Build a Labor Party Now! Anti-Trucks Law Victory Scored THE MILITANT By SWP in Suit PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE DETROIT, Feb. 23 — The Attorney General of Michi­ Vol. XVIII . No. ie 267 NEW YORK. W. Y., MONDAY. MARCH 8, 1954 PRICE: 10 CENTS gan, who set out in 1952 to smear the Socialist Workers Party and to bar it from the ballot through the reaction­ ary Trucks Law, has been forced •>■ to back down — at least ten; Trucks Law, the “ Michigan Com­ p o ra rily . munist Control Law” which was (That is the main significance passed in 1952 and used in an of the dismissal order signed last attempt to bar the SWP from the Friday by Wayne County Circuit- ballot. Another objective of the Judge Lila M. Neuenfelt. suit was to get the Trucks Law Labor Should Lead Fight declared unconstitutional. the The Socialist Workers Party had gone into court seeking an Reluctant to fight the SWP suit, order to restrain Attorney Gen­ to a conclusion, Millard delayed eral Millard and other Michigan it as long as possible,' and then officials from enforcing the introduced a motion to have it dismissed. In order to achieve this, how- er, he had -to make some damag­ On McCarthy, Says N.Y. CIO Trucks Victory ing statements that were incor­ porated into the jdismissal order. One was: Hits McCarthyism “Thg Attorirey General of this Their Frankenstein Monster State, as of the date of this in­ terlocutory order, has made no M ’Carthy Shows Power Resolution Dobbs Declares determination nor has he con­ NEW YORK, Feb. 21 — Farrell ducted a hearing to determine Dobbs, national secretary of the whether the Socialist Workers Socialist Workers Party and one Party of Michigan, one of the In Bid to Control Army Cites Peril of the plaintiffs in the SWP suit plaintiffs herein, is a communist By George Breilman against the Trucks Law in Mich­ front organization within the igan, today greeted the partial meaning of that term as defined “Senator McCarthy this afternoon achieved what victory against the law won in by the legislature in section 4 General Burgoyne and General Cornwallis never achieved Of Fascism the Wayne County Circuit Court of the Michigan Communist Con­ — the surrender of the American Army.” — Washington By Joseph Keller as “a blow against McCarthyism, trol Law, nor does he deem at the correspondent of the London Times, Feb. 25. a vindication for the Socialist present time that he has suf­ Aroused by the growing Workers Party, and an encourage­ ficient proof to establish the fact, Secretary of the Army Stevens •>- Republican Party and convert it power of McCarthyite fas­ ment to continue the fight until if it exists, that any of the plain­ could not have surrendered "more into an instrument to further his cism, as demonstrated in the the thought-control Trucks Law tiffs, individually or collectively, abjectly if he had got down on ambition to become the first fas­ w ill be wiped o ff the sta tu te are communists, communist front his knees.” — McCarthy to a Wisconsin senator’s bold moves cist President of the United books.” organizations, or members thereof rep orter, Feb. 25. to bring -the Pentagon under his “ Senator McCarthy was asked States. control, the Nei^ York City CIO The Michigan Attorney Gen­ within the meaning of said law.” whether he agreed with Senator Almost the entire capitalist Council on Feb. 25 unanimously eral, Dobbs said, ‘‘by admitting A R E T R E A T press cheered wildly when Sec­ adopted a resolution calling upon that he doesn’t have proof in Dirksen that Mr. Stevens had not This marks a definite retreat surrendered. ‘I agree with that,’ retary Stevens promised to back the “national CIO to organize and 1954 to sup po rt his 1952 charges up a general who was threatened lead this fight to preserve the of ‘subversion’ against the SWP, by the Attorney General. One of he said with a big grin on his the firs t thin gs he did in 1952 face. ‘It was just a case of reach­ and insulted by McCarthy for basic American liberties from has exposed the frameup nature after the Trucks Law was enacted ing an agreement.’ Surreptitiously, obeying executive orders not to destruction.” of those charges and of the UJ3. discuss certain information about Attorney General’s ‘subversive’ was to rule that the SWP came he kicked a correspondent in the Recognizing that labor is the under the provisions of the law shins as he made the statement.” the Army’s purge of a dentist only force in America which can list, on which those charges were accused of “cqmmunist” associa­ (Continued on page 4) — N. Y. 'rimes, Feb. 26. smash McCarthyism, the largest based.” tions. After the “agreement” with local CIO Council in America also The credit for this “setback This time McCarthy had gone Stevens, McCarthy “offers wand­ calls on all its own local affiliates to the w itch hu n t,” said Dobbs-, too far, the press exulted. The “belongs not only to the SWP erers in the Capitol corridors to “organize and lead the fight morale of the armed forces was against McCarthy and the people but also to the excellent work of Army commissions if they want at stake, and this time the Eisen­ who would subvert and destroy the nonpartisan Citizens Commit­ them.” — Alsops, Feb. 28. hower administration would have our basic American freedoms.” tee Against the Trucks Law, to “Officers of the Army in par­ to stand up to McCarthy and tell the Michigan CIO and the Mich­ ticular were in a state of in­ him, “Thus far, and no farther,’ “DAY OF INFAMY” igan Federation of Labor (AFL) credulous shock. The general etc., etc. The council’s resolution describ­ which denounced the law, and to mood at the Pentagon was But all McCarthy had to do was ed W ednesday, Feb. 24, 1954, as the other organizations and in­ gloomy and bitter.” — N. Y. stand firm and talk tough. “a ‘Day of Infamy.’ ” For on that dividuals who supported our suit Times, Feb. 26. Stevens was summoned to a day “our country witnessed the and demanded that the law be “In Washington the next morn­ meeting with the Republican ignominious surrender of the declared unconstitutional or re­ ing, the atmosphere suggests members of McCarthy’s commit-^ American Army and the Govern­ pealed. Berlin after the Reichstag fire tee. ‘-‘Thrice McCarthy threatens' ment of the United States to that “The only legal action against with Stevens in the role of Van to leave the room and split the most dangerous demagogue, the Trucks Law that is now be­ Der Lubbe, the dullwitted Dutch­ Republican party wide open there Senator Joseph McCarthy of fore the courts is the suit filed by man who committed the arson; and then.” (Alsops, Feb. 28) Wisconsin.” the Communist Party. We hope with Eisenhower as the aging Stevens capitulated, endorsing a The resolution declares: “No and urge that the organizations Hindenburg and with Hitler play­ written “Memorandum of Under­ longer can we sit idly by and which aided our suit, despite their ed by you-know-who.” — Alsops, standing” which granted McCarthy watch the antics of McCarthy and po litica l differences w ith us, w ill Feo. 28. e ve ryth in g he demanded. In Ills Republican cohorts • without jo in us in sup po rting the Com­ “Okay, Bud. When I want you return Stevens claimed he had an realizing that our basic liberties munist Party’s suit, despite our again I’ll send for you.” — unwritten promise that McCarthy ire in mortal danger.” It there­ political differences with them, Captjon on Herblock cartoon would stop browbeating Army of­ fore points to the need for the as a vehicle for getting the showing Stevens offering Mc­ ficers. When he told this to the CIO and the labor movement to Trucks Act declared unconstitu­ Carthy his sword, Feb. 26. press, McCarthy publicly called take, the lead in the fight. tio n a l.” * * * FARRELL DOBBS him a liar. Stevens, sobbing, said We reprint the above especially appropriate cartoon from the Sept. 22, 1952, issue of The M ili­ McCarthy’s growing arrogance he might have to resign until tant on the occasion of our celebration of the 10th anniversary of Laura Gray's first cartoon for SILENT ON DEMOCRATS has a solid base — it parallels Eisenhower assured him it wasn’t this paper, published on March 4, 1944. On Page 2 we reprint other examples of her famous car­ The leaders of the Council did he steady g ro w th o f his power .necessary. not see fit. to point out th a t the toons, some of which have been reproduced around the world. Also on Page 2 are a number of and of the dismay, demoralization The cheers of the press vanish­ Democratic party leaders, includ- CITIZENS GROUP HAILS ed. If they didn’t exactly sob, the and discreditment of his Repub­ tributes to our Laura from all parts of the country. :ng its so-called “fair dealers” lican and Democratic opponents. ‘editorials expressed anguish, like Senator Lehman, have capi­ The white flag run up by the mournfulness and fear. Eisen­ tulated to McCarthy just as DECISION IN SWP CASE Pentagon marks the greatest suc­ hower had let them down. Stevens ignominiously as Eisenhower and cess he has recorded in his drive had said, “Thus far, and perhaps Secretary of the Army Stevens. DETROIT, Feb. 22—The Citizens’ Committee Against a little farther.” They hoped the to McCarthyize the government #/30 for 4 0 ”ProgramLehman and his fellow “liberal” the Trucks Law today hailed the agreement in Circuit bureaucracy and take over the (Continued on page 3) Senators voted for the funds to Court arising out of the Trucks Act suit. In a statement fuel McCarthy’s offensive to released by Chairman Rev. I. Paul **- “smash” the unions, as Westbrook Taylor and Secretary-Treasurer Michigan. We feel proud that our Wins Growing Support Pegler stated the fascist aim in a Ernest Mazey, the Committee Committee, by its organized edu­ recent column. sta te d : cational and publicity work, has The movement for a 30-hour turn that has increased national packing. “ Aim for 30 hr. Week — The resolution also contains a First Report 40 hr. Pay” is the banner headline grave weakness in complaining The agreement signed in Cir­ been able to help in this fight. week at 40 hours’ pay to combat unemployment to between 4,500,- cuit Court between Attorney However, our satisfaction is unemployment is gathering mo­ 000 and 5,000,000 workers, has over a statement in the Feb. that McCarthy “is not fighting General Millard of the State of qualified by the fact that the mentum. This program, first brought the issue of “30 for 40” Packinghouse Worker by Harold an honest battle against com­ Michigan, and attorneys Bernard Trucks Act, with its loose and proposed in the M ilitant, is being even into an industry liko meat- Nielsen, Director of District 1, munism.” Here the New York On M y Tour CIO United Packinghouse Work­ Probe and Jesse R. Bacalis.in vague definitions and its arbitra­ widely discussed in labor circles City CIO Council is falling into behalf of the Socialist Workers ry procedures patterned after po­ By Murry Weiss and union publications and is ers. the McCarthyite trap. The instant you accept McCarthy’s premise Party, represents a considerable lice state systems, remains on the PITTSBURGH, Feb. 20 — Pittsburgh is the division gaining new advocates. Nielsen cites a previous article victory in the fight to maintain statute books. In the CIO United Automobile by U P W sec. Treas. H athaw ay, that “communism is a menace,” our freedom and civil liberties. We hold with Judge Theodore point between the Eastern and Midwestern part of my Workers, the powerful Ford Local Still ‘Last Hired entitled, “Here Come the Ma­ then McCarthy can make mince­ The Attorney General's admis­ Levin who, in his dissenting opin­ tour. I arrived here Thursday with a group of comrades 600, F lin t C hevrolet Local 659 chines, What Is UPWA Policy?” meat of your complaints about sion that the Socialist Workers ion in Federal Court, said “This who drove down from Buffalo 9- and the California General And First Fired’ that poses the problems of tech­ bis methods. This is the very Party is neither “communist” nor act, if allowed to stand, will con­ w ith me. ers Party is and what it stands Motors locals have been hitting nological improvements, speed-up reason why Democrats and “subversive” under the meaning tribute to the creation in this It was late in the evening when for, but the comrades were justi­ hard on this issue for several Racial discrimination in em­ and unemployment. Pointing out Republicans who are ostensibly of the act, and the declaration country of that phenomenon so we reached the steel center. The fiably gratified with the results months. Favorable discussion on ployment has been accentuated that the union docs not oppose against McCarthy’s , methods, of the State that it will not in­ familiar in totalitarian countries glow of the open hearth furnaces of their forceful publicity cam­ “30 for 40” also appears in the by growing unemployment, technological improvements, Niel­ crumble under his first blow'. terfere with the ballot rights of — the public advocacy on the part touched up the hills. The Buffalo paign. Feb. issue of the Voice of Local declared Walter White, ex­ son states that nevertheless if the SIGNIFICANT STAND the party or its individual candi­ of law-abiding citizens of a ste­ comrades told me that the nights And the meeting we held the 212, newspaper of the union of ecutive secretary of the Na­ present trend of wiping out jobs dates, is in sharp contrast to the reotyped political ideology and were brighter in the years of following night fully rewarded the former largest Briggs plant tional Association for the Ad­ continues, “ we may well find a Nevertheless, the stand of the attitude of the State when the the stifling of the kind of free full capacity production. Now their serious efforts. The audience now incorporated into Chrysler. vancement of Colored People, goodly portion of our members New York City CIO is extremely Trucks Law was enacted two inquiry and investigation that has many of the furnaces are banked. was a representative cross section. to the Senate Labor Commit­ classified as D.I’.s.” He therefore significant in pointing to the only years ago. characterized the growth of our Production is down below 80%; There were workers from steel, “FIERCER COMPETITION” tee hearing, Feb. 25, on an urges the program that "must source of effective leadership and At that time, State Director democracy.” and in Youngstown, 70 miles unemployed, Negroes, and some Frank Marquart, Education FE P C b ill. be pressed for with every means struggle against McCarthyism. of Elections Edward Frey declar­ He also said that the Trucks northwest, it is below 70%. students. Director of Local 212, in a at. our disposal if we are to safe­ Organized labor, which is really The NAACP leader cited a ed, “In view of the impending Act is “an arbitrary exercise of Pittsburgh is a good place to The hard work in preparing the column on technological unem­ guard our people against mass the main target of fascism, is the U.S. Census report indicating law, we must see that no organ­ police powers that by unnecessary look back at the first leg of the meeting was matched by close at­ ployment through automation, only power that can smash Mc­ that unemployment among Ne­ unemployment and its damaging ization inclined toward socialism interference with the guarantees tour. It’s been 15 years since I tention to all the details of plan­ reports: “ A growing movement effect upon our whole economy. Carthy’s drive to become the gro men was twice that among American Hitler. is given a place on the ballot.” of free speech and assembly, vio­ was here. Much has happened ning a successful meeting — dec- fo r 30 hours a week w ith 40 “We have said, for instance, white males in January. This power can be effectively Immediately, the Socialist Work­ late the due process clause of the since that time and much has orations, literature, and the ar­ hours pay may soon' be just as tha t a 30 hour week w ith 40 hours mobilized, however, only if it is ers Party was banned from the Fourteenth Amendment.” changed. But many things seem rangements for an informal so­ logical as the movement for the “So far as they [Negro pay would be a desirable ih in g : independent of the old-line capi­ ballot for the 1952 presidential While the Circuit Court agree­ the same. We were deep in a cial affair following the meeting. eight-hour day was back in workers] are concerned the and we have also said that, as a talist parties and politicians. It election, even though it had com­ ment narrows the field of the “recession” the last time I was It went off very well. The que.-- 1886.” depression which many per­ matter of plain right and justice, is necessary for labor to prepare plied with the requirements of law’s application, the law itself here in 1939. tion-and-discussion period carried Citing the effort of the cor­ sons discuss from an academic- any benefits accruing to any em­ for a life-and-death baffle for the election laws. remains as a continuing threat I was reminded of this when we over to the social part of the porations to maintain high profits standpoint is now here. . . In ployer by reason of I he introduc­ power in America against the Since that time, mounting pub­ to our civil liberties. We a it de­ stopped at a restaurant on the evening. by cutting labor costs through January the Census figure for tion of new machines should be capitalist cohorts of fascism. lic protests and difficulties in ob­ termined to continue our efforts outskirts of town and picked up All the meetings thus far have eliminating workers, Marquart unem ploym ent was 3.5 per shared by the employees." taining court approval, for this in opposition to the law, confident a paper, the Pittsburgh Press. It been distinguished by this high says: “ The fiercer the competition cent for the white population Here, the New York City CIO undemocratic law have compelled that it will be declared unconsti­ was full of “ optimistic” specula­ level of organizing effort. One the more intense the drive for and 6.1 per cent for the MAJOR GOAL OF UNION could have struck a more telling the State to retreat from this ar­ tutio nal. tions on how the economic decline, has to travel through the branch­ reducing labor costs. This is why colored. It was even worse The “major goal of this union,” blow- if it had urged the forma­ tion of labor’s own party. bitrary position. Moreover, the We wish to thank all supporters which has struck with such force es on a tour to appreciate fully General Motors is going to spend among colored male workers insists Nielsen, should be “a 40 State has found it necessary to of our past efforts, and to pledge at the steel industry, is “ leveling the accumulated know-how and one to two billion dollars over tin because unemployment among hour pay check for 30 hours work Reliance on the old parties or any revise and amend portions of the our continued activity until the o ff.” organizational skill of our cadres next two years to modernize its them was 7 per cent as com­ and a fair share of the packers’ sector of them to put up a serious fight against onrushing Mc­ Act.'' The amendments were de­ law is stricken from the statute Meantime, the officially ac­ So f a r I have had m eetings in plants. Ford will spend 600 mil­ pared w ith 3.5 per cent, fo r profits for our people.” signed to tighten up the law to books of the State of Michigan. knowledged number of unemployed Newark, Philadelphia, Lynn, Bos­ lion dollars for the same purpose. white men.” Carthyism is a policy of suicide. improve the chances of court ac­ ton, Buffalo and Pittsburgh. Chrysler bought the Briggs plants Supporting the imperative need The CIO Council’s resolution in this key industry grows from CIO President W alter tion favorable to the state. They My first meeting was in New­ to improve its competitive posi­ to fight for “30 for 40” Is the spoke of the “startling parallel” month to month. The “leveling Rent her said the need for do not mitigate the dangers of A panel discussion on the topic: ark. It was very instructive to tion and millions of dollars will latest, figures on unemployment between the McCarthyite develop­ off” talk is just that — talk. federal fair employment prac­ the A ct. “Is McCarthyism a Threat to me. I found the deepest interest be spent to improve, all Chryslei insurance claims. Such claims rose ments and “recent European his­ Later when we met the Pitts­ tices legislation “is greater and The C itizens’ C om m ittee American Freedom?,” scheduled in the problem of unemployment plants.” 'o 2,179,000 in mid-Feb., by far tory,” including that of Germany burgh comrades they showed me more urgent now than it has Against the Trucks Law believes to be held in a Valley Stream, and its relation to the threat of the highest since the Feb. 1950 and Italy. The most startling is a front-page story in another ever been in the past” because that this agreement and the re­ N. Y. public school, was cancelled McCarthyism. Actually I have RAISED IN UPWA peak of 2,400,000, when official precisely the reliance on “ lesser daily paper about my meeting. of the economic situation. treat by the State is an impor­ by order of the District Board of There was the usual garbled ac­ been speaking on McCarthyism This problem of automation, unemployment figures reached 4,- evil" capitalist politicians, instead tant victory for all the people of Education. count of what the Socialist Work- (Continued on page 2) combined with the economic down­ 684,000. ' of labor’s own organized might. PlIEP Tw o THE MILITANT Monday, March 8, 1954 Notebook of an Agitator Hail 10 Years of Laura Gray’s Cartoons In Honor of Laura Gray NEW YORK. Feb. 28 — Laura Gray, the Militant’s powerful “ /» Our Hands There Lies the Power But Lots of Young Ones Do People who never talk themselves up don’t The workers need not only the crude truth cartoonist, was guest of honor always escape the encomiastic comments of which is the ugly reality of their daily existence. last evening at a dinner and others. This is happening right now in the case They need also the truth which illuminates and celebration at the Militant hall of Laura Gray, in whose honor the New York inspires, which elevates and ennobles, the truth here on the occasion o f the 1.0th Local of the SWP is throwing a party on the which shines with a blinding light, the light anniversary of her first Militant occasion of her tenth anniversary as staff car­ which only the artist can give. It is a lucky day cartoon, published M arch 4, 1944. toonist of the Militant. This is really a nation­ when our movement finds such a person. And wide affair. The New York Local is staging the it is the part of wisdom, as well as of gratitude, She was warmly acclaimed by a host of friends and comrades. celebration, but all the members of the party to cherish the alliance and to celebrate it, as and all the readers of the M ilitant are present you are doing tonight at the party for Laura The rnaiii feature of the affair with you in spirit. And we are all saying, G ray. was Laura’s own cartoons, some “Thank you, Laura; Laura, you’re wonderful.” outstanding examples of which, On Sandstone Prison The proletarian movement takes great pride enlarged and m ounted on w h ite in its intellectuals and artists; all the more so, I don’t doubt that Laura made her first ap­ backgrounds, were displayed since, under the present conditions of the strug­ pearance in the office of the M ilitant so quietly around tbe hall. At the end of gle in this country, it can boast so few of them. and unobtrusively — as is her manner — that the dinner, these were auctioned There is a reason for this scarcity, but there is scarcely anyone noticed her in the busy hubbub off for contributions of from $5 also a reason why we count on its remedy. The in which a paper always goes to press. But she to §15 each. revolutionary workers and the artists need came into Sandstone Prison, where some of us Laura made one of her very each other, and their union w ill be a certain con­ were residing at the time, with a clatter and a rare talks. It was typically sequence of new developments in the coming bang. Her first cartoon scattered the gray sha­ modest and brief. She thanked stages of our struggle for Socialist America. dows of the prison like the powerful headlight the comrades for their expression In our present class society;/ the intellectuals of a locomotive rolling down the right of way. of appreciation and added: “The and the artists don’t get a fair chance. By them­ Every week thereafter we looked for her car­ p rivile g e has been a ll m ine.” selves, they are weak. They are not a self-suffi­ toons, and they brightened the prison day each “TRULY WORTHY" cient class, but rather a selection of exceptional time they came. people, who in seeking to realize themselves — The readers of the Militant everywhere, im ­ Reba Aubrey, as chairman, read which means, first of all, to be themselves — mersed in the prosaic details of everyday life telegrams and letters from So­ and the routine tasks of the struggle for a bet­ require the support of a class which represents cialist Workers Party groups and ter world, have greeted her weekly drawings Militant readers in all parts of Reprinted from Issue of A p ril 30, 1951 a power. with the same gratitude and enthusiasm; and the country expressing their well- Nearly all of them, at the present time, are have derived from them the same inspiration, the wishes and their appreciation for consciously or unconsciously servants of the rul­ same anticipatory glimpse of a better world Laura’s artistic achievements. ing power of the dominant class of exploiters, Reprinted from Issue of A pril 25, 1952 wherein all people will express themselves bet- “The Militant, in my opinion, is and depend on its patronage. But they pay a ter, more completely, in more effective •■'m- price for this allegiance which strikes at their the finest working - class paper Walch That Blood Pressure! munion with others; that is to say, more artistic­ ever published — bar none. And The Judgment of History very reason for being. Their inner compulsion a lly is to portray reality, to tell the truth as they see in Laura, the Militant has found I speak of this as an anticipation. For in the a political artist truly worthy of it. But this inner compulsion runs up against the socialist society of the free and equal, all will contradiction that the class society, which is it. That is the biggest compli­ be artists; all will have the means and the op­ ment I can pay her,” said Art founded on lies, has no use for the truth and portunity, and the favorable social environ­ savagely persecutes those who portray it. Preis, staff member of the paper, ment, to tap their springs of talent and tV ir who was main speaker. The Artist’s Bread of Life instinct for self-expression in artistic form, which are today hidden, suppressed and denied. “Laura Gray is the supreme This places the artist before a cruel dilemma. The true artists, who feel impelled to draw the political artist and cartoonist of He needs freedom above everything — the free­ tru e pictu re o f life as they see it, not on ly as this supremely political age,’ dom “to draw the thing as he sees it” ; that is it is but as it ought to be and will be, can find the speaker said. “That is why the artist’s bread of life. The denial of this the fullest freedom for the exercise of this I think it important that I right tums the artist’s bread into a stone. But impulse today only in alliance with the great recall for the record — the his­ there is nothing he can do about it by himself. labor movement, which is forcing its way, torical record — how Laura came The so-called “ ivory tower” is not a place through the blood and filth of capitalist society, to be the M ilita n t cartoo nist. I t is of refuge but of exile from the real world. The to the new world of truth and beauty. In parti­ an instructive and inspiring salvation of the artist is to ally himself with cular. the revolutionary party, which represents sto ry.” a power which will permit him to do his work the conscious element of this great movement, PARTY ACTIVIST — that is, to live and be his real self — and is the natural ally of the aspiring artist. protect and sustain him in its performance. Many of them will come to us in the future, She was recruited into the -Chi­ There is such a power, and the artist should and if we are wise we will receive them gladly. cago Local of the SWP in early recognize it and seek alliance with it. That is Our Laura, cartoonist for the Militant, is the 1942 by org an izer Dave Weiss, the modern working class, represented by its advance guard, the harbinger of the poets and recalled the speaker. “I vividly conscious vanguard, whose cause is served only artists to come. In honoring her, on the occa­ recollect the first time I ever saw by truth. By that fact, it is the natural ally and sion of her tenth anniversary on the staff of Laura. It was at a regular mem­ protector of all truth-seekers, among whom the the Militant, we are honoring the paper, the bership meeting of the Chicago artist stands in first place. The alliance of the party and ourselves. And we are honoring, at branch back in J u ly 1942. T jia t true artist with the labor movement is the con­ the same time, the coming grand alliance of evening I was attending the dition fo r his own emancipation. revolutionists and artists in the great battle branch meeting for the first time Reprinted from Issue of March 16, 1953 Reprinted from Issue of July 9, 1951 If the artist needs the labor movement, no wherein no one can fail. ;as the new organizer. less does the labor movement need the artist. — James P. Cannon “ I studied the faces of the com­ Each Militant reader has his favorite Laura Gray four have been selected from her more recent creations rades, most of whom I had not cartoons. The editors have made no attempt to pick the merely as representative examples of her art. It is to be met before. Among others, I took “ best” of the hundreds of masterpieces of cartooning hoped that one day a whole book of her cartoons will be particular note of a pale, delicate 'Laura Gray has produced in the past 10 years. The above published. It will provide a graphic panorama of our limes. ’featured,, somewhat fragile-look­ ... Report on My lour ing youhg woman sitting very quietly at the back of the hall, up generation phenomenon. That’s (Continued from page 1) an overflow' crowd with standing and the FBI. But it has fought against the wall. No I didn’t spot w h y we have been so lu cky to and the depression since the ex­ "onm only throughout the meet­ back with such persistence, grit her as a cartoonist or an artist. find Laura.” TUG MILITANT A 1 confess my first thought was, Congratulations perience of that opening meeting ing. A crowd of students had re­ and skill, that one feels they have The speaker related how the 1 wonder if she’s getting enough in Ne.wark. sponded to the energetic leaflet gained in stature as a result. first cartoon Laura ever drew was to eat?’ Nothing in Laura’s out­ New York Literature Agent cialism,’ and four papers to I talked to a Negro worker campaign. I’d say about 10% of A speaker in our movement for a group of Chicago workers To Our Laura ward appearance indicates the John Tabor reports a continued friends. from one of the large indus* rial them were pro-McCarthy, another thrives on the kind of crowd we in a union struggle. !‘I asked tremendous power of her cartoons. “ Your artistry has struck many good response to street sales of “On the campus Bill sold one plants in Newark. He was an old- 10% definitely opposed and 80% lad at the Buffalo meeting. Fresh, Laura if she would try her hand blows for the working class. Your the Militant: “Ethel Militant; Leonard sold six anti- time radical although still young interested and curious. eager to learn, young workers “Well, there was a lot of talk at a cartoon for the union paper. then-year success is our good P. and Ruth N. sold McCarthy pamphlets and two ill years. He told me, as if in self- That v’as before the meeting and students. The audience show­ at that meeting. It seemed every­ That was Laura’s first cartoon. fortune.” (Detroit SWP.) 11 M ilitants and four Militants; and Dolores sold five reproach, that “ from a humanitar­ started. It was quite a sess;on. ed its working class composition one had something to say. Ex- I don’t have a copy, alas. I don’t “Our congratulations and revo­ anti-McCarthy patm anti-McCarthy pamphlets. At a ian point of view unemployment I counted over 40 questions from by the fact that Negroes amount­ rept Laura. She listened intently, know if one exists. But from the lutionary' greetings on completion phlets. In Harlem public meeting Bill sold five is nothing to be gloating about the audience and any number of ed to roughly half the audience. missing nothing. But then we first cartoon, I knew she and the of ten years of Trotskyist achieve­ Janet and Meryl sold Militants; Dolores, 11; and Lil, But I can’t help feeling,” he said, informal questions after the There were workers from every came to the call for volunteers Militant were made for each ment. Your work has been an 34 papers. five.” "a sense of vindication when I meeting was adjourned. important industry and union. Old for a Militant distribution. And other.” inspiration to the Bay Area sup­ “ We are trying a Reader P. L. I), of Reading, meet some of the guys I’ve been The discussion ranged over the fighters and seasoned veterans of the thing I noticed at once, and On a visit to New York, the porters of the Militant.” (San few experiments at Penna. send best wishes along talking to for years, and who whole field of Marxism. At one strike battles, young workers that made the occasion stick in my speaker said, he brought news of Francisco-Oakland Branches, the high schools. with his renewal to the Mili­ kept telling me, ‘Go on; things point I found myself defending hearing a socialist speech for the memory, was Laura’s response. his “discovery” to those associat­ SWP.) Greg and Don sold tant. “The Militant is one of the are going to be prosperous for the right of a people to social first time. The audience was sym­ She was the first to raise her ed with the M ilitant’s publication. “Our deepest gratitude for the two Militants and best labor papers I ever received. 50 years,’ and now I meet them revolution. Then I paused, and pathetic, alert to every idea the hand. Returning to Chicago he helped inspiration of your invaluable three anti-McCarthy Stick for the truth as you see it coming out of plant personnel realized that I vois speaking in speaker tried to express. They “A JENNIE HIGGINS” persuade Laura to visit New York contribution.” (Chicago SWP.) and do not be a fra id to stand looking distressed and dazed.” He worked with the speaker and felt pamphlets at the first sale and Boston, cradle of the first Amer­ with the aim in mind- of trying “Truth in art inspiring human up for your convictions. A few smiled. “I guess I’m only human the collective satisfaction of as­ “So it was, that long before 1 gave out hundreds of ’ leaflets ican revolution So I gave them her band at art work for the action — a truly artistic achieve­ years yet and a just economic to feel that way, after all I’ve similating the analysis. knew Laura’s work as an artist, advertising the forum on Youth a lecture on the origins of the M ilita n t. ment." (Arne Swabeck.) and political order will displace been talking to these guys for I knew her work and devotion a Today. Again in Harlem on Sat­ revolution of 1776, the role of the . The headquarters of the branch “ We send warmest greetings years. Anyway, maybe they’1! a party member, as a political, urday, Manny and Greg sold 19- the present inequitable one, which mechanics and workers of Boston is a model for any working class HOW LAURA WORKS to you on your tenth anniversary wake up now.” and as a Jimmy Higgins of the Militants.” is the cause of most of the world in the great social upheaval that organization. A combination of ' “Her first effort appeared on with the Militant. Your cartoons revolution, or, if I may coin a Detroit Literature Agent Janet headaches and heartaches.” transformed America and the functional simplicity and home­ M arch 4, 1944. Looking back a IN PHILADELPHIA, name, a Jennie Higgins. have not only given it a lift and MacGregor writes, “We are up W. L. G. of Raymond, Mont, w o rld. like facilities for relaxation. After that cartoon today, from the peak punch but have also entered you writes, “I am a Marxian so­ In Philadelphia we really had “Gradually, I found out from to our necks in work, but Kev One of my questioners persisted the meeting, the affair was trans­ of Laura’s growth to world pre­ among the list of great names cialist of a lifetime and I went an all-day conference of the Dela­ others about Laura’s stature as is keeping up his route in the in contending that there were formed into an evening of enter­ eminence in her field, it seems in the revolutionary movement.” through enough misery with the ware Valley SWP which wound an artist, her outstanding work Ferndale project and sold 14 “good” and “bad” revolutions, tainment and I had a chance to nothing special or startling. But (Philadelphia SWP.) Stalinists not to take any more up with a spirited mass meeting in sculpture and I had the pleas­ M ilita n ts there Sunday. Sara sold" and the good ones were those see how these socialist fig h te rs , at that time it came as such a “ We are as proud of you as we chances. Our whole fight is based at night. There were comrades ure of seeng some of her ex­ 12 papers at a union meeting.” that were kept under control by these very serious people, know fresh addition to the paper, are of the Militant, because the on common sense and it should from Maryland, Allentown, South­ traordinary creations in one of Literature Agent Dolores Se­ responsible authorities, as in the how to have fun. They put on a adding such a bright satiric touch two have become inseparable — not be very hard to get things ern New Jersey and Philadelphia. the country’s major art museums ville reports recent sales by first American revolution. T re­ skit that had me in stitches along that our readers everywhere at P would not be the same paper straightened out.” I had the. opportunity of talking When Laura came to us, she was Oakland comrades. “ Sunday we minded him that the charge of with the rest of the audience. once hailed and welcomed it. ID without the best revolutionary to some friends who were mem­ already a recognized, distinguish­ went on a sale in San Francisco. “uncontrollability” was the pet Then followed hours of informal popularity was assured from the cartoonist as one of its star bers of the independent United Lil sold one M ilitant; Ada. eight; slogan of the Tories against Bos­ discussion. The crowd seemed to ed artist. But how different Laura firs t.” attractions. With confidence we Electrical Workers Union. One of was from some others of the and Dolores, four. Bill K. sold ton’s Sons of Liberty and the want to stick together. Th>s was Laura gets the germ of her look forward to another celebra­ PHILADELPHIA them told me how incensed m ili­ artistic and intellectual world who one anti-McCarthy pamphlet, one leader of the American revolu­ their home. You felt the pride of cartoon ideas in the weekly joint tion ten years from now, when tant unionists were at the shame­ have paid visits to the workers copy of ‘America’s Road to So- tionists, Sam Adams. I told him workers in an organization they staff discussions, Preis explained. the Militant will be a daily, read Fri. Night Forum ful performance of Carey of the movement. She expected no that the possessing classes al­ had built. It was theirs. “But I must tell you that these by', millions, and will offer the IUE-CIO, who greeted McCar­ special treatment or rank. She The A rtist’s Stake in the ways feel that a revolution is Newark, Philadelphia (Dela­ provide only the barest hints and work of a whole staff of cartoon­ thy’s invasion of the electrical came to serve. And she has “uncontrollable” if it deprives ware Valley), Lvnn, Boston, Buf­ suggestions. In the end it is all ists, of whom you will be the in- Fight Against industry by appealing to him to boundless respect for and con­ NEWYORK them of their privileged minority falo, and now Pittsburgh. The up to the artist. spirer, model and dean.” (Newark go after the leaders of the UE. fidence in the workers. McCarthyism Carey apparently thought this position as the old antiquated so­ warm friendly faces of my com­ “ There is no thing so d iffic u lt as SWP.) Spring Frolic “That winter Laura would go Speaker: was clever tactics for winning ciety giyes way to the new. rades in these branches are the translating political concepts into “Laura Gray's cartoons, appear­ Dancing, Entertainment the pending election contests be­ Later one of,the comrades (old p;cture of devotion and clear so­ cut with the Militant or leaflets pictorial images — images that ing fegularly in the Militant for Duncan Ferguson tween the rival UE and IUE-CIO me that (his questioner turned cialist purpose. in a fo o t o f snow, w a y out on at a glance shock, arouse, per the past ten years and reprinted Free Food Noted Sculptor in a number of Eastern plants. to his neighbor with a puzzled These are among the best peo­ some open roadway before a plant suade, move the reader. Laura has in the revolutionary press of the Saturday, March 13, 8:30 P.M. Friday, March 12, 8:30 P.M. But the big Westinghou.se plant look and said. “He must, have ple in the world and they perform gate, in sub-zero weather. Scarce that special gift — that combina­ world, consistently display the in Philadelphia went UE despite studied a different history course their great historic mission with able to stand up against the tion of political acumen and indomitable revolutionary spirit Militant Hall Militant Labor Hall than I ’m ta k in g .” a sense of responsibility and un­ famous Chicago wind, Laura wei so characteristic of the artist Carey’s witch-hunt tactics. artistic ability — which enables 116 University Place 1303 West Girard Avenue T left Boston with a feeling of beatable revolutionarv zeal. out and did her duty. In her case her to ‘pass a miracle,’ to make a herself.” (Los Angeles SWP.) (near Union Square) Discussion from the floor in­ BOSTON-LYNN deep gratification that wre had The s p irit o f the SW P can best, for she was in frail health, s'1 miraculous transformation from “We send you ten red roses, Contribution 50 Cents vited. — Admission Free — My next stop was Lynn, Mass. been able to spread our Marxist be exemplified by Pittsburgh. A was really endangering herself. these bare, verbal concepts into a cne for each good year of labor For the first time in many years ideas to a new' circle of youth group of young comrades from “ So we cooked up a little vivid, powerful, moving pictorial for the most important paper the party conducted a public meet­ due to the w'onderful work of the different parts of the country ‘plot.,’ a ‘conspiracy’ among the presentation.” in the world movement of Trot­ ing in this town. I was a little comrades. have recently arrived here, to help branch leaders. We agreed among skyism.” (Minnesota SWP.) skeptical about attempting a I hope to return there soon and the comrades who have held the ourselves not to give Laura any A MODEL AND EXAMPLE “ Your devotion to the socialist meeting in Lynn. But the com­ I firm ly expect to see many of fort for many years. They are more outside assignments. Did “Part of the process is, I be­ cause is all the more inspiring rades were determined to answer these students fighting actively tackling the problem of building you wonder, Laura, why your lieve, the element of conscious­ when we think of the many McCarthy’s recent witch-hunt vis­ in the ranks of Marxism. a branch with such zest and de­ hand was so often overlooked? ness in her work. She thinks artists and intellectuals who once Subscribe! it to that electrical center and termination that it is impossib’e We were saving you, even if we deeply about what she is doing. played with that cause. They they proved to be right. We had BUFFALO MEETING to doubt, they w ill succeed. We’ll didn’t know it at the time, for Rut, in addition, there is her were peace-time heroes. You have Start your subscription now. Clip the coupon and mail it a good turn out of workers who In many w'ays, Buffalo, my be hearing a lot from Pittsburgh your role as the Militant’s car­ sincerity and depth of feeling. proven to be one of the few in today. Send $1.60 for six months subscription or $3 for a full came down in response to leaflet next stop, was the high point of in the next period. toonist. Even the best of the bourgeois (‘men’) among them.” (Boston year to The Militant, 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. and newspaper publicity and 1 my tour so far. T had never had And what will the rest of- the cartoonists are capable merely of SWP.) CARTOON FOR UNION devoted a good part of my talk the chance to meet most of the tour be like ? As I leave one city a brittle, witty comment on men Accompanying a gift from the Nam e _ to Carey’s treachery in the fight comrades there o r to see the and go to the next I try to “ The combination of class con­ and affairs. Laura i.s imbued with New York and Los Angeles locals against McCarthyism. group in action. In Buffalo we imagine how it will be. But the sciousness, moral courage, poli­ great purpose and intensity o’ df the SWP: “On this tenth an­ Street .... Zone The next night I spoke at the have a branch we can be proud of. reality is always better, more ex­ tical savvy and clarity, imagina­ emotion. Thus, her cartoons are niversary of your splendid con Boston SWP headquarters. By It is without doubt the leadrng citing, than the prospect. It’s tion and technical artistic capacity more than gags. They are iribution to the cause of social­ C ity ...... „ S tate ...... eight o’clock the hall was com­ radical workers party in the city. a wonderful experience. I wish all required for a Marxist cartoonist profound symbolic representation' ism — this proverbial ‘small 0 $1.50 Six months Q $8.00 Full year Q New Q Renewal pletely full. And by 8:15 (the It has been the butt of reaction­ our comrades could go on a na­ is found so rarely, that a truly of the world of struggle in which token’ of our appreciation, esteem scheduled opening time) it was ary attacks by newspapers, police, tional tour. great cartoonist is a once-in-a- we live .” and love.” T H E & IL 1 T X 9 T Page Three Subscription»: 93 per rear; ■ m l arttalM hr Matrlfc- ■tom io not MtMMtSr r»P- fl.SO for 6 months. Foreign: rerent Th* IflHtee*’« eeticlw. M-GO per year; $2.2T> for 0 t h e MILITANT rheee are eapra— 6 . In tta months. Canadian: $3.GO per Published Weekly in the Interests of the Worklnr People editor)»!». Tear; J1.7G for 6 month*. THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION “ Entered or eocond cl am matter March T, 1944 at the Bundle Order»: 5 or more IM ColWrultr FI., N. X. 3, N. Y. Phone: AL 5-118» ooplea 6c each in U.S.. To Post Of floe »1 N«W TOA, Editor: CKO RISK BKKITMAN N.T.. under the act of March •ach in foreign countries. 8. 1S7S." A Turn Toward Democrats? Bualneaa H a u itr: JOSEPH HANSEN By Murry Weiss whether it w ill be condemned to “ We had six panics, 1937, 1948 “ I didn’t listen to the President’s cist threat with a radical pro­ pass through the bestial school Vol. X V III • No. 10 " ' Monday, March 8, 1954 The labor movement continues I860, 1873, 1910, 1929. The one speech, I made that mistake in gram . »j4! Ví** /•v • f v of fascism. to follow the policy of supporting under President Grant was the :195>2.” The task of American socialists worst the world has ever seen the Democratic Party. Its 1954 What is the immediate per­ Reports of talk in the shops in this unfolding political pattern (1873). He was a 5-star general election policy is entirely oriented spective of American political around New York, on the busses, is to reinforce their struggle for and brother, this 5-star president, iti this direction. The terrible development in the light of the in' the streets, run along the same an independent Labor Party and the way his gang has starred off, W all Street Lies About Puerto Rico error in this policy is not that the political mood of the working line. One group of white collar for the socialist program. All the w ill be the worst one of all. Just Democrats cannot win. They may- class ? workers on a bus thought Eisen­ major political tendencies in the The shots tired by three Puerto Rican na­ After some 50 years of bleeding Ruerto- Rico wait one more year and see. very well win the next elections. hower may be trying to pull us labor movement are anticipating, white. Wall Street’s political representatives COAL MINER’S LETTER Garland Varies tionalists in the Mouse of Representatives But what happens if they win out of the growing economic such a turn toward the Demo­ Price Hill, W. Va.” March I tichoed around the worl'd. The im­ finally offered the Puerto Ricans “ inde­ through the support of labor? Under the heading of “ Depres­ slump, but the big boys around crats from the standpoint of how mediate reflex of the capitalist press was to pendence” — if they wanted it. The offer was sion Feared” Labor’s Daily, Jan. hiiri Wouldn't allow it. They felt to reinforce all the illusions and The labor movement remains In my opinion this letter ex­ the real danger was the Repub­ captive to capitalist political in­ 6, published a letter from a West traps the workers could fall into. picture it as an act of "insanity.” As proof, not entirely disinterested and philanthropic. It presses the thinking of A' wide lican Party rather than any in­ Virginia miner. The letter is of The Stalinists, labor officials, Wall Street's propagandists claim (1) that coincided with the need of U.S. imperialism to terests. And as long as that is section of American Workers. The dividual. considerable interest and we will liberals and social democrats are true, it cannot offer the United fear of depression,' the deep ’ A group of waitresses in Brook­ U.S. domination has been beneficial to Puerto appear before the world as the guardian and quote it in full: to blame for the present politic­ States bold leadership in over­ suspicion that_ the Republican lyn were talking recently about Rico, (2) that the Puerto Ricans can have banner bearer of demofracy. Dovetailing with coming the oncoming social “ I see they claim there are 51 ally disarmed state of the Amer­ Party Ls bringing about bad eco- the Republicans as “the party of crisis with an anti-capitalist pro­ thousand men out of work, al­ ican workers. They will repeat ‘‘independence’' any time they want it, but the preparations for World War 111, it was a nomic conditions, the bitterness’ depressions.” One of them was most that many in West Virginia their betrayal of the Thirties have overwhelmingly rejected the offer. There­ diplomatic necessity for American imperialism gram . toward workers and farmers who explaining how the Republicans alone. More men cut off in 11 under conditions of a Democratic By' clinging to the dead past, by were fooled into voting for Eisen­ represented the “capitalists.” fore to shoot up Congress was "madness.” to clean up a bit, especially before the colonial months of Republican prosperity Party come-back. hoping for a return to the New hower, the feeling that , worse is '“ You know,” she explained, some­ public. And Puerto Rico had long been held than the whole 20 years under W ithin a day the witch hunters began to Deal, by dreaming of the status jto come, the expectation of new what frightened at the radical It will he up to the revolution­ the Democrats. On Cabin Creek convert the terrorist deed into grist for their up as the horrible example o f what happens quo minus McCarthy, the labor hostile moves from the !■ Eisen­ sounding term, “ the guys with all ary socialists to stand firm by and Coal River some miners are to a land that comes under W all Street's movement will bead into the hower regime against the unions, the money.” their principle of independent fascist m ill, deliberately claiming it to be part on starvation. A woman told me coming showdown crisis totally the illusion that the Democratic It is worth recalling that the working class politics. American of a "communist’' conspiracy. domination. on Cabin Creek she was almost unequipped for its tasks. The I Party is still the best answer for first serious signs of national society is heading into a great afraid in her home at day unless In all this heat there is little light. What is At. best it was like a slaveholder offering coming crisis w ill be solved in a !the workers — all these are un­ depression, and the aggravated social crisis. The American work­ she had her doors locked. How freedom to a famished slave after years of progressive manner only by' a doubtedly typical aspects of the difficulties of the farmers provok­ ers must not lose the day in such needed is a cool and objective political assess­ can those poor people stand it exploitation, but with the proviso that if he socialist revolution. If the labor Irriood and thinking of the workers ed the noticeable swing toward a crisis by remaining politically ment of the affair beginning with the aims and movement remains guided by a three more years? in the United States today. helpless and thus opening the road takes advantage of the offer he doesn’t eat at the Democratic Party last year, methods of the three demonstrators, Lolita leadership that shuns the socialist "They have almost bankrupted In addition, the remark of the first in the Wisconsin election to a mass fascist movement. Lebron, Rafael C. Miranda and Andres Cor­ all. For the offer of freedom to Puerto Rico revolution, it will be mercilessly the farmers in 11 months, trying West Virginia miner, Garland upset in October and then in the WAR NO SOLUTION carried with it the threat of economic and poli­ destroyed by fascist counter­ now to take our social security Varies, on the ruin of the farmer Nov. 3 elections. dero. The political perspective sketch­ revolution. As Daniel De Leon, from us old men, and just wait­ seems to catch rather accurately Despite the Republican victory Of their courage and spirit of self-sacrifice, tical reprisals that could prove swift death to ed out above is not fu n d a m e n ta lly one of the great pioneer leaders ing on John L. Lewis to make a the mood of a large section of the in California (achieved by pulling the island’s economy. It was fear of this that altered by the possibility of Big the evidence is graphic enough. A ll three had and theoreticians of American so­ move so they can break our union farming population. Frank Ed­ out all the stops on the witch Business plunging into another made up their minds to die for their cause. caused a good many Puerto Ricans to reject the cialism said: “When a revolution up. Now you scabs and seng wards, AFL radio commentator, hunt, and smearing the Democrats world war. Wall Street may in its Their objective — to dramatize the plight of "generous” offer. Thus there is real political jit pending^ and, for , whatever -diggers and ground-hog hunters gave some spot reactions of a as “protectors of spies”), the desperation stake everything on a reason ia not consummated, reac­ and millionaires have got the cross section of American people trend started by last November’s Puerto Rico and thereby advance the struggle substance behind the Puerto Rican terrorist gamble — an attempt to climb tion is the only aUexnalive.” change you voted for. I didn’t to Eisenhower’s State of the elections can be expected to gun play. cut. of its difficulties through a for independence — w ill meet with sympathetic No doubt the American' work­ think there were enough men and Union message. While he was deepen along with deepening gigantic m ilitary adventure. response throughout the colonial world and Recognition of this is unconsciously admitted ing class w ill learn independent wom'en in this country that would rather favorable to the message depression trends. The frightful consequences of among politically conscious workers every­ by such a well-known columnist as Anne politics in the period ahead; tire rather go to the Red Cross for himself, the comments he quoted In the absence of an independent such a crime against humanity question is whether it will learn their- flour and depend on catch­ of workers, small businessmen and political policy of the labor move­ where. But it is not only the road to hell that O'Hare McCormick of the N. Y. Times in her will not alter the fact that the by making a timely turn and ing ground hogs for their meat to farmers, were all negative. One ment, a sweep toward the ^euro­ decaying social order of capital­ is paved with good intentions. Despite their comments March 3 on the incongruity of pistol defeating the fascist threat, or elect' a President. farm woman from the'West said: crats m ay w e ll T>e the firs t ism w ill be subjected to a great courage and lo fty aims, the Puerto Rican ter­ shots in the “ ordinarily sedate Congress” : “ It manifestation of mass political revolutionary criticism from the rorists did a frightful disservice to their own is as if the solid ground opened and for a discontent of the working class American people. Wars have been and tiie farmers. cause, injured the interest's of the Puerto Rican shocked instant we caught a w h iff of the bitter the breeding ground of social As a matter of fact there are people and of the world labor movement, and political passions boiling up in other sections revolution more than once in ...McCarthy Power Bid important indications, aside from h isto ry. played into the hands of McCarthyite fascism. of the world.” What she caught a whiff of was last year’s elections, that such a That is the objective political fact. the revolutionary powder kegs that American (Cantinned from page 1) 3> swing to the Democratic Party is Workers’ illusions about the Democratic Party are riot un­ The error of these terrorists was to substitute imperialism is incorporating into its basic White House would do better in the making. Stewart Alsop, N. Y. Herald Tribune columnist mixed with a sense of realistic futile personal action for the action of the structure by expanding over the entire world. ne xt tim e. Smeared by McCarthy understanding of the specific W ill it? Such hopes completely reveals that “the Democratic character of the Roosevelt-Tru- masses. Thereby they reap only condemnation, That includes the powder keg of Puerto Rico. ignore the strategy — and the Congressional Campaign Commit­ or at least lack of understanding, from their Let’s consider finally the use the witch tee, after a careful analysis of man "prosperity.” Some workers dilemma — of the Eisenhower we have talked to will readily own people, and set up a fresh obstacle to hunters are making o f the incident. A typical regim e. each close district, has inform ally estimated that the Democrats agree, even though they are for Eisenhower wants a Republican winning the m ajority to their views. The reac­ headline appeared in the March 3 N. Y. World- would gain more than forty seats the Democrats, that if the Repub­ tion naturally seizes on this to discredit the Telegram and Sun: “ Link to Red Conspiracy v ic to ry in the 1954 congressional licans are the party of depression elections. He dislikes McCarthy, in the House if the elections were held now (Jan. 10).” the Democrats are the party of aims of the terrorists; and, going a step further, Was Shown.” The actual fact is that the only and he fears him. But he has Alsop points out that “this war. And that in the last analysis utilizes it to further its own sinister aims. “ links” so far shown outside of the nationalist decided that he needs him. An estimate might be dismissed as both are equally responsible for AM this has been stressed thousands of times political views of the terrorists are that the open and violent rift between the both wars and depressions. White House and McCarthy might mere partisan wishful thinking by Marxists in the past century. The need to leader, Lolita Lebron, is a Roman Catholic; if it had been made for publicity Without thinking it out theo­ cost the Republicans a defeat, in stress it once more — in 1954! — is at bottom and one of her landladies reported that she proposes. But it was made in­ retically. workers and farmers November. That is why the know that the prosperity they another commentary on the decades of crimes "kept a Bible by her bed.” None of the witch Republican National Committee stead, for the private information of the committee and the estimate enjoyed during the last decade or hunters, however, have tried to use these endorsed McCarthy as an “asset" committed by Stalinism in the name of Marx­ almost leaned over backward in so was based on war and prepara­ ism which have served to repel sincere, and “ links” to “ associate” her with the Roman and let him set the tone for the tion.for wax. cam paign. allowing for Democratic losses.” Alsop reports that two Demo­ However, in the consciousness devoted revolutionists from, the soocialist move­ Catholic Senator McCarthy or the Pope. They On the other hand it is recogniz­ cratic campaigners, Sen. Paul of millions the conclusion is ment and shunt them into the blind alley of want a Moscow address even if they have to ed by the Eisenhower-Dewey- Douglas, of Illinois, and Sen. dawning that the next war will Brownell wing of the GOP that individual terrorism. manufacture it. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, not resemble World War II, in­ ■Now let us turn to the claims of the capital­ The authorities claim to have discovered it may lose the 1954 elections so fa r as its effects on the even with McCarthy, and per­ have recently taken field trips and report a marked shift of farmers domestic situation is concerned. ist propagandists. The March 3 Wall Street unspecified "Communist literature” in one of haps even because of him. But and workers in their states away First of all, it will be a war Journal states them succinctly: “ But there is the defendant’s homes and House Speaker they regard this risk as a lesser from the Republicans and toward which will for the first timé evil. As columnist Walter Lipp- no injustice to be found in our relations with M artin said they "undoubtedly are Com­ the Democrats. mean death and destruction right mann pointed out on Feb. 16, Puerto Rico. Once a dependency and now a munists.” If this "evidence” is not enough to Douglas “ travelled by car for here in the United States. “Their line is designed as a Irving Peress, Elmhurst, N.Y;, dentist, consults his attorney, almost 13,000 miles in Illinois. He Secondly, the next war w ill not commonwealth, Puerto Rico has been promised prove the terrorists are “ communists,” it is at protection against the exploita­ Sam Faulkner (right), while refusing to answer tricky smear made 290 speeches in 150 towns, mean high wages, and relative its independence by two Presidents and by our least sufficient to give the alert on how the tion by McCarthy of a political questions by Sen. McCarthy at New York hearing. McCarthy visited 88 counties and talked to security for the unions. Big setback in November. If the United Nations delegate. A ll that they have McCarthyites seek to utilize the terrorist in­ used issue of Peress’s honorable discharge from A rm y to 'open literally thousands of people. As Business has different plans. This election goes better than they to do is to ask for it. But they have refused to cident to whip up a fresh red scare. A new- his bid for control of the Pentagon. •’ 1 a result of all this he concluded time they would go to war fully now fear, they will still he in that a very strong Democratic realizing that it will bring such do this.” wave of hysteria is the immediate danger. That the saddle though considerably trend — stronger than he remem­ misery and deg'radation to the What are the facts? For more than a half is what the labor movement must be prepared bedraggled in appearance. If the more effective than Hitler was ferent traditions, differences in bered since he entered politics — population of the U. S. that they election goes badly, they hope — because he is part of the govern­ political structure, etc., MdGarthy- century, Wall Street has savagely exploited to meet. had set in.” will have to deal with mass though almost certainly in vain — ment himself. ism cannot function in precisely this tiny but fertile island. In the whole western The shots fired by the Puerto Ricans are Most of Douglas’ experience radical opposition right at home, to make McCarthy share the “To understand what McCarthy the same way as Hitlerism and was with farmers who are ex­ and not only in the rest of the hemisphere it would be difficult to find slums symptomatic of profound evils in America’s blame and not to be able to raise is driving at in his attack on the would not have achieved the suc- tremely bitter over the turn of w o rld. more depressing than those in Puerto Rico. The relations with the rest of the world. The cause hell at their expense.” Army,” the liberal columnist Max ces it has if it had tried to be a the economic trend. But Alsop That’s why the capitalists are They are afraid, Lippmann ex­ Lerner wrote on Feb. 24, “the simple carbon-copy of the Ger­ immigration of hundreds of thousands of of those evils, like the cause of the witch hunt, relates that “not only are the feverishly building up the Police plains, not only of losing Con­ literature on the Nazi movement man form of fascism. In that Puerto Ricans into the tenement-ridden areas is right here at home. Its address is Wall Street. farmers discontented. In western State in Washington. And that’s gress to the Democrats “but also in Germany is required reading. sense, American fascism will Illinois, heart of the country’s why McCarthyite fascism has of New York is sufficient evidence that what That is where we must direct our attention — of losing their own party position J. W. Wheeler-Bennett has traced never follow “the classic fascist farm implement industry, Douglas such strong potential appeal to they were leaving was not exactly a tropical not to the diversionary efforts of the Mc­ and perhaps their political heads the whole story in his recent pattern.” • ’ found near-depression conditions, Big Business. They understand to the extreme anti-Eisenhower book, already an acknowledged But despite the different forms paradise. Carthyites. coupled with a strong swing to that even a Police State, on the. and anti-Dewey wing of the masterpiece of narrative, ‘The McCarthyism assumes and wii’ model that Eisenhower heads, Nemesis of Power,’ sub-titled the Democrats.” party.” As long as that is their continue to assume, ft is develop­ may not prove sufficient insurance ‘The German Army in Politics, main motivation, they will not ing more and more along the lines POSSIBLE RESULTS against revolutionary opposition W ill Democrats Fight McCarthyism? dare risk a showdown with Mc­ 1918-1945' (St. Martin’s Press). of the “classic” pattern. Lerner A political awakening, even in at home during a war. C a rth y. Before Hitler could capture himself indicates this by draw­ the distorted form of a swing to The idea of a fascist settlement “ What are the Democrats going to do?" “ McCarthy w ill only be stopped by men who power, he had first to penetrate ing the parallel between the the capitalist party out of power, with the American labor move­ M CC A R TH Y’S A IM S the Army and make it pliafit to asked liberal columnist Thomas L. Stokes on are more powerful, more clever aqd more Hitlerite and McCarthyite pene­ could open up the sluice gates of ment before the plunge into World Lippmann’s estimate reinforces his purposes. Once the Army Feb. 9, before the Pentagon capitulated to grimly purposeful than he is himself.” trations of the military. The a new wave of radical opposition War III is obviously gaining the one that the Militant has showed itself willing to play stronger McCarthyism becomes, McCarthy. “ They could do something that That excludes both Democrats and Repub­ to capitalism. A Democratic vic­ ground in the topmost circles of been making for some time. He politics on Hitler’s terms its the more it will resemble Hit­ to ry in ’54, and even in ’55 American capitalism. The decision would be of great value to'the nation. That licans, both liberals and conservatives. assumes (wrongly, we believe) strength as a force on the Ger­ le rism . wouldrdt signify an extended era to launch another war is inhibited would be to accept the gage of battle on the Reliance on them w ill produce only greater that McCarthy is not a candidate man national scene .was lost. It of “New Deal-Fair "Deal.” The by the existence of a powerful for the presidency, but says: “ He became only a tool.” DIFFERENT COURSE OPEN overwhelming issue of the times, which is debacles and fiascos of the Stevens variety, all developing crisis of American organized working class at. home. is a candidate for supreme boss Ten days before this, Lerner McCarthy’s aim, it is true, is capitalism would quickly dispel McCarthyism. . ." redounding to the greater strength of Mc­ And yet the process of the world — for the dictatorship — of the recognized that the McCarthyite to take over the GOP and make illusions about the ability of the revolution may accelerate their “ After this (Stevens) debacle,” wrote the Carthy. Republican party . . . his uncon­ aim “is not to strengthen the it a fascist party. But it would Democratic Party to solve the pace. The plunge may be taken liberal N. Y. Past on Feb. 25, “ the great ques­ The organized labor movement, by and cealed purpose is to break and Republicans but to split them, be a bad mistake to think that insoluble dilemma of capitalist even before American capitalists subdue the President and the ex­ and capture the Republican tion is whether the Democrats w ill take up large, has tried to dodge the issue up to now. that is the only course open to depression. A Democratic come­ are completely sure of the ecutive branch of the govern­ Party. . . (They) are not run-of- him, and that he will be stopped the battle that the Commander-in-Chief has But it won’t be able to go on dding this per­ back would be a short-lived domestic and international out­ ment, the Republican party in the-mill Republicans nor are they if he is thwarted in this aim. He episode fn which favorable con­ come. fled. Never did they have a greater chante to manently. There is a power in the land far Congress, the national organiza­ even the old Taft variety of is not a “run-of-the-mill Repub­ ditions for the mobilizafiori of But the deeper the mass poli­ serve the country and the cause of world greater than McCarthy’s — the power lodged tion of the party. If any Repub­ isolationist. They are a new breed, lican” ; he is not an ordinary witch the workers in an independent tical awakening, the swifter the lican still thinks that McCarthy’s with a new brand, who despise freedom. . .” in the 17-million-member labor movement, hunter. He owes no real allegiance political formation would develop turn toward independent class primary target is Communism Eisenhower, Dewey and Dulles to the Republican Party, and if with great speed. Three days later the liberal columnist Max their families and their allies among the politics by the American workers, and not the capture of the Repub­ almost as much as they hate necessary and timely he will Popular revulsion against the the less realistic such a gamble Lemer asked, "W ho is there on the entire m inority groups, the farmers, and the lower lican party, he will live and learn Truman and Stevenson. . . Their break with it and form a new Republicans in power could very w ill appear to the most powerful Washington scene who is w illing to lead the middle class. ' differently.” (March 1.) ta rg e t is noj. 1954 b u t 1956, not p a rty . well release the pent-up hatred capitalist interests. These in­ In his assault on Stevens, necessary struggle to protect the nation against If this power is made “ grim ly purposeful” the Congressional elections but His threat to walk out of the of the witch hunt. The political terests have faltered in their Lippmann says, “ McCarthy’s quite the Republican convention. . . party if Stevens did not capitulate this political adventurer gone berserk?” — that is, if it is alerted to the true proportions atmosphere would undoubtedly Third World War maneuvers evident purpose was to demon­ “ In Germany and Italy the fas­ to him was not pure bluff (ex­ change toward greater freedom. since 1945. The Democrats themselves had already of the fascist menace in this country and pro­ strate his power to intimidate the cist adventurers formed their cept, perhaps, in the sense of Inevitably this would reinforce A new radical turn in America, answered the question on Feb. 2 when — with vided with a proper vehicle of combat — it can Army to show that he was so own party and marched to na­ when he would take such a step). illusions in the capacity of the would deepen the paralysis of will Dowerful that he could reach over tional power with it. But the one exception — they voted in the Senate for stop McCarthyism cold. McCarthy does not follow the Democratic Party to stop Mc­ in the American ruling class. The the head of the Commander in nature of the American party “classic” pattern of Hitler when the $214,000 McCarthy demanded for witch- The American people can be alerted to the Carthyism. The fact is that Mc­ capitalists have their time-tables, Chief arid terrorize individual of­ system makes that almost im­ he tries to take over one of the Carthyism as a distinct and plots, calculations and schemes, hunting activities next year. It was this vote, McCarthyite danger most effectively through ficers. . . McCarthy’s object is to possible here. Given our Electoral old parties, but it would be developing fascist movement, but the dynamic of the real class indicating that McCarthy need fear no opposi­ calling a Congress of Labor, uniting all sec­ show that even in the Army he is College, the only way to win the thoroughly wrong to rule out the operating outside the government struggle can do more to upset tion, which emboldened him to reach for the tions of the union movement an*d their allies a bigger man than they (Eisen­ Presidency is through one of the possibility of his forming a new apparatus, would become more these schemes than the worshipers hower and Stevens), are, and thus two major parties. It would be partv in the future with the aid clearly demarcated in the event Pentagon. in a serious and democratic discussion of what of capitalist power imagine. to expand his power by making almost hopeless to build a new of the already big following he of a Republican defeat. In any case the tactic of the These votes were positive proof that the McCarthyism is and what it wants. himself feared.” party in America on the classic has recruited through his skillful Along with a continuing eco­ American socialists should be to Democrats don’t have the nerve to fight Mc­ The proper vehicle of combat is an inde­ Step by step, McCarthy’s power fascist pattern. Therefore the exploitation of leadership in the nomic crisis, which the Demo­ vigorously build the cadres of the Carthyism. And they don’t have the inclination pendent Labor Party, breaking clean and free and his followers have been political goon-squadders have set GOP. cratic Party'would he as helpless Socialist Workers Party. This will penetrating into one department out on their biggest task thus McCarthy’s easy victory over — deep down, they share McCarthy’s premise from the capitalist parties,' arid mobilizing the to solve as the Republican Party, hasten the political mobilization of thé government after another far — that of capturing the the Army illustrates the fascist the fascist threat to settle matters of the workers under a revolu­ that anybody accused of "communist” sym­ strength of the'genuineiy’ anti-M cCi'rthy forces — the State Department, the Republican Party.” nature of McCarthyism and with -labor by direct violent tionary banner. In thus way we pathies is automatically suspect. on the decisive Apolitical arena' by running its Justice Department, administra­ L e rn e r here comes as close as serves warning that it will grow assault would • loom ever larger. will not merely be observing his­ ' Who w ill stop McCarthy? The Spectator, own candidates for office. " tive bodies like the Federal Com­ any liberal has to the M ilitant’s still more menacing and powerful The'workers would be confronted tory but contributing in the most munications Commission, etc. In analysis of McCarthyism as the a “ moderate” British weekly, put its finger right This will stop McCarthyism; nothing less so long as the labor movement with the imperative need to form significant way to the progressive this stra'tegy he follows in Hit­ American form of fascism in its continues to rely on capitalist, their own party and meet the outcome of the greatest, crisis in On tfre heart of the issue when it wrbte: will do it. ler’s footsteps, although he is incipient stages. Because of dif politicians to defeat It. capitalist depression and the fas­ human history. The Negro Struggle By Jean Blake me MILITANT How Brotherhood Week Should Not Be Observed VOLUME x v m M O N D A Y , M A R C H 8, 1954 N U M B E R 10

We’ve seen many a farce acted out in the necessity of preserving civil rights and not Defying fascist Senator Mc­ name of “ Brotherhood Week." We’Ve seen smearing liberal and progressive people — but Carthy at Senate subcommittee many a sanctimonious hypocrite make speeches said there was an equal duty to protect innocent L A . Church hearing in Albany, N.Y., Gen­ Seattle Unions about loving our neighbors as ourselves at people against Communist conspirators by joint eral Electric worker Arthur L. public halls by "do-gooders’’ — who then go effort, by FBI, Department of Justice, Congress Defies Owens, below, charged: “This out and whoop it up for atom-bombing our committees, grand juries ami trial juries. K K K committee is out to get me He agreed that religious faith and education Hear Roberts in colonial brothers o ff the face of the earth. fired.” Owens called Jean Arse­ We’ve heard pious speeches about “ im ­ would battle communism — but added that Loyalty Oath nault (inset, right) a “damn­ proving Human Relations" in churches and they are not enough because Communists will able liar” for claiming Owens public halls by “ do-gooders” — who then go not fight on those grounds. LOS ANGELES. Feb. 22 — and five other GE workers were School Bd. Race Taking a resolute stand of op­ home to their race-restricted neighborhoods, lie said he believes in the right of the people position to the demands of the “Communists.” SEATTLE, Feb. 28 — The campaign of Daniel relieved that their obligations as their to plead the F ifth Amendment in refusing to witch-hunters, the members of the Roberts, Socialist Workers candidate for the Seattle “ brother’s keeper” are over for a year. answer questions, and he would not repeal it — First Unitarian Church in this school board, entered its final week today. He has spoken But the Brotherhood Week observance to top but not people in government or education. city voted last night to instruct at 18 union meetings to date and 51- ;heir Board of Trustees not to sign invariably rallied to the defense them all was the one held in Cleveland, Ohio (1 Ie did not explain that the McCarthyite label several candidates’ forums. A a loyalty oath that would qualify busy wind-up week of speaking of the young people when they "Fifth Amendment Communists” applies to all last week. Roy Cohn, Senator McCarthy's the church for property-tax ex­ is in sight. are caught in the toils of brutal em ptions. chief counsel and investigator, was invited to who exercise that right.) A statement by Roberts’ was police and hanging judges. participate in the ninth annual “ Fellowship Finally, in a spirit of magnanimous — The California law providing published in all the neighborhood “It is Eisenhower and all the other politicians of Big Business Night” of the Temple Men’s Club. He was one Brotherhood? — he proposed forgiving all tax exemption for churches and papers as part of the program other non-profit organizations — Democratic and Republican of a panel heard by more than one thousand repentant American Communists "who tell of the League of Women Voters was amended last year to provide to inform the Seattle voters of alike — who are responsible for Brotherhood Night celebrants, on the subject what’s behind the Iron Curtain.” that any organization seeking the stand of all the candidates. juvenile delinquency. All they "Human Relationships Involved in Religion, A worse distortion of the concept of brother- such exemption must take the Robert also apeared today on a offer the youth of this country . hood would be hard to imagine. It used to mean following oath: “This organiza­ League of Women Voters’ spon­ is the alternative of war or Education and Government.” depression.” respect for our brothers, not betrayal, inform­ tion does not advocate the over­ sored TV forum. This is the same Roy Cohn who achieved throw of the Government of the The young people reject these Three thousand folders contain­ ■notoriety over a year ago when he and his ing and stool-pigeoning. It used to mean United States or the State of alternatives, Roberts pointed out, ing Roberts’ program are being California by force or violence or but don’t know where to turn for side-kick went on their little European junket solidarity in the face of attack by tyrants and distributed by SWP supporters at other unlawful means nor ad­ a solution. for McCarthy, trying to dig up some dirt on dictators. It used to mean breaking down the union meetings and in the main vocate the support of a foreign “ In despair, they turn down the barriers that separate man from man in our workers neighborhood. A leaflet, fellow Americans abroad that the witch-hunting government against the United blind alley of juvenile delinquency condemning Seattle school text­ Senator might be able to use in his smear cam­ society. But not in the McCarthyite concept States in the event of hostilities?’ — a blind, reckless and self- books for teaching anti - Negro destructive course.” paign. When called before that fascist inquisitor your The membership of the church, prejudice was distributed today at Attacking the notion that the In the Brotherhood Night discussion, Colin only fight is to testify against your brother which now enjoys a §6,000 annual various Negro churches in town. working mothers are especially tax exemption, voted by secret In this leaflet, Roberts pledges svas an outstanding example of the double- and yourself. to blame for juvenile delinquency, ballot, after extended discussion himsef to campaign for texts that talking demagogue: Let’s end this farce of “ Brotherhood Week Roberts declared, “The reac­ of the issue, 206 to 31 against “teach the truth.” He agreed w ith oilier speakers on the when it degenerates that far. signing the tax oath. The action tionary demand that the woman The candidate also spoke today of the church membership was should stay in the home would at a house meeting called by a new initiated by the Board ;of only heap injury on the woman reader of the Militant for her Trustees. on top of the injury already done friends and other readers in the to the young people and wouldn’t In a statement issued to its The M in k Coat Slander neighborhood. solve the problem of juvenile members prior to the meeting, The outstanding work in or­ delinquency. By Joyce Cowley the Board of Trustees said in ganizing the campaign and keep­ “The millions of women who part: “Using Germany’s tragic A short time ago I saw an interesting letter Say your husband makes S10Ü a week. Does ing all phases of it rolling' is work do so because of economic Nazi history, that when and if this automatically mean that you have no being done by Helen Baker, need, but over and above the in the Dear liditor column of the New York- we sign one oath of the most The January issue of the A m er­ that this signals the state dictat­ Seattle branch SWP literature economic reason there are many Rost: right to work, that your children are neglected innocent sort there will be no ican Civil Liberties Union-News, ing to the churches what they agent and contributor to the women who want to work. They and you're responsible for the rise in juvenile room for retreat if further and published by the Northern Cali­ “ I sat in the subway deep in thought, may or may not believe or M ilita n t. find they thereby acquire inde­ more compromising oaths are fornia Branch, announced that wondering if my husband got his unemploy­ delinquency and the high divorce rate? This is profess. If now the right of the Last Friday night, Roberts ad­ pendent standing in society and a thereafter required. Many refu­ the union, which is tax-exempt, ment check, i hope he had enough money for the opinion of a great many politicians, clergy­ state to so use the threat of its dressed a large meeting of Local toehold on a status of equality gees from Germany have pointed would also refuse to sign the oath taxing power is granted on a No. 33 of the Cooks and Assistants with men. In most cases they be­ m ilk for the baby. 1 still have chopped meat, a men and various other "authorities” who seem out the sim ilarity to our present and would file suit in the Superior nominally political (though also AFL on juvenile delinquency. come better mothers and happier few potatoes and spaghetti in the house for conspicuously ignorant of what constitutes a situation of the innocent-seeming Court, before March 15, the filing philosophical and ultimately Scoring President Eisenhower wives because of working. beginnings of the Nazi develop­ deadline for such oaths, chal­ the weekend. I've forgotten what it feels like good relationship between a mother and her theological) issue, will not the for blaming the parents for the "There is only one thing wrong ment. lenging the constitutionality of to have enough in the house to eat. . . The child. freedom of the church have been enormous growth of this problem, with women working and that is “ Another (argument) suggests seriously compromised?” the law. season is supposed to start soon, maybe he'll The enterprising woman who wants to help Roberts said, “President Eisen­ that they don’t get paid enough. hower slanders the parents when be called back. Maybe he got his check. Now The solution for that aspect of her husband buy a car or a home, the woman he accuses them of neglecting the the problem is not to drive the 1 go back to work, my husband and daughter who doesn’t care much for housework and seeks care of their children. women back to the home, but for take care of the baby. . . out a more congenial and interesting occupa­ “In reality, the parents are to the unions to fight to obtain equal “ Then I picked up the paper and read where tion, is blamed for a great variety of social ... Anti-Trucks Law Victory be admired for the way^they have pay for women.” a clergyman preached that ‘selfish working evils. (Continued from page 1) tical party, including the func­ selves felt. More than 200 labor, mothers’ who neglected their children are the liberal, religious, educational and Psychologists and psychiatrists who have and was subject to its drastic tion of running for office and cause of juvenile delinquency. Mothers who really studied this question point out that it is penalties. He immediately ordered trying to educate the people .to civic leaders formed the non­ SPERRY STRIKE ANSWERS work, he told a Senate Committee, are barter­ that the SWP be barred from the accept a socialist program. partisan C itizens’ Committee the quality of a mother's relationship with her Once Millard had backed down, Against the Trucks Law. The ing- their children’s welfare for a ’fleeting bit ballot even though it had jtist children, not the actual number of hours she filed- the necessary petitions , to the continuation of the suit be­ committee carried on a vigorous of mink coat’. ” educational campaign against the M cCa r t h y it e f o r m u l a spends with them, that makes all the difference. qualify. (Thanks to court action came legally untenable, and the Currently more than 5-1/4 m illion mothers, If a child is convinced that his mothers cares taken by the SWP, however, it attorneys for the SWP, Bernard measure, calling for action to By Art Sharon one out of every four with children under appeared on the ballot that year.) Probe and Jesse R. Baealis, con­ assure a full legal test of all its NEW YORK, March 2 — When a large corporation for him, he will n ot be upset when she goes sented to “the dismissal order aspects, and supported the SWP eighteen, work outside the home. But before Now, almost two years later, during the very midst of contract negotiation provoca­ o ff to work any more than he is upset when Millard is forced to admit in open “without prejudice.” Thus the court action. mink manufacturers increase their production father goes off to work. court that he still lacks “suf­ desired ruling on the constitu­ The labor movement responded tively fires members of the union as “ security risks” that schedules. I suggest they look through a pam­ tionality of the Trucks Law will favorably. Both the Michigan CIO is the M cC a rth yite fo rm u la . £>------The m ajority of women with jobs have no ficient. proof” of his own original phlet “ Planning Services for Children of Em­ charges! Is jt possible for a gov­ not be made around the SWF suit and the Michigan Federation of Carefully timing and spacing to the provocation. When that choice. They’ve got to work — for groceries. (which Millard has been anxious Labor (AFL) passed resolutions body failed to respond, the com­ ployed Mothers” recently published by the ernment official to convict him­ a series of some twenty firings But it ’s about time we recognizes that every self of arbitrary and biased con­ to avoid all along). denouncing the law as undemo­ during the past month, the Sperry pany followed up with many Dept, of Labor. It gives a somewhat different duct more thoroughly than M il­ cratic and unconstitutional. Local Gyroscopic Gorp. of Lake Suc­ more victims. woman has the right to work. Her reasons may CP C ASE picture of the reason that mothers work. A lard has done in this case? onions and other organizations cess, Long Island, has tried out This economic punitive measure vary — maybe she has an interesting job, Fortunately, however, there is study of families using day-care centers in M illard’s statement. is a blow did the same. The momentum of this new, potent anti - union struck the workers in the shop as maybe she want's to save money so she and the another suit testing the law’s con­ the witch hunt was slowed down. being so b ru ta lly callous and New York C ity shows that 42% of the mothers not only against his own conduct weapon. stitutionality which is now before The effectiveness of the resist­ deliberately provocative that the family can take a trip to (Europe, maybe she under the Trucks Law but also -On the very eve of negotiation arc the sole support of their families. In the the coilrts — a suit Jfilcd by the ance was demonstrated by the union machinery was set into wants to put her youngsters through college. against the “subversive” list breakdown and strike the Cor­ Communist Party. This test ac­ way Millard had to back down motion to call the company to remaining 58%, both mother and father work, prepared by the U. S. Attorney poration capped off its campaign It's even possible, though not very likely, that tion deserves the support of every last Friday. Continued resistance, order. but almost half of the fathers make less than Generals since 1947. H is chief of intimidation and demoraliza­ she wants to buy a mink coat. In that case she opponent of the Trucks Law, and focusing this time around the The company’s high - priced 840 a week and 80% make less than 850. “evidence” against the SWP in tion by w a rn in g the p la n t’s 18,000 the Socialist Workers Party is Communist Party’s suit, can deal lawyers rushed into the state is certainly using moré legitimate means to get 1952 was th a t its name appeared workers that if they observed There is only a small percentage of working now urging united labor and a death blow to the Trucks Law supreme court to secure an in­ it than those traditionally employed by women on the federal “subversive” black­ the picket lines they would face mothers in this particular study (which I be­ liberal action behind this suit as as a whole. junction against the IUE using who acquire mink coats. list, on which it was placed with­ punitive measures. lieve is representative of employed mothers out a hearing, without, charges the best means of obtaining a Another revealing side of the :ts contract to protect the vic­ constitutional ruling against the Trucks fight has been the role of The campaign and warning did 'Whether it’s mink or milk she’s after, 1 and without an opportunity to tim s. throughout the country) whose husbands make law . the corporation little good. After protest against this habit of blaming America’s defend itself. the daily press here. When the While the union’s action on the more than a subsistence wage. However, even The Trucks Law is undoubtedly law was passed in 1952, b ig black much hesitation and some con­ M illard now confesses, in effect, firings is something short of a twenty m illion working women for social one of the worst laws ever enact­ fusion, the union threw the though this group is relatively small, they've that the federal blacklist provides front page headlines blared the fighting stance, it is in marked ed by any state in this country. news about Millard’s lying protection of its contract enforce­ got their rights, too. I think it’s time that I disorders caused by the wars and depressions him with no proof whatever as contrast to the action taken by The Republican State Legislature charges and actions against the ment machinery around its fired the GE local of the IUE at Lynn, spoke out for them. of a degenerating capitalist society. to the nature of the SW!P. , At members, and the 18,000 em­ any rate he deems it unwise anc passed it two years ago after a SWP. Nothing comparable was Mass., which supplemented GE’s veritable orgy of witch hunting printed when Millard was in ployees, mostly members of the victimization by expelling the unsafe to stake any case against CIO Intemational Union of Elec­ the SWP under the Trucks Law and redbaiting hysteria was set effect forced to retract these victims from the union in a rump charges. trical Workers, scrupulously ob­ on the flimsy hearsay character off by the House UnAmerican session of the local that denied Activities Committee on a visit served the picket lines put up by of the Washington “subversive” The Detroit Free Press (Feb. them the most elementary demo­ to Detroit. Fair Dealer Governor the Engineers Association which list. Coming from a witch hunter, 21) carried a small item, on Page cratic rights. 2, under the title “Socialist Work­ is conducting the strike. this is not exacty a compliment Williams lacked the courage to The action by the Sperry local CONGRESSMEN AT WORK. The following NEGRO REFUSES FEDERAL APPOINT­ to that list. even veto the measure. ers Win OK,” reporting that the Among those fired are many of IUE came at the same time as are excerpts from a speech delivered on the floor MENT. Paul Phillips, executive secretary of the The hysteria got worse when “subversive and communist” tag active union militants and former tjie significant anti - McCarthyite of the House of Representatives by Cong. Car­ Grand Rapids Urban League, turning do\yn an SECOND STIPULATION the bill became law. Headlines p u t on the SWP in 1952 “ has leaders of the OIOv International action taken by the CIO Council nahan (D. Mo.): 'Tarn today offering a solution offer to become a special assistant in the Dept, A second stipulation by Millard shrieked with promises by state been removed in Circuit Court,” Union of Electrical Workers with of Greater New York (see page 1.) to the coffee problem. . . In this extremity 1 of Health, Education and Welfare, wrote to de­ gave even more evidence of his officials to round up hundreds of and noting the stipulations enter­ many years seniority behind them. There is a heightened awareness offer a suggestion which I believe has merit: partment head Oveta Hobby, “ It would be unfair retreat. Discussing the, section of “suspects” who refused to regis­ ed by Millard. Another item on Others were one-time members of in the labor movement of the Drink sassafras tea. Having been reared in the and unwise to ask my fam ily, especially my seven- the Trucks Law which permits ter themselves with the state Frige 7 of the Detroit News of the independent UE. menace of Md.Carthyism, and Missouri Ozarks. . , I have drunk literally gallons year-old son, to live in- and attempt to adjust to the barring of parties from the police as alleged “subversives” the same date didn’t even men­ The first firings were not these two actions in the New of sassafras tea . . - and such a delightful pickup the rigid pattern of racial segregation that exists ballot, he said: within five days. The SWP was tion Millard’s statement that he challenged by the union. The com­ York area are signs of a stif­ it is. . • I might mention that a concentrate of in Washington. Being adults, my wife and I could “The Attorney General of this barred from the ballot. The had no intention of trying to bar pany even waited until the meet­ fening resistance to the menacing sassafras tea is said to have certain medicinal try to make some attempt at understanding and State is of the opinion that the spirit of intimidation was so in­ the SWP from the ballot. Other ing of the plant’s Steward Coun­ anti-union storm now making up qualities . . . it is said and firmly believed in my solving the problem. But how does one explain express provisions of section tense that, the SWP had a hard papers printed less or nothing. cil to see what reaction would be in Washington and Wall Street. section of the hills that sassafras tea is a ‘sure racial segregation to a child?’’ 7 . . . do not apply to the plain­ time finding a lawyer willing to The MoCarthyites get the head­ cure for the itch’. . . For jumpy nerves, sleepless * * * tiff Socialist Workers Party of represent it in court. lines, the an ti-McCarthy i tes are nights, financial strain, and tired blood, why not , PERESS FAMILY SUBJECTED TO AT­ Michigan as such, or to any of its lucky to get anything — that’s F irst printing entirely sold out! CITIZENS’ COMMITTEE Second edition now ready switch to sassafras? Enjoy the ‘switch that TACKS. Rocks have been hurled though the nominees, nor do such provisions “objective reporting,” capitalist C o u rt actio.fi held up the en­ ORDER YOUR COPY NOW satisfies? ” windows of the New York home of Dr. Irving apply to the individual plaintiffs style. * * * forcement of the law. Then Peress, whose honorable discharge from the Arm y herein as members of the So­ slowly but surely the forces of brought down the wrath of McCarthy. Peress cialist Workers Party of Mich­ ANTI-JEWISH AND ANTI-NEGRO literature resistance began to make t-hem- was circulated through the mails to the residents said he had also received 30 unsigned, abusive, igan, and the defendants herein Twin Cities McCARTHYISM: of the Quad City area of Rock Island, Moline, and violently anti-Semitic letters since the case (Millard and the other state of­ East Moline and Davenport, Iowa, while anti: hit the headlines. Vigilante elements last week ficials) disclaim any intention’-' to Public Meeting American Fascism Jowish stickers were being pasted on store fronts. jammed a Queens public school in an effort to enforce the provisions of section NEW YORK Stamped marking on the outside of the envelopes stampede the resignation of Mrs. Peress from 7 of the act against said So­ McCARTHYISM read, “Anti-Jewish week, Feb. 21 to 28.” The the editorship of a local P. T. A. magazine. The cialist. Workers Party or its in­ Friday Night On the March envelopes were postmarked from Rock Island school principal was forced to adjourn the meet­ dividual members.” — The American Brand Contents ing when the mob set off a 15-minute demonstra­ Socialist Forum while the racist literature inside referred to a Statements of this kind, dis­ of Fascism The Grave Danger of the Fascist Menace — State- tion of screaming, clapping and stomping of feet claiming any intention to again Two Lectures on the Historical St. Louis, Mo., “ Citizens Protective Assn.” The ment by the Political Committee of the Socialist after a local Legionnaire "bellowed that “no per­ bar the SWP from the ballot, are Role of Women H ear Rock Island police chief says he is convinced Workers Party that the group there is connected with the St. son should be allowed to hold office in a parents not guarantees, of course. Capi­ Lecture No. 1: MURRY WEISS Loius organization. group whose opinions are contrary to the Amer­ talist politicians rarely hesitate Are Women Inferior What About the “Communist. Menace”? ican way of life.” The break-up of the meeting to break promises. But Millard’s One of the Country’s Out­ * * * Box Score of the. M cC arthyite Witch Hunt left Mrs. Peress in her post of editor. statement would certainly prove to Men? standing Socialist. Speakers NO PERJURY ACTION AGAINST DETROIT * * * embarrassing to him in court if Speaker: Fascists See. Their Biggest Chance Since t he 30 s S aturday, M arch 13, 3:30. P.M. STOOL-PIGEON. A Federal Grand Jury has DETROIT UNEMPLOYMENT SPURS ARMY he should attempt to effect an­ Evelyn Reed Life-and-Death Struggle for Negroes and Minority refused to take any action against. Milton Sant- RECRUITMENT. Mounting unemployment in the other ballot ban against the 10 S. 4th S treet Peoples wire, a stool pigeon accused of lying in the recent Detroit area is proving a definite, aid in recruit­ SWP, and to that extent repre­ Friday, March 12, 8 P.M. Minneapolis — 2nd fl. The Men Behind McCarthy, by Art Preis Smith Act trial of Communist Party members ment, Armed Forces representatives in that area sent a gain in the SWF’s fight Militant Hall in Detroit. The witness, a plant in the Communis*- McCarthy’s Use of the Hitler Big-Lie Technique, say. Army enlistments were up 12% in January for free elections. T16 University Place Questions, Discussion party, first said under oath that he was paid only over December, while A ir Force enlistments went On the whole, therefore, the (near Union Square) and Social Hour by Murry Weiss 1 1 by the FBI for his dirty work. Recalled to the up 26% in the same period. The Coast Guard SWP suit, ■ although it has been Questions, Discussion, Contribution 25 cents 16 pages io cents stand, he admitted under defense questioning, office there discontinued enlistments Jan. 1. “But dismissed, must be summed up Refreshments that he had also been receiving a $75-a-month we’ve had quite a few calls from prior-service as a successful part of the SWP’s Auspices: Minn. Socialist PIONEER PUBLISHERS pay off since 1948 from the Ford Motor Com­ men wanting back in because of the job situa­ defense of its legitimate right to Contribution 25 Cents Workers Party 116 University Place Nevr York 3, N. Y. pany. tion,” a spokesman said. continue functioning as a poli­