Hiss’ Own Story A Book Review (See Page 3) t h e MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Vol. XXI - No. 33 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1957 PRICE 10c Clifford T. McAvoy, Active Fighter for Congress Prepares to Send Socialism; Dies Harry Ring Civil Rights Bill to Its Grave The fight for a Socialist America suffered a grievous - — ------f y ------loss with the death of Clifford T. McAvoy on Aug. 9. A former leader of the American Labor Party in New York, McAvoy had played an important S ------role in current efforts to achieve Many Cases Revealed a regroupmcnt of revolutionary Strike Flares in Poland socialist forces. He died of nephritis at the age of. 52 _n Cape Cod1 Hospital in Mas rT Of Political Horse-Trades sachusetts. He had planned to spend a summer vacation there Use Troops and also to play as violinist in the Provincetown Symphony. He With Dixiecrat Senators is survived by his wife and stead To Smash By Fred Hart fast co-worker, Muriel, and by a son and daughter. AUG. 16 — The civil rights bill, which had been Despite ill health over a Sit-Down amended to death in the Senate, now faces burial in the past number of years, McAvoy Rules Committee of the House of Representatives. Since continued with a rigorous By C. R. Hubbard New York City Coun• POLICE USE TEAR GAS number of persons insisted that ministration is taking a calcu sonal career. Possessor of a Ph.D. cil! in 1951 he polled over 100,000 1 The strikers opened their fight even with teeth the law would lated gamble on the civil rights in Romance languages, he taught votes. In the 1953 race for by taking possession of the fail of its purpose. “In that; \ ,’n Hie belief that there is from 1927 to 1938 at Columbia Mayor he was designated as the; ' I Streetcar and bus terminals. case,” I asked, “what can be political gam in prolonging the University and City College of ALP candidate. However by that - They brought down their done?” “Well, bad as thi3 law battle.” New York. It was during this time the Communist Party families, packed lunches and ' period that he became immersed leadership — whose policies may be, it will do one good SMITH STAND ■ prepared to stay. until their , thing. Colored folks down South in labor and radical politics. McAvoy had previously sup for Witch Hunt In turning the bill over to ' demands were met. The police, Set-Back will start fighting even harder He was an active member cf ported — had begun the process s reinforced from Warsaw, closed than before.” Rules Committee Chairman How the Teachers Union during that of scuttling the ALP. Largelyr in on the strikers , with fixed ard Smith (D-Va.) the Republi “We just gotta get on those period and soon after its forma as a result of the CP forces* bayonets. John MacCormac, who cans are apparently banking on juries, that’s all,” put in his: tion became a leading figure in deserting the ticket he polled1'' interviewed the strikers at the j bringing the bill out again in in Ohio T-H Case neighbor. “But how?" said a| the American Labor Party. but 53,000 votes in that contest, j Seen • principal terminal, report'd in I the next session for further poli In 1938, after a unsuccessful At that point the late Vito Mar-1 By Jean Simon _ .•>- third man, five years out of tical exploitation. (On Aug. 14, ' I the Aug. 14 N. Y. Times that Mississippi. “How, man, that’s bid for the State Assembly on cantonio, who had campaigned* the resistance of the women who tended until August 5. The ino- Rep. Smith told the press, ‘‘I CLEVELAND, August 12 — Weakness of the gov- tion was gl.anted. the question. You know it will the ALP ticket he was appointed for McAvoy, broke from the^occupied the front ranks was am inclined to follow the course take a civil war to do that!” by La Guardia as a Deputy Wel ALP with a denunciation of the broken when police donned eminent s case becomes more apparent each week, as the 1 On August 5 another two most likely to result in no bill. “Well, anyway, this law will sure fare Commissioner, a post he CP’s role. masks and hurled tear gas bombs Sept. 16 trial date approaches in the Taft-Hartley Con weeks ext elusion was requested, Do I make myself clear?”) help put the South on the spot held until 1941. McAvoy remained in the ALP into the strikers’ ranks. Five spiracy Case. and granted. now. That’s one good thing about No m atter how much they try In that year he accepted an (Continued on page 3) Lust Jan. 23 eight persons of these documents must be pro The obvious inference is that women were reported injured it.” to pin the blame on each other, and hospitalized. were indicted by a federal grand vided. the Justice Department is hav both parties share the responsi It should hardly be surprising In a 15-minute act’on, Aug. 14, ,jury here for “conspiring” to vi The overt act charged to Eric ing difficulty in digging up facts bility for gutting the proposed that the reaction of many Ne 3,000 army and police units took olate the Taft-Hartley act by fil Reinthaler, another defendant, to back up its accusations. law. On the Republican side, The weakness of (he govern groes to the Senate bill is over the three major streetcar ing “false 'affidavits of Noncom- was that “On or about April, the Administration-sponsored bill strongly tinged with bitterness. Japanese Unions Hail terminals. Cops and soldiers munist Union Officer. . . .” 1952,” he “did transport a per ment’s case is further indicated ! was weak to begin with. Then One man, furious at the very manned the streetcars. June 19, in a memorandum son known to him to be a mem by the nature of the “documents” Republican strategists joined mention of the bill, said, “We A truckload of strikers sent to ber of the Communist Party the U.S. Attorney agreed to fur : with the Dixiecrats and liberal ruling on a number of motions, need action, not more laws that contact fellow workers at an- by ] the defendants, U.S. District USA to a meeting with Hyman nish. According to Judge Weick's ' Democrats to*reduce the bill from don’t do any good. You know no other terminal was stojpped by ,Judge Paul C. Weick ordered the Lumcr, defendant herein.” June 19 memorandum, “photo ! a general civil rights measure Okinawa s Anti-U.S. Vote politician will give us that. It’s police and 40 arrested. prosecution to file a Bill of Par static copies of the affidavits of ’ to one concerned only with the By Ota Ryu Judge Weick ordered the Noncommunist Union Officer just a big con game!” After threatening that a!1 ticulars making its charges more right of Negroes to vote in the prosecution to tell who the per A young woman, having fin- TOKYO — On Aug. 4, elections were held for members5 strikers would be fired Stanislas specific. , upon which the charges are ! South. Then Eisenhower’s ambig- son was and where the meeting a calm criticism of the Sroka, a minister in the local based” would be provided, and ished ' uous stand until the very last of the Municipal Council in Nawa. principal city of Okinawa. PARTY “INSTRUCTION’S” was held. provision, paused, government, tried to persuade the U.S. Attorney “also stated. jury-trial j moment was a major factor in The final results are now in. Of the 30 seats on the council, Particulars must be provided, turned to go, and then called > the workers to return to their The original indictment charged that the Government expected the passage of the jury-trial also, as to other alleged overt back over her shoulder, secm- Conservatives, who are sup- i> ------" — jobs. One woman striker waved ] that Marie and Fred Hsug, as to offer in evidence a book en clause demanded by the Dixie acts referred to vaguely in the ported by the U.S. authorities,' fidence in Senaga. As a remit.,■ ’ a tear-gas cartridge in Sroka’s i union officers, conspired with the titled ‘Left Wing Communism (Continued on page 4) crats. succeeded in winning only 17 new elections were called. face and wiping tears from her1 six other defendants to file false indictment: what they were, who & Infantile Disorder’ •” (sic). On the Democratic side, the seats (although they contested During this campaign, the U.S.'• eyes said, “Is this what you use ‘ non - Communist affidavits. It committed them, when and where. In this case, for the first time Peter Fryer, our special Lon record is even more disgraceful. 29). On the other hand, the military, and, the central govern■ against women?” The reply was listed among the overt acts vari On June 28 U.S. Attorney in the Justice Department’s anti Northern and Western Democrats United Front, which is composed ment in Japan, tried to split4, a contemptuous “You will come ous Communist Party “instruc Sumner Canary filed a motion union prosecutions, labor leaders don correspondent, is now on vied with one another in making of Communist Party adherents anti-U.S. elements from thee | to a bad end.” tions” and "directives” alleged asking that the time wifehin were lumped together with al vacation. His weekly dispatch horse-trades with Senate Major and Socialists, won 12 seats (of Mayor, at any cost. In spite of ly issued for or received by the which the government bad to leged Communist Party officials f| Lodz officials claimed the gov- es wit! resume shortly. ity leader Lyndon Johnson, the the 13 they contested). The actual this strong pressure, the anti-!" (Continued on page 2) Haugs. Judge Weick ruled copies , file the Bill of Particulars be ex- (Continued on page 4) • man who arranged the “compro vote was 23,602 (49% of the U.S. forces retained their strength mises” that killed the bill. A total) for the conservatives, and in this election, and the con picture of how things went on 16,818 (34%) for the United servatives are no longer able to the Democratic side of the fence Front, pro-Senaga forces. This threaten the mayor’s position. was presented by Ethel L. Payne must be compared with the For in order to pass a second France Faces Crisis - - An On the Spot Report in the Aug. 10 Chicago Defend previous composition of th e ’ vote oi no-coniidcnce in mm, ms er, a leading Negro weekly. She opponents had to win two-thinis they report a war. The heavy1 capitalist class is turning to beat the undecided deputies into erans of the Korean, Indo- council, on which the conserva By John Black l wrote: tives held 24 seats compared to of all the seats, that is, at least loss of French lives can not be ward extreme solutions. The voting the government special Chinese, and North African the six for Senaga. 20. PARIS, Aug. 11 — Two major offset by mass arrests and specter of an anti-parliamen powers to ignore the constitu wars, have been likened toj “Shock-haired Jack Kennedy The Japanese people, and par issues, the two-billion franc a terror executions. French mili-j tarian, extra- constitutional, tional guarantees of civil liber the troops which Franco flew in, who is glassy-eyed from star- In the last, mayoralty elec ticularly organized labor, sup-, day war in Algeria and the tary tribunals on Aug. 9 alone, ties in France. The collapse of from Spanish North Africa in, gazing at 1960 toppled over like tion, in December 1936, when super-patriotic coup is very much ported and encouraged th ant',- economic situation in France sentenced 21 Algerian freedom the parliamentary opposition in 1936 to crush the Spanish work. a ten pin. . . after his pal, Sen. Kamejiro Senaga. an opponent j present, and ominous signs such I U.S. elements during this cam itself, are likely to bring the fighters to be guillotined. Among the face of the 150,000 who ing people. They resemble alro, George Smathers cf Florida of the U.S. occupation, was as the appearance of provocative paign by all moral and material deep going crisis in the political; those sentenced were leading shocktroops for such a move turned out to cheer the notori the Free Corps Legions of Ger. worked on him and Lyndon John- elected, the Conservative vote of •means. arena to a head this fall. members of the Algerian Com ment can not safely he ignored. ously savage “Paras.” enabled many after the First World War,i son put a fatherly arm around 24.850 was split. Senaga, with Encouraged by the outcome of It is less and less .possible for munist Party. It docs not avail the government to extend French who later became the backbone? his shoulder and recounted some 16,592 votes, was elected to of-' last week’s elections in Okinawa, the government of Bourges- the ■ authorities to confiscate i THE ‘PARAS’ Algerian police methods to of Hitler’s storm-trooper armies.. political facts of life to him. fice. However, he was constantly the Japanese labor movement, lias Manoury to hide the fact that; French newspapers carrying i The Bourges-Manoury govern France itself. (The special employed against the Germani “Octogenarian Sen. Theodore at the mercy of a no-confidencc I pledged itself to aid the victori what is going on in Algeria is criticisms of the army and eye ment broke the deadlock in the powers, not limited to the 700,- labor movement. Francis Green of Rhode Island vote which, if repeated by a two-1 ous anti-American forces on the far more than a “pacification” witness reports on the calculated, parliamentary debate over the 000 Algerian workers in France, I The “Paras" notorious racism,, sat nodding sleepily as the vote third majority of two successively island. At the just concluded campaign. Every day it is be-! repulsive terrorism practiced authorization of special powers1 but extended to the whole their wanton killings and bru- neared, but looked up alertly to elected councils, could force him convention of SOHYO, (General coming clearer that even the against the Algerian people by by bringing its elite corps of I French population, enable the talities against colonial peoplei take his orders from Lyndon from office. Council c f Trade Unions with | commitment of practically the the imperialist army of France. parachute divisions into P aris1 government to search homes at! over a period of 15 years has5 and vote aye at the 'right time, After six months of harass 3,500,04,0 members) the news of j whole French army—-close to half Algeria remains very much cn for all-out, pro - imperial:..t! night and carry through “pre prepared them to serve ass He wants to remain chairman of ment by the U.S. military, and the electoral upset was en a million men, including the the mind of all French people demonstration on the occasion ventive arrests” and deporta- suitable material for a reac- the Foreign Relations Commit- by Japanese capitalists, (refusal thusiastically applauded by the greater part of France's NATO and some very dangerous of the national holiday on July I lions.) tionary blow against the Frenchljtee. Hi., colleague. John Pas- contingents — is proving insuf-' by the banks to loan money to I assembled delegates. The Con- symptoms of capitalist despera 14. Ironically it was the an The “Paras," veteran mcr- labor movement. They have beenL tore of Italian descent, had an the city, etc.), the conservatives!] gross immediately dispatched a ficient to prevent a repetition of tion are appearing. niversary of the storming of the ' cenar.v killers of the war in whipped up by their officers to[)! finally re sorted to precisely this ' congratulatory telegram to Mayor the defeats in Indo-China, Mo In reaction to the unending Bastille — the opening event of Madagascar in 1947 (where 40,- believe, that the French workers j assurance of some Southern votes course. La t June, the 24-man Senaga, in which it promised rocco and Tunisia. series of defeats, and the con the French Revolution of 1789- 000 inhabitants were slaughtered and intellectuals are the cause off on relaxing the MeCarran-Wal- conservative majority on the ; to help him in every way pos- The papers in Paris, still use tinuing loss of the French 93 — which gave the govern 1 for demanding a little liberty, France’s defeats. Side by sidee ter immigration Act to increase council passed a vote of no-con- I sible. “pacification” terminology, but. empire a section of the French j ment the opportunity to brow | equality and fraternity), vet (Continued on page 2) quotas. He voted aye.” Page 2 TI/E MILITANT Monday, August 19, 1957 Use New Legal Daily Worker Applies the Whitewash By Herman Chauka gument that the liberal Demo-®' (•¡the issue of civil rights. . , At a ample of how class-collaboration cra>ts were a minority pitted time when the Negro people prevents the working class from Weapon Against The recent Daily Worker pro against a Republieru-Dixiecrat ■need the a(d of the labor and achieving its tasks and realizing nouncements on the Senate’s civil coalition appeared to have some radical movement most, the its aim s?” rights bill provide instructive plausibility. But this time it is working class has been rendered The bitter experience accumu demonstration of how the Com clear to see that if the liberals politically impotent by the alli lated since that letter was writ St. Paul Strike munist Party’s support to cap are in a “box” they are in one ance with the Democratic Party italist. politicians works out in they built themselves. Or haven’t liberals who are allied with the ten only underscores its contin practice. the Daily Worker editors read Dixiecrats. Isn’t that a clear ex- uing validity. In an Aug. 8 editorial on the the accounts of how a majority civil rights bill, the Daily Worker of liberal Democrats worked hand takes Adlai Stevenson to takk in glove with Johnson to “emas for declaring, “I would rather culate” the bill? Even the N.Y. have this hill than none at all.” Past—staunch backer of the lib The editorial points out that the eral Democrats—was moved to A Slight Case bill has suffered “emasculation” protest that the liberals had by the Senate and sugg-ests that snatched “defeat from the jaws when Stevenson says it is better of victor y.” The Dixiecrats than none he really means that showed strength greater ¡than it may provide the Democrats O f Ignorance their numbers precisely because with a talking point in the com the liberals handed them every By Joseph Keller ing elections. thing they w'anted. ATTACK JOHNSON Actually, the Daily Worker's All I ask for Maxwell Henry Gluck is a fair shake and The editorial pins responsibil current whitewash job on the simple justice. A number of Democrats ¡have been giving ity for the present toothless Democratic Party is a repetition forth loud and rude yaks at Mr. Gluck’s expense. Many of their performance in last state of the ‘bill on Senator Lyn Republicans act as shamefaced,'®- Clarence Harvey (wearing raincoat). President of Local year’s elections. The Daily Work don Johnson of Texas who is ac at mention of his name, as if Stokes, pro-Democratic column 41, UAW, approaches police squad car to protest its being er campaigned to help elect Ste curately described as “the or they’d been seen leaving a house ist for the N.Y. Post wrote: stationed on company grounds. venson. (Not with “official” en ganizer of the coalition that of ill-repute. Personally I don’t “There is nothing new about di dorsement, to be sure, but with mangled the civil rights hill, cut think he’d make any worse an plomatic plums for wealthy cam » knowing wink coupled with the ting it to specifications accepta aimbassador than a number of paign contributors, w h i c h has By Tom Leonard cry, “Defeat the Cadillac Cab ble to the Dixieerat bloc.” multi-millionaires who have held 'been routine with both our po inet!”) On Aug. 20, 1956, in a ST. PAUL — Aug. 10 — For eight weeks the 350 Now this editorial might seem and hold similar posts. litical parties for years. . .” In front-page editorial entitled “The to prove that the Communist fact, only the wealthy can af members of United Auto Workers Local No. 41 have been Adlai-Estes Ticket,” the Daily Mi-. Gluok had the misfortune P arty can support -the Demo ford to occupy such posts, be waging a hard-fought strike against the Donaldson Worker hailed the nominations to have his ignorance revealed. crats and still remain political cause the bills for liquid refresh by the just concluded Democratic It might have gone unnoticed if Company in this city. The strike-®; ly independent and sharply crit ments to free-loaders alone the official negotiations another convention as representing "the some Democrat on the Senate bears careful watching by the ical of them when the issue de usually run higher than official source of serious concern to the strongest ticket (it) could put foreign relations committe had national labor movement and -de m-ands it. B ut if the C P leadens salaries and expense accounts al workers has .been the intensive in the field against General Ei n’t leaked it to a newspaper. Mr. serves its full support. Involved had aimed at working-class po lowed for total operations. speed-up campaign launched'by senbower.” Gluck, the proud possessor of a in company efforts to break the litical independence, they would When President Eisenhower strike is the use of a little-known the company about a year ago. never bare supported the Demo I forty-million dollar fortune de PROBLEM EVEN THEN rived from a chain of ladies was rudely questioned at one of gimmick which will be added to One striker complained that the cratic P arty to .begin with. “Co clothing shops, had been ques his news conferences about his the national arsenal of the union union had “no control over pro alition” politics inside the Demo However, erven at that time the duction standards.” Doily Worker had a prob tioned by the Senate committee appointment of Mr. Gluck, he bus tots, if it proves its efficacy cratic Party means nothing if not only indignantly denied the in the Donaldson strike. The legal attack 0 1 1 the work not subordination- to the Big lem how to present its support about his qualifications for the ers was intensified when District to “Adlai-Estes” in a good post of Ambassador to Ceylon. political debt inference, he .also The gimmick is a legal de Business politicians. Judge Clayton Parks issued a light. It will be recalled that at Senator Fulbright, an Arkansas said of .Mr. Gluck’s ignora'nee that. vice known as a “writ of re And so we find that on Aug court', order giving company cars the Democratic convention the Democrat, was mean enough to Gluck “was selected from a plevin.” Briefly, the writ of 12, the Daily Worker writes an and scabs free access to the civil rights plank was watered initiate the following colloquy: group of men that were recom replevin is a legal action where other editorial on the question struck plant. The same order re down to nothing by the liberals Senator Fulbright: Do you mended highly by a number of by one company sues another of the civil rights bill. The title, straihs mass picketing. Current to appease the Dixiecrats. The know who the Prime Minister of people I respect. His business company for delivery of goods “A Cynical Game,” applies as ly seven strike leaders are be Daily Worker tried to conceal Ceylon is? career was examined, the FBI ' contracted for. In the case of the fully to its authors as to its in ing framed on charges of vi this fact with the argument that Mr. Gluck: His name is a bit reports on his record were all struck Donaldson Company, the tended target—the Republicans olating this order. Stevenson, in his (acceptance unfamiliar now, I cannot call it good.” federal courts have issued two —.because it is nothing less than Not satisfied with the use of speech, had declared he favored off. . . What more can the Ceylonese Such writs. One is to the Rio a new effort to whitewash the these judge-made union-busting “A new America . . . where free 'Since the name of Ceylon’s people expect? Mr. Gluck’s busi Motor Co. of Detroit, the other Northern Democrats. measures, the company is resort dom is made real ftfr all without Prime Minister is Solomon West ness career sum s up to $40,000,- to the C arter Eauipment Co. in The editori;! observes that the ing to violence against the strik regard to race or beblief or eco Last year some Northern hackers of Stevenson tried to Ridgway Dias Bandaranaike, it 000 and Eisenhower could just Benton Harbor, Mich. On the Republicans in the House are as easily have sent a $30,000,- ing workers. The strike bulletin playing political football with the nomic condition.” This statement shrug off this racist appeal as not representing his views. But is easy for an American to have basis of these writs obtained of the local reported one inci Indicated, the editorial broadly a lapse of memory, or at least 000 or a $20,000,000 or even a “against” the Donaldson Compa bill by demanding a return of Stevenson proved it was quite accurate. In recent months he has dent in which ‘‘pickets were at hinted, that the platform didn’t some difficulty in pronouncing $10,000,000 ambassador. And, of ny by the other two, scabs—pro provisions lopped off by the Sen their positions doing picket duty really have Stevenson's “ap dropped any pretense' to “liberalism” on either domestic or for Mr. Band'aranaike’s name. Nat course, with the FBI 'affirming tected by federal marshalls— ate. This, we are informed, en when seven company personnel proval.” eign issues. He declared, July 17, that the French and British urally, no one likes to have his that Mr. Gluck never belonged have been running Donaldson dangers the passage of any kind to a union or a radical party aqd emerged from the central ware imperialists “are exercising their African colonial responsibili name mispronounced or forgot products through the picket line of bill. The buildup given Lyndon upholds capitalism 101%, what house, presumably to leave for Johnson by the Communist Par ties in a most advanced, responsible and enlightened way.” Yet ten, but I feel a little interna for delivery to the two “suing” the day. Rather than leave THEY’RE GOOD GUYS tional good will could have got other qualifications would he companies. ty leaders is also a matter of the Daily Worker seemed surprised and dismayed that he need? peacefully as they had done be Then comes the bucket of white record. The main political reso ten around that. showed no interest in an effective civil rights bill. In fact, Ceylon’s Ambassador While the daily press insists fore, one company supervisor wash.. “The Democrats, limited lution of the party’s recent na ANOTHER ISSUE to the U.S., R. ,S. Gunawardene, that this is not a strike-breaking walked up to Quentin Aamot, I.o by the dead weight of their in tional convention lists the fol said on Aug. 5, that he w:s action, U.S. District Attorney cal No. 41 picket and for no transigent Southern delegation, But another matter p;ot drag lowing as one'of the g-ains of the ing counted on to place the stamp Nor did it take a crystal hall “very favorably impressed” with MacKinnon who placed the writs reason at all struck him.” As a 'are forced to fight for the pres to figure out that labor and ged into the discussion—¡Mr. labor - Democratic coalition; “In of conservatism on the Demo the new U JS. Ambassador to Cey before the feeler?! district court result of this company-provoked ent substance of the bill.” The Gluck’s contributions to the Re Texas labor joined with other cratic ticket and platform.” radical support to the Demo lon. This, suggests that the Cey Conceded in the St. Poul Pioneer fracas seven scabs were beaten editorial continues: “Politically crats would bring no g" ins for publican Party. In 1952 and 1956 popular forces, as well as con These are empty hopes, declared lonese people should 'be as much Press that “the goods were pur up. the Democrats are in a box built the working people. Last Septem he gave a- total of about $40.000 servatives, to break the grip of Max. A fter all, he explained, concerned about the kind of sm- chased iust before the writs were on the one hand by the Republic the ¡Shivers Dixiecrats on. the her, the Socialist Workers Par to the GO'P. This had some of the HIT-AND-RUN SCABS “How can a resounding defeat ambassador their government asked for.” In other words, the ans . . . and on the other by their ty wrote to the National Com Democrats raising t'heir hands .State Democratic Party.” This for the worst reactionaries mean has sent to Washington as the Donalds-on Company contracted On two separate occasions own Dixieerat contingent whose mittee of the Communist Party in holy horror. The twice-defeated referred to the victory of Lyn a mandate for the conservatives ? kind of 'ambassador Washington for delivery of these goods after pickets have been run down by power is greater than their num don Johnson’s machine over urging it to give up its policy Democratic presidential candi Things don’t happen that way is sending to Ceylon. the strike had been in progress scab cars. In one case a striker bers.” The inference is that the ¡Shivers in the fig'ht for control and the Democratic voters in of support to the Democrats and date. Adlai Stevenson, opined that for six weeks. suffered a fractured arm and liberal Democrats are doing the of the Texas delegation to the Texas understood this when they called' on it to support the So Gluck’s appointment was “anoth WHOSE AM BASS A DOR? other injuries. best they can for civil rights er example of the cynical pay COMPANY BREAKS WORD Democratic national convention. voted for Johnson.” cialist Workers ticket instead. At any rate, any ambassador The morale of the strikers is against great odds. ment of political debts. . .” Shortly before that convention The SW1P letter declared in part from the U.S. to Ceylon, or any The' strike was precipitated good despite the he-avv pressure The contention that the liberal JOHNSON REFUTES MAX Stevenson need not have put Alan Max wrote in the May 11 “At a rime when the Negro other country, will have the same when the company refused to they are under. They have the Democrats “are in a box” ¡built it on so thick. After all, even Daily Worker: “Fresh from his Johnson’s current performance people is embattled against the function; to serve "American in recognize the union’s legitimate problem of meeting time pay- by the Republicans and Dixie- the N.Y. Times admits this is “ an resounding victory over Gov. Al on civil rights more than answers white supremacists you cover up terests.” Now, this doesn’t mean wage demands. The union is ments on houses, cars and ap crats is an insult to the readers’ ancient story in American poli lan ¡Shivers for leader of the M'ax's assertion that “things the fact that the Southern I)emo- the interests of Detroit auto currently demanding an 18-cent pliances, as well as needing to intelligence. At one time the ar- tics” and seeks to draw consola Texas delegation, Johnson is be-1 don’t'happen that way.” ei'atic leader's call the tune on workers or Pittsburgh steel an hour increase. According to feed and clothe their families. tion from the historical trend workers or ¡Southern Negroes Local No. 41 President Clarence They are receiving strike bene showing that in 1924, thirty-three with second-class citizenship. It Harvey, eight cents of this fig fits from the International union out of fiftv-one ambassadors ure is to help compensate for the and Local President Harvey has abroad had been generous con means the interests of the mil lionaires and billionaires who rise in the cost of living since stated that the union will inter tributors to the coffers of the . . . French Crisis - On the Spot Report run this country and are anxious the last contract. H a r v e y cede to prevent anv seizure of party in power, as comnnred charges that the company agreed strikers’ property for non-pay to exact profits not only from (Continued from page 1) i harder in the next few months ing class will take the center of on the shoulders of French work with twentv-seven out of eighty- to this ve.tlbally when the pre the U jS. workers .but from the ments. with the “Paras” other neo-'for the CPF to hold back the the stage in France. ers without engendering a wave one in 1957. vious contract was signed. The Iiut. the big problem confront As a matter of fact, several workers abroad. fascist groupings, staffed by ^ French workers who must strug- The rank-and-file bank em of militancy. The three railway So, I’d like to suggest that additional ten cents is an across- ing these workers is how to de more juicy ambassadorial plums excollaborators of the wartime gle to maintain their living ployes who forced the CGT to unions have announced wage the workers and pen saints of Cey the-board increase. feat the writ of replevin. Unless have gone to multi-millionaire Nazi agents Deat and Doriot, and standards, finally support their strike in claims as of Aug. 22. W hat will lon set up a government of their The average striker, with 12 they get some solid assistance political contributors who shelled seemingly in control of unlimited July, had to settle temporarily in happen when the workers return own and send an ambassador years seniority, has an average from their fellow unionists in out less than G’uck. The Am 'funds, are making their ap-j ECONOMIC CONDITIONS view of the vacation period. But from their vacations and discuss over here who doesn’t find our wage of $1.89 per hour, far lower licking it, a lot more striking bassador to Belgium is J. Clif- pearance. .. . | The rapid rise in the price of bitterness at the role played by the rise in the price of bread, multi-millionaire ignoramuses so than the scale in related indus workers may get hit with the ford Folger who, with Mrs. e wa 0 ar>s are tbe bas;c necessities, the falling the Stalinist-led union apparatus milk and wine? Will they be impressive. And we, for our part, tries. Although not included in same tricky device. Folger, is listed as having con plartered with posters attackmg of the franc and Hg is widely expressed. The daring prepared to accept the new will strive to establish a work tributed $29,500. 'John 'Hay the ‘betrayers of France, devaluation, the imposition of and imagination of the French austerity bui’dens to finance the ers and farm ers government in Whitney snared the choice ap demanding “action in Algeria” heavy taxeg Qn * and morg rank-and-file workers were force losing proposition in Algeria?
vaMorlption M p«r y » n r . Signed article» by oontrlfe 41.00 for 0 raontl i Foretrn: atora do not neoe»»arlly rep resent The M ilitant's policies. #*.(*> per y e a r; 0 2.00 fo r 0 THE MILITANT These are expreseed in it» month«. Canadian: 03.50 per Published Weekly in the Intere«te of the Working People editorials. Alger Hiss Tells Case to Public y ea r; 01.75 for 6 m onths. THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION "Entered as second class IN THE COURT OF Pl'BLIC OPINION. By Alger Hiss. 424 pages. Bundle Order«: 5 or more 116 C nlT erelty PL , N. T . 3. N . Y. P hone: AL 0-7460 m a tte r M arch 7, 1944 a t the When Hiss’ book appeared a such 'a- typewriter and that ooplee 0c eaoh In U.S.. 7o Post Office at New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1957. $5.00. few weeks ago, the press which Chambers wouldn’t have had the Editor: DANIEL ROBERTS N.Y., under the act of March aaoh in foreign countries. Bunlness M anager: FRANCES JAMES 0, 1879." had pilloried him in 1948 gave skill or time to forge it him Reviewed bv David Dreiser it a mixed reception. Jonathan self. Hook can make this argu Volume 21 - No. 33 Monday, August 19, 1957 In this hook, Alger Hiss pre to infleunce government policy. Daniels called the book “one of ment only by failing to present sents his case to the public for But Chambers denied that Hiss the most deeply disturbing hu fairly Hiss’ account of the for a verdict as to whether or not had engaged in espionage. “These man documents of our time.” gery evidence. he was guilty of perjury in de people were specifically not Alistair Cooke, who had covered At first, the effort of Chester Back the Sobell Appeal nying that he lad 'ever commit wanted to act as sources of in both Hiss trials, said in the T. Lane, counsel for Hiss, was ted treason and espionage. Dur formation,” Chambers declared. Washington Post, “After review to prove that forgery by type The final push to win support for the tion Treaty with Mexico. The Court will ing World War II he was a pro Hiss denied all charges under ing yet again the extreme com w riter was possible by having plications of bhe documents most important civil liberties case in hear how the prosecution falsely rep minent state-department official oath. He failed to recognize an engineer fabricate a machine who had been an aide to Presi Chambers either by name or which damned Hiss, I must say that would do copy indistinguish America is now on. The deadline for all resented Sobell’s return to this country dent Roosevelt at the Yalta con photograph. The Committee did that as a spy, if he ever was one, able from the typed documents signatures and resolutions in support of as legally effected through “deportation” ference and an organizer of the not permit Hiss to confront Hiss was singularly inept. He not in the case. This effort was suc the Supreme Court appeal for a new proceedings. All of this in order to con 1945 San Francisco United Na Chambers for two weeks during only initialed documents he was cessful enough to invalidate the hearing for Morton Sobell is August 28. struct a picture of an “escape plot” of tions conference. He was indicted which time they fed a stream going to pass on to a conspira testimony of the FBI document on two perjury counts in 1918. of publicity to the sensation- tor; he typed out dull summaries Morton Sobell has spent seven years in “conspirators.” expert at the trial, and explode The first trial resulted in a hung hungry press on the question of of economic policy incorporated for all time the position of the prison. His 30-year sentence will keep And the Court will hear how the prosecu jury but he was convicted in a whether Hiss was guilty of per in documents which the Russians F^Rl and all other police agen jury in denying knowing Cham already had in full. him there for many more unless an out tion deliberately withheld evidence that second trial in 1950. ALGER HISS on leaving cies that forgery by typewriter “He left around bis superior’s raged public demands justice. The Su would prove the account of the trip made The U.S. Supreme Court twice bers. prison. is impossible. Hiss recognized Chambers office for months documents preme Court has never passed judgment by Morton Sobell. refused to review his esse, and Later, however the typewriter / which he could easily have bor Hiss then served 44 months in when he finally saw him. but not introduced in the trial was exam on the “conspiracy” case that sent Julius As the facts in this case become known, tions of Hiss. Every place else rowed for photographing,” said a federal penitentiary. without difficulty. He identified ined by a firm of con'sulting Chambers’ testimony on this Cooke,” and then wa-s forced to and Ethel Rosenberg to their death and is support is forthcoming from every direc Many months before he came Chambers, whose appearance had chemists engaged by Mr. Lane, question, Hiss shows, is- a tissue snatch them for a fast, and now robbing the young scientist, Sobell of tion. Scientists like Harold C. Urey, to trial, Hiss was branded by the altered considerably, as a free who submitted affidavits that the of mistakes and inconsistencies. faulty, typing job to which he press as a “Communist traitor.” lance writer he had known by a machine was indeed fabricated the best years of his life. artists like Pablo Casals, a man of letters Only when faced with the libel obligingly added annotations in The main promoter of the charge different name, George Crosely. and showed extensive signs of Evidence that will now go before the like Bertrand Russell, and religious and his own hand. . .' This obtuse- was Vice-President Richard Nix The Committee presented this lawsuit brought by Hiss and the type -alteration and replacement. ness is foreign to every expres Supreme Court will prove conclusively civic leaders have called for justice for on, then a member of the House to the pHess and public as if Hiss likelihood of paying heavy dam This machine could not have ages, did Chambers expand his sion of his mind and working that it was not Morton Sobell who violated Morton Sobell. Warehouse local 6 in Oak Un-American Activities Commit had finally been forced to admit -been the one originally owned having known Chambers attcr habits. He is essentially an in land. Calif., has joined the appeal for a tee. His sensationalized press Communist - Party - membership by Hiss. Further, typing experts the laws of the United States. It was the charges by suddenly “remember telligent man, sticking on every releases charging Hiss with “es first denying it. claimed that - by typing charac prosecution with the unscrupulous as new trial. page to the discrepancies of his pionage” were the opening gun The Committee reports also ing” that Hiss had also been a teristics, the trial -documents accuser and the plausibility of sistance of the notorious Roy Cohn and The “friend of the court” brief will be in the campaign against ‘‘treason implied charges of “treason and spy and that Chambers had con must have heen done by at least veniently kept sonfe papers to the facts, scorning to score cheap the FBI. filed next week. But the campaign to free in high places,” charges made espionage” against Hiss despite two persons, but neither one of prove it. These were copies of points or color his ca&e with The Supreme Court will hear evidence Morton Sobell will not be concluded until notorious by McCarthy. It was the fact that its only witness had them could have been Hiss or his secret government documents anger or sarcasm. . .” also the first endeavor to link charged only Communist Party wife. Thus it is the t a s k of of how Morton Sobell was kidnapped from justice is done. Financial aid, petitions The Hiss book created at least alleged Communist Party mem membership. Only months later that Hiss had allegedly, s.tp.len Chambers to show why the fab Mexico where he had gone openly and and resolutions should be sent to: Sobell and given to Chambers for trans sufficient doubt of his guilt that bership with espionage activi did Chambers catch up in his rication was necessary a!nd how it became necessary to attempt legally for a vacation with his family. Committee, 940 Broadway, New York ties— the fraudulent kind of tie- story with Nixon and the House mission to the Soviet Uqion. B.ut it was done. to rehabilitate American “jus This was done in violation of the Extradi 10, N. Y. up that led to the frame-up and Committee. with powerful committee sup execution of Julius and Ethel port,' and in the charged atmos tice” with an “answer.” The Hiss had received the original Ro-sertberg and the imprisonment INCONSISTENCIES phere of the time, few paid strident-voiced Sidney Hook was machine second hand a good of Morton ¡Sobell in Alcatraz. •Chambers’ early testimony was much attention to the astound picked by the N.Y. Times to do number of years before 1938 and ¡Hiss begins his book with a designed to show (hat he ¡had a ing lapse of memory. N or was. the job in its May 12 issue. had given it away as useless to review of his appearances before very close association with Hiss. the fact prominently noted that the children of one of their serv ...McAvoy, Active Socialist Actually, Hiss shows, all the HOOK TO THE RESCUE ants. It was, of course, a greater the House Un-American Activi tire documents were dated in knowledge of Hiss’ family and Hook made essentially four number of years -later that (Continued from page 1) man capable of rectifying his Communist Party were turning ties Committee beginning on 1938 whereas Chambers had re affairs that Chambers knew ac criticisms of Hiss’ argument: Chambers or his agents presum political errors. In an Oct. 10, away from all radical politics Aug. 3, 1948. In these hearings, peatedly testified to having cut and opened a struggle within the curately he could have gleaned First, that enough of Chambers’ ably found the machine. It. is not 1956 debate with Albert Blum- with dismay and disillusionment Whittaker Chambers, confessed all Soviet connections in 1937. organization against the liquida- from such sources as Who’s Who testimony about Hiss personally unlikely that it was irreparable, berg of the Communist Party he was the picture of a man Soviet agent, charged that Hiss The documents so sensationally tionist policy of the Communist was accurate to establish Cham and 'had to be duplicated. And on “Left Wing Policy in the just beginning to find himself. belonged to the Communist Par and from hints passed to him presented by Chambers were Party leadership. On Oct. 10, bers’ contention of close asso speaking of agents, why must we 1956 Elections,” M e A v o y ty ail'd that his role had been from the Committee’s examina- used to convict Hiss. 1955, he took the fight to the His approach to the present ciation despite the denials of assume Chambers had to do the declared: ALP ranks with a letter to the regroupment discussion was out Hiss. It is unlikely that any open- fabricating ¡himself? Certainly “The SWP is a party I can National Guardian denouncing lined m a article he contributed minded person who read the ¡book there were powers that would support. It rendered a major the CP's “coalition theory.” to the Dec. 3, 1956 issue of the for 'himself would be so per have had the resources and the service by first exposing the Militant on the subject. He Scoring this policy of support British Rulers Caught suaded. But no matter how motive to assist him. Moscow Trials and the bureau wrote: “Political criticism based to capitalist politieans, McAvoy “close” or casual the relation, it cratic deformation in the Soviet on facts without invective or MOOD OF THE TIMES declared: “Let us have an end Union. The SWP stands in the is irrelevant to the charge of name calling is n^t only desir espionage. It is hardly worth mentioning now to Coalition on any 'basis forefront of the radical move able but urgently necessary if Hook’s fantastic contention re with advocates of cold war. en ment today. It fought for Second, according to Hook, we are to have any honest In Mideast Squeeze-Play garding the prejudiced press that emies of labor and the Bill of the discrepancies in Chambers’ Leninist democracy in the Soviet relations with other political Rights, friends of Jim Crow.” stories can be matched with public animosity was directed as Union and East Europe. The tendencies. . . By Myra Tanner Weiss third is supposed to cover the a powerful sheik should have living expenses of the ruler, an many horses.’ those in the testimony of Hiss much against Chambers as Hiss. RETHINKING present developments there give ‘‘The most effective way to The “little” war in Oman be- it a high moral standing. I am other third is supposed to go “Nearby, an even more curi and merely amount to norma! Anyone who remembers those Despite his efforts, the ALP achieve left regroupment, it twee.n the small forces gathered proud that despite the revilement to Kuwait -development projects ous sight,” Johnson savs, “I inability to recall detail. Thus, days can only regard such a was dissolved. In the course of seems to me, is to clarify nrin- and persecution, the SWP stuck bv the Imam Chalib bin Ali and and the final third is slated for watched bulldozers crumple up to Hook, the failure of Hiss to patent misrepresentation of the th a t fight, however, McAvoy ciples so there can be no con by its traditions.” the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, reserve in British banks. the walls of a new palace. The recall by a few months when he mood of the times as another in demonstrated an unusual capacity fusion about where we start in In the period since that elec backed by the British, is a sighal palace was built, at a cost of bought one car and disposed of dication of Hook’s complete par to think out its lessons, to re our effort to regroup the left flare of danger to Britain’s em ALL IN ONE POCKET $980,000, as a guest-house for another is equated with Cham tiality. evaluate his own past political' tion, McAvoy became one of the around a program. I do not be key figures in the launching of pire on the east coast of thh The development projects -were King ¡Saud on his visit. After bers’ forgetting- what year he Although Hiss presents a com views and, finding them inade lieve, for instance, that the left the American Forum for Social Arabian peninsula. The speed of never fully completed. They wards, an enterprising business stopped being the agent for a pletely convincing declaration of quate, to ‘seek a firmer ideo can be united if there is con ist Education. His contributions England’s military intervention were contracted over to five Brit man tried to purchase it from foreign power, to say nothing of his own innocence, he has seri logical basis for socialist activity. fusion as to whether we stand to that project showed that he was not based On the British ish firms on a- cost-plus basis his about-face in accusing Hiss ous deficiencies in his conception Devotion to the socialist cause for completely democratic so the Ruler for conversion into a was a man who believed in hard fear of losing Oman alonie. Anv and 50% of these profits were hotel (none exists in Qatar). But of espionage after saying for of the witch hunt of which he remained throughout hi-3 basic cialism or whether we revert to day-to-day work, serious thinking revolt, not quickly settled, might siphoned off by members of the the Ruler decreed: ‘Where my months that he knew of no es was one of the most significant point of departure. It war, dur totalitarian Stalinism. and a stubborn insistence on easily spread to other parts of sheik’s family. pionage activities whatsoever. victims. Hiss was a loyal Demo ing this period that the historic “ I do not believe that coalition friend the King has slept no one principles. From the very begin this oil-rich area, where British Third, Hook argues, the two cratic careerist of a mildly lib developments in the Soviet orbit with the Democratic party can In the end the public works will be permitted to enter. It ning he fought for the principle control has grown increasingly psychiatrists who testified on be eral bent like his mentor. Justice took place, climaxed by the be reconciled in the same organ compound, ig-s Johnson put it, be must be razed to the ground.’ ” of “non-exclusion,” opposing ef tenuous. half of Hiss that Chambers was Oliver Wendell Holmes. He seems Khrushchev revelations at the ization with the building of came “a sort of Aladd'n’s lamp forts to bar the Communist The British “protected” states SHEIKS FOR SALE unable to understand that he was 20th Congress of the Soviet an independent socialist move cave in which- the -sheik keeps unbalanced and a psychopathic Party or any other tendency. on the Persian Gulf are chal The U jS. imperialists, moving liar were caught in a contradic a victim of the same juggernaut Communist Party. These develop ment. These two questions divide everything, from 30 ca-dillacs to lenged from two directions: King ten cases of lipstick. . . 'No 'budg in on British territory at a rapid tion because part of Chambers’ that rolled over the 'bodies of ments became a major factor DEFIES WITCH-HUNTERS the left. . . on the basis of pace—while shoiVting allsalong in McAvoy’s rethinking of the fundamental principle.” Saud of ISaudi Arabia, a nation et is prepared, p io accounts are testimony was true. That is, thè Rosenibergs, jailed Morton When announcement of forma about “Russian interference”— problems confronting the radical thct occupies four-fifths of the kept, no audits are held and' there Chambers didn’t lie 100% of the ¡Sobell for 30 years and put d»z- tion of the American Forum In the previously quoted1 debate work with the nationalist oppo movement. Arabian peninsula lavs claim is no distinction between min time after all. It is hard to be ens of Communist Party leaders drew heavy fire from the witch- with Blumberg, McAvoy con to most of the Gulf’s sheik sition to Britain’s rule whenever lieve that Hook is serious in this in prison. He complains that his In the 1955 elections, he isters’ personal financial trans hunters he did not flinch for a cluded his presentation by say doms. The S a u d i Arabians, necessary. But the means of argument, as if the entire psy case was prejudiced by the si decided to campaign for the So actions g-n-d those of their de miment. Subpoenaed by the East-1 ing, “It will take work and armed- with U.S. military aid,] penetration the U.S. favors most chology of skilled lying were not multaneous trial of the New cialist Workers Party ticket partments.” land Committee, he declared ’ his courage to build a new socialist intrigue with feudal and nation- is to buy off the corrupt and based upon expansion and embel York C. P. leaders in the same despite certain differences he Further south an the Persian readiness, despite ill-health, to movement in America.” For ahst onposition to the British in pampered, British-sponsored des lishment of a few provable facts. building. He does not consider, stated he had with the SWP. face imprisonment by defying! Gulf is the British territory of Clifford McAvoy these words order to gain a foothold into the pots—not a difficult achieve Fourth, the argument in which to what extent his own case Along with Vincent Ilaiiinan he that inquisitorial body. were not mere rhetoric. He pos Bahrein where oil has been ex oil wealth of this area. The U.S. ment if the price is right. Then Hook apparently places his influenced, the jurors who heard formed the Citizens Committee At the same time he continued sessed an inspiring capacity for tracted since the 1930’s. The oil companies, constantly ex the U.S. masters, ruthlessly snd greatest confidence is one at the case against the Smith Act for Dobbs and Weiss. his own process of political study work and courage. Coupled with nationalist movement here has panding their holdings, keep in with far more economic and mil tacking Hiss’ contention that the victims. Although he had in previous and réévaluation with seemingly his warm personal qualities, it been strong and the British kept the background out of deference itary power, pui’sue the same documents used as “evidence” The Hiss book makes an im years accepted the CP’s boundless determination and made him a man who will he careful tabs on it in order to to the feelings of their British policies that earned the British against him had been forged portant. addition to the growing false characterization of the •enthusiasm. At a time when so' sorely missed by all those who assure control by “loyal” ele “allies.” imperialists the ever-lasting ha on a typewriter especially con evidence of fraud and frame-up SWP as anti-Soviet, he was a many former supporters of the] ments. In the crisis over the knew him and worked with him. These plots and intrigues take tred of the Arab masses. British-French attack on Suez structed to reproduce character in all the witch-hunt Caste-s. This place in the midst of a seething So far the U.S. imperialists, last year, nationalist demonstra istics of a machine that he had exposure is an important task, Arab n a ti o n a 1 independence not the Arab masses, have been tions broke out and were brut.al- once owned. Hook says that Hiss since with Morton Sobell still movement that seeks to oust the victors over the British in the fails to show why it was neces Iv suppressed by the sheik. The incarcerated win Alcatraz, the British imperialism in order to Persian Gulf. The dominant pow three principal nationalist lead sary for Chambers to fabricate witch hunt is far from dead. settle accounts with native des er on the Arabian peninsula. ¡King ers were imprisoned under 14- pots who are kept in opulence Sa.ud, now serves the U.S. as year sentences. by the British. broker for the Eisenhower D.oc*. The Muscat and Oman sultan Immediately to the north of trine in the Arab world. In 1951, ate with an estimated popula Oman lies the country of Qatar. in Iran, across the Persian Gulf, National Guardian tion of only 550.000 is not vet Johnson describes it as the “ul a national independence move school desegregation and the to reorganize Southern society By Anne Chester a rich possession for the Brit timate horror.” It has the high ment broke the power of the struggle to put it into effect. on a democratic basis, following Manager, Pioneer Publishers ish. But Iraq Petroleum Com est per capita income in the Anglo -Iranian Oil Company the Civil War. pany has been vigorously pro world. But the people -are among through' the nationalization of Eulogizes McAvoy This week Pioneer Publishers specting for oil in Oman for the poorest. the oil fields. The nationalist is featuring books and pamph THE STRUGGLE FOR NEGRO (The following are excerpts from an editorial tribute paid some time. Johnson reports, “In the har leader, Mossadegh, was then lets on the Negro Struggle in EQUALITY. By John Saund BLACK BOURGEOISIE. By E. bor a magnificent luxury yacht overthrown and imprisoned. The to ;the late Clifford T. McAvoy by the National Guardian in its America. These include: ers and Albert Parker. 48 Franklin Frazier. 264 pp. $4.00 NEIGHBORING WEALTH —a present from King Saud on exploitation of Iran’s oil wealth issue of Aug. 19.) pages. 10 cents. (Third Edi Guardian readers everywhere will share with us a feeling DESEGREGATION — Labor’s More imnortnnt than the po the occasion of his state visit— was farmed out to all the major tion). With a special article A searching examination of of deep personal loss in the death on August! 9 of Clifford1 T. Stake in the Fight for Negro tential wealth of Oman, however, swings at anchor. With its dash imperialist powers. -England was by Leon Trotsky on the Negro the economic position of the Ne McAvoy of New York. More than any other leading figure in Equality. By Jean Simon, 16 is the actual wealth of the ing Italian captain and its ¡smart left with only a share in the Struggle reprinted from the gro middle class and its preten the U.S. progressive movement since the death of Vito Mar- pages. 10 cents. sions— social, cultural and politi neighboring countries where op European crew, it costs $5,600 a take. Militant, Aug. 15, 1942. position to British rule is also week to maintain. But the Ruler Iran, just ntorth of the Per eantonio (coincidentally on Aug. 9, 1954), Clifford McAvoy has The Supreme Court ruling on cal—to leadership of the Negro exemplified the concept of independent, third-party political struggle for equality. By one of rife. The richest of these small has found a textual reference sian Gulf, becomes increasingly countries is Kuwait which sup in the Koran which forbids sea responsive to UJS. interests. And action as against the return to the two-party way advocated by THE STRANGE CAREER OF America’s outstanding sociolo the Communist Party since 1950. . . gists. A ‘’must” book for all se plies three out of every five travel (be recently abolished the finally, ?s Dana Adams Schmidt, JIM CROW. By C. Vann ■barrels of oil to British indus teaching of geography in the N.Y. Times, Aug. 11, trium During the past year McAvoy and others have constituted Woodward. 183 pp. $1.50 rious students. a Committee for Socialist Unity which has conducted monthly NEGROES try. state’s schools for exactly the phantly reports, “Even the Sul A landmark book by a South The British imperialists main same reason the Holy Office con tanate of Muscat and Oman, in forums and organized the main May Day rally in New York ern disciple of Charles Beard. He tain their oil interests in Ku demned Galileo), and during the whose behalf British troops are this year, with all points of view invited to speak. With A. J. • ECONOMIC RESOURCES AND ON THE shows that the pattern of segre wait, as in Muscat and Oman two-and-a-half years in which now in action, ¡has given a con Muste and others, McAvoy had also helped organize the American gation as it exists in the South POLICIES OF THE SOUTH. and the other Persian Gulf the yacht has -been in his pos cession to American companies. Forum for Socialist Education which seeks to provide a na By Calvin B. Hoover and B. U. today is not “hundreds of yeans states by means of an alliance session, it has made one solitary And the Americans have just tional. forum for the exchange of views among socialist-minded MARCH Ratchford. 464 pp. $1.00 (orig old” but dates from the smash with the reactionary feudal and humiliating trip: to pick uo stolen another march on the people. Unable because of failing health to run for office himself A Frenchman’s Report ing of the Negro and white Pop inally $5.50) forces with disastrous effect an a small cargo of -dates in Basra.” British by striking oil at the in thin year’s municipal elections in New York City, he had ulist movement at the beginning All aspects of the Southern the population. While the masses Johnson also reports that “in southern end of the ¡Sultanate on the American Negro announced his intention qf campaigning for Joyce Cowley, So of this century. economy are examined in detail of the people live in poverty, il side the Ruler's palaceis are 450 while the British are still dry- Struggle cialist Workers Party candidate for Mayor. . . and with a wealth of informa literacy and without hope, these American cars, many still in holing in Oman.” * * * In 1,952 he organized a Citizens Emergency Defense Com tion—natural resources, popula monarchs consume on a lavish side the crates In which they ar U.S. exploitation of the Arab By Daniel Guerin mittee for the defense of the second group of Communist Party BLACK RECONSTRUCTION tion, labor and wages, manufac scale. rived, as long ago as 1950. Out peoples will taste no better than leaders indicted under the Smith Act and continued as the 192 pages $1.50 IN AMERICA (1860-1880). By turing, farming, banking, public The British Laborite journal side the town is a dqmp, where the British. Corrupt abd despotic active head of this committee despite aggravating differences W.E.B. DuBois. Special price finance, etc. Valuable as a refer ist Paul Johnson, in the July 13 chevrolets disintegrate under the sheiks, emirs and kings will look • with the Communist Party in the arena of practical politics. $5.50. ence work. issue of the New iStatesm- n de sun and wind; wealth returning no better under U.S. sponsorship Order from Every worthy activity on the Left in two decades has This book, by the foremost scribes this traditional method to the sands from which it came. than under British. Neither im sought out Chfford T. McAvoy’s support or received that sup historian of the Negro question A few miles inland I saw the perialist j)ower