The ALP Fight

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VOL. V II—No. 35 NEW YORK, N. Y., SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1943 PRICE: FIVE CENTS

ROOSEVELT ORDERS UNIONG PENALTIES <•) AMGOT PAVES THE WAY Sanctions Order Makes Police Labor Members On New Decree Imposes Harsh WLB Vote Against FOR A REACTIONARY Agents Of WLB Labor Members Sanctions Against Strikers CIO Auto Workers ______AN EDITORIAL ------Vicious Provisions of Smith-Connally Law GOVERNMENT IN ITALY The W ar Labor Board voted The trade union officials are caught in the sistence.” He has discarded not the Little Steel unanimously on August 18 to Supplemented by Latest Executive Order By Anthony Massini vise of the workers’ growing resistance to formula but the policy of placing primary deny maintenance-of-member­ By Farrell Dobbs Roosevelt’s labor policies and their own sup- dependence upon the no-strike pledge for the In Quebec this week the Allied leaders were work­ ship and dues check-off provi­ port of the administration program. The Presi- enforcement of the wage freeze. The ad- Drastic sanctions ag&inst striking unions and ing out new political and m ilitary plans for the war dent’s executive order authorizing sanctions ministration fears that control over the rank sions to the U A W -C IO in a and the post-war period. But it is from Sicily, and the against the unions closes this vise another full and file of the unions is beginning to slip out working agreement with the individual strikers were decreed by President Roose­ dispatches about the operations of the Allied M ilitary turn. of the hands of the officialdom. It also reckons Chrysler Corporation. This is velt in an executive order issued on August 16. Pen­ When the union officials made the no-strike with the possibility of other union officials, Government of Occupied Territories (AMGOT or the first time the labor mem­ alties to be imposed against unions when the gov­ plbdge— without consulting the workers— and under pressure from the membership, following bers of the board have voted ernment seizes struck plants include withholding AMG), that we are able to get a clear picture of what agreed to serve on the W ar Labor Board, they John L. Lewis’ example and repudiating the against the union security clauses union dues collected through the check-off and the it is that the Allied leaders are fighting for. took at face value Roosevelt’s promfse to no-strike pledge. Therefore, Roosevelt is arm- in a union contract. The action The most complete and reveal­ protect the workers’ standard of living. Again ing himself to apply police measures to prevent was taken fo r the announced suspension or denial of union security provisions in ing public reports of AMGOT w'hen they accepted the wage-freezing Little strikes. purpose of punishing the union working agreements. Individual strikers may be activity have been given by 6L et’s H a n g Steel formula they took as good coin the ad- The Smith-Connally anti-strike law and now membership for striking. Herbert L. Matthews, correspon­ drafted into the armed forces or blacklisted in in-< ministration promise to control prices despite the executive order providing sanctions against There were 66 strikes in dent of the N. Y. Times, who has Chrysler plants from December, duslry. such a good inside track in Sicily The M a y o r9 the fact tj)at the cost of living was steadily unions are vehicles for this sinister strikebreak- 1941 to January, 1943, according Supplementing the order, Roosevelt wrote to W il­ that he has even been used to President Roosevelt asserted rising. The Roosevelt-Byrnes order freezing col- ing program. The attack upon the United Mine to the WLB panel report. 25,000 broadcast to the Italian mainland on,July 30 that he was willing lective bargaining evoked a mild protest from Workers and the criminal prosecution of thirty workers struck at seven Detroit liam H. Davis, War Labor® about the benevolent attitude of to make a deal in Ita ly with the union officials, but they nevertheless stayed Pennsylvania coal miners reveals the vicious plants in May, 1943. As a matter violating WLB orders have begun tho Allied officials toward the Board chairman, defining even a mayor, if the mayor in line. character of the administration policies. of fact, several hundred workers since the sanctions order was is­ local fascists. In the N. Y. Times wasn’t a member of the fascist were out on strike at the the procedure in impos­ sued. They are Montgomery- Magazine of August 22, Matthews The mounting protests of the w-orkers against Roosevelt will of course continue to use government, could get the Kercheval plant of Chrysler in ing the sanctions and em­ Ward. a Brooklyn iron works and not only recapitulates his previous Italian troops to lay down the steady decline in their standard of living the timid and cowardly union officials in every Detroit the very day of the WLB a Bauxite, Ark. contractor. The reports on the policies of AMGOT their ams and could prevent at last forced Murray, Green and Co. to -go way he can, and he will use their repeated action. phasizing that the Smitli- main issue is the maintenance-of- but also explains what effects \ “ anarchy.” through the motions of doing something about reaffirmation of the no-strike pledge to help The big May strike, as The membership clause. these policies w ill have, on Italy Connally Act provides for But the Italian people have Militant of May 29 reported, was Roosevelt recommended in his after the period of military oc­ it. But they did not call for trade union action camouflage his repressive acts against the a different attitude toward provoked “ by the management’s the criminal prosecution letter to Davis that in cases where cupation is terminated. to defend the workers’ interests as they should unions. their mayors, all of whom are failure to bargain in good faith of strikers in industries employers violate W LB orders “ GOOD” AND “ BAD” appointees of the fascist party. have done. Instead, they pleaded w'ith Roosc- The continued presence of the union officials and settle the ever mounting “less drastic sanctions” than plant “ What AMG is trying to do,” As PM reports: velt to roll back prices. of the W ar Labor Board, now that it has pun- grievances' accumulated over the taken over by the gov­ ’seizure be applied. “ American troops racing into he says, “ is to get the existing The coal miners, however, confronted Roose- itive powers over the unions, makes them out- past eleven months.” During the mine strikes the Sicilian towns are invariably ernment. Thirty Penn­ machinery of government work­ velt with a solid strike front when he tried to right police agents against the workers. They “ The rank and file made their ‘WLB refused to request govern­ greeted by two cries, ‘Viva sylvania coal miners are ing again 4under • its super­ impose the Little Steel formula upon them. And have performed a police function in voting to sentiments known in no uncertain ment action against any employer vision. . . Americanos’ and ‘Let’s hang terms,” wrote The Militant cor­ until the board was given punitive when the administration went all-out against deny the U A W -C IO a union security clause in now being prosecuted by “The first thing they [the the mayor’.” respondent from the scene of ac­ powers against the unions. The AMGOT officials] do is ¿ 0 scout the mine strike, the top officials of the A FL, the Chrysler agreement because of strikes by tion. “They intended to see that Roosevelt - Biddle under proceedings against the above around for the former officials— . C IO and Railroad Brotherhoods supported the Chrysler workers. the company bargained in good firms are generally viewed as part Allies would prosecute them be­ th is Act. the Podesta, the Mayor, Chief of faith and were determined to of a maneuver in preparation for cause they were fascists. In Sicily Roosevelt against the miners. 'They thus The trade union workers must repudiate the Police and others in charge of stage another w alkout'if the man­ The new executive order au­ a renewed assault on the United we have demonstrated that' we stabbed in the back both the miners and their present treacherous policy ¿f the officialdom, sanitation, health, relief, justice, agement failed to live up to its thorizes the withholding of “ any Mine Workers by the Roosevelt have no such intention, fo r the and so forth. These men are in­ own membership in whose interests also the Only by independent class action can the work- agreement. benefits, privileges or rights” in Administration. obvious reason that something terviewed and others are ques­ miners were trying to break through the Little ers halt the downward spiraling of their taking sanctions against the like90% of the administration and “ These workers went back to unions. This sweeping generaliza­ UNION LEADERS WORRIED tioned about them. I f their record every other walk of life is fascist Steel formula. standard of living and protect their unions the plants only after overwhelm­ tion leaves the door wide open for is bad they’re put in jail. If not, R. J. Thomas, president of and to eliminate all fascists The gap between wages and prices continues from the unfolding anti-labor campaign of the ing pressure from the entire the application of numerous and if they show willingness to the UAW-CIO. in a statement to would mean complete paralysis to widen. Roosevelt is now calling for “truly bosses, Congress and Roosevelt, Federal and State governmental penalties. the United Press criticized the ex­ cooperate, they are restored to apparatus, the War Labor Board, and chaos. . .” stiff” taxes and compulsory saving which R E S C IN D T H E N O -S T R IK E PLEDG E, The Selective Service System ecutive order: their functions, given help and the Arm y and Navy top officers, And if the Italian masses, long has recently amended its regula­ money if necessary and told to would further reduce the purchasing power of W IT H D R A W FR O M T H E W A R LABOR the FBI, the management sup­ “ The WLB was conceived as a oppressed by the people whom tions to provide for terminating get things going* as before. . the workers. Yet the union officials do no more BOARD. ported by the whole capitalist mediation and arbitration agen­ AMGOT is helping, were to the deferments of registrants "not Thus the fascist officials are press and all the radio news com­ cy,” Thomas declared, “ and not decide that they want to “ prose­ than to repeat over and over: “If there is no PU T A N E N D TO C O M P A N Y -U N IO N - supporting” or “ adversely affect­ divided into two types: “ bad” mentators. On top of all this the as an agency to execute sanctions cute” the fascists themselves, pricc rollback, we insist that the Little Steel ISM IN PO LITIC S. ing” the war effort. and penalties against workerranC fascists and “ good” fascists. The then-AMGOT, still pleading “ex­ workers found that their own in­ formula be discarded.” ' O R G A N IZE A N IN D E P E N D E N T LABOR Certificates of availability would their organizations.” “ bad” ones get jail, the H‘good” pediency,” would naturally side ternational officers were arrayed Roosevelt remains unimpressed by their “in- PA R TY. be' denied to striking workers by “ It will diminish the standing ones get help. And the alibi for with the fascists. For after all, against them to a man.” this policy is the “ expediency” the War Manpower Commission, of the WTLB in the eyes of the collaboration with fascists is A t the meeting where the union argument that the State Depart­ thereby blacklisting them in in­ workers,” Thomas added in t preferable to so-called chaos. membership under this terrific dustry. masterpiece of understatement ment has resorted to since the “ At the same time that fascists pressure voted to return to work, beginning of the war in explain­ RESISTANCE TO FASCISM reflecting his own fears of the are of necessity being used,” ‘Courier’ Review one of the workers, voicing the “TEETH” AGAINST LABOR ing its willingness to collaborate reaction of the workers to the Matthews continues, “ fascism is sentiments of the rank and file, Sanctions directed against in­ with all kinds of reactionaries: harsh Roosevelt decree. being destroyed—at least on GROWING INSIDE GERMANY Praises Pamphlet called upon the top officialdom to dividual workers can be applied “ CURIOUS” SIMILARITY paper.” When every function of “ represent the workers and not with or without government con­ The sanctions order is called the “ high-water mark of reaction” There was a fear among the the state is identified with •By Rose Carson the management.” trol of struck plants. in the August 21 New Leader. fascists, says Matthews, “ that the fascism, to abolish fascism would Brazenly ignoring this severe Hpiling the executive order, a By Albert Parker "The President,” writes the So­ threaten to leave society high LONDON—The daily press has remember what took place at reprimand of the workers, the WLB official said: “ This gives cial-Democratic organ, “ appeared and dry. What' often happens is reported that serious strikes have Coventry during the winter of “A hard-hitting pamphlet” is labor members of the W LB have the board teeth with which to bite to serve notice that he . has come that the fascist label is removed, broken out in the Ruhr factories. 1940 when the British workers Constance Nicholas’ estimate, in combined with the corporation the employes. . to an open break with the New Frauds Are Worse but the same men carry on the Workers have refused to go to also refused to report for work the August 21 Pittsburgh Courier, agents and their “ public mem­ Armed with its new 'powers, the same functions. work at night for fear of the during the terrifying and destruc­ D eil.” of the new pamphlet, “ Negroes ber” tools on the board to impose WLB has threatened striking “It is curious to note that terrible air raids. This can be tive bombing. sanctions against the union in newspaper drivers in New York The N. Y. Times of August 20 in the Post-War World” by Albert Than in Last War, readily understood and appreciat­ At that time the militia was Chrysler. By their action they City with “severe penalties” and editorially welcomes the Roosevelt (Continued on page 3)- ed by British workers. They called out, martial law was de­ Parker, regular columnist in The have again given open support to has asked the bosses for the order but feels it doesn’t go far clared and the factories guarded M ilitant. the union-hating corporations and names of employes failing to re­ enough.- Biddle Admits by soldiers with fixed bayonets Miss Nichols’ review of the the new anti-labor drive of the turn to work. "There is no reason to suppose... The Big Business war frauds while the Riot Act was read. No pamphlet reads as follows: government. Proceedings against three firms that this withdrawal of ‘benefits’ More Unions Support civilians were allowed in or out could mean a reduction of wages “ are much bigger than they were “ I am very enthusiastic about in 1917 or 1918,” Attorney of the city for several days. or would otherwise adversely af- this timely pamphlet, ‘Negroes in General Biddle informed a group fp^t the conditions of employment Fight To Free Postal REACTON IN GERMANY the Post-War World,’ by Albert of United States attorneys from Civil Rights Defense Committee Aids of individual union members,” Parker (Pioneer Publishers, 116 tien midwest states meeting in Donations from three more local ers) have helped to finance the The reactions of the workers to complains this leading spokesman University Place, New York 3, Chicago on August 23. Postal Defense Fund, CRDC re­ the murderous air raids was sim­ for Big Business. “ It is difficult unions-rone CIO, the second AFL, N. Y., $.05). These frauds have already cords show. The UAW-CIO leads ilar in Germany, while the meas­ In Reducing Bail for Carl Skoglund to see how it could leave any and the third independent—were all the other internationals, with ures taken by the Nazis had their “It is a strong, hard-hitting, resulted in 123 federal indict­ The Civil Rights Defense Com­ Immediately after the indict­ union much worse off than it received by the Civil Rights twenty locals who have given fin­ usual (brutality. The News unrestricted dissertation on the ments, and 1,279 investigations mittee announced this week that ment, Skoglund was arrested by would have been before the pas­ Defense Committee last week to ancial assistance in this case. Chronicle reports: discrimination and segregation are pending, Biddle reported. So as a result of their intervention the Federal Bureau of Immigra­ sage of the Wagner Act.” the American Negro is forced to fa r 71 cases have been disposed further the Committee’s cam­ In addition a barrage of letters “ The strikes which have spread for Carl Skoglund with the Fed­ tion and held for deportation, STALINIST WHITEWASH of, with convictions or other paign' to win a pardon for Kelly from labor and liberal spokesmen throughout the entire area, live under today in a form of eral Bureau of Immigration, aided charged with being a member of The Stalinist Daily Worker, penalties in about 90% of the in all parts of the country is resulted in a series of searches democracy which the author deems and supported by the American Postal, Minneapolis union leader an organization that advocated the most brazen apologist for Roose­ cases. pouring into the office of Min­ ip which it was hoped to find the hypocritical in every sense, and a Civil Liberties Union, Skoglund’s now serving a five-year prison violent overthrow of the .Govern­ velt in the labor movement, Biddle complained, however, nesota Governor Ed Thye, St. ringleaders. As these proved foresight on what the Negro may t|ail bond has been reduced from ment. The first bail demanded attempts in the August 20 issue that in many cases the offenders sentence on trumped-up charges. Paul, pointing out that Postal .fruitless, the Germans shot 100 expect in a capitalistic post-war $2,500 to $1,000. The premium on was $25,000, but this was finally to frame up an alibi for the anti­ had got off with extremely light The unions were: UAW-CIO was “ guilty” only of obeying the workers out of hand, most of world if it proceeds with the this bond w ill be paid by the Civil same tempo of today. W ith reduced to $2,500 and Skoglund union sanctions order. The Stalin­ penalties. And* when- Biddle mandate of his union in trans­ them foreigners.” Rights Defense Committee. has been out on bail since then. Local 217 of Cleveland; ILGWU, authenticity and justified bitter­ ists dishonestly contend that the makes a complaint of this kind, ferring its local funds to the From this it is clear that the Carl Skoglund came to this A hearing was held on the dep­ Knitgoods Workers Local 155 of ness Parker berates the bestial order “ came in compliance with there must be good ground for CIO when it disaffiliated from majority of the people in the Ruhr country from Sweden about 30 ortation charges early in 1942 and New York; and Brewery Work­ policy of segregation among o*ir a provision of the Smith-Connally it, because he was one of the the AFL. were in sympathy with the years ago. He worked here as a an order of deportation was en­ ers Local 9 of Milwaukee. armed forces. . . Act.” Stressing the veto of this government officials responsible These letters and petitions strikers, since they did not allow lumberjack, miner, railroad work­ tered against him. No announce­ Support fo r the campaign to Act by the President, they thus shortly after Pearl Harbor for being filled out in several in­ terrorism to ’induce them to ex­ “ He is equally contemptuous of er and truck driver. During the ment has been made with refer­ free Postal has been received from seek to imply that he acted a- discontinuing prosecution of all dustrial states, call on Governor pose the leaders of the strikes. and embittered by the actions of years from 1934 to 1941 he was ence to this order by the Depart­ all sections of »the labor move­ gainst his will in issuing the violations of the anti-trust act Thye to take steps to pardon the It shows a’so that foreign work­ Uncle Toms, such as Patterson, of an organizer for Minneapolis ment of Immigration. ment, the CRDC announced. The Tuskegee; Congressman Dawson, sanctions order. Roosevelt’s veto until after the war. imprisoned union leader. Many of ers were used as scapegoats. Teamsters, Local 544, and was The Civil Rights Defense Com­ Michigan /CIO has adopted a of Chicago, and demagogues like message itself exposes this shame­ A typical example of how the these letters point out that the The riots in Munich appeared elected president of the Local in mittee is conducting the defense strong resolution calling for his imprisonment of Postal is not only Rankin, Talmadge and Dixon. He less attempt to white-wash him. corporations have got away with to be of a more political character. 1938. of the 18, including Carl Skog­ release and urging its affiliated a grave injustice against an assures us that the Negroes and Referring tb the first seven pro­ murder fo r crimes endangering The recent execution of students In 1940 Skoglund app’ied for lund, convicted under the infam­ locals to extend all possible moral honorable union leader but sets a whites alike must be educated visions of the Smith-Connally Act, the lives of men in the armed and a university professor not citizenship and his application ous “ Gag” Act. and is awaiting a and financial support. The Sacra­ dangerous precedent which can he against these men. the President said in his veto forces was the Anaconda Wire only 'belie the complete unity of was denied on the ground that decision from the Federal Circuit mento and Boston CIO Councils used against other union leaders message: “ If the b ill were limited and Cable case, in which the cor­ the German,nation, it also shows “ His conclusion is that by lie had been a member of the So­ Court of Appeals in St. Louis. If have both extended generous aid and against the democratic rights to these seven sections, I would poration and its officials were active opposition to the regime. adopting Socialism, through the cialist Workers Party. A year necessary, the case w ill be ap­ to the CRDC. of labor. sign it.” reprimanded and let off with a Particularly is this important medium of a Workers’' and Far­ later, in July, 1941, he together pealed to the U. S. Supreme Court, fine lower than the amount of Locals from a total of eight “Free Kelly Postal” petitions since the German students and mers’ Government, ‘Negroes w ill' with 28 others .was indicted under This portion of the Act which at which time the American Civil money they admitted making CIO internationals, four AFL in­ can be secured from the Civil professors were among the first be able to meet and defeat the the Smith “ Gag” Act, and with 17 met Roosevelt’s approval contains through the delivery of defective ternationals and one unaffiliated Rights • Defense Committee, 160 challenge of their enemies in the others convicted in December of Liberties Union will test the con­ <,war material. international (the Brewery Work- F ifth Avenue, New York. (Continued on page 4) post-war world.’ ” that year. stitutionality of the Smith Act. (Continued on page 3) TWO THE MILITANT AUGUST 1943

RADE UNIO The Struggle To Control The ALP By Philip Blake But in New York State a different situation the most part on the unions; it is supported by The Hillman Plan The policy of the newly-established CIO Poli­ prevails. Already established as the spokesman the most advanced union members in the state Into this situation Hillman has home with á NOTES tical Action Committee, headed by Sidney H ill­ fo r a significant section of the union movement and despite its weaknesses and shortcomings it “ plan” bearing the endorsement of Philip Murray TT man, is to curry favor with Roosevelt in the in the state and in possession of an official place deserves the support of all unionists in electoral and the other CIO bureaucrats. As expressed by on the ballot is the American Labor Party, which By E. R. Frank hope that Roosevelt: in return will protect the struggles against the candidates of the capitalist himself in a letter to the State CIO Council last was able to poll more than 400,000 votes in op­ parties. For these reasons the union militants The intentions of the board in labor officials against the blows of Congress and week, Hillman’s plan is as follows: By E. R. Frank position to the Democratic and Republican Party should be intensely concerned with the present assuming jurisdiction of the hard Big Business. Its method is to try to restore the “ My proposal, in brief, is that all trade unions While the CIO local unions candidates fn last year’s gubernatorial election. fight going on for control of the party and with coal case seem ominous indeed, prestige of Roosevelt among labor’s ranks; to of the state, CIO, AFL, Railroad Brotherhoods and under the leadership of Murray Hillman’s intervention in this fight. when we recall that the board has strengthen Roosevelt’s hand in the present Con­ The present leadership of the ALP of course unaffiliated, shall be invited to affiliate themselve9 and Hillman are working up a made no decision as yet on the gress; to prepare for the re-election of Roose­ has no intention of transforming it into the kind w ith ,the party and to pay to it a per capita tax lather to convert reactionary, Illinois mine contract wage in­ Ail Unprincipled Fight anti-labor congressmen into “ pro­ velt in 1944 and to elect a stable Democratic based upon their membership w ithin the state. crease proposals, although the of a political instrument which w ill meet the needs labor” congressmen and trying to majority in the Congress. and satisfy the aspirations of the unions’ ranks. For several years now the ALP has been wrack­ A ll matters of party policy are to be demo­ Illinois case has been in its hands ed and weakened by an unprincipled cat and dog line them up behind Roosevelt, for one month. Coming on the The first move of the Political Action Com­ The party was originally established as a means cratically determined by the vote of the represen­ Roosevelt himself proceeds to background of the announcement mittee, therefore, was to throw the full strength of winning votes fo r the New Deal from those fight between the Dubinsky-Social Democratic and tatives of the participating trade unions, based deliver another body blow to the of the 48 hour week for the coal of the national CIO leadership against the grow­ workers in New York whose traditions and Stalinist factions, each striving to maintain or upon their pel- capita tax payments to the party.” labor movement by his decree mines and Roosevelt’s new decree ing sentiment and demand in the union ranks seize“organizational control of the party, although authorizing sanctions against elementary class-consciousness had ingrained This plan, says Hillman, would do away with on “ sanctions” against unions, it fo r the creation of an independent labor party. within them an opposition to supporting capitalist they have put forth virtually the same program “ancient political feuds or the injection of ex­ labor unions and individual union appears that the government is Hillman has already held three regional con­ party tickets. And by and large it has been kept since H itler’s attack on the Soviet Union in 1941. traneous issues,” strengthen the ALP and unite members. The “ statesmen of determined to force the coal min­ labor” haven’t said very much as ferences—in Philadelphia, Chicago and Birm ­ tied to the Roosevelt administration since its The Dubinsky group, which at present controls the pro-Roosevelt forces. But to understand its ers to continue working under the state apparatus of the ALP, is based on the yet about this new vicious anti­ the existing scandalous conditions ingham—and boasted in an interview with inception. It is a bureaucratically run organiza­ true purpose, one must bear in mind the attitude ILGWU 'and some of the non-Stalinist controlled labor attack. They are still reel­ and low wages. Federated Press on August 20 that “ third party tion, with the rank and file permitted to say of Hillman toward the ALP in the recent period, ing under the impact of the blow. moves in Michigan and New Jersey liave died CIO unions such as the Retail Clerks, the United * * * The campaign against the coal little about its leadership or policies. As a result particularly in 1942, and the already expressed miners is clearly exposed as part out.” (The political situation in these states w ill Auto Workers, etc. The Stalinists, who won The August 13 number of the its program is hardly distinguishable from that aims of the CIO Political Action Committee. of the campaign against all Amer­ be examined in articles to be printed in coming control of the New York City organization at the Washington Teamster states that o f the liberal Democrats. ican labor. primary election held this month, draw support “ Organized labor, which spoke issues of The M ilitant.) Nevertheless, it is still a labor party based for What Hillman Really Wants Federal Judge If. P. Schoon- from their domination of CIO unions such as the through its national leaders re­ Hillman was one of the founders of the ALP, maker overruled the motion of UE, the NMU, the TWU, Furriers, etc. In cently in a demand for a price defense counsel to quash indict­ but last year when its leaders found themselves rollback to March, 1942 levels, is addition, the Stalinists have flooded the district ments under the Smith-Connally in a position where they could not support the marking time, waiting for Pres­ ALP clubs with their members and have taken Act against 30 officers and mem­ Democratic candidate • for governor and had to ident Roosevelt's new anti-infla­ bers of the United Mine Workers Branches Commemorate over a good many of these clubs. run a candidate of their own, Hillman walked out tion program... ” charged with striking and encour­ Both these groups support the war and the The "labor movement cannot of the ALP and forced the Amalgamated Clothing aging a strike in Western Penn­ administration. Both have called for the re-elec­ stand still, it cannot “ mark time.” Workers to discontinue all support. That was how sylvania. The judge ruled that tion of Roosevelt in 1914. Both are opposed to a Either it goes forward or it goes the “ slave labor” law was per­ Death O f Leon Trotsky strongly Hillman was opposed to any tendency genuine break with the capitalist parties and the backward. And under the leader­ fectly constitutional and that the toward independent labor politics. I f he comes ship of the Murrays and Greens practice of supporting capitalist party candidates. 30 miners must stand tria l on New Y ork around now with ?. plan supposed to strengthen it surely isn’t going forward. That is why it was so difficult for either group * * * September 1. ' NEW YORK—Two hundred the ALP, it is surely not because he has the in­ * * * to arouse enthusiasm among the party members Senator La Follette has broken New York members and friends New York Telegram terests of the ALP at heart, but rather because . .Applesauce Department: — Don­ in the recent city primaries. he wants to clamp his own stranglehold on the with the Roosevelt administration. ald Montgomery,Consumers Coun­ of the Socialist Workers Party The policies of the two groups are illustrated The Senator, who tries to keep organization so that he can be sure it won’t stray sel of the United Auto Workers attended the meeting commem­ by their approach to the problem of the coming bis ear close to the ground, has To Natalia Trotsky Union, reports from Washington orating the third anniversary of out of the White House orbit. now come to the conclusion that election of a lieutenant-governor. The Stalinists in the August 15 United Auto the death of Leon Trotsky held were quick to demand that the ALP must not Hiliman’s plan will not result under present “ The New Deal is Dead.” Worker: “ Better news this time. The New York Trotsky Memorial Meeting sent the -Under this title, the leading ar­ at Irving Plaza on August 22. lun its own candidate, but must on the contrary conditions, when the state A F L leaders are still There will be some rollback of following telegram to Natalih Sedov Trotsky, widow of ticle of the August 16 Progressive. support the Democratic candidate, no matter who tied to the Democratic Party, in bringing intô food prices, and soon. That’s not The meeting opened with the the founder of the Fourth International: La Follette’s Magazine, written by a guarantee, but it’s a good sport­ playing of the Workers Funeral he was, so that the Republicans m ight be the ALP any important forces outside of the Fred Rodell, accuses Roosevelt of “On the third anniversary of the tragic death of our ing bet. I have reasons to .believe Song by Betty Kuehn, violin­ defeated. Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Thé return of having “ betrayed” the “ progress­ the President has takeu a hand in martyred leader, two hundred workers and friends of the the ACW, itself bureaucratically dominated by ives.” ' “ Three recent and reveal­ ist. the decisions and intends to have Trotskyist movement, gathered in a Memorial Meeting in Struggle For Domination the Hillman machine, w ill not mean the estab­ ing examples should hammer that food prices rolled .back, not all The speaker o f the evening New York City, send you our deepest sympathy and as­ point home,” writes Rodell. The ALP state committee met to consider the lishment of democracy in the ALP, but rather foods, but enough to make a size­ was Vincent R. Dunne, Nation­ surances of continued loyalty 'to the revolutionary princi­ the shifting of control away from the Dubinsky “ A fter blasting the original able dent in the food price index.” question on August 21, before the Democrats had Ruml Plan to refund taxes to the al Labor Secretary o f the SWP. ples for which the Old Man lived and died. picked their candidate. The Stalinists complained group toward Hillman whose plan has already ?. * * rich, he (Roosevelt) OK’d what In introducing him, Joseph “The inspiring revolt of the Italian masses against war that “ugly rumors” were circulating to the effect been hailed and assured of fu ll support by the has accurately been called the The War Department is helping Hansen, chairman of the meet­ and fascism is the most powerful confirmation of the cor­ that the ALP was going to run its own candidate. Stalinists. Ruml plan set to three-quarter to spread peon conditions among ing, stated: “In a party notable rectness of Trotsky’s program and perspectives. Together time. As though to say that it is cotton, fru it and other farm lab­ Alex Rose, state secretary, indignantly denied the Willingness to collaborate with the Stalinists, fo r the youth of its members, as wicked to steal a million dollars orers in the Southern states. with you we continue the fight which will surely end in truth of such rumors. Then the Dubinsky group or at any rate to accept their support, is the chief ours is, we treasure particularly but it is perfectly proper to com­ A confidential report of the War the socialist victory of the international proletariat.” passed a resolution picking Joseph V. O’Leary as tactical difference at the present time between those of our cadre, who, like promise by stealing $750,0(10. Manpower Commission discloses their candidate and promising to withdraw him Comrade Dunne, represent, in their Hillman and Murray on the one hand and figures “After letting his lieutenants in that war prisoners qre being used keenly perceived as early as 1923 if the capitalist parties selected a candidate like Dubinsky on the other. Like his master Congress speak up for the anti­ own experience an entire epoch of extensively in Texas, Georgia, A lle n to w n the treacherous role Stalin would “ acceptable to labor.” The Stalinists objected to Roosevelt, who is w illing fo r the time being to strike bill, he vetoed it behind Mississippi, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Marxism in this country.” ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A joint play in the revolutionary move­ this procedure because it would leave the whole accept an alliance with Stalin on the international their backs and made not the New Mexico, although all these Comrade Dunne in his address first elaborated on the many meeting of the Allentown and ment. Thanks to the invincible question in the hands of a vacancies committee scene so long as American capitalism has the slightest effo rt to have his veto areas have plently of farm labor. Quakertown comrades and friends w ill, conviction, and courage with upheld — which he could have Between 350 and 400. private con­ aspects of Léon Trotsky’s lifetime of three Dubinskyites; their own proposal was to upper hand, so is Hillman willing to work along career as a revolutionist. “ He was to commemorate the third an­ which he applied himself to ,the postpone action on the question until after the accomplished by snapping his fin­ tracts for war prisoners were in niversary of the death of Leon with the American Stalinists in the union move­ not only a great theoretician and struggle against the betrayers in Democrats had chosen their candidate, so that gers. His hypocrisy here fooled force during June and July of Trotsky was held at Allentown, the Kremlin, the Fourth Interna­ ment here. W ith their support in New York State, no one — least of all labor. this year. Under more than half w riter,” he said, “ but a revolu­ Pa. on August 21. tional was created. This World the Stalinists too would have a voice in the final Hillman will be able to take over the ALP. The "And then there was the ,Wal- of the contracts, wages ranged tionary man of action.” The memorial address was Party of the Socialist Revolution decision. State CIO Council endorsed his plan last week. lace-Jones episode — with the between 10 and 24 cents an hour. TROTSKY'S ROLE given by Comrade J. Fitch. exists today to complete the great Two days later Hillman publicly declared that Presidential letter so carefully The fight between these factions, plainly * * * Leona Masseyj) resided. The meet­ work which Stalin’s assassin worded to sound superficially im­ Then he reviewed the activities enough, is not over principle or program, but he and his forces would enter the .state ALP The War Labor Board voted on of Trotsky as president of the ing voted to send the following foiled Trotsky to leave un­ over control of the organization. The Dubinsky prim ary contest next A p ril unless the present partial, but with the actual ef­ telegram to Natalia Trotsky: finished. fect, just as carefully planned, to August 18 to punish the Chrysler Petersburg Soviet of 1905; or­ group has a stricty Social Democratic hatred of ALP leaders accepted his plan before then. The locals of the UAW by turning ganizer of the October insurrec­ “ A district memorial meeting in “ Today Trotskyism is synonym­ strip Wallace of all authority and the Stalinists, refusing to collaborate with the Dubinsky group, already hard pressed by the down the union demand for tion which, together with Lenin, Allentown, Pa. sends you com­ ous with world revolution,” said Jones of practically none. This radely greetings and pledges Stein, “ and we may be sure that Stalinists even though they have the same poli­ Stalinists, thus faces the risk of being eliminated double deal fooled no one either. “ maintenance of membership” he directed; organizer of the Red anew to carry forward the ideas all over the world on this cies, and trying to,exclude the Stalinists from from the leadership altogether unless it comes “ Notice that in each of these and check-off of dues. This Army; co-founder of the first of Comrade Trotsky which, always memorial occasion our co-think­ the leadership of the organization so that their to terms with Hillman. instances the progressives took punitive act is in reprisal against workers’ state; and co-founder of tKe four-day “insurgent” strike the Third International. He was unshakeable in the ranks of the ers w ill pause to remember the own domination w ill not be endangered. As a the knifing. Notice that in each Fourth International, are now great debt which we owe Comrade instance the President tried to of the Chrysler workers on May also a great orator, whose result the Stalinists are compelled to fight back; Task Of Union Militants 20. speeches, clear and forceful, being confirmed daily in the Trotsky. He rescued the revolu­ conceal the knife.” crucible of world events.” tionary vanguard from the Stalin­ they do this with some reluctance perhaps be­ The only alternative to the certain stagnation * * * The M ilitant called the turn on educated and inspired the masses cause for their own part they are willing to the trend of events January 23, of Russian workers, peasants and ist morass and kept unsoiled the and degeneration into which the ALP w ill sink The sensational victories of the banner of international socialism.” collaborate with Dubinsky and the Social Demo­ i f its fate is left up to any or all of these three Cooperative Commonwealth Fed­ 1943. I t wrote at that time: “ The soldiers. Los Angeles War Labor Board is now embark­ The meeting voted to send crats and any one else, including Farley and factions, is for the union militants to take the eration, Canadian counterpart of “ Not only did Trotsky play this LOS ANGELES, August 22 — ing on an ambitious program to a telegram of greetings and Hague, i f it 'w ill further the interests of the leadership of the organization into their own the British Labor Party, in win­ active role in the first successful Over one hundred persons, mem­ ‘discipline’ the labor movement, solidarity to Comrade Natalia Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union. ning 34 out of 90 seats in the workers’ revolution,” Dunne con­ bers and sympathizers of the hands. To do that the militants must work out a to mold its policy and to in­ Trotsky in Mexico City. In addition the fight is an attempt by each side Ontario legislature, is bound to tinued, “ but he also became the Socialist Workers Party, attended program which can arouse the initiative and in­ fluence the selection of its leader­ have important repercussions in first historian of a workers’ state. a Trotsky Memorial Meeting here to win consideration and concessions from the spire the enthusiasm of the more than two m il­ ship. . . The War. Labor Board this country and w ill unquestion­ The ‘History of the Russian tonight. Following a memorial A k ro n administration by demonstrating that it is the has thus emerged as a govern­ lion New York unionists inside and outside of the ably inspire the workers to re­ Revolution’ is not only a great address by M urry Weiss, the film most reliable and valuable servant of the White mental super-executive board of The Akron Branch of the ALP. And the first plank in that program can newed efforts in building their literary masterpiece, but an in­ “ Tsar to Lenin” was shown. A the labor movement. . . This con­ Socialist Workers Party observed House in restraining and strangling the move­ only be the demand for a complete and un­ own independent party of labor. valuable textbook fo r those who telegram of warmest revolu­ stantly increasing assumption of the anniversary of the death of ment of the workers toward independent political equivocal break with the policies and politicians The August 15 United Automob­ seek to complete the task he and tionary greetings was sent to power is possible only because the Leon Trotsky at a meeting held action. ile Worker reports that 'A. Nelson his co-workers so gloriously Natalia Sedov Trotsky by the of the capitalist parties. leadership of the CIO and AFL on Sunday, August 22. Alles, one of the victorious CCF began.” meeting. have gone over lock, stock and Comrade A. Wood of Detroit legislative candidates, is a mem­ Comrade Dunne then outlined The audience demonstrated its percussions throughout Europe barrel to the war machine.” was the feature speaker of the ber of the UAW-CIO and one of briefly the life of Leon Trotsky appreciation of the life work of presaged the fu ll vindication of The Chrysler decision of the meeting. He described in his Trotsky’s ideas and his conviction the pioneer organizers of Ford from his first underground ac­ Leon Trotsky by contributing address the (Contributions of the NEW YORK SWP PUSHES local 240 of Windsor, Ontario. WLB reveals not only the cold, tivity as a youth of 18; his im­ $71.00 to further the work of the in the inevitable triumph of the * * * calculated intention of the Roose­ great Marxist teacher and leader Socialist revolution. prisonments and exile under Socialist Workers Party, and by to the movement of world re­ The War Labor Board, taking velt administration to house- Czarist rule; his role in the buying literature from the display A telegram to Natalia Trotsky, break the labor movement, to volution and the untiring devotion CANNON BOOK CAMPAIGN over jurisdiction of the anthracite revolutions of 1905 and 1917; his of Trotsky’s works. and the tremendous sacrifices that pledging to “carry on the ideas crack down on every m ilitant and The seven-week educational and 8 books, fo r a grand total of 118. coal controversy at the request of exile from the Soviet Union; the Trotsky had made throughout his and work for which Leon’ Trotsky hound him out of positions of in­ distribution campaign of Local Highest individual score thus the Anthracite Coal Operators persecution of him, his fam ily and N ew ark lifetime to the socialist cause. lived and died,” was sent from Association, has set a public hear­ fluence even i f he has to be New York, Socialist Workers far goes to Richard Kellner, who his associates; and his brutal His example serves as an inspira­ the meeting. A collection of $52 ing for August 23. dragooned o ff to the army or to NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 21. — was taken. Party, to promote James P. has sold 10 copies. Second in the murder three years ago by Stalin’s tion to all revolutionary fighters. jail. It reveals more than that. The Trotsky Memorial Meeting, Cannon’s hook, “ The Struggle For lead is Larissa Reed, w ith a total In line with the policy adopted henchman. The audience enthusiastically The meeting was opened with at the time of the Illinois con­ It discloses the fact that the top held here last night under the A Proletarian Party,” launched on of 6 books to her credit. responded to the remarks of the the singing of the Workers’ Flag officials of the labor unions are “ BEING CONFIRMED auspices of the local branch of July 18, has already achieved A Cannon Book Campaign Rally, tract, the UMW has signified its speaker and sent the fallowing and closed with the International. in a conspiracy w ith Roosevelt TODAY” the Socialist Workers Party, was creditable results. Branches scheduled fo r Saturday night, intention of appearing before the telegram to Comrade Natalia against their own membership. I t The speaker described how in addressed by V. R. Dunne, noted throughout the city have been Aug. 28, will be held for the board. The anthracite wage neg­ Trotsky: “ We greet you on the is the first case on record where the face of constant difficulties northwest labor leader and na­ Boston active in the work of selling the purpose of planning the next otiations affect approximately third anniversary of the loss of the “ labor zombies” on the board and dangers, Comrade Trotsky tional labor secretary of the SWP. BOSTON, Mass. — The Boston book, and it is confidently ex­ steps. A mimeographed symposium 30,000 hard coal miners. Negotia­ our great leader and pledge our­ tions first began on March 31 and voted in favor of punitive actions continued his work in exile — Comrade Dunne paid tribute to Branch of the S. W. P. held a pected. that the quota of 200 ac­ bulletin, similar to the one issued selves to fight on to victory for have been continuing, on and off. against an important AFL or w riting, organizing, and found­ the life-long revolutionary activ­ Trotsky Memorial meeting at the cepted by Local New York w ill during the. drive to sell Leon ities and teachings of the great his great principles.” for four and a half months. CIO union. ing a- new international revolu­ •* Workers Center in downtown have been reached at the com­ Trotsky’s “ In Defense of Marx­ The final wage demand of the Daniel De Leon was a thousand tionary movement. Everything Marxist leader who was struck Boston on .Saturday, August 14. pletion of the campaign. ism” earlier this year, w ill bb is­ UMW negotiators is an increase times right when he branded that has transpired in the three down by a GPU assassin three Twin Cities The first speaker. Comrade Lon­ sued in the near future to pro­ years ago. The speaker showed Central Branch, the largest of of $1.30 a day. The operators union officials of this type “the years sinee Trotsky’s death, con­ MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — “ In don, analyzed the important vide further impetus to the local how Trotsky had defended and the New York branches, leads the refused to offer any increases be­ labor lieutenants of the capitalist cluded Comrade Dunne, has the revolt of the Italian workers events from the end of the last drive. continued the work of Marx, En­ yond 64 cents a day. class.” verified Trotsky’s prophecies and after 20 years of brutal fascism, war leading up to the revolt of competition w ith 100 books sold A city-wide social in honor of gels and Lenin in preserving and convictions. “ His unswerving faith the ideas of Leon Trotsky still the Italian masses in 1943. since the beginning of the cam­ the team selling the highest contributing to the revolutionary in the socialist future and his live, and the red banner of social­ The second speaker, Comrade paign. The Brooklyn Branch has number of books w ill be held at program Which w ill be the guide supreme confidence in the revolu­ ism comes forward once more. Barbour, gave a biographical sold 10 books, the Queens Branch the conclusion of the campaign. and the banner of the masses of tionary might of the workers is Only the Fourth International, the sketch of Comrade Trotsky’s life N EW Y O R K BEACH P A R TY the whole world. being confirmed . today in Italy, party of final victory over fascism and thé lessons that all revolu­ Time: SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, from 11 A. M. on and w ill be tomorrow through­ and decaying capitalism, can tionists can learn from it. out Europe, Asia, and the entire D e tro it bring peace and plenty to the Comrade Antoinette Konikow, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LOGIC Place: JACOB RIIS PARK, Bay 5 world.” DETROIT, Mich. — At the workers of the world,” declared the 'leading speaker of the meet­ OF M A R X IS M Trotsky Memorial meeting held Art Preis in his speech at the ing, who had known Trotsky for Instructions: Take Seventh Avenue subway downtown to Inspired by Comrade Dunne’s brilliant portrayal .of Trotsky’s by the Socialist Workers Party Trotsky Memorial Meeting spon­ a number of years, contrasted in By WILLIAM F. WARDE Flatbush Avenue, transfer to either the Jacob Riis Park great contributions in the work­ in Detroit on August 21, Com­ sored by the Minneapolis and St. her remarks the real Trotsky or Rockaway Park bus. ers’ struggle fo r socialism, the rade M. Stein, known to many Paul Branches of the Socialist w ith the slanderous and lying pic­ 8 Lectures (80 mimeographed pages) audience contributed $367.50 to through the columns of The M ili­ Workers Party on August 21. ture of him presented in the Da­ PRICE 50 CENTS Swim - play golf - baseball - tennis - handball help carfy on the work of the So­ tant, was the main speaker. On his first v is it to the Twin vies film “ Mission To Moscow,” which she had just seen. Order from Subscription 50c - and this includes your lunch! cialist Workers Party. Numerous Comrade Stein pointed out that Cities, Comrade Preis spoke to a books and pamphlets by Leon although Trotsky was the leader large, attentive audience in the The audience responded enthus­ Trotsky as well as other pamph­ of two workers’ revolutions and headquarters of the Minneapolis iastically to the speakers remarks Pioneer Publishers lets of the SWP were sold at the the brilliant organizer of the Red Branch. He paid tribute to the and voted to send greetings to Auspices: Central branch, Socialist Workers Party literature table. Army, his greatest contribution life and work of Leon Trotsky and Comrade Trotsky. The meeting 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE NEW YORK 3, N. Y. The meeting closed w ith the was in the struggle against the demonstrated that the revolt of closed with the singing of The In­ | singing of The Internationale. crimes of Stalinism. Trotsky the Italian workers and its re- ternationale. AUGUST 22. 1943 T H E MILITANT THREE

"LABOR WITH A WHTTH SKIN CAN­ The Kind Of Government NOT EMANCIPATE) ITSELF WHERE American Liberals Chatter The LABOR WITH A BLACK SKIN 18 BRANDED” — KARL MARX. Negro Struggle About Italian Revolution Stalin Wants In Germany By John Adamson m it these facts because such an(*) By M. Morrison admission would blow sky high By Albert Parker The liberals have demonstrated The whole world correctly as­ man people to do tlie same thing. their phony propaganda about the sumes that the “Free Germany” Stalin, through the manifesto, by their statements on the Italian “ democratic” character of the events that they fu lfill the role AMGOT PAVES THE WAY Mational Committee organized in assures the Germans that he has Jim Crow Still Going Full Blast war. Moscow is the work of Stalin and no intention of destroying the Ger­ of the traditional King’s Loyal Op­ The Italian events are pretty Following are a few ‘ items are Negroes.) The order reads as ;hat the manifesto issued by the man nation. From the point of position, which helps by its c riti­ well stripping the liberals of their picked from last week’s press as follows: cism to deflect serious opposition committee lias Stalin’s approval. view of capitalist propaganda to pretensions to independence. They FOR A REACTIONARY It is to be taken for granted evidence that Jim Crow is as hale “ Those living in the city of and Acts as a safety valve for the hasten H itler’s downfall, the are daily hammering home the that no political committee can and. hearty as ever, apparently Barnesville, whether men or regime. No matter, how appalled manifesto follows a far more fact that the liberals are partisans be created and no manifesto is­ working on the job 24 hours a women, who have been employed they become by the crimes of the clever line than the one followed of the war camp of Anglo-Ameri­ sued without the consent of the day. as cooks and nurses, and who are capitalists, they remain loyal and GOVERNMENT IN ITALY by Roosevelt and Churchill. The can capitalism which plans to Kremlin dictator, in fact without * * * not now employed, w ill be arrested true to the capitalist system and (Continued from page 1) the choice of leaders through argument propounded by the crush the workers’ revolution in being initiated by him. and prosecuted and rib excuse ex­ continue Working with might and Marshal Badoglio has done the which the new government will politicians of the capitalist demo­ Henry Ford, who posed as a Europe. It is this damaging evi­ Immediately after the manifesto cept a certificate from a physician main to support the war. same thing on the peninsula. He take form. . .” cracies is that the German peo­ “ friend of the Negro people” dence that Clie liberals try to hide was made public, speculation be­ w ill be accepted. These pretentious, muddleheaded has signed a paper abolishing Or, as it is put in another ple are endowed by nature' with during the period when he still when they engage in the comedy gan as to Stalin’s motives in or­ “ Those who do not like the confusionists, quibblers and w rit­ fascism, but except for a few of­ dispatch to the same issue of the aggressive intentions and must hoped to be able to use Negro of calling on Roosevelt and ganizing a Free Germany commit­ teVms of this warning must ers of sophistries reached a new ficials at the top he has to rely N. Y. Times, from Allied head­ therefore be kept under strict workers to prevent the unioniza­ ■Churchill, the two leading spokes­ tee and having it present a pro­ realize that we all, regardless of high of irresponsib'e phrasemong­ on the very same men who kept quarters in North Afi-ica: “ What surveillance. The manifesto of tion of his industrial empire, men of the leading combination gram for Germany. It is highly financial means, must either work, ering in the second phase of the things going before. . .” is important to recognize now is Stalin is based on the argument stands charged with “ violating the of world capitalism, to aid and significant that no one, outside of fight or leave this city. This is Italian events when it became It certainly will sound “curious” that the AMGOT is drastically that H itler alone is to blame. letter and the spirit of the ex­ abet revolutions in Europe, which the Stalinists, examined the man­ the final warning. The police clear ‘ that the Badoglio govern­ to many people—especially when changing the judicial and legis­ It is quite natural that Stalin ecutive order on \Fair Employ­ could only seek to abolish capi­ ifesto to determine Stalin’s mot­ force of the city has been in­ ment would not accede to the Al­ they remember (hat Badoglio lative structures of Sicily and is should adopt a line fa r more ment Practices.” talism. That is the reason why ives. It is assumed that his pur­ structed to enforce this warning.” lied demand fo r “ unconditional was a supporter of fascism for necessarily placing itself—with agreeable to Germans of all According to Ford Local (100 the liberals must continue to poses are never revealed in the * * * surrender.” 20 years and is still a partner m ilitary support, of course—in a classes than the line followed by of the CIO United Auto Work­ muddy up the waiters, to confuse political documents he presents. of Hitler, while the Allies are position where it will have to the capitalist democracies. A l­ ers, the Ford Motor Company has The WAVEs are pleading for SUDDEN SWITCH both themselves and their follow­ These are generally intended to enlistments by women. Many ers, to chatter about this new' supposed to be fighting a war for choose what men are going to be though he is still clamoring for consistently refused since A pril 1 PM had been complaining for conceal his motives . and create a second front, Stalin is undoubt­ Navy officials have issued public “ classless” revolution. democracy! the executives of the future to hire Negro applicants through several days that Roosevelt and confusion. edly aware of the danger to the statements in an effort to increase Italian government. . .” regular employment channels; has Churchill were trying to_ fix up a JUST A “BOGEY?” ROOSEVELT’S PROMISE The manifesto could very well Soviet Union and to the Bureauc­ enlistments which are apparently deal with Badoglio and "the King subjected all Negro applicants to Tlie Rome Radio broadcast an “ But,” some liberals w ill com­ FUTURE DECIDED NOW be the product of a group of racy which powerful Anglo-Amer­ well below the number desired by anti to crush the revolt of the investigation by jts notorious appeal to the Allies on August 10: plain, “that isn’t giving a fair AMGOT, which has forbidden liberals aiming to establish in ican capitalist armies in Enrage the administration. Italian people. Suddenly on August “ Sociological Department;” has “ What victory can the Anglo- picture of ^Allied policy. After all political activity in the oc­ Germany an ideal democratic would present. So long as Hitler But when Negro women volun­ 18, the same PM calls on the same repeatedly refused to honor an Americans think to obtain from all, the • present arrangement cupied territories, asserts that it capitalist social order with all the is not defeated, Stalin must con­ teer-—that’s another story. When Roosevelt and Churchill to issue agreement with the union provid­ (he ruins of Europe? What secur­ is only temporary. Didn’t Presi­ has no intention of “ meddling in freedoms for capitalists, workers, tinue to call for a second front a number of Negro women ap­ an .appeal to the Italian people ing fo r job preference fo r the ity can they draw from a Europe dent Roosevelt promise that politics.” Fools may believe or farmers and intellectuals. Hitler and run the risk of having B rit­ plied at the'recruiting station in to revolt against Badoglio and the wives, sisters and daughters of in the throes of revolution, per­ ‘eventually’ the Italian people w ill pretend to believe this, but the is the beast upon whom all the ish and American armies deter­ Washington, D. C., a few days King. PM even lias the message Ford workers called to military meated through and through by get the rig h t to elect their own Italian people certainly recognize blame for the woes of the German mine the fate of Europe. But he ago, the officials went to the point •all written out for Roosevelt and service . when those women have Communist virus?” form of government?” AMGOT’s collaboration with the nation is placed. In fact, the clear would much rather the war came been relatives of Negroes, etc. of shutting their doors “ because Churchill. I t calls on the Italian Roosevelt did make such a But to the “ruthless realists” fascists as a political apt of the inference can be drawn from the to an end before the armies of of the heat,” although it was no people to form a united front of promise, but what it amounts to * * * of the liberal camp, the terrible first order. Many liberals seem manifesto that H itler is to be con­ the capitalist democracies enter hotter than any other day and the socialist, communist and lib­ is revealed in a frank admission to think that Italy’s future will Two methods of preserving Jim although the reception given the fear of the workers’ revolution demned not because.he represents Europe. In such an eventuality eral parties to overthrow the gov­ by Matthews: not be decided until after the war, fascism blit because he failed to' Stalin would not only he able to Crow conditions through the Negro applicants was positively ernment and establish a. democ­ which haunts the capitalists of “ Theoretically the people of but the Italian people can sec that achieve victory. Had victory been claim a larger share in the vic­ Selective Service are described in cold. racy. Among other things, the Ita ly and of the whole world is the latest press service of the nothing but a “ red bogey.” In Italy w ill have their chances to it is being decided right now— his lot instead of defeat, the Ger­ tory hut would also be in position Navy and WAVE officials denied appeal states: “ We know that in the name of “ expediency” and Workers Defense League. later that they were refusing to the never-never land of the choose their own form of govern­ man people, according to the man- to oppose the sending of British revolution by force w ill be neces­ ment when the time comes, but the “ prevention of chaos.” infesto, should have accepted him The first, based on an investiga­ accept applications from Negro liberals, the masses organize and American, troops to occupy sary.” it takes only a little cogitation to And the Italian workers can be with enthusiasm. Germany. tion made by Southern WDL women. “ But,” explained Lt. safe, harmless, respectable revolu­ The August 9 issue of the New realize that AMG’s activities be­ expected to fight against such, a From Stalin, head of a state Secretary Frank Me Callister, Commander Atkinson, «“there is tions with no social aims or There is a very great probabi­ Republic also takes up the theme tween now and then w ill profo­ policy whether it is carried out where capitalism has been abo­ shows that many planters in the nothing we can do but take consequences. lity that, when the German gen­ of revolution. Only the week be­ undly affect the mechanism and by a Badoglio or by an AMGOT. lished, comes the advice that a South are promising draft defer­ names and addresses.” Rumor PM admonishes Roosevelt and erals see the inevitabilty of a com­ fore it had issued dire warnings free capitalism should be estab­ ment to their sharecroppers if has it that the Navy is working Churchill not to be frightened by plete collapse of the German ar­ about the intentions and plans lished in Germany. From the they w ill sign a yellow-dog con­ out some “ arrangement” whereby the Rome radio broadcast. “This my, they w ill enter into negotia­ of the State Department. But now' Kremlin dictator who does' not tract agreeing to stay on the Negro women w ill be admitted. is advice from the enemy taken tions w ith British and American it glibly announces that “ whether permit any freedom whatever to planters’ farm for at least five The arrangement of course w ill straight from the pages of ‘Mein leaders on the basis of scrapping we like it or not, we are the al­ Build Your Marxist Library Noiv exist in the Soviet Union comes years. “ In some instances, where be strictly Jim Crow, otherwise K am pf... Today the allies know H itler and permitting British and lies of revolution in Europe.” a program standing for free trade Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union the Negro women would be ac­ better than to be impressed by the American forces to occupv Ger­ Memorial Address “To the Memory of the Old M an” unions, freedom of speech, of members refused to sign, they cepted now. NEW KIND OF REVOLUTION Rome Radio’s broacast.. . ” many: while keeping the eastern .05 press, of assembly and of elec­ were kicked o ff the plantation and * * * The New Republic describes this .T. Alvarez Del Vayo in a similar — by James P. C annon...... 16 p., paper front intact. I f complete defeat tions. No wonder that no intel­ their crop taken away.” Accord­ The Chicago Defender has un­ revolution in appropriately vague vein approvingly quotes Sforza’s Socialism on T ria l — by James P. Cannon is inevitable, the German ruling ligent person, outside of the ranks ing to McCallister, “ it appeared earthed a very illuminating docu­ terms: “This is a revolution, not statement that “ Allied public op­ 116 p., paper .10 class w ill turn to the capitaljst of the Stalinists, takes the mani­ many planters were getting draft- ment issued by the commanding merely against German domina­ inion could make no worse mis­ democracies for protection against Your Standard of Living — by C. Charles festo as an expression of Stalin’s deferment blanks in quantities general as “educational” material tion, and not merely against Naz­ take than showing itself afraid revolution. Stalin is aware of 32 p., paper .05 real purpose. this possible turn to event® and, from Selective Service Boards” for Camp Stewart, Ga., scene of ism and fascism. I t is also a rev­ of tbe so-called danger of revolu­ ❖ * * and using them to further this a number of armed clashes in ­ olution against the kind of world, tion.” Case of Leon Trotsky — by the Dewey Commission through the manifesto, ho hastens The creation of the cofmnittee to assure the German capitalists campaign. volving Negro soldiers. the kind of social and political But Roosevelt and Churchill,' 600 p., paper 1.00 and the issuance of the manifesto and generals that, if they get rid One part of the document, order, that spewed forth these ab­ the spokesmen of the capitalist ' same in cloth 3.00 * * * have generally been interpreted of Hitler, they need have no fear amazingly enough, asserts: “ Most ominations.” classes of their respective coun­ The second method is based on slave-owners were good-hearted, James Burnham, another lumi- Not Guilty — by the Dewey Commission 440 p., cloth 2.75 as a warning to England and the for the continued existence of the tries; operate in the real world United States and as a bargain­ information described to the Christian people who liked for nary of tbe intellectual circles, capitalist, system and of Germany WDL by B. F. McLaurin, interna­ of the class struggle, not in the Trade Union Problems— by Farrell Dobbs 44 p., paper .10 ing factor. This is undoubtedly everyone around them to be advised us but a short time ago mythological fairy land of the as far Stalin is concerned. They tional representative of the AFL correct as far as it goes. By form­ happy,. There weye, as a rule, that the coming revolution of liberals. They know that revolu­ Founding Conference of the 4th ln t’1 127 p., paper .25 can get better terms from him Sleeping Car Porters Union, who ing the committee Stalin expresses good to their slaves.” this epoch was going to be the tion in Europe today w ill be a than from the capitalist democra- reports “ that in many areas of Assassination of Leon Trotsky — by Albert Goldman his independence, as against Eng­ Another part of the document, "managerial revolution.” Accord­ workers’ revolution aiming at the clies who arc demanding uncondi- . the vSouth Negro locomotive fire­ - 74 p., paper .15 land and the United States and ing to this theory, the “ managers” overthrow of capitalism, not some tional surrender. men and train porters, whose oc­ addressed to the officers to “ use thus places himself in a strong­ * * * your S-2 Section and organize a constituted the new exploiting mythical “classless,” “ anti-tota­ In Defense of Socialism — by Albert Goldman cupations have been declared er bargaining position. Stalin counter-subversive system. Select class that was to supplant the litarian” revolution, aiming at 95 p., paper .10 Stalin and the leaders of the deferrable, have been drafted capitalists as the rulers of so­ Takes great care to assure the capitalist democracies are in­ as secret agents qualified and nothing in particular. capitalist democracies that his while white locomotive firemen ciety; Stalin and H itler were What Is Socialism? — by Albert Goldman 48 p., paper .10 terested in defeating the German patriotic men in each barracks. They know that Socialism is program for post-war Germany have been exempted. . . Two cities cited as prototypes of this new W hy We Defend the Soviet Union — by Albert Goldman army. But there necessarily is a Instruct these men carefully and no “ bogey” but a mortal danger has nothing to do w ith social­ in which this procedure has been class. 32 p., paper .05 basic difference between the at­ secretly. Give them code names to them and thelc rule. They are ism. Nevertheless by means of common are Augusta and Macon, Now w riting in the New Leader titude of S(alin towards the post­ and have them mail their reports not thinking of summoning the Fascism and Big Business — by Daniel Guerin the manifesto he warns the Allies Georgia.” on the Italian events, Burnham war Germany and the attitude of to you except in emergency.” European workers to revolt a- 340 p., paper (List price LOO) that he is not to be left out of does not so much as mention his the British and American capital­ McLaurin also charges that the Thus the army bureaucrats ex­ gainst the Badoglios. On the con­ Sale price .50 the picture and that his demands “managerial revolution” or the ists. This difference is, based on Southeastern Railroads “ arc pect to curb the dissatisfaction of trary they are scheming and must he taken into consideration role of the “ managers” in the com­ the different roles that a German hiring relatively large numbers of the soldiers, which arises from the working overtime right now to Maritime — by Frederick J. Lang 182 p., paper 1.00 to get his consent for any arran­ white firemen—more than are segregation system and the Jim ing society. He now discovers aid the Badoglios and Victor Em­ capitalist state can play in the Manifesto of the 4th International on the Imperialist gement for Germany or any part posf-war period in relation to the needed for their present needB— Crow treatment of the Army, by along with The Nation, New Rep­ manuels in crushing all workers’ of Europe. 'Soviet. Union anU in relation to and hoarding this potential re­ spying on them! ublic, PM and all the other gut­ revolutions. W ar and the Proletarian Revolution 48 p., paper .05 servoir of manpower while they * * * less publications of the liberal I t seems to me, however, that the capitalist democracies. NO CONCLUSION Manifesto of the 4th International to the Workers the most important purpose For the latter a capitalist Ger­ await the drafting and eventual H itler is retreating on the muddleheads, a new kind of The same PM which asks Roos­ ' and Peasants of India 24 p., paper .05 which the committee w ith its many always represents a danger complete elemination of Negro eastern front and Mussolini is an “ classless” revolution, with no so­ evelt and Churchill to summon manifesto can serve is not as a ous competitor. W ith its powerful firemen.” ex-dictator. But Jim Crow is as cial content or aims. Burnham Revolution and Counter Revolution in Spain — the Italian workers to revolution hint to the Allies but as an ap­ industrial machine, Germany, ♦ ♦ ♦ brazen and aggressive and power­ has even gotten a brand new by Felix Morrow 208 p., paper .50 carries an almost clairvoyant ar­ peal to important groups in Ger­ even without an army, presents Barnesville, Ga., has its own ful as he ever has been during “scientific” name for this revolu­ ticle (for a liberal) on August 16. Defense Policy in the Minneapolis T rial — many. The manifesto must be a constant threat to the lucrative brand of work-or-fight order, the 20th century. If the Negro tion: it' is the “ahti-totalitarian” I. F. Stone, one of the most left by Munis and Cannon 64 p., paper .20 taken to mean that Stalin is of markets of the English and Amer­ issued by the mayor of the town people want to overthrow THIS revolution. of the libera/.s, writes: “ We hesi­ the opinion that not only is Hit­ ican capitalists. The far-sighted in a circular addressed to ’ all dictator, then they dare not wait From Lenin to Stalin — by Victor Serge LIBERAL CHATTER tate to invoke the people of Italy ler’s defeat certain but that it capitalist spokesmen of England domestic servants. (A ll domestic until the end of the war before 112 p., paper (List price .50) What is the meaning of all this because a government of their own may come suddenly and soon. He and the United States see in the servants in Barnesville, according they start to deliver their first liberal chatter about "revolution?” making, though enthusiastically Sale price .25 lias probably been advised of a control of German economy the to the NAACP Atlanta branch, blows. What kind o£,a revolution is brew­ anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi, would Russia 20 Years After — by Victor Serge deep discontent and worry prevail­ only reliable means of keeping ing in Europe today? What is its also be socialistic. In that event, 308 p., cloth (List price 3.50) ing in wide Sections of the Ger­ Germany from becoming a power­ Pioneer Paragraphs social character? Every genuine American and British interests in man people — discontent with ful antagonist. revolution, we know, involves the Sale price 2.75 Italy wotild take a loss.” H itler and worry about Germany’s For Stalin a capitalist Germany transfer of power from the hands AVhat is Stone’s conclusion? The Workers and the Second World W ar 48 p., paper .10 fate under the rule of an Allied is not an * industrial competitor of one class to that of another. None. Has Stone changed his army. The manifesto assures but a country from which he can DECLINE OF CAPITALISM Is it a bourgeois revolution? Is it W hy Did They Confess? 32 p„ paper .10 opinion on the war, now that he Germans of all classes, including import useful and necessary ma­ a proletarian revolution? All the is wise to Anglo-American diplo­ The Negro and the U. S. Army — by Eugene Varlin the “ good fascists,” that the best papers and magazines of the lib­ chinery and thus reduce his de­ POSES TWO ALTERNATIVES macy? Not at all. Tomorrow he 32 p., paper .05 solution for them is to tie up with pendence on England and the erals are silent on this point. They will probably write another article Stalin; that the Free Germany By Albert Goldman have to be. United States. It w ill take years plugging for Roosevelt, or at any Pamphlets by Leon Trotsky Committee has already done so; for the Soviet Union to recover They have to talk w ith water in rate for Wallace. And PM will and that now it-is up to the Ger- There are certain diseases in sent economic system, cannot their mouths. They cannot ad­ I Stake M y Life 24 p., paper .05 from the tremendous destruction continue mouthing phrases about wrought by H itler’s armies. Ger­ youth which are latent and not function for peace, for life — they m it the existence of the claps the Four Freedoms. W ar and the Fourth International 36 p., paper .10 until old age sets in does the in­ function only for death. The in­ struggle. They cannot admit that many- is the only capitalist coun­ The Italian experience estab­ In Defense of the Soviet Union 40 p., paper .10 try which can help in the rebuild­ dividual become ^aware of their dustries that were more than 50% the social character of the revo­ lishes conclusively that despite all Roosevelt Orders existence. . . idle in peacetime, when men lution .that is now on the agenda Stalinism and Bolshevism 40 p., paper .10 ing of the Soviet Union without their whining, bellyaching and demanding serious concessions, Thus it is with the capitalist needed food, clothing and shelter, in Europe is proletarian, that its general lamentations, the liberals Leon Secloff 32 p„ paper .10 It is true that a capitalist Ger­ system. ’During its youth the con­ are now running fu ll blast, prod­ aim w ill he to transfer power to are today tied body and soul to Their Morals and Ours 48 p., paper .20 Drastic Sanctions many, as part of the capitalist tradictions existing within it were ucing planes, bombs .and dread- the working class, abolish private the capitalist system. As a group, world, is always a danger to the easily overcome . . . But as naughts. ownership of industry and nation­ they are indispensable at the Books by Leon Trotsky .Soviet Union. But Stalin does not the land Was occupied and more And In this period of capitalist alize the means of production as present juncture of affairs to the Against Onions base his policies on a premise and more factories wc?e built, it decline people are dissatisfied and a step in the direction of build­ war government. Their activities History of the Russian Revolution (3 vol. in 1) (Continued from page 1) became more difficult for the cap­ ing a Socialist United States of 1367 cloth 2.98 which requires a world revolu­ fascism appears on the scene and help cushion the shocks and ward P-> all of the provisions on which italist system (to function. The Europe. The liberals cannot ad tionary outlook. He bases his takes advantage of their dissatis­ off the blows from the left against In Defense of Marxism (Against the Petty- the sanctions order is based. economic crises which were easily policies on the premise of con­ faction. The fascists, claiming to the administration. In addition, The Act was vetoed on the con­ overcome in the early stages of Bourgeois Opposition) 240 P* paper 1.50 tinuing his bureaucracy in power. create a new order, are actually This is our belief and this is what the liberals are the mentors of tention that Section 8, which prov­ the capitalist system of this coun­ throwing the world back toward same in cloth 2.00 From this premise a capitalist we teach. many of the labor bureaucrats, ides for a 30-day “ cooling off pe­ try became more serious until in barbarism. Everything that man Germany without Hitler and with­ who keep the millions of workers Lessons of October 125 P-. paper :$0 riod” before a strike vote, would 1929 a crisis came that shook the — From Pp. 31-32, “ In out the complete control of lias produced that is worthwhile tied in the straitjacket of the war same: in cloth .75 “stimulate labor unrest.” Very foundations of the country. is destroyed by this monster of British and ^American armies Defense of Socialism,” machine. The veto message also request­ Throughout the world the capi­ Living Thoughts of Karl Marx 184 cloth 1.25 would constitute a big asset. fascism. The existence of this Regardess of what crimes the P-. ed legislation to permit induction talist system is in a stage of dec­ monster, however, is n o t. to be the official court record What Stalin hopes for in Ger­ capitalists are gililty, regardless M y Life 595 p- cloth 2.50 into non-combat m ilitary service line. Old age has set in and the many is a “ revolution” on the attributed to Hitler dr Mussolini of Attorney Albert Gold­ of how thoroughly the reactionary Third International After Lenin 327 cloth 2.00 of persons up to the age of 65. contradictions inherent in the cap­ P-. order of the Badoglio “ revolution” — to the ill-w ill of one or two aims of the capitalist ruling “ This w ill enable Os,” Roosevelt italist system have become acute. man's final speech for the Whither France? 160 P-. paper .50 in Italy — the ousting of Hitler or a dozen men — it is to be at­ classes are exposed, the liberals stated, “ to induct into m ilitary Unemployment, fascism, catas­ same in cloth .75 and the substitution of someone tributed to the decline of the capi­ defense in the famous continue to cling to the system service all persons who engage in trophic wars — these are the dis­ not openly marked as a fascist talist system. Capitalism has §omc perform their nefarious strikes . . . in plants in posses­ eases that afflict capitalist so­ Minneapolis “ sedition” leader. In this case also Stalin’s reached a point where mankind work consciously, some not. But Order from sion of the United States.” ciety in its days of decline... hopes run contrary to the inter­ must take control of the product­ trial, 100 pages, 10 cents. the liberals as a group, whether “ I am unalterably opposed to This country is capable of prod­ ests of the German masses, who ive forces and begin producing conscious or unconscious, regard PIONEER PUBLISHERS strikes in wartime,” the President, ucing tremendous quantities of Order from Pioneer Pub­ w ill not at all be satisfied simply goods for the use of the people — less of which shade or hue, declared In vetoing the Sniitli- goods to satisfy, beyond all imagi­ to get rid of H itler and substitute and this means socialism — or lishers, 116 University remain the slavish supporters and 116 University Place New York City Connally Act. “ I do not hesitate nation, the needs of the people. for him either a military dictator­ else it will be hurled into the agents of Anglo-American capi­ to use the powers of government But the industries, under the pre- abyss of fascism and destruction. PL, New York 3, N, Y. ship or a refurbished Weimar rep­ talism and its war. to prevent them.” ublic. POUR- THE MILITANT AUGUST 28, 1943

tion or guidance to the real allies of the Soviet Union — the Italian workers, who have already demonstrated their revolutionary capacity, and the Cannon Book Teaches Roosevelt and Churchill THE MILITANT rest of the workers of Axis-controlled Europe who Published hi the interests of the are only awaiting the opportunity to rise up and Conceal Diplomatic Moves Working People smash their oppressors. , Fundamental Lessons Stalin’s foreign policies have been approved in VOL. VII—No. 35 Saturday, August 28, 1943 the past'by many class-conscious workers — even By Harry Frankel The first of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points called fo r “ Open covenants of peace openly arrived though these workers recognized his policies to be ' “The Struggle For A Proletarian Party” is a The reprehensible nature of his conduct is at Published Weekly by at, after which there shall be no private international a departure from the principles and traditions of collection of the writings of James P. Cannon once apparent. But you can be sure that Cannon THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASS’N undertakings of any kind, but diplomacy shall pro­ M arx and Lenin — on the ground that these poli­ during an internal factional dispute in the So­ does not spend so many pages of his book on a t 116 University Place, New York, 8, N. Y. ceed always frankly and in the public view.” Twenty- cies were “practical.” It is precisely from this cialist Workers Party. It must be explained that Burnham merely to annihilate this petty trifler. Telephone: ALeonouin *-8547 five years after the “war to end all wars,” secret this bbok does not .merely record a past dispute. Instead, Burnham is analyzed as the prototype FARRELL DOBBS, Editor point of view that Stalin’s policy reveals “its utter diplomacy flourishes more luxuriantly in the United I t was Cannon who said of Trotsky that he not of all petty-bourgeois intellectuals." Almost every­ GEORGE BREITMAN, Martaging Editor bankruptcy. States than ever before. only made a revolution, but wrote a book in which one in the labor and radical movement has had Roosevelt’s diplomacy certainly doesn’t “ proceed THE MILITANT follows the policy of permit­ he explained the laws that govern all revolutions. experience with these unstable allies of the work­ always frankly and in the public view,” as the Darían ting its contribuiors to present their own views Similarly, Cannon in this book not only wrote ing class, and everyone w ill understand them deal and the AMGOT policies demonstrate. Consider In signed articles. These views therefore do not Bis Business the history of the most important political dis­ better after reading Cannon’s book. the secrecy surrounding the Quebec conference. necessarily represent the policies of THE M IL I­ pute in the American Trotskyist movement, but Though no warring power can risk divulging its m ili­ TANT which are expressed in its editorials. set down the laws that govern all political dis­ The Evils of Combinationism Losing Supporters tary plans, any government which _ claims, as the putes. Unprincipled coinbinationism and clique .poli­ Subscriptions: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for 6 months. Roosevelt “administration does, to be fighting in a ‘‘If you had to choose, which would you preter tics .were dominant In the petty-bourgeois oppo­ •Foreign: $3.00 per year, $1.50 fo r 6 months. Bun­ democratic manner for democratic aims is duty-bound to have [in] control of the government — big The Historical Perspective sition. These deadly evils are dissected by Can­ dle orders: 3 cents per copy in the United States; to inform its own people about its international poli­ 4 cents per copy in all foreign countries. Single business or labor unions?” This question was put Had Cannon written in the spirit of personal non in classic Marxist fashion, and the Bolshevik, cies and plans. copies: 5 cents. to a cross-section of the voting population in the animosity, petty recrimination and bickering principled method of political struggle is taught. How many more Liarían deals are being cooked Application fo r entry as second-class 48 states by the Gallup poll and the results pub­ which is so common in internal fights of petty- Here too, important lessons can be learned. M arx­ up in Quebec ? What kind of negotiations have been matter is pending. lished last week. bourgeois parties,' and even of inexperienced ists understand that the proletarian party is the going on with King Victor Emmanuel and Badoglio? Big Business received 45% of the vote; labor workers’ parties, there would be nothing that microcosm of the proletarian class. Methods of could be learned from the book. But he avoided struggle learned in the party carry over natural­ What commitments have been made w ith the various unions 26% ; and 29% were undecided. Thus, To defend the USSR as this fatal and degrading method, and sought al­ ly to the trade unions and mass organizations of reactionary governments-in-exile which infest Wash­ after 75 years in power, Big Business do^s not the main fortress of the ways to maintain a historical perspective and to today, and to the revolutionary workers’ councils ington and London ? What conspiracies are they hatch­ command the confidence of the majority of the ing against the Soviet Union? world proletariat, against draw from each question under dispute, no mat­ of tomorrow. Those who learn correctly in the American people, if we take this poll as a criterion. ter how trivial, a M arxist lesson fo r the educa­ party today w ill be the most authoritative spokes­ The American people have the rig h t to know what all assaults of world im­ Republicans, as might be expected, were over­ tion of the Party. men fo r the class tomorrow. political problems are being discussed and decided perialism and of internal whelmingly in favor of Big Business influence in Some examples of this method can easily be This is a book on organization 'questions. But by Roosevelt and Churchill. Nothing less is involved counter-revolution, is the government. So were the upper income bracket- extracted from the many topics dealt with in the does this in any way lessen its importance? than the disposition of their own fate. book. Those who really understand the workers’ strug­ most important duty of eers. Among the Democrats, however, in which One of the first acts of the Bolsheviks after they workers predominate, about as many (34% ) fav­ James Burnham, the political leader of the gle will not think so. The political axis around took power in 1917 was to instruct Trotsky, then every class-conscious petty-bourgeois opposition, is a New York Uni­ which all modern history revolves is thé struggle ored the unions as favored Big Business (35 % ), Commissar of Foreign Affairs, to publish all the worker. versity professor who thought he could lead .the of the working class to organize a state of its secret treaties that the Czarist and Kerensky gov­ while 3 1 % -remained undecided. The same divi­ — LEON TROTSKY workers’ movement in his spare time. But thé own. But, before it can do this, it must organize ernments had made w ith the Anglo-American allies. sion occurred among the lower income group where contradiction between his academic life and his a party of its own. Thus a book on the organiza­ For the first time the peoples knew how these bandits 34% voted for the unions as against 33% for Big life in the movement was irreconcilablè, and was tion of the party in reality considers the political proposed to divide up the world amongst themselves. JOIN US IN FIGHTING FOR: Business. the cause of his deserting the principles of Marx­ questions of today in their sharpest and most Only a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government, a gov­ These Gallup figures are all the more significant ism. The opposition he headed only served him pressing form. For that reason it w ill catch and ernment honestly representing the people and their 1. Military training of workers, financed because the trade unions have not yet come to un­ as the vehicle for his ignominious exit from the hold the interest of serious advanced workers interests, can practice open diplomacy. Any govern­ movement. everywhere. by the government, but under control derstand the necessity for building a political par­ ment that represents a small clique of big industrial­ of the trade unions. Special officers’ ty of their own, let alope the necessity for labor to ists and bankers must practice secret diplomacy. That run the government. is why Roosevelt and Churchill, like two criminals, training camps, financed by the gov­ Still, even under the present leadership of the hatch their plans in the dark of the moon. ernment but controlled by the trade trade unions, whose cowardly political program Resistance To Fascism onions, to train workers to become consists of clinging to the coat tails of Roosevelt, officers. over one half of the lower income groups (and, in 2. Trade union wages for all workers reality, they make up the preponderant majority Growing Inside Germany What Victory Will Bring of the population) is becoming disillusioned with drafted into the army. the present system and favors labor running the (Continued from page 1) the freedom and the honor of the Beobachter, the voice of the Nazi German nation. The German Party, stated: 3. Full equality for Negroes in the armed government. In addition, fully a third of the people To Colonies in Africa to accept H itler’s “ ideals” and to name will remain forever dishon­ NAZIS COMPLAIN forces and the war industries— Down have not yet made up their minds on the question. ored if German youth does not join the Nazi Party in large num­ “ We in particular must acknow with Jim Crowism everywhere, If correctly analyzed, these figures provide veri­ bers. Today we see that the Uni­ at last rise, revenge, atone, des­ What w ill happen to Africa after the war? Church­ troy its tormentors and help ledge our close links with the fication of the Marxist contention that as the crisis versity of Munich, cradle of Na­ Party,, even though this may ill has already answered, on behalf of British im­ 4. Confiscation of all war profits. Expro­ of capitalism matures, the great mass of the peo­ tional Socialism, is the seat of build up a new spiritual concep­ perialism, that he doesn’t intend to permit the liquid­ tion of Europe.” require a good deal of ‘civic priation of all war industries and their ple will look to labor to lead the fight against the main opposition to the Nazi courage.’ It is easy, and it may ation- of the British Empire. And both De Gaulle and regime. operation under workers’ control. predatory Big Business. These figures serve as There was widespread response appear advantageous to profess Giraud have made it clear that they intend to hang to the call of these students and membership in the Party on on to every square inch in the French colonies in additional proof to the many signs already avail­ A TYPICAL PRODUCT 5. A rising scale of wages to meet the • it resulted in an anti-fascist riot festive occasions, to appear and Africa. able that great political shifts are in the offing, Hans Scholl, the leader of the prior to Scholl’s arrest. act as a Parteigenosse (party But what about the rest of Africa, what about the rising cost of living. that great masses of people are losing faith in the students’ revolt, was a typical comrade) in everyday life and at product of the Nazi regime. He colonies that have been taken away from the Axis? present capitalist system and its leadership and are MORE UNREST REPORTED all times is incomparably harder was a member of the Nazi stu­ While his superiors, H ull and Roosevelt, were in Que­ 6. Workers Defense Guards against vig­ Scholl was not betrayed by his and by no means easy.” eagerly awaiting a leadership that has the program dent organization and was trained bec last week, Henry S. Villard, assistant chief of the ilante and fascist attacks. fellow students or the professors An analysis of this statement and the will to solve their pressing economic and as a soldier in the Nazi Army. He of the university, since it is made by the Party shows a clear State Department’s Division of Near Eastern Affairs, was imbued with a contempt for 7. An Independent Labor Party based on political problems. The time is ripe and more than known that between ten and admission not only of the unpop­ delivered a speeqh in Chautauqua, N. Y., in which he every conception other than the ripe for the launching of that kind of independent twenty professors were arrested ularity of the Nazi Party, but of gave what he called “ the standpoint of the Amer­ the Trade Unions. National Socialist “philosophy.” for implication in the “ plots.” He the dislike that members have of ican government.” party of labor. He fought with his regiment at 8. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern­ was betrayed by a porter, one of admitting membership in the Stalingrad but was sent back to “ Instant liberation” of the African colonies would the spies that exist in every uni­ party, as well as an unwilling m ent. resume his studies before the final bring chaos, said* Villard. He asserted that “it is un­ versity, every school, every hos­ ness to act as a member at all defeat. The terrible ordeai’.s which likely that the former enemy territories in Africa pital, every workshop and every times. 9. The defense of the Sòvièt Union Rickenbacker he suffered and the awful w ill come into the outright possession of any one tenement throughout Germany. Despite the murderous Nazi re shambles to which Scholl was against imperialist attack. Hans Scholl, his sister and four gime and its propaganda, despite power” and added: “ It is improbable that the United Praises Stalin witness seem to have changed his the lies and slanders of the so States would alone accept jurisdiction or control over outlook. On his return to Ger­ others, as well as a professor, were shot, but their heroic oppo­ called socialists of Britain, the former enemy territory.” many the whole regime appeared Stalin’s domestic and foreign policies give aid sition is not ended. Disturbances, German workers are beginning to in its true lfght. As a result of Thus all the people in these African colonies can and comfort to world imperialism and to the capi­ unrest is reported not .only from regain their confidence. They are Litvinov Recalled his change of ideas, he and his Acpect out of the war is a change in masters: instead Munich but from Karlsruhe, Hei- beginning to see if not a clear al talist class of all countries. This fact receives fresh sister brought out a leaflet in of being exploited by one Axis power, they will be Stalin’s recall of Ambassadors Litvinov and delburg, and Leipzig. tentative, at least who are their confirmation from that hero of Big Business, the which he stated: enemies. exploited by more than one Allied power. The At­ Maisky reveals again the great difference between “ What H itler and his confeder­ It is quite clear that not only John Gurney, w riting from lantic Charter promise to restore the independence notorious labor-baiting and union-hating Captain are the German workers not Soviet diplomacy under Stalin and Soviet diplo­ ates mean by freedom a’nd honor Stockholm on Thursday, June 10, of countries conquered by the Axis is all rig h t fo r macy under Lenin and Trotsky. Edward Rickenbacker. In an interview upon re­ they have shown only too well in responsible for H itle r and his reports a significant statement speeches but not fo r the African masses. ten years of destruction of all gangsters, but that they are daily Lenin and Trotsky placed their main reliance turning from bis mission to Moscow, Rickenback­ from the German underground personal freedom, all freedom of suffering torture and risking movement: on the genuine allies of the workers’ state — the er was no less profuse than ex-Ambassador Davies thought, all moral principles of their lives in a struggle against “ It is by ourselves alone—not working class and the oppressed masses through­ the German people. The eyes of H itler and the fascist regime. front the invaders—that we shall in praise of Stalin's regime. With each day that passes the out the world. These allies were always told the the most stupid Germans have get our freedom.” Employers Try to End Under Stalin, he says, “Russia is moving toward been opened by the terrible blood mood of the German masses be­ (Reprinted from the mid-July truth. The dangers facing the Soviet Union were comes clearer. capitalism.” Rickenbacker was particularly im­ bath in which they endeavor to issue of the British Socialist Ap never minimized to them and they were provided drown all Europe in the name of On June 13 the Voelkiseher peal.) All Limits On Profits by the Bolshevik leaders with an accurate picture pressed by the severe punishment meted out to

of the reactionary intentions of the world imperial­ workers for the slightest infractions of discipline, nmiH»inimHuiiiumiiimin»nuHnninimqiiiini»iinnmnimn»UH»ununmmiaitnmmnimmiiHi»iaiinimummmnwn»>««|" |»»»»»»»"»»»'''"»n'»»»»' Corporation profits after taxes are up to almost ists. Aroused and mobilized in this manner, these the lack of worker’s rights and democracy. “They working class allies of the Soviet Union were able 200% of what they Were in 1939, but Big Business have been constantly turning to the right, as evi­ is hardly content: it now wants to repeal the contract- 25 years ago to. defeat the intervention schemes NOW ON SALE denced in many ways, during the last twelve renegotiation law which placed some minor lim its on of the imperialists and to help save the first work­ huge war profits. months.” ers’ state. ■ Whgn the government first began spending billions kickenbacker was no less certain that Stalin’s Stalin has turned his back upon these genuine of dollars for war supplies back in 1940, Roosevelt allies of the Soviet Union. He has no confidence dissolution of the Communist international was sin­ The Struggle For A Proletarian Party denounced “ war profiteering” and promised that no­ in their ability to play an independent role, and cere and permanent. ‘‘Anyone knows,” he remark­ body would make big money out of the war. But the relies mainly on alliances with the capitalist pow­ ed, “that Stalin has been opposed to world revolu­ By JAMES P. CANNON huge profits of the Sixty Families gives the lie to these promises. Practically all that was done to en­ ers. While such alliances are sometimes necessary tion.” and are not wrong in and of themselves, they must force them was the law providing that the Army What Rickenbacker ,admires and praises in the always be recognized as unstable and subordinate Leon Trotsky appraised this companion volume to his and Navy would review war contracts and cut down Soviet Union are precisely those features which instruments for aiding the workers’ state. Instead costs wherever increased production meant s till fu r­ have been imposed upon the first workers’ state "In Defense of Marxism" as follows: ther profits to Big Business. of admitting this to the workers of the world, Sta­ by its isolation, its encirclement by the capitalist lin lies to them about the true nature and inten­ While the government poured billions into the cof­ world, and above all by the reactionary policies fers of the monopolies through new plants, equip­ tions of their capitalist rulers and urges them to “ It is the writing of a genuine workers’ leader. If the of the Stalinist regime. As he explicitly states, he ment and high rates on most war material, the Army discontinue their class struggles. is pleased by every departure from Soviet demo­ discussion had not produced more than this document, and Navy saved a few hundred millions through For over two years Stalin has been trying to get cracy and every move made “in the direction of renegotiations. In most caseS this “saving” did not his allies to open a second front in western Europe. it would be justified.” make more than a small dent in the super-profits of capitalism.” And he recognizes the Stalin regime But with no success. Because he has helped to the big monopolies. They more than compensated fo r as the agency of this reactionary course. strangle the independent movement of the work­ Price: Paper Cover, $1.50 it by the speedup alone. ers, he has ho means of influencing events and Rickenbacker, however, passes over in silence But Big Business is still not satisfied. Why should decisions other than by tlie manipulation of pawns those features of the Soviet Union which are fun- Clothbound, $2.00 they have to kick back even a small 'percentage of on the diplomatic chessboard. danientally opposed to capitalism: the nationaliz­ their profits to the government? Doesn’t that smack Lenin and Trotsky could rely on the support ation of the land and the factories; the destruction of socialism or something? So reason the spokesmen of the great majority of the oppressed masses of of capitalist property relations and profits;, and all of the Sixty Families who are now engaged in a big propaganda campaign and congressional lobby to re­ the world. Stalin, however, has done everything the other conquests of the October revolution which peal, or put the spikes into, the renegotiation law. in his power —• in return for capitalist alliances the Stajinist regime has not succeeded in destroy­ Millions of workers, whose jobs are frozen and — to disorient the world proletariat, to destroy ing and which are the source of the successes of the Order Now From whose pay checks keep sinking through increased the revolutionary movement abroad, to smash the Red Armies and the high morale of the Soviet peo­ taxes and higher prices, w ill have little sympathy ple. Nor does this labor-baiter recommend that the bonds of internationalism. W ith the Soviet Union with the campaign of the Sixty Families to delete the American workers and farmers emulate these facing the German army alone for the third year, renegotiation restrictions on their swollen profits. On Stalin can only withdraw his ambassadors froiA achievements of the Russian revolution. Ricken­ PIONEER PUBLISHERS the contrary, as part of their fight to prevent the Britain and the United States to signify his dis­ backer remains true to himself and to Big Busi­ entire burden of the war from being shoved onto the 116 University Place New York 3, N. Y. pleasure and attempt to exert public pressure on ness both in his opposition to the Russian Revolu­ backs of the workers, the unions should not only op­ his allies. tion and its conquests as well as in his praise of pose this Big Business move but should also raise the Meanwhile, he offers not the slightest inspira­ Stalin, demand fo r the confiscation of all war profits.