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THE CIO's Top Officials Endorse Anti-Labor, Racist Democrats

THE CIO's Top Officials Endorse Anti-Labor, Racist Democrats

-<5? Workers of the World, Unite! For Socialism - The Alternative THE PUBLISHED WEEKLYMILITANT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE To Atomic War Vol. XVI - No. 34 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1952 PRICE: FIVE CENTS — ------By Myra Tanner Weiss ------SWP Vice Presidential Candidate Following is the text of a television program featuring Myra Tanner Weiss, SWP Vice Presidential candidate, and Milton Snipper, independent candidate for Congress from the 16th Congressional District, in Los Angeles. This program was broadcast over Los Angeles station KECA-TV. First speaker is Milton Snipper: CIO's Top Officials Endorse The American labor movement since its inception has been supporting either the Democratic or Republican Par­ ties. The result has always been the same. No matter who these candidates are, no matter® how many promises they make and regardless of their- much-ad­ vertised “friendship” for labor, For Vice-Pres. the net result has been that Big Anti-Labor, Racist Democrats Business has an'undisputed stran- gle-hold oh our local, State and federal government. We’ve seen the very parties that labor has supported, use then- political pow­ Dobbs, Weiss Cover Up Foul Record er to organize campaigns against the trade unions. The Taft-Hart- ley law, authored by the Repub­ National Tour licans and used by the Democrats is just one example. Hardly a Of Party to Maintain session of the State or Federal legislature takes place without Starts Sept. 3 a new batch of anti-labor bills Dirty Political Alliance being passed. NEW YORK, Aug. 21 — Coast- to-coast campaign tours of the As a member of organized la­ By Joseph Andrews bor in Los Angeles fo r over 16 Presidential and Vice-Presidential years, I ’ve never seen it fail. candidates of the Socialist Work­ The National CIO Executive Board has endorsed the I know and you know, I ’m sure, ers Party w ill begin on Sept. 3, Stevenson-Sparkman Democratic ticket in the 1952 elec­ George Clarke, SWP campaign that many workers are beginning tions. to ask the question: Why don’t manager announced today. we organize independently on the , candidate for The CIO leaders stated Aug. 14, “Under a Stevenson political as well as on the eco­ President, w ill open his tour in administration. . . we can look forward to an unfaltering nomic field ? Ohio, covering several industrial continuation of the best traditions and ideals of the New cities in that state and then head­ Only one Party has given the Deal and Fair Deal.” ®~------answer to this question. That is MYRA TANNER WEISS ing east fo r speaking engage­ Praising the Democratic plat­ chine politicians and the South­ the Socialist Workers Party. We ments in Pennsylvania, New York, ern Jim Crowers. New England and New Jersey. form, the top CIO officials cited are for an independent labor par­ we must ask and must demand Myra Tanner Weiss, candidate the pledge to repeal the Taft- LOST CONFIDENCE ty based on the unions; and for an answer to in this election year Hartley Law and enact civil rights a workers and farmers govern­ of 1952. We may not get another for Vice-President, will begin her Daniel Tobin, A F L Teamsters ment. That is why Ihn running tour on the West Coast, starting legislation as the two most im­ chance before a third world portant reasons to back the President, and long a member as an independent candidate for slaughter is upon us. the San Francisco-Oakland of the Democratic National Com­ Congress in the 19th District. And area and moving north to Oregon Democrats. You, the American people, don’t The Stevenson-Sparkman ticket mittee, stated in the August issue that’s why I call for full support want war. The capitalist politi­ and Washington State. of The Teamster, “ I have lost con­ to the Presidential slate of the Both candidates are scheduled is described as a pledge to “ con­ cians know this so they A LL SAY tinue” the traditions of the New fidence in the leaders of both Socialist Workers Party. they’re for peace. But they lie. to give major campaign talks at parties, so far as carrying out the election rallies of the Socialist Deal and Fair Deal. If by this is KOREAN WAR meant that they, like Truman pledges to labor contained in PROMISES OF PEACE Workers Party in the large cities their platform.” The Republicans and Democrats will betray their campaign prom­ You voted fo r Wilson in 1916 on their itineraries. In addition, Truman made promises, but who are equally responsible for because he said he would keep plans are being worked out for ises, this is correct. the unauthorized, devastating But while Truman made prom­ Stevenson has announced in ad­ America out of war. The next them to appear wherever possible vance he w ill not support the war in Korea, support the huge year our troops were crossing the on radio and TV, before labor, ises to repeal the T aft - Hartley armament race which is consum­ Law and enact strong civil rights Democratic platform on either Atlantic. In 1940 you voted for Negro, campus and other groups repeal of T aft - Hartley or the ing the productive forces of our Roosevelt who promised that the holding open forums and sym­ legislation in his 1948 campaign, country. They are the parties of only to renege on his promises civil rights issue. American youth would not be sent posiums, at factory gate meet­ Even if Stevenson follows in inflation and tax burdens on the to die on foreign battlefields. The ings, etc. later, Stevenson and Sparkman people. They both agree on a fo r­ have not even made the prom­ Truman’s “tradition” it will be next year our boys died on fo r­ Organizations and individuals no picnic for Labor. It was Tru­ eign policy that w ill sooner or eign battlefields. interested in .arranging for the ises. later fran'sfdfm the cold war into Stevenson has explicitly stated man who used the Taft-H artley And now the Democrats and Socialist Workers candidates to law against the packinghouse a shooting war, a more destruc­ Republicans once more are mak­ he is not for repeal of Taft- appear at meetings are urged to workers, the atomic project work­ tive war than the world has yet ing speeches for peace. But the AVERAGE CITY EAMIIY IS GOING Hartley. The same goes for get into touch with the SWP ers, the maritime workers, the seen. These parties are war par­ facts speak louder than their Sparkman. branches in their vicinity or to typographical workers, the mine ties. words. write directly to the Socialist Stevenson has fla tly stated he The candidates of the Socialist workers and in so many strike We are already in a war, al- Workers Party national campaign INTO H01E AT RATE OF IS A WEEK is for “ States rights” in FEPC Workers Party stand for an en- ( th0Ugh officially “operation kill- legislation. He would leave the situations the list is too long to headquarters, 116 University PL, publish here. tirely different program. 1< arrell | er» jn Korea is just a police ac- New York 3, N. Y. The average city family spent found jobs, the Korean war and * Includes allowance for recent rights of the Negro people to be Dobbs, our candidate for Presi­ tion. We have already suffered Further information on the over $400 more than it earned in the preparations for World War pay raise. handled by the white supremac­ “FAIR DEAL” RECORD dent of the United States, is a 120,000 admitted battle casualties. 1950, the year when the Korean ists of the South. Sparkman is tour schedules, which w ill take I I I have resulted in a decline in It was Truman who broke the veteran of American labor strug­ Who is responsible for this war? war began. To make up this workers’ living standards right Another article in the same the Dixiecrats’ representative in both candidates through the railroad strikes, fined the United gles, and a militant anti-war Most public opinion polls that deficit, which came to about 6% from the beginning. magazine, using government the North-South coalition slate. major industrial centers of the Mine Workers, and in all has fighter. Myra Tanner Weiss, our I ’ve seen show that the Amer- of its earnings for that year, the figures, estimates what has hap­ The CIO attempt to whitewash country, will be printed in this What has happened since 1950 broken more strikes than any Vice-Presidential candidate, who | jncan people don’t want the war. average city family had to go pened to the factory worker, this reactionary ticket as .a vic­ paper, together with the dates and is shown in the following table President. The fact that Truman w ill speak to you tonight is known j jy^ost pe0p]e think our troops into debt or dig into its savings married, with two children, who tory for the so-called liberal wing to many of you. She was the can- j should he brought back home, addresses of public meetings. reduced to 1939 value, comparing was making $3,000 a year early did not use Taft-Hartley against to the tune of $8 a week. average take-home pay, adjusted of the Democratic Party is a didatc of the Socialist Workers a 11(j that’s to be expected. You in 1950, and now is gettihg the steel workers, proved only Those are “ average” figures, fo r higher taxes and living costs, cynical fraud. Sen. Humphrey of Party for Mayor of Los Angeles, have no investments in Asia. You $3,500. that he did not have to use it be­ collected in a survey just released taken from the Aug. 22 issue of Minnesota stated before the in 1945 and has since participated arc not making profits out of war TOUR SCHEDULE In 1950 lie. paid $50 in federal “ liberal” caucus at the Democratic fore. He refrained from issuing in four other election campaigns. by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. News & World Report: income taxes; now he pays $167. an injunction against the steel contracts. You are not selling That means they include rich convention, “ There is no use deny­ Myra Tanner Weiss as an active arms to France, England, Holland The first stage of Farrell In 1950 he paid $989 fo r food; ing that Farley and the Dixie­ strike only because the election writer, speaker and teacher in Dobbs’ national presidential families as well as poor. But since June, 1950 Now now he pays $1,156 fo r the same was just around the corner. and other imperialist powers. On the richer families earned more crats gave us a trouncing.” But the cause of the working class is the contrary. Your problems are campaign tour is: Coal $37 $35 food. In 1950 his other expenses This is the Democratic “ record” than they spent, they did not like Philip Murray, he is on the a veteran fighter in the socialist the same as the rest of humanity Steel 35 38* (clothing, rent, home furnish­ (Continued on page 3) Sept. 3 Wednesday Cleveland have to dig into past savings; bandwagon along with the ma- struggle. I am proud to introduce on earth. You want security, Autos 39 36 ings, utilities, etc.) were $2,087; 4 Thursday ” the worst that happened to them her as the Socialist Workers Par­ peace, a little more freedom: the Aircraft 34 35 now he has to pay $2,327 fo r the 5 Friday Akron was that they saved a little less. ty candidate for Vice-President of right to raise your fam ily decent­ Electrical same things. 6 Saturday ” If the rich are not counted, then the United States. ly, feed, clothe, and shelter them. machinery 31 32 Adding it all up, he earned 7 Sunday Youngstown the working class families went WEISS: I believe the over­ And you want that same right Meat packing 31 32 $3,000 and spent $3,126 before SWP CAMPAIGN FUND 10 Wednesday Pittsburgh whelming m ajority of you who for everyone else. into the hole even more than the Oil 40 38 the Korean war, falling $126 are listening to us right now, are But there is a minority, and a Myra Tanner Weiss will survey shows. Rubber 38 37 behind. Now he earns $3,500 and opposed to war. I believe, that powerful minority in this country speak in the following areas Since this 1950 survey, there Railroads 37 36 spends $3,650, falling $150 be­ PASSES HALFWAY MASK most of you, if you could, would with different plans than yours. during the first week of her has been a sharp downward trend Textiles 25 24 hind. He gets $500 a year more, put a stop to the terrible slaught­ Big business in the United States coast-to-coast tour: in living standards which is due Clothing 23 21 but has to use all of it — and $24 Socialist Workers Party good gains of 21% each; while er, the horrible destruction of hu­ owns about 1/3 of the world’s prim arily to higher prices and Electricians 45 47 branches are now past the half­ Philadelphia and Youngtown each Sept. 3 Wednesday more — to live the way he did man life, that is going on in productive capital. Wall Street higher taxes resulting from the Lumber 30 29 before the Korean war. Either way mark in the fund drive to- made a 19% advance. San Fran­ San Francisco-Oakland Korea. Most Americans hope and bankers and industrialists have Korean war and the steep arms Furniture 28 27 he has cut his living standards finance the party’s presidential cisco and New York picked up pray that some way the threat investments all over the world. 4 Thursday ” budget increases supported by Telephone 29 28 election campaign and anti- momentum. Their payments of 5 Friday in the last two years, or used of a third world war, an atomic both capitalist parties in Wash­ Retail clerks 26 24 Trucks Law fight- The goal of $115 and $594 raise their scores 6 Saturday Portland up some more of his savings or war. can be averted. RICH MAN’S WAR ington since 1950. Unlike the Federal workers 36 33 gone into debt. $18,600 represents the total 14% and 13% respectively. “ We Then why does the killing go Monopoly capitalists have huge 7 Sunday Seattle early part of World War II, Schoolteachers 31 30 amount pledged by SWP branches guarantee we’ll make it on time,” 8 Monday I f this has resulted from a on ? Why has our generation been war contracts with fat profits, when the living standards, of the Retired federal and by friends of the party. Michael Bartell, New York’s can­ 9 Tuesday ” “ police action” in Korea, it isn’t submitted to so much useless and profits are the life-blood of American working class rose be­ workers 17 17 hard to figure what a full scale The closing date of the caip- didate fo r senator, now organizer (Continued on page 4) death? This is the question that cause ten million unemployed Farm operators 17 18 war would do to living standards. paign was moved up four weeks of the New York local, assures us. this week at the request of a The Philadelphia comrades had number of branches which have a picnic last Sunday to help get been hit by extra expenses lately money for the election fund. “ A l­ in their campaigns to get on the though we were forced indoors Terror-Bombing of Korean Civilians Threatened ballot. Other branches have suf­ by the rain we were still pleased fered decreases in income due to to be able to raise $15,” they By Art Preis fact, more than three million successful m ilitary conclusion quoted in past articles numerous cause “defense authorities have| win wrote: “Virtually all the im- a number of comrades being on write. “We know it’s late but Ever since the Aug. 5 an­ civilians, both, south and north against the Chinese-North Korean descriptions from capitalist press been concerned lest the Tokyo- portant. industry of North Korea strike in recent weeks. The extra we’re going to get that $350 paid nouncement that the U.S. F ifth of the 38th Parallel, have been armies, is using the threat to sources of such treatment of issued announcement about the . . . has been destroyed by our time w ill make it easier fo r all ‘in fu ll and on time.' ” A ir Force command “ has warned killed or wounded since the start exterminate the North Korean Korean refugees. bombings be misinterpreted. . .” bombings . . . great parts of branches to meet the deadline. Many thanks to G. G. of North Korean civilians to clear of the Korean war, largely by populace as a means to force a Moreover, the announcement Korea’s principal cities lie in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A fter SPREAD OUT Special credit this week goes out of 78 towns marked for explosive bombs, flaming jellied truce on terms dictated by the that 78 cities and towns have ruins . . . North Korea’s industry to the comrades who reading his first copies of The attack” (United Press), I have gasoline (napalm), rockets and American command. been warned in advance of The massive air attacks on 78 is in ruins.” wrote to increase, their pledge M ilitant containing the Socialist civilian centers will be., “misin­ had the sickening feeling that machine-guns bullets unloosed by I f the civilian bombings fail bombings does not mean that The U.S. News & World Report from $275 to $325. A payment of Workers Party election platform some new and more ghastly U.S. planes. Evidently, these to blackmail the Chinese and* other towns and villages will not terpreted” precisely because there of Juiy 31, 1951 — more than a $25 raises their percentage by and the radio and television atrocity against the Korean peo­ civilian victims were without North Koreans governments into be bombed without warning. A cannot possibly be any “ m ilitary year ago’ — reported that “ a four percent in spite of their in­ speeches of Farrell Dobbs and necessity” for these bombings. ple is being prepared by their benefit of an “ audacious program accepting U.S. truce terms, the United Press dispatch on Aug. 11, minimum of 15 millio'n Koreans creased pledge. Myra Tanner Weiss, he sent in As recently as July 31, for in­ self-claimed “liberators.” of prior warnings.” American generals hope they w ill which describes the bombing of — more probably, as many as 3 .Congratulations are also in $2. $1 for six months of The The exceptional nature of these Why, then, this sudden big provoke the Chinese and North Namsok by 150 U.S. bombers, stance, U.S. Eighth Arm y Com­ million — have been wounded or order for Connecticut which went M ilitant and $1 for the election warnings is stressed in the of­ publicity about the humane Koreans into a new offensive contains this revealing fact: mander Van Fleet complained in killed or have disappeared” and over the top this W'feek. With a fund. ficial A ir Force statement. Start­ “ prior warnings” that are now which w ill then be used as a “ Namsok was not one of the Seoul that, the Chinese and North that “ vast areas of South Korea pledge of $125 they have paid ing the night before, it said, “ an being given to the people of 78 pretext by the U.S. officials to 78 towns slated to receive radio Koreans had “thinned out” and are in ruins, and the destruction $137 into the election fund, giving SEE FUND SCOREBOARD “ spread out” their lines so as to audacious program of prior warn- North Korean cities and towns break off armistice negotiations warnings of an air attack.” in North Korea has been more them 110% and top place on the ON PAGE 3 make them less vulnerable to air ins of bomb attacks” had been slated for obliteration? and to renew and extend the war. So phony does the statement intonse.” It goes on to cite the scoreboard. The “ prior warnings” to the about “ audacious program of and artillery attack. Why would put into effect. Lieut. Gen. Bar- CIVILIAN TARGETS staggering fact: M IL IT A N T readers can help cus explained this was the firgt civilian mass of North Koreans prior warning” sound on the face I they then concentrate “ huge “ Almost as many tons of bombs AHEAD OF SCHEDULE to get radio and television ap­ time “ specific” places had been I believe this is a propaganda to flee onto the open roads and of it, that Secretary of the A ir stores of m ilitary supplies” in were dropped in North Korea in Eight other branches are ahead pearances for SWP candidates cover for the planned terror “pin-nointed” by warnings, al­ fields has nothing of humani- Force Thomas K. Finletter f e lt land near the chief population a year as were dropped on Japan of schedule. They are Cleveland, by reporting to SWP Cam­ though “ general warnings” had bombing of North Korean popula­ tarianism about it. They are obliged on Aug. 7 to “ emphasize” centers where they could be more during, the whole of World War St. Louis, Buffalo, Boston, Chi­ paign Headquarters, 116 Uni­ been issued since July 13. tion centers. The object of the being given merely a choice of that the bombing of the 78 easily spotted and blown up.? .. ll. American bombers pounded cago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Akron, versity Place, New York 3, attacks is precisely the civilians death from starvation, exposure, population centers was being done There is little of military value the cities and communications] and New York. Cleveland showed N. Y. any programs on which 3,000,090 K ILLED fo r whom, the U jS. authorities exhaustion and disease as the as a “ military necessity” because left in North Korea, as a matter centers north of the 38th Parallel the most spectacular gain. With other parties’ candidates speak express such solicitude. We gather from this that it is alternative to death by bombs. these cities and towns are “ hold­ of fact. On Oct. 28, 1950 — day and night. Towns and villages a payment of $100, the branch or are interviewed, whether it most unusual fo r the U.S. A ir I believe, furthermore, that the Moreover, masses of refugees ing huge stores of m ilitary sup­ almost two years ago — the south of the parallel often got advanced 33% and claimed second is a political appearance or Force to warn civilians of specific U.S. command, frustrated in its crowded on the road make “ ideal” plies.” His statement was issued, N. Y. Times’ w'ell-informed m ili­ the same treatment. . place on the scoreboard. not. places that w ill be bombed. In attempts to bring the war to a targets for air strafing. I have said the Aug. 8 N. Y. Times, be- tary analyst Hanson W. Bald- (Continued on page 2) Boston and Seattle also made I ’ -|or»- ’('w o THE MUJTATfr Monday, August 25, 1952 What Must Lead to New Labor Upsurge in U. S. We speak there of the 11-year the 19th Century meaning of the|> where there is pressure the weak When, earlier in the report, I boom and its consequences on the word, has 'been eliminated as a will fall. spoke of the losses we have suf­ mentality of the workers. This political tendency in American! SWP National Secretary Our party was built from the fered, I left unmentioned the boom — as far as I know — is life. It survives only in isolated start —- 24 years ago — as a most important losses of all — Text of Political Report unprecendented in the history of individuals, without influence, Leninist party. We didn’t stumble the defections of prominent lead­ capitalism in its scope and dura­ energy or organization. Comrade along. We built the party accord­ ing people. The recent loss we tion. We have economic prosperity Dobbs w ill report to you that the ing to a theory and a design, as have suffered in this respect — combined with political reaction. Tracks Law in Michigan — a a combat party of the revolution. already fading away into an in­ To SWP Convention The Resolution also speaks of real police-state measure aimed Such a party needs external cident of the past — is not the struggles, as the human body first. We have had others who The following is the text of the political report de­ the) devastating effects of pros­ ultimately at the unions — was perity and reaction on all radical, passed unanimously by the state needs exercise. Our isolation and went with us part of the way, and livered at the 15th National Convention of the Socialist and even liberal, parties, groups legislature. Even the legislators stagnation take a heavy toll from then faltered and fell by the way- Workers Party, July 17-20, 1952, by James P. Cannon, and tendencies. But it is highly elected and controlled by the’ people of our type. Without our side. The explanation has been d if­ National Secretary of the SWP: doubtful whether the party as a UA\V, including those on the historical perspective, our Marx­ ferent in each case, but the I am speaking for the Political Resolution unanimous­ whole, or even the leading cadre, UAW payroll, voted fo r the ist theory, clearly understood and reason has been the same in all firm ly held, we would be lost. In ly adopted by the May Plenum of the National Committee has fully assimilated the meaning Tracks Law. And the so-called cases — capitulation to external of this statement. Liberalism, in liberal-labor governor signed it. these difficult times, which weigh pressures. However, these defec­ of the Socialist Workers Party. heavily -on us all, if we should The introductory sections of the ^ permit ourselves to be dis­ tions are merely personal catas­ Resolution deal with the critical eral and its organized section in Effects on Left Wing Parties couraged by episodes, we could trophes, chips and splinters fallen economic, political and m ilitary particular. not endure. from the rock. The rock stands. position of the United States in 2. The causes of labor con The labor leaders ride on the instead of slurring over these the present world setting. This servatism and the premises for witch hunt in the union — and harsh acknowledgments of ines­ situation for the U.S. is a com­ a newr radicalization. use it against their radical critics capable .facts, we weigh them We Represent The Future plex of irreconcilable conflicts on 3. The perspectives of a new and opponents. The contest be­ seriously as the basic cause of the international field, and un- radicalization, the forms it may tween the outright reactionaries whatever troubles we may be The ideas of — the program, our ideas, which are the solvabie economic contradictions be expected to take, and the and so called liberals and la- having, or may anticipate in the expression of social reality — are reason for our being. at home. The present period is political tendenefes which will borites has become a race to show period before us. invulnerable. But the 100 - year In our favor is the fact that who are the best witch-hunters. The Resolution says: “ we Buf­ we have fought for a long time a period of preparation fo r a contend for leadership. history of Marxism shows, that global war which is implicit in 4. The role and perspectives The Socialist Party has been fered losses - and victimizations.” and are still fighting. In our favor The comrades on the firing “line individuals,are not always equal the total situation. of the SWP in the whole process. eliminated as an opposition poli­ is the fact that fo r 24 years we know this all too well. Nearly all to the ideas they have represent­ have consistently taught the These introductory sections of The nature of the tasks we set tical tendency, and virtually wiped out as “an organization. The Com­ our branches and trade xmion ed. The weak have fallen, but the party, by precept and example, to the Resolution fa ll w ithin the for the party today depends on munist Party has been decimated, fractions have, felt the blows of strong stood firm and recruited put principles first, above per­ framework of our general analy­ the answers we give to these and has lost its mass base in the reaction. Many branches have lost new people to the banner to main­ sonal considerations and all other sis of the world situation — now questions. Even more, the nature unions. The Progressive Party .— some members or, at best, have tain the unbroken continuity of considerations. In our favor is shared by all Trotskyists — which of the tasks and undertaking a most peculiar party, a shoddy held their own. But these losses the movement — the movement the fact that we have consistently is known to all present, and needs which we envision fo r the future substitute for a party, without a do not tell the whole story, not which drives with the force of taught the party, by precept and no elaboration here. depend on these answers. The physiognomy of its own — is just by a long shot. historic inevitability to the social­ example, to have faith in the What do require examination Resolution attempts to give these The greatest losses our party ist emancipation of mankind. and discussion, and unambiguous answers. That — as we see it — another splinter party. correctness and power of our We, the Marxist party of the has suffered as a direct result of It has been given to us to be ideas; and, therefore, in the com­ answers, are: is the principal meaning of the revolutionary vanguard, have not the 11-year boom are the recruits the historic link in this chain of munist future of mankind. 1. The present attitude of the Resolution, and the principal task we did not get. Revolutionary continuity — the link that doesn’t That’s all the faith we need. American working class in gen- of the convention. thrived and grown in the atmos­ phere of prosperity and reaction and radical parties in the past break. We, assembled here, are That’s what we live for. That’s and could not do so. The Resolu­ have always been kept alive, and JAMES P. CANNON more important than we know. what we are here for. That faith tion acknowledges this: “ We have periodically reinvigorated, by an We are more important than all in the future, based on the ideas Class Struggle Muffled undergone losses,” says the Reso­ influx of new people, mainly the statesmen and all the gen­ of Marxism, is the source of our Big changes have taken place changed situation which we have lution, the party has “ experienced young people, who took the places labor camps, police state, frame- orientation of the party toward erals — and all the other conven­ optimistic fighting morale as we since the stormy days of the been up against for the past six victimizations, and found itself of the old, the used-up and the ups and murders, a torture the politically unaffiliated mili tions — for they represent the proceed to name our candidates nast. We alone represent the early CIO — and even since the years. It is radically different forced to make retreats.” And tired. The revolutionary move­ chamber and a lie-factory. We tants in the unions, especially the for the presidential election of from the situation in the earlier then the Resolution adds: “ These ment has always been a devourer future. 1952 — another battle in the long years 1944-46. In the last five or were the first to expose this CIO unions. That is. our principal period of the CIO. I t is also, ate by no means ended.” It w ill of people. Its ranks have always monstrous criminality of Stalin­ milieu, our main field of work, Our ideas will prevail. And, if campaign leading to the goal of six years of the armaments boom radically different from the greatly aid our deliberations if, needed replenishment. ism, and we are proud of it. It is out of this milieu that the we are worthy of them, our party Socialist America. — mainly as a result of full em­ situation before the rise -o f the Unfortunately, the reactionaries main troops of the new le ft wing w ill prevail with them. The (Copies of the Political Reso­ ployment and comparatively high CIO, when the great mass of the use these arguments for their own will come. Our main orientation growth and expansion of our lution adopted by the SWP con­ wages — the class struggle has workers were still unorganized. Robbed of a Generation purposes all the more effectively must be toward them. party in the next period, and its vention may be obtained by been muffled. The upsurge of the In some respects, the new situa­ eventual victory, is assured — on writing the Socialist Workers Young workers, deprived of the right things, the things that because they are true. That is not to say that the late ‘thirties, which flared up tion is temporarily more un­ only one condition, that we be Party, 116 University Place, New again in the late ‘forties, has been steady work, or any work at all, were nossible and necessary in A ll these weighty factors argue Stalinists are not a factor — and favorable for recruitment into the difficult situation. against a repetition of the Stalin­ may not become a greater factor true to ourselves; that is, to our York 3, N. Y.). followed by a workers’ attitude the revolutionary vanguard, than with all the doors of opportunity Our 1948 election campaign was ist role in Thirties. It would take — and can be ignored. There are of wait and see. The workers have closed in their faces; young was the situation before the rise a heroic undertaking — the right a big stretch of the imagination some possibilities for us there, settled down into relative pas­ of the CIO. Students, full of education, and action at the right time. By that to visualize the Stalinists easily which should be probed. The sivity, and a monolithic conser­ nothing to do with it, no place to We were isolated then too; but action we showed our determined monopolizing the 'leadership of Resolution provides fo r certain vative bureaucracy has been con­ Sell it in professions already over­ T HM M /U TANT m m it was not an organized isola­ will to become a party in the the new radical upsurge. And it secondary tactical approaches to solidated with a firm control over tion. There were openings here crowded — these were the people fu ll sense of the word. We would take a still bigger flight the Stalinist Party, as well as to the unions. to whom the movement made its and there — where we could responded to the Korean war with from reality to see the decimated, the Progressive Party, that poli­ Literature Agent Bert Deck from the radio and TV audience. This new consolidated, conser­ strongest appeal. They have al­ break through, where the old APL an energetic revolutionary cam­ bedraggled and discredited Stalin- tical monster which the OP lugs reports progress in the aim of And also the letters written by vative bureaucracy is closely tied bureaucracy was asleep or in ways been the natural raw paign, which inspired our move­ inst movement of the present day along and props up — something the Chicago branch to step up the SWP candidates. Farrell in with the goverment and is, in different. The New York hotel material for recruitment and re- ment throughout the world. We as the principle milieu for our like a hoodlum escorting his idiot their Militant sales Dobbs’ letter to Rev. Powers in effect, a government agency in strike and the Minneapolis strikes invigoration of the revolutionary maintained a functioning staff work. brother and pretending that he is by making Militant the last issue of the paper was the unions. It fu lly and con­ are examples. There was more party. We have been cheated out and press, and even increased its The Resolution directs the main a normal person. work part of the especially good.” sciously supports the whole for­ of this life-renewing blood trans­ opportunity for recruitment of in circulation. We published a book regular w e e k to W. E. S. of Lakewood, Ohio eign program of American im­ fusion in the past decade. The dividual militants into the party. and two pamphlets. We never quit week work of a good wishes to express his appreciation perialism and hopes to share in abnormally prolonged prosperity, Now, it may be said, the isolation working and trying. When ohe section of the for The Militant. Workers need a the crumbs of the prospective combined with witch-hunt terror, The Progressive Party of the revolutionary vanguard is field of action was restricted, we branch. Chicago re- party and a paper of their own, spoils at the expense of the rest fobbed us of a whole generation organized. The organized workers tried another. When our work There are some differences of Within the broad movement of c e n 11 y quadrupled he says. Here is part of his letter; of the people of the whole world. of potential young revolutionists, tend now.to move in a body, or in the unions was slowed down opinion as to a precise definition the new radicalization, the strag­ their bundle and “ The M ilitant is more important That is, roughly, the new and the natural and traditional candi­ to remain passive in a body. by circumstances beyond our of the class character of the PP gle of tendencies for leadership judging- by the en­ to me now with the presidential dates for a revolutionary party. control, we reacted with increased as it appears today, minus Wal­ w ill be irreconcilable. The party thusiastic participa­ elections coming up ifi November. It w ill take time to make it up. activity in local election cam­ lace and the unions which sup­ must recognize that, and be ready tion of comrades in I hear and read too darn much iof Changes in American Labor But we’ll get the time. Objective paigns. We organized six na­ ported the party in 1948. But for it. With the beginning of the the work w ill have the so called ‘democratic’ and of some of its distinguishing new radicalization, the party will The American working class new social crisis — with the circumstances, which have been tional tours in the past three no trouble selling it out each ‘republican’ parties with their features there can be little doubt. has changed profoundly in the profoundest revolutionary poten working against us, will work in years. We conducted two sessions confront its great opportunity to week. Bert reports the following lying promises of better working past 20 years. In fact, it has tialities — is in the making and our favor later on. of the Trotsky School, with 16 1. It is a cover organization leap from a propaganda circle to sales on street comers and house conditions, lower taxes, better undergone two profound changes. will-not fail to arrive. That is the I mention these adverse factors, students for six months each. A ll and front for the Stalinists. a party of the masses, as the to house last week: Helen, 17; things for the workers, better First, it changed from the atomiz­ source of our revolutionary opti which were imposed on us through these activities add up to what 2. It is controlled mainly by Russian Bolsheviks did in 1917. Sherry, 26; Mary Lou, 25; Frank, jobs fo r the colored people and ed and helpless class of the mism — with respect to America, no fault of our own, not to paint needed to be done and what could them and used for their pur­ Our effectiveness in this surging 12; Hayden, 6; Mitch, 3; Alice, better living for them. And their Twenties into the insurgent, semi- as well as to the rest of the a picture of gloom, but of reality, be done in the circumstances. No poses. movement, our prospects fo r a 11; Snow, 3; Carol, 10; Sam, 5; great big promise of passing the great leap forward, w ill depend revolutiqnary mass movements of world. or rather, a part of it. The total adventures, no jumping over our 3. I t echoes the phony and and Harvey, 5. FEPC law. I’ve been hearing the middle and late Thirties, reality has another side. The own heads. That is a merit, not upon how sharply we demarcate Henry James tells us of an ex­ these promises now fo r 20 years The question is: w ill we be treacherous “ co-existence peace our program from all the others, which rose up on the yeast of the ready for it, and prepared to Resolution says: “ Our party stood a fault. program” of the Stalinists. cellent sale in St. Paul of George and frankly I ’m fed up. I t ’s about un better than any of the others.” and — as things look now, and time there was a change. . Second, this in­ make the most of it when it The general orientation of the 4. It has a “ liberal” wing Breitman’s pamphlet “ The Jim That’s the truth. And it says as fa r as we can see —• it will surgent, broadly democratic mass comes? Naturally, that question Resolution is predicated on social divided into two sections: innocent Crow Murder of Mr. and Mrs. “ In the July 14 issue of The further, that we stood up better depend upon how firm ly we main­ Militant, Mr. Fred Hart’s column movement of the Thirties has can’t and won’t be conclusively convulsions which w ill bring with dupes and demagogues with then- Harry T. Moore.” “ We had a fine because we had correct policies tained our own independent party changed into the organized and answered Until the time of test them a new rise in the class own axe to grind. This wing is literature sale last Sunday. Six I think best summed up the and a firm principled stand organization and press. Republican party and the ‘big bureaucratized labor movement of and action comes. But one thing straggle and a new radicalization not more revolutionary than the of us went out and in one hour against all pressures. That’s the Ay doubt on this score,tor any hero and crusader,’ Eisenhower, the present day, grown passive can he said fo r sure: The final of unprecedented sweep and Stalinists. They will never be we sold 63 Moore pamphlets, one truth too, without any exaggera­ ambiguity, would be fa r more with boss Dewey’s machine behind and conservative under the in­ answer will be largely, and very power. That does not, by any revolutionists. sub to The M ilitant, and all the fluence of prosperity, and now tion or embellishment. means, exclude class straggle than a false tactic based on a papers we had left from our him to push him into the nomina­ probably, decisively, affected by 5. In addition, the PP has dominated from top to bottom by Our party stood up better than activity before the war or the misreading of reality. I t would bundle.” Henry also sends in some tion. So you can see why it is the role and perspective we set some youth in ferment and some a conservative bureaucracy of im­ the others because it had a firm crisis; or that we can -suspend strike directly at the right of more M ilitant renewals and re­ important to me and my friends fo r ourselves beforehand. That is of them are possible recruits. perialist agents. leadership with a correct policy, activity till the big showdown. the pprty to exist, at its historic ports that St. Paul has nearly to know what is going on in our the way the Resolution puts this This justifies a secondary tactical a Marxist leadership with a his­ The present steel strike is role in the American revolution. finished a period of visiting own paper and follow the pro­ The world program recruits all-important question. approach to them —| as to the torical perspective which looks evidence of this. The insurance The testing time for the SWP in subscribers for their renewals. gress of the man this country only the vanguard of the van­ That is not a mere ceremonial young Stalinists who have not beyend episodes. (From a Marx­ agents’ strike and the outlaw this respect is right now, and in “ We still have a number of peo­ needs, Farrell Dobbs.” guard. Those who are interested expression of future hopes. It is yet been demoralized and cor­ ist point of view the long boom strike of the New York long­ the period just ahead. It is ple to see and w ill no doubt get in ideas, however remote they the calm assertion of Marxist rupted. may appear to be. This was truth. It is the realistic appraisal is merely an episode. So are all shoremen are more evidence that necessary to clarify ..and empha­ their renewals.” shown by the example of the of our perspectives. I f we stand the momentary difficulties — the class straggle has not been This tactical approach to the size this question now, when so New York Literature Agent Communist Party in 1919-1930. It firmly by our principles, and keep mere episodes.) We stood up eliminated. But only partial and Stalinists is consistent with the many sections of the Fourth In ­ Ethel Swanson reports two new The was demonstrated again by our working and make no serious better than the others because we limited struggles can be ex­ main line of the Resolution — is ternational are compelled to enter subs. this week. “ Ray got one own experience in 1928-1934. It mistakes of policy, our time and have better human material, more pected before the real shake-up. subordinate to the main line, and Stalinist and reformist organiza­ while doing petition work and took the crisis to radicalize the our great opportunity will come. carefully selected and husbanded, We have to keep fighting. There is .nothing new. We have always tions in order to establish contact Beezie sold another sub where Jim Crow Murder masses and set them on the road 'Our Political Resolution is a sifted out and tested over a long is no escape from the daily strug­ fought Stalinism without a trace with the politically organized she works. This makes five subs to the CIO. I t was not the pro­ document fo r the occasion, an period of time. We stood up better gle: no escape, that is, except of compromise or conciliation — mass movements from which they sold by Beezie at her place. She of Mr. and Mrs. paganda of revolutionists that analysis of the present situation than the others because we did political death. and always w ill. But we have are isolated, and which cannot be says she hardly has to sell the wrought the first great change; and the probable lines of develop­ never denied that the Stalinists approached otherwise. paper. I t sells itself. She gave Horry T. Moore It was the social crisis of the ment in the next period, and the are a tendency in the labor move­ We are fu lly in favor of these a copy of The M ilitant to the last Thirties. And it should be fa irly tactical conclusions which follow Revolutionary Future in U. S. ment, and never rejected a united “ ehtrist” tactics where objective person she sold a sub to and yvhen obvious to Marxists that only from the analysis. front approach to them. reality imposes them. But that is he finished reading it he. said he W ill the new upsurge of trayed the promising le ft wing another social convulsion can The political heart of the Reso­ The Resolution visualizes the not the American reality. The liked it very much and would radicalism — which is in the movement of the Thirties. radically change the situation lution. are Section 4 and 5. These new radical upsurge as a seeth­ American situation is quite > dif­ like to get it every week. Also By GEORGE BREITMAN making and is bound to come — Will the Stalinists fall heir once again and open up great op­ sections deal w ith: to the next radicalization and ing, stormy movement within ferent. There is nothing like it she finds that people who are be the prelude to a great revolu­ which the Trotskyists, Stalinists, 10* portunities fo r the party. (1) “ The causes of labor con­ monopolize its leadership? The anywhere in the word. The Amer­ already subscribers help her to tionary develooment in the United centrists and reformists w ill The revolutionary party will be servatism and the premises for Resolution says this is not likely ican working class is unique. sell The M ilitant to new people.” States? Or w ill it end as another contend for the leadership. It w ill built in the class struggle as it a new radicalization;” and This is so, for a number of There is no parallel situation “ The recent issues of The M ili­ abortion, as in the past? Trotsky, most probably originate in the PIONEER PUBLISHERS unfolds in the U.S. Fortunately, (2) "The Perspectives of a reasons. anywhere. The uniqueness, the tant featuring the election cam­ as Marxists, we know that a New Radicalization.” in the early Thirties, wrote of unions, and the starting point singularity, of our situation con­ paign have been selling like hot 116 University PI., N. Y. 3 1. We are in their way. We past upheavals of the American w ill be protests over wages and sists in this: The American work­ cakes!” writes Minneapolis L iter­ worker which were derailed by are stronger and they are weaker living standards. Politicalization, ers are politically unorganized, ature Agent Helen Sherman. “ I Latest Catalogue- on Request quack policies of the leadership. than in the Thirties. of the movement w ill be a second” and the organizational forms hope you continue printing all He predicted a new one with a 2. Their treacherous record is stage, and the slogan to -gen­ their eventual politicalization will those wonderful ‘PRO’ letters Marxist direction.’ This, he said, remembered, and new treacheries eralize this politicalization will take remains to be decided. We would be not a “straw fire” but w ill be committed. be the slogan of the Labor Party will play a big part in the Subscribe! a veritable revolutionary con­ 3. A new bureaucracy in the based on the unions. decision. flagration. new unions, more socially con­ "WELFARE STATE" OR Start your subscription now. Clip the coupon and mail it The upheaval came as he pre­ scious, more sophisticated than dicted. But the M arxist leader­ by A RT PREIS in today. Send $1 for six months subscription or $2 for a full the bewildered labor fakers of The 1952 Election Campaign 40 Pages 10 Cents ship wasn’t yet there. Instead, the the AF'L who had no answer to year to The Militant, 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. 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There are befuddled, demoralized and be­ Soviet Union they think of slave- revolution. That’s what the party heavy pressures against us, and Page T h re e THE MILITANT Published Weekly in the Interests of the W orking People THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION 116 U n iv e r s ity P i., N . Y . 3, N . Y . P h o n e : A L 5-74G0 2,555 Arrested for Campaigning M O O FUND SCOREBOARD Editor: GEORGE BRKITMAN Business Manager: JOSEPH HANSEN Branch Pledge Paid Percent Subscription: $2 per year; $1 for 6 months. Foreign: $3.50 per year; $2 for 6 months. Bundle Orders (5 or more copies): 3c each in U.S.. Connecticut $ 125 $ 137 110 4c each In foreign countries. Cleveland 300 264 88 Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent The Mili­ Against South African Jim Crow St. Louis 50 40 80 tant’s policies. These are expressed in its editorials. Buffalo 1,500 1,081 72 “ Entered as second class matter March 7, 1044 at the Post Office AUGUST 18 — The South UNJUST LAW'S, selected volun­ other cities and towns of South plied: “ We are non-violent fight­ Boston 500 356 71 at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 3. 1879.” African government has arrested teers broke apartheid (segrega­ Africa, thousands and thousands ers for freedom. We are going to Chicago 1,500 1.050 70 2,5‘5>5 people since June 26, when tion) laws in six different centers of people attended meetings of Vol. X V I - No. 34 Monday, Augost 25, 1952 defy regulations that have kept Minneapolis-St. Paul 1,500 1,036 69 a campaign for mass defiance of of the Union of South Africa. the African and Indian Congress our fathers in bondage.” Akron 150 100 the country’s racial segregation The Nationalist government has Hundreds of ordinary people, 67 On the same day, June 26, a New York 4,500 2,789 62 laws was begun under the leader­ arrested the Secretary-General of workers, traders, students and batch of 30 volunteers was Detroit 2,113 1,194 57 ship of the National Action Com­ the African National Congress, professional men came forward Who Threatens War? arrested in Port Elizabeth, for Allentown 40 50 mittee of the African National Mr. Walter Sisulu, and the Secre­ 20 as volunteers in the struggle. defying the apartheid laws at the Newark 1,000 494 49 Try to imagine a situation in which the Soviet govern­ Congress and the South African tary of the South African Indian A t a crowded meeting at Cape railway station. Under these laws Seattle 400 176 44 ment established military bases in every nation of Europe Indian Congress. The latest pro­ Congress, Mr. Yusuf Cachalia, Town, the police arrested Johnson non-whites are prohibited from Philadelphia 350 151 43 minent victim seized by the and at Odendaalsrust, a big except two, and in most of the North African and Asian Ngwevela, prominent leader of using the same facilities provided San Francisco 900 374 police was Dr. James S. Moroka, mining town in the Orange Free 42 nations. In addition, imagine that the Soviet Union had the African National Congress, for whites at stations,t post of­ F lin t 300 118 39 president of the African National State, the police have turned for defying the order imposed on m ilitary bases or missions in almost every country of fices, trains, trams, buses, etc., Pittsburgh 40 15 38 Congress, arffested on Aug. 14 machine guns against African him by the Minister of Justice, etc. Oakland 300 82 27 North and South America. Imagine further that the Rus­ while attending his patients. men and women demonstrating forbidding him from participat­ A t the little town of Worcester, Youngstown 400 100 25 sian government had long-range bomber bases in Green­ Following is a report received against the extension of the hated ing in political activities of any in the Cape Province, a batch Milwaukee 325 80 24 in the United States last* week “ Pass Laws” to their women folk. kind and ordering him to resign land, Iceland, Cuba, the Bahamas, Panama, Newfound­ defied the apartheid regulations Los Angeles 2,200 500 23 from the National Action Com­ from the African National Con­ land, Trinidad, Puerto Rico and several other nations and at the Post Office. Some arrests General 150 288 192 mittee, describing the first stages MASS MEETINGS gress and other peoples oi-ganiza- were also made in Durban. islands of the Western hemisphere close to U.S. borders. of this heroic struggle against The organized acts of defiance tion. Total through Aug. 18 $18,600 $10,445 56 Imagine further a Soviet Army of six divisions sta­ the most savage Jim Crow system were preceded by great mass “ I was elected by my people WALTER SISULU tioned in South America and Soviet officers actively and in the world: meetings. In Port Elizabeth a to lead them to freedom,” he told Among those imprisoned is openly organizing a Latin American army, air force and Johannesburg — W ith the prayer meeting was held for the the meeting just before his arrest. Walter Sisulu, the Secretary- launching on June 26 of South campaign, in Johannesburg at “ The government has closed -my General of the African National naval force having an avowed anti-U.S. orientation. A frica’s, struggle of defiance of Orlando, in Oape Town and many mouth because it realized that I Congress and one of the architects In addition, imagine that half-a-million Russian troops am awakening you to fight for of the present campaign. had been sent to intervene in a Mexican civil war under the vour rights. In his farewell message, he How We View pretext that they were going to punish the people who Visits Egypt’s Neiv Premier “ I am breaking these bounds. I said: “ I have fu ll confidence that “started it” in the interests of international law and would rather die fighting for my no matter for how long I am imprisoned, the spirit of libera­ order. This Soviet Army, you must imagine, is fighting rights and for my people’s rights Progressive Party than surrender to oppression.” tion hns gone deep into the hearts against Mexican soldiers only a few hundred miles from of our people.” ------By Farrell Dobbs, SWP Presidential Candidate------the U.S. border, and is bombing just south of the Rio YOUTH LEADER Although it was made clear by In Johannesburg the police the National Action Committee A number of interesting and important questions are Grande. arrested 22 - year - old Ismail Finally imagine that this vast outflung Soviet m ili­ over and over again that the asked by some of the hundreds of letter writers who re­ Bhoola, joint secretary of the campaign would be conducted in sponded so inspiringly to the television and radio broad­ tary machine is being increased every month, and that Indian Youth Congress, fo r defy­ a disciplined and non - violent casts by Myra Tanner Weiss, ®" ing a similar ban imposed by manner and that only certain at the same time the Soviet press is filled with maps and Socialist Workers Party candi­ specifically in our broadcasts — Minister Swart. selected laws w-ould be defied, the diagrams showing the bombing range from these various date for Vice - President, and and it is so emphasized in our Both Ngwevela and Bhoola are government has chosen to ignore myself. This week I want to platform — that we are fo r a Soviet bases to New York, Chicago and other cities, the now behind prison bars together all. these declarations. Instead, it discuss two queries on our LABOR party. types of Soviet bombers that could make the bombing with great leaders of the South has preferred a charge, under the By that we mean a party com­ African people, Dr. Yusuf Dadoo, Riotous Assemblies Act, of “ con­ attitude toward the Progressive runs, etc. Party. pletely independent of the old After you have imagined all this, turn the entire pic­ Moses Kotane, David Bopape and spiring to incite public violence.” Mrs. O., of Atlantic City, N. J., capitalist parties and based upon ture around, and you will have some slight idea of the J. B. Marks. The cases are due to be heard Also on June 26 the Minister of on July 11. writes: “ How do you explain your the organized labor movement — the trade unions, first of all. The present world situation. You will see from which nation Justice served the banning order Explaining the reasons why party platform being the same Progressive Party is not based the threat to peace comes. against Mr. Sam Kahn, former these particular regulations and with one we already have. I am on the trade unions. I t does not Member of Parliament, expelled law were being chosen for talking of the Progressive Party. The Pentagon has approximately a million-and-a-half have the official support even of from the House of Parliament by defiance, Mr. Yusuf Cachalia, Don’t you think that your party U.S, Army, Navy and A ir Force personnel spread around some of the few, small inde­ the Nationalist government. A leader of the National Action will interfere by splitting the pendent unions which backed the the globe. Every nation of the Latin American region few hours later Mr. Kahn was Committee, stated: vote of organized labor and thus PP in 1948. except two contains a U.S. m ilitary mission or military arrested for attending a meeting “ The batch of volunteers defy­ play into the hands of the other of the Cape Town City Council ing the location Permit Regula­ parties that you oppose and We cannot split the vote of base or both. Almost every nation close.to the Soviet Union, organized labor by not support­ (of which he is an elected mem­ tions (Boksburg) w ill focus at­ criticize. . .” in Africa, Asi& or Australia, with the exception of those ing the Progressive Party, as ber) in defiance of the order. tention on the system which turns In a similar vein, W. J. L. of countries that are directly in the Soviet orbit, has a U.S. Mrs. O. claims, because organized There were unfm-gettable scenes African townships into fenced Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: “Every­ labor is overwhelmingly support­ military mission, is getting U.S. arms, or has a U.S. army, of determination, of sacrifice and compounds, closeted away from thing you said on television is ing the two capitalist parties. In navy or bomber base on its territory. courage as the people of South the outside world, and which true — on foreign, domestic, fact, the labor union officials Africa bade farewell to their first relatives and friends may enter PEPC, Civil Rights, about Demo­ In all, there are 27 nations or islands that have one or complain that both wc and the batches of volunteers. There was only on the good grace of the crats and Republicans — also that more U.S. m ilitary bases, mostly bomber bases, and 43 Ambassador Jefferson Cafferey (r.) is shown in Cairo with Progressive Party are splitting hardly any moving space as authorities. This system, entail­ the people need a MASS party to prime minister A ly Maher, who was put in power by Gen. Mahom- labor votes from the Democratic nations which are getting U.S. arms and military missions. crowds thronged the hall in ing monthly permit fees, drains carry out these aims. So if you med Naguib, leader of the army coup that resulted in abdication Party. In addition, there are 53 countries receiving so-called U.S. of King Farouk. New Egypt government cracked down on workers Johannesburg where the volun­ the family incomes and separates believe in what you said, you teers had gathered just before economic aid. shortly after coining to power, declaring a “ state of emergency” children from their parents. must join and work fo r the BASIC PROGRAM These are startling facts, but the State Department in an attempt to break textile workers strike and condemning going into action. Large forces ProgVessive Party, a real MASS But even if the Progressive of police, armed with batons and THOUSANDS JAILED one worker to death for his strike role. party.” Party were not a mass labor party propagandists say they have an explanaion for all of them. machine guns, stood outside the "In attacking the Curfew None of the main assumptions in the sense I have described, we They say that these bases and warlike actions are not hall, itching to stage a “ show­ Regulations (Johannesburg) the in these letters is correct. would still try to work with it, down.” But unfortunately for African volunteers are assailing aggressive, but are aimed at “ stopping aggression.” But if its basic program and ours the system that sends thousands .NOT MASS PARTY we have for the the United Slates from its con­ Senator — on the ballot in New®~ the role of American capitalism. SWP candidates, Farrell Dobbs tinental conservatism (‘isolation­ York State has been concluded. York state branches in an un­ His analysis, formed th irty years and Myra Tanner Weiss, have ism’). The program of ascending Nearly 15,000 signatures in 61 precedented three-week drive. ago, has been borne out wTith re­ been reached by the Wisconsin national capitalism — ‘America counties were secured by the New To assure a safe margin against markable fidelity. for the Americans’ (The Monroe SWP. 1,000 signatures on three petitions for President, Vice- possible challenge by the Doctrine) — has been supplant­ PROPHETIC WORDS President, and 12 Presidential capitalist parties, the SWP ob­ ed by the program of imperial­ In the April, 1934 issue of the Electors have been obtained tained almost 3000 more signa­ ism, ‘The Whole World for the L. A. Socialist Hits U.S. magazine Foreign A ffairs along with a sufficient safety tures than are legally required, Americans.’ ” From this Trotsky Trotsky wrote: “Sooner-or later, margin of signatures. Work began and more than double the later drew the conclusion in his American capitalism must open up on Aug. 9. Filing date for peti­ Democrat’s ‘White minimum needed in each of the book “ Europe and America,” pub­ ways for itself through the length tions is Sept. 23. 61 counties. lished in the mid-Twenties, that and breadth of our entire planet. Work to obtain 5,000 signatures U.S. capitalism intends to put FRIENDLY RECEPTION By what methods? By all meth­ to place James E. Boulton, M il­ Supremacy Deal’ “capitalist Europe on rations.” A t no time during the cam­ ods. A high coefficient of pro waukee Organizer of the SWP, LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17 — These are the essential ele­ paign in the more conservative ductivity denotes also a high co­ on the Independent ballot for Milton Snipper, independent can­ ments of Trotsky’s prediction as up-state counties did any of the efficient of destructive force.” U jS. Senator is approaching the didate running fo r Congressman to American capitalism’s world expected hostility materialize. Around the same time, in his half-way mark. The Wisconsirf from the 19th D istrict with the LEON TROTSKY role: An “eruption of American Petition workers reported a pamphlet War and the Fourth In- organization w ill also endeavor edorsement of the Socialist Work­ imperialism” would have to come Farrell Dobbs (1.) Socialist Workers Party candidate for friendly reception almost every­ ternatidhal, he amplified this to nominate Raymond Shepherd, ers Party, today challenged his because the vast productive ap­ President, and Michael Bartell, candidate for U.S. Senate, who where. “ Capitalism in the United States space of seven years, a complete auto worker and Milwaukee SWP “ liberal” opponent, Rep. Chet paratus of American capitalism w ill head the anti-war ticket in N. Y. In the communities where sig­ is running head on into those reversal in the sphere of the Executive Board member, for Holifield, to tell the people of the would try to dominate a corres­ natures were hard to obtain, the problems which impelled Ger world division of labor. For four- First District Assemblyman in 19th D istrict why he is supporting pondingly vast portion of the resistance was based on fears of many in 1914 upon the road of odd years Europe became convert­ Milwaukee. the Dixiecrat slate. Snipper, a world market; U.S. capitalists retaliation by the witch-hunters. war . . . For Germany it was a ed into a sheet of fire . . . while trade unionist fo r many years, w ill try to ‘organize’ the world f ig h t McCa r t h y Especially friendly and co­ question of ‘organizing’ Europe the American capitalists warmed sent the following open letter to put Europe on rations and dom­ operative receptions were report­ For the United States it is a their hands at the flames.” Boulton will campaign against Mass Protests Force Holifield: inate the entire world market. In ed from industrial cities such as question of ‘organizing’ the Wisconsin’s notorious Senator AMERICAN DILEMMA this effort American capitalism Dear Sir: Schenectedy, Norwich and Am­ world. History is taking mankind McCarthy, and the Democratic The great leap in American w ill use “ all methods” ; its econ­ I request an explanation from sterdam. In Amsterdam, many directly into the volcanic erup probable, Thomas Fairchild, who production and exports, Trotsky omy indicates a “ high coefficient you concerning a vita! issue con­ textile workers, who had been tion of American imperialism.” is shy of enthusiasm in the ranks Cut In Belgian Draft points out. came at a time when of destructive force.” of labor for his pro-employer fronting the people of the coun­ out on strike for 12 weeks, signed These prophetic words, written the European and world markets We have ^ertainly seen this com- rulings against utility strikers. By Charles Hanley The popular movement against try. readily and expressed approval before World War II, before the were entering upon a period of i ing true before our eyes in recent Reports from the Wisconsin poli­ A fter vigorous popular demon­ the 24-months service was not Three weeks ago the Demo­ of our efforts to place labor atom bomb, Korean intervention, decline. Trotsky continued in the years. As a matter of fact, it is tical scene indicate the complete strations (in which-even soldiers “ staged” by obscure “ Communist cratic Party at its national con candidates on the ballot. the Atlantic pact and the Mar­ above report: only in these last few years that disappearance of the People’s in uniform participated in several conspirators.” It was an authentic vention climaxed its betrayal of A t a number of places, even in shall Plan, before the world­ “ America’s productive capac­ Trostky’s prediction has devel­ Progressive Party, and show no cases,) expressing opposition to mass movement showing how the the Negro people of the country. Liberty, Sullivan County, the girdling armament drive by ity has grown extraordinarily but oped fully, despite the fact that evidence that the SP w ill the 24-month term of m ilitary toilers feel about “Western de­ In the interest of a deal with the heart of the Catskill Mtn, resort Washington, were the result of her market has vanished because in 1921 elements of this picture nominate a candidate for U.S. service, the Catholic Belgian gov­ fense” as ordered by Washington. white supremacists of the South, areas, local workers enthusiastic many years devoted to the study Europe is impoverished and can had appeared. TrotsKy took these Senator. Frank Zeidler, M il­ ernment reduced this term to 21 There is enough evidence for the Democratic Party has aban­ over the idea of labor candidates, of American capitalism. Ameri­ no longer buy American goods. elements, and, seeing their im ­ waukee Mayor who advocated months on Aug. 13. The present their hale against bourgeois m ili­ doned even the pi’etense of a fight assisted the campaigners by can workers, who are so deeply It is as if Europe had first done portance and force, constructed dissolution into the Democratic conscription law remains valid, tarism. And the Socialist leaders for civil rights. To seal this voluntarily taking petitions and affected., by the bellicose war- everything in her power to help the future from them. W ith the Party in 1950, attended the re­ but the Prime Minister, Jean had to take this into account bargain with the Southern reac­ signing up their friends. This kind trend of American capitalism, America climb to the lopmostrung powerful vision of genius, he saw cent Democratic National Con­ Van Houtte, w ill use his powerb despite their usual right wing tionaries, Senator Sparkman of of assistance was also received may well ask: How did Trotsky and then pulled the ladder out.” them as somewhat closer than vention in Chicago as a DP guest. under the law' to release the policy. They had to organize Alabama, a notorious Dixfecrat, in the Puerto Rican section of predict this trend with such cer­ In a remarkable paragraph they turned out in reality. It appears that the SWP w ill soldiers after they have served 21 mass actions if they didn’t want labor-hater and redbaiter, was Harlem. tainty so many years ago?’ If later in the same speech, Trotsky Trotsky yielded to no one in occupy the position of a third months. lo lose many votes in the coming nominated for Vice-President. Many workers after signing Trotsky predicted it he must have summarized the course of capi­ his admiration for American in­ party in the Wisconsin elections The Socialist opposition had municipal elections (which are to So brazen was this sellout of the petitions bought literature had an understanding of its talism from the beginning of dustrial techniques. In his asked for an 18-months term as be held in October.) There was civil rights that most of the 60 .and asked to be placed on the causes. We are justified in say­ the F irst Wolrd War: “ A t the Introduction to The Living in France. The Van Houtte gov­ no secretly staged conspiracy: Negro delegates walked out of Party’s mailing lists. ing that by studying Trotsky’s given moment capitalism has en­ Thoughts of Karl Marx he wrote: Hoodlums Attack ernment officially declared it The people were w illing to fight the convention. Adam Clayton The necessary checking of sig­ w ritings about America, workers tered a period of prolonged and “ The North American republic Rallies of ALP renounced the 24-months term be­ any dictatorship of the military Powell, Representative in Con­ natures and other paper work can come to understand the profound depression. S trictly has gone further than others in cause the other NATO - nations men — domestic and foreign. The gress from New- York, who led still remains to be completed, but Hoodlums, shouting anti- causes of the war drive and how speaking, this epoch should have the sphere of technique and the had failed to raise their serVice struggle against Catholic power the walkout, announced that he petitions will be ready to be Semitic slogans, attacked open- to fight it. set in . . . as fa r back as 1913 organization of production. Not term to 24 months and Belgium and the opposition to militarism would not campaign fo r the filed early in September. air . rallies of the American Trotsky lived in New York for when the world market as a re­ only Americans but all of man­ could not be expected to keep a are still the two most popular Presidential slate of the Demo­ Labor Party on New York’s a short time during 1917, and his sult of 20 years of turbulent de­ kind will build on that founda­ i longer term than its Atlantic issues in the Belgian labor move­ cratic Party. “They can cram a East Side on July 31 and Aug. autobiography describes his stu­ velopment. had already become tion” But he saw this remark­ Treaty partners. (France and ment. candidate down our throat, but 7. The second time they Over 19 Million dies of the American economy: inadequate for the development able technical superiority para­ Italy: 18 months; Netherlands: According to the N. Y. Herald they canot make us vote for assaulted several persons, in­ “The figures showing the growth of German, English and North lyzed so long as capitalism con­ j 20 months; Luxembourg: 12 Tribune, a defense spokesman him.” The Negro people, he said, Veterans in U.S. cluding one whose stomach of American exports durijig the American capitalism. These gi­ tinued to rule. He concluded his j months.) said Belgium’s whole m ilitary have been “ sold down the river.” was but open by a nail-studded The Veterans Administration (F irst World) War astounded ants of capitalist development Introduction by predicting: “The The Associated Press does not planning up to 1954 w ill have to As your opponent for Congress board. When ALP leaders went reports that there were 19,288,- me; they were in fact a complete ! tell the truth when it pretends be revised. The other Atlantic in the 19th District, I condemn took it fu lly into account. They contradictions which rend Europe to a police station to complain, 000 living veterans in this revelation. And it was those same that the strikes and demonstra­ Treaty nations are also behind the betrayal of the Democratic said to themselves: In order to and the entire world asunder will one of them was h it in the country on June 30. This in­ figures that not only predeter­ tions which forced the govern­ schedule in their military effort. Party and will oppose their Presi­ avoid this depression which w ill find their natural and peaceful face by a .captain. Another cludes 921,000 veterans since mined America’s intervention in linger for many years, we shall solution within the framework of ment to change its position were This is due to financial difficul­ dential slate as well as that of rally at the same place, 7th “ staged mainly by Communist- ties and to popular opposition the Republican Party. the start of the Korean war, the war but the decisive part that create an acute war crisis, de­ a Socialist United States in St. and Ave. A, has been called 15,369,000 veterans of World the United States would play in stroy our rival and gain unchal­ Europe as well as in other parts dominated trade unions.” (N. Y. against a two-year-term. Amer­ I call upon all m inority peoples for Aug. 21. Police, who issued Herald Tribune, Aug. 14.) The ican imperialism has assigned to and the labor movement to build War II, and 3,919,000 of all the world after the war, as well.” lenged domination over the of the world. Liberated humanity permits for the first two rallies other wars and peacetime ser­ world market that has become too will draw itself up to its full Stalinists would have been unable ] the peoples of Europe a task a new party, an independent Since the American capitalists and failed to protect them, Labor Party, and fight for a vice. had branched out into the world constricted. But the war lasted height.” This great forecast is to organize the 24-hour general: which they are unwilling and promise to do better on Aug. strike of Aug. 9: They are but a unable to fu lfill entirely. Workers and Farmers Govern- This means that more than market on such a gigantic scale, far too long, provoking not only at present in the process of real­ 2 1 . small minority in the Belgian The anti-m ilitarist action of the ! nient. Only such a course of ac- one out of every four males in i t vvas also necessary fo r the an acute crisis but a protracted ization before our eyes. working class and dominate only Belgian workers has been truly tion can advance the struggle for the United States, including a few, comparatively unimportant political in character. I t occured civil rights and form ally end the children, has undergone some m ilitary service — or about union in that country. The in a period of relative absence of nightmare of Jim Crow terror. Socialists are the big party of Furthermore I propose in the two out of every five males economic struggles and during the Belgian proletariat. The union election to campaign for the above the age of 17. leaders collaborate with the the weeks of paid vacations of Presidential slate of the Socialist If the draft continues at its A Socialist Alternative to War numerous workers, and is all the Workers Party: Farrell Dobbs Socialist party. Most of them are present rate, the figure w ill anti-Stalinists. for President and Myra Tanner soon reach one out of every A new order is growing in of the government in any of its of how and where to invest their more remarkable fo r that reason. (Continued from page 1) Weiss fo r Vice-President. two males above the draft age. Asia. Century-old feudal land the capitalist system. Wars may policies finds himself the object billions in profit. A ll this surplus The Socialist Workers Party k ill o ff millions of people, but relations that kept the peasants of suspicion and persecution. wealth produced by the workers has a fighting program of strug­ in chronic famine are being they make a few capitalists rich Americans, who were once proud, can be used fo r humanity. W e! gle against racism in the. United, and very, very rich. This is the destroyed. Women once sold into independent and boldly free are will fight disease with it, build LEADER IN FORD LOCAL States. I t stands for an end to reason for two world wars and marriage or foreign-owned fac­ being forced to speak cautiously, homes and bigger and better discrimination and segregation ini Local Addresses now the threat of a third. tories are ending their terrible and to even think cautiously. schools with it. We can prolong the armed forces and in all gov- The Korean and Chinese people bondage. They are winning their Election laws are being changed life with it, instead of destroying CALLS FOR LABOR PARTY ernment agencies; fo r a real, freedom from ancient slavery. to make it more difficult, and in are not menacing our shores, our life. And if we still can’t use ail DETROIT, Aug. 10 — A voice favoring a new political FEPC with strong enforcement; Of Socialist homes, our freedom. We are men­ Wealthy American capitalists many States, impossible for we can produce, we can work Course for American labor spoke out this week, when Mike powers; an end to all forms of acing and destroying theirs. But didn’t bring them this freedom. minority parties to get on the shorter hours and have longer discrimination. This is the pro­ the people of Asia, all of Asia, Stalin didn’t give them this new ballot. The entire-organized labor vacations. Donnelly, President of the Dearborn Assembly Plant Unit gram which I shall carry directly Workers Party threaten the right of American life. They fought fo r it and are movement has become the target of the Ford Motor company urged to the pedple, to the labor move­ AKRON —For Information, write P. U. SOCIALIST FUTURE B o x 1342. capitalists to exploit their land winning it. A taste of freedom is of vicious anti-labor laws. the creation of a labor party, in In the Aug. 2 issue of Ford ment, and to the minority organ­ enough fo r people to know the Isn’t such a life worth fighting BOSTON—W orkers Educational Center, and their people. They are tired We are in danger r>f becoming his Aug. 9 column in Ford Facts, Facts Donnelly had stated, “ It izations. 80 Stuart St. Open Tuee., 5:30-9 P.M. for? Then why not fight for it? Social last Sat. of every month. of the grinding poverty they have agony of the past and to abhor the frightened and servile sub­ looks as if the time is ripe for a Where do you stand, Mr. H oli­ They ask you to fight fo r the organ of Ford Local 600 UAW- BUFFALO)—M ilitant Forum, 629 Main kno.wn as our allies. Their fight­ it. Our bombs can burn them jects of a military-police dictator­ solid Labor Party of all labor field? You claim to be a friend of so-called free-enterprise system Street, 2nd fl. Open every aftemooD ex­ ing capacity is bom of the hope alive but they can never destroy ship. CIO. organized instead of splinter the minorities and of the labor cept Sun. Phone MAdtson 3 96(1. and you know what that is. of a new and better life than they their dream of a better life. But all this is necessary be­ .groups opposing each other. movement. Yet, you propose to CHICAGO—734 S» Wabash Ave. Open ANSWERS FORD dally except Sunday, 12-6:00 PM. Phone have known in the past. I f the American people knew cause the cooks in Washington Capitalism has given us two “I hope for the good of all citi­ support the Dixiecrat anti-labor W riting an open letter to HArrlson 7-0403. Do you know what is happen­ the facts and could decide the are brewing up a dish that none world v'ars and a major depres­ zens in the USA that after the slate of the Democratic Party. I sion. It is giving you inflation Henry Ford II, Donnelly gave an CLEVELAND — 101509 Superior Ave. ing in Asia? Do you, know what issue of war or peace, there of us want, and they are going 1952 elections, all labor leaders contend that this is hypocrisy DETROIT—6108 Llnwood Ave. Open effective answer to a column in gives these poorly equipped peo­ would be no war today or ever to try to force us to take it. and taxes that your children and will get together and form a la­ and political double-dealing. The Mon. through Sat., 12-5 P.M. Phone TT your .children’s children w ill still the . Detroit Free Press written 7-6267. ple the courage to stand up again. That is why the Repub­ Once more the American peo­ bor party.” first political lesson of 1952 reads: be paying o ff‘ It gives you race by Ford, giving his “ impressions” FLINT—SWP. 1007 Oak Street. Phon against the -most powerful mili­ licans and Democrat’s do their ple are going to have to intervene Donnelly indicated in this ar­ He who supports the party of 22496. discrimination, national hatreds, of the two major political con­ tary force in history? To face planning in secret. They make in the political life of our coun­ ticle that he was going to go Southern lynchers is helping an MIS ANGELES — 1702 East 4th St police brutality, and all the ventions. Phone ANgelus 9-4953. napalm bombs and skies fu ll of secret treaties; conduct secret try. Only you can change the along with the Democratic Party enemy of the working people and weariness and loneliness of a life MILW AUKEE—917 N. 3rd St.. 3rd fl. death? That courage is not in­ diplomacy; avoid debate even in course of this nation. And it is “ You say you were impressed as the “ lesser evil.” an enemy of the minorities. Open Sun. through Frl., 7:30-9:30 P.M. of labor burdened with insecurity. spired by Stalin. No dictator or Congress with undeclared wars. your right and duty to change it, with the convention delegate’s MINNEAPOLIS—10 South 4th St. Open Is capitalism the best of all dafiy except Sun. 10 A.M.-6 P.M. Libra­ tyrant could inspire such sacrifice We Americans are the victims fon you who labor, the worker, faith,” Donnelly wrote. “I say possible worlds? I f man could ry. bookstore. Phone Main 7781. of human life. of a giant conspiracy. the farmer, the housewife and the delegates of both parties let NEW HAVEN—For Information, writ* progress no further than this we But t]ic truth breaks through mother, the youth, are this na­ the 156 million Americans down.” STALIN'S FRAME-UP SYSTEM P.O. Hox 1019. w'ould be sorry creatures indeed. NEW ARK—52 Market St., cdr. Plane. all their war propaganda and tion, its substance and its In his article, Ford termed him­ AND But through the centuries we N E W Y O R K C IT Y — H q . : 116 U n iv e r s ity hysteria. To ward off the tjHSTible strength. self “ a sideline witness to the Place. Phone: A L 5-7852. Philadelphians have fought for and won an ever anger the American people w ill We must break with the old process by which democracy se­ THE MOSCOW TRIALS BROOKLYN — 18 NevJna Street, 2nd hear the Great Debate greater measure of freedom and flo o r. feci as the deception is dis­ two Party system. We must build lects its leading men.” Naturally on your radio human dignity. And we shall con­ By LEON TROTSKY KLAND (Cal.) — For Information covered, they are trying to an independent labor party. We he said nothing ’of the tremen­ P .O . Box 1953. Socialism vs Capitalism tinue to do so. The fu ll text of Trotsky’s masterful analysis of the frighten and intimidate us with must win a workers and farmers dous pressure exerted by himself Moscow Trials in his summation speech before the PHILADELPHIA — 1303-05 W. Girard an unprecedented attack on our . W ith our socialist future, man’s and other leading manufacturers Ave., 2nd fl. Open every Frl. evening, for Socialism — Mike Bartell government. John Dewey Commission of Inquiry which investigated rthone Stevenson 4-5820. civil liberties. history w ill just begin. Instead of to get the Republican nomination and Anna Chester Such a government, based man fighting man, we shall be Stalin’s frame-up charges. ST. LOUIS—For information, Phone Senatorial candidates People are deprived of their directly on your organizations, for Eisenhower. MO 7194. united in struggle fo r the con- AN introduction by Joseph Hansen which brings the ST. PAUL—Phone State headquarter* jobs, persecuted and imprisoned Donnelly’s letter concludes: of the S.W.P. can organize a planned economy, nuest of nature. And all we must record of Stalin’s frame-up system up-to-date and M A In 778-1. for their opinions — not for “ What the Ford workers need for Capitalism — Professors where science can be put to work do for this great new world, is includes an analysis of recent trials in Eastern Europe. SAN FRANCISCO—1739 Fillmore St. crimes committed but for things in 1952 is an organized labor 4th fl. Open dally except Sunday, 12- from the Univ. of Penn. for the benefit of man instead of to learn to think, to know the they believe. its destruction. Where we can party. W ith over 60,000,000 168 pages $1.00 1:30 P.M. Phone F l 6-0410. truth, to have the courage to SEATTLE—Maynard Bldg., 1st Ave., Fri., Aug. 29, 11:15PM to 2 AM This witch-hunt isn’t just aimed live together in peace with the working men and women in this speak the truth, and to fight for PIONEER PUBLISHERS So. and Washington, Era 201. Open Mon. WPEN (Steve Allison Program at the Stalinists. Militant work­ rest of the world. country they should have more through Sat. 12-5 P.M. Branch meeting — 950 on dial) it. I f we do this, the tyrants can 116 University Place New York 3, N. Y. tvery Thurs., 7:30 P.M. Library, book­ ers, liberals, New Dealers, anyone We want to relieve the bil­ to say on how this country is be­ store. Phone Main 9278. who has anything critical to say lionaires of their terrible problem tremble fo r the world w ill be free. ing run.” YOUNGSTOWN — 234 B. Federal *U