Eisenhower Lies Build a Labor Party Note! About No Need THE MILITANT To Fear H-Bomb PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE By Art Preis Vol. X V III - No. 15 >267 NEW YORK. N. Y.. MONDAY. APRIL, 12, 1954 PRICE: 10 CENTS In a special A pril 5 broadcast intended to allay the mounting terror here and abroad over disclosure of the world-destroying power of the H-bomb, Eisenhower lied: “ I assure you we don’t have to fear . . . we don’t have to be tually to conceal the really awe­ hysterical.” some scope of destructiveness of If there is no reason to fear, a single H-bomb of the March why did they try to hide the 1 type. For it can do a lot more blood-chilling: facts about the H- than take out “any city.” Even the 1952 “baby” device was re­ Democrats Play Into Hands bomb exploded on March 1? Why did the Atomic Energy Commis­ vealed to have a mushroom sion keep silent until now about spread of a hundred miles. Every­ the results of the first hydro­ thing under that umbrella would gen blast in Nov. 1952? be subject to a deadly shower of Only after the horrifying facts radiation, not to speak of broil­ had leaked out piecemeal — fol­ in g heat. lowing the outcry in Japan about “The 1952 blast was exploded Of McCarthy on Army Probe the bu rn in g o f 23 fisherm en 80 at ground level,” observes the miles from the center of the April 1 Scripps-Howard report, March 1 detonation — did the “which probably would not be White House and AEC finally the method used in a wartime McCarthy Agrees to Probe, Provided ... decide to give us “the truth.” attack unless a specific, pin­ What we have been told of­ point target was the objective. Don’t Let Them Drag Share Guilt ficially is still not about the lat­ Exploded in midair . . . the area est bomb, immeasurably more of total destruction and severe powerful and deadly than the damage would have increased by several multiples . . . The des­ With GOP first, but about the “baby” H- Us into Indo-China W ar bomb “ device” that “only” wiped truction produced by heat and out a coral island, leaving a mile- the injury by the intense, instant Eisenhower and Dulles threaten to turn the Indo- long, 175-foot deep crater in the radiation of the fusion bomb China war into another Korea. They are talking: in most would have been correspondingly On Sears ocean floor. belligerent language. American military personnel, dis­ increased in area, only slightly We are given this obsolete — guised as “technicians,” are al- > By George Breitman and long-known — information diminished in intensity.” ready aiding the French invaders going. W all Street would long ago only because “a clamor to let Commenting on Strauss’ state­ in Indo-China. This country is have sent troops too, if the ad­ APRIL 6 — On April Fools’ Day the Senate investigating sub­ the public know the power of the ment, science expert William L. supplying two-thirds of the money ministration did not fear popular hydrogen bomb was rising,” ad­ Laurence of the N.Y. Times and arms to keep the invasion reaction, particularly after the committee unanimously selected Samuel P. Scars, Boston attor­ mits the March 31 N.Y. Times. wrote on Murch 31: “However, demonstration of the people’s •But Eisenhower and his AEC d e stru ction by fir e w ould be hostility toward the Korean in­ ney, as special counsel of the aides are not giving us the full much greater than destruction tervention. “There is much fear committee’s projected probe into truth. They admit to something by blast. The lim it of incendiary we are being sucked into the McCarthy’s dispute with the A r­ Expect Big Leap my. Both the date and the man horrible — they can hardly deny action would cover a diameter Indo-China war,” wrote Scripps- it — in order to minimize and of fifty miles, or a total area Iloward foreign editor Ludwell were symbolic of this probe, cover up a worse danger. They of almost 2,000 square miles.” In Jobless After Denny on April 5. He added: which was promised almost a month ago and still hasn’t got. are like the old-fashioned den­ London, the world’s largest “Recognizing the lack of en­ started. tist who jabbed a pin in your city, is only 693 square miles. thusiasm for its get-tough-in- rump just when they yanked on Los Angeles, fifth largest, is June Graduations Asia policy, the administration is The special counsel is supposed to run the probe for the commit­ your tooth. The sudden sharp 451; while New York, seventh Based upon what Business now trying to convince Congres­ tee, and to run it impartially so pin-prick was supposed to dis­ on the list in area and with the Week calls “dubious samples,” sional loaders of the extreme as to bring to light the facts tract you from the agony when most population, is 319 square the Census Bureau’s figures on seriousness of the Communist that will make possible a judg­ your tooth was wrenched. miles. A ‘'baby” H-bomb not only unemployment still show a rise pressure in Indo-China. . .” ment on the veracity of McCar­ Thus, when Admiral Lewis L. could “take out” New York City for March, usually a month when 'Serious for whom? Not the thy’s and the Army’s charges Strauss, chairman of the Atomic — kill every single inhabitant — the number of jobless declines American, French or Indo-Chinese and countercharges. Energy Commission, issued his it could “take out” virtually the several hundred thousand. The people. This war on the part of The first public statement statement and comments on whole state of New Jersey. latest report, issued April 2, re­ France is just a naked imperialist Sears made after being appoint­ March 31, he said that an H- The i March 1 bomb was sup­ vealed an additional 54,000 list­ grab, an invasion to steal the ed on April 1 was: “I have not bomb can be made “large enough posed to be 10 megatons power ed as unemployed, bringing the country from the Indo-Chinese. taken a position publicly or pri­ to take out a city . . . any city.” (a megaton equals the explosive total to a peak of 3,725,000. The Vietminh government was vately” on McCarthy or McCar­ Now, that would seem to be a power of 1 million tons of TNT) It is quite evident, however, recognized by treaty back in thyism . candid admission and a pretty or double the Nov., 1952, explo­ that considerable finagling was 1946. The F rench tore up th is McCarthy himself probably terrifying prospect. sion. But, admitted iStrauss, “ the done to keep the figures below treaty and treacherously attacked never told a bigger lie. But to say that the H-bomb yield” of the March 1 bomb was the 4,000,000 mark. The real to­ the Vietminh. In short order the following can “take out any city” is ac­ (Continued on page 4) tal is very likely considerably Thus, the Vietminh war for facts were dug out of the news­ more than 5,000,000 and above independence began years before papers: In 1952 Sears tried to the March, 1950, figure of 4, the Mao regime took power in raise funds to re-elect McCarthy, 123,000. Chiha. The Indo-Chinese people 1 Eisenhower is using the March He said he was glad McCarthy­ " HOW WILL YOU BURY have, the same rig h t to take help Against Thought-Control ism “has taken a place in the decline in the rate of unemploy­ from China, or anywhere else, to dictionary.” He offered $1,000 to ment increase to deny the need win their freedom that the Amer­ anyone who could prove that Mc­ for government measures to pro­ 9 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 CORPSES?” ican colonists had to take aid Carthy had ever unjustly victim­ vide jobs. The April 2 Wall Street from Royalist. France in our own In the West Coast NAACP! ized anyone. He joined in Mc­ Journal points out however, that By Joseph Keller revolutionary war of independence. Carthy’s smear attack on Har­ the “jobless total is almost sure The Indo-Chinese people are vard University for not purging If an H-bomb war begins, chances are you’re cooked — to top four million by July, may­ overwhelmingly against the its faculty and student body. Mc­ be sooner . . . Reason a July A Protest by Editorial Staff, The Militant literally. You’ll have no place to hide, nowhere to run. French butchers. The French Carthy, who raised no objection jump is almost certain: A bum­ Better get that into your head now. Pray you’ll be some­ don’t even dare to arm their o.wn A p ril 6, 1954 By imitating the McCarthyites, who pin the to Sears when his name was per crop of 1,356,000 high school where near the center of the puppets. “. . . No matter how “subversive” label on their opponents without first submitted for his approval, graduates, plus 279,000 from col­ Wiest Coast Regional Office, NAACP thermonuclear blast so you’ll be class through a workers and they doubletalk it — they want to evidence, your office has weakened the fight said after the appointment that leges. Job-hunters among them San Francisco, Calif. pulverized in a flash. Out around farmers government. The only hold their colonial interests against “subversive” lists in general, and has he did not recall if he had ever will be counted idle until they there. They know that one of the a hundred miles from the center way to control the H-bomb is Dear S irs : disgraced the creditable record of the NAACP met Sear's. But as recently as last find work.” quickest ways to lose out (bar­ you’ll still die, but slowly, from control of the government by the on this vital question. month Sears was recommended Administration propagandists We demand a public retraction and apology for working class and its organiza­ ring Communist victory) is to by McCarthy’s wife to defend heat waves and radioactivity. are trying to represent every the infamons and slanderous attack you have tions. have a strong, nationalist Viet­ L E A F L E T ’S C H A R G E McCarthyism in a public debate. Your one chance for survival slightest hesitation in the down­ made against The Militant. We also believe that There's been a “radical chango namese army organized,” states Your leaflet claims: “They say they are ‘work­ Sears accepted the offer, and the — the one chance for the sur­ ward trend as “business rally.” you owe an apology to the members of the in civil defense thinking” since the Scripps-Howard Washington ing for your civil rights ’ but they work among debate did not take place only vival of civilization — is to fight In steel, it was announced that NAACP and the American people at large for news of the latest H-bomb ex­ column on March 27. us in the interest of the Communist Party or because he decided that it would for socialism, to end the rule of the drop had “hit bottom” when using the most contemptible McCarthyite methods plosion leaked out, writes Gabriel “The majority of the Viet­ other subversive and un-American movements.” not look good at a time when he the capitalist class and estab­ it was found that the industry namese people want peace at in the attack on this paper. Pressman in the March 26 N.Y. The. M ilitant strongly objects to being linked in was hounding Massachusetts con­ lish the power of the working had performed the miracle, for almost any price, and a large On March 28 at a Fight for Freedom Rally World-Telegram. At least in Am­ this manner to the Stalinists. Although we defend gressmen to get him “ drafted” as the week ending April 3, of rais­ proportion, now as in the past, sponsored by the NAA jOP in Oakland, Calif., your erica’s largest city, New York, the democratic rights of all persecuted groups, an “ impartial” counsel. ing steel ingot production — by seem to want the Vietminh to officers distributed a leaflet listing six organiza­ the official policy “ is moving to­ including the Stalinists, we are and always have 1 point to 69% of capacity, high­ win,” admits the N. Y. Times tions and publications which were accused of ROLE OF DEMOCRATS ward one goal: To educate peo­ •been politically opposed to the Stalinists because est since M arch 7. report from Saigon on April 4. “attempting to mislead the Negro community.” Anti-McCarthy ple, so, i f they are lu cky enough of their false and treacherous policies. During For almost a week Senator Department store sales, a good Jim Lucas, another Scripps- Five of these were Stalinist or Stalinist-dominat­ to survive an H-bomb, they’ll World War II, for example, the Stalinists called Mundt, acting chairman of the index of consumer purchasing, Howard correspondent, reported ed; the other was The Militant. know how to live amid the wreck­ on the Negro people to bury their fight for committee and himself an im­ continue their big drop. For the that in Indo-China, “ as far as they This list has now become known in the Bay Campaign News age.” That’s the biggest “if” equality and advocated the suppression of The partial McCarthyite, tried to week of March 27, they were (French) are concerned, this is Area as the “NAACP’s subversive list” or “W il­ ----- By Myra Tanner ----- there ever was. Because if an M ilitant because we urged the Negro people to wave aside all these embarras­ 11% below a year ago. Similarly an American war.” He tells of liams’ subversive list” (after Franklin H. "Wil­ H-bomb lands in the middle of continue the fight against Jim Crow without com­ sing facts. But the whole setup freight carloading dropped an­ French correspondents complain­ liams, secretary-counsel of your office, who in­ Those liberals who thought Manhattan Island there won’t be prom ise. had become too raw, and on McCarthy was licked by the po­ any wreckage, there won’t be any other 1.4% to 17.1% below the ing: “We French are no longer spired it). A p ril 6 the. com m ittee was com­ corresponding week in 1952; and fighting in our own interests. We W ith this name goes the odium that is attached Our record in this fight is without a blemish, lite admonitions of Eisenhower survivors. Allen Keller in the and began long before there was an NAACP West pelled, again unanimously, to ac­ must have gotten a rude shock World-Telegram quotes a city of­ 15.90% below the 1953 fig u re . are fighting because you Amer­ by every serious opponent of McCarthyism to the cept Sears’ “resignation.” As for auto output, an AP dis­ icans will not let us stop.” whole concept of “ subversive” listing. Coast Regional Office. No one can point to a when they read about McCarthy s fic ia l: Mundt, at least, did this reluct­ patch from Detroit, April 3, re Don’t let them drag us into Your office may not know it, but several na­ single struggle of the Negro people that we did hate session with New York cops “We were thinking in terms antly, for he is a McCarthyite Indo-China. Halt this terrible tional conferences of the NAACP have denounced not support without reservation. Despite our dif­ at. the Catholic communion break­ of marginal survival, of blood ports the industry’ is basing and thinks it is only fitting and and called for the withdrawal of the Attorney ferences with the NAACP leaders, freely ex­ fast on April 4. They read the banks and plasma and aid to “planning on a conviction that I crime. Not a cent, not a gun, not proper for a fellow McCarthyite General’s “subversive” list as a violation of pressed in our columns, we have defended them story of how a fascist demagogue stricken communities. I think we the competitive era will be a a man for this monstrous im- to run the probe of McCarthy, democratic rights and traditions. (Continued on page 3) mobilizes his trigger-happy troops need to admit that now the pub­ long one.” I perialist aggression. But how about the Democrats on for future fascist violence. lic must learn it trill need little the Senate committee? What was Speaking of Professor Wendell more than shovels and baskets.” their role in the Sears affair, H. Furry of Harvard, who com­ Even that shows they still don’t and what is the explanation for mitted the “crime” of using the grasp w h at an H-bom b w ill do. it? United States Constitution in de­ It won’t leave any baskets; it Cops Heil McCarthy as Cardinal Beams In the first place, Sears was fense of his civil liberties, Mc­ won’t leave any people — even suggested by a subcommittee of Carthy shouted in typical gang­ scraps of people. It will only By Fred Hart and star attraction, and to praise chaplain and pastor of the Holy Spellman, who ostentatiously protests against ‘McCarthyism’ three, consisting of Mundt and ster language: “ He w ill be taken leave one big smoking radioac­ Some 6,000 Roman Catholic McCarthy’s talk. Cross Church. The. p rie s t p re ­ shook McCarthy’s hands, added are not going to dissuade Amer­ two Democrats, McClellan and care of.” And the fascist-minded tive crater in the ground. police in New York City, follow­ McCarthy was introduced- to sented the most sinister figure his own tribute, stating that as icans from their desire to see Jackson. In other words, the oops yelled: “You said it Joe. Some Army and civil defense ing an ’8 A. M. mass celebrated the cheering, stomping, whistling in American politics as “ one who McCaffrey had said, it was “un­ Communists exposed and remov­ Democrats had a majority of this “Keep giving it to them.” And officials are still pretending by Archbishop Francis Cardinal cops by Msgr. Joseph P. McCaf­ has devoted . . . his life to ex­ necessary to say anything about ed . . .” subcommittee and Sears’ name “You’re only warming up.” there’s some kind of defense pos­ Spellman at St. Patrick’s Cathe­ frey, retiring Police Department posure and uprooting of Com­ the remarks, the address, of Sen­ On March 25, the Associated would never even have been con­ With sessions like this McCar­ sible against the H-bomb — if dral, crammed into four Hotel munists out of every phase of ator McCarthy.” He added, “I Press reported that Spellman had sidered by the committee as a thy is mobilizing the fascist gangs they could only think what it is. Astor ballrooms on Sunday, April our national life, education, busi­ do wish to say one word, if I said the Roman Catholic hierar­ whole if the Democrats had ob­ of America for the assault on Thus, Lieut. Gen. C. R. Huebner, 4, to veil and stamp in a riotous ness, industry and the govern­ may. Senator McCarthy has told chy would make no “ official pro­ jected. In the second place, all labor and the minorities tomor­ New York State Civil Defense ovation to fascist Senator Joseph ment.” Some one yelled, “The us about the Communists and nouncement” on McCarthy be­ three Democrats on the commit­ Army, too!” row . Director, reported: “There is no McCarthy. Many of these fascist- about the Communist methods. I cause “we don't preach sermons tee itself voted for Sears. We, tbo, have b mobilizing ,iob reason to be defeatist and main­ loving cops were fresh from McCaffrey defended McCarthy want to say I’m not only against about politics.” But the author­ to do. The anti-fascist forces tain nothing can be done to deal strikebreaking duty on the city’s from the “Left Wing” and from communism — but I’m against itarian hierarchy does not cus­ WHY NO CHECK? must be alerted. Resistance has with the effects of the new wea­ vast waterfront. There they had Americans “ misled” by “slanted the methods of the Communists.” tomarily put into writing, pass What happened? Didn’t the to be organized to these u g ly pon . . . the actions to be taken been pushing, intimidating, man­ and biased segments of our press, This deliberately cryptic re­ resolutions or “ preach sermons” Democrats, who claimed to -be shouts from high places. The are essentially the same as in handling, heating up. riding down radio and screen.” He said the mark was never clarified by on things of this nature. If Spell­ making an “intensive” nation­ anti-fascist victory must be as­ the case of an atomic blast.” and arresting union dock pickets, Senator’s mistakes, “which have Spellman. It is an instance of man had wanted to, however, wide hunt for a counsel “with sured. The first preliminary steps W ill hiding under a table — or a majority of them Irish and been few” (cries of “No! no!” Jesuitical double-talk. It gave the he could have stopped McCarthy the diligence of a district attor­ contained in the present campaign even down in a subway — save Italian Catholic workers. rejected the imputation that their OK to McCarthy while letting from being invited to the com­ ney and the fairmindedness of of the Socialist Workers Party you from a bomb that, can pul­ The occasion for the cops’ dis­ Fuehrer could make even a “ few Catholics opposed to McCarthy munion breakfast by the merest an eminent judge,” even think of acquire increasing importance and verize the island of Manhattan play of pro-McCarthy frenzy was mistakes” ), had been magnified argue that the Cardinal was private intimation of displeasure. questioning Rears on his record “really” chiding McCarthy in­ urgency. . — blow the island itself right out the. 36th annual communion break­ a thousandfold and his numerous This doesn’t moan that the before voting for him? Didn’t The 814,000 Fund Drive which of the water? fast of the Holy Name Society achievements minimized. directly by his emphasis on “ Com­ Catholic people arc all behind! they think of making an inde- will help to build the anti-fascist Joseph and Stewart Alsop. col- of the Police Department, Man­ Following McCarthy’s typical munist methods” — that is, pre­ McCarthy. Far from it. Certainly, pendent check on his political party of America is the first job. lumnists, wrote in the March 24 hattan. Bronx and Richmond diatribe against “reds” and sumably, anti-democratic meth­ (he Catholic workers, among the activity in Boston, where it is This fund must be raised in full N.Y. Herald Tribune that Civil boroughs. His Eminence the Car­ “Communists,” McCaffrey re­ ods. worst exploited in America, are well known? and on time. Everyone can con­ Defense Administrator Val Pat­ dinal himself was there to beam marked that the howling aud­ During his European, trip last not behind McCarthy. But a pow­ If they didn’t think of these tribute to this pavt of the fight, erson admitted that unless mass on the demonstration for Amer­ ience had “signified its appre­ year Spellman answered fears erful, if not decisive, sector of elementary precautions, then it Detroit shows the way. Com- evacuation of all threatened cities ica’s would-be Hitler and Fran­ ciation” of McCarthy’s speech about McCarthyite fascism by the Catholic hierarchy is more or is certain that they are extreme- (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 4) co, Who was the main speaker SPELLMAN “and certainly he has mine.” stating: “The anguished cries and less openly backing McCarthy. (C ontinued on Page 2) Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, April 12, 1954 Notebook of an Agitator Deutscher Worthless as Guide to Action By George Breitman menev were wrong in foreseeing and Trotsky would have acted “Thus, fathered by wish, moth­ nify it with the label of Inter­ a disastrous adventure. But on A New Declaration of Independence In ihe fa ll o f 1917 the Bolshe­ as they did, or whether they ered by confusion, and assisted national, here telegraphs the at­ the other hand, among the chief would have acted with the same viks began to discuss whether by accident, the great institution titude that he is going to ex­ Fascism is a product o f the to look like a fascist movement; tion, they couldn’t maintain motivations of Lenin and Trot­ or not to organize an uprising determination, if they had taken came into being.” press in his next book toward but all we need is a general such a position very long. sky was their belief in the im­ a soberer view of international crisis of capitalism and can be to turn all* power over to the the formation of the Fourth In­ mobilization at the polls to put The workers will most prob­ minence of the European revol­ “IT IS DOUBTFUL” definitively disposed of only by Soviets. Lenin and Trotsky fa­ revolution and foreseen that in ternational by Trotsky in 1938.) the Democrats back in power." ably accept the recommendation ution, which they predicted and the course of decades their exam­ Deutscher’s sympathies are a solution of this crisis. The vored the uprising and pushed And yet, one page later, Dcwt- Such are the arguments we al­ of the labor leaders to seek expected and looked to for sup­ ple would not be Imitated in any dearly with the German dele­ fascist movement can make ad­ for it; Zinoviev and Kamenev, scher tells us calmly: “ Even so, ready hear from the Democratic escape from the crisis by replac­ port in their own revolution. other country.” gates who wanted to wait: “It vances or be pushed back a t one frightened and doubtful, drew their expectations were not alto­ high command, the literary lib­ ing Republican rascals by Demo­ Zinoviev and Kamenev, Deutscher Deutscher, at any rate, is still is doubtful whether Lenin and gether groundless; within a year time or another in the course of back and opposed it. eláis, the labor leaders and cratic scoundrels in the next says, correctly scoffed at this this crisis; but it will always wondering about it. Being “sober” Trotsky would have founded the the new International did, in skulking in the rear of the election. But when the tetter “Regardless of its immediate contention as a harmful exag­ himself, and not an ‘‘illusionist” International at- this stage if fact, gain a formidable bold on be there, in la te n t o r active caravan, with their tails between become officially responsible for conclusion, history has perhaps form, as long as the social geration. like Lenin and Trotsky, isn’t it they had had a dearer percep­ the European labor movement.” their legs — the Stalinists. the administration, and prove not said the last word” on this fairly safe to conclude that if tion of the condition of Europe.” How it could have done so causes which produce it have not powerless to cope with the crisis, historic argument, says Isaac “IT MAY BE WONDERED” been eradicated. A Democratic Victory ithe decision had been up to him, (But there is nothing doubtful without having been formed a the workers will certainly draw Deutscher in his biography of As any fool knows, the Euro­ the Russian revolution would not about the outcome if Deutscher year before, Deutscher does not Looked at from this stand­ Trotsky, The Prophet Armed. This would really be laughable some conclusions from their un­ pean revolution did not take place have taken place? had cast the deciding ballot.) explain. point, the threat of American fortunate experiences. The deeper “After the event, it is easy and if humor were in place where during or after World War I. And We mention this because it il­ “ Nothing,” he assures us, “bad Strangely enough, the “confu­ fascism is not a short - term the crisis, and the more brutal natural to say that the advocates deadly serious matters are con­ Deutscher, who knows it too, lustrates, the difference between been further from (their) sion” of the Bolsheviks is de­ problem, and by no means can the fascist aggression fed by of the insurrection were right, cerned. The Roosevelt New Deal, sums up the situation this way: the “ objective” bystander - com­ thoughts than the intention of monstrated in real life to be the it be eliminated at the next the crisis, the more insistent and its opponents wrong. In truth, under far more favorable condi­ “ Thus those who were supreme mentator and the active revol­ giving an assortment of small best and most effective kind of election — or, for that matter, w ill be the demand for a radical each side presented its ease in tions, couldn’t find a way to hold realists when summing up the utionary’ fighter. To Deutscher political sects the high-sounding revolutionary realism, and the at any other election. The Amer­ change of policy and a more such a way that the rights were back the economic crisis without Russian situation (Lenin and the Bolshevik attitude toward label of the International.” (Deut­ “objective” Deutscher, for all his ican fascist movement, and the adequate leadership. strangely blended with the wrongs a war. A Stevensoniart version Trotsky) became illusionists when European revolution in 1917 and scher, who prides himself on his hindsight, is shown to be a rather workers’ struggle against it, will From all indications, the work and the realistic assessment of of the same policy, under worse they turned towards the broader later was “the great illusion,” unique ability to count although worthless guide to any reader be a long-drawn-out affair, from ers’ discontent will be concen­ historical prospects was offset by conditions, could only be ex­ international scene, and those “a veil of dreams and fantasy” he neglects to indicate exactly interested in participating in rev­ now to the final showdown, pected to fail more miserably. A trated, at first, in the demand momentous errors.” who saw Russia only dimly which in the end can be nothing whose “frustration was subse­ how big an organization must olutionary polities. Democratic victory might arrest for a Labor Party of their own. Lenin and Trotsky, he judges, through a mist of timid skep­ less than a showdown between quently to break and crush” be before he will consent to dig­ More next week. the hitherto unobstructed march T h is w ill m ost probably be were right in estimating that the ticism (Zinoviev and Kamenev) fascist capitalism and the work­ Trotsky, etc. Hindsight makes of McCarthyism while it re­ realized. It will not yet signify insurrection would be easily ac­ became then the realists . . . it ers’ revolution. Deutscher look awfully smart. forms its ranks. It might even the victory over fascism — not complished, and Zinoviev and Ka­ may be wondered whether Lenin If the default of the labor bring a temporary moderation by a long shot — but it will DIDN’T MERELY PREDICT movement has given American of the fury of the witch hunt. represent the beginning of a But for Lenin and Trotsky, fascism, in the incipient and But that’s all. counter - movement which will $14,000 Fund Scoreboard European revolution was neither preventive form represented by The fascist movement would have every chance to end in Mrs. Moss Back on Job - Temporarily an academic question nor the the McCarthy movement, an ad­ victo ry. Branch Quota T o ta l Paid % begin to grow again with the theme of a few pages in a book. vantage at the start, it still D e tro it S 500 $ 403 81 growth of the crisis. It would For them it was an aim. They represents nothing more than A Turning Point N ew ark too 261 65 probably take on an even more didn’t merely predict a European an episode in a long struggle B u ffa lo 1,500 950 63 militant character, if it is push­ The break with the Demo­ revolution — they worked for it, which will have many tips and P ittsb u rg h 150 90 60 ed out o f the a d m in istra tio n cratic Party will be an implicit conducted all their diplomacy to downs. The real movement of Chicago 1,500 64.3 43 and compelled to develop as an recognition that the fight against facilitate it, used all their re­ American fascism is only now Minneapolis-St. Paul 1,200 475 40 unofficial movement. Under con­ fascism is fundamentally a light sources to promote it. Zinoviev in its preliminary stages of M ilw aukee 250 95 38 ditions of a serious crisis, against capitalism in the period and the other skeptics, including formation; and the counter- Youngstown 150 50 33 an unofficial fascist movement of its agonizing crisis of disin­ the Russian Deutsehers, could movement of the w orkers Boston 500 152 30 would grow all the more tegration and decay; and that do nothing to speed the Euro­ against it is not even started there is no hope of victory for N ew Y ork 3,000 860 29 stormily, to the extent that the pean revolution they did not be­ yet. St. Louis 75 20 27 labor movement would support the workers in alliance with one lieve could happen; Lenin and of the parties of this same Philadelphia 400 90 23 the Democratic administration, Trotsky did everything that was Protracted Conflict capitalism, and still less under San Francisco 700 164 23 and depend on it to restrain the possible. At any rate, American fas­ its leadership, as at present. Los Angeles 2.500 534 21 fascists by police measures. Was the prospect of a Euro­ cism, in its McCarthyite form The formation of a Labor Cleveland 250 45 18 Such a policy, as the ex­ pean revolution a fantasy in or under some other aegis, is Party, based on the trade unions, A lle n to w n 75 5 7 perience of Italy and Germany 1917? The capitalist rulers of bound to provoke a militant will represent the American A kro n 100 0 0 has already shown, would only Europe did not consider it fan­ resistance from tbe workers as workers’ Declaration of Inde­ Oakland 250 0 0 paralyze the active resistance tastic a year or two later; the soon as it passes over from its pendence. It w ill be a g re a t Seattle 250 0 0 of the workers themselves, while armies of counter-revolutionary present preoccupation with a giving the fascist gangs a turning point in American his­ General 250 45 18 intervention they sent to Soviet hunt for spies and “ subversives” virtually free rein. Moreover, by tory. All (levelopments will be Russia were intended to crush to a direct assault on the labor remaining tied to the Democratic speeded up after that. Total through April 5 $14,000 $4,882 35 the revolution before it would movement. Thereafter, the fas­ administration, the labor move­ It would be a great mistake, spread to other countries, as they’ cist movement w ill not develop ment would take upon itself a however, to speak of a prospec­ “soberly” expected it. to do. Was on a straight ascending line. large part of the responsibility tive Labor Party as the solution the German revolution o f 1918 There w ill be zigzags on one side for the economic crisis and feed of the problem of fascism. As in a fantasy? Or the revolutionary and the other, advances and set­ the flames of fascist demagogy 1771), the new Declaration of situa tion s in Germ any in 1919, in backs and periods of stalemate. around the question. Independence will signify not ... Anti - McCarthy Campaign In this protracted conflict the the end, but the beginning of the 1921, in 1923, to say no th in g of (Continued from page 1) our anti-fascist campaign. Cleve­ labor movement will have time Something to See real struggle. The final outcome the postwar collapse of capital­ ist governments in other Europe­ rade S ta ll w rite s on A p r il 1: land is top scorer in sales of this to get a clearer picture of th*- That would be something to will depend on the program and an countries ? “ Don’t let the date fool you. When pamphlet, with Minneapolis run­ real nature of the problem, au­ see: The fascists howling about the leadership. These will be­ I write that we’ve collected $403 ning a close second. to mobilize its forces for an the crisis, and stirring up the come the b u rn in g issues o f an HOW THEY VIEWED IT on our Fund Drive, you can be­ Newark has the lead in selling all-out struggle. hungry and desperate people internal struggle for which the In addition to expecting the lieve me. Detroit is not going The Case of the Legless Veteran, At the present time, the with the most extravagant Labor Party will provide the European revolution, Lenin and to give up first place without a the story of James Kutcher who myopic policy of the liberals and promises, while the labor lead­ :e::in arena. TrOtsky viewed the question as struggle. $10 of the above amount, leads the fight for civil liberties the labor leaders is concentrated ers defend the administration. It is from this point of view one that would be settled in ac­ by the way, came from a sym­ against the witch hunters. New on the congressional elections The official labor leaders are — clearly stated at all times — Mrs. Annie Lee Moss, victim of Sen. McCarthy, is tem­ tion, in the class struggle. That’s pathizer who has promised more.” York runs in second place. next fall. A Democratic victory fully capable of such idiocy, as that we advocate the formation porarily back at her old job in the Pentagon after a period of what actually happened. The rev­ Detroit, Newark, Buffalo and All campaign directors should is counted on to deal a death they demonstrated in the last of a Labor Party and do all we suspension. But the Signal Corps is still to make a final decision olutionary situation they forsaw include in their reports the name blow to the McCarthy aberra­ presidential election. But with can to hasten the day of its in her case, although the only witness against Mrs. Moss was Pittsburgh are all ahead of sched­ in Europe broke out at the end of the comrade who has top score tion. “ McCarthyism is becoming the best will in the world to appearance. an informer 'who admitted never having seen her. W'ith her is ule with more than 50%. of their of the war, and they tried by in points for each city. The in­ a danger all right, and it begins help the Democratic administra- — James P. Cannon Sgl. Donald Pritchard. quotas in as we pass the half­ their example, and whatever aid way mark of the Fund Drive. formation now on hand puts they could extend, to help trans­ Congratulations. Winifred Nelson of St. Paul in form those revolutionary situa­ All of the branches are busy the lead with 61 points. tions into successful revolutions. with the Anti-Fascist Literature It is true (hat these revo­ Campaign. Scores are beginning 6,000 A FL shipyard workers lutions which threatened, and to come In and it is clear that at the Camden yard of the N. Y. Democrats Play Into McCarthy’s Hands Shipbuilding Corp. staged a sit- ... some of which began, were de­ we shall succeed in reaching down strike April 6 to force the (Continued from page 1) suffer a serious setback from confidence in their ability to ing testimony to the great pow­ pended on to carry through a feated. But guarantees of vic­ many thousands of workers with tory are seldom available on the the analysis' of what McCarthy­ reinstatement of 60 comjJany- ly stupid or they can’t be very the proposed probe if the Dem­ handle bigger and harder jobs er exercised over American po­ genuine struggle against McCar­ eve of revolutionary struggles, ism is and how to fight it. The suspended local union officials. serious about the projected probe ocrats accept all his basic de­ — like really stopping McCarthy­ litical life by the fascist Senator thyism, and that as a matter of end even hen pro ffe red should second edition of the first pam­ The ( men were suspended in of McCarthy. If they did think mands for its operation? ism ? from Wisconsin. But a big reason fact they,are an obstacle to such not be accepted as final; such phlet on McCarthyism is almost reprisal for a half-day stoppage of these things, then they owe There’s actually much more for his strength is that his op­ a struggle. If the labor move­ “GULLIBLE?” questions are settled only in the completely sold and the second held April 2 protesting company an explanation of why they did than “gullibility” behind the ponents in the capitalist parties ment and its allies don’t begin struggle. The revolutionary op­ pamphlet, Stop McCarthyism, is speedup and stalling on settle­ nothing about them. In any case, Max Lerner, the liberal col­ Democrats’ behavior in this case. keep pulling their punches against to absorb this lesson soon, Mc­ timism of Lenin and Trotsky now available. ment of grievances. they certainly demonstrated that umnist who last month was whip­ -For one thing, they are afraid him out of cowardice or the be­ Carthyism will inevitably grow and, even more, their revolution­ The scoreboard on the Liters they can’t be relied on to fight ping himself into a state of ec­ of McCarthy. Nobody in either lief that they will have to make stronger and bolder. Fascism w ill ary activity were, from the view­ ture Campaign gives credit to the McCarthyism effectively, wheth­ stasy with his own prophecy that capitalist party is eager to tan­ use of McCarthyism themselves be stopped not by the cardboard point of socialism and the work­ branches for anti-fascist litera­ er they want to or not. It’s no “the beginning of the end” had gle with him; his path is strewn in the future. soldiers of the Democratic Party, Anti - Fascist ing class, a thousand times more ture sold since the start of the thanks to their vigilance that arrived for McCarthyism, has with too many political corpses The lesson of the Sears inci­ but by the labor movement, mo­ correet. productive and realistic national campaign on March 15. Sears wasn't able to carry through calmed down a little and now Only one Democrat in the en­ dent and of the whole probe is bilized in its own party and arm­ Literature than the doubts and abstention- The place of each branch on the his attempted whitewash of Mc­ confesses, after the “Sears fias­ tire Senate dared to vote against that the Democrats cannot be de­ ed w ith a m ilita n t program . ism of their faint-hearted critics. scoreboard is determined by the Campaign C a rth y. co,” to feeling “ bleak.” He says his appropriation in 'February points in relation to the number The truth is that, willfully or the committee Democrats “ought after he threatened to denounce Their policy destroyed capital­ PLACECITY POINTS of campaigners selling the anti­ not, the Democrats have been to have red faces,” they “must those who did as members, of ism in Russia, shook European 1 N ew ark 144 fascist literature. playing into McCarthy’s hands. feel iike the wrong end” of a the “communist conspiracy.” capitalism so badly that counter­ 2 St. Paul 239 On this basis Newark is the When he began to stall for time, horse, they are “gullible,” etc. For another thing, the Dem­ LATEST ISSUE OF F.l. revolutionary intervention against 3 New Y o rk 494 star performer with a total score they accommodated him. When But these are the same Dem­ ocrats are not basically opposed Soviet Russia after World War 4 Minneapolis 190 o f 444 points. St. Paul run s se­ he demanded that his own com­ ocrats whom he and the other to McCarthyism. Accepting his I was paralyzed, and created 5 Cleveland 33 cond with 239 points. Winifred mittee should conduct the probe, liberals and labor leaders helped argum ent th a t “communism” ANALYZES M’CARTHYISM conditions which led to the abol­ 6 St. Louis 14 Nelson from St. Paul sends the they agreed. When he insisted to elect to office. These are the must be suppressed at home and ition of capitalism in other coun­ 7 Los Angeles 95 following report: “This morning that the counsel to be chosen same Democrats whom he looks abroad, they are compelled to A rounded Marxist analysis of coortmartialed if they refused to tries. during and after World A kro n we did some wonderful neighbor­ should “not be personally obnox­ to for leadership in the fight tag along behind him, demurring the rise of McCarthyite fascism do so. “All this talk about you War II. The policy of their op­ A llen to w n ious to the Army or Senator Mc­ against McCarthyism.- If the only over his definition of “com­ is featured in the winter issue of can’t put 400,000 miners in jail ponents, in which Deutscher is hood work in the Negro com­ Boston munity. Four of us sold 100 anti- Carthy,” they consented, thus Democrats are so “gullible” that m unism ” when he defines it to the quarterly Marxist magazine. is a lot of stuff,” opined the man still looking for merits' in 1954, B u ffa lo giving him veto power over the they don’t know enough not to include the Democrats. Like Eis­ Fourth International. destined to become number one would have been disastrous to McCarthy pamphlets in a couple Chicago entire probe. hire a M cC a rth yite , then -why enhower, they see a “good side” Written by Murry Weiss, now contender for American fuehrer. everyone but the capitalists. of hours, and the response was D e tro it very inspiring! We found a fight­ How can McCarthy possibly should nnyone have an ounce of to McCarthyism — and that is on a national anti - McCarthy “They won’t go to jail. They will M ilw aukee why they want at most to curb speaking tour sponsored by the mine coal first.” ON THE COMINTERN ing spirit on the subject of Mc­ Oakland McCarthy, and not to destroy Socialist Workers Party, the ar­ Also included in a varied table If Deutscher is still wondering Carthyism, and very, very few Philadelphia McCarthyism. ticle elaborates on the crucial of contents are the following ar­ about the 1917 u p risin g in Rus­ people who were on the side of P ittsb u rg h Just Out! A New Pomphlet That, is the fundamental ex­ fact that, “While rising out of ticles: “Trotsky or Deutscher?” sia. he has no such doubts about M cC a rth y.” San Francisco planation for their conduct, to­ the general atmosphere of the by James P. Cannon. “Sternberg the formation of the revolution­ The first task in our anti-fas­ Seattle gether with the hope some of witch hunt, McCarthyism is yet vs. Karl Marx” By Myra Tan­ ary Communist International in cist campaign is to alert the Y oungstow n them have that their party can different from it.” ner. “The Soviet Union under 1919. The whole business was an American workers to the danger make political capital out of an That difference does not lie Malenkov” by John G. Wright.” egregious error to him. of fascism. But that is not T otal 1,509 Eisenhower-McCarthy rift in the simply in the quantitative exten Social Relations in U.S. Today” The error, as be sees it, flows enough. It is necessary to show Stop McCarthyism! the socialist alternative to fas­ coming election campaign. sion of the scope and pace of by Arne Swabeck. “It is Neces­ again from the Bolsheviks’ sim­ the witch hunt, the article de sary to Drive the Bureaucracy ple-minded misreading of the Eu­ cism. America’s Road to Social­ Your Stake in the Fight h e l p i n g M cC a r t h y monstrates. “The point is that and the New Aristocracy out of ropean situation at the end of ism by James P. Cannon is there­ If this situation continues capitalist reaction has developed the Soviets” by Leon Trotsky. the war. They just couldn’t get fore a very important part of NEW YORK Contents much longer the probe may never a split personality.” . . along­ The magazine is now published it into their thick heads that take place, to the vast relief of side the ‘police statification’ of in an extremely attractive new there wasn’t going to he a suc­ PUBLIC MEETING The Issue of McCarthyism in a Nutshell many Democrats and Eisenhower the structure of capitalist rule format. The use of a three-col- cessful revolution outside of Rus­ by James P. Cannon Republicans as well as McCarthy. has come the first significant lumn layout in place of the pre­ sia. Anyhow, Lenin called an in­ PHILADELPHIA American Or if it does take place, it may signs of the emergence of a fas­ vious two - column makes • for ternational conference in Moscow Pegler Spells It Out — “Smash the Unions” peter out inconcusivelv, like pre­ cist mobilization.” quicker and easier reading. This in 1919, “either to pi-oclaim the Fri. Night Forum Intervention in the The Stake of America’s Artists vious probes of McCarthy. Either An important feature of the is further aided by the use of a Third Intel-national or to make presents a talk on Indo-Chinese Civil W ar outcome would be a stra te g ic article is the inclusion of a lit­ better quality paper and the in­ preliminary arrangements for by Duncan Ferguson Speaker: and moral victory for McCarthy, tle-publicized press conference terspersing of cuts thoughout the th is .” American Youth — Where Negro People’s Stake in the Anti-McCarthy Fight who has been trying to minimize held by McCarthy when he first pages of the magazine. A sep­ The Bolsheviks, according to Are They Going? Harry Ring and bury the dispute. It must arate gloss finish cover is print­ by Jean Blake came to W ashington in 1946. Deutscher, wanted to set up the not be forgotten that McCarthy The subject of that interview ed in a handsome two-color com­ International at once but awaited Speaker: Friday. April 16, 8 P.M. Liberals Pave the Road for McCarthy does not need a formal vindica­ was the militant coal . miners bination. From both the view­ the opinions of the other del­ Joyce Cowley Militant Hall by the Political Committee of the SW!P tion in this situation; all he needs strike then taking place. In that point of variety of contents and egates before making a decision. to show is that nobody In Wash­ interview McCarthy did not at­ improved technical appearance The German delegates said it Friday, April 16, 8:30 P.M. ■*■ 116 University Place 1C pages 10 cents ington is able to put a real crimp tempt, as he now does, to con­ the new Fourth International has was too soon to form an Inter­ .near Union Square) Order from in his drive for power, and that ceal his fiercely anti-labor views. greater sales appeal than before. national — they were still too Militant Labor Hall Questions, Discussion, can be demonstrated in a variety His opinion on that strike boiled Single copies at 35 cents, and weak. But an Austrian dele­ 1303 West Girard Avenue PIONEER PUBLISHERS t>f ways, including the burial of down to the idea that the a year’s subscription at $125, gate, who arrived in the middle Refreshments Questions, Discussion 116 University Place New York 3, N. Y. the probe. miners and their leader, John L. may be ordered from Fourth of the debate, “ gave a startling — Admission Free — Contribution 25 Cents The inability of the investiga­ Lewis, should be drafted into the International, 116 University PI., description of Europe seething tion to get going is itself strik­ Army, ordered to mine coal, and N ew Y o rk 3, N . Y. with revolution.” That settled it: THE SKIEIT ANT Page Three Subscription«: IS per year; Rimed article» bj oontrlb- otors do not necessarily rep­ fl.SO for 0 month». Foreign: rerent The M ilitant'» pollcie». H-50 per year; $2.25 for 6 t h e MILITANT These are erpreeeed In It» months. C anadian: 13.50 per Published Weekly in the Interests of the Working People editorials. /ear; |1.75 for ft month#. THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION “ Entered as second claaa Bundle Order«: 5 or more m a tte r M arch 7, 1944 a t the 11« UnlYersttr PI., N. X. 3, N . X . Phene: A L 6-748« oopies ftc each In U .8 ., To Post Office at New York, Editor: GBORflE BRKITMAN N.Y.. under the act of March Pabloism Fails to Meet McCarthy Test each In foreign countries. 3. 1S79.“ Business Manager: JOSKPH HANSEN By Joseph Hansen hailed the campaign of the So­ evidence of political gangrene in The American Pabloites could to split from the Socialist Work­ cialist Workers Party against Pabloite thinking about Mc­ have published articles represent­ ers Party, as we said at the time. Vol. XVIII - No. 15 Monday, A p ril 12, 1954 Certain, great turns in politics McCarthyism, giving the Ameri­ C a rth yism . ing the conflicting points of put every political tendency to The course of the American can Trotskyists full moral and view they have among themselves the acid test. These are the turns This apparently stung the Pabloites enjoys of course the political support. over the character of McCarthy­ that pose the fate of a nation or American Pabloites, for in the complete approval of the cult ism, without coming to any deci­ people or class point blank, such Trotskyist opinion in the following issue of their magazine head. ITis prescription for Amer­ sion about which view represents Good News from Michigan as war, revolution, and counter­ colonial world is indicated by they tried to demonstrate that a ican Trotskyists of “fusion with the g ro u p ’s common opinion as revolution. In the United States, the stand taken by the editor of little gangrene in your thinking the genuine left tendencies that determined by the majority. That An important gain for a-nt ¡-.McCarthyism Most important of all, this ballot victory is the development of McCarthyism Samasamajist, English weekly of doesn’t prevent you from turning ■will develop in the fu tu re throu gh would have been perfectly con­ has been registered with the certification of the a. signal demonstration that the witch hunt can represents such a turn. the Lanka Samasamaja Party, out an article. This one is un­ various channels” by orienting sistent with the character of an As the rise of Hitler forced the Ceylonese section of the Fourth signed and therefore probably a toward the Stalinists and the Socialist Workers Party for a place on the be fought effectively and that gains can be assortment of commentators and German political parties to give International. Commenting on a joint product of editors Cochran, Stalinist periphery in the U.S.A. Michigan ballot in the November elections. registered against it. wiseacres. answers that determined their speech by James P. Cannon at an Clarke and Bra verm an. meant the liquidation of the SWP. This ¡was won in the face of regulations The certification of the SWP comes as the anti-McCarthy rally of the Los What happened instead was a This was vigorously opposed by own fate as -well as that of Ger­ “KAMPF”? climax of a hard-fought two-year struggle many for decades to come, so in Angeles Local of the SWP, which cancellation of the opposing the majority of the party. When designed to make it extremely difficult for The title, “ McCarthy’s ‘Kampf’ America with McCarthy. If there Samasamajist reprinted March 18, views, first in the form of silence, the minority split to carry out m inority parties to appear on the ballot. A against the Michigan,Trucks law, a police-state — A Warning Signal,” might lead is a difference, it is only in the the editor declared: “The follow­ then in the form of an article that line, their suicidal cofirse measure designed to strangle the legal ex­ one to expect that the editor’s had minimum of 14.463 signatures had lo be fact that the issues are now far ing speech . . . should give our that equates to zero. This is was applauded by Pablo. decided to accept the analysis of obtained throughout the slate to comply with pression of m inority political opinion tinder, more crucial .than in Hitler’s readers a clear idea of the fas­ perhaps rarer than the usual solu­ Thus one of the first big con­ the Militant showing that Mc­ the legal requirements. the guise of combatting “ subversion.” time, involving the fate of cist menace in the U.S. spear­ tion among such groups to such sequences of Pablo’s efforts to Carthy is an American Hitler. 'civilization and even mankind headed by Senator McCarthy. The problems but it is nevertheless break up the SWP as well as the The energy and enthusiasm with which the The successful rallying of the organized B u t not so fa s t . . . the editors itself far more directly and im­ SWP was the first party to warn quite in character. It avoids sections of the Fourth Interna­ the American people what Mc­ are not yet roady to say that Mc­ members and supporters of the Socialist W ork­ labor and liberal movements in opposition to m ediately. responsibility. tional is failure to meet a great Carthyism is an American form ers Party tackled this project is demonstrated 1 his undemocratic law won a place for the SWP The test is not confined to Carthyism really is. Its analysis > And why did the American historic test, the acid test posed of McCarthyiám as the American of fascism. by t he fact that the campaign, which resulted on the ballot in 1952. Last February they won tendencies . within the United Pabloites act like commentators by McCarthyism. Faced with the form of fascism is based on True, they call McCarthyism a and not like a party? It is due menacing rise of American fas­ in the filing o f nearly 16,OCX) signatures, was an important court decision that the provisions States, but extends to the whole world. The volcanic explosion of sound Marxist reasoning, and is “diabolical force,” a “serpent,” to a change in their thinking, a cism, Pablo and his followers not the type of foolish abuse in­ accomplished in less than half the time required of the law do not apply to the SWP, thus pav­ American imperialism has forced “forces of evil,” and similar- harsh loss of confidence in the role of can only alternate between speech­ in 1932, even though 30% more signatures ing the way for the present ballot certification. all countries to concern them­ dulged in by Stalinists. The SWP epithets. Epithets, however, are the party. This was one of the lessness and scribbling routine is engaged in a nationwide cam­ not an acceptable substitute fo r were required this year. The presence of the Socialist Workers Party selves about American politics. main differences that led them epithets. The possibility of a super-Hitler paign to rally the UJ3. labor Marxist determination of a phe­ This splendid accomplishment is a tribute to on the ballot in Michigan means that a clear- dictating policy in the most war­ movement to resist this menace nomenon. In fact the epithets the m ilitancy and devotion to principle of the cut, effective program of struggle against the like power the world lias seen to its security.” assembled by Cochran, Clarke and Socialist Workers ranks in that state. A t the triple menace of McCarthyism, unemployment make this concern all the more In Latin America, Trotskyist Braverman can be found, in any opinion is eloquently expressed bourgeois journal worried about same time it is a significant: expression of a and horrifying H-Bomb warfare will, be necessary and timely. by the aotion of the Mexican the methods of the fascist World Events developing consciousness among Michigan presented to the workers of this key industrial DECISIVE TEST magazine, Que Hacer, in translat­ senator. ------By Paul Abbott ------workers and members of m inority groups of state. How has the world movement ing and publishing the first anti- They correctly recognize that the need to support a workers party. Petition At the same time this victory will greatly founded by Leon Trotsky stood- McCarthy pamphlet put out by the powerful eastern wing of the STALINIST BETRAYAL IN up the American periple on send­ the SWP. The editors of Que gatherers have reported that the number of strengthen the coming national election cam­ up under this test? The answer capitalist class are pressing to­ INDO-CHINA? When French ing their boys to the battlefields to the question is of decisive Itócer say in an accompanying ward a military-police dictator­ workers who were reluctant to sign because of paign of the Socialist Workers Party. We can Geifc, Paul Ely recently told Pres. in Indo-China. significance. For though in the note: “The struggle against Mc­ ship — the Militant has cam­ Eisenhower and the Joint Chiefs * * * the prevailing atmosphere of intimidation were now confidently predict that this campaign will vast scale of class forces this Carthyism, Yankee expression of paigned on this for a number of of Staff that there was “no hope more than compensated for by those who be a stimulating contribution to mobilizing the movement as yet represents but fascism, has in the Socialist years, trying to arouse labor to of victory in Indo-China,” at least THE FRENCH CAPITALISTS, Workers Party of the United demonstrated with their signatures that they anti-McCarthy, anti-depression and anti-war a small quantity, nevertheless the danger — and they recognize with present forces at the dis­ frightened at the mounting pres­ qualitatively it is a matter of States one of its most combative that “ McCarthy does not fall into refuse to be intimidated. forces throughout the country. posal of French colonialism, the sure in France to end the war on nothing less than the socialist sectors. Que Hacer begins pub­ this category.” Eisenhower administration pre­ Indo-China are seeking a face­ consciousness of the working lication in this issue of various Precisely here, as we wait to pared to convert Indo-China into saving deal with Moscow and class; that is, comprehension of documents and articles published hear what category this living another Korea. As the well-known Peking at the coming Geneva by the party itself under the title: the historic destiny of the work­ reality does fall into, our three columnists, Joseph and Stewart conference. According to Gordon McCarthyism: American Fascism ing class and the knowledge and musketeers leap to the saddle Alsop, put it in their April 4 Walker in the April 2 Christian on the March!” ...Against Thought-Control will to achieve it when all the and dash off in a cloud of dust. column, “ Although neither Con­ Science Monitor, “ It now is learn­ conditions mature. gress nor the country seems to ed from most reliable sources di­ The program of the Trotskyist BUCKLE UNDER TEST WHAT IS IT TODAY? instead of helping the NAACP to grow in num­ realize it, America now stands rectly concerned in the outcome (Continued from page 1) movement, the program of revo­ That should be sufficient to in­ bers and effectiveness, your leaflet tends to If McCarthy should take over publicly committed to united m il­ that one of the measures is an and the NAACP against all their white supre­ lutionary socialism, offers the dicate the reaction of the world frighten people away from the NAACP — which, the Republican Party, they say, itary action to win the Indo- attempt by the 'Laniel govern­ only realistic alternative to the Trotskyist movement in the main macist enemies. as you know, is considered “ subversive” by the then the GOP would change and Chinese war, if this becomes ne­ ment to establish secret negotia­ threat of barbarism raised by the to McCarthyism. However, it white supremacists. “could become the spearhead, cessary.” tions with Communist China.” Our distributors and readers support every war plans of Wall Street and its must be frankly acknowledged when unemployment and mass The aim is “to offer Peking progressive struggle of the NAACP, and many of d rift toward fascism. The precious that a Minority have not measur­ • Most of the reporters who re­ BOOK BURNING? unrest develop, of a broad fascist certain important concessions in political capital accumulated over ed up to this historic test. A lay to the public what comes over them are among the most loyal and devoted movement.” But what is Mc­ northern Indo-China” in order to The 1952 national NAACP conference resolution the years by the Trotskyist move­ current headed by Pablo, coming the State Department grapevine, members of that organization. On some occasions Carthyism today? No answer. get “ acceptable terms at Geneva-” against McCarthyism specifically singled out book- ment offers the brightest promise under the influence of alien say this means a decision to send Then, as if answering someone The French hope that the Chinese the N A A O P firs t learned about c e rta in Jim Crow- burning as an instrument of thought control and for the future. The present cadres ideologies such as Deutscherism American troops to Indo-China. in their own ranks who thinks Stalinists “with a secret pledge injustices and atrocities from The Militant, and racist reaction. Franklin H. Williams, it is re­ constitute the nuclei that will and Stalinism, proved to have lost The A lsop b ro th e l’s, however, McCarthyism is American fas­ of concessions” “ might even be thanked us for our services in bringing them to ported, violated both the spirit and letter of that unfold into great mass parties in their Marxist reflexes when con­ suggest another possibility — an­ cism, they talk about the "mass willing to cut off aid to the Viet- their attention. All this is a matter of record, resolution at your Oakland rally when he warned the coming period of showdown fronted with the living reality of other way of defeating the free­ fascist movement” 6f the future minh forces in favor of a return which we can prove from our files. the audience against The Militant, and urged struggle. In many areas the the rise, of a fascist movement dom-seeking Indo-Chinese people which can be built only with to the status quo.” those who had purchased the paper before coming Trotskyist movement already in the United States. who now see v ic to ry over the Consequently, it is deceitful for your leaflet to “radical demagogy” and “storm into the hall to throw their copies in the ashcan wields considerable influence. The Pablo himself, who is glib hated French colonial despots In addition a secret deal ‘‘might imply that The Militant is trying to “ mislead the troop riff-raff.” In other words, on the way out. response of the Trotskyists to enough on almost any problem within grasp. also present the United States Negro community” when we take part in the civil asked to analyze the present the threat of McCarthyism, their confronting the Trotskyist move- with a fait accompli in the event rig-fits fight and present- our socialist program Why authorized Williams to tell the Negro stage of American fascism and They report that “At Berlin reaction to one more great test, nftent, no matter how obscure and Secretary Dalles had several most that Secretary of State John to promote that fight. community what papers to read or not read? tell us what it is, they start can thus signify final success or complex it may be, has not Foster Dulles, as the French Where did he get the effrontery to try to in­ talking about a future stage. This significant private and informal defeat in the working class strug­ written a single article on this now apparently believe, is plan­ SLANDEROUS LABEL terfere with the right of NAACP members to buy is a convenient way of debating, talks with Soviet Foreign Minis­ gle against McCarthyism. burning question. The Pabloite ning to ‘wreck’ the Geneva talks.” and read whatever papers they please? It’s true as every sophist knows, but. i t is ter Molotov. Dulles took the op­ And it is slanderous for your leaflet to label attitude toward McCarthyism can It can be “presumed,” says that Williams didn’t tell the audience to burn portunity of these talks to give ns “subversive and un-American.” TROTSKYIST RESPONSE be judged fro m the Jan ua ry- not very helpful in- determining Walker, “that Premier Laniel The Militant, only to throw it away unread; but Molotov a most solemn warning The world Trotskyist move­ February issue of Quatrieme In­ the character of McCarthyism. decided upon a course of action By what authority did you dare to make such McCarthy didn’t care what happened to the State on the subject of Indo-China.” ment in the majority has measur­ ternationale. In 72 pages of fine •So far as the living reality of designed to force the Linited an accusation? You were not assigned such a Department’s books either, as long as they would The essence of the talks was that ed up to the challenge. As our print not one article attempts to events is concerned, they are States into recognizing the need function by the members or branches or con­ be kept unread. if necessary American troops thus some four years behind the for an immediate negotiated ferences of the NAACP when you were appointed readers are well aware, the So­ analyze McCarthyism or com­ would be sent to prevent a vic­ We don’t ask W illiams to endorse The M ilitant. times. They would do well to go settlement in Indo-China when or elected to your posts. Nobody authorized you cialist Workers Party is engaged ment on it, not even an editorial. tory in Indo-China. We don’t ask him to agree with what it says. We in a major campaign to alert the Except for one phrase, Mc­ back to the A p ril 10, 1950, M ili­ the conferees meet at Geneva.” to pass on the loyalty or other characteristics of “ A possible, indeed a probable don’t even ask him to read it. But we emphatically labor movement and its allies to Carthyism could be said not to tant, try to assimilate what it The M ilitant. result of these warnings,” con­ * * * demand that, he stop misusing the authority of his the fascist menace and the need exist in the world viewed by said about McCarthy, and then tinue the AIsops, “has already The National NAACP has correctly condemned NAACP post to foist bis reading habits and to stop McCarthyism by inde­ Pablo and his chief lieutenants. take another look at the present W H IL E EISENHOWER been seen in Peking. In a deeply the Attorney General’s “ subversive” list because prejudices on others. pendent political action. The SWP The one phrase occurs in a note position of the fascist senator. BRANDISHED THE H-BOMB at meaningful speech made some it is arbitrary, because no evidence was ever given launched this campaign the dealing with the United States This suggestion is intended simply the Soviet bloc and Dulles com­ weeks ago, Chen Yun a member for the designations, because no listed organisa­ WILLIAMS BORROWS moment the fascist senator that annotmees the split of as friendly advice on how to get mitted the U.S. to plunging full of the Chinese Politburo, hinted tion ever has been given a hearing at which it Incidentally, W illiams did not invent “the ashcan demonstrated that he had assem­ Pablo’s ideological American fol­ a better appreciation of the little scale into the French war of that it might be necessary to could defend itself. for Thè M ilitant.” This was invented by the Com­ bled a sizeable mass following lowers from the Socialist Work­ word, “ difference.” colonial conquest in Indo - China, abandon the Indo-Chinese Com­ Your own “subversive” list is no better. It is munist Party, and has been a fixture at their that had become differentiated ers Party. The first issues of their Finally, just to make sure the self-same GOP administration munists to their fate in order just as arbitrary, just as high-handed, just as public meetings for more than two decades. It from the Republican and Demo­ magazine, which the European that no one took their use of the was taking steps at London that to keep the peace in Asia.” much a violation of decency, to say nothing of is a scandal to see it transferred to an NAACP cratic parties and which he was Pabloites salute, are noted to word “Kampf” as indicating that appeared at complete variance The AIsops speculate: “In with these belligerent moves. democratic procedures. meeting too. mobilizing in a bid to take over contain “ study - articles on the they differentiate McCarthy from tlie Republican Party and capture istate and perspectives of the other witch hunters and classify the light of this speech by Chen U.S. Foreign Operations Ad­ Williams merely borrowed this “device” from THE MICHIGAN CASE the White House. American workers movement, the him as the current candidate Yun, it seems possible that the ministrator Harold E. Stassen, the Stalinists, just as he borrowed the “sub­ In addition, the Militant, so far danger of McCarthyism, the for America’s Hitler, they great offensive against Dien- British President of the Board of In 1852 the Attorney General of Michigan, versive” tag from the McCarthyite witch hunters. as we have been able to ascer­ Situation in the UiSSR, etc.” equate “McCarthyism, Brownell- bieriphu was ordered by the Indo- Trade Peter Thorneycroft, and operating under the notorious Trucks Act which Like the McCarthyites and like the Stalinists, he tain, was the first newspaper in From this we may deduce that isni, Deweyism.” The machine Chinese Com m unists as a last, French Undersecretary Maurice has been denounced by the NAACP, stuck the tries to discourage the people from even reading the United States to call atten­ Pablo considers McCarthyism a politician who is governor of New desperate effort to win the war Schumann agreed to relax the “ subversive” label on the Socialist Workers Party, views different from his own. It is his personal tion to the fascist potential “danger.” But what kind of York because of his strict GOP before their friends betrayed ban on trade with the Soviet a political organization whose program The M ili­ right to do this, but be' does not bave the right represented by McCarthy and his danger it is and what should be regularity, the hack lawyer ap­ them .” Union and its European satellites. tant defends. to use the authority of the NAACP’s name to following. This was in an article done about it, he neglects to pointed to Eisenhower’s cabinet, Viewing Dulles’ move as cal­ The decision to open the gates aid him in this shameful game. The Socialist Workers Party, aided by a citizens in the issue o f A p ril 10, .1950, inform us. We might also deduce and the Wisconsin senator who culated to assist those in the Sta­ to trade fits in with thev view that committee which included prominent officials of assessing the popular response to that the American Pabloites is organizing a nation-wide linist bureaucracy who want to there will be no “immediate ex­ CAN’T APPEASE FASCISTS the NAACP in that state, took the fight to court. McCarthy’s Feb. 9, 1950, super devote one quarter of the space fascist movement and who rep­ accede to the pressure of Wall plosion in the cold war,” writes A fter almost two years of litigation, the Michigan We know why W illiams issued his “ subversive” w itc h -h u n t speech about “ 205 in their magazine to study- resents a qualitatively new stage Street, the AIsops continue: “If Carlyle Morgan of the London Attorney General was forced to publicly admit in list. He is frightened by the malignant growth card-carrying communists” in articles op the state and per­ in the witch hunt, are all balanced such a betrayal is being consider­ News Bureau of the Christian c o u rt on Feb. 19, 1954, th a t he lacks “ sufficie nt of McCarthyism, which emboldens the worst anti- government. That was the speech spectives of the American work­ between equal signs. Their own ed by the Red Chinese and Rus­ Science Monitor. “ The long pull proof to establish the fact, if it exists,” that the Negro, anti-Jewish and anti-labor sentiments and that first won national notoriety ers movement, one quarter to the logic required that they should sians, the Dulles speech will calls for more emphasis on SWP is “ subversive.” As a result, he agreed to movements. Instead of working harder to defeat for the obscure junior senator danger of McCarthyism, one have at least added J. Edgar make the case for it much diplomacy and other methods of discontinue efforts to bar the SWP from the McCai-thyism, he hopes to make himself and the from Wisconsin. quarter to the situation in the Hoover of the political police and strong er.” relaxing East-West tensions and b a llo t. NAACP “ respectable” and to escape the blows of The major turn in the develop­ USSR, and one .quarter to “ etc.” Eisenhower, the brass hat can­ * * * somewhat less on purely m ilitary McCarthyism by imitating it and joining it in But this deduction, unfor­ Do you have any more “ evidence” to support ment of McCarthyism that oc­ didate for military' dictator. THE INDO-CHINESE PEO­ preparations against attack.” attacking political opponents on the left. curred around the Harry Dexter tunately, does not check with the To equate McCarthyism, Brow- your monstrous charge against The M ilitant than PLE ARE NOT THE ONLY VIC­ The three powers, while decid­ White case was at once noted by re a lity . the Michigan Attorney General had against the But McCarthyism w ill never be stopped that nellism and Deweyism is suf­ TIMS Dulles seeks to lay on the ing to greatly shorten the list of the Militant. In the systematic SWP? Do you have any evidence at ail against way. No matter how moderately the NAACP ficient in itself to reveal the altar of imperialist conquest. His goods whose shipment has been campaign it has sustained since SILENCE AND CONFUSION either The Militant or the others on your list? behaves, Byrnes of South Carolina (who is guilty absolute bankruptcy of the speech March 29, which in effect barred, agreed to keep the present then, articles in every issue have The first issue of the American If not, then you are duty bound to withdraw the of “ McCarthyism at its worst,” as W alter ’White American Pabloites so far as committed the U.S. to sending bans on trade with New China contributed to the better under­ Pabloite magazine carried an method is concerned. They are in­ charge. We promise you that we will not rest said) continues to attack the NAACP and to troops to Tndo - China without and North Korea. standing of this menacing move­ article by Geller on McCarthyism. until you have done so. “ hope” that it will be dissolved or destroyed capable of differentiating. That Thus, balancing H-Bomb threats The author proved incapable of consulting either Congress or the Appeasement of fascism never helps anyone but ment. The Marxist analysis, to at bottom is why they are unable with concessions in the cold war, distinguishing between the witch people,’was also designed to keep PUBLIC DISSERVICE the fascists. The American Civil Liberties Union’s which writers of the Militant to characterize McCarthyism and the Eisenhower administration lunjt in general and McCarthy­ the French fighting in what has repeated attacks on communism don’t stop Mc­ have submitted McCarthyism, has demand of the senator that he attempts to put maximum pres­ Your leaflet adds: “Check and double-check ism in particular. become known as the “dirty” Carthy from repeating the lie that the ACLU is a enabled us to relate its simi­ develop his social demagogy and sure on the Soviet bloc for the BEFORE you sign petitions, attend meetings, He asked: “Is McCarthy a w a r. “communist front.” Williams’ “subversive” lisi larities and differences to Euro­ put shirts on his followers and vilest counter-revolutionary aims iserve on ‘DEFENSE’ committees or join or con­ rising American Hitler? Is Mc­ “ The desire in France to “bring w-on’t satisfy the fascists, who have the NAACP pean fascism, thereby making it clubs in their hands before they not hesitating to risk precipitating tribute to questionable organizations.” You call Carthyism an American version the boys home’ and to ‘end the on their own list, and it can do nothing but possible for the anti-fascist move­ will recognize him as head of World War ILI in the process. It the publication of this leaflet a “public service.” of fascism?” But he failed to killing’ exceeds that which devel­ damage to the cause of the NAACP. ment in America to tap the rich an American fascist movement. demands outright betrayal of No, actually it is a grave public disservice. experience of the European labor answer these not unimportant oped in the United States dur­ freedom struggles, such as the CHARACTER OF GROUPING ing the Korean war,” reports What such statements do is to contribute to the DEMAND RETRACTION movement on this crucial ques­ questions. He promised, “We American people waged in 1776, spirit of hysteria and conformism that the would- tion. The M ilitant’s analysis of intend to return to a discussion The oscillation of the American Joseph C. Harsch in the March and much more besides. And, un­ For the above reasons, we demand that the be fascist dictators of this country are trying to the specific phenomenon of Mc­ of this problem. . Then ap­ Pabloites between indifference to 31 C h ristia n Science M o n ito r. fortunately for the socialist and West Coast Regional Office publicly retract its spread. By creating fear and caution in this Carthyism in turn constitutes an parently he got interested in McCarthyism and confusion over The Navarre Plan, he said, pro­ national liberation movements, the slanderous attack on The Militant, and put an manner, you weaken not only democratic tradi­ important addition to the body of other matters and forgot about the character of the movement is jected successful conquest of Indo- Stalinist bureaucracy can be immediate stop to the publication and distribution tions, but the struggle for Negro equality. Marxist thought on the problem his promise. not without interest. It is a China by. 1955 on two conditions: depended on to go far in respond­ of the leaflet in which it appeared. of fascism in general. The second issue ran an article reflection of the character of the (1) “that the Chinese Commun­ Only last June the national conference of the ing, as Wall Street’s political We hope that the members of the N-AACP by Clarke, “The Secret of Mc­ grouping. ists do not increase their flow of NAACP, in its resolution condemning McCarthy- representatives are well aware. branches on the West Coast will discuss this REACTION ABROAD Carthy’s Formula.” But this As commentators they are military supplies to the Indo- ism, warned, “Already there is discernible a question at their meetings, oppose Williams’ While the brunt of assessing theoretician did no better than under no necessity to take a Chinese Communists; (2) that pattern which tends to link the advocacy of full “subversive” list, let their opposition be known, McCarthyism and working out a Geller in letting us in on the responsible attitude toward poli­ France itself be “wiling and “Senator McCarthy is the equality for Negroes and other minorities to specific program against it fell secret of what Pablo thinks Mc­ tical program affecting the action able” to fight another year. greatest man in America,” opined subversion or ‘un-Americanism.’ ” It condemned and take steps to insure that there w ill never bo a repetition of the scandal that, has been com­ naturally on the American Trot­ Carthyism is and why. of the working class. In that Thus one of Dulles’ diplomatic Texas oil baron II. R. McCullen, the “atmosphere of inquisition” in which people mitted in the name of their organization. skyists, who are face to face The third issue overlooked Mc­ they differ from ,a party which, aims has been “ to attempt to dis­ as be rejected out o f hand a become fearful that they may be labeled “ red” or with the problem, Trotskyists Carthy completely. because of its living links with suade the French from accepting p e titio n signed by 1,571 U n iv e r­ “subversive” If they sign petitions, attend meet­ If the West Coast Regional Office does not act throughout the world have taken Calling attention to this spec­ the working class, must bear a too easy Chinese offer at Gen­ sity of Texas students urging ings or join organizations fighting for Negro to correct the injustice and the damage inflicted a stand on the question. tacular loss of touch with the responsibility for what it says and eva” and keep on fighting while withdrawal of his invitation to eq u a lity. on -this paper, The M ilitant w ill be compelled to Speaking for the oi’thodox ma­ reality of American politics, in an does; and therefore is impelled Washington underwrites the costs the fascist senator to be the take other measures to achieve this end. Your leaflet, encouraging tim idity and suspi­ jority of the Fourth International, article a month ago in the March toward serious analysis and of the war and the Eisenhower principal speaker at a civic cere* cion; reinforces this “ atmosphere of inquisition.” Editorial Staff, The Militant. the International Committee 15 Militant, I held this to be serious proposals. administration attempts to soften m ony on A p r il 21. The Negro Struggle the MILITANT ------By Jean Blake ------Two Views of Caracos VOLUME XVIII M O N D A Y , A P R IL 12, 1954 N UM B ER 15 If you read only the daily newspaper ac­ ization which is operated by the leaders of the counts of the recent Tenth Inter-American Communist Party of the Soviet Union’.’’ But, as Louis Lautier, nationally syndicated SWP Stages Conference at Caracas, Venezuela, you received Federal, Local Strikebreaking Negro press columnist, observed, "the Latin a very one-sided view of what happened. Most American countries which joined with the Large Rally of them hailed as an important diplomatic Lnited States to deal with the danger of Com Victory the achievement of U.S. Secretary of Forces an End to Dock Walkout munism must look with distrust at their power­ ~e State John F:oster Dulles in getting the con­ ful neighbor to the North because of the United A t U. of Cal. By James O’Hara ference to adopt, with one negative vote States’ reservation to the resolution condemn NEW YORK, April 6 — Threatened by the federal (Guatemala’s), a declaration that whenever it ing racial discrimination and its abstention BERKELEY, April 1—Yester­ government w ith wide punitive measures, its picket lines appeared that any one of the hemisphere na­ from voting on the resolution calling for com­ day's open-air meeting by the broken by the New York police and the American Federa­ Socialist Workers Party at Ber­ tion of Labor, the International >- tions was in danger of infiltration from "in ­ plete elimination in the Americas of colonies ternational communism” the rest would con­ keley’s SBther Gate was the larg­ Longshoremen’s Association called under Luropean sovereignty.” off its 29-day strike. est held in the last two years. sider measures to prevent it. Henry F. Holland, U.S. Assistant Secretary The strike committee was faced Ohio CIO Parley The University of California If. you read the American Negro press for Inter-American Affairs, said the vote of the by the threat of the government student audience, ranging from leports, you found a very different — and U.S. on the resolution against racial discrimina to keep the ILA off the ballot in a 300 to a peak of 500, heard forthcoming union representation Maps Moves to much more accurate — picture of what took tion would have to be "lim ited” because its Daniel Roberts, Socialist Work* election. Bitterly denouncing “ the place. individual states had "competence” over unprecedented and illegal threat ers Party speaker, outline a fight­ Raise Jobless Pay As one editor put it, "Dulles, using a clever "certain features” contained in the resolution by a government agency,” the ing program to stop the assaults YOUNGSTOWN, April 5 — . When all reports are in, the plain, unvarnish­ union leadership nevertheless mixture of innuendo and veiled threats, was on academic freedom. could see no way out but to call The Employment Security Con­ ed truth of what happened at Caracas is that able to secure a 17 to 1 vote in favor of the Reviewing the record of the the strike off. ference called by the Ohio CIO U.S. proposal . . . but it soon developed that the ruling class of the United .States told the witch hunters spearheaded by Mc­ .Strikebreakers organized by the Council in Columbus last Satur­ the support he received from the 16 smaller na­ Latin American countries that while they couk Carthy in stifling the free ex­ AFL and protected by the New day demonstrated the concern York city police had continued of union members over the eco­ tions was anything but enthusiastic. A fter the expect intervention in their internal affairs if change of ideas, Roberts cited as a case in point the “contact” man to work during the strike and nomic storm sweeping through measure had passed, spokesmen from the sup­ they take any action against capitalism, they system that has been established many rank and file longshoremen the industrial cities of this state. porting nations, almost to a man. got up on should not think they can affect U.S. reac­ on the campus here. felt that these strikebreakers The auditorium of Central High would replace them on the job. School was jamiqed with a crowd the conference floor to ‘explain’ their reasons tionary policies of support of Jim Crow anc Under this system an agent hffls- The gangster element in the ILA of almost 3,000 local union of­ Luropean colonial rule. been officially installed on the for supporting the U.S. Many of them had pushed for an end to the strike ficers and members. campus to check all “ subversive refrained from supporting an all-out resolution Our South American neighbors w ill be glad as they faced more legal indict­ The conference was used as a .activities” of the students and against communism, and had been won over to know that they have millions of sympathizers ments and fines. rallying point for the new professors alike. Everyone on the The courts had whittled down initiative petition proposal of the when Dulles initialled his proposal as referring and allies in the United States who do not sup­ campus is urged to turn over the union’s picket lines to 12 in Ohio OIO. This plan calls for to 'international communism’, which he defined port the imperialist and white supremacist ‘‘information” on possible “ sub­ Manhattan and New Jersey and 8 the labor movement to secure versives" to him for forwarding as ‘that far-flung, clandestine political organ­ policies of W all Street’s government. in Brooklyn. Four federal grand 199,000 signatures on a petition to bo “proper authorities.” juries were busy preparing in­ increase the state’s unemploy­ One effect of this system of Protesting NLRB refusal to certify the unaffiliated Inter­ dictments, and current court ment compensation to $50 a week intimidation was pointed to by national Longshoremen’s Association as the bargaining agent action confronted the union with and to eliminate some of the Higher Learning a student at the meeting who for New York dockworkers, ILA members picket the White. the possibility of over $1,000,000 harshest disqualifying provisions said, “The students here are very House. Some 1,100 longshoremen from New York and New in fines. The union, subsisting on of the law. If the Legislature By Joyce Cowley interested in discussions such as Jersey took part in the 5-hour demonstration. loans from John L. Lewis’ mine refuse to act. on the p e tiito n , the this, but they won’t support a workers union, was in bad finan­ proposition will be put on the Miss Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, advertising di­ I don’t know if Kate Hevner Mueller, asso meeting other than a open - air cial straits. The members could ballot in the next general elec­ rector of Gimbcl's, spoke at a workshop on ciate professor at Indiana University, was in one where it is more difficult to collect no unemployment in­ tio n . be ‘tagged.’ ” surance and were pressured by Both Jacob dayman, state PAC employment problems for women liberal art fiuenced by Miss Fitz-Gibbon, but she has a RESIST VICTIMIZATION, these agencies to return to the chairman, and James Griffin, state similar approach to educational problems. Miss “STUDENTS FOR AMERICA' graduates. The audience Was made up of Deans docks and scab. CIO president, lashed the Ohio Mueller too spoke at a meeting of the Deans of The bulk of the audience was O ver 60 dockers who had been compensation law as one of the of Women and placement office chiefs from seriously interested in Roberts’ SPEEDUP AT M’CORMICK Women, advocating a college course on women arrested during the strike and worst in the country. They more than a hundred colleges. Her advice in and for women to "emphasize their nature. views and a good number Were CHICAGO, March 28 — Thirty-two workers at the had their work permits suspended showed that a family on relief brief was that the college girl needs less short­ sympathetic to them. But those by the Waterfront Commission receives a greater allowance It should be taught, she said by women with most vociferous in the discussion McCormick Tractor Works have been suspended for two hand and more sex appeal. are left out in the cold. This state than one forced to live on com­ "D ior dresses, seductive voices and jaunty hus and question period were the sup weeks for resisting a 29% speedup in production. The 32 — regimentation body has the final pensation. "Preoccupation with pulchritude on the part bands.” The instructor would be called a porters of Students For America, among the oldest w-orkers of the > say on whether or not a man In his plea for political action of the employer may not be noble and high- "feminologist” and would no doubt turn out an aggressive. McCarthyite group­ company, and all in the key de­ called in hopes they would speed works on the dock. This latest on the petition, dayman said the ing that attended the meeting in minded, but it is a fact,” said Miss Fitz- the kind of products Miss Fitz-Gibbon admired partment 37 which completes the up on the jobs of the suspended action illustrates the union- labor movement controlled or in­ full force. Their apparent strength final assembly of tractors — assembly workers.” husting power of the state hiring fluenced three million votes. It Gibbon. “ It’s sex. You can’t fight it. You might If this trend continues, young girls w ill con on the campus flow's in good part were picked to test company The company’s aim is evident­ ha ll. must have occurred to many develop a few slogans to put over your more elude, that there’s very little reason to go to from the failure so far of the plans for a general speedup. The ly to precipitate a walkout, and The AFL, working in collusion present that with such power exciting products such as: ‘Here’s Holyoke's college. Being a woman, if you’re born one, other campus organizations to resistance on the assembly line then use the unemployed list and with Governor Dewey, helped put labor could elect its own state take a firm stand against them. has sparked the most significant over this nefarious and hateful government. hottest — Handle with Asbestos Gloves’ or requires only slight concentration and certainly the witch-hunting Velde commit­ The McCarthyites have chal­ rise in union fighting spirit since instrument that is now fastened CIO President Walter Reuther 'Barnard graduates Have the Equipment’ or tee to smash the union. The Mc­ not a degree in liberal arts. More than a hundred lenged all other student organ­ the disastrous 1952 strike. Cormick struggle illustrates the upon the longshoremen. The ILA coupled an attack on the Repub­ 'Smith Girls are Girlier Girls’.” years ago women fought for the right to higher izations to debate them' on the Local 101 of the independent pattern planned by Big Business faces a new NLRB election. It licans with what, almost appeared I ’m beginning to feel a little confused about education which men claimed was too heavy a issue of “ Communism in Govern­ FE-UE, smeared by the red-bait­ all along the industrial front in had won the last election over the us a damning analysis of U.S. AFL; the setting aside of thi.s the purpose of higher education. I've never been strain on the delicate nervous system of the ment.” So far all the organiza­ ers as irresponsible left wingers, this country. capitalism for its failure to tions are still discussing accep­ has maintained the loyalty of At the Tractor Works, where election by the government pre­ function in peacetime. He said in college myself, but I thought that girls went female. Those pioneers who faced ridicule and. cipitated the present struggle. tance of the challenge and nous the workers despite company a great proportion on the un­ that the only defense from the there to study languages, literature, mnfhe­ scorn, who labored and sacrificed to establish have as yet acted on it. If they violation of the contract and pub­ employed list are Negroes, the In the last stage of the strike Il-bomb is peace; that the war Joseph Curran of the NMU and matics and science. 1 was not aware that this the first colleges for women, would be startled are not vigorously opposed these lic attacks by the Velde witch bosses also see an opportunity against “communism” can’t be the leaders of the CIO Marine would enhance their good looks. 1 know girls to see them degenerating into employment “Junior G-Men” can only con­ hunters. The. com pany tim ed i£s to divide the workers along ra­ won with guns; and he struck Engineers warned the shipowners tinue to appear to be a power speedup plans with the recent cial lines. It is to the credit of several time at war and the costs who never, got through high school who have agencies to place properly packaged graduates of their sympathy for the IT,A o f w ar. on the campus. arrival in Chicago of the Velde the union that it fully under­ the equipment, too. In case you aren't properly in lush jobs. walkout. But this verbal and token The unusually spirited and suc­ Committee. Mobilizing its army stands the danger involved In The turnout at this conference support came so late and so endowed by nature, it would seem quicker and Incidentally, I've worked in offices a good cessful Socialist Workers rally, of time-study men and supervi­ this corporation - inspired scheme seemed to impress Reuther that weakly that its effect was vir­ he cannot shrug off the recession cheaper and more to the point to buy falsies where the alternative of fascism sory stooges, the company moved and is trying to combat it. A mail)' years and have never seen a job of the tually negligible. Should the AFL any longer and that his “anti­ or socialism was posed in clear, in for the kill. Rumors were cir­ statement in the union bulletin, than to spend four years at Wellesley or Smith. type Miss Fitz-Gibbon describes except on the ever secure control over the New communism” is not enough to hard-hitting fashion, was a culated that thousands on the un­ entitled “To the Men Who Went York waterfront the position of satisfy workers concerned with With a true eye for merchandising. Miss television show "Private Secretary.” Like splendid demonstration of how to employed list were waiting to be In From Those Who Didn’t,” called, to replace those who re­ the CIO maritime unions will be the latest sinking spell of U.S. Fitz-Gibbon continues by urging colleges to thousands of other office workers, I type, take fight the campus witch hunters reads as follows: sisted the speedup. a precarious one. capitalism. “ package and promote their products” so their effectively. "We know about, the brush shorthand and do a day’s work. This may be The union answered with a mass Although Reuther's speech was graduates can grab the “ lush, posh” secretarial because I lack the proper equipment and wrap­ m eeting to su p p o rt the 32 sus­ off you get at the factories. We i The death sentence imposed on received enthusiastically, th e jobs. She urged them to stop sending college pings, but it’s more likely such jobs are a pended workers. The meeting last vc been through the big stall at Wesley Wells, Negro prisoner at workers left the conference still girls to “ fusty, dusty” publishing houses and fantasy in the minds of an advertising ex­ Sunday was the largest since the the unemployment insurance of-, San Quentin, for throwing a in the dark on how to take some .. .“ How Will You fice. We’re dodging the landlord cuspidor at a guard, has been immediate action against layoffs, 1952 strike, with an attendance ‘ musty” museums. ecutive, a feminologist and a TV producer. of over 900. Jt showed clearly and losing our cars. Some wives commuted to life imprisonment, speedup and inadequate income. that the workers understand the have babies on the way. But all California’s Governor Knight and The initiative campaign is at best Bury Corpses?” issues — a basic attack against this wasn’t caused by the union the State Supreme Court re­ a two-year proposition, and does (Continued from page 1) their living standards, lay offs men and women at Tractor Thel prieved Wells after a movement not offer relief to workers who company, the big profiteering J f0 save him began to attract is carried out, an H-bomb'attack and a murderous speedup. The want to strike back NOW at corporations who exploit our dis­ on just 67 cities would result meeting voted unanimously to widening support in the labor wholesale firings and wage-slash­ crimination, caused it. Now they “ conservatively” in 9,000,000 kil­ support the suspended assembly and liberal movement. The re­ ing- want to give us a crumb, two FACT STEALS INTO CAPITALIST PRESS. ■ request, but said he considered the vote “en­ led; 22,000,000 hospital cases. line workers, and called on all prieve decision denies Wells the The banner under which the weeks’ work, to kill jobs. To hell A n A p ril 2 AP dispatch, reporting an increase couraging.” workers to contribute $1 a week right to future parole application. speakers sat had the slogan, “Just as a practical matter,” with it. Let’s visit and talk . . . * * * ■ When informed of the decision, "Unemployment is Un-American.” of Republic Steel plant facilities in Chicago, was Peterson asked, “how in hell are to provide compensation for them. Issued by the hundreds of laid Wells said, “I hope . . . my The CIO members go farther — inadvertently headlined in the N. Y. World-’» I- CLEVELAND UNEMPLOYMENT HITS KO­ you going to bury 9,000,000 It was a real “speak bitter­ off Negro workers who didn't go friends will continue to work for they think it is downright sub­ egrarn, “ Republic Steal Expands.” REAN VETS. Figures released March 23 by the corpses 7” ness" meeting. Worker after in .” my freedom.” versive. * * * Ohio State Employment fService reveal that 525 worker took the floor to express A PRACTICAL MATTER pont-up grievances. One of the FAILURE TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM Korean vets in the Cleveland area had filed job­ the highlights was the talk of rising out of McCarthy’s Fort Monmouth “spy- less pay claims in the. previous week. In the But just as a practical matter a worker in the links department: hunt” was charged against leading national Jew­ same week of last year there were 78 such ap­ how are you going to evacuate "W e are m aking 1200 lin ks no^v. ish organizations on April 4 by Harry Green, plications. big cities — New York’s 8,000,- * * * 000 people, for instance — in Our foreman has told us we are . . . Eisenhower Lies about H-Bomb co-counsel for more than half the 42 victims of go in g to make 1400. I know one that witch-hunting expedition. All but three of TAFT-HARTLEY CONVICTION. Ben Gold, time to get a safe distance from w o rke r who trie d to make 1400 (Continued from page 1) Direct-blast damage “covers a can be successfully built.” Such those suspended without a shred of tangible ev­ president of the unaffiliated Fur and Leather an H-bomb explosion — a min­ — and he’s dead. The company “about double that of the calcul­ larger area than anticipated,” a bomb is designed to produce idence brought forward against them are Jew­ Workers Union, was convicted in a federal court im um o f 100 to 200 m iles o f doctors called it heart failure, ated estimate” — that is, it was some 40 miles in all directions “a deadly radioactive cloud 320 ish. Speaking at an Asbury Park, N. J. Syna­ on the charge of making “false statements” in more? How \Vould you even know but all of us in the department four times as powerful as the from “target zero,” or a circular times more powerful than ra­ gogue, Green declared: “We Jews are getting filing a Taft-Hartley “non-communist affidavit.” w’hen a bomb was going to b'c know the real cause. Too many first explosion, or 20 megatons. area 80 miles in diameter. A cen­ dium,” Laurence adds: soft in our well-to-do manner of living. We are Gold had resigned his membership in the Com­ dropped ? .people at Tractor wait until they According to W alter Lippmann tral area of 24 miles in diameter not going to have liberty as we now enjoy it munist (Party prior t.o signing the oath so that “ Informed Congressional lead­ “This cloud can travel with drop dead before they wake up. in the (April 1 N. Y. Herald would be completely pulverized. unless we are willing to take a chance of get­ the union would not be penalized under the law’s ers conceded unhappily . . . that the prevailing winds over dis­ Then it’s too late.” Another •work­ Tribune, “The most recent of But, continues this conservative ting hurt.” reactionary provision. The government's case it will be nearly two years be­ tances of miles, destroying all er, after reciting grievances in the Bikini bombs, had it fallen report, “a wholly new hazard, * * * against Gold was reduced in essence to the fore they can guarantee even aii life in its path. The bomb could his department., concluded, “ I told in the Irish Sea, would not only that of ‘secondary radiation,’ ex­ RACE-HATING GOV. BYRNES is complaining charge that he “didn’t really mean it” when he hour’s warning to coastal cities he exploded from a ship in the you the time would come when have caused a gigantic massacre tends the danger area far be­ that the National Association for the Advance­ resigned. Gold ndw faces a maximum penalty of of a possible bomb attack.” Pacific, for example, hundreds, this hall would be full again.” but it would have come very yond the limits of the bomb ment of Colored People has been “ misrepresent­ five years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. His (Scripps-Howard, April 1) Yet even thousands, of miles from •The b a ttle ag ainst the speed­ near to destroying an organized b la st.” ing” his declaration of three years ago that “we attorney, Vito Marcantonio, announced the ver­ the proposal for “evacuation of the coast and the cloud would up continues around the key as­ social order in the British isles.” This radiation, carried by the will abandon the public school system,” if the d ict w ill be appealed. cities” is based, according to its travel with the winds toward the sembly line. The company has William H. Stringer, chief of wind, can “cause casualties at U.S. Supreme Court should ban segregation. The author Peterson, on the assump­ United States West Coast and replaced the suspended workers the Washington News Bureau of least 175 m iles fro m the explo­ Governor says he never declared that he would tion that “a reasonably healthy the rest of the North American with men from the long list of the Christian Science Monitor, sion, possibly much farther.” The do so “ personally” and stresses the fact that PRAV DA, IZVESTIA and other Russian lan­ person can cover ten miles in two Continent.” unemployed. These workers have reported: “ It is assumed by mil article notes that radioactive dust his original statement said they would shut down guage periodicals have been removed from the hours on his feet, particularly The U.S. cannot “win” an H- been unemployed for a long time. itary planners here that one JI- from the March 1 bomb blast has the schools “reluctantly.” The NAACP has re­ library of the Army Language School in Mon­ if incineration acts as an incen­ bomb war. If the U.S. had a terey, Calif. Insisting that the removal was for a Many have already drawn their bomh on London could put Bri­ already drifted from the mid- jected his charge against them as “ puerile and tiv e .” thousands times more bombs than maximum compensation, and were tain out of action m ilitarily. One pacific to the United States'“in routine check, the school commandant denied the any other nation, that would not lacking in substance.” How long is it since you’ve pressured into taking jobs on the H-bomb on Paris could have al­ measurable amounts. Radioactive # * * statement of a subordinate who told the press that save us from total destruction. walked 10 miles in two hours? assembly line. But slaves make most as decisive m ilitary effect snow has fallen in Montana and orders had come from the Pentagon to get Com­ Norman Cousins, editor of the UNION CONTESTS GE’s McCARTHY-IN- Have you tried it recently with unwilling workers. The box score on France. One H-bom b could W yom in g . . .” munist publications out of sight “so wc won’t Saturday Review, observes in an SPIRED FIRINGS. Suit has been filed in United a baby or two in your arms? last week showed 31 tractors pro­ put the whole Ruhr Valley indus­ This businessmen’s magazine get another blast from McCarthy.” article in the April 3 World- States District Court by the United Electrical, Imagine what would happen if duced by 105 men, each guarded trial complex out of action in offers us the consolation that the * * * Telegram Magazine, that “only Radio & Machine Workers to bar General Elec­ 8,000.000 people tried to rush out by one foreman. According to the G erm any.” bomb “cannot yet destroy the a relatively small number of hy­ tric from firing employees for refusal to answer “CLOSE AND CONTINUING RELATION­ of New York City all at one company’s speedup schedule, 105 In short, just three bombs could earth with one blast, or set off drogen bombs . . . can produce frame-up questions before Congressional snoop­ SHIP” WITH FAMILY. Wm. J. Aulisio of time. Every street would be hope­ men should produce 46 tractors. finish off the three leading cap­ secondary reactions that could, wholesale devastation. The U nit­ ing committees such as McCarthy’s. A number Pontiac, Mich., a veteran of 9% years in the lessly blocked in a few minutes. In (he meantime, a state of italist countries after the United hut the trend seems to be in ed States lias no adequate defense of GE. workers have already been suspended or Army, has appealed for Congressional aid in Hundreds of thousands would he siege exists at the Tractor Works. States. IIow many such bombs that direction.” The theory is against hydr.ogen or atomic at­ fired for their refusal to “cooperate” with Mc­ lighting his discharge from the service. The Army trampled to death. And how will The union bulletin reports, “ Yes­ would it take, to reduce most of “widely held among scientists” tack . . . Because of the con­ C a rth y. accused him of being a member of, or “closely they know they are not running terday, you couldn't tell Tractor America to smoking heaps of ra­ that “ radioactivity could bo grad­ centration of its population and * * + affiliated” with the Communist Party back in towards the center of explosion? Works from the county jail. Con­ dioactive dust, a landscape pock­ ually raised to dangerous high industry, the U.S. carries a high­ BALTIMORE DENTAL JIM CROW MAIN­ 1940. They claim he signed a CP election p e titio n Besides, a bomb dropped in Phil­ cealed long range cameras were marked with vast craters look­ levels by repeated H-bomb explo­ er war hazard than any major TAINED. The Baltimore City Dental Society, and maintains a '“close and continuing relation­ adelphia, 90 miles away, could set up at all entrances. Tape re­ ing like the dead face of the sions” so as to poison “the earth’s nation in the world.” Let some an affiliate of the American Dental Assn, last ship" with his mother, father and brother, who, set New York on fire. corders were set up where they moon? In an article, “ Is the H- atmsophere.” maniac in the White House — month voted 100 to 70 to continue its exclusion the Arm y says, are “ reported to have been mem­ You won’t escape by running. thought union leaders would talk. Bomb Going Wild?”, the April Hardly was this statement off an ambitious general or a fascist of Negro dentists from membership in the or­ bers of the Communist Party or closely affiliated You won’t escape by ducking. The guard house was issued live 9 U||S. News and W o rld R eport the press, than William L. Lau­ political adventurer like McCar­ ganization. The action was in repudiation of an therewith.” The Army adds that it does not You won’t escape by praying. ammunition. Some 40 general tells us a few things about the rence reported in the April 7 thy, say — order the H-bomb “ appeal” by the head of the State’s “Interracial question Aulisio’s loyalty. In appealing- to his You’ll escape only if the people foremen were transformed into latest model H-bombs that Eisen­ N.Y. Times that it is “certain Relations” commission. The commission head ex­ Congressman, Aulisio said, “I am helpless to try take the bomb from the capital­ company gunmen to surround the hower and Strauss are trying to that the most dreaded weapon dropped in a “preventive” war, pressed disappointment at the rejection of the and combat the allegations.” ists’ hands. 38 confused men w ho were re - keep from the general public, of all — the cobalt bomb — also and we’d be obliterated.