Legal Action Started to Free N.C. Negro Boys

DEC. 10—Conrad Lynn, an attorney acting for a group of interested people, today pleaded in court for a reduc­ Seeks to Clear tion of sentence for two North Carolina Negro boys—eight and nine year old, respectively* * Sacco-Vanzetti —sentenced to reformatory be­ many NAACP legal fights be­ A resolve asking for a par- cause a white girl playmate had fore. He is preparing further don-after-death for Bartolo­ kissed one of them. Judge J. legal action in the case, includ­ Ala. Officials Block meo Vanzetti and Nicola Hampton Price refused the plea. ing action in the federal courts Sacco was filed last week in if the boys can't win justice in It was Price who. one month ago t h e Massachusetts State the state courts. sentenced Hanover Thompson, House by Representative Al­ 9, and Fuzzy Simpson, 8. to re­ In line with the racists’ cam­ exander J. Celia. Sacco, a form school until they are 21. paign of persecution of Monroe shoe factory worker and an Under North Carolina law, it is Negroes, reported in last week’s anarchist, and Vanzetti, a permissible to appeal for re­ Militant, Hanover Thompson’s fish peddler and a radical, duced sentence to the judge Voting-Rights Probe mother has been served with were executed after a frame- who handed down the original eviction papers from the house up trial for the murder of one. However, Mr. Lynn’s goal in which she has lived for ten two men in a hold-up 31 is to free the boys. years. This month, her landlord years ago. From 1920-1927 Mr. Lynn was accompanied refused to take the rent money their case drew international Meany Talks to the Union County courthouse Negroes Tell then had eviction papers served attention. Their trial was in Monroe, N.C., by Robert F. for non-payment of rent. Mrs. followed by many appeals. Williams, President of Union Thompson w ill probably be M r. Celia said he was filing Tough on Politics County NAACP. Lynn, who is forced to move tomorrow. his petition to correct "an How Barred from New York, has served in It has been disclosed th a t at historic injustice." He said — ~ An Editorial — the original trial of the two that Sacco and Vanzetti For Labor Party? boys, Judge Price conducted his "were the victims of the AFL-CIO president George Meany received an en­ From Polls own version of a “separate but anti-foreigner hysteria of the thusiastic response from the 2,800 delegates and alternates equal” hearing. He first heard times, the same hysteria that to the merger convention of the New York State AFL By Lillian Kiesel testimony from white parents resulted in passage of re­ and CIO on Dec. 9, when he warned Big Business that il Dec. 10—An investigation and children. Then, because he strictive immigration legisla­ by the Federal Civil RighlB “thought best” not to have ac­ tion." it did not halt its anti-labor drive the union movement cused and accusers present to­ would be compelled to build a labor party. Commission into charges of gether, he dismissed the white Alabama Negroes that th e y witnesses and heard the Negro Meany told the convention: “If labor has to go further have been denied the right boys and their parents. There Jobless Pay than it can through its Committee on Political Education to vote has met with open was thus no possibility for the to make America a better place in which to work and live defiance by Stale Attorney accused confronting adverse General John Patterson, who witnesses and without this right Is Less Than . . . we w ill take the next step if it is forced upon us. I have always said we do not want our own political party, is also governor-elect. Forty- no tria l can be fa ir. four witnesses testified at the The two boys were held in but if we have to do that to lick the people who want to Commission's first hearing ses­ the jail house for six days in­ Third of Wages drag us back to the past, we w ill start our own political sions. Most of them were Ne­ communicado. They allege that Only 20 to 29% of lost wages party and do a good job of it.” groes who told of having been when they were arrested they are now recovered through un­ denied certification to vote. The were slapped and cuffed. They employment insurance. Nelson Meany’s statement is designed to put pressure on the Commission's probe began in say they were cuffed again in H. Cruikshank, social security Republicans and Democrats. It is not a serious declaration Montgomery, Dec. 8. the county jail. director for the AFL-CIO re­ At Patterson’s instigation, Meanwhile, in another phase of intention to get down to the business of building such ported in a speech on Dec. 3 Flight engineers strike Eastern Airlines for higher pay. Alabama judges and registrars of racist persecution. Dr. A. E. a party. Only last Oct. 8, Meany asserted that for labor to the National Consumers have deliberately withheld Perry, Union County NAACP Ground-crew mechanics are also on strike. In past two George Meany, president of League. “An insurance program to build its own party and aim for political power “would voter registration records from Vice-President, has been sen­ months, about 30,000 mechanics have fought leading airlines the AFL-CIO, said labor that covers less than one-third mean the end of democracy in America.” Over the years the Commission, w hich is now tenced to three years imprison­ might have to form own of the loss incurred is p re tty over wages. Last week, mechanics at Trans-World Airlines seeking court action against the ment on a trumped-up abortion he had alternately condemned proposals for a labor party party. He spoke at New York poor insurance.” he added. The won 44-cent increase over three-year span, 18 cents of which officials. Meanwhile the hearing charge. He was convicted by an and tried to use the prospect of one as a “warning” to State AFL-CIO merger con­ Consumers League is urging has been recessed indefinitely. all-white jury. He is out on bail is retroactive to Oct. 1, 1957. labor’s enemies. vention. (See editorial, this Congress to liberalize unem­ The Committee functions un­ page.) and plans to appeal. ployment insurance. The significance of his present “tough” stand is that der the all-but-toothless 1957 Meanwhile economists pre­ Civil Rights Act. II is headed it comes on the heels of labor’s impressive victory over dict that official unemployment Ohio Unionists Form Croup by Dr. John Hannah, and is figures will climb back to 4.7 the “right-to-scab” forces in five states and on the heels composed of five whites and Militant Fund Drive million in mid-January from of the Democratic sweep that was hailed by Meany and one Negro. In his opening mid-Octobers 3.8 million. This other union tops as a major victory for labor. While not statement, Dr. Hannah stated w ill be due to regular m id ­ To Advocate a Labor Party intended as such, his declaration is in fact an admission that the Commission is merely winter layoffs added to the lag a fact-finding body responsible Prominent Ohio unionists have established a Labor that the victory of the “pro-labor” Democrats has not dis­ At 88%; 1 Week Left in rehiring despite the industri­ to Congress and the President. al recovery from the recession. Representation Committee to lay the groundwork for posed of the anti-labor offensive. While Meany tries to 'LITERACY' TEST By George Lavan This lag is caused in large building a labor party in the U.S. The action was reported pin responsibility for projected anti-labor measures on The first witness was William National Fund Drive Director part by higher productivity in the Dcccmbc. issue of MESA*- the Republicans he obviously has little confidence that the P. Mitchell, secretary of the DEC. 9 — With one more week to go to complete the 30th the union movement with brought about by technological Educator, paper ol' the 50,000- Congressional Democratic majority can be relied on to Tuskegee Civic Association Anniversary Militant Fund the scoreboard shows that 88% of improvements during the re­ membcr Mechanics Educational “right-to-work” laws. which has pressed a campaign the amount pledged has been paid. This is 8% below what it cession. Society of America, AFL-CIO. “Not because of. but despite block the attack on labor’s rights. to obtain full voting rights for should be at this point in the fund campaign. THE FINAL labor’s top brass, organized la­ Furthermore, the pace of in­ The union has 20.000 members At the same time, his “threat” of a labor party move Negroes. M r. Mitchell testified SCOREBOARD WILL APPEAR IN THE DECEMBER 22 ISSUE dustrial recovery itself has in the Cleveland area. Accord­ bor in Ohio was forced to set that for the years 1956 through OF THE MILITANT. Groups of Militant supporters who have slowed down. Steel’s “indus­ ing 1o MESA Educator, forma­ up its own class organization— was given substance by the performance of the unions 1958 (October), a total of 1,585 fallen behind in their pledge payments have informed us that try -w id e operating rate has tion of the Labor Representa­ United Organized Labor of Ohio acting independently of Democrats against “right-to-work.” Negroes had sought registra­ they arc making extraordinary efforts to pay up in full and on stalled at around 75% of capa­ tion Committee stems from the — which was independent of Even while striking a more militant posture, Meany tion. Of this number only 510 both capitalist parties and the time. city in recent weeks after ris­ experience in defeating a remains frightened of going too far. Trying to set the lim ­ were certified. He told about AFL-CIO political arm, COPE. tedious, time-consuming pro­ New York is holding its annual Christmas bazaar on ing sharply from April lows,” “Right - to - Work’’ initiative in its for a future labor party, he asserts: “If labor ever be­ Dec. 13, the proceeds to go to the Militant fund. Seattle writes: says the Dec. 8 Wall Street the Nov. 4 elections. The paper SOLIDARITY SHOWN cedures to determine whether "Please be assured that our full amount will be in by the end Journal. gives editorial support to the “UOLO set in motion a tre­ comes so class conscious as to go out and work on the Negroes can "read and w rite" of the drive.” From San Diego we hear: “Our next letter, which new group. Following are ex­ mendous release of working political field, we would hold the balance of power in under stale law. w ill reach you before the 15th, will have our final payment.” cerpts from the Educator’s edi­ class solidarity that has not elections.” Most of the charges of dis­ Twin Cities is planning a fund raising affair in a home­ torial : been witnessed or felt for many franchisement were made by decades in this slate. It was But when the ranks of labor force the building of a residents of Macon Country, stretch effort to fulfill their quota, and fund director F. C. writes: Strike Halts “The experience gained and "We are having our 30th Anniversary celebration on the 13th truly a ‘grass roots movement' labor party, it w ill be to supplant both capitalist parties where Negroes outnumber the lessons learned by organ­ and November 4 gave proof of December. We still have a sizeable deficit to make up but in power and not to maneuver between them. The labor whites. Complaining witnesses ized labor of Ohio in its victori­ positive of this when R-T-W w ill do our very darnedest to make it.” Detroit is also having a ous fight to defeat R-T-W could movement has the strength to defeat Big Business in the included faculty members of Delivery of was crushed by a two-to-one Tuskegee Institute—some with special affair to raise their fund quota. Fund director Dotty be used to, build the beginning vote. next election were it to form a labor party now. What Ph.D. degrees—whose right to writes: "We are having an Anniversary affair on Dec. 13th so of a Labor Party. The idea was “The experience gained from blocks this course is the treacherous policy of the labor vote was denied on “literacy” you can be assured that Detroit will be paid up in full and on expressed at the Cleveland area the R-T-W fight showed that la­ grounds. Other witnesses in­ tim e." Los Angeles sends a check fo r $598.22 and inform s us N.Y. Papers meeting, November 7, by Sam bureaucracy that keeps the working people tied to the bor could unite on issues and cluded ministers and nurses at that they “hope to send another following the bazaar for a sum Pollock, president of Cleveland capitalist two-party system. NEW YORK, Dec. 11 — New that it could win the support the huge Veterans Administra­ almost as large or larger.” Local 427, Amalgamated Meat York newstands have been of a substantial segment of the The fact that Meany’s hint at a possible breakaway tion hospital at Tuskegee. Many Credit for the best performance in the 30th Anniversary Cutters and Butcher Workmen wilhout the city's nine major community. It emphasized that of them had be°n registered to Militant fund drive goes to Oakland-Berkeley which tops the of North America, AFL-CIO, was received so enthusiastically by secondary union offi­ daily papers for the last two labor did not need—in fact in vote in the North. list with 1427o oversubscription of their quota. And that’s not who was guest speaker. cials, shows the growing basis' for promoting the labor- days as a result of a strike by this instance could not rely on Further testimony disclosed all! Our East Bay fund director writes: “Our final fund mailing party idea in the unions. A positive step in that direction 2,000 truck drivers and other “Pointing up the fact that the —its so-called political friends. that there are no Negroes reg­ to wind up the Anniversary drive may be right at deadline and members of the Newspaper and industrial owning class has The issue cut through both par­ was taken recently in Ohio, where a group of unionists istered in either Lowndes or postmarked Dec. 15 or 16. I trust that your books will be kept Mail Deliverers Union. The men been successful in containing ties and exposed both as not recently formed a Labor Representation Committee to Wilcox Counties. Four are reg­ open long enough to receive such last minute payments and were on strike for four hours labor by the use of Taft-Hart- I being ‘friends of labor.’ O’Neill, istered in Bullock, 125 in Dal­ record them in the final reckoning in the Militant scoreboard.” push the labor-party idea. (See story this page.) It is a Monday until their negotiating Icy, Pollock said, they were Republican candidate for gov­ las and 1110 in Macon (Tuske­ We can assure our East Bay supporters and anyone else good beginning, which militant unionists, particularly so­ committee arrived at a contract now determined to prevent la­ ernor, openly supported ‘right- gee). All are counties with a concerned that our books will be kept open until the final copy renewal agreement with the bor’s potential political power to-work’ while DiSalle, Demo- cialists, should duplicate wherever they can in other parts large percentage of Negro pop­ deadline for the next issue of the Militant, which will be Wed­ publishers association. On Tues­ from being used by weakening I (Continned on Page 4) of the country. ulation. nesday, December 17. All payments must be in by that date to day afternoon, the men heard be recorded in the final scoreboard. the terms of the proposed set­ tlement and voted to walk out again. The next negotiating meeting is scheduled for tomor­ Which Side in the Unions Are You On? row and the millions of dollars By Murry Weiss Thus the socialist movement maintained a steady sniping at­ and since the labor movemenl argum ent it uses to support being lost daily by the papers was d e e p 1 y divided on the tack on the ISP throughout the is in Ihe Democratic Party— this policy is much the same— in department store Christmas The coalition of socialist for­ question of electoral policy in petition drive and repeatedly that’s the place for socialists. we must stay with the “labor advertising indicates good pros- ces represented by the Inde­ 1958 and tliis division led to the threatened legal action aimed Above all, they argue, socialists movement’’ and not become iso­ Dects for a settlement. pendent-Socialist Party in the sharpest clash in action. at disqualifying the petition ef­ should nol put up independent lated. fort. And like the Communist candidates in opposition to the All of the papers have niain- New York 1958 elections took SLANDER AND SABOTAGE The basic fallacy contained tained publication schedules Party, the Social Democrats ad­ "labor endorsed" candidates of While tlie ISP fought a his­ in this argument is not hard to with token sales in front of shape in opposition to the po­ vised the radical workers to the capitalist parties. toric battle to get on the ballot detect. It glosses over the con­ their offices except the Daily licies of the Communist Party vote for the candidates of the The Social Democrats for and overcome the opposition of tradictory elements involved in News which was forced to sus­ and Socialist Party-Social Dem­ ruling class rather than the their part are so fearful of be­ the entrenched Dc Rapio Tam­ the term “labor movement.” pend publication last night. only socialist ticket on the bal­ ing accused of this “crime” that ocratic Federation. These two many machine, the Worker and Like all phenomena in a cap­ Yesterday afternoon four mem­ lot. they took special pains to re­ parties advocated, each in its the Communist Party directed ita list society torn by class bers of the International Typo­ We cite these known facts assure the labor officials on this a campaign of denunciation and struggle, the labor movement is graphical Union were fired by own way and each for its own not simply to express indigna­ point at the time of the merger slander against the movement not a harmonious entity. W ith­ the News for refusing 1o cross reasons, a similar policy— name­ tion, although indignation is of the Socialist Party and So­ and t.ied its best, to prevent in the labor movement we have the deliverers' picketline. The certainly in order. It is more cial Democratic Federation in ly, that socialist political action • he petition drive from gaining the working class, or rather its rest of the printers then voted important, however, to under­ 1957. At the SP-SDF merger must be restricted to the fram e­ a victory. The Communist organized section. But we also to stay out until the four were stand that the terrible breach convention the late Louis P. Party also actively opposed the have the labor bureaucracy reinstated. Francis Barrett, work of the capitalist two- of elementary socialist and Goldberg, who became Chair­ attempt of the ISP 1o gain a which developed as a parasite president of Local Six. ITU. party system and that socialists working class solidarity was man of the SP-SDF, said: “The large socialist vote. The simple on the labor movement. This reportedly tried 1o lead the men must "work with the labor committed by these parties be­ expression of fear in some cor­ fact thai the ISP was the only bureaucracy enjoys economic back through the picketline but cause of the extent to which ners that a new socialist party movement within the Demo­ ticket on the state ballot which and social privileges that it is they unanimously refused to their political lines have be­ would interfere with labor's cratic Party." opposed the bi-partisan cold- ready to defend, often- with follow . come enmeshed with those of political action is unfounded. war policy, the witch hunt and knife in hand, against any The original terms accepted The Independent - Socialist the labor bureaucracy’s. Carrying out our document on the capitalist recession did not encroachments from below. by the negotiating committee of Party, like similar formations political action, we will not cut any ice with the CP leader­ 'STAY WITH LABOR' Through a long historic process the deliverers union included a in Washington, California and nominate for public office can­ ship. They obviously considered this bureaucracy has come t<4 two-step $7 raise instead of Illinois, and the Socialist Work­ Both the Communist Party didates in opposition to those radical votes for the cold-war function as a capitalist-minded the $10 originally demanded. ers Party in Michigan. New and Social Democratic leader­ endorsed by Ihe legitimate la­ candidate Harriman preferable police guard over the labor Also rejected by the publishers Jersey, Pennsylvania. Minne­ ship explain their conduct with bor movement.” to the socialist ticket gaining movemenl rather than as a rep­ were demands for a 35-hour sota and Wisconsin, contended the argument that socialists 50.000 votes and thereby quali­ PARASITE resentative of the working class week, sick leave, increase in that it was the elementary must not isolate themselves fying as a new socialist elec­ in struggle against capitalism. paid holidays from eight to 12 duty of all socialists in the 1958 from the labor movement. So­ The Com m unist P a rty has toral party in the stale of New and reduction of newspaper elections to offer a ballot chal­ cialists, Ihey say, must slay made similar pledges and de­ The labor bureaucracy has York. bundle weights from 53 pounds lenge to the two parties of with the labor movemenl and spite many important differen­ not only lost its capacity to lead to 40. capitalism. The SociUl Democrats also work for socialist objectives ces it has with the SP-SDF, the (Continued on Page }) Page Two THE M ILITANT Monday, December 15, 1958 'We Began with Best Idea in the World' The following are major excerpts from a speech by corrupted revolutionary move­ 1 difficulties with the Post Office The second criticism, that we ment of the past. The Militant department and came within James P. Cannon, National Chairman of the Socialist are sectarian, that the Militant has always strictly defended an inch of having its mailing has been a sectarian paper, is Workers Party, at a meeting in Los Angeles, Nov. 15, and incorporated into its own rights taken away; a number I think a misunderstanding. We celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Militant. teachings much of the ea.ly of its issues were suppressed. are not sectarian at all. Any Communist Party tradition in The editors of the Militant time we have a chance to par­ . . . . As has been announced The Militant has carried out this country—and at that time were sent to prison for op­ ticipate with others in class- and referred lo by other speak­ a great mission. It has never it was a real CP—and of the posing the war. We can’t get struggle action we are always ers, we celebrate tonight the temporized with the concept oi older movement of Debs and around that. We might as well ready to join. The most recent joint anniversary of the Rus­ transforming society through a Haywood which helped to pre­ admit it. But we should add example of that is the Indepen­ sian Revolution and the found­ social overturn as exemplified pare the way. In the unions th.at we will do the same thing dent-Socialist ticket in New ing of the M ilitant. It was not in the Russian Revolution. The you all know that the Militant again, if need be. We are not York. We didn't hesitate to designed that way but it turn­ very first issue of the Militant has always stood tor militant going to support imperialist agree With socialists of different ed out that both these events declared its position four-square action, for class-struggle poli­ war on any pretext whatever. points of view and to make or­ occurred in the month of Nov­ with a headline that covered cies, lor trade-union democracy, You can't fight capitalism in ganizational concessions about ember. Thirty years ago, our the entire front page: FOR for the rank and file against peace, support if in war, and the candidates and a number struggle for the ideas of the THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION ! the privileged bureaucrats, for hope lo lake up the struggle in Russian Opposition had come And the Russian Oppositionists of other things on the single the rights of the Negro people peace again. No, you have to to a head, resulting in our ex­ we supported were primarily provision that they run on a every day and on every occa­ fight imperialism and capital­ pulsion from the Communist those Bolsheviks who were sion without any compromise. ism all the time. That is a socialist platform. Party on October 25, 1928. Thai fighting lo defend the revolu­ On the political field, the matter of principle. I don't think that is sectarian. imposed upon us the necessity tion against bureaucratic and M ilitant has always stood for of starling our own paper and conservative degeneration. independent political action and the first issue was dated in Comrade Warde has been applies lhal doctrine in practice November. No Privileged Bureaucracy kind enough or mischievous at every opportunity. If we can The timing was accidental: enough to divert me a little gel anyone lo cooperate with Now as to the third criticism, he still persisted in doing as nevertheless, I think the coin­ bit from m.v main theme by us, the parly, small as it is, has that we criticized Stalinism be­ long as he could because that cidence was significant and stating that I worked on other fried lo put up socialist candi­ fore the time was ripe. That is was the duly imposed upon deeply symbolic. The Militant papers before the Militant. I dates just to keep the idea of wrong; they are mistaken. The him by destiny. He said that and the Russian Revolution never agreed to make that de­ socialism alive and lo show time is always ripe to tell the for the first time in his life he have been tied together all the tour. It came about this way. that even a small group that truth. It is not always popular, felt indispensable, because time. The Militant from its He came out to see me in the takes its socialism seriously can as we hfcve learned. The M ilit­ there was no one else to pre­ first issue up to the latest one desert where I was taking a do things considered impossible ant had to pay for the privilege pare the succession and he had to come off the press has been In errly 1933, ringing appeals of Leon Trotsky lo the German working class parlies rest and I asked him: “What by large bodies who are less and we have to help it pay for to do it. the champion of the Russian and to the international working class to unite in struggle against Hitler and his storm-troop­ am I supposed to say at the serious. this privilege in the future.... And we in turn, whom Trot­ Revolution and the advocate of ers were history-making headlines in the M ilitant. Two typical headlines of Ihe period are banquet? 'The Militant and the The Militant fought for • all sky prepared, are confronted its extension throughout the shown. Now I believe that anything Russian Revolution’ is a sub­ these basic lines — which are with the same duty right now. world. That has been the cen­ that comes from the Militant ject that one c»n talk about ABC for anyone worthy of the We have to keep going as long tral meaning of every express­ staff is entitled to a respectful for hours and days and weeks. ating on the same mailing per­ cisco and I was appointed ed­ the early days by Trotsky and name socialist—all these poli­ as we can under any circum­ ion of revolutionary socialism hearing from all of us because What segment of the subject mit, eventually became the itor of that paper. Its name by others as the foremost cies which are not new, very stances, p.eparing our own suc­ in every part of the world our staff all down through the can I take?” Daily Worker published in was Labor Action. That is not journal of the cause of the In­ old in fact, but still good and cession so that the continuity since November 1917. years has never been a privil­ Chicago; so that by a sort of the same Labor Action that ternational Left Opposition.... far better than the new count­ of our movement will not be So the Militant began as the I already knew what I was eged bureaucracy. Their only remote association you can say some of you may have run On the national field the M il­ erfeits. We 'have been swim­ broken, so that it shall grow champion of the Russian Revol­ going to say but I was just privilege has been to do more that I am one of the former across later. . . . itant has represented and pro­ ming against the stream all the with new life and new blood. ution. It began with a big idea asking. You know, to make and give more and to lake less editors of the Daily Worker— tected the continuity of the un- tim e. In this we can’t do without —the biggest and best idea in conversation. So he said. "Why This weekly lasted until early for themselves than others, and fo r w hatever that may be the Militant. That is the long the world — the idea of the don't you tell about all the in the spring of 1937 when the that is true of the present staff w orth. and short of it. The Militant is Russian Revolution and its ex­ other papers you worked on?” Socialist Party leadership de­ responsible for the Militant to­ our means and our weapon___ tension to all other countries I didn’t say yes or no. I just I was in Minneapolis during cided that we hadn’t become Destruction of a Tradition day. We, whose lives were made including the United States. listened. Then he came back, the 1934 strike—the strike that Social Democrats after all. They As the chairman, Warde, men­ ning their own ticket; so they I think they are worthy of over by the Militant; we, who That idea is still the chart not I am told, and announced that made Minneapolis a union town. didn’t want Trotskyists in their So far as I know this was the organization and they prepared tioned. in the old days anyone compromised with the rank and the great tracfition that they call on the Militant to change only for the Militant, not only I was going to speak about the are carrying on and that we only long-drawn-out strike in to expel us. T hat ended the calling himself a socialist would­ file who wanted the CP to have the lives of others, have no for us, for the Socialist Work­ things he had suggested 1 owe them our solidarity. What which the union published a Labor Action of San Francisco. n't even dare to suggest that its own campaign and they choice but to make a special ers party, but for the future should speak about. And he nominated Browder and Ford are we here for? I don't mean daily paper throughout. We Shortly thereafter it was re­ you campaign for or support a effort once again. What else can Course Of all humanity on this mentioned it again tonight. So here in this room. What are we Trotskyists did that in Minne­ born in the form of the Social­ candidate of a capitalist politic­ for President. we do when the call comes for planet. here 1 am. here for? In this poignant book apolis. The daily paper was ist Appeal in New York. A lit­ al party; but in the last twen­ What do you think was their our solidarity and support? on sale now, The Diary in Ex­ called the Organizer and I serv­ tle later, the Socialist Appeal ty-odd years we have seen a chief campaign slogan? Defeat Old Frederick Engels in fhe ile, 1935, there is a part where ed as its policy editor. changed its name to the M ilit­ different course pursued by the Landon, at all costs! hard and bitter time of the Started on IW W Paper majority. The net result of this Trotsky writes down his most During the time we were in ant. So they campaigned a ll over movement of his day wrote to trifling with principle, of this intimate thoughts—about grow­ Now I have worked on radic­ gather the scattered forces to­ the Socialist Party, Rose and I So th a t’s about the sum and the country to beat Landon at an old comrade, an old guard class collaboration in politics ing old and his bad health and al revolutionary papers for 45 gether in a semi-underground came out to California. We substance of my participation all costs with the result that of the Communist League, re­ was a demoralized radical having to continue the work years. The first one was Solid­ manner, especially after the hadn’t been here more than in labor .journals as an editor. ninety per cent of the people ferring to the difficulties and movement. The destruction of because of the need to prepare arity, the Eastern organ of the Russian Revolution, the only about two months when we The one thing tha1 I am proud­ under their influence voted for troubles they were in and of socialist tradition and even the the succession. IWW which was published in thing we could think pf to moved up to San Francisco est of is the fact that I was Roosevelt. the good comrades who had habit of independent socialist We and all like-minded peo­ fallen by the wayside, and he New Castle, Pa., in the early serve notice that we were still where a big maritime strike the founding editor of the M il­ In New York the radical political action. ple all over fhe world are that days. After the 1912 convention for socialism was to start a was brewing and there was ita n t and have always been an said, "W hat shall we do?" And That took 'time lo bring about workers, especially the great succession, which Trotsky pre­ of the IWW, I showed up in paper. With the resources of a sentiment to increase socialist ofT-and-on cont.ibuloi to its Engels answered, "W hat can and it had lo be done stealth­ mass of needle-trade workers pared when he was too old and New Castle to visit with the single local organization in activity. The stale executive columns: and it is about the wa do? We stand in the breach. ily and a step at a time. It be­ had the habit year after year tir^d to do ?nv rror-> but which staff and sea what was going Kansas City, we actually start- of th? 0°l'fcvn!'’ Sr»- Militant, for wltHi I have tlr That is whal vza eve here for." gan in 1936. Prior to then it cf always voting for the so­ on. I didn't hitch-hike there. I ed a weekly paper and kept cialist Paily, agreed to publish most affection, that I want to was ABC for the Socialists, or cialist ticket. To get around went by train. I got off in the the thing going for six months. a weekly paper in San Fran- speak. the Communists, to nominate this inconvenient habit and freight yards with a pal of The first editor of the Work­ their own candidates and to tradition, the needle-trade union mine and we walked down to ers World was Earl Browder. use electoral campaigns and the bureaucrats, in an undercover the Solidarity office and said World Euents After the paper had been going M ilitant Is Activism Plus expanded audience they pro­ deal with Socialist and Com­ hello to the boys who worked for a couple of months he and vide to popularize Ihe ideas of m unist P a rty leaders, as was thore. They decided I should The name was deliberately fowl her and keen it coin" in his brothers were sent to Leav­ .socialism and communism. But later revealed, worked out a THE INDONESIAN GOV­ stay and work on the paper for designed lo express ils distinc­ all kinds of weather. The peo­ ten months ago. The three pres­ enworth penitentiary because of in 1936 the right-wing socialists clever scheme. They couldn't ERNMENT has nationalized all a w hile. tive character. It is not so com­ ple that never quit. Who never idential candidates, who had their opposition to the war, and in New York and the Commun­ ask the socialisl-minded New I often recall that paper of monly used nowadays as it was float down the stream like dead Dutch banks, plantations, rail­ virtually the s a m e identical I became the editor and busi­ ist Party of Browder decided York workers to jump over the IWW as an example of how in Ihe earlier movement. "Mil­ fish but swim against the cur­ ways, and business firms. The program were (1) Rear A d m ira l ness manager. that these old-fashioned ideas and vote straight Democrat. Associated Press, Dec. 4, re­ much the pioneers of our move­ itant" was the word for Ihe rent no matter how rough it Wolfgang Larrazabal, independ­ were out of date; that it would But they could ask them to ment did with so little. Solid­ At that time, the coal miners active, fighting member of the may be. T hat is the meaning ports: "Parliament ordered ex­ ent candidate of the Republican be much smarter and much vote for something new — a propriated all Dutch properties arity was printed in a tiny shop launched a general strike. Pres­ various radical organizations— of “militant” and that was the Democratic Union, who was a slicker lo join the majority. labor parly. So they said. Let's by one editor who spent three ident Woodrow Wilson demand­ IWW militants. Socialist Party meaning of the paper we start­ that the Netherlands claims are high-ranking military man un­ That was the year when form another party; call it the days a week at the type case. ed it be called off and got a militants, anarchist militants. ed to represent such people. w orth more than $1,189,000,000. der Jim inez; (2) Rom ulo B etan­ Browder campaigned for Presi­ American Labor Parly; and put We had a press but no linotype judge to issue an injunction Nowadays they have a much We had learned a good deal The new nationalization bill court, of the Democratic Action dent on the ticket of the Com­ just one little catch in it; lhal and so it was set by hand. The against it. John L. Lewis, who weaker word, I think, for lhal. by then, although we have left compensation for the prop­ party; (3) Dr. Rafael Caldera, munist Party. He wouldn’t have the A LP endorse the Demo­ other two members of the staff was then the newly crowned They say "activists." Those learned a great deal more since, erties to future legislation and of the more moderate Christian dared then to advocate not run­ cratic ticket. were a fellow named Bill Wall- president of the United Mine that are always working for and were applying something to the courts.” In 1957, the In­ Socialist Party, who was term­ gasl and myself. We did the Workers, announced that we the organization. But in the old from Lenin’s program for Iskra. donesian government sought to ed “a candidate of the rich." press work and the mailing and can’t fight against the govern­ days we called these people the Many of you have read in his j force the Dutch to acquiesce in Out of this selection the Vene­ the clerical work. The three of ment and called off the strike militants, which is activism great pamphlet, What Is To Be 'Sisters Under the Skin’ its demands by token seizures zuelan Communist Party de­ everywhere except in the Kan­ plus. Done, what he considered to of some industries. However, cided to nominate Larrazabal us got out a paper once a week. Through this little strategem might have to revise their pre­ sas City coal fields. be the role of a national paper. Indonesian workers took it on their ticket although they That was common in the early We decided that by calling they mobilized about half a scription and say we made a One reason why the strikt As Lenin conceived it, the role from there and began seizing ran independent candidates for radical movement. aur paper the Militant, this million votes that normally sectarian error. We voted for was not called off there was of a revolutionary paper is to all industries. Thus, last De­ Congress from Caracas. He ac­ In 1919, I helped in starting would indicate our intention of would have been Socialist or Harriman who’s in the minority a local paper in Kansas City, because we were down in the function not merely as an agit­ cember. the government took cepted their nomination. appealing directly to the van­ Communist. That was the be­ and we should have been with » » * Missouri. During the war, the coal fields with thousands of ator dealing w ith protest issues, over virtually all Dutch-owned guard, to the cadre people, to ginning of the break in the Rockefeller who’s in the ma­ first world war that was, the copies of The Workers World not merely as a propagandist properties although manage­ A COMPARATIVE WAGE the militants—a paper of and habit and the tradition of vot­ jority. If we keep on going that movement was under great advocating continuation of the concerned with educating peo­ ment and profits remained in STU D Y in five European coun­ for the vanguard. ing for socialism or commu­ way, you know, eventually we persecution. When we began to struggle. ple and dealing with questions Dutch hands. tries and Great Britain by the We did not pretend, when we of theory and politics, but as nism. The Communist union may arrive at socialism. . . , * * * Industrial Association of Lom­ started the Militant, that we the best organizer oi the party. bureaucrats and the Socialist I think the Independent-So­ CUBAN DICTATOR BATIS- bardy is reported in Dec. 6 The Cleveland Toiler were producing a great mass That was the way we con­ union bureaucrats got together cialist ticket in N(ew York TA suspended the constitutional Business Week. The take-home paper, simplifying everything ceived our M ilitant and for that to put this over. In the show­ this year made a good show­ guarantees of the Cuban people pay of semi-skilled workers in I was arrested and indicted come editor of the Daily Work­ to the lowest common denom­ reason the Militant was never down they really worked very ing considering the mis educa­ for another forty-five days. Us­ dollars per hour is: Italy, 64c; pn the accusation of conspiring er—that is, the paper that later inator. On the contrary, our and never could be a personal close together. You know, as tion that had gone before. I ing the Castro rebellion as an France, 78c; Germ any, 59c; B e l­ to interfere with the produc­ became the Daily Worker. This paper was devoted to the edu­ organ. It broke . entirely with Kipling said about the Colonel’s think that the ticket made a excuse Batista has kept consti­ gium , 76c; Sw itzerland, 81c; tion of a war-tim e necessity— was the Cleveland Toiler. cation and re-educalion of the the earlier socialist tradition in Lady and Judy O’Grady, they’re possible beginning in reviving tutional rights suspended, ex­ G reat B rita in , 84c; Take-hom e namely, bituminous coal. This The Cleveland Toiler was vanguard militants of the Com­ this country in which the most really sisters under the skin. the tradition of socialist po­ cept for a few weeks, since Dec. pay for skilled workers: Italy, yras a year and a half after the controlled by the state execu­ munist movement. It was pri­ widely circulated press, the Later on, there was a split in litical action. 1956, The suspension means 73c; France, 88c; Germ any, 65c; war was over, but the war­ tive committee of the Socialist marily a cadre paper, the edu­ most influential press, was a the ALP, and a section of the The Militant did its share, censorship of press and radio. Belgium . 89c; S w itzerland, 88c; time Lever act had not yet Party in -Ohio, a left-wing cator and guide of the cadres. privately owned and privately New York garment-trade bur­ perhaps a little more than its Rights of free speech, assembly Great B rita in , 98c. been repealed. I was thrown group which had joined the The people who hold the party conducted enterprise. eaucrats formed the Liberal share in this united effort and and habeas corpus are annulled. * * * Info jail and the paper then Communist Labor Party. After Party, which continued the we can be proud of our paper Batista has also asked the Cu­ FIVE DAYS AFTER THE had no staff. I had edited the Toiler foi same game. for that. To promote the idea ban Congress lo declare a state FRENCH ELECTIONS in w hich The Workers World was about six months in Cleveland, The Appeal to Reason The net result of this kind of independent political action, of emergency which would give the Gaullists won a smashing forced to discontinue, but it we moved the paper to New of betrayal of principle was that simple issue in itself, is him unlimited powers. victory in the Assembly, Jac­ had served a certain purpose York because it was the only You have heard many good movement of revolutionary so­ that in the elections in New the greatest possible service to * * * ques Soustelle (Minister of In­ while it lasted. It gave us a legal paper we had in the coun­ things about the Appeal to cialism. If was through the York this year, that great mass the cause of reviving socialism FORMER ITALIAN COM­ formation and leader of the little experience that was of try. The official organ, the Com­ Reason, Ihe paper published in Militant—and in this we take of people, most of them pretty in this country. MUNIST PARTY members re­ Union of the New Republic) Girard, Kansas, which had at special pride— that the message use later. The fact that I had munist, and everything else had old by now, who had been All I have said about the cently held a Congress in Rome had police seize Mendes- one time as high as a half mil­ of the Russian Opposition was edited this paper was known been proscribed. raised in the socialist and com­ Militant so far is in its praise. and founded the Alleanza Soci- France’s newspaper, L’Express. We eventually changed the lion circulation and which un­ carried to all corners of the to the national leadership of munist tradition, found them­ But that is not the complete alista (Socialist Alliance). Wal­ The New Y o rk Post (Dec. 5) the newly formed Communist name of the Cleveland Toiler doubtedly did a great deal to world and even penetrated the selves faced with the alterna­ story. There have been criti­ ter Lucas, special correspond­ reported: “The offending para­ Party, and in 1920 when I had to the New York Toiler and popularize the general idea of Soviet Union itself. . . . tive of voting either for Harri- cisms of the paper and I will ent of the Christian Science graph in L’Express said that been elected to the Central then to the New York Weekly socialism and the struggle during and just after Soustelle’s In Europe, Latin America and man or for Rockefeller. And mention three of them that Monitor, reports that this meet­ Committee, I was appointed to Worker. The New York Weekly against capitalism and against tenure as Governor General of Africa, Ceylon, India, China, that's what they did. have been made over the ing of 400 delegates, who go to Cleveland, Ohio, to be­ Worker, which, was still oper- capitalist wars. But when the A lgeria some 22,000 Moslems and many other parts of the I don’t know what conclu­ years. claimed to represent hundreds w ar broke out in 1917, the world the message of the M ilit­ had been arrested and 3,000 o f sions they are going to draw One criticism was that it was of thousands of intellectuals proprietors of the Appeal to ant sparked and inspired the and workers, was largely the these ’became cadavers’." The from it now because this kind against imperialist war, not Reason, this privately owned organization of the first cadres result of the efforts of ex-Com- seizure order was rescinded af­ of shenanigans is based on the only the second world war but paper, decided that they did of the International Left Op­ munist Senator Eugenio Reale. ter the newspaper promised to Introductory Offer theory that you’ve got to be also the Korean war. And that not want to get in conflict with position so that when Trotsky, Lucas reports: “. . . . the first publish the paper without this the government. They came out w ith the masses. Y ou’ve got to it was a mistake to isolate it­ six months later, was deported article of the platform was a article. be with the majority. They self this way from the great A Six-Month Subscription in support of the war. And all to Turkey, he found a forum repudiation of the idea of party don’t know that this is just a m a jo rity. the readers and supporters who all ready for him in the M ilit­ dictatorship. Then followed af­ TAX JUGGLING variaton of the old unprincipled The second criticism is that it believed in the paper- and ant and groups and organiza­ firmation that socialism and lib­ If you would like to elimi­ ward-heeler politics that says if has been sectarian in general. To The Militant for only $1 trusted it, who had built its tions springing up throughout erty were inseparable terms nate your corporation’s income you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. The third, and this is the tremendous circulation, were the world very largely as the and that democracy was both a tax completely you should send loudest criticism I have heard just left helpless, completely result of the preliminary mes­ They mobilized to vote for method and way of life as well $9 to the Kiplinger Letter for Name ...... lately — although in fact I mcapable of exerting any in­ sage of the Militant. Harriman but it turned out that as an end.” Lucas says that details. According to this fi­ fluence on the policy of the Among the countries I ne­ Rockefeller got elected. Rocke­ have been hearing it for years, Alleanza Socialista is deter­ nancial tip sheet the Technical paper. Now the Militant was feller couldn’t have gotten for thirty years—that the M ili­ Address ...... - ...... Zone ...... glected to mention was Eng­ mined “to work for the uniting Amendments and Excise Tax never in that tradition. . . . land. The English Trotskyist elected unless he won working- tant told the truth about Stal­ of all socialists in one party, Acts, passed by the last Con­ # * * movement had its origin in class votes. New York is an inism before the time was right, founded on the ideals of social­ gress make it possible for cor­ before Khrushchev gave per­ C ity ...... - ...... - ...... State ...... From ils first issue the Milit­ copies of the Militant that a industrial state and the workers ism and democracy.” porations, by manipulating their ant was an internationalist pa­ few members of the Communist can decide any election they mission. * ♦ * organizational set-up, "to take per. If has always been con­ see fit to. So if a large percen­ The first criticism, that we THIS WEEK'S VENEZUE­ full advantage of depreciation Send to The Militant, 116 University Place, New P a rty got hold of in 1928-29. cerned with Ihe great problems The Militant inspired the or­ tage of workers and the Ne­ were against the war, is cor­ LAN ELECTIONS were the provisions . . . then switch to a Y o rk 3, N.Y. of the world and has done all ganization of new cadres every­ gro people voted for Rocke­ rect. We admit it. We are first since a revolution ousted different organizational set-up if could to help the world where and was recognized in feller, it looks to me like they guilty. The Militant had great dictator Marcos Perez Jiminez for the long pull.” Monday, December 15, 1958 T H E MILITANT Page Three

Subscription peryetrr: Secortd class postage paid foreign: $4 ^0 per year; at New York, N.Y. FBI's Files: 75 Million Under Watch Canadian: $5.50 per year. By Henry Gitano affairs of various Congressmen secret political police. “The re­ them [FBI secret files] in my Published W eekly by the M ilitant Publishing Association (Second of a series) active in the campaign fo in­ sponsibility for internal se­ possession and have taken 116 University PL. N. Y. 3. N. Y. Phone: CH 3-2140 The FBI's most powerful vestigate the Federal detec­ curity“ Hoover revealed, was them home and used them for “assigned the FBI in 1939 by Sunday reading.” Senator Editor: DANIEL ROBERTS Business Manager: BEATRICE ALLEN weapon and its major activity tives.” Congressmen charged they presidential directive.” Mundt, a ferocious red-baiter Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent the Militant’s policies. These are expressed in revolves around the compiling The FBI became responsible said (Salt Lake Tribune, Npv. its editorials. and filing of information, most­ had been shadowed and their ly defamatory and unverified, mail rifled. Roosevelt denied for the federal loyalty program, 22, 1953): “ The F B I m ay com­ Vol. XXII — No. 50 Monday, December 15, 1958 about persons against whom no this, insisting that detectives and the questioning of accused pile much evidence on Cojpci- crime has been charged. Most would not violate the law. “But employes were based on FBI munist infiltration, but not of the FBI's work is done by sometimes,” he added, “through confidential files. Alan Barth in enough to justify indictments. stoolpigeons, anonymous letter the accidental breaking of such Harpers (March 1954) notes O ften in such cases, said the writers and filing clerks. Secret fa] package, the contents are questions which do not even Senator, the FBI will tip off a Pardon for Winston, Creen files are the raw material need­ exposed.” With this explanation, pretend to deal with force and Congressional Committee violence. “One board member (which) makes it possible to The U S. Board of Parole’s denial of ed to impose thought control he published the private cor­ amnesty for Winston and Green by Christ­ respondence of Senator Tills- inquired if an employe favored b rin g the case into the open.” the application of Henry Winston and Gil mas, the traditional season for presidential on the American ..people through blackmail, intimidation man (N.C.), one of his leading or opposed the segregation of Professor Robert K. Carr in Green is additional proof that the witch grants of clemency. and victimization. opponents. blood in Red Cross blood banks, his authoritative work “The hunt is far from over. These two Smith the question arose, he said, out House Committee on Un-Ameri­ The Smith Act was opposed by or­ Kenneth Robb wrote in Mc­ FRAME SACCO, VANZETTI Act victims have served over a third of Calls, M ay 1955: “ The F B I of information given to the can a ctivities 1945-1950” con­ ganized labor and by all civil liberties During the Palmer Raid cludes that “it is quite apparent their sentences, have good behavior re­ knows a little something about board that she had written a organizations when it was being rammed witch-hunting hysteria, FBI letter' to the Red Cross about that these hearings were de­ cords and have furnished the Parole Board a great many people — 75 m il­ dossiers compiled on two Bos­ through Congress. It has been repeatedly lion persons, or about one half such segregation.” signed to serve the purpose of with all the assurances and sponsors in ton militants, Sacco and Van- The reports which came to publicizing information in FBI condemned and deplored by them since. the population of the U.S. . . . their home communities required by pen­ zetti, were instrumental in ex­ lig h t in the Ju d ith Coplon case files.” During the Army-Mc- It is the duty and the elementary self- Size of dossiers may range from ecuting these heroes of labor. ologists of parolees. It is the normal prac­ a few sheets of paper to a showed other criteria used by C arthy hearings, M cC arthy interest of all union militants and other FBI files were used to fabricate HOOVER tice of federal authorities to parole first- thickness of several feet.” the FBI to determine "loyalty." flourished a letter out of the defenders of civil liberties today to speak the greatest frame-up in Ameri­ FBI files told of "affiliation with FBI’s secret coffers, and his offenders meeting these requirements. Yet The FBI was aptly spawned can history. Despite repeated secret state police bossed by up on behalf of the actual victims of this Goering in 1933 was Depart­ the Progressive Parly," "writing chief counsel blustered: “I have Winston and Green have been denied pa­ through a mating of deception efforts by defense attorneys, the ment 1A of the old Prussian a master's thesis on the New access to F B I files when I w a n t “dangerous-thoughts” law. That means and blackmail. Repeatedly de­ files were never produced in role. The reason is obvious: they are still manded by Attorney General Police. Like the FBI, 1A was Deal in New Zealand," "making them .” specifically coming to the aid of those court. being persecuted for their political beliefs an underground arm of the a strong progressive speech These committee inquisitions under Smith Act indictment, of those be­ Charles Bonaparte, authoriza­ Later, FBI man Fred G. Wey- and affiliation. tion was withheld by the 60th government, keeping its meth­ which attacked an anti-Semitic which publicize secret, unveri­ ing harassed and threatened by retrials and stated: " l am also thorough­ teacher." fied slander and gossip from The only immediate step that can Congress in 1908. The views of ly convinced and always have ods, personnel and records se­ and particularly of the two still behind Congress were summarized in cret — becoming a law unto A loyalty board has no in­ FBI files, also act as a trans­ now be taken on behalf of these two po­ been, and I believe that is and vestigative staff, it uses FBI mission belt for still other para­ bars. the Congressional Record: always has been the opinion of itself. Goering took over lA ’s litical prisoners is to appeal to President “There is no desire for a gen­ voluminous files, secretly com­ files. Adam Yarmolinsky in 1955 sitic organizations like the Eisenhower to free them by an act of So put Winston, Green and their such Boston agents of the De­ exposed the nightmarish se­ American Security Council in eral detective service . . . It is partment of Justice as had any piled from secret sources on executive clemency. A campaign has been families at the top of your Christmas list considered absolutely contra­ Germans active in politics; it curity tests, rummaging for the Chicago, organized in 1955, knowledge on the subject, that seeds of heresy. Some hearings which maintains a massive file launched to barrage the White House with and send a “Christmas card” to Eisen­ dictory to the democratic prin­ these men had nothing what­ was an apparatus made to or­ ciples of government.” der for fingering, and breaking accomplish their diabolical of one million names. This pri­ as many letters as possible asking such hower on their behalf. Mail early! ever to do with the South aims: “Since my earlier sus­ vate agency w ith a $100,00(1 BONAPARTE'S DECEIT Braintree murder and that their those opposed to the Hitler re­ gime. pension, I have tried to keep yearly budget supplies employ­ On July 1, 1908, one month conviction was the result of co­ my mouth shut on political ers with information on alleged Marian Anderson Rebels after Congress adjourned, Bona­ operation between the Boston FDR ORDERS questions . . . it would be folly “subversives.” It is used by parte established his secret po­ agents of the Department of PROBE OF 'COMMUNISTS' to deny that I had learned that some of the nation’s largest Throughout most of her life when —especially against the colonial peoples lice. Max Lowenthal in The Justice and the District At­ In 1936, Franklin Delano silence is golden.” Case 67. firms to check prospective em­ she was engaged in building the career of the world—that is part and parcel of FBI reports: “Both houses of torney." Another FBI man, Roosevelt gave the FBI a secret USES CONGRESS BODIES ployes. The files are culled from as a concert artist to which her superb U.S. policy. On Nov. 25 she rebelled. In Congress were disturbed and Lawrence Letherman, said: "It directive to investigate “com­ Where the FBI cannot use a Congressional and legislative was the opinion of the Depart­ voice entitled her, Marian Anderson re­ the UN Trusteeship Committee the Asian directed investigations of the munist activities” throughout “loyalty screening” or a court­ hearings. "Interest for or against ment agents here that a con­ frained from all comments about politics African countries were demanding a Federal police agencies. News­ the country, he also ordered the room, it establishes liaison with the free enterprise system — paper articles appeared disclos­ viction of Sacco and Vanzetti FBI to resume wire tapping other witch - hunters. Senator that's the thing that starts our or racial discrimination. special meeting of the General Assembly ing the fact that dossiers had for murder would be one way after a Senate Committee con­ Pat MeCarran, an investigator interest," the president of ASC, In the post-war World the State De­ to hear long-pending demands from the been assembled for President of disposing of these two men." demned it. It was in a period of the McCarthy ilk. declared John M. Fisher, an ex-FBI man partment found its attempts to woo British and French Cameroons for unifi­ Theodore Roosevelt containing Edward Crankshaw notes in of social crisis that FDR felt on the Senate floor, March 25, attached to the N.Y. office for popular opinion throughout the world cation and independence. information about the personal his book “Gestapo” that the the need for a more powerful 1953: “ I have had dozens of Communist Investigations, said. greatly hindered by the international The U.S. government opposes de­ abomination of the racism known to exist mands of the colonial slaves of “free No Friends to Labor’s Ranks in the U.S. For propaganda advantage, world” powers. When open opposition is How Worker Reported therefore, it decided to send prominent no longer possible, it pretends acquies­ Negroes on “good w ill” tours—particul­ cence with as much foot-dragging and arly to Asia—in an attempt to “disprove” sabotage as possible. Accordingly Miss the stories about American Jim Crow or Cleveland Conference Anderson’s instructions were to vote charge that the Socialist Work­ at least to mitigate their effect. Accord­ against the proposed special session. By Harry Ring ly the Worker editors felt that ingly Marian Anderson who, thanks sole­ After reading the account in ers Party is "anti-Soviet" and to give Kushner’s account in ly to her own talent and efforts, and no After casting her vote against the the Dec. 7 Worker of ihe Con­ asserted that John T. McManus full would not have bolstered of the National Guardian and aspirations of the people of the two ference of American Socialists its accusation that the SWP is thanks to the government, had achieved others who collaborated with “anti-Soviet.” held in Cleveland Nov. 23-30, world fame, was sent on a government- African colonies (in one of which—the the SWP in the united cam­ those who were there could French Cameroons—the imperialists have paign belonged by that fact in Furthermore, it was the SWP sponsored world tour. easily get the impression they been butchering the people in droves), the "anti-Soviet" camp or were spokesman who urged a united She won the hearts of millions be­ attended a different meeting. Miss Anderson declared that though she on the way to it. socialist campaign for East- cause of her persona] charm and marvel­ Among other things, the report West trade to combat both re­ How does this “anti-Soviet” ous voice, and because in her,- Asians- had followed her government’s orders she deliberately tries to give the cession and the U.S.-initiated personally was against those orders and impression that there was charge square with the Work­ cold war. and Africians saw personified the Ameri­ er’s own reporting from Cleve­ for the Cameroonians. The press officials strong support at the confer­ can Negro achieving greatness despite all land? Many supporters of the These distortions and omis­ of the U.S. delegation tried to conceal ence — particularly among the obstacles of prejudice, poverty and dis­ unionists present—for the Com­ National Guardian and of the sions reflect the impossible sit­ crimination. The resounding success of this unprecedented statement by phony- munist Party policy of working SWP were active participants uation of the CP leaders. The her tour shone all the more in the eyes ing up the press releases. But the truth in the Democratic Party. at the conference. Yet the simple fact is that the. confer­ Worker reports: “An unprinci­ ence showed that the "coalition" will out—even over the ethics of John In fact, according to the of the State Department because, when pled and pro-Dulles attack on line is now thoroughly discred­ Foster Dulles and his underlings. Worker, opposition of the uni­ foreigners raised the subject of Jim Crow the Soviet Union by a Socialist ited among the great bulk of onists to a united socialist pres­ in America, she showed no inclination to We, of course, don’t think Miss An­ Party observer received ap­ socialist opponents of lhe cold idential ticket in 1960 was so plause from only one person. war. The conference also pursue the subject but to drop it with a derson, or any Negro, should serve on strong that “the Trotskyists and Adlai Stevenson (left) and Harry Truman are ranking Both Communists and non- showed that there are very few few remarks about how rapidly it was the U.S. delegation because they are put others” had to abandon plans leaders of liberal Democrats. Both belong to Democratic Communists assailed the at­ socialists left who are ready to fo r a vote on the issue. A c tu ­ being overcome. there to camouflage the ugly truth about' Party's National Advisory Council which on Dec. 8, in its tack.” It adds that the confer­ buy the proposition that oppo­ ally the conference was con­ So this year the State Department Jim Crow in America. Similarly, we don’t program for Congress, again criticized Eisenhower Admin­ ence was scored by the SP-SDF sition to the policies of Khrush­ vened with the clear under­ made her a member of the U.S. delegation think George Meany should serve on the istration for loo low military budget. The Council made no “for its refusal to take a hos­ chev or of the Am erican CP Is standing that its sole purpose in the United Nations. This appointment delegation because he only serves there recommendation for higher unemployment pay. tile attitude toward the Soviet automatically equivalent to be­ would be an exchange of views Union . . .” Obviously, if there ing "pro-Dulles." had served two aims. Fii'st, her presence as labor window dressing for the Big and experiences. The discus­ were any truth to the Worker’s on the delegation would serve as living Business, anti-labor government. But we sion showed that the great ma­ charges against the Guardian It was clear at Cleveland that “refutation” of charges about racism in commend Marian Anderson for her out­ ...W hich Side in Unions? jority present favored united and SWP, (he anti-Soviet stand while united socialist political socialist opposition to the Re­ the U.S. Secondly, her appointment would spokenness on Nov. 25. And since George of the SP-SDF would not have action is not yet the main­ (Continued from Page 1) future insurgents in the labor publicans and Democrats. been so thoroughly isolated. stream of thought in the union please the Negro voters in the U.S. who Meany won’t resign and do some or­ movement. They are on the militant struggles for labor’s Reporting the conference for movement it is the mainstream justifiably want to break down the bar­ ganizing of the unorganized workers in contrary aiming at once again A DISCREPANCY demands, to organize the un­ this paper, I took extensive of the radical movement. The becoming a respectable and ac­ Another fact is presented riers to top government posts like those this country, why doesn’t ‘he at least take organized and to express the notes on the entire two-day big question confronting the cepted part of the labor bur­ by the Worker in carefully se­ in the diplomatic corps. a page from Miss Anderson’s UN book real sentiment of the union discussion. A check of these members of the Communist eaucracy and being allowed lective fashion — namely that membership, it has also become notes show that apart from the Party is if they are going to But the State Department got more and say an honest word rather than faith­ some living room within its “the greatest unanimity was completely intertwined with panelists, 24 speakers addressed permit their leaders to isolate than it recokoned for in Marian Anderson. fully parrot the speeches Dulles has w rit­ fold. achieved on the peace question. the political machinery of cap­ themselves specifically to the them from it. She came to resent doing the dirty work ten for him. East-West trade was urged.” italism, the government appa­ A class struggle socialist per­ issue of working in the Demo­ The same conference report in ratus, the State Department, spective begins with this sharp cratic Party. Six of these, in­ the Dec. 6 People’s World (un­ the FBI, and the two capitalist distinction between the work­ cluding three unionists, spoke HARD SELL NEEDED signed in the Worker, credited parties—particularly the Demo­ ing class and the bureaucracy. in support of the CP “coalition” to Sam Kushner in People’s Charles H. Brower, president cratic Party. It does not overlook the fact line, four took a middle posi­ W orld) reads as follow s: “ The of BBD&O, major U.S. adver­ that contradictions within the tion and 14 argued against so­ When we talk of not becom­ greatest unanimity was achiev­ tising agency has suggested the bureaucracy are bound to ap­ cialists trying to work in the ing isolated from the labor move­ ed on the peace issue. In this appointment of a new Cabinet pear and that sections of the Democratic party. Five Will Get You Six! ment we must specify what member to sell America to the panel many speakers, including bureaucracy may be forced in; part of the labor movement— the representative of the Soci­ world. The l'eason we have $5 will get you six half-year trial subscriptions to to a morè progressive position. WHAT TUSSEY the workers or the bureaucra­ alist Workers party, stressed trouble selling the American These contradictions and fis­ REALLY SAID cy? When socialists launch elec­ the peace role of the Soviet way of life, he said, is that “We sures w ill be utilized by social­ tion campaigns, they do not be­ Here is one example of how Union. East-West trade was un­ have no advertising manager, ists to advance the movement THE M ILITANT come isolated from the labor the Worker manipulated facts derscored as a m ethod of h e lp ­ no sales manager, no director of for a labor party and for build­ movement, unless one is speak­ to convey the impression of ing to achieve peace.” Obvious­ public relations.” ing a left wing in the unions. Ask your friends to join you in the fight for a socialist world. Use this Club ing of becoming victimized by significant support for its line. But the strategic outlook flows the labor officials. It is true that After reporting the speech of Subscription blank for yourself and your friends. from the basic reality of the socialists in a given union local CP spokesman Arnold Johnson, American labor movement: the can suffer dismissal and expul­ the Worker says, “ ‘You can’t irreconcilable conflict between sion if they dare to oppose the build any mass movement with­ FUND SCOREBOARD the bureaucratic machine, tied out labor,’ Richard Tussey, of policy of the bureaucracy on up with the capitalist govern­ C ity Quota Paid Percent To the Militant, 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y, political questions as well as the Mechanics Educational So­ ment and the capitalist parlies, ciety of Ohio, said.” O akland ...... $ 340 $ 482 142 Enclosed is $5 for which: union matters. Socialist union­ and the rank and file militants. SI. 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Los Angeles ...... 4,600 3,348 73 Actually, it is not a question “The House of Lords is a delic­ P ittsburgh ...... 10 7 70 of adapting to the needs of the ious place to be in. People move The Worker did report a few S e a ttle ...... 550 385 70 beleaguered radical in the labor so slowly. Nobody runs down facts correctly. Given their full Cleveland ...... 750 520 69 movement. The blunt truth, passages, nobody uses used en­ context — which the Worker Philadelphia ...... 528 337 64 Address ...... Zone ...... and nothing is to be gained by velopes; nobody does anything carefully avoided — these facts General ...... — 294 mincing words about this, is for himself if he can find a explode charges made by that — that both the Communist Party gentleman with a gold chain to paper during the New York Total through leaders and the Social Demo­ do it for him.” There is a move Independent-Socialist campaign. Dec. 9 ...... crats are pinning their political afoot to abolish this hereditary Throughout that campaign the ..$18,867 $15,891 88 hopes not on the present and legislative body. Worker repeated its smear The Negro Struggle

A Plan for New York City Fathers VOLUME XXII MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1958 NUMBER 50 On Dec. 1 the New York City Deputy force that law on about three or four Commissioner of Buildings and other of­ landlords and all the others w ill clean up ficials went on a slumming party accom­ their slum areas virtually overnight. panied by a large contingent of reporters. “The law to which we are referring Art Exhibit By They tsk-ed tsk-ed at the wretched hous­ is Chapter 26, Section 205.0 subdivisions Ohio High Court ing conditions which they saw in Harlem, (a) and (e) of the Administrative Code of Capt. Mulzac and their words were duly recorded in the City of New York. Captain Hugh N. Mulzac, the press. It was a great display calcu­ “This law which to our knowledge 1958 Independent - Socialist candidate for New York lated to show the citizenry how liberal has never been used, authorizes the Cor­ Mayor Wagner’s administration is and Comptroller, who has been Rules Aguinst poration Council of the City of New gaining increasing recogni­ how it really “wants” to do something for York, ‘at the request of the Superintend­ tion as a painter, is holding the miserably-housed working people — ent of Buildings’ to apply to the Supreme an exhibit and sale of his particularly the Negroes and Puerto Court for an order directing the Super­ works through Dec. 20. Thir­ Ricans, the most victimized in N.Y. hous­ ty-seven of his oils and intendent of Buildings to make alterations water colors are listed for Payment o f SUB ing, whose votes have become more pivot­ in any building which is in violation of sale. The exhibit is open al and important. But the expedition the Housing Law. daily from 2 to 9 P.M. at By Ed Dawson boomeranged. First, because the Negro “It further provides that once the 106-61 Ruscoe St„ Jamaica, YOUNGSTOWN—On Dec. 3, the Ohio Supreme Court people are getting on to these phony ex­ N.Y. To get there from New city moves in and corrects the violation struck a blow at the unemployed workers and the or­ peditions and secondly because the Deputy York by subway lake E or it can then reimburse itself for the work ganized labor movement of this state by ruling Supple­ Housing Commissioner’s failure to do F train to 169th St., then it has done on the building by attaching Q-42 bus to 106th Ave. By mentary Unemployment payments illegal. This ruling, something about a violation which she a mechanics lien on the landlord’s prop­ car, lake 59th St. bridge. coming on the heels of the la-' and all the reporters saw in one building bor movement’s victory on the erty until he pays the city exactly what Queens Blvd., Jamaica Ave., — a grossly defective elevator — caused and 177th St. to 1061h Ave. “right to work law," represents Final Vote it cost the city to fix up the building. . . . the death five days later of a 14-year-old a renewed challenge to labor’s “You can just imagine what would rights and must be countered Of ISP boy. happen to a Harlem absentee landlord if with a mobilization of the Ohio The final official vole for Here are some excerpts from an arti­ he got a telegram while sunning in Flor­ . . . Group for labor movement, even greater the New York Independent- than on the “right-to-work” cle by James Hicks of the N.Y. Amster­ ida that the city had decided to alter and Socialist Party in the Nov. 4 law. elections is as follows: John dam News, written before the boy’s death. renovate his slum apartment houses and Labor Party The court ruling was hailed T. McManus and Dr. Annette “We’re not impressed. We’ve seen this he would get the bill for the job as soon by the just-defeated Republican Rubinstein, candidates fo r type of song and dance act too many as it was completed! (Continued from Page 1) Governor and by the Ohio In­ governor and lieutenant-gov­ times in Harlem — especially when an “Every other Harlem landlord would formation Committee, the em­ ernor, 31, 658 votes; Captain cratic candidate, only objected ployers’ coordinating body for election year is just around the corner. jump right up and hire his own contract- to R-T-W ‘in its present form’ Hugh Mulzac, 34,038 for state-wide union busting. The and disclaimed accepting any Comptroller; Scott Gray Jr., “If the city fathers really want to or as soon as the news got around. And "I want an informer who is brave, loyal, fearless, newly-elected Democrats took monetary support from labor. for Attorney-General, 31,746 impress us as to their sincerity in cleaning the violations would disappear. nerves of steel — and able to stomach my factory no issue with the court ruling votes; Corliss Lamoni, for “The voting statistics show up the slums, we have a plan for them. “But the city officials won’t do that. but promised to sponsor legis­ U. S. Senator, 49,087. that a great number of Ohioans conditions." They either are too closely linked with lation to legalize SUB. “And that plan simply calls for the rejected both' candidates but the landlords—or they just don’t have Would such legislation, even enforcement of a law that is already on did vote NO on R-T-W . . . From should it eventually become payments. After a year of wait­ the books. All they have to do is to en­ the guts to enforce the law.” this one can conclude that there law, guarantee the payment of ing many are asking why the is a reservoir from which labor, Notes from the News t h e accumulated backlog of unions can’t enforce their con­ Advertisement Advertisement running its own independent SUB payments? At stake is tracts in Ohio? Aren’t they candidates, would receive Sup­ more than $25 million that the powerful enough to make the companies live up to the agree­ port. And we should not over­ PENNSYLVANIA has been one of the hardest hit states in union contract would have ment? look the fact that many people the recession. About 10% of the working force are out of work placed in the pockets of the un­ REJECTED CLAIMS voted Democratic on the old despite the diversity of the state’s industry. Last month 175,646 employed workers in the slate When workers first applied ‘lesser of two evils’ theory. unemployed workers had exhausted their thirty weeks state by now. Also, the Democratic Holiday Book Bargains “Out of the R-T-W experi­ for SUB as provided under the insurance and of these 29,065 had also used up their fifteen prom ise of legislation is no ence came the idea of a Labor contract, the State Unemploy­ weeks Federal unemployment compensation. guarantee of an end to em­ Representation Committee to ment Compensation Commis­ (Use ihis ad as your order form) * * » ployer trickery on this matter. work for and support independ­ Already the OIC has hinted sioner ruled that SUB payments were considered the same as (All books elothbound unless CHAUCER AND HIS ENGLAND. By ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION OF ent labor candidates for office PROFESSOR ALEX INKELES. a Harvard sociologist, told broadly that it will counter any wages and that SUB payments otherwise stated; if no mailing G. G. Coulton. A social study of THE CONSTITUTION OF THE U.S. wherever feasible and to build a group of students that the amount of laughing you do in a legislative move with a referen­ price is indicated, it is included in the medieval England which forms By Charles Beard. A landmark in an independent Labor Party. day is an indication of your social status. He said that, “con­ dum demand. This would once would make workers ineligible price of book.) the setting of the Canterbury Tales. the writing of U.S. history. $.69 ( ) “It is our hope that this idea trary to popular belief the lower you are in social status the more postpone the decision of for unemployment compensa­ Regular price $4.00. Special to M il­ (plus I 5r ) grows and takes hold since the tion. The unions rejected this THE MAN FROM MAIN STREET. Jess likely you are to report having laughed during the past the issue. O nly quick, decisive itant readers $2.98 ( ) THE ECONOMIC BASIS OF POLI­ MESA has for years been point­ interpretation of the law. A test A Sinclair Lewis Reader. Selected day.” He also added that women in the low income group are and militant mobilization of the TICS bv Charles Beard. (paper) case supported by the steel essays and other writings 1904-1950. ing out that the workers can more likely to report having cried during the day. strength of the labor move­ BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN $1.25 (plus 10c) ( ) workers union was taken to the Includes writings on literary, labor, AMERICA. By W. E. B. DuBois. The only achieve real and lasting ment could counter this stra­ THE STRANGE CAREER OF JIM * * * social and political subjects. (Orig­ monumental work on the subject results by having their own courts in an attempt to reverse CROW bv C. Vann Woodward (pa­ tegy. 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Militant workers proposed RUSSIA 20 YEARS AFTER by Vic­ are more susceptible to disease. The death rate from arterio­ through. journalists of the Labor Party left NEGROES ON THE MARCH. A organization of a mass lobby to wing trace the steps in the imper­ Frenchman’s Report of the American tor Serge A veteran of the October sclerotic heart disease has been found to he twice as high CONTRACT VIOLATION put pressures on the enemies of ialist invasion of Egypt and the Negro Struggle. By Daniel Guerin. Revolution and Stalin’s prisons among the males affected by the smog. Right after (he catas­ Calendar The stool, auto, rubber and SUB. which included the Gov­ repression of the independence move­ Remarkable study by a French draws the balance sheet of a revolu­ trophe, Philip Sadder, a consultant chemist, issued a report that ment on Cyprus. (Originally $1.95) Marxist, Best work on contemporary tion betrayed, (cloth) $3.50 ( ) hydrofluoric acid, coming from the Donora Zinc Works’ smoke­ electrical companies that have ernor. But the labor bureau­ paper covers $1.00 ( ) fight of Negro people for equality, THE LONG DUSK by Victor Serge. stacks was contaminating the air over Donora. SUB agreements welcome the crats would have none of that. (plus 15c mailing charge) c lo th : $1 50 ( ) A novel. Anti fascist and anti-Stalin- opportunity to violate their They claimed that they did not Of Euents * * • ist refugees caught in France by THE CIRCLE OF GUILT. By Dr. paper: $1.00 ( ) union pacts. By withholding want demonstrations that might Frederic Wertham. A noted psychia­ Nazi invasion. The beginnings of re­ A COURSE IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE is being given these benefits from the unem­ disturb the courts. The undis­ sistan ce movem ent. (Originally trist examines the life sentence of THADDEUS STEVENS. By Ralph LOS ANGELES on television in Cleveland by Western Reserve University. The ployed, by flaunting the union turbed courts ruled against $2.75) $1.00 (plus 15c) ( ) a "juvenile delinquent" for murder Korngold. Magnificent biography of response has been so great that 1,900 study guides were sold at contract successfully, they hope labor. The methods of the offi­ and finds poverty and anti-Puerto Fri., Dec. 19, 8:15 P.M. “ The the great figure of Radical Recon­ THE COMING OF THE FRENCH $3.00 a copy and four editions were put out before the univer­ cialdom have reaped a big zero Rican prejudice guilty. (originally REVOLUTION. By Georges Lefebvre Role of the United Nations in to weaken the confidence of the struction. (Originally $6.00) $2.00 up until now. $ 3 .0 0 ) $1 .5 0 ( ) ( ) (paper) $.95 (plus 10c.) ( ) the World Today.” Speaker: sity officials were forced to stop printing because the course unemployed worker in his had advanced too far. 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The workers now tion of developments and trends in meaning and history of philosophy. of five to one,” consider discrimination, “more critical than of the uprising his paper wouldn't national Socialist Review. nounced that they would insist need to organize a mass lobby literature and ail the arts to society In popular style, not professional print (paper) $1.00 (plus 10c) ( ) Sputnik and by two to one as more important than the state of on legislation that would legal­ to gather at the state capital in and its classes. Illustrated. Paper jargon. Intensely interesting and • THE HAWK AND THE SUN by the domestic economy,” said Dr. Frank Stanton, president of the ize SUB. Columbus on the opening day covers. 4 volumes. $1.25 per vol. witty book. (Originally $3.75) $1.50 Byron Reece. A novel by a South­ CHICAGO Columbia Broadcasting System. The American people are wor­ In the meantime, jobless of the new Legislature to de­ (plus 10c mailing charge each or ( ) erner about a lynching in a small (plus 15c mailing charge) Fri., Dec. 19, 8 P.M. Arne ried about their contribution to the “epidemic of suspicion, workers are being told to wait ni a n d immediate emergency 20c fo r a l l) ( ) town. (Originally $3.00) $1.00 ( ) Swabeck speaks on “Labor hatred and intolerance that inflicts the world.” He based his legislation to legalize SUB pay­ JEWS AND THE NATIONAL QUES­ (p lu s 15c) for their money. Tens of thou­ A GENERAL HISTORY OF SOCIAL­ TION. By Hyman Levy. The roots After the Democratic Land­ remarks on a survey by the American Institute of Public sands in the state are eligible ments and to guarantee retro­ ISM AND SOCIAL STRUGGLES. By CASE OF THE LEGLESS VETERAN of anti-Jcwish acts in the. USSR. slide.” Militant Labor Forum. Opinion. and should have received these activity. M. Beer. Five volumes bound as two by James Kuteher. The celebrated Author. long prominent in British 777 W. Adams. containing: Social Struggles in An­ witch-hunt victim tells his story, C o m m u n is t P a rty , wars exp elled for tiquity; Social Struggles in the Mtd- (p a p e r ) $ .50 • ( ) writing it. This Library Book Club • dle Ages; Social Struggles and (p lu s 15c) edition includes British CP reply to Ring in the New Year at our Thought; Social Struggles and So­ THEODORE WELD, Crusader for Levy by R. Palme Dutte. Paper gala New Year's Mardi Gras! Play About Joe Hill Is Timely Production cialist Fororunners; Social Struggles Freedom. By Benj. P. Thomas. Bio­ covers. $ 1 .5 0 ( ) and Modern Socialism. Regular price graphy of important but little known Live entertainment—dancing— TELL FREEDOM. M em ories of $12.50. Special price for Militant Abolitionist leader. (Originally $4.25) refreshments—gaiety supreme— By Douglas Richard movement that shall have for the cause of the working peo­ Rosenberg-Sobell “ spy" case to Africa. By Peter Abrahams. A tal­ readers $9.95 ( ) $ 1.00 ( ) at the Militant Labor Forum "The Man Who Never Died" its purpose the emancipation ple are not outmoded, as Mr. the judicial freeing of the mur­ ented Negro novelist relates the (p lu s 2 5 c ) (p lu s 15c) Hall, 777 West Adams Street. of the working class from the Atkinson implies. Despite tlie derers of Emmett Till—testify moving story of his growing up is a play about Joe H ill, IW W TENDER WARRIORS. The story of From 9 P.M. until ??? Phone slave bondage of capitalism.” Becks and the Hoffas, there are to the truth of that distinction. and emergence into racial and poli­ organizer and composer of some A S H O R T HISTORY O F F R E E the heroic Negro children of Little The goal was the establishment many Joe Hills in labor's ranks Commenting on the Rosenberg- tical awareness in the Union of DE 2-9763. of labor's most famous fighting THOUGHT. By J. M. Robertson. Rock who breached school segrega­ of the socialist order in a re­ today. They w ill assert them­ Sobell conviction, Lewis S. South Africa. (Originally $4.00) • songs. Joe H ill was tried on a Regular price $5.00. Special for Mil­ tion. 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The life and work now in New York City at the in and what he gave expression judges” a thing of the past. One Attorney Saypol went, which Industrial Workers of the World. the IWW-led textile strike in Law­ Central heating plus log-burn­ of the successful British industrial­ Jan Hus Auditorium. to in m any of his songs. He has only to exaijnine the laws far exceed the proper scope of Regular price $7.50. Special to Mil­ ist who became a utopian socialist, rence in 1012— told in photographs, ing fireplaces. Special reduced (paper) $.29 ( ) was “judicially murdered” not and trials of recent years to re­ evidence,'indicate that perhaps itant readers $5.00 ( ) putting his ideas into effect first in rates for the four-day weekend. Every trade-unionist, social­ fute that contention. Indeed, ideological hatred and venge­ his factory mills and model village (p lu s 15c) just for his activities on behalf BIG BILL HAYWOOD’S BOOK. An For information, reservations or ist, and fighter for civil liber­ even a Dave Beck and a James fulness were substituted for Autobiography. Long a rare item, in Scotland and later in the famous ties in the New York area of higher wages but for his BOOKS BY LEONtf TROTSKY transportation phone A L 5-7852 Hoffa can be fram ed in the judicial appraisal." this autobiography of the leader of Harmony colony in Indiana, (orig­ broader ideals as well. in New Y ork or M U rra y 9-1352 should see the play and get capitalist - class dominated One has only to study the the iWW is again in print. $3.50 inally $3.50) $1.50 ( ) TROTSKY’S DIARY IN EXILE: others to see it too. Then I be­ Stavis’ play has been warm­ (plus 15c mailing charge) at Washington, N. J. courts. record of recent instances of < ) 1935. 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