U.S.-China Clash ln North Korea Deepens Crisis By John G. Wright General MacArthur’s formal notification to the United Nations that “ Chinese Communist military units’’ were in action in North Korea has confronted this “ guardian of world peace” with t,he gravest in-' ternational crisis since its forma­ Security Council passed a resolu­ tion. tion “ inviting” Mao’s regime to In marked contrast to the openly discuss MacArthur’s “ charges” bellicose attitude displayed both before the Security Council. The in Washington and at Lake vote was 8 to 2 with the U. S. Political Set-back for Labor Success when the Korean hostili­ delegate Austin demonstratively ties first broke out in June, this voting in fgvor. time the initial tactic is to “ go Meanwhile, the American reso­ slow” and to make a public show lution, which will reportedly con­ of probing for all the available tain an ultimatum to Peking to avenues cf “ negotiating some withdraw its troops from Korea, settlement.” These diplomatic is still to be form ally introduced. maneuvers, of course, represent The official explanation for the Due to Leaders’ False Policy a jockeying for positions but they delay is that the final draft is also underscore the gravity of the “not yet ready.” How long this existing international situation. diplomatic game w ill continue is To data, there have been two anybody’s guess. SWP SCORES BIG GAINS; GOP Gain; UN actions. First, the UN Interim Peking has acknowledged the Committee on Korea issued a presence of only “ Chinese volun­ declaration that the interest of all teers” in Korea. The number of 13,135 VOTES IN N.Y.C. McCarthyism countries “ neighboring on Korea” these troops has been variously will be “protected.” This gesture estimated in the press at from First returns on the Nov. 7 election's, incomplete in is obviously intended to “ placate” two to six divisions, with a most cases, point to the highest vote ever given to the and “ reassure” Mao’s regime, and tendency to revise these figures Strengthened candidates of the Socialist Workers Party. couldn’t have been made without upwards. MacArthur’s note fixes By George Breitman the consent of the U. S. State no definite figure but mentions In New York State, where the ®- Department. On the next day, the formations amounting to some SWP ran fo r five state - wide received 1,305 votes. It is not The union leaders' policy certain that this is the final vote. 30,000. offices, returns have been released of supporting capitalist poli­ ticians got anouier test on CAUTIOUS APPROACH only on the vote in New York SIGNIFICANCE OF VOTE iNov. 7, auu again demonstrated Harry Press Gets The press in general, un­ City. Surpassing the 1948 vote this ns baniiruptcy. doubtedly by order of the State Joseph Hansen, candidate for year is all the more significant for two reasons: 1. The witch­ ine wuen-uunt, initiated by the Department, has handled the U. S. Senator, headed the list 2,972 Votes for hunt atmosphere in American Truman administration, ooomèr- activity of these troops with note­ with 13,135 votes. Michael Bartell, worthy caution. MacArthur’s first political life has grown greatly anged on tne Democrats and cost mem a numoer ot key con­ communique of Nov. 6 while lor Governor, was credited with in the last two years. 2. In 1948, Calif. Assembly gressional seats ana states. denounc’ng Mao’s move as “ one 12,065. Gladys Barker, for Lt. the SWP was on the ballot in 11 SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 8 — mere was a marked trend to­ of the most offensive acts of in­ Governor, got 11,388, A rthur state - wide contests plus two Harry Press, independent candi­ districts in California, while this ward indepenaeni and cross-ticket date for State Assembly in the ternational lawlessness on historic Preis, for Attorney General, got year it participated in only 4 voting, indicating a growing dis­ 20th District who was endorsed record.” contented itself with a 9,833. Harry Ring, for Comp­ state-wide contests, the same two regard tor party laoels and the by the Socialist Workers Party, reference to “ alien” forces and troller, got 9,692. districts in California, plus three existence of a mass sentiment received 2.972 votes in today’s reserves, while carefully refrain­ These figures represent heavy other congressional races. m at couid be won to independent election. His incumbent opponent, ing from singling out China by increases over the SWP vote in Other SWP results will be re­ lauor poutical action. Thomas A. Maloney, got 18,963 name as MacArthur later did in i948 and 1949. In last year’s ported \vhen received. Tne hopes tnat many workers votes. Press’ vote represented 14% his “ report” to the UN. mayoralty campaign, the SWP had of gaining concessions and of the total cast in this contest. The consensus of newspaper tally ranged from 1,379 to 2,334. social reiorms througn Truman’s In 1948, Press had received 3,- opinion—as well as the diplomatic in 1948 the Dobbs-Carlson ticket f air Deal w ill have to he abandon­ 495 votes to 21,649 for Maloney. l'ne taken at Lake Success — is got 2,249 votes in New York City. ed or deferred indefinitely. The total vote was higher that that the “ extent and purpose” of Mao’s intervention in Korea Those are the main lessons of year, but the percentages were The only other independent the 1950 elections. the same. remains ns yet “unclear.” party on the New York state Th's year Press spoke to over The power dams and plants on Dallot this year was the Socialist ONION LEADERS’ POLICY 3,000 union members in 24 d if­ the Yalu river are widely cited as Labor Party, running as the In­ The labor leaders poured a ferent local unions. He toured the the most “ obvious reason” for the Carlson Makes dustrial Government Party, whose great deal of money and man­ action of the Mao regime. And 17,000 STRIKE AGAINST A F L Labor Temple nightly and senatorial and gubernatorial power into the efforts to retain although the local bureaucrats they are indeed vital to China. Good Showing in cand.dates got between 6,000 and or increase the Democratic ma­ told him to keep out, no local The hydroelectric system on the 7,000 votes In New York City. jorities in Congress. They suc­ Yalu river is indispensable to union refused his request to speak FIRING OF UNION In San Francisco, Harry Press, ceeded in getting a larger turnout the Manchurian industry which and present his socialist nlatform Minnesota Race SWP - endorsed candidate for tiian usual in off-election years, depends for its power on these to their membership. He also Assembly in the 20th District, cut Little else. The Democratic dams and nower plants. The MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 8 — The spoke to two large waterfront AT LACKAWANNA PLANT received 2,972 votes, about 14% majority fell from 54-42 in the largest installation in this system latest returns give Grace Carlson unions, the Marine Cooks and of the total, the same percentage oenate to 49-47. In the House it is the Suiho dam whose capacity BUFFALO, Nov. 3 — The huge Lackawanna plant of 1,305 votes as the Socialist Work­ fe ll from 262-172 to 224-186, witn Stewards and the CIO National he got in 1948. Maritime Union. is estimated at two - thirds the the Bethlehem Steel Company was shut tight here this ers Party candidate for Congress the remainder still in doubt. In the E’ifth Minnesota con­ In addition. Press made a spec’al cutput of the Hoover Dam on the week by 17,000 workers in an unprecedented labor dem- from the Fifth District in Min­ -Still more sign.ficant, they Colorado River. gressional district, Grace Carlson, failed to elect or unseat most of appeal to members of the Inde­ enstration for Vincent Copeland, nesota. The complete official The AP reported from Wash­ after beating off three attempts ate candidates they devoted their pendent Progressive Party, stress­ Lackawanna Steel union leader for its new sintering plant “from ington on Nov. 5 that the Truman results will not be available until to bai; her from the ballot, JOSEPH HANSEN . major attention to. Republicans ing the bankruptcy of the nolicy who was discharged by the com­ %he outside” instead of from administration was “weighing” an next week. The election was won Taft and Millikin (Colo.), Hicken- of voting for liberal capitalist pany on a trumped-up charge of among the regular employees in politicians His election platform ultimatum to Peking that these accordance with their seniority by the Republican incumbent, tooper (Iowa), Wiley (Wise.) — power plants “ would be attacked “ instigating a wildcat walkout” of was sent to all registered IPP the blast - furnace department status. The walkout lasted two Walter H. Judd. special targets of the labor lead­ (Continued on page 3) Where Can Labor ers — were re-elected to the voters in the district. where he is the chief grievance days, and when the men returned I t was only last week that the man. The demonstration showed to work the company gave in on Senate. Truman’s Senate majority Minnesota Supreme Court handed .cader Lucas (111.), his Senate Yugoslavia Seen W ith Open Eyes: 2 the determination of the Lack­ the grievance. Go From Here? down its decision over - ruling a .vhip Myers (Pa.), the veteran awanna steel workers to reinstate VICTIMIZED By The Editors Vince Copeland, who is widely Hennepin County judge and put­ Elbert Thomas (Utah), Helen Copeland was one of thè com­ ting Grace Carlson’s name on the Douglas (Calif.), all were beaten. known in all labor circles on the Where can labor go from here? WHAT HAS ALREADY Niagara Frontier as an outstand­ mitteemen who negotiated with ballot. Administration supporters elimi­ the company on this grievance, I t is obvious that the political policies of the trade union lead­ nated earlier in the primaries ing militant. Commenting on the failure of The company knew that a walk­ and its results were in no small ers have led to bankruptcy. were Pepper (Fla.), Graham BEEH ACHIEVED degree attributed to him by thè this third attempt to deprive the (N. C.), Taylor (Idaho) and out would follow if they tried to Their continued support of the old-time capitalist parties and entire union committee. The voters of the Fifth District of the Elmer Thomas (Okla.). By Ernest Germain discharge Copeland. It therefore candidates has heaped one disaster upon another for labor. issued instructions to bank the matter was considered by every­ right to vote fo r a revolutionary The unions helped to re-elect Before the war, Yugoslavia was a backward country, furnaces long before any of the one to be completely settled. How­ socialist anti-waricandidate, Grace In 1946, their alliance with the strikebreaking Truman admin­ Lehman (N. Y.) and two Demo­ workers knew that Copeland was ever, when Copeland arrived home Carlson said last week: istration and corrupt Democratic Party led to a crushing defeat, cratic Senate incumbents in Conn., semi-colonial in its economic structure. It exported its and to defeat Republican Don­ about to be fired. that evening a plant, guard " I regard the Supreme Court to the Republican domination of Congress and the Taft-Hartley cheap labor in the form of raw materials and agricultural nell (Mo.). The first so - called “wildcat” presented him with a discharge decision as a true victory for Act. products; it imported finished manufactured goods. For­ walkout, winch took place last notice. democratic rights. It is especially In 1948, the “ victory” scored by the labor leaders for the OHIO FIASCO eign capital controlled the mines, the banks and the few week, was provoked by the com­ A meeting of the join t Top gratifying in this period of witch­ Democratic machine produced no gains and ended in the violation The union leaders had made the heavy industry factories. Most of the peasants, who con­ pany when it deliberately at­ Bargaining Committee, of all the hunts and hysteria to know that of all the Trumanite promises and a strengthening of reaction T aft race the center and symbol stituted 80% of the population, worked with century-old tempted to violate the seniority Lackawanaa steel locals was a vigorous fight for civil liberties climaxed by the McCarran-Kilgore police-state law. of their efforts; that made his called for that evening and a equipment: 18% of all the farmers had only wooden provisions of the contract, by can win support from wide circles Now, in 1950, their blind-alley policy has led to another defeat unexpectedly large victory a announcing that it would hire men (Continued on Page 2) of Minnesota citizens.” pronounced setback for them ploughs, and 32% not even that rudimentary tool. Mod­ for labor — and a further strengthening of reaction. They backed Trumanism and got McCarthyism. 'Their aim was to show that sup­ ern technology and civilization were unknown to the great port of the Democrats would hand The labor leaders bear the main responsibility fo r the failure Taft-Hartleyism a defeat at the majority of the people. to halt the swing to reaction. They offered the American people Today, this structure of backwardness and stagnation polls; Now T a ft’s return has no real answer to the bi-partisan drive toward war, the rising prices strengthened Taft-Hartleyism in is being radically altered, as a result of two revolutionary and higher taxes. Puerto Ricans Houndedv Congress. The prestige of the developments: the expropriation of all foreign and “ na­ Instead of fighting the Democratic Party for betraying its labor politicians has been damag­ Almost, simultaneously with the Dr. Gilberto Concepcion de Gra­ scores of arrests in Harlem’s tive” capitalists and landowners on the one hand; the 1948 promises, they covered up its crimes and again lent them­ ed, their influence in the Demo­ proclamation that the Nationalist cia, and leaders of the le ft wing Puerto Rican community. Not only selves as vote-catching ward-heelers to the graft-ridden, boss-ruled cratic Party w ill be reduced, and launching of the firs t Five-Year Plan of industrialization uprising in Puerto Rico had been labor unions, the General Work­ relatives but acquaintances and Democratic machine. labor-baiters everywhere will feel on the other. Owing to these two big revolutionary pro­ quelled, the regime, of Governor ers Union (UGT) and the even neighbors of the two men encouraged to make new assaults cesses, Yugoslavia is today an the way to becoming a high­ Munoz Marin, Truman’s hand dissident General Confederation involved in the Blair House attack They further discredited themselves by accepting almost any Democratic hack the machine offered like Ferguson in Ohio, Lynch against the workers. ly developed industrial country. picked ruler of this U. S. colony, of Workers. have been subjected to arrests and proceeded to utilize the assassina­ grueling interrogations. Puerto and Pecora in New York and Lucas in Illinois, even though they In part, they can thank the MANY STILL HELD had to hold their noses when they voted fo r them. White House fo r helping along Industrialization Through Electrification tion attempt against Truman in Ricans in Harlem and other cities Washington to institute a reign The number of arrested has are .being kept under “ surveil­ Worst of all, by accepting the administration’s war program, the fiasco in Ohio. I t is well The basic goal of the Five-Year Plan was to be of terror throughout the entire been variously estimated at from lance,” that is, .continue to be they have had to take co-responsibility fo r the price-gouging, tax- known that Truman participated achieved through releasing a huge potential of hydro­ island. 600 to 2,500, the latter figure harassed. extortion and big Korean war casualties that flow from that pro­ in the maneuvers that gave the being set by Dr. Concepcion, Ohio Democratic nomination to electric power. Up to now big hydro-electric installations San Juan, the capital, was In the South Bronx section of gram. leader of the Independence Party. Ferguson, a political nonentity have been built or completely renovated in Maribor, Soko- placed under virtual martial law, New York City a series of assaults That not less that 1,000 are in­ Jack Kroll, director of the CIO Political Action Committee, at­ and liab ility i f ever there was upon Puerto Ricans took place. tributes the election results to “ a feeling of insecurity and uncer­ lowitza, Bitolj, Kotor, Wlasenitza, Srnowci, Mesitchi, Mus- although this was not done volved was officially confirmed one. Truman would like to see Three thugs emerged from a car tainty on the part of the American people.” But w ill they feel any chowitza, Senitza and many other places. Big turbine iormally. National Guard and last week, when Governor Marin Taft win the GOP presidential heavily armed police raided and severely beat a Puerto Rican less insecure and uncertain in the years to come, w ith an ever announced the release of 750 nomination in .1952, the idea factories have been built in order to equip these central teen - ager. In another assault, heavier burden of militarism, inflation and taxes? And will the various districts of the city, 6et “ Communists and Nationalists,” being that almost anyone could hydro-electric stations, such as the turbine plant Litostroj knives were wielded. In a third, labor leaders relieve that insecurity and uncertainty tomorrow up cordons, and arrested hun­ with 250 others still being held defeat him in a national contest. five men in ¿an automobile fired by the same kind of politics that could not quell the people’s doubts at Ljubljana and another one at Zagreb. The steel plants dreds without any specific charges, This action of releasing hun­ Incomplète studies show that holding many incommunicado and a shotgun at a group of Puerto and fears today, but has only intensified them? of Jesenitze, Senitza and Sisak have been expanded and dreds of prisoners is an obvious Ricans sitting on a stoop of a the workers in the cities by and “ detaining” others as “ witnesses The American people — the workers, the oppressed Negroes, renovated ; at Sisak the Yugoslavs, with their own means, attempt to placate public opinion, tenement, wounding two women large continued to vote fo r the for investigation.” the poor farmers — aren’t going to respond forever to the old lure constructed two new blast furnaces. Iron ore mines and perhaps by direct order from and a man. The police acknowl­ (Continued on page 4) Elsewhere through the island Washington which has been of the “ lesser evil” — the futile quest for a few “ good apples” in many other mines were opened up and expanded. edged that these and other attacks a barrel of rotten capitalist two-party politics. arrests were made by the m ilitary greatly embarrassed by events in “ were related.” For the firs t time, Yugoslavia had its own machine on the basis of lists drawn up by Puerto Rico. This does not at all They are looking fo r a new road. They w ill respond eagerly More on Elections local mayors who, naturally, did tool plant, Ivo Lola Ribar near Belgrade, while a motor mean that the reign of terror and WITCH-HUNT ATMOSPHERE to the call of a party that is truly free of capitalist political ties. Other election stories will be not fa il to include anyone whom (Continued on pace 2) intimidation is ended in Puerto It must be added that no>t only The day organized labor proclaims the formation of an independent found on Page 4 of this issue. they disliked for political or other Rico, but simply that it is to be these attacks but the high-handed labor party will be the day when the great mass of American peo­ Next week we w ill print a reasons. This new series of articles on Yugoslavia is based en conducted with a little more activity of the police and the FBI ple will come forth in their tens of millions to march behind labor’s number of articles from key political banner. scores of reports brought back by members of the many Among those arrested were caution and discretion. Stringent are also intimately related. The election centers throughout the youth brigades and workers’ delegations that visited Yugo­ leaders of the Nationalist Party, “ anti - subversive” legislation is gangster assaults on Puerto Build labor’s own party and run labor’s own candidates! That country, together with addi­ slavia last summer, which have been carefully checked and the Communist Party and the In­ now in preparation there. Ricans are unquestionably in­ was one theme of the Socialist Workers Party election campaign tional analysis of the results compared with printed material from Yugoslav sources and dependence party, a moderate Meanwhile in this country the spired by the atmosphere created this year. That is the truth hammered home by the 1950 elec­ and post-election prospects. the findings of foreign correspondents. — Ed. parliamentary opposition led by police and the F B I have made by the police-FBI witch-hunt. tions results. 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(Continued from Page 1) in Fred Turner, the News’ red­ from the audience. Even the conduct a referendum vote by cracy, the vote was considered a “ resolution expressing support baiting and anbi-Trotskyist expert. biased News reporter said that at secret ballot among all the magnificent demonstration of sup­ His Life and His Politics nnd sympathy in the fight to .On Wednesday, under Turner’s by­ that moment “ applause filled the Lackawanna Steel Locals. port by the m ilitant steel workers line, the News published the reinstate Copeland was passed.” hot, smoky hall.” Then Bruce Although this procedure is not r.nd a tribute to Copeland’s many By George Lavan cial worker. The Fabians treated the Russian Revolution of 1917. A meeting with the company was first of several articles calculated started his dirty work. “I have objectionable from a general point years of service to the Lackawan­ The death of George Bernard Marxism with an outward respect And he remained to his death firpt arranged for the next morning. to smear Copeland and break the never seen this company so of view', it must be noted that the na steel workers. Shaw raises again the question of but steadily cut the .heart out of against labor leaders and fellow It was obvious, however, from ranks of the workers. adamant on anything.” he assert­ international rarely resorts to his personality and politics. One it by shifting the emphasis away Fabians who called fo r armed the very start of the meeting, that ed, trying to scare the men with such a measure, always fearing READY TO STAY OUT REDBAITING ARTICLES of the great literary figures of from the working class. Instead intervention against the Soviet the company was intent on dis­ the specter of a long strike. “ Man­ to entrust such matters to the Copeland’s own local, Local of the producers in society being The News articles pictured the the age, an iconoclast professing Union. charging Copeland. The negotia­ agement has said it would be membership. In the last steel 2601, compromising the key blast important they held up the con­ strike as one which was engineer­ to believe in socialism, he evoked How can we reconcile (his man’s tions, which lasted fo r several worth the loss to get rid of strike the steel workers were furnace and coke oven depart­ sumers. The class straggle was ed by the “ Trotskyist Copeland” praise and condemnation from support of British imperialism hours, proved entirely fruitless. Vincent Copeland even if it meant neither afforded an opportunity ments, was nevertheless ready to declared to exist no longer. In who was allegedly a member of Marxists. Lenin and Trotsky both and obvious pleasure in wealth The company refused to budge on our staying out for weeks.” to vote on the walkout nor even “ stay out on their own until he essence, they told the workers that and association with the British the, executive committee of the spoke, in passing, not'unkindly of the reinstatement, even though it But even this was not enough. to vote on acceptance or rejection is reinstated.” But Copeland him­ struggle was unavailing and that Socialist Workers Party, which him. The ruling class which he aristocracy with his sympathy for never once denied that part of the Bruce then opened up with the of the settlement. self, at a membership meeting of socialism would be achieved by advocated a “ revolutionary brand ridiculed ended by regarding him socialism? The key lies in his understanding reached between same Trotsky-baiting used by the his local, after thanking them for experts, such as themselves, per­ of communism,” propagated REAL REASON affectionately as its court jester. middle class, Fabian belief that the union and the company in the News. He even went further, theiir support, urged them to go neating the government and busi­ though justice demanded social­ “ Trotsky’s ideas of the permanent The real reason for proposing What was the pattern of his life earlier walkout was that everyone alleging that Copeland had told back with the rest of the steel ness. ism, the workers were not in­ revolution,” etc., etc. the referendum vote to all the and his politics? •was to go back to work without him five years ago that he was a locals and fight, his case by sub­ This outlook — based on the telligent enough to achieve it The articles in themselves could locals was that Bruce and his mitting it promptly to arbitration. Shaw’s youth was a straggle any discrimination. member of the “ Trotskyite party,” middle class origin of the Fabians themselves. He looked for superior not have greatly affected the stooges fe lt they could rely on the The four-day work stoppage on to keep himself and his mother and that the Socialist Workers — was embraced by Shaw and is people like the educated Fabians COMPANY MISCALCULATES morple of the steel workers or local capitalist press and the within the respectability of the Party was nothing but “ a twin of behalf of Copeland by Lackawan­ the key to his politics for the or a benevolent dictator to ac­ A t three o’clock Tuesday the their determination to reinstate general red-baiting hysteria na’s 17,000 steel workers was the middle class. In snobbish Victorian the Communist Party.” rest of his life. He saw the work­ complish that task. walkout began in the blast Copeland, but the district leaders throughout the country to becloud most magnificent labor * demon­ England this was a bitter task. ing class as a victimized class His attitude toward Mussolini of the steel union immediately TURNED INTO WITCH-HUNT the real issue in the Lackawanna Here he learned the injustice of furnace and coke - ovens, and by stration ever undertaken on behalf unable to achieve its own salva­ and Fascism illustrates this. Shaw Thursday evening the entire steel made1 an about - face from their walkout. the social system. Reading Karl Later, after Bruce had obviously- of a local grievance man. The fact tion: it would be delivered only was long an admirer and defender city was practically shut down. previous position of sympathy for Nevertheless, out of some 4,000 that it had only a limited success Marx opened new vistas for him fanned the flames of the red­ by superior people or by a super­ of Mussolini. In 1927 he said, The company had obviously mis­ Copeland and suddenly called a workers who participated in the is not due to the unwillingness of and furnished his w it with a razor baiting hysteria among his fo l­ man. “ Some of the things Mussolini has calculated. I t had not expected special meeting of all the Lack­ referendum vote, 926 voted to stay the workers to render him all the edge in dissecting the hypocrisies lowers to a pitch, some of his done and some that he is threaten­ that the thousands of workers awanna locals for purposes of out. Considering the fact that support they could muster, but to of capitalism. I t also opened up SOCIALIST CRITICISM hecklers were shouting in unison: ing to do go further in the direc­ outside of Copeland’s local would “determining whether the men those who voted to stay out knew the conspiracy between a giant two paths to him. “ Are you a member of the Com­ The socialist publications bad tion of Socialism than the English readily join the walkout arid give should go back to work or not,” that they would not only have to steel corporation and the local munist Party?” “ Are you a mem­ TWO PATHS afforded Shaw a means of break­ Labor Party could yet venture . . . their enthusiastic support for his as they phrased it. buck the company, the capitalist capitalist press, and the weak- ber of a subversive organiza­ One led to the working class ing into print. He pursued his and it is certainly not my busi­ reinstatement. press and radio, but also the steel kneed and treacherous role of the MEETING CALLED tion?” Copeland denied, this. Then — that mass of toiling humanity literary career and made his ness nor that of any Socialist to Everywhere the workers were Bruce rose again to the micro­ union’s heavy - handed bureau­ labor bureaucrats. success in drama. His plays The meeting that evening, ob­ into which he and his mother weaken him. . . .” repeating, “ We can’t let the com­ phone, charging him with member­ utilized socialist criticism of viously called on short notice, was had so feared to sink. The other pany get away with it.” The blast ship in the Socialist W'orkers society. His sharp w it pierced the ADMIRED DICTATORS deliberately packed by United led to drawing rooms of middle furnace and coke-oven employees Party and turning the issue of his bubbles of capitalist hypocrisy He supported the Duce’s war Steelworkers international repre­ Tragic Telegram class respectability — the “ right­ everywhere were chanting, “ We discharge into a witch-hunt. and Victorian morality. The whole on Ethiopia and was mild in his sentative Julian Bruce with a fu l” place fo r those of his fam ily’s won our grievance; now we reading and playgoing public criticism of Hitler. He deplored preponderance of workers from By the time Copeland had the origin. In Shaw’s eyes both paths mustn’t lose our grievance man.” knows how effectively and artist­ Hitler’s anti-Semitism as a the so-called “ strip m ill.” a floor, it was clear that Bruce’s bore the label “ socialist.” He Everything pointed in the direc- ically he did this. His plays also “ craze” or “ complex” in an notoriously Jim Crow mill, in supporters from the more back­ tried both. One centered about iton of a swift victory for the served to clear the air for dis­ otherwise statesmanlike policy. order to counteract the many Ne­ ward mills were intent on brow­ William Morris, famous poet and workers and the reinstatement of cussion of social problems, en­ This attitude Shaw carried over gro workers with whom Copeland beating the rest of the wefrkers artist, who had plunged into the Copeland. couraging those who were calling has been extremely popular on the into submitting to a back-to-work Marxist movement and was trying to Stalin. Then the company, in collusion for the destruction of the old In 1944 Shaw wrote that “ we basis of many years’ activity on referendum vote, not based on the to build a proletarian group. The with the viciously anti - labor corrupt society and the creation shall have to defend all the good their behalf. company’s union - busting dis­ other “ socialist” movement was Buffalo Evening News, cooked up of a socialist world. public work done by the Fascists Even so, the meeting, which charge but on the red - baiting based on discussion groups in a conspiracy to divide and confuse The general impression that and Nazis under the subtitle of was attended by more than issue injected by the company and cultured middle class parlors. the workers by a series of virulent Shaw opposed World War I is National Socialists. We shall have 2,000 workers, would have over­ the News. These Fabian parlors were never Trotsky - baiting articles against false. When the war started he to defend as best we can their whelmingly voted to stay out for Nevertheless, when Copeland, sullied by the presence of n Copeland in the News. Taking a refused to swallow the excesses nationalization of trade union­ Copeland’s reinstatement, but for during the course of his stirring, worker — who would not only leaf from other local industrial of anti-German propaganda and ism.’. . . In the USSR, where this the fact that Julian Bruce had militant speech, asked the mem­ have made his hosts uncom­ magnates, such as Bell A ircraft ridiculed it. In discussing the war nationalization has been effected, decided to line u.p with the com­ bership point - blank. “ How many fortable but would himself feel and Westinghouse, the Ee.thlehem he even stated that “ if soldiers Trade Unionism is much stronger pany and the Buffalo Evening men w ill stay out?” even the out of place. Steel Company saw its best hope were wise they would shoot their than in England or the USA.” He News in their conspiracy to break biased News reported admitted Shaw tried both movements. officers and return home to mind furthermore asserted that Stalin’s the back of the greatest spontane- that “ about fifty percent of those With the workers he participated Businessmen Gave Heavy their own business,” However, he policies had proved that the i u s labor demonstration in the in the audience raised their in the great unemployed move never meant anyone to Hike this Fabian criticism of Bolshevism Donations to Democrats history of the Niagara Frontier. hands.” But, according to the ment of the 1880’s. This was seriously and justified his sup­ had been correct and that “ the. The Democrats used to “ prove” same News reporter. “ Mr. Bruce smashed by the government on that they weren’t a party of Big WORKERS’ SENTIMENTS immediately objected, reminding Bloody Sunday, 1887. In the fight­ port of British imperialism by Russian system is now a Fabian Business because the Republicans Bruce opened the meeting with Mr. Copeland that it was agreed ing in Trafalgar Square Shaw such quips as: “ You cannot be system.” impartial in a conflict between Shaw’s career proves that got a major share of financial a long “ statement of the facts in no man from the platform could participated. contributions from the big. cor­ the case.” For a while during his bring a motion before the meet­ two pirate fleets if you happen mental brilliance and good- porations. They can’t complain speech it seemed that Bruce was ing.” BECAME FABIAN to be aboard one of them.” He heartedness arc not enough. Only any more. Tn 1950, columnist still giving cautious support to ■Bruce had previously announced After this great defeat Shaw toured the front as guest of with the science of Marxism and Robert S. Allen points out after Copeland’s reinstatement. “ The at the meeting “that in the in­ gave his sole allegiance to the Marshal Ilaig and did some work a party of the working class can a study of contribution lists made fact that the plant is shut down terests of an orderly session” he Fabians who declared that the for*the Propaganda Ministry. an individual — no matter how public by both parties, “ Democrats tonight,” he said, “ is evidence would dispense with all the period of “revolutionary heroics” To his everlasting credit it gifted — straggle effectively for have received more and larger that, even though we differ with parliamentary rules of procedure was past and that “ practical must be recorded that he defended a better world. compaign checks from business­ Mr. Copeland’s ideas of govern­ and conduct the meeting as he reform" was now the only feasible men than the Republicans.” The ment, we’re union men, and sup­ saw fit, “ so as to protect you.” No ■ Clutching a telegram from the Defense Department advising path. The Fabians were led by donations come “from virtually porting him.” vote on the main issue of the dis­ her that her son Alvin had been killed in Korea, Mrs. Johannan Sidney and Beatrice Webb. He ©very important segment of U. S. This statement of Bruce’s was charge was therefore taken except J. Fowler gives vent to her grief. The Roxbury, Mass., widow was a statistician and civil ser­ industry and finance.” followed by thunderous applause for the election of a committee to lost another son in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. vant, she was an aristocratic so­ Howard Mason, Literature help put Christ on the crops.” We Agent for the Detroit branch of congratulate Comrade Courts on the Socialist Workers Party, re­ his 80th birthday and hope he w ill ports good sales of The Militant see socialism growing into a during the election campaign. “ In mighty movement in America be­ What Yugoslavia Has Achieved the past week we covered a num­ fore many more elections have passed. (Cont. from page 1) criterion in judging the relations between a state and its needs grow and the more must the increase of production ber of meetings,” he writes. At Local 600 of the OIO Auto Work­ plant at Rakowitsa, precision factories at Belgrade and people. We know the methods used by the Soviet bureauc­ be stepped up, till all the basic needs of the people can be ers Union, the score was 50 M ili­ electrical equipment plants were modernized technologic­ racy in industrialization at the expense of millions of hu­ satisfied. tants. A t other union gatherings, ally. For the first time Yugoslavia manufactures its own man lives and of years and years of misery and hardship The Yugoslav workers and communists are very con­ 25. In addition the branch dis­ tractors at Rakowitsa and its own trucks at the T.A.M. for tens of millions of people. Can the same thing be said scious of this process. The members of the foreign brig­ tributed 25,000 leaflets opposing plants at Maribor. Construction equipment plants have ades often posed questions like this one: “ Would you agree a reactionary “anti - subversive” about the Federal people’s Republic of Yugoslavia? proposal on the ballot. been built side by side with chemical plants and new in­ to build socialism for your children and grandchildren, Statistics as well as the impressions and discussions From Los Angeles, Literature stallations in the food industry. The first drug plants — which several thousand foreign youth had in the summer like the Russian workers are told?” The answer would be Agent A1 Lynn writes that 45 the penicillin plant Galenika and the nicotine plant at of 1950 in Yugoslavia permit a categoric answer to that unanimous: “ We want to have socialism for ourselves. M ilitants were sold at an election Skolpje — have arisen. Dozens of other small and medium­ question. Of course, the standard of living of the popula­ We want to have a good apartment, decent food and cloth­ rally of the Communist Party. In sized plants in all fields of industry have been expanded tion is still far from the standard of living of privileged ing, medical care, good vacation, good books, for ourselves the Negro community in Watts a to become great and modern enterprises. For example, capitalist countries, like the USA, Britain, Australia or in a couple of years. We want our government to keep former New Yorker sold 50 M ili­ tants to his neighbors in a couple Local Addresses a small workshop of 50 workers at Zagreb has become Switzerland. Many discrepancies and differences remain that in mind. That’s objective No. 1.” With such a clear of days. today the Rade Kontchar factory where 4,000 workers between different parts of the country and different lay­ consciousness, the struggle against bureaucratism has a Literature Agents also report Of Socialist build electrical transformers at a rapid pace. ers of the population. But some outstanding facts indicate better chance of success than in the Soviet Union. good sales of A rt Preis’s pamphlet, A t the same time the Yugoslav transport system, one what has been done. In Russia the development of heavy “ Welfare State or Socialism.” The of the most backward in the world before the war, has industry was achieved at a much quicker rate than that Social and Cultural Achievements pamphlet makes a good combina­ Workers Party become completely transformed. 1,300 km. of new track Important as they are, these economic achievements tion with The Militant to in­ AKRON—For Information, writ© P. O. of light industry, therefore at the expense of consumption troduce workers to the program Box 1342. have been laid since the war, 680 km. of highway were of the working population. In Yugoslavia, while steel pro­ are still far from sufficient to lift the Yugoslav people to BOSTON—Workers Educational Center, of socialism. C. A. of Milwaukee, 30 Stuart St. Open Tues.. 5:30-9 P.M. newly built and 4,000 km. of roads were repaired and duction increased from 1938 to 1949 from 235,000 tons to an advanced standard of living. Giant strides have been ordering 75 more copies, observes Social last Sat. of every month. BUFFALO—Militant Forum. 029 Main renovated. Some of these projects necessitated gigantic 400,000 tons, electricity from 1.1 billion kwh to 2.2 billion made in the cultural and social spheres in Yugoslavia in that sales of the pamphlet “ have Street. 2nd fl. Open ©very afternoon ex­ efforts, like the Samats-Sarajevo railway for which more kwh, copper production from 30,000 to 35,000 tons, wood a couple of years, its legislation being among the most been going pretty well at union cept Sun. Phone MAdison 3- 000. meetings.” CmCAGO—100 W. Washington St., Rm and deeper tunnels had to be dug out than for any other production from 1 million to 3 million cubic meters, and advanced in the world. 312-314. Phone D earborn 2-4767. railway in Europe. Six new ocean liners were built during Although education was already compulsory in pre­ Milwaukrie’s Literature Agent, CLEVELAND—Peck's Hall. 1446 E. brickmaking from 640 million bricks to 975 million bricks, H. B., sent in a batch of subscrip­ 82nd St. (off Wade Park Ave.). every the same period and nine others renovated and modernized. war Yugoslavia, and the number of children attending Sun., 9 P.M. in the field of consumer goods the following progress has tions to The M ilitant. One of them D E T R O IT —0108 Linw ood Ave. Open Many of these factories are still insufficiently equip­ been achieved: primary schools only increased by 10%, the number of he reports, is fo r an old school Mon. through Sat., 12-5 P.M. Phone TY children sent to vacation centers increased from 37,400 in 7-6267. ped ; in many others the organization of production is very 1938 1949 chum of some of the Milwaukee FLINT—SWP Hall, 213 E. 9th St. Open backward. Productivity is still lower than in advanced Furniture 10,500 complete sets 44,000 complete sets 1939 to 162,000 in 1949. The number of students in col­ Trotskyists who had not been seen house ©very Sat. evening. Phone 2-2498. Cotton goods 116 million sq. meters 170 million sq. meters fo r almost 15 years. “ He was LOS ANGELES—Militant Pub. Ass'n. countries. But industry is on the way to catching up with leges and other institutions of higher education jumped Rm 325. 124 W. 6th St. Phone VAndyke Woolen goods 13.3 million sq. meters 28 million sq. meters from 168,000 in 1939 to 435,000 in 1949; higher technical quite impressed with our program 8061. modern technology: That’s the meaning of what has been Shoes 3.85 million pairs 7.75 million pairs and donated $5.” MILWAUKEE—917 N. 3rd St., 3rd fl. institutions had an enrollment of 11,000 students in 1939, Open Sun. through Fri., 7:30-9:30 P.M. achieved. One can say without exaggeration that never Rubber sandals 1.7 million pairs 4.1 million pairs, etc. L. B. Courts of Sharonville, Phone H opkins 2-5337. before was the economic structure of any country changed and of 66,000 in 1949. There were 17,700 university stu­ Ohio, dropped us a note the other MINNEAPOLIS—10 South 4th St. Open Greater Production and Demand ciay. He reached his 80th birthday daily except Sun. 10 A.M.-6, P.M. Libra­ as radically in so few years. dents in prewar Yugoslavia; there are 55,000 today. There ry, bookstore. Phone Main 7781. These figures indicate clearly that the rate of ex­ were 3,000 students in art academies in 1939; there are on November 8 and is still a NEW IIAVEN—For information, write Development of Heavy and Light Industry pansion of consumer goods industry is at least as rapid 20,000 today. staunch socialist. “ The capitalist P.O. Box 1019. ctass,” he writes, “ lies to stay in NEWARK—423 Springfield Avenue. But the problem of industrialization and electrifica­ as the rate of expansion of heavy industry. They arq re­ Social security is .completely non-contributory for the NEW YORK CITY—Hq.: 116 University power. It rales us in order to Place. Phone: A L 5-7852. tion of the country is only one side of the picture. We flected in the day-to-day life of the people in thousands masses. It includes compensation for sickness, disability dispose of our lives on the battle­ BROOKLYN — De Luxe Palace, 538 Howard Ave., near Loew’s Pitkin. Meet­ know that the method of industrialization is a decisive of different ways. Whereas before the war millions of and pensions at the age of 60. Industrial workers and fields.” He asks the workers to ing every Thurs., 8 P.M. people bought a pair of shoes every four years, they employees, functionaries, members of the armed forces listen to the message of social­ H A R L E M —103 W . 110th St. Rm 23. ism. “ The Socialists have come to Open discussion, every Thurs., 8 P.M. now buy one every other year. Whereas a pi*ewar peasant and members of the peasant cooperatives benefit from OAKLAND (Cal.) — For information would wear his shirt till it was in shreds, he now buys a you day by • day, week by week, w rite P.O. Box 19o3, o r ca ll T E m plebar this system. Although there is a terrible lack of medical month after month and year after 2-3735. couple of shirts every six months. Whereas sugar before personnel, in 1949 100,000 pregnant women — 1 out of P H IL A D E L P H IA — 1303-03 W . G ira rd year telling you the truth. My Ave., 2nd fl. Open every Frl. evening. the war was a luxury product which only the middle class every 4 — were cared for by special state institutions view is that the man who knows Phone Stevenson 4-5820. about socialism and still hands his PITTSBURGH—For information, write and bourgeoisie of the cities could afford, it has today while in 1938 only 6,000 women visited these centers. And P. O. Box 382. vote to the Siamese twins would become a common consumer product used as much in the finally, hundreds of thousands of workers now spend their ST. LOUIS—For Information, Phone MO 7191. most backward sections of the countryside as in the cities fortnight’s vacation in the richest and swankiest bathing SAN FRANCISCO—1T39 Fillmore Ave­ nue. 4th fl. Open daily except Sun., 12- (average consumption per capita is 4 times as high as resorts on the sea coast or in the mountains which were 4:30 P.M . Phone F l 6-0410. before the war). Yet precisely the products which have reserved exclusively before the war for foreigners or very SEATTLE—Maynard Bldg., 1st Ave., So. and W ashington, R m 201. Open Mon. greatly increased in production and which have become rich bourgeois and landowners. This vacation is not re­ through Sat. 12-3 P.M. Branch meeting every Thurs.. 7 :30 P .M . L ib ra ry , book­ universal consumer goods are scarcer than ever before, stricted to a few privileged pace-setters (Stakhanovists) store. Phone M a in 9278. because everyone wants them, and wants more of them TOLEDO—For information, write P.O. as in Russia; in 1950 some 50% of the workers of big Box 1502. now. The people have acquired tremendous new aspira­ factories spent their vacations in the choicest spots. YOUNGSTOWN — 234 13. Federal St. Open Wed., Fri., Sat., 1:30-4 P.M. PkflM tions, and the more production increases the more the (Next week: Economic Difficulties) 8 -1 8 6 5 . P age T h re e

Yugoslav Foreign Policy PUERTO RICO'S LOT: COLONIAL ENSLAVEMENT Continues Drift to Right By Larissa Reed precedented hardships on the in­ “When we say that America is moving toward world By Paul G. Stevens help “ because it means nothing A glimpse into the unendurable misery and squalor of the ternational arena. The direct domination, it does not at all mean that this domination will Yugoslav foreign policy, based and can only lead to trouble,” but Puerto Rican people is given in a report issued on Nov. 3 by a stressed nevertheless that: “ When threat of military attack from be completely realized, nor, all the less so, that after it is formally on the concept that the federal interdepartmental committee on children and youth, headed our country undertakes an obliga­ the Kremlin and its Cominform realized to one degree or another, it w ill endure for centuries United Nations is a genuine in­ by Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing. Although modi­ satellites is attested to by the or even decades. We are discussing a historical tendency strument for peace and that the tion, it keeps it.” fied as much as possible by an agency whose firs t task is to white­ which, in actuality, w ill be criss-crossed and modified by 896 frontier incidents in two struggle against war hinges on wash U.S. crimes, these “ cold” statistics are a burning indictment other historical tendencies. If the capitalist world were able DISCREDITING YUGOSLAVIA years, which the Yugoslav fo r­ abstract definitions of “aggres­ of U.S. colonial rule. For over fifty years Wall Street profiteers to endure several more decades without revolutionary parox­ Thus, the fetishism of the UN eign minister recounted. Coupled sion” regardless of class con­ have been exploiting these colonial people, grinding them down into ysms, then these decades would unquestionably witness the as a peace instrument and the with these armed harassments, siderations, took a swing to the increasingly hopeless poverty and misery in order to extract their uninterrupted growth of American world dictatorship. But clinging to the concept of oppos­ the Yugoslavs have had to face a right after the opening of super-profits from its rich sugar crops. the whole point is that this process w ill inevitably develop its ing “aggression” as a means of debilitating economic blockade hostilities in Korea last1 June. The report stresses that the needs of the population are “ greater own contradictions which w ill become coupled with all the avoiding war has led Yugoslav from the same source since 1948. Last week it threatened to move than any comparable group under the United States flag.” It points other contradictions of the capitalist system.” foreign policy into a position in On top of that, the country has even further to the right with the this up by comparison with Mississippi, “ the poorest state in the — Leon Trotsky, “ Disarmament and the United States Which that country may be used suffered a devastating natural TROTSKY LENIN involvement of Mao Tse - tung’s Union.” In Puerto Rico the per capita income in 1947 was $306 — of Europe,” 1929. by Western imperialism against calamity, a drought, which mul­ China in the Korean hostilities. less than half the $659 per capita income in Mississippi. Compared the aroused colonial peoples not tiplies all the previous economic In reply to a question from a with the U.S. as a whole, which includes not only Mississippi, but only for propaganda purposes but and political difficulties. N. Y. Times correspondent, what all the other impoverished southern states, the per capita income even in direct combat. That such here is $1,323 — in other words, over $1,000 more than the Puerto his country’s stand would be in Only dilettantes who have never What the Future Holds an eventuality could only discredit given serious thought to the Rican’s. case of war between the United Yugoslavia in the eyes of the Higher prices and shortages, with an of $98 billion and higher than the $79Vo States and China, Marshal Tito problems of revolutionary leader­ millions of Asian people for whom Starvation Wages ever-increasing squeeze on the consum­ reportedly answered: ship, or demagogues who serve billion spending in 1943. the UN has become identified, the Kremlin bureaucracy, can “ My attitude is, of course, the Workers are miserably underpaid. The official figures, as of. ers, will prevail for a long time to come The last war’s spending was made particularly after the Korean ignore the life - and - death ques­ same as that of our delegation to August, 1949, fix hourly earnings in all industries at an “average” even if no major war breaks out. That is possible by running up a debt of $272 events, with U. S. imperialist tions that the Tito regime is con­ the United Nations. If such a of 43.8 cents an hour. The majority of the workers earn far less, aggression, is a foregone con­ fronted with. It must find im­ the prospect held forth by General •billion. This debt still remains at more situation as you mention should thus tobacco workers receive only 29.4 cents an hour. clusion. It would, moreover, also mediate means to prevent famine George C. Marshall, Secretary of De­ than $250 billion. Thus, the American develop', we would take a stand As can be expected on a one-crop island, “ employment oppor­ create the greatest mistrust from overcoming a population of fense. He told a conference of the Com­ people are going to have to foot, for an against any and all aggression. I tunities are limited, and much of the employment is seasonal.” This among the progressive forces in 16,000,000. It must be prepared should not like to be misunder- means severe chronic unemployment. In 1949, one out of six fami­ merce Department’s Business Advisory indefinite period in what is technically, Europe and America who have with adequate modern weapons to stood. It is the United Nations lies were either on relief or had applied fo r it. Yet only the most Council that the blue-prints are nearing at any rate, peace-time, ^ war bill almost come forward to defend revolu- prevent a murderous stab in the itself which must decide who is “ desperately” needy were eligible for this pittance which amounted ionary Yugoslavia against rapaci. back from Stalin’s legions which completion for a vastly expanded war as great as during the world war five the aggressor. Our stand w ill be to only $7.50 a month for an entire family. What kind of daily g u s imperialism as well as the stand alerted on all its borders. It production program extending over the years ago and starting on the basis of the same — that of the United life can be eked out from such tiny sums? The report sketches it reactionary Soviet bureaucracy must build its industrial potential Nations. We w ill adhere to that as follows: next four years and even longer. an already monumental debt. and its Cominform. rapidly to prevent discontent body’s decision.” In place of housing, an increasingly crowded and stinking Although he cited no specific figures, No one needs to be an economics ex­ Yugoslavia’s foreign policy is among the peasantry in a pre­ Since it is abundantly clear that all the more’.disastrous because it ghetto. In 1947 more than 84,000 families were packed into slums, Marshall made it clear that this year’s pert to realize what is in store for us. ponderantly agricultural country. and the slum population has been increasing at the rate of over UN policy is determined by the flies in the face of recent internal doubled war appropriations, which have Militarism as a permanent way of life is 2,000 families a year. Children are born without medical aid or at­ power bloc headed by Washing­ developments in that country. The “REALISTIC” ANSWERS tention, some of the mothers being attended by midwives. raised total federal spending to nearly going to mean a tremendous slash in ton — the UN vote to open the revival of the power of the peo­ The Yugoslav leaders have $60 billion annually, are far short of living standards. The diversion of labor For all the ill, adult or child, there is only an average of one door to Franco Spain is one more ple’s committees, the laws in­ sought “ realistic” answers to physician for every 2v500 persons, compared with one for every what the Truman administration and and raw materials to war production crushing bit of evidence fo r that! stituting workers’ control and these questions, as they had to. 200 in New York State, and one for every 1,500 in Mississippi. militarists plan to spend next year and must inevitably create shortages and a — Tito’s quoted stand, for all its management in the factories, the Internally, their “ realism” has led The infant death rate is 2 '/i times that in the U.S. with the main thereafter. According to the press ac­ huge rise in prices, as well as a stagger­ circumspect language, can mean decree equalizing rations for state them — belatedly or not, firm ly casualties resulting from poverty diseases, such as enteritis, diar­ only that in case of war against .nd party functionaries with those or gropingly,, but in any case in counts of the conference, “ unofficial re­ ing increase in taxes. rhea. and tuberculosis. In January, 1949, over 1,700 crippled chil­ China, the Yugoslav regime w ill cf the general population — all increasing measure — to a mo­ dren were on the waiting list for medical treatment. ports” placed the anticipated costs of The results of the elections already in­ be lined up with the American these are evidence in action of the bilization of the working class next year’s military budget at about $55 dicate, as one Nf. Y. Times commentator power bloc. Tito government’s desire to pro­ and its active, enthusiastic par­ Horrible Social Conditions billion. This would bring the total federal Yugoslavia’s delegation in the mote the socialist revolution. But ticipation in industry, in defense, observed, that many people are “ tired of If a child survives the first critical year, it has a wretched annual budget to around $85 billion. war, high prices and high taxes.” They General Assembly joined in pass­ how can the socialist revolution in the struggle against bureau­ ing what has been called a “ his­ in Yugoslavia be defended on the cracy. In the course of this whole youth to look forward to. Only one-half the island’s children are' Such an enormous sum has never been are going to grow even more tired of tory-making” resolution, which international arena in league with internal development, the Yugo­ in the inadequate, overcrowded schools, and these for only half a day. Most of them never get beyond the fourth grade. General spent by the government in any year of them in the years to come. And, as the provides (a) fo r the Assembly to a United Nations organization slav communists have had to shed illiteracy of the population is over 25% — compared with 3% in war or peace except in 1944 and 1945, at be called within 24 hours to deal that is even now being used as more and more of the opportunist, militarist load becomes intolerable, they the U.S. Because of malnutrition, Puerto Rican children on the by a majority vote with “aggres­ camouflage in the imperialist class - collaborationist lessons the height of World War II. It is only are going to seek effective ways to throw average are two years behind American children in physical de­ sion” in case of a (Russian) veto effort to put down Asia’s colonial $13 billion below the 1945 war-time peak it off their backs. learned in the school of Stalin­ velopment. on*proposed action in the Security revolutions? The dilemma before ism. On the international arena, Recreational facilities are “ few and * inadequate.” Instead of Council: (b) gives the Assembly the Yugoslav people is obvious. cn the other hand, the develop­ playground activities, many of the children beg on the streets or Puerto Rico—A Reminder for Asia the rig ht to make “ appropriate It is not difficult to understand ment has been in an entirely dif­ sell legalized lottery tickets. Every year new lost generations of recommendations to members for the motivation for this self- ferent direction. abandoned children without families or means of support wander It has become quite the fashion in the That foreign rule for 52 years has collective measures” including the defeating and false foreign policy. “Realism” in foreign policy no about the streets. Is it any wonder that there is an excessive reduced the Puerto Ricans to a state of use of armed forces; and (c) Edward Kardelj, Foreign Minister aoubt demands, from a revolu­ amount of “ juvenile delinquency” ? But for these, the colonial rulers American press of recent years to speak instructs each UN member to and head of the Yugoslav delega­ chronic and abysmal poverty and degra­ tionary point of view also, utiliza­ w ill always provide plenty in the way of prisons, punishments and disparagingly of British and French “maintain within its national tion at the UN, openly expressed terror. dation. The recent revolt has blazoned tion of the platform of the United colonialism as “ old-style imperialism,” armed forces elements so trained it at the General Assembly on Nations, skillful diplomacy and Even the N. Y. Times, ardent upholder of Wall Street’s rule, the plight of the Puerto Ricans to the and organized and equipped that Sept. 26: “ I t goes without saying seizure of such advantages as in an editorial on Nov. 5 is obliged to confess that these conditions by which is meant the seizure of colonies entire world. they could promptly be made that the aggressive policy of. the maneuvers afford without the are “ appalling,” and that the “ children, and indeed the whole popu­ by force and their rule by foreign powers. ft will not fail to have its effect available . . . fo r service as a Soviet and other East European compromise of principle. Devotion lation, of Puerto Rico face desperate needs, economic, social, and United Nations unit or units.” Governments with regard to educational.” The Times is well aware that “ desperate” needs can This is usually contrasted with the upon the peoples of Asia and other back­ to socialist principle, in foreign allegedly more benevolent policies of the Asked pointedly by the cor­ Yugoslavia is one of the chief policy as in domestic — requires breed desperate actions — as was so forcibly demonstrated last ward areas who are being bombarded respondent whether Yugoslavia factors determining the interna­ week. Such actions throw a world-wide spotlight on human lives United States toward backward coun­ first, of all, however, a clear-cut with U. S. propaganda about the benefits would live up to this resolution tional position of the Yugoslav stand on all problems from the blighted and broken by U.S. capitalist greed — and throw a monkey tries. of American “ democracy” and “ libera­ and “earmark” troops for UN Government and its attitude to point of view of the class strug­ wrench into the propaganda and lies that the U.S. is an exporter of “ democracy,” “ prosperity,” and “ freedom.” The nationalist uprising in Puerto Rico disposal, Tito replied that this the fundamental questions of gle and bearing in mind that the tion.” Puerto Rico after 52 years of U. S. The Times knows that the U.S. ruling class have big fish to has sharply reminded the world that the was a matter for the future, that world peace.” main..the only reliable, ally is to rule is not likely to diminish the current he Yugoslavs were not “ en­ The leaders of revolutionary fry in their coming imperialist gambles on a vast colonial scale, U. S. along with its more stream-lined be found in the masses fighting to so it pleads for a little clean-up job in its own colonial backyard distrust and hostility in a good part of thusiastic” about such symbolic Yugoslavia do, indeed, face un­ free themselves from imperialist method of controlling other countries in­ the globe regarding this country and its first. Something must be done to offset “the propagandists and oppression. extremists who say we are exploiting Puerto Rico,” state the edi­ directly through economic penetration intentions. LENIN’S POLICY tors. Otherwise, they fear, the U.S. w ill have difficulty in exporting and pressure, is also an established prac­ What, for instance, can the people of its “ world wide Point Four Program” — a program designed to That was Lenin’s international titioner of “ old-style imperialism.” Korea expect from the U. S., when Wash­ INPOPULAR RHEE GOVT. convert vast colonial areas elsewhere into bigger and even more policy when the Soviet state was profitable Puerto Ricos. Compared to those of the older im­ ington maintains such abominable con­ beset by troubles and dangers not perialist powers, American colonial hold­ ditions in its own back-yard? Will Wall incomparable with those that ings are small (if we exclude Japan, Street imperialism provide the peoples of RULES RY TERRORISM Yugoslavia faces today, and that Western Germany, most of Korea and Asia any more, in the way of improved When Gen. MacArthur, in that grotesque ceremony policy aroused a world - wide last month amidst the smoking ruins of Seoul, restored response that saved the Russian CRISIS SHARPENED BY CLASH other territories where the U. S. is living standards and democratic rights, revolution and the young Soviet presumably only in “ temporary occupa­ than it has accorded the people of Puerto Syngman Rhee to power in South Korea, the claim that Republic. Violation of this prin­ tion” ). But let us not forget that part of Rico? On the contrary, the tragic condi­ U. S. forces were in Korea to ciple in foreign policy by the WITH CHINA IN NORTH KOREA liberate the Korean people and same time keep the Rhee govern­ USSR was the work of Stalin. American capitalism’s wealth and super­ tions in Puerto Rico give other colonial ment functioning properly and (Continued from page 1) “ I t is now established,” says bring them democracy was pretty To gain temporary advantages, profits come from the ruthless exploita­ peoples a forewarning — if they need well while remaining pretty much Harsch, “ that the Chinese Com­ well exploded. to ward off an immediate threat and destroyed if more Red troops tion of the people and rich resources of it — of what their own fate will be if in the background,” as Frank munists have dug themselves in Now* news dispatches from Seoul Stalin was always ready to make were sent” into Korea. Robertson, special correspondent along a rough line running Puerto Rico, which the U.'S. seized by they fall under the control, direct or in­ give further evidence of how little common cause with imperialists, of the Christian Science Monitor, Another rumored reason is that parallel to, and about 50 miles force and has ruled by force. direct, of the American plutocracy. Rhee represents the Korean peo­ fascist and “democratic” alike, recently wrote from Tokyo. the intervention has been dictated south of, the Yalu River. . . . The ple. A Nov. 3 Associated Press against the masses. The Kremlin’s Robertson admits that the Rhee not only fo r economic reasons but American units which have been dispatch reports that the South maneuvers with the Allies against regime, which was put in power also by Mao’s determination to surrounded were caught because Korean National Assembly, des­ tl'.e Yugoslav revolution during U. S. Labor and Yugoslavia by U. S. occupation forces follow­ back up the North Korean gov­ they bad driven through this line pite the fact that many delegates World War II — so brilliantly Yugoslavia, whose heroic defiance of where an attempt is being made to extend ing the post-war division of Korea ernment. without knowing of its existence opposed to Rhee are missing, exposed by Moshe Pyade — are by Truman and Stalin, “ fa r too until the trap closed behind the Kremlin has dealt Stalinism its democracy in the form of workers con­ voted 100 to 21 against his ap­ are an excellent case in point. ON OWN IN IT IA T IV E often used police-state methods.” « them.” hardest blow, is faced with a crisis due trol and management of industry and the pointment of Paik Nak Choon as Such Stalinist “realism” in in­ What is most noteworthy about He describes Rhee as “ an extreme This is further confirmed by Minister of Education. ternational policy only served the all these comments and specula­ to an accident of nature beyond the elimination of bureaucratic privilege, the and stubborn rightist with dwind­ M acArthur’s reference in the Rhee had appointed Choon last reactionary bureaucracy, never tions: — both in the press and at Yugoslav people’s control, a severe American union officialdom is silent. ling popular support,” but “the above - cited communique to “ a May 4 before the Korean civil war the proletarian revolution in the UN — is (he absence of the drought. This natural catastrophe may Their failure to do anything to lend government he heads has received possible trap . . . surreptitiously began and prior to the May 30 Russia or anywhere else. charge that Mao is simply blindly so weaken Jugoslavia internally as to aid to'Yugoslavia, particularly in the face elections. A t that time the voters, endorsement of the United Na­ laid to encompass the destruction The present Yugoslav foreign following instructions from thé in the face of Rhee’s unbridled tions and for a time at least, it of the United Nations forces. . . .” make it vulnerable to Moscow’s on­ of its crucial need for food, reveals the policy, which brings it in conflict Kremlin. As a matter of fact, it terrorism including mass arrests, appears he must remain in slaught. real nature of their anti-Stalinism. In with China’s millions today as it has thus far been generally taken “HARD DECISIONS” tortures, executions and murders, power.” aid with those of Korea yesterday, for granted that the Mao regime Among the most outspoken com­ For many months — long prior to the this, as in their whole foreign policy, repudiated 80% of the members This unpopular and hated re­ arises from a desire to combat the has been acting by and large on ment was that made by the U. S. unexpected drought — Yugoslavia has they are completely creatures of the U. S. of the first National Assembly gime imposed on the Korean peo­ real threat of Stalinist attack. But its own initiative. And from all News of Nov. 10 which char­ been unsuccessfully seeking loans and State Department. I f the State Depart­ and elected a m ajority of dele­ ple by U. S. bombs, which have paradoxically, it is taken over in indications this appears to be the acterizes the turn in Korea as gates from anti-Rhec opposition wrecked most o f the country, other assistance from Washington and ment requires them — as in the last sum and substance from the anti- case. “ bad, really bad,” and sees Wash­ groups. represents the big landlords and various world agencies under Washing­ •war — to play ball with Stalinists, they Leninist practices of Stalinism. The sudden turn in the Korean The Assembly’s rejëction last capitalist elements. One of its ington as being “ up against some ton’s control or influence. It is quite ap­ do so. If it demands that they attack war was not expected either by very hard decisions.” The choice, week of Rhee’s appointee Choon first actions, on being restored to The basic fact about China and Korea today, as it was with Yugo­ the political or m ilitary strategists according to the U. S. News parent that the U. S. State Department Stalinism, they do so — but only to the is, in effect, a repudiation of the power, has been to institute has been putting a squeeze on Yugo­ extent and in the way that the State De­ “ land reforms” designed, as Rhee slavia after 1941, is that, despite in Washington. A t any rate, the editors, lies between “ ignoring” Rhee government. Howevhr, he m ilitary both in the field and at the Chinese troops and continuing slavia by holding up needed assistance, partment specifies. controls the army and police, himself stated, to return to the their involvement with the Krem­ landlords the land given to the lin and its agents, the masses the Tokyo headquarters seem to with the Korean war as i f nothing under one pretext or another, in order to The American workers have every equipped and trained by the U. S., have been caught by surprise. Ac­ had happened, or forcing a “ show­ which are the real ruling force in landless peasants by the North are in upsurge against imperialist extract political concessions. reason to oppose Stalinism, not because Korean forces when they were in intervention and against native cording to Joseph C. Ilarsch, head down” with Mao, that is, plunging Korea. In the notorious “ Human of the Christian Science Monitor’s into full-scale war with China. The further withholding of loans and of fts “threat” to capitalism, but because Flesh Case” last spring, a number South Korea. capitalism. By aligning them­ the delay in dispatching large supplies of its treachery to the working class. In Another action by Rhee is the selves with the United Nations Washington Bureau whose factual The Truman administration, they of anti-Rhee delegates were left reports have proved as a rule add, leans toward “ localizing” the of surplus food will mean not only im­ this respect, Yugoslavia has given an before their own doors in various institution of a new schedule of policy the Yugoslav Communists government salaries, ' effective damage their own cause in three quite accurate, Mao’s troops have war in Korea which would be an mense suffering in Yugoslavia this outstanding example of the way to fight states 6f dismemberment. Rhee’s been in North Korea fo r some “ endless, even if local, war” and firing squads now are working Nov. 4, whereby his own salary vital respects. winter but a great lessening of its power Stalinism — the working class way. has been tripled from 50,000 to . They lose the confidence of the time now, holding well concealed which “ may be hard to sell to the busily all over Korea, according and strongly fortified positions. American people.” to resist Moscow. The membership of the American to eye-witness accounts quoted in 150,000 won per month. Asian peoples fighting for free­ The American trade union leaders, labor movement is approximately equal last week’s Militant, dispatching “ I f good government cannot be dom and of those anti-Stalinist who have been so quick to urge aid for to the whole population of Yugoslavia. so-called “ collaborationists” with induced within the republic,” forces looking for an independent Robertson concluded, “ the latent socialist course. They help the other small countries, have been silent This means that the labor movement only a pretense of trials. The cold-blooded atrocities and fires of nationalism and abhor­ Kremlin’s machinations by lend­ about Yugoslavia. They have backed aid here, from its own resources, could lend îeactionary policies of the Rhee rence of foreign domination may ing some plausibility to its ac­ to the monarcho-capitalist regime of substantial aid to that embattled coun­ government make it difficult for easily be fanned.” But these fires cusation that Belgrade has fallen Greece; they have poured out their own try, thereby encouraging the elements Washington and its UN stooges to are already fanned to white heat. into the clutches of the imperial­ within it who want to resist the pressures keep up the fiction about the That’s the very reason why Wash­ ists. And they endanger their own funds for Israel; the AFL leaders have revolutionary achievements at even called for all-out U. S. support to of both Moscow and Washington. In­ “ restoration” of “ democracy” in ington continues to prop up Rhee Korea. Some of :the capitalist — he represents the only native home by a foreign policy which the butcher Chiang Kai-shek. But when dependently and through demands on papers speak of the “ dilemma” clement in Korea on whom the breaks the solidarity of the forces it comes to a country where the workers Washington, the American unions should which the UN is facing because imperialists can rely to fight these engaged in combating world have taken power, the only country give help to Yugoslavia. “ its representatives must at the fires. capitalism. ??Cruelly Deceptive” By Frank Poole While the CIO leaders went around calling for hoarding copper, gasoline, rubber, lard, milk or the election of more Trumanites, they were bread in the kitchen pantry, but the prices of all bitterly complaining about one of the major pieces these are up,” the Outlook states. of legislation passed by the last Democratic- Its contention that the corporations are not controlled Congress and signed by Truman, the justified in raising prices on the grounds of From Esso to AEC Defense Production Act which gives Truman inadequate profits is borne out by the latest What Happened power to fix ceilings on certain prices and to profits reports of the leading corporations. These Elections Show freeze wages. average a 51% increase fo r the third-quarter of The current CIO Economic Outlook assails the this year compared to the same period in 1949. To the Opponents wp.ge-priee control act as "cruelly deceptive.” Profits of the major war corporations have “Under its terms,” says the CIO publication, reached unprecedented heights during the period Decline of ALP, "wages and salaries can be clamped down, but the of the Korean war. General Motors reported a Of McCarran Law cost of living can still go up. Food, rent, and record net profit of over $702 million for the first By J. Blake medical costs are major terns in the average nine months of this year and on Nov. 8 declared During the congressional debate family budget. But neither the act nor any other the largest cash dividend payments in the history Liberal Party on the McCarran-Kilgore police- Federal legislation provides for a real freeze of of GM or any other corporation. „ state bill, its sponsors tried to By A rt Preis these major fam ily costs. The largest expenditure Similarly, U. S. Steel recently declared the intimidate their colleagues with of the average fam ily is for food. But the Defense largest dividend disbursement in its h story. Its threats that opposition to the bill NEW YORK, Nov. 8 — One significant result of the Production Act does not provide for a firm ceiling net income for the first nine months of 1950 was would mean certain defeat in the New York state and city elections is the greatly weakened over food prices.” more than $178 million compared to the $133 m il­ coming elections. position of the American Labor and Liberal parties, both Under the law, the Economic Outlook points lion take in the same period of 1949, a banner The vote on Nov. 7 revealed self - styled “ independent.” Their *> put, the president is required to freeze wages in year. how empty those threats were and votes declined drastically in spite In fact, the one "victory” the any industry where he puts a ceiling on prices. As usual, the CIO leaders make a strong stand how little the vote to sustain Tru­ of much heavier voting this year ALP could claim this year was the “ I f the price of steel or rubber were frozen, for in the battle of statistics, but have nothing to man’s veto of the bill hurt anyone. than last. election of a Republican, W illiam example, wages of steel and rubber workers would offer when it comes to real action against the J. Bianchi, to the state assembly go under controls automatically. I f steel workers condit'ons of which they complain. Of the 48 Representatives who The ALP is Stalinist-controlled \oted to uphold the veto, four did and is the strongest base of the from Marcantonio’s East Harlem ate steel and rubber workers ate rubber, this They support the militarization program that district. Bianchi made a deal might make sense. But they spend their pay has bred the inflation and Truman’s “ police not run for re - election to the national Progressive Party, for­ accepting ALP endorsement and checks for food and clothing.” action” in Korea that has brought it to bloom. House. Of the other 44, only six merly headed by Henry Wallace got a majority Of his votes on the The CIO publication called fo r new controls t.o Their program boils down to a plea to the capital­ were defeated. One of these, Mar- who deserted at the start of the ALP line. His support, however, halt profiteering, charging that the major cause ist war government to “control” prices and profits. rantonio (ALP, N. Y.), lost Korean war. Begun as a split-off did not help Marcantonio. of the price rises since June 25 is “ old-fashioned The union leaders’ complaints remain empty against a candidate of a Demo­ from the ALP, the Liberal Party speculative profiteering.” It denied that either words unless they are prepared to lead a mass cratic - Republican - Liberal coali­ is controlled by Social Democratic The latter was defeated fo r re? the unions or the housewives can be blamed for action fight against wage freezing and for a tion, for reasons other than his types like Dubinsky, head of election to Congress fo r the first the sharp rise in prices since the Korean war program of price control by consumers commit­ stand against the McCarran law. the A F L International Ladies time since 1936. His vote was only Garment Workers Union, who slightly less than in 1949, but he began. “ She (the housewife) just hasn’t been tees of the unions, housewives and farmers. Of the additional 8 members of Marion W. Boyer, former vice-president of Esso Standard the House who paired to uphold bend the knee to American im­ was overwhelmed by a coalition the veto, none were ousted. Oil Inc., has been named general manager of the Atomic Energy perialism in preference to the •f the Democrats, Republicans and Commission. Here he is sworn in by Judge Henry Schweinhaut Kremlin bureaucracy. Liberals; who backed James G. SENATE RESULTS (1.), notorious as prosecutor in the Minneapolis tria l of 1941. Donovan, a reactionary Democrat. Atomic Pie in the Sky In the Senate, where 10 voted 60% DECLINE IN N. Y. C. Part of the ALP's moves to put to sustain the veto, only Lehman The ALP’s top vote in the state By Fred Hart pressure on the Democrats fo r .a (D, N. Y.) was up fo r re-election this year was received by its resumption of their previous coali Gordon Dean, who iv>w heads the Atomic The reporter asked hopefully: “ When it goes this year, and he won a higher candidate for governor, John T. into a ship, w ill it compete with coal?” tion was its running of the Negro Energy Commission, gave an interview last week vote than any of his running McManus, who polled 207,543 author and scholar, Dri W, E. B. Here is the answer: “ That won’t be the first mates (including Lynch, who POLITICAL SETBACK DUE votes compared to the 509,599 to the U. S. News, purporting to reveal “ new DuBois, fo r U. S. Senate against place that it w ill be used. I t w ill be used by the voted in the .House to override the facts” about the atom bomb. cast for Wallace two years ago. Lehman. DuBois, who was ex­ Navy. They are the customer.” presidential veto). Lehman un­ Even more revealing is the con­ The U. S. News headlined this interview as pected to . poll the top ALP vote, This “ customer” w ill be satisfied as quickly as doubtedly picked up many former TO LEADERS’ POLICIES trast between the ALP vote for got only 190,11b. Many ALP’ers follows: “ALL A-BOMBS CAN BE CONVERTED humanly possible. Dean also hopes to supply the ALP votes by his vote against the mayor last year and this. In 1949, themselves voted fo r Lehman. If TO PEACETIME USES.” As if passing on a A ir Force with atom-driven pianos. “ We are law. (Continued from Page 1) spreading restlessness and dis­ Vito Marcantonio polled 356,626 content. Where the voters thought the ALP threw its votfes to world-shaking- discovery. Mr. Dean announced hopeful, but I would say that the ship would come Helen Gahagan Douglas (D, Democrats as a “ lesser evil,” but votes. Paul Ross, this year’s ALP they were confronted with inde­ Lehman last yiar, they undoubt­ that the “ nuclear components” of the atomic ahead of the airplane.” Calif.) and John Carroll (D, even some of them seem to have mayoralty candidate, got only Here we have the sum and substance of Mr. pendent candidates who had a edly reasoned, why not this? weapons now being manufactured and stockpiled Colo.), who had voted in the been driven to support of Repub­ 149,182, almost a 60% decline. Dean’s “ new facts” about the A-Bombs. Civilian chance of winning, as in the New faster than ever before “ don’t deteriorate.” All House against the bill, failed to lican candidates. This, together With its principal “ progressive LIBERAL-TAMMANY DEAL use of atomic power is so much pie in the sky. York mayoralty campaign, they that is needed, he reassured, is to “ refabricate win election to the Senate. But with a shift among the middle capitalist” figureheads gone—-like The Liberal Party, which ran The only reactors fov power purposes that are upset the applecart. them into fuel elements fo r power piles, and this cannot be attributed to their class and the farmers, accounts Wallace, 0- John Rogge and Leo up 426,675 votes for Senator seriously being developed are those fo r engines of Even more evident was the we’ve something much more valuable than the vote on the bill because they were for the Republican gains. But the Isaacson — the ALP is reduced war on land, sea and air. The pronouncements of cross-ticket voting, which result­ Lehman in 1949, tallied only 304,- gold at Fort Knox.” replaced in the House by members continued adherence of most to a hard-core of Stalinists and Mr. Dean leave no room for doubt on this score. ed in a GOP Governor and Demo­ 608 for him this time. This in­ When w ill that happy day come? Here' Dean of their own party. workers to the Democrats does their sympathizers. Its union base The chief concern of the Atomic Energy Coin- crat c Senator in New York, a dicates that many unionists who preferred to be vague. “ Some day,” he said. When is down to a shadow, largely due mission is production for war and not for civilian Lending further emphasis to not change the fact that the labor Democratic Governor and GOP formerly voted on the Liberal line pressed by the reporter he added: “ I think it to defections of former Stalinist use. Dean himself admitted as much by prefacing the fact that voting to uphold the leaders failed to make good on Senator in Ohio, the defeat of were disgusted with the Liberal depends largely on how fast we can really develop stooges like Michael Quill of the his remarks “ in ail candor” with the declaration veto was NOT a decisive cause their promise that support of the Fair Deal Governor Bowles while leaders’ unsavory deals with Tam­ reactors for power purposes. . . . I would say in the defeat of the Democrats Democrats would prevent the CIO Transport Workers Union many. that “the major effort today is in getting raw his two Senatorial running mates and Joseph Curran of the CIO it’s 15 years o ff.” were the most serious Democratic growth of reaction. One of the deals was an agree­ materials into weapons and getting these weapons beat the Republicans in Con­ National Maritime Union. The ex­ It was not so long ago that spokesmen of the fast.” losses — Senate majority leader ment to support Boss Flynn’s DIVERSITY OF ISSUES necticut, etc. pulsion of the Sta)inist-led unions Atomic Energy Commission confidently forecast Lucas, majority whip Myers, and man, Congressman Lynch, as He then took the opportunity to assure that it So many issues were raised in The widespread practice of from the CIO further undermined such developments w ithin a decade, if not sooner. Tydings, chairman of the Senate gubernatorial candidate, in return would take an “ awful lo-t” of A-Bombs, including this campa’gn, and their relative cross - voting between the two the ALP’s labor influence. Dean now pushes it o ff for another half a decade. Armed Services Committee. Ail for Fiynn’s acceptance of Justice Hell Bombs, to destroy this planet and with it stress differed so greatly from capitalist parties represents the When it comes to atom-powered submarines, the three favored the MacCarran- The ALP has had a lot of “ ex­ Pecora ’as mayoralty candidate. mankind. But he did concede that if ' “ proved region to region, that it is v ir­ beginning of a departure from situation is fa r brighter, “ On powered submarines Kilgore law, but that did not save plaining” to do about its previous In the debacle that saw the successful” the Hell Bomb would not have any tually impossible to single out traditional procedure for many \ye are moving much faster,” announced Dean with them. support of discredited capitalist regular Tamlnany candidate, Pe­ “ direct” peacetime appl cations. Here is one Uny one as decisive in the na­ voters. It is a sign of what James obvious satisfaction. politicians, like Tammany’s ex­ cora, defeated by Im pellitteri, the sword that can never be converted into a tional picture. There was the fear Reston in the N. Y. Times called Then apparently reminding himself that sub­ plowshare. mayor O’Dw'yer and other dis­ Liberal Party found itself tarred of war, Korea, China,'isolationism, “ a kind of political homelessness.” marines do not easily fall into the category of reputable elements. Its “ inde­ and discredited. Whatever claim it And neither will the A-Bombs be “refabricated” prices, taxes, profits, the “ welfare In other words, there is a grow­ “ swords transformed into plow-shares,” ho hastily SWP in N J Runs pendence,” it is generally known, into “ fuel elements for power piles” so long as state,” the draft, Taft-Hartley sm, ing reservoir of sentiment that had to “ independence” was ex­ added that the'“ first practical civilian use of power is s mply the result of its inability the capitalists rule in society. Under capitalism could be attracted by a new and ploded by its Tammany Hall from nuclear fuels w ill probably be in ship FEiPC, etc. In addition, there to make further deals with the this remains the dimmest of dim possibilities. But were a greater than usual number different national party. turbines.” Best Camaign capitalist political machines. alliance. their use in the next war is a grim certainty. of graft scandals involving public Many voters undoubtedly felt officials, and an above-par number like the one in Chicago who told In Its History of doublecrosses by the different Reston: “ I wish I had two votes. factions in the capitalist parties. Then • I could vote against, both Election Sidelights NEWARK, Nov. 7 — The num­ parties.” Such people too could ber of votes received by William But there is little doubt (hat be won to an independent labor Tammany’s Ticket Loses Out E. Bohannan, Socialist Workers the most important factor in many party, through which they could GOP victories was the aggressive Chicago Democratic boss Arvey resigned as Party candidate for Congress in “ vote against both parties” with he were conducting a third degree. The whole use bv the Republicans of red­ Cook County chairman on Nov. 8 and explained the 11th New Jersey District, will a single ballot. The cardinal poli­ In Scandal-Drenched Contest thing was explained when he proudly boasted baiting, charges that the ad­ the Democratic defeats as follows: "The war has not be known until next Monday. tical crime of the labor leaders is that he used to work for the FBI. ministration was “ soft on com­ NEW YORK, Nov. 8 — The regular Democratic Party made people nervous and unhappy. They’re * * * Aside from the vote, however, that they drive such elements afraid their boys are going to war, and they SWP members here agree that it munism,” etc. Another name for into the hands of reaction as a machine came out second-best in the scandal-drenched The reactionaries and liberals who ganged up this is McCarthyism. took it out on us.” to defeat Marcantonio (ALP, N. Y.) may yet be was one of the most effective means of expressing opposition to elections in New York state and city. Despite the support * * * sorry, for he was one of their chief propaganda campaigns ever run by the party M’CARTHYISM RAMPANT the status quo. cf most CIO and AFL leaders as1 The so-called “ intellectual le ft” — New Deal in this congressional district. well as the “independent” Liberal camp hill. Lehman’s emphasis on arguments. Thus, for example, Walter Rcuther’s Helen Douglas was unquestion­ NEW CONGRESS' and Pair Deal college professors, artists, actors big pitch against conservative Reip. Clarence In terms of literature sold, it Party, all the major Tammany- “ liberalism” ' won him •. many ably beaten on this issue by What are the prospects in tire etc. — stayed largely in the background during Brown (R, O.) was the number of times he had surpassed past campaigns. In the backed Democratic cand'dates ex­ American Labor Party and in­ professional witch - hunter Nixon next Congress? The Fair Deal the current campaign, James Reston reported in voted the same way as Marcantonio, while the last month alone, over 400 copies cept Herbert H. Lehman went dependent votes. a N.Y. Times survey based on a country-wide in California. So were many other was a dead duck as soon as the opponents of Helen Gahagan Douglas (D, Calif.) of Bohannan’s pamphlet, A Letter down to defeat. tour. The reason they give, Reston says, is: “ In administration stalwarts. But the “LESSER EVIL” VIEW made that the “ criterion” for opposing her to American Negroes, were sold Korean war began anyhow, but the present atmosphere of suspicion, no liberal most striking example was Tyd­ now it w ill be understood by A ll state posts were captured Basic political issues Were election to the Senate. on the streets and house to house. ings in Maryland. In that Demo­ by the Republicans and Thomas can get up and pronounce his views with any * * * everyone interested in politics that obscured because both major More M ilitants were sold than cratic stronghold, the Republicans vigor without being smeared as a fellow-traveler, there is practically no chance of E. Dewey was returned to the parties were involved in corrup­ For the last two or three years the Shacht- in any past camipaign. beat Tydings (whom even Roose­ governorship. Dewey’s opposition and without embarrassment to the candidate he enacting any social reforms, no tion scandals. The Republicans manite Independent Socialist League told its sup­ velt had been unable to purge in was the relatively unknown Tam­ supports and the institution he represents.” As WIDELY PUBLICIZED matter how paltry, in the 82nd pointed to the disclosure of the porters at election to “ vote socialist,” by which 1938) by concentrating their fire many hack and tool of Boss for the ADA, “ candidates are showing a distinct Publicity in the daily press was Congress. The Taift-Hartiey Act New York City police tie-up with they meant support of o;ther the pro-war SP, the on his alleged “ whitewash” of -lack of enthusiasm fo r its support, and some are also the greatest in local SWP his­ w ill remain in force, the McCar- Flynn, Rep. Walter A. Lynch. the gambling syndicates. The anti-war SWP or the mummified SLP. This year, McCarthy’s rabid charges against even repudiating it entirely.” Reston correctly tory. Recognizing that the size ran - Kilgore law is unlikely to A big blow to the Democratic Democrats made the most of however, when the SP ran almost no candidates the State Department. notes that the ADA and other liberal intellectuals of the SWP vote might affect the undergo any serious revisions, ticket was the election of an “ in­ Hanley’s letter describing how are “in a more difficult political position in this and Shachtman decided it was correct to parti­ outcome of the election, the McCarthyism w ill have a much there is no possibility of leg sla- dependent” Deniocrat running on Dewey induced him to step out election because of the success they had in 1948 cipate in Democratic primaries, the ISL raised Newark News carried an average freer hand in the next Congress, tion on Negro rights, taxes w ill an “ Experience Party” label, of the governorship race with a in their fight against the extreme left wing as this slogan only in connection with Pennsylvania, of one article daily about Bohan­ and the witch-hunting w ill be be raised higher on the workers. Acting Mayor V. Impellitteri, as promise of financial security. represented by Henry Wallaces Progressive one of the few places where the SP had a ticket. New York City mayor over Judge nan’s activities during the two much less restrained. With the All this may cause some For many voters the issue Party.” In short, they are now the victims of About the New York campaign, fo r example, memory of Tydings as a horrible Ferdinand Pecora, who had the weeks before election day. demoralization in labor's ranks boiled down to which party and the red-baiting they themselves used and made where the SP had no ticket, the ISL’s only advice example, congressmen w ill think backing of the Democratic and The 11th District seat was re­ for a while. But it will also surely which candidates were least cor­ fashionable. was to enroll in the Libea-al Party. it over two or three times in the L beral parties. Some voted for * * * tained by the incumbent Demo­ lead to some serious reconsidera­ rupt. Evidently they didn’t con­ <> * * next period before raising ob­ Impellitteri on the bottom row of crat, Hugh J. Addonizio, who beat tion of labor’s role in politics and sider Dewey’s deal with Hanley, One of the most amusing incidents of the A fter Assemblyman Thomas A. Maloney had jections to purges, thought- the voting machine and did not the Republican by about 4,000 eventually should strengthen the a customary thing in capitalist 1960 campaign was the complaint by Thomas A. charged Harry Press with “ unfair tactics” be­ control measures, etc. And in bother to go back up the line to Maloney, 20th District Assemblyman in Califor­ votes, or twice his plurality in conviction, temporarily weakened party circles, as bad as the police cause he dared to run against him as an inde­ most cases they will remain silent pull the levers f o r the other nia, that Harry Press was guilty of “ unfair 1948. bv the. Democratic victory in corruption and gangster j in­ pendent, Press challenged Maloney to a public even after thinking it over. Democratic candidates. tactics” because he had gotten on the ballot as All of the state’s 14 con­ 1948, that labor must take a new fluence in the Democratic Party. debate. But the only time they met face to face There were exceptions, of an independent after Maloney won both the in the campaign was at a League of Women gressional scats were won by the. road, break with capitalist poli­ SPLIT TICKETS course. Lehman was elected IMPELUTTERI’S RACE Democratic and Republican nominations in the Voters forum. There Press outlined his socialist party now holding them. The New tics. and form its own independent despite his pose as an enemy of A significant feature of the Impellitteri’s victory clearly ex­ primaries and had assumed that therefore the program in defense of labor and minority groups Jersey CIO - PAC endorsed eight party. It may also wipe away the witch-hunt, buit that was due elections was the split. - ticket pressed the voters’ opposition to election was “ all over.” and against the war and witch-hunt drives of of the Democrats running for some illusions, fostered hv the * * * voting. Hundreds of thousands machine-rule. He played the Big Business. Maloney presented, his program these seats, of whom five were to the special political climate in labor bureaucrats, that the unions The costs of the unsuccessful attempts to keep New York. And most of the House ignored party labels and crossed “fearless independent” defying too — he said he supported the bill to legalize elected. can lake it easy on the economic party lines to pick their way Grace Carlson off the ballot in the 5th con­ members who voted to uphold Tammany. His “ independence” the sale of colored oleo. In the 12th District, Katherine front because of their “ influence” through different tickets and gressional district in Minnesota ran into real Truman’s veto of the McCarran- began when Tammany refused » * * Van Orden of the Progressive in Washington, and lead to a select. . individuals they hoped money. County Auditor Fitzsimmons complained Kilgore law managed to get re­ him its backing. Harold L. Keith, labor columnist on the Pitts­ Party received about half of the resurgence of militant unionism nould be least likely to walk o ff that the reprinting and repacking of 150,000 elected anyhow. (See J. Blake’s Im pellitteri, a Tammany man burgh edition of the Pittsburgh Courier, devoted 5,000 votes she got in 1948. and class struggle. with the state and city treasuries. ballots containing her name would cost “ about article above). But on the who headed the C ity Council for an entire column of snide remarks to the SWP Thus, they elected a Republican $4,000 to $5,000 extra.” Stanley Danielson, sec­ whole it is clear that the liberals WHAT FAILED five years and became Acting and Clyde Turner, its candidate for U.S. Senator for governor, a Democrat for retary-treasurer of the Transit Employees Union, were guilty of wishful thinking Not labor, but the. false policy Mayor when O’Dwyer skipped in Pennsylvania. Calling her “a talented youitg senator and an “ anti-machine” who brought the suit to bar the SWP candidate when they pronounced McCarthy- of the. labor leaders was tried and town ahead of the police scandal lady,” he shed tears over the “waste” of her Democrat to the top post in New from the ballot, was ordered to pay court costs, ism dead .after the Senate hear­ found wanting on Nov. 7. When and took up an ambassadorship in ability in “a lost cause.” Keith seems to hold York’s city hall. including those incunreJ by Grace Carlson. the idiotic idea that the SWP directs its propa­ ings earlier this year. that false policy is repudiated by Mexico, set himself up as the * * * ganda “ at the colored folks” exclusively because The irony of the situation is the ranks and replaced with a Lehman was re-elected to the “ Experience Party” candidate, the A few weeks before the election Marianne he says he feels “ the SWP would probably be that the Democrats themselves policy of independent straggle U. S. Senate despite the state­ only one on the ticket. Stanley, campaign manager for Daniel Roberts more successful if it directed its propaganda at started the “loyalty” purges and against all forms of capitalist wide trend against the Democrats. His refusal to accept the bribe in Seattle, paid a visit to the office of Gordon the white folks.” witch-hunts, and that the labor pol'tics a different story will be He has always been a strong vote- cf a judgeship and his persistence Clinton, campaign manager of Roberts’ Repub­ * * * leaders either tolerated it or even told. Labor is srtrong enough, and getter in the state and had been in running despite Tammany lican opponent. Mrs. F. F. Powell, to ask where , Among the most important referendums on imitated it inside the unions. Now it can get enough support from governor for several terms. Dur­ threats and pressure won the she stood on a number of issues. Clinton squirm­ election day were those in South Carolina, where they have been burned by the the other victims of capitalist ex­ ing the campaign he put on a sympathy, of voters who thought ed at the questions about Mrs. Powell’s record, the voters decided to abolish the state poll tax fires they lit and fed. ploitation and oppression in this super-liberal pose. Ilis supporters that by voting fo r him they were and seemed unable^ to answer most of them. But as a requisite for voting privileges; in Maryland, country, not only to rout reaction ' stressed particularly his vote voting fo r an independent opposi­ he showed a remarkable aptitude fo r answering where the Ober police state law was upheld; HEAVY TURNOUT at the polls but to reorganize the | against the. McCarran - Kilgore tion to the corrupt Tammany her questions with questions of his own, voicing and in Michigan, where a constitutional amend­ One common feature was the U.S. on socialist foundations. AH : police state law in the last session machine and bosses. His victory considerable suspicion that anyone would really ment was adopted, making “ subversion” a crime relatively large turnout for a non- it needs is recognition of, and con­ of Congress, although they did not w ill, however, merely cause a be interested in his candidate’s record on cer­ and lifting guarantees of freedom of speech as presidential election. This was a fidence in, its own potentially in­ mention, naturally, his sponsor­ realignment w ithin Tammany and tain matters, and acting in general as though a defense in “ subversive” trials. sign of decreased apathy and vincible power. ship of the Kilgore detention- the local Democratic Party.