Workers of the World, Unite ! Industry’s Stand Deepens National the MILITANT Labor Crisis PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE V o l. XV-No. 12 < *® ^ > 287 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1951 PRICE: FIVE CENTS Eric Johnston Refuses Wage Gains To Packing and Textile Workers Mac Arthur By Joseph Andrews MARCH 14 — All efforts to patch up the break be­ Presses for tween the labor leaders and the Truman administration Barcelona Revolt Jolts have failed, as industry members of the Wage Stabilization Board refused to accept a peace ------All-Asia War formula proposed by Economic Stabilization Director Eric Johnston. Threatens Endless A t the same time, the situation Korea 'Stalemate' was aggravated by Johnston’s re­ Fascist Franco Regime By Art Preis jection of the proposed wage — — ------& ------Gen. MacArthur last week sent agreement between the A F L and a new shudder through the world. CIO Packinghouse unions and the He renewed his demand for an meat packing companies. This attack on Manchuria and China 300,000 Workers agreement provided an U-cent proper that would mean war on an hour wage increase. Ralph a scale a hundred-fold greater Helstein, President of the CIO than Korea. As an alternative, he Defy Armed Suppression by Packinghouse Workers Union threatened a “stalemate” in Korea announced his union will strike that would indefinitely drain off March 25. the lives of American youth, as Dictator Ally of Truman well as Chinese and Korean^, in a LOW WAGES, HIGH PROFITS struggle that can come to no By Joseph Keller The packinghouse workers are decision. MARCH 15 — Spain’s revolutionary working class is among the lowest paid industrial ERIC JOHNSTON Ris statement of March 7, workers. Their average wage to­ rising to its feet once more and serving notice that the issued with great fanfare and days of Bloody Franco’s clerical-fascist dictatorship are day is $1.49 an hour. But average The flat refusal by Eric headlined in the whole U-S. daily profits of the packing industry Johnston to allow the 11-cent an press, said that given “a con­ numbered. •>------Spain, in defiance of the brutal went up two-thirds in the year hour w-age increase won by the tinuation of the existing limita- More than 300,000 factory measures they knew Franco would ending Oct. 31, 1950. Since that packinghouse unions in negotia­ ions upon our freedom of counter­ workers went on strike March 12 hurl against them. •time they have raised prices and tions with the companies, serves offensive action and no major ;n Barcelona and the surrounding no doubt profits have soared. notice that this former four­ additions to our organizational area, the industrial heart of This set off a tremendous These conditions account for the time President of the Chamber of strength, the battle lines cannot popular outpouring in the streets growing militancy among pack­ Commerce has no intention of fail in time to reach a point of of Barcelona, second largest city ing workers. allowing “elasticity” of wages theoretical m ilitary stalemate.” in Spain with 1,250,000 popula­ The compromise formula which while prices skyrocket. He said there should be “no Left Wing Scores tion. They paralyzed the city in Johnston proposed to reconstitute The breach between the labor illusions” that the U.S. forces, a revolt against the high cost of the WSB included a provision leadership and the war mobiliza­ under present circumstances, can Gains in UAW living that has reduced most of giving the board limited authority tion set-up is therefore widened. defeat the Chinese and North Spain’s impoverished people al­ to handle all labor disputes as Attempts by the union bureau­ Koreans. ■ most to starvation. well as economic matters. This crats to find a road back into the It is most exceptional for a Local Elections Despite the reported killing of had been one of the key demands service of the capitalist govern­ general in MacArthur’s position Annual U AW elections of of­ three demonstrators and wound­ of the United Labor Policy Com­ ment, as “window dressing,” has to admit the possibility that he ficers and convention delegates ing of hundreds of others, the mittee. been blocked by the arrogant Big cannot win and to'hint that, under in Detroit and Flint have shown arrest of more than 300, the land­ But industry members refused Business policies. certain conditions, he faces the a definite strengthening of the ing of marine detachments from to agree to expanding the au­ prospects of a defeat. There is, anti-Reuther sentiments among five war-ships and the arrival of NATIONAL LABOR 13,000 special police and Civil thority of the Board. Behind this of of course, the factor that Mac­ rank and file auto workers. CONFERENCE stubborn stand is the determina­ Arthur has had the gilt knocked Although Walter Reuther, UAW Guards hastily sent by train and tion of the industrialists to keep This situation raises the im­ off his reputation as a military President, will have a majority plane, some 50,000 strikers Still are out at the latest report. Sam their hands free to continue their portance of the National Con­ (Continued on page 3) of delegates at the April 1 to 5 Pope Brewer, N. Y. Times cor­ anti-labor war. I f the Board ference of Labor, called by the convention to be held in Cleveland, . \ % respondent in Barcelona, writes handled disputes, covering con­ ULPC for March 20-21 in Wash­ the opposition will have a size­ the strike was understood from tractual relations, such matters ington. This conference will now able delegation. the. start to be a one-day protest. as the union shop, seniority, and be confronted, barring a last In Ford Local 600, Joe Hogan, check off wouI4 become questions minute retreat by the union heads, Mr- Acheson, You Lied an independent militant, will meet The United Press reported, of national policy. with the need to mobilize pressure Reutherite Carl Stellato in a run­ however, that “25 percent of the from the entire labor movement ------By Joseph Andrews ------———- off for the presidency. Hogan ran factory workers in Catalonia, the NAM ANTI-LABOR PLANS to protect the unions. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, the triumph of corruption in high let-alone the consent of the peo­ Korea ? Certainly not the Ameri­ on a militant program which in­ great industrial area of North­ The National Association of The national conference, which Washington, I). C- places, the gnawing away of their ple, plunged this country into a can GIs, nor the American peo­ cluded two major political points: east Spain, were still idle today Manufacturers, however, wants will include 700 delegates from Sir: civil rights. They have watched war on the other side of the world ple. Certainly not the South 1. End the Korean W ar, and after striking yesterday in sym­ to retain freedom of action, to local central labor bodies of the As I read your answer to the with anger burning in their hearts that has already cost us admitted Korean people, if we can believe 2. Build a Labor Party. The fact pathy with demonstrators who wage an offensive against these CIO, A F L and Railroad Brother­ searching questions on Admin­ while the rich grew richer with casualties of nearly 53,000? the letter of the marine who wrote that this program gave Hogan surged through the streets of provisions, singling out certain hoods, was called to mobilize istration foreign policy raised every drop of blood spilled by Nor did you see fit to discuss Senator Kem: “We are not only such large support, over 9,000 Barcelona.” weaker sections of the labor “housewives, unionists, farmers their sons. Cpl. Moullette’s question about votes, is evidence of the mood of in Marine Cpl. John Moullette’s fighting the Chinese and North DEFIANT MOVEMENT movement. and small business men” in a letter, my blood boiled. There is They do not believe in your UN seating for the present gov­ Koreans, but also the South large sections of the workers. This same dispatch revealed In addition, should the Board fight against high prices. no act more base, I believe, than Korean war. They mistrust your ernment of China. That is be­ Koreans. You can see by their The Ford local elected a slim that “yesterday’s angry out­ handle disputes, certain sections To aggravate the tension, to lie to the youth who seek in aims. That is the reality of the cause you cannot give a plausible faces that they don’t wan’t us majority of opposition delegates. break” was “the worst anywhere of the Taft-Hartley Law would be Johnston yesterday also an­ “agony of spirit,” as you yourself present situation. You did not answer. You cannot deny that here.” All the other nations who In Ford Local 900 (Lincoln in Spain since the. civil war by-passed. nounced he would reject a pro­ well put it, an answer — a solu­ speak in the name of the Ameri­ the Peking government has as are so “willing” to “fight for plant) the opposition won the twelve years ago.” Brewer, in a posed 10-cent an hour wage in­ tion — to the future of futility can people, when you answered legitimate a right to sit in the freedom” in Korea arc certainly delegates race eight to two, and The rejection of the peace- cautiously-worded report called it crease for 200,000 woolen work­ and horror they see before them. Cpl. Moullebte. You scorned their U’N as, say," the South American showing a great reluctance to won local offices. formula, therefore, is a warning “the most general movement of ers, represented by the Textile Every word of your reply, I views and did not see fit even to dictatorships which you hail as supply troops for this “glorious to organized labor that the GM LOCALS defiance that Generalissimo Workers Union, CIO. But the say, was a calculated and cynical honestly acknowledge them. You allies. •cause.” corporations are in no mood to In Chevrolet Gear and Axle Franco’s government has ever union itself had already rejected lie. You lied in detail and you lied spoke for the war profiteers, the I come now to the one question call off their attempts to under­ THREAT OF ALL-OUT WAR Local 235, Rudy Pale, longtime had to face,” a “general ex­ (Continued on page 2) in the whole. You lied when you bankers, the militarists. that you could not squirm out of mine and weaken unions. progressive opposition leader, plosion,” and a “movement so evaded Cpl. Moullette’s specific •Cpl. Moullette said: “I thought -Korea. To Cpl; Moullette’s con­ You also say that by the U.S. made a comeback ,and won the widely expressed through all questions. You lied when you of­ that only Congress could declare tention that the Korean war is a intervention in Korea, “we are presidency. His ticket captured groups of society that without fered banal generalities to the war.” I have searched your “needless waste of life,” “shame­ doing our best to prevent the seven out of 10 delegates. In GM implying any threat of general basic question that vexes him and answer line by line and can find ful to the human race” and “won’t world from following the road Cl CAMPESINO CXP0SÍS which led us, twice in recent (■Continued on Page 21 (Continued on Page 2) his generation most — the ques­ no reference to this vital matter. settle anything,” you answer that tion implicit in his entire letter: How can there be an honest reply “in Korea, the men and the na­ times, to world war.” That is a “Why must we sacrifice ourselves to Cpl. Moullette that skips over tions who love freedom . . . have lie on the face of it and an insult STALIN'S i m m GANG in another war?” the not unimportant fact that made-it clear they are willing to to the intelligence of the people. your superior, President Truman, fight for these things.” Korea has led to the very brink By Tom Conlan Let me tell you first how you HANSEN DEBATES STATE lied by evasion. without consultation of Congress, Who is “willing” to fight in of World War III. What began as A t the turn of this year the Social-Democratic press Cpl. Moullettc stated “that the a civil war between two regimes in Western Europe began carrying in daily installments American people . . . are ‘fed up’ in Korea, has been transformed SENATOR IN MINNESOTA by your “police action” into a the revelations of “ El Campesino” which have created a with the Administration and its foreign policy.” If that is true — WHAT THE MARINE WROTE major war between vast armies Following two successful meetings in Chicago, Joseph great sensation among labor : " " ~ ~ and you did not dare to deny it of the U.S. and China, as well as circles. For Valentine Gonzales, government he went to the Soviet The following are excerpts from Marine Corporal John B. Hansen, Associate Editor of the Militant, went to Min- — you owed him before every­ the Koreans. Even now the world Union, where despite the attempts Moullette’s letter to his father, which the la tte r sent with a neapolis-St. Paul for meetings scheduled there. famous as El Campesino, is a thing else an explanation of how trembles before the imminqpt veteran of the Spanish Com­ to corrupt him with special covering letter to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Acheson In Chicago Hansen spoke at a®------any policy, above all such a life danger that this war, still con­ munist movement, and one of its privileges he soon clashed with released the letters with a reply. Cpl. Moullette wrote: fined to Korean soil, will be Socialist Workers Party-sponsored academic freedom, the drafting the Stalinist bureaucracy and and death issue as the Korean most prominent figures. spread by the U.S. to China meeting, the chairman of which of students, and the general their Spanish lickspittles, Dolores war, can be correct and just when Dear Dad: He quickly rose to international proper and thereby spark the ex­ was Irving Beinin who recently growth of militarism on the Ibárruri, Jesus Hernandez, Mar­ it violates the deepest sentiments . . . I can’t help but think that the American people, fame during the Spanish Civil plosion of the Third Wbrld War. concluded a campaign for Aider- tinez Carton, Lister and others. of the people and tramples on Democrat and Republican alike, are ‘fed up’ with the Ad­ campus'. W ar, during which he commanded Korea has proved only one man on an anti-war platform. His ten years’ stay in Stalin’s their will. ministration and its foreign policy. a crack division and became thing — that U.S. imperialism In his speech Hansen document­ SEEK THE TRUTH “paradise” thus proved years of The way Truman is appropriating money is outrageous... distinguished as one of the most MOST UNPOPULAR WAR means death to any country it ed the overwhelming desire of the In conclusion, Hansen told the indescribable sufferings a n d A t present he is asking Congress for 71.5 billion dollars which brilliant and audacious Republican Are the American people — are “liberates.” Never has such American people to get the GIs students: “You must learn to dangers and repeated attempts to would cost each American $468.00. , generals. Wounded eleven times, devastation and slaughter been out of Korea at once. He quoted escape, which finally succeeded all the John Moullettes in the Don’t you think that our ‘foreign policy’ is fouled up a study world politics objectively, visited on a people as the U.S. public opinion polls, the hyge with fortune invariably smiling armed forces — blind to a right­ bit? What right have we to refuse Red China entree into the familiarize yourselves with the in 1949. “scorched earth’.’ policy has in­ volume of letters to Congressmen, on him in those days as it did eous and just cause? How does it United Nations? I think she has a right to voice her opinions socialist program, grasp the Although politically confused, flicted on the Koreans. As Walter letters to the press, etc. Showing afterwards in his ten years’ stay happen that Truman’s “police about what is to take place in the F ar East. . . fundamental meaning of the in Soviet prisons and concentra­ and as he himself admits more Lippman admitted months ago, how the war is supported by a action” in Korea is the most un­ The needless TVaste of life in Korea, on both sides, is inevitability of endless crisis tion camps, this fighter, with his of an anarchist than a Marxist, in Korea “we have proved only small profit - hungry minority, popular war in our history ? Is it shameful to the human race. Fighting won’t settle anything. under capitalism and its terrible El Campesino wanted; to live and that we can wreck a country.” Hansen stated: “If we don’t stop striking features, short black simple stupidity or cowardice or The only thing that I can see is being proven in Korea is impact on humanity. Have the beard, simplicity, honesty, coupled escape in order to tell and defend depravity that makes the Ameri­ them now, the imperialists will courage to seek the truth; and the truth. He is no ex-bureaucrat “Might over what may be right,” Red China being the STOP THE WAR NOW with a contempt for luxury and can people so hostile to U.S. in- turn the whole world into a having found it to proclaim and like the refugee Kravchenko, but “might.”. . . ostentation and his legendary tervention in Korea, that makes I have read that Cpl. Moullette slaughterhouse; only the con­ defend that truth.” a fighter who turned away from I thought that only Congress could declare war. Why has said that he is “convinced” courage, became a popular hero. them pour letters by the hun­ struction of a socialist society On March 16 Hansen will speak Stalinism, risking everything, doesn’t Congress either declare war against Red China or stop by your answer. I do not know His legendary feats and char­ dreds of thousands into Congress will guarantee the survival of at a public meeting at 10 S. 4th repeatedly staking his life, with­ Truman from serjding troops throughout the world? Whv what “convinced” him except, acter were used as a model by and the White House demanding humanity.” St., the SWP hall in Minneapolis. out being under any material should we take the brunt of it all ? If the other countries in perhaps, your prestige. I am Hemingway in his best-seller For the stopping of the war now and The favorable reaction of the He will also address several meet­ compulsion to do so. His revela­ the United Nations won’t supply the needed men and money sorry for it. But 1 an certain it Whom the Bell Tolls and by the immediate withdrawal of the audience to Hansen’s talk was ings on the campus of the Univer­ tions, now published in French then we should pull out of Korea. . . will not convince the majority of Malraux in his novel, Man’s Hope. troops ? demonstrated in the lively ques­ sity of Minnesota in St. Paul. in book form (Editions Plon) The morale of the fighting man is vein,' low. . . Here at the American people, nor the A highly laudatory and fictional The reaction of the people to tion period and the excellent A good deal of local interest under the title Life and Death in Pendleton (Camp Pendelton, California), most of these men soldiers whose morale is “very biography about him was con­ your war is not stupidity, but financial contributions made. has been aroused by the prospect the Soviet Union lay bare the know what war is or what its after-effects are and will be . . . low” and “have no cause to fight,” cocted by Ilya Ehrenburg, Stalin’s growing wisdom. They are getting A t another meeting in Chicago, of a debate between Hansen and grim Stalinist reality and contain the majority were complaining about the way we were tricked as Cpl. Moullette wrote. I firmly star pen - prostitute. Long a smartened up. They have been Hansen addressed an audience of State Senator F. G. Child, who is the most graphic accounts yet into this. Everyone seems to have nothing but disfavorable believe they will see through your fanatical Stalinist, E l Campesino through two world wars already students and faculty members of attempting to institute a witch published of what life is in the thoughts, and remarks about the foreign policy. These men lies, that they will continue and sacrificed everything, and also for “democracy, liberty and last­ Roosevelt t College. The meeting hunt at the University. Both have prison cells and forced labor hell­ aren’t afraid to fight, it’s just that they have no cause to increase their demand that the helped to hound Trotskyists, ad­ ing peace” and they have seen was sponsored by the Public accepted invitations to speak at holes, from the Soviet polar fight. . . great atrocity being committed mitting that he himself par­ only evil results from all their Affairs Committee, a student or­ a forum sponsored by the'"Student regions and its Vorkutas to those •Our only hope is that our age throughout the world feel by U.S. imperialism in Korea be ticipated in several crimes. wastb of “blood, sweat and tears.” ganization. Group for Political Analysis. in the semi-tropical South. the same way and will state so to their leaders. By rebellion stopped at once and that the He was the last Republican They have observed tyranny and He traced U.S. foreign policy Senator Child’s topic is “The El Campesino provides the or other ways. . . I believe that the people of our level want American troops be withdrawn general to leave Spain — in April dictatorship flourish as never be­ from V-J day to the present Trend of Radical Thought in clinching evidence as to the only peace but that the leaders (including Truman) are afraid immediately. 1939 when the whole country had fore. They have felt in their 'own time and its repercussions on America” while Hansen will speak identity of the key agents of to admit they are wrong. . . already been conquered by Franco. flesh the fangs of depression and Your truly, domestic policy, especially as on “The Trend of Reactionary On the invitation of the Soviet (Continued on page 3) 1inflation. They have witnessed Joseph Andrews, Editor. reflected in the attacks on Thought in America.” Page Two THE MILITANT Monday* March 19, 1951

Yugoslavia's Foreign Policy — III ------Anti-War Struggle and Imperialism Fund Drive Holds Pace; ------By John G. W right ------7— Three Weeks Yet to Go All the prominent Belgrade "the whole world is preparing” is contrary, they are failing to the economics of imperialism, and “democratic” allies during the last leaders justify their foreign policy being prepared not alone politic­ unmask them. For who is con­ riot any diplomatic, political, or war? Have Truman, Churchill By Reba Aubrey Youth Branch. At the beginning Detroit’s $94 check completes a on the ground that it is the best ally and morally but, above all, ducting this war in Asia, if not “moral” maneuvers in which and Co. changed? Fund Campaign Manager of the campaign he pledged a little over half of its quota. week’s pay of $45. He has already- Marietta says that Detroit’s way to secure world peace. Their economically — by U.S. imperial­ the U.S. imperialists? Who seeks they may engage, is the touch­ Unlike Lenin, the Yugoslav Branches of the Socialist Work­ balance is “tremendous — and to general formula is this: If all ism. t.o spread it to China, if not Mac- stone of Leninism. What is of leaders sever the economics of ers Party shifted into high gear paid $75 and this week increased his pledge to $90 with the be collected in three weeks! But pedce-loving peoples and govern­ Powerful as ihe Kremlin may Arthur and his gang? Who decisive importance to Leninists imperialism from its politics, and this week, scoring the biggest assurance that all of it will be in we’ll do it, or bust! Every com­ ments join together to fight “ag­ be, it does not control the world threatens to drop the A-Bomb, if is the objective historical mean­ above all from its war drive — weekly payment since the launch­ rade promises to be on time.” A gression,” then peace would be market. U.S. imperialism, which not Truman and Aebeson? ing of the given war. What and war is simply the continuation ing of the Organization, Press and March 31! With comrades like this in our ranks we can’t miss.” $36 payment moved Oakland assured. They approach the issue does, is responsible for the shift determines war in our day, as in of polities by other means. Unlike Defense fund ten weeks ago. The L E N IN ’S POSITION Chicago boosted its percentage branch to the half-way mark. of war exclusively from what they of world economy to a wartime Lenin’s, is the economics of im­ Lenin, they determine their weekly receipts totaled SI,595, The Yugoslav leaders say they to 69 this week with $115. Boston Remember! To make this cam­ conceive to be the special in­ basis since Korea. And this eco­ perialism. What class prepares tactics on, the bases of questions raising the total paid through have broken with Stalinism and sent in $34 and “hopes to do paign a 100% success, every quota terests of Yugoslavia, forgetting nomic aggression by Washington and conducts war? and for what such as “aggression” which Lenin March 13 to $12,870 or 72% of the have returned to Leninism. But in better real soon.” San Francisco must be completed by March 31. that the struggle for peace and has made itself felt in all coun­ aims? It is this that decides and rejected as of “no importance national quota assigned. The cam­ making “aggression” the touch­ took up some of the slack in its That’s only three weeks. Let’s against war is a world political tries, including Yugoslavia. not the political and diplomatic whatever” to Marxists. They do paign is still a little • behind stone for the struggle for peace percentage with a $429 payment. step it up! problem. The Kremlin’s economic block­ moves by means of which the not think it “silly” as Lenin did schedule — 5% — and only three they have departed from Lenin’s Moreover, they see the problem ade has had damaging effects on opposing side may be pictured to paint up bourgeois govern­ weeks to go. This means that the policies.. Lenin had nothing but superficially and only in the Yugoslav economy. But even in to the people at home as “the ments as progressive. No, Yugo­ on-schediile branches will have to scorn for those who hinged their existing set of circumstances and this respect W all Street’s ag­ aggressor.” slav foreign policy does not come keep their pace and the lagging attitude toward war or war- relation of forces which can alter gressive war preparations have from the school of Lenin. branches will really have to danger on the.-question Who is ECONOMIC CAUSE FOR WAR drastically and swiftly under the had a much more damaging Its ideological roots lie some­ hust|e. the “aggressor” ? In March 1915 $18,000 FUND SC0RED0ARD present highly unstable condi­ effect, because they are depriving The economics of imperialism where else entirely. They st$m Lenin wrote: “The question of drives^ it to reaction, compels it West Virginia dashed over the tions. The ferment in Spain, for Yugoslavia of access to the basic from the theory of building Branch Quota Paid Percent which group delivered the first to violate democracy, morality and g)oal line to 133% and first place example, may lead not alone to raw materials on the world socialism in one country. It is not West Virginia S 25 $ 33 133 military blow or first declared war peace. Why else have the Yugo­ on the scoreboard. These com convulsions for Franco’s regime market. Yugoslav industry, faces Lenin but Stalin who originated Pittsburgh 150 191 127 has no importance whatever in slav leaders refrained from join­ rades aren’t through yet. Steve but make its repercussions felt critical shortages of principal this theory, the source of the Cleveland 300 300 100 determining the tactics of Social- ing the Marshall Plan? Why else tells us that they “will send in elsewhere to an extent that may raw materials, especially cotton, worst opportunism in foreign Youngstown 500 500 100 iste.” are they still suspicious of the more on the fund as it comes in.” well alter the whole European vool, gasoline and lubricating oils, policy. Buffalo • 1,000 968 97 Lenin above all exposed how Atlantic Pact and its alleged ______!___ Pittsburgh completed its quota scene. ¿ver which the Kremlin has little St. Paul-Minneapolis 1,000 911 91 falsely the imperialists seek to “defensive” character? Why else three weeks ago but keeps going. A t all events, the issue of peace cr no control but which American Milwaukee 150 133 89 mask their real reactionary nature have they had second-thoughts “We are sending it in as fast as and war involves not Yugoslavia imperialism does control and is Toledo 50 43 86 and predatory aims by political and voted against some of the Industry Stand we can get it,” writes Comrade alone but all the peoples on our now feeding in ever greater Seattle 400 316 79 and diplomatic trickery and by the most aggressive U/S.-UN moves Carl. planet for whom peace is no less- amounts into its arms machine. Newark 700 540 77 demagogic use of slogans of demo­ against China at Lake Success? Cleveland rang the gong with vital. There is no question about Deepens National New York 5,000 3,829 77 cracy, culture, morality, etc. But a $69 payment. Almeda says: “We “Today,” says Ivan Gochniak, Stalin’s military designs against It is this imperialist economic New Haven 100 72 72 the Yugoslav leaders assert that are planning to send in more be­ Deputy Minister of Defense and Yugoslavia. But whatever may base that determines the reac­ Chicago 700 486 69 the issue is above all a moral cause we feel that our quota is a member of the Yugoslav Political develop in the Balkans, the tionary politics of all capitalists,- Labor Crisis Allentown 75 50 67 one. “To struggle for peace is for (Continued from Page 1) bit low when compared to other Bureau, “it is no secret to any­ present military aggression, the above all, their politics of war. Boston 550 350 64 Yugoslavia,” says Marko Ristich, branches our size.” body that the whole world is whole world recognizes, is also It is the m ost. dangerous of the proposed wage increase as Flint 375 232 62 Yugoslavia Ambassador to preparing for war.” by U.S. imperialists — in the Far illusions to believe that any inadequate. Buffalo is pounding toward the San Francisco 1,500 879 59 France, “at the same time a moral goal. Their payment of $123.50 East. diplomatic or political maneuvers These developments underline Akron 150 84 56 WHO INSTIGATES WAR obligation , . . and is a vital, gives them 97%. Even the Buffalo “ It is our duty,” said Deputy can exert influence on the eco­ the fact that the labor crisis is Philadelphia 600 334 56 primary necessity.” Evening News, a capitalist daily, Which power is the chief in­ Premier and Foreign Minister nomic foundation of imperialism. a deep‘and significant one, which Detroit 1,750 922 53 But that is not at all Lenin’s Just the contrary is true, as Lenin lecognizes the bang-up job these stigator of this global war Kardelj, “to fight strongly for cannot easily be resolved. The Oakland 250 126 60 approach. The source of popular correctly taught. In the epoch of comrades are doing in the cam­ preparation ? The statements of peace and unmask the lying American monopolists, as they Los Angeles 2,600 1,227 47 paign in an article entitled, Gochniak, as of all other Yugo­ peacemakers and the masked confusion and error on war, imperialism, he insisted, “It is prepare for all - out war, hre St. Louis 100 20 20 slav Communist leaders, single aggressors, above all,” he added, Lenin pointed out in May 1917 silly even to think of a progres­ “Local Trotskyists Third in Fund determined to unload the costs of General 324 — out the Kremlin as the main in­ “it is necessary to fight against “is that people forget the funda­ sive bourgeoisie, a progressive war upon the workers. But 16 Collection.” stigator. Unquestionably th e those elements which inevitably mental question of the class char­ bourgeois government. All bour­ million organized workers show St. Paul-Minneapolis has round­ Total through March 13 $18,000 $12,870 72 Kremlin is fomenting armed lead to war.” acter of the war; why the war geois ‘democracy’. . . has become a determined resistance. ed the last bend and is nearing assault upon Yugoslavia. But on But the whole trouble is that broke out; the classes that are reactionary.” Isn’t this true right The labor leaders, while they the goal at a fast clip. Grace Carl­ the world scale, the central by singling out the Kremlin the waging it; the historical and the now of all the native bourgeois support the war plans, cannot son comments: “We in the Twin power-house of war preparations Yugoslavs are not fighting against economic conditions that his­ “democrats” in Yugoslavia? afford to allow the government in Cities are proud of the response is located not in Moscow but in the chief “masked aggressors” torically gave rise to it.” Wasn’t this true of Churchill, alliance with Big Business to of our comrades to the party’s Washington. The war for which and “lying peacemakers.” On the This approach to war through Roosevelt and the rest of Stalin's destroy their organizations, or to need for funds in the present smear them with responsibility situation — a situation which has T H E M i ti TA N for the flagrant attempt to freeze convinced many workers that wages while prices and profits The Militant is the best working The Militant has always re­ writes Literature Agent Marcus. soar. class paper in the United States ceived a warm response in “Friday evening eight of us The logical next step for labor and one that is worthy of sup­ Newark’s Negro community. The mobilized at a Progressive Party Behind the Big Four Conferente is the organization of an inde­ port. No doubt at all but that we Mar. 5 issue, featur­ sponsored meeting, and in a pendent labor party, to defend will be over the top before the ing the latest news pleasant hour and a half sold 26 By Charles Hanley Sidney Silverman, Fenner Brock­ Truman and Aeheson know this. of Trieste to the Austrian peace the workers against the combined end of the campaign!” on the Derrick case Militants and two copies of In Britain and France looked for­ way, Harold Davies, were an ex­ They are afraid of Russia coming treaty which has nothing to do Democrat - Republican anti - labor Payments during the week kept and Thurgood M ar­ Defense of Socialism. This was pression of widespread concern out for the reunification and with the City of Trieste. . . .) policy. shall’s report on the doubly rewarding in view of the ward to the Paris conference of these branches on schedule or about American influence having neutralization of Germany, and Britain and France have approv­ The labor movement is today ahead: Milwaukee, Toledo, Seattle, treatment of Negro fact that it was a poorly attended the “Big Four” delegates much become too great in Western of Britain and France being ed the American formula, but coming of age. Subservience fro Newark and New York. Harry troops in Korea was affair and that more than half of more than did the U.S. State De­ European policy and increasing rather inclined to seriously discuss nevertheless try to pave the way the government and capitalist •Ring says that as New York Local certainly no ex­ the attendance was Stalinist. We partment. The latter ostensibly the war danger. Labor’s Left such a proposal. And Chancellor for a, Foreign Ministers’ meet­ politics does not pay off. That’ comes “down the home stretch ception. N e w a r k’s used socialist slogans, announcing neither expected nor hoped any­ Wing is particularly alarmed by Adenauer himself, U.S. friend and ing. fact is becoming more obvious to we really have to keep pushing to literature agent re­ 8 ‘working-class pgper,’ ‘a social­ thing would come out of it. the imperialist plans for German “ally” on the Rhine, asks for the militant American working- stay on schedule. We’re determin­ ports that, in about ist paper,’ ‘the official organ of FEAR ANGLO-SOVIET PACT Attlee’s government has to take rearmament and asks for general West-East negotiations on Ger­ class. They will press for a full ed to complete payment in full an hour and a American Trotskyism’ and ‘the into account the anti-war feelings disarmament in West and East man reunification. But the re­ The American imperialists are break with Truman, and for their and on time. The splendid quarter, Marge, paper that first pegged Wallace of the masses and the tremendous instead of German remilitariza­ unification and neutralization of aware of their allies’ wishes and own political party. response of the comrades in­ Dorothy, Mary, and Rick easily correctly.’ For those that were risk involved for the entire British tion, and for a concentration of Germany would deal a damaging fear that if German reunification dicates that we’ll do it. We’ve disposed of 110 copies of this curious about the program of the Commonwealth of Nations in case efforts on peaceful aims. blow to the European system of is made the central issue, Britain had the usual difficulties atten­ issue. One person bought a copy Socialist Workers Party, some of of a third world war. Not only has The French do not like the idea imperialism. and France might perhaps accept London Conclave dant to a fund campaign. Unem­ on his way into a nearby tavern. us were available to explain. Winston Churchill, leader of the of German rearmament either. Therefore the State Depart­ a Russian plan for Germany’s ployment and illness have forced A fter reading the front page he “This is our score for three Conservative opposition, repeat- Strong American pressure forced ment and its representative, neutralization. This fear is voiced a number of comrades to reduce passed it down the bar. In short week’s effort: nine subscriptions, èdly urged the government to its acceptance on them; but it is Ambassador Jessup, insist that at in an editorial in the March 3 Shows Growth of their original pledges, but others order 10 other fellows came out 23 individual copies sold, and one sponsor direct talks between the believed Premier Pleven made it the eventual Foreign Ministers’ issue of the N. Y. Herald Tribune: are pitching in to make up the and bought their own copies. good working-class neighborhood Western powers and Soviet clear to the State Department, conference — the full dress parley “The Russians might well bring Anti-War Forces losses. An outstanding example “We of Boston have a very well aware of us. Comrade Patch, during his recent trip to Wash­ which the present deputies’ meet­ in proposals for the ostensible of this is Comrade Donald of the satisfying experience to report,” of course, continues her good Russia; Labor’s Left Wing more The mounting opposition to ington, that the French are not ing is to prepare — the German unification, neutralization and sales — another hundred copies and more opposes rearmament the Korean War in the ranks of happy about it. The Gaullists question should not be discussed evacuation of Germany which, sold last week! Result: we’re all and the continuation of the the British Labor Party was (R PF) are the only party to alone or isolated from the causes while guarded enough to insure for the systematic canvas of an Korean War. demonstrated by a great anti-war openly advocate German rearm­ for general tension in the world. the ultimate Communist conquest area over a period of weeks.” conference held in London Feb. 25. FRANCO RECURE SHAKEN ANTI-WAR FEELINGS ament in France. The majority of In other words: If no agreement of the country, could still look so Bob James also reports good This conference, called by the The resolution presented in the French, the Belgian, the on a world - wide scale can be attractive as to sow weakness and results at Stalinist meetings in Socialist Fellowship, a left group­ Parliament by Labor M.P.’s Dutch, the British and the Italian reached (and there is little hope disruption in the Western alliance. Los Angeles. “We have been ing inside the Labor Party, was BY BARCELONA REVOLT Driberg and Mikardo, in Feb. peoples would undoubtedly prefer for this), a limited agreement on It is hard to believe that French selling one to two dozen M ili­ attended by 231 delegates from 1951, and a second one signed by a neutralized Germany to a re­ Germany would be equally impos­ or British opinion could be taken tants at each of a number of the London trade unions and (Continued from Page 1) upsurge, the Pope broadcast to 18 other Labor members, among militarized Germany. And so sible. (The Russians’ reply to this In by any proposal which did not Stalinist meetings and discussing Labor Party. the Spanish workers a declara­ them Emrys Hughes, Victor Yates, would the Germans themselves. by suddenly linking the question carry certain guaranties against revolt it must be classed as a with some of those who buy. Some W ith only six opposing votes tion that “the Church has never a rearmed, Communist Germany major emergency.” fcuy The Militant almost regularly, the conference voted the follow­ preached social revolution” and controlled from Moscow; though His March 14 dispatch stated and several attended our Negro ing resolution: “This conference “defends the right of private one is not so sure of certain that “new trouble was believed History Week meetings.” of delegates from the London property, a right that she con­ elements among our own isolation­ looming here tonight as Barcelona Literature Agent for San Fran, LEFT-WING GAINS IN UAW LOCAL Labour movement, being con­ siders untouchable.” ist and ‘neutralist’ opinion. And authorities ordered penalties cisco, Jane S., while ordering vinced that the threatening war The Barcelona workers answer­ in the highly .unlikely, but not against Barcelona workers who extra copies of Fourth Interna­ can be averted only by interna­ ed this appeal on behalf of the inconceivable, case that the Rus­ had carried out the first success­ brutal Spanish ruling class, in­ tional, theoretical magazine of ELECTIONS JOLT REUTHER MACHINE tional socialist action, pledge? American Trotskyism, comments sians should in good faith ad­ ful ‘general strike’ during the itself to fight inside the move­ cluding the Catholic hierarchy vance proposals genuinely in­ Franco regime.” All strikes are that The Militant hafe been estab­ : (Continued from Page 1) opposition captured 15 delegates whelming majority. In Kaiser- ment for the ending of all war which controls one-third of Spain’s tended to neutralize Germany and outlawed in what Pope Pius X II lished on several more news­ Local 262, the opposition to to 17 for the administration; Frazer Local 142, the opposition alliances with capitalist countries; wealth, with their “remarkably Austria and so lay the European once described as the “model stands, and that “last Saturday’s Reuther won all officers and dele­ Chrysler Local 7, the right wing also swept the election. the withdrawal of British forces effective and impressive” demon­ problem at rest, the Western state.” A general strike in Bilbao Fillmore Street sales were better gates. Cadillac Local 22 elected forces won the election. Administration forces won all from Korea; the granting of im­ stration, as Brewer described it. powers would be very poorly in 1947 was bloodily suppressed. than ever, with Ed H. selling 10 five out of eight delegates on an Briggs Local 212, the right the convention delegates at mediate independence to those The populace halted all trans­ prepared from a policy stand­ The Barcelona outbreak came copies in half an hour, and Ricco anti-Reuther slate. wing won all top offices, but the Hudson. colonial countries at present under portation, closed all shops, burned point to deal with them.” selling 5. The Saturday before, In Fleetwood Local 15, the op­ opposition forces increased their But by and large, in Detroit, British domination; and the con­ as Truman poured scores of mil­ officials’ automobiles and attempt­ lions of dollars into the blood- ed to set fire to the City Hall. Sarah R. sold 7 Militants. position scored a smashing victory convention representation, taking the opposition this year increased STALINIST BETRAYAL centration of the energies of the Cathy D. reports continued in- smeared hands of Franco and Housewives wrecked market stalls in the delegates election. The 11 delegates to 27 for the right its strength. Labour Movement on securing the terest in the Mar. 5 Militant in Yet, in this case as in many while Washington’s new Am­ when they could not buy food at slate against Reuther was headed wing. Last convention the opposi­ complete and utter defeat of New York. Ben R., Harry S., FLINT ELECTIONS others, imperialism has no better bassador to Spain, Stanton G rif­ legal prices. by longtime militant stalwart, tion won only one delegate. In capitalism and the Tory Party as Janice, and Pauline G. sold 89 In Flint, the Reuther forces helper than Stalin himself. For fis, was being feted and driven in The corrupt regime of Franco Johnny Anderson, a pioneer UAW Connors Briggs Local 742 an op­ our contribution to the building copies of this issue in Bedford- received a serious setback. The there could be no stronger argu­ a gilt carriage to an audience and the Spanish capitalists and builder, and Ernie Dillard, out­ position slate was re-elected. of a socialist world.” Stuyvesant Monday. “We are also anti-Reuther left wing won a ment for Washington’s diplomats with Franco. landlords has inflated prices, ac­ standing Negro leader in the In Local 351, Paul Silver, one making regular sales at schools decisive victory at Buick Local and propagandists than to point ANTI-WAR RESOLUTION cording to the official figures, UAW. The ticket won four out of of,the leading opposition figures I t is now apparent that Tru­ and colleges,” Cathy writes. 599, unseating the former Reuther that Gromyko, the USSR repre­ seven times since 1945, while five delegates. in the U AW , once again led his A resolution to implement the man’s haste to recognize and aid “This week we went out to four administration. The Rank and File sentative at the Paris Conference, wages went up only three and a Chrysler Locals showed the fol­ ticket to a sweeping victory of all anti-war declaration recognized Franco is dictated, above all, by schools making good sales in a caucus won every top office and defends the absurd Potsdam half. Average industrial wages in lowing results: Dodge Local 3, the offices and delegates by an over­ that “present pro-war policy of the fear that Franco’s regime is short time.” all but one member of the shop Agreement which was directed Spain are $21 a month. the Labor Party” would lead to crumbling so fast that it may Many thanks to the New York committee. In an earlier election against the whole of the German Franco can still mobilize for­ defeat and provided for the soon be overthrown by the friend who sent in $3 “to help the opposition had taken almost people by dividing Germany. setting up of a committee to Spanish proletariat. midable repressive armed forces, Gromyko and his government keep up the good \vork of The Oakland ~ New York half the local’s delegates to the campaign inside the Labor Party Six weeks ago Barcelona was but there is evidence that many basd their opposition to any West Militant.” UAW convention. for a special emergency confer­ the scene of powerful demonstra­ of these are no longer reliable and San Francisco German rearmament on that the hatred of the regime is now Protest Many faotors contributed to the ence of the Party. tions against a move to faise the vicious treaty alone which they so wide-spread in Spain that the hear JOSEPH HANSEN Rank and File victory at Buick, The opening speaker at the con­ street-car fares. City authorities The Murder of want to see fulfilled, despite the full explosion when it comes will New York speak on including opposition to Reuther’s ference was Stephen Davies, had to rescind the order for the JOHN DERRICK. complications and the misery it rip the dictatorship to pieces. “America and the proposed dues increase, an op­ Member of Parliament, from the increase pending a “futher study.” Four Discussions on helped create since 1945. Thus The Barcelona uprising is the portunist struggle for jobs among coal mining region of South This retreat, undoubtedly gave a Wof-ld Crisis” the reactionary character of the Key Questions of Dem and the Reutherites, and the fact that Wales. He urged passage of the clue to the workers that the re­ greatest news from Western Oakland Stalinist policy is once more Our Day The indictment and suspen­ the Regional office was concen­ anti-war resolution and called on gime is cracking and emboldened Europe since Mussolini’s over­ Friday, March 30 8 PM trating its efforts on winning the revealed. Gromyko does not seem the delegates “to fight for it every throw. It heralds a new social starting St. Anthony’s Hall sion of killer-cops them for a bigger assault. Chevrolet local. to have spoken one word con­ day of your lives until it becomes revolutionary force in Western Thursday, March 22 8:30 PM 73rd Ave. nr. E. 14th St. Tuesday, March 20' 8 PM Results of the run-off for of­ demning that secret diplomacy the policy of our great party.” THE POPE INTERVENES Europe to challenge both capital­ Chairman “The Fraud of Capitalist 103 W. 110th St. fices in Chevrolet Local 659 are which both the imperialists and Among the many other speakers Pope Pius X II gave the hint of ism and Stalinism. The American FILOMENA GOELMAN Auspices Lenox-Fifth Avenue still to be announced. A bitter the Stalinist bureaucrats are so were a young socialist from growing revolutionary situation labor movement has the supreme Democracy” SWP candidate for struggle over control of this local fond of and which led to so many Ceylon, who asked the conference duty to come to the aid of the Councilman-at-Large Tenants League in Spain, just as he did before DELUXE PALACE between the anti-Reuther officials catastrophies. for support for the freedom Mussolini’s overthrow in 1943 heroic Spanish working class with San Francisco 558 Howard Avenue Guest Speaker from headed by Local President Coburn Peace cannot be really secured every means at its command. Saturday, March, 31 8 PM struggle of the Asian people, and when he broadcast a plea to the by diplomats and their secret Above all, it must immediately near Pitkin, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1739 Fillmore St. 4th floor Socialist Workers Party S. Walker and the Reuther ma­ a delegate from the Dagenham Italian workers not to engage in chine was conducted. talks. Only increasing pressure demand the discontinuance of all Admission Free Harlem Branch Labor Party which has the revolution. They subsequently — Admission Free — Fisher Body Local in Flint by the toiling masses can stop the biggest labor electoral majority strung up Mussolini by his heels. U.S. grants of money and arms elected a full anti-Reuther slate. imperialist war drive. in the whole country. The day before the Barcelona to Franco. Page Tfiree Subscription#: $2 per year; Bundle O rder« 05 o r moCe 11 for 9 months. Foret m : ooplee): 3c edhit k> ¿ J U M IS.GO per j t ; |2 for 6 moi. t h e MILITANT each In foreign countries. "Entered as second class Published Weekly in the Interests of the Working People Signed article« by contrlba* m a tte r M a r. 7, 1944 a t the THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION tors do not necessarily rep* Port Office at New York. 11« U n iv e rs ity 1*1., N . Y. 3, N . Y . Phone*. A L 5-7460 resent The M ilitant’« pollclea, K. Y., under the act of Mar. Editor: GEORGE BRE1TMAK Thee» are expressed in ita The Paris Commune - Its Politisai lessons S. 1879." Business Manager: JOSEPH HANSEN ' editorials. By Daniel Roberts tional Guard, which elected its theless, it must be asked: Was it conditions were at the time in in history presents us at the same own officers. Vol. X V - No. 12 Monday, March 19, 1951 Eighty years ago on March 18, inevitable that the French bour­ flux. Modern large-scale industry time with the first great crisis 1871, the Parisian workers created The Paris Commune was headed geoisie should have mobilized as the prevalent mode of produc­ of leadership in the working the first workers state in history: by a broad executive committee, superior force against them? tion in all lines of non-agricultural class revolutionary movement. H ow to W in the M iddle Classes the glorious Paris Commune. It whose members were elected by Was it inevitable that the Com­ production was only a few years The Communards were permitted universal suffrage from each mune should have gone down to away. Might not a workers’ “Under the conditions of capitalist disintegration and of lasted only 71 days, but in its by exceptionally favorable cir­ city district. The executive com­ defeat? France instead of a capitalist the impasse in the economic situation, the petty bourgeoisie brief life-span, the Commune cumstances to take the power, mittee combined legislative and The defeat of the Commune France have brought it into strives, seeks, attempts to tear itself loose from the fetters of gave the working class the first without a clear-cut revolutionary executive powers. It enforced the cannot be shrugged off with a being? Such widespread indus­ the old (capitalist) masters and rulers of society. It is quite living model of workers’ demo­ party standing at their head. But laws with the active participation mere assertion that French, eco­ trialization already existed in capable of linking up its fate with that of the proletariat. For cracy. the crisis of revolutionary leader­ of the population organized in the nomy was insufficiently develop­ England. Germany, too, was be­ ship and policy broke out at. the that only one thing is needed: the petty bourgeoisie must The spokesmen for American districts. All members of the com­ ed to permit ’of .victory. There coming rapidly industrialized. very next stage of the revolution, acquire faith in the ability of the proletariat to lead society capitalism seek to portray the mittee were subject to recall. was a great historical lesson to be The intrcnchment of workers when the task was to extend and onto a new road. The proletariat can inspire this faith only present American form of gov­ Their salary was fixed at 6,000 learned from it. power in France had every consolidate the power. by its strength, by the firmess of its actions, by a skillful ernment as the provider of francs per year, equal to work­ On the eve of the Commune, material chance of success. The Paris Commune represents offensive against the enemy, by the success of its revolutionary “liberty and justice for all.” They ingmen’s wages. Karl Marx warned the French In any case, it is impossible to the first great milestone on the policy.” ie. American capitalist democracy The executive committee, the workers against an attempt to tell how fa r the working class road of socialism. Tt was the TROTSKY — Leon Trotsky, The Only Hoad. 1932 LENIN is a front for the oppressive rule National Guard, and the revolu­ seize power, convinced that the might have extended its power Parisian workers who demon­ of a handful of billionaires. It is tionary people of Paris replaced relationship of forces was weight­ and how long it might have kept strated for the first time the the rule of wealth, of special the top - heavy bureaucracy that ed against the proletariat. But it, had not the life of the Com­ tremendous promises that the privilege, and of racial dis­ had ruled France up to that time. when the revolution broke out, mune been cut short. Automatic rule of the workers holds in store crimination. Let Labor Really Lead ! The old police force, hated for its: Marx hailed it and urged the conclusions about the inevitable for mankind. Fixed income and fixed salary groups, uation. They will eagerly follow labor, The Paris Commune, on the thought-control and its brutalities Communards to broaden the scope defeat of the Commune are not These pi’omises will be fulfilled other hand, was a genuinely was cashiered. The career-seekers pensioners, old-age and war veterans whose vital interests harmonize with cf their revolution. He urged them warranted. The possibilities for when the entire world is organized popular government. “It was a and grafters were put out of their to pursue the most energetic victory were not probed to the end cn the principles of the Paris alike, along with others similarly situat­ theirs. Only if they are disappointed by government of the people and by jobs. The Commune abolished the measures possible against the Thus the first workers’ state Commune. ed find themselves caught in the fero­ labor’s failure to provide the needed pro­ the people,” as Marx said. It offices of the ' gold-braided gen­ bourgeois government that had cious squeeze on their living standards, gram and leadership can they become openly upheld the interests of erals and the silk-hat diplomats. fled to nearby Versailles and to resulting from the very beginnings of prey to the forces of reaction. workers, artisans, and small Everywhere the workers ruled bend all their efforts to con­ shopkeepers, and fought against in their own name and through solidating their power on a na- Wall Street’s arms program. These When the United Labor Policy Com­ the greed of the capitalist class trusted representatives drawn «tion-wide scale. Mac Arthur Aims groups fall by and large within the mid­ mittee talks of “ no one looking out for and its political retainers. from their own ranks. Revolution has an imperative dle classes. They find themselves help­ the interests of the consumer” it is the Capitalist France had just been The true secret of the Com­ logic: Once begun, it must be less because, along vyith small business­ middle classes they really have in mind. defeated in the Franco-Prussian mune was this, said Marx: “It carried through to the end. All was essentially a working - class avenues for its development and At All-out War war of 1870-71. Paris was ringed men, they have no genuinely independ­ When they propose that labor “ take the (Continued from Page 1) full-scale war with China. ent organizations to protect them, as la­ by the advancing Prussian armies. government, the product of the its further successes must be leadership” in policing prices, for exam­ Misery was prevalent among the struggle of the producing class probed to the lim it. Only in this “genius” and is preparing nis No small part of the reason bor has. ple, they are groping in the right direc­ working classes. A ll the measures against the appropriating-class, way can the proletariat gain and alibi for future setbacks. why Washington is considering Failing such protection, the American tion. It is correct and timely for labor of the Commune were directed the political form at last dis­ keep power. A tremendous respon­ But) there is more to it than more desperate measures to bring the Korean war to an end, even middle classes are feeling most acutely to take sue!) steps as policing prices to solving the most burning needs covered under which to work out sibility therefore rests with the that. It is no secret that Mae- Arthur is obsessed almost to the if it means a greater war with the effects of soaring prices and hiked through bodies composed of representa­ of the working people, and al­ the economical emancipation of leadership of the revolutionary though there were many things it Labor.” . movement. It has need of deep point of mania with the ambition China, is the attitude of the tives of trade unions, housewives, farm­ American troops. Despite the taxes. Restrictions of consumer and hous­ could not undertake because The lessons of the Paris Com­ insight into the revolutionary to become the conqueror of all rigid censorship, the facts about ing. credit coupled with rent gouging ers, etc. We Trotskyists raised this idea Paris was threatened not alone mune were explained and analyzed process. It must win the con­ Asia. The top circles of the U.S. the sentiments of the soldiers are have thus far struck them harder blows back in 1940 as an indispensable supple­ by the foreign enemy but also the by all the great revolutionary fidence of the revolutionary m ilitary high command are .in­ leaking out in letters home and than to other sections of the population. mentary weapon to the escalator clause troops of the capitalist counter­ working class leaders, above all masses and pursue its task with timately linked with the leading financial and industrial interests. in one‘dispatch after another. Small businessmen in every field are be­ in the struggle against inflation. revolution, all its measures by Marx, Engels, Lenin and iron determination. proclaimed it to be a workers’ Trotsky. These lessons have But such leadership was lack­ MacArthur has close ties with Senator Kem of Missouri on ing pushed to the wall. But the whole point is that the o ffi­ government. entered as the basic principles ing in the Paris Commune. The that sector of the American March 1 introduced into the Con­ The crisis of American labor, which is cial leadership is only nibbling at this The Commune suspended all of what the revolutionary party Parisian workers did not have a capitalist clas^ which has large gressional Record a letter he had political at bottom, is thus tending to whole problem of providing the middle rents on dwellings for the period must strive for in building a revolutionary party, and the Com­ investments in the F ar East or ecently received “from a Missouri lives off the export-import trade coincide and combine with the crisis of classes with the imperatively needed pro­ between October 1870 and April Workers and Farmers Govern­ munards made the fatal error of boy fighting in Korea,” who 1871. It abolished the system of stopping with their first suc­ and which is represented poli­ wrote: “This so-called police the American middle classes, likewise gram and leadership and extending it con ment. fines whereby the employers The first positive experiment cesses. The great achievements of tically by the so-called “isolation­ action we are engaged in has me political in its essence. Precisely because sciously on a local, state and nationwide punished the workers for “in­ in revolutionary democracy pro­ workers’ democracy were bottled ist” wing of Republicans and the puzzled. . • The Army has stuffed they are so defenseless economically and scale. The firs t condition for such a pro­ fringement of rules.” Tt abolished vided by the Commune was up in Paris although many favor­ Catholic bloc in Congress led by me full of glory talk as to why politically, the middle classes constitute gram and leadership is for labor to break night work for bakers (a shame­ repeated by subsequent revolu­ able opportunities existed to Senators McCarthy & McCarran. we are fighting here. . . We are Truman’s “police action” in not alone the most vulnerable but also politically with the Democratic branch ful abuse of the times). It closed tions on a fa r greater scale. The establish Communes throughout not only fighting the Chinese and the pawnshops which had been France, by unleashing the revo­ Korea has .proved to be a major North Koreans, but also thé the most unstable elements in the sit­ of Big Business politics. workers’ democracy pioneered by fleecing the workers. It made the Paris Commune found ampler lutionary action of the French military undertaking against a South Koreans. You can see by plans to turn the closed - down expression in the Soviets in masses. powerful revolutionary upsurge. their faces that they don’t want factories over, to workers’ co­ Russia that took power in the Bol­ The French capitalists left un­ It has afforded MacArthur the us here.” Such sentiments are They Can’t Evade the Political Issue operatives which were to get the shevik-led revolution of October hindered by the Commune gained opportunity to advance his pro­ being voiced in thousands of plants back into operation. 1917. time to rally forces. Powerless in gram of Asian conquest by mili­ letters home. It is becoming harder and harder for that. It’s a fact and we might as well The Commune decreed the the beginning, < they bargained tary provocations that brought Greg MacGregor, Koi'ea corres­ the union leaders to keep up their pre­ realize it and deaL with it.” separation of Church and State THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION with Bismarck, the Prussian war China into the Korean war and pondent of the N. Y. Times, That’s the truth, that’s what the un­ and ruled the Church out of the The Paris Commune was crush­ lord, for the release of the confronted Washington with the reports in his March 12 dispatch tense that Truman has nothing to do field of education. It granted ed in blood. The French capital­ alternative of ignominiously with­ that there is “much evidence of ion leaders are saying in private — but captured French army. They spent with the war mobilization policies that citizenship to workers who had ists recaptured power, their cushy j,Wo months in intriguing against drawing from its Korean ad­ uncertainty” about the war among that’s what they are keeping a treacher­ venture or launching full - scale have driven labor to its split from the fled from persecution in other jobs and their profits. Once it- had the Commune throughout the the troops. “The most frequently1 ous silence about in public. They’re still countries, and declared its soli­ the upper hand, the French country and in vilifying it, and war on the Chinese people. asked question is ‘What’s the Wage Stabilization Board, and to resign hoping to get some kind of deal and patch darity with the working class bourgeoisie proceeded to slaughter finally isolated Paris from the MacARTHUR’S DESIGN latest on the Thirty-eighth?’. . .” its other government advisory posts. up their political alliance with Truman everywhere throughout the world. the workers. It was estimated rest of France. At the end of two MacArthur’s designs have thus That is, are we going to try to The Commune did away with that 100,000 Parisian workers months they held the prepon­ far come up against the opposition cross the 38th Parallel and Behind the scenes in the inner meet­ and the corrupt Democratic machine. the standing army as a repressive were either killed or deported to derance of forces. of the majority of other countries prolong the War? ings of the United Labor Policy Com­ But events aren’t going to help them force to be used against the Devil’s Island — punishment for But, it may be objected, even in the UN, with nations like India “ ‘We got no business crossing mittee, however, the union officials are in their cowardly hopes. Big Business population. Instead, the Commune having dared to build a better if the Commune had conquered and Egypt taking the lead in the line,’ Pfc. Stanford Gorrin of has turned down all compromise propo­ decreed that all able-bodied per­ world. throughout France, economic con­ blocking U N consent to direct Jersey City announced to anyone turning the air blue about their political The Parisian workers went assault on China. MacArthur, who within earshot.” describes Mac­ sals and Economic Stabilizer Eric John­ sons should bear arms. The m ili­ ditions would have gotten the best ally in the White House. And despite tary organization of the revolu­ down fighting heroically against of the revolution. That is an is nominally the “U N ” commander Gregor. “ ‘Yes,’ agreed PFC. Italo ston, on whom the union bureaucrats tionary government was the Na­ superior m ilitary numbers. Never­ unsettled question. The economic in Korea, cannot move openly Grande of Little Falls, N. Y. ‘We their caution, some of their resentment have been banking has struck new blows without U N consent lest the get up there, get pushed back has leaked through to the public. in turning down both the packinghouse fiction that U.S. imperialist in­ and start all over again. What the Thus, CIO Secretary Treasurer .Tames and textile workers’ wage demands. tervention in Korea represents hell sense does it make?’. .. ‘Well, EL CAMPESINO IDENTIFIES STALIN’S the decision of the “whole free I suppose there’s something to B. Carey, one of Truman’s most servile The political question confronts labor world” be completely exposed. fight for, but it’s pretty hard to supporters, in the heat of a protest meet­ on every issue. It cannot be evaded and The general interpretation see from up here,’ Hospital Corps- ing in Boston publicly read a letter cri­ avoided. Big Business commands all the GANG OF INTERNATIONAL ASSASSINS placed on MacArthur’s latest man Daniel Patrick of the Bronx ticizing Truman personally for turning political levers and Truman is their statement is that it is an attempt remarked while breathing heavily over war mobilization to the corpora­ (Continued from Page p boy Sheldon Harte, one of the They have not lost faith in the by the Pentagon, through him, from helping wounded men.” Mac­ agent. Some union leaders are beginning to force Washington’s reluctant Arthur and the Pentagon know Stalin directly involved in the voluntary guards in Trotsky’s Soviet working class and the tions and banks — but the letter was to say so. Thus, Louis Hollander, New allies to supply fa r greater m ili­ what it means when even the assassination of Leon Trotsky, home at the time. The identity of world proletariat. They con­ never sent to Truman. York State CIO president, openly charg­ tary forces for Korea than they Marines openly question what whose name Campesino saw, with the organizers of his murder has fidently expect, to the obvious have to date. So far, about 90% they’re doing in Korea! Robert S. Allen, informed Washington ed that Democrats and Republicans are his own eyes, on the death-list of thus been completely established. incredulity of Campesino, the of the outside troops in Korea William Burson of the United columnist of the N. Y. Post, quotes Carey united in a “ reactionary coalition to gang twenty men drafted in 1938. In It was the assassin “Jacson’s” downfall of Stalinism. Stalin will have been supplied by the U.S. Press wrote from Korea on March up on the wage earners” and that “ labor that same year three trained hands that drove the pick-axe dig his own grave, they are sure. as also declaring at a closed meeting With U.S. comrhitments’ to 12 that the American infantry­ killers departed from Moscow for through Trotsky’s skull. The It all depends on the international of the ULPC.: “ Truman doesn’t even will have no other way but to enter into Western Europe, the Pentagon man “ is fighting, under one Mexico. The month is August. world has long known who events, they insist. an independent political party.” strategists do not want to commit tremendous handicap. He does not' bother to pay lip service any more on Trotsky had landed in Mexico in ordered and organized it: Stalin. They, as the prison and camp further U.S. forces to Korea. know why he is fighting. And he social legislation. What remnants of the Truman’s hostility to labor, said Ca­ January 1937. Now the chief Spanish agents of population generally, are better Nevertheless, the prospect of a cannot look forward confidently Fair Deal were left have been complete­ rey, “ is a fact and we will have to deal A fter giving dates and places, this murderer-in-chief who sits in informed than the rest of the long war of attrition in Korea, to a m ilitary victory. . . The ly junked. Not only is labor’s advice be­ with it.” There is no way to deal with it Campesino gives the names. The the Kremlin have become known. Soviet population. More than this, three notorious Spanish Stalinists they keep in touch with one an­ and even an ultimate defeat should American soldier is fighting ing disregarded, it’s not even being except through the formation of labor’s CARLO TRESCA are: 1. — Carton, former Cortez other, as well as with world the Chinese decide to use their courageously, but he keeps ask­ sought any more. With a few exceptions, own political party. Any other course deputy and one of the military According to Campesino the events. Some of these old full available forces, is one that ing himself, ‘Is this war really everyone in inner Administration circles would be abject capitulation to Big Busi­ commanders in the Civil W ar; name of Carlo Tresca, inter­ Bolsheviks, who had followed the Truman and his m ilitary planners necessary?’ In previous wars, is now practically openly hostile to labor. ness which holds both major political 2. — Puentes of Santander, the nationally famous anarchist leader course of the Spanish Civil War, fear. Every day that the mass Americans were convinced they killed in New York City in slaughter continues in Korea were fighting for something There is no use kidding ourselves about parties in the palm of its hand. original political commissar in who knew of Campesino, were Lister’s division; and 3. — A l­ January 1943, was on the same not at all suprised, as he was, without a foreseeable end or even worthwhile. . . In Korea the GI varez, who occupied this same list he saw. Vidali is again to meet him. They helped him. a geographic objective brings is fighting a ‘police action’ and post after Puentes. ‘ suspected” of having participated Some of them even authorized him more repercussions at home and it hardly seems important enough A Sorry Record In Mexico, these three delivered in this killing, but there is “no to make their names public. lowers the already diminished to die for. their • secret instructions to the proof.” The laxness of the New From what he tells, they are morale of the U.S. troops. “The average American here The Schachtman group, which now ist League” believes it is right to back infamous Vitorio Vidali, known York police authorities in this not Trotskyists. But the flame of Evidence has been piling up can see very little in Korea worth calls itself the “ Independent Socialist a capitalist party nominee like Abner, in this country in the Twenties as connection has long been one of revolution still burns in them. for several ’ months that the fighting for. Broad terms like who' supports the imperialist war pro­ Sormenti, and another of whose the crying scandals. There is a gulf, Campesino notes, Korean war is the most un­ ‘Democracy Against Communism’ League,” has demonstrated again, by its In addition to news about popular war in U.S. history and are meaningless to him. But the gram, but wrong to support a revolution­ aliases is Carlos J. Contreras, between these men and the Stalin­ conduct in two recent Chicago elections, GPU murder - agent since 1928, Stalin’s murder crews, Campesino ists who have fallen into disgrace, that at least two-thirds of the very nature of the conflict is, ary socialist candidate like Beinin who is the first to bring authentic voting population want the war perhaps, the most important that its real policy in practice is neither who personally executed hun­ as indeed there is. We humbly opposes it. dreds. This sadist has been in news about the survivors of take this opportunity to help stopped now and the U.S. troops factor. Men fight hard when there “ independent” nor “ socialist.” This is the The Schachtmanite pretext for deny­ recent days operating, as -the Stalin’s monstrous Moscow Campesino publicize to the world withdrawn without delay. These is an end in sight. In a war with­ Frameups and the blood-purges facts have been revealed by the out ultimate geographical ob­ record. ing support to Beinin was that the Trot­ leading Stalinist figure, in the names of some of these heroic Trieste. accompanying them. Christian figures, who passed through the flood of letters to Congress and jective, there is no end — ho Last year the Schachtmanites enthu­ skyist policy on the war places us “in The May 1940 assault upon Rakovsky was still alive in 1949, prisons of Czarism, fought the newspapers, as well as the stopping point. Ask any GI he’ll siastically supported Chicago CIO Vice- the camp of Stalinism.” The Stalinists. Leon Trotsky was organized silently working in the Marx- shoulder to shoulder with Lenin most recent Gallup polls. By con­ tell you that he could leave Korea President Willoughby Abner for State themselves, however, were not convinced, under these creatures who on the Engels-Lenin Institute, a living and Trotsky and who have tinuing the war in Korea, Wash­ without the slightest qualm. His ghost. Kamenev was reportedly Senator in the Democratic Party pri­ and regarded Beinin as the “ main ..ene­ soil of Mexico utilized Spanish survived the reign of Stalinism ington is acting in brazen defiance one thought, his one hope, is to also still alive in the early undaunted. of the known will of the American be removed as far from here as maries. This was in line with the propo­ my” in the aldermanic election campaign. veterans, as has been done else­ where, for their murder assaults. Forties, but his later fate is They .are Shapabalo, prisoner people. possible. . .” sal made by Schachtman himself that Acting through their front organiza­ The Mexican painter David Alfaro. unknown. at Komi; Gregory Stepanovich, The intervention of China has The GIs — the men who are his group advocate union-sponsored can­ tion, the Progressive Party, the Stalin­ Siquieras (a colonel in the Stalin­ Bela Kun’s son — his father prisoner at Vorkuta; Sordato only intensified this sentiment of doing the fighting and dying — was the leader of the 1919 Hun­ didates in primary campaigns of the ca­ ists lined up in Merriam’s camp, serving ist Spanish formations) led this Stepanov and Nikolai Ivanov, the people. Their attitude has want no part of Korea. They don’t pitalist parties and support them in the May assault. He together with garian Soviet Republic — is an both also at Vorkuta. been the chief reason why the believe in this war and its as a left cover for that capitalist pro­ Alvarez were caught red-handed. old, toothless man, although still We salute these men and their Administration, which had been professed aims any more than do general elections. war candidate this year, just as the But the role played by Carton, in his Thirties, prisoner of great companions, who for obvious toying with the idea of a “limited their home folks. They want to Yet, in this year’s aldermanic election Schachtmanites served as “ socialist” Puentes and Vidali passed un­ Stalin. A teen - age daughter of reasons could not authorize the war” on China, has not dared to ccme home and it’s the duty of the the Schachtmanites refused to support sponsor for the Democrat Abner the year noted by the Mexican authorities. Bukharin also survives. But Trot- publication of their names, for unleash it. But Truman also American people to get them home Irving Beinin, candidate of the Socialist before. Siquieras, incidentally, went scot- skys younger son Sergei, who their dauntless courage, their refuses to pull out of Korea and without any more sacrifices- of free, walking the streets of voluntarily remained in the loyalty, their selfless devotion. continues to pour troops into that limb and life. It is against this Workers Party, who ran as the only op­ Such unprincipled double-dealing has Mexico at his pleasure, as he also USSR, has been killed and so They and their undying defiance country at the rate of 15,000 s deepest wish of the soldiers, their ponent of the Democratic-Republican nothing in common with genuine inde­ does in scheduling trips abroad, have Trotsky’s two daughters. of Stalin, and everything he month. This means that sooner mothers, fathers and wives, that candidate Merriam. pendent working class politics, whether including visits to this country. But the really astonishing news stands for, constitute one of the or later, in order to try to bring MacArthur and his Pentagon These two symmetrical actions make These assassins failed to kill is that in Stalin’s prisons and greatest guarantees of the the unpopular Korea adventure superiors are plotting to embroil it comes from Stalinists. . . or Schacht­ Trotsky, at the time, but they forced labor camps survive some regeneration of the Soviet Union, to a close successfully, Wash­ this country in a greater it obvious that the “ Independent Social- manites. ■. • did murder a young American of the Old Guard of Bolshevism. and the whole socialist future. ington may risk the plunge into slaughter. Woman's Role in Society ------By Rosa Karsner ------t h e MILITANT Women outnumber men in this country ac­ That is what men, in Rome and since, really cording to the latest figures of the U.S. Census fear: Given the status of equality, women will VO LUM E XV MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1951 N UM B ER 12 ■ !.. k Bureau. become their superiors and tyrannize over them. “For every 100 women there are only 98.1 But that is absolutely false. men” says a Feb. 28 Associated Press report and, The “battle of the sexes” arose only after the Face Legal Lynching it adds, “this new victory by tjie women in the introduction of private ownership of the social battle of the sexes shouldn’t surprise us. For means of production and distribution. Prior to years they have outtalked us, outsmarted us, out- that there was no “battle.” Authoritative anth­ Beinin Campaign spent us and frequently outraged us. . . I t ’s no ropologists have given us sufficient evidence to use being a good sport and saying ‘more power prove that during the era of the Matriarchate, to them.’ They’ve got power enough already. . ... thousands of years ago, there was true equality women are riding high today. They’ve made of the sexes. A ll one has to do to become con­ their men folks members of a minority group.” vinced is to read a few books, or at least one Shows Party Has W hat is interesting about this report and book', Robert Briffault’s THE MOTHERS. worthy of comment, is not so much the fact in The Matriarchate was that period in human itself. It is rather- the reaction of the reporter history when descent was handed down through to the mere act of nature, which for him and the mother, because it was she who bore and millions who think as he does, represents a bred children. Property was owned in common New Roads Open “ victory by the women.” Superficial, cynical and and used in common. Men and women were equal. ignorant as this report is, it nevertheless ex­ In present-day society, based on the private By Farrell Dobbs presses the sentiments of the average man today. ownership of the social means of production and distribution, it is man who rules supremely, but CHICAGO — New friends came forward, morale rose And they are not very different from those ex­ and all activities gained fresh impetus from the Socialist pressed, say, two thousand years ago. unlike woman in her day, he rules unjustly, des­ potically. Woman is not only treated as the Workers Party campaign in support of Irving Beinin’s History records that in 195 B.C. the women male’s inferior, she is not even permitted to get of Rome, after a period of great injustices com­ aldermanic candidacy. These ex-®~ equal pay for equal work. should have a chance to learn mitted against them, began to raise their voice cellent results suggest that a However, it was not always thus; it shall not review of the campaign may have more about it. in protest. Yielding to this pressure a few tri­ always be. The time is fast approaching when bunes introduced innocuous resolutions calling general value. Gains from other previous work a new social system will replace capitalism, just When the campaign began, Mc- were similarly realized through for the repeal of a law which had been in force, as surely as feudalism was replaced by capital­ Carthyism was at a peak; Ameri­ the Beinin campaign; and the restricting the luxury and adornment of wo­ ism. can imperialism was reeling under campaign, in turn, sowed new men’s dress. • In that ne4v society, which must come if man­ the impact of Chinese interven­ seeds for future haiwests. Haranguing against this resolution of the tri­ kind is to survive, production will be for use, not tion in Korea; and opposition to A t a house meeting sponsored bunes, the elder Cato cried out: for profit. The social means of production and the Truman war program had by a Progressive, Merriam claim­ “Our power that has been shattered in thq distribution will be owned and used in common reached significant propoi-tions. ed endorsement by the Progressive home now is being trampled on in the forum. as they were in that era of the Matriarchate, Party. Our exposure of this in­ Our ancestors decided that woman should not only on a much higher level of history and cul­ We set out to cut through the even attend to her own private affairs with­ ture. The rule will be “from each according thought-control curtain and l’each cident caused repei’cussions in the out the control of a. guardian. If you give free to his ability, to each according to his needs.” open - minded people with our l'anks of the Stalinists and their reign to the imperious natures of these unruly Men and women and peoples of all races and Undergoing a second trial for their lives are the world-famous Trenton Six, saved from socialist anti-war program. Heavy Progressive Party front. State­ creatures, do not imagine that they will rec­ color will once again live as true equals and execution after their first jim-crow frame-up trial by popular protest. Front row (1. to r.): stress was laid on the anti­ ments issued A FTER the election ognize any limits of their tyranny. . . . when govern in the interest of mankind as a whole, Collis English, James Thorpe, Horace Wilson. Rear: R. Cooper, McKinley Forest, J. McKenzie. capitalist content of our program. denied the Progressive Pai’ty had they have begun to be our equals, they will not as today, for the benefit of a few. Questions like housing and supported Merriam and’ gave a soon be our superiors.” That will be Socialism. academic freedom were tied snide alibi for its refusal to sup­ directly to the war issue. We port Beinin. Evidently we caught avoided diversion into secondary the Stalinist leaders in a behind- issues. the-scenes deal with Merciam. Stockpiling Scientists Trenton Six Face New As a by-product the campaign ------By Michael Bartell ------WAR OR PEACE signalled the beginning of the end Beinin had only one opponent, of the local Shachtmanite mas­ The stockpiling of scientists, along with tin, scientists of the nation. It provides for the estab­ the Democratic incumbent Robert querade as ‘Trotskyists.” Their rubber and atom bombs, was the theme of a lishment of a Scientific Service Corps directed Trial in Frameup Case E. Merriam, who had Republican line in the election added up to — Teport by Henry DeWolf Smyth of the U.S. by a Scientific Manpower Board based on a na­ support. The main issue was neither Merriam nor Beinin but Atomic Energy Commission to the recent annual tional roster of scientists. Scientists of m ilitary By Fred Hart hours of third-degreeing, English witnesses — 63 in all — proving clear cut: Merriam standing for the non-existent “third camp.” conference of the American Association for the :age would be “required” to join the Scientific capitalism and war, Beinin for The second trial of the Trenton signed the confession demanded that they were nowhere near the In marked contrast to the high- Advancement of Science in Cleveland. “I am Services Corps. They would be “subject to orders Six, begun March 5, has just com­ cf him by the police. scene of the crime at the time it socialism and peace. This was priced campaigns of capitalist speaking of scientists not as men,” he bluntly from the Scientific Manpower Board” — which pleted its jury-picking stage. The English’s family became con­ occurred. Three of the six were at summed up in the slogan, “A politicians, the Beinin campaign declared, “but as tools of war.” would have the power to “keep them out” of the reluctance of ordinary Trenton cerned at his absence and his work at the time. vote for Beinin is a vote against cost less than $200. The SW1P “Men of science, traditionally peaceful, in­ Army, Navy or A ir Force, or to “put them in.” ¡citizens to serve on the jury is in brother-in-law, McKinley Forrest, The defendants told how in the war.” campaigners needed no fees or ternationally minded, and nonpolitical,” he said, Eric Walker, executive secretary of the large measure due to the bad went to the police to make in­ coui'se of the four-day-and-five- We emphasized to the cam­ bribes to inspire them to activity. “have become a major war asset. It is important Research and Development Board reported to the odor surrounding the frame-up as quiries. He, too, was arrested and night third - degreeing that pre­ paigners that present conditions They pitched in with a will, gained that they be used to the greatest advantage.” conference that about two-thirds of the nation’s well as the fear that should one then four othei’s whom English ceded their “confession” they had exclude as a central aim a contest new experience, developed new Smyth then proceeded to lay down the line — a scientists and engineers are already working for vote for the defendants’ acquittal had named in his foi’ced “con­ been given doped drinks and doped for votes against the entrenched talents and found greater self- blue print for harnessing the entire scientific the Department of Defense and the Atomic he might be labelled “subversive” fession.” cigax-ets. Wilson, the only one who capitalist political machines. Our confidence. Energy Commission. He estimated that this figure goals wei-e: wide publicity of the resources of -the nation for the most efficient or “pro-Communist.” did not confess, stubbornly refused production of disease, devastation, and death. would soon rise to three-fourths. “Those of you A ll. six wei-e kept incom­ party program; attraction of new SOUND TRUCK This case, originally fought and municado for four days and five all drinks and cigarets offered He began by likening the mobilization of who have not been tapped thus far,” he warned, contacts; and activization of all New speakers came forward and publicized by the Stalinist - led nights until five of the six had him. scientists to “the stockpiling and rationing of “will probably be summoned to service before very our forces with a definite function made some fine speeches. W ith Civil Rights Congress, has been signed the “confessions” demand­ During the trial, the prejudiced any war commodity.” Here we note a curious long.” for each campaign volunteer. We the aid of the Milwaukee branch, turned over to the NAACP and ed of them. judge not only vented his hate on thing. Marx observed that in capitalist society all There it is. American science is to become a stuck singlemindedly to these a sound truck was put on the the Princeton Committee for the Were these the guilty men? the CRC lawyers but refused the things tend to assume the form of commodities, mere branch of the armed forces. A moratorium party-building objectives. streets. Beinin stickers blossomed The two eyewitnesses had defense access to vital evidence — including virtue, conscience and honor. It should is to be declared on progress, at least for the next Trenton Six. One of the defen­ A t the start we established a along the main thoroughfares. described tke criminal as light- including fingerprints — which now be added that in its decline, capitalism tends 20 years, while the scientific resources of the dants is defended by counsel ap­ ward headquarters; scheduled Comrades who say little at complexioned. Five of the six the police had found at the scene to convert all things into war commodities, in­ country are harnessed by the m ilitary to produce pointed by the court. party mobilizations, rallies and meetings did outstanding work in defendants have dark skin. of the crime but which they were cluding scientists, teachers, students, technicians, more “perfect” weapons of annihilation. In an attempt to prove their socials; took steps to get our door to door campaigning, despite Thorpe, the only one light in suppressing. Given the unfairness knowledge, and even the very laws of nature. The only conclusion that rational people can respectability and thus escape the speakers before non-party meet sub-zero cold. Newer comrades color, had had his arm amputated of the trial and the red-baiting Smyth’s plan encompassed scientific activities draw from all this, is that if capitalism can no red-baiting atmosphere so pre­ ings; planned literature sales generally outdid old-timers in this eight days before the xnurder. No atmosphere in the courtroom, the at every conceivable level: from the most general longer afford progress, then society simply can’t valent at the first trial, the and distributions, not forgetting field. The good results inspired witness spoke of a one-armed verdict of guilty was to be ex­ theoretical basic research in the laws of nature, afford the capitalist system for even another present defense lawyers are going to include the theoretical maga­ one conii’adc to raise the slogan: man at the scene of the crime. pected. through particular fields of scientific investiga­ month, let alone 20 years. Capitalism in its death to extremes in their attacks upon zine Fourth International and ‘ Knocking on doors is one way to Mrs. Horner, wife of the The mounting protest after the tion, applied research, testing and production, to agony threatens to destroy all the fruits of the Civil Rights Congress which pai'ty pamphlets; and arranged break out of isolation.” murdered man, W'ho had been trial was instrumental in bring­ instruction in the use of “scientific engines” of civilization, and in no field of human endeavor is still publicizing the frame-up for publicity in The Militant and Sales of The M ilitant and knocked unconscious during . the ing about the State Supreme destruction. The scientists themselves are to.be is this law now revealed more vividly than in by press releases and public meet­ local press. Fourth International were quite attempted robbery, was taken to Court’s reversal of the conviction “stockpiled” by the m ilitary and regimented all science. ings. A mimeogx’aphed handbook good. New avenues were found Police headquarters to view the on three technical counts. In the the way from freshmen through the graduate In their heyday the rising merchants and in­ issued to each campaigner con for l-cgular sales as a stepping RED BAITING six suspects. She failed to identify decision the first trial was schools, from the laboratory to the factory and dustrialists smashed the power of the feudal tained a ward map, calendar of stone to future subscriptions. Best The frenzied attacks of some any of them. Later with police referred to as “against the the battlefield. aristocracy and clergy and liberated science from events and brief answers to key seller among the pamphlets was of the defense lawyers on the CRC help she “identified” them all from plainest principles of justice” and Not a stone is left unturned in this plan to their stultifying grip. The great men of science political questions. Before taking Socialism on Trial by James P. have caused one of the defense photographs. a “judgment fainted with error.” make absolutely certain that no scientific work made bold advances in all fields of thought. They to the streets the first time, the Cannon. lawyers, Arthur Garfield Hays, The passer-by and the neighbor The NAACP has appealed for should be wasted on “peaceful” purposes. “For waged a determined campaign against ignorance, campaignei-s held a question and Considerable publicity was re­ veteran defender of civil rights, to would not identify any of the six contributions for the Trenton Six example,” said Smyth, “work on improvement of superstition and bigotry. From the earliest days answer rehearsal. ceived in the neighborhood pi’ess demur and dissasociate himself as the men they Had seen. In addi­ defense fund. All money sent to it non-essential industrial products or processes of the capitalist era, even under the rule of The campaign opened with and some mention in the big from this form of red-baiting in tion, the car at the scene of the will be eanxiarked specifically for certainly could be curtailed. On the other hand monarchs, science broke through all national sales of the “Stop the W ar Now” dailies which oi’dinarily suppress the court room. crime was a four-door green Ply­ this case. Contributions should be applied research on weapons production needs boundaries, established the tradition of interna­ issue of The Militant. Petition news of l-adical parties, except for Despite the attempts of the mouth while English’s car was sent to: NAACP Legal Defense to be accelerated. Vast sums of money will be tional cooperation and an atmosphere of free and gatherers then worked door to the usual slandei-s. defense to prove its “American­ a two-door black Ford. and Educational Fund, 20 West unrestricted investigation toward the end of door from lists of registered Beinin received 530 votes, four available to the services for research and ism” by attacking the ORC, the All six defendants produced 40th St., N. Y. 18, N. Y. widening the horizons of knowledge and subduing voters and on street corners. A percent of the ward total. This development.” prosecution has already started the natural forces for the benefit of mankind. letter of introduction from the stands in favorable contrast to the In brief, the scientists are served notice that its attempt to draw the public’s But that is all finished now. Just at the moment candidate proved helpful to them. average of 500 votes — three per­ any work aimed at curing diseases, raising living attention away from the crudeness when science has found the key to the fabulous Even some Stalinists signed the cent of the average ward total — standards or making the good things of life more of the frame-up by injecting the energy that lies locked in the atom, when humanity petitions. Beinin went on the received by Progressive Party accessible to the mass of the people is hence­ red issue. The prosecutor and the forth to be considered “non-essential.” at long last has within its grasp the means of SWP CANDIDATES PUSH ballot without challenge. candidates running in four wards. reactionary Trenton Times have achieving universal prosperity and happiness, the Each of the 900 petition signers Nondescript “againstcr” votes Then, just in case the scientists entertained started a smear campaign against forward march is to be halted at the command was sent a letter of thanks, a received by Beinin were more than hopes that this blackout on human progress would cne of the defense lawyers be­ of a rapacious imperialist gang that has become copy of our election platform and offset by the uncounted Beinin only last a short time — a sort of passing night­ cause a women lawyer who works PROGRAM IN N.J., CALIF. the mortal enemy of social progress. Science is ? calendar of campaign events. votes. Our poll watchers Uncov­ mare — Smyth promptly punctured even such in his office (she is not connected to be imprisoned in a straightjacket of secrecy, NEWARK, March 12 — George Breitman, Socialist Only two made hostile replies. ered sufficient evidence to confirm naive illusions. “In considering scientific man­ with the defense in this case) is regimentation, loyalty investigations and witch­ (Merriam sought to campaign on this estimate. power as a major war asset of this country,” he married to a man considered Workers Party candidate for General Assembly from Essex hunt persecutions. The scientists are to be trans­ the small change of strictly ward Despite the low percentage of said, “I assume a 20 year period of tension with “subversive.” County, yesterday called on Governor Driscoll to use the formed from enlightened benefactors of mankind issues, calling for reliance on Beinin’s vote, the fact that 530 the possibility of major or minor wars occurring The Trenton frame - up began powers of his office “to take^ into “mad geniuses” like those depicted in horror Senator Paul “Drop the Bomb people in a single ward voted for at any time in that period.” over three years ago. On Jan. 27, immediate action to quash the “ Two years ago, when I was stories, in order to keep the imperialists in the Now” Douglas in national and a socialist anti-war candidate One other obstacle remains for these planners 1948 a hold-up of a combination indictments against the Trenton interviewed by your board, I was saddle. international affairs. The SWP shows that a broader arena is of total destruction. The scientists themselves junk and novelty store took place. Six and to secure their uncondi­ asked if I would withdraw from But it is not the scientists who are the madmen. countered with the demand that developing for recruitment into are not overly enthusiastic about the “plan.” It The proprietor was murdered and tional release.” that election, if a labor man was They are only the victims of a ruling class gone Merriam debate Beinin on the the Socialist Workers Party. violates their innermost instincts and impulses. In a letter to the Governor, sent chosen to run for the same post. his wife knocked unconscious. real campaign issue — war or Further evidence of this trend Their tortured consciences naturally rebel at the mad with the fear of the yawning grave. The in the midst of the long drawn- I said I would do so if such a Robbery was the assumed motive peace. is the fact that, in a witch-hunt thought of creating instruments of total murder crisis of science is but a part of the world crisis out process of picking a jury, candidate were a militant worker although 511,642 was found in the Under this pressure Merriam atmosphere, SWP campaigners and devastation. Some like Einstein have already of capitalist society. The choice before the scient­ Breitman chax’ged that thé t six who based his campaign on the murdered man’s pockets by police. claimed to be “anti-war” in in­ met with little hostility and much dared to speak out, to warn, to protest. But this ists is inescapable: They must either accept the defendants “should never have labor movement and would be re­ Two eyewitnesses — a passer-by formal discussions, but in his fi’iendliness. Our speakei’s were difficulty has not been overlooked. “As we prepare 1 degraded status of a “war commodity,” or they been brought to trial in the first sponsible to the working people and a neighbor saw the criminals. weasel-wqrded public statements courteously heai-d by non-party for possible war,” announced Smyth, “we shall must join with their natural allies, the socialist place. The system of frame-up of this city and to no one else. The passer - by saw two light- he supported Truman’s war pro­ audiences. A number of ward inevitably have to delegate increasing authority vanguard of the working class, and the oppressed through false identification, sup­ Instead you chose a real estate complexioned Negroes. The neigh­ gram by advocating preparation residents attended party rallies. over our lives and actions to the national govern­ peoples everywhere in the struggle to emancipate pressed evidence and forced con­ agent, who could not arouse any bor saw three Negro teen agers for “whatever the future may We found mass sentiment to be ment.” society and open new vistas of progress for fessions is just as repulsive in interest among the rank-and-file run from the direction . of the bring.” genei’ally characterized by grow­ He then presented a blue-print for drafting the humanity. Trenton as it is in Moscow.” workers. store and jump into a foui'-door Anxious to avoid a debate, ing dissatisfaction held in check The Socialist Workers spokes­ green 1936 Plymouth sedan in SUPPORT DEMOCRATS Merriam made few public ap- by miseducation, misleadership, man declared that “continued which a fourth youth was wait­ peax’ances. Beinin finally caught confusion, indecision and inertia. prosecution of these men can “Last year the labor leaders ing. The police concluded that up with him before an audience Our campaign raised ward serve only two purposes — to poured millions of dollars to sup­ Short Subjects there were six Negroes involved. of about 200. Each speaker had politics to a new level. We intend ‘save face’ for the authorities port Democratic Party hacks, and The Trenton newspapers an­ nine minutes. When Beinin got to watch Merriam in the City responsible for initiating this once more labor’s ranks could not nounced a police terror for the through working him over, Mer­ Council and follow through in the THE ENFORCER — The New York regional fruit plantations in Florida arc similar to colonial judicial outrage, and to intimidate be roused to support the bankrupt Negro neighborhoods. “A heavily riam spent eight of his nine ward, armed with new knowledge plantations, with absentee owners, and starvation the Negro population as a whole. capitalist candidates. My program office of Price Stabilization has disciplined a small armed motorized bandit Squad minutes trying to explain his of the power of our program to wages. “Neither purpose is remotely hasn’t changed on this question attract thinking critics of bank- restaurant called the “Greenwich Village Coffee patrolled (he streets and all Negro refusal to talk about the war. * * * connected with the promotion of in the past two years, and in view Pot” because it raised the price of coffee from men found on the streets without mpt capitalism. SKY H IG H RENTS — Rent controls were justice.” \ of these developments it is clearer five to seven cents a cup. Meanwhile Price “good reason” were questioned by CAMPUS COMMITTEE lifted in Los Angeles last month. Since then than it has ever been. I am going Stabilizer Di’Salle announces that 11 basic plain elothesmen. The Trenton Two student clubs at the Uni­ letters of tenants to the office o f the Housing to urge a mass Congress of Labor materials required for m ilitary production show police were out to get their men F. Goelman Gives versity of Chicago, located in the Seattle Expediter show that there has been an average to deal with the housing crisis, an average price increase of 72.3 percent from or even unreasonable facsimiles the wage crisis and the war crisis ward, offered to arrange a JOSEPH HANSEN rent increase of 94.5 percent. ot them. Interview to AFL Beinin - Merriam debate. Merriam May, 1950 to Jan. 1, 1951. * * * and everything else that is / “ The Great Events * * * OAKLAND, Mar. 8 — Filomena directly affecting the working spumed the invitations and N EW P O LITIC A L MOVE? — Reports are FORCED CONFESSIONS thereby helped to speed formation BILL HUTCHESON, STRIKEBREAKER — M. Goelman, Socialist Workers class.” in China and Their circulating in New York that the blast against Ten days after the murder, of a Campus Committee for A F L Bill Hutcheson owns a large grapefruit grove Party candidate for Councilman- Asked about to her position on the Democratic Party by Louis Hollander, N. Y. Collis English, 23, a veteran Beinin. Relation to Moscow ’* in Florida, where the workers recently organized at-Large in the City Elections of the Korean War, the SWP candi­ CIO Secretary, in which he called for a possible with malaria and a rheumatic April 17, was interviewed today A new student-friend came for- into the A F L Chemical Workers Union, and went date replied that the Socialist Forum of Church of the new party for labor, was the first step in a heart,, was ai'rested for driving by the Executive Board of La­ ward to play a key l’ole in the People on strike, demanding a union contract. But Workers Party was opposed to national movement for a Liberal-Labor third his father’s car without a license. bor’s Educational and Political Campus Committee. He had been Hutcheson refused to negotiate with the union, party. David Dubinsky is rumored to be negotiat­ He was a Negro and hence for League (AFL). U jS. intervention and believed it buying The Militant on the 4033 University Way and the Chemical Workers called off the strike. ing with the Heads of the CIO in such a move. th^ Trenton police a “suspect” in In her statexnent to the board, was up to the Korean people to campus, liked much of our pro­ The CIO is now organizing these workers. The Sun., March 25 - 1 PM Dubinsky is active in the N. Y. Liberal Party. the murder. A fter 19 continuous Mrs, Goelman said: settle their own affairs. gram, and thought the students