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VOL. IX — No. 42 NEW YORK, N. Y., SATURDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1945 401 PRICE: FIVE CENTS MILITARISTS PLAN NEW WAR Greek Stalinists Stalinist Editor Possibility Of Peace Era Budenz Deserts Discounted By M arshall Slay Trotskyists To The Church Total Destruction of Mankind Threatened B y Paul G. Stevens By Art Preis By Frightful New Atomic-Powered Weapons Louis Budenz, anti-Marx­ News from Trotskyist sources in Greece indicates that ist and jingo patriot whom By Joseph Hansen the Stalinist betrayal of the masses in the Civil War last the Stalinists welcomed into December was accompanied, and in some cases preceded, The Third World War is already in the blue­ their fold in 1935 and quickly by a horrible massacre of hundreds of members of the print stage. Even before the official termination elevated to top leadership, Greek section of the Fourth International. The Greek last week deserted the Com­ of the Second World War, Wall Street’s newly- Trotskyists had already lost many m ilitants in the struggle munist Party for the “faith fledged m ilitary caste has projected the opening against the Metaxas dicta-® of my fathers, the Catholic torship before the war and phases of another bloodbath so frig h tfu l and de­ C hurch.” against the Fascist and Nazi SWP Protests s tru c tiv e it can mean His break and open declara­ the end of mankind, occupation during the war. French Arrest tion of warfare against com­ The program of The Greek munism as well as its Stalinist Lockheed Union This is the meaning of Trotskyists called for the elec­ Of Indo-Chinese counterfeit was made to the cap­ Gen. George C. M ar­ tion of democratically elected | NEW YORK, Oct. 13. — italist press on Thursday, Octo­ Aids Picketers shall’s Biennial Report committees in the factories and i James P. Cannon, National ber 11, while his name still ap­ on the land, the formation of Secretary of the Socialist peared as editor on the mast­ to the Secretary of War. workers’ militias and the carry- i Workers Party, today sent head of the Stalinist Dally In Movie Strike The General himself reveals ing out of a working class policy the following cable to Gen. Worker. BULLETIN what the Third World War wiU both before and after the rout Charles de Gaulle, President Accomplished in the dark of look like in its first few days. of the Nazis. They warned of the French Provisional the night, Budenz’ flight came HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 12. — Referring to atomic power, he against the reactionary aims of Government: as a stunning blow and an act Picketing continued today at the declares: “ This discovery of the Allied imperialists and the “Socialist Workers Party of base ingratitude to the party struck Warner Bros, and Uni­ American scientists can be man’s Greek capitalists and urged the strongly protests arrest of Dr. which six years ago raised him versal studios despite announce­ greatest benefit. And it can de­ masses to distrust them and to Tran Due Tao and delegation to its national committee be­ ment finally by the NLRB that stroy him. It is against the la t­ rely only on their own indepen­ of 42 representing 25,000 cause of his outstanding record striking AFL Painters Local 1421 ter possibility that this nation dent strength in the struggle for Indo-Chinese living in Paris. as a Trotskyist-baiter and slan­ had won the collective bargain­ must prepare or perish. their emancipation. We demand their immediate derer of the genuine revolution­ ing election held last May. Her­ “Atomic power will affect the bert Sorrell, strike leader, said, FEARED BY STALINISTS release. We demand they be ary communists. peaceful life of every individual given full opportunity to put “ Our picket lines w ill continue For thus seeking to arm the on earth. And it will at the the case of the Indo-Chinese DECADE OF “ SERVICE” until the strike is settled” and masses against the plots of the same time affect every instru­ people fighting against im ­ To his Stalinist associates the all strikers are returned to work bourgeoisie and its British spon­ ment and technique of destruc­ perialism to the French peo­ blow was all the more devastat­ without discrimination, contracts sors, the Greek Trotskyists tion. ple and the peoples of the ing because Budenz had served wih striking unions are renewed, aroused the fear and the hatred Rank And File Dock Strikers “But the atomic bomb is not whole world. Imprisonment the Communist Party so long and machiney established to set­ of the Stalinists who controlled alone among the scientific ad­ of the 42 will be interpreted and faithfully through a decade tle future jurisdictional disputes. the ELAS and the EAM (Greek vances that make the possibil­ only as an attempt to pre­ of twists and turns in its process National Liberation Army and of degeneration into an open ities of the future so terrifying. vent understanding and co­ Demand Own Negotiating Body Special to THE M ILITANT The development of aircraft and Front. Never permitting the operation between the masses agency of U. S. imperialism dur­ masses to determine the policies ing the war. BULLETIN By Lois Saunders rockets and electronics has be­ in Indo-China and the people come equally incredible. In ord­ of the EAM and the ELAS, the of France. Let the people of After a stunned 24-hour si­ NEW YORK, Oct. 14.— Some 5,000 insurgent ra n k and LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11 — Stalinists held these organiza­ lence, the Stalinist National Police, who yesterday morning er to prevent any possible mis­ the world hear the voice of file members of the AFL International Longshoremen’s conception of the terrible po­ tions In a bureaucratic vise as Free Indo-China.” Committee rigged up a state­ IN THE NEWS arrested hundreds of unarmed organs of the ‘‘People’s Front.” ment in the October 12 Daily union at a meeting in Manhattan Center here this afl#r- pickets ; Ait, Warner Bros,. Burr tentialities of'the future, I asked In’ this'coalition the' Commun­ Worker '^toA "explain” ' Tiaft"' sd noofi^'Voted -to accept ■ MayorvSmk«siidia’.s proposal lo f a batik studio; retreated in' confu­ the'Uommafadihg General of the but members of all political ist Party bureaucrats yielded to choice a product of their school state-supervised election to determine whether their own sion today when at six a.m. Army Air Forces to prepare an working class groups opposed to Not Out Of Job Yet the policies of Greek capitalism had graduated into an avowed negotiating committee or that of ILA President Ryan w ill sharp the first contingent of a estimate of the capabilities of Stalinism. represented in the EAM by law­ enemy of Marxism and joined negotiate the new contract. A return to work is contin­ Admiral Nimitz told a news mighty wave of thousands of other modem weapons. yers, politicians, old time labor The major blows of the OPLA the most virulent opponents of ent on employers’ acceptance of the proposal. Ryan and conference in Washington on Oc­ Lockheed workers drove up “ His report is confined to the skates, etc. were struck against our com­ communism and vigorous de­ tober 6 that the atom bomb will dramatically and with flags fly­ certainties but, as is obvious rades and against another left the employers are trying to forestall such an election by a The Trotskyist program of in­ fenders of capitalism. not mean the end of the Navy ing joined the pickets. from the atomic bomb, the de­ wing organization of workers back-to-work movement. dependent working class action, W ith much beating of breasts, ©- “in your lifetime and mine." It F ifty carloads of AFL mach­ velopments of the war have been In a situation in which the known as the Archeo-Marxists. the Stalinist leaders, through Special to THE M ILITANT inists, led by their president so incredible that the wildest These murders took place in tional Union here officially noti­ is just "another weapon which masses were in ferment, con­ their Chairman William Z. Fos­ fied all locals of the Interna­ Thomas E. McNett, and display­ imagination will not project us Salónica, where the ELAS was must be brought to the scene of stituted a definite danger to ter, complained that “ the pro­ By F. J. Lang tional Longshoremen’s Associa­ ing the banner of the Interna­ far from the target in estimat­ these “ People’s Front” machina­ in complete control. This city motion of a man with Budenz’ action to be used. I see no way tional Association of Machin­ ing the future.” was far from the actual front NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—An es­ tion that “seamen would give tions. In order to prevent the record was a most serious error. timated 35,000 longshoremen any assistance necessary to win to get them there except by ships ists and the American flag, pa­ Marshall then quotes from lines of the civil war. More than raded past the studio. Pickets Trotskyists from gaining leader­ Budenz came to our party after here remained off the job today the beef.” until we can project them from General Arnold’s report on the ship of the masses, the Stalin­ 230 revolutionists were slain in a prolonged period of participa­ (Continued on Page 8) (Continued on Page 2) cold blood by the OPLA in Saló­ in the face of mounting pressure That seamen’s support was this continent to another.” ists organized a GPU-type of tion in the Muste - Trotskyite to get them back to work under forthcoming was demonstrated nica alone last December. Not • • * police system known as the movement.” the same rotten conditions pre­ when the crew of the “ John H. OPLA. Last October, the OPLA a single one of those slain was The Daily Worker editorial permitted even the formality of vailing 12 days ago when steve­ Davey” operated by the Ameri­ Heroe’s Return began a systematic campaign to board, in a simultaneous con­ a court trial. There were no of­ doring companies ordered a lock­ can Hawaiian Steamship Co., Discharged war veterans, most 'Relief For The Rich’ stamp out the Greek Trotsky­ fession of “ error,” discovered out of all gangs refusing to work refused to shift that ship to the ists. Honeycombing the local ficial indictments and no war­ of whom have had little job rants for arrests. that Budenz had been an “ asso­ under the unsafe conditions of Army Base in Brooklyn to be un­ ELAS organizations with its ciate of Trotskyites as recently no weight limit for sling loads. loaded by troops. This ship was training, “ are having a hard In Athens, 31 leading Trotsky­ Tax Bill Passed secret police and agents-provoca­ as ten years ago.” The men are united in their manned by members of the AFL time getting jobs that pay more teur, the Stalinist OPLA fer­ House Democrats and Repub­ ual income taxes. Even so, as ists, among them well-known As “ recently” as the day be- main demands for a maximum Sailors Union of the Pacific on than 65 cents an hour through reted out not only Trotskyists. (Continued on Page 3) ( Continued on Page 8) licans last week united by a vote the bill would actually operate, 2,240 pounds sling load, two deck, the independent Marine a 44-hour week,” admitted Col. of 343 to 10 to give the corpora­ ■the take-home income of a per­ shape-ups a day for hiring on Firemen’s Union in the engine McDermott, head of the New tions and the high-income brack­ son making $3,000 a year, for the docks instead of three, and department, and the CIO Ma­ York area Selective Service Sys­ ets, already hog-fat with war instance, would be increased only SWP'S STATEMENT ON BEN DAVIS double time for work during meal rine Cooks and Stewards. tem. He related last week how a profits and tax rebates, a huge 3 per cent while that of a cou­ hours. Further support came from Wall Street firm requested vet­ slice in taxes amounting to near­ pon-clipper snaring $1,000,000 BACKED BY SEAMEN longshoremen in Philadelphia erans with “ a record of self- ly seven billion dollars. annually would be upped 90 per Longshoremen’s demands are where it was reported that Paul discipline and responsibility” for The new “ relief for the greedy” cent. EXPOSES STAl I NIST TRICKERY being backed by seamen in both Baker, a vice president of the jobs paying $25 a week. bill was passed with almost rec­ According to the findings of AFL and CIO unions. The CIO ILA, announced that no ships Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., F McLaurin of the Republican • * • ord speed, the debate failing to the Committee for a Progressive Party and Ruth Whaley of the National Maritime Union has diverted from New York would New York councilmanic can­ Smith Denied consume the time alloted. Hear­ Tax Program, the present tax Democratic Party. distributed leaflets along the be worked. See Brighter Future didate of the Communist “ Of all nations now discussing ings on the bill had been closed laws already provide for a $1,- Davis was first nominated as San Diego Hall waterfront solidarizing itself ENEMY LINE-UP Party, threw a conniption fit the atomic bomb, leadership in and labor organizations had been 000,000,000 tax rebate to just the Negro candidate of the Gerald L. K. Smith, one of with the rank and file long­ Arrayed against the militant in the pages of the Stalinist optimism is undoubtedly at the barred from offering testimony 850 of the biggest corporations. Democratic Party and then pub­ America’s leading native fas­ shoremen. Similarly, the CIO longshoremen were the employ­ Daily Worker last week in an moment in the hands of Sweden on it. Total “carry-back and carry­ licly repudiated by Tammany cists, was barred October 9, Marine Cooks and Stewards and ers, state and federal labor medi­ hysterical statement “re­ . . . Scientific authorities in Swe­ So raw is the bill that even 13 forward” credits of $25 billion for being a “ communist.” The from using a city high school the independent Marine Fire­ ators, the Army brass hats, New den take the view that not only Democrats who announced they are being allowed in tax refunds pudiating” Trotskyist sup­ Tammany bosses then proceed­ as a meeting place in San men’s union, both West Coast York City’s Mayor LaGuardia, is protection against atomic were giving it “ reluctant sup­ to ' corporations in case their port for his candidacy. ed to nominate Ruth Whaley as Diego. The would-be fuehrer unions which man ships calling and ILA International President bombs possible, but the way profits fall below the high 1936- their Negro candidate to run was scheduled to speak Octo­ at this port, are supporting the Joseph P. Ryan. port” were impelled to confess The Trotskyist Party, ballot wherein this protection could be 39 level. AGAINST Davis! Wasn’t that ber 28 and Nov. 4. The San longshoremen here. The stevedore companies have that it “ gives the lion’s share of designation of the Socialist achieved is already perfectly ob­ action deliberately designed to Diego city school board ruled The AFL Seafarers Interna­ (Continued on Page 2) tax forgiveness to those who SENATE SHARPENS KNIFE Workers Party, is calling upon vious. Get yourself into a solid “ split the Negro vote!” But against Smith when it was don't need it.” The only concession to low- the voters of Manhattan to de­ rock shelter deep under the earth, signate Louise Simpson, Trot­ neither the Communist Party charged at hearings that his WINDFALL FOR RICH income earners in the tax b ill appearance might “ provoke line it with lead and coat it thin­ would eliminate the infamous skyist candidate for City Coun­ nor Davis have uttei’ed a mum­ ly with cadmium, and you can The capitalist Representatives bling word about that “trick” riots and damage school Minneapolis Unions Picket wartime income tax on the low­ cil, as first choice, and to cast snap your fingers at any atomic railroaded through the tax “re­ property.” est income brackets, involving their second choice votes for because they are in a shame­ bomb that wanders along.” (Har­ lief” bill for the rich in the faced alliance with the Tam­ Smith’s difficulties in San 12,000,000 of those earning less Davis. Such procedure is com­ Gerald L K. Smith Meeting old Hobson in Christian Science face of a protest from 15 labor mon under the system of pro­ many corruptionists. Diego undoubtedly are a re­ and consumer groups, including than $2,000 down to $500 annu­ MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 3.—One Monitor, October 10.) portional representation govern­ sult of labor’s growing oppo­ ences of about 700, Smith de­ the CIO, charging that the bill ally. The total cut will amount “SPLITTING VOTE” hundred pickets carrying ban­ * • • ing the councilmanic elections. sition to his drive to establish livered the usual anti-Semitic, would “ grant huge windfalls to to about $300,000,000 as con­ Further! In the Sunday Worker ners signed by AFL, CIO and anti-labor attacks, seeking espe­ This is a Trotskyist trick, a fascist government in Amer­ Scientific “Progress” the most prosperous corpora­ trasted to nearly $7 billion saved of October 7, the Stalinists call Railroad Brotherhood leaders, cially to turn the veterans and screeched Davis, “ to splifc the ica. In Detroit, on September Dr. Irving Langmuir, General tions” while granting “only for the handful of rich and their upon the workers to vote: “ In the National Association for the Negro and progressive vote and 27, 1,000 pickets, called out the unemployed against the la­ Electric physicist, expressing meager relief to low and middle corporations. Manhattan, number 1 for Ben Advancement of Colored People, to prevent any Negro from being by the CIO and supported by bor movement. fear that Soviet Russian science income groups.” Even this concession is tlircat- Davis and 2 for Eugene Con­ the Socialist Workers Party and elected to the City Council.” the Socialist Workers Party, A t the first meeting on Mon­ might outstrip American “in 10 (Continued on Page 2) nolly.” Connolly is the white demonstrated against the fas­ American Youth foi Democracy, Chief provisions of the bill Let’s see just who is tricking day night, the Socialist Workers or 15 years,” told a Senate com­ candidate of the Democratic cist demagogue. marched in protest before a Ger­ include a more than 35 per cent whom! Party in Manhattan. Why do the Party distributed leaflets expos­ mittee on October 8 that among ald L. K. Smith meeting at the slash in corporation excess prof­ Stalinists designate the white ing Smith’s road as that leading the things that may “hold us ON THE INSIDE STALINIST DEAL Truth and Liberty Temple here its taxes in 1946 and complete Democratic candidate Connolly, I want in the order of their pre­ to fascism. Also present were back” is the tendency toward Los Angeles Unions Vote to The Stalinists are so deeply last night. elimination of such taxes in 1947, as their second choice instead of ference; that is, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. three pickets who carried ban­ “ the 30-hour week.” Picket Smith Meeting ...... 2 involved in a shady deal with A. ten per cent slice in corpora­ the Negro Democrat, Whaley? But Stalinist lip-service to the This was the second meeting ners unidentified by any organ­ * * * British Dock Strike ...... 3 the bosses of Tammany Hall tion combined normal and sur­ Isn’t that “splitting the Negro principle of Negro representation addressed by this fascist dema­ izational ties. These pickets dis­ Future Under Atom Bomb ...... 7 that they dare not tell the truth. tax rates, repeal of the capital vote?” is nothing more than a hollow gogue at the Church of Rev. C. tributed leaflets of Stalinist Guess H is Decision! Foster’s “ New” Line ...... 8 It would be of benefit to the stock and declared value excess On what principle do the Sta­ \ fraud. Their choices are made A. Stadsklev. In the past Stads- front organizations. The War Department referred profits taxes and reduction of COLUMNS AND FEATURES Negro and white workers of New klev provided audiences for Eliz­ linists operate I f it is purely solely on the opportunist basis By Tuesday night, various a letter from the world’s largest excise taxes on luxury goods Trade Union Notes ...... 3 York to throw a little light on on the basis of preventing a split of political expediency. abeth Dilling and speakers from pressures had begun to make cotton brokers, Anderson, Clay­ the real tricksters. such as furs, jewelry, high- International Notes ...... 3 in the Negro vote then they They endorse Connolly in ­ the violently anti-Semitic Anglo- themselves felt on the labor ton & Co., for permission to re­ priced liquors, etc. Veterans Problems ...... 4 There are four Negro council- would of necessity have to ad­ stead of Whaley because the Saxon Federation. movement. The size of Smith’s open a branch in Osaka, Japan, Workers Forum ...... 5 manic candidates for the borough “ EQUAL” CUTS vocate that the voters cast former is a well-known Stalinist, Minneapolis newspapers did audience frightened labor lead­ to the State Department. There Pioneer Notes ...... 5 of Manhattan. Louise Simpson their ballots for all four Negro stooge. They keep quiet about not publicize the meeting and ers out of their ostrich-like pol­ it was turned over to the head In addition, the bill provides The Negro Struggle ...... 7 is the candidate of the Trotsky­ candidates. Under proportional the Tammany “stab-ln-the- admission to the main body of icy of ignoring the meeting. The of the Economic Section, W ill that all taxpayers, regardless of I Diary of Stzelworker ...... 8 ist Party, Benjamin Davis of representation the voters can back” to Davis because they axe the hall was by card or personal appeal of the NAACP to the CIO, Clayton, senior partner of An­ their income, receive an “ equal” I Shoptalks on Socialism ...... S the Communist Party, Benjamin mark as many choices as they (Continued on Page 7) recognition. Speaking to audi­ (Continued on Page 2) derson, Clayton & Co. ten per cent flat cut in individ­ PAGE T W O THE MILITANT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, .1945 Texas CIO Oil Militants Determined To Renew 'tRADE UNION NOTES Wage Fight; Denounce Truman's Strikebreaking By Joseph Keller Special to THE M ILITANT trict 4 Policy Committee were® Steel Negotiations * thereby provoked the strike, Only fired by the Texas Company in fhe decisive and m ilitant action HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 10.— Last week in Pittsburgh the CIO Port Arthur. Similar attempts to N. Y. Longshore Strike Rally uf the elevator operators won this Some 7,000 CIO Oil Workers Un­ Steelworkers opened negotiations victimize leading militants are ion militants of District 4, who with the Big Steel corporations speedy decision, although it w ill reported from Sinclair in Hous­ Generals Blueprint were in the forefront of the for a $2 a day general wage in­ no doubt be attributed to the ton. crease. MefC^while-.USA - CIO spreading 15-state strike which process of “arbitration.” The men are bitter against President Murray is Truman broke with his Navy The agreement, which it ape "seizure” of struck refineries, re­ the government strikebreaking. A Third World War spreadingihis usual caution that Business Agent Jeff Hickman of the negotiations may be “ pro­ pears the officials of AFT, Build* turned to work during the past (Continued from Page 1) ord we have ever known.” The Shell Local 367, Houston, stated: longed” apd for the workers not ing Service Employes Local |2-JP week determined to resume their “certainties” of the Third World solution for world peace is a struggle for a 30 per cent wage “ If the Government can, in to get *‘jmpatient.” are prepared to accept, also In­ War: “ Bombers capable of car­ world socialist society. But the increase at the first opportunity. peacetime, order men to work An article by Paul Schremp In cludes provisions for a 10-year at the point of a bayonet, and rying 20,000 pounds of bombs to General is an agent of the cap­ the Lorain (O.), Labor Leader, The strikers in this area are targets 1,600 miles away at arbitration set-up to handle dis* particularly dissatisfied with the make them work at the same italist system which breeds war. organ of Steel Local 1104, indi­ terms and under the same condi­ speeds of 350 miles an hour and cates M ifra y ’s fears that the putes in the future. This the actions of the international un­ altitudes of over 35,000 feet . . . Obviously counting on the con­ tions as before the strike was tinuance of the capitalist system, steel workers may not exercise press has tried to misrepresent ion officials, headed by Presi­ W ithin the next few years Jet- called, why it means we have the “restraint" they did during as a 10-year no-strike pledge. dent O. A. Knight, for capitulat­ propelled bombers capable of the General apparently believes just got through losing a war!” a Third World War Is inevitable, (he war when they wound up ing to the pressure of the gov­ flying 500 to 600 miles an hour The actual terms provide for Organized labor in Texas is with no basic gains after four ernment and ordering the men to targets 1,500 miles away at This means that If Wall Street arbitration procedure which seething. A t this writing, some years of Murray’s fiddadling with back to work. altitudes of over 40,000 feet. remains in control of the des­ 31,000 workers in numerous in ­ tinies of the United States then the WLB and his no-strike pol­ must bring in a decision w ithin It is feared that the admin­ “ Development of even greater icy. 45 days following expiration of istration's order for the union to dustries and trades are manning the fearful destruction pf Amer­ the picket lines. bombers capable of operating at ica’s major cities Is only a few “ Everyone knows there is a the 3-year contract. If this deci­ submit its wage demands to the stratospheric altitudes and years distant—no matter wheth­ good deal of unrest in other or­ sion is not accepted by the union, government’s mercies w ill result speeds faster than sound and ganizations that are bargaining in chiseling down possible gains er Marshall’s plan of "prepara­ it has no commitment pot to carrying bomb loads of more tion“ is carried out or not. for increases,” writes Schremp. that could have been won on the than 100,000 pounds already is a “ I t is the desire of Philip Mur­ strike. As is the case with all Ranks Demand A person duped by capitalist picket lines. “ We struck for '52 certainty. These aircraft will ray to conduct the conferences in such set-ups, however, it can bp propaganda into believing the For 40’ and would have gotten have sufficient range to attack as speedy a manner as possible used for chiseling down the de­ Second World War was fought it if the International hadn’t let Own Committee any spot on the earth and re­ in order to keep the Steelworkers mands of the workers, prolong­ to destroy fascism and institute us dewn. And we’ll get it yet!” turn to a friendly base . . . At from becoming impatient. His in’ negotiations, stalling off m il­ freedom from fear, may well many workers are saying. this very moment we are making theory is that all other ways and itant union action, and encour­ In Dock Strike Rank and file insurgents in New York dock strike at open- wonder what potential enemy Members of Locals 23, 207, a single bomb weighing 45,000 means be exhausted before any aging government intervention, (Continued from Page I) air rally in Brooklyn. They are opposing the attempt of the General has In mind now 208, 227, 243, 316, 343, 367 and pounds to keep pace with the drastic action is recommended.” * * * Joseph Ryan, AFL International Longshoremen’s Association that the Axis is prostrate. Can 448, scattered from Galveston refused to budge on the long­ bomber, already under construc­ We think that before Murray president, to impose a new contract that fails to contain the it be the Soviet Union? Can it Feels P re tty Gloomy and Port Arthur to Dallas and shoremen’s demands. State and tion, which w ill carry such a exhausts his numerous devices workers’ demands, including safe sling-loads. be the colonial lands? The en­ Daniel J. Tobin, president o f Fort Worth, fought In a magnifi­ federal mediators have been up load . . . We can direct rockets for attempting to curb the union tire world? Marshall anticipates the AFL Teamsters and a lead­ cent fashion and brought down and down the waterfront talking to targets by electronic devices ranks from effective militant ac­ the question with the following ing labor stooge of the Demo­ refinery after refinery. They shut to rank and file longshoremen and new instruments which guide tion there is a great likelihood answer: cratic Party, reflects the anxiety o ff pipelines and storage ter­ in an effort to inspire a back- them accurately to sources of that his pussyfooting tactics will to-work movement on the em­ of the labor bureaucracy. Long minals and defied strikebreaking SKF Strikers Fight heat, light, and magnetism, “ In past wars the United exhaust the patience of the steel forces of Hangers and State ployers’ terms—“ so that differ­ States forces had fought in Latin workers. tied to the capitalist political “ Drawn by their own fuses such machines, he suffers as the Guards ordered out by Governor ences can be negotiated.” Army new rockets w ill streak uner­ America, in France, in Belgium, * • * officials have ordered troops to movement for a labor party Coke Stevenson and his side- ringly to the heart of big fac­ in Germany, in Russia, in Sibe­ Murray Local Wins kick, Lt. Gov. John Lee Smith, discharge ships, and gangs of international Trust ria, In Africa, in the Philip­ grows. tories, attracted by the heat of Little publicity, if any, appear­ who is tied up with a fascist officers have volunteered to work pines, and in China.” In this In the October Issue of his or­ Special to THE M ILITANT strike. It was this boss-itispired the furnaces. They are so. sen­ ed in the capitalist press about outfit called “ Fight For Free cargo. company union that later “ wis7 war he adds, American soldiers gan, International Teamster, sitive that in the space of a large the outcome of the Murray Cor Enterprise.” Mayor LaGuardia took to the By M. Garber ed-up” to the company tricks and room they aim themselves to­ fought “in the heart of Burma Tobin appeals to his fellow Dem­ and in the islands of the poration strike in Detroit which ocrats, including the virulent la­ A vicious onslaught has been air last Friday in an effort to PHILADELPHIA, Oct. I I —The became the basis for the present ward a man who enters, in re­ ended on September 26 w ith a stampede longshoremen back to vast Pacific" and are “ garrison­ bor-haters from the South, to r opened up against the oil union two-week old strike at the Phila­ lighting CIO Steelworkers local. action to the heat of his body. complete victory for Local 2, CIO work. Unable to broadcast any ing areas across the entire land “ more understanding of the pulse and its local leaders by the cor­ delphia plants of the notorious The president of SKF corpora­ United Automobile Workers. concessions on the part of the ANNIHILATION IN HOURS and water masses of the earth.” of labor . . . before it Is too late” porations. Now that the men SKF international roller-bear­ tion, M iller went on to say, mas­ The 3,100 strikers won their “ All of these weapons and and the workers kick the Demo­ have returned to work, the open employers, the Mayor tried to ing trust has turned into a basic querades as a liberal and wraps GLOBAL STRUGGLE five demands against the com' tell longshoremen that they were himself In the American flag, their possible combinations make cratic Party overboard—a Pros­ shop companies have intensified struggle for unionism in this It Is clear from Marshall’s pany’s attempt to override con­ holding up return of troops from the air approaches of a country pect that Tobin looks upon w it* their violations of OWIU con­ area. The company, in a sland­ but in reality he is an agent of proposals that what he envis­ tract provisions and declare the Europe and preventing food the points of extreme danger. grave foreboding. tracts and launched a wide­ erous and lying statement which a profit-hungry International ions Is a protracted period of contract inoperative. shipments to the starving peo­ trust which made money from Many Americans do not yet un­ Tobin is not so sure that i t spread paid advertising cam­ appeared in the local press as a armed struggle to secure the Like the Kelsey-Hayes work' ples there. both sides In the war. Miller derstand the full implication pf isn’t already too late to cover un paign in the newspapers against paid advertisement, falsely domination of Wall Street over ers, the Murray workers con­ concluded by urging all labor to the formless rubble of Berlin and the union and its just wage de­ REVOLT AGAINST RYAN charged that the union had re­ the entire globe—no matter what fronted a united strikebreaking the reactionary Democrats w ith get behind the strike because of the cities of Japan. W ith a new coat of “pro-labor” white­ mands. Joseph P. Ryan, who had fused to negotiate and declared the risk. For the prize of world front of the automotive corpora­ this is more than just a stop­ the continued development of wash, for he concedes “ at th i* Reprisals have begun against agreed to the conditions of the a lockout until the workers were power, Wall Street is willing to tions, government and top UAW weapons and techniques now | time it is not an even bet, and leading militants. Ray Andrus employers against which the ready to return to work on the page, it is a fig h t where the officials. But they conducted a known to US. the cities of New,,stake the iate of mankind. with strikes and unemployment and other members of the Dis- longshoremen are in revolt, is company’s terms. open-shoppers have turned their brilliant and solid strike, know­ guns upon the whole labor move­ York, Pittsburgh, Detroit, C hi-| “ R no longer appears practl- increasing, the outlook may get now trying to drive stevedores CIO United Steel Workers cago, or San Francisco may be cal,” says Marshall, “ to continue ing full well that if they permit­ Local 2898 gave a fittin g answer ment. ted the company to toss the con­ even more gloomy.” back to work on the basis. of subject to annihilation from 1 what WC once conceived as hem- to this hypocritical company Gloomy for whom? Tobin and LaQuardia’s promise that some STRIKERS SOLID other continents in ft matter of , lspheric defense as a satisfactory tract out the window their union Unions Picket concessions w ill be granted w ith­ propaganda at a rousing mass Heartened by the support giv­ would have" been cut to pieces in the capitalist politicians or' thé hours.” basis for our security We are workers who are moving to freà in one week, He hopes in this meeting, over 1,000 strong, in the en them by the local CIO and now concerned with the peace short order. Their victory helped Marshall declares there Is no materially to bolster the cour­ themselves from control of th * way to regain control over the Kensington Labor Lyceum on AFL, the strikers are bracing of the entire world. And the Smith Meeting effective defense except the ageous six-week strike of the Kel­ capitalist political machines? longshoremen. October 4. A long list of speak­ themselves for a show - down peace can only be maintained by ers, representing the Philadel­ “ power of attack," Men are sey-Hayes workers. * • * Leadership of the longshore­ itruggle. Pickets at the two the strong.” In Minneapolis men shifted last week from phia CIO, declared their support main plants from early morning heeded, he says, to come to * • t First of all, the General asks Labor Party Chelsea Local 791 of the ILA in of the strike and characterized “ close grips with the enemy and (Continued from Page l) until midnight maintain deter­ for Universal Military Training. Elevator Strike That sentiment for a labor Manhattan, which was the first the struggle of the SKF workers tear his operating bases and his the open statements of the SWP. mined vigilance against com­ He wants every youth to have a New York City’s elevator oper­ party In America is growing victim of the employers’ lockout, as the key fight for unionism in pany attempts to resume oper­ productive establishment away and pressure from individual un­ full year pf Army life which ators, who several weeks ago tied among the union ranks is evi­ as five insurgent Brooklyn locals Philadelphia and its outlying dis­ ations with scab labor. from him . . ,” Citing the rock­ ion members pushed the labor would be the equivalent of two up Manhattan’s loft and office denced by comments appearing made a bid for leadership. These tricts. et showers that fell on Britain movement into a hastily organ­ Proof of the general popular­ and a half years of ROTC train­ buildings in a week-long strike in many local union papers. A4 locals have repudiated Ryan and Steve Root, president of Local until the close of the war, he ized picket line. ity of the strike is evidenced by ing, This is a request for the hacked by a million and a half example Is an excellent artiçlq elected a rank and file com­ 2898 and chairman of the meet­ continues: the generous donations from Prussianization of America, the workers who refused to cross by Edwin Hastings in the Sep­ MANY BANNERS mittee, headed by W illiam E. ing, announced that a meeting “ Such is the pattern pf war other CIO and AFL unions. conversion of the United States picket lines, were awarded their tember ‘190’ Bulletin, organ of Warren, to negotiate with the of presidents from ah the steel in the 20th Century. If this na­ SWP members carried ban-? Every day sees some CIO local into a land of strutting militar­ major wage and hour demands Newark, N. J., Local 190, AFL. employers. workers’ locals, held the day be­ tion is ever again at war, suf­ ners saying: “ Fight Smith and send Its members to the SKF ists like the Germany of the by a decision of arbitrator Federation of Post Office Clerks. This rank and file committee fore, liad voted to give moral fering, as Britain did in this American Fascism through a picket line. In the last three Kaiser and H itler The General George Frankenthaler, former Hastings explains the signifi­ notified LaGuardia yesterday and financial support to the war, the disastrous attacks of Labor Party,” and “Fight for days, workers from Cramp Ship­ New York Supreme Court Justice. cance of the British Labor Party that “ Ryan and his so called rocket - propelled weapons with asks that Congress "establish for Jobs for All, and Racial Equality SKF local, Representatives from yard Local 42, the Budd UAW His decision reversed a ruling victory and points out that labor explosive power like our oWn the generations to come, a na­ through a Labor Party.” negotiating committee do not the United Electrical Workers, local and the Transport Workers of the Regional WLB, which had must be organized politically as speak for the men and are not; atomic bomb, it w ill bleed and tional military policy” Marshall Some of the banners carried in Marine and Shipbuilding Work­ Union demonstrated their sol­ thrown out a recommenda­ a class, instead of following th * authorized to make any settle- ! ers, Transport Workers and Steel suffer perhaps to Jhe point of wants this carried out pn a scale the Tuesday night picket line, idarity on the SKF picket line. that would “permit the mobili­ tion o f its own panel granting the present bankrupt policy of th« reading “ There is no room for ment.” Workers organization staff, Friends of THE MILITANT annihilation, u n i * we can move demands of the workers and had armies of men into the enemy’s zation of an Army of 4,000,000 labor leaders who “ hustle and fascism and Gerald L. K. Smith INSURGENTS MEET pledged all-out aid in what they have been aiding the strikers in bustle around the convention* bases of operations and seize the men w ithin a period of one year in the U.S.A.,” were signed by • A mass meeting has been agreed was a test case for union getting up a commissary, obtain­ and succeed in having both ma­ sites from which he launches his following any international cris­ George Phillips of the AFL, Rob­ called by the insurgents for Sun- , labor, ing food donations, serving sand­ jor (capitalist) parties write into attacks.” is . . .” ert Wishart of the CIO and L. day, October 14, at Manhattan j STRONG SUPPORT wiches and coffee. They have House Adopts their platforms vague phrases helped to rally the support of As for the possibilities of peace, “SECURITY” GARRISONS! R, Covey of the Railroad Broth­ Center to elect a fu ll rank and James Price, secretary-treas- which pass for labor planks." the Philadelphia labor move­ General Marshall is derisive: “ I f As for the Regular Army, erhoods. Another was worded: file negotiating committee. The urer of Local 107, UEW, pre­ ment in this front-line union man does find the solution for Marshall wants sufficient forces Tax Bill To Aid “ CIO Fights for Democracy— meeting w ill decide whether to sented the strikers with a check battle against the blood-stained, world peace It will be the most “ partially deployed in the Pa­ Gerald L. K. Smith Would De­ continue the revolt against Ry­ of $100 on behalf of his organ­ IN THE COMING stroy It.” The NAACP signs profit-swollen SKF Corporation. revolutionary reversal of his rec- cific and Caribbean ready to an’s leadership by refusing to ization. He stated his union was protect the Nation against a Rich Parasites read: “ We oppose Gerald L. K. New York Elections work under conditions dictated ready to go all the way to bring sudden hostile thrust and im ­ (Continued from Page 1) Smith and American Fascism,” by the employers, or to return union-busting SKF to the real­ ened with elimination by the and “Gerald L. K. Smith is anti- mediately available for emer­ VOTE AGAINST: to work for a limited period of ization that unionism was here gency action wherever required i Senate. Democratic Senator Negro and anti-Semitic and anti- one week pending further nego­ to stay. “ You are fighting for the Los Angeles Unions Vote . , .” Besides this the Regular 1 George, head of the Senate Fi- Capitalist Hunger In b e F .” tiations op the part of Ryan and entire CIO,” Price declared, “ and Army would be used as “ se-; dance Committee, has an- Capitalist Misery Unquestionably the meetings the bosses. we not only cheer your fight but curity garrisons for the outly- j nounced he opposes lifting taxes Capitalist War held by Smith are only prelim-? Regardless of the outcome of are ready to participate with To PicketFascist Rally ing bases,” and to keep up the ! «*> those too poor to pay sur- Inary to his return some time in this meeting, the longshoremen you.” LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14- — , At this meeting, Connelly ad- war machine and m ilitary lnsti- | ta* es> while he is pressing for VOTE FOR: the future. Resolutions in some here are expected to demand a One of the highlights of the Three days ago the Los Angeles vocated “ peaceful" picketing, “ no tutions such qs schools, war col- complete abolition this year of Socialist Plenty local unions and liberal organi­ settlement of the issues which meeting was the militant speech school board granted native fas- violence," and viciously attacked leges, etc. The Regular Army the corporation excess profits zations have been passed calling Socialist Prosperity have kept them off the job for of Jimmy Jones, colored Steel cist Gerald L. K- Smith a permit the Trotskyists, slandering the would likewise provide an ex- tax. Socialist Peace on the central labor bodies to 12 days now. They are not like­ Workers organizer and head of to hold a rally October 17 at th e . Socialist Workers Party as “ trou- pert cadre to quickly train draft- I Prior to passing the tax bill, organize a counter - demonstra­ Vote for ly to go to work permanently the CIO Anti-Discrimination I’olytechnic High School. When | blemakers.” (In Detroit picket- ees, * I the House voted to shelve all leg- tion as the only effective way of under a contract that fails to Committee. Jones pointed out the news appeared in the local ing of a Smith meeting was In addition, Marshall wants1 !s!!tA°” ._on unemployment com- dealing with Smith. fix safe load limits. DOBBS & SIMPSON! how in every strike in which he capitalist press, the District j peaceful until police began club- plans worked out for quick con­ , pensation. had participated, the solidarity Council of the United Auto | bing pickets). version of peacetime industries cf white and negro workers had Workers voted to picket Smith’s Connelly attacked the Socialist' into war industries, and for “ con­ foiled attempts of the bosses to meeting. On the same night, Workers Party leaflet which tinuous research into the m ili­ divide the workers’ ranks and October 12, the Stalinist-dom­ asked the Los Angeles working tary ramifications of man’s sci­ T he MILITA brought victory to the union inated CIO Executive Board re­ class to support the anti-fascist entific advance.. . forces. “ You are leading the fight jected the Council’s request for picket line A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER for unionism in this town. It’s At the beginning of the Sec­ support. Local Los Angeles of the 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE a test case for union labor.” ond World War, Roqsevelt pro­ UAW Local 809 and ILWU socialist Workers Party has NEW YORK 3, N. Y. claimed the Atlantic Charter. STEEL LEADER SPEAKS Warehouse Local 1-26 went on i launched an intensive campaign This document promised “ Four Published in the interests of the working people record some time ago to picket to rally all anti-fascist organi- I Freedoms" would result from vic- The only newspaper in this country that tells The participation of Casimir the tru th about labors struggles Miller, regional Steel Workers any Smith meetings. Yesterday zations In support of the October tory on foreign battlefields. The fo r a better world. Director, as the main speaker at picket actio* was voted by Local 17 picket line. M ilitant analyzed the Atlantic the meeting, decisively refuted 9 of the CIO Marine and Ship­ The subscription drive of The Charter as a fraud designed to the company charge that the building Workers, largest CIO Militant was utilized to activate deceive the people into support- ¥ou may start my subscription to The Mili­ local on the West Coast. The tant for 6 months. X enclose 60 cents (coin SKF strike did not have the sentiment against Smith. The ing the war. The Trotskyists or stamps) q support of the national organ­ Conference of Studio Unions now Local is issuing press releases, from the beginning character- ization. M iller assured the strik­ on strike in Hollywood likewise telegrams and resolutions, mak- ized the war as an imperialist Send me The Militant at your regular rat6 ers that the national union was voted to picket the fascist of $1 for 12 months. I enclose $1 (coin, ing wide mailings and conducting conflict over profits, plunder and stamps or Money Order) □ behind them. He indicted the In the face of these resolu­ a telephone campaign. A mass colonies. The Second World company as an old hand at un­ tions, Philip Connelly, secretary protest delegation is scheduled War, we said, would never bring Name ...... „. m m ,...., ion-busting and recited the of the CIO Council and a rabid to appear October J5 at the enduring peace or prosperity. So (Please Print) shameful history of this union- Stalinist, reversed his position School Board to demand revo­ long as capitalism endures war Street , Apt..,,.,,,, hating corporation from the at­ and announced the CIQ would cation of Smith’s permit to use is inevitable- tempts tp organize it in 1936- have a Picket line against Smith. school property as a rostrum. Our analysis has been con­ City ...... Zone...... 36, This announcement was made at At a public rally tonight, firmed a hundred rime» over- SKF, utilizing its stooge com­ a meeting of IQ,000 last night in spokesmen of the Socialist Work­ The real balance sheet of the State ...... pany union? company thugs, paid the Olympic Auditorium, called ers Party will discuss the strug­ Second World War la now em­ police and bribed politicians, in defense of the rights of the gle against Smith and native erging in Marshall's blueprint succeeded in breaking the early Hollywood Studio strikers. fascism, for the Third World War. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1945 THE MILITANT PAGE THRB«

INTERNATIONAL Biggest Dock Strike Since 1926 NOTES

position to Imperial rule.” The Greece crowd of 600 “ waved Red flags The continued political crisis Sweeps Harbors Of Great Britain and Korean independence ban­ in Greece precipitated the resig­ ners while Communist Kyuichi ------@ In their biggest strike since nation of the Petros Voulgaris Tokuda urged overthrow of the 1926, British dock workers from cabinet on October 9. The Voul­ Imperial system.” Many of the Picketing The Dutch Consulate London to Glasgow have hung garis regime, set up by the Allies political prisoners had been held up their cargo hooks. Approxi­ in conjunction with Greek reac­ Seamen Picket without charge for as long as mately 45,000 are out. Principal The Struggle Against tion, resigned with the declara­ 10 to 20 years for criticism of the tion that the majority of Greeks Dutch Consulate demands of the strikers are a Japanese government. When the basic wage of 25 shillings ($5) a opposed elections scheduled for war broke out, Hideki To jo ja il­ January 25. day and a 44-hour guaranteed The Belgian Monarchy ed 10,000 such suspects. In San Francisco work week. But the political Constantin Tsaldaris. one of The» prisoners and two Kor­ the heads of the Populist Party, (Special to The M ilitant) significance of the strike far -By Felix Morrow ■ eans. Lee Kung Hun and Kim SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2—In transcends the importance of spoke for retention of the Voul­ Chun Hai, related how arrested I King Leopold III, who by a time laws, freezing of wages, garis regime in office. A change, a display of international soli­ these immediate demands. Communists were beaten with darity, American seamen joined The strike is taking place law adopted July 18 by the Bel­ etc.); “Throw out the Capitalist he 6aid, would be contrary to Al­ baseball bats and tortured with with Indonesian seamen today in against the sabotage of the o ffi­ gian parliament, is forbidden to Ministers.” (This would trans­ lied views. Installed against the burning incense sticks forced un­ form the government into one w ill of the Greek people, the picketing the Netherlands Con­ cial trade union leaders who are return except with parliament’s der the fingernails. Seven Japa­ sulate’s large and swanky offices closely linked with the Labor comprising the Labor and Com­ Voulgaris cabinet has slavishly consent, defiantly began on Oc­ nese Communists were hanged in the financial district. The Party officialdom. It is a rank munist parties.) carried out the will of the Brit­ and more than 400 died of beat­ block-long picket line fea­ and file movement of tremend­ tober 3 a new campaign to re­ Fearful of t&e growth of re-. ish, whose bayonets constitute ings and malnutrition, according tured placards attacking the at­ ous proportions. turn, issuing a manifesto which publican sentiment, the govern­ its principal support. to Kyushi Tokuda. A Domei re­ tempt to reinstate Dutch imper- j Attlee, head of the Labor Gov­ ment prohibited a mass demon­ All public demonstrations and porter said Tokuda, when inter­ attempted to justify his meeting ialist rule in Java and other sec- | ernment, ordered out troops to stration called for July 15—al­ meetings were banned once more viewed in prison, declared the with Hitler. tion'-. of Indonesia. break the strike. The trade un­ though it was called by the par­ in fear of the working class again end of Mikadoism could "only In flagrant violation of the Together with their American ion officials are covering up for ties sitting in the government t venting its hatred of Allied op­ be brought about through revolu­ anti-Leopold law of July 18, the fellow-workers Indonesian sea­ Attlee by blaming the strike on Yet, as our Belgian comrades pression of Greece. tion.” manifesto was distributed in Bel- men from Dutch ships in the har­ “agitators” and trying to start were able to show in their leaf­ Meanwhile the United Press ' gium by the official Belgian News lets, the return of the king had reported October 9 that Wash­ bor, wearing red and white arm- a back-to-work movement. Ar­ India Indonesian seamen, backed by members of American mari­ Agency, which is subsidized by been prevented thus far only by ington was planning to send hun­ bands, their national colors, pub­ thur Deakin, General Secretary time unions, picket the Dutch consulate in San Francisco. the government. I t is new proof the direct action of the workers dreds of troops from Italy to The struggle of the people of licized the conditions imposed of the Transport and General These supporters of the newly-declared Republic of Indonesia that the so-called constitutional —strikes, demonstrations and Greece. These troops are osten­ India for freedom from British upon them by the foreign imper­ Workers’ Union blamed the Rev­ are protesting Allied attempts to reinstate despotic Dutch monarchy has only contempt for mass meetings. sibly to be used as “ election ob­ imperialist rule has given rise ialists. Picket signs read: “ Smash olutionary Communist Party (the imperialist rule in Java. Photo by THE MILITANT the constitution and the will of servers.” It w ill be recalled, how­ to a series of incidents in Bom­ Dutch Imperialism,” "Average British Trotskyists) for engineer­ WHITEWASHING KING bay. On August 23, according to Indonesian Income 1939 — 2>/2 the people. It is new proof that ever, that during the civil war ing the strike from behind the the mere barring of the return The Labor and Communist provoked by the British last the London "Times,” the Gov­ cents a Day,” “ Indonesian Sea­ scenes. ernment of Bombay "declared Il­ men Get $17 a Month,” “ Protest j of Leopold, leaving intact the in ­ parties opposed Leopold’s return year, considerable resentment TROTSKYIST REPLY stitution of the monarchy now purely on patriotic grounds. Our was expressed by the British cap­ legal seven organizations and sev­ Sending Troops to Enslave In ­ Allies Tightening The RCP, according to an presided over by Prince Baudoin comrades, on the other hand, ex­ italists over the fact they had eral other bodies in the Satara donesia,” “ Down W ith Oppres­ October 12 Reuters dispatch, re­ I as Regent, did not solve the crisis plained to the workers the real to take the entire blame for district . . . Three hundred per­ sion.” sons have been arrested after sponded that this charge was “ a which convulsed Belgium for aims of Leopold’s return. White­ shooting down the Greek people RESOLUTION TO COUNCIL Grip On Far East miserable falsification . . . The months. washing him would mean also although Wall Street actually continued lawlessness and atro­ A committee from the picket dockers have already given their The leaders of the Belgian La­ whitewashing the bankers and shared responsibility. By trans­ cities in this area.” line handed the Consul a reso­ The struggle of the colonial I Indonesians in Batavia, which bor Party and the Communist industrialists who had collabor­ porting American troops to The “ Times” continues: “ The answer to this nonsense by their lution calling on the Dutch gov­ people of the Far East for free­ 1 is dominated by the British, kill- Party, sitting in the Cabinet to­ ated with Hitler and who today Greece, the British despots un­ banned organizations are accus­ vote of no confidence in the ernment to “ let the Indonesians dom from imperialist rule, con­ . ed one British officer and one gether with royalists, were re­ are forced to hide in the back­ doubtedly hope to demonstrate ed of complicity in attempting union leaders . . . If Deakin and determine their own govern­ Punjab officer. Indian troops sponsible for saving the mon­ ground. Thus the collaboration­ to the public that they are not I to organize a parallel government tinued this week in the face of company were to use the same ment” and “ refrain from the use opened fire, wounding six of the archy during months when the ist bourgeoisie and the "non-col­ alone in their brutal policy to­ and impose its authority by a mounting m ilitary pressure as energy in opposing the employ­ of terror in Indonesian affairs.” demonstrators. workers plainly indicated they laborationist” bourgeoisie would ward the Greek people. reign of terror.” This is typical ers as they are using to under­ language used by the British des­ Represented in the picket lines the Allies landed thousands of The Indonesians have captur­ mine the workers struggles; and, wanted the monarchy abolished. be openly united for an assault ed the only large arms plant in pots to describe any movement j were members of the National fresh troops. if the Labor Government were As against the reformist parties, on the labor movement. Japan the Indies and confiscated the of the masses to free themselves Maritime Union, Marine Cooks The Australian Government to use the troops to end the the Revolutionary Communist Our comrade reminded the American Goodyear Rubber A spreading coal strike, the from the brutal rule of British and Stewards, Marine Firemen joined in the persecution of the sabotage of the owners instead Party, Belgian section of the workers of how, behind the pre­ plant. An October 9 dispatch to first in a generation, was re­ capitalism. and other individual trade- independence fighters. The Mel­ of lowering the standards of the Fourth International, rallied the tense of being merely a constitu­ the Christian Science Monitor tional monarch subordinate to ported by The Associated Press, "On September 26, the Asso­ unionists. Resolutions of support bourne radio reported October dockers, the strike would be over workers under the central slo­ declares: “ Throughout the October 8. Some 6,000 Koreans ciated Press reported “rioting” for Indonesian independence 11 that 207 Indonesian seamen tomorrow.” gan of immediate proclamation parliament, the king can dictate walked out of the coal mines near have been passed by the CIO who had refused to man Dutch country the red and white flags the composition of the cabinet» broke out, the “ worst since 1940.” By way of contrast to this of the republic. the city of Sapporo on the north­ Council and the Bay Cities Metal ships bound to the East Indies of the independence movement They cited the example of Feb­ Public assemblies were prohibit­ m ilitant support of the strikers, ernmost island of Hokkaido. The Trades Council. with m ilitary supplies, were sen­ float from buildings and houses, 1 LIMITED DEMAND ruary 1939, when Leopold threat­ ed and police squads were sta­ the British Stalinists are plead­ demands of the miners were not tenced to six months imprison­ streetcars are painted with large A test of the real sentiments ened to form a cabinet of “tech­ tioned at "strategic points.” By ing in leaflets to the picket lines listed, although the strike was October 1 casualties had risen ment. In the Australian Senate, anti-Dutch and anti-imperialis­ of the masses came on June 25, nicians”—the classic formula for spreading to nearby mines. This W illiam A. Brand urged action tic slogan»-?, while today 6,000 to heed the voice of the strike­ when the Labor and Communist a dictatorship — and thereby to 31 killed and 152 injured. breaking officialdom. strike can have great symptoma­ The police opened fire on Sep­ Belgian Miners against distributors of pamph­ dock workers at Tanjongpriok, parties, forced to yield to the forced the cowardly leaders of The dock workers are among tic importance, indicating the re­ tember 28 and set a 10 p.m. to let; headed “ Hands O ff the the port of (Batavia) laid down workers’ desire for mass action, the Labor Party to accept Leop­ the most m ilitant of those sec­ vival of the organized labor 6 p.m. curfew. The people they Indonesian Republic.” The their tools and refused to handle called a mass demonstration in old’s candidate for Prime Min­ Solidarize With tions of the populace who voted movement in Japan. In the first attack, they termed, “ hoodlums.” pamphlet declared: “ Are we to ships bringing in supplies and the industrial center of Charleroi ister, Pierlot. the Labor Government to power decade of the century the Japa­ The anti-British fighters pursu­ shed the blood of the Indonesian arms for the Dutch.” to demand Leopold’s abdication, One Trotskyist leaflet pointed last July. They were voting for nese coal miners proved again ed m ilitant tactics, leading the German Workers people for the profits of British i.e., continuation of the mon­ out how the same battle is being USING A TRUCE socialism. The Attlee admin­ and again that they were among police into narrow alleys and W ith demonstrations of inter­ and Dutch exploiters?” archy in the form of the regency fought elsewhere in Europe: j In Indo-China, the British istration, however, continued the the most militant workers In the then showering them with stones national solidarity,’ Europe’s ¡An October 1 International of Leopold’s brother. Over 10,- "Throughout Europe the pop­ and French have taken advan­ main policies of Churchill and world. Only the most savage re­ and bottles. By September 29 ar­ workers are beginning to reply to News Service dispatch from Ba­ C00 workers came out in spite of ular masses are rising against tage of a truce with the Indo- pression by the government suc­ rests of 250 persons were re­ the dastardly attempt of the Al­ tavia declared “ A real revolu­ has delayed Instituting the re­ the limited character of the de­ the monarchies: in Greece, the Chinese nationalists to land sev­ ceeded in crushing their organi­ ported lied imperialists to impose slave tion for Indonesian independence forms which it advocated in its mand. fighters of the EAM are strug­ eral units of French troops and sations. A battalion of British soldiers labor conditions upon the Ger­ was going on today in Java out­ election platform. Now the work­ Our comrades of the Revolu­ gling to prevent the return of 7,000 more British troops. Mean­ A September 28 dispatch from was ordered to prepare for ac­ man masses. Thus, a plan hatch­ side of the city of Batavia.” ers are beginning to resort to tionary Communist Party entered King George; in Italy, the House while Paris and London reached the same news agency declared: tion on October 1, as streetcar ed by the Belgian capitalists to Slogans in Batavia painted on direct action. This was predict­ the demonstration with their own of Savoy is condemned by the agreement that the French shall “ Japanese labor leaders met to­ and bus service became paralyz­ send 30,000 German prisoners of street cars and buildings read: ed in the September Fourth In ­ slogans and were able to report immense majority of the masses; continue their despotic sove­ day to form a new socialist party, ed when transport workers “ re­ war into slavery in the coal pits “The Monroe Doctrine—Amer­ ternational, American Trotsky­ a signal success: “ From the be- in Yugoslavia, the heroic par­ reignty over Indo-China. while the reported reorganization fused to resume work.” The Oc­ of that country has been, met ica for the Americans and Indo­ ist monthly. i ginning, the slogans launched by tisans oppose the return of the of several war defunct labor un­ tober 1 “Christian Science Moni­ with sharpest protest from the nesia for the Indonesians!” The truce seems already to The heads of the Labor Party our comrades of Charleroi: ‘Leo­ Royal House; in Rumania and ions further marked the acceler­ tor” reported that eight platoons Belgian miners. “ Self Determination by Indo­ have ended. Japanese troops in power, said the Fourth Inter­ pold to prison,’ ‘Down with the Bulgaria the anger is great ation of Japan’s new liberal of British troops had been called In the vanguard of this protest nesians!” acting under British orders k ill­ national, “ W ill be compelled to monarchy,’ ‘For the republic,’ against the monarchy which movement. The movement thus out in Bombay. movement are the coal diggers “ Life, liberty and the pursuit ed 80 Indo-Chinese and wound- expose themselves with startling were taken up by the overwhelm­ shamelessly collaborated with far has been markedly socialis­ The frightful conditions In In ­ of Charleroi, the Borinage and of happiness is the right of all j ed 150 in a foray October 10, speed.” As one of the results, ing majority of the demonstra­ Hitler; there are moves to im ­ tic. No group to date champions dia under British domination are Anderlues, where the influence of nations.” while an Annamite official de­ •“the hundreds of thousands of tors,” reports the July 14 La pose anew kings on Austria and eloquently described In the B rit­ the Parti Communiste Révolu­ clared that “ negotiations” had workers newly awakened to po­ Lutte Ouvrière. Spain but there, too, the great a capitalistic democracy.” FIFTY KILLED The formal launching of new ish “ New Leader” of September tionnaire, Belgian Section of the broken down. Allied Gen. Gra- litical life will begin resorting to Our comrades followed up this masses make clearly heard their Japanese seamen’s unions was 22. A cable from the paper’s Fourth International, is parti­ At Soerabaja, 50 persons were cey told the Annamites that any direct action to achieve their success by issuing a manifesto absolute opposition to the crown­ scheduled for October 5 at Osaka. Bombay correspondent likens cularly strong. reported killed and 150 wounded interference with movements of demands. Thus the Labor Party and many leaflets distributed ed parasites who are the zealous Tokyo transport workers, includ­ India to “ a huge concentration The August 11 La Lutte Ouv­ in fighting between nationalists British troops would be met with victory means above all that throughout Belgium, headed by servitors of capitalist reaction. ing all the city’s streetcar and camp.” The ban on public meet­ rière, the PCR paper in the Char­ and Japanese soldiers acting force. Five British officers and England stands on the verge of (hree main slogans: “ For the Re­ “ The working class, followed bus employes, are organizing. ings, continues the “ New Leader,” leroi region, reports the follow­ under Allied orders. men were killed by the Indo­ a new stormy development of public” ; “Down with civil mobi­ by the masses as a whole, reject Approximately 500,000 workers “ is being lifted only tardily, ing action taken by miners as­ On October 11 a crowd of nesians October 12. the class struggle.” lization” (this refers to war- the monarchy not in the name of of the government-owned ra il­ while such organizations as the sembled at their pitheads at Pit constitutional principles, but be­ roads are also forming trade Congress Socialist Party are still No. 3 and Pit No. 6 in the Ander­ cause everywhere the monarchy unions. unlawful in 10 out of the 11 prov­ lues area: constitutes the most dangerous . In China thousands of Japa­ inces. Many Congressmen are "(W e) protest against the in ­ Indonesia Movement For Independence spearhead of coups d’etate of nese soldiers are reported desert­ still In prison.” troduction of German prisoners capitalist reaction.” ing to the Chinese Communists’ Despite the end of the war. into the mines; LABOR PROGRAM Eighth Route Army. Japanese "life is exactly as it has been “ Declare that their place is in Has Long Tradition Of Militant Struggle The Trotskyists call upon the general Tan Takahashi, declared ir. the last three nightmarish the mines, factories and shops Labor Party members to fore* that in Peiping desertions from years. Bombay’s 150,000 citizens of Germany and that the aim of By Ratna Soemanti risings were the result of the Utopian to think that the Dutch donesia, he shows no trace of it their leaders to carry out th * his forces were increasing daily sleep on the pavements while the the capitalist leaders, in send­ dissatisfaction of the popula­ would sit idly by while the Na­ now. party’s own program: and that the "morale” of his fighting personnel, Government ing the prisoners down into the (The Second of Two Articles) tion, not of agitation. After the tionalists were quietly building In an Interview he explained “The Belgian Labor Party men was very low. officials, police, etc., continue to mines, is directed above all to­ The engineer Soekarno is un­ uprisings were crushed he and their own organs of power to oust that the Japanese had been claims that it has never aban­ At Tokyo liberated political occupy requisitioned houses and wards sabotaging the workers' doubtedly the most respected and his co-thinkers intensified their the Dutch. friendly to the nationalist move­ prisoners from four prisons were blocks of flats, even though re­ ablest leader the Indonesian na­ doned the slogan of the republic, resistance (to capitalist exploi­ propaganda for Indonesian na­ The enthusiasm of the crowds ment but permitted independence acclaimed by what the Associated cently the Bombay High Court tation) ; tionalist movement has so far which remains inscribed in ita tionalism, They realized, and said attending PNI meetings, the bold only within the framework of program. Today it is time to de­ Press (October 10) described as declared that the Government’s “ Declare that (we) will work produced. His popularity and in­ so, that the masses had been contemptuous tone of the speak­ their “co-prosperity spheres” mand its realization. A real unit­ “ Communist crowds shouting op- requisitioning orders were illegal. together with them (the Ger­ fluence can be gauged from the made organization-ripe by their ers which broke down the respect which he declared was as unac­ ed front of all the workers’ par­ mans) only on the condition violence of the attacks and ac­ experiences with the communists for the white man, all this be­ ceptable as Dutch promises of ties and of the new trade union that they enjoy the same work­ cusations which the Dutch of­ and were looking for leadership. autonomy within the framework ficials hurl at this man who has came too dangerous for the im ­ federation would be able to pre­ ing conditions as the Belgian In 1927 the Partai Nasional In ­ of the empire. “ We don’t like Trotskyists In Greece Killed followed a consistent and un­ perialists. In 1930 Soekarno and vent the king’s return, obtain miners and above all, the same donesia was officially launched. Japanese oppression and we don’t compromising course since he three other PNI leaders were ar­ the proclamation of the repub­ right of (trade union) organiza- | Its first aim was political inde­ want Dutch oppression either. began his political activity as a rested and Imprisoned for two lic, and the speedy convocation By Stalinist Murder Gangs tion.” pendence. Only then could the This is no racial movement young man of 19. years. In 1932 after his release of a constituent assembly elected MINERS IN VANGUARD entire structure of the Indonesian Soekarno was again arrested and against the whites, nor do we (Continued from Page 1) murders made possible the com­ by universal suffrage.” Soekarno, then a student at society be connected. Soekarno exiled to the Island of Flores have anything against the Dutch Such a united front must not m ilitants like Demosthenes Bou- promise which entrenched the This demonstration of interna­ the Technical college in Ban­ always stressed that this aim without trial. There he remained as a people. We are only fight­ be limited to top committees, ex­ zoukis and Nicos Avarantinos, reactionary monarchists with tional solidarity is linked direct­ doeng (Java), founded the Ban­ could only be achieved through a in spite of urgent requests from ing the Dutch colonial system.” plains the manifesto of our com­ w$re shot immediately upon seiz­ the aid of British tanks and ly with the miners’ vanguard po­ doeng Study Club, constituting conscious popular movement nationalist circles that he be per­ rades, but in every locality should ure by OPLA agents. Printshops planes. The elimination of the sition in the struggle against the mostly ex-members of the MUST DEFEND INDONESIANS Belgian capitalists and their which relies on its own mitted to return to Java in the be formed by elected delegates of engaged in work on Trotskyist Trotskyists was followed by the Perhimpoenan Indonesia, now re­ Thus the Indonesian national­ monarchy and for the establish^ s tr e n g t h. “Our Indonesia crisis preceding the Japanese the workers from the factories publications were completely de­ terror which has since reigned turned to the Indies. They im ­ ist movement as it emerges to­ ment of a republic with workers’ strength lies in the low'est layers conquest. and places of work. molished. Trotskyists workers against all workers and peasants mediately injected a radical and day, far from being Japanese- democracy as its base. For taking of the people. When the whole These united front committees were seized in their homes and1j in Greece. anti-collaborationist tone into OPPOSES JAPANESE RULE inspired, is in reality a continu- a leading part in these mass people agrees with us freedom would organize workers’ m ilitias kidnapped. Then cruelly tortured the publications and meetings of atien of the movement which TROTSKYIST PROGRAM struggles, the Belgian Trotskyists will not be far off,” he said. He The Dutch knew better than to disarm the fascist and royal­ and finally assassinated. The this and other study clubs. Soe­ arose after the defeated com­ But even though bled white, have come under the sharpest would Start almost every speech to let him return. Other exiles ist bands; would see to it that complete toll ©f the Trotskyist karno proclaimed that Indone­ munist uprisings in 1926 and the Greek section of the Fourth attacks of the “democratic” pup­ with an explanation of why the had expressed their support of popular tribunals are formed to yictims of Stalinist terror in sian political problems should be which was suppressed in 1930 International has survived the pet government of the Allied im ­ Dutch came to the Indies, not to the Dutch government against punish the fascists and collab­ Greece has not yet been com­ seen in an inter-Asiatic frame­ with an unbroken anti-collabora­ terror. And now that the masses perialists under Van Acker, as spread civilization, but to “ fill Japan, but no such word had orators; prepare immediately the piled. It was a veritable St. work and be solved in coopera­ tionist record. The confidence of are stirring once more, the well as the GPU machine in the their rumbling stomachs.” come from Soekarno. He re­ electoral lists for the voting for Bartholomew’s Day massacre on tion with other Asiatic peoples. the masses in a movement which Trotskyists in Greece are again Stalinist party. mained consistently anti-collab­ the Constituent Assembly; estab­ a modern scale. During the days of the Chinese UTOPIAN PROGRAM has no record of betrayal will in the vanguard of the workers’ The social-democratic Prime orationist. His return to Java un­ lish workers’ control over econ­ The. slaughter of the Trotsky­ revolution he proposed affilia ­ be important moral capital when struggle. In the trade unions, Minister Van Acker continues to The program of the PNI was, der Japanese domination is ad­ omy and over the government ists made possible the betrayal tion to the Chinese movement. the final struggle for independ­ through their weekly papers, the suppress La Voie de Lenine, cen­ like that of the Perhimpoenan vanced by Dutch officialdom as of the Communist and Labor of the. Greek masses in the B rit­ In 1926 during the Commun­ ence begins with the arrival of Workers’ Struggle and the Work­ tral organ of the PCR, and Indonesia, to create a state w ith­ proof that he was a turncoat parties. ish-provoked Civil War. The ist uprisings in Java and Su­ Dutch troops. ers’ Front, as well as in the agi­ threatens to bar La Lutte Ouv­ in a state, to create for every in ­ “ communist one day, fascist the Thus the struggle for the re­ matra, he pointed out in speeches tation around the coming elec­ rière. The Stalinists calling for stitution of the Dutch an equiva­ next.” This is absurd. He return­ We Marxists have profound public and the Constituent As­ and in the press that the up- tions, the heroic Greek Trotsky­ complete suppression of the lent to take over. At one of the ed to the center of political life ideological and practical differ­ sembly, correctly carried on, is READ ists are putting forward the pro­ party, carry on agitation design­ meetings where this program the moment it became possible ences with Nationalists which in reality a class struggle for all gram of the Fourth Internation­ ed to arouse physical violence and derlues are particularly singled was explained a man in the au­ for him. If he had any illusion, will need to be taken up as events the needs of the workers. Our al, for the independent strug­ even assassination against Trot­ •ut by the Stalinists in their at­ dience arose to ask how the due to his earlier pan-Asiatic unfold. comrades are sure that if the ‘THE FOURTH gle of the working class. They skyist miners’ leaders. tacks because of the increasing speaker proposed to achieve this ideas, that the defeat of the But the first task is to defend workers w ill take the road of report increasing successes Comrades Davister of Char­ support and prestige these com­ without landing in the concen­ Dutch by the Japanese would the national independence move- mass action for these demands, INTERNATIONAL’ among the suffering masses of leroi, Malengreau of the Borin­ rades are gainin. through their tration camp Boven-Digoel. A mean an end to oppression and j ment against the slanderous at- it will result in a great stride for- aftv>v»v>v»v»v»*i*ft**‘ *A******A*A* that oppressed nation. age and Victor Bougard of An- activities among the miners. i shrewd question. I t was of course complete independence for In ­ 1 tacks of the imperialists. 1 ward to socialism. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1945 PAGE FOUR THI MILITANT

swindle the workers out of the gains they might win on the picket lines. But the workers— united in program and action—are so overwhelming PROBLEMS FACING the MILITANT and mighty they can heat back any attack. That is the meaning of labor solidarity. Published in the interests of the WAR VETERANS Working People Vol. IX —No. 42 Saturday, Ortobrr 29, 194IS Bring Them Back Home! ------By CHARLES CARSTEN ------Published Weekly by Plight of Mentally Disabled Veterans THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASS’N On .September 13 Lieut. Gen. Albert C. at 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. Wedemeyer, U. S. Commander in China, re­ “ A police patrol wagon roared up to the front Telephone: ALgonquIn 4-8547 vealed that American trhops might he used in steps of Lakeside Courthouse. Two uniformed of­ FARRELL DOBBS. Managing Editor China. “ The object of bringing in American ficers opened the rear doors and pulled from the THE MILITANT follows the policy of permitting its troops would he to maintain order and facilitate inside a disheveled and ashen - faced young man contributors to present their own views in signed articles. who gazed wildly about him then emitted a fear­ the control of the Central Chinese Government These views therefore do not necessarily represent the ful scream. policies of THE MILITANT which are expressed in its in areas that have been occupied by the Jap­ editorials. “ Men, women and youngsters gathered quickly anese.” Subscriptions: $1.00 per year; 50c for 6 months. and looked on In wonderment or shocked surprise Foreign: $2.00 per year. $1.00 for 6 months. On September 30, the U. S. 1st M arine D iv ­ as the young man was dragged into the main lobby Bundle orders: 3 cents ppr copy in the United States; 4 cents per copy in all foreign countries. ision entered Tientsin “to assume police duties of the Courthouse, up the steps and around to the v Single copies: 5 cents. in northern China’s political hotspot.” inquest room of Probate Court.” "Entered as second class matter March T, 1944 at the post Wall Street’s propagandists depict such This young man was not a criminal, says the office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879.” utilization of U. S. troops in the “ postwar” Cleveland Press of August 30, in which the incident world as jiecessary to “win the peace.” What was reported, even though he was being treated as they really mean is to put down the labor move­ one.' He was a World War I I veteran “ who had been Only the world rev­ ment, suppress the colonial drive for freedom driven into a frenzy by some unknown fear.” olution can save the and safeguard the capitalist system. He is one of the mental casualties of World War II, one of the psychotics, those in need of institu­ USSR for socialism. How deliberately Wall Street plots the use tional care and treatment by highly trained doctors. But the world revolu­ of American troops for this purpose is graph­ In March of this year the army listed as receiving ically revealed by the fact that on June 4, 1942, tion carries-with it pensions 23,270 men who were similarly afflicted. when the Duke of Windsor, then governor of An additional 171,309 psychoneurotic cases were the inescapable blot­ the Bahamas, appealed to Washington for help reported on the same date as being recipients of ting out of the Krem­ ir, a “ labor crisis,” Roosevelt ordered members disability pensions. Their condition is not as serious lin oligarchy. of the Sixth Cavalry Regiment flown in for use as that of the psychotics. But thgy have been emo­ against the workers. The troops took field tionally unbalanced by the experiences In the war. — Leon Trotsky supplies, ammunition and hand grenades. The “It certainly is a revolutionary idea—and just think—we’ll be at W ithout proper care their condition may worsen incident was revealed only last week by one of and, at best, will continue to be a handicap all their the men now on duty in Berlin. In 1942 the the very bottom of the heap!” lives. use of these troops to put down the workers of Authorities estimate that 600,000 of the men dis­ the Bahamas was kept a deep secret by Roose­ charged from the armed forces w ill be psycho­ neurotic. They do not need extended hospitaliza­ Pierre Frank velt since the news of his scandalous order tion, but they do need treatment by trained psych­ The deportation order now pending against would have conflicted violently with the Allied iatrists using modern facilities. propaganda about the war being for “ demo- Pierre Frank, a French Socialist living in Lon­ However, neither those classified as psychoneuro­ cracy’r and don, should arouse every supporter of civil lib­ the “ freedom of the peoples.” tic nor those who are psychotic have the slightest erties and fundamental democratic rights. The Bahamas incident was simply a foretaste chance of receiving the highly skilled treatment of w hat is now in store fo r the Chinese masses. In 1939 Pierre Frank opposed the imperialist they require. When Chiang Kai-shek, like the Duke of W ind­ Of the 3,500 psychiatrists in the country, 3,000 are war. He was forced to leave France as a po­ sor, appeals to Washington for aid in a “ labor litical refugee because of this opposition. In "FASCISM AND SOCIALISM,” Citing the fate of Mussolini scientifically tracked down, de­ normally needed in hospitals and institutions. The crisis,” American troops will be ordered into stroyed in embryo every form of remaining 500 have private practices from which 1941 the Churchill government issued an order A New Preface to .“Fascism and and Hitler, Guerin declares, “ A l­ action against the Chinese. Bis: Business,” by Daniel Guer­ though it may not please some organized working class opposi­ they draw fabulous sums for treating the well-to- for his deportation. But it was never enforced, Thus the American boys who were dragoon­ in. Published in the September naive people, the old laws which tion to its frightful rule, but the do and wealthy. Even if induced to give up their luc­ and Herbert Morrison, Secretary of the Home ed into the Second World War under the pre­ issue of Fourth International, have always governed the rela­ struggle between the workers and rative practices, there are too few to treat more than Office, assured Frank he would not be sent text that they were being sent on foreign battle­ 116 University PI., New York tions of classes, have not failed the capitalists continued. a small fraction of,the mentally disabled veterans. back to France. fields to free the peoples of the earth from 3. 25c. this time either. Fascism has not ", . . Gradually and to the ex­ Although aiding the mental casualties of this war However, within two weeks after the Labor fascism, fear and oppression, find themselves Many readers of The M ilitant suspended them, as with a wave tent that the fascist lid is lifted, is one of the most pressing problems before it, the we perceive that beneath it, the Party came to power, Frank was informed that winding up as a brutal police force. Instead of are familiar with Daniel Guer­ of the magic wand. The link be­ Veterans Administration has relegated the task to in’s book, Fascism and Big Busi­ tween fascism and Big Business class struggle, supposedly de­ a very small, understaffed division of four or five he would be deported the following month. Mo freeing the world, they find themselves en­ ness. Written before the Second is so Intimate that the day when stroyed forever, continues right officers and twQ secretaries crowded into a single slaving it for the benefit of W all Street. Their official written order was handed this oppon­ World War, it is still one of the Big Business withdraws its sup­ on its way.” In Italy and Ger­ room of the Veterans Administration building. To ent of the capitalist system. The cowardly offi­ demand to come hack home must he backed bes', studies available of fascism port is the beginning of the end many “ we find once more traces this force is assigned the job of directing 40 per cent cials wished to accomplish their aim without to the hilt. in Italy aqd Germany. In this for fascism.” of a revolutionary vanguard, es­ of the Administration’s entire medical load. assuming responsibility. They tried to get book, Guerin follows step by step Second, the effect of the Allied pecially in the concentration Proposed mental reconditioning centers are, at Frank to sign an application form for an “exit the remarkable parallel in the victory on European fascism, j camps and the prisons. Fascism this late date, still in the planning stage. None has not halted humanity’s con­ permit” to France. When he refused, the po­ rise to power of Mussolini and Guérin declares that the victory had been established by the end of August, said Digging Up A Corpse Hitler. He traces the similarity by no means signifies the end tinuous march toward emanci­ lice took his French passport, his alien regis­ Charles Hurd, specialist on veteran affairs for the The October 7 “ Daily Worker,” official in methods of the Italian fascists of fascist barbarism. The new pation. It has only delayed it N. Y. Times. He added that psychoneurotic cases tration book, and changed his identity card for temporarily, if at all.” mouthpiece of the American Stalinists, carries and the German Nazis, and regimes are extremely compla­ requiring hospitalization "are being treated in gen­ a provisional one valid onlv until November probes the causes for the failure without comment an article from Athens which cent toward former fascists. Fifth, the correc- method of eral hospitals, but the system is not satisfactory.” of the working class political 15, 1945. These so-called “ democratic” re­ fighting fascism. Guerin attacks Army brass hats knew from previous experiences declares the Greek Stalinists are urging the parties (Social Democrats and Several Members of Parliament have taken gimes remain "completely infect­ the shameful hypocrites at the that the mental casualties of this war would mount revival of the Third International. A few facts Stalinists) to halt this barbar­ up his case and are protesting the deportation ed with the fascist virus . . . The head of the Allied powers who into the hundreds of thousands. They knew when w ill help to clarify this proposal. ous movement. In both countries, ’purge’ is nothing but a shame­ today denounce fascism and the war began that thousands of trained psychia­ proceedings. Hence the case has been taken Guerin’s study reveals, the drive- ful comedy, because to really dis­ The Third International utas organized in make themselves out as extreme1- trists would be needed to care for men who acquired out of the hands of the police and now rests wheel of fascism was Big Busi­ 1919 by the leaders of the October 1917 revo­ infect the bourgeois state, it is ly “ anti-fascist.” These are the mental-emotional disorders from it. Yet they made w ith the Hom e O ffice. A n extension has been ness. necessary to destroy it. The ad­ lution in Russia. Lenin and Trotsky were its very same people, he points out, * no provisions whatsoever to give medical doctors the granted Frank, according to a verbal report Now Guerin has written a new ministrative tops, the army, the who admired the way Mussolini outstanding spokesmen. They called on the long, intensive additional training required to enable preface for this important book, police, the judiciary remains given one of the H P’s interested in the case. “made the trains run on time.” them to treat veterans suffering from mental dis­ most devoted and class-conscious workers of bringing it up to date by incor­ But Frank has heard nothing from either the staffed with auxiliaries and ac­ But "tomorrow the big 'democra­ orders. the world to join together in an international porating the lessons learned complices of the former regime, cies' may very well put anti-fas­ Home Office or the police. ITis papers are Furthermore, early diagnosis and treatment are organization to fight for their common interests about fascism in the Second The recent notorious case of cism back on the shelf.” most important for cases of neurosis, as the condi­ thus offically valid only until November 15. World War. General Patton confirms Guerin’s and establish a socialist society. The Third He points out how already the tion becomes “fixated” over a period of time, so The British working class voted for social­ First, in the field of basic International in those days opposed imperialist observations. Patton hlurted out "democracies” are crushing the that the longer cure is postponed, the more difficult theory, Guerin declares that the to the press the truth about Al­ ism when they put the Labor Party in power. war. and did its utmost to overthrow the cap­ resistance movements which it is and the less likely It is to be completed. war has confirmed the Trotsky­ lied utilization of fascist o ffi­ But in persecuting Pierre Frank, the heads of italist system before it could breed another rose against fascism during the In its neglect in this case as in its failure to pro­ ist analysis of fascism. Like im­ cial:. and for this blunder of the Labor Government are violating the most war. vide modern artificial limbs, adequate hospitaliza­ W o rld W ar. perialist war, fascism is a prod­ frankly speaking out, he was re­ elementary democratic rights. Instead of en­ There is only one way to really tion, its failure in every case to provide for their W ith the degeneration of the Soviet Union uct of the capitalist system in moved from his post. stamp out fascist barbarism once forcing Churchill’s deportation order against under Stalin, however, the Communist Inter­ needs, the government demonstrates its callous in­ its decline. This is an important Third, the possibility of fas­ and for all and that is by estab­ difference to the veterans. Pierre Frank, it is the duty of the Labor Gov­ national, or Comintern as it became known, lesson, for it points to the cor­ cism reviving in Europe. Guerin lishing socialism. “ Anti-fascist” ernment to quash the proceedings. likewise degenerated and ended up as a docile rect method of fighting fascism believes that the fascist move­ sentiment is not enough. M ili­ Protests to the British Embassies and British instrument of Stalin's foreign policy. He sold —that is, overthrowing the capi­ ment can again become a force, tant struggle is required. It is Government are in order. Demand the right its services to the highest bidder among the talist system. At the outbreak of more horrible than anything yet “ fascism or socialism.” Pointing th Second World War petty imagined. This will happen, how­ to the example of the October of political asylum for Pierre Frank! capitalist powers. In 1939 when Stalin signed Government Rehearses bourgeois “ theorists” held that ever, only if the working class 1917 Revolution as a model for a pact with Hitler, the adherents of the Com­ fascism was a new phenomenon. should once more fail to take the workers to follow, Guerin de­ intern acclaimed the pact as a “ blow for peace,” They said the fascists represent­ power when it has the oppor­ clares: “ The totalitarian state is New ‘Anti-Trust’ Farce Labor Solidarity and denounced the Allies as war-mongerriig ed a new class, not workers, not tunity. a tottering monster. We shall be nations. When the Soviet Union was invaded, capitalists, but something. new Fourth, the nearness of social­ forever rid of it by assuring the "An injury to one is an injury to all!” That the Comintern flopped overnight into support under the sun. Various names, ist revolution in Europe. Fascism triumph of the antithesis: the Another farcical “anti-trust” attack against the is a most dynamic and powerful principle of of the “peace-loving” Allied imperialists and such as the “managerial” class, did not and could not destroy Iteniiblic of the Workers’ Coun­ gigantic Mellon-owned aluminum monopoly was organized labor. That principle has further were given this alleged new class the class stvuggle, declares Guer­ denunciaton of the Axis. Finally in 1943, in cils.” Reviewed by opened on September 17 by Trumans’ Attorney- proved its worth in a number of recent labor by these “ theorists.” in. Fascism atomized, broke up. Joseph Hansn General Tom C. Clark. Break it up through “ sub­ response to the demands of Allied imperialists, struggles. division,” he besought Congress, and give “ competi­ Stalin dissolved the Comintern. It was buried tion” a chance. Last week, in Hollywood, motion picture without regret or mourning, for it had been But the magnates who own the Aluminum Com­ studio and city police assaulted peacefully pick­ dead since the day in 1933 when it permitted Congressmen At W ork pany of America are certainly not too worried about eting studio workers. A mighty outpouring of Hitler to rise to power without opposition. losing their grip on the nation’s production of alum­ Lockheed aircraft workers came to the aid of The true principles of internationalism were inum. Four and a half years ago The M ilitant, the strikers and forced the police to retreat. embodied in the Fourth International, founded Since the development of the stance, suggests: “ It may be nec­ February 15, 1941, pointed to a whole series of gov­ Several weeks ago in Cleveland strike pickets under the leadership of Leon Trotsky in 1938. atomic bomb, Wall Street's Con­ essary to commandeer the thou­ ernment show-piece suits against ALCOA, begin­ ning as far back as 1912 when the Federal courts at the Parker Appliance company were ridden These principles in this country are supported gressmen have been especially sands of miles of abandoned mine down and clubbed by mounted police. Thous­ fervent in their declaration that tunnels in the coal regions of first declared the Aluminum Company a monopoly. by the Socialist Workers Party. Yet in 1941 forty per cent of Its 10 million shares ands of workers from neighboring plants, AFL “peace is wonderful.” But they Pennsylvania, West Virginia, In the United States, Earl Browder, head of are going right ahead with their Ohio, Indiana, and other states. valued at $500,000,000 were owned by 17 stock­ and CIO, rushed to the picket line and forced the American Stalinists, carried out Stalin’s line plans for a Third World War. It may be necessary to recondi­ holders. a halt to police violence and strikebreaking. by dissolving the Communist Party. Recently Senator H ill of Alabama, for tion these tunnels for use as shel­ These “ anti-trust” suits were instituted again in In New York City, AFL and CIO seamen the American Communist Party was revived example, in a matter of fact way ters for civilians and as loca 1924, 1928, 1930 and 1937. All of them ended in last week refused to move ships into the har­ and Foster placed in charge to the accompani­ introduced a joint resolution tions for the production of essen­ dismal failure to “bust the trust.” The only real bor for unloading by troops in the dock work­ ment of criticism against Browder. But not a “authorizing experiments” with tial war equipment.” action the capitalist government took was to grant atomic bombs “ to determine their rebates of millions of dollars in taxes to the Mellon ers strike. word of criticism was breathed against the Even Senator Bilbo of Missis­ effect on naval vessels.” sippi pondered over the problem estate. Now the same farce is proposed again. In A kro n a few weeks ago, 15,000 C IO rub­ “genius” in the Kremlin who dissolved the en­ Another school of thought, and came up with a brilliant pro­ Before the war ALCOA produced 100 per cent of tire Comintern. ber workers in the Goodrich plant refused to however, fears the consequences posal: “ It would be a wise thing the nation’s virgin aluminum and practically all of cross picket lines of supervisory employes fight­ The resolution of the Greek Stalinisfs to re­ of continued experimentation. to move the Capital to the geo- the fabricated metal. During the war ALCOA’s an­ ing for collective bargaining rights. vive the Comintern coincides with the break­ “ Almost two months ago,” de­ nois is likewise Impressed with i graphical center of the United nual production shot up seven-fold from 327,000,000 pounds to 878,000,090. When the government built A million and a half Manhattan workers down . of the London Conference of the Big clared Senator Downey of Cali­ the power of the atomic bomb: States and get it away from the Five. Obviously the resolution is inspired by fornia, “the first atomic bomb “ I am advised on the most com­ sea coast and the hazards of at­ $700,000,000 worth of aluminum plants producing backed up the recent victorious strike of 15,000 petent authority that our scien­ over 50 per cent of the nation’s aluminum, the lion’s Moscow. Just as Truman dangles the atomic destroyed Hiroshima and a ma­ tack from the ocean. The pro­ AFL elevator workers. tists and technicians have now share of these plants were leased to ALCOA. Thus, bomb over the conference tables, so Stalin seeks jor part of its population—¡men, gressive, industrious, hustling W ith sound instinct, the workers everywhere women and children. Since that created atomic bombs of such new ruler of Turkey, when he with the government’s own help ALCOA became a some new weapon with which to threaten the are learning to use the potent weapon of labor holocaust — the greatest in all prodigious and multiplied de­ took control of affairs in Turkey, bigger monopoly than ever. imperialists and so gain greater bargaining pow­ solidarity. They don’t ask whether the strikers history—there has been only one structive power that the explo­ did not hesitate a minute to Clark himself admitted that ALCOA now con­ er. The proposal to reconstitute the Comin­ sion which killed 150,000 humans trols, through ownership or lease, mole than 90 per are AFL or CIO, white or black. They know real question before the people move the capital from Constan­ tern is nothing more than such a threat. of this world. Is atomic energy and obliterated the cities of H ir­ cent of the aluminum Industry’s productive capac­ an injury to one worker, in any union, any­ tinople to the center of the That the proposal comes from the Greek to advance the welfare of all hu­ oshima and Nagasaki was only landed area of his country, to ity. He complained that Reynolds Metal, ALCOA’s where, is an injury to all. Stalinists is singularly appropriate, for it under­ manity or is it to provide the a small fire cracker by compari­ make it safe. I understand that only competitor, is itself dependent on ALCOA for son . . . The most dangerous spots much raw material. Labor's enemies know the meaning of class lines what the revived Comintern would look means of global suicide? it is rather difficult to approach solidarity. When any workers dare to strike for “ We built it; in its use we kill­ on the face of the earth are the new capital of Turkey. Per­ Even the capitalist press sneers at this latest like. The Greek Stalinists betrayed the Greek Washington, D. C., New York jusj demands, all the bosses and all their agents ed hundreds of thousands of hu­ haps that would be a good idea “trust-busting” fakery. The N. Y. World-Telegram, people to Allied imperialism. They welcomed City, Chicago, Philadelphia, De­ September 20, points out the “ interesting parallel In line up in solid ranks to fight them. man beings; we possess now its for us to follow." British troops to Greece and when the British fearful mastery more than any troit, Los Angeles and the other But Senator Johnson of Colo­ what happened to the Standard Oil Company when The kept press and radio propagandists pour provoked civil war, the Stalinists under cover other nation. No one else now large urban centers in this na­ rado carted off the brass spitoon the court ordered it dissolved in 1911.” After the out their lies and rumors to divide and deceive of the military struggle murdered the flower lias the power even to attempt to tion . . for the week’s prize suggestion. “ dissolution,” it states, the Standard Oil companies and demoralize the workers. of the working class vanguard. Thus a new banish from this unhappy world However, it is not necessary to He proposed Congress just pass "grew and grew and grew.” Today, it declares, “ some # t the fear that our bomb creation Company police and thugs, city and state Stalinist Comintern would simply begin where wo'-ry over the frightful im pli­ a law providing the “ death pen­ of the Standard companies are bigger than the orig­ has engendered . . . I believe we cations of the atomic bomb. Wall alty” for anyone revealing the inal firm which was ‘dissolved’ in 1911.” armed forces join in attempting to smash the the old one left off—working for the capitalists already possess power by which Street’s Congressmen are devot­ secrets of atomic power. That If the government really meant business about Its workers with violence and intimidation. whenever they met Stalin’s price. .Such an ! we may readily destroy all civi­ ing tk r brains to the problem should put a stop once and for “ trust-busting,” the first step it would take would A ll the capitalist government agencies send organization would be the utter opposite of I lization including ourselves ...” of safeguarding humanity. all to the dangerous nonsense be to operate all the government-built aluminum in their “mediators” and “conciliators” to a real Communist International. Representative Arends of I lli­ Representative Arends, for in ­ about “ global suicide.” plants under workers’ control. 5ATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1945 THE MILITANT PAGE F.IVI A DISCUSSION ON PUBLIC OPINION G entlem en: We are submitting an article for publica tion in your periodical, The M ilitant. We feel that this is a timely article and should receive as much circulation as possible. Thanking you in advance, we extend the right of fellowship in the fight for the eleva­ tion of the workers. , Respectfully yours, lThe Workers’ Forum columns are open to the opinions of the readers of "The M ilitant’’. Letter* GEORGE E. CLOUTIER, JR. are welcome on any subject of interest to the workers. Keep them short and include your name and Acting Chairman, Policy Committee The favorable response Local he sold one copy. The man who address. Indicate if you do not want your name printed. New York has met with in plac­ bought it said that he had heard P la n t No. 3, ing The M ilitant on 1000 news­ of the paper and wanted to have Irish Comrades on the monstrous betrayal of the | glaring inadequacies of the Vet- Chevrolet-Flint Local 659, UAW-CIO stands has inspired our agents our address, and learn more Greek workers and continually; erans’ Administration . . . they nationally to place the paper on about the Socialist Workers Report Progress look on the German workers’ suf- I hide the true facts in fanfare By Andrew Michehon several stands in their respective Party.” fering CANNOT BE COMMON- 1 of publicity concerning a single. • * • Editor: The other morning while I was a union member can know what not be regarded as having any areas. The M ilitant can now be ISTS or they would see Interna- case and what the city fathers A t the present time we con­ talking with a small business it is to have a contract or an value. obtained from newsdealers in L. Klein of New York writes: are doing about it. It creates sider that we have great possi­ tionalism as the only hope of man, he told me that “ unless la- agreement with the owners or When the Smith-Connally bill practically every large city in the “I have to write to you and tell the illusion of prodigious effort bilities of expansion. We have 'achieving revolutionary progress bor stops making demands on the managers of an industry, to curb unions was before Con- country. you how very glad I am that I in solving the problems of the some Communist Party contacts for the benefit of the working the owners of Industry and un- | jf the 30 odd millions of work- ' ^ress, a Gallup Poll showed 67 In this vein, our Portland ag­ can buy THE M ILITANT at my class of all lands. veterans. While actually, the who are very close to us, and our less labor stops meddling in the j ers are not members of any per cent of the nation for it, 24 ent advises: “ Last week I put neighborhood newsstand. For For the G.C.S. Branch may I ruling class considers veterans, last meeting (indoors) drew a affairs of government, public j union and therefore cannot per cent against it and 9 per cent The M ilitant on a stand that personal reasons I cannot sub­ be permitted to send our fra­ like battleships and factories, .crowd of almost 100 workers, opinion would be against it and i know anything about organized undecided. Again showing that carries radical papers. Not hav­ scribe, and since I live uptown ternal greetings to J. P. Can­ expendable. most of whom were sympathetic. the unions would disappear.” | ]abor> stm express their opin- those who are best qualified to ing too many papers on hand I it was quite a strain to ride We are now negotiating for the non, the founder o'f your Amer- M. McGowan. recognize what is good and what gave the dealer only five copies. downtown each week to 42nd Toledo, Ohio When I got home that after- ¡on> wjjy should that opinion be purchase of an amplifier, which 1 *can Socialist Workers Party. He noon I began reading the daily j 0f vaiue to 12 million union is bad for the working people Before he could take the paper Street especially to buy THE w ill extend our range of activ- has our respect and undoubtedly paper and again I read syndi- ! members? are the minority of the union out and display it on the stand. MILITANT. When I first saw the affection of all class con­ ity. The cost will be consider­ Capitalist Schools cated articles and an editorial j members. the fam iliar letters at thc news­ able, and we are trying to raise scious workers in the world, ! warning organized labor to set I ANALYZING POLLS How could any poll that takes stand up here, I felt very proud In extending the hand of it among the party members and Breed Prejudice its house in order or public opin- j Now if you will bear in mind in the whole population turn out and assured, and very happy. close sympathizers. friendship to all American work- Editor: ion would force the government j that among the most optimistic any other way when it concerns Pioneer Congratulations to you—I think Most of our comrades are ! ers (black and white) I can sin- The system of prejudice of a to pass laws curbing the activ- ! conveyors of statistics only an issue that only affects the it is a big step forward.” cerely say I am a communist. young apprentices, who do not racial nature which has ensnared ities of the unions, 30 per cent of the workers are minority? • • • For the G.C.S. Branch earn much; some are unem- too many within the ranks of j That night I turned on the union members, perhaps we If a poll was taken among all J. J., Secretary Notes Elolse Black of Pittsburgh -ployed (and there has been un­ the working class, is silent trib- ; radio to hear the news, and soshould analyze the results of the people in the United States Wales sends this interesting note: “In employment here right through ute to the damnable and "un- j help me, do you know what I some of the popular polls that to find out if the Methodist our first subscription campaign, the war) and the remainder have holy” strength of capitalistic.; heard? Yep! ! ! You're right,have been taken recently to feel Church was the best church, This week we received an en­ one of the readers took out a large family commitments. Movie Boosts propaganda. Although I am but I Even the news commentator was ! out the public pulse regarding what do you suppose the answer thusiastic letter from a friend sub for the United Steel Workers Can you let us have 150 M ili­ 25 years old, I feel as if I have warning organized labor against organized labor. would be when there are only 8 who had just finished reading of America Local to which he be­ tants per week, to sell to our The "Good" suffered under this cancer for bringing the wrath of public Here are the results of a For­ million Methodists in the United The Struggle for a Proletarian longs. Yesterday one of the men contacts here? We already get a period exceeding my years. | opinion down on themselves. tune poll covering the tests o' States? Party, by James P. Cannon. Miss told me that it is so well re­ the Socialist Appeal from B rit- , Collaborators! As a boy of six, when in the Then I began to wonder, Who the whole population in 1944: The answer to the poll about Belle Montague of Cambridge, ceived and widely read that a ain. Also, can you let us have j labor unions is as simple as that. There evidently were so many first grade, I was thrown among is the public? What is there Mass, writes: Stalinist in the local has taken more Fourth Internationals and Labor unions have done a BIG BUSINESS PRESS capitalist collaborators in those other children extensively for the about their opinion that the un­ “ I have shown this book to to bringing the Daily Worker supplies of pamphlets for sale great job and should be I know that the UAW-CIO. countries overrun by the Nazis first time. These children be­ ions must fear? some friends of mine, and we into the office to try to counter­ here? We are very short of given more power ...... 7 because of its youth, vigor and and Fascists that in order to longed to various racial and na- have discussed it together . . . act The Militant.” pamphlets, and new ones rarely IS IT OF ANY VALUE? "•Labor unions have made complete democracy and local counteract°the"*"hatred and‘ bit- ! «°nal groups of the globe, but the sly attack (of the petty- * * • come to us. Is public opinion of any value? mistakes, but they have autonomy, makes good copy for terness the working people feel j ‘n, of this we based our bourgeois opposition) upon the We shall be very grateful if Were all the great causes for done more good than newspapers and radio commen­ H. M. Sherwin of Minnesota toward these traitors, the capi- ! friendships on personalties I party principles to cover a re­ you can help us in this way. rather than race. This was as the development of human per­ harm and should be tators, but it would be better sent this note: “ I have heard talists quickly made a moving treat in the face of the ap­ F. A. it should have been. But do you sonality guided by public opin­ supported ...... 28 much better, if they would con­ about your paper and am curi­ picture (1945 production) de­ proaching war-storm in 1940 . . . Belfast, think that capitalism would be ion? Labor unions have done fine themselves to collecting data ous. Send me a sample copy of picting a “ good” collaborator the plot revealing itself little by Northern Ireland. so benevolent as to for long per­ Since the time Eve was influ­ some good in the past from union people and not from The Militant that I may judge and how underneath his open little . . . the uprising of the mit this state of tranquility to enced by the serpent to take that but they have gone too the unorganized masses whose by, and you may hear from me collaboration w ith the Nazis he working class in the party in a exist? first bite of forbidden fruit, pub­ far and should be curbed only adult economic education again.” The sample copy was “ all the time” was aiding his revolution of its own . . . the Welsh Comrades lic opinion has taken its toll of by law ...... 49 comes from the controlled press. sent, and in a few days, the fol­ country and people. The name Of course not! The system progress of the struggle .... and failures among persons and or­ Labor unions should be A press that has so completely lowing reply was received: “ En­ Read 'Militant' of the picture is “The Silver began its poisonous racial teach­ the final rescue of the party for ganizations who have been lulled abolished ...... 7 been taken over by the large ad- closed you will find $L send me Editor: Fleet” produced with the aid ings upon the moral minds of the workers of America and the into activity or a state of doubt Don’t know ...... 9 I vertisers that it dare not speak The M ilitant for one year. Your May I firstly apologize for not ' of the Netherlands Royal Navy. these youngsters and slowly but world . . . indeed I shall never by its soothing warnings of "~TT out the truth like an honest sample copy of September 23 w riting to you sooner to express This movie tries to turn the surely capitalism was rewarded forget this book. The account "don’t do this” or “ if you dare Total ...... 100 man, but speaks more like Big impressed me as a paper worthy my thanks for literature received people’s minds away from re­ by a change of situation. The of the political battle fought un­ try that you will fa il” or “ be will notice that Business itself. of assimilation, and therefore since I appealed for aid. criminations against these des­ first time I, who am a person Here you der a sky already dark with the careful of what the public will among the percentage who speak So until the 70 per cent who this response.” Since you sent it, I can truth­ picable fascist collaborators by of African ancestry, was referred shadow of the second world war say.” so highly about labor unions are are unorganized become union • • * fu lly say I have a greater un­ trying to show that there were to as a “ nigger,” it didn’t serve impressed me differently than the 30 per cent who are best members and become an inform­ M ilitant Army ranks are grow­ derstanding of “Trotskyism,” some “ good” collaborators. And to anger, only puzzle and be­ For several years publishers, any book I have ever read in my ed voice of public opinion, until ing daily and October promises giving me a deeper conviction in that those who owned industry wilder me. For believe it or not, editors, columnists and radio qualified to judge the value of life. unions, the union members then, I say with the 13 million to be as record a month as was relation to the correctness of the were in the best position to ma­ in spite of the fact that I am news commentators have put “ . . . I am enclosing a money themselves. The 65 per cent or union members—PUBLIC OPIN­ September. Many, more loccls policy — and even more neces­ neuver with the fascists (and dark skinned, I felt that my themselves up as the protectors ■ order for $1.50 for which please 70 per cent of the workers who ION BE DAMNED! were heard from this week. sary, a confidence in my daily actually help their country.) dark skin was no more peculiar j of organized labor by warning send me a paper bound copy of have voiced an opinion about Endorsed by Chevrolet Plant However space allows mention­ struggle in the ranks of the (han a blonde’s whiteness or the them to be careful of public 'In Defense of Marxism’ by Leon I got so angry at the fact that labor unions have done so ig­ No. 3 Policy Committee, Local ing only the top scorers: anthracite miners of South extreme redness of some white opinion. While openly they may Trotsky. I have wanted to read the boss class controls the mov­ norantly and their opinions can- 659, Flint, Michigan. Flint, 20 six-month—5 one- Wales. A ll the literature is read persons. appear as disciples of labor in this book for a long time . . . ing picture industry (besides the year. by the members of our branch press, church, schools, etc.) from After the first name calling these warnings, they are actual­ Best wishes to the Socialist ly betrayers of the labor move­ St. Louis, 16 six-month—2 one- and then is sent to various clubs which they are able to propagate incident I was gradually to learn Workers Party in its great strug­ ment by attempting to influ­ year. of the locality. their rotten lies for the people very painfully of course that so­ gle to save mankind from atomic ence the reading and- radio lis­ Boston, 8 six-month—2 one- The M ilitant and especially to seep in, that I wanted to let ciety is divided arbitrarily into Editor's Comment death!” tening public to demand action year subs, plus 29 six-month and the articles of Theodore Kova- The Militant know that there divisions and subdivisions of We wish to thank the Plant stance, of the many "public The Struggle for a Proletarian against the unions. 5 one-year renewals. lesky, are very popular, and also are many of us who are glad caste within the collectively ex­ No. 3 Policy Committee of UAW 1 opinion” polls, like the Gallup Party which Miss Montague so ploited working class. The Mex­ Knowing the power of the Cleveland, 5 six-month. V. Grey’s “Shoptalks” is widely that there is a Militant spokes­ Local 659 for the stimulating Poll, which are means for mould- j highly recommends is a com- Philadelphia, 4 six-month—1 read. One person’s comment to man for the workers which coun­ icans, Chinese and Filipinos hat­ spoken and written word upon contribution of Brother Michel- ing not expressing public opin­ I panlon volume to In Defense of ing each other, all three hating the general public, they become one-year. me is worth repeating. He said: teracts the lies of the boss class. son. We welcome authentic ex­ ion. These “ polls,” a careful j Marxism by Leon Trotsky. These * * * ‘They seem to strike at the root M., the Negroes, the Negroes retali­ past masters in moulding pub­ pressions of the points of view study will show, give as much two books contain the historic H. L. N. of Kansas City re­ of our trouble.” New York. ating with a defensive counter­ lic opinion down the channels of union men and women and weight to views of spokesmen of , documents of the fight against quests a change of address and The hostility received at our contempt for all other races, and they wish it to travel. This sub­ will gladly publish them insofar the capitalist class as to the the petty-bourgeois opposition adds this note: “ I find THE inception is fast disappearing, the whites collectively holding tle propaganda is an evil thing as our limited space permits. workers interviewed, who repre­ which the Socialist Workers MILITANT extremely enlighten­ the Socialist Appeal helping the "Hero Fund" the entire mentioned group as in the hands of the Judases of The M ilitant agrees in gen­ sent the great bulk of the popu­ Party conducted in 1939-40. ing — a splendid work. The hostility gradually to its burial Hides Neglect inferior. our time. eral with the views of Brother lation. I f 50 business men are in­ * * * One day when in the second I wonder what might have Michelson against the fraudulent terviewed and 50 workers, then, ‘famous’ Kansas City Star is place. The Struggle for a Proletarian ! O f Veterans grade, I was the victim of a happened since the beginning of use of so-called “ public opinion" you see, “ 50 per cent” of “ the quite obvious to me now, and I am sure you w ill appreciate Party, by James P. Cannon, chauvinistic remark by a white time if eVery person or organi­ to provide a smoke-screen for public” are represented by the I would find It amusing were it H when I state that at the be- I Editor: clothbound $2.00, paperbound ginning we could only sell 4 cop- The T °ledo Blade, this city’s lad of my own age. t retaliated zation would have concerned anti-labor acts. views of the business men. not so typical of many of its $1.50. Order from Pioneer ies of the Socialist Appeal at i only daily paper, is at present angrily by bloodying his nose. themselves about public opinion The Militant does not say, kind, which are far too numer­ We should like to make some Publishers, 116 University the colliery where I work. Now conducting a campaign in which The teacher, who, I knew, had before trying to accomplish any­ “The public be damned!” Our ous. I thank you for THE M IL ­ additional comment on the na­ Place, New York 3, N. Y. ITANT.” we sell 200 copies showing clear- ove^ $15,000 has *3een. contr'^- heard his remarks, and from thing worthwhile? ture , of this “public opinion,” press Is devoted to expressing the ly in my opinion the advance of uted as a “ gift from citizens who whom I had expected tolerant If every young person who which we believe w ill contribute genuine opinions and defending our party. The Militant and the want to say 'thank you’ ” to a realization of the enormous planned on getting married first to further clarify on this import- thc needs of the “real” P“bHc— Fourth International will, I am Toledo veteran who lost both amount of provocation, instead listened to what the public ant question. the 80 per cent or more of the Our Programi populace who are workers and sure, help us to more success ^egs an^ °ne arm in the war. became furious and snatching thought about it, I fear Grand­ We contend that the "public in the future. I Over the whole affair hangs working farmers and whose in­ me by the arm, dragged me off ma herself would have died an opinion” to which the anti-la­ 1. Full employment and job security for all workers In thanking you again it gives | the hal° oi smug self-satisfac- to the principal’s office where I old maid. terests are opposed to those of and veterans! bor monopoly press and radio the big capitalists. me great pleasure to write this j ti°n- Every line written in the was cuffed about a bit before I I f every person who dreamed appeal, is manufactured. I t Is A sliding scale of hours! Reduce the hours o f work letter because I see International Blsde on the “Home for a Hero > was returned to class. of starting into business for deliberately created by these We reconynend to our readers with no reduction in pay! Brotherhood in a common pur- \ Fund ’ reeks of moral integrity | This and following school hap- himself had worried about pub­ same agencies to serve the inter­ two books .which lay bare the and of “ doing right by our boys.” | penings should have taught A rising scale of wages! Increase wages to m eet the pose. It is so lacking today in lic opinion, we would still be till­ ests of the ruling capitalist class. facts about the control of the Every angle of publicity has been increased cost of living! the world because of the betrayal at even this early age, that ing the soil with a stick, and By its control over the means plutocracy over the press, radio, by the Stalinists who here wor­ worked. A Citizen’s Committee teachers, who almost invariably, Fulton’s steamboat would have motion pictures, schools, etc. . . . Operate all government-built plants under workers’ of communication and educa­ control! ship the Kremlin autocrat and : of businessmen has been set up actively or otherwise supported remained in the dream stage. tion, Big Business attempts to They are Ferdinand Lundberg’s forget the teachings of the teach- t0 handle the fund. The the- the chauvinism of these little su­ If every politician who wanted | monopolize the disseminatlon of "America’s Sixty Families,” and 2. Independence of the trade unions from the ers of the class struggle. i aters sport collection boxes in premacists, were then and are to be elected to a public office information and ldeaSi just M lt George Seldes’ “ Lords of the government! They, who so cynically looked ! their lobbies. A special week now the agents of and for the first asked the public their opin- [ moaopMux the means of pro- Press.” There the readers w ill ------' has been set aside and dedicated State, and that therefore, it was get the detailed facts about the Rescind the no-strike pledge! our d,emC>Cracy would have duction and distribution of goods. Withdraw union representatives from the W a r Labor | to the hero. And from the and is the State, which was and died in infancy. It permits the people to hear way “ public opinion” is manu­ Blade press has poured a stream is to blame for the evil. I f the Christian church in the only carefuUy selected or faIsi_ factured and controlled under Board! of propaganda designed to subt­ One can see with special clar­ early days of persecution had fied “ facts” and attempts to cen­ capitalism by the ruling rich. 3. Organization of the war veterans by the trade QUESTION BOX ly flatter the worker contribu­ ity what happens to that brave first tried to get public opinion sor or suppress any information unions! tors and to place on a pedestal person, be he teacher or student, on its side before organizing the or ideas which run counter to its 4. Full equality for Negroes and national minorities! the Blade and its cohorts, the who goes too far in criticizing church, this great movement interests. Down with Jim Crow! Q:1Vhat other territories be­ business firms and city political racialism, for he is at once sub­ would have died on the cross The wage earners, the vast sides Annam are incorporated machinery. jected to discipline if not dom- with Christ, and the resurrec- bulk of that very “public” whose 5. Working class political action! Into French Indo-China? What “ See what we’re doing for our plete dismissal, as a dangerous tion and the glorious birth of this - opinions” the kept press and Establish the workers’ and farmers’ government! is the condition of the working boys,” is the spirit of the cam- , "heretic” (radical). new way of life would have been | radi0 ciaim to represent, are de- Build the independent labor party! ' class in the whole area under paign, and when it is all over, i America and most major coun­ relegated to the ash pile of spir­ nied the means of knowing all j French rule? the city will settle down in the tries of the world have the power itual and social failures. the facts and are prevented from I 6. Tax the rich, not the poor! A: French Indo-China con­ self-righteous knowledge that lt No taxes on incomes under $5,000 a year! and will wield it while most of LABOR THREATENED forming a clear judgment based sists of one “ colony,” Cochin- has indeed settled the veteran us are yet young, to remove the on fu ll knowledge. I 7. A working class answer to capitalist militarism! China: four “protectorates,” An­ question. Now organized labor is being cause of racism and oppression Military training of workers, financed by the govern nam, Tonkin, Gambodia and But little is said In the BLADE threatened with extinction un­ ROBBER BARONS’ PHRASE of the world working class as a ment, but under control of the trade unions! Laos; and a “special territory,” of thousands of other wounded whole, by its antidote, social­ less it soft pedals its activities so The expression, “ the public be Kwanchowan. These five states, and disabled veterans in the city ism. This will only be possible as not to incur the wrath of damned!” was coined by one of Trade union wages for all workers in the armed forces' comprising 281,174 square miles of Toledo who are receiving in­ through the Fourth Internation­ public opinion. the robber-barons of the Amer­ 8. Hands off the European and colonial peoplesl The UAW-CIO has developed with a total population of 24,- adequate medical care, mechan­ al. I know it w ill not fall. Long ican capitalist class. It truly rep­ Withdraw the Allied Occupation Troops from Europe! a reputation for demanding in­ 461,251, are ruled as a colony by ical limbs that don’t fit, and in­ live the Fourth International! resents the point of view of the Solidarity with the revolutionary struggles of the vestigations and that public of­ French imperialism. sufficient financial aid, and who w. c., plutocrats whose only interest is European and colonial peoples! The condition of the working are tossed on the scrap-heap of San Diego. ficials publicize their records. to rob and bleed the people for class can be judged by the fact the unemployed. Little is Said Now perhaps we should do a lit­ profits. That doesn’t prevent that 90 per cent of the native of the suicides of veterans in tle investigating to find out who these leeches from giving their Indo-Chinese population are Toledo and vicinity who are af- Henry Ford this public is that labor should crimes a protective-coating of join the Socialist Workers Party! kept illiterate; unskilled workers flicted with battle-neurosis, or of ] £.»•■ y . fear. So in the words of the "public opinion.” SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY get 10 cents a day in wages, the almost complete lack of psy- \ MaKIng laflKS late A1 Smith, “Let’s look at the That is the function, for in- Exposes the methods and aims of 116 University puce New York 8, New York skilled workers 30 cents. The chiatric facilities. Nothing is Editor: record.” the politicians who oppose labor's workers live in hovels. Their la­ said of the problems of war wid- | I learned a bit of information Stuart Chase, in his book “ De­ interests, outlines labor's place in I would like: bor unions have never been re­ ows with children to support on that I think the M ilitant readers mocracy Under Pressure,” lists New York politics, shows how intelligent and Q To join the Socialist Workers Party. independent political action today cognized and any attempt to the starvation pittance permit­ would be interested in. The 43,000,000 workers as eligible for BRYANT PARK □ To obtain further information about your organization. membership in labor unions. Out can lead the labor movement better their conditions meets ted by the government. Ford plant in Richmond, Cali­ NEWSSTAND forward. fornia is still turning out tanks of this number there are 12,- □ To attend meetings and forums of the Socialist Workers Part' with the harshest repressions. The “ Home for a Hero Fund,” 46 42nd in my city. • * * and I understand other cities —one month and a half after 600,000 organized workers or West Street (Opposite Stern's) 48 pages, 15 cents Q: How large is the Jewish have conducted similar cam- V-J Day! Apparently Henry about 30 per cent of those that Name population in Palestine, compar­ paigns, is a very conscious and Ford doesn’t know the war is are eligible for membership. Carries THE MILITANT and full Pioneer Publishers (Please Print) ed with the Arab population? completely vicious policy of Big over. Or, could it be that he Only an organized worker can stock of Pioneer Publishers Address 116 UNIVERSIY PLACE A: There are between 600.000 Business and* its appendages, doesn’t care? appreciate the trials and tribula­ Pamphlets; also U. S. and foreign NEW YORK 3, N. Y. and 700,000 Jews in Palestine, the press and the government. B. C. tions of the union and its deal­ Marxist Literature City ..Postal Zone ...... State compared with 1,200,000 Arabs. Such campaigns gloss over the San Francisco. ings with the management. Only PAGE SIX THE MILITANT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1945 First Day Of “Militant” Drive Wright Talks In Buffalo Gains 1,064 New Subscribers British Labor Victory BUFFALO, N. Y. Oct. 5.— ence followed the political analy­ of The M ilitant and Fourth In - By Justine Lang more workers’ homes. Although lay-offs in employment, it was campaign with a score of 859 several mobilizations were called going to be hard to sell 50 cent subs, is in sixth place. Fifty-five workers listened sis of the elections, as Comrade temational, speak on “ The B rit­ W right showed how the decline Campaign Director off due to rainstorms, and 10 subscriptions. Detroit comrades are very well to an inspiring speech by ish Labor Victory—Its Meaning John G. Wright, Trotskyist of British imperialism and the for American Workers.” ^ ■ Despite, inclement weather, branches were still unheard from "However, I found right away represented in the present cam­ i | editor and writer, on “The development of the class struggle Comrade W right pointed out comrades and friends of the So­ as we went to press, 11 per cent that all I had to do was to point paign just as they were in the ¡British Labor Victory — Its was impelling the British work­ that the dynamic American cialist Workers Party partici­ of our quota was realized. out some of the features of the previous one, claiming five pace­ Meaning for American Work­ ers to take the road to Social­ workers, who within the short pating in the National Red Sun­ A great deal of enthusiasm was paper, such as the fact that The setters among the ten top scor­ ers,” at the M ilitant Forum ism. space of five years advanced from day Mobilization on October 14 revealed by the many telegrams M ilitant tells th~ truth, analyzes : ers. Local New York boasts four here tonight. Dealing with the powerful im­ a backward trade union organi­ placed The M ilitant in 1,064 received. Just a few are quoted the news, telling how It affects pace-setters, three from the With great interest the audi- pact of the British elections on zation to the most advanced In below: the workers. Many of the sub­ Bast Side Branch, and one from the American labor movement, the world, would advance with Connecticut: "21 subscriptions. scribers asked where they could j the newly organized Harlem the speaker predicted that the equal speed on the working-class Intend to double our quota. Place come to hear more about our Branch. San Francisco claims labor party of the workers in this political arena. setter Pearl Spangler with nine program, and took down the ad­ Imperialists Use three pace-setters from the list country would be built. “The mil­ dress of their nearest branch.” of twenty. West Coast subs.” itant workers must take the lead Food As Weapon Pittsburgh: “ Despite rainy Margaret Stewart, East Side, Next week’s scoreboard will re­ in building the labor party as JOHN G. WRIGHT weather three members obtained New York: “ I rang the doorbell veal a more accurate picture of Each figure reading “ The Vacation School the indispensable weapon in the TOUR SCHEDULE 14 new subscriptions today in ­ of an apartment, and when the our first day’s mobilization. In M ilitant” represents 500 sub­ struggle of the workers. This is CITY DAT« Against Revolt cluding two one-year subscrip­ woman answered the door and addition, branches which were DETROIT scriptions sold. Each blank Inspires All the lesson that must be learned Friday to Tuesday, Oct. 19-23 President Truman in a state­ tions.” saw The M ilitant in my hand, rained out are planning mid­ figure represents 500 sub­ from the experiences of our B rit­ FLINT she invited me in most cordially. week mobilizations. LOS ANGELES—The most im­ ish brothers,” he declared. Wednesday, October 24 ment on aid to Europe said, Detroit: "Obtained 106 sub­ scriptions not yet sold. CHICAGO “ Provision of the supplies thus scriptions today. Drake high She told me she was a subscriber pressive fact for the more .than After the meeting a new mem­ Friday to Wednesday, Oct. 20*31 of the paper, and was very en­ 85 workers attending the West ber was recruited into the Social­ MILWAUKEE requested (by Europe) does not, scorer with 16; Carli 14; Lewis Thursday, Friday, Nov. 1-1 however, mean that the civilian 13; W right 11; and Wood 11. thusiastic about its contents, and Coast Vacation School of the So­ ist Workers Party. TWIN CITIES populations of Europe w ill reach Kindly send more sub cards.” the many features and stories cialist Workers Party was the Monday to Friday, Nov. S-f SCOREBOARD SEATTLE even a minimum level of sub­ Many branches held socials that appear there and in no oth­ spirit with which all who were Branches of the Tuesday to Friday, Nov. 13-10 sistence, and much suffering after their sub-getting to com­ er paper.” Per present devoted their short vaca­ Youngstown Workers PORTLAND Socialist Workers Party Sunday to Tuesday, Nov. 18-20 may be expected during the com­ pare notes and exchange exper­ A number of new names ap­ Quotas Subs Cent tion to improving their knowl­ Appreciate Lecture Cincinnati ...... 33 66 edge and understanding of Marx­ SAN FRANCI8CO ing winter in certain areas of iences. pear in the pace-setters box, YOUNGSTOWN, O., Oct. 7 — Friday to Monday, Nov. 23-20 Philadelphia ...... 89 30 ism. Nor was this a one-sided at­ LOS ANGELES, SAN DIEGO the Continent.” Connie Locke, East Side headed by Therese Stone, a re­ An audience of more than forty Thurs., Nov. 29 to Wed., Dec. 0 San Francisco ...... 90 30 mosphere. The entire period was The whole problem of food has Branch, New York, summed up cent recruit of the Philadelphia workers, mostly m ilitant trade KANSAS CITY Connecticut ...... 100 21 21 liberally filled with other activi­ Monday, Tuesday, Dec. 10-11 been used by the imperialists her experiences: “ Before going branch. Mike V.’arren, leading unionists in the steel mills of Flint ...... 200 35 18 ties, such as swimming, indoor ST. LOUIS since the last war as a brutal out, I was afraid that due to the national pace-setter of the spring Mahoning Valley tonight heard Thursday, Friday, Dec. 13-14 New York ...... 330 17 games and dances. PITTSBURGH weapon in. their counter-revolu­ John G. Wright, associate editor Sunday to Tuesday, Dec. 10-10 tionary work. There was a recent Buffalo ...... 44 15 One of the highlights of the , example of this in Greece, where Pittsburgh ...... 100 14 14 two week period was the visit by ! the British ran the UNRRA food MILITANT PACE-SETTERS Allentown-Bethlehem ...... 100 13 13 a group of Jamaican workers i supplies as an auxiliary method Here are the twenty who sold the highest number of Bayonne ...... 100 12 12 from a nearby agricultural camp, Hear: in their armed struggle against subscriptions on Red Sunday: Los Angeles ...... 1500 175 12 all of them members of the Ja­ the Greek insurgent movement. Name Branch Subs Sold Seattle ...... 300 36 12 maican Labor Party. JOHN G. WRIGHT The Greek experience recalls Therese Stone ...... Philadelphia 22 St. Paul ...... 100 11 11 The educational program of | the infamous work of the Hoo­ Jerry Kirk ...... F lint 22 Portland ...... 8 11 the camp consisted of three ver Commission of the last war. Ernest Drake ...... Detroit 16 Detroit ...... 1000 106 11 • morning classes, an afternoon “ The British Labor Victory—Its Meaning The role of this Commission is C. Corli ...... Detroit 14 Milwaukee ...... 100 10 10 study group on the Russian Rev­ fully analyzed in an article, “ The W. Jones ...... Seattle 14 Minneapolis ...... 26 9 - olution and an evening seminar for American Workers” Imperialist Strategy of Food,” by Mike Warren ...... Seattle 13 Boston ...... 200 15 8 on Marxist Philosophy. The final C. Charles in the January 1943 Ruth Brady ...... San Francisco 13 Cleveland ...... 0 0 week-end was concluded by a TOLEDO DETROIT Fourth International. The au­ L. Lewis ...... Detroit 13 Newark ...... 300 0 0 West Coast Conference on the < Wednesday, Oct. 17, 8 Tuesday, Oct. 23, 8 p.m. thor gives a factual, documented C. W right ...... Detroit 11 Reading ...... 50 0 . 0 problems and perspectives for the p.m., Roi Davis Bldg., 12 Horsemen’s Civic description of international in­ Arthur Wood ...... Detroit 11 Rochester ...... 50 0 0 next period. A Negro comrade who had Room 304, 905 Jeffer- Center, Erskine at John trigue in "the use of a food and May Manning ...... Los Angeles 11 St. Louis ...... 50 0 0 son Ave. R. medicine blockade against a rev­ Sarah Ross ...... East Side, New York 11 j San Diego ...... j...... 50 0 0 joined the party six months pre­ viously, and was leaving for his olution while helping the coun­ Harry Guiseppi ...... San Francisco 11 j Toledo ...... 0 0 ter-revolutionary preparations.” A1 Hamid ...... Harlem, New York 10 | Youngstown ...... 0 0 home in the south, made an in­ spiring farewell speech. In sum­ FLINT CHICAGO "The use of ‘philanthropy’ Albert Conway ...... Los Angeles 9 Chicago ...... 0 0 ming up what the party, and Wednesday, Oct. 24, Sunday Oct. 28, 8 p.m.' now,” the author concludes, “ will Pearl Spangler ...... Connecticut 9 Akron ...... 300 0 0 particularly the school, had done 7:30 p.m., YWCA, E. Buckingham Hall, not be substantially different Connie Locke ...... East Side, NewYork 9 Members at large, Friends...... 275 0 0 for him, he expressed what all than it was in 1918-22. Lehman M. Ellis ...... San Francisco 8 First St. & Harrison. 59 E. Van Buren St. the comrades gathered there (UNRRA head) w ill duplicate Justine Lang ...... East Side, New York 8 TOTAL ...... 10,000 1,068 11 the role of Hoover.” felt. THE HIST0R Y OF AMERICAN TROTSKYISM—by James P. Cannon

Previous installments of Comrade Cannon's book described reached. The bosses were swept off their feet, the whole country the emergence of the American Communist Party out of the HOW TROTSKYISTS LED MINNEAPOLIS STRIKES was clamoring to ¿et the thing settled. There was pressure from Washington and from Governor Olson. The settlement was sev­ left wing of the Socialist Party in 1919, the expulsion of the stitutions into the very center of every situation. A strike leader posal. Flying squads of pickets on wheels were stationed at Trotskyists in 1928, the formation of a new party and the be­ erely attacked by the Stalinist press, which was very radical at without some conception of a political line was very much out strategic points throughout the town. that time, because it was not a sweeping victory, but a compromise; ginning of mass work. The Minneapolis truckdrivers’ strike of date already by 1934. The old fashioned trade union move­ Whenever a report came in of a truck being operated or any was a milestone for the Trotskyists. a partial victory that gave recognition to the union. We took full ment. which used to deal with the bosses without governmental attempt to move trucks, the “ dispatcher” called through the loud­ responsibility for the settlement our comrades had made, and The organizing campaign and the strikes were carried on interference, belongs in the museum. The modern labor move­ speaker in the garage for as many cars, loaded with pickets, as took up the challenge of the Stalinists. Our press simply chased virtually over the head of the official leadership of the union. ment must be politically directed because it is confronted by the were needed to go out there and give the operators of the scab the Stalinists o ff the field in the controversy. We defended the The only one of the regular officials who really participated in government at every turn. Our people were prepared for that trucks an argument. settlement of the Minneapolis strike and frustrated their cam­ a direct way in the actual leadership of the strikes was Bill since they were political people, inspired by political conceptions. The "dispatcher” in the May strike was a young man named paign to discredit it and thereby to discredit our work in the Brown, along with the Organizing Committee. This Organizing The policy of the class struggle guided our comrades; they couldn’t Farrell Dobbs. He came out of a coal yard in Minneapolis into unions. The radical labor movement was given a complete pic­ Committee had one merit which was demonstrated in the be­ be deceived and outmaneuvered, as so many strike leaders of that the union and the strike, and then into the party. He first be­ ture of this strike. We published a special issue of The M ilitant ginning—other merits were revealed later—they knew how to period were, by this mechanism of sabotage and destruction known came known to us as a dispatcher who shot out the squad cars which described in detail all the different aspects of the strike and organize workers. This is one thing the ossified labor skates in as the National Labor Board and all its auxiliary setups. They and the pickets. A t first the pickets went out barehanded, but the preparations leading up to it. This issue was written almost Minneapolis did not know and apparently could not learn. They put no reliance whatever in Roosevelt’s Labor Board; they weren’t they came back with broken heads and injuries of various kinds. entirely by the leading comrades in the strike. know how to disorganize them. This breed is the same every­ fooled by any idea that Roosevelt, the liberal "friend of labor” Then they equipped themselves with shillalahs for the next trips. The main point around which we wove the explanation of the where. They know how, sometimes, to let the workers into the president, was going to help the truck drivers in Minneapolis win A shillalah, as any Irishman can tell you, is a blackthorn stick you compromise settlement was: What are the aims of a new union unions when they break the doors down. But to go out and really a few cents more an hour. They weren’t deluded even by the lean on in case you suddenly go lame. Of course, it is handy for in this period? We pointed out that the American working class organize the workers, stir them up and inspire them with faith fact that there was at that time in Minnesota a Farmer-Labor other purposes too. The attempt of the bosses and the police to is still unorganized, atomized. Only a part of the skilled workers and confidence—the traditional craft-union bureaucrat cannot do Governor, presumed to be on the side of the workers. crush the strike by force culminated in the famous “ Battle of the are organized into craft unions, and these do not represent the that. This is not his field, his function. It is not even his Market.” Several thousand special deputies in addition to the great mass of American labor. The American workers are an unor­ ambition. Strikers Organize For Battle whole police force were mobilized to make one supreme effort to ganized mass and their first impulse and need is to take the first The Trotskyist Organizing Committee organized the workers Our people didn’t believe in anybody or anything but the policy open up a strategic part of the town, the wholesale market, for the elementary step before they can do anything else; that is, to form in the trucking industry and then proceeded to line up the rest of the class struggle and the ability of the workers to prevail by operation of trucks. a union and compel the bosses to recognize that union. Thus we of the labor movement to support these workers. They did not their mass strength and solidarity. Consequently, they expected Those deputies, recruited from the petty-bourgeois and the formulated the problem. lead them into an isolated action. They began working through from the start that the union would have to fight for its right to employing classes of the town, and the professions, came to the the Central Labor Union, by conferences with the labor skates as exist; that the bosses would not yield any recognition to the union, market in a sort of gala holiday spirit. They were going to have First Battle Wins Gains for Union well as by pressure from below, to put the whole laboi* movement would not yield any increase of wages or reduction of the scandal­ fun down there just beating up strikers. One of the special de­ puties wore his polo hat. He was going to have one hell of a time We maintained—and I think with full justice—that a group in Minneapolis on record in support of these newly-organized ous hours without some pressure being brought to bear. There­ of workers, who in their first battle gained the recognition df truck drivers; worked tirelessly to involve the officials of the fore they prepared everything from the point of view of class down there, knocking strikers’ heads around like polo balls. The ill-advised sportsman was mistaken; it was no polo game this their union, and on that basis could build and strengthen their Central Labor Union in the campaign, to have resolutions passed war. They knew that power, not diplomacy, would decide the position, had accomplished the objectives of the occasion and endorsing their demands, to make them take official responsibility. issue. Bluffs don’t work in fundamental things, only in incidental time. He and the whole mob of deputies and cops ran into a mass of determined, organized pickets of the union supplemented by should not overtax their strength and run the danger of demoral­ When the time came for action, the labor movement of Min­ ones. In such things as the conflict of class interests one must be ization and defeat. The settlement proved to be correct because sympathetic unionists from other trades and by members of the un­ neapolis, as represented by the official unions of the American prepared to fight. it was enough to build on. The union remained stable. ' I t was Proceeding from these general concepts, the Minneapolis employed organzations. Federation of Labor, found themselves in advance in a position not a flash in the pan. The union began to forge ahead, began to Trotskyists, in the course of organizing the workers, planned a of having endorsed the demands 'and being logically bound to “The Battle of Deputies Run” recruit new members and educate a cadre of new leaders. As the support the strike. battle strategy. Something unique was seen in Minneapolis for weeks went by it became clear to the bosses that their scheme to the first time. That is, a strike that was thoroughly organized be­ The attempt to drive the pickets from the market place ended trick the truckdrivers out of the fruits of their struggle was not The General S trike Shakes Minneapolis forehand, a strike prepared with the meticulous detail which they in failure. The counter-attack of the workers put them to flight. working out so well. used to attribute to the German army—down to the last button The battle has gone down in Minneapolis history as “ The Battle In May the general strike burst into flames. The bosses, sewn on the uniform of the last individual soldier. When the of Deputies Run.” There were two casualties, and they were both Then the bosses came to the conclusion that they had made grown complacent from long unchallenged domination, were hour of the deadline came, and the bosses thought they could on the other side. That was one of the features of the strike that a mistake; that they should have fought longer and broken the greatly surprised. The lesson of the coal strike had not yet con­ still maneuver and bluff, our people were setting up a fortress lifted Minneapolis high in the estimation of the workers every­ union, so as to teach the workers of Minneapolis the lesson that vinced them that “ something new” had been added to the trade for action. This was noted and reported by the Minneapolis where. In strike after strike of those days the same story had unions could not exist there; that Minneapolis was an open-shop union movement in Minneapolis. They still thought they could Tribune, the mouthpiece of the bosses, only at the last moment, been monotonously repeated in the press: Two strikers killed; four slave town and should remain that way. Somebody gave them nip this thing in the bud. They tried stalling and maneuvering, a day before the strike. The paper said: “ If the preparations made strikers shot; twenty strikers arrested, etc. Here was a strike some bad advice. The Citizens Alliance, the general organization and bogging our people down in the negotiations with the Labor by their union for handling it are any indication, the strike of where it wasn't all one-sided. There was one universal burst of of the employers and labor haters, kept needling and inciting the Board where so many new unions had been cut to pieces. Right truck drivers in Minneapolis is going to be a far-reaching a ffa ir... applause, from one end of the labor movement to the other, for bosses in the trucking industry to break the agreement, to chisel in the middle of the business, when they thought they had the Even before the official start of the strike at 11:30 P.M. Tuesday, the militancy and resoluteness of the Minneapolis fighters. They and stall on the concessions they had agreed to give, and whittle, union tangled in this web of negotiations for indefinite delay, the ‘General Headquarters’ organization set up at 1900 Chicago had reversed the trend of things, and worker militants every­ away the gains that had been made by the workers. our people just cut through it at one stroke. They h it them on Avenue was operating with all the precision of a m ilitary organ­ where praised their name. The leadership of the union understood the situation. Th* the nose with a general strike. The trucks were tied up and the ization.” As the organizing campaign developed, our National Com­ bosses had not been sufficiently convinced by the first test of "negotiations” were taken to the streets. Our people had a commissary all fixed up. They didn’t wait mittee in New York was informed of everything and collaborated strength with the union and needed another demonstration. They This May general strike shook Minneapolis as it had never until the strikers were hungry. They had it organized beforehand as much as possible by mail. But when the strike broke out we began to prepare another strike. Again the workers in the in ­ been shaken before. I t shook the whole country, because this was in preparation for the strike. They set up an emergency hospital were fully conscious that this was the time for us to do more, to dustry were prepared for action. Again the whole labor move­ no tame strike. This was a strike that began with such a wallop in a garage—the strike headquarters was in a garage—with their do all that we possibly could to help. I was sent to Minneapolis ment of Minneapolis was mobilized to support them, this time that the whole country heard about it, and about the role of the own doctor and their own nurses before the strike even broke. by airplane to assist the comrades, especially in the negotiations in the most impressive, the most dramatic fashion. The campaign Trotskyists in its leadership—the bosses advertised that widely, Why? Because they knew that the bosses, their cops, and thugs for a settlement. This was the time, you w ill recall, when we were for the adoption of resolutions in the Central Labor Union and and also hysterically. Then we saw again the same response among and deputies would try in this case, as in every other, to beat the still so poor that we couldn’t afford a telephone in the office. We its affiliated unions in support of Local 574 was pointed toward the observing radical workers that had followed our resolute action strike down. They were prepared to take care of their own people had absolutely no financial basis for such extravagant expenses a great parade of organized labor. The members of the various in the case of Field and the New York hotel strike. When they and not let them be sent, if injured, to a city hospital and then as airplane fares. But the consciousness of our movement was unions turned out in force and marched in solid ranks to a huge saw the performances in the May strike in Minneapolis, that same placed under arrest and put out of commission. When a fellow expressed very graphically in the fact that in the moment of mass meeting in the City Auditorium, to back up the truck drivers sentiment was expressed again: “ These Trotskyists mean busi­ worker was injured on the picket line they brought him to their necessity we found the means to pay for an airplane trip to save a and pledge them support in the impending struggle. I t was an ness. When they undertake anything, they go through with it.” own headquarters and doctored him up there. few hours time. imposing demonstration of labor solidarity and of the new mili­ The jokes about the Trotskyist “ sectarians” began to turn sour. They took a leaf from the Progressive Miners of America This action, taken at an expense far beyond what our budget tancy which had taken hold of the workers. There was no essential difference, in fact I don’t think there and organized a Women’s Auxiliary to help make trouble for the could normally carry, was designed to give the local comrades The bosses remained obdurate. They raised the "Red Scare” was any serious difference at all between the strikers in M in­ bosses. And I tell you, the women made lots of trouble, running involved in the fight the benefit of all the advice and assistance in a big way, denouncing the "Trotsky Communists” in scream­ neapolis and the workers involved in a hundred other strikes around protesting and scandalizing the bosses and the city author­ we could offer, and to which, as members of the League, they were ing advertisements in the newspapers. On the union side, pre­ throughout the land in that period. Nearly all the strikes were ities, which is one of the most important political weapons. The entitled. But there was another aspect, just as important. In parations went ahead as in the May strike, but on an even more fought with the greatest militancy by the workers. The difference strike leadership organized picketing on a mass basis. This busi­ sending a representative of the NC to Minneapolis our League highly organized plan. When it became clear that another strike was in the leadership and the policy. In practically all the other ness of appointing or hiring a few people, one or two, to watch meant to take the responsibility for what they were doing. If could not be avoided without sacrificing the union, our National strikes the militancy of the rank and file workers was restrained and count and report how many scabs have been hired, doesn't things went wrong—and there is always the possibility that things Committee decided that the whole Communist League of Amer­ from the top. The leaders were overawed by the government, the work in a real struggle. They sent a squad to keep any scabs will go wrong in a strike—we meant to take responsibility for it ica would have to go all-out in its support. We knew that the real newspapers, the clergy and one thing or another. They tried to from going in. I mentioned that they had their strike head­ and not leave the local comrades to hold the sack. That has test was here, that we dared not dabble with the issue. We sensed shift the conflict from the streets and the picket lines to the con­ quarters in a garage. This was because the picketing was put on always been our procedure. When any section of our movement that here was a battle that could make or break us for years to ference chambers. In Minneapolis the militancy of the rank and wheels. They not only organized the pickets, they mobilized a is involved in action, the local comrades are not left to their own come; if we gave half-hearted support, or withheld this or that file was not restrained but organized and directed from the top. fleet of picketing cars. Every striker worker, sympathizer and resources. The national leadership must help and in the final aid which we could give, it m ight tip the balance between victory All modern strikes require political direction. The strikes trade unionist in town was called upon to donate the use of his car analysis take the responsibility. and defeat. We «knew that we had plenty to give to our Min» of that period brought the government, its agencies and its in- or truck. The strike committee thus had a whole fleet at its dis- The May strike lasted six days and a quick settlement was neapolls comrades. (To Be Continued). SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1945 THI M ILITANT PAGE SEVEM

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“Labor with a white shin cannot emancipate itself No "Secrets" In Atomit Bomb, Say Scientists; where labor with a black The NEGRO skin is branded.” "Predict" World Suicide" Under Present Set Up —K a i l M a r x □ STRUGGLE by CHARLES JACKSON "We fa6e the prospect in the next half century of a = ___ rettusi to the cliff dweller or cave man stage of civilization." Native Fascist Propaganda FaiimiiianntiiiimiiCMinniniiipimiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiainiiiiiiniaiifiiil! These words were spoken not by a hare-brained Buck Rogers cartoonist, but by Representative Walter H. Judd Louise Simpson Fights Storm W arning— Prepare Now of ftWhnesota before the Housf of Representatives Septem­ Native fascist groups are taking a major turn in their ber. ‘fThe scientists who®- activities They have passed from a stage of propaganda created the atomic bomb will . . . possess atomic bombs Stop Jewish Barbarism! to one of action. There are increasing reports from all have spent sleepless nights," in such number, size, and ef­ For Socialist Society over the country of planned and organized attacks on he continued, "on the ques­ ficiency that raids can produce Harlem for 20 of the 22 years of Negroes and Jews. I t is obvious that these race hate tremendously more destruction By Grace Carlton tion of what to do with their her young life. In 1926, Mrs. Thousands o f defense perpetrators afe seriously out to convince Big Business that than that inflicted on-Hiroshima NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—Twen­ brain Child.” Simpson had decided to take her less animals are being they are the ones who can successfully stir up sufficient and Nagasaki , . . ty-two year old Louise Simpson, daughter up North so as to give 3udd theft placed in the Con­ the Socialist Workers Party daily tortured to death fratricidal strife within the®—-'------“Because of the. industrial her better educational opportun­ vive in this country. This state­ gressional Record of October 1 candidate for the New York City by JEW ISH Ritualistic working class to weaken and concentration of the United ities, Louise had an excellent ment comes from no tendency to "a statement from a group of Council, combines the youthful paralyze it so that it will be States and the congestion of our record In New York's grade and KO SHER Butchers. be a “calamity howler" but as a these scientists still residing in zeal of a crusader with the self helpless before the onslaught cities, we are especially vulner­ high schools. result of a Marxist analysis of one of the centers where the assurance pf a seasoned political Hoisted by a h in d le g , of reactionary capitalism. able to such attacks and it is en­ the present social factors. bomb was developed.” This leader. When I interviewed the STUDIED DRESS DESIGN its throat slashed, the tirely possible If we do not de­ These fascists, Just as they did We can never successfully statement is of considerable im­ attractive, young Negro candi­ Only 16 when 6he finished centralize our industries, that kicking, gasping and in Italy and Germany, are mak­ fight fascist - instigated racial portance, for it soberly analyzes date yesterday at the Party high school, Louise then took a wfcfct development of the oomb most of our industrial potential sobbing creature is sub­ ing a major bid among the brutality on a black against could be wiped out by such raids campaign headquarters, 116 Uni­ year of post-graduate work in holds in store. jected to cruel agony o f youth. During the past few white basis. We are greatly out­ in the first 10 minutes of war.” versity Place, she told me proud­ dress designing. Her high school weeks anti-Negro strikes and ra­ "By using more bombs, larger teachers had told her that she being slowly bled to numbered (in the North) and wo (2) “ Since no nation would ly that the Trotskyist election cial strife have been instigated bombs and more efficient had real aptitude for this type d e a th ... would only make a better target peacefully consent to our sup­ platform has “the only fighting successfully in many Northern bombs,” says the report, “ it will of work; her record In the dress out of ourselves. pression of their development of working class program” in the cities, including Gary, Indiana; designing course was a very good Neither can we successfully be possible in the near future atomic power, this course of ac­ campaign. Trotskyist Party is Youngstown, Ohio; Chicago and one. But a high grade of talent fight it by appeals to the gov­ to completely destroy the bulk tion (preventing them from the ballot designation of the New York. Ringleaders whose of the.population, .industry, and and a good school record was ernmental agencies for help. The making such bombs) means that Socialist Workers Party. Protest against Kosher Slaughter parents are no doubt members of military strength of any nation not all that was required of pro­ state invariably acts in the wel­ we must conquer the world with­ “ I am appealing for the sup­ fascist organizations, circulate fare of the ruling class In so­ w ithin a few weeks. Moreover, port of the workers of all races, spective employes in dress de­ Why should the “Great American Civilized lying rumors calculated to get in the next five years, before the sign. They had to have white ciety. In this case it w ill aviation and rocket develop­ other nations of the world ach­ colors, creeds and natlongtitles,” the other students to walk out ments m ight enable this to bo skins besides! Democracy” stand for Jewish atrocities? favor the fascists and never the ieve equality in atomic power.” Louise Simpson went on i i say, of classes and stay out unless persecuted Negroes. Remember, accomplished w ithin a few Louise Simpson told me with BISTRIOUTKD tV— Negro students are barred from hours, without possibility of ef­ (3> But “ A t the present stage some understandable bitterness fascism is only a form of de­ of atomic-bomb development, PIONEER NEWS SERVICE the school. In Gary, the older caying capitalism. It will pro­ fective retaliation.” how many tiroes she was turn­ P. O. Box 435 — CHICAGO 90, ILLINOIS such world conquest would be members took an even more ac­ tect big business. 4s j f this perspective were not ed down by employers just be­ neither quick nor certain. Clear­ tive part, They organized a horrible enough, the scientific cause she was a Negro. W ith an Seed for your Sample Copy oi DISPATCH Ihe moat Daring Expo*« Bulletin In the Nation I POLICE ATTACKS ly, such a policy Is against the meeting at which 460 parent? report continues: “Alternately, ironic note In her voice she said: democratic tradition and ex­ attended and laid plans to “ back In Detroit, at a recent meet­ strategic locations may be mined “Finally. I decided to follow the The above leaflet was distributed at the first Christian pressed views of the American up the demands of the white ing held by Rev. Gerald L. K. in advance by agents of foreign school’s advice to ‘revise’ my am­ Front meeting held in New York since the beginning of the people. In fact, It is hard to students.” Smith, America’s No. 1 fascist., natjops." bitions and I took a job as a war. I t is modeled on the lines used by H itler in his drive two hundred police were called see in what way such a course power machine operator.” for power in Germany. Ilomer Maertz is head of the “ Pioneer PARENTS TO BLAME NO DEFENSE of action differs from that of out when workers’ organizations News Service.” I t was clear to all, however, decided to picket the meeting. Chances of defense against the Nazis." JOINS ILGWU that the parents were the ones To keep the fascist from at­ this nightmarish destruction are The International Ladies Gar­ INTERNATIONAL CONTROL who had Instigated the strike tending? No, to protect the fas­ very slim. “ We as scientists can ment Workers Union, which On the proposition of “Inter­ using the school children as mere cists and intimidate the workers. offer no hope of a specific de­ Louise joined and to which she national control of atomic NEW YORK FASCISTS pawns for their own reactionary These “ impartial protectors" fense against the atomic bomb. now belongs, does not discrim­ power” the scientists do not see purposes. In Detroit youthful clubbed two anti-fascists into The only Immediate defensive inate against workers because of a clear perspective. They waste gangs have invaded Jewish unconsciousness when they at­ measure« are retaliation, count- their race or color, Louise told HOLD QUEENS RALLY neighborlyods recently and beat tempted to reestablish the pick­ er-affenslve or ‘preventive’ war­ little time discussing it, but me. Nevertheless, she soon learn­ up residents which they encoun­ et line in front of the entrance fare, but these w ill not restore again repeat their warning; "If ed that employers find many The first Christian Front we seek to achieve our own se­ tered. to the meeting. In the Gary the ruins of our cities nor re­ ways to Jim Crow Negro workers meeting in New York since the Fascism is not peculiar to “ for­ anti-Negro strike, the police de­ vive the millions of pur dead.” curity through supremacy in and to prevent them from being atomic warfare, we will find that beginning of the Second World eign" countries. I t is, however, partment openly protected and As for going underground, this upgraded. All of these exper­ in 10 years the whole world is War was held October 6. The peculiar to decaying capitalism. encouraged the fascists. In New is impraetical. “ Dispersal of iences soon convinced Louise to as adequately anned as we, and seek a political solution to the Christian Front is a native fas­ I t can happen here just as it York City, it is La Quardia’s po­ population and industry over that the threat of imminent lice who are trying to wall o ff problems of Negro workers, cist organization which remained happened In Italy and Germany. wide areas or underground can destruction will bring about a LOUISE SIMPSON quiescent while Wall Street was Harlem. » reduce the efficleney of atomic ‘preventive’ war. “Long before I joined the One difference will be that in We can only successfully fight bomb raids, but cannot be con­ “ although I am especially in­ Socialist Workers Party, I had busy waging its' war for “ democ­ this country, It will be the Negro “ I f we recognize that our pre­ terested in receiving the support this social menace by vigorously sidered an adequate permanent a feeling that it was the em­ racy.” urging the entire labor move­ sent leadership in atomic power of my own people. But no sec­ who will be the first victim of defense.” ployers who were really behind ment (fascism's final target) into can last at the most several years, tion of New York City's workers In the summer of 1939, how­ the murdering gangs. As for “ moral” pressure to Jim Crow. Now, I know that race m ilitant struggle against it. By and we attempt to dominate the can stand alone, and our elec­ prevent further use of atomic prejudice is rooted in the social ever, it was a growing, truculent, Let us wake up to the facts doing this, we w ill be allying world, we w ill find ourselves im ­ tion platform calls upon the bombs, the scientists regard this system and that It is fostered by rabidly «ntl-racial organization. we may have to face in the very ourselves with the most power­ as completely utopian. “ Moral mediately involved In another workers of all groups to fight to­ the capitalists in order to divide and greater war in Violation of gether for the things that work­ Its tentacles were spreading HOMER MAERTZ near future. This upsurge of fu l force and the only class considerations did not prevent white and colored workers," that can defeat the fascist ver­ our democratic moral code and ers need.” throughout the country. Its chief anti-Negroism is no mere acci­ the lise of atomic bombs against Louise said, shaking her head up lean Bund. C. Daniel Kurts is min and drive them back to their Japan . . . In time of war, moral with no assurance of victory.” figure, Father Coughlin, disposed dent but rather part of an or­ CONFIDENT VOICE and down to emphasize the organizer of the Christian Front boles. Further, we will be fight­ sanctions have never prevented The scientists end by plead­ point. Her voice had a firm , confi­ of vast funds from mysterious in the Queens borough of New ganized trend which is growing ing with the class that will be tlje use of weapon, no mat­ ing to the “ people of the United any dent ring as she spoke about ELECTION PLATFORM sources which permitted him to York. out of Big Business’ inability to forced to fight also for Socialism, ter how terrible. Moreover, States and their leaders to think the Socialist Workers Party pro­ continue to control the labor the final liberator of all races. those having control over the about, and find a means for the Questioned further as to the broadcast over a wide radio net­ Fred Kister, commander of the gram. When I questioned her In fact, the fight AGAINST use of atomic bombs may not be international control of atomic Socialist Workers Party election work and publish a sliok maga­ “ Christian War Veterans,” is a movement under peaceful, “ dem­ about her personal history — platform, Louise Simpson told fascism is the fight FOR Social­ subject tp morel pressure of the power . . , They must not fail. zine called Social Justice. dangerous fascist demogague. ocratic" means. That the van­ where she came from; her school ism. M ilitant struggle along­ world in general.” These few The alternatives lead to world me that she and Farrell Dobbs, Leaflets distributed by the “Na­ experiences; what kind of work At the October 6 meeting in guard of American fascism is side the white workers against sentences would Indicate what suicide.” the Trotskyist candidate for tional Blue Star Mothers of she did; When she had first be­ Mayor, are campaigning for fu ll Queens borough, the Christian America” at the meeting where now actively rearing its scummy this common enemy will be a the scientists think of Wall ONLV ONE ALTERNATIVE come Interested in the Trotsky­ Front began taking up the gigantic step too, in the direction Street, the power now controll­ equality for Negroes and nation­ Kister spoke are an obvious at­ head is no fantastic claim! These scientists do not sug­ ist movement, she was reluctant al minorities. The Trotskyist threads dropped during the war. tempt to appeal to the service­ Although the real target of the qf eliminating the prejudices ot ing the atomic bomb. Principal speakers were Homer gest a feasible means of “ inter­ to answer my questions. candidates also support legis­ men. fascists is the labor movement, today with which the whites have MISLEADING ADVICE national control” because that is “There isn’t anything impor­ lation for public housing for Maertz, Kurt Mertig, C. Daniel their first victim must and will been indoctrinated under the ORGANIZING VETERANS A t present the Truman ad­ impossible under capitalism. So tant to tell you,” she said hesi­ Manhattan, especially Harlem Kurts, and Fred Kister. be the Negro minority, There­ “civilization” of capitalist ex­ ministration preaches retaining long as the capitalist system en­ tantly. “I’ve lived just an or­ and the East Side; a fight Homer Maertz has already Recognizing the main demand fore, who can fail to agree that ploitation. the secret of atomic energy as a dures, imperialist wars are in ­ dinary life—an awfully ordinary against all restrictive housing been exposed in the columns of of the soldiers ig to come back the Negro must be in the fore­ means Of preventing other na­ evitable. Only by overthrow­ life.” covenants; better job opportuni­ The Militant. This former Sil- home, Kister and his cohorts front of the fight against fas­ Read: play on this demand. They too tions from manufacturing ato­ ing this outmoded system and When I pressed her for replies ties for Negro workers: more and ver-Shjrter is closely linked with cism? Through his trade un­ “ NEGROES IN THE mic bombs. The scientists ob­ establishing socialism can the to my questions, pointing out better equipped schools for Har­ the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith and want to bring the boys back ions, in his branch of the threat of “world suicide” be eli­ home. The danger arises from serve: “ Those who advocate that that working class voters are al­ lem's children; Improved public ex-Senatqr Robert Rice Rey­ NAACP, or wherever he may be, POST-WAR WORLD” the secret of the atomic bomb be minated. Only under socialism health facilities in Harlem. nolds who are at present organ­ the fact that these fgsolst dem­ the Negro must place at the top 16 pages ...... „-5 cen*» can atomic energy confer its in­ ways interested in learning more kept mislead our own people about the background of their “ Republican and Democratic izing the Nationalist Party. This agogues want the soldiers back of the agenda the m ilitant fight PIONEER PUBLISHERS calculable benefits to humanity. Party they hope w ill eventually against fascism if he would sur- 116 University PI., N. Y. 3, N. Y. rather th an , other countries. candidates, Louise Simpson told politicians say that they stand home to become DUPES OF NA­ There aro no longer any funda­ for the same things,” the Trot­ take power in America the way me the story of her life, which is TIVE^ FASCISM. These fascist mental secrets about the atomic not such an “ ordinary life,” skyist candidate said scornfully, the fascists did in Italy and the bomb . , , even those nations after all. “ but these capitalist politicians Nazis in Germany. propagandists want to organize with lesser resources than those SWP Statement Born in Richmond, Virginia ar* the ones who are responsible ANTI-SEMITIC ACTIVITY the veterans into gangs to attack Socialist Workers Party of the United States w ill be able on September 4,1023, the daugh­ for the fact that Harlem is one Maertz, head of the “ Pioneer the labor movement. to produce atomic bombs w ithin of the worst slum areas in the On Davis Bares ter of a Southern railroad work­ News Service” of Chicago, is vi­ Three of the speakers, Maertz, two to five years.” country. We believe that Negro er, Louise was brought to New olently anti-Semitic, He was a Branch Activities and white workers have to break Mertig and Elmhurst, were ar­ This is within the length of York City when she was only delegate at the America First ■ ■ ..... -i time it took the United States Stalinist Deals with the capitalist parties and rested and charged with “ unlaw­ two years old. She has lived in national convention August 29, AKRON—V isit Tbe MiUtxnt Club. 406-6 to 5 p.m, daily. to transform production of (Continued from Page 1) take the road of independent ful assembly” on the basis of the Everett Bldg., 31 Beet St., open Attend the Twin Cities Sunday Fo** 1944 where he presented a reso­ atomic energy from laboratory working class political action.” T u m . *n4 Thur*. 2 to « p.m.i Mob,, urn held every Sunday. 3:?0 p,«*. up to their ears In a deal with lution calling for the steriliza­ “Inflammatory literature” they Wed., n t - 3 to 8 p.m. Hear a Marxist analysis of the “ New» NEW YORK • * * Behind the Headlines,” tp plant scale. the Tammany ward-heelers. And Louise Simpson leaned for­ tion of all “ Jews” in America. distributed. However, they are The scientists add that this ALUNTOWN-BETHMSHSM—FuMlo dn- * * * Militant Labor Forum ward over her desk as she finish­ In 1941 he served a six-month’s m o tio n meeting on current tqrucj ev­ policy could have one “ very then they have the cast-iron gall now out on bail. In the absence er? T hurjdty, 8 p.m. At M ilita n t Lxhor NEWARK—Lectures are hfld tvery ed these remarks. Her whole ja il sentence for smashing win­ day at the Progressive Worker#* dangerous consequence.” namely, to demand that all the other FELIX MORROW of militant opposition by the la­ rerom , g. * , corner Front »pd Ham­ School, 423 Springfield Ave., At 8;38 dows of Jewish - owned stores. ilton Streets. Allentown. that “ withholding detailed in ­ Negro candidates withdraw in body expressed her earnestness bor movement to these fascists * t t t p.m. or Recently Jie toured the country * * * formation from the majority of and determination. Dynamic, BOSTON—Office at 38 Stuart St., open favor of Davis to “ keep from “ organizing sluggers and hood­ the arrests can serve to help evenings (except Sundays) u n til 8:30; NEW HAVENwwFriday, Oct. 1»» 9 p-PR. our own scientists . . . w ill a rti­ ‘The Rig 5 Conference’ Lecture on ‘'Labor’s Post-War Prob« splitting the Negro vote.” talented, devoted young political popularize the three among sep- also Monday and Saturday afternoon». ficially channel and sterilize the lums into action groups,” Oome In and get acquainted. Complete leraa,"’ Polish Falcon Hall, 153 Pranh« SUNDAY, OCT. 21 leaders like Louise Simpson will stock of literature. lin St. further development of nuclear SIMPSON STATEMENT K u rt Mertig was formerly con­ tions of the population ripe for • ’ e • • ♦ * 116 University Place, 8 p.m. some day change the world 1 BUFFALO—Open house every Saturday physics and chemistry in our When advised of the Davis nected with the German-Amer- their propaganda. NEW YORKenSat. Oct. 2«, 9 p.m. O pt« night at the Militant Forum, 839 Main owp country.” “ repudiation,” Louise Simpson, house a t 116 University Place; re.* St., 2nd floor. • • , freshments. The argument of the super- Trotskyist candidate for City sun.. Oct. 2i, 10:30 a m-, comrade» UHU’AGO—Visit the Chicago pWP poa<|- and friends w ill meet at 11« Uni* N E W YORK quarters to obtain The Militant. Fourth mjlitarists that the only real de­ Council, issued a statement to Hear The Program versity Place to sell subscriptions 1« fense is production of bigger and International, Marxist books and pam­ The M ilitant Campaign for ten the«* the press setting forth the prin­ Socialist Workers Party phlets, as well as Information about more destructive bombs is like­ the SWF. 160 N. Wells, R. 317. Open sand new readers. ciple determining the attitude of of the Every Monday, 8 pm - Class ®* wise exploded by the scientists: 11 a m. to 8 p.m. every day except "Program and Principles of SWP," the Socialist Workers Party to­ Sunday. Tel. Dearborn 7582. 116 University Place, firs t floor. “ Onçe O natior: possesses a cer­ STREET MEETINGS * * V Harlem Discussion Group meets ' tain minimum number of bombs, ward Davis: Trotskyist Candidates nETBOIT—All M ilitant readers Invited every Wednesday night 8 p.m. to f i ­ there ip no great advantage in From a Sound Truck to the SWP Open House held every cuss "Labor and Negro Struggles,” “ The Trotskyists,” said Com­ In the coming Saturday evening, from t p.m. on. at 103 West 110 St., Room 23. OffiC# having more. In a few years a rade Simpson, “ fight for the Music, dancing, cards, refreshments- open day and evening 10 a.m. tD Dation with a small number of FRIDAY, Oct. 19 Admission free. Room 21. 3513 Wood­ 3 p.m. also 7 to 9 p.m. Books and democratic right of representa­ ward. pamphlets on sale. atomic bombs carried by rackets Manhattan: New York Municipal Elections Forums on topical questions every Trostkyist Youth Forum. Friday, Get. or planted' as mines in our cities tion for the Negro people in all Sunday 8 p.m. Refreshment». No 19, 8 p.m., at 116 University Place; spheres of publlo life. We sup­ 12 Noon— 38 St. between 7 and 8 Aves. RADIO BROADCAST SCHEDULE admission charge, "U. S. Colonial Foltey." could ini a few minutes destroy Afternoon— 146 St. and 7 Aye. Basic Training Class In Fundamental ♦ • ♦ most of the industrial resources port Davis as second choice can­ Saturday, Oct. 20, 9:00 to 9:30 p.m.: Principles of Marxism every Thursday PHILADELPHIA—SWP Headquarters, 465 didate for council in Manhattan, 126 St. and 7 Ave. 8 p.m. W. Girard Ave. Qpen forums ever? of the • United States and much Station WNEW, 1130 on dial, “ People’s Choice” * e < Friday 8 p.m. on current topics. of its population. Furthermore, not because he and bis party Brooklyn: LOS ANOSLES^Buy The M ilitant, 4th Socialist Youth Group meets on al­ have anything in common with Sunday, Oct. 21, 9.00 to 10:30 p.m.: International and other Marxist books ternate Saturdays. 8 p.m. All young i f we have more and better 6:50 p.m.-—Brevoort PI. and Bedford Ave. and pamphlets and get information people invited. bombs, another nation may fear, real communism, but solely be­ Station WMCA 570, on dial, “ Women’s City Club” about the SWP »1 the following places ♦ • • Justifiably or not, an attack by cause he is a Negro candidate Monday, Oct. 22, 10:00 to 10:30 p.m.: . Jn the Los Angeles are»: LOS a n - PORTLAND, Ore.WVislt $WP headquar­ on the ticket of a working class SATURDAY EVENING, Oct. 20 OELE8, Socialist Workers Party, Rooms ters, 220 S, W. Alder St., Hoorn 600, us, and deem it necessary to at­ Station WNEW, 1130 on dial, “ People’s Choice” 200-05. 232 s, »111 gt. VA-7838. SAN. open l to 4 p.m. daily except Sunday, tack party. Bronx: 161 St. and Prospect Ave. PEDRO, Socialist Workers Party, 1008 and 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday and Friday. first.” Saturday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m. 8ocial. The scientists then develop “ I f Davis or his party had one Thursday, Oct, 25, 10:45 to 11:00 p.m.: B. Pacific. Room 214. Manhattan: « • e . M ilitan t Readers• • invited, * some, possible alternatives: shred of communist principle, Station WQXR, 1560 on dial, “ Public Service Series” LOS ANOELES—Sunday, Oct. «8. 8 p.m., they would call upon the voters 146 5>t. and 7 Ave. SAN FRANCISeOr-^Vlsit the San Fran­ U. S, VULNERABLE Saturday, Oct, 27, 9:00 to 9:30 p.m,: Lecture on "Veterans and the Lebor cisco School of Social Science 306 Grant. of Manhattan to cast their 126 St. and 7 Ave. Movement;” Speaker A1 Miller, 232 Ave., corner pf G rant and Sutter, 4th ( I) “ I f we reveal no more in ­ votes, under proportional re­ Station WNEW, 1130 on dial, “ People’s Choice” So. K ill St., R 200-5. floor; open from 12 noon to 3 p.m. * » • Monday through Saturday, and 7 to ? formation to other nations, the presentation, for Simpson and Vote fo r : Sunday, Oct. 28, 10:15 to 10:30 p.m, MILWAUKEE — Vl»lt the Milwaukee p.m. Monday througn m u * * United States may maintain Davis, the only Negro candi­ Station WMCA, 570 on dig!.. branch ef the SWP at its headquar­ • • • FARRELL D O B 9I far Mayor ter». 8 « piankington Ave.. Room 81, TOLEDO—Forums held every leadership for a few years. I t is dates running for City Council any evening between 7 and 8:30 p.m. evening at 905 Jefferson Ave., Bftsm Sunday, Nov. 4, 10:15 to 10:30 p.m.; * * * almost certain that after five on the tickets of working class 304, 8 p.m. LOUISE SIMPSON for City Council Station WMCA, 570 on dial,. MINNEAPOLIS—V isit the Labor Book Open House every Saturday night; years all of the great powers parties.” Store, 10 South 4th St., open 10 a.m. dancing, refreshments. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1945 PAGE EIGHT THE MILITANT Foster Continues Browder Line Dairy of a STEEL aofDairy WORKER .B y Thmodore Kovalesky. Of Supporting Good Capitalist B y V. Grey Last night was a miserable night; rain, and wind, and more By Felix Morrow ^ When you were a little kid in school, you dreamed of the rain. I met Jimmy at the gate on the way to work, and he was vanished great days of the world, the days of giants, of eplg The Communist Party fights and heroes. You saw yourself on a fiery horse rescuing pretty well soaked through. “ God,” he muttered to me, “ It sure ousted Browder and adopted is hell coming out on a night like this!” I agreed one hundred ladies fa ir ’from distress and conquering all kinds of villains a “ new” line. But, whatever and dragons. Or you’d go to the movies and see Buffalo B ill in per cent with him. “ Man! If I coulda gone to college ...” he sighed. “You the difference between the j the Saturday afternoon serials and play cowboy after the show, wouldn’t see me out in this damn new and the Browderline, pretending with all your little soul that you were a real two. gun pioneer. steel plant in the rain.” both have one basic thing in “People like us don’t go there, common: the claim4 that If you lived in a small town you’d stand near the railroad tracks in the early evening and watch the express hurtle past Jimmy.” there are good and bad capi­ “ I know.” talists, progressive and re­ out into the unknown and wish you were an engineer. The din­ “ But it’s just as well.” actionary capitalists, and ing car would flit by with all those pretty people, gliding into “Huh?” Jimmy turned to see the magic night, and you’d long for the far places and the great that the Communist Party things they were surely going to. You wanted to be a fireman, if I was kidding. should ally itself with the “ Look, Jimmy,” I asked, “ what an engineer, an explorer, a Galahad—a HERO. good or progressive ones But before you were even out of school, you learned to laugh do they teach in Mississippi?” against the bad or reaction­ “ O h ” Jimmy said. "Yeah, at your own dreams. Why the world was all explored! The west th at’s right, they teach a lot of ary ones. was all pioneered. And the future was on ice. All the big stuff The net result is that the race hate and all that.” was in books. The great days of the world were over, and now “ Sure they do. And not just Fosterline cannot draw the class everybody had to be little and humdrum. line between the workers and Mississippi either! They fill the The world was all finished changing, you thought. The past the capitalists, any more than minds of little kids fu ll of poison might have been exciting. But the present was just a succession the Browderline could draw it. all over the whole country. And of meaningless days. How were you goi:o to do great things in And that means that the Foster­ when the kids grow old enough the world, like the teacher said? That was kid stuff. for college, those that go, they line, like the Browderline, holds And when you went to work in the factory and the dust, back the workers from fighting get a lot more poison.” of the capitalist system began to settle in your lungs and fill' “ Yeah,” Jimmy said doubtfully. “ I know all you say is true, against the capitalist class, pre­ up your brain, the hopes and dreams of your childhood began but you told me yourself that the reason kids can go to public vents the workers from under­ to grow dimmer still. You saw yourself as one of a thousand or school without paying is that the labor movement used to have standing the class struggle. ten thousand gray people in that gray plant. What could you or big strikes demanding free public schools. Were they wrong to One example of how the Fos­ they ever do besides slave your life away, wearing out your terline holds back the workers: i do that do you think?” | dreams even faster than your heart and lungs? Why the capi­ “ No, Jimmy, I wouldn’t say that,” I answered. "We want Increasingly, CIO delegations talist almost had you believing you were BORN to be his slave! our people to be educated. But they don’t get much education are going to Washington, bang­ The capitalist did all in his power to brutalize you and de­ nowadays in the schools. When the workers take over the owner­ ing on the doors of Congress­ Mass picket line which shut down Warner Bros, studio in Hollywood strike, attacked by grade you. He took the energy out of your tired mind in the men, telling them off, and re­ ship of the factories and control of the government, we’ll have company and city police with tear gas, fire hoses, clubs and pistol butts. The strikers were factory and then with his radio, movies and church, he poured turning to tell union meetings schools that w ill teach the truth. And not just a few kids and later joined by thousands of workers from the Lockheed aircraft plant who halted the police into your brain his hypnotic message: “SUBMIT.” He tried to that both the Democratic and young people will be able to go to them like they do now. We’ll enslave your whole soul. He tried to wipe out of your mind Republican Congressmen are send everybody to school. Nobody that wants an education will even the memory of the dreams you had of being great. againt the workers. have to go without it.” Red Blood Flows In Your Veins Jimmy walked silently at my side for a few moments. When “TACTICAL MISTAKES” Lockheed Workers Halt Police he spoke his voice was thoughtful. “ That’ll be great, all right. Whereupon Adam Lapin, the But that was before. That was before you saw the power But, you know, even today, I don’t think it ’s quite as bad as you Stalinist expert on Washington, of your class. That was before you realized that red blood flows say. Look, as far as politics go, I know they teach all that complains in the October 12 in the veins of the gray people and red blood of the most revo­ capitalistic propaganda in the schools. But how about the rest Daily Worker (page 6) against Terror Against Studio Strike lutionary red flows in your own. of the lessons, I mean the ones that don’t tell you about the these “ tactical mistakes” of the Now you are reading The M ilitant and you have begun to government or the profit system . . . you know, all that sort CIO delegations: (Continued from Page 1) proximately 30 machinists were Chief Elmer Adams repeated dream again—not with the wistfulness of a child, but with the of stuff?” “For example, liberal Con­ in front of the gates cheered among the pickets arrested on three times over another loud­ insistence of one who knows the dream can come true. Now you gressmen complained that del­ lustily. Wednesday, while several mach­ speaker: “ I declare this an un­ realize that tomorrow is- not the same as today. Now you see the Fears Intelligence of the Workers egations were not sufficiently inists previously had been beat­ lawful assembly. I hereby com­ tremendous sleeping energy of your class—and you see it begin­ “ Even those, Jimmy,” I said. “ Look at what happened to Ein­ well informed and frequently POLICE RETREAT en, at least one of them seri­ mand you in the name of the ning to wake up. You are going to point the way to the waking stein in Germany. And look at what happened to the libraries: failed to draw the line between Some 500 police, who had pre­ ously. people of California to disperse.” sleepers and help lead them to a waked up world. You are going., storm troopers took thousands of great books out of them and those Congressmen who had viously taken up positions in the “ Reports that the union urged Then the police closed in. to earn their everlasting gratitude even if they never find out" burned them. You know that fascism or Nazism is nothing but supported labor’s program and middle of the street, stepped only off-shift workers to report Strikers were taken under pro­ your name. capitalism at its worst. Well, when capitalism gets worn out those who had not. back and retreated to the op­ to the picket line are not true,” test into the studio, and there You are going to join together with the pioneers of the so badly that it turns into fascism, it fears the truth. It fears “ Obviously delegations ought posite curb. They made no move McNett continued. “ The invita­ finger-printed and booked on future in the Trotskyist party. You are going to fight in the intelligence, ESPECIALLY INTELLIGENCE OF THE WORKING to be so organized as to strength­ to stop the procession. tion was to all Lockheed work­ the rioting charge and on addi­ front ranks of your class army, in the greatest fight the world CLASS. en the ties between labor and Meanwhile, mass picketing ers.” tional counts of disturbing the has ever seen, for the liberation of mankind. “ Poverty and ignorance have gone hand in hand for cen the more progressive members of began outside Universal studios peace and disobeying a court in­ Now you see that all the ordinariness around you is a mask, REJECT STRIKEBREAKING turies. The labor movement was in part responsible for free edu­ Congress . . . I f it were done it in Universal City. While a junction against picketing. Max­ a shell. It is like the rusty, battered iron and brick shell of the After four months of inexcus­ cation as we have it today. But there was something else as well would strengthen the backbone number of workers had already imum penalty under these charg­ blast furnace that conceals the spitting boiling fury of three able delay, the NLRB finally as that. The worker in the modem factory needs some education. of the liberals ...” entered the lot when the pickets es is two years in jail, $2,000 fine, thousand degrees—hot liquid metal within. Soon the shell of reached a decision on how to Modern machinery is a little bit tricky. Then there are blueprints Who are these “ more progres­ arrived, 200 extras stopped or both. Following the mass ar­ the ordinary world is going to crack apart—like a blast furnace count strike votes cast last May. to be read and all that sort of thing. So the ruling class is willing sive Congressmen” who have abruptly when they saw the rests, only token pickets parad­ does when the pressure inside is too high. And there w ill be In a two to one opinion, the to have us learn a little. But they don’t want us to learn too “supported labor’s program” but pickets and refused to cross the ed in front of the studio. excitement, courage, sacrifice, heroism—all at their highest pitch,.. board announced that ballots much or get too intelligent, because they know that if we do, need kind words to “ strengthen line. Today, with the magnificent You are going to share to the utmost In the fire and thè'' cast by both strikers and re­ it ’s going to be dangerous for them. A guy that’s really intelli­ their backbone” ? Lapin doesn’t Hundreds of telegrams of pro­ aid of the Lockheed workers, an­ glory. And that’s not in the distant future. It’s right here, in­ placements would be counted. Of gent, Jimmy, a guy that can think, is going to wonder why there’s name them—because they don’t test were received yesterday by other and different chapter was side the battered shell of the present. Your time of greatness the 105 votes, 54 were cast by exist. Los Angeles Sheriff Eugene Bis- written. is right now. unemployment, poverty in the midst of plenty, war, race preju­ striking set decorators, the re­ Significant to note is that cailuz following the arrests of dice, depressions and all the other misery that comes from cap­ maining 51 being cast by IATSE these CIO delegations include the pickets. He received only italism. And if the capitalists can’t buy him off, he’ll cause them members hired since the strike many Stalinist functionaries. If two telegrams of approval. These trouble.” ■tarted last March. these wheelhorses are getting were from Roy M. Brewer, Inter­ Jimmy slogged through the puddles at my side for a few Brewer, in his treacherous moments without speaking. Then he said, “ Well, we got to go tough with the “ progressives” in national representative of the “Daily Worker” Editor telegram of thanks to Sheriff Congress, they must be getting AFL International Association to school our own way, I guess.” Biscailuz, made the presumpt­ plenty of heat from the workers. of Theatrical and Stage Employ­ “That’s right, Jimmy: ‘The Militant,’ the ‘Fourth Interna­ uous claim that in tendering his And that heat must be very hot, es (IATSE), and from Joseph tional,’ all the books written by Marx and Engels and Lenin and gratitude he was speaking in the Trotsky . . . we’ve got to learn them all. And we can, too. The indeed, since Fosterline orders R. Singleton of the AFL car­ Deserts To The Church name of 14,000 IATSE members. forbid roughing up “ progressive” penters. Brewer, in a blatantly time will come before too long, when w ell show those capitalists (Continued from Page 1) which did everything possible to 1941, it found the ideal candi­ Congressmen, as Adam Lapin anti-union action, “ thanked” the that we’re not as dumb as they hope we are.” fore the above statement was sabotage such unity. date in Budenz. Jimmy wiped the rain from his face and yawned. “ The soon­ plainly says. sheriff for arresting the pickets. • • • Detroit Readers! issued, however, Budenz had He did not succeed. So he de­ er the better,” he said. “ I sure am sick of things the way they But Budenz, like others still 2,500 JOIN LINE Hear cided to enter the new party are now.” How do you draw the class been editor of the chief organ of in the Stalinist ranks who may Arthur Burch SWP Organizer formed by the fusion and for a line between a good capitalist The arrest of nearly 300 pickets Speak on the Stalinist party, and for ten be expected to emulate his flig h t politician and a bad capitalist on Wednesday came only a few few months, from January to from the Communist Party, fol­ j "W hy Trotskyists Support years had been a leader of the politician? How do you square hours prior to receipt of news Detroit's Labor Candidates" May 1935, attempted to conduct lowed the logic of his Stalinistv. the circle? from the National Labor Rela­ SATURDAYS AT 11:45 AM. Stalinist pack in attacking warfare inside the party against views. When the conflict be­ The October 9 Daily Worker tions Board that all 105 votes Station W X Y Z — 1270 ke Trotskyism, the authentic Bol­ the ideas of socialist interna­ tween the Soviet Union and tried it. Commenting on the fact in last May’s collective bargain­ Oct. 20—Oct. 27—Nov. 3 shevism of our time. tionalism and for his own vulgar American imperialism once more and reactionary nationalism that the Pulaski Day parade was ing election between the striking Moreover, Budenz had never began to reveal itself, he de­ He obviously chose to forget which he term the “American turned into an anti-Soviet de­ AFL Painters Local 1421, a mem­ been a Trotskyist. On the con­ cided to serve openly the cause those members loyal to union approach.” monstration—which is certainly ber of the AFL Conference of trary, even prior to his faithful of capitalist imperialism and true—a Stalinist editorial went solidarity who rejected the Studio Unions, and the IATSE services for Stalinism he had take his orders henceforth from'1 on to the unpalatable task of IATSE-inspired scab policy of ’ODICULOUS IDEA would be counted. This the strik­ been an opponent of Trotskyism an “ older and more established” The State Department inter­ Likes Brothers, had a profit of separating the sheep from the ers interpreted as a victory. breaking the picket line. In March 1935, two months institution which he feels prom­ IATSE cameramen, film tech­ and of Marxist theory. This was vened in Congressional deliber­ $486,000 in 1938 which jumped goats. Alas, ALL the capitalist In contrast to the shameful '.fter the fusion, he publicly at­ ises him greater security. nicians, soundmen and costum­ in fact the qualification which tacked the basic ideas of Marx­ ations on the Bailey ship-dis­ to $8,918,000 in 1944. These tre­ mayoralty candidates had been action of Brewer in welcoming En route to Notre Dame Uni­ ers have all refused to enter so endeared him to the Stalin­ ist internationalism in the Mod­ posal bill, introducing statistics mendous profits accrued to the there, not only the bad ones but police action against the pickets, versity. where as an associate Warners since the company used ists. It was for this very reason em Monthly and advanced the to show that American export ship-“ owners” during the period also the good one, i.e., the one members of several unions af­ professor of economics he w ill violence against the pickets. that they sought him out, em­ ridiculous idea of eliminating goods are paid for in part of the war when the entire mer­ supported by the Stalinists. The filiated with IATSE have con­ now teach the “ true fa ith ”— ' braced him and elevated him in all - powerful American monop­ through the shipping services of chant fleet was controlled by the editorial tried and tried but the sistently refused to go through POLICE TERROR defense of "emancipating" mon­ their ranks. oly capitalism by a simple am­ other countries. This has been War Shipping Administration. most it could say was: the picket lines ever since last Although several hundred opoly capitalism as against com­ the practice in the past and Nearly five thousand govern­ endment to the constitution. His “VERY UNCLEAR” Friday when Warners’ police scabs have been in the studio RECORD OF BUDENZ munism which “ I have found partly explains why American- ment-built ships were launched, anti-Marxist views were sharply “For Thomas E. Dewey and turned fire hoses and hurled tear since a police-flanked and po­ Budenz, a lawyer and social aims to establish a tyranny over flag shipping did not flourish in and all ships were operated at attacked in the New M ilitant, Jonah Goldstein to reap the ap­ gas bombs at the strikers, in­ lice-protected break-through on service worker, had started out the human spirit”—Budenz pi­ the interim between world wars. government expense. These Monday, production has been at predecessor of the present M ili­ plause of Polish fascists is juring a number of them. his labor career giving advice to ously denied that he had ever In 1937, for example, U. S. ship­ “ profits” therefore, represent tant. understandable. Why General Lockheed machinists, after a standstill. No pictures can be the labor movement through a knowingly taken orders from pers paid $130,000,000 more for part of the wartime swindle in O’Dwyer should find that neces­ demonstratively driving past “ shot” without cameramen and personal magazine. Though he Budenz was seeking allies in Stalin. “ Earl Browder and oth­ foreign shipping services than the shipping industry. sary is very unclear.” Warners’ studio, quickly parked other technicians. belonged to no mass movement, his fight against Marxism and ers get orders from somewhere,” was paid by foreign shippers to • That “ very unclear” should their cars and in columns four Early Wednesday morning, the he achieved a certain promin­ Trotskyism. The Stalinists were he observed with new-born sanc­ American operators. pickets were marching peaceful­ bent on a similar search. They The Bland ship-disposal bill have reassured every Commun­ abreast marched back to join ence through his assistance in ; timony, “but I don’t know ly when they were surrounded several strikes in the early 1930’s .! too had abandoned internation­ I t is now argued by the State was passed by the House on ist 'party member, sympathizer the other pickets. The singing, where.” by more than 200 police, armed alism and were embarked on Department that increasing the October 2. The adopted b ill con­ and every American Laborite, m ilitant marchers were hailed He had an unquestioned fla ir for proportion of trade carried in with machine guns, tear gas, side strike tactics, particularly get- their course of national patriot­ ‘DAILY WORKER’ LIES tained some amendments alleg­ and sent him rushing off to re­ by those on the line with shouts, American bottoms will cut the arms and night sticks. They | ting publicity. ism and “ People’s Front” collab­ edly designed to recover 25 per gister so he could vote for whistles and applause. By seven About the only true words in source of dollars abroad, with were arrested on the flimsy pre­ oration with “ our own” “ demo­ cent of the $17-billion spent by O’Dwyer. So hopes the Daily o’clock, more than 2,500 sym­ He became associated with A. the Daily Worker "explanation” serious effects on U. S. export text that they were rioting. cratic” capitalists, in line with1 the government in wartime con­ Worker. pathizers from Lockheed had J. Muste in the Conference for for Stalinism’s latest finished trade. This is just one of the Although studio police have the “ collective security” pro-1 struction of ships. This “ recov­ But the October 10 Daily joined the pickets. Progressive Labor Action, an or­ product is that “Budenz’ deser­ minor facets of the whole policy used violence and attempted to gram of the Kremlin bureau­ ery” of government funds will Worker has to wail and moan Sheriff Biscailuz and his ganization which sought to unite tion of his post has nothing to known as “ dollar diplomacy.” about the low turnout for regis­ heavily armed police looked on, foment riots ever since mass militant workers into a left-wing cracy. do with religious convictions.” be more than off-set by govern­ picketing began, no charges of 9 ment subsidies paid to the new tration. temporarily impotent. Biscailuz in the labor movement and The alliance between Budenz But the Stalinists, strain the expressed the opinion, however, riot or inciting to riot have been which in December 1933 estab­ The National Maritime Union “ owners” for operation of the It seems many workers can’t and the Stalinists was a genu- j truth when they claim his high that the injunction limiting leveled against any Warners’ of­ lished the American Workers (CIO) published in the October government-built ships. be made to understand the pro­ ine “love-match.” He went over1 position in the Communist Party ! pickets to a handful was being ficials. Party. Budenz participated in 5 issue of THE PILOT a set of found difference between the to the Stalinists in May 1935 was due to “error” and “political • violated and that the line was Pickets realized that arrests the famous Toledo Auto - Lite statistics proving that profits to bad capitalist candidates whose with the boast that the Com­ looseness and carelessness.” Approximately 3,000 of the 1 illegal. were imminent when they saw American ship operators in ­ anti-labor and anti-Soviet ac­ strike of 1934 which was led by munist Party had “now come From the first, the Stalinists wartime ships will not be used i McNett, IAM president, in ex­ the police advancing toward local members of the AWP. creased 200 per cent in the six- tions are “ perfectly understand­ over to my position.” knew what they were getting by U. S. Imperialism in the peace plaining the decision of Lock­ them. Strike leader Herbert Sor­ year period from 1938 to 1944. able” and the good capitalist As recorded by James P. Can­ when they got Budenz. The New period. These 3,000 ships will candidate the reason for whose heed workers, stated: “ We are rell, who has been on the mass non’s History of American TROTSKYIST-BAITER One of the outfits mentioned, picket line every day since its M ilitant of September 21, 1935, eventually be scrapped if pres­ anti-labor and anti-Soviet ac­ joining the picket line to prevent Trotskyism, “ by 1934 Budenz, For ten long years he served in an article entitled “ Budenz unjustified beatings of members inception, grabbed the micro­ ent plans materialize. For the tions is “ very unclear.” who had no socialist background, Stalinism well. He was a spe­ and the Stalinists,” observed • * * by Warners’ police when they phone. present they are being relegated was a 100 per cent patriot, three- ! cialist in Trotskyist-baiting and then that “ those who go off the appear as peaceful pickets.” Ap- quietly to the great ghost fleets On the 25th anniversary of $50-PER-DAY GOONS fourths of a Stalinist, tired and slander. He accepted every ord­ Marxian road find themselves in in out-of-the-way places along John Reed’s death, the Stalin­ “ A few goons,” he shouted, somewhat sick and looking for er emanating from the Moscow the end in a swamp.” 'he American coastline. ists held a New Masses meeting praised so highly—compare it “ w ill enter your lines. They are a chance to sell out.” regime and defended its every Budenz has merely sunk to At present there are more than in his memory. with the Stalinist version. getting $50 a day. You w ill be When the Communist League crime against world labor. He the bottom of the swamp. His 00 in the James River ghost But what they DID NOT DO A quick glance at the index arrested. Do not resist. Do not of America, pioneer Trotskyist made every turn, including the anti - Marxist, anti - Trotskyist !eet near Baltimore. By the was to sell John Reed’s immortal will show you the difference. strike police. I am doing this to organization and forerunner of period of the Stalin-Hitler pact training with the Stalinists will ad of this year there will be book, “ Ten Days That Shook Look up how many times Trots­ preserve law and prevent vio­ the present Socialist Workers and back again, with the agility serve him well in his new pro­ nother ghost fleet of more than the World.” ky appears in it, and how many lence. You w ill be bailed out, Party, proposed unification with of a trapeze artist. And when fession. One of bis acts follow­ 00 ships hidden away in Suisun READ AND COMPARE times Stalin appears. and tomorrow we’ll have 20,000 the Muste group, Cannon relates, the Communist Party needed an 'ay, near the mouth of the Sac­ Everybody should read it. And No wonder the Communist men on the picket line.” Budenz was "bitterly hostile to editor especially qualified to ing his first communion was to ramento River not far from then compare its version of the Party doesn’t want its members Pickets were still cheering unity with the Trotskyists.” He peddle its pro-imperialist war, confer with “a number of high- Frisco. October revolution, which Lenin to read itl i Sorrell when Burbank Police organized a faction in the AWP pro-capitalist line after June 22, ranking military officials.”