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. would work: slumped to 48 per cent today, American people,” they stated. (Continued on page 3) Sunday ” 11 M ilw aukee of the Briggs company. In front of Forstmann’s Garfield according to Alfred Stedman, Unions would be allowed only 10 per cent wage hikes Prior to the labor withdrawal plant the pickets are set up for above the Jan. 16, 1950 base pay. farm editor of the St. Paul Pioneer from W SB, the Jan. 31 U A W -C IO light housekeeping. In addition to Press and Dispatch. News Letter stated, “The price an oil-drum stove there is a cof­ I f the average base pay is SI.-50 per hour on Jan. 15, 1950, When these facts are added to control order, freezing prices at fee urn and a juke box that some and the w orkers had won 10 cents an h o u r in J u ly 1950, they the drastic increase in taxes upon their highest levels, simply legal­ Whitewash Killer-Cops sympathizer has donated. One would be entitled to only 5 cents an hour under the proposed low incomes, and the loosening izes the scandalous profits of young picket suggests that the wage freeze. Escalator clauses are included, in the freeze. of rent “controls,” it is clear that speculators and war profiteers.” song being played be changed for This ruling, "if allowed to stand, would remain in effect war mobilization economic policies The tax program was castigated something better for marching. u n til J u ly, 1951. are directed at wholesale slashing as one which w ill “raise all taxes In Murder of Negro Vet In addition to the strike posters of the living standards of the low- in such a manner that people in that the pickets carry, a big Wholesale commodity prices have risen 40 per cent since income majority of the popula­ the lower income brackets will NEW YORK, Feb. 20 — In an­ murder, with a statement absolv­ support of every opponent of poster has been fastened to the a year ago. B y J u ly , 1951 th is trem endous leap w ould be tion. be forced to bear a ^till heavier other whitewash of cop-violence ing the killers! police brutality in this city. company gate announcing that reflected in retail prices and consequently in the cost of living. These cold statistics are very, share of the tax burden.” vhe p la n t is stru ck by the T W U A - against the Negro people, Dis­ The exoneration of the killers Thus, the wage freeze would keep real wages far below the real to workers, who feel the POWELL’S ROLE TAX THE POOR is a menace to the lives of every CIO. The plant police show no cost of living and bring about a drastic reduction in living pinch today, and see far greater trict Attorney Frank S. Hogan This decision is a crushing ex­ member of the community. So disposition to remove the sign. standards. cuts in their purchasing power The CIO Economic Outlook announced yesterday that, after posure of the rotten politics of long as Palumbo and Minakakis A number of Negro women are m the’ near future, while the pointed out that a worker with a Negro politicians like the Welfare funds, and shift bonuses would be considered as a “complete and careful investiga­ roam the streets free men every among the pickets. One woman in corporations continue to pile up $70 weekly income would suffer Reverend A. Clayton Powell. It part of wages under the ruling. tion,” the Grand Jury had refused trigger-happy, Negro-hating cop her sixties, beside whom I picket­ the greatest riches in their long a tax increase of 45 per cent was Powell, more than any other on the force has official sanction ed, approved vehemently when I history of profiteering. to indict the two policemen who individual, who side-tracked the (Continued on page 3) to murder without fear of punish­ had murdered the Negro ex-GI, inspiring mass movement that ment. John Derrick. sprang up in Harlem to win justice in this case. There was fresh proof of this In a scathing letter of denuncia­ last week when a drunken off- A thoroughgoing opportunist, tion that reflects the indignation duty cop, John Hickey, began Powell quickly sensed the m ili­ of the Negro community at this firing at two Harlem school tant spirit of an outraged Negro Labor Always Lost in White-House Alliance outrage, the National Association children who made the mistake of for the Advacement of Colored community that expressed itself aughing at his antics. Fortunately By Joseph Keller man administration, is to belie Far from being all skittles and ingly analogous to the situation People today wrote to Hogan, “It at the beginning of the case with with the national policy to con­ this vicious fool was so drunk the still vivid events of recent beer, the wartime coalition be­ prevailing today. an outpouring of almost five Although the union leaders trol the cost of living.” And he is clear that you have mishandled that he couldn’t shoot straight. A history — the history of labor’s tween the union leaders and thousand to a protest meeting. He won’t admit it publicly, their But Philip Murray, William cut in half the amount of wage this case from beginning to Police Surgeon immediately pro­ wartime coalition with Truman’s Roosevelt was strained to the won the leadership of the move­ break with the government’s wage Green — and even Lewis •— increase to which they were end seemingly with a view to nounced him “fit for duty.” Con­ predecessor and chief mentor, hreaking point time and again ment with a stirring call to “stabilization” board is, in effect, jumped on the occasion offered entitled. This is the precedent for exonerate those policemen.” sidering the activity of the police Roosevelt. Every policy of Tru­ and was only preserved by the organize a mass march on City a rupture of the coalition between by Pearl Harbor to rush to Roose­ ncluding the escalator clause con­ in Harlem this was probably a man that the union leaders bewail repeated abject capitulation of m u r d e r a n d r o b b e r y Hall. But at the very moment the labor bureaucracy and the velt and voluntarily offer their tracts of the auto workers in the correct judgement. originated with the late “great the labor officialdom, with the Despite a police campaign of when the Administration reacted Truman Democrats. This rupture “no-strike pledge” and support wage freeze program of the in­ friend of labor.” notable exception of John L. of a War Labor Board, thus re­ intimidation, a score of eye to the growing mass pressure by The Derrick campaign must go will be mended if the union of­ dustry and “public” members of on. The march on City Hall must Lewis. cementing the coalition. witnesses to the crime testified transferring the killers out of ficials can possibly effect it. But BIG BUSINESS RULED Truman’s wage board. be organized. The Negro people right now, in private and in union In J u ly o f 1942, came Roose­ that the two cops, Palumbo and Harlem, Powell threw in the Let us recall, first of all, that NEAR RUPTURE IN 1941 WAGE-FREEZE POLICY Minakakis, shot Derrick in cold towel. W ith indecent haste, he cannot rest until the killers pay Circles they are bitterly com­ velt’s “Little Steel Formula” the policy of placing Big Business In the six months prior to U.S. W ithin a few months, however, blood without a shred of provoca­ hailed this miserable concession the full penalty for their crime. plaining that Truman has “be­ which froze wages to a fixed per­ in charge of the war mobilization entry into the war on Dec. 7, the labor leaders were complain­ tion. After murdering Derrick, as a “great victory” that ended trayed” them, that he has “be­ centage increase over the rates agencies was carried to the ex­ 1941, the Roosevelt a d m in istra ­ ing about Roosevelt’s moves to witnesses stated, the two killers the need for any further action. trayed,” above all, the policies on Jan. 1, 1941. T his was 15 per SWP in Harlem treme by Roosevelt. It was the tion had engaged in a series of gradually introduce a wage As a face-saver, Powell has called of Roosevelt. If Roosevelt were cent, or one-third the amount of stole more than two thousand then Senator Truman who shortly outrageous acts of strikebreaking freeze. Ilis first step was to ban for an “FBI investigation.” alive, they would have us be­ the rise in the cost of living. This dollars from his still warm body Backs Protest after Pearl Harbor released the that all but shattered the coali­ lieve, things would be different premium pay for Saturdays, Sun­ is the precise pattern of Tru­ and then planted a gun on him in The forthright stand now taken Gladys Barker, spokesman devastating report of the Senate tion just two weeks before Pearl days and holidays worked when and for the better. m an’s wage-freeze fo rm u la . an effort to establish an alibi. by the NAACP against Hogan for the Harlem Local of the Defense Investigation Commit­ Harbor. Beginning in June with these did not constitute the sixth The whole war mobilization pro­ The Grand Jury whitewash of indicates that the people of Socialist Workers Party, de­ tee. This disclosed that the war his use of troops to drive the and seventh consecutive days of LA B O R C R IS IS IN 1943 Harlem are strongly dissatisfied clared today, “The renewed gram and all its agencies of eco­ production set-up was controlled the killers was accomplished with North American Aviation Co. the work week. In the sum m er o f 1943, the with their “v ic to ry .” The campaign to bring the killer- nomic control arc in the hands of from top to bottom by “dollar-a- the cooperation of the Police De­ workers back to work at the point In M ay 1942, Roosevelt per­ United Mine Workers waged their NAACP’s call for a mass meeting cops who murdered John Der­ Big Business, they admit today. year” men “loaned” to the gov­ partment and Hogan’s office. The of bayonets, Roosevelt climaxed sonally intervened fo abrogate historic strikes that ripped a hole at the Golden Gate Ballroom on rick to justice has our full Labor is being shut out in, the ernment by the big corporations phony nature of the “investiga­ his drive against labor with his the escalator cost-of-living wage in the “Little Steel Formula.” Sunday afternoon, Feb. 25, should support. I am at the full cold. There is not one aspect of and that “ the defense program in tion” was made entirely clear attempt to smash the “captive” contract of the CIO shipyard The CIO and A FL leaders howled meet with a real response. Their disposal of the NAACP’s C iti­ government policy — not one — all its ramifications must obtain when Hogan assigned his assi­ coal mines s trik e in Nov. 1941. workers. He told them that “the against Lewis. But by December proposal to launch a campaign to zens Committee for Derrick in which they do not condemn in the the approval of the large com­ stant, Karl Grebow, to present the This led to the breakdown of the full percentage wage increase for 25, more than 200,000 CIO steel force Hogan to re-submit the case their fight against police brh- sharpest terms. panies” which were making “stag­ case to the Grand Jury. It was National Defense Mediation Board which your contracts call, and to workers were in a spontaneous to the Grand Jury with a demand ta lity .” But to contend that these are gering profits” out of their gov­ this same Grebow who rushed into and a near-rupture of the labor- which, by the letter of the law strike. A major labor crisis to indict for murder will have the new policies, peculiar to the Tru­ print on Dec. 8, the day after the ernment connections. Roosevelt coalition that is strik­ you are entitled, is irreconcilable (Continued on Page 4) Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, February 26, 1951 The Hierarchy Invades Our Rights Pittsburgh Tops By Art Preis public libraries and public educa­ “The Miracle” tells the story Then it was revealed that this — a standard practice in all tion and school curriculums. The American hierarchy of the cf a lonely, half-crazy shepherdess was not simply, as Life magazine theaters if they want to stay Quota in SW P wrote, “a striking example of Roman Catholic Church - State, pith religious delusions who meets open. A steady campaign of VATICAN AGENTS how minor bureaucrats can find one of the most powerful totali­ a stranger whom she believes to harassment through the city ad­ The means employed to sup­ ways to establish their personal tarian forces in history and for be S aint Joseph, her special ministration was unleashed. press “The Miracle” startlingly prejudices as law.” McCaffery more than a 1,000 years an arch­ patron saint. The stranger over­ Against this, the New-'York Fund Campaign reveal how far the Vatican’s was just a tool which the Catholic enemy of enlightenment and pro­ comes the poor excited woman Film Critics demonstrated their agents have encroached on gov^ hierarchy was surreptitiously By Reba Aubrey gress, has scored a major victory with wine and seduces her. When protest by granting “ The Miracle” eminent and politics in this using. The “one-man censorship” in its drive to impose its clerical she learns she is pregnant, she their award as the best foreign Fund Campaign Manager country and how vast has grown was being exercised by no less control over all media of educa­ believes she has been visited with film of the year, although they their> power to interfere with than Cardinal Spellman himself. This week we received the largest total payment tion, publicity and propaganda in a miracle and proclaims it had to switch the award ceremony freedom of thought and ideas, to the U.S. proudly in the village. The self- from Radio City Music Hall to a since the Socialist . Workers Party launched its $18,000 regulate the mores and conduct CARDINAL SPELLMAN righteous villagers mock, reVjle, private location because of Spell­ Organization, Press and Defense fund seven weeks ago. At the public command of the of the overwhelmingly non- He issued a statement, read at spit upon and half-mob her and man’s threats of a Catholic Fourteen branches sent in $1,517.^ Vatican’s American proconsul Catholic American people and to all masses in St. Patrick’s drive her from the village. With demonstration and boycott of the The scoreboard through Feb. 20 have already planned the second Cardinal Spellman, the New York impose on every sphere of Amer­ Cathedral, calling "The Miracle” her birth-pangs upon her, she theater. Scores of religious lead­ shows a national total of §9,406 one for St. Patrick’s day. We State Board of Regents has con­ ican life the priests’ ultra-reac­ a “vicious insult to Italian woman­ climbs in terrible agony to a ers of other denominations called or 52 per cent of the total amount are determined to appropriate demned as “ sacrilegious” the in­ tionary political, social, moral hood” and a “despicable affront deserted church on a mountain on the Board of TRegents, which assigned for the three - month these good holidays for our own ternational prize-winning film, and religious doctrines and to every Christian.” He said, “ We top and there, all alone, she gives was scheduled to review the pic­ campaign. A t this point the cam­ purposes.” “The Miracle,” revoked the ex­ dogmas. believe in miracles. This picture b irth . ture, not to bow to Spellman’s paign is just 2 per cent behind The above are the on-schedule hibitor’s license and banned its “The Miracle,” a half-hour film ridicules that belief.” He ordered The final closeup shows the censorship demand. Block - long schedule. That’s pretty close. branches, but others gained public showing in the state. short, was made in Italy by the all Catholics in New York and mother’s face beautifully illum in­ crowds queued up nightly to see P ittsb u rg h branch h it the 100 ground during the week. Boston This act of censorship at the noted director Roberto Rossellini. CARDINAL SPELLMAN in the whole country to boycott ed by a transfiguring love as she the picture in defiance of the per cent mark this week and now sent in §40, making 49 per cent dictate of the authoritarian head Anna Magnani in the leading role the picture. Auxiliary Bishop looks for the first time on the mmediately discontinue the show­ beefy priest-led hoodlums, some shares top honors with Youngs­ of their quota. Cleveland’s pay­ of a religious organization — and gives a monumental performance. Joseph F. Flannelly, cathedral miracle of human life she has of them probably participants in town. Pittsburgh isn’t through ment of §44 boosted them from one holding sway over a distinct Produced in 1948, the film was ing of “The Miracle,” which he administrator, announced that a brought forth. Thus, the film the mob assault led by the yet, according to Comrade Carl. 27 to 41 per cent. Chicago’s §65 minority in both New York state approved by the Italian Com­ said he found to be “both of­ campaign would be started to symbolizes the idea that all Catholic War Veterans and other There was considerable score- check raised their percentage and city — climaxes a two-month mission for Showing* Motion Pic­ ficially and personally blas­ “ strengthen” the state censorship motherhood and the creation of fascists that injured several board jockeying this wpekj. St. to 40. conflict that has attracted na­ tures and the National Cinema­ phemous.” laws in conformity with Catholic new life is a miracle. Only minds hundred persons at the Peekskill, Paul-Minneapolis moved into third This note from Clara Kaye ac­ tional and international attention. tographic Industry Association of A storm of protest assailed this views. warped and depraved, however N. Y., concert of Paul Robeson.’ place. A §211 paym ent gives them companied Seattle’s §25 payment: Cardinal Spellman’s successful Italy. The International Ex­ “ one-man censorship.” The Amer­ On the afternoon of Spellman’s superficially garbed in “ morality” 73 per cent of their §1,000 quota. “ I know we’re still behind sched­ campaign to suppress “The hibition of Cinematographic'Art ican Civil Liberties Union offered announcement his sVrm-troopers and “Christianity,” could find in BOW TO CARDINAL’S “ Despite the railroad strike which ule, but we are catching up. Many Miracle” strikes at traditional and at Venice gave it an award. legal counsel to fight the ban and of the Catholic War Veterans this film anything but a powerful, PRESSURE hit many of our people,” says of the comrades have been hit by fundamental principles of Amer­ In this country, the National its National Council on Freedom began a blockade of the New sincere, moving work of art, But the Board of Regents, Grace Carlson, “we had a very illness and haven’t been able to ican democracy — freedom of Board of Review gave it the from Censorship, headed by play­ York Paris Theater entrance and imbued with compassion and mainly professional politicians gratifying number of payments w o rk so paym ents have been speech and opinion, freedom of highest rating. It was originally wright Elmer Rice,- condemned nightly thereafter tried to in­ human sympathy. 1 and businessmen, did not dare to on pledges. The fine coverage te m p o ra rily slowed uip. They w ill religion and complete separation licensed in March 1949 by the McCaffrey’s action. Most of the timidate theater - goers from defy the Cardinal’s power of which The Militant gave the be made up in the next few of church and state. It goes far New York state board of censor­ CATHOLIC WAR VETERAN seeing the “The Miracle.” Spell­ New York dailies wrote heated boycott, blackmail, slander and Switchmen’s strike — especially weeks.” beyond the field ofm otion pictures ship, officially known as the On Dec. 23, after the picture editorials and Protestant minis­ man’s City Hall minions sent pressure. On Feb. 16, they took the graphic portrayal of the Tru­ Akron moved ahead four places and the issue of whether or not Motion Picture Division of the had run less than two weeks at ters and Jewish rabbis, represent­ their Catholic police to “ preserve refuge behind a vague clause in man sell - out which the Grey on the scoreboard. “ We are trying the people shall have the right to State Education Department, the Paris Theater, the local ing the 'great majority of New law and order,” which included the censorship law and meekly cartoon (Feb. 12 issue) illustrated very hard to meet our quota,” see films, free of Catholic propa­ which is directed by the Board the arrest of four counter­ License Commissioner Edward T. York’s church members, defended bowed to the Cardinal’s edict. — helped to inspire railroad work­ says Comrade Doris, “but it is ganda or presenting views differ­ of Regents. Last November it McCaffrey, a former national the film on religious grounds. On pickets protesting censorship and The Paris Theater promptly can­ ers to contribute to the Fund.” difficult. One of our people has ing from those held by the priest- was licensed to its present commander of the Catholic War an appeal against the censorship, the evacuation of the theater in celled the showing of “The Buffalo and Newark branches been unemployed; another is caste. By the same methods used distributor, Joseph Burstyn, who Veterans and an ignorant political the midst of a crowded showing State Supreme Court Justice Aron Miracle,” but announced it would are running neck and neck in being laid off this week.” in the case of “The Miracle,” began its exhibition last Dec. 12 hack of the Catholic - dominated Steuer granted a temporary in­ to “search for a bomb.” Catholic appeal to the state courts. fo u rth place w ith 69 per cent. Detroit is steadily gaining Catholic hierarchical control and at New York City’s Paris machine that controls the city junction staying McCaffrey’s ban fire department officials sud­ With this victory, the Catholic New Haven gained one place ground- Their §126 payment gives censorship can be — and is being Theater as part of a trilogy of government, ordered the Paris on the legal point that the License denly discovered violations of hierarchy is pushing a campaign on the* scoreboard, tying New them $618 paid to date — 35 per — extended to books and publica­ three short films jointly called, Theater, under threat of revoca­ Commissioner had no censorship safety ordinances and the paying against other films. At Albany, York for fifth place with 61 per cent. tions, public lectures and forums, “ Ways of Love.” tion of its operating license, to powers. of “gratuities” to fire inspectors N. Y., the police, on the solicita­ cent. Los Angeles took a §200 leap tion of the Catholic clerics, Milwaukee chalked up a big closer to their §2,600 goal. stopped the showing of “Bitter ga in d u rin g the week — 37 to 58 The campaign has passed the Rice,” a film depicting the con­ per cent. Comrade George reports half-way mark. Those branches Britishi(Labor Regime Nationalizes Steel ditions among exploited women that the branch scheduled two below 50 per cent will have to do rice workers in Northern Italy. socials with proceeds earmarked some fast stepping in the last for the fund. “The first one was h a lf to catch up and finish 100 By Paul G. Stevens utilities, there was hardly more That is why the Britisn capital­ beginning to show their restive- must thus be considered not Threats by the Knights of our Mardi Gras Social — a per cent by the campaign dead­ than token opposition from the ists have fought so tenaciously on r.ess by fo rc in g th ro u g h action merely as just another national­ Columbus forced a Queens theater The nationalization of the owner to discontinue presentation financial and social success. We line, M arch 31. capitalist ruling class. For these this issue. In fact, that is why to lift the wage freeze at the last ization measure, but as a turning British steel industry went into industries had long ceased to be they still refuse to reconcile them­ Trade Union Congress, by a point in the class struggle under of the great tragic film of poverty and unemployment in Italy, “The effect Thursday, Feb. 16, when profitable enterprises; they had selves to this loss. For, as growing number of wildcat the conditions prevalent in Great Bicycle Thief.” Other outstand­ 80 of the largest iron and steel been mulcted to the full by their Winston Churchill declared in the strikes —• the latest of which, Britain. According to a dispatch ing foreign films are threatened firms out of a total of altogether owners and a renewal of their last parliamentary debate, al­ among the dockers, was spread­ to the N. Y. Times, among the earning powers required a re­ with Catholic boycott and censor­ 500 turned over their assets to though the Tories do not intend ing even as the last vote on steel current fears of the steel masters $18,000 FUND SCOREBOARD organization and investment far ship. the government’s Iron and Steel to repeal any of the other was being taken — as well as by “the first is that trade union or If Catholic censorship seems to Corporation. beyond the powers of the in­ nationalizations if they return to active agitation against the tie- left wing socialist elements . . Branch Quota Paid Percent dividual owners or any combina­ power, they are pledged to up with Washington in foreign will force their way into man­ be placing discriminatory em­ Youngstow n § 500 $ 500 100 About 300,000 of the half m il­ tion of them. The government’s denationalize steel at once. po licy. agerial levels” and “ second . . phasis on foreign films, that is P ittsb u rg h 150 150 100 lion steel workers w ill be affect­ g ra n t o f.,p e r cent dividends The workers’ determination to that the longer the Labor party inly because Hollywood’s products St. Paul-Minneapolis"' i‘•“ :'■ 1,000 733 73 ed. Former owners of the na­ was pure gravy for them. PRESSURE ON LABOR PARTY lesisi capitalism was indicated by remains in office the harder it •are already subject, to powerful B u ffa lo 1,000 686 69 tionalized concerns and share- Not so with steel. The growth On labor’s side the significance their remarkable turnout in the will be to denationalize or sell Catholic censorship at the source. N e w a rk 700 . 483 69 bblders in some 150 subsidiaries of armament production had of steel nationalization aroused 1950 elections, when by their in­ the industry back to private in­ No picture can be released which N ew Haven 300 61 61 owned by them will be com­ assured this industry of constantly an equal degree of class con­ creased majorities in industrial vestors.” The tactics of the does not conform to Catholic N ew Y o rk 5,000 3,043 61 pensated by government - guar­ growing profits and encouraged sciousness. As the Labor Party districts they offset the swing of capitalists, consequently, w ill ob­ views on marriage and morals, M ilw aukee 150 80 53 anteed steel stock paying a 3% renewal of equipment and re­ publicists themselves have made the middle class to the Tories and viously be directed to allay these divorce, sex and love, religion, Boston ■550 269 49 per cent dividend. investment, so that of all British clear, steel has been regarded by thus enabled the Labor party to fears. etc. The American film industry’s Philadelphia 600 271 46 CAPITALIST OPPOSITION industries, the steel industry was the rank and file as a test of the squeeze through. The workers, on the other hand, Production Code was written by ■Flint 375 159 42 the most modernized and the most seriousness of the whole national­ A ll these signs pointed only to rightly considering steel national­ the aggrelsive Jesuit writer, Cleveland 300 124 41 'Contrary to previous national­ profitable. Furthermore, as long ization program and a retreat on a great intensification of the class ization as a victory — coming as Father Daniel Lord, and the Chicago 700 281 40 ization measures, the Steel Act as their grip on steel remained this issue by the leaders would struggle and the by-passing of it does despite the tremendous Production Administrator, Joseph Seattle 400 146 37 was subjected to sustained attack unimpaired, the capitalists could have been considered nothing the present leadership, in case of pressure of the British capitalists I. Breen, is a practicing Catholic, O akland 250 90 36 by the capitalist class for over maintain essential if indirect short of a betrayal. For what is any patent betrayal. Thus, the as well as their Wall Street This may explain why American Toledo 50 18 36 two years before going into control of the rest of heavy in­ the purpose of all the national­ very least the Labor government allies — will increase their own films abound in “moral” scenes A k ro n 150 52 35 effect. The steel magnates first dustry, regardless of the na­ izations if not planned national could do under the circumstances pressure upon the leadership. of sadistic violence and brutality D e tro it 1,750 618 35 mobilized the antiquated House tionalizations, by manipulating production to replace the capital­ was to go, through , with the Next step for British workers and suggestive highlighting of Los Angeles 2,600 895 34 of Lords — which had held a this basic product to suit their ist chaos? And how is planned promised steel nationalization. will be a fight for workers man­ female legs and busts, while they A lle n to w n 75 25 33 two-year veto right — to obstruct ends. production possible if they key Indeed, Churchill and the in­ agement of the nationalized in­ present such a perverted and San Francisco 1,500 450 30 its passage into law in November ■Nationalization of steel con­ industry remains in the hands of dustrialists have lost no op­ dustries, for a moratorium on the false picture of real life. S t. Louis 100 20 20 1949, so that the Labor Govern­ sequently meant not only a con­ private capital ? portunity to “accuse” Prime compensation of former owners West Virginia 25 0 0 ment, for all its timidity, had to siderable and immediate reduc­ The Labor leadership was thus Minister Clement Attlee .and his for workers’ control over all SPEARHEAD OF WITCH-HUNT General 252 — take measures in parliament to tion in profits which - had con­ on the spot. Beside the social government of being “ prisoners” remaining private enterprise, for Ever since the Vatican and its further cut down the powers of tinued to be fabulous for more reforms, they had nothing to offer of the Left Wing of their party, effective planned production not Catholic political parties became Total through Feb. 20 $18,000 §9,406 52 the reactionary upper chamber. than fifteen years; it also signified the British working class but con­ of acting on steel in order to for war as partners of American the chief mainstay of capitalist Together with the rest of the depriving the capitalists of the tinued austerity and the prospect letain their following on foreign cap italism — b u t fo r peace as reaction in Western Europe, the capitalists, the owners of heavy major industrial lever left in their of a Third World War on the side policy and on the defense program partners of the colonial peoples American Catholic hierarchy has industry then staked all on help­ hands for control of the nation’s of increasingly unpopular Amer­ (lowing from it. throwing off the yoke of imperial­ reached out more openly and ing the Tories win the elections economy. ican capitalism. The workers were The nationalization of steel ism . brazenly for power and control of Feb. 1950, in order to get the in this country. It has become law repealed. When the Labor one of the main spearheads of the party squeezed through to power witch-hunt against “communism Ruth D. and Harold R. of New ficient valid reason why he should once more by a narrow margin, — that is, anything that has the York made a good score selling be impeached fo rth w ith .” they left ho stone unturned to Italian Stalinism Torn by Crisis slightest vestige of liberalism. door to door in Harlem Sunday. B. K. of Cleveland wants “ to force a coalition upon it, bank­ Spellman had to proceed more In less than an hour compliment the editor and writers By Charles Hanley by the bureaucracy and enforced ist” parties: one pro-Stalinist The Trotskyists are the van­ ing heavily upon the right wing slyly for a while after he was they sold 23 M ili­ of The Militant for the first rate tPSI), one centrist (PSU), one guard of the Italian labor move­ of the Trade Union Congress, Two Communist members of a strict discipline in the rank-and- widely rebuffed for his breaking tants. The New York Jan. 29 issue. Devoting this issue social-democratic and reformist ment. The present disunity of the which in effect maneuvered to the Italian Parliament, as well file, while the Italian CP had to of the Calvary Cemetery workers Youth make it a to the Korean w a r as w e ll as (PSLI). There also exist at least Italian proletariat derives from postpone nationalization at the as several other personalities form numerous new local cadres strike and his slanderous attack point to be on hand listing imperialist atrocities as annual conference last September. two ultra - leftist parties. And, a process of clarification and have left the Stalinist party be­ in 1943 a fte r 21 years o f fa scist on Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for her with The Militant. commentaries by reporters in that of course, the Italian section of searching, from the longing for a With Churchill leading the cause they disagree with its com­ dictatorship and is not as homo­ opposition to the use of public America’s' leading devastated country is hitting the the Fourth International (Trot­ socialist rebirth; and in this case struggle for them on the parlia­ plete subservience to the Kremlin. geneous as the French organiza­ funds for parochial schools. But socialist weekly, and bull’s eye — what is uppermost skyists) whose influence, accord­ mentary plane, the Conservatives Do they represent a revolu­ tion. is an expression of ideological with the success of his campaigns with Fourth Inter­ in most minds today. ing to the Rome correspondent of fought doggedly to the last tionary or a centrist tendency, or Togliatti (who is now under liveliness, of political vitality to secure U. S. recognition for national, theoretical “An informal poll taken at my the N. Y. Times (Feb.' 2), has moment, hoping to catch the small treatment in Moscow, with his Fascist Spain and to block the magazine of Amer­ plant last week revealed, in a a right wing grouping? K is yet grown considerably in several big rather than a sign of internal Labor m ajority off-guard in order too early to answer this question; French colleague Thorez, for federal aid to nublic education bill. ican Trotskyism, small way, the turn of thought cities. weakness. to overthrow the government and we only know that they ask for some mysterious illness) did not Spellman has become emboldened wherever they find since the U.S. invasion of Korea. thus stave off actual implementa­ the independence of the Italian entirely succeed in hardening the American capitalism has turned serious students. Encouraging The question asked by one' of the tion of the measure. Now that Communist movement from Mos­ Stalinist mass party into a com­ to the Vatican as its most power­ sales were made at a student con­ workers in one department of this steel nationalization is a fact, the pletely monolithic block. A few U.AAV. plant was: ‘Should we cow’s interference and dictator­ ful ally in the preservation of the ference for civil rights, at New steel barons have grudgingly con­ ship, and that they declare them­ years ago already the famous York University, and at one of get out of Korea . . . yes or no?’ degenerated system of world sented to be content with their selves against the Italian bour­ novelist Elio Vittorini criticized the high schools this week. Thirteen voted yes — in favor of 3% per cent dividends “in the geoisie’s Atlantic Pact policy. Togliatti’s policy. Other militants capitalism. The increasing in­ One Militant was sold to a getting out immediately. Five national interest,” but continue to In any case, it would be a mis­ broke away from Stalinism in fluence and power of the Amer­ taxi driver who was cruising by voted no. refuse to serve on the govern­ take to simply call them a Right recent years under the influence ican Catholic hierarchy represent and, noticing a Militant sales­ . “ ‘I suppose it’s just a coin­ ment board managing the in­ of the Yugoslav question. man, asked to see the paper. A cidence,’ noted the pollster, ‘that Wing group insofar as even cen­ not its own growth but the con­ du stry. trists are not to the right of the The originators of the newest student on one of the campuses the five voting no all had large cessions granted it by the Amer­ Stalinist bureaucracy; for Stalin­ split, the deputies Magnani and has several regular customers to mortgages on their homes!’ ” CAPITALIST STAKE ism is a reactionary, utterly Cucchi (who remain members of ican ruling class, predominantly whom he brings The Militant M. G. of New York renewed Why have the British capital­ counter-revolutionary force inside Parliament), also sympathize with non-Catholic, for “services ren­ each week. Last week he sold 11 his subscription this week with ists carried on such a fierce strug­ the labor movement. It remains to Yugoslavia: Magnani, organizer dered.” Thus, Herbert Bayard Militants, four F I’s, and one sub­ the comment, “It’s a pleasure to gle to prevent the nationalization scription to the paper to students be seen in which direction these of the Communist stronghold Reg­ Swope, one of America’s leading subscribe to the only thinking of steel ? And why have the weak- dissident Stalinists w ill develop, gio Emilia (67,000 party mem­ he approached in class or in the socialist paper in the country!” capitalists and a Protestant, kneed, class collaborationist lead­ and whether they will follow the bers) after 1945, was a partisan cafeteria. ers of the Labor Party stood their encouraging example of their in Marshal Tito’s army during recently declared: “The Vatican A railroad worker of Minnesota ground on this issue, despite the German comrades who have the war. Doctor Cucchi was active is in our first line of defense, an sent for 100 copies of the Jan. CHICAGO ■tremendous pressure exerted upon ^dopted a revolutionary platform in the Italian resistance move­ enormously powerful agent in 29 issue exposing A m erican “America and the them? To understand the answers and political strategy. ment. Only a short time ago he atrocities in Korea for distribu­ to these questions it is necessary fighting the Kremlin. Any deteri­ World Crisis” visited the Soviet Union with a tion to friends and enclosed §5 oration of its strength would be — JOSEPH HANSEN — to take into view the present HISTORY OF ITALIAN CP group of intellectuals. as a donation. “You will note,” relationship of forces between the The Communist Party of Italy weighted with grave conse­ he writes, “ that dictator or would- Saturday, March 10-8 PM working class and the capitalists is the biggest outside the Soviet NUMEROUS §PLITS quences.” In this sentiment of be dictator Harry Truman has SHOTWELL HALL as well as the crucial importance 5493 Blackstone Ave. Union, but not quite as solid as Splits and the creation of new American imperialism and virtually placed millions of rail­ of steel in the British economy. the French CP which has a par­ parties have been numerous in road workers in a ‘slave labor Chairman: IRVING BEININ through its support, lies the When the Labor government, ticularly well organized network the Italian labor movement since camp’ by ordering them to work Former Candidate for a fte r its g re a t v ic to ry in the 1945 of party veterans. So far, these 1945 and are not limited to the source of expanding Catholic or lose their jobs, the very thing Alderman, Fifth Ward election, proceeded to nationalize French party veterans have par­ Communists. There are, for in­ hierarchical power over the he condemns in dictator Stalin. Social — Donation 50c coal, the railroads and the public ticipated in every turn ordered stance, not less than three “ social­ liberties of the American people. This is another good and suf­ Page Three Hansen Tour To Answer Key Labor Issues

By Murry Weiss more has gone into the making general strikes within 14 years. against the socialist truth. We The East Coast maritime strug­ The schedule for Joseph Han- of every branch of the Socialist step out on the public arena, Workers Party. gles and countless battles- in the sen’s (our, on “ America and the proclaim our program to meet­ heavy and mass production in­ World Crisis” conducted by the ings larger than usual. We even A Prophecy Life Is Realizing BRANCH BUILDING dustries. What a history the Socialist Workers Party vividly find ways of reaching broader In each locality there are com­ American working class and the “In the past, America has known more than one stormy brings to mind some of the circles with our message through rades who personify these ex­ Socialist Workers Party already outburst of revolutionary or semi-revolutionary movements. features of the party’s develop­ newspaper publicity, radio and periences; who link together all, have — even before the working Each time they died out quickly, because America then each ment during the last twenty television. New avenues to work­ the stages. They have an intimate class has arrived at a conscious­ time entered a new phase of stormy economic upswing, and years. ers, and to student organizations also because the movements themselves were characterized by knowledge of many aspects of the ness of its own independent are opened. Branches in 24 m a jo r cities crass empiricism and theoretical helplessness. These two condi­ enormously difficult and complex political interests! The tour is a time to test the from coast to coast w ill organize tions belong to the past. . . . American capitalism w ill enter an problem of building a branch of working capacity, the ingenuity, meetings for Hansen. Here is the POWER OF TRUTH epoch of monstrous imperialism, of an uninterrupted growth a revolutionary socialist party. the collective knowhow of the skeletal structure of the coming of armaments, of intervention in the affairs of the entire These comrades can tell the story Twenty-four branches as centers branch. .The tour enables the revolutionary party of the Amer­ world, of m ilitary conflicts and convulsions.” of the work that went into build­ of organization for the dethrone­ branch to gauge its progress, its ican workers. Each of these cities ing this network of brariches ment of the most powerful im­ —Leon Trotsky, Germany: Key to the Int’l Situation. 1931 attractive power and the growth TROTSKY LENIN has a Trotskyist movement with through all the ebbs and flows of perialist oligarchy in history. of its influence. Moreover, the a rich history interwoven with the working class movement. The Some will say this is a meager to u r is- an excellent means fo r the life of the working class of story isn’t always dramatic, there force. But let us recall one of knitting together branch to branch its area. are chapters of severe difficulties Lenin’s favorite expressions, and all branches to the center. A Program for Labor's Crisis Years of hard work and many when only small steps forward or “The fist with truth behind i' Party members get to know their stages of development are rep­ just “ holding on” were possible. JOSEPH HANSEN strikes the hardest bldws.” And leading spokesmen, and party The belated resignation of the labor To wage a real fight against “ Big Busi­ resented by these' branches. These And there are other chapters of what a moment this is to strike leaders enlarge their contact with members from the Wage Stabilization ness domination” of the War Mobiliza­ were the years of the gathering, stormy struggles, of rapid party the class struggle and the build­ a blow for truth! members and sympathizers. the selection and testing of ing of party branches merge, The Korean war not only im­ Board was an act of self-preservation. tion set-up, the United Labor Policy expansion, of fruitful participa­ The subject of Hansen’s tour, cadres. Experience in the mass tion in the broad arenas of mass standing out, in bold relief. There posed new tasks upon the revolu­ “America and the World Crisis” They could no longer stifle the mounting Committee should summon a conference movement of the workers, school­ strugg le . is Minneapolis, where the 1934 tionary party in America — it is exactly right. This is the anger of the workers against the op­ *of rank and file delegates from all local ing in ideological struggles, Glance over the schedule of teamsters’ strikes set the pattern also opened new opportunities. moment of greatest crisis for the pressive burdens of war mobilization. unions, AFL, CIO and independent. Such desertion of petty - bourgeois Hansen’s to u r and we see a map of militancy for the whole labor Every day events are dealing world imperialist system. That is The union leadership’s blast against a democratically chosen and truly repre­ elements, recruitment and educa­ of the class struggle in the years movement of that time; there is shattering blows to the edifitfe to say, it is our moment. The tion of fresh proletarian forces, of revolutionary promise — the the Midwest of the auto sit-down sentative Congress of Labor would check of imperialist lies. American billionaire plutocrats the Truman-Big Business alliance mere­ perseverance and selflessness Thirties, the years of the great strikes, the Little Steql strike, The wall of ruling class decep­ have overshot their mark —- they ly put into headlines what every worker the Truman-Wilson anti-labor drive. overcoming tiredness and self- leap of the American proletariat. the rubber workers’ struggles. tion that in ordinary times seems ere dragging an unwilling coun­ knows: war profiteers are running wild Workers at such a mass Congress interest — all this and much On this map, the main centers of The Pacific Coast, scene of two indestructible is crumbling and try into an illegal, unauthorized, and trampling labor underfoot. The ques­ would undoubtedly adopt a program of giving way to the liberating unpopular military adventure tion is: what to do? action along these lines: tru th . against the colonial peoples. The whble country is being The American working class The break with the board was a step 1. Withdraw all labor representatives shaken to its depths by this has demonstrated in its Whole in the right direction. Formation of the from governmental commissions. Labor Quits Wage-Board process. This is a time of great history that it is not afraid of United Labor Policy Committee is a nec­ 2. No wage freeze. * awakening. The cruel, rapacious, these billionaire enemies of essary move toward labor unity against 3. An escalator cost-of-living clause (Continued from Page 1) purpose of maintaining and a means of continuing and in­ insane imperialist adventure in mankind. What the American defending the integrity of union creasing their fabulous profits. over the pre-Korea rate, while a Asia has cut deep into the inner workers needed were lessons from the government-Big Business offensive. for all workers. contracts,” the board added. The war program is not a business man with a $73,000 conscience of the nation and upset the book of life that they must But the union bureaucracy has done 4. Tax the rich instead of the poor. This expression of militancy by crusade for high ideals, but a yearly income would be increased its equilibrium. once again take up the standard little, so far to indicate they plan a sus­ 5. Confiscate all war profits. the UAW officers against the calculated conspiracy to continue of militant struggle. Korea is cn ly 23 per cent. PEOPLE ASK QUESTIONS attempted wage-freeze is strong the life of the capitalist system teaching many lessons. The need tained struggle to defend labor. On the 6. Nationalize all war industries. Op­ While prices rise, taxes are in­ testimony to the fierce anger of of super-exploitation, and to Millions are asking: What arc is to drive these lessons home. contrary they are meeting in secret con­ erate them with democratically elected creased, and wages are frozen the rank and file against Tru­ extend that exiploitatioiUby Amer­ we doing in Asia? Whose in­ The Hansen tour marks a big under Truman’s soak-the-poor fabs with government officials trying to committees' of workers. _ man’s policies. The UAW leaders ican Big Business all over the terests are being served by thir step forward in this process. program, the rent “control” law, negotiate a few face-saving concessions 7. A strong FEPC anti-discrimination could not go along with the Wall w o rld. endless slaughter? Why are wr which has already allowed hun­ Street, program and face the Unless the workers are mobi­ burdened with the crushing weigh' in exchange for patching up the coalition law. dreds of thousands of rent in­ union’s April convention. lized in a determined independent of taxes, wage-freezes, sky­ with Truman. 8. Genuine price control policed by creases in all major cities, will Emil Rieve, President of the political struggle to take the war- rocketing prices? Who wants to Lewis Hails Appointment of a union official to ad­ committees of housewives, trade union­ expire March HI, with no moves CIO Textile Workers Union, now making powers out of the hands fight China’s revolutionary peo­ minister top policy will not protect the ists, farmers and small businessmen. made to provide for strict con­ on strike against East coast and of the financiers and monopolists ple — and for what purpose? workers when the policies themselves are 9. No more trust in the two old capi­ trols after that date. Southern mills, wired Truman who control the government, the We Trotskyists alone car WSB Walkout But what precipitated the break reminding him that he had been answer these questions. Because wrong; an increase of a couple of percent­ talist parties! Organize labor’s own poli­ destruction of the living standards John L. Lewis praised the was a realization by the union elected on a “ fair deal” program. of labor w ill proceed. of all tendencies in the labor age points will not make the'wage freeze tical party to fight for these demands three labor members who with­ officialdom that they could not “I urge you to take the mobiliza­ But the labor leadership is not movement only the Trotskyists itself more just. on the political field. push such a program down the tion program out of the hands of preparing such a struggle. They are irreconcilable opponents o< drew from the WSB “for the workers’ throats. The bitter (he big business men.” are now preparing to patch up the imperialists. Trotskyism i' superb courage they have ex­ revolt of the railroad yardmen Ralph Helstein, President of the their coalition with Truman, who the conscious organization, scien­ hibited in resisting the propos­ was a warning sign. The packing­ Packinghouse Workers Union tific theory, and incorruptible Operation Slaughter they hope will make gestures ed imposition upon free Amer­ house workers, negotiating a 9- labelled the wage-freeze “mon­ convincing enough to take off the vanguard of the world movement ican labor of an unjustifiable The press reports that the military rive no satisfaction from the enthusiastic cent hourly wage increase, voted strously unfair.” W illiam Green, rank and file heat. The United against imperialist exploitation objective of the U.S. Army in Korea has newspaper descriptions of great slaughter to strike if the government did member of the United Labor Labor Policy Committee has There never was a better time and oppressive wage formula. of Asian people but they know their own not approve this gain; the Policy Committee, representing agreed in principle to wage for American Trotskyists to send “In equity and good con­ changed. MacArthur is “ no longer in­ Textile Workers Union could not the AFL, CIO, and Railroad ?. leading spokesman to tour the sons are also being slaughtered. freezing — they argue only about science all American workers terested in attempting to seize or hold get to first base with the com­ Brotherhoods stated that labor is the point at which to fix wages. nation with their message. Early this month total casualties for are entitled to receive at least any particular territory.” His prime ob­ panies, and a strike, now in pro­ “expected to carry a dispropor­ They want a high governmental For party Activists a national both sides in Korea were announced as gress, was inevitable; the auto tionate share” of the economic post for a labor figure, to give tour is a big event. During a tour the same comparative wage jective now is to kill as many Chinese 1,300,000. More civilians were killed than workers had given firm notice burdens. the Wall Street war machine in more can be accomplished in r improvements from the base as possible. Thus the original policy of that they would not give up the Washington a labor cover. few days than in months of soldiers. U.S. casualties alone have PRISONERS OF WAR of Jan. 1950 that have been “ freeing” Korea by restoring the cor­ escalator clause. It is significant that such a routine work. Or to put it more reached the 50,000 figure. The Penta­ PROGRAM negotiated and made effective rupt and reactionary Syngman Rhee re­ “ We are prepared to fight just crisis has developed even before accurately: months of routine gon declares it will send 15,000 boys a as hard to maintain our contracts But none of the labor leaders, World War III is under way. The work can be tested, consolidated in the . . . coal industry,” he gime and extending its control over all stated. month to Korea as replacements. And as we had to fight to win them. forced to talk tough for fear of profit-mad capitalists, counting and harvested during a tour. Korea has been discarded as impossible the end is nowhere in sight. The gen­ That means in plain language, a rebellion of their membership, upon the political spinelessness During a tour all departments Lewis, who has not kow­ of achievement and the prime objective have told the full truth. erals figure that as long as replacements full use of the strike weapon if of the union bureaucracy, have of branch work move into high towed to the Truman ad­ today is — killing. such a course is forced upon us. They are 100 per cent sup­ pushed their program with little gear and mesh together more ministration, here points out hold out they can keep up their program As a British observer remarked of thfe We shall recommend such a porters of the war program. This concern for the consequences. closely. Party contacts are that the miners received a 20 of killing. course of action to our convention mobilization for war, with its This is only the beginning. brought closer, prospective re­ percent wage iricrease since, recent U.S. Qffensive on Seoul: “ Gen- They try to make this palatable to in Cleveland, April 1-5,” stated astronomical costs, comes on the Labor is getting a startling pre­ cruits decide to join, new contacts the Jan. 1950 date, and in Ridgway’s interests are homicidal not the public by picturing it as a great bar­ the CIO auto workers Interna­ heels of the already heavy load view of what World War III will are made. The party has greater effect dares Murray and Green geographic.” gain. MacArthur claims that every U.S. tional Executive Board on Feb. 17. heaped on the backs of the people mean; the workers will be doubly opportunities to smash the to try to get the same. The American people have never been “The UAW-CdO proposes the by World War II. The industrial­ and triply exploited, driven down capitalist conspiracy of silence casualty brings ten or even thirty enemy creation of a joint defense fund ists plan this war not as a to subsistence levels, while the' consulted about Korea. Truman’s, “ police casualties. Supposing his figures can be by all organized labor for the program of social welfare, but as rich get richer. action” was taken without consultation trusted, can you find an American moth­ of Congress, let alone the consent of the er who wants to trade her son’s life for people. The great desire of the people, even 30 mangled or scorched Chinese or shown by the grass roots protests and Korean bodies? STALIN EXPOSES HIS OWN UN LIES, Bound Volumes by newspaper polls, to withdraw all U.S. The sole objective of the U.S. inter­ forces from Korea has been disregarded. vention in Korea today is killing. Before Complete your library of Marxist literature. Bound vol­ umes of Fourth International, monthly magazine of American Nor can the American people be held re­ the burning desire of the Asian people LEAVES DOOR WIDE OPEN FOR DEAL Trotskyism, contain profound, illuminating articles available sponsible for the now proclaimed objec­ to be independent, imperialism has shown (Continued from Page 1) Soviet peoples and the world are Asia- A conciliatory attitude to­ nowhere else in the English language on economics, politics, tive of mass murder in Korea. The guilt its impotence to accomplish anything ing signatures, sending postcards now informed is just the opposite. ward the UN, or any painting It is “being turned into an in­ history, philosophy, problems of the trade unions, the Negro rests squarely on the U.S. imperialists. more than murder. Bring the troops back and telegrams to members of up of it as a “peace bulwark,” Parliament, staging phony “peace strument of war,” announces would scarcely be acceptable to struggle for equality and the Socialist movement. Reprints Stalin without a mumbling word Not only do the American people de­ home now! congresses” and the like. The re­ the Chinese and Korean peoples, of rare and important writings of Leon Trotsky and other sults have been exactly nil; in­ of explanation for so astounding let alone the insurgent Asian prominent figures of the revolutionary socialist movement. stead of receding, the war dan­ a transformation, let alone his masses as a whole. Stalin’s char­ own years of delay in this dis­ India Starves — Congress Stalls ger has in the meantime intensi­ acterization as “ shameful” of the Bound volumes of The M ilitant, America’s leading Social­ covery. US-UN dfecision branding Peiping fied. This whole cynical, fraudu­ ist newspaper, present a week-by-week Marxist commentary Several weeks ago we reported (see are contained in an orchestra, including lent and impotent campaign has To explain today would mean as “aggressor” is- the mildest revolved around the UN, whose to expose one’s own lies of yester­ possible one under the circum­ on world events and issues of vital importance to the labor Feb. 5 issue of The Militant) how the the harp. India must pay the cost of day. That is why this monumen­ transportation; the distribution of wheat real role has been completely ex­ stances. Similarly with the rest movement. Factual, authoritative. Cuts through the lying Truman administration has employed posed by the events resulting tal liar never bothers to explain, of his fulminations against the propaganda of the capitalist press and tells the truth about must be supervised by a special Economic trusting on the proverbial short­ from the Ohina-Korea crisis. UN, against the U.S., against the basic trends that shape history. Read the back issues every trick, including the shunting of ness of human memory and his Cooperation Mission; the proceeds from And so belatedly and grudg­ Britain, France, and the rest of the issue into Congress, in order to stall machine of repression. How can of The Militant to see how this Marxist newspaper told the the sale of this grain in India must be set ingly Stalin finds himself com­ the old colonial powers. shipments of wheat to famine-stricken any socialist-minded worker place straight, unvarnished truth about the war, Wall Street’s im­ aside in counterpart funds, again under pelled to tell at least part of the It is in this light that Stalin’s India. The American imperialists have truth about this hub of all his an ounce of confidence in this comments on Korea can be best perialist aims, skyrocketing profits and the need for labor special conditions and supervision, and traitor and his whole retinue of continued this grisly game since October “peace” campaigning, about this understood. He kept his mouth to get into politics on its own. An education in the workings so on. And here is the pay-off: only one- political gangsters? shut since the outbreak of the 1950 in order to beat down the resistance organization of which he is one of the capitalist system! million tons, or only half of what is so of the chief architects and about Capitalist political experts spe­ Korean conflict last June; he had of the Indian government and force the culate that Stalin’s sudden direly needed, will be shipped! whose role as a “ peace bulwark” exactly nothing to say either latter to docilely support U.S. foreign “toughness” toward the UN im­ when MacArthur marched to the The shipment of the remainder is “ to he had lied, as he still does, so policy. shamelessly. plies a possible withdrawal from Manchurian border or when Peip­ be deferred.” Meanwhile the ECA would It suddenly turns out that the the UN, or another demonstrative ing acted in the emergency. There are no food reserves whatever at its leisure “ examine other supply pos­ UN is “a means for unleashing walk-out as in the days before And when he finally speaks, left in that country now. There is no for­ sibilities and terms upon which this ad­ a new world war”; that it is Korea. The likelihood is that what does he say? Why, that the Stalin himself doesn’t know what Korea war is “extremelv unpon- eign exchange to buy grain. If a single ditional grain should be supplied from “taking the inglorious road of the food ship is delayed, starvation imme­ League of Nations,” “burying its his next step w ill be, and rather ular among the British and the United States.” hopes to use these “blasts” in American soldiers,” while it is diately threatens 100,000,000 Indians moral prestige,” “dooming itself Needless to add. even this contempti­ to disintegration,” and so forth, order to intimidate the already quite “popular” with the opnos­ who require a minimum of two million ble “ food aid'” measure has still to pass Worse yet, it is simply a “ tool” badly frightened West European ing side, and even this is implied capitalists and thus wring con­ rather than openly stated. On tons to survive for two months on their Congress. The devourers of human flesh acting “on behalf of the require­ slow-death ration of nine ounces a day. ments of the American aggres­ cessions over the diplomatic ta­ Korea itself, Stalin assures that and spirit in Congress do not care how ble. the war “can only end m a de­ On Feb. 18, even the editors of the N. Y. sors,” who, besides, complains many Indians starve or die while they Stalin, are “ undemocratic.” When The timing of Stalin’s latest feat of the interventionists.” And Times finally admitted as much. seek tq tighten an economic strangle­ we Trotskyists pointed out all pronouncements adds weight to here, instead of a forthright dec­ But the stalling continues in Washing­ hold on India which, in its turn, would this and more from the outset, such a conclusion. It comes on eleration of support to the Chi­ ton. By the middle of February, Truman the Stalinists denounced us in the the heels of the first anniversary nese and Korean revolutions, a render India’s government more obe­ vilest terms. of the Sino-Soviet pact and on the qualification is introduced: “If “ appealed” to Congress — where his own dient. threshhold of the Big Four par­ Britain and the United States re­ henchmen in the Senate and House have The Board of Directors of the Nation­ THE SAME UN ley, ' ject finally the proposals made” pigeonholed the relief meaesure — to The UN has not changed its . . . by the Mao regime. al Association for the Advancement of character. Neither has the Krem­ INFLUENCE OF CHINA In our view, this semi-qualified “ urge assistance” to India. Amid much Colored People wired Congress Feb. 13 lin. But the fact remains that But there is a far weightier declaration, of support, so belat­ ballyhoo, a bi-partisan group of 40 Sen­ urging that wheat be sent to India “ in Stalin never used such sharp factor now at play in the world, ed and so g ru d g in g ly given, could ators and Representatives have sponsor­ humanitarian spirit and without political, language toward the UN before. determining not alone the march have come only through the pres­ ed a bill to “ Furnish Food Aid to India.” economic or other conditions.” But the For all these years there have of events but also forcing the sure exerted by-Peiping on the emanated from Moscow syrupy Kremlin’s hands into moves not Kremlin. Mao and his associates These “furnishers of food” have at­ official labor leaders still keep a shame­ assurances about this “bulwark previously contemplated. It is could not have been satisfied tached more strings to their bill than ful silence. for preserving peace” which the the revolutionary upheaval in w ith less. Facts on Briggs Co. Thugs th e MILITANT The Detroit newspapers figured the scrap John A. Fry, president of the Detroit-Michi- V O L U M E X V M O N D A Y , F E B R U A R Y 26, 1951 N U M B E R 9 metal contract, given by the Briggs Manufac­ gan Stove Company which has employed the turing Co. as a "payoff” for beating up militant Perrone gang since the 1930’s and which to this union members, at $1% million a year. In 1947 day remains open shop, reversed his testimony it brought Carl Renda, son-in-law of gangster on the stand. At first he told the Senate com­ Los Angeles Sam Perrone, a profit of $103,000. mittee: “ I never discussed labor problems with * * * Sam Perrone.” Then he was confronted with the Campus Youth Group in Chicago The tie-up of the Briggs corporation and the theretofore secret grand jury proceedings in SWP Candidate Perrone gang has been known to the authorities which he had testified he had “called upon Per­ since 1946. In that year a special secret grand rone” when his workers were on strike: He was, jury investigation of “labor racketeering” was also confronted with a report from the Inter­ Files Petitions held in Detroit. Under the then Michigan law it state Commerce Commission on Perrone’s appli­ LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14 — cation for a trucking license. It read: “Mr. Fry Backs Beinin, Anti-War Candidate was a one man grand jury. The one man was The Los Angeles Local of the indorses this application because he is indebted Circuit Judge George B. Murphy. Despite under­ Socialist Workers Party entered CHICAGO — Lively interest in the socialist anti-war world links of Big Business brought out by tes­ to Ispano Perrone for helping the company into the April 3 local election campaign of Irving Beinin, candidate for Alderman of timony, no action was taken. The 28 books of break the strike in 1943 in April.” campaign here, this week, when Their Plea Spurned testimony were kept a deep secret till they were * * * the Fifth Ward, has led to formation of a Campus Com- mittee for Beinin at the Univer-®- reluctantly turned over to the Senate Crime In­ The two Perrone brothers are old-time gang­ rtlyra Tanner Weiss filed her vestigating Committee. sters with long records. As far back as 1920 one nominating petition lor Board oi sity of Chicago. * * « was arrested on a murder charge. In 1931 there education, Office No. 5. Sponsored by students who have George E. Herbert, general superintendent of no political affiliation, the Campus was a larceny charge and an armed robbery Comrade Weiss filed her 1000 Briggs salvage when the contract was suddenly charge again in 1932. In 1929 the y were in ­ Committee will provide a forum signatures after a swift four taken from the legitimate scrap dealer who had volved in an alien-smuggling ring. However the where interested students can oay campaign and was the first had it for 18 years and given to the gangsters, only time they were ever imprisoned was in the hear Beinin’s anti-war program candidate to qualify for office. got suspicious. So he naively went to the FBI mid-30’s. On a bootlegging conviction they were and form their own judgment of Two others subsequently quali­ to report this infiltration of the underworld into sentenced to Leavenworth for six years. There its merits. fied, and it is expected that t "respectable” private enterprise. Results came they had adjoining cells., They did only a little This action, taken in keeping quickly. Herbert and his secretary were fired total of five candidates will run more than two years and then were let out, due with the best democratic tradi­ with no reasons given. for the post if all who fileci it^ was hinted by the Senate investigators to the tions, reflects the deep-going ap­ * * * declarations of intention to run, intercession of Big Business men. While in prison prehension among students over Herbert also testified that in return for the q u a lify . their scrap metal “business” was carried on in the heavy impact of the imperial­ scrap contract Renda was to prevent all future the name of Sam Perrone’s wife. In 1942 the A total of four school board ist war program on their lives. strikes at Briggs. Herbert was warned to "lay charge was the carrying of concealed weapons. posts are up for contest. Tht off” Renda if he “knew what was healthy for Beinin’s opponent. Democrat In 1945 firemen putting out a fire in the stove .stalinists have announced that Alderman Robert Merriam, un­ him.” Herbert gave this testimony at the secret plant discovered a secret compartment in one of tney w ill run Henry Steinberg as wittingly helped to speed forma­ hearings in 1946. He could not be called by the the lockers. In it was a small arsenal. The locker a Communist Party candidate Senate Committee because he is dead. Emil Ma- tion of the Campus Committee was Perrone’s. But as usual the company-pro­ tor Office No. 1 and Jack Berman zey, Vice-President of the UAW-CIO has called when he insolently rejected pro­ tected thugs went free. In 1945 Lydia Thomp­ as an Independent Progressive posals by the Channing Club and for the-exhumation and autopsy of his body son was murdered. She left a note for the police Party candidate for Office No. 7. Politics Club that he debate and those of two other key figures who also stating that in case anything happened to her Neither have qualified up to the Beinin on the issues of the cam­ died since the grand jury hearings. the police should look for Sam Perrone. He was * * * date of this article but three days paign. IRVING BEININ never brought to trial. Arthur Glover, a De­ remain in which to file. Renda, son-in-law and the front for the Per­ troit police detective is a longtime friend of Sam Merriam added insult to injury leges, he said, must either become The elections are formally non­ rone gang, got the $ l '/ 2 million a year contract Perrone, on Perrone’s own admission. This was by refusing to submit to ques­ part of the war machine or close partisan in nature but Comrade at the age of 24. He had no previous business the very detective assigned to question Perrone tions from the students when he their doors. Weiss, and presumably the others, experience nor office. The scrap removal at in connection with the Lydia Thompson murder. oid finally address a campus “The creeping m ilitary - police will run their campaigns on a Briggs requires heavy equipment such as cranes, The Perrones and front man Renda, Perrone’s audience. Apparently he was state is slowly paralyzing the Party basis. Since each office ■railroad sidings, a fleet of trucks, etc. Renda had son-in-law and holder of the Briggs scrap con­ afraid that Beinin supporters in academic tradition of free in­ no equipment at all. His "business” telephone was covers the entire School Board tract, all carried guns on permits issued by De­ the audience would ask embar­ quiry and criticism,” Beinin that of his hoodlum father-in-law, Sam Perrone. district, which overlaps the City troit police. rassing questions about his pro­ asserted. “ Loyalty oaths impose Renda never handled any of the scrap. He imme­ * * * of Los Angeles, the program o , war policy which he tries to con­ pledges of conformity on students diately subcontracted it out to' the same firm the Socialist Workers Party will An insight into the “im partiality” of labor me­ ceal behind a smoke screen of and faculty. Legislative witch which for 18 years had had the Briggs’ scrap be presented to the entire city. diators and umpires was given by the grand jury double-talk. hunts permit reactionaries to contract. Renda simply upped the price of scrap Several organizations have al- testimony of James F. Dewey. Dewey, long an In contrast to Mcrriam’s shabby dictate academic policy. Students several dollars a ton to the former contract hold­ leady contacted Comrade Weiss “ ace” labor mediator for the federal government conduct, Beinin, in a talk before opposed to the war are intimidated er and at the same time got it much cheaper was in this period the “ impartial umpire” of la­ with questionnaires, the answers Mrs. Josephine Grayson and two of her five children, picket from Briggs. Briggs lost $14,000 a month giving a campus audience, gave a forth­ by threats to their professional bor disputes between Briggs Co. and the UAW. to which will be printed in their the White House in a vain appeal to save her husband, Francis. Renda its scrap at the lowered price. right presentation of the anti­ careers.” Dewey tried to tie the beatings of union militants bulletins and papers. Among He and six other Negro men, known as the Martinsville Seven, * e $ # * capitalist, anti-war program of This deadly trend can be at Briggs to union factions. He pictured the these are the League of Women were framed and executed in Richmond, Va., for allegedly the Socialist Workers Party. And halted, he told the students, only Special prosecutor at the 1946 Grand Jury in­ Briggs Co. suffering from a local that was un­ Voters and the Building Trades raping a white woman. No white man has ever suffered the he stayed to answer every ques­ by fighting the very war drive of vestigation which brought no results and whose der the leadership of Trotskyists. According to Council. death penalty for a similar crime. tion his listeners had to ask. which it is a part; only by op­ records were kept secret till last week was Les­ him Emil Mazey, now vice-president of the UAW “Truman’s bi - partisan war posing all the bi-partisan war ter Moll, a personal friend of W. Dean Robin­ and then president of the Briggs local, was a drive threatens the future of supporters, including Alderman son, president of the Briggs Co. His question­ Trotskyist and was “impossible to deal with.” every student,” Beinin declared. M erriam . ing of Robinson was very chummy; for instance, He took part in secret conferences “to get rifl “Thousands of students are “ Only a program that mobilizes he addressed the witness as “ Dean.” Part of the of these had people in the plant.” A t first Dewey ordered to exchange PhD’s for record runs: Moll — “I think we ought to have denied being in the scrap iron business or hav­ the millions of student youth and a frank discussion of this situation off the rec­ Textile Union Strikers PFC’s — to be earned in Korea. workers against the bankrupt ing any interest in it. Then he admitted that Other thousands can expect to ord.” When the Senate investigator asked Rob­ he had arranged scrap steel sales to a dealer who capitalist system can halt the war inson what the off-the-record conversation was be yanked from the class rooms drive that threatens our liberties had no scrap yard but did business from a hotel. about, the Briggs president gave his habitual to fill labor drafts for the war and our lives,” Beinin declared. answer: “ I can’t remember.” He got a commission on each of the scrap deals Display Fighting Spirit plants.” “If I am elected,” he told the * * * he arranged. When W. O. Briggs, company vice- He pointed to falling enroll­ students, "I will fight for such (Continued from Page 1) morning and sat down all day. We’ll set up regular assigned Detroiters had a first class opportunity to see president, was asked, “ Do you know whether he ments and rising costs which an anti-war program in the City After two weeks of this the shifts soon. Same with the Wel­ real underworld characters and to watch their would take a cou.pic- o f months threaten to bankrupt many col­ Council. I will use my position in (impartial umpire Dewey) is engaged in the arbitration board awarded the fare Committee. It’s all set up Big Business pals sweat and stammer, “I don’t to bring the company to its leges unless they accept subsidies public office to speed the mobiliza­ scrap business?” his evasive reply was, “ I don’t sit-downers a seven cent an hour and it will begin to function as remember.” The Senate Crime Committee hear­ knees. for military training and war tion of mass anti-war committees know. Everybody wants to get in on the ac­ increase. soon as any cases of need come ings were televised and proved to be the most In addition to the wage demands research programs. These col­ among students and workers.” popular program of the year. count.” there is a lot of dissatisfaction However, the company hasn’t up.” over the grievances run-around. forgotten this and demanded in A young man standing by broke Theoretically all the steps should the unsuccessful pre-strike negot­ in: “You know the company of­ be completed in 28 days. But in iations that the union agree to a fered to send coffee out to the Erroi*s” of Karl Marx reality important grievances can penalty clause. The strikers with pickets. We turned it down. We’ll V. R. DUNNE CITES ROLE furnish our own. They just ------By Harry Frankel ------be stalled interminably by pro­ whom I spoke were adamant in longed “studies.” Last August their attitude against giving the wanted some, cheap publicity to OF LAR0R MISLEADERS A report from Rome last week tells us that tions raised in the dawn of capitalism with the this resulted in a two week sit- company any such clause. make them out big-hearted.” the reading of Karl Marx’s Capital is prohibited same dogmatic presumption which it now dis­ down strike in the ring spinning PAY MAIN ISSUE By Harold Kent for all Catholics. This prohibition is binding plays in discussing the questions raised by the department of the mill. It wasn’t SPIRIT HIGH even though Capital is not on the Index libro- decline of capitalism. A t that time, the Church a stay-in sitdown. The workers Neither Forstmann nor Botany When I inquired the main thing MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 18 — V. R. Dunne told a large rum prohibitorum, the list of books condemned condemned as “.error” the scientific hypothesis went home every night. Then they mills is trying to operate during they were striking for I got the audience of workers today that a majority of the top by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. that the earth revolves around the sun. This came to work on time next the strike. The workers take the unanimous answer that their pay union leaders are “ under the thumb of the U. S. State The news is contained in an article in the Vati­ discovery was the foundation of the modern companies’ not trying to operate, had fallen so far behind the cost Department.” Dunne employed® ------can’s weekly, Osservatore della Domenica, in the science of astronomy, and an important part as a realistic appreciation of their of living that the strike was ir DeLeon’s classic phrase “labor nation, the U.S. military finds form of a statement by Msgr. Enrico Dante, of the scientific work of a great age. strength. All the others agreed self-defense. “What about the lieutenants of the capitalist class” itself pinned down on the tiny emeritus member of the Roman Academy of St. Galileo, one of the great geniuses of humaA with the picket captain when he price freeze?” I not so innocently in characterizing the Greens, M ur­ Korean peninsula, Eisenhower Thomas Aquinas. Msgr. Dante, from his tone, history, was persecuted and imprisoned when told me: “ The spirit of the work­ asked. “Are you kidding!” was rays, Reuthers, Currans and their evoked no response from the works hard to follow in the footsteps of his he attempted to defend this new conception. The ers is especially high in this the sum of the jeering and sour ilk. medieval patron saint. Capital, he tells us, is based consulting theologians of the Holy Office attack­ strike. Just look at the number of remarks that followed. European workers for another “crusade,” and, most important upon “historical materialism,” advocates “athe­ ed Galileo’s stand as “absurd in philosophy and women out on the line. Did you A member of the local’s ex­ “The U.S. State Department of all, the workers here at home istic communism,” and calls for “ the class strug­ form ally heretical, because expressly contrary to hear them all singing? That ecutive board explained their sends American labor leaders into have shown in many ways that gle as the only means for achieving the emanci­ Holy Scripture.” Galileo was compelled to promise shows their morale. And shout­ wage situation. “ We got a 12 cent foreign lands to peddle the lie they will not allow themselves to pation of the proletariat. . . All these errors that he would not “hold, teach or defend” the ing slogans, too. We are keeping increase in November before the that American capitalists are be regim ented w ith o u t a fig h t. are condemned by the Church.” “ heretical” doctrines. The book of the Polish as­ the picket lines operating 24 contract expired. We hadn’t had champions of democracy,” said “Wc have, some excellent ex­ He reasons further that Capital is not to be tronomer Copernicus, On the Movement of the hours a day. The shift is 3 hours. an increase for two-and-a-half Dunne. “The labor leaders help amples to prove this,” continued considered approved reading just because it is Heavenly Bodies, in which the new scientific theo­ Up to now we haven’t made any years before (hat. And you know to sell Republican and Democratic not on the Index. “Canon No. 1399 lists those Dunne. “ Just remember the great ry was expounded, was placed on the Index be­ assignments, just chosen from how prices have been going up politicians to the workers. They books which fall by law under the same prohi­ cause of its “errors.” sweep of organization that created the volunteers. Of course the since then. Now, if we had to are horrified at the thought of a bition,” he adds, “and among these are books Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher of the the CIO. It was a rank-and-file MYRA T. WEISS strike is only a few days old. stick within the wage formula that Labor party. And for this service which defend errors condemned by the Apostolic Renaissance, was imprisoned for seven jAears and movement that astounded almost they’re trying (o put through in to U.S. imperialism, they merely See.” Like a true son of Thomas Aquinas, he then excommunicated by the Church. His crime everybody. Even John L. Lewis Washington — you know the one ask their masters for a little leaves it to an underling to put the matter was that he taught that the earth revolves who launched the CIO did not (he union leaders walked out on token recognition. simply in another statement, which says in part: around the sun. Remaining stubborn, he was fin­ foresee the explosive character of — we could only get about one- “In the face of the present “Some books are so obviously anti-Christian ally burned at the stake in 1600, an object les­ WHITE-HOUSE ALLIANCE the industrial unions. More re­ and-a-half cents more. Thai would upsurge of the working class, that it is not necessary to cite them by name in son of what the Church hierarchy does to all cently, in 1945, we witnessed the leave us in a fine mess. How can these leaders are as panicky as the Index, and Capital is one of these.” who err, and would continue to do if it had the demonstrations of the soldiers you expect a man to support his their masters. They implore Tru­ The teachings of Capital are thus named “er­ power. around the slogan: ‘Get us home!’ NEVER BENEFITED LABOR family on that when prices are man to help them shackle the rors.” But those who recall the earlier experien­ But observe, the earth stubbornly continues to The lessons of these events were high and going higher?” w orkers. ces of mankind with the “errors” denounced by revolve about the sun, and the sun just as stub­ (Continued from Page 1) velt showed was not that his not lost on America’s rulers. It “ Marxists are not caught una­ the Catholic Church need have no fear that the bornly refuses to change places with the earth. loomed when the railroad work­ policies were the most beneficial REGAIN LOST WAGES is not for nothing that the brass economic laws discovered by Marx and set down It is just as certain that the economic laws dis­ ware by today’s explosive events,” ers also threatened to walk out to labor, but that the labor lead­ An old man added, “Sure, if hats want boys of 17 and 18 in by him in Capital will henceforth cease to op­ covered by Marx w ill continue to operate in capi­ ers, rather than take the road of stated Dunne. “ We foresaw these the new army. erate. talist society in spite of the fact that they are and Roosevelt stopped them only they give us an escalator clause things many years ago.” The an independent labor party, were we don’t get any more pay unless “Just as the CIO produced Over 350 years ago, the Church of Rome en­ condemned by the arrogant superstition-mongers by the method that Truman has speaker quoted from Trotsky’s prepared ten times over to betray prices go up. So let them give us leaders from" the ranks, so will tered the fray over the great scientific ques­ o f the A po stolic See. since repeatedly used — Army w o rk o f 1924, “ W h ith e r E ngland,” labor’s interests for the sake of a that and then concentrate on the unions in the next period “seizure” and the appointment to show how Trotsky’s predictions dirty f&litieal alliance with one keeping prices from rising. But throw up a left wing of advanced of seven railroad presidents as are being confirmed regarding of the political machines of Big of course we got to get the 15 workers to cope with the prob­ “colonels” to run the lines. Only the crisis of American capitalism. Business. And it is a warning cents first, just to catch up what lems of the coming days.” minor concessions by Roosevelt “The American capitalist class,” Short Subjects that they are ready to do the we already lost.” This was the concluding lecture and a major retreat by the union same today — if the workers let said Dunne, “ the most arrogant, in the present series. A lively As I was leaving the old man leaders saved the coalition then. them get away with it. ruthless, audacious but least discussion followed the talk. The took my arm and expressed his TOADIES IN INDIA’S PARLIAMENT. Hop­ ing their fingers crossed.” German labor, it ex­ The claim that labor ever It won’t be so easy this time. educated ruling class, arrived too audience contributed a generous satisfaction that a socialist paper ing to curry favor with the American imperial­ plains “ has long fought for this plan. Recently benefited from the wartime coali­ The corporations and their agent, late on the stage of world history collection. A tasty supper of was going to print something ists, 43 members of India’s Parliament cabled it became so strong an issue that production tion with Roosevelt is myth. the Truman administration, are to cash in on its past victories.” potato salad, bread, pickles, about the strike. Said he, “The Congress begging for grain and declaring they stoppage was threatened. (German) management True, Sidney Hillman got a top less w illing to make the minimum Dunne went on to point out weiners, sweets and coffee kept paper in this town, the Herald- are opposed to totalitarianism and “recognize finally accepted the plan as a lesser cross to bear war production board post in concessions. Roosevelt began his that, while U.S. capitalists may the discussion going for hours News, just won’t give the strikers’ the liberty and integrity of the free countries than nationalization of industry.” which he was permitted to rubber- war when the economic system entertain dreams of world domi­ afte rw a rd . of Asia, including our own, who are today men­ * ❖ * side of the story It just prints the stamp the decisions of Big Busi­ had a certain leeway, a condition aced by Communist expansion.” Prime Minister “ DOUBLE'STANDARD”—The railroad switch­ company’s side. Someday we’ll ness until even he got so dis­ of deflation, millions of unem­ Nehru rebuffed this action, which, he said, had men fighting for a living wage have been de­ have to boycott it till it gives us CHICAGO gusted that he finally resigned on ployed workers, a relatively small been taken “without consultation with govern­ nounced for treason by “ big wigs and little wigs, a fair break. I’ve been working the pretext of illness. The union national debt. Truman has con­ CLASSES IN MARXISM ment and without consideration of the bigger is­ from President Truman and Charles E. Wilson here since 1920. B efore the union officials obtained a maintenance fronted major difficulties amount­ Seven Sundays — March 4th through April 15th sues involved and of India’s foreign policy.” Most down to the editorial writer for the Crossroads came you could he fired if the of membership clause which en­ ing to a crisis with the “small” Sundays a t 12 Noon: of the cringing signers of the cable were mem­ Gazette,” points out Textile Labor, Feb. 17. But foreman didn’t like the way you abled them to stabilize union Korean war because he begins on “ Problems of the Class Struggle” bers of Nehru’s own party. “not a peep has been heard from Truman, Wilson looked at him. I used to do ten membership and finances. But the the basis of inflation, labor or the press and radio” about the complete tieup Instructor: GORDON BAILEY workers got rising prices, short­ shortage and a monumental jobs all at once — picking up EGA ON CODETERMINATION. The Eco­ of the nation’s cotton through the closing of the at 1437 E. 65th Place, 3rd floor ages, long hours, speedup and federal debt. Whatever favorable things, wiping oil off the ma­ Sundays a t 7 F. M. nomic Cooperation’ Administration, on Feb. 16, Cotton Exchange “by a ‘strike’ of merchants and frozen wages. With the termina­ conditions existed in the last war isued a “labor informational release” on West shippers against price control.” Textile Labor’s chinery and lots more beside my “ The Method of Marxism” tion of the war, the pent - up German labor’s winning, “with governmental ap­ editors cite this as “a stunning example of the for keeping the coalition from regular work. Now with the union, (Applied Dialectical Materialism) resentment of the workers ex­ proval a share in management of corporate en­ ‘double standard’ which afflicts America.” Ac­ falling apart, exist no longer. Its Instructor: ARNE SWABECK ploded into the greatest strike here there’s nine more men — terprise (codetermination) far beyond anything tually, of course, this is the way one and the foundation can rest only on sand , at 166 W. Washington St., Rm. 312 wave in American history. one for each of the jobs I had achieved in the United States.” Mafiagement ex­ same class standard, for the benefit of capitalists and it must collapse again on 25 Cents for single meeting or $1.50 for course of seven perts from the U.S., sighs the ECA,\are “keep­ and to the injury of labor, always works out. What the coalition with Roose- the heads of the workers. to do.”