Senators Again Duck Action on Curbing Fascist Mccarthy
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Build a Labor Party Now! THE BIGGEST STEAL IN ALL HISTORY (See Page 2) THE MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Vol. XVIII - No. 32 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1954 PRICE: 10 CENTS Detroit Dodge Local Strikes Senators Again Duck Action Over Speedup DETROIT, Aug. 1 — Dodge Local 3 of the CTO United Auto Workers, whose 10,000 members went out on strike On Curbing Fascist McCarthy on July 16 and stayed out on strike for a full week until HS'ordered back to work by the In ternationa!, lias roted over- L r O t ‘W in d fa ll’ whehningly to authorize a new Guatemala Dictators In Atom Debate strike if their grievances are not adjusted, it was learned yester A H Leader Both Parties Sidetrack day. Coming only eight days after their strike was called off by Defends 5th orders from above, this strike Censure; Set Up Still vote testifies to the Dodge work ers’ determination to defend their Amendment jobs and working conditions by- militant action. This time the In The Fifth Amendment, now Another "Probe” Body ternational, sensing the workers’ under attack from Attorney Gen angry mood, offered no objections Bv John F. Petrone eral Brownell’s so-called “immu to Local 3’s strike authorization, AUG. 4 — McCarthy scored another victory on Aug. 2 nity” bill, is vigorously defend and even expressed support for when the U.S. Senate refused to vote on the Flanders it. ed by the A FI, leader, A.J. Hayes, The Dodge strike, which idled president of the International “censure” resolution and decided instead to set up still another committee to “investi-®- 46,000 Chrysler workers and Association of Machinists, in the halted all auto production in the gate” the fascist Senator. after considering the Flanders August issue of the Machinists Chrysler empire for a week, The motion, introduced by GOP resolution and the Fulbright and began with a walkout at Dodge Monthly Journal. majority leader Knowland, was Morse amendments, and after Main. It was provoked by man Most attacks on the Fifth adopted by 75 to 12. I t was sup taking new testimony. It is also agement efforts to introduce Amendment center around the ported by every McCarthyite in supposed to report back before more speedup. clause stating that a person shall the Senate with the exception of the present session of Congress not “be compelled in any crim McCarthy', who did not bother ends. HOW IT BEGAN inal case to be a witness against to vote. It was supported by the Whether that will actually Two workers in the trim de himself.” But to abandon this overwhelming majority of mem happen is highly doubtful. It w ill partment were disciplined for clause, Hayes warns, would mean bers of both capitalist parties, be child’s play for McCarthy to failing to keep up with new to “revert to the old practice, Sen. Albert Gore (D , Tenn.), who are mortally afraid of hav drag out the new “investigation” production standards and hold Still used by Communist and Fas one of the opposition leaders in ing to vote on any’ disciplinary long beyond the middle of August, ing up the assembly line. Other cist dictators, of extracting con the 13-day Senate debate on resolution against McCarthy and when the Senate expects to Norman K. Winston, New workers in the department were fessions by physical and mental Administration’s bill to open arc grateful for any pretext to adjourn or recess until the fall. York builder, tells Senate bank so incensed by this high-handed torture. 'Indeed, the Fifth Amend way for private corporations to delay or prevent such voting. And once the Senate lias recessed, ing committee he and a handful action that they walked off the Coi. Armas (le ft), and Col. Monzon, puppets of the L.S. ment is an expression of one of grab atomic industry. With The new “investigating” com the chances of its reconvening in of relatives harvested a “wind job for the rest of the day. State. Dept, and United Fruit Go. in Guatemala. The recently the basic concepts of freedom minor amendments, the bill mittee. consisting of three Repub the middle bf a hot' Congressional fall” of $613,000 on seven The next day the company installed dictators met with resistance to their purge of Army- which distinguishes our form of passed 57-28. See article. licans and three Democrats, is campaign to act on the touchy McCarthy issue will be quite dim. Queens, N. Y., apartment houses disciplined four more workers and forces when the Aurora Air Base rebelled Aug. 2. Armas agreed government from Communism Page 2. supposed to bring back a report Anyhow , as James Kcston said financed with FHA - backed fired two for the same reason. to a demand to disband his personal “Liberation Army,” then and Fascism.” mortages. Some builders got This time the' trim department called the seven officers heading the rebellion to the palace for in the Aug. 3 N. V. Times: “If • he bipa rtisan com m ittee, to 10,000% profits on FHA deals. was joined by other departments. “talks.” On arrival they were placed under arrest, and charged “THE END RESULT” See editorial on Page 2. Holding a special meeting at with killing 25 persons, wounding 70 others and attempting to Then,, taking up Brownell’s ar MISS. NEGROES OPPOSE which (he censure motion has Local 3 halt, they unanimously- restore the Arbenz government. guments without mentioning him been referred, does force the decided to take ¡immediate strike by name, Hayes adds: Senate to make a decision before adjournment, the chances still are action. TheToeaTs- executive?boawl “To sacrifice this guarantee jn , unanimously concurred and en BODGE OR SCHOOL ISSUE that it will, ehbbse to vote for the belief or on the pretext that Michigan SWP McCarthy rather than against dorsed the membership’s action. RACISTS BOMB HOMES its elimination is necessary in Good news from Mississippi, the most, backward and Monday morning pickets were at h im ." order to fight Communism would Jim Crow state in the union: The Negro people there have Names Lovell to the plant gates and the strike be a tragic fallacy and a dan DIRK SEN’S THREAT was 100% effective. served notice that they will not “ support any attempt to OF NEGRO, UNION MAN gerous precedent. For if this fun The knowledge of this relation The Chrysler Corporation was damental guarantee of individual dodge the U.S. Supreme Court de-® Run for Governor crippled at a time when it is On Friday evening, July 23, the home .of Allen Wil cision outlawing public school The state’s Legal Education ship of forces accounts for the rights may be ripped away, why fantastic character of the three- By Alfred Hansted most anxious to push ahead with liams, representative of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters not other rights as well? The segregation.” (AP dispatch from Advisory Committee was given its new 1955 models. A company Jackson, Miss., July 31.) the assignment of getting Negro day debate on the Flanders reso DETROIT, Aug. 2 — The so and Butcher Workmen, AFL, was bombed at Center, Tex. end result of such a process would lution: The target of most of the spokesman expressed concern that be less and less freedom for the Such a declaration is routine compliance. On J u ly 30 i t m et cialist answer to unemployment the strike would interfere with Williams’ automobile was also 9----------------------------------------------------- with 90 Negroes. Needless to say, attacks wras not McCarthy, but will be heard in Michigan in the demolished and four motel cabins city' is taken from a press re men and women who make up the in the North, and even in parts of bis critics, w'ho found themselves mode! changeover, scheduled to the South. But it takes real cour the more m ilitant sections of the fall election campaign. Candidates were destroyed through fire. lease by the union involved. The country, and more and more pow not only in a minority but on the begin in August. The strike had age in Mississippi. Here’s how- it Negro community were not in of the Socialist Workers Party The union’s representatives had Colorado attack was reported in er concentrated in the hands of defensive most of the time. tied up all work on dies and parts government, or select groups of happened: vited or welcome. It was made on the Michigan ballot are Frank for the new 1956 model and the been threatened before the bomb a Los Angeles Negro weekly. plain to the 90 Negroes that they' The tone of the debate was set persons in government. And thus The white supremacist rulers Lovell for Governor, Rita Shaw Plymouth V-8 motor. Chrysler ing. Members of the union were Headlines screamed and com would be in for all kinds of trou in the opening day’s speech by we would endanger the very foun of the South are working on sev for L'.S. Senator and Robert felt that its competitive position on strike in Center. The union mentators grew hoarse with in ble — legal and economic — if Dirksen, the oily McCarthyite Himmel for U.S. Representative. dation of the form of govern eral schemes for evading the with Ford and General Motors says its recent expose of the dignation last March when Puer they did not play ball. from Illinois. Certain that he had ment we seek to protect. U.S, Supreme Court decision. One A “ Meet Your Candidates” rally' was threatened, and therefore processing of diseased poultry had to Rican nationalists staged a a majority on his side, and know of their schemes, already approv will be held for them Sat., Aug.