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Truman Speech Workers of the World, Unite ! Covers Up Secret THE MILITANT Wake Decisions PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE By Fred Hart Vol. XIV - No. 43 H t NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1950 PRICE: FIVE CENTS The significance of Truman’s San Francisco speech on Oct. 17 lies not so much in what was said as in what was so deliberately left unsaid. Truman disclosed nothing what- » Demand Freedom ever about the purpose and results mumbling word to say about For Lt. Gilbert of his meeting with MacArthur on Formosa which is now virtually a PHILADELPHIA, Oct 16 — Wake Island where the twain met military protectorate of the Clyde Turner and Herbert as if they were representatives of United States. He did not so much L e w i n. Militant (Socialist) two sovereign powers, each ini i-s mention Indo-China. Instead of After Nov. 7: Taxes Up, Workers Party candidates re tialling a joint communique which clarifying his administration’s spectively for U. S. Senator confined itself to meaningless policy in the Far East, he and Governor; today demanded generalities. resorted to the moth-eaten dema gogic pretenses, disclaiming that that President Truman revoke In an explanation which ex Washington sought “territory or the frame-up death sentence of plained exactly nothing Truman special privileges in Korea or Lt. Leon Gilbert and exonerate affirmed that he went to Wake anywhere else.” him unconditionally. Island merely because he “wanted They charged that Gilbert, a Living Standards Down to talk to General MacArthur” WORTHLESS ASSURANCES Negro officer of York, Pa., who and found the conference “very What are these assurances was court-martialed in Korea, satisfactory.” worth in the face# of the actions is “a victim of the infamous According to Joseph C. Harseh, of the Truman administration? Jim Crow practices which the Huge Arms Budget head of the Washington bureau of At the very moment Truman was U. S. Army has borne with it New Squeeze the Christian Science Monitor, the mouthing these lies, it was of to every corner of the globe.” “deepest secret” of the Wake ficially announced in Washington “Only an aroused American Reported Readied Island conference was the one that the French militarists have people can save Lt. Gilbert’s Is Admitted hour session which "preceded the been allotted $2.4 billion, a goodly life and repulse this calculated formal conference” and in which slice of which is to finance the attempt by the Army brass to By Chiefs of Staff the “m ilitary members* of the war of the French c6loniaI despots smear the Negro troops and Just what lies in store for the By Symington presidential party participated.” against the Indo-Chinese people. incidentally the Negro people,” American people in the w-ay Simultaneously reports continue they declared, appealing for a By John G. Wright BRASS HATS ELATED of increased arms expenditures appearing in the press that much mighty mass protest in defense It is the calculated policy Far-reaching decisions were ob bigger U. S. forces would be whose burden will fall entirely on viously made. But no one knows of Gilbert to be led by the of the Truman administra stationed in the Far East than NAACP, CIO and AFL. (heir shoulders? The Truman ad what they ■ are. Harseh reports (Continued on page 2) tion to impose successive ministration is being deliberately that the military chieftains — slashes of living standards upon General Bradley, Admiral Radford vague on this score. the American workers and the and their staffs — were elated Truman himself, in his last mass of the people. If up to now by the outcome. They “got what GOVT. BEGINS ENFORCING “fireside chat,” referred to the this has been implied in every they wanted — in fact they got current 39 billion dollar arms bill, major policy statement issuing more than they ever expected and warned that bigger appro from Washington, then today it when the trip was extemporized M'CARRAN-KILGORE LAW priations would be forthcoming. has been made clear beyond the so hastily.” MacArthur reportedly Speaking before the Nebraska shadow of a doubt by W. Stuart “expressed equal satisfaction.” By John F. Petrone bankers’ association on Oct. 12, Symington, chairman of the Na Harseh sums up what these The Truman administration began to enforce the Secretary of the Navy Matthews tional Security Resources Board militarists “got” as “an improved estimated that the next year’s and Truman’s chief policy-maker stage setting for the evolution of McCarran-Kilgore police-state law last week. Section 22 of the law forbids the entry into this country of any alien arms budget “might exceed” the in overall charge of the arms a more active and more vigorous entire national budget for this program. Far Eastern policy.” who has “at any time” been a » year, which amounts to more than Symington, who in these except those of DP’s and ordered The chief advocate of this member of, or affiliated with, a 42 billion. He then went on to add matters speaks with an authority a rescreening of all aliens abroad “more active and more vigorous” “.communist” or other “totali that the final sum would be second only to Truman himself, who had applied for entry into policy is, as is well-known, Mac tarian” party. The Attorney Gen “painful to contemplate.” granted an interview to the eral may make exceptions in cases the U. S. Arthur. He is for holding Formosa Rumors persist of arms budgets weekly U. S. News of Oct, 20, A typical and widely publicized at all costs. He favors open mili of foreign visitors coming here of 50 billion and more. The most clarifying administration policy. case was the detention for 48 tary intervention in Indo-China. temporarily, but is required under sensational estimate was made Flatly declaring that Korea was hours of a 20-year old Austrian In fact, he is the proponent of the law to report the information public on Oct. 9 by columnist “ totally incidental to the overall about these exceptions to Con pianist who had been enrolled by the m ilitary conquest of the Robert S. Allen who flatly slated problem,” Symington affirmed his father a% a member of the Asiatic mainland, in the first in gress. that the Joint Chiefs of Staff that “military outlays are going The consequence of enforcing Hitler Youth in Vienna at the age stance, of China. have drafted budgets for the co get much higher.” This means Section 22 was that hundreds of of ten, and whose brief trip to the This secret meeting wrapped up Army, Navy and Air Force that “much higher taxes.” Symington people arriving at Ellis Island, U. S.' was for the sole purpose of within the mysterious Wake “would bring'the amount of mill- then went on to stress that “the especially Germans and Italians, playing the piano. Island conference which brought I ary expenditures for this fiscal Hanley Letter Lifts Lid American people should be agree were detained at Ellis Island while Public reaction was so unfavor so much satisfaction to the m ili year to the stupendous total of able to a curtailment in their the Department of Justice con able that some of the chief con tarists bodes nothing but evil for $62 billion.” standard of living.” both the people of this country sidered their cases. The congestion gressional sponsors of the law This staggering figure does not The crux of the interview came and the masses of the F ar East. became so great that the State protested that the administration On Political Cesspool include some $7 billion for guided in the following carefully worded Truman did not have a Department suspended all visas was deliberately enforcing Section 22 in such a way as to create missiles and atomic explosives By Joseph Hansen nomination. Frank E. Gannett, a It is not known whether Macy question: “ Many people have now under consideration by the thought that our productive “ill will” toward the law'. There SWP Candidate for U. S. Senator Rochester publisher, loaned Han lopped Dewey’s bid or simply National Security Council. Nor facilities were so great that we may have been an element of from New York ley another $19,000 for the same forced Hanley to write this letter truth in this charge, but it was does it include additional billions purpose. In all, Hanley admits on official stationery after the could take it (the arms program) Another major political scandal On Ballot Again, Off Again- undeniable that everything the for the expanded arms program owing $100,000. Macy and Gannett double-cross. But Macy did cir in our stride. Do you share that rocked New York politics this administration was doing 1 was of the Atlantic Pact countries. were backing Hanley against culate photostatic copies of the view?” week with the publication of a authorized and permissible under (France alone has been promised Dewey, and Dewey had promised letter so that they soon fell into And here is Symington’s very letter by Lt. Gov. Joe Hanley, Minn. SIVP Continues Fight Section 22. S2.4 billion as her share.) to withdraw. Democratic hands. Out of revenge carefully worded answer: “I do Republican candidate for U. S. It was also undeniable that in These items would send the ar to gain factional advantage, not. I don’t think we can build Senator, confessing that Gov. By Winifred Nelson certain respects the administra projected arms budget well over PUT ON THE HEAT Macy appeared willing to en adequate security without cutting Thomas E.