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Workers in Argentina Crisis In Italy Denounce Wall St. Hundreds of posters denounc­ 14,000 Jam Protest Rally ing “ Wall Street imperialism” appeared on the streets of Sharpens Under Buenos Aires July 19 to ad­ vertise a memorial mass meet­ ing for victims of a recent Chilean copper mine fire. The Against California Fascists posters were construed, says Parri Cabinet AP, as an oblique attack on U. S. Ambassador Spruillc Special to THE MILITANT Braden, inasmuch as the name Peace Scare Hits Stock Market ROME, June 28 — Italy has a new cabinet. Bonomi has of the Chilean firm—Braden LABOR TAKES LEAD IN FIGHT given place to Ferruccio Parri, leader of the Action Party— Copper Company—was featured prominently. the Italian equivalent of the British Common Wealth Party. The company was owned for­ TO STOP GERALD L. K. SMITH The Stalinist and reformist press hail the new government as a merly by the ambassador’s LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 20 — More than “ victory for the working class.” In fact, nothing has been chang­ father. Proclaimed the postera: 14,000 persons answered the call of the anti-fascist ed. A few cabinet posts have been juggled about, the Action “ Braden means exploitation and and "Socialist" parties are now in the government instead of crime in Chile.” united front organized during the past week to dem­ giving "critical support” from without* Otherwise it’s the same onstrate against Gerald L. K. Smith and his fascist old faces and the same old policies—or rather, lack of policies. movement by attending a mass meeting at the Olym­ ■Two issues held up the forma-'?' Premier Demands tion of the new government for were constant meetings between p ic auditorium tonight. the representatives of the six 52 days. First, there was the While the program was largely parties. There were constant question of the premiership. Both Return of Fascist a Hollywood press agent’s dream, comings and goings to and from CIO Takes Lead the Christian Democrats (speak­ with a speakers’ list headed by ing fo r the Vatican) and the the Royal Palace, where the various leaders went to consu’t Empire’s Colonies California Attorney G e n e r a I “ Socialists” wanted the post. In United Front Robert Kenny and including “ re­ Crown Prince Umberto, lieutenant Events in Italy last week cast Parri, representing the radical ligious and political leaders” and of the realm. There were inter­ wing of the middle class, was a glaring light on the reaction­ actors, the thousands present with views between the party leaders pushed forward as a compromise. ary character of Allied M ilitary Against Fascists •less than a week’s preparation Then the fight started all over and the British and American Government and the new pup­ ambassadors. Everyone was con­ By Lois Saunders provided an impressive demon­ again. The Christian Democrats pet regime of Premier Parri stration of the readiness of Los sulted—except the Italian people. LOS ANGELES, Calif., July No one thought of consulting which it supports, besides re­ Angeles workers to struggle vealing anew the revolutionary 19 — The initiative in calling against native fascist movements. (hem about their future govern­ for tonight’s great anti-fascist ment. Everything was done be­ temper of the Italian workers. Meanwhile, at the Shrine audi­ demonstration at the Olympic torium a mile away, Smith ranted hind closed doors, without the In the northern industrial city Knowledge of the people. This is of Milan a 20-year-old anti-fas­ auditorium was taken by the to an audience of less than 5,000 vi hat the Stalinists and “Social­ cist fighter, Fermo Lini, was sen­ Los Angeles Industrial Council, ists” hail as a “victory for the tenced to death by an Allied m ili­ CIO after widespread agitation Fascist Demagogue working class.” tary tribunal on charges of band­ by the Socialist Workers Par­ ing together with other anti-fas­ ty, Los Angeles Local, which REACTION STRONGER cists to kill two fascists and seize called for the creation of a In actual fact, the forces of their property. Lini did not ac­ broad united front of labor to reaction have come out of the tually kill the two men, but wit­ crisis considerably strengthened. nesses alleged that as leader of stop Gerald K. Smith and his I t was precisely such recurrent the band he gave orders fo r their fascist organization. Wall St. Peace-Lovers Horrified The Executive Committee of the (Continued on page 5) (Continued on page 5) Council passed a resolution on “MARKET WRITHES IN PEACE JITTERS “ STOCKS SHAKE OFF PEACE-BID COM­ July 13, calling fo r a mass meet­ . . .The stock market could not down yesterday PLEX — WORRY OVER RUMORED OFFER ing. A similar resolution was the Japanese peace rumors . . the market had BY JAPANESE DISAPPEARS.. The Japan­ passed by the Hollywood Demo­ Trotskyists Speed Aid ese peace talk jitte rs evaporated yesterday as a cratic .Committee. Almost simul­ a peace scare of considerable proportions . taneously, action was taken by peace reports.. imply fear that th,e Japanese securities market obstacle and stocks managed :ther organizations, the To European Comrades phase of the war may not last long enough. to recover a portion of the sharp losses suffer­ Citizens Political Action Commit (New York Times, July 19). ed in recent sessions.” (N. Y. Times, July 20). tee, the Council for Civic Unity PREMIER PARRI By FARRELL DOBBS and various Jewish organizations. and the ■ Socialists” , again pushed Campaign Director 500 ORGANIZATIONS forward their respective candi­ A general sentiment to raise as quickly as possible the full Wright Workers Take Protest Plans fo r a tremendous demon­ dates—this time for the key posi­ stration began to take shape, and amount of the Party’s $5,000 International Solidarity Fund is tion of minister of interior. In within the next 48 hours some GERALD L. K. SMITH view was the forthcoming elec­ indicated by the first reports from the Socialist Workers Party Action As Grievances Pile Up 500 organizations had signified tions for the Constituent Assem­ branches. Reading. Pa. has already sent in its full quota. Allen- their desire to participate. The against “ the Jews and Commun­ bly. The minister of interior town-Quakertown has a score of 67 percent. Both San Francisco WOOD-RIDGE, N. J., July 23 — Seething resentment caused by piled-up grievances of American Federation of Labor, ists” at the Olympic. Demagogic­ would be in a position to mani­ and Los Angeles have sent in almost one-half of their quotas. the workers against the W right Aeronautical Corporation, coupled with the refusal of the cor­ the Railway Brotherhoods, the ally appealing to the aged mem­ pulate the votes. Thus the parties A total of $1,104 has been raised to date by the branches and poration to grant Local 669, CIO United Automobile Workers of America a new contract, preci­ National Association for the Ad­ bers of the Ham and Eggs move­ which constitute the Committee of pitated virtually a 100 percent work stoppage July 20 when the 17,000 workers in Plant No. 7 vancement of Colored People ment and the fanatically religious National Liberation openly show­ sympathizers. ®"=------sects who provide the only base Prompt action of this kind is We urge ail Party members walked out. The workers flocked to picket lines in front of the plant in powerful mass were among the organizations ed their distrust of each other. collaborating. he has been able to secure her# Throughout the crisis there urgently required for us to meet and sympathizers — and we ap­ protest demonstration. thus far, Smith screamed: the appeals fo r aid from our An organizing conference was peal especially to the readers of The immediate issue which headquarters of Local 669, the “ There’s ham and eggs fo r Rus« Trotskyist co-thinkers abroad. Irish Aircraft called fo r July 17, and was at­ The M ilitant — to make every touched o ff the protest was the i almost 800 members who packed sia, and ham and eggs fo r Britain, Trotskyists in Europe are sub­ possible effort to respond prompt­ ruthless firing of a union shop tended by more than 300 dele­ the hall, roared a unanimous vote Workers Want Jobs gates. Assemblyman Albert Dek- and now we’re going to get ham jected to arrest and their papers ly to the urgent appeals from the steward, John Potts, without to continue the protest demon­ ker was chairman. Main speakers and eggs fo r America!” IN THE NEWS are suppressed by the puppet gov­ revolutionary fighters abroad. cause and in violation of the un­ Demonstrating for fu ll em­ stration until the discharged were Raymond Booth, executive ernments of the Allied imperial­ ion contract. This was the latest steward was reinstated. ployment, 3,000 aircraft work­ PROMISE TO RETURN ists and the Stalinist counter­ From the Branches ers marched in demonstration director of the Council for Civic ‘Socialism’ for Monarchs revolution. No less than 250 rev­ PICKET LINES GROW Unity, and George Stiller, con­ He announced that he has busi­ Cleveland: “ The Cleveland in Belfast, Northern Ireland “ The jewelled Soviet order of olutionary fighters have been Read the Interview With Represented at the meeting on July 20, and proceeded to sultant, who has been placed in ness in the east that w ill take him murdered in Greece. branch accepts the quota of $75 were union members from all five charge of coordinating plans. The out of town fo r a few weeks but Victory, Russia’s highest award, for the International Solidarity Stormont where the newly- Throughout the world our com­ John Edward Potts Wright plants in the New Jersey president of the Central Labor promised to return to Los An­ was conferred on youthful King Fund. We w ill have the fu ll elected parliament was meet­ Michael yesterday by Soviet rades are compelled to endure area. They voted for a continuous Council (A F L) spoke briefly. geles. amount in before the deadline.” Page 2. ing in its first session, says Marshal Feodor Tolbukhin, who not merely starvation and disease, 24-hour membership meeting to a Reuter dispatch. The pro­ Chairman Dekker threw the W. J. Bassett, representing the said that the friendship of Russia which is the plight of the peoples Los Angeles: “ Quota accepted. be held until further notice, in or­ floor open fo r discussion and sug A F L Central Labor Council, and in a series of such firings of cession was led by men bear­ and Rumania was becoming ‘clos­ everywhere in the war-torn coun­ Sum of $350 raised at meeting der to inform all the thousands gestions. Many hands went up. Philip Connelly, secretary of the union men and stewards, and ing the Stars and Stripes, the er and closer.’ Tolbukhin also tries; they are singled out for tonight. Money is on the way. of W right workers about the facts part of the whole union-busting Union Jack and Soviet Russia’s gave Michael two Russian-made special persecutions which make Yours fo r success.” in the case. A steering commit­ (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 4) drive of the Wright Corporation. Hammer and Sickle emblem. A airplanes.” — AP dispatch from it even more difficult for them to New York: “ Reports from the tee of six men from each of the large placard was inscribed: Bucharest. obtain the material means of ex­ four branches of Local New York UNION MEN FIRED five plants was elected. “ Full employment! Remember * * * istence and to fight for revolu­ “ Instead of giving us a new On Saturday the picket lines your promises of June 4.” tionary socialism. (Continued on page 6) CPA-TAMMANY DEAL Is That News? contract, the corporation began increased, workers taking turns (parliament was elected on “ One amusing product of the firin g our union men,” stated a in front of the plant throughout that day). strike (of newspaper delivery- member of Local 669. “ We began all six shifts. By Monday, Plant SCORED BY SIMPSON men) was the sight of a well- S.W.P. Protests British negotiations for a new contract No. 7 was out virtually solid. known member of the N. Y. Stock 30 days before our old contract A ll day Monday, at the con­ Barney Malone, one of the ¡NEW YORK, July 21 — Louise —the very political party that is Exchange seated in his chauffeur- expired last October. Since then tinuous membership meeting, the original organizers of Local 669. Simpson, dynamic young T rot­ dominated by such Negro-hating, driven car at the station reading Role In Nigerian Strike they have refused to negotiate in workers crowded into Butler Hall, speaking fo r Plant No. 2 strode skyist candidate fo r City Council, Jew-baiting Southern Bourbons as a copy of the Daily Worker.” — good faith and during the last Lodi, N. J. to give voice to their on to the platform and declared: in an interview with a staff writer Rankin, Colmer, Eastland and N. Y. Times. Cabled protests against the arrest of ten or more Nigerian trade few weeks have become more and pent-up grievances and to demon­ “ We support you 100 percent! of The Militant today, scathingly Bilbo! These are the men who * * * union leaders, the suppression of two native newspapers supporting more hostile and provocative.” strate again and again their de­ Three-quarters of our plant is denounced the “ unholy political filibustered in Congress against the general strike of 150,000 Nigerian workers, and the threat of the Picket lines began forming out­ termination to remain out until now out! Together with you we alliance” between Tammany and the Fair Employment Practices War’s Hardships will let Wright Corporation un­ British authorities to banish Nnamdi Azikewe, publisher of the sup­ side the plant directly after the the Wright Corporation reinstat­ the Stalinists which yesterday Committee and finally killed it by POTSDAM, July 17 — Ameri­ firing of Potts, a union steward derstand that we have a union netted the Stalinist candidate pressed papers and general secretary of the National Council of ed Potts and opened negotiations slashing away its funds. can, British and Russian engin­ with an unblemished record and with the union. and refuse to be pushed around Benjamin J. Davis, the endorse­ “ When a leading Stalinist like Nigeria, were dispatched July 17 by James P. Cannon, national eers have created a dream com­ a veteran of World War I. Last By late Monday afternoon the any longer!” The entire member- ment of the corrupt political ma­ Davis joins the very political munity fo r the Big Three meet­ secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, to the jCoIonial Office in Sunday at a general membership demonstration spread to include chine fo r re - election to the party that is the most poisonous ing. Potsdam is a shambles, but London and the British governor of Nigeria. meeting called in the Paterson other W right plants. (C.ontinued on page 2) Council. nest of Jim Crow and then re­ barely a stone’s throw from the The capitalist press in this*? “ By accepting this endorsement, ceives the endorsement of the wreckage is the conference com­ country has carried not a line of Davis has betrayed the Negro corrupt Tammany clique, no other pound with clipped lawns and news about the great Nigerian people,” she declared. “ Tammany conclusion is possible—he sold well-tended gardens... Imposing strike and the repressive actions never endorses a candidate unless out!” Comrade Simpson concluded. residences are occupied by Presi­ of the British authorities. First Hear JAMES P. CANHON the crooked political bosses have dent Truman, Prime Minister word of these events appeared in National Secretary, Socialist Workers Party, Sneak On: a secret understanding with him Churchill and Premier Stalin. that he will play ball according ON THE INSIDE Luxury is the keynote. Offi­ The M ilitant last week following to their rules. What did Davis cial parties get eggs, fresh fruit receipt of cables from London Veteran Arrested at asking the Socialist Workers promise the rotten, moth-eaten Rankin’s Order ...... 2 and vegetables. Ten-ton mobile THE DOWNFALL of BROWDER Tammany tiger?” refrigerators are packed with Party and the Civil Rights De­ Bridges Gives Away The Trotskyist candidate point­ meat. An ice plant is operating fense Committee to arouse Amer­ Real Meaning of Latest Shift in Tactical Line of American Stalinists Union Hiring Hall ...... 3 ed to Davis’ recent record. “ He is for the sole purpose of icing ican labor to come to the aid of OTHER SPEAKERS: L. A. Trotskyists Fight Smith 4 drinks. Thirteen dining halls the Nigerian workers. a notorious Stalinist. He follows Terror in Greece ...... 5 have been set up for the Ameri­ Testifying to the blackout of the party line like a blind horse N. Y. Elections ...... 6 can delegation.” — United Press news about the great struggle in FARRELL DOBBS LOUISE SIMPSON led by the halter. When Browder D raft Threat Used dispatch. Nigeria, where the workers struck WEBSTER was slated for the mothballs and Against Akron Strikers .. ..7 * * * for a wage of 60 cents a day (the Editor of - t.he Stalinists took a tactical turn Member of ILGWTJ COLUMNS AND FEATURES So There! average pay is now about 50 HALL The Militant to the left, Davis voted with cents), The M ilitant was able to Trotskyist Candidate Foster, the leader they are now Trade Union Notes ...... 2 “ More than 5,000,000 earn be­ obtain from the British Informa­ 119 E. 11th Street Trotskyist Candidate busily shining for public display. Diary of Steel Worker ...... 3 low 50 cents and 10,000,000 be­ tion Service in New York only a for The new line was supposed to The Negro Struggle ...... 4 low 65 cents. Those who have single news item culled from the FRIDAY for correct the past policy of openly Pioneer Notes ...... '...... 4 been screaming so much about NEW YORK London Times. supporting Wall Street. Shoptalk on Socialism ...... 5 wages being high today, ought AUG. 3 MAYOR OF “ But only a few weeks later, The London Times report ap- CITY Workers Forum ...... 7 to put those figures in their pipe 8 P. M. NEW YORK Davis went down to the Board of Militant Army ...... 7 and smoke them.” — Daily Work­ COUNCIL Elections and registered as a (Continued on page 4) International Notes ...... 8 er editorial. k**************************************************** *A ********--■ - ...... A___tAAAAAAAJ member of the Democratic Party PAGE TWO THE MILITANT SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1945 John Potts, Fired Shop Steward, Tells IV. Y, Newspaper Deliverers5 U nion Thanks SWP for Aiding in Strike sf?RADE UNIONI How Wright Aero Mistreats Union Men ¡Vmvs'pa{iRr and Mail Deliverers’ Union of New York and Vicinity 63 Park Row. New York 7, N. Y. j U x J By Evelyn Atwood JOSEPH SIMONS Phone. REctor 2-9370—9371—9372 W M J. BURKE NOTES About 100 pickets were marching in front of the huge B-29 with an offense, his committee­ Pr#.ld.»l S *w .t« r .rr»ojur« Wright Aeronautical Corporation plant No. 7 in Wood-Ridge, man must represent hilVi at the Wright Workers By V. Grey N. J. on Saturday afternoon, July 21, when 1 got off the bus. hearings. “ But the foreman’s attitude from the very first was are coming up, he warns the auto Veterans of both wars were leading the pickets. The action grew / C . Thorn»« J u ly 2 0 , 1945 They*re Looking Ahead distinctly prejudiced and hostile. In Protest Action Sool»li«t Worlr«ra Party industry. “We will authorize out of a mountain of accumulated grievances, topped o ff by the Hew York Local On July 20 Emil Rieve, presi­ When I requested that John Lynch 116 Unlwermlty Place strikes in every plant where a persecution and ruthless firing of a union steward, veteran of and steward Carpinelli be brought , Haw Y0rk C ity dent of the Textile Workers of grievance continues to exist” — Over Grievances America, CIO, requested the U. S. the First World War. in to verify my statements, he Dear Sirand Brother: that is, after tne war. A picket captain came off the'j^ refused. He said he had a ‘job’ (Continued from page 1) Department of Labor to estab­ While the auto barons fear the lish a legal minimum of 55 cents line to greet me. He led me to to do and as fa r as he was con­ The cooperation and assistance of your militancy of the auto workers ship present roared its approval organization in our recent strike was deeply appreciated an hour in all textile plants do­ John Edward Potts, 585 Isham cerned the incident was closed. by tl>e officiera and men of our organization. they are hardly quaking in their ing government contract work. St., New York, the victimized He shouted profane language at of this actin'. shoes at the prospect of Thomas’ The way a ll labor rallied to our dofenae in The minimum now provided fo r veteran. Calm and collected, Potts post-war militancy. For Thomas me, issued the warning slip and From the m acing held on the this threat against the existanco of Trade Union movement in the government textile con­ was very w iling to tell his story, was one of the bright spots of the strike. and the auto workers’ executive FOREMAN HOSTILE floor below of Plant 7 Supervi­ tracts is only 40 cents an hour! unknown as yet even to all the board voted to renew the no­ stalked out.” sion, a delegate was.sent up to In actual practice, the union workers in the plant. “I have K With a ll good wishes. strike pledge fo r another year. Potts paused to light a cigarette lias already boosted this to 55 worked in W right’s on engine as­ present their support. “ We be­ And the time for a strike to be and interjected: “ After all, we’re cents but the TW UA members sembly since November, 1942,” long to a union, too,” he said. We Fraternally yours most effective is of course right only asking for the right to know that the 40-cent contract he began. “ Never, until last now, while the plants are produc­ bargain in good faith—for the had a strike once and at that time provision creates a low wage cel­ Wednesday, has there, ever been ing — not in the change-over- right to be treated like human your union president made a lar for the bosses to duck' into period, or during the limping the slightest criticism of my when the rains come. beings, not like dogs or beasts of pledge to us. That pledge was: J « ;« g f Jóaeph Simons -^¡Ä. production of a post-war depres­ work. I am union steward of both ' -----^ President ^ burden!” ‘There will be no operators’ work * ♦ * sion. the green and final assembly 703-C. ..Tfj lines.” Then he continued: “That after­ done by us while you strike.’ All The recent conference of local noon at 3.'SO a guard was called IS, Y. Stewards* Meeting we want you brothers and sisters ^»reproduction of the letter of thanks received by the New union presidents in Detroit re­ PROTEST ACTION from plant protection head­ One thousand shop stewards cognized this. That’s why they York local of the Socialist Workers Party, for its help on the We sought refuge from the hot quarters to the assembly office to know is that we are making of the Greater New York Indus­ demanded to refer the whole afternoon sun in the shade behind .and I was ordered to go there. that same pledge to you right picket line of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers’ Union during tria l Union Council, CIO, met at question of strike action to the. the lunch dispenser across the road Supervisor of Production Richard now.” the 17-day strike against the powerful Publishers’ Association Town Hall, New York on July 11 membership, where it belongs. in New York. and indorsed the CIO program from the plant, and sat down on Olsen notified me that the guard Shouts of applause greeted his What a beautiful and bureaucra­ some loose lumber and concrete was to ‘escort’ me to the Per­ for a 20 percent wage increase tic answer Thomas and Co. have speech. From all sides was heard blocks. “ Trouble has been brewing sonnel Office. I was going to be and a 65-cent minimum wage. just given them. “ Don’t worry,” 'here for a long time now,” Potts paid off. He pretended that he the refrain: “ We’re going to show The N. Y. Times comments (July they say in effect, “your great continued. “ Our contract with the couldn’t find my committeeman that we have a united Local 669!” 12) that this was fhe most radi­ leaders w ill authorize a lot of Ration-Starved Workers cal action taken by this body for company expired last October. to be present at this action. strikes — when you’re all out of some time. The Council itself This action is also a general work.” STOOD ON RIGHTS is completely dominated by the protest against working without * * * JOHN EDWARD POTTS “But as a unioij steward I Stalinists. the company abiding by the con­ Strike For Decent Meals stood by my rights in the con­ The character of the Stewards’ Calling in Freud tract." In the meantime provoca­ tract which states that a com­ Homes of Farm meeting was indicated by the In order to explain the sub­ Workers ip Ohio and Illinois ners. He made this statement in Union stewards and commit­ tions against the workers by the mitteeman must sit in when an fact that only one out of 2.3 rank- sequent deyelopmepts in the per­ are beginning to protest meat the face of the determination of teemen who wonder how the “ la­ “ lead men” (straw-bosses) ip employe is being fired. So I put and-file speakers opposed the no­ Workers Menaced shortages in the most effective more thousands of miners to bor relations experts” get that charge of supervision have in­ secution against him, Potts said: jn a call over the loudspeaker, strike pledge. He was W illiam way that labor knows, by strikes walk out. way, will find enlightenment in creased, aggravating the grievan­ “Our contract requires that a and Leon Bellows togetner with and picket lines. Some 9,700 In Toledo there is widespread Johnson, a delegate o f the Marine Wall Street’s magazine Business ces to the point where the situa­ steward contact his foreman when a second shift committeeman By Government miners were striking on July 17 resentment at the high-handed and Shipbuilding Union. The Week fo r July 21, Professor tion is explosive. (The lead men, going on a grievance investiga­ came up immediately. We took the Stalinists led a booing and hiss­ WASHINGTON, D. C. —- Ne­ near Springfield, 111. because treatment of workers by the OPA, Benjamin Selekman of Harvard, ¡he pointed out, are company men, tion, But I was unable to locate case to John Nick, Superintendent ing demonstration against his de­ gro and white farm laborers from “ they can’t dig coal on lettuce the high prices, and artificial it says, is “ bringing to focus on not controlled by this union). my foreman when Lynch came to of Production, who denied my fense of the strike weapon. the Delmo Labor Homes project sandwiches.” shortages that benefit only the union-management conflict situa­ “ My own case dates back to last me. In such cases it has been the right to reinstatement. But at the Johnson, apparently ignorant in South-eastern Missouri recent­ These miners have decided to beef trust and the capitalists. tions, the insights and techniques practice that the steward can of the strike-breaking role of the Wednesday,” said Potts. “ A t 4:30 Personnel Office they allowed me ly appeared before the House put a little red-hot dynamite un­ UAW-CIO members put up a of psychoanalysis.” in the afternoon, having finished begin the investigation and report ;to retain my badge until the next Stalinists, then said, “ I knew Agricultural Committee in an ef­ der the corpulent seats of the good demonstration picket line Union representatives have to his foreman later.” Besides, day.” I ’d be accused of being Joe my operations, w ith quota com­ fo rt to save their homes, accord­ government officials to get the at the OPA district office on July grown accustomed to the pipe­ pleted fo r the day, I was ap­ as Potts repeated, the whole in­ On Friday morning, Potts Stalin.” ing to H. L. Mitchell, president kind of food they must have if 16 with signs, slogans and UAW smoking, campfire-counsellor a tti­ proached by a new worker here, cident started after he' had al­ related, a final appeal was made Michael Quill, president of the of the Southern Tenant Farmers they are to work. They have done sweaters. One sign read: “ WE tude developed in late years by ready completed his day’s work to Joseph DeMona, assistant plant Transport Workers Union and a John Lynch, He is a man who was Union. The Workers Defense this in the form of* strike action. TOPPED THE WORLD IN WAR (he labor relations gentry. These and fulfilled his quota. superintendent. But DeMona’a Stalinist wheel-horse from way retired by the U. S. Army last League reveals that the project The coal bosses, they reason, are PRODUCTION BUT NOW NO white-haired boys of the bosses answer to the committeeman was: nack, said, “ This man does not February after 33 years in its OUT TO ‘GET’ SOMEONE is scheduled to be auctioned off, the main enemies. So by striking MEAT AND BUTTER.” were no doubt students of socio­ ‘T otts is paid off. That%s final, This simple and direct com­ speak fo r the CIO Council when service. A ll these facts were presented probably to nearby plantation them they compel the owner-capi­ logy and ordinary run-of-the-mill that is definite, that is a ll!” A fter talists to get action from their plaint expresses concisely the be calls for strike action — he’s “Lynch asked me if something by Potts and his committeemen owners, by the Farm Security Ad­ psychology. But now, they’re that, said Potts, “ they lifted my government servants. . madness of the capitalist system. not even speaking fo r his union.” couldn’t be done for him. His lead at the three hearings which fol­ ministration. going to become psycho-anal­ badge, but refused to pay me o ff Carter Jenkins, OPA Regional What is more important, it is a Quill might have added: “ He’s men were pushing him around lowed in the next two days. But The FSA advertised the project ysts, too. Professor Selekman it ‘pending the outcome of the Director at Springfield, has now warning to the capitalist class not speaking fo r Joe Stalin, pretty bad and he wanted a the company men were out to fo r sale at public auction on July going to teach them Freud, Jung grievance which goes to the stated that more red points and that the working people are go­ either.” transfer to another department, if “ get” somebody and disdained the 24, under terms providing that and Adler, and how to approach fourth stage.’ A very young girl meat are on the way fo r all m i­ ing to cure this madness. * * * possible. A fter talking to him for facts. houses must be torn down and “neurotic situations” (read : guide escorted me out of the a few moments, I found out that “The next morning,” Potts said, moved by the purchasers. Thus Thomas’ Empty Bombast grievances). he had a legitimate grievance. “my foreman, Pat Sulick, came plant.” the communities would he broken R. J. Thomas, president of Even assuming they were hon­ But I also found out that, he was tc me ar.d said that my lead man Before we concluded our»inter- up, and the farmers reduced to UAW-CIO, and embattled defend­ estly trying to settle grievances pot in my jurisdiction, so 1 in­ complained to him that I was not view, Potts told me about the ex­ miserable conditions. In the five Rankin Insults Veteran; er of the UAW bureaucracy and not trying to kid the work­ at my station from 4:30 on the tremely low pay in Wrights. years of the project’s existence, troduced him to his own steward, against the rank-and-file, has just ers out of them, it would be day before, without his permis­ “ When I began here they were these farmers, living in decent Benny Carpinelli. I might add issued a blast of-stentorian m ili­ rather difficult for psycho-anal­ sion. For this, he said, I would paying 60 cents an hour base pay. hoipes and bargaining collective­ Th en Orders His A rrest that Carpinelli is also ¡a veteran, tancy from Minneapolis where the ysts to solve, such • “ neurqtic situ­ and a former Commander of the receive a warning slip.” Imagine, in times like these, /o r ly, have been able to secure bet­ John E. Rankin, one ‘of 'the International Executive Board ations” as the meat shortage and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Then Potts then explained to me that war production they had the nerve ter wages on the nearby planta­ raucous buzzards delegated by met last week. “ A lot of strikes,” the wage freeze. I left fo r the day.” when a union official is charged to offer that kind of pay! They tions than sharecropping fam­ the decayed aristocracy of Mis­ played up the stuff about ‘you ilies. sissippi to defend white supre­ can’t let the boys overseas down.’ Head of the House Agricultural macy, Jim Crow and the lynch But I’m a veteran of the last war, Committee conducting hearings rope in the House of Representa­ SWP BRANCH TEXTILE UNION BOOSTS and they couldn’t push that down on the sale is Rep. W. R. Poage tives, likes to get up in Congress my throat.” of Texas. and give a speech about his love Potts then told me that- al­ for the returning war veterans. ACTIVITIES though the base pay has been His speeches are perfect pan­ raised to 80 cents an hour, “ you tomimes of a windmill on a gusty WAGES IN 20 PLANTS CLEVELAND — Open meetings non w ill talk on “ The Downfall can’t go any higher than 93 cents day •— revolving arms, screechy NEW YORK — Putting an 3. A minimum wage of 60 fo r top rating.” Thus the average are held at Pecks Hall, 1446 E. of Browder.” AFL Blacksmiths noises and wind. 82nd St. (o ff Wade Park N.) Friday, Aug. 10: “History of additional $3,000,000 a year into cents an hour. paycheck, plus overtime, plus But when this rouser of the 4. Group insurance paid for on Friday evenings, 8:30 p. m. Negro Revolts in U. S.” workers’ pay envelopes, a new bonus and after tax deductions is aristocratic Southern rabble by the company. The union and Friday, Aug. 3: “ Your Stan­ Speaker, Ruth Laurie. contract has been negotiated by hardly $30 a week. “ You might Ask Full Pardon retires from the floor of the the company agreed that the dard of Living—What’s Hap­ the Textile Workers Union of not believe this, but before the House of Representatives,, he company shall set aside 2 per­ pening To It.” Speaker, Mary • America, CIO, and the American w ar this company was paying lakes a radically different at­ Woolen Company, Emil Rieve, cent of its payroll annually to For Patterson Clark. NEW YORK — A ll branches: only 38 and 39 cents fo r this titude toward the veterans. On general president of the union, pay for group insurance for all STONY CREEK, Pa., July 18 Friday, Aug. 10: “ The Fight Saturday, July 28: Members kind of work!” he said. July 10 a battle-scarred veteran announced July 11. workers. Details of the insur­ “ The fundamental issue at — The rising tide of militancy in Against Cutbacks and Layoffs.” and friends of SWP w ill meet ance are being worked out by the labor movement was demon­ asked permission to appear before Speaker, T. Grant, Cleveland at 116 University Place at 6 The agreement, which w ill stake is: do we have a union or the two parties. Cost to the com­ strated anew by Local 197, In­ the Committee on Veterans organizer, SWP. p. m. to gather signatures on run until February 1, 1946, the don’t we have a union ? In the pany is estimated at $900,000 a ternational Brotherhood of Black­ Legislation which is headed by local election petitions. In­ uniform expiration date of all opinion of the m ajority of the • year. smiths, Drop Forgers and Help­ the buzzard from Mississippi. This' formal get-together afterward TWUA-CIO contracts in the workers here, the company is out I,OS ANGELES — Hear Grace 5. Wage brackets fo r specific ers, AFL. A t its recent union veteran, Reuben Schafer of New at Chelsea Workers Center, 130 woolen and worsted industry, to wreck the union. And even­ Carlson speak on “ Women in job classifications. This w ill give meeting two resolutions were York, a member of Local 230 of Pjd|on” Sunday, Agust 5 at 8 W. 23rd st. Refreshments. covers about 24,000 workers in tually we know they w ill try to the workers an additional $650,-j passed, one in support of William the A F L Sign, Pictorial, and Sunday, July 29: Beach party 20 of the American Woolen p it the veterans against other p '^i., at Symphony Hall, 232 000 a year. Patterson, and a second opposing Display Union, saw three years S. H ill St. at Bay 8, Brighton Beach, fo chain’s 24 mills in Maine, New workers.” Maintenance of union member­ the anti-labor Ball-Burton Hatch and seven months’ service in the collect signatures. Petitions Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu­ California readers can obtain ship, check-off of union dues, bill now before Congress. Army. He was honorably dis­ copies of The M ilitant and provided, Take BMT Brighton setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, protection of workers seniority, Local 397 urges every union charged after participating in the RANTING RANKIN Fourth international and other train to Ocean Parkway; meet New York and Kentucky. Prin­ AKRON arbitration of disputes and other in the city to join the fight to occupation of Oran, Gafsa and El Marxist books and pamphlets at Bay 8 sign. cipal provisions of the new the veteran had raised too much standard provisions which have Buy The Militant free William Patterson, first vic­ Guettar and fighting jn the as well as information about Friday, Aug. 3: Hear James agreement follow: “ sand.” He then alleged that the been part of previous agreements tim of the Smith-Connally anti­ baftl.es of Ausseltia Valley and the SWP at the following pla­ P. Cannon speak on “ The Down­ and police had found the serviceman between the Textile Workers Un­ strike law, and to demand repeal Kairouan Pass besides other ces in the Los Angeles area: fall of Browder,” at Webster 1. Four cents an hour premium was suffering from “ a nervous ion of America, CIO, and the Fourth International of the vicious anti-labor bill un­ engagements in North Africa and LOS ANGELES, Socialist Hall, 119 E. 11th St. Farrell pay for second shift workers and or mental disability.” American Woolen Company are at the der which he was convicted. It Europe. Workers Party, Rooms, 200-06, 7 cents fo r third shift workers. There is a grain of truth in the Dobbs and Louise Simpson, also included in the new agree­ asks full presidential pardon for Rankin dictatorijljy refused this 232 S. Hill St.; SOUTHGATE, candidates in New York elec­ This w ill give workers about sand Rankin tried to toss in the ment. Militant Bookshop Patterson. veteran permission to appear be­ Labor Book Shop, 8020 Seville tions, w ill also speak. $600,000 more a year. eyes of voters. To Rankin’s way The advisory council has unan­ Carries A ll M arxist Classics Assailing the Ball-Burton fore the .Committee, Angered by Ave.: SAN PEDRO, Socialist Saturday, Aug. 4: Meet at 6 PAID VACATIONS imously approved the agreement Hatch “ industrial peace” bill Rankin’s insulting remarks, the of thinking, a man must be crazy Workers Party, .1008 S. Pacific, 6 Everett Bldg., Rm. 405 to expect a Jew-baiting, Negro- p.m. at 116 University Place to 2. A second week’s vacation and is now in the process of sub­ (analyzed in The M ilitant, June veteran retorted with a few force­ Room 214. For additional in­ gather signatures on petitions 39 E. Market Street hating, anti-unioh spokesman of with pay, giving the workers an m itting it to the 20 local unions 30), the Blacksmith’s local calls ful observations, Rankin retired formation phon.e VA-7936. fo r Louise Simpson, Trotskyist the former slave-holding aristo­ additional $650,000 a year in for ratification by the general it "nothing more than a move to to his inner office and sept an Make your reservation now candidate fo r City Council. OPEN 2-4 p. m. Daily cracy of Mississippi to have the their pay envelopes. membership. paralyze and destroy the Ameri­ emergency call to the police. The for the WEST COAST VACA­ Local New York headquarters slightest interest in really repre­ can labor movement in the post­ police burst in upon tfie veteran, TION SCHOOL. Situated at of Socialist Workers Party, war period,” and a “virtual dec­ senting the war veterans or even arrested him and carried him the Workmen’s Circle Gamp in 116 University Place, is open laration of war against the most away Gestapo-style, holding him listening to what they have to Carbon Canyon, San Bernar­ every day and evening. cherished and hard-won rights of This Coupon and 50 Cents Entitles You to a 6-Month Subscription to for a considerable time in the Old say. dino County, it is two miles labor.” House office building. from Lavida Hot Springs and t News of this outrageous in­ 82 miles from Los Angeles. PHILADELPHIA — An all-day cident flashed abopt Washington. 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System O f San Francisco Longshoremen , 1 , g a p ______By Theodore Kovalesky------— As soon as Jimmy jumped up o ff the steps to h it the boss we grabbed him. “ That won’t do you no good,” Tom told him quickly. Bridges Concedes Drastic Five Maritime Unions Insist I said, “ Let him alone, Cramer. His work’ll be done by cast time.” Cramer, the blower, looked at Jimmy a moment and then laugh­ Revision Of 1934 Gains On Wage Rise For Seamen ed. “ The CIO sure did a job here,” he said to me. “ Tell a man to get his work done, and he wants to kill you.” Then he walked away By Robert Chester them are discussing. In a letter NEW YORK, July 23—-Spokes­ of picket lines around War Ship­ maritime bureaus are planning to shaking his head. accompanying Order No. 16, the men for five maritime unions ping Administration |offices. in handle maritime labor without We all laughed at Jimmy. “ So SAN FRANCISCO, July 9— PCMIB stated that “ it intended argued before the National War every major port, is a pantomine the aid of the WLB as soon as you wanted to beat the life out San Francisco longshoremen to permit each gang some choice Labor Board July 19 and 20, for of what may happen on the water­ war ends. The pattern is the same of him,” Tom chuckled. in selecting which pool its mem­ front “after the war.” Vincent J. as that followed after World War have suffered a major blow at an upward adjustment of wages Slim said, “ That’s no good, bers wish to work in.” (my em­ to off-set the pay slash suffered Malone of the west coast marine I. Ships are laid up, mass unem­ their most valued possession, Jimmy. You k ill one boss, and the union control of hiring, as a re­ phasis, R.C.). The other item is Ly merchant seamen when war firemen told the WLB that “ if the ployment weakens the unions, the statement of a War Labor men get a run-around, there will wages are fixed by government company’ll give you another one. sult of the recent series of nego­ risk bonus cuts ordered by the Board special panel which pub­ be a vicious maritime strike after decree, a strike is provoked, and Might as well let Cramer live.” tiations with the bosses and gov­ Maritime War Emergency Board lished its record of recent con­ became effective on July 15. the war.” manning of ships is taken over Jimmy had cooled o ff a little ernment boards. Union control tract negotiations, that the em­ The five unions, representing by government shipping halls. under all the ribbing and was now of hiring, won in the great 1934- ployers “hold the restoration of THREATS DON’T IMPRESS the organized unlicensed per­ This happened in 1921. The In­ grinning a little shame-facedly— steady gangs to be the most im ­ 1936 strikes, has now been un­ sonnel on both coasts — the Na­ These “ after the war” threats ternational Seamen’s Union was and a little proudly. portant of their demands.” dermined with the active con­ tional Maritime Union, and the of strikes do not impress the smashed. “I’ll tell you what it was,” he The present day policy of the sent of the Harry Bridges lead­ BRIDGES’ POLICY Marine Cooks and Stewards As­ WLB and w ill have little bearing said, growing serious. “ I got tired on its decision. This agency was leadership in the maritime unions ership, by the introduction of Meanwhile, in a tricky “ now sociation of the Pacific (CIO); digging in that runner.” a decentralized hiring hall that the Marine Firem en,' Oilers, established to meet the wartime is the same as that of old Andrew you see it, now you don’t ” sleight needs of American big business. Furuseth who represented seamen He lifted a wrinkled paper bag upsets the former system of dis­ -of-hand between the special pan­ Watertenders and Wipers Asso­ and took out part of a sandwich. ciation of the Pacific (Inde­ Its job is to hold the line on wages during the last war. This policy patching. el of the WLB and the Water­ BRIDGES “Look at this!” pendent) ; the Seafarers Interna­ during the war when there is a of “ loyal cooperation” allows the This move was introduced un­ front Employers, the union de­ scarcity of labor and a docile shipowners to organize their Tom yelled, “ Look at that man. He’s got M EAT!” der the pretext of easing the ex­ mands fo r increased wages and tional Union, and the Sailors commendations fo r a five-cent in­ labor movement is of such vital forces, prepare the conditions and cessive burden of work on the other benefits seem as fa r from Union of the Pacific (AFL)—each crease of wages, one-week paid need to the war profiteers. pick the time (“after the war”) MEN CAN’T WORK ON POOR FOOD union apparatus. The June 22 realization as ever. So far, the presented separate briefs, but vacations and additional travel­ The steamship companies and for an all-out fight against the Labor Herald, official organ of workers have been doing all the their appeals to the WLB were We looked at the sandwich. It was made of something thin and time pay. These awards were their stooges in the government union. the California CIO, followed this sacrificing without achieving any essentially the same. A ll are pink that looked somewhat like meat and gave o ff a damp, sort of promptly appealed by the em­ line in its news article which gains. As The M ilitant has con­ bound by the no-strike pledge. musty odor. I t was a thin slice and seemed lonesome and miser­ ployers, who have indicated they stated, “ A drastic revision in sistently pointed out, these re­ They supported the Little Steel able between the two dried slices of bread. There was no butter will oppose them to the last this port’s manpower utilization sults flow directly from Bridges formula, asked only for fringe ditch. Meanwhile the award of in the sandwich, just a coating of ketchup that had sunk into the measures w ill go into effect next “conciliationist” policy with the increases, and staked their case OLD TIME STEVEDORES bread like ink on a dried blotter. the panel, to the employers, of Wednesday, taking from the h ir­ bosses. a reduction in the size of a re­ on WLB “policy.” Jimmy dangled the meat before us between his thumb and fore­ ing hall most of the burden of The longshoremen have been gular gang, was accepted by the finger. “ No points,” he announced. dispatching more than 7,000 demanding a wage increase fo r THE UNION’S BRIEF union without protest. This step longshoremen.” the last three years. Their pre­ The following from the SIU SCORE HARRY BRIDGES “ I guess that’s why I was going to h it Cramer,” Jimmy went reduces the number of men re­ The new plan went into effect sent wages, though constantly brief sums up the basic argument on. “ We can’t get meat at home; we’re all out of red points. Some­ quired fo r many jobs and is con­ By E. Harris under Order No. 16 of the Pacific referred to as high, are but 16 of all the unions: “ The fringe times we get hold of a chicken and have to pay anything the man sidered another form of speed-up. Coast Maritime Industry Board percent above those achieved in increases now become very im­ SAN FRANCISCO, July 10 — "H a rry has fixed it up again asks for it. But you can’t afford to keep doing that on what we with the full approval of the the depression year of 1934. Pol­ MILITANT LINE NEEDED portant to the seamen if they are — for the bosses!” This is the opinion of many old-time long­ make a week. And you can’t even get it most of the time, even if labor members of this Bridges- ite requests by the Bridges lead­ The longshoremen, especially not to go all out to break the shoremen, after weighing Bridges’ promises against the recent you could pay it, especially in our neighborhood.” sponsored labor-management out­ ership fo r a 15 cent per hour the old-timers, are greatly dis­ ‘L ittle Steel Formula.’ actions of the War Labor Board special panel and the Pacific Slim pounded Jimmy on the shoulder and let out one of his fit. It establishes four separate raise made in 1942 and 1943, turbed over these developments. “ The Board has the power and Coast Maritime Industry Board. bellowing laughs. “ That ain’t the blower’s fa u lt!” he howled. hiring pools, one fo r the Army, were just as “politely” rejected One by one, they see the condi­ is requested to increase the The Militant reporter founds------“ You got to kill the whole OPA!” one for the Navy, one fo r the by the bosses. In August 1944, seamen’s base wage where it tions for which they struggled that the old-timers who built the give it a little while. I t ’s steady “ No,” Jimmy said, “ what I meant was, you eat junk like this War Shipping Administration, the union reopened its contract being undermined. Realization is should do so in lieu of establish­ union in 1934 and 1937 are parti- and the fourth as a reserve pool. with the employers to obtain, in ing a 48-hour work week. gangs already, isn’t it? They and then come out here and work in the heat, and then you get increasing that the Bridges pol­ cularly bitter. Many of them don’t go through the hall,, do Once gangs are assigned to a addition to a wage increase, icy can only mean defeat fo r the “The sub - standard correction are beginning to speak up. Here tired. I can’t work like I used to.” pool the central hall loses control “ vacations with pay, sick leave, principle should be applied to all they? Let’s see where all this “ You’re an old man, now,” Tom told him solemnly. union in the period of struggle is what they say: leads to. over them and they become steady increased rates fo r handling ex­ ahead. ratings which are now receiving “ Maybe,” Jimmy answered, “ but I ’d get a lot younger in a “Say I’m a walking boss for gangs working for the given or­ plosives and damaged cargo, and What they want is a revival of less than 55 cents per hour in HELPS BOSSES hurry if I had something good to eat. And when I got tired out ganization, in most cases through Mitchell Stevedoring Co.-. The a guaranteed work week.” the fighting spirit of 1934 and not base wages and other ratings One old-timer, eating his lunch and sat down to rest, and Cramer told me to get the rest of my the medium of private companies. The negotiations traveled, step company gets certain gangs as­ the spirit of capitulation that proportionately increased in ac­ in front of an American-Hawai- work finished, I guess I kind of lost my head.” Old-time members of the union by step, through 12 points of pro- ian pier: “You want to know signed to it — called navy gangs, now prevails. This spirit can only cordance with the Board’s policy.” really Mitchell gangs. As a mat­ The gang became more serious. “ That’s right,” Tom said. view this change with alarm. To ceedure involving negotiation, be revived around a program of This argument, supplemented what I think, young fellow? Oh, them it represents a dangerous conciliation and arbitration, fin­ you mean not just cussing but ter of fact you m ight as well say “ I get feeling that way, too. When a man does work like this, he’s militant opposition to the attacks by constant re-affirmations of the Mitchell gangs, Grace gangs, step backward toward the pre- ally ending in hearings before of the bosses, the maneuverings no-strike pledge “ for the dura­ real explanations? Weil, 1 think got to get something solid to eat. You can’t sweat the life out of 1934 system of “ preferred the special War Labor Board that agreeing to this Order No. Flood Brothers gangs, etc. be­ you and do all this heavy work on an empty stomach.” of the government boards and the tion,” leaves seamen at the mercy cause that’s what it’s going to be. gangs.” Their fears are confirm­ panel. A fte r four months of de­ sell-out policies of Harry Brid­ of the WLB which has granted 16 is playing right into the bosses “ To get back to me walking for THE MINERS SET A GOOD EXAMPLE ed by two items which many of liberation the panel issued re- ges. wage increases only when the hands!” Mitchell — purty soon it comes unions backed up their demands He pulled a well-thumbed copy Somebody mentioned the miners, and everyone nodded. “ Sure, ofthe Longshoremen’s Dispatch­ to the point where I got several they said, ‘I f we can’t get meat, we can’t .work,’ and they didn’t. Reconversion - III with action. favorite gang bosses. I give ’em Seamens’ representatives rested er out of his pocket and pointed They walked out. That’s what we ought to do.” with a gnarled forefinger: See good hatches and so forth and their case last week with a few what the bosses say here — that they give me production — or “ Well, fellows,” I said reprovingly, “ the trouble with you is warnings to the WEB. The their most important demand is try to. Now the gang boss’ll that you don’t adapt youi'selves. You’re always dissatisfied, always publicity campaign of the NMU, lo r ‘steady’ gangs. start building production gangs grumbling and complaining. I think you’re a bunch of red agitators.” now being conducted in the form UAW Leaders And The “ Well, why? Turn the page — star gangs — keeping men “ There he goes again,” Jimmy said. now,and let the bosses themsel­ that work extija hard and do “ You don’t find the rich people complaining,” I continued, “ and What these “ necessary steps” ves tell us why, in one word — what they say.They won’t be even though they can get anything they need, look at the black under control of the Hall any are, the CIO leaders do not say. ‘EFFICIENCY.’ See what they market prices they have to pay for it. And then they have the ser­ say. ‘The decline in efficiency is more, remember. Program They “Forgot” But the WPB, we can be sure, vant problem to put up with as well. How many of you have had is already taking all the steps largely due to restrictive prac­ HIRING HALL HIT to wear yourselves out looking for a cook or a butler or a maid? By Art Preis necessary to protect the interests tices introduced by the union’ — of Wall Street. you see we aint as efficient as “ I t ’ll go like this. Say John is “Instead of wasting your time agitating and threatening poor, The trade union leaders have long been aware of the deadly threat of production cut- Above all, the top union lead­ we were before ’34, the days of working fo r gang boss Smith who innocent foremen, you should be saving your money and getting backs, wage slashes and ^ mass unemployment. I here has been no lack of complaints from them ers are endeavoring to divert the the preferred gangs and no un­ works for me, representing the rich, if you think you’d be any better off.” about the government s “ abysmal absence of policy, no concrete steps being taken to meet workers from independent, m ili­ ion! What all this means is company. Smith’ll tell stooge Bill But Jimmy started to get to his feet once more, and this time these needs.” (CIO Steel Labor, July, 1945). Nor has there been any lack of a plan —- a tant labor action. This is strik- that they think they’re spending j to circulate around and dig up no one held him back, so I moved out of his way. too much money to load a ship some ‘good fellows,’ tell them sound plan — to meet the impending crisis. ngly shown in the recent highly- But underneath the kidding, we were all sore. We still are. In July, 1943 when large scale® ballyhoocd CIO-PAC pamphlet and that they want the ‘oid days’ we’ll work steady on such and back again. such docks, close to home, no layoffs were s till far ahead, (he sands. Thomas wanted Kaiser to fine themselves to issuing frantic on “ The People’s Plan fo r Recon short days, nice cargo, number International Executive Board of wangle Willow Run away from appeals to the union-busters and version,” an attempt to agitate SPEED-UP IN STORE the government and “ give” jobs the workers fo r the feeble pro­ two hatch, and tell them its going the CIO United Automobile their government to “do some­ “ Yeah, efficiency means for Workers projected a progressive to the UAW members, that is, to posals of the CIO leaders. “ Here to be an all-white gang, no colored thing.” This is the essence, for them steady gangs. But steady 10 Years Ago plan for “Post-War Full Employ­ sweat out more profits for Henry Is What You Can Do,” trumpet brothers. instance, of a three-point pro­ gangs means for us working J. Kaiser. the CIO leaders to the workers: “ Bill will get the men, the kind ment, Security and Lasting gram recently advanced with harder and faster. I know, I was “ Ask your Congressman what of men this sort of talk appeals Peace.” great fanfare by the CIO, lead­ here in the Blue Book days (be­ HATE STRUGGLE he is going to do to protect the to. And they won’t go through the This plan, featured across two ers. fore the 1934 strike) when the Thomas typifies the conduct of wage earners. . . Ask your Gov­ Hiring Hall—they won’t have to. In The M ilitant pages of the United Automobile A year ago they supported the Doss used to yell down the hatch the entire top union leadership, ernor and Mayor and their Coun­ Worker, July 15, 1943, proclaim­ Kilgore bill which proposed $35 ‘get a move on you so-and-so’s, A F L and CIO, now that the prob­ cils what they are planning. . . CLIQUE SET-UP ed the elementary principle that weekly as the minimum needed if you want to work tomorrow.’ JULY 27, 1935 lem of reconversion has begun to Ask your employer how soon he “ Imagine this same thing hap­ the needs of the people stand to provide adequate unemploy­ “ Well we broke up the prefer­ TERRE HAUTE, IND.—For 48 hours a general strike paralyzed press with fu ll weight upon the w ill make up his mind and chart pening all over the front, and it above the “ rights” of the own­ red gangs, alright. But look Terre Haute, the hojne town of Eugene Debs. Workers in every workers. These leaders have no ment insurance fo r the entire du­ plans. . . W rite or wire your Sen­ can happen under this new set ing minority. It declared: “Our ration of unemployment. They what’s happening. This PCMIB stomach fo r a genuine struggle ators and your Congressman that up — and what do you get? union of the city walked out, when the Enameling and Stamping industries can no longer be op­ successively reduced the stand­ order is going to give it right against the profiteering bosses you want them to support. . . , ” ^Preferred gangs! Nothing else Plant, whose workers had been on strike for 17 weeks, brought erated to serve private interests ards they have been advocating back to them. The panel would who block fu ll production and fu ll but. Oh it won’t be as bad as the in a crew of scabs under the protection of armed guards. where these conflict w ith the pub­ until today they are praising etc. not give it to them, but our boys employment. Their biggest con- Write, wire, ask, beg, plead— “ No sooner did the general strike go into effect,” The lic need.” Truman’s pigeon-holed proposal on the PCMIB sure did.” old preferred gangs when we , cqrn is to curb the workers on the in short, grovel before the poli­ for a $25 weekly maximum for Down the bulkhead another old- didn’t have a union, but it’s head­ M ilitant reported, “ than ‘little Napoleon’ Governor McNutt WHAT UAW DEMANDED leash of the no-strike pledge. tical agents of Big Business for 26 weeks — only $12.50 a week timer was talking to a group of ing in that direction. It’ll be a declared martial law in Vigo County and shipped truckloads of Today, the fundamental pro­ them to plan, make up their minds Therefore, as the firs t and key when averaged over a year. To­ longshoremen: clique set-up with steady gang National Gaurdsinen into the te rrito ry ... they proceeded to gram of the CIO and A F L lead­ and do something. But they have point under “Planning for Full morrow, no doubt, they w ill “ com­ “ It ’s the biggest slip we ever bosses and gang members driving disperse picket lines with tear gas and rifle butts, showing no ers is contained in the capital- long since made up their minds. Production and Full Employ­ promise” for the even smaller made — i t ’ll lead to ‘preferred any guy they don’t like out of concern for sex or age.” (The “ little Napoleon” was the same labor “ Peace Charter” they sign­ They are acting. They are pass­ ment,” the UAW leaders demand­ crumbs which will be the cur­ gangs’ as sure as I ’m aiive. Just the gang. ed with Eric Johnston, head of the ing law after law against the in­ Paul V. McNutt who in 1937 became High Commissioner for ed: “ Government or municipal rent “highest offer” of the so- “ This set up w ill breed dis­ U. S. Chamber of Commerce. This terests of the workers. They are the Philippines, and today is chairman of the War Manpower ownership and operation of mono­ called “ friends of labor.” crimination, too—the bosses w ill polistic industries and- of indus­ “peace pact for post-war pros­ engaged in a gigantic offensive, Commission which directs the drafting of striking workers). While they complain against see to that! They got their tries strategically essential to the perity” has as its corner-stone spearheaded by the government The workers held firm in spite of M cNutt’s reign of terror. the wage-freezing Little Steel stooges around the front right national safety. Government con­ the recognition of the “supre­ itself, to crush the unions and But the head of the Central Labor Union of Terre Haute, formula, in their program they now trying to stir up trouble. trol and regulation of other in­ macy” of “the rights of private loot the country. himself afraid of the workers’ militancy, suddenly called o ff the appeal to Truman to “ confer the What they’d like to see is all- dustries to prevent the abuses of property and free choice of ac­ necessary authority” on the War ON THEIR KNEES white and all-colored gangs, race general strike. monopoly and to assure produc­ tion, under a system of private Labor Board to make “ wage ad­ against race, working against The Militant, warning that^t had been “the AFL bureau­ tion in the public interest.” competitive capitalism.” The labor “ leaders” are on their I t adds a blanket endorsement justments. . . which will not sub­ knees like beggars before the la­ each other for production cracy which torpedoed the strike,” called for “ an organized left Together with this fundamen­ of Wall Street's post-war plans stantially affect the cost of liv bor-hating, rapacious handful of “ Sure there are a lot of gang wing” to be built in the AFL, from a local to a national scale, tal demand, the 1943 plan called to plunder the country without ing.” They continue to place com­ ruling capitalists. Their whole bosses that are good union men to provide for American workers “ that necessary point of for: “Reduction of the working restriction, by supporting “the plete dependence on the very record is one of compromise and but there are others that’d like support and rallying center which it richly deserves.” week to thirty hours without re­ inherent right and responsibility agencies which have imposed and retreat, readiness to hail the lat­ to see preferred gangs back again. duction of (take-home) pay, as a enforced the wage freeze. And You mind what I say and you’ll of management to direct the op­ est crumb dangled before the w ill help the manpower situa­ came from the Hall at 9 o’clock result of a full production pro­ they concede in advance a gaping see that I know what I’m talking erations of an enterprise. . . earn workers by one or another capi­ this morning. When I was sent gram.” loophole fo r its continued en­ tion?” a reasonable profit. . . free from talist politician. But they never corporations and their govern­ about. I ’ve been around here for out, there were still seven rows of But when the time came for unnecessary governmental inter­ forcement. For the capitalists dare to fig h t for a single demand ment in Washington to yield con­ ■40 years. I went through the THEY DON’T LIKE IT action, in 1945, when hundreds of plugs in the dispatching board—- ference or burdensome restric­ and their government always op that so much as touches the “ sa­ cessions. sailors’ strike in 1909. I tell you Before Jqhn could answer, his thousands in auto and aircraft at least 100 men waiting for tions.” pose wage increases on the cred rights” of private property, But the union officials are di­ that we’ve been going backwards partner spoke up. “ I don’t give a were tossed out on the streets, grounds that these “ substantial­ jobs. There is no manpower short­ Thus, the labor leaders are profits and privilege. They never recting all their energies to fore­ since the war started. We’ve been damn about the manpower situa­ when vast government-owned ly affect” prices. They never age. And what if they were short bound to the p ro fit interests of push legislation that goes beyond stall militant labor action. They giving in to the bosses when we tion. I was ‘on the hook’ for 10 of men? What about all the ship­ plants like Willow Run were shut w illingly grant such increases what some vote-hungry “ liberal” ;oin with the labor-haters to as­ Big Business and pledge them­ should have bee* fighting. W’e’ve hours straight yesterday without yard workers that are being laid down, these union leaders “ for­ out of the huge corporation prof­ capitalist politician proposes — sail every fighting action of the selves in advance to oppose any given up almost everything we a break. I don’t like it ! ” off? I think its just that the got” their own union proposals. its. as a gesture never seriously workers to defend themselves labor action against these inter­ won in ’34. A ll we’ve got le ft is “ I have to like it,” said one old- bosses want 13 men doing 18 UAW-CIO President R. J. meant. from heavier and heavier corpor­ ests. And this agreement has WHAT STEPS? a few conditions and part of the tim er slowly, “ I ’m too old and men’s work.” Thomas, fo r instance, kept com­ The top union leaders, for all ation-government attacks. They been made at the very time Wall Hiring Hall. He don’t even control crippled to go down into the hold “ This new system won’t work,” pletely silent about government As for an effective program their comp'aints and ballyhoo, insist on keeping the no-strike Street is engaged in a ferocious cur dispatchers. We’d better start again. I was one of the founders said a lift-jitn e y driver, who had ownership and operation of W il­ to ensure fu ll production and em­ offer no effective program on re­ shackles on labor. They talk and offensive against the unions and fighting soon or we might as well of this union and look how the been listening in. low Run for the production of ployment — the key issue — the conversion. Such a program whine — but do nothing — and against the workers’ living stand­ put a padlock on the Hiring union is protecting me—ten hours The crippled old-timer answered consumers’ goods. Instead, he took CIO leaders in their latest pro­ would mean preparing for a bat­ w ill do nothing — to mobilize the ards. H ail!” out there in the cold wind, hook­ a junket, at union expense, to posals merely appeal to the War tle, calling on the workers to union ranks for real action. him: “ This system, it’s just speed “ Say John,” spoke up another ing on loads.” up, worked before 1934 and it w ill plead with war tycoon Henry J. FRANTIC APPEALS Production Board, dominated by conduct independent,' m ilitant (This is the third article of a Kaiser, whose shipyard workers In the face of this union-bust­ corporation “ dollar-a-year” men, mass struggles — without which series. The concluding article w ill man, “ don’t you think this other “ Listen fellows,” said a young work again unless we stop it like colored longshoreman, “ I just were being laid off by the thou­ ing assault, the labor leaders con­ to take “ all necessary steps.” it is impossible to compel the appear in next week’s Militant.) proposition, the 13-man gangs, we did in ’34.” PAGE FOUR [THE M ILIT A N T SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1945

Nailing Another yiiim iiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiim m iiinitiiiiiiH iiam iiiiiiiiiam im iiiiiam m iim oiiiiiiji — s Huge Los Angeles Meeting Protests Anti-German Lie g g Slanders hurled against the I German people as “ m ilitaristic” arc proved false by American his- g I Provocation of Smith’s Fascist Gangs story—and by the ancestors of the American commander in (Continued from page 1) The only program of action Eui-ope, General Dwight Eisen­ £ against fascism proposed tonight hower himself, states a press re­ CHARLES JACKSON g OIO Industrial Council, made the was in the leaflet distributed by lease of the Workers Defense g; Trotskyist Youth In L.A. S' ’ most significant speeches at the the Socialist Workers Party out­ League. rftiiim ioiiiiiiuiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiuiiiiw aiim iiiiiioiiiiiw iiiaiiim m innim ih; anti-fascist mass meeting. side the meeting. The Stalinist- “ Those who claim that Germans Bassett exposed Smith’s dema­ dominated united front commit­ By Gene Jimenez have always been m ilitaristic Unemployment Benefits Denied to Women gogic references to his member­ tee offered no program to the LOS ANGELES—The Socialist it, intends to lead the way for the point on the convention agenda should be reminded that many ship in the AFL by explaining thousands of workers who had Youth Club of Los Angeles is youth in the struggle against the by AYD officials, the Socialist Germans came to this country Is there a conspiracy between the bosses and the compensa­ that years ago this fascist assembled because they wanted engaging in its first major ac­ menace of Smith and his fascist Youth Club then sent a telegram because they objected to peace­ tion agencies to prevent workers who are now being laid off from demagogue had “ confused some to do something to stop Smith, tivity, organizing the youth of gang. Appeals are being made to to the convention- proposing a time conscription. Among those getting their unemployment compensation? That is a question A F L unions in Louisiana into but merely hinted vaguely during this city for the fight against the organized youth of the city, united front against fascism. lreedom-loving Germans were the which is being raised by many workers who have observed some giving him life memberships” and the collection speech of “ another fascism and its spokesman Gerald including racial minorities, The telegram was not read or ancestors of General Dwight D. strange goings-on in the layoffs of women workers. has been exploiting them ever huge mass meeting like this one.” L. K. Smith. This is a big job fo r student groups, working class answered. However, the Socialist Eisenhower, who is now backing Oixe plant where the situation*)------since. Bassett was the first a small organization, but it is youth organizations, etc. to form Youth Club w ill follow^ up this the campaign for the very policy is particularly bad is the Chevro­ work, or if they cannot handle speaker to emphasize the special SWP ACTION PROGRAM being worked on with the high a , united front with the labor appeal by attending AYD branch which drove his forebears to this let Gear and Axle unit of Gen­ the heavy work, we are to mark interest of labor in stopping The S'WP program, captioned enthusiasm which belongs to movement. meetings and speaking to the ‘land of the free’,” says the WDL. eral Motors on Holbrook Ave., their cards ‘quit’ and in that case Smith, who is “attempting to “AFTER TONIGHT, WHAT youth. The first organization appealed membership. Similar action w ill The General's uncle, Francis T. Ilamtramck (a suburb of De­ they will not be paid unemploy­ divide all working people and do N EXT?” called for the forma­ The Socialist Youth Club, a to was the American Youth for be taken to reach other groups, Miller, in a recent biography of tro it). Here the women engaged ment compensation.” away with organized labor.” He tion of anti-fascist committees Trotskyist group, understanding Democracy (Stalinist), during to as large an extent as is the general, wrote: “ The Engles, in production work during the pledged that “ the AFL w ill go to in every shop, such committees Although the vast majority of what fascism is and how to fight their local convention. Refused a possible with the SYC’s resources. Hoffmans, Mussers, Brubakers, war are now being layed off. every extreme in cooperating with to be combined under a central complaints have come from col­ Eisenhowers, and maxxy others, ored women workers, it has been other organizations to do away system of representation which became what is called the Penn­ GIVEN THE MOP w ith Gerald L. K. Smith.” would enable labor’s forces to be determined that in some cases sylvania Dutch. The Penixsylvania They are not surprised at be­ the same procedure was used to mobilized rapidly fo r defense ing kicked out, but what they es­ DOUBLE TALK C l O Leads Fight Against Fascists Dutch left Germany because of deprive white women workers of against fascist actions. « military requirements.” pecially resent is being maneuv­ Connelly’s speech, as fu ll of Additionally, the program urged (Continued from page 1) ers be given the key spots on the preceding the mass demonstration their $20 a week. Thus women of ered out of the $20 a week unem­ both races are being oppressed double talk as the Stalinist line continuance of the united front Olympic auditorium program; at Olympic auditorium. ployment compensation they had which he follows, explained which prepared the demonstra­ Among those called upon was that the united front committee Considering the nature of the by the management and the com­ expected to get fo r a few weeks. pensation agencies. Smith’s presence in Los Angeles tion in the Olympic auditorium Myra Tanner Weiss, who spoke that is being established contin­ gathering, response to Comrade SWP Protests What the management does is to as an attempt “to disrupt the war and the broadening of the united as the organizer of the Los An­ ue to function so as to be in con­ Weiss’ proposals was good, but offer them jobs as mopping jan- Needless to say, the Negro e ffo rt in the Pacific.” He then front by the inclusion of rep­ geles branch of the Socialist stant readiness to meet any moves all suggestions wei’e referred to itresses. workers have been given a spe­ initiated by Smith; and that the touched on other reasons: “ to resentatives from every local Workers Party. a steering committee of 11 mem­ British Role in Instead of $1.17 an hour which cial kicking around in the Chev­ hurt reconversion... to create Olympic auditorium meeting be bers, elected by the conference. rolet Gear and Axle plant. Even union in Los Angeles. THREE PROPOSALS they were earning on grinding, storm troops and to mobilize re­ short and followed by a drama­ This committee included, in ad­ and the like, the janitress jobs Negro men workers who had as Organization of mass picket turning veterans against labor Comrade Weiss made three tic but peaceful march from the dition to Attorney General Ken­ Nigerian Strike pay 89 cents. What is worse, this high as sixteen years’ seniority when reactionary employers demonstrations against any proposals, all designed to deepen Olympic past the Shrine, a march ny (who was chairman of the (Continued from page 1) job calls for extremely heavy had held jobs only as janitors be- decide to reopen the fight fo r the further meetings ¡Smith may the content of the counter-dem­ of about a mile. Olympic meeting), George Stiller work which the average woman fpx-e the war. U ntil thex-e develop­ Comrade Weiss, in making and Raymond Booth, the follow­ ed a labor shox-tage because of tlie open shop.” attempt, and the building of an onstration against Smith and to pcared on Juy 13. It states that cannot do for long without seri­ Then, touching a basic truth for give the movement a more defin­ these proposals, nevertheless un­ ing: W. J. Basset of the A F L; “workers of the Public Works ously injui-ing her health. Most imperialist slauglxter, they were independent labor party, are the once, he said: “This is the reac­ ite working-class leadership and derscored the intention of the So­ Frank Pellet, Railway Brother­ Department went on strike at of the women who try the step- not even allowed to touch a ma­ tionary big business method of third and fourth proposals in the orientation. cialist Workers Party to abide hoods; Philip Connelly, CIO; Ibadan for one day, leaving the down job are only able to stand chine. She proposed that labor speak- by the decision of the united Thomas G riffiths, NAACP; Ca­ town without light, power or solving postwar problems.” SWP’s four-point program. up under it fo r a few days. DO-NOTHING POLICY front. She alsp outlined the activ­ rey McWilliams, National Citi­ water, but the next day returned When they claim their cards ity carried on by the SWP to zens Political Action Committee; to work.” The report goes on to they find them marked “quit — The slick method of keeping make the Olympic rally a suc­ Eleanor Abowitz, Hollywood In­ state, however, that the strike refused to accept lower priced the women from obtaining their Why The Stalinist Officialdom cess. dependent Citizens’ Committee; job.” Then they are refused un­ unemployment compensation has Ann Pollack and Leo Gallan, Jew­ been called to the attention of ON THE JOB employment compensation. In this ish Community Council. way they are actually laid off the union leadership without She mentioned that SWP mem­ Plans announced fo r Friday avail. The top bureaucrats of Lo­ bers had spoken at numerous and then deprived of the unem­ Permits Ranks To “ Discuss” night envisaged a peaceful meet­ ployment compensation which cal 147 UAW-CIO are interested churches and meetings on Sun­ ing at the Olympic, with speech­ was supposed to sustain them only in maintaining their own The repulsive breast-beating of day; had immediately gotten out policy. Foster simply maintains es by individuals representing until they could find other work power and prestige. They have in­ By Albert Goldman 10,000 leaflets, the first leaflets that Browder did not correctly the functionaries shows to what some of the many participating or until their husbands return formed the women that they were Aside from the subject matter announcing the meeting to be apply the general line of Stalin, degeneracy a person who was organizations. One hundred thou­ from the army and help support only hired in for the duration of distributed; were carrying on an of the discussion now taking that is, the line of making- cnce a revolutionist and capable sand circulars announcing the them. • the war and there is nothing that intensive telephone and mailing place in the Stalinist party (or alliances with the capitalists and of critical thinking can descend. rally, under the heading, “ It Can Three of the many Detroit the union can do about it. campaign; were plugging for the association) and revealed to the preserving class peace in order to They are all climbing on Foster’s Happen Here!” had been printed. workers who have been laid off This, of course, has given a demonstration in shops, factories public in the pages of the Stalin­ defend the Soviet Union. bandwagon by a contrite con­ It was planned to distribute an because they were unable to han­ black eye to the union as a whole and unions; and were holding ist press, the fact that there is fession of sins. This loathsome additional 15,000 leaflets, address­ dle the mop, and who are now as far as many Negro women are NO REAL UNDERSTANDING open-air meetings for the same such a discussion at all is an in­ hum ility has of course nothing to ed to the demonsti’ators at the receiving no compensation, are: concerned. Questioned as to their purpose on Thursday, the night teresting and symptomatic pheno­ It is evident from the articles do with Bolshevik self-criticism Olympic. Mrs. Heatha Wilson, 541 Chan­ attempts to put up a fight in the menon and requires some ex­ and letters written by rank-and which is a dignified and critical dler; Mrs. Mattie Fluker, 5684 union meetings and replace the planation. file-members and lower func­ attitude to one’s own mistakes as Woodrow and Mrs. Periscola reactionary leaders w ith more Is our contention that the tionaries that there is absolutely revealed by events, an attitude Walker of 21657 Hughwood, militant ones, most of the work­ Stalinist bureaucrats cannot af- no understanding of the real which prevents smugness and L.A. Police Break Up Ferndale, Michigan. ers admitted- that they were so fhrd to permit a real discussion nature of Marxism and Leninism. serves to educate oneself and the was continuing and embraced ad­ disgusted with the attitude of contradicted? Or have the Stalin­ The contributions to the dis­ membership. Perhaps Browder ditional workers in the post of­ ORDER FOR GM the leaders that they did not even ists, after suppressing any kind cussion by the members speak of will go through the same contor­ Anti-Fascist Meeting fice, town council and Elder Protests were made to Mr. Bos­ bother to attend meetings. This o f a discussion fo r over fifteen Marxism - Leninism and demo tions, if not during this dis­ LOS ANGELES, Calif., July another meeting at that corner (shipping) Lines. ton, the Division Superintendent. attitude can only further strength years, decided to turn over a new cratic centralism, but there is no cussion, then later. I f he doesn’t, 20 — Local police dispersedi’a to discuss the fig h t against local Confirmation is given in the He allegedly replied: ‘That is en the reactionax-y forces in the leaf and henceforth permit discus­ understanding of the real mean then it simply means that a street meeting of the Socialist fascist movements and to defend London paper of the suppression the order froxxx General Motors .union leadership, because the top management. When women’ sion? To an inexperienced person ing of these terms. bux-eaucrat, once having reached Workers Party last night amid its right of free speech. of the two native papers, the •unions are the only official arena who follows the apparently free a position where he thinks he is West African Pilot and the Daily production woi-kers are laid o ff wherein the workers can put up There is no awareness of the strong protests from workers in In addition to the meeting in discussion and the severe critic­ somebody in his own right, w ill Comet, by the British governor we ai-e to offer them the mop. a fig h t fo r their just demands in real issues that should be raised. the audience of 150 which gath­ Boyle Heights, with its predomin­ ism of Browder, it must appear The members followed Browder kick back when he i-eceives a of Nigeria. The repox-t states they I f they x-efuse to accept that the shops. ered to hear an appeal for sup­ antly Jewish and Mexican popu­ that the Stalinists have really blindly and now that they feel sudden jolt. lation, a street meeting was held were suppressed “ for publishing decided to introduce discussion that people in a higher position port of the mass anti-fascist at the same time at Central Ave­ px-ovocative articles.” and democracy into their ranks. FOSTER’S BANDWAGON demonstration at the Olympic nue and 45th Street, in the heart r\orvö6v yaraaxaphs than Browder are opposed to him STRIKERS FIRM For a party to discuss Marxism- auditorium tonight. of the Negro neighborhood. Over LIM ITS OF DISCUSSION they are ready to follow Foster just as blindly. The Stalinist Leninism intelligently it is neces­ The police broke up the meet­ 50 Negro woi-kers heard speak­ That attempts have been made To one who has any experience bureaucrats need no longer fear sary above all to have a mem­ ing on the pretext that the speak­ ers call fo r mass participation at strike-breaking is also in­ with Stalinism and follows the a discussion because the mem­ bership educated in that science, ers had no written permit, de­ at the Olympic meeting, explain dicated. Says the Times report: THE PARTY IS THE DECISIVE current discussion it is clear that bership does not know what to alert and critical. A fter so many spite the fact that that particular the cause of fascism and give the “ The leaders of the x-ailway union we have to modify our proposition discuss. This is the modification years of mis-education the con­ corner, Brooklyn and Breed SWP program of action to stop had agreed at an interview with INSTRUMENT OF THE STRUGGLE w ith reference to discussion in the cept of Marxism-Leninism pos­ Streets, in Boyle Heights, is tra ­ the growth of fascist movements the general manager of the rail­ that we must introduce into our Consciousness, premeditation, tome all the more important in Stalinist parties only to the general proposition that the sessed by the membership is so ditional for outdoor meetings in Los Angeles. way to telegraph strikers at up- country stations to return to and planning played a fa r smaller view of the fact that the enemy extent that it is necessary to add Stalinist bureaucrats fear dis­ grotesque that, a discussion on the without permits of any kind. A t the conclusion of the meet­ work, but no sooner had they left part in boux-geois revolutions than has also become fa r more con­ that now Stalinism has reached a cussion. principles of Marx and Lenin has ing on Central Avenue, workers point in the development of its no real meaning. A fter many FREE SPEECH FIGHT the interview than they were tlioy are destined to play, and al- scious. The bourgeoisie, in the Everyone with any understand­ in the audience bought copies of l-eady do play in proletarian revo­ parties where the top bureaucrats years of blindly following the Several workers told the speak­ attacked by a crowd of strikers, course of centuries of rule, has ing of Marxism and with the The M ilitant and tlie pamphlets lutions. In the former instance perfected a political schooling fa r no longer fear a discussion of a policies handed down by the lead­ ers they wanted to defend their and had to be rescued by the necessary independence to raise “ Fascism,” and “ The Negro the motive force of the revolu­ superior to the schooling of the certain type. Furthermore, as a ing bureaucrats, it becomes im­ rig ht of free speech and asked to police.” his voice in criticism has long ago Struggle for Equality.” Some tion was also fux-nished by the old bureaucratic monarchy. I f practical matter, the Moscow possible fo r the membership to be notified of any way that they Concluding, the report states: begn expelled. The old members masses, but the latter were much parliamentarianism served the bureaucrats have more to gain do anything else. One can repeat could help. asked to be notified of further “ The strikers have rejected ef­ who have become functionaries iess organized and much less con­ proletariat to a certain extent as than to lose from permitting dis­ the expressions “ democratic cen­ On July 26 the SWP w ill hold meetings. forts to induce them to return to have probably not forgotten the scious than at the present time. a training school for revolution, cussion on the question of Brow­ tralism” and “ Marxism-Leninism” work pending negotiations, aixd der’s “revisionism.” ’ principles of Marx and Lenin, but The leadership remained in the then -it also served the bour­ from now until doomsday, but they continue to disobey their hands of different sections of the In the first place, one must have become so thoroughly cor­ geoisie to a far greater extent when there is lacking a real union leaders, insisting that their bourgeoisie, and the latter had llotice that the discussion is rupted that there is no danger Bethlehem Workers Are as the school of counter-revolu­ understanding of the meaning of denxaxxds nxust be met before they at its disposal wealth, education, limited to the question whether whatever that they will raise the tionary strategy. Suffice it to these terms a discussion i-evolving go back.” and all the organizational ad­ say that by means of parliamen­ or not a fundamental policy real issue, the revisionism of around them becomes a sham dis­ vantages connected with them tarianism the bourgeoisie was adopted by Stalin is being carried Stalin and not of Browder. Invited To Penn. Picnic cussion. (the cities, the universities, the able so to educate the Social Dem­ out correctly. We have always BY H. NEW ELL and food provided at prices that press, etc.). ocracy that it is today the main contended that discussion is per­ RISK VERY LITTLE BETHLEHEM, Pa., July 22 — cover only expenses. The 30-acre prop of private property. The mitted among the Stalinists on a The bureaucratic monarchy de­ It is the backwardness of the Comrades from the Eastern Penn­ Stump Farm is close to Liberty fended itself in a hand-to-mouth epoch of the social revolution in question as to whether or not a Economic Crisis membership that makes it safe sylvania area today visited many Bell Station 84, Quakertown. All manner, probing in the dark and Europe, as has been shown by its policy adopted by the top bureau­ fo r the bui-eaucrats to permit a of the 350 new M ilitant readers M ilitant readers ai-e invited. then acting. The bourgeoisie very first steps, w ill be an epoch crats is being correctly applied Brings Misery to discussion. They stand to gain a in Bethlehem to personally invite would bide its time to seize a fav- not only of strenuous and ruth­ by lower functionaries. lot without risking much. In them to our August 5 picnic at ox-able moment when it could pro­ less struggle but also of planned The policy itself is not dis­ permitting this particular discus­ Stump Farm. Although time did fit from the movement of the and calculated battles—fa r more cussed, only its application. The Austrian Workers sion they have judged very not permit us to see all our new lower classes and throw its whole planned than with us in 1917. present discussions among the The economic crisis in war-torn shrewdly. The discussion has ob­ friends and readers, the en­ social weight into the scale, and (From “ Lessons of October,” American Stalinists does not raise Lucha Obrera Publications in Austria is steadily worsening. viously raised the moi-ale of the thusiastic response we received Mexico fo r an outstanding so seize the state power. The pro­ by Leon Trotsky, pp. 100-101. the question of the fundamental Typhus, one of the dread scourges members. Some of the many who was ample assurance that many letarian revolution is precisely Pioneer Publishers, 1937). policy handed down by Stalin but achievement: the publishiixg of a of the First World War, is now left the party are returning be­ Bethlehem workers w ill join the Spanish translation of Socialism distinguished by the fact that the only Browder’s application of that spreading among a hunger- cause they hope to see a different all-day outing. on Trial by James P. Cannon. proletariat — in the person of weakened people. The acute hous­ policy. Many inexperienced peo­ In spite of the fact that we Lucha Obrera is the name of the its vanguard — acts in it not ing shortage adds to the gravity ple outside of the Stalinists w ill were prim arily interested in newspaper issued twice a month only as the main offensive force Vote Trotskyist! of the epidemic. be convinced that there is real publicizing the picnic, our warm by the Mexican section o f the but also as the guiding force. The In the Coming Shortages of medical facilities, democi’acy in the Stalinist parties. reception made it very easy to Fourth Iixternational. Under the part played in bourgeois revolu­ vitamins and foods are so severe That feeling is now prevalent sell .$4.50 worth of our pamphlets title Wall Street Enjuicia al So- tions by the economic power of New York Elections it is impossible to establish a among the membership. The Allentown - Quakertown cialismo (Wall Street Puts So­ the bourgeoisie, by its education, minimum standard of health. There is, of course, a certain branches, which include the Beth­ cialism oxx Trial), this translation by its municipalities and univer­ Among other important issues, Transport, water supply and risk involved in permitting such a lehem area, are sponsoring the appeared in Mexico City in June, sities, is a part which can be the Socialist Workers Party sewage disposal systems have discussion. The risk consists in picnic jointly with the Reading 1945. Pioneer has just received filled in a proletarian revolution Election Platform advocates: broken down beyond repair w ith­ the possibility that some of the and Philadelphia branches of the shipment of a number of copies. only by the party of the prole­ Socialist Workers Party. Ad­ tariat. out outside aid. Vienna now has bolder, uncorrupted spirits will A very attractive full-size book FULL EQUALITY FOR only 12 trucks in the entire city. mission is free, with refreshments of 192 pages, this is a complete The role of the party has be- leai-n in the course of the dis­ NEGROES and N A T IO N A L Only two single-track railways translation of the official court cussion and raise more funda­ MINORITIES! still function. EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA record of James P. Cannon’s tes­ can book says that in publishing timony in the Minneapolis trial. Meanwhile the Stalinist of­ mental issues in the future. But it “ the Mexican Section of the DOWN WITH JIM CROW! Mexico is now the third country ficials are combing farms and that is a risk which the bureau­ MILITANT Readers' PICNIC Fourth International salutes the in v’hich this textbook of revolu­ factories, confiscating cattle, comrades who were convicted and The bosses and their poli­ crats feel they can afford to take. SUN., AUG. 5 - ALL DAY FROM 11 A. M. tionary socialism has been pub­ horses, machines and transport. who are now free after 12 to 16 ticians hope to divide the work­ The advantages justify that risk lished. The first American edi­ Government funds were con­ at HOWARD STUMP FARM - 3 Mi. S. of Quakerstown on months’ imprisonment; confident ers by setting nationalities and tion, issued in 1942 by Pioneex-, fiscated as war booty. which, after all, is small because Philadelphia Pike No. 309—3 Squares from “ LIBERTY BELL” that ‘out of the capitalist prisons colors against each other. was entirely sold out and was Stalinist policies are resulting whenever necessary discussion Stop 84 - Follow Signs. and concentration camps tile ma­ Despite all their election in a rapid decline in popularity of followed by a second edition of jo rity of the leaders of Europe can easily be prohibited. 10,000 in 1944. In England two promises to institute fa ir em­ the Austrian Communist Party, Main Speaker: Art Preis and the world of tomorrow w ill We should make that risk a editions, under the title The ABC ployment pi-actices, they con­ according to Jean Lambert, the Associate Editor of The M ilitant come’.” real one, by discussing w ith those of Trotskyism, have been printed tinue tlie vicious Jim Crow Paris representative of the Aus­ * * * 48 pages, paper .15 trian Committee of Liberation rank-and-filei-s we can l-each and and have been very much in de­ system. ' Joint Auspices Allentown - Quakertown - Bethlehem mand by the workers who, as who recently returned from Vien­ pointing out to them that the real Pioneer is handling the distrib­ Defend the Negroes’ rig ht to Pioneer Publishes na. He said that the Stalinists Reading and Phila. Branches, SWP a friend wrote us, “ expressed the ution of the pamphlet in this decent jobs at decent wages! subject fo r discussion is the opinion that this is what they country. Order “ Wall Street En­ 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE had transported most of the in­ Unite the labor movement by dustrial equipment in their zone revisionism and betrayals of — Games & Prizes — have been waiting fo r: an easy juicia al Socialismo,” 50 cents, NEW YORK 3, N. Y. exposition of the whole socialist fighting segregation and dis­ to the Soviet Union and the Red Stalin and not of his flunkey, ADMISSION FREE - LUNCHES Adults 50c, Children 25c from Pioneer Publishers, 116 case.” crimination everywhere! Arm y was living on the land. Browder. University Place, New York 3, The introduction to the Mexi-I N. Y. SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1945 fflHE H IC IirX N l! PAGE PIVB Reign O f Terror In Greece Continues Unabated; Thousands O f Workers Deported To Ethiopia By Paul Abbott w- The reign of terror in Greece continues unabated. maintain them in power, nothing The Big Three Meet Again but a mask.” “ By V. Grey Thousands of workers who resisted the Allied troops The Stalinist signing of the Varkiza surrender enormously are now being deported to Ethiopia, according to the facilitated the British in their aim I see by the papers that the Japanese “ GI’s” aren’t very good soldiers. According to Lieutenant-General Geiger, as soon as they Mid-June Socialist Appeal, organ of the British Trot­ to drown the Greek revolution in blood. The Stalinist heads of the get into a tig h t cornea, they commit suicide. Of course, you couldn’t skyists. ^ EAM (Greek Liberation Front) expect them to be very enthusiastic about fighting fo r Japanese In a protest to the Greek Em­ British arms. still observe the counter-revolu­ capitalism. But you wouldn’t think they’d be such dissolute char­ bassy at Washington against the “ Practically the entire Greek tionary terms of this agreement. acters as to go and k ill themselves. Army is today a hand-picked continued terror, the Macedonian That’s taking the easy way out. Anybody can k ill himself. force of gangsters, many of them American People’s League de­ You’re not going to get hurt killin g yourself — because no one’s clared: "The tragic civil war in the former Security Battalions going to hit back at you. Why, when you look at it that way, i t ’s Greece ended in the complete vic­ fo r the German occupation. And 250 Trotskyists tory of reaction and fascism. The the royalists — perhaps fearful lower than attacking a little child! The child can raise its hand very same elements which had of the results in the British elec­ Were Killed By against you. But how can you fig h t back against yourself when collaborated with the Germans, tions — are known to be planning you’re using both hands already — to kill yourself! reinforced by discredited foreign a putsch against the Voulgaris I t ’s a mean trick all right, and nobody but the lowest of the government which does not sat­ agents, are today subjecting the Greek Stalinists low would do it. Here they have a chance to surrender and give their isfy them because it does not pro­ whole Greek population to the When the British provoked bodies a break by living in a prison camp. And they’re so mean to most outrageous terror. ceed murderously enough against the democratic forces.” civil war in Greece after being their bodies, they go and k ill them! JAILED. MURDERED By declarations such as these welcomed by the Stalinists, the “According to neutral UNRRA the Stalinists attempt to white­ Trotskyists stood in the fore­ GREEKS AND ROMANS THOUGHT IT BRAVE sources, some 33,000 Democrats wash their own perfidious role in front of the workers’ ranks, Of course the ancient Greeks and Romans used to think it was are languishing in prison. Gen­ Greece. They were the ones who fighting armed reaction. The eral Ares, one of the outstanding a brave thing to commit suicide rather than surrender. But after welcomed British troops to Stalinist leaders joined the all, they used to think heaven was a gloomy place — and it took heroes of the Greek liberation Greece. They were the ones who struggle, and hundreds of his fo l­ British and the puppet Greek lots of guts to face it. Nowadays, w ith the Japanese and American engineered a deal agreeing to government in murdering out­ lowers have been brutally mur­ give up the arms of the Greek heavens such happy places, no one but a coward who wants to get dered. The fascist regime of Me- partisans. They were the ones standing militants among the away from the shooting would think of doing himself in to escape. taxas has reappeared under a new who murdered hundreds of the partisans. Latest news from And of course when General M cAuliffe was asked to surrender name. W ithout foreign interfer­ most militant fighters, slander­ Greece declares 250 victims fell at Bastogne, he said “ Nuts.” He didn’t commit suicide: he just sent ence, these • tragic developments ing them as fascists. They be­ before the Stalinist killers in in a few hundred more American soldiers to get killed by the Ger­ would never have occurred.” trayed the Greek revolution. Salonika alone. The Stalinists, in particular, are mans. You m ight say he did commit suicide by proxy — if you How demagogic are their cries These 250 victims include mem­ lamenting the bloody reign of wanted to be nasty. against the bloody reign of ter­ bers of the Fourth International terror. Nikos Zachariadis, secre­ All of which reminds me that Scissorbill Sam, the bosses’ man, ror can be judged from the fact and the Archeo-Marxists, a le ft­ tary-general of the Greek Com­ that they are still abiding by the ist working class political party got a letter from his brqther in the Pacific Islands telling of the munist Party told PM’s special terms of the agreement they made which adheres to a centrist pro­ d irty tricks the Japanese soldiers use when they fight. Scissorbill Athens correspondent, Roi Ott- with the British counter-revolu­ gram (similar to that of the In­ said: ley, that “freedom exists in tion. dependent Labor Party in B rit­ Greece today fo r black reaction. “ My brother says three or four of our boys w ill be in a fox­ ain) although it agrees w ith the hole and it’s pitch dark, see? A Jap jumps into the hole with them Only the monarchist-fascist ele­ DAMNING CONFESSION Trotskyists on many points. The ments put into power by force of and shoots one of them. So they all begin shooting and they all k ill In the July 24 New Masses, Archeo-Marxists publish a week­ British arms hold authority and weekly organ of the American ly paper in Athens called Class each other. That way one Jap kills three Americans. Oh, the Jap are using UNRRA supplies placed Stalinists, the Greek Stalinist Struggle. gets killed, too, of course. But hell, he don’t give a damn!” at their disposal to propagandize Kostas Karayorghis, editor of for a return of the monarchy.” Rizopastis, published in Athens, Cut o ff from contact with sis­ Crisis In Ita ly Continues writes: “ The Varkiza agreement, ter parties of the Fourth Interna­ HANDPICKED GANGSTERS the signing of which was so tional since 1939, the Greek The Stalinists in New York is­ Trotskyists nevertheless waged a necessary to the EAM as well as Under The Reshuffled Cabinet BARBADIANS DUPED. ROBBED sued a leaflet that declares; “ A t valiant struggle against the Nazi to the British, could have con­ least 30,000 partisans are in jail. conquerors and the Greek capital­ (Continued from page 1) ned economy can create the con-1 Hardly a day passes without a BY PHILLIPS PACKING C0RP. stituted a point of departure for ists who collaborated with them. governmental crises which en­ ditions necessary for the modern­ ization of Italy’s agrarian econ­ Trieste and Venice monarchist raid on EAM head­ a normal political life in Greece. Through individual German sol­ abled Mussolini and the Fascists The workers of Barbadoes are And so they called a strike. quarters in one town or another. omy and thus insure increased But that agreement, which has diers they learned a Trotskyist to play on the theme that democ­ Paraiyzed By Strike among the most poverty-stricken The company immediately or­ The islands are again the hell­ production. Ita ly needs increased organization in Germany was racy was bankrupt and unable to A ll work was brought to “ a of all the people of the Caribbean. dered out the police and sent fo r been fu lly observed by the EAM, industrial activity to provide jobs holes which they were in the days fighting against Hitlerism from create “ stability.” Of ail the complete standstill” in the Principally colored, they suffer a British liaison officer to “ar­ ef Metaxas. Reactionary bands has been fo r the Greek reaction­ for her unemployed and to main­ the underground. parties, the Stalinists have suf­ Italian port cities of Trieste segregation and discrimination as bitrate” the dispute. foam the country, equipped with tain and improve the standard of aries and the British tories, who The Greek Trotskyists publish fered the greatest loss in pres­ and Venice on July 19 when well as the ravages of unemploy­ The company is thoroughly con­ iiving of the masses. Only na­ two weekly papers in Athens, tige. For weeks Togliatti (top ment. Most of them, consequent­ fident it will win, for under the tionalization of industry under workers engaged in a general Workers Front and Workers Stalinist leader) was the target ly, are eager to go to the United terms of the contract, the Barba­ workers’ control and the intro­ strike protesting the composi­ Struggle. Although they are di­ of ribald comment in the right- States where they have been told dians, like laborers under the Nazi duction of a sliding scale of tion of a commission nominated vided into three groups, two in wing press. Wrote the Christian by the Allied authorities to democracy reigns. When 300 of regime in Germany, may not be Navy Brass Hats Encourage Athens, one in Salonika, they col­ wages with a basic minimum, and Democrat Domain d’lta lia : “ Since conduct a purge of fascists, them were offered, jobs with the employed by any other person laborate on many questions. when has Signor Togliatti been a sliding scale of hours corres­ Phillips Packing Company at except Phillips Packing. ponding to the needs of produc­ according to an AP dispatch so p_articular about the govern­ from Rome. The strike was Salisbury, Maryland, they eager­ ments he served in. Not only did tion, can abolish this. Italy ly seized the “ opportunity.” Vicious Jim Crow Practices needi}, not a new premier and called by the Committee of Na­ he serve in both Bonomi cabinets, By July 5 their disillusionment Vicious Jim Crow attacks by Board of Inquiry. The Navy De­ new allocation of cabinet posts, tional Liberation and work was Subscribe to * Queues Unpopular but he also participated in the had reached an explosive point. partment has repeatedly refused but the active participation of halted not only in the two cities white Marines upon Negro Badoglio government, under the Paid only 50 cents an hour, de­ to grant the NAAOP a copy of the worker and peasant masses but in the entire surrounding Lucho Obrera Navy Base Company men sta­ rotten King Victor Emmanuel ductions reduced this miserable tioned in Guam last December, the record of its own findings. In Greet Britain in the political and economic life areas. sum to the vanishing point. Out Organ of the Mexican Section III.” of the country. and concealed by the authori­ ATTACKED BY MARINES The revolt of British women It is generally agreed that both of each pay check the following of the Fourth International against hated line-ups fo r fish, a Socialist-Communist govern­ subtractions are made: U. S. in­ ties for months, has resulted For weeks, Mr. White revealed, the Socialist and Action Parties WORKERS LOSE FAITH bread, tomatoes, etc., is growing ment. There is no doubt that come tax, a 25 percent British Published in Spanish not in the severe punishment the white Marines had been have gained considerably at the The faith with which the Ita l­ in volume and determination, ac­ such a step would meet with en­ “ saving” tax, social “ security” Twice a Month of the white provocateurs but throwing hand grenades and expense of the Stalinists. The ian workers streamed back into cording to a July 11 Reuters thusiastic support from the work­ tax, and $9 a week for board and in the recent court-martial by smoke bombs, bricks and empty wing of the Socialist Party led their traditional parties as the $1 a year dispatch. Men are now joining in by Ignatio Silone (author of the Fascist regime came crashing ers and peasants. By thus reas­ room. On top of this, conditions the Navy Department of 43 beer bottles into camps occupied the widespread protests. serting their ciass independence, in 'their “barracks” were so bad Sold at 232 S. H ill St. Rm. 200-5 by the Negro navy men. No anti-fascist novels “ Bread and down, is gradually evaporating. Negroes attached to the U. S. Birmingham housewives have they would prepare themselves and the food of such poor quality, Los Angeles 12, Calif. attempt whatsoever was made by Wine” and “ Fontamara” ), which This last crisis was noteworthy Naval Depot. They were con­ established an organization like lo r the next step — the over­ they could no longer endure it. the authorities to stop the attacks is opposed to fusion with the fo r the complete indifference victed on charges of “ rioting that of the South London women throw of capitalism and its insti­ or to punish the attackers. Finally Communist Party, has also been shown by the workers to its out­ find unlawful assembly.” to publicize their troubles and considerably strengthened and come. They cry fo r bread and tutions, the setting up of a gov­ on Christmas Eve and Christmas ernment of workers’ and peas­ Announcement of the sentences bring pressure to bear on the gov­ within the C. P. the anti-Togliatti jobs and are offered — a new Day of last year a truckload of ants’ councils, which alone can imposed upon the 43 Negroes, ernment. In other areas preli­ feeling is growing. premier! white Marines descended upon the bring order out of the economic ranging from four years to four minary steps are being taken. The The prestige of Nenni (“ So­ The Italian workers have not Negro camp with ugly threats Manchester Trades Council, rep­ yet found the road to the pro­ crisis and prepare the way for WHERE YOU CAN BUY months, was insolently publiciz­ and provocations. When the cialist” leader) has soared consi­ resenting all the trade unions of derably. His arrest by the Brit­ gram of Trotskyism, the program Socialism. ed directly after a broadcast on Negroes tried to defend them­ But for Italy, as for other this great industrial area, ish authorities did his reputation of the Socialist Revolution. They THE 'FOURTH INTERNATIONAL' July 7 by Walter White, secretary selves from physical violence, the countries, there can be no na­ demanded action by the City no harm, especially as Togliatti still hope that a few more “ So­ of the National Association for Marines opened fire upon them, tional solution of the crisis. The AKRON PHILADELPHIA the Advancement of Colored Peo­ Council. was le ft unmolested, though he, cialists” or “ Communists” in the killing one Negro sailor and coalition cabinet will help to solve question of Trieste brings sharply News Exchange, 51 S. Main. 13th and Market Streets. ple. Over the Columbia Broad­ In the Tyneside and Northeast too, broke the “ no speeches” ban wounding others. Following this coast areas, 100,000 shipyard their problems. To completely home the complete interdepend­ M ilitant Bookshop, Everett casting System, Mr. White re­ incident, 43 of the Negroes were during the same period. Nenni SAN FRANCISCO workers discussed strike action to expose the Stalinist and “ Social­ ence of European economy and Bldg., 39 E. Market Street, ported his findings after serving stumped the country with a series Duncan’s Newsstand, 1986 court-martialed. protest unfair distribution of ist” quacks, the Workers’ Com­ the anachronism of national fron­ as defense counsel fo r the of demagogic speeches which Rm. 405. Sutter St.; Rays Smoke The Negroes in the Pacific, said goods and short supplies. munist Party, Italian Section of tiers. Only within the frame­ victimized Negroes on a Navy Mr. White, have “ built with evoked ready response among the work of the United Socialist Shop, 1174 Sutter St.; Mac­ A graphic instance of the d if­ workers. Prophetically, Nenni the 4th International, is pushing CHICAGO lightning speed hundreds of miles States of Europe can Ita ly finally Donald’s Book Store, 867 ficulties faced by housewives was declared: “ I have no intention forward its demand that these 51st St. L Station; cf roads, B-29 airfields on Guam, recover from the havoc of two Mission St.; Golden Gate reported by the London Evening of playing the role of a Noske” parties break with their capital­ In Philadelphia Saipan and other islands, have decades of Fascism and five years Ceshinsky’s Bookstore, 2750 News Agency, 81-3rd St.; News. In the Thames-side town of (leader of the German Social- ist allies, that they put their of war. Fitizgerald News Agency, B iiy j handled thousands of tons of sup­ Reading, women needing shoes for Democratic Party which crushed program to the test by forming W. Division St.; University plies, including the landing in 21-4th St. THE MILITANT themselves or their children were the revolution of 1918). He said of Chicago Bookstore, 5802 S. amphibious trucks of ammunition, forced to queue up at five o’clock nothing about playing the role San Francisco School of So­ and Ellis Ave.; Randolph News food and medical supplies close in the morning. The line-up at of a Kerensky (head of the Rus­ cial Science, 305 Grant Ave., Shop, 63 W. Randolph. 4th FI. FOURTH INTERNATIONAL on the heels of beachhead invasion that early hour was 500 yards sian government after the Feb­ Farri Demands Return troops.” They have done dirty, Newstand, N.W. corner 51st at long. ruary 1917 Revolution, who at­ BERKLEY hard and dangerous work. Meanwhile workers have begun tempted to preserve capitalism). and Cottage Grove. LABOR FORUM Reward for their participation O f Colonial Possessions Sather Gate Book Shop, 2335 m ilitant action to secure living 160 N. Wells, Room 317. Telegraph Ave.; Whitey’s in the war for “The Four Free­ THE REAL POWER As for the internal crisis rav­ 405 W. Girard Avenue quarters. During the night of (Continued from page 1) corner Bencrost and Tele­ doms” is Jim Crow attacks, Meanwhile real power remains aging Italy, Parri voiced the hope DETROIT and 13th and Market St., July 13, three vacant London execution. Lini was sentenced to graph Ave. physical violence, and now the in the hands of Anglo-American of the Italian ruling class that N.W. corner apartments were seized by service imperialism. The key posts of die before a firin g squad. Family Theater Newsstand, railroading to prison of 43 of “revolution” will not break out SAN DIEGO men. An organization called the ministers of the army, navy and In Rome, Ferruccio Parri, the opposite theater, Carls Book them. “Vigilantes” initiated this tactic in the north this winter. To stave gtore, 9109 Woodward Ave. 242 Broadway. air cannot be filled without Al­ new puppet premier of the Allied off this threat to Italian reaction, in the seaside town of Brighton. lied approval. This gives the “ liberators,” demanded the re­ Cass Newsstand, Cass at John Preen, leader of the he insisted on the “ absolute neces­ Michigan Ave. SAN PEDRO Allies complete control of the Ital turn of the colonies formerly ex­ sity to keep feeding the popula­ Socialist Workers Party, Rm. READ London Vigilantes, who superin­ :an armed forces, as an auxiliary ploited by the Italian capitalists M ilitant Bookshop, 3 513 tion.” tended the installation of the to the occupation troops. In the under Mussolini’s regime. “ There Woodward, Rm. 21. 214, 1008 S. Pacific Ave. The Position of American families of the servicemen in the North, AMG remains in virtual are many vital interests at stake,” On the question of withdrawal Williams Book Store, 284- vacant apartments, declared: “ We control. There is no way in which he said. “ We had 120,000 colon­ of Allied troops, Parri spoke as LOS ANGELES 6th St.; Johnson’s Pool Hall, are going on every night putting the new government can solve ists in North Africa and we feel a loyal puppet. “ I have nothing Workers Book Shop, 232 S. 531 Beacon St.; LaRue Trotskyism on: against their staying,” he said. hard cases into empty places the grave economic crisis. that the opportunity for coloniz­ H ill, Room 200-05. Pharmacy, 1309 ‘ Pacific; “ If the Americans or the British Abrams Pharmacy, 1002 • United States — Trade Unions and the War until the council acts properly and The fact that Togliatti is now ation should be held open.” NE Corner, 5th and Main; United States Imperialism gives service men a square deal.” minister of justice instead of dep­ want to keep some divisions here South Caffey. DEMANDS COLONIES because they fear for security, or 326 W. 5th Street; Con­ The Capitalist War Program The Stalinists are carrying on uty prime minister, that Nenni is their usual anti-working-class because they just want to wait solidated Bldg. 6th and H ill; SEATTLE Independent Labor Party now inside the cabinet instead of Speaking for the interests of tactics. Their official organ, the the Italian capitalist class, which and see, they are welcome.” 2210)4 Bklyn. Ave.; 1660 N. Eckert’s corner Washington A Post War Program for Workers outside it, w ill not provide jobs Daily Worker, declared that “ fas­ for Ita ly’s hundreds of thousands brought Mussolini and the Fas­ The attempts of the Allies to Cahuega and Hollywood and 1st Ave.; Bishop Drug Europe — The European Revolution cists” are active among the of unemployed, it w ill not en­ cists to power, Parri pointed to bolster up reaction in Italy are Bird.; 1665 N. Los Palmos Store, 507 Jackson St.; Ray- Counter-Revolutionary Program Vigilantes! I f fascists are able to hance the value of the lira or their investments in Africa, meeting with angered resistance and Hollywood Blvd., 335% ner’s Book Store, 905 - 3rd Ave.; Pool Room, 500 Main of Stalinism make capital of the unbearable curb the black market. No shuff­ amounting to “billions of lire.” from the workers. When the Al­ S. H ill St. Tasks of the Revolutionary Party situation facing returning vet­ ling or re-shuffling of ministerial Parri enunciated the policy lied Psychological Warfare Street. branch reestablished the fascist Socialist United States of Europe erans, the Stalinists bear major posts can accomplish this. Even form erly proclaimed by Musso­ MINNEAPOLIS ST. LOUIS esponsibility. For all these agents the bureaucracy of 24 under-sec­ newspaper Stampa in Turin as an In the New Pamphlet Just Published lin i: “ As a Mediterranean power, Labor Book Store, 10 South Foster’s Book Store, 410 of the counter - revolutionary retaryships, which have been we feel the need of harbor fa cili­ official “non-partisan” journal, 4 Street. Washington Ave. Resolutions of Eleventh Convention of Kremlin have to offer the house­ created to satisfy all the party ties there. Our future depends on 2,000 factory workers stormed the wives and homeless families of claims for cabinet posts, w ill not being able to trade in the Medi­ printing plant. NEW YORK TOLEDO the American Trotskyist Movement contribute to a solution of Italy’s veterans is slander! terranean.” He especially em­ They destroyed 50,000 copies of Newsstands on 14th Street, Athletic Sport Center, 908 grave problems. phasized the importance of the the firs t edition of the hated pa­ I. The United States and the Second World War between 2nd and 6th Aves.; Washington St.; M. & M. Italy needs an expanding agri colonies in North Africa “ for per and battled 500 employes of II. The European Revolution and Tasks of the Revolutionary 42nd St. between 5th & 6th. Drugstore, Michigan St. and Party culture to provide food for her both political and economic rea­ the plant to get at the printing 116 University Place. Buy 'The Militant" hungry millions. This cannot he machinery. Many persons were Madison Ave. 48 pages, 15 cents sons.” He likewise mentioned IN MILWAUKEE accomplished on the basis of the the “great investments” in West severely beaten on both sides be­ NEWARK ‘M ilitant’ Book Shop, 905 Order from at the newsstand on the north­ oresent private ownership of Africa. He even included a “ port” fore the demonstrators succeed­ Progressive Workers’ School, Jefferson Avenue, Rooms land, with most of it in the hands on the Red Sea, and “ hoped” that ed in smashing the machinery. 228-230. PIONEER PUBLISHERS west corner of Wisconsin Ave. 423 Springfield Ave. on Third St. i f the big landowners. Only the parts of southern Ethiopia “ as yet During the Mussolini regime 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE NEW YORK 3, N. Y. drastic redivision of the land and unexploited” might be opened to Stampa was owned by the Fiat its collectivization under a plan the Italian capitalists. automobile fam ily. PAGE SIX T H E MILITANT SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1945 SWP Branches Speed Solidarity Fund Scene at Vacation School M i d - West Workers Hear Grace Carlson By JACK O’CONNELL interest with which the audience To Aid The Trotskyists in Europe M ILW AUKEE— Convinced that listened to her speech. Forty-two the Socialist Workers Party is a dollars was contributed by the (Continued from page 1) this campaign. They are in audience toward the work of the charge of collections, affairs, etc. party of fighters, more than 50 workers left the meeting for SWP and five dollars worth of International Solidarity Fund indicate that our quota w ill be to insure our reaching our goal pamphlets was sold. met without difficulty. at a very early date.” Grace Carlson at the Pfister Hotel “ To help the comrades collect San Francisco: “ Enclosed is July 17 with a much clearer vision as much as possible from their another $50 toward the payment of the socialist future. Among SCOREBOARD friends, contacts and shopmates, of our pledge. This is about 50 (hose present were auto workers we issued a mimeographed local percent of our total. Just as and their wives from the most fast as we co lcct we will forward m ilitant UAW local here. BRANCH Quota Paid Percent collection list. A t last week’s membership meetings, each com­ the money to you.” The audience was visibly moved $25 $25 100 Reading rade received a numbered list; the Toledo: “ The Toledo branch when the speaker “ got tough” Allentown-Quakertown 60 40 67 roll was then called and pledges accepts the quota of $100 in the with a “freethinker” who in­ San Francisco 375 184 49 to collect or contribute a definite International Solidarity Fund. dignantly attacked her. sympathy Los Angeles 750 350 47 sum were taken. As soon as these We w ill send in the money as with the women victims of social Newark 100 43 43 ists begin to come in, Local New fast as it is collected. We are injustice and the strayed gills Twin Cities 250 100 40 York will climb fast toward the having a social this next Satur­ thrown into Federal prison and day and all the proceeds of this Philadelphia 125 49 39 top of the scoreboard, in spite of Swimming and fun are combined with serious study at the branded for getting an extra serv­ the fact that we are all busy with fund will he allocated to that iceman’s allotment. She insisted Buffalo 125 45 36 Mid-West Vacation School. Above, g irl students frolic in the lake the m ayoralty campaign.” purpose. We are having Com­ that we fight the “big criminals,” 350 100 29 Seattle Philadelphia: “ Enclosed is $30 rade Warde speak on the interna­ the robber barons and their Youngstown 85 20 24 on the International Solidarity tional situation next Sunday and system that breeds crime. Chicago 500 106 21 Fund. A t our branch meeting should get enough in pledges and Michigan Summer School The meeting adopted a resolu­ Members-at-Large of July 10 we elected three com-' collections to more than make up tion on behalf of William Patter­ and Friends 245 10 4 rades as a committee to direct the balance.” son, militant miner framed-up New York 1000 32 • 3 Appreciated By Workers and imprisoned under the Smith- Akron 75 0 0 Connally Act. A collection of GRACE CARLSON read much. My week here has Bayonne 100 0 0 By William F. Warde $20.00 was taken and several done a lot to change that. I hope INDIANA HARBOR, Ind. — A Boston 125 0 0 GRASS LAKE, Mich. — A ll is workers expressed their desire 6,400 Names all the Chicago comrades take to join the SWP. meeting of steel workers heard proceeding smoothly, as another Cleveland 75 0 0 George Collins’ course on the his­ week of the camp school ends to­ Local newspapers interviewed Grace Carlson speak on “ Women Detroit 400 0 0 tory of our movement because it’s day, with the hustling and bustl­ Grace Carlson. Tha Milwaukee Milwaukee 30 0 0 so fu ll of lessons useful to us at in Prison” -here July 16. ing of departing guests inter­ Sentinel quoted her statement: New York Youth Group 15 0 0 the present time.” Grace Carlson’s expose of the Needed To Put mingled with arrivals of the next “ When I am asked what the wo­ Pittsburgh 25 0 0 contingent. A newly - recruited brewery men in prison are like, I can only conditions in American prisons, Rochester 15 0 0 It is hard to say which part of worker from Milwaukee told us: reply to the questioner, ‘What and the hypocrisy of capitalist St. Louis 25 0 0 the program evokes the most en­ “ Now I really begin to under­ are you like?’ They are just justice, was received with great stand how the capitalist clique San Diego 25 0 0 Dobbs On Ballot thusiasm and praise: our material human beings, a little more con­ interest by the assembled work­ operates in robbing and holding fused and resentful, much more Toledo 100 0 0 provision of food (meat and ers. NEW YORK, Juy 23 — 8,600 ed: “ I ran into a number of men butter included) or the intellec­ down the workers everywhere. frustrated and lonely than the signatures have been obtained to from the Newspaper and Mail I ’ll be able to explain these things rest of us.” Questions and comments came TOTAL $5000 $1104 22 tual provender we provide. Like date on the petition to place Deliverers Union and it was a good dialectical materialists, we to the workers in my shop after thick and fast after her speech I arrell Dobbs on the ballot as real pleasure to learn how what I havi learned from the satisfy both opposing needs

WIN AN ORIGINAL Selective Service LAURA GRAY CARTOON! Is Agency for Have you been following the trials and tribulations of fhe “ poor rich” fam ily in Laura Gray’s feature cartoons on l1 age 8 of The M ilitant.? If you have, you most likely have Breaking Strikes your own pet name for this family. W ith this issue, we NEW YORK CITY—In a vig launch a contest to find the most appropriate descriptive c-rous protest, the National Ac­ tion Committee of the Workers name for them. Defense League charged last During the newspaper delivery been sold in local auto and a ir­ Three originals of these feature cartoons, personally in­ week that Selective Service D i­ workers strike, New York com­ craft factories. We also sold four scribed to the winners by the cartoonist, will be awarded for rector Hershey, by issuing spe­ rades and members of the Trot­ subs at the anti-fascist meeting the three best names submitted. First choice of the originals cial orders to Ohio Selective skyist Youth participated in the we held last week at which there rise of Trotskyism in all countries will go to the first-place winner; second choice to the second- Service fo r local draft boards to picket.lines, demonstrating their were over a hundred people From England of the world. It is worth the time reclassify strikers, went out of solidarity with the strikers, as present.” He postcripts his letter Editor: A Word to Our place winner; third choice to the third-place winner. In case of of anyone to attend. ties, all who submit winning names will receive an original his way “ to line up with employ­ revealed by the following excerpt with this note: “ One of our Milir We in England are awaiting the Leigh Ray ers” in the 19-day strike at Good from a report by Comrades Sandy tant readers just gave me a com­ feature cartoon, by Gray. result of the election and we are Correspondents Chicago year’s Akron rubber plant. Robertson and Pearl Spangler: plaint. It seems that he never ¡hoping that the noticeable swing A ll readers of The M ilita n t are eligible for the contest The volume of letters to the WI1L Chairman Aron S. Gil- “ Last Saturday despite the heavy gets a chance to see the paper as to the left will be seen by the and there is no lim it on the number of suggested names a Workers’ Forum is growing martin also made strenuous ob­ rain and thick police patrol, our his wife always grabs it first. He election of a Labor Government. Success Story contestant may enter. Just send in your entries, clearly jection to the United States Em­ comrades sold 103 copies of The was seconded in this complaint by from week to week. We welcome Editor: The election has been a good written on a sheet of paper, together with your full name ployment Service refusal to cer­ Militant in a half hour to the a friend' of his. Could it be that letters dealing with any matter The 1937 edition of Sadstreet field of work to us here in Shef­ and address. tify needy strikers for temporary strikers and to passersby. The Militant is breaking up the field, fo r it has enabled us to put of interest to the workers. We & Fun rated this firm C-plus-2 part-time jobs, although such jobs “ By shouting slogans of ‘Read fam ily?” May we recommend that our program before a very wide want to publish them all. To (indicating a capital rating of The contest w ill run for six weeks. AH entries must were made available to workers the strikers’ side of the strike’ you immediately send in a sub for strata of the workers. £125,000 to $200,000 — third class reach The M ilita n t office, 116 University Place, New York holding full-tim e jobs. enable us to do this, it is es­ we were able to convince many this subscriber’s wife? We came across many people, paying record). At that time 3, N. Y. by August 31. Editors of The M ilita n t will judge The War Production Board sential that letters be kept as people not to cross the picket line Just about all sections o f the while working for labor candi­ the company was 30 years old. the contest and decide the winning entries. Their decision joined the anti-union barrage of short as possible. No letter to buy a struck paper. One of the country sent in new subs and dates, who told us they had no Founded in 1907. will be .final. government bureaus, by granting should be longer than 300 strikers in a conversation with a renewals this week. To mention faith in the reactionaries. This Then came the war. A war permission fo r a one-week shut­ comrade remarked about the com­ just a few, our Boston agent sent was very encouraging and you words. Please keep w ithin this that was to make nobody rich. down for repairs to three unstruck plete isolation the strikers felt at two one-year and three six-month may be sure we used these op­ limit so that every worker-car President Roosevelt promised plants; then permitting the m ili­ guards were friendly. Of course, the beginning of the strike but renewals, and one new six-month portunities to the full. We had respondent may get a break. that. Prisoner in Germany tary bras.s-hats to lay all blame the food allowance was very with a part of the labor movement subscription. Youngstown was two Stalinist candidates in Shef­ Five years later, according to E ditor: on the striking union fo r decreas­ TH E EDITOR meager but then neither were the supporting their fight, and par­ heard from with two one-year and field, the only town in England published records, the not-too In the army, we had many dis ed rubber production. German civilians getting very ticularly with the excellent cover­ two six-month subs. with more than one, and we have brilliant president of this not- missions about who was really Navy seizure of the Goodyear much. age and support The M ilitant was Top scorer was San Francisco exposed them and their so-called and in addition more than $8,500,- too-successful enterprise had up­ responsible fo r the war. Quite, plant ended the strike on July 13. I might also add that never giving the strike, it made all the with thirteen six-month and nine policy and program at every op­ 900 was socked away for post­ ped his salary some 10,000 per often, of course, there were those during my entire stay at this difference in carrying their fight one-year subscriptions, plus two portunity. war “ contingencies.” On top of cent while the plant personnel who said the entire German peo­ prison camp, one of the largest to a successful conclusion.” six-month renewals. Toni Price . I don’t think either of them has his the corporation will get $8,- increased less than 5,000 percent, ple were responsible fo r the in Germany, did I ever witness Fruehauf Trailer Another indication of how our adds this comment to her report: a chance of winning, due in a lot 500,000 from the government a salary nearly six times that slaughter-fest in Europe. Contrast or hear from other prisoners any readers feel about The M ilitant From the enclosed subs one after the war in tax refunds for of the President of these United this with my experience: of respects to our exposure of stories of gross mistreatment of was reported to us by a Bayonne would think that we are still on them. 1944 alone! States. I was captured immediately American prisoners. So the tales Company Incites comrade: “ I was in a stationery the sub campaign. Those who We promise the workers here A ll ■ this w ill make a nice little Tire government furnished the after being wounded in a small I heard upon liberation of the store buying cigarettes when I came to our'July 15 ‘Friends of nothing, only by Socialism on the nest-egg to enable the Curtiss funds or the equivalent in credit, German town near the Siegfried wholesale atrocities everywhere overheard two workers discussing The M ilita nt Dinner’ and who revolutionary program of our bosses to face the “ contingencies” the orders, plant, machinery, line. Our machine-gun section Detroit Workers confounded me. the newspaper strike. One com­ were not readers—left as read-?, party and our International. of reconversion (closed plants and “ know how,” ... and, they froze was surrounded. We were lined A ll in all the only conclusion I DETROIT, July 20 — The unemployment) with complete plained that he hadn’t read a ers.” “Long live the 4th Interna­ labor. up, Americans on one side of the could come to was that the real Fruehauf Trailer Company, ac­ calm and, of course, fu ll stom­ newspaper in several days. Upon tional!” A salesman friend of mine street, Germans on the other, responsibility for the war and cused in June of acting as a w ill­ achs! hearing this his companion pulled A. Russell paid income taxes in 1937 based presumably imbued with all the atrocities lay with the big shots ing guinea pig for the National Now, let’s see how matters a paper from his pocket and said: Sheffield, England on earnings of $10,000 the year doctrines of hate fo r one another. and that the people, the average Association of Manufacturers in stand with the Curtiss-Wright ‘I don’t miss the daily papers at THE END before. In 1942, w ith nothing to Several of us were wounded and German soldier in particular, did their campaign to smash the auto employees. The second item all, as long as The M ilitant comes sell because of the war, he was we surrendered. workers’ union, is continuing to. states that the Curtiss workers, not want it any more than I did. regularly’.” War's Vile Fruit frozen in this same plant as la­ Upon being taken into custody, A Private stall on the union contract while OF THE members of Local 585, Interna­ A Brooklyn reader, I. Kolotkin, Editor: bor for 84 cents an hour. German soldiers immediately set Chicago, 111. it provokes the workers by new tional Association of Machinist, sent in his renewal and included I am enclosing a clipping from That’s Fascism isn’t it? Well, about the task of giving us first acts of petty tyranny. A,F,L, and of the United Office with it four subscriptions for his COMINTERN the Toledo Blade of July 14. It isn’t it? aid. A fter applying a tourniquet “ A fte r five weeks of negotia­ and Professional Workers, C.I.O., Lausche of Ohio friends. Thanks very much, we tells the story of war veteran A Reader to my wounds, two German sol­ tion for a new contract there is are demanding a 40-hour week appreciate your support and wel­ By James P. Cannon A lfred Stoper of Fayette, Ohio Minneapolis diers placed their arms about me Editor: practically nothing to report,” a ivith 48 hpurs pay. W ith addi­ come you into our “ M ilitant who killed himself and his five and very carefully assisted me to bulletin issued by Fruehauf Trail­ with tional layoffs staring them in the One of the sidelights—and not er Local 99, UAW-CIO, states. Arm y.” children because he didn’t want a vehicle bound for the hospital. face, reconversion and post-war World Charter an amusing one—of the Firestone “ A ll we can say now is that the From A. W. Strobel of Detroit, ¡his children to see what he had My high-school German made it The Manifesto prospects don’t look quite as rosy and Goodyear strikes, was the company seemed determined to we received the following note: seen in the war. Stoner had been from where the Curtiss workers Editor: possible for me to talk with them. emergence of a dangerous enemy w rite what would be fo r us an j “ Please accept the enclosed $1.00 hospitalized for a short time and sit. Their demands indicate that The so-called world security On the way, they told me that. I o f the of the working class in the mid­ entirely new type of contract, for a one-year subscription to this then discharged. they don’t view the future with charter is nothing but a charter was very lucky. They said, “ We west — the Dishonorable Frank Almost all their proposals were splendid newspaper.” Thank you The news item quotes Repre­ complete calm, and it would ap­ of European imperialism, by must continue this insanity, but F o u rth J. Lausche, governor of Ohio. taken word for word from either A. W-, how about joining our sentative Weichel of Sandusky, pear that they are not sure the? European imperialism, and for lo r you the war is over.” Lausche, who was elected gov­ the General Motors or Ford con-1 i a|p idly increasing “Militant Ohio who blames the Veterans’ w ill have full'stom achs! European imperialism that has Now, I was not too surprised to ernor last year on the strength tracts, and of course they offered Army” ranks by getting your International Administration for the tragedy. The two articles indicate that cursed the world fo r the last 2,000 hear this because in the previous of the labor vote in the big us only the worst features of | friends and shopniates to sub­ “ The death of this veteran and his both the workers and bosses w ill years with every hideous woe and 36 PAGES 10 CENTS four months while stationed in cities, revealed his true character these.” scribe ? five little children is chargeable have quite a lot of leisure in the sorrow for long-suffering human­ German pockets in France, I had as a champion of the money One 'of the major aims of the A1 Lynn, our Los Angeles agent directly to the board of hos­ near future. But it doesn’t take ity. It is axiomatic that the Eur­ been hearing this from numerous Pioneer Publishers power in Ohio, by attempting to company is to wreck the union sent in this very interesting com­ pitalization and the Veterans’ Ad­ a genius to see that only the opean imperial powers would German prisoners taken by our break both the Firestone and grievance procedure. “ They want j munication: “Most of the subs 116 University Place ministration,” Weichel said. "The bosses w ill have the means to never have been w illing in the task forces. Almost to a man, Goodyear strikes. In both in­ to abolish our steward body en­ which have been coming in since failure to provide for this sort enjoy it. Erst place to join any organiza­ Ne>v York 3, N. Y. upon being captured, they said, stances, lie made impassioned tirely, and have the committee­ the end of the campaign have cf veteran (mentally unfit) is... B G tion that would promote decent “ For pie, the war is over,” and radio appeals aimed at splitting Buffalo, N. Y. men handle every step of the an indictment on those who sit international relations. .,■/ ere . was a definite gleam of the workers’ ranks, by urging grievance procedure,” the educa­ in the bureaus and are charged If the United States ratifies happiness in their eyes. Invariably them to return to work. tional department of the union I with the responsibility for the Likes Summer School that infamous charter and joins they would ask, “ What are we Lausche is an opportunist type, states. It was an attempt to pre­ hospitalization of our veterans.” fighting for?” FIGHT FOR THIS PROGRAM: Editor: the proposed European imperial owes his public career (first as a vent stewards from handling | He added that thousands of dis­ organization, the United States The ambulance brought us to a judge, then as mayor of Cleve­ grievances which provoked a charged veterans, mentally ill, are As one who spent one week at the Mid-West Vacation School I by that most vile renegade ac­ hospital where we were given im­ land) to northern Ohio capitalists strike of 1,500 Fruehauf workers 1. Full employment and job security for all walking the streets of northern tion will become an imperial pow­ mediate medical attention. Upon whose chief mouthpieces are the in June. Ohio. want to urge everyone who pos­ workers and veterans! sibly can to attend before the er and OTily a satellite imperial arrival at the hospital, other Ger­ Cleveland Plain Dealer, News and This is the care with which the A sliding scale of hours! Reduce the hours of work summer is over. The fun, the power at that. And the United man soldiers shared their cig­ Press; the Akron Beacon-Journal, capitalist government rewards the sociability, the classes, yes, even States cannot possibly become an arettes with us and German Youngstown Vindicator, and the with no reduction in pay! workers whom its war has the weather make it the best imperial power without nullifying civilians brought fru it and two Toledo papers. Flint Spark Plug crippled in body and mind! A rising scale of wages! Increase wages to meet the possible way to spend a vacatipm every sacred principle of the cookies. W ithin 24 hours of the The governor was lavishly en­ M. I. Warde’s class on Dialectics declaration of Independence, the time I was wounded, the necessary dorsed for election last fa ll by increased cost of living 1 Toledo, O. stimulates one to really begin Constitution of the United States, surgical work had already been these scurvy sheets and by the Union Casts Vote Operate all government-built plants under workers’ the Monroe Doctrine, and' our done on me with the most expert Slalinist Daily Worker, which studying the subject. For workers, control! Reconversion even though we are forced to use traditional foreign policy. care. In the hospital, the German helped palm him o ff as a people’s For Strike Action that method of reasoning through But, inasmuch as the Wall doctors and nurses, though they champ. Editor: 2. Independence of the trade unions from the pressure of history, the study Street thugs and cut-throats have were overcrowded with patients, I said' Lausche is a “ dangerous By Jeff*Thorne Two articles in the same issue of dialectics has been a neglected complete control of our govern­ did their utmost to make us com­ enemy” of the working people. the government! of the morning paper certainly fortable by treating us with That cannot be too strongly FLINT, Mich., July_2^ — subject. So much of it is so ob­ ment and of the so-called Amer­ Rescind the no-strike pledge! illustrate the different prospects courtesy and kindness. A fte r a stressed because, besides being a The solid front of Flint’s 50,- vious that it seems a waste of ican press (generally speaking) Withdraw union representatives from the War Labor fo r the bosses and the workers time to argue about it and the and of our “wonderful” two-party stay of two weeks in this hos­ heel, he is adept at mass psy­ 000 auto workers against war- under reconversion and in the Board! rest of it takes so much reading system, so that there may be oc­ pital, we were transported to a chology, absolutely unscrupulous fattened General Motors Cor­ post-war period. of the philosophers that the task casional swings from one party hospital section of a large prison (ask his poor trusting former The first one deals with the poration was demonstrated July of learning that, plus keeping our camp or “ stalag,” as it is called. Democratic organization friends) 3. Organization of the war veterans by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, now to the other to deceive suckers, 18 when workers of the AC current reading up to date, Here again, we were treated well and has that messianic gleam in under Senate investigation for it looks very muen as if our vile Spark Plug Division of GM trade unions! seems such a hopeless, endless job and the only display of arrogance his eye. producing faulty planes, endan­ renegade Senate w ill vote over­ voted 6603 to 1650 for strike that we keep postponing it. Warde whelmingly in favor of that in­ and crassness came from the Nazi B. H. gering the lives of members of Akron, O. action. 4. Full equality for Negroes and national simplifies it so much that a famous charter. No American party officials. By and large, the the armed forces. The day before the vote, con­ number of us have decided that it The article reveals that this an possibly vote for that hell- ducted by the National Labor minorities! Down with Jim Crow! is a part of our education we have huge concern produced in 1944 conceived charter. Relations Board, the presidents neglected and which we are going Earnest Bradshaw over 10 per cent of the nation’s of Flint’s three major UAW-CIO 5. Working class political action! to remedy in the near future. total aircraft output. Profits for 1721 N. Richmond St. Poems Of Revolt Locals personally distributed Clark’s class on the History of Build the independent labor party! 1944 hit a new high, jumping Chicago 47, 111. handbills bearing their local’s en the Fourth International really Editor: Establish the workers’ and farmers’ government! 15 per cent above the record of dorsement of AC Local 6*51 and gives a comprehensive picture of the previous year. Net income I think it is time The Militant began printing some revo­ urging a pro-strike vote. They are 6. Tax the rich, not the poor ! after taxes was over $14,000,000 the degeneration under Stalin, the Spellbound lutionary poetry. The accompanying excerpts from Shelley Everett Francis of F:sher Body No taxes on incomes under $5,000 a year! Editor: may not strictly come within that category, but they are an 581, Ben Woodard of Buick 599 I have been reading The M ili­ excellent commentary on the causes and effects of war, as and Tex Owens of Chevrolet 659. 7. A working class answer to capitalist m ili­ tant fo r some time and was true now as when written in the early part of the 19th cen­ This was the more significant curious to hear some of the tury. Shelley died at 28, already a political exile, though per­ because Regional Director Carl tarism ! lecturers, so I went down to Phila­ haps not form ally so, from his native England. Before his A. Swanson and UAW Vice M ilitary training of workers, financed by the govern­ delphia to hear Grace Carlson. death, he participated in Greece’s war fo r independence. President W alter ^Reuther had ment, but under control of the trade unions! A fter being spellbound by her, I tried to get the vote canceled and would certainly like to hear more. D . S. had issued statements little d if­ Trade union wages for all workers in the armed forces! On Sunday, June 20 I heard New York City ferent from those of the govern­ Vincent Dunne speak at a picnic, ment and AC management. But 8. Hands off the European and colonial peo­ and he had the same effect on the ranks and local leadership ples! me. I wish I could hear them over rallied behind the AC workers. the radio—that would be swell! WAR Withdraw the Allied Occupation Troops from Europe! I have just seen the propa­ By PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY REVIVE FLYING SQUADS Solidarity with the revolutionary struggles of the The general discontent is re­ ganda movie “ God Is My Co- (Excerpts) European and colonial peoples! Pilot.” In the beginning of the flected in the revival of Flying movie, a farm boy started fooling Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurled Squadrons in the F lin t locals, such with planes. He wanted to become Death, fate, and ruin, on a bleeding world. as led the 1037 strikes. Hundreds of union militants are joining the a pilot—so all he did was go to See! on yon heath what countless victims lie, flying squadrons and meeting West Point and become a cadet! Hark! what loud shrieks ascend through yonder sky; Join the Socialist Workers Party! When he came out he was a first- weekly, although the locals meet Tell then the cause, ’tis sure the avenger’s rage class pilot. But in the whole city only monthly. SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY of Reading, no one that I have Has swept these myriads from life ’s crowded stage: Besides the universal break­ 116 University Place talked to has ever known anyone down of bargaining, AC workers New York 3, New Sfork in the city who ever had a chance Oppressors of mankind to you we owe have a major grievance in their to go to West Point. Why don’t The baleful streams from whence these miseries flow; 20 per cent lower wage scale than other GM plants here. This issue I would like: the movies show how a farm boy For you how many a mother weeps her son, is always in the background and got that chance ? Personally I Snatched from life ’s course ere half his race was run! □ To join the Socialist Workers Party. don’t believe it, do you? has been before the War Labor For you how many a widow drops a tear, Board many months. Out of more Q To obtain further information about your organization. I only had a little schooling, but In silent anguish, on her husband’s bier! than 100 recent grievances, only with The Militant I am learning Q To attend meetings and forums of the Socialist W ork- five have been settled satisfac­ fast. I expect to go to the ers Party in my city. torily. Quarkertown picnic on August 5. Ah! when w ill come the sacred fated time, I f I had enough money, I would When man unsullied by his leaders’ crime, hire Grace to speak on the radio Despising wealth, ambition, pomp, and pride, VOTE FOR Name five hours a day! If someone like W ill stretch him fearless by his foemen’s side? (Please Print) me can see the light at only one DOBBS & SIMPSON of her speeches, how they would Order from Pioneer Publishers Kings are but dust — and the last eventful day TROTSKYIST CANDIDATES Address...... affect all the working people! 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. W ill level all and make them lose their sway. . . . IN THE COMING B. N. 1). C ity ...... 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W ith the replacement of Browder by Foster, they hope to see the dawn of a new day in their party. They hope that it will once more become Shoddy Goods Conceal THÉ MILITANT a revolutionary party — the vanguard of the Published in the interests of the workers in their struggle for emancipation. But Working People all such hopes are illusory. A party that has gone Skyrocketing Price Rise for so many years through the corroding, degener­ Vol. IX—No. 30 Saturday. July 28, 1945 ating influence of Stalinism can never be reformed. To the worker’s wife whose mending basket looks Published Weehlv bv Before the Stalinist workers shout themselves like a mountain, quality deterioration isn’t news. But THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASS’N hoarse for Foster as the new leader, let them pay Consumers’ Union has released some facts on why at 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. close attention to Foster’s line as he himself an­ clothes costing many times their pre-war figures, Telephone: ALgonquin 4-8847 nounces it. literally fall apart. FARRELL DOBBS, Managing Editor On the second day of the New York State Con­ Since 1941, quality deterioration throughout the country has raised merchandise prices 20 percent, the vention of the Stalinists, Foster "emphasized," ac­ THE MILITANT follows the policy of permit­ report (PM, July 22) reveals. That’s OVER the “ le­ cording to the July 23 Daily Worker, that the war ting its contributors to present their own views gal” price increases. A rthur Kallet, director of Con­ in signed articles. These views therefore do not against Japan "is a people’s war of liberation.” sumers’ Union, said that while textiles and house necessarily represent the policies of THE M IL I­ This is a continuation of Browder’s support of im­ furnishings have deteriorated most, “ upgrading” has TAN T which are expressed in its editorials. perialist war. increased A L L consumers’ goods prices. “ Mothers who have to pay 100 percent above pre­ Subscriptions: $1.00 per year; 50c for 6 months. On the no-strike pledge, key question facing la­ Foreign: $2.00 per year, $1.00 for 6 months. bor, Foster "maintained that Communists remain­ war prices for children’s garments, are actually pay­ ing 200 or 300 percent more i f shoddiness of the Bundle orders: 3 cents per copy in the United ed adamant in support of it.” He added, it is true, garments is considered,” he explained. States; 4 cents per copy in all foreign countries. the proviso that "Communists and trade union­ Mrs. Nessa Feldman, executive member of the Single copies: 5 cents. ists w ill have to analyze” strikes when they “ do League of Women Shoppers, added more examples. break out” but adamant support of the no-strike “ Entered as second class matter March 7, 1944 “ Some children’s shoes are made with paper soles. pledge clearly leaves little room for “ analysis." at the post office at New York, N. Y., under Shoes that used to last three months with one repair, the act of March 3, 1879.” So what is the difference between the line of the now last two weeks.” And some are so poorly made newly-anointed Foster and that of the now dis­ they “cannot be repaired at all.” graced Browder? The answer is that there is no Housedresses are skimpily cut, shrink out of wear­ Only the world revo­ essential difference. The old line of Browder has able size at one washing, and split at the seams. But simply been dressed up in radical phraseology. there’s no lim it to their prices. By taking o ff a ruffle, lution can save the That line is the line of subordinating the inter­ the manufacturer changes the style, making it a USSR for socialism. But ests of the workers to the interests of the imperial­ “ new product” at a new and better profit. Former the world revolution ist war-makers. It is a line which means sabotage $2.98 house-dresses, Mrs. Feldman declared, now sell as $5 “ street dresses.” carries with it the ines­ and betrayal of the workers’ struggle to preserve their unions and defend living standards. Textiles are a boon to profiteers, too. Cheap cotton capable blotting out of potato-sacking known as Osnaburg, which has no the Krem lin oligarchy. strength or durability, was bleached, dyed, printed and sold as “ butcher linen” at a fancy price. A doctor — Leon Trotsky Capitalist Generosity who obtained priorities on gauze for bandages, sold iiIf you canyt send hamburger for the servants V ll find a market that it to converters. They starched it, labeled it “ curtain­ Counter-revolutionary intent, sugar-coated with ing” and “ dress fabric,” and changed the price-tag a hypocritical humanitarianism, formed the sub­ will. Vm certainly not going to feed them steaks— what with the shortage —made it 40 cents a yard instead of the previous stance of an announcement last week by Secretary and our boys fighting overseas and all!yy ceiling price * f 5'A and 9 cents! of Interior I ekes that 6,000,000 tons of American (See Cartoon Contest, Page 7) Textile manufacturers, who have blocked the manu­ /#Peacc/# Pact Pay-O ff coal must be shipped to Europe by year’s end to facture of low-priced clothing for children and work­ ers, are reaping eight times their pre-war profits. Not so long ago, with a great fanfare of publici­ keep public utilities in operation, provide fuel for Department stores are wallowing in ten times their ty, W illiam Green of the A F L and Philip M urray cooking, and to keep the water from freezing in 1939 “ earnings.” Meanwhile government agencies con­ of the CIO signed a “peace pact” with Eric John­ millions of homes. Ickes was speaking as Solid Fuels Administrator tinue the freeze—not on prices and profits, but on ston, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. workers’ wages alone. This pact, the workers were told, would insure for War. Said he: “ Cold and hunger can be ex­ industrial peace in the postwar world. pected to k ill thousands and the children of Eu­ rope w ill surely carry the marks of the coming Now comes the payoff — in the shape of a v ir­ India Figaro, capitalist daily newspaper on world imperialism and its tual declaration of war on the labor movement by winter to their graves.” in Paris, reports that in some native agents. Japanese imperial­ Republic Steel Grabs Mr. Ickes was quite complacent while these same Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, parts of France ¡lore than 40 ism in l'93'l began its drive into the self-same U. S. Chamber of Commerce. This China. American and British im­ children were being bombed out of their homes. former president of the All-India percent of the youth have declaration of war takes the shape of a program deliberately refused' to register in perialism gave material support His pretended concern for their plight now is in­ National Congress, fears “ demor­ Sixty Percent More! adopted by the Chamber by a vote of 2,658 to 42 the m ilitary cerfcur to the Japanese warlords up to tended to quiet possible opposition to the ship­ alization among the people, ad­ — not far short of unanimous. ministrative breakdowns and the eve of Pearl Harbor. Chiang The Republic Steel Corporation cleared a net profit ment of American coal abroad, which, as he warns, eventual revolts” in India, aecord- Kai-shek, political leader of the in the first six months of 1945 of $6,356,252. This is The program calls for government regulation Chinese capitalists and agent of w ill contribute further to the severe fuel shortage ing to a New York Times dispatch China AFTER taxes, and after all the fa t salaries of the big of the trade unions and an end to the closed shop. foreign imperialism, sabotaged in this country during the coming winter. of July 15. Nehru expressed these More than 10,000,000 persons Evidently the Chamber, which maintains power­ the defense of China from the executives, superintendents, etc. have been paid. The Wall Street capitalists for whom Ickes speaks fears following the breakdown of are perishing from famine in In the same period of 1944 the take was only $4,- fu l lobbies in Washington and in the State legis­ North China, says a July 17 beginning. Afraid of a working are not really concerned about the fearful plight the Simla conference. 275,266. This year showed a net profit gain of over latures, intends to drive through additional anti­ United Press dispatch. The famine class revolution that would ex­ of the European masses. What they ARE con­ This conference was called by propriate the Chinese capitalists, 60 percent. It is just one more glaring proof that the labor legislation. Wavell, the Viceroy, in an attempt is a result of drought and locust cerned about is the possibility that a revolution hordes, according to delegates merchants and landlords, his income freeze is a wage freeze only, and applies to reach agreement between the This is not all. The Chamber’s program calls for in Europe would end the system of capitalism of the Peoples’ political Council regime refused to arm the people strictly to workers, not their employers. an end to “ Federal appropriations or participation British overlords and the native so they could struggle effectively which produced this terrible welter of misery. Indian capitalists on the composi­ in Chungking. The men who make the steel get as low as 78 in the financing of public subsidized or welfare In Shansi province, locusts con­ against the invading armies of cents an liour. But Republic and other steel giants Ickes admitted that himself when he further tion of the ¿entral Executive imperialist Japan. Protracted war housing.” This in spite of the fact that there is Committee. Exercising dictatorial sumed the entire wheat crops of whose profits have more than doubled in the war stated: “The race in Europe today is between coal 20 districts, leaving 6,000,000 has caused economic breakdown powers, Wavell vetoed certain years refuse to give one penny hourly raise to the an acute and country-wide housing shortage, that and anarchy. Europe must have coal without loss persons starving. In the neighbor­ and ruin. ' candidates submitted by the Con­ men who produced these millions. 14 million out of 37 million housing units lack ing province of Shensi, 3,000,000 The doom of 10,000,000 human of time if serious political and social upheavals are gress Party and the Moslem modern toilets, that 12 million have no private beings in North China w ill thus Since April, 1941 the steel workers have received to be prevented. 1 do not think it is going too .far League. The Central Executive are starving. Pleas for rice from Szechwan appear in the history of the exactly 454 cents general increase in their basic hour­ bathtubs, 11 m illion no running water, 8 million to say that a coal famine of such severity as to Committee is appointed by the Province were denied by the Second World War as another of ly rate. This was the famous 15 percent (War Labor no electricity. Viceroy. destroy all semblance of law and order is certain Chiang Kai - shek government. the unspeakable crimes outlived Board decision, June 1942) which was supposed to The Indian capitalists are eager The program of the Chamber also opposes ade­ in countries in northwest Europe next winter un­ Their excuse is “lack of trucks” capitalism has committed against bring wages in line w ith the cost of living. quate relief for the unemployed, whose numbers less immediate and drastic action is taken.” to reach agreement with the to haul the rice. humanity. British imperialists. “ The Con­ The Republic Corporation is called part of “ L ittle are growing every day. (The War Manpower Com­ Responsibility fo r this catas­ Steel.” But this is only by way of comparison with gress Party w ill show the same trophic famine lies squarely up- mission estimates that there w ill be two million cooperation and friendliness,” the tremendous size and colossal profits of U. S. without jobs by fall). Says the program; “ If eco­ Nehru affirmed, “ that we have Yugoslavia Steel (“Big” Steel). The only thing really “little” nomic conditions compel expenditures for unem­ Seeds O f War displayed during the Simla con­ Marshal Tito’s regime proclaims is the miserable size of their workers’ paychecks. ployment relief in the postwar period, reliance Despite all the high-powered publicity dished ference if the Wavell plan is its intention to set up a moderate revived in the future.” Against should be prim arily on State and local administra­ up by the Allies about fighting the present war QUESTION BOX government that will maintain the aspirations of the Indian peo­ private property and civil liber­ tion and financing.” That means starvation! - in order to achieve enduring peace, the curtain ple for freedom, the native “ Raise Workers’ Taxes,” Regarding war plants built by the government ties. How well they are maintain­ rising on the European postwar scene reveals a capitalists act as agents of the Q: How much w ill the $2500 ing capitalism against the will of with public funds, the Chamber demands that they situation which promises anything but enduring foreign imperialists. They fear a salary increase for Congressmen the masses is not clear. Reports' be “ earmarked for orderly disposal to private in­ peace. revolutionary upsurge of the cost the American taxpayers? of “ confiscations” continue to Wall Street’s Battle-Cry dustry.” That means handing them over to the masses, for it would mean the end A : About $1,000,000 annually. filter through the iron censorship Defeat of the Axis, we were told, would insure The Financial World fo r July 18 comments that of their privileged position. On imposed by Tito’s government. war profiteers for closure and dismantling! world peace, because only the Axis powers were the other hand, they are not the * * % Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau lost his The destruction of capitalism, Naturally the Chamber’s program did not omit "aggressors,” while the rest were "peace-lovers." least reluctant to strengthen their Q: What are the American job because he was too hard on the big corporations whether carried out against the the demand for greatly reduced taxes — not the In Europe, the Axis has been destroyed. Yet here, position and increase their profits casualties so fa r in this war? with his tax program. at the expense of the British. But will of Tito and the Stalinists or taxes that bear down on the workers, but those right now, the seeds of W orld War III are rapidly A : American casualties have with their acquiescence, would be “ The times are changing,” the article says. “ The which irk the capitalists, especially estate and in­ Nehru’s declarations give public New Deal with its peculiar financial and economic being planted. Defeat of the Axis has not banished notice that the Indian capitalists passed the million mark. Totals thoroughly progressive. The fate as of May 31 were: 227,097 killed; views (i.e. its policy of giving a few crumbs to the heritance taxes. imperialist rivalries which lead to war. It has only w ill work hand in glove .with the of civil liberties under the Stalin­ 607,468 wounded; 63,456 missing; Too corrupt and too cowardly to fight for the shifted their focus. British oppressors when the ists, however, is a different story. unemployed, etc.) is being relegated to the back­ and 104,867 prisoners. interests of the millions of workers they are sup­ An illum inating example of the development revolutionary storm breaks. “ It is no exaggeration to say,” ground. . . what likewise militated against Morgen­ * * * reports a North American News­ posed to represent, Green and M urray evidently of these rivalries is contained in a Paris dispatch thau was his strict adherence to rigid and harsh tax paper Alliance story from Rome, policies (excess profits tax?) that could not set well thought they , could head off the threatening of­ to the N. Y. Times telling of the “gulf between Q: What minorities besides the France “ that at the moment Marshal in the reconversion and post-war adjustment period fensive of Big Business by their “ peace pact" with Negroes are supposed to be pro­ France and Britain," which is “ as broad as ever.” Tito’s is a sort of ‘police govern­ whose threshold the nation is now approaching.” Johnston. The Chamber’s newly-published pro­ The 156th anniversary of the tected by the FEPC? Negotiations for a “ pact” between the two coun­ ment’, and that civil rights as we The corporations make the biggest profit-grab in fa ll of the Bastille was celebrated A : The FEPC was supposed to understand them and rule by law gram is the answer they have received to their tries "have been in suspension for six months be­ history—after taxes—but the tax collector is “ rigid” this year in Paris with greater give protection against job dis­ as we understand it, do not exist.” belly-crawling tactics. cause of differences that seem to grow rather than —and “ harsh” ! High taxes would not “set well.” And insistence on revolutionary tradi­ crimination to all racial and reli­ The regime, continues the story, diminish.” yet there will be a three hundred billion dollar na­ tions than on any previous gious m inority groups, including “does not tolerate criticism, The imperialists of France and Britain are at occasion. For more than two Negroes, American Indians, Jap- domestic or foreign.” The cor­ tional debt. Each year’s interest alone w ill amount odds for the most'sordid reasons. The F?ench, hours, reports the capitalist anese-Americans, Koreans, Ame­ respondent, Newbold Noyes, be­ to more than was ever spent in any year on WPA. Browder And Foster press, “ the perspiring proletariat ricans of European birth or par­ lieves that a “genuine revolution” As fo r paying back the principal itself, this can’t greatly weakened by the defeat they suffered at entage, 5,000,000 Jews and 22,- The discussion taking place in the Stalinist ranks, marched along Paris boulevards has occurred, but says that demo­ be considered—without a program of even higher • the hands of Germany, fear the British w ill seize- 000,000 Catholics. I t has been es­ shouting such slogans as ‘A firing cracy “ is to a considerable extent taxes. since the publication of the article in which Duclos their colonies. They are burning with rage because timated that up to one-third of squad fo r Petain’ and ‘The peo­ unknown in the Balkans.” denounced Browder, is typical of that “ unanimity” Britain’s troops moved into French-dominated ple’s voice must be heard’.” the American population is sub­ This debt is owed to banks and financiers mainly. Another correspondent of the The working people can’t afford to hold many bonds. which is so peculiar to the Stalinists. Every dis­ Syria. These "peace-loving” powers are also snarl­ Portraits were carried of the ject to possible victimization as a member of some racial or reli­ capitalist press, Sam Pope And the banks and financiers are going to see that cussion article in the Daily Worker is cast in the ing at each other over war booty in Europe. French leaders of the great French revo­ lution, Robespierre, Danton and gious minority. Brewer, writing from Athens it’s paid back to themselves. mold supplied by Duclos. A ll the articles read capitalism wants to sink its teeth in the great in­ declares, “ A sentiment of class Marat. The “ Carmagnole,” revol­ * * * They want a tax policy which puts the whole bur­ alike; they all make the same arguments; they all warfare dominates Yugoslavia to­ dustrial areas of the German Ruhr and Rhineland. utionary song, was frequently den of payment on the workers. The new Secretary use the same phraseology. “ Unanimous” approval Q: What is a filibuster? day... Within Yugoslavia land- But the British bulldog has already fastened a grip heard with its call that the of the Treasury, Fred Vinson, Financial World goes of Browder, which has been the rule in the Stalin­ “ enemies of the people should be A; A filibuster is the deliber­ owners, industrialists, intellec­ there and doesn’t intend to let go. ate use of delaying tactics by tuals, professional officers and on to say, is a “ more practical man, one who can ist ranks for the past 15 years, has now become — This single segment of the world of imperialist strung up to the nearest lamp- work with Congress in shaping up new tax policies post.” congressmen to prevent legisla­ pre-war officials are automatic­ “ unanimous” disapproval! Today instead of Brow­ rivalry — the Anglo-French antagonism — is typ­ tive action which they know will ally suspects...” in conformity w ith the changed economic conditions But the most frequently heard der, it is Foster who receives the unanimous ac­ ical. The "peace” in Europe, far from evidencing be approved by the majority. A He charges the Tito regime uses that our post-war years will bring.” song was the “ Internationale.” It single congressman may hold the claim. an era of “international cooperation,” discloses was sung by all age groups, but “ strong-arm political methods to Vinson’s “practical” attitude toward workers was This unanimity with which Browder is now be­ floor indefinitely by speaking keep its opponents muzzled” and demonstrated when he gave the railroad workers unmistakably the root beginnings of more bloody especially young people, even continuously, even reading entire ing denounced is, of course, part and parcel of the children. Red flags, the Hammer that “political terror rules.” But such a d irty deal a year and a half ago. He can be wars. books aloud to consume time; or this terror is not directed solely totalitarian Stalinist Party, its regime and its meth­ and the Sickle and the Socialist depended upon to give the whole working class an two or more congressmen in against Yugoslavian capitalists od of functioning. However, it would be wrong tripple arrow outnumbered the agreement may monopolize the equally dirty deal in taxation. New York Mass Meeting national Tricolor emblem. and landlords but against all op­ to minimize the degree of genuine resentment floor by yielding only to each ponents. Workers seeking to Placards criticizing the de other. A filibuster can be ended against Browder’s line, resentment which has been Gaulle regime were frequent. establish a democratic regime are JAMES P. CANNON by a vote fo r cloture, that is, a subject to the terror. Any form pent up in the breasts of Stalinist workers. Many National Secretary, Socialist Workers Party Among them many read: “ We vote to close discussion, which Vote Trotskyist! of them are sincere believers in Socialism. How want a sovereign assembly.” of opposition is branded as on in the Senate requires a two- “ fascist.” they must have burned with shame at having to A July 17 dispatch indicates the thirds majority. In the House, for " THE DOWN F A LL OF BROWDER" A secret police known as the act as strikebreakers, finks and fingermen for the deep-going opposition of the discussion can be stopped by ma­ DOBBS Cr SIMPSON French masses to the reactionary jority adoption of a motion to OSNA, patterned after Stalin’s bosses at Bpowder’s command! What pariahs they FRIDAY. AUGUST 3. 8 P. M. de Gaulle regime. The attempt to c*tll the question. The original NKVD (form erly the dread GPU) In the Coming must have felt themselves among m ilitant work­ WEBSTER HALL, 119 E. 11 Street build up a powerful new imperial­ meaning of filibuster was piracy carries out purges and execu­ tions of victims branded as j N. Y. ELECTIONS ers fighting to defend the interests of the labor Added speakers: Farrell Dobbs - Louise Simpson ist army has met with stubborn or a m ilitary expedition in quest movement against the onslaught of Big Business! resistance from the draftees. of loot. | “fascists.” |