hot war, w ith nuclear annihilation To carry out its far-reaching sponsors. Moses defended his slated for redevelopment. In an article listing those occasions of all mankind.” plans, Russia must import vast deputy against criticism by say­ 1953 the city bought the prop­ in naval history when Naval ac­ Eaton, who has long advo­ quantities of equipment, ma­ ing that his banking connec­ DEFEND COMMUNIST PARTY RIGHTS e rty fo r $7,850,854 and sold it to benefits for the 12 million people on social tion, sometimes unauthorized, cated a change in policy, renew­ chinery and materials.” tions had been invaluable to the IN ILLINOIS — Defenders of civil liberties are security, doubled benefits for all unemployed Furthermore, the Soviet Union a syndicate fo r $1,020,000. and in remote areas of the world ed his plea coincident with committee. seeking to block passage in the House of a bill workers through the unemployment compensa­ is not just waiting around for The syndicate then collected had provoked international in­ fresh overtures from the Soviet Persons with connections in already railroaded through the state Senate tion system, doubled the benefits of veterans, the U.S. to make up its mind. $2 million in rent from the ten­ cidents. If the incidents appear government for increased trade the Democratic Party have been that would outlaw the Communist Party in widows and orphans — and we still would have W hat concerns Eaton most as a ants of the slum buildings for q u a int to us in this age, we must relations on a long-term credit favored over others. A roster of Illinois. The American Civil Liberties Union $5 billion left over to make our foreign aid practical big business man is the next three years. They paid not overlook the fact that they basis. Title One sponsors reads like a heads the list of organizations opposing the program more effective.” Reuther ascribed the that Soviet orders “are eagerly large fees to various members of could be repeated. This time the The Soviet move, associated list of “who knows who” in dictatorial measure. $212 billion loss to policies followed by the being snapped up by America’s the syndicate for “services ren­ stakes would not be control of a with its Fair at the New York Tammany Hall. • * * Eisenhower administration. But America has commercial competitors, such as dered.” Two lawyers among the remote island or harbor but the Coliseum, was given the usual Public protests mounted when suffered many times this loss due to failure to Great Britain, West Germany investors received $73,000 in THREE PACIFISTS JAILED — The Rev. enormity of nuclear war.” brush off by the State Depart­ the committee appointed Louis convert to a socialist economy. And this failure and Japan.” legal fees. Two accountants got A. J. Muste of New York, Karl Meyer of Chi­ Drawing on his own experi­ ment. Pokras, an associate of gambler is due to the policy of the labor bureaucrats, $37,000. A n insurance broker cago and Ross Anderson of Americus, Ga., were ence, Price added: “As a former “United States exports of ad­ He has made an intensive Frank Costello as sponsor of the including Reuther, of supporting the Democratic Naval officer and pilot, I speak who invested $5,000 in the syn­ held in ja il in lie u of $1,000 bond each fo r vanced equipment could help investigation of Soviet trade mid-Harlem project. M ayor party instead of taking the road to independent dicate took out $74,000 in in su r­ twice scaling a fence at the Nebraska Ordnance also personally for myself as break a number of bottlenecks potentials and has solid proof Wagner was forced to cancel the political action. ance commissions. Plant, site of construction of Atlas missile one acquainted with war, its and would contribute to accel­ that “ $3,000,000,000 of business appointment. * * * waste, its degradation of values A t the end of four years none launching facilities. The pacifists had written erating the pace of Soviet eco­ is available to American firms Robert Moses has defended the and its horror. It is ironically . . . I am impressed with them of the old buildings had been Eisenhower demanding admittance to the plant LONG-RANGE PLANNING — Defenders nomic expansion,” said the State actions of his committee as the fortunate, I suppose, that World [Russia’s top officials] not as torn down, not a single brick of to protest against the missile project and to of the capitalist system miss few opportunities Department. As for long term only way to get private enter­ War II, in which I spent 4% doctrinaire fanatics, but as prac­ new construction laid. When speak to the workers. They were held on charges to denounce planning — in producing our daily credits, they would “strengthen prise interested in slum clear­ years, was only a limited war tical men who will take their finally pressed for action the of wilfully and unlawfully re-entering a m ili­ necessities. But they take a different attitude a potential enemy.” ance. He claims that Title One in the m odern sense. Those of us business commitments seriously. sponsors defaulted on their con­ tary reservation; when it comes to war. William H. Draper, Jr., The State Department repre­ is now a “ dead duck” because * * * head of a White House study committee has involved can take it as a token sents the view of those capital­ Naturally, they believe in the tract and sold the project. Nine other projects launched of the disclosures. FOOD HOARD — Surpluses purchased by called for a 100-year plan costing about $2 bil­ example of what nuclear con­ ists who, according to Eaton, merits of their system, even as under Title One in the past ten T itle One m ay be a dead duck the government from America’s farmers now lion a year for military aid to the satellite flict would be.” “have hypnotized themselves I, in common with other dedi­ years were handled in much the in New York, but as a means of m ake a stockpile valued at $9,000,000,000. B y powers listed as America’s allies. Said Draper: into amazingly inconsistent twin cated Americans, believe in the same way. Property in Harlem replacing slum, dwellings with n e x t year the am ount w ill probably be $10,500,- “We can’t fight a 100 years’ war, which I sup­ conclusions” — that communism merits of ours. Racists Hurl Bomb that cost the city. $5,244,383 was low-cost housing it never hatch­ 000,000. Included in the m ountain of food are pose this is, by a year-to-year program.” must “inevitably collapse from “I also believe,” concluded turned over to a group of in­ ed from the egg. butter, dried milk, cheese, soy beans, grain * * * within’.’ and .at the same time it Eaton, “that the two systems A t Daisy Bates Home vestors for $415,000 and m ort­ In ten years only 200 acres of sorghum, barley, rice, oats, wheat. Instead of $1O-BILLION GADGET — If the latest tax is an ideology that is “so power­ of capitalism and communism gages. Rent from tenants in the New Y o rk ’s 7,000 acres o f slums giving the food to needy people at home and boosts have given you a slow burn because of Two white men hurled a ful” that unless destroyed “will not only can but must reach a buildings brought the syndicate have been torn down under this abroad, the government is paying 38 firms the added pressure on the fam ily budget, here’s bomb at the Little Rock home overwhelm us.” workable agreement to live in $71,500 a month. In the next five program. about $1,000,000 each fo r storage, one firm re ­ a bit of information that may help you to cool of Mrs. Daisy Bates, Arkansas Writing in the N.Y. Herald peace on the same globe. The years the sponsors received $3,- A t this rate it would take 350 ceiving nearly $15,000,000. Storage supervision off. You may get back part of that tax money president of the NAACP, then Tribune July 3 Eaton expresses peaceful and profitable ex­ 047,509 from the property. Seven years to replace the present requires 6,300 employees. In addition to rented in the shape of a $10-billion atomic plane. This sped away in a car. Fortunately, the opinion that the Soviet change of goods appeals to me years later only three of six pro­ slums, without touching the new storage space, the government has filled 225 was revealed July 1 when secret testimony no one was hurt, and the house Union has firmly demonstrated as a more attractive and con­ posed new apartments had been slums that would develop in that Liberty ships full of grain. Besides this it was before a congressional committee was made wasn’t damaged. itself to be a “front rank in­ structive way of life than the built and 35 tenants were still tim e. necessary to spend $240,000,000 fo r 237,978 public. According to Dr. Herbert F. York, di­ The bombing, July 7, was the dustrial power. . . present fantastically costly arm- occupying condemned slum storage bins to take care of 1,000,000,000 bushels. rector of defense research and engineering, fourth such attempt on the “ In this very success of the ed-camp existence with nuclear Bates home since the start of dwellings. * * * the expenditure of $150 million this year on Soviets lies the brightest pros­ annihilation just a pushbutton the school integration crisis. Even when slums are actually the project is only a drop in the bucket. “If pect for both bypassing the away.” WORLD'S BIGGEST CITY — New York torn down and new apartments anything is to be done in the way of application and London have been nosed out as contenders put up the former slum dwellers of nuclear energy to flight, it w ill not be done for the world’s biggest city. A May census gave do not benefit. They are shunted for less than $10 billion or some multiple Tokyo, with a population of nine million, the off into other slums while their thereof.” distinction. Shanghai may even exceed Tokyo O’Connor Indicted for Defying former homes are replaced by * * * in size. With the annexation of 11 neighboring apartments renting for $150 or counties the Chinese metropolis is reported to LOW-COST POLIO VACCINE — A cam­ $250 a month and more. have a population of “nearly 10 million.” paign w ill be kicked off in Washington this • • • week for world-wide use of a live virus anti­ House Un-American Committee MOSES REARS HIS HEAD "PARASITISM" IS THE RIGHT WORD — polio vaccine, to be taken orally, which scien­ Charged with "knowingly and that time O’Connor charged the power of this Committee be Robert Moses, New York Park “A few days from now,” reports the July 4 tists report has proved to be at least as effective willfully" failing to appear be­ that Congressman Scherer (R- challenged he concluded: "By Commissioner, who also heads Business Week, “the City of New York will as the Salk vaccine. A single factory can turn fore a subcommittee of the Ohio), who headed the subcom­ declining to respond to the the Slum Clearance Committee, redeem $2,000 of West Farms 7% Central Ave­ out enough fo r 100,000,000 people in a few House Un-American Committee mittee had bitterly attacked the House Committee's subpoena, I denies that Title One was de>- nue road construction bonds. It w ill continue months. Estimates of the cost run from a cent in Newark, N.J. last September, ECLC during the proceedings make that challenge." signed to help erect low-cost to pay on these bonds — a rem aining $188,000 a shot to less than a dime. It w ill be interesting Harvey O'Connor was cited for because the organization had Clark Foreman, the ECLC housing. He says the intent of of them — through the rest of this century, all to see how much w ill be charged for it. contempt by the House of Rep­ initiated a campaign to abolish Director said June 30, “The in­ the Act was to clear slums and of the 21st Century, and nearly halfway through * * * resentatives in January. On the House Un-American Com­ dictment of Harvey O'Connor permit their redevelopment by the 22nd Century. And it w ill continue to pay June 30 a federal grand jury in mittee. MORE RAT BITES — New York’s esti­ for contempt of Congress will private interests for “ordinary 7% interest, free from federal and New York Newark, acting on this citation, The Committee, he said, was mated eight million rats appear to be getting test the right of a Congressional speculative business purposes.” State taxes, until the last West Farms bond is indicted O'Connor for contempt out to punish him and the hungrier and bolder, or to be developing a more committee to punish citizens ... So closely has Moses helped retired in 2147.” The road, finished in 1873, of Congress. ECLC. “Congressman Scherer ravenous taste for human flesh. Three more The Emergency Civil Liberties supply the means for ordinary Long a fighter for labor and is of course, entitled to his own o rig in a lly cost $377,500, b u t the fin a l cost, in ­ victims of their bites were reported July 1. The Committee stands solidly behind speculative business purposes cluding interest, w ill be around $3,440,000 by c iv il lib e rty causes, O’Connor is opinions about both the ECLC oldest victim was Maria Burgos, 69; the young­ their chairman in this test of that the committee draws up no 2147. The last bond to fa ll due, a $500 denom ina­ well known as an author and and myself,” said O’Connor, est Geraldine Carter, 19 months. The third vic­ his Constitutional rights.” plans for redevelopment of an tion, w ill yie ld more than $6,000 in interest. tim, Juan Perez, 46, was bitten June 28. All of as National Chairman of the “but I challenge his right to This is called capitalist “free enterprise” but them were discharged from hospitals after re­ Emergency Civil Liberties Com­ hale me before his Commit­ “parasitism” is the right word. ceiving emergency treatment. One proposed mittee. tee . . . * * * remedial measure is to urge slumlords to put O’Connor was served Sept. 4 “The announced purpose of with a subpoena from the Un- the House Committee is to ‘pun­ BECK INDICTED UNDER Taft-Hartley the rodents on par with human tenants and American Committee at a meet­ ish’ the Emergency Civil Lib­ L E Y — A federal grand jury on June 17 indicted evict them for nonpayment of rent. ing protesting its hearings in erties Committee . . . While Dave Beck, former president of the Interna­ * * » Newark. He admits that he re­ Congressman Scherer may con­ tional Brotherhood of Teamsters and two truck­ OPERATION PURSE STRINGS — The Re­ fused to submit to the Commit tend that his Committee should ing company executives. The indictment charges publicans claim they believe in “thrift” and a tee's demand that he appear be­ not be abolished, he has no th a t in 1954 the tw o truckers gave Beck $200,000 “balanced budget” to avoid “inflation.” They fore it the next day. “I’m fed right to summon me because as in violation of a Taft-Hartley law provision attack the Democrats as “spendthrifts.” The up with this subpoena busi­ a citizen I am working for such banning payoffs to union officials. The truckers Democrats accuse the Republicans of being ness,” he said. abolition . . . said the money was a loan. petty penny pinchers afraid of getting things In a statement released at “I am challenging the right of * * * on the cuff. How phony this, debate is can be the House Committee on Un- COST OF STAGNATION — In a statement judged from the fact that the government ran American Activities to exist . . . issued July 1 as chairman of the AFL-CIO up a peace-time deficit last year of some $12.5 When Doesn't It? Not one single piece of Iegisla Economic Policy Committee, Walter Reuther billion, breaking all previous records. Under the At his July 8 press confer­ tion has emanated from the 21 estimated that the failure of the economy to Republicans and Democrats the public debt ence, President Eisenhower years of activity of this House maintain a five per cent rate of growth from rose $19 billion in the last six years, largely stated that segregation was Committee . . . It has wasted 1954 to 1958 cost the American people $212 due to astronomical armaments expenditures. “morally wrong” when it denies millions of dollars of the tax­ billion. This “could have built five hundred To indicate their real views about tapping the equality of opportunity “in the payers’ money, it has ruined the thousand $12,000 homes, doubled the construc public treasury for the benefit of big business, economic and political fields.” lives of thousands of citizens tion of highways, built fully equipped hospitals the bipartisan coalition in Congress has now This was the president’s first whose ideas the House Com­ w ith 900,000 beds, constructed 300,000 new class­ raised the “permanent” legal public debt lim it public statement of his personal m ittee considered unortho­ rooms . . . increased b y $1,000 th e salary of to $285 billion and the “temporary” lim it to feelings on the segregation is­ dox ...” every teacher . . . doubled the social security $295 b illio n . sue. Declaring that it is lime that