Committee Aids Rights Fight in t h e MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Monroe, NC. Vol. X X II — No. 52 NEW YORK, N.Y.. MONDAY. DECEMBER 29. 1958 Price 10c By John Thayer In Monroe, destined to go down in history or infamy as the North Carolina town where an eight and nine-year- old Negro boy were sent to reform school because one hac been kissed by a seven-year-old* white girl, the even tenor of v ic t is another question, but merely bringing the assailant to 'Bleakest Detroit Xmas Jim Crow justice was jolted on Dec. 19. On that day a white trial is a victory for the Negro man was arraigned on people of Union County. charges of attempted rape of a Actually, this is the second Negro woman. Local white success registered by the m ili­ supremacists never expected tant NAACP chapter of Union such a thing to happen, local County. A week previous the authorities had indicated their eviction of Mrs. Thompson and Since Depression Days' intention to reduce the charge her children — solely because or drop it altogether. But their she is the mother of the Negro plans went awry. Whether a lad allegedly kissed by the lily-white jury in this Ku Klux white girl — was prevented. Klan-infested county will con- While outside the South such a thing may seem small potatoes, 200,000 Unemployed it looms large in the Jim Crow Ranks Firm in N. Y. News Strike N.Y. Meeting pattern of life in Monroe. This was the first time in memory By Lillian Kiezel Have No Prospect of Raises $ 2 5 8 for that a Negro tenant had con­ NEW YORK, Dec. 22 — The Same Problem a Decade Later tested an eviction order of a strike of 2,500 newspaper de­ Carolina Cases white landlord. On this occa­ liverymen in this city is now Jobs in Auto Industry sion, Mrs. Thompson with Con­ in its third week. Nine ma­ NEW YORK, Dec. 22 — A rad Lynn of the Committee to jor newspapers are shut down This year, Christmas in the Detroit area “w ill be the meeting held at the Militant Times, Daily News, Herald Combat Racial Injustice as bleakest since Depression days,” says the Dec. 20 Business Labor Forum tonight heard a counsel, demonstrated that the Tribune, Mirror, World Tele­ gripping account by attorney eviction notice did not comply gram and Sun, Journal A m eri­ Week. Although auto companies, except for strike-bound Conrad Lynn of the develop­ with the most elementary legal can, Post, Long Island Daily Chrysler, produced at the highest rate for the year in ments in Monroe. N.C., sur­ requirements. The audience at Press and Long Island Star- December, 200,000 people were jobless in the metropolitan rounding the "Carolina Kissing this local history-making hear­ Journal. They all stopped pub­ area. That is more than twice as many as a year ago and Case." (See story on case this lishing on Dec. 12. ing consisted of Union County ------*comes to 13%' of the labor force. page and interview with Lynn Three days earlier, the mem­ N A A C P President Robert F. O f the total, 75,000 have ex- page 4.) Williams and Dr. A. E. Perry, bers of the Newspaper and The meeting demonstrated hausted their unemployment the vice-president and a dele­ Mail Deliverers Union (inde­ N.Y. Parents compensation benefits “ and there are good prospects for gation of Negro citizens. pendent) voted 877 to 772 to mobilizing strong support be­ have had only sporadic work LOW B A IL reject a $7-a-week, two-year for two or three years." (Em ­ hind the newly-formed Com­ The assailant of Mrs. Mary package offer of the employers. Win Twice in mittee to Combat Racial In­ phasis added.) The rest face Ruth Reid, mother of five chil­ They overruled a 14 to 3 ma­ justice in whose behalf the run-out of benefits in weeks or dren and seven months preg­ jority of the union’s negotiating meeting was held. The meeting School Fight months. nant with her sixth when at­ committee which favored ac­ was called on six days notice But that is only half of the tacked and brutally beaten, was cepting the offer. Following the NEW YORK — An important to help provide'’ urgently need­ bleak picture, and not the arrested only because a white membership vote, the negotia­ victory was won by two Negro ed funds for the committee. worst half. Business Week en­ tenant-farm woman neighbor ting committee was augmented parents. Mrs. Bernice Skipwith Despite the short notice, limited titles its article “The Jobs That ealled the police. When Medlin by the ten-man executive and Mrs. Charles Rector, in advertising and frigid weather, Are Gone Forever.” It says: (Continued on Page 4) board, the majority of whose their refusal to send their chil­ “What gives observers the chills more than 100 Negroes and members had voted against the dren to segregated schools when whites, including a large num­ is the fact that very few of the proposed contract. Domestic Relations Court Jus­ auto workers laid off during the ber of youth, turned out. NEXT WEEK'S MILITANT CALL THAT A BENEFIT? tice Justine W. Polier ruled Audience response to Lynn’s last year will be rehired” to Our next issue will go to The central issue in the strike against the New York Board of help build additional cars pro­ eloquent plea for active partici­ press two days later than is to prevent a $7-a-week pack­ Education which had charged pation in the fight was indicated jected for 1959. “General Mo­ usual because of New Year's age contract signed by the the parents with neglect. Jus­ by a contribution of $258 to aid tors, for instance plans on 25% holiday. Newspaper Guild from setting tice Polier found the parents the work of the committee. more cars but only 5% more a pattern for the entire in­ had proven the schools their hourly workers for the first dustry. It was signed the very children had attended were in­ three months.” Victims of Racial Injustice week the deliverers strike be­ ferior and the subject of racial In the Chrysler set-up, em­ gan. The newspaper publishers discrimination. ployment at Dodge Main plant want nine other unions in the Her ruling declared, “These has dropped from a two-shjft industry to accept a contract parents have the constitutional 20,600 in M arch 1957 to a one- similar to the Newspaper guaranteed right to elect no s h ift 7,100 today. M eanw hile, Guild’s. As applied to the se- education for their children daily production rates have liverers, it calls for a $7-a-weck rather than subject them to dis­ fallen only from 950 to 550. At increase over a two-year span. criminatory, inferior education." the root of the struggle of the The only fringe benefit the re- She said the parents’ action Dodge Local 3 unemployed to liverers would get is a three- was “understandable for the ban overtime at the Main plant (Above cartoon is by Laura Gray, Militant staff artist who died last Jan. 11. It is reprinted day paid leave in case of death sake of their children and for is the fact that the company from M ilitant, Dec. 27, 1948.) in a worker’s family and certain the tens of thousands of other finds it cheaper to pay over­ contractual guarantees. As one children like this, who have time than increase the work striker told me, “So I get three been unfairly deprived of equal force for an indefinite period. days’ pay if somebody in my education.” PRODUCTIVITY JOBLESS family dies. Is that something I-H Pickets Cold to Co. Offers According to the Dec. 20 These workers, says Business to look forward to?” Amsterdam News, the Board of Week, “could be classed as the Newspaper deliverers are CHICAGO — At a union there has been no progress [in “that the present strike called Education is reported planning first large group of victims of among the lowest paid in the meeting, Dec. 12, 4,500 striking negotiations]. But it is not lack by the UAW is working a fi­ to appeal the decision. It also ‘productivity unemployment’.” newspaper industry. Their basic International-Harvester workers of effort on the Company's part. nancial hardship on our em­ quoted Thurgood Marshall. There'll be more fo come. What wage is $103.82 fo r a 40-hour in this area showed no sign of Twice in the last eight days ployes.” “Union negotiators w ill Chief Counsel of the NAACP is happening in Detroit is only week. Consequently they are wavering after nearly five we have substantially liberal­ wear boots to keep their feet Legal Defense Committee, as a forerunner of what may hit demanding a raise of $9 a week weeks of the "cold war" on ized our position in a sincere dry,” replies the union’s Dec. declaring, “When the appeal other industries in a few years. plus $1 in welfare, pension and the picket line. And brother, effort to achieve a, settlement.” 16 strike bulletin. “The floor comes up the NAACP will pick other fringe benefits. Auto’s permanent jobless are it's been freezing! The company then lists the will be wet with the crocodile up all the bills and I personally stuck. They can’t migrate to Foremost among Iheir other various demands to which they tears . . . shed by the com­ One example of the prevail­ w ill plead the case w ith a t­ any place where there are new, David "Fuzzy" Simpson (left) and James Hanover demands is a reduction of work­ pany . . . Christmas is coming. ing high morale was demon­ have made concessions. torney Paul Zuber’s permis­ big employment opportunities, Thompson sent to North Carolina reformatory because ing hours to 35 with no loss They are so sorry for us.” strated by the contribution of A W ET X M A S sion.” for there are no such places in seven-year-old white girl allegedly kissed them. Boys are in take-home pay. The deliver­ In the eyes of the workers, several thousand dollars by Another gain was registered the U.S. They can’t turn to 8 and 9 respectively. The picture was taken recently at ers' union . is the only one But what about the items still the company is playing a tricky United Auto Workers locals in a similar fight against school agriculture. Farming itself is reformatory. among the ten unions in the in dispute? These, the com­ game. This week company of­ representing the various I-H segregation on Dec. 17 when being operated with a constant­ (Continued on Page }) pany states, “. . . involve the ficials led the union to believe plants for a kitty of Christmas Justice Kaplan reserved de­ ly shrinking work force. most important improvements that they were ready to settle cheer for the strikers’ families. cision until next month on the To meet the crisis, the UAW we have sought, in order to as­ on a fairly generous basis. At Throughout the chain of Har­ case of fo u r other mothers who top officialdom has advanced a President Won't Intervene sure that our company can be least that’s what they said. But vester plants, the workers are refused to send their children piddling program. Absent fronrv Steve Grattan competitive.” There it is — when the “concessions” were solid. A bout 36,500 w orkers are to segregated schools. On Dec. its demands are those which black on white and unvarnish­ put in writing, the negotiating on strike nationally. 9 he had found them guilty and must be key to a major im­ ed. The company’s interests In Carolina 'Kissing Case' Summoned by committee found them full of ordered them to send their provement in the unemploy­ “What are you striking for?” come first. Workers’ needs jokers. The union had to reject DEC. 22 — President Eisen­ Ten days later, Williams was children back to school or go to ment problem. These demands In mock astonishment, this is don’t count. What counts is the the whole package. Striking prison. He reversed that de­ hower has refused to concern informed of Eisenhower’s re­ are an end to compulsory over­ Eastland Group the question International-Har­ company’s lavish profits, which workers now believe that the cision after hearing forceful ap­ himself with the case of James fusal to act in a letter from the time, while there are workers vester asked the workers in a is what I-H means when it company is deliberately stalling peals by attorney Paul Zuber Hanover Thompson and David President’s aide, E. Frederick On Dec. 16, Stephen Grattan, who are jobless; an end to letter distributed to the 35 shop talks about its “competitive a settlement until after the and by the noted civil rights "Fuzzy" Simpson, the two Negro Morrow. The text of the White for 40 years a member of the speed-up; and above all, 30-for- facilities of the I-H empire. position.” holidays. This will save I-H fighter, Judge Hubert T. De­ children committed to a refor­ House letter has been released International Typographical Un­ 40 — the 30-hour week at 40 “It is unfortunately true that “We know,” says Harvester, (Continued on Page 4) laney. hours pay. matory in Monroe, North Caro­ by the Committee to Combat ion, was served with a sub­ lina, because one of them had Racial Injustice. It reads as fol­ poena to appear before the been kissed by a seven-year-old lows: Eastland Internal Security sub­ white girl. (See story this page.) committee on Dec. 17. The sub­ Dear Mr. Williams: This is in keeping with the Ad­ poena was dated Dec. 12. just 1 am advised by the Depart­ two days after the New York Road to Labor's Political Independence ministration's stubborn refusal to use the powers of the federal ment of Justice that the infor­ newspaper strike began. He had government to enforce the Con­ mation in your telegram to the 24 hours to get a lawyer (Louis By M u rry Weiss time-serving, incompetent fak­ then, alas, became the creatures tim of the witch hunt and carried the message that labor stitutional rights of Southern President relating to the recent B. Boudin) and prepare for the The Communist Party and ers whose idea of a program of of class collaboration politics. against every measure on the should build its own party to Negroes. commitment in Monroe, North hearings in Washington. social democratic leaderships action is a long vacation-meet­ Parties that claim to be social­ law books which abrogated hundreds of thousands of peo­ According to a Presidential Carolina, of two Negro boys as The committee is investigat­ say that fielding independent ing of the executive board in ist but follow a policy which civil liberties. Finally, the ISP ple in New York State. They aide, the two children — who juvenile delinquents indicates ing alleged “subversion” in socialist tickets harms labor- Florida. Should socialists even imprisons them in the parties urged labor and the Negro peo­ stressed it over radio and tele­ can be kept in the reformatory no violation of any federal law. mass communications in New party prospects because it runs consider abandoning the fight of capitalism not only fail to ple to break with the capitalist vision; proclaimed it at street until they are 21 years old — As much as the President de­ York. Grattan, who is a printer counter to the policy of the of­ against the bureaucracy and its remain socialist but cannot even parties and form a parly of meetings, union locals and com­ were “committed for indefinite plores any instance of this na­ and not a writer, appeared be­ ficial labor movement. By op­ policies for fear of getting iso­ help promote a Labor Party. th e ir own. munity organizations; and pop­ terms for care, education, and ture and is constantly striving fore an executive session Dec. posing official labor policy, they lated from the mainstream? Take the experience of the What was the best way to ularized it through mass mail­ rehabilitation.” Indeed, it would toward the time-honored prin­ 17. Questioned about his politi­ argue, socialists isolate them­ When you come right down 1958 elections in New York and promote a labor-party move­ ings and distributions of huge seem according to this official, ciple of American equality and cal affiliations by committee at­ selves from the mainstream of to it, what logic is there in Ohio. In New York, the labor ment in this silutaion: to sup­ quantities of leaflets. justice, it is not within the torney Sourwine, Grattan re­ maintaining organizations like port the Democratic Party can­ that the State of North Carolina the labor and Negro movements. bureaucracy backed the candi­ Instead of supporting this purview of his office to act of­ fused to answer, invoking the the Communist Party and the didates endorsed by the labor had done young Hanover and Wliy shouldn’t socialists op­ dates of the Democratic Party campaign t h e “mainstream" fic ia lly upon such cases. I am First and Fifth Amendments of Socialist Party-Social Demo­ bureaucracy, or to support the Simpson a favor! pose the official policy of the who ran on a capitalist pro­ statesmen of the SP-SDF de­ sure the lawyers for the Na­ 1 he U.S. C onstitution. cratic Federation if the imper­ ISP? White House refusal to inter­ labor movement? These policies gram of cold war and witch voted themselves to red-baiting tional Association for the Ad­ He answered a question about ative of socialist politics is not In a period when the Harlem vene in the shocking violation have been foisted on the unions hunt, spiced with some dema­ attacks. In addition, they threat­ vancement of Colored People to become “isolated from the community and lens of thou­ of justice came in reply to a his membership in Local 6, by the bureaucratic tops. They gogic reform promises. The In­ ened to sue the ISP with a are familiar with this fact. mainstream” ? The official labor sands of unionists manifested demand for federal action by ITU, in the same way. Grat­ represent the interests of the dependent Socialist Party, rep­ legal gimmick which they of­ movement does not approve of strong dissatisfaction with the Robert F. Williams, chairman The laws of many states pro­ tan says, “I feel that this labor bureaucracy and not of resenting a coalition of socialist fered as a means for getting the the Communist Party; it barely New York Democratic Party of the Union County (N.C.) vide procedures whereby juve­ was the reason for calling me. the w o rkin g class. parties in this election, was ISP off the ballot. NAACP. niles may be committed for in­ This harassment was due to the The labor bureaucracy is for tolerates the SP-SDF. Why noi forthright in its opposition to machine, the ISP fought an all- WIRES PRESIDENT definite terms for care, cdttca- publishers’ lockout in New the cold war and the witch draw the logical conclusion and the cold war and placed the out battle with the Tammany Meanwhile, the other "main­ On Nov. 12 Williams sent a tion and rehabilitation. Inas­ Y o rk.” hunt: it is for capitalism and dissolve these parties and get blame for the war danger bosses fo r the rig h t to be on stream" navigators — the Com­ telegram to Eisenhower describ­ much as such commitment is G rattan, w ho is 61 years old. against socialism: it is for the deeper into the "mainstream”? squarely on American capital­ the ballot — and licked Tam­ munist Party leaders — divided ing the wholesale violations of not regarded as a conviction of was twice chairman of the Democratic Party and against THE HUSKS REMAIN ism. many Hall in this dramatic con­ their time between slandering civil rights in Monroe and ask­ a crime, the procedures follow­ Daily News chapel of Local 6. a Labor P a rty: it is fo r class Actually, the liquidation of In addition to outlining a test! Wasn’t support of the ISP’s the ISP and writing mealy- ing: “Please tell me, Mr. Presi­ ed in a criminal trial do not He is w e ll know n as an inde­ collaboration and against class socialist parties is exactly where series ol measures to combat ballot fight the elementary duty mouthed editorials in the Work­ dent. when Negroes may ex­ ordinarily apply. If. in this pendent socialist. He is secre­ struggle; it is for dictatorial this “ mainstream” politics leads capitalistic recession, the ISP of anyone claiming to favor a er explaining how they really pect your Justice Department case, the com m itm ent was not tary of the American Forum for bureaucratic rule in the unions to. What wc have before us to­ opposed Jim Crow in all phases Labor Party? didn't endorse Harriman, yet, to introduce the 14th Amend­ in accordance with North Caro­ Socialist Education. “I ll tell my and against union democracy; day in the CP and SP-SDF is of New York life and exposed BROADCASTS MESSAGE since we must beware of be­ ment to the U.S. C onstitution lina law, the parties should union about my political affili­ above all, it is for looting the the hollowed out shells of what the records of the two capital­ The ISP candidates — despite coming isolated, and since labor to this social jungle called seek a remedy in the North ations but not Eastland,” lie union treasuries to support a used to be political parties of ist parties on this issue. The the loss of time, money and was for Harriman, perhaps tha D ixie ? ” Carolina courts. said. privileged, parasitic crew of the socialist working class and ISP took a stand for every vic­ energy in the ballot fight — (Continued on Page 2) Pago Two TH E M ILIT A N T Monday, December 29, 1958 J. Edgar Hoover's Flock of Stool Pigeons By Henry Gilano about us " (October 1949 lied lhal he had often met him orated his story in a Hearst ar­ Inform er Goes to Jail at meetings of the CP's central ticle. In the subsequent libel (Third of a series.) issue.) committee. Asked to point out suit, Scala was awarded $5,000. A challenge to lhe FBI's The FBI pursues its sleuthing Burck. Crouch unhesitatingly The career of Paul Crouch is glorification of lhe informer operations right into the White fingered a Chicago Tribune a typical example of subsidized was hurled by lhe late Pulitzer House. This was documented by photographer. testimony being in effect sub­ Prize winner Bernard de Volo. Carey McWilliams, editor of During the 1949 Harry sidized perjury. The FBI wit- In his department, "The Easy The Nation (Feb. 1952) in “The Bridges perjury trial, Crouch ness-for-hire operates under the Chair" in Harper's magazine, he White House Under Surveil­ denied knowing David Davis, a motto: “You name them, we served "Due Notice to the FBI." lance.” In January 1952, Sen­ Pennsylvania CP leader. “I " I say it has gone too far. We ator McCarthy charged that frame them." Lowell Watson, a profession­ are dividing into the hunted Philleo Nash, a member of have never heard of David Davis,” he told the court. “I al ex-Communist on loan from and lhe hunters . . . This no­ President Truman’s staff, had the FBI, spilled the beans in lice is posted in the court-house been named in an FBI report have no knowledge of David Davis.” He repeated the denial February, 1955, after swearing square. I will not discuss any­ as having had close connections three times. In 1951, however, that Edward Lamb had contrib­ one in private with any govern­ with the “Communists” in the his memory apparently rejuven­ uted money to the CP through ment investigator. I like a 1940’s. A special assistant to him. Later, Watson admitted he country where it's nobody's the President, David Lloyd, was ated, he said he had not only heard of Davis but had met had never in his life seen Lam b damned business what maga­ branded by McCarthy in 1950 until he came to the hearing. zines anyone reads, what he on the basis of “sources at the him as early as 1928. Crouch He “identified” him only be­ thinks. whom he has cocktails Loyalty Review Board.” These swore he had worked closely cause the government prosecu­ with. I like a country where we Boards get their material from with Davis on infiltration of tor gave him photographs of do not have to stuff the chim­ the FBI. Later McCarthy claim­ the army in the 1930’s. the victim and told him in what ney against listening ears and ed th a t the L lo yd case was Crouch testified in May 1949 chair lie would be seated. where what we say does not go closed on orders from the against Armand Scala. He elab­ into the FBI files . . . I like a White House. How did McCar­ Harvey Matusow (r) and Roy Cohn were key figures in country where no college-train­ thy. a personal friend of Hoov­ the late Senator McCarthy's witchunting "investigations." ed flatfeel collect memoranda er, happen to know this? Scared to Death' Matusow, who was also an informer for the F B I, confessed This admission of perjury someone had shown him how to he fabricated false testimony and directly implicated Cohn came on ihe heels of a confes­ kill a man with a plain wooden in the political frameups. As McCarthy's legal counsel, Cohn Attack on Lowenthal sion by F B I informer Marie pencil. boasted of his access to F B I files. On Jan. 24, 1952, Representa­ informers have the White House Natvig. Mrs. Naivig charged Carl Braden helped a Negro alien had been jeopardized by the FBI are a matter of con­ tive George A. Dondero of under surveillance. lhat she was "brainwashed" in­ family buy a house in a white Louisville neighborhood. When dating Edward Schaeffer in fidence.” Michigan attacked Max Low­ J. Edgar Hoover, in opposing fo linking Lamb w ilh Ihe CP: early 1954. enthal (author of the definitive, conlrol of FBI personnel by the that they "manufactured the the house was dynamited, Carl Manning Johnson, a paid FBI Use of blackmail—trafficking critical study, “The FBI”) in Civil Service Commission, noted evidence" after the prosecuting Braden, his wife and four informer, testified before the others were indicted for “sedi­ in fear and misery—is one way vitriolic fashion on the floor of that the FBI's work was of a attorney said "Let's murder the Subversive Activities Control tion" and accused of blowing the FBI makes informers. Ber­ the House, charging that he highly confidential nature, be­ bum." She stated, "I was recit­ Board that in his ardent pa­ nard Horwath had been ques­ was “back on the Washington cause it also had to investigate ing a prepared speech. I was up the house to stir up racial triotism, some things are above scene” and had “recently al­ high public officials. The CSC scared to death. They told me discord. The resources of the tioned four times by the FBI tru th . but refused to give names of most succeeded in dealing a charged that the FBI was "an what the truth was and told FBI were mobilized to help the Q. “ In other words, you w ill death blow to the government’s agency that feels it is justified me to tell it." Kentucky authorities put this those he knew in the CP. Then tell a lie under oath in a court fraud over. An FBI undercover the FBI asked him to rejoin the program in prosecuting Com­ in being 'above the law'." At the North Carolina Smith of law, rather than run counter agent. Martha Edmiston, offer­ CP and become an informer. He munists.” According to Dondero, The FBI informers, officially Act trial of Junius Scales, the to your instructions from the ed this sensation: Question: explained “I just couldn’t do Lowenthal was “the architect sanctioned, have become all- government called Ralph Clontz FBI. Is that right?” “Was an actual revolution plan­ it.” Denaturalization proceed­ of the plan to fire J. Howard powerful: no one remains im­ who began to spy on Scales for A. “If the interests of my ned?” Answer: “ Yes, it was plan­ ings followed in 1954. Horwath, McGrath.” President Truman’s mune from their ratting. One the FBI while still attending government are at stake. In the ned for January 12, 1941.” now an electrical contractor, Attorney General. of the stool pigeons was Eliza­ Duke University. He earned up face of enemies, at home and David Brown, former chair­ was accused of having failed to Lowenthal, a noted New beth B entley, who claim ed she to $400 a month from the FBI. abroad, if maintaining secrecy man of the Los Angeles Civil mention in his 1931 naturaliza­ York attorney, is a close friend had once been a “Communist Charles Benson Childs, a young of the techniques of methods of Rights Congress, who wept at tion proceedings that he was a of Truman. While attempts spy.” Hoover placed his entire University of North Carolina operation of the FBI who have the Rosenberg’s funeral where “Communist.” were made to suppress Lowen­ personal prestige as well as the physics student who joined the responsibility for the protection F B I * Inform er Joseph Mazzei is escorted to jail by he formed part of the honor thal’s book in 1950, Dondero prestige of the FBI behind this CP for the FBI, was another The much publicized Matthew of our people, I say I will do it sheriff's deputy (rear). Mazzei had long career as professional guard while on the FBI pay­ made the chief speech in Con­ prize informer. He testified in witness. Scales’ attorney, David Cvetic, informer, hero of the a thousand times.” stool pigeon. He was jailed, however, not for helping to roll, admitted lying and spying gress attacking Lowenthal. The Nov. 1953: “All information fur­ Rein, remarked to the jury that movie “I was a Communist for In a Pennsylvania sedition frame innocent people but on charges of failing to meet till he couldn’t go on. As “Jack N.Y. Post of Jan. 25, 1952 re­ nished by Miss Bentley, which “apparently now it’s the fash­ the FBI.” author of Saturday trial, Johnson underwent cross- payments for support of an illegitimate child he allegedly Miller” he registered on Jan. ported that “Dondero, like has been susceptible to check, ion to work your way through Evening Post articles and a ra­ examination about testimony fathered. 11, 1955, at a small downtown [Walter] Winchell, has fre­ has proved correct. She has school by working for the FBI.” dio series based on his FBI ex­ he gave in a previous deporta­ Los Angeles hotel some 24 quently displayed notably close been subjected to the most periences, turned out to be an tion proceeding. searching cross-examination; admit his fabrications. In Nov. ed for five years—his punish­ To an all-white, largely mid­ hours after he had made his alcoholic with attendant psy­ connections with the FBI.” Mc­ Q. "That testimony was not 1952, he claimed there were ment for recanting. The five dle-class Southern jury, Clontz public confession of being a chotic disorders who had been Williams poses the question: her testimony has been evalu­ correct, was it, M r. Johnson?" "126 Communists on the Sun­ year sentence was also a brutal palavered about Scales' plan to paid informer. Then he tried to repeatedly hospitalized. In How did “Dondero know what ated by juries and reviewed by A. "No. it wasn't, precisely, day section of the N.Y. Times" warning to all the other lying unite the “Negro nation.” kill himself. The police found Chicago the Court of Appeals was said in a conversation be­ courts, and has been found to because I could not at that time be accurate.” The record, how­ even though the entire Sunday- informers not to go straight. Childs “testified” about a secret him with 16 minor razor cuts. reversed the deportation order tween the President and Mr. reveal that I had supplied in­ section staff consisted of only Joseph D. Mazzei, a former school for Communists on a “I haven't anything to live for” against Brzovich based on Lowenthal?" ever, doesn't bear Hoover out. formation to the FBI . . . I 90 people. On March 13, 1952, FBI eavesdropper in the Com­ North Carolina farmx where he said. Cvetic's testimony that he had The Nash, Lloyd and Lowen­ For instance, Bentley claimed think the security of the gov­ Matusow told a committee: "I munist Party from 1942 to 1953 seen Brzovich at a "Commun­ th a l incidents as w ell as the Major Duncan Lee was a Com­ ernment has priority over . . . know by sight probably 10,000 and a major witness in the ist" meeting. The court did not FBI’s failure to deny that it munist Party member, “our any other consideration." had been feeding information to most valuable source in the party members in N.Y." Pittsburgh Smith Act trial, Netted $10,000 a Year find Cvetic's testimony credible. Dondero and McCarthy, permit OSS . . . he paid his dues to The FBI is engaging in delib­ turned in reports for 11 years In Pennsylvania, Cvetic has Johnson told the Louisiana only one conclusion, that FBI i me.” erate and calculated frame-ups. before the government decided In testimony given in May or Owen Lattimore. Yet when appeared as a witness in some Legislative Committee on Seg­ The FBI knows what it is pur­ he was not trustworthy. His 1955, Brown, when asked about McCarthy decided to lock them 300 cases. He was also a w it­ regation in March 1957 that the chasing when it buys testimony Miami testimony included fab­ his lying, replied: "That’s what in the pillory, the Fordham ness against Carl and Anne Rev. Martin Luther King, lead­ "Silvermaster Group" from informers. It is only after rications about plans for a I was paid to do by the FBI.” professor quite suddenly had a Braden. er of the victorious Montgom­ the hirelings publicly confess to “Communist invasion” of the There is a special significance moment of deep awareness. It At the hearings to remove ery bus boycott, was “a das­ Lee denied the charges. In a weather problems. The 107-page perjury that the political police US. and plotting the assassina­ to Brown’s “I-lied-for-the-FBI" came to him quite certainly that the Independent Socialist Lea­ tardly mislcader who is leading brief filed by Byron Scott, at­ Scott brief filed in 1955 charged becomes alarmed. While send­ tion of congressmen and a confession. He worked directly they were "Communists" — to gue from the Attorney Gener­ the Negroes of the South down torney for another of Bentley's 37 such discrepancies. ing people to prison on fabri­ judge. Unlike Matusow, noth­ for the FBI. fabricating reports which he then testified. al’s list, July 11, 1956, James to destruction and bloodshed.” victims, it was pointed out that Harvey Matusow described a cated testimony, Matusow was ing happened to Mazzei be­ which never featured in trials The F’B I’s standards of moral­ B urnham , appearing as govern­ It is fitting that the idols of in an FBI letter of Nov. 8. dinner with Bentley at which an FBI hero: after he confessed cause he did not turn on the or hearings, but were used to ity were exhibited when Daphne ment witness, said that it was the FBI are stool pigeons who 1945, B entley named Lee as a she wept and complained that and testified to get people out FBI and did not aid those build up the FBI’s files and to Price, a 19-year-old Canadian permissible fo r “individuals have been publicly exposed as member of the “Silvermaster she was “sick of being used by of jail, Matusow was imprison- whom he helped incarcerate. screen workers off their jobs. girl, studying at the University working as agents of the gov­ professional liars, falsifiers group” (described by her as a committees.” He quoted her as Louis Budenz. former editor of Michigan broke down and ernment or' officers of the gov­ agent provocateurs and frame- “Communist spy ring” in the saying: “You’re young, you can of the Daily Worker, testified exposed the role she had been ernment under instruction” to up artists. Because the charge federal government.) In an FBI find a job. I can't. I have to Agent Provocateur that his turncoat activities net­ forced to play for the FBI. For lie in fighting Soviet or “other that Marxism is a “conspiracy” memo of Nov. 27, 1945, she continue doing this kind of ted him over $10.000 a year. He four months she spied on her communisms.” (The ISL had to overthrow the government shifted him to the “Pcrlo group” work. I have to keep finding Scarletto, an FBI undercover FBI. Arthur P. Strunk admitted claims to have spent 3,000 hours boy friend and turned in the been listed as a communist or­ by “force and violence" is a (another alleged “ring”). Final­ information to testify about.” spy in the CP, testified that he informing on his wife, among giving the names of "Commun­ names of his campus acquaint­ ganization, although opposed to barefaced lie, the FBI must ly, in 1948 testimony before a Matusow was the FBI inform­ was instructed to enlist in the others, and receiving 82,300 for ists" to the FB I. In none of ances. She did so, she said, be­ the Communist Party.) Burn­ conjure fraudulent evidence. House of Representatives com­ er who pul the witch-hunters army by the “Communists” so his services as an FBI squealer. these soul-cleansing sessions did cause the FBI intimated a ham also said that “whatever And it considers nobody im­ mittee. she “identified” him as on the spot when he repudiated he could commit “sabotage” in The title “Dean of Witnesses he name John Carter Vincent threat that her position as an small relations I’ve had with mune from their informers. a sub-agent of Mary Price. various testimony he had given. Korea. This damaging testimony for Hire,” was conferred on the Bentley testified she collected He confessed that he lied as was accepted at face value by late FBI stool pigeon Paul Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement dues from the "Silvermaster part of a deliberate plot to the Subversive Activities Con- Crouch, who averaged $5,000 a group," and "the money I took railroad innocent persons to trol Board. Then it turned out year, for which he starred in down to Mr. Earl Browder, and prison for allegedly advocating that in the California Smith- at least 60 proceedings. Crouch got receipts from him." From the "overthrow of the govern­ A ct cases, Scarletto had testi­ had an appropriate background July 1941 to M ay 1942, when ment by force and violence.” fied that during a CP meeting for his ratting career; he testi­ ■he said she look money to Matusow, prior to his autobio­ he had made the suggestion fied before an Army Court Laura Gray Cartoon Calendar him. Browder could not have graphy, “False tyitness,” put that he join the a,rmy so that Martial in 1925 that, “I am in been lhe recipient of dues, the finger on 180 people, helped he could commit sabotage in the habit of writing letters to since he was in Atlanta peni­ send 12 CP leaders to jail and Korea. In other words, he was my friends and imaginary per­ tentiary on charges of passport supplied “statistics” for Mc­ causing trouble as an agent sons, sometimes to kings and fraud. Carthy’s charge of “20 years of provocateur. Scarletto consid­ other foreign persons, in which Bentley testified she obtained treason” against the Democratic ered it “funny” that he suc­ I place myself in an imaginary the date of D-Day “long before Party. ceeded in getting a $5 subscrip­ position. I do that to develop D-Day happened” from Ullman The Feb. 5, 1955 N.Y. Times tion to the People’s World from my imaginary powers.” “through his connections with stated that "the shabby busi­ a neighbor whom he knew to Crouch had supposedly sub­ Qen. Hilldring’s office in the ness of the paid professional in­ be anti-communist, and then mitted the names of all leading Air Corps.” But HilldrinJ was former, which has reached new turned in her name to the FBI. Communist Party members he in the Civil Affairs Division dimensions under governmental In the 1955 Smith-Act Trials, knew to the FB I. He never and had no connection with the encouragement during the past William Garfield Cummings of listed Jacob Burck, a Chicago A ir Corps. General Eisenhower few years, has been given a Toledo admitted he had signed Sun-Times cartoonist. Yet when himself knew the dale less than blow" by Matusow. There was up relatives into the CP, then Burck was the subject of a de­ 24 hours in advance, due to no need to w ail for Matusow to turned in their names to the portation hearing. Crouch testi- ...Labor's Political Independence (Continued from Page 1) ber Mechanics Educational So­ and Nov. 4 gave proof positive they burst through the coalition best way to vote for him was ciety of America, AFL-CIO, of this when R-T-W was crush­ of the Democratic Party and on the Liberal Party line. relates how the movement to ed by a tw o-to-one vote.” the labor officials. The ISP made a bold try at defeat R-T-W, which the editors The MESA editors quite cor­ The Ohio experience exposed gaining 50,000 voles fo r its regard as an incipient form of rectly conclude that “The ex­ the labor bureaucracy in a gubernatorial candidate John T. movement for a Labor Party, perience gained from the R-T-W special way. Normally, labor’s McManus. This would have arose from below and achieved fight showed that labor could top brass blocks every serious legally qualified a new socialist its purpose. “Not because of, unite on issues and that it step in the many progressive electoral party in New York but despite labor’s top brass,” could win the support of a sub­ struggles the working class and state. It would have made a the editors say, “organized stantial segment of the com­ Negro people should be waging. strong impact on the whole labor in Ohio was forced to set munity. It emphasized that Or they immobilize the labor labor movement and stimulated up its own class organization labor did not need — in fact in movement where progressive new interest in the idea of a — United Organized Labor of this instance could not rely on struggles are actually taking Labor Party. Ohio — which was independent — its so-called political friends.” place. But in Ohio, the ranks A quarterly calendar, with four cartoons by Laura Gray, two of which This should have been reason of both capitalist parties and The editors show how both swept past the top officials to enough for the Communist the AFL-CIO political arm Democratic and Republican can­ victory. The success of the en­ are pictured here. Each cartoon is 7" x 8V2" and is printed on a vellum suit­ Party leaders to support the COPE.” didates were in effect support­ deavor proves that labor could able for framing. Get them as gifts for your friends. Be sure to get a Laura ISP; instead they opposed it in It would be interesting to ers of the “Right to Work” score similar gains on other every way in the name of learn why the Worker, in all measure and that the political issues if the ranks get the Gray calendar for yourself before they run out. Each $1 paid for a calendar “working with the labor move­ the space it devoted to the ties of the labor movement bureaucracy out of the way. ment” within the Democratic lessons of the 1958 elections, with the Democratic party were On lhe electoral field or on will go into the fund for publication of the Laura Gray Memorial Cartoon P a rty. never even cited this editorial a major obstacle in the way of the numerous fronts of the OHIO EXPERIENCE appraisal of the significance of the struggle. class struggle the labor bureau­ Book. Order calendars from Consider now the 1958 elec­ the remarkable events in Ohio. RANKS BREAK COALITION cracy is a major obstacle to the toral experience in Ohio where The MESA editorial describes Did the CP policy of working progress of the labor move­ the “Right to Work” bill was how the independent political with the “labor movement” in ment. That's why the policy of defeated by the labor move­ formation “UOLO set in motion the Democratic Party find con­ the CP and SP-SDF leadership, ment. What was the central fea­ a tremendous release of work­ firmation in Ohio? No, it was re­ which begins and ends with Pioneer Publishers ture of this notable achieve­ ing class solidarity that has not futed there. The workers in subservience to the labor ment? An editorial in the De­ been witnessed or felt for many Ohio demonstrated that as soon bureaucracy, must be fought 116 University Place New York 3, N. Y. cember issue of MESA Educa­ decades in this state. It was as labor’s ranks engage in po­ tooth and nail if socialists are tor, paper of the 50,000-mem­ truly a ‘grass roots movement’ litical action on a mass scale, to fulfill their proper mission. Monday, December 29, 1958 T H E MILITANT Pag# Three

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Published W eekly by the M ilitant Publishing Association By P. R. Dharmabandu Party which was badly defeat­ 1 1 f> University PI., N.Y. 3, N.Y. Phone: CH 3-2140 IRINJALAKUDA. SOUTH ed in the last general election IN D IA — Kerala is the smallest is the only party that has de­ Editor: DANIEL ROBERTS Business Manager: BEATRICE ALLEN state in India with 14.980 manded a still more progressive Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent the M ilitant's policies. These are expressed in land reform. Its editorials. square miles and a population of now over 15 million. Eighty It is feared that there is con­ Vol. X X II — No. 52 Monday, December 29, 1958 percent of the people of this siderable opposition to the CP tiny, but beautiful, part of the bill even inside the Communist Indian sub-continent depend Party. A good percentage of upon agriculture for a living. CP leaders hail from feudal Monroe Journal on N.Y. Strike Nevertheless, this is a deficit land-owning families, which area in respect to food. The are to be expropriated com­ What’s behind efforts of business in­ of Negroes. The Journal’s professed hatred state has to purchase about pletely under the proposed law. terests in a town like Monroe, N.C., to of the Northern press over this appears two-thirds of its food needs Since the main peasant or­ ganization is led by the Com­ keep the Negro community in a state of so deep that it would seem as if nothing from other states. The percentage of literacy in munists themselves, such of second-class citizenship? Often it appears could overshadow it. But its reaction to Kerala is 84%, the highest of their leaders who would be to be an obsession that blinds them to all the New York newspaper strike shows any stale in India. But in the greatly affected by this law, else. But this really isn’t so. The bitter otherwise. number of unemployed, too, peacefully managed to grab determination of the Southern ruling The Journal editors say that their Kerala leads with about four their lands from the tenants who had cultivated the holdings class to maintain Jim Crow is consciously feeling about the New York press “tempts million. Because of that Ker­ ala has been named the "Prob­ for years without proper docu­ linked to a more basic goal—that of main­ us for once to side with the strikes.” But lem State” of India. The main ments. taining the open shop. The aim is to pre­ class allegiance quickly overcomes temp­ problems have never been In Kollangode, one Mr. Nar- vent Negro and white workers from win­ tation. “ . . . We really don’t condone solved although more than half ayanankutty (younger brother ning adequate wages and decent working strikes of any sort,” says the Journal, a dozen Congress Party minis­ of a CP legislator and trade tries and one Praja Socialist union leader), Mr. P. Balachan- conditions. “There are no unions in Union “even in that citadel of keyhole reporting Party ministry have ruled the dra Menon, as w ell as seven County,” boasts the literature of the Mon­ and general misinformation about the state since 1947, when India others were arrested for illegal roe Chamber of Commerce. (Monroe is South. It is one thing for labor to seek trespass when they attempted achieved independence. Prime Minister Nehru of located in Union County.) out and obtain its just rewards, but is CP WINS ELECTION to eject a tenant from his hold­ Modem steel plant in India. It barely dents basic India. His Congress Parly was An interesting example, proving that quite a different matter for any group of Kerala attracted world at­ ings. Mr. Narayanankutty is a agrarian character of India with semi-feudal land relations prominant Communist peasant replaced by lhe Communist tention in early 1957, when the Party in government of Ker­ class issues are basic with these people, is Americans to have a death grip at the still prevailing. Eighty per cent of Kerala population lives leader of the area and hails found in the Dec. 16 issue of the Monroe Communist Party won the elec­ ala stale. throat of the entire national economy.” tions and look power. It was by agriculture. from a jenmi (land-lord) family. Journal. Like most of the kept Southern Etc., etc., as the Journal runs through the not purely accidental. The only The eviction attempt was in as the planters agreed to refer press, the Journal bitterly castigates its rest of the union-buster’s litany. other party that could have schools in the state were man­ students until a one-man com­ support of his own relatives. a bonus question to arbitration. Northern counterparts for reporting even Moral: Scratch a professional Negro- won the elections was the Con­ aged privately. Even though mission appointed to review The tenant Mr. Kittu objected to the forcible entry of Naray­ This angered the CP-led union. a few instances of Southern persecution baiter and you w ill find a labor-hater. gress Party. But misrule and the Catholic Church fought the conflict should recommend factional fights had lost the tooth and nail against the bill, otherwise. The government also anankutty and party, and filed The strike put the government- confidence of the electorate. there was a flood of demonstra­ agreed to appoint a commission a petition before the police. in a critical position. The Work­ The world looked with interest tions urging the government to of inquiry into the various in­ The police made the arrests as ers' demand for a 25% bonus They'll Try, But Not Too Hard on how the events would shape enact the legislation. cidents that occurred during the a result. for 1957-1958 was not exorbit­ up once the Communist Party CP CAVES IN July disturbances. This is not an isolated inci­ ant. But when strikers prevent scabs from working and even In the Nov. 4 elections, 182 labor- While the Democrats may “try” to was put in power. Both the ad­ The cabinet was hesitant. The The government could have dent. Many a Stalinist leader terrorize them a bit, then thé endorsed Democrats were elected to the give labor some justice, there is no doubt mirers and the critics have ministers agreed to incorporate prevented the struggle from has taken to this devious meth­ police usually intervene to House of Representatives. This has been whatever that they w ill treat Big Busi­ watched the new, intriguing sit­ a number of amendments that assuming mass proportions, had od with connivance of the uation with curiosity. Undenia­ were demanded by the Cath­ leadership of the peasant or­ maintain "law and order." a basis for a good deal of talk about how, ness fa irly — and maybe a little better. it come to a reasonable settle­ bly, lhe Kerala Government olics and supported by the ganizations. The minister of The CP government’s police from labor’s viewpoint, there’s going to “ Now, the Democratic party is not against ment when the parents’ repre­ evoked sympathy and hope Rightest parties. The Moslem sentatives, led by the former law, it should be remembered, also intervened. On Oct. 15. the be a big change for the better in Congress business just because it is big,” Rayburn from all sections of progressive- League, through an editorial in Advocate General of Madias. made over his huge lands into police opened fire at Nettykudi, and in the Democratic Party too. But if said. “We know there have got to be vast minded people throughout lhe its mouthpiece, Chandrika, Shri Kuttikrishna Menon, met a trust on the eve of the pub­ but there were no casualties as we are to judge by a Dec. 19 U.S. News aggregations of business, factories, and so world. And the by-election in warmly welcomed the govern­ the Chief Minister and placed lication of the Land Bill. This the police fired in the air bear­ the Deviculam constituency has was done to save his lands from and World Report interview with Speaker forth, to take care of the economy of the ment's new stand. It was sheer certain compromise proposals ing in mind that they were clearly proved that Kerala vot­ surrender of principles on the the ceiling clauses of the Bill. of the House Sam Rayburn, there is no country, and they have got to be big." before him. By refusing to ac­ dealing with CP-led workers. ers still cherish hopes that the part of the Stalinist ministers. cept a settlement then, the This insincere and faithless act Under similar circumstances, of the minister provoked a substance to such talk. But, it may be argued, Rayburn is Communist Government will Their spineless action sorely Stalinists had to make bigger the police had opened fire at furor among the people. “Is there anything to the idea that only talking for the conservative Demo­ deliver the goods. disappointed many CP support­ concessions later when the Chandanathope last July 26 the Democratic party is becoming an crats. Not according to his liberal col­ The first year passed without ers. struggle put their power al CP CALLS when Revolutionary Socialist much discredit, making due al­ American labor party,” the magazine Last July was marked by a stake. It was a clear loss of FOR WATERING DOWN Party .workers prevented finish­ leagues. On Dec. 15, 20 House liberal lowance for the inexperience of wave of student strikes through­ face and of prestige. By the by His resignation was demand­ ed products from being carried asked. “Utter nonsense,” replied the Texas Democrats caucused on means of liberal­ the ministers in the art of admin­ out Kerala that at one time it was the only time that the ed by the electorate of his own away from a locked-out factory. Democrat. izing House rules. The Christian Science istration. It witnessed the line­ threatened to engulf the CP CP admitted defeat. constituency: but the minister There the police fired to kill, up of forces both for and against ministry. The struggle began What of the view of some people that Monitor reported the next day that Rep. coolly evaded the issue. The with the blessings of the Stal­ the first "Leftist” Government over a trifling issue— the denial AGRARIAN LAW the 86th Congress w ill be dominated by Frank Thompson of New Jersey said that CP does not dare discuss the inist ministers. in the State. The Congress, the of boat-fare concession to The much-publicized Agrar­ issue publicly. The latest news the unions, the interviewer asked. “I an­ “the consensus of those present favored Moslem League and the Praja school-going children in Kut- ian Relations Bill is being dis­ POLICE KILL CP WORKERS is that the state committee of swered that a while ago by saying the seeking reforms through the established Socialist Parly entered into an tanad. The students had enjoyed cussed by the Select Committee the Kerala Communist Party On Oct. 20, the police again Democratic party is not going to be a House leadership of Speaker Rayburn.” understanding which was clear­ the concession before the Water appointed by the Legislative has passed a resolution calling fired at two places—at Gudir- ly shown in the united sland Transport Corporation was Assem bly in its last session. labor party,” said Rayburn. “ We are going And the Monitor correctly adds, “This is upon the government to make ally and Thalayar. This result­ they took against the Com­ formed by the government early Pending enactment, the Minis­ to try to treat the labor unions justly and a recognition of the political fact that the bill, as far as possible, ac­ ed in the death of two workers, munist Party government in its this year. The wave of strikes try passed an act p ro h ib itin g ceptable to the opposition par­ one woman and one man. How fairly and not give them more than they Speaker Rayburn’s views are all import­ effort to find solutions to prob­ started in Kuttanad. It soon evictions by the landlords. It ties. This strange move from were the CP chiefs going to ex­ deserve, or less than they deserve.” ant.” lems confronting the young spread to all parts of Kerala as was a wise step to prevent pos­ the party that has a majority in plain why the police fired on state. the government, though fondly sible evictions by those land­ the Assembly portends that the CP workers? Simple! Rosamma, This united opposition nut up hoping that the struggle would lords who would be seriously Land Bill will be drastically the president of the Deviculam a stiff fight against the Educa­ fizzle out, mobilized party affected by the land bill. The amended to the advantage of Estate Workers Union alleged, branches to meet the serious CP ministers said that the bill tion Bill moved by the Com­ the vested landlord interests. on Oct. 22. that the firings "Ode to Sanitation" munist Party ministry immedi­ situation. was overdue, and that they were ordered as a result of a ately after the assumption of This was resented by the were doing what the Congress Munner — a High Ranges plantation area — recently saw "conspiracy” between the man­ office. The bill was a progres­ student population, with the re­ had done in oilier stales in re­ agement, INTUC leaders and spect to land relations. The police tire upon strikers. On The following poem, "An Ode to Sanita­ As scientists we must admit, the Russians sive one; it was intended to sult that there was not a single some police officials! But the progressive land bill caused lhe Oct. 4. workers of the Kanan tion w ith Apologies to Our Advertisers," have the edge impart to the teachers security school in the stale that was not Communist Law Minister had rightist parties to unite in at- Devan plantations quit work. of job, salary and honor. It was brought into the strike move­ averred that the government is by Pierre Berton, and is reprinted from But as leaders of the Western world, ment. The government was temps to foil the reform mea­ The rival union, led by lhe In ­ also intended to abolish an­ would give protection to life the Oct. 21 Toronto Star. we make this solemn pledge: archy in the educational field, forced to give in. It granted sure. dian National Trade Union Con­ and property of the manage­ as more than ten thousand free boat fares to Kuttanad Tiie Revolutionary Socialist gress, withdrew from the strike We’ll keep sending chromium bath tubs ment of the plantations. Might As scientists we must admit, the Russians to the Sikhs and Japanese; not this stand have prompted have us beat We’ll keep putting Cannon towels in the police to shoot into the But there’s one branch of research, in every box of Breeze; ... Ranks Firm in N.Y. Strike crowd? which they can’t compete; We’ll ship Kleenex to the Eskimos, The strike continued for 27 6 newspaper representative, Our plumbing is the envy of every although it may not suit ’em. (Continued from Page I) the union who favors signing strike so far. Here is a report days. The planters were adam­ newspaper industry with a 40- the present employer offer, put ol the beginning of Die strike I urged the printers to cross the ant. They said that there would Western nation: And if we’re forced to bomb ’em, deliverers’ picket line c>p Dec. hour week. The others work a motion to the membership on by an International Typograph­ be no negotiations u n til the We may not put up Sputniks—but we’re those bombs w ill not pollute ’em. 10, “they were told that the either 36*4 or 35 hours. The Dec. 16 that they again submit ical Union member: “Midnight strike was called off. On Oct. first thing was to get the four tops in sanitation. drivers are faced with the prob­ it to a vote, his motion was of the morning of Dec. 8 (Mon­ 30 the action council announc­ ITU members reinstated before Oh, iye invented Lifebuoy, when Stalin We got to have a clean bomb— lem of automation, which has overwhelmingly defeated. Com­ day). the drivers set up their ed “suspension" of the strike. the printers would consider any was a to t An undefiled, untarnished and untainted recently been introduced. Their menting on what happened, one picket lines. At that time all But the revolutionary-minded further move.” Barrett then trucks are loaded automatically. union member said, “We don't contracts for nine of the news­ section of the workers hesitated And we developed Listerine before the sweet-sixteen bomb. • asked the picket captain for This has caused unemployment want any vote [on a contract] paper mechanical trades unions to call off the strike. However, Czar was shot. O ur enemies w ill thank us permission to go through the in the union. A 3S-”iiour week until the publishers make us a had expired. Except for the de­ several top-ranking Communist picket line to see Daily News Now we’ve come up with Mum and Ban For our faith in sanitation: would help put all the workers better offer than the one we’ve liverymen they were still in ne­ party leaders rushed to the spot business manager George Don­ and Duz and Tide and Vel. We may blow them all to pieces back on the job. rejected already.” gotiations. At 2 A.M., in front and persuaded the strikers to We only need one other thing to give But there’ll be no radiation. In addition the deliverers are Another union member I of the Daily News building, nelly. resume work. The unwilling four members of the Typo­ those Russians hell: asking for sick leave, 12 holi­ talked to while he was picket­ LEADER WITHOUT workers returned to work only days instead of eight, four ing in the bitter cold said, graphical workers reported for FOLLOWING at 3 P.M., instead of in the So every American, from Ike to Gravel We want an okay bomb, “ A bout 3.600 members were work. On seeing the pickets weeks vacation instead of three Barrett returned with the morning hours on Oct. 30. G ertie, British fair play bomb. there [including members oth­ they turned around and went and a reduction in the weight reply that he couldn’t get the With more active dirt remover than any er than newspaper deliverers] home. When the men returned Thus the Stalinist leaders Is praying that we’ll soon perfect of the newspaper bundles from four reinstated. Then he again and they were furious when the following day they found went down on their knees be­ A bomb that isn’t dirty . . . other A-bomb 53 lbs to 40 lbs. The publishers’ asked the printers to cross the the leadership brought back the they were fired by the com­ fore the planters. If was a sur­ Mow Sani-Sealed in Pliofilm association has offered to lessen line. At this time there were same contract and tried to get pany. render of both principles and 'To answer our demands. the weight of the bundles to about 300-400 workers We got to have a clean bomb— another vote on it. They voted prestige. Their action with re­ 50 lbs. But as one of the de­ “Picket lines were pulled off present. “Barrett linked arms An absolutely antiseptic socially When it finally explodes it won’t to cut off all pay for the of­ gard to the Estate Workers' liverymen put it: “This is an at 8 A.M. on Dec. 8 because with Vaillancourt and proceed­ acceptable pristine bomb. Be touched by human hands. ficials until the strike is over. strike was a shameful betrayal insult. We’re trying to avoid it was reported that the ne­ ed through the picket lin e ex­ They almost tore the place of the entire Indian working- Now war’s a filthy business; ruptures. Three pounds less gotiations committee had reach­ pecting the men to follow. No­ dow n.” class movement. We don’t want it to recur. We got to have a clean bomb— won’t help.” ed agreement with the publish­ body d id.” HOW STRIKE BEGAN ers association. Tuesday morn­ So we’ve got to have a clean bomb to The kind of bomb it’s safe to give your As can be seen, there is a It is reported that in the marked contrast between what Solidarity shown toward the ing, Dec. 9, the deliverers THE JOBLESS RICH Detergently deter. kids on Hallowe’en bomb. Pressman’s union, Joseph F. striking drivers by rank-and- voted down the contract and While nearly five million un­ the strikers are offered and Dwyer, who had been president Now that bomb may kill ten thousand what they want. Thus when file members of the other news­ the picket line was resumed at employed face a meager Christ­ of the newspaper local for 13 We want a right bomb. Little children in the night, Samuel Feldman, president of paper unions has sparked the 10:40 P.M. On Dec. 9, IT U mas, T iffa n y and Co., New Y ork members refused to cross the consecutive years, stated pub­ jeweller, is boosting its inven­ Whiter than white bomb, But when they lay those corpses out licly, Dec. 13, that he’d tell A bomb to knock the spots off of that dirty They’ll all be Rinso-white. picket lines starting with the tories of higher priced jewelry midnight shift and going round the members of his union to — the kin d that sells fo r $14,000 Muscovite bomb. the clock of Dec. 10.” cross the picket lines. His op­ and up. in anticipation of a A nd if we have to drop it We want a chaste bomb. Local Directory ponent for the office of presi­ booming Christmas, according By firing the four ITU men, the dent, James O. Mahoney, adopt­ You’ll see our victims grin In good taste bomb. Daily News deliberately forced to a Wall Street Journal re­ ed a policy of respecting the For we'll have the only H-bomb An altogether ethical, high-principled, BOSTON nepin Ave., 2nd floor. Open noon to port. a situation to develop which picket lines. On Dec. 15, in Boston Labor Forum, 295 Hunting- 6 P.M. dally except Sundays. T h a t’s made with lanolin. strait-laced bomb. would prevent publication of the union elections, Mahoney ton Ave., Room 200. NEWARK the pa$er, this ITU member Advertisement Our heritage is Puritan— Every Sunday night, round table dis­ defeated Dwyer by a sizeable Newark Labor Forum, Box 361 charged. On Dec. 11, all the That’s why we’re dedicated; cussion, 8 P.M. Room 200. Newark, N. J. m a jo rity. We got to have a clean bomb— other papers followed suit and BUFFALO Officially, the other unions A tested-and-approved-by-Good- O ur high explosives, like our books NEW YOR1K CITY ceased publication, thus lock­ Militant Forum, 831 Main St. Militant Labor Forura, 116 Univer­ have refused to support the Recessions Housekeeping magazine bomb. Are better expurgated. ing out 26,000 people. CHICAGO sity Place. AL 5-7852. striking . drivers. But the bulk AND HOW TO So w hen the mushroom cloud goes up Socialist Workers Party, 777 W. OAKLAND - BERKELEY At that time, support from of the ranks have clearly indi­ P.O. Box 341. Berkeley 1, Calif. PREVENT THEM And folks die by the acre As scientists we must admit, the Russians Adams, DE 2-9736. the ranks of other unions for cated their solidarity. Yet, there CLEVELAND PHILADELPHIA the delivery men was sporadic. They won’t be plagued by Strontium-90 are one-up. Socialist Workers Party 10609 Su­ is more than solidarity in­ By Harry Kelber Militant Labor Forum and Cam­ However, the workers in the When they meet their Maker. But we invented Saul-Flush when perior Ave., Room 301, SW 1-1818. paign Hdqtrs. Socialist W o rk e r» volved, although that is funda­ Open Friday nights 7 to 9. Party, 1303 W. Girard Ave. Daily News Chapel of Local 6, mental. The members of all W ritten in easy, readable Khrushchev was a pup. style, this pamphlet is for DETROIT SAN FRANCISCO ITU, had a double principle to the newspaper unions have a We want a demure bomb. They may have Sputniks in the air, Eugene V. Debs Hall, 3737 Wood- The Militant, 1145 Polk St., Rm. 4. fight for. First, they wouldn’t stake in this strike and they socialists and non-socialists Safe and sure bomb. (We wince to hear them coming) w ard . Sat. 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. Phone PR 6- cross, a picket line, and second, alike. Carry it in your pocket. LOS ANGELES know it. If the $7 package con­ Ninety-nine-and-forty-four-on e-hundred tbs But we couldn’t raise a satellite 7296; if no answer, VA 4-2321. they were not going back while tract is broken, it will place Discuss it with your friends Forum Hall and Modern Book Shop, and shopmates. Send 25 cents percent pure bomb Without the proper plumbing. 1702 E. 4th St. AN 9-49S3 or AN 3- SEATTLE four of their own members re­ their unions in a much better 1833. Book Shop open Mon. 7-9 P.M.; 655 Main St.. MU 2-7139. Library, mained fired. bargaining position in their when you order through And though our victims call out We can’t stand contamination! bookstore. Classes every Friday eve­ Wed. 8-10 P.M.; Sat. 12-5 P.M. The ITU member reported present negotiations. They will Every time our bombs go past ’em We consider it obscene! MILWAUKEE ning at 8 P.M. Open House following PIONEER PUBLISHERS at 10:30 P.M. further that when Francis Bar­ have the chance to make great­ We can promise that there won't be any And we’ll never fight a dirty war 150 East Juneau Ave. 116 University Place MINNEAPOLIS S T . L O U IS rett, ITU Local 6 president, er gains than they could hope New York 3, N.Y. Fallout when we blast 'em. Without a bomb that’s clean. Socialist Workers Party, 322 Hen- tor Information phone MO 4-7194 and Frank Vaillancourt, Local for otherwise. The Negro Struggle t h e MILITANT Harvard Law Record on Racist Courts VOLUME XXII MONDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1358 N U M B E R 52 Until fairly recently the lyncher’s aid to the countless victims of the South­ rope was the symbol of Southern racism. ern courts, the editorial said in part: Today the lynch mobs are being sup­ “The spotlight recently has been fo­ planted in large measure by a Jim Crow cused upon the struggle of Negroes in court system that is used to “legally" rail­ the South to attend the same schools as road untold thousands of Southern Negroes white people. But even more important Interview with Conrad Lynn to prison and often to execution. The net than this is the Negroes’ fight for life, for By Harry Ring I stantiated word of this woman. effect is not basically different. his freedom, in cases w hich arise in South­ I After the Supreme Court rc- On occasion a particularly glaring ex­ ern courts every day of the year. NEW Y O R K, Dec. 22— Conrad I versed the conviction, they How Lynn Entered ample of white supremacist “justice” “ The case of Jim m y W ilson is unique Lynn is a slim, youthful look­ m ver would have brought him Civil Rights Field breaks into the national press. The most in one way, for seldom is anyone any­ ing man whose vigor of speech into court again if it wasn’t for and movement belies a busy recent example is the North Carolina where condehined to death for stealing | the part he played in the swim- Conrad Lynn, who is at­ 25-year legal career. As I talk­ 'niing pool fight.” $1.92. But it is typical, all too typical, of torney for the Rockland “ kissing” case. (See story page 1.) ed with him this afternoon at SOLIDARITY IN MONROE County, N.Y., NAACP, In this case, independent investigation the ‘raw deal’ that the average Negro re­ his office on lower Broadway it Despite the intimidation the first came into national quickly exposed how the Bill of Rights ceives in local criminal courts throughout was readily apparent that he's Negro community is standing prominence in the civil rights had been swept aside to victimize two in­ the South day after day. a man who relishes a good firm, Lynn said. “What impres­ field during World War II nocent children. But what of the countless “Governor Folsom is to be commend­ fight fo r a just cause. As we sed me most as I w alked through when he acted as attorney discussed the case of Hanover ed for saving Jimmy Wilson’s life. But that tow n,” he said, “ is the w ay for his brother Winfred. The other cases in the South where the facts Thompson and "Fuzzy" Simp­ the people there are supporting he hesitated a good while before doing so. latter had informed officials have not yet been fully established? For son which he's handling as gen­ Williams in this fight. It’s amaz­ of the then segregated army example, during the month of November, He did not act u n til a fte r the case had eral counsel to the Committee ing the extent to which they that he would accept induc­ in the same state of North Carolina, four­ received widespread publicity throughout to Combat Racial Injustice it have the feeling ‘We’re all to­ tion only for service in an teen Negro youths, aged 14 to 17 were not only this country, but the whole was equally clear that he thinks gether.’ That’s the really healthy integrated unit. Winfred and acts as a full-tim e participant sentenced to life in prison. A fifteenth re­ world, almost all of it sympathetic to thing about the town. They have Lynn was imprisoned. Then in the fight for equal rights a new stature as human beings.” he accepted induction in or­ ceived the death penalty. They were con­ Wilson, until he had received a floodtide and not just as a legal counsel Explaining that the parents der to test the issue in the victed solely on the testimony of two of letters, including many from important to it. of the two boys had retained courts. H is case was ap­ white women who claimed they were personages .such as George Meany, plead­ Between incoming phone calls, him as counsel on advice of pealed twice to the Supreme raped — the kind of testimony reminis­ ing for Wilson’s life to be spared, and he described his recent week in Williams and Dr. Perry, Lynn Court by the noted civil lib­ cent of the Scottsboro frame-up in the until Secretary of State Dulles sent a tele­ Monroe where he began the said the Committee to Combat erties attorney Arthur Gar­ gram, informing him of the black eye legal moves to lice the two Racial Injustice is also rallying field Hayes. Each time the 1930’s. youngsters who are in a reform­ support for Dr. Perry and for that the case was giving the United States high court refused to review The illegal use of the courts to de­ atory because one of them was Mrs. Mary Reid who is pressing it. prive Southern Negroes of life and liberty abroad. .. . kissed by a little white girl. The charges against a white man “It is not so much the Negro desiring phone calls indicated something that heat and attempted to rape has become so widespread that last Oct. 2 “The South itself is a major of the nature of his practice. her. the Harvard Law Record, oldest and most to fullfill his wish to attend an integrated Conrad Lynn (right foreground); his wife, Yolanda (lefi); problem for the unions,” he con­ One call, he explained, was “In making this fight.” he respected law-school paper in the country, school in Little Rock or Norfolk who son, Alexander; and daughter, Suzan. Picture taken at 1957 tinued. “You have a test tube from a young man whose land­ said, “we fee] we’re supplement­ needs protection. It is the unheralded Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington. Lincoln Memorial is in example in Monroe. We picked devoted a lengthy editorial to this crucial lord has been trying to evict ing the work of the NAACP. background. up some Chamber of Commerce problem. The point of departure for the Negro in the unheard-of town, the one him because he’s the chairman We hope the NAACP will de­ literature down there and they e d ito ria l was the case of Jim m y W ilson, who is accused of a crime but who can’t of a tenants committee in the cide to help on this case. W e’ll a Negro in North Carolina. They openly boast that there aren’t afford to hire a capable lawyer to defend building. ‘‘We slapped a $50,- When Williams came back home certainly welcome all the help the Alabama Negro who was sentenced don't have any state orphanages to Monroe a few years ago any unions in Union County, 000 damage- suit on him for and support they can give in to death for an alleged theft of less than him, and who is not offered top quality, down there for Negro children after a hitch in the army and th a t labor is ‘cooperative’—and harassment,” Lynn said, “and the this fight.” $2. Underscoring the need for effective high-priced counsel by the NAACP.” so they pul orphans into the cheap.” judge just threw out a defense jobs in Detroit and New Jersey The union movement should Negro reformatory along with The prospects for Hanover m otion to dismiss the case.” auto plants he became president also add its support. "I think 16 and 18 year old boys con­ Thompson and “Fuzzy” Simp­ Another call was from a client of the virtually defunct Union labor has a major responsibility victed of serious criminal of­ son are excellent, Lynn con­ back from a trip to Israel. She County NAACP and began to in a case lik e this. The South fenses. Fuzzy and Hanover called to tel] Lynn about the build it up by courageous fights is the seed bed of Am erican cluded, “provided enough peo­ were the two smallest ones committee that had been set up on local issues. fascism. The big danger of ple, nationally and internation­ Holiday Book Bargains there and Fuzzy in particular First he won the right for in Haifa to help save Jimmy 'righl-to-work' laws comes from ally, make their feelings known. was really terrified. Negroes to use the "w h ite -o n ly " Wilson for whom Lynn served the Southern politicians. The library after the one for Negroes The legal machinery is avail­ as co-attorney. “How are they treated? Well, most reactionary anti-labor leg­ (Use this ad as your order form) able to us. B u t it w ill mean I tell you this. It was cold had burned down. Then after a islation usually originates with LEGAL ABUSES nine-year-old Negro boy drown­ ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION OF when we were down there, with lhe Southern heads of Congres­ something only if we build a (All books clolhbound unless CHAUCER AND HIS ENGLAND. By Explaining the legal aspects ed in the local creek he led a G. G. Coulton. A social study of THE CONSTITUTION OF THE U.S. a heavy snow. But that kid strong protest movement.” otherwise staled; if no mailing of the fight, he said the case of sional committees. the medieval England which forms By Charles Beard. A landmark in didn't even have a pair of un­ group of Negro youth down to price is indicated, it is included in young Thompson and Simpson is p r ic e of b o o k .) the setting of the Canterbury Talcs. the writing of U.S- history. $.69 ( ) derwear on. Vhey gave him the municipal pool and demand­ Regular price $4.00. Special to M il­ ( p lu s 15c) overloaded with Constitutional some old dungarees, a sweat ed the rig h t to use it too. THE MAN FROM MAIN STREET. itant readers $2.98 ( ) THE ECONOMIC BASIS OF POLI­ abuses. The boys were held in­ shirt and a tattered jacket.” Alter the KKK burned ;i cross A Sinclair Lewis Reader. Selected TICS by Charles Beard. (paper) communicado for six days. ...Monroe Case essays and other writings 1904*1950. Did he feel that the perse­ near the home of Dr. A. E. BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN $1.25 (plus 10c) ( ) Their parents couldn't get to case sent to S uperior Court. Includes writings on literary, labor, AMERICA. By W. E. B. DuBois. The cution of these youngsters is Perry, vice president of the (Continued from Page I ) THE STRANGE CAREER OF JIM see them, let alone getting a social and political subjects. (O rig­ monumental work on the subject directly related to the general Union County NAACP and W il­ was first brought into Record­ In addition to the legal aid CROW by C. Vann Woodward (pa­ law yer to sec them. They were inally $3.75) $1.00 ( ) from which all subsequent works supplied Mrs. Reid, there are per) $1.50 (plus 10c) ( ) intimidation down there? liams’ close collaborator, they er’s Court on Nov. 10 the judge (plus 15c m ailing charge) have been quarried. 746 pp. (orig­ denied bail. Then they were set low bail and put off fixing indications that another factor AUTOMATION AND SOCIAL PROG­ “ It ce rta in ly is. 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A veteran of the October When I went into court there that followed shortly after the opined that there was not that “a Jot of misinformation” wing trace the steps in the imper­ Frenchman’s Report of the American their parents without a lawyer ialist invasion of Egypt and the Negro Struggle. By Daniel Guerin. Revolution and Stalin's prisons to try to get a reduction of cross burning. enough evidence for a finding about this case had been p u b ­ The kids were scared, of course, repression of the independence move, Remarkable study by a French draws the balance sheet of a revolu­ sentence. Judge Price told me “That’s why they’re • going of probable cause — basis of lished and that misinformed ment on Cyprus. (Originally $1.95) Marxist. 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