Witch Hunters Push Doomed Couple Toward Death Chair
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Workers of the World, Unite! A PROGRAM TO FIGHT McCARTHYISM (See Page 2) the PUBLISHED WEEKLYMILITANT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE V o l. X V II - No. 22 767 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY. JUNE 1, 1953 PRICE: 10 CENTS 48 Miners Fate Witch Hunters Push Doomed Murder F In Widen Strike Couple Toward Death Chair By Art Preis Forty-eight union coal miners in the company town G agged of Widen, West Virginia, face murder charges as the out Legless Vet's S igned, Sealed and Delivered growth of an armed clash between strikers and company High Court thugs. The arrested men were released on the huge bond of of one of the most heroic labor $118,000 after a preliminary hear struggles this country has known Appeal to Get ing on May 7. On May 22 after in years — a battle in which a Brushes Off two weeks recess from picketing, group of isolated coal miners, strikers resumed their eight- subjected all their lives to com New Hearing montjji vigil on the highway pany domination, have stood up bordering the Elk River Coal & month after month against the NEWARK, May 27 — James Third Plea Lumber Company’s non - union combined forces of the company Kutcher, legless veteran, today citadel in Clay County. strikebreakers and gangsters, reported that the Loyalty Review By Murry Weiss These are the bare major facta county deputies and state police. Board of the Civil Service Com The frame-up move against 48 of “Turn stool pigeon or die!” them has climaxed the reign of mission haa agreed to hear his This is the meaning of the terror unloosed by the company appeal for reinstatement to the Supreme Court decision of General Motors and its minions to break the fight Veterans Administration clerical May 25 refusing a new hearing to ing spirit of the strikers and drive job from which he was (purged In (he Rosenbergs. The Court de them back to the degradation of cision wag timed to coincide with Agrees to Wage 1948. The hearing w ill be held in company unionism. reports of Department of Justice The capitalist newspapers have Washington on June 4. offers of clemency to the Rosen- Revision in Pact deliberately buried the facts about Kutcher was fired under Tru bergs, it they turn stool pigeon General Motors Corporation has this bitter labor battle. What little man’s “loyalty” order because of for the FBI. agreed to the demand of the CIO nows they printed about the his admitted membership in the The, b ru ta lly obvious intent, of arrest of the 48 concealed both United Automobile Workers to Socialist Workers Pai-ty and be this double-barreled move is to incorporate cost. - o f - liv in g wage the background of the struggle attempt to create, the impression cause the SWP was arbitrarily increases gained under the leading to the death of a company that (he Rosenborgs can save escalator clause into the per strikebreaker and the fact that he placed on the Attorney General’s their own lives. manent basic wages. was part of a vigilante gang “subversive” list without a hear All they have to do is become which had made a deliberate The demand was granted ing or an opportunity to defend the pliant tools of the witch despite, the fact that the flve- armed assault on the strikers, hunters, finger all t.he’r friends itself against the false designa yeu r con tra ct signed in 1950 had who were forced to fight back in and associates and anyone the two more years to run. Since the self-defense. tion. FBI marks for victimization and changes in the wage contract will But- Labor’s Daily, the only CEDRIC BELFRAGE, Brit Last October the U.S. Court of they might save themselves from cost the company a mere $15 daily labor newspaper in America, ish-born editor of weekly Na Appeals in Washington ruled that the. electric chair. Then the now million a year more in wages, sponsored by the International tional Guardian, was arrested mere membership in the SWP victims would he put, to the same compared to net profits running Typographical Union, has pene and taken to Ellis Island for was insufficient cause for his dis torture rack with the same choice. to noarly a half-billion yearly, it trated the news iron curtain and possible deportation after Mc charge. But instead of reinstating In making its infciucus de did not insist on a strict the armed company guards around Carthy’s Senate Investigating him, the court returned him to a cision, the Supreme court ignored adherence to the long-term con Widen. Thanks to the courage of Subcommittee and House Un- suspended status, pending a now for the third time the most tra ct. one of its unnamed staff cor American Committee demanded decision by Carl Gray, VA Ad imposing and overwhelming con Ay agreeing to UAW President. respondents, who uncovered the his expulsion • for criticizing ministrator. When Gray discharg siderations for'a new hearing. In Walter Rcuther’s formula that a facts on the Spot, we are now their witch hunt activities. ed the veteran for a second time an atmosphere, free from' lynch long-term contract must be a learning for the first time some, of last month, Kutcher announced incitement a new heaving would “living document” subject to the stirring events that have that he would appeal to the Loy SECRET DIPLOMACY KEEPS PEOPLE be granted as a matter of course. change in the event of sudden marked this amazing fight for alty Review Board. His latest ap First, there is new evidence drastic shifts in economic condi unionism put up by the Widen Fairless Declares peal is the tenth he has made in which demands careful judicial tions, the company has obtained m iners. •he protracted run-around he has IN DARK ON LIFE-AND-DEATH MOVES examination. Second, there is ad the assurance of the UAW top received from administrative ditional evidence whicn in an COMPANY TOWN leaders that they will continue Strikes Outmoded agencies and the courts. By Joseph Keller Eisenhower's press statement, of have seen the terms. In fact, ac honest court of appeal puts the To know what these workers the policy of making such agree Am erican cap italism is on its The immediate fate of hun M ay 26, is a t the d ire ct behest cording to the May 26 N. Y. stigma of perjury on the testi have been up against, you have NEW PROCEDURE ments. The five - year contracts way to solving its “knottiest dreds of millions may hinge on of the U.S. command. j Times, “a source close to Presi mony of prosecution witnesses. to know where they live and whom Today is also the effective date have previously raised much problem” — the conflict, be the secret U.S. truce proposals Sir Winston Churchill, who dent Rhee leaked the details of And third, there is the wide they work for. Widen is one of the of Eisenhower’s recent “ security” resentment in the auto union's tween labor and management. on Korea. Our fate loo — life or recently intimated that truce the secret proposal to a Korean protest, including the most pro ranks. last, com pany tow nil in W est order, which revoked Truman’s Benjamin F. Fairless, Chairman death for you and me and ®ir talks could be successfully con reporter for a United States news minent representatives of world Virginia —- still run just about “loyalty” program but. replaced The contract as originally draft of United Stares Steel Corp., loved ones — is being haggled cluded if the U.S. would cease agency.” So the capitalist press public opinion who have voiced like the company towns you used it with an even more repressive ed is still in force with respect predicted May 21. over in Panmunjom behind closed stalling, is himself a party to this knows it too. And so do all lead the horror and revulsion of m il to shop conditions, production to read of 30 years ago before system for government employees. “I believe that we can, that we doors. And we are not permitted secret diplomacy, in which he is ing members of Congress of both lions of people at the unpre quotas and all matters not relat the upsurge of the miners that shall and that we must find the One feature of Eisenhower's to havo a say about it; we are a past master. The British Prime, parties. cedented peace-time death sen ing to wages. This important part built t.he United Mine Workers tence in an atmosphere incom way to industrial peace,” said the order is the abolition of the Loy not even allowed to know what Minister announced he is in' Everybody is in on the secret of the long-term contract has into the powerful union it is to- alty Review Board, which has a patible with either a fair trial or industrial magnate. He derided is going on. “complete support” of the U.S. j except tho most “ interested par a ju st sentence. (Continued on page 2) (Continued on Pa<re 5D the idea that labor and man period of 120 days in which to A t the same time, the warlords terms and also “said that secret ties” of all — the people. The clean up pending business. agement are natural and eternal of the U.S., Britain and France, as the proposals must remain for Korean people, first of all, who WHY THE HASTE? enemies and that collective bar Even if the Loyally Review disguised in the garb of diplo the present all Interested parties | have been slaughtered by the Why then was a new hearing gaining calls for labor and man Board should rule in Kutcher’s macy, are preparing to confer had been consulted." (N.