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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. was .under considerable pressure also aroused antagonism locally. terrorist demonstration in the “ It is nonsense to defend an NO C O N S E N T ing how vulnerable the Demo­ ed by' the p o liticia n s in South 14, 8 P.M. at 3000 Grand River in to r-each an e a rly settlem ent w ith Two day's later, at two in the House of Representatives. But abrogation of the Fifth Amend­ To the astonishment and anger crats feci about charges of “com­ Carolina and Georgia, is to abol­ D e tro it. the strikers. morning, a stick of dynamite was the press, radio and TV rarely ment for witnesses appearing be­ of I he LEAC’, a majority of the munist coddling,” Dirksen at­ ish the public school system and Unlike the capitalist candidates But the company never held hurled into the front room of find the time or space to even fore congressional committees on 90 Negroes' said, “ No.” They re­ tributed all moves against Mc­ replace it with private schools of the millionaire Williams one meeting wilh the strikers, Moses P arrish a t 1123 E. 7th St., report the acts of terrorism the grounds that such commit­ fused to collaborate in perpetu­ Carthy to the Communist Party. as a means of maintaining segre­ stripe, supported by the Reuther assigning the job of getting them Ihieblo, Col. His sister. Mrs. Mar­ against Negroes and the labor tees do not have the power to ating Jim Crow schools. Calling Americans for Demo­ gation. bureaucracy, Frank Lovell is a back to work to the International ian Hawkins, a nurse’s aide in movement that are committed by try, convict or punish in the sense The LEAC then decided that cratic Action an “affiliated or­ real workers’ candidate, veteran UAW officers. Here is how that Los Angeles, who was visiting at the fascist, racist and anti-labor a court does. They do not have Another scheme is "segregation “ segregation by consent” will not ganization” of the OP, he said Flanders, his Senate collabor­ of a quarter certtury of union job was carried out: the time, was hurled to the floor forces in this country. such power, but they' do have, by consent” — that is, putting work in Mississippi, and voted to struggles. Lovell, schooled in the from her bed. How many big newspapers, through publicity and influence, murderous pressure on the Ne­ approve a proposed constitution­ ators, the ADA and (he CIO were all in the “same bed” with the San Francisco General Strike of A CHRONICLE The force of the blast crashed for example, report the frequent the power to impair a man’s groes and getting them to an­ al amendment authorizing the 1934 w hich resulted in the solid Friday, July 16: Art Hughes, the picture window- just above acts of bomb-terrorism that are life, restrict his liberty and de­ nounce publicly that they want ending of the public school sys­ Communist Party. The clear threat in bis speech waterfront unions of the West an International representative, her bed. An iron patio chair hit perpetrated against Negro fam­ prive him of the honor which segregated schools. tem if necessary. Gov. Hugh was that anyone who voted Coast and gave impetus to the met w ith the local executive board her on the back of the head. Her ilies living at the Trumbull is more sacred than property. Before enacting legislation au­ White said the Mississippi legis- against McCarthy would get a rise of the CIO, was an inter­ and plant committeemen. He in­ ten year old daughter, Francinc, Park housing project in Chicago? “To make an outcast of a man, thorizing the abolition of the pub­ laturc would be called into spe­ dose of the same redbaiting national organizer for the Sailors sisted that a strike authorization who was lying on a pallet on the Bomb-terrorism, a favorite de­ to strip him of his chances for lic schools, the Mississippi au­ cial session Sept. 7 to act on the medicine. But in the subsequent Union of the Pacific for a number voted by the local last October floor, was cut above the eye and vice of those who want to work a livelihood, to impugn his loy­ thorities decided to explore the amendment. discussion no one arose with any o f years. was no longer legal. He threaten­ on her arms and legs, in the dark, is a growing menace. alty — this is fully as serious “consent” angle. Terrorism of The heroic action of the Missis­ as depriving him of life, liberty effective answer to this smear. Lovell helped organize the ed that the union would be sued I)brri.sh, a steel mill machin­ It is necessary to put the spot­ Negroes in Mississippi being un­ sippi Negroes is a sign of the ard property. And, in congres­ McCarthy himself, though still Great Lakes seamen in Detroit under the Taft-Hartley Law. He ist, is a Negro. His home is in light of publicity on these atro­ surpassed by' any' oth e r state, they times. They may not yet be able warned of the certain prospect the heart of a solid white neigh­ cities. to trace the production and sional hearings, the whole pro­ figured it would be relatively to end the Jim Crow system, but fighting an essentially defensive and returned to the ranks to par­ cedure is accomplished without batLle, also carried the attack to ticipate in the. fight against the of mass firings 1— assuming, of borhood. sale of the bombs, and to punish easy to round up some Negroes they arc willing to risk severe due process of law.” his enemies. Denouncing the no-strike pledge. He later be­ course, that the strike would ¡Such stories are not consider­ both the terrorists and the racist who would “consent” to be reprisals rather than help main­ fail. He ended by demanding that ed '‘news” by the. b ig newspapers and fascist groups who inspire (See Page 2 for article on the stooges for their Jim Crow man­ tain it. In the long run that spir­ charges against (fim as “smears came editor of the Defender, a and innuendoes,” he said be was (Continued on page 2) and magazines. The Texas atro­ and direct them. “immunity” bill.) euvers. it spells the doom of Jim Crow. paper upholding the democratic “very happy” about the proposed rights of the rank and file against new in ve stig a tio n . (A s his. sup­ ■the bureaucratization of the porter David Lawrence explained unions. He is now Michigan State in his syndicated column on Aug. Chairman of the Socialist. Work­ 1, “It will presumably give him ers P a rty. Is It True that Economic Decline Is "Beaten"? a larger audience than before” — When he ran for Mayor of ¡m audience to whom McCarthy Dr. Arthur F. Burns, Eisen­ health. When we examine some specific is the Aug. 3 Wall Street D e tro it in 1953, Lovell warned By Joseph Keller ployment Security Commission the statistics in this field are can address more fascist propa-, of its vital organs — the key Journal report- “By fall, the notes that until this year post­ that layoffs and shut downs were hower's chief economic advisor, “weak,” as Burns admitted, ne­ panda.) Government economists claim number of jobless in the indus­ coming. Today' lie said: ruefully confessed recently that industries, for instance — the war auto "model changes have vertheless they are supposed to McCarthy said he would testify the economic decline is over. the government’s method of tak­ economy doesn’t look in very good try likely w ill mount to the high­ hardly made a ripple. . . With a be strong enough to prop up the “ Today 170,000 people are w a lk ­ Early in July, presidential econo­ before the new committee, but ing the streets of Detroit, looking ing the country’s economic tem­ shape. est point since 1946, w ith the im ­ to ta l o f n o t m ore than 10,000 o ff “everything’s hunkydory” propa­ mic adviser Dr. Gabriel Ilauge wanted the right to “cross- for jobs. Murray Body and perature is not altogether reli­ Take the auto industry. A brief pact being felt at auto assembly in any single week.” ganda of the government. examine” the Senators who had told the state governors’ confer­ able. Among other important ex­ June pick-up in output has turn­ plants and by suppliers scattered What about steel, the founda­ However, even here “all that Hudson are down, others are ence that, “the retreat, the set­ made charges against him so that going. Unemployment compensa­ amples, he said that “statistical ed once m ore in to a decline. from coast to coast.” The Jour­ tion industry of modern mass glitters is not gold.” Lewis L. they “will either indict them­ tling out, the readjustment, the information about the construc­ Ward’s Automotive Reports es­ nal reports “output scheduled to production? Steel Magazine on Nchellbach, of Standard and tion has run out for many. recession— call it whatever you selves for perjury or they will Thousands are on relief. The tion industry is weak.” On em­ timated July sales of new' cars drop sharply from now until au­ July 26 found the industry’s out­ Poor’s Corp., writing in the July want— is over . . . now there is prove what consummate liars spectacle o f a la bo r m ovem ent as ployment, he said the President’s fell more than 15% below' June. tum n.” look bleak as “reflected in re­ 17 N.Y. World-Telegram, warned every chance that we can go for­ they a rc.” la rg e as the one in M ichigan Council of Economic Advisers The same authoritative source Is this just a “normal” change­ ported plans to shorten the that “too much importance has ward.” begging politicians for comfort, is “has felt keenly the need for reported on Aug. 3 that third- over? According to the Journal, Great Lakes ore shipping season been attached to the slight in­ THE SAME PATTERN tra g ic . But don’t put much stock in more dependable information.” quarter auto output w ill be slash­ General Motor’s Chevrolet “is by at least a month with stocks crease in industrial production The liberals how-led that this “These capitalist politicians the statistics that “experts” like These observations on govern­ ed “the sharpest since the pre­ slated for its longest model at lower lake docks and furnaces since April. . . Examination of was a threat to convert the new cannot maintain full employment1 Hauge are using to diagnose the ment statistics arc by way of a war 1938-41 period because of changeover period since the end now the largest in 16 years.” basic considerations, however, investigation into a probe of Mc­ without war, and that goes for health of the economy. The capi- necessary preliminary' to analy­ the industry’s return this year of World War II.” A check of The American Iron and Sieel suggests . . . possible, resump­ Carthy’s critics, just as happened Gov. Williams too. We don’t ex­ talist government regulates stat­ sing the direction in which Amer­ to September-October change- over half the Chevrolet plants Institute on August. 2 reported tion of the downtrend later in in the Army hearings. And it’s pect the manufacturers' associa­ istics the way the patient tried ican economy’ is traveling at this overs." “hints at shutdowns lasting from scheduled steel operations at the year.” true. The new investigation will tions to support our strikes. We to fool the doctors. When he had tim e. Reporting in the Aug. 1 N.Y. two to eight w’eeks,” whereas in 64.8% of capacity for the week One of I lie "basic considera­ follow the same pattern as the shouldn’t expect capitalist poli­ a fever, he stuck the thermome­ Times Foster Hailey says that other years “Chewy has man­ ending A u g . 6. T his was head­ tions” Schellbach cites is precise­ previous investigations, and, as ticians to solve workers’ . prob­ ter in a glass of cold water. SIGN I FICA NT SYMPTOM S rising auto sales in June brought aged its model changeover in lined as a “Rise in Steel Pro­ ly construction. He notes that Fulbright put it, there isn’t “ the lems. We need union men in gov­ When his temperature dropped Fortunately, we don’t need to smiles in Detroit “as wide as about ten days.” duction” in some papers. The op­ building permits issued in May, slightest chanee of changing the ernment. It’s high time labor below 98.6 degrees, he put the depend on the government’s tem­ Jefferson Avenue,” especially in About 38% of Chrysler’s 107,- erating rate the week before w as declined for the second straight pattern.” Not in a Senate made organized its own political party thermometer against the hot perature chart. If we examine Republican headquarters. But 000 workers will be laid off for — 64.2%. month and were 7% below the up of politicians who are afraid which can unite the working peo­ water bottle, Even the post-nior- the economy for certain speci­ “the gloom today is almost as at least a month starting the But what the Administration May, 1953, total. He likew ise ob­ to tangle with McCarthy. ple, farmers and professional tem failed to reveal to the doc­ fic symptoms—the conditions of thick as the January fog and middle of August. Packard tvill always falls back on to prove serves the low level of steel out Monrone.v warned that the people, and put a government in tors how he had maintained such pulse, heart and respiration, so smog over the icebound Detroit lay off half its employes early its claim that the downturn is put. “These straws in the wind members of the new» committee power which represents the ma­ a “normal” temperature to the to speak — we can get a far R ive r.” in September for “only” two “beaten,” as Hauge said, is the point to reduced building acti­ will be accused by McCarthy of jority.” very' end. more accurate idea of its state of Less picturesque but more months. Yet. the Michigan Em­ construction industry. Although vity later in the year.” (Continued on page 3) Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, August 9, 1954 How Stalinists The Greatest Steal in All History By A rt Preis & (•»government. The utilities’ report gy, apparently feeling that this] first full-scale atomic energy I discovered that “the field now The greatest steal in history is law is going to be passed? | plant for peaceful use. Prop M’Carthyism I needs the energizing influence of Mr. MURRAY. 1 know (hat under way. Through the atomic Significantly, the announce­ Object of Monopolist Grab private enterprise to search out By Harry Ring energy bill recently adopted by such a circular was issued, but ment was made in a speech at and develop all the infinite com­ the Senate, America’s private I am not entirely familiar with a luncheon of 200 delegates to mercial possibilities of this vast In a series of five articles entitled “ Electoral Outlook monopolies are moving to grab what it contained. . . . the Electric Companies Public In­ energy source.” in New York,” the Stalinist paper, the Daily Worker offers the government-owned atomic Mr. LANGER. Did the distin­ formation Program. Murray cited “ tactical” advice to “ progressive workers, those that energy industry, built at a pub­ But something stood in the guished Senator know that not two things of special interest to lic cost of more than $12 billion. way: “the most controversial only did the issue tell what great them. First, he claimed that the recognize the two major parties^ problem to be resolved is pat-, profits could be made by various cost of building full-scale power the Democrats help pave the The bill provides that atomic as instruments of monopoly capi- eats.” That “most controversial corporations, but they also told reactor plants is so high that road for the victory of the bud­ energy processes and inventions tal and generally support inde­ problem”—namely, the question their clients to buy this particu­ “it . is just not in the economic ding fascist movement. will ultimately come under pri­ pendent political action by Labor of control of atomic industrial lar stock because of the fact that cards for private industry to vate patents. According to Ice­ and its allies” ’ processes and inventions—was in apparently the bill was going to spend any such sums” and that ‘SILENT’ ON McCARTHYISM land Olds, for five years chairman The theme of the articles, the hands of Congress. become law? ‘the Federal Government must Perhaps Roosevelt the Third is of the Federal Power Commis­ which are signed by Max Gordon, sponsor and finance full-scale an exception to this? Not ac­ sion^ “a single patent or group Congress has since responded is that “the central aim of this A EC AIDS MONOPOLIES power reactor development.” But, cording to the Daily Worker. In­ of patents in the atomic-energy in the spirit of the above-cited campaign must be to aid in unit­ In the campaign to hand the the commission “ will welcome of­ terested as they are in present­ field could control an energy re­ private utilities’ report..- ing the labor movement and its atomic energy industry over to fers from industry to invest risk ing him in the best possible source estimated to be twenty The objectives stated in the allies to defeat Republican and the monopolies, a leading role capital in the building of the light, they nevertheless feel com­ times greater than all the coal, study prepared for the utilities Farleyite reaction.” had been assigned to the Atomic steam and turbine portions, as pelled to admit, “ he has attacked oil, and natural-gas reserves of corporations found their echo at According to Gordon, “ Plain­ McCarthyism on a number of oc­ the. top of the government’s Energy Commission itself. We well as in the operation of the the entire world.” (The Nation, have seen how the head of the entire plant.” He hoped “even­ ly this cannot be done through casions, and likened him to H it­ atomic agency. Lewis L. Strauss, J u ly 17, 1954.) commission, i Strauss, had en­ tually industry will be carrying the American Labor Party. It ler . . . but he has been silent on fin short, the American peo­ chairman of the Atomic Energy dorsed the aims of the monopol- the greater part of the burden can be achieved only through a various aspects of McCarthyism, ple are being robbed on a scale Commission, personally endorsed ies-sponsored bill. The AEC ser­ of this industrial development.” struggle within the Democratic such as the »Smith Act perse­ not even conceivable before the these objectives in the healings Party for a candidate and,a pro- vice as a whole is honeycombed This perspective of the private cutions, the current Brownell atomic era. on the atomic energy bill: with agents of corporations in­ corporations “carrying the great­ t gram which will win the allegi­ bills,” etc. By piecing together bits of in­ “ In order that the principal ef­ terested in the profits possibili er part” of the ownership and ance of the working class and its The Daily Worker doesn’t at­ formation, which have leaked out fect of realizing nuclear power teis of atomic energy. There has control of atomic power, Murray allies.” ISuch a candidate, says tempt to explain why Roosevelt from time to lime, it is possible may be to confirm and strengthen been a constant interchange of then emphasized, “ will require a this Stalinist hack, is Franklin is “silent on various aspects of to give a fairly clear picture of rather than to change our econo­ personnel between the govern­ liberalization of the statute Roosevelt, Jr., a strong contender McCarthyism,” but unwittingly how the atomic enérgy grab has mic institutions and our way of for the Democratic nomination ment agency and the private (Atomic Energy Act of 1946)...” they give the answer. While at been planned and engineered. life, we believe that nuclear pow­ monopolies. The new atomic energy bill is for Governor. tempting to demonstrate that he We find a sordid pattern of er as it becomes economically so “liberal,” it has been called a Gordon’s primary target is the “has gone ahead of most poli­ collusion between big Business attractive should be integrated This • fact was disclosed by “ giveaway” to the monopolies. view among rank and file Stalin­ ticians in response to public pres­ into the existing power economy Walter K. Gutman in a March 3 corporations and government of­ An artist’s sketch of the atomic reactor and heat exchanger ists and in the ALP that “if sure for peace,” they are also of the nation; that nuclear power 1954, N . Y. W orld-Telegram a r t i­ ficials, including members of the to produce steam at the nation’s first control station nuclear THE SOVIET “THREAT” America is to be saved from war, forced to concede that “he has should be produced and distri cle emphasizing the great profits Atomic Energy Commission it­ power plant, to be built at Shippingport, Pa., near Pittsburgh. One of the most revealing ob­ fascism and depression, the poli­ embraced the basic assumptions buted by the public power possibilities. He describes bis self. These latter have been work­ The government is developing atomic power production at vast servations in Murray’s speech ticians of both major parties of American imperialism regard systems and not by the com talks with “leaders in the field ing hand-in-glove with the giant expense; the private corporations hope to take over the developed was the motivation he gave for ‘must be opposed with every re­ ing the ‘cold war’ . . . the need m ission.” at the first conference sponsored monopolies in paving the way for in d u s try . ' intensified interest in atomic source at our command’ in the for an arms build-up . . .” etc By “our economic institutions on the subject by a semi-official Operation- Atomic Hijack. energy for peacetime use. He coming state elections.” In other words, Roosevelt sup­ and our way of life,” Strauss was group, the Atomic Industrial Fo­ stated that, the Soviet Union’s This view was voiced in a re­ ports the imperialist wrar drive DENIED PEACEFUL USE capitalists and their government investors in privately owned uti­ referring, of course, to the capi­ rum, which was set up recently ’development of the hydrogen cent letter to the National Guar­ and the accompanying witch For a number of years after agents. This was stated in the lities corporations. This specially- talist private profit system domi­ to narrow the gap between gov bomb “is less dangerous” than dian by Clifford T. McAvoy, the hunt. He is therefore consisteht the 1945 atomic bombings of Hi­ March 1954 re.port of the prepared study was issued on nated by the big corporations. ernment and business. “if the Soviets had announced;. . . A L P ’s 1953 N ew Y o rk M a yo ra l- when he remains “silent on var roshima and Nagasaki, , it was Joint Congressional Committee Oct. 24, 1953, by Bozell & Jacobs, “These leaders came out of that it had been successfully op­ . ty candidate; and, since the re­ ious aspects of McCarthyism.” the contention of the American on Atomic Energy’s Subcommit­ Inc., public relations counsel for REF. W. STERLING COLE AEC serviee and have entered erating a practical industrial nu­ signation of Marcantonio, the On what possible basis then can rulers that atomic energy had on­ tee on Research and Development. the utilities interests. The report (R-N.Y.) business as technical consultants clear power plant.” He urged the principal opponent within the ho be expected to lead a struggle ly destructive potentialities, at I t said: coincided with announcement by W hen announced on Nov. 19, or research chiefs of large cor gathered utilities executives to ALP of the Stalinist pro-Demo- to stop McCarthyism ? least for the foreseeable future. “Economic evaluation by the the Atomic Energy Commission 1953, that he would introduce a porations. Indicative of the semi­ ,“become fully conscious of the cratic party orientation. It was not blindness to these They circulated this lie because (Atomic Energy) Commission (EC) that it was authorizing bill in Congress designed to turn official nature of the AIF was possibility that power-hungry Gordon also argues, in more elementary political facts that they wanted to concentrate ex­ and its contractors show that the Westinghouse Electric Corp. to the atomic energy industry over the fact that it now is the first countries will gravitate toward friendly fashion, with those who, caused the Stalinists to wander clusively on atomic military pro­ probability of producing electri­ build the first, full-scale atomic to private interests, he indicated special depository of nonclassi- the USSR if it wins the nuclear to assure a Democratic victory, duction, since they had an insuf­ power plant for peacetime pur­ that private profits were xan im­ fied atomic energy information into the camp of the witch-hunt­ city from nuclear fuel at a cost power race.” “would prefer the ALP not name ing, war-mongering Democratic ficient supply of nuclear mater­ competitive with electricity from poses. portant consideration. He said for industry.” Thus, American capitalism’s a candidate at all.” ¡Pointing out Party. ‘It was cold calculation ials for their grandiose atomic coal, oil or gas is good. . . This Contrary to the propaganda that “private investors have AEC MEMBER MURRAY fear of ¡Soviet development of that “it will take a rough strug­ the cold calculation of the Ma war program,. does not mean that such low- that profitable commercial nu­ every right to expect some re­ atomic power for peaceful pur­ gle to' get as much as 60,000 lenkov regime. As for the monopolists, they cost nuclear power will be ob­ clear power is “ at least decades turn for whatever successful ef­ The collaboration between AEC poses, as well as the pi-ospect of votes” for the ALP, the writer were n o t anxious to see the peace­ tained from the very first plants off, if . . . possible at all,” the forts they do expend.” members and the utilities corpo­ vast profits for a few big mono­ assures the nervous elements that SELL OUT SOCIALISM time development of atomic pow­ which might be built, but that it. Bozell & Jacobs report—prepared That the giant corporations did rations is most vividly illustrated polies, has spurred the biggest “ it is the height of improbability The Stalinist course is dictated er that might displace conven­ may well come from succeeding at the direction of 81 electric uti­ not lose sight of the possibilities in the case of Thomas E. Mur­ steal in history. that the margin between the two prim arily by the diplomatic needs tional power sources, in which the plants which . . . it should be lities companies—stressed that for atomic profits is indicated ray, who was appointed in 1950 major parties’ nominees w ill be of the counter-revolutionary capitalists have a large, invest­ possible to construct and operate such power “is fast developing.” by the following exchange during to the five-man commission that controls the atomic industry. In anywhere near as close as that.” Kremlin clique; not by the needs ment, or undermine the high more economically.” In fact, “No other energy . . . the Senate atomic debate: Eugene G. Grace, chairman of connection with the AEC’s an­ of the American workers. The prices and high profits of elec­ ever has been developed so rapid­ Mr. LANGER. The Senator the Bethlehem Sleel Corporation, FEARFUL LESSONS nouncement that four more pri­ Kremlin looks at Roosevelt much trical power. A REVEALING REPORT ly" and “ much is being compress­ (Murray of No. Dak.) has just on July 29 confirmed that his vately owned electric power com­ OF EUROPEAN FASCISM as it looked at Wallace — he Awareness of the new profits ed in to a fe w years.” mentioned the sale of securities. company is discussing merger SHARP CHANGE OF VIEW The Stalinists have correctly favors “ peaceful co-existence, •potential iii the field of atomic The study concluded that it was Did the distinguished Senator panies were being brought into with the Youngstown Sheet and pointed out that one of the fun­ therefore his platform coincides W ith in the past yea r o r so, energy had been expressed even necessary to revise the 1946 know 1hat in May the Francis the commission’s program for Tube Co. The head of the second studying and developing atomic damental issues in the 1954 elec- with Moscow’s passing diploma there has been a sharp alteration earlier in a report prepared pri­ Atomic Energy Act, which confin­ I. du Font & Co., issued a cir­ largest steel producer said also: , tions is the struggle against Mc- tie needs, and therefore he must in the expressed views of the marily for the information of ed control of atomic energy to the cular dealing with atomic ener- reactors for the production of “>Ve do not expect there w ill be Carthyism. And yet they propose be supported no matter how __ electric power, the Oct. 7, 1953 any appreciable change in our — to those foolish or misguided gravely the struggle for social­ N. Y. World-Telegram carried a present operating rate of 66% enough to take their advice — ism, which alone can assure en­ piece hailing Murray’s key role d u rin g A u g u st and . . . p re tty that this crucial struggle be during peace, is injured. in furthering the new policy. much throughout the third “waged” through the Democrat­ It seems that in a recent speech Murray was described as a q u a rte r.” . . . Detroit Dodge Local Strikes Over Speedup “strong believer that the atomic ic Party, the very party respon­ Roosevelt “called for ‘reassess­ In the second quarter of last sible for launching the witch program eventually must pass ment’ of U.S. policy towards the (Continued from page 1) committeemen would be fired and lective bargaining agreement be­ said one, meaning they should year the operating rate was hunt out of which McCarthyite from its state of nationalization Soviet Union, criticized advocates (he local must file all unsettled would not get union support for tween the union and the Chrys­ have been at Solidarity House 104.8% of rated capacity. fascism was born. into the realm of business-managef of preventive war-, and asked for grievances with the Internationa] reinstatement. le r Corp.” rather than the Dodge plant. The fearful lessons learned in private ownership and operation.” a policy of co-existence and before strike sanction could be Under this pressure another (2) “it has been and is the President Cheal said he was the struggle against European In fact, when the AEC decided peaceful competition with the granted. vote was taken on whether to established policy of the Interna­ convinced the local’s strike action fascism should be sufficient to to turn to a government-owned For an understanding of USSR.” ‘Saturday , July 17: The ex­ continue the strike. The vote was tional union to fight speedup bad been correct and necessary, rule out such a disastrous course source of power for its gaseous American fascism, read In short, like Churchill, he re­ ecutive board and plant com­ 15. for, 15 against. President Joe wherever it appeals, so long as adding, “ We will proceed along as the Stalinists propose. Hitler diffusion plant at Paducah, Ky., cognizes that world imperialism mitteemen met and again voted Cheal cast the deciding vote to proper contractual and constitu­ the lines of the UAW ’s constitu­ Trotsky’s analyses of Fas­ came to power largely because ¡Murray rushed to protect the in­ needs a breather in its prepara­ unanimously for strike action. continue the strike. The vote was tional procedures are followed.” tion and take a formal strike cism in Europe the German labor leaders insist­ terests of the private utilities. tions for war, and is ready to Constituting themselves as the then made unanimous and the (3) “Failure of the local union vote of the employees if our ed that the way to stop him was The World-Telegram article re­ consider the idea of a temporary strike committee, they drafted a International was again asked leadership to take steps makes grievances at Dodge are not ad­ to support the “lesser evil” — veals : “deal” with the Soviet Union. list of 32 grievances against the for strike sanction. necessary this action by the In­ ju ste d.” the German counterpart of the “The very day the commission For the Stalinists that’s enough company, sent them to the Inter­ An evening meeting of all ternational Executive Board . . . This reflected the workers’ real Democratic Party. decided to hand the contract ex reason to support him. Never national UAW and asked the UAW Chrysler local presidents and the board hereby directs the sentiments. Quicker than anyone Assume that the Stalinists are clusively to the Tennessee Valley mind the fact that it weakens the International to sanction the was called at Solidarity House. Dodge workers, members of expected, a new strike author­ ignorant of — or don’t want to Authority, Mr. Murray went out struggle against McCarthyite strike . It boomerangtid on the Interna­ Local 3, to return to work at the ization was voted, with 85% of remember — how this policy led and interested a group of private fascism and can even make pos­ Monday, July > 19: In the tional when the local presidents earliest, possible date.” the workers voting in favor. Pro­ to the defeat of the German utility company executives to put sible the catastrophe of opening morning a jammed meeting of gave their support to the Dodge strike sentiment was so strong workers. Are they also ignorant in a bid. the road to the White House for the Dodge strikers voted unani­ strike . “WE W ILL1 PROCEED” that International reps were sent “A month later AEC formally of the present role of the Demo­ the Wisconsin demagogue. mously to continue the sti-ike. Wednesday, July 21: Regular To put it mildly, this decision down to speak in favor of the cratic Party in helping the growth reversed itself and awarded half It is true that New York The five top officers and the seven meeting of the strike committee. was not popular among Dodge strike vote. o f M cC arthyism ? the power load to the private workers, like the workers else­ plant committeemen were ordered Two International reps showed workers, “We can whip the com­ The next steps are up to the group, organized as Electric The events of the past several where in the country, in their to appear at an evening meeting, up and were told there was noth­ pany but we can’t beat the In­ company — and the International Energy, Inc.” months alone have been suffi­ majority vote for the Democratic called by the International at ing further to discuss since their ternational,” was one statement officers. If they don’t receive This “ served to establish a na­ cient to demonstrate that the Party. They do so not out of any Solidarity House, UAW head­ grievances were in the Interna­ widely repeated. "Pickets were satisfaction, the membe*s are tional pattern” and in early 1953, “anti-McCarthy wing” of the particular love for the Demo­ quarters. There four International tional’s hands and a formal posted at the wrong address,” ready to act again. Democratic Party is capable on­ crats, but because they have not Chrysler directors laid down the request for strike action had when the AEC needed 2,000,000 ly of folding up when confronted yet been able to cut through the lin e : been submitted. The International kilowatts of power for its Ports­ with a serious fight with McCar­ opposition of the union official­ The strike was “illegal,” they reps were excused from the mouth, O., plant, “a combination thy. Like their German brothers, dom to creation of an independent ruled, although they did not sub­ meeting. The committee voted to NAACP PUSHES DRIVE TO END of 15 private utility companies Labor Party. stantiate their contention by any request the release of $25,000 was formed to supply it.” , Now the Stalinists have step­ provisions in the UAW constitu from the strike fund for a KICKS OFF CAMPAIGN ped in as a new prop for the re­ tion or the Taft-Hartley Law. kitchen to feed the strikers. This TRANSPORTATION JIM CROW DETROIT It was hut natural that AEC actionary politics of the labor of­ They demanded that the strikers request was presented to UAW A two-pronged attack on Jim Crow segregation in all member Murray was selected to ficials. By that token they also return to work at once. After Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey, Meet the Candidates of the interstate public transport is being conducted by the Na­ kick off the public campaign to constitute a prop to McCarthy­ work was resumed, they said, an* who immediately rejected it convert the atomic energy indus­ 48 pp. 15 cents Socialist Workers Party ism. other strike vote could be taken “until the strike had been tional Association for the Advancement of Colored try into a preserve of the pri­ O rder fro m under provisions of the Taft- authorized.” People. 14th Amendments to the U -S. vate monopolies. This was his For Governor: Hartley Act, and then the Inter­ Thursday, July 22: No Inter­ On July 21 the House Com- Pioneer Publishers Constitution. The ICC was asked announcement, last Oct. 22 in national might sanction strike national reps were present at the inerce Committee approved an 116 University Place to order the defendants to end Chicago, of the commission’s CHICAGO action. strike committee meeting this NAAGP-sponsdred bill to ban N ew Y o rk 3, N . Y . Frank Lovell these Jim Crow practices. program for construction of the The spokesmen for the strikers morning. The papers can-ied “no segregation practices in inter­ Annual Militant Picnic The order, however, would not For Senator: submitted their grievances and comment” from the International. state bus, train, ship or other apply to transportation within the Sun., Aug. 22. 12 Noon demands on the company. They Morale on the picket line was public transport. The bill, which states. Jim Crow travel is the F u ll D inner 75 cents requested immediate reinstate­ high. Workers from other Chrys­ w ould fine each v io la to r SI ,000, Rita Shaw law in most Southern states. ment of the fired workers and a ler plants that were closing down was adopted by a vote of 19 to For Representative: The NAACP complaint cited a Calumet Park clear commitment by the company encouraged the Dodge strikers. 7, and then sent to • the House O ut Soon - A New Pamphlet number of Supreme Court deci­ 98 and Lake M ichigan to negotiate’production standards, Hope grew that the International Rules Committee, where it will sions ruling that state segregation For free transportation call which it has refused to do. They would be forced to grant strike probably .be pigeonholed for the Robert Himmel statutes cannot constitutionally thought the strikers would be sanction. Then came telegrams rest of the current session of CE 6-4183 be applied to passengers in inter­ Sat., A ug. 14, 8 P.M. willing to return if these minimum from the Internationa] ordering Congress. state train and bus travel. 3000 Grand R iver Games Fun Prizes demands were met. Dodge local officers to be present The NAACP has asked Eisen­ RACIAL TERROR But the railroads continue to The International reps called at a special meeting of the In­ hower to apply pressure to get flout and evade these decisions — the company and infoiuned them ternational UAW Executive the bill passed/ but there is no just as the white supremacists of the strikers’ proposals. Noth­ Board called for the next day at chance of that happening. No intend to flout and evade the at ing doing, said the company, Solidarity House, and to “show action has yet been taken on the recent Supreme Court decision refusing to negotiate anything cause” why they were on strike. bill in the Senate. against segregation in the public until the strikers were back in On July 27 hearings were schools. It takes more than court the plant. The International reps THE BOARD’S VERDICT opened on a series of complaints TRUMBULL PARK decisions to achieve the surrender Subscribe! then repeated that the workers Friday, July 23: Present at the filed by the NAACP with the five-hour meeting were all Inter­ Interstate Commerce Commission of Jim Crow. by Howard Mayhew & Dorothy Zabin Start your subscription now. Clip the coupon and mail it must return to work. national Executive Board mem­ against 11 railroad companies, a in today. 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C an a d ia n : $3.50 per published Weekly in the Interests of the Working People editorials. year; $1.75 for 6 months. the: militant publishing association "Entered as second class Bundle Orders: 5 or more l l f i U n iv e rs ity P I., N . Y . 3. N . Y . Phone: A L 5-7460 rm tte r M arch 7. 1044 a t the copies 6c each In U.S., 7c Post Office at New York, Editor: JOSEPH HANSEN N.Y.. under the act of March Polite State Bill Knifes Fifth Amendment each in foreign countries Business Manager: DOROTHY JOHNSON 3, 1879.*1 By Daniel Roberts ized as “ Fifth Amendment Com­ perjury in the absence of sub-®- munists,” Nevertheless, Boudin stantive crime.” The F ifth Amend­ Vol. X V I II - No. 32 Monday, August 9, 1954 “Talk or go to jail!” That is points out, the Fifth Amendment ment stands in his way. That is the choice a witness before con­ “ remains effective in the princi­ why he wants the privilege Indochina Dividing Line gressional witch-hunting com­ pal area for which it was intend­ against self-incrimination re­ mittees w ill be given under pro­ ed, to require the accuser rather moved. Who to Blame for High Food Prices visions of the so-called “immuni­ than the accused to produce the Furthermore, witnesses invoke ty” bill now before the House of incriminating evidence.” the F ifth Amendment not only to You don’t'have to look at the statistics to of each food dollar spent by the American Representatives. The Senate has Of course, says Boudin, gov­ protect themselves but others as know where food prices have been heading. housewife 56 cents now goes to food processors. already passed a similar bill, in­ ernment informers in congress­ well. McCarthy wants to disrupt Everyone who does regular food shopping is transporters and distributors. The farmer gets troduced by McCarran, author of ional hearings — such as Paul the solidarity among victims of many police state measures. The aware that the load you car'ry home from the ° 1l*y cents, of which 30 cents goes for his Crouch or Manning Johnson — the witch hunt by jailing for con­ “immunity” bill stands high on don’t need the “immunity” sta­ tempt any person who refuses to grocery for a five-doHar bill keeps getting 1 costs oi production. the Eisenhower administration’s tute to make them talk. But rat on his fellow man. lighter. You can tell from the weight test that str'king example of the rooking the farm- list of “must” legislation. many persons “will become in­ OTHER GIMMICKS prices have been rising. 'C1‘s and workers (who are the chief consumers) The “immunity” ■ bill would voluntary informers under the A i , c ■ , . • i „ f„i, are getting is the case of wheat and its main strip a witness of protection proposed bill unless they are pre­ “The immunity bill promises A lot of unjust blame lor this has fallen on , , , . , , m ore than i t can give,” says (Bou­ ,, ■ t „ , . |, end-product, bread. In Jan., 1948, the farm given by the clause of the Fifth pared to face contempt proceed­ the fanners. Uninformed people naturally . .. . ’ _.. ings. . . U nder congressional din. In the federal area it will ., . -r t price ot wheat was 82.81 a bushel. I hen the Amendment of the Û.S. Consti­ assume that if food prices go up, the farmer ' f , , , , r tution which says «that no per­ presstrre, with loose rules of ex­ give immunity only for criminal , • , ... , • , average price ot a one-pound bread loaf was amination prevailing, a weak prosecution. But what about is making more money and getting higher n o 6 1 ,, . . r i , , son “ shall be compelled . . . to be . .. , -ri \ i i r , 13.8 cents. Now the farmer gets $1.91 a bushe a witness against himself.” The .person may he led into specula­ “loyalty” purges, screening from prices at his end. I hat is absolutely false. , , , .. . , , , „ , ...... lo r wheat, while the same bread loaf sells for witch hunters claim they are not tion, exaggeration. and even lies the waterfront or defense indus­ tries, internment in concentra­ The truth is that farm food prices have 17 ccnts. The wheat farm price has gone down taking away any rights because concerning the political views tion camps under the McCarran fallen 20% within the past three years. The 32% . ,bread prices have gone up 23%. under provisions of the bill a w it­ and associations of his friends. ness would escape criminal prose­ For above his head lies the threat Internal Security Act, and all average faimer has taken a big slice in his Such a vast spread between wheat and bread cution once he testifies. However, of federal prosecution for con­ other witch-hunting measures income. That fact has been reported in a prices in such a short time cannot be explained the witness coujd still be cited tempt if the committee believes that do not require court trial? survey by the Agriculture Committee of the by any wage increases for food processing for contempt or perjury and ja il­ that he is withholding informa- Immunity, says Boudin, would not tion and for perjury if it doubts be given in that area. So that the I louse ot Representatives, made public Aug. 2. workers, who remain among the lowest-paid ed if the “investigating” commit­ tee did not like his answers. his veracity.” information a witness, is compel­ Higher consumer food prices, the committee and most exploited workers in America. The led to give can lead to his own The “immunity” bill is design­ Moreover, congressional hear­ victimization. This map shows how Indochina was carved up by the big finds, are a result of higher prices charged by real answer is profiteering by the speculators, ed to help McCarthy, Velde and ings — those of McCarthy in imperialist powers and Moscow and Peiping at Geneva. Par­ food processors and distributors, flic big processors, haulers and merchants. They-are Jenner in their witch-hunting at­ particular — are marked by a The “immunity” bill would tition was ratified by French and Vietminh representatives. canning, meat-packing, flour-m illing and ¡ta lly stealing the bread — and meat — out tacks. “The committees which “degree of bullying inconceivable waive prosecution only for feder­ This deal hands the French butchers three-quarters of the land in court, where the testimony al criminal offenses. But many baking outfits are charging outrageous prices of our mouths. this bill is intended to aid have area of Indo China. Well over half the people remain under far exceeded their legal func­ fails to satisfy the examiner; states have “anti-subversive” enslavement of the French invaders. for the most basic necessities of life. '1 he These scoundrels who demand their pound tions and have engaged in mass this has occasionally brought the laws, carrying ja il punishment. A huge retail chain-store outlets have been of flesh in exchange for a pound of bread need trials of ‘subversives’ ” writes witness to the desired objective; person who is forced to testify passing on these prices, with their own extra to be dealt with in the most decisive manner, Leonard B. Boudin, noted Con­ particularly where he is asked against himself before a con­ his opinions of others.” gressional body may be furnish­ take added. The biggest necessity is for a Labor Party stitutional lawyer, in. an article, “The Immunity Bill,” published There is no doubt, says Boudin, ing evidence that might be used The House committee says that none of the which w ill rally all sections of the populace in the Georgetown Law Review for that the Use of informers — against him in a frameup trial in World Events lower prices paid the farmers since 1951 has who are being victimized by the big corpora- M ay, 1954. The objective o f the whose testimony is notoriously h is state. By, Fred Hart bill, he says, is “to increase a untruthful — would be geatly The kind of legislation that is been passed on to consumers. It adds that tions including the food monopolists. Such a CANDIDATES OF THE LAN­ congressional power of harass­ increased by the passage of the needed, says Boudin in conclu­ mander of the Vietnam National ‘‘further declines in farm prices are expected," .party w ill fight to establish a Workers and KA SAMA SAMAJA PARTY, ment already at high water “immunity” bill, sion, is not the kind that increases Army (the army of the puppet but that “ consumers can expect little benefit." farmers Government which w ill end food m a rk .” the harrying powers of the witch- Ceylonese Trotskyists, have con­ regime created by French imper­ This Congressional study also shows that out profiteering for good and all. GREATER RISKS hunting committees, but bills that sistently polled 489; of the popu­ ialism), hopes to rebuild his BURDEN ON ACCUSER But there is an even greater would protect the rights of indi­ lar vote in the numerous wards forces with American aid until The Fifth Amendment, says ri^k than false accusation, says viduals summoned before them. they contested in recently con­ it numbers 350,000. He plans to Boudin, “stands today as the Boudin. “It is the prosecution That includes safeguarding the cluded municipal elections held use the two-year interval before Relief for the Greedy only complete answer to a con­ of the innocent for perjury.” Fifth Amendment. But even that throughout Ceylon, according to nation-wide elections are to take gressional investigation of poli­ As he points out, “Senator is not enough. What is really the Samasamajist, publication of place to “maintain the security The capitalists have figured out a way to famous “ Merchants of Death” — ended the tical beliefs and associations.” It. McCarthy has publicly viewed his needed to protect democratic lib­ the party. In the Colombo elec­ of south Vietnam . . . and, he get richer even if business gets worse. It’s all first half of this year richer by $152,150,633 is true that many persons have investigations as a means of con­ erties is to do away with these tions held on July 24, the Left added, with a knowing glance at done with taxes. They get Congress to pass compared to $114,758,444 net profits Tor the been fired or otherwise victim- victing witnesses of contempt or witch-hunting bodies altogether. parties elected 15 seats on the the wall map showing all of In ­ M un icip al C ouncil ag ainst 16 dochina ‘engage in other mis­ •legislation giving special tax privileges and like period last year. Thanks to tax relief for elected by the capitalist United sions.’ ” benefits to corporations and to individuals the greedy instead of the needy, du Pont Nationalist Pai'ty. Nine seats * * * whose incomes are derived from profits, in­ grabbed off 33% more profits after taxes, were won by candidates backed “SEDITION” COURTS were terests and rents. These tax gimmicks, of while its sales slipped 8%. by the Lanka 'Sama Samaja Par­ set up in Indochinese territory New York Fascist Demonstrators ty, including six party members. course, do not help the average person," who But there’s more to come for those already retained hy French imperialism The other Left councilmen were and the Vietnam puppet govern­ is nothing but an honest hard-working wage- showered -with so many tax blessings. It's in elected by the Stalinist Front. ment. According to the N.Y. earner and has his taxes taken out of his pay- the new tax law recently signed by Eisenhower. Scream Approval of 'Victim’ Cohn The workers parties polled 52% Times of Aug, 4, the Vietnamese before he gets it. Most of the new benefits for the wealthy “ have of the vote. Government created such courts The over-all result of the Cey­ We’ve been having an economic decline for to be sought out in the fine print,” advises the NEW YORK, July 29 — Some the hook “McCarthy and His gave Son. McCarthy a four- in Hanoi in the North and Hue 2,000 hysterical fascists jammed minute ovation. The Wisconsin lonese municipal elections are in the South. These are undoubt­ the past year, production has slowed down, Aug. 6 U.S. News and World Report, which Enemies,” Fulton Lewis, Jr., a S7-a-plate testimonial dinner for George Sokolskv and Prof. God­ demagogue painted Cohn as a summed up in the Samasamajist edly designed as part of a reign sales have dropped, loss of overtime and short informs “you” that “a bit of study may pay Roy Cohn in the Grand Ballroom frey P. Schmidt of the Fordham martyr — “ the most brilliant man as follows: “There is a distinct of terror against Vietminh sup­ work weeks have cut take-home pay for mil­ big dividends.” of the Astor Hotel, last night. University Law School. , T have ever been in contact with move away from the UNP to­ porters throughout all the ter­ wards the Left in general and ritory which the Kremlin hand­ lions of workers, while other millions have A bit of study will show you that if you are According to the committee in Archibald B. Roosevelt, son of . . . a victim” but still not a the LSSP in particular. How­ ed to the French under the terms charge, more than 6,000 others Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, struck victim; he “has too much good been laid off. But the big corporations have already being paid big corporate dividends you ever, viewing the entire series of of the Geneva Conference be­ were turned away for lack of one of the keys repeatedly American courage and gaits.” He made more profits than ever. w ill benefit exceedingly from this law. It pro­ local government elections it is tra y a l. space. sounded at the rally. The “anti­ said he had offered to put Cohn too early to gauge definitely the * * * The answer is simple: the tax laws have vides, as U.S. News puts it, “ relief for stock­ Planned as a mobilization of com m unists.” he said, “ do not on his “personal” payroll, but actual shift to the Left. One “LAND REFORM” IN RE­ been so rigged that despite loss of gross income holders.” It reduces taxes on income derived leading McCarthy ites in New and did not have anyone to help Cohn had refused. McCarthy said that Cohn in being fired from his thing is clear: the LSSP has VERSE was instituted in Guate­ 1,000 York, the rally screamed its ap­ us in the White House.” this year compared to last, the amount of net from dividends. It means $ less taxes a definitely recovered f rom the mala on July 27. According to the proval of Senator McCarthy, Prof. Schmidt voiced the Mc­ committee had “really won a income after taxes is greater. year on a dividend income of $25,000. In the electoral slump of the 1952 Par­ N. Y. Times, the U.S.-backed A r­ America’s would-be Hitler, and Carthyite “treason” theme, ap­ great victory.” / top tax bracket, “ a stock paying 5 per cent will liamentary election. mas dictatorship decreed a new flow beneficial to the rich this class system his lieutenant, Cohn, the first plying it to Indochina. The “loss” FASCIST YOUTH SPEAKER “The 1954 local elections have agrarian law in which landlords of taxation can be is demonstrated in the latest be equal’to any fully taxed investment paying major “victim” in the movement of part of that country, he said, One of the highlights of the ended . . . in an overwhelming could grab back the land that corporation tax reports. 7.22 per cent.” That doesn’t go for wages he is assembling in hope of tak­ was due to the French people — frenzied gathering was a speech defeat for the capitalist UNP. was granted to the peasants un­ ing over the Republican Party “effete, weak and cowardly.” He For instance. General Motors, the world’s income, however. by a 17-year-old sophomore of Adding Colombo to the list, the der the land division law passed and eventually the White House. deplored the lack of a Roy Cohn largest industrial corporation, in the first six It would take thousands of words to Columbia College representing LSSP has still won more seats by the Arbenz regime in 1952. The ro s te r o f 21 s u p p o rtin g and Sen. McCarthy in France. the fascist youth organization than any other party. And let us All the expropriated landlords months of 1954 suffered a sales volume drop of enumerate all the loopholes given the corpora­ organizations at the dinner in­ Sokolsky claimed that the size Students of America. “As the stress that our victories have have to do is return the agrarian 7%. But G M ’s net profits after taxes rose from tions — greater depreciation allowances, spread­ cluded the American Legion, of the gathering indicated the Chicago Tribune aptly put it,” been against all other parties and bonds and interest they received Catholic War Veterans, Jewish day is coming when “no man $412,854,787 for the first half of 1955 to ing “ losses” over many years, bigger ex­ he said, “the case of Roy Cohn groups. . . The most unprincipled and the land will once again be War Veterans, Veterans of For­ dares run for public office ex­ $425,250,583 in the first half of this year. emptions for foreign income, special benefits is the American Dreyfus case; and shameless alliances have theirs. “Among those who will eign Wars, the Ancient Order of cept on a platform of sincere as Dreyfus was redeemed, so will been forged to bring about our undoubtedly recover some, if not T hat’s a thumping 35% leap in take-home for oil. coal, utilities and insurance companies, Hibernians, the Sons of the Amer­ anti-Communisra. ” all, of their land is the United profits. The tax bill that went into effect this and so on. But no cuts in the regular income ican Revolution, the Daughters of Roy Cohn be when the American defeat. The results speak for Fruit Company,” says the Times. the American Revolution, the STOOLPIGEON ON DAIS people have taken hack their gov­ themselves. The LSSP victories year sliced G M ’s taxes more than $306,000,000 taxes extorted weekly from the workers. The peasants, however, will be United Republicans of America, Among the guests on the dais ernment from the criminal have been 100 percent political In the tax laws we have iron-dad proof that allowed to harvest this year’s fo r the. six-month period. General Electric’s the N. Y. City Federation of were the FBI’s most notorious alliance of Communists, So­ victories. . . Our election cam­ crop before falling once more sales also fell 7%, but its net profits soared we have a class government — a capitalist Women’s Clubs, and American stoolpigeon, Louis Budpnz. Others cialists and New Dealers, and paigns are fought entirely on . . . in the clutches of the landlords. 24%. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. — the class government. Coalition of Patriotic Societies. included Westbrook Pegler, who Eisenhower - Dewey Republicans an anti-capitalist basis. And we Also the government promises to These groups presented Cohn recently openly advocated fas­ that is ruining America.” This have come out on top!” brought the audience to its feet open up for the peasants “na­ with enough scrolls, citations and cism to handle organized labor * * * tional regions now inaccessible bronze plaques to fill “a truck” in America, financier E. F. Hut­ in a burst of frantic cheering. STALINIST DISRUPTION in because of lack of communica­ Answer to the Housing Scandal in the words of Rabbi Benjamin ton, Connecticut manufacturer M cCa r t h y i t e s y m b o l Ceylon kept the workers’ move­ tions, irrigation and drainage.” Schultz, co-ordinator of the Joint Vivian Kellems, Justice Robert iRabbi Schultz, who presented ment from scoring even more im­ * * * One of the first projects that a Labor Party to go against the interests of the powerful real Committee Against Communism, Morris of the Municipal Court, Cohn with a bronze plaque, said pressive victories against the PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE? in power in the United States must undertake estate lobby, whose members pump out huge who presided. Clarence E. Manion, form er dean the meeting represented a “na­ capitalist UNP in the local elec­ The lists of speakers included of the University of Notre Dame “The largest of the limited ‘hot is a vast public housing program to provide profits from the overcrowded, rat-infested, tional show of confidence” in.Roy tions. In Colombo, ’“ Had the Stal­ wars’ in Korea and Indochina, such infamous reactionaries as Law School, and Robert Vogeler, decent homes for workers at rents they can fire-trap- slums of -the cities. Cohn. The young lawyer, he inists not refused the LSSP pro­ Alfred Kohlberg of the China business man who was imprison­ have ended temporarily,” says declared, “ is a symbol of the peo­ posal for a joint list of candidates afford. To satisfy that condition- these homes The slum clearance program started by the Lobby and the American-Jewish ed in H u n g a ry fo r 17 month® on Hanson W. Baldwin, m ilitary ex­ ple’s revolt against politicians on the basis of mutual support, pert of the N.Y. Times, in the w ill have to be built and operated on a non­ Roosevelt administration under which public League Against Communism, W il­ charges of spying. who are soft on treason; over­ the Left would undoubtedly have liam F. Buckley, Jr., co-author of The wildly applauding crowd Aug. 3 issue. “Here is an in­ profit basis. housing projects have been built, has never educated professors who are soft won a straight majority,” says complete list of smaller hot wars “ We need two-million homes a year,” stated been more than a drop in the bucket. Congress m the head; and writers, com­ the Samasamajist. “ Not the UNP that are continuing — with no Senator Hubert Humphrey (D -M inn.) last lurther gutted this program in the present mentators and others who are but the LSSP is to these gentle­ end in sight — in many parts of men the main enemy. . . That is month at a banquet of the National Housing session. The Congressmen cut Eisenhower’s soft for Alger Hiss and Dr. J. the world.” He cites Malaya, The Robert Oppenheimer, but are why they flung disruptionist can­ Philippines, Burma, Indonesia, In­ pitiful recommendation of 140,000 new units ... Senate Ducks on M Conference, Inc., a liberal organization against Louis Budenz, J. B. Mat­ didate^ indiscriminately against dia, Kenya, Israel and French specializing in the housing problem. "But," he during the next four years to a maximum of (Continued from page 1) be consoling: “But he will not thews, McCarthy and Cohn. . . LSSP candidates wherever they North Africa. Most of the strug­ could. And that is why in several continued, “we are only getting half that 35,000 new units during the next year. “coddling communists” unless “he come out triumphant from this The people know that the loss of gles he mentions are colonial wards they did not hesitate to The housing problem is insoluble on the runs the committee.” And that’s episode. If the majority of his Cohn (from McCarthy’s commit­ wars for national independence or amount. Our present (slum clearance) program ■support even U'NPers. . . The true too. The new committee w ill fellow-Senators hesitate to con­ tee) is like the loss of a dozen civil wars related to the colonial is clearing (Slums) at about a tenth of the basis of the capitalist system of profiteering, Stalinists, with their disruptive e ith er coddle M cC a rth y o r be demn him, they hesitate likewise battleships.” , struggle. These open conflicts rate at which they are expanding. . . Our but a workers’ government will be able to policy, betrayed Colombo to the hogtied by him —the same thing to give him a clean bill of ■In accepting the plaque, Cohn and others that are smoldering UN'P.” present program serves only about the upper solve it easily and quickly, as Frederic Engels that happened to the previous he alth .” said the present period “has testify to the fact that there can There were similar betrayals explained in his book, The Housing Question, committees investigating him. But McCarthy doesn’t need a ushered in a new chapter in Amer­ be no “ peaceful co-existence” be­ income third.” in other cities, the Samasamajist McCarthyism can’t be controlled clean bill of health from the ican history.” He did not refer tween imperialism and the mass­ But neither Democratic nor Republican a classic of the Socialist movement first pub­ points out. “At Avsawella, the or destroyed by people who share Senate to emerge triumphant to this as the rise of a native es o f w o rkers and peasants lished in 1887. There is enough decent housing Stalinist Front worked openly Parties can provide for the housing needs of its “anti-communist” premises. from the attempts of his capital­ fascist movement under Mc­ throughout the world. the workers, for they are committed to the to go around even now — at least on an ist political opponents to’“curb” Carthy’s leadership, but as “a and publicly for the UNP against profit system whether in housing or any other emergency basis — if Engels’ solution is-ap­ “CONSOLING” THOUGHT? him. All he needs is to show that chapter in which public officers the LSSP; and the Vice-Presi­ dent of the local UNP publicly field. The Democratic administration gave the plied. Engels proposed that all the mansions, 'McCartlrt would probably have he can’t be curbed — and he w ill now know that they are account­ preferred that the Flanders reso­ then be in a position, by means able to the American people.” thanked Mr. Philip Gunawar- Los Angeles people the Federal Housing Administration the ritzy hotels, the swank apartments of the dena for his support without lution be voted down, rather than of a few sensational “spy” hear­ Some of (he most significant which, he declared, the UNP scandals under which private builders operat­ capitalist class — with their excess room — referred to the new committee: ings, to quickly recoup whatever indications of the fascist char­ could not have won the election.” James Kutcher ing under the FHA program made up to be taken over by the workers’ government and But it would be erroneous to con­ minor losses he has sustained acter of the gathering came from ' * * * Speaks on 10,0 0 0 % w indfall profits on their investment. -used to quarter “ the homeless and those work­ sider the passage of the Know- since the start of the Army hear­ Rabbi Schultz. A fter the speeches, land motion and the postpone­ ings. TheiNegro -population was virtually excluded ers excessively crowded in their former houses.” he shouted a series of questions THE INDOCHINESE LAND­ My Case — the Case ment of disciplinary action The least that the Senate would to the audience. “ Shall we meet LORDS AND CAPITALISTS are This would be a starter. A workers’ govern­ of the Legless Veteran from the FHA building project. Charles against McCarthy as anything have done, if it intended to uphold again . . . in greater numbers?” already “ laying plans for a come­ A-brams, a housing expert, speaking at a ment would then seize all large real estate but a distinct gain for the Mc- capitalist democracy, was to , . in every precint, borough, back performance,” according to Fri., Aug. 13, 8:15 P. M. session of the National Housing Conference, holdings, destroy the slums and launch a home Carthyites. impeach the fascist demagogue, city and state of the nation?” Gordon Walker writing from The editors of the N. Y. Times but it balks even at the proposal Channing Hall, 2936 W. 8th St. Inc., stated that “ while Negroes represent 10% building program on a1 planned basis, which “Shall we strike terror in the Saigon in the Christian Science tried hard on Aug. 4 to discover to censure him. This makes it Monitor of July 28. Their base (Near Vermont) would break up the congestion of the big hearts of the ADA of both poli­ of the population, less than 1% of FHA hous­ some kind of silver lining. Ad­ clearer than ever that Mc- of operations will be the south­ tical parties?” “Shall we mould Auspices ing has been accorded them. Segregation is . . . cities and bring about -the merger of town mitting gloomily that the result Carfhyism faces no real danger public opinion?” “Shall we let our ern portion of Vietnam, accord­ increasing in the North.” and country — agriculture, industry and of the new probe “will hardly at the hands of the Democratic officials know they are not our ed them in the partition of Indo­ Kutcher Civil Rights be conclusive” and th a t “ M c­ and Republican politicians whom Such is the record o f the Democratic ad­ residential neighborhoods spread out over the bosses but our servants?” After china at Geneva, and the city of Committee Carthy may escape the censure the labqr leaders are depending each question, the audience roared Haiphong in the North which ministration. The Republicans have offered face of the country — of course on a non- of his peers,” they nevertheless on to save America from fas­ back, “ Yes,” with thunderous ap­ they have 300 days to evacuate. Admission §1 (nothing different. Both have been careful not segregated basis. end with a thought intended to cism. plause. General Nguyen Van Hinh, com­ The Negro Struggle -, ■ ■ — — ■■ By Jean Blake ------rue MILITANT Lester Granger Resigns VOLUME x v m MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1954 N U M B E R 32 Some months ago in this column we criticized discrimination, we have an indictment o f the •rather sharply a speech by Lester Granger, administration that no volumes of official press National Urban League head, in which he statements can offset. An Open Letter to Newark AFL and CIO Chicago Meat advised social workers not to get involved in It is also an indication of how deep the political struggles, nor to do anything that dissatisfaction of the Negro masses is with On Velde Committee's Witch-Hunt Probe would earn them the label of "liberal.'’ •the snail’s pace at which discrimination is N ew ark, N . J.5> Workers Strike We were particularly disgusted with the being eliminated in this country, since men implication in his remarks as reported in the •like Granger reflect their reactions only in a Aug. 5, 1954 press, that social workers are now paying pale and belated fashion. Essex Trades Council, AFL Says Indochina No Munich for their "sins” of liberalism by not being Republican politicians preparing for the Essex-West Hudson CIO Council Against Layoffs consulted or appointed to government jobs November elections w ill undoubtedly attempt Dear Sirs and Brothers: CHICAGO, July 30 — The Chicago plant of Armour to label the resignation a partisan move, and I urge you to publicly denounce under the Eisenhower administration — as the coming “investigation” in and Co. was closed down for one week July 12 by the united though the payoff of a government job were some may even smear it as "aiding and Newark by the House Un-Ameri­ action of all 4,000 production and mechanical workers. The sufficient reward for conforming to Jim Crow abetting” the Chinese or Indo-Chinese or can Activities Committee, also issues in the strike were stated conditions, injustice, and reaction! Africans or Guatemalans or others who question known as the Velde committee. I in a bulletin issued by the strik­ layoffs, they accepted the me­ believe it is your duty to the But last week's news in a United Press report, the State Department’s claims to leadership ol ing Armour Local 347 of the 01)0 chanical workers’ grievances a3 labor movement and the people Packinghouse Workers: their own. Which, of course, it ■though brief and lacking in important details, the "free’,world.” But such smears w ill affect of Newark not to cooperate with was. The production workers the American and international workers and “In the past months, Armour ‘tells of an action by Mr. Granger that this this group in any way. & Co. has been adding m ore w o rk thus showed a clear understand­ The House Un-American Ac­ columnist wants to support heartily. It said: colonial people about as much as the prover­ on various jobs, throwing more ing of the problems facing labor tivities Committee is anti-labor, "Lester Granger, special consultant to the bial water on a duck’s back. and more of our members in the in this period. anti-Negro and anti-liberal. It is streets. Our last convention held navy on racial problems, has submitted his On the other hand, the ease with which M r a McCarthyite outfit through and WEAKNESS OF OFFICERS in Sioux City, Iowa, voted that Granger has been able to take the step of through. The real issue in the strike resignation on grounds the navy is not doing we cannot and will not tolerate This committee has been con­ was not a petty wage increase for enough to wipe out race discrimination.” saying "No” to the policy of continuing to inhuman speedups on the part demned dozens of times by na­ a small section of the workers. The item was buried in small type, did not whitewash American Jim Crow may make of the Packers. tional conventions of the AFL It was the issue of job security quote M r. Granger's statement or any motivat­ some people think: What if all Negro and and the QIO. In your own in­ “By giving one oiler two ma­ and employment of all Armour ing remarks he may have made, and was labor leaders fallowed a principled course of terest, you should follow suit — chines to handle creates serious workers at a decent standard of surrounded by paragraphs anticipating what resigning from government and other capitalist before it makes its expedition to safety hazards. The greasy floors living. Yet in the strike settle­ and rushing to keep these giant the administration w ill say to refute Granger’s agencies which practice racial discrimination? N e w ark. ment the local union officers ac­ machines running properly with cepted an agreement for 3c an charges. Brit none of the apologetics could What if all working class organizations united W HY IT ’S COMING the tem perature over 100 de­ hour for the oilers remaining on weaken the impact of his action: to boycott all Jim Crow institutions? What if Why is the Velde committee grees, will only endanger the the job. Those laid off were not When a conservative, pro-capitalist social they were to break with the double-talking coming here? Not to uncover lives of the individual workers reinstated. The main issue of lay­ espionage and treason. That is a on these jobs. The same situa­ offs was shoved aside, unsolved. worker like Lester Granger, whose philosophy Democratic and Republican politicians and tion exists on practically every mere pretext. Genuine espionage Undersecretary of State Gen. W alter Bedell Smith (left), This was made unmistakably calls for adaptation to changing political embark on a tru ly independent course of job where speedup is being put and treason are not uncovered by arriving at Washington N atl. Airport from Geneva, declared clear on the f ir s t (bay’s re tu rn means of sensational public hear­ into effect.” regirhes rather thgn a fundamental trans­ political action, to put into effect a positive that the French agreement with the Vietminh in Indochina is to work after the strike. Not on­ formation of the social system, is compelled program in their own interest, instead of a ings. The Velde committee has not “another Munich.” He’s dead right, too. The Stalinist regimes AVhile this quotation describes ly were the laid off oilers not re­ not brought a single person to of Moscow and Peiping agreed to give the French imperialists, what precipitated the walkout, instated but the workers found to protest the navy’s failure to eliminate racial •negative program o f pleading and protest? trial for espionage or treason. who were facing total defeat, a new big foothold on Indochina. underlying it is the determination all but two plant gates locked. The aim of the Velde com of the packers to replace men The net effect of this is to in­ mittee is not to investigate, but with machines and drive down the being used today. Those who re­ tinued throughout the “investi­ crease the unpaid time the work­ to intimidate, . smear and vic­ standards of the remaining work­ ers must now put in on company fuse to supply information to the gation” to counteract the poison A First-Rate Novel timize. It seeks to intimidate ers. Armour’s “modernization” premises since it takes longer everybody to the left of Mc­ Velde committee are acting in the the committee intends to spread program is a typical example of By Carl Goodman best traditions of the battles for If you take such steps, you w ill to get in and out. Moreover, it Carthy, to smear political dis the fact that introduction of au­ enables the company to “ prune” freedom . • be supported and followed by most «enters and non-conformists, to tomatic machinery and labor-sav­ some gate attendants from the YOUNGBLOOD. By John 0. Killens. The regained. A younger generation moves into victimize people and get them Most persons using the Fifth of the city’s liberal, minority and ing methods do not mean improv­ p a y ro ll. Dial Press, Inc., New York, 1954. $3.95. battle, and no one flees from the South. There fired from their jobs. Amendment do so not only to civic groups. If you remain ed conditions for the workers silent, you will be playing into 566 pages. is a triumph scored when the Big Rich White It will try to accomplish these protect themselves from false under capitalism. Such programs WHAT IS NEEDED accusation but to keep from being the hands of the Velde commit­ folk are beaten at their own miserable game. things by creating a “red” scare are designed to bring about more The way to fight unemploy­ forced to inform on others. They tee. Youngblood is a first-rate novel. It deals in this city, by giving the im­ profits for the few, and more un­ ment is by winning a shorter They want the children of the Jim Crow school thereby practice the principle of Fraternally, with three generations of the Youngblood pression that our “security” is employment and misery for the work week without any reduc­ to stage a jubilee — to sing the Negro spirituals solidarity on which the life of menaced by a powerful “Com­ GEORGE BREITMAN many. tion in take-home pay. The 30- family, all fighters against Jim Crow. The the labor movement depends. for them. The Negro community complies. It munist conspiracy.” This is the Socialist Workers Party hour week fo r 40 hours’ pay de­ main site for their struggle is Crossroads, They should be defended in their isn’t yet safe or wise to say no. same formula that Hitler used to Candidate for U.S. Senator HEAVY LAYOFFS mand is already endorsed by the refusal to become stoolpigeons. It Georgia — a mill town dominated by George bring fascism to power in Ger About 2,600 Armour workers CIO Packinghouse Workers, and But the new teacher organizes a jubilee that is no more valid to inform than Cross. The Youngbloods are a working class many. have been laid off or fired since has been approved bythe AFL na­ the white crackers don’t expect. Rob Young­ If the Velde committee is suc­ it is to scab. Army Suspends January, 1954. The sheep-kill and family. I believe it is your responsibility tional convention and several CIO blood, under the teacher’s coaching introduces cessful at this game, it will the frosted foods divisions were internationals. The author, John O. Killens, a Negro in­ strengthen the pro - McCarthy to lead the working . people of Mrs. Moss Again each song with an account of its origins in closed down completely. The man­ What is now necessary is to put forces in our community. It will Newark in protecting their rights tellectual, writes as an optimist. Mis story is the days o f slavery. Mrs. Annie Lee Moss, Negro agement, fearful of the solidar­ this 30-for-40 program into ac­ divert attention away from the from invasion by the Velde com­ not a story o f despair like Richard Wright's Pentagon clerk and victim of Mc- ity between Negro and white tion. It should be first on the list Rob explains. "Coming for to carry me coming investigation of Repub­ mittee. I urge you to take the workers, used the layoffs as a of contract demands to be nego­ account of the Negro struggle in “ Uncle Tom’s home. Home was in Heaven," he says, "but lican corruption in New Jersey following steps: Carthyism, was suspended from means to play favorites. They tiated between the international Children.” Wright, like Killens, portrays heroic It w ill undermine the fight against (1) Pass resolutions expressing her job for a second time by the Home wasn’t only in Heaven. Home was up are doing their best to stir up union and the packers. This de­ unemployment, Taft - Hartlej/ism j our opposition to the Velde com­ A rm y on A ug. 4. Accused o f fighters. But they are lone individuals. And north in the Promised Land. Away from the competition between workers for mand should be backed up by and Jim Crow. Thus it trill mittee and its hearings. Communist Party membership by their courageous stand against oppression ends the fewer jobs, and are violat­ serving notice on the packers chains of slavery —• Aiway from the lash of weaken all movements for social (2) Gall on Workers not to McCarthy and a government in­ ing union seniority provisions in that this time the entire mem­ inevitably in defeat and death — or at best the whip. . . And every chance a slave could reform — the unions, liberal volunteer information to this com­ former who admitted never hav­ the process. bership mean business — that escape to the North — with no one on hand groups, Negro and Jewish organ­ mittee. Encourage witnesses ing seen her, Mrs. Moss denied get he would get on board that Glory train Layoffs hit production workers is, all the locals of the packing­ izations. brought before the - committee to the charges under oath, after to continue the fight. (the Underground Railway) and — Steal away from the start, even while some house international union. The Velde Committee claims it protect themselves and others by which she was temporarily re­ mechanical workers still were be­ In addition the fight should Nor is Youngblood all hurray and clear to Jesus." is protecting the country from invoking, the Fifth Amendment. instated to her job. be ing hired. Only when mechanical broadened. The packinghouse sailing to victory. It is not a Stalinist-type The Negro community is inspired by this the “communist conspiracy.” But Pledge1 to defend anyone victim iz­ The Army claimed the new workers were affected by layoffs union should call on the CIO and novel written on a bureaucrat’s order and filled actually it is exploiting the com­ ed ; for refusing to testify or suspension was the result of "in­ account of slave revolts and their own defiance did the local union leadership re­ the AI?L to prepare a fight munist issue in order to McCar- cooperate with this committee. formation which was not previ­ by with synthetic cheer. ol the modern slave-owners. A few white allies quest strike authorization from thyize American life. The truth (3) Sponsor public meetings at ously available” and said Mrs. all labor on this issue. Unemploy­ The Youngbloods know the bitterness of come forward — including one white worker, is that the weak and uninfluential which the Aims and methods of Moss could have a hearing if she the international office. However, ment and speedup are dealing once there wafe an opportunity defeat and death. There is the agonizing scene the kind of ally that counts most. And the Big Communist Party is a legal or­ the Velde committee may be fully wished. heavy blows to labor everywhere for the production workers to do and the unions will be smashed where Laurie Lee Youngblood must whip Rob, Rich White Folk and the Uncle Toms can’t do ganization, whose members have and freely debated. These meet­ McCarthy, delighted by the ings should begin before the news, said Army Secretary “Bob battle with the company on the by the companies unless they act her son, in the police station in front of the anything about it. — and should have — the same constitutional rights to speak, Velde heal ings start, and be con- Stevens should be complimented.” issue of jobloads, speedup, and together and militantly. leering cracker because this is a lesser evil to As Killens takes leave of the Youngbloods meet and engage in political having him brutalized in reform school. And and Crossroads, Georgia, on the eve of World activity as any other party. Rob, who has done nothing wrong and who War II, the crackers are still in power. But the Those who persecute the. mem­ has been taught by his mother to rebel against determination to fight is there. The self-con­ bers of the Communist Party be­ cause of their beliefs are setting white supremacy doesn’t understand her sub­ fidence is there. And the program is there: Ne Our Readers Take the Floor a precedent that will hurt all mission in this instance and grows bitter. gro solidarity, win the white workers, organize other political tendencies except travel, appreciation of art and “ Mr. President, how can you zen, McCarthy' could still lead a the fascists. If the Communist But there is victory, too, alternating /with the unions and wage the Negro struggle a Cosmetics and literature, beauty is predomi­ sit in the White House and allow fascist movement that would defeat, and there are people who learn from part of the working class fight aganst capital­ Party can be outlawed, so can nately monopolized by the weal­ these ghastly experimentations threaten whatever remains of oth er pa rtie s; i f M cC a rth y Comes The Women thy. Whatever beauty a woman upon such helpless people, which democracy in this country. both. There is rekindled hope and confidence ism. to power, he will call all of his E d ito r: has in her early years, if she has you know may cause them to be I’m sori-y to say that these ar- opponents “communists” and out­ I would like to make some cri­ been lucky enough to have had mutilated for life or tortured to guments have not convinced my law them too. If we permit Com­ ticisms of the article entitled some advantages during child­ death?” A. S. brother. He says he is going to munist Party members to be “Sagging Cosmetic Lines Try a hood, is quickly dissipated among Cambridge, Mass. vote for Charles Howell, thé deprived of their democratic Notes from the News Face Lift” in the July 26 issue. the working class. If one has to Democratic candidate for Senator rights, then we will be giving ' I am not? ta k in g issue w ith the straggle against all odds to main­ in this state, even though Ho­ McCarthy & Co. a precedent for Argument Over How intention of the author as it is tain her health, w'hat chance has well’s attacks on McCarthy aren’t doing the same thing to other HAUNTED BY ‘‘NO HELP WANTED” showing a “steady rise.” It is the “high prices” apparent that he means to hit she to maintain her attractive­ To Stop McCarthy as extreme as those of Clifford parties — including the Demo­ SIGNS, 15 students representing 14 different of these “favored items,” states the Wall Street the cosmetic companies, which ness ? Case, the Republican candidate cratic Party, which he lias al­ Editor: colleges and six different countries are “learn­ Journal of July 26, which “make many truck make a business of exploiting the who says that he would vote t® ready branded as a “party of The, wealthy are beautiful be­ My brother, who is anti-McCar­ ing a hard lesson in economics,” reports Doris cargoes tempting prizes.” deep yearnings of women for kick McCarthy out of his chair­ treason.” cause the workers are wretched. thy but isn’t attached to any Millavec in the Cleveland News. The students ar­ » * * their own greater profits. In spite If we understand that, we can •party, says this: “If you want manship. “Get the Republicans rived in Cleveland “as eager participants in the As a firm political opponent of of the obvious purpose of the ANOTHER SIGN OF THE TIMES. The FBI show the women a way out of to stop McCarthy, then you’ve got out of the majority at all costs,” intemes-in-industry project of the American Stalinism, I tell you this: No article, however, one gets the reports “that crimes of all types are occurring at this dilemma,. This striving has to get him off the chairmanship my brother says. For him that Friends Service Committee.” At the start of a matter how strongly you arc op feeling that it is the women who the highest rate on record,” including “bank rob­ a progressive aspect, because it of that Senate committee. Since means elect Howell, and natural­ third “ unsuccessful week of jobhunting,” one girl posed to the policies of the Com­ are being made fun of. beries” which have reached a “new high.” munist Party, if is your obliga­ is part of the rebellion of women the Joc-Must-Go move failed in ly he w ill not listen to talk about “landed a bubble gum packing job after more * * * In order to effectively attack against a position which denies Wisconsin and since the Senate George iBreitman, the Socialist than 50 other tries had failed.” Since then four tion to defend the democratic these companies, we have to first “FOOD PRICES, RISING FOR THE THIRD to them part of their rights as has no intention of taking the Workers 'Party candidate. other girls and one of the men have found jobs, rights of its members. If you fail understand why. women are so CONSECUTIVE MONTH,” were “responsible” human beings. chairmanship away from him, Does anybody have any other but nine of the men are still unemployed. Robert to meet this obligation, the vulnerable to their advertising for the “ over-all increase” in the Consumers Price example you set will some day be On the basis of the havoc then there is only one practical and better arguments than the Greenwood, director of the project, claims that schemes. Rather than presenting Index for the United States, which “is the highest used against you. caused by capitalism, and the thing to do, and that is to elect ones I gave him? “some of them are getting desperate.” women as being a little ridicu­ since January.” The N.Y. Times of July 24 lists confusion among the women, a Democratic majority in the Frank M. * * * lous, we have to know what they a few of the items “responsible” for the in­ HOW IT OPERATES these cosmetic companies are then Senate this November, which Bayonne, N. J, “WHERE DO THEY GO?” asks John Met­ want, sympathize w ith them, and crease: fresh fruit, coffee, pork chops, and all How does the Velde committee able to perpetrate a fraud and would automatically remove him calfe, columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, then translate their desires into cuts of beef. operate? It uses perjured testi­ an outrage against these women. from the chairmanship.” On Treatment at action by showing that they can about the unemployed persons dropped off the * * * mony from paid informers or They promise to give to them In reply', I pointed out to him Bureau of Unemployment Compensation rolls frightened people seeking to get all these things only through Employment Office TWENTY-FIVE 'BLIND BROOM MAKERS what capitalism has taken away. that the Democrats controlled when their “26-week benefit claims” are ex­ protect themselves. It proceeds socialism . in Pittsburgh who “want to work and don’t want We can show that socialism will both the White House and Con­ E d ito r: hausted. He says that “some are showing up” in accord with the theory of Now what Is it that women duality” have ended their five-month strike. bring to flower beauty in all its gress when McCarthy first be­ When I applied for unemploy­ at the welfare department; others “are turning “guilt by association.” It em­ want, which makes it easy for James Leri, spokesman for the men, said they forms, and that every individual came a serious menace, and that ment compensation the other day, to the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Commission” ; ploys the malicious smear that the cosmetic companies to wring “had been paid $1.13 a dozen to make brooms” will be developed to his fullest the return of the Democrats the interviewer treated nxe in a some “drop out of the labor market”; others witnesses who refuse to testify out of these strirings profits for but that the Pennsylvania Association for the capacity, both physically and in­ would not really “stop” McCar­ polite and friendly fashion. She “ depend on private resources or take fill-in jobs. are “Fifth Amendment Commu­ themselves? They want some Blind “ tried to reduce that to 78c a dozen so we tellectually. thy although loss of his chair­ didn't look at me as if I was dirt The more fortunate are called back to their nists.” loveliness and beauty in, their walked off the job.” They have no union,. Most Louise Manning manship might make him operate or as if I was trying to get, some­ former jobs.” The less “fortunate” ? They re­ But using the Fifth Amend­ lives. They want to rise above of them “know of no other way to make a living Los Angeles, Calif. somewhat differently. thing I’m not entitled to. It’s not main in Cleveland’s “jobless pool” which number­ ment. is not proof of guilt. The the sweaty grind of the shop, than to make brooms” and “some of the fellows I reminded him that a lot of a big thing, but it was such a ed 36,000 in June. U.S. Supreme Court has ruled: which distorts their bodies, ahd have been here 30 to 35 years.” After tapping refreshing change from my previ­ * * * breaks down their spirit with Protests H-Bomb people in Germany thought that "If it be objected that refusal to ous experiences at the U.S.E.S. their way along the picket line for five months, fatigue and hopelessness. The the way to stop Hitler was by UNEMPLOYMENT IS BLAMED for the re­ answer was an implication of Tests in Pacific that I can’t help commenting on these blind workers have now “agreed to accept housewife wants to break away electing rival capitalist politici­ turn of 100 Detroit parolees to Jackson State crime, we answer, not necessarily it. After all, unemployed' people the lower rates with a guarantee that added from the monotony and dull rou­ Editor: ans, and that as a matter o£ fact Prison within the last three months for violat­ in fact, not at all in theory of are human too. And we do pay production would give (horn the same take-home tine of trying to manage on a I have sent the following pro­ the German people did elect Hin- ing their parole terms. Leonard A. Schaar, dis­ la w .” for our unemployed insurance. pay,” according to a July 27 UP dispatch. They worker’s wages. Not only is she test to President Eisenhower, denburg president while rejecting trict supervisor of Michigan’s pardons, paroles The Fifth Amendment is a basic D. L. put up a heroic fight, but even the blind finally signed by myself and members Hitler’s candidacy in November and probation division, states, according to a part of the U.S. Constitution be­ bogged down with innumerable had to swallow the wage-slash-and-speed-up pre­ of my church: 1932. B u t a couple o f m onths New York City Detroit News story, that more than 60% of the cause it protects witnesses from chores, so that she has no time scription with which capitalism meets a declining “We, the undersigned, most later Hindenburg appointed H it­ city’s 2,00:0 parolees are “ beating the pavement” being compelled to testify against to take care of herself, but she m a rke t. can’t afford good clothes. Soon strongly protest against the H- ler chancellor, and the Nazi Liked Articles looking for jobs. “The majority . . . are family * * * themselves. This is especially im­ bomb tests which endanger the bloodbath began. men \yith obligations to meet — obligations that portant when you are being all the youth and attractiveness, On Guatemala COFFEE CONSUMPTION is sagging under which by right belong to her, natives of the Marshall Islands, I also pointed out to him that cost money.” They try their best to “go straight” questioned by people whose aim the weight of high prices. The July 27 Wall are snatched away, and both wife who are so unable to defend a Senate chairmanship is not an E d ito r: and earn the money by working. “But it is diffi­ is to twist everything you say so Street Journal says that while “Nobody can be themselves. indispensable position, for a fas­ The articles on Guatemala have cult to convince a hungry ex-convict how lucky that you can be jailed for either and husband are left with a feel­ sure that Americans are drinking notably fewer! “perjury” or “contempt.” ing that they have been robbed “ We support most firm ly their cist would-be dictator. Neither been full, but more than that, he is to be free.” cups of coffee . . . evidence is strong that house­ * $ * The Fifth Amendment came of something essential. heart-rending appeal to the civil­ Mussolini nor H itler ever held any have been politically clear and wives are buying less of the beverage.” One big into existence to protect citizens We have to recognize that like ized world to save them from such position, and yet they be­ precise. Congratulations to the HIJACKING of frozen foods, meat, poultry, food chain reports 1954 sales running 25% below from persecution for their beliefs. many of the other good things in the worst horrors ever inflicted came dictators. As an ordinary staff. B. B. Cggs, coffee, hosiery, cigarets and whiskey is a year ago; another estimates its sales down 15%. That is how the amendment is life, such as leisure to study» upon human beings. Senator, or even as a pi-ivate citi- St. Paul, Minn.