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Ford Settles for Semi-Annual Jobless Benefits Mass Pressure Needed on School Jim Crow <•> NAACP Plans New Moves in Southern Courts t h e PUBLISHEDMILITANT ‘WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE By George Lavan The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held a meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, June 5 Vol. XIX — No. 24 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1955 PRICE: 10 Cents to plan its strategy in the fight to desegregate Southern schools. The conference was at­ tended by 55 delegates from 16 without this reaffirmation many Southern and border states. It people might think the court had was decided that legal actions .ndeed reversed its original de- would be started against school jision. Point 2 is but a corollary boards which had not made plans of Point 1. I f school segregation to begin applying the Supreme is unconstitutional then laws Court decision by the opening providing fo r such segregation Ford Settles for Semi-Annual of school next September, cannot also be constitutional. In the meantime NAACP Point 3 is small consolation. branches were urged to put the Fine sounding words like “good heat on local school boards by faith,” “ reasonable,” “ prompt,” petitioning them to begin com­ “ as soon as practicable,” etc., are plying with the high court’s rul­ the sugar coating for the bitter ing. The day before the con­ fact that the court’s ruling is Jobless Benefits Supplement ference nine Negro parents in almost impotent. Atlanta filed such a petition These words were put in to with the Atlanta school board. placate the enemies of segrega­ ted schools and to cover the “PERHAPS A CENTURY” hypocrisy of the court which Referring to a statement by ruled a year ago that segrega­ Open Letter to Foster Workers Hit the Attorney General of Georgia tion was unconstitutional and that the Supreme Court’s de­ which has now ruled, in effect, cision meant “ perhaps a century that it can continue in the Concessions of litigation,” Thurgood Mar­ South indefinitely. On Stalinist Frame-ups shall, head of the NAACP legal department, told the conference: RACIST “GOOD FAITH?” JUNE 7 — Farrell Dobbs, National Secretary of the By Reuther “It will take more litigation but What the NAACP leaders, in Socialist Workers Party, today sent an open letter to I guarantee you it won’t be 100 their forced optimism, gloss over William Z. Foster, National Chairman of the Communist By George Breitman years.” is the glaring fact . that the Party of the United States, de-®- DETROIT, June 7—Henry Marshall analyzed the court’s white-supremacist ruling class, manding that he account for his points out that either Foster Ford the Second was de­ implementation ruling in great which handpicks the local school complicity in the murderous must himself demand the release scribed as the happiest man detail, emphasizing its positive boards and the federal district frame-up campaign of the Krem­ of the frame-up victims or re­ in town yesterday. “ I feel perfect, aspects and indicating the legal judges, has been banded the de­ lin against the Yugoslav Titoists main branded a servile tool of wonderful,” he exulted a few steps that could be taken to cision and told to apply it them­ during the last seven years. the Stalinists murder machine. minutes after the announcement force the most out of it. selves. Pious admonitions to Dobbs challenged Foster to The fu ll text of the letter that the Ford Motor Co. and the The NAACP points out three these racists to act in “ good explain his support of the ex­ follows. UAW-CIO negotiating committee positive aspects in the decision. faith” are worth very little. ecutions and arrests of Tito sup­ had reached a contract agree­ (1) It reaffirms the fundamen­ The Southern ruling class and porters in the East European William Z.Foster ment. tal principle of the May 1954 its politicians have never ex­ countries in the light of Khru­ Chairman, CPUSA John Bugas, Ford’s head ne­ decision that “ racial discrimina­ ercised “ good fa ith ” as fa r as shchev’s statement in Belgrade, In your book, History of the gotiator, was also elated. “Thank tion in public education is un­ the constitutional rights of the May 26, admitting “the facts Three Internationals, which was God we could reach this historic constitutional.” (2) A ll laws, Negro people are concerned be­ show” that the charges of “ fas­ released on May Day you quote agreement without a company­ local, state and federal, contra­ fore or since the Civil War. The cist” and “imperialist agents” approvingly the Com inform wide strike,” he cried. dicting the principle of the or­ court expects (he South to apply against the Yugoslav leaders statement of November 1949 call­ Walter Reuther, UA-W presi­ iginal decision are invalid. (3) the 15th Amendment in “ good were “ fabricated.” ing Tito a “fascist.” You en­ dent, was equally delighted, The tone arid language of the faith,” Blit, the bulletsriddled Following Khrushchev’s state­ dorse the whole Stalinist frame- agreeing that it was a “historic implementing ruling indicate that corpse of Rev. George W. Lee in ment, Dobbs cabled him in Bel­ up campaign against the Tito­ agreement” and “ the largest the Supreme Court justices ex­ Belzoni, Mississippi, who fought grade June 7: ists, the purge trials in East economic package ever offered.” pect the South to begin deseg­ for the right to vote, is a token “In interest of USSR and European countries, the execu­ Carl Stellato, president of Ford regating in “good faith.” of the "good faith” to be ex­ world working class we demand tions, mass imprisonment and Local 600 and a member of the Point 1 is merely a repetition pected. you release from prisons and countless other acts of terror BRITISH STRIKERS FIRM negotiating committee, said the of the May 1954 decision’s main Similarly with the constitu­ slave-labor camps all victims of against workers and government Close-up contract represented “ more prog­ point. It is good to know the tion’s “ due process of law” this frame up.” officials accused of association ress” than any the UAW had ever court hasn’t reversed itself — (Continued on page 3) In his letter to Foster, Dobbs with Tito and his supporters. negotiated in the past. You say on page 496, “ Tito’s DESPITE TORY THREATS Of Oakland -defection had- more dangerous REACTIONS implications than swinging Yu­ JUNE 8 — Unmoved by government threats or thè SWP Campaign But these sentiments were not goslavia out of the peace camp. howling Big Business press, British rail strikers remained shared by the Ford Rouge work­ It was nothing short of an at­ out solidly for the eleventh day. So it was too with striking- -----By Farrell Dobbs----- ers who gathered outside Gate 4 How East German Uprising tempt to sever the relations be­ longshoremen, who fo r 16 days-®— National Secretary at noon yesterday, 15,000 strong, tween all the People’s Democra­ -have tied up numerous pouts in week engine cleaners get $18.62, Socialist Workers Party to hear Stellato’s report on the cies and the USSR and to lead their .struggle for union' recogni­ firemen and assistant motor,men [Farrell Dobbs, National Sec­ negotiations which had finished the former into the imperialist tion. Now the strike movement gelt $22.96, and engineers get retary of the Socialist Workers just a few minutes earlier, and Echoed in Stalin’s Prisons camp. This was brought out in has spread to the crews of $27.30. Long hours of overtime Party, recently completed a na­ to learn whether or not there the trials of Rajk, Kostov, and passenger liners who are demand­ are necessary to meet the in­ tional tour during which we pub­ would be a strike. (Virtually all (*)They fear a war as much as our By Brigitte Gerland ®- others in Budapest and Sofia in ing better living and working creased cost of living. lished his on-the-spot reports the other Ford plants in the coun­ June 17, 1953. A radiant sum­ superiors,” the youngest soldier 1949.” (My emphasis) conditions aboard ship. Nearly 20,000 longshoremen and analyses of the economic try had walked out 12 hour’s be­ mer day — even the polar wind is answered him. fore, at the midnight deadline.) Thus you explicitly support The Tory government of Sir have tied up 173 ships in London. and political situation in some warm and soft. A smile crosses the Another prisoner says, “They They listened to Stellato’s the very purge trials which Anthony Eden appears to be Hull, Liverpool and other ports. of the main industrial centers of tundra, sparkling in bright colors. •will sit on the fence and look on report on the main features of sparked the mass victimizations backing down from the fierce Ninety-five other ships are under­ the country. Comrade Dobbs is The city of Vorkuta also smiles. peacefully while the uprising is the settlement, to his praise of for “Titoism.” talk and strikebreaking plans it manned. The issue is the demand of now completing these reports in Its stooped wooden houses stretch put down, which is the best thing the negotiating committee, to his Now the whole world has been engaged .in immediately after the young National Amalgamated a number of articles.] in the sun, and the small windows, that can happen, anyway, as far plea that they ra tify the new told that the accusations against the electons. Eden asked for Stevedores & Dockers Union for at other times so grey, now as they are concerned. In cases OAKLAND — “ Discontent and contract in the vote to be held Tito were “ fabrications.” emergency powers and implied tthc rig ht to have its representa­ shower the streets with gold.
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