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Stalin Exposes Own Lies on UN; S Till Seeks Deal Whitewash Killer-Cops in Murder of Negro Vet Labor Always Lost in White-House A Workers of the World, Unite ! CLERICAL CENSORSHIP MENACES OSR RIGHTS - See Page 2 - THE MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Vol. XV - No. 9 c^^>267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1951 PRICE: FIVE CENTS UNION RANKS FORCE WAGE-BOARD•) SPLIT Did Three Dead Pay Freeze, Rising Prices, Stalin Exposes Briggs Officials Mere Taxes, Strikebreaking Know Too Much? Own Lies on UN; Demand Autopsies Rouse Anger of Workers In Gangster Probe By Joseph Andrews ' The withdrawal of the three labor members from Emil Mazey, secretary-treasurer the Wage Stabilization Board on Feb. 16 has created a S till Seeks Deal of the CIO-United Automobile crisis in Truman’s war mobilization plans and in the 18- By John G. Wright Workers, following up the revela­ year coalition between the labor leadership and the Demo­ tions of the Kefauver Committee Breaking a silence of more than two years, Stalin, in his capa­ cratic administration. city as Soviet Premier on Feb. 16 issued a declaration of Soviet on the conspiracy between the Resignation of the labor representatives was forced foreign policy on the unfolding international crisis. This declara­ Briggs Manufacturing Company by the burning resentment of the workers. They resent tion, in the favorite guise of an “interview” with a correspondent and a gang of thugs to beat up of Pravda, the official newspaper of the Russian Communist Party, Truman’s vicious strikebreaking tactics against the rail­ onion militants and wreck the is a typical Stalinist product: evasive, filled with double-talk, com­ road workers and the wage-freeze which the Big Business pletely devoid of any revolutionary Socialist content, primarily in­ union, has demanded that the administration seeks to impose despite runaway prices. tended for diplomatic maneuvers with Western imperialism. Detroit County prosecutor order The need for the labor bureau­ The critical issue of war and®------------------------------------------------------- autopsies on the bodies of three cracy to act was aptly described have to fight — or lose their own peace Stalin slurs over, directing former Briggs executives who by columnist Doris Fleeson in jobs.” the burden of his comments to­ died shortly after protesting the the Feb. 19 N . Y. Post : “ La bo r’s The wage-freeze order backed ward an attack on the United Hansen Starts alliance between Briggs top ex­ people aren’t yessing their bosses by the industry and “ public” mem­ States, the Atlantic Pact coun­ ecutives and the hoodlums. hut are pressing for solutions for tries (singling out Premier Attlee bers of the WSB would peg wages “It seems more than a coin­ the bread-and-butter problems of and the British Laboritcs) and National Tour on to ten percent above the Jan. cidence that three people who in life. So long as inflation control the United Nations. The closest 1950 level. T h is was described by our opinion would shed light on remains ineffective, labor leaders Stalin came to giving a direct the labor members of the board the beating and the scrap con­ answer was on the issue of Ko­ U.S.-World Crisis as “a series of penalties and tract (between Briggs and rea. As for other burning ques­ restrictions — imposed at a time Joseph Hansen, Socialist W ork­ gangster Perrone) should all die tions — Germany, Japan, Yugo­ ers Party candidate for U.S. when prices are continuing their in the same year,” Mazey said. Prices Do Well1 slavia — on these Stalin delib­ Senate in the 1960 New York upward rise. The wage formula erately maintained silence. These election campaign, began his na­ The Briggs local 212 also is inflexible, inequitable and un­ w orkable.” and similar questions he un­ tional tour by speaking in New demanded the removal of Dean And Profits, Too doubtedly reserved for secret di­ Robinson as Briggs president, Haven, Conn, and then in Boston, The wage freeze proposed by OPPOSE WHOLE PROGRAM cancellation of the company’s plomatic haggling at the project­ Mass, on the subject: “America the Big Business-dominated Wage ed “Big Four” parley, whose contract with the gangsters as a Textile Union Strikers The labor members made clear and the World Crisis.” From Stabilization Board came at a cover for payment for their anti­ that it was not the wage-freeze preliminaries have been tenta­ Boston, Hansen left for Buffalo, lime when profits and prices were labor services, and an immediate alone which had aroused the tively set for March 5. N. Y. where he will speak or. at their highest point in history, Instead of offering a working- conference with Walter 0. Briggs resentment of the workers. “This Tuesday, February 27. and still going strong. class, socialist program of fight­ Sr., to “discuss future collective Display Fighting Spirit is not a question of an isolated As senatorial candidate of the Corporation profits for the ing the war danger, Slalin still bargaining relationships.” incident. Our decision here cannot SWP, Hansen received the biggest By George Lavan (ell her that The Militant fights man and a steward. Immediately October through December quar­ end m ust not be in te rp re te d continues to lull the masses at Genora Dollinger, one of the Trotskyist vote cast in New York not only for the working class they told me that “ this is a strike ter o f 1950 were j a r high er than merely as a protest against an home and abroad with fake as­ Briggs union militants who suf­ PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 20 — The state. He has written many but also against jim crow. “Just against the company, despite ever before. During that quarter unfair and unworkable form ula... surances that war “cannot be fered a brutal beating by the textile mills completely dominate pamphlets on issues vitally af­ like our union,” she says. “I what the company or the news­ profits were rolling into the That formula culminated in a considered inevitable,” immediate­ company-hired thugs, last week this working class city. Here are fecting the working class and joined the union when I first papers say.” Then they listed the coffers of the monopolists at the whole series of shocking develop­ ly coupling this, however, with in an interview with The Militant two of the woolen industry’s contributes regularly to The M ili­ started working here during the things they were striking for: a rate of $45 b illio n s a year. ments which we find insup­ a “ warning” that “there are ag­ stated, “I want to see the gun­ giants — Forstmann Woolen and tant and to the theoretical war because it. fights for all the i5 cent an hour increase, an portable. It is a symptom of gressive forces thirsting for a men of the Renda-Perrone gang Botany. Both of these plants are P rofits in 1950 wore 60 per cent magazine, the Fourth Inter- workers and doesn’t discrim inate/ escalator clause, a 6 cent annual unconcern for the needs and wel­ new war” in the United States, and the officers of the Briggs completely shut down by the CIO gre ater than in 1949, according ra tio n a l. improvement factor, improved fare of the plain people of this Britain and France. How to com­ company, who hired them, brought Textile Workers Union’s strike. UNION DEMANDS to Price Stabilization director After fulfilling his engage­ vacation set-up and a two year co u n try.” bat these “aggressive forces” ? to trial and punished for the Picket lines, with women pre­ Michael IliSalle. Wages have not ment in Buffalo where he is A lunch room across the street contract. Would it be a long A ll that Stalin has to offer here merciless beating of myself and dominating, both here and in risen even half that much. The Big Business-controlled war scheduled to stay from Feb. 27 serves as an unofficial picket strike? Opinions varied but the is a vague reference to “ the cam­ other union representatives. nearby Garfield, slowly parade in Food prices have shot up 14 mobilization plans, the labor lead­ paign in defense of peace” which to March 2, Hansen will speak in good humor before the m ill gates. headquarters. There I spoke with general consensus was that it ers pointed out, affect “not only “ The Senate Committee findings per cent since Korea — June he emphasized as being “now of the following cities: At one of them a young girl the picket captain, a shop chair­ wages, but prices, taxes, rent in Detroit . will, if followed (Continued on page 4) 1950. Wages have risen only 8 first rate importance.” The ques­ picket with a clear, melodious control and housing.” Saturday Mar. 3 Akron through, also shed light on the per cent during the same period. tion naturally arises not only of voice starts singing “We Shall The bulk of the food price in­ Though they did not mention Sunday ” 4 Cleveland murder attempts on Walter and what importance but of what use Not Be Moved” and others join in. Truman’s name in their state­ ft Victor Reuther,” she stated. crease is super - profit for the has it been up to now? M onday ” 5 The singing of others workers’ processors, not the farmers. The ment, the labor board members Thus far neither the Kefauver Thursday ” 8 Chicago songs like “ Soup” and “ Solidarity What Wage Ruling Means fact is that the farmers’ share of attacked his whole domestic pro­ THE “PEACE CAMPAIGN” Committee nor the UAW-CIO F rid a y ” 9 }> Forever” bear testimony to the each dollar spent for food was gram. “The price stabilization The Stalinist “ peace campaign” have taken any steps to force >> long history of labor militancy Here is how the Wage Stabilization Board pay freeze only 53 per cent in 1946, and has program is a cynical hoax on the has thus far amounted to gather- Saturday ” 10 indictments against the officers and struggle in this textile area.
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