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Vol. X X I - No. 51 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1957 P R IC E 10c Seasons Greetings, 1957 Allies Insist U.S. Govt. Must Talk with USSR Racists Win NATO Meeting Voting Curb Votes Renewed In Alabama Alabama racists struck a new Negotiations blaw at the Constitutional By George Lavan rights of Negroes when they U.S. imperialism suffered a setback in foreign policy jammed through passage of a at the recent Paris conference of the North Atlantic Treaty referendum, Dec. 17, abolishing Organization. The NATO nations, whom the U.S. State Macoiii County which has a pre­ Department has heretofore al- &- dominantly Negro population. ways been able to cajole or bull­ and the Soviet bloc on a world The county will now be divided doze into line, almost unanimous­ scale. among neighboring counties to ly insisted that some sort of Why then were the NATO negotiations with the Soviet politicians so insistent that talks fragment its Negro vote. Union be entered into. with the USSR be begun? What The measure, which was spon­ In the week .prior to the con­ is their aim ? sored by State Senator Sam ference Washington had cavali­ There has been a tremendous Englehardt, leader of the Ala­ erly dismissed, as unworthy of rise in anti-war feeling among bama White Citizens Councils, consideration and mere “mis­ the masses of all countries since w ill next go before a state leg­ President Eisenhower (left) and British Prime Minister chief-making,” the letters of sputnik announced the age of islative committee for ironing missile warfare. The prospect of out of legal loopholes. Macmillan during their Bermuda conference last spring. Shortly Soviet Premier Bulganin to Jobless Total in Steady afterward Britain announced major arms cuts, declaring there NATO powers in which he! 1j"bonlb destruction from rockets HIGH VOTE AGAINST is no present defense against the consequence of nuclear attack. proposed negotiations to lessen f ly 10>0(l0 m,les Per hour tha,tand descend from outer space, While the white supremacists At (he current NATO conference Macmillan is supporting the the military tensions between the thus beyond interception by any won passage of the measure, the idea of negotiations with the Soviet Union. Soviet and capitalist blocs. Eis- Climb Throughout U.S. vote on it was fa r from the enhower and Dulles arrived in ?!ane ~ fact unstoppable, has victory they anticipated! with Europe with such words of h^ r^led_the People of Europe, Unemployment in November General Motors, Trailmobile, stimulated by the missile develop­ AH the more so since their poli­ the results indicating litble pop­ refusal on their lips. The U.S. Radio Corporation of America, ment. ticians have aligned their coun­ reached 3.2 million according to ular enthusiasm for it. With did not even have the subject on Many favored corporations ar.e tries in a military pact against the conservative estimates of the Philco, Foid Motor, General Indonesian Army Takes its proposed agenda for the con­ 1,900 of Alabama’s 2,780 coun­ Electric and Westinghouse. in for more lush profits but it the nation now most advanced in U.S. Departments of Labor and ties reporting, the measure has fab of the rulers of the 15 NATO is not assured that the missile rocketry — the USSR. In every a m ajority of 58,000 votes' to nations. But these spokesmen for Commerce and total employment STEEL PRODUCTION FALLS program will mean a significant European parliament the opposi­ 40.000. the America’s Big Business gov­ declined. This was the highest The steel industry has been jump in employment. For one tion parties are taking advantage Particularly significant was ernment not only had to spend jobless figure for any November steadily cutting back production, Control of Dutch Holding thing, while more Federal money the number of people who did most of their time on this sub­ of this popular feeling to make since 1949 — a recession year. and industry spokesmen predict will pour into that program it not vote on the issue at ail. DEC. 19 — The Indonesian Army last week took over ject and to eat their eariier things ditticult for the parties It marked an increase of 680,000 that the month of December will will undoubtedly be accompanied in office. Only 25% of the state’s regis­ words, but they ended up voting over October. be their worst month. Non-fer- by a cut in what has now“ become control cf virtually all Dutch-owned properties in the tered voters took a stand on the fo r discussions w ith Soviet rep­ Thus chief executives of the rous metal producers (copper, obsolete or less important m ili­ Personal income dropped $1 reterenctum. ut eight state-wiue country. Many of these had been seized by the workers resentatives in the near future. N a T u .powers (14 of tnem were billion for the month of Novem­ aluminum, etc.) have what they tary fields. issues that won passage only in the course of a campaign ------mere, a»i except Portuguese dic­ call their private recession which ber, the bulk of this drop among one polled a lower voce than against Dutch imperialism that established control over the NO PRESSURE tator Salazar) felt it was is now a year and half old. production workers in durable the Macon County measure. •began Dec. 3. Total Dutch in­ Dutch holdings. This is a revo­ FOR AGREEMENT stupidity or selfish unconcern goods (television, auto, re frig ­ The metal working industry In Mobile County, the second vestments in the islands—the lutionary step in the direction There is no indication that the for the U.S. to stubbornly refuse erator, etc.) manufacturing in­ Little Rock Negro as a whole is dropping in produc­ largest in the state, the propo­ former Dutch East Indies—are of eliminating capitalist owner­ NATO nations who forced the even to engage in the high-level dustries. This .particular statistic tion. All commodities in move­ Student Suspended sition was defeated by a five to estimated from $1 to $1.5 bil­ ship altogether. To block it, the recommendation for talks with discussions publicly proposed by reflected not only the climbing | ment as reflected by car loading three vote. In Jefferson County, lion. army has hastened to take over the Soviet diplomats insist that the Soviet rulers. Minnie Jean Brown, 16 unemployment, but also the cut figures show a decline. the most populated in the state, The Army chief of staff, Ab­ the Dutch properties. any agreement come out of This refusal, the European years old, one of the nine N e­ in the work week in some plants Meanwhile, U.S. exports are it barely squeaked through by dul Haris Nasutoin, has ordered The Communist Party leader­ these talks. There is certainly no politicians believe, only serves gro students who have braved and shops. , shrinking. For a number of a margin of 15,000 votes to all army commanders through­ ship is also opposed to work­ indication that they are demand­ to confirm the healthy suspicions racist terror and harrassment Dr. Emerson P. Schmidt, Chief reasons foreign countries are 14.000. out the country to place Dutch ers’ seizures and to workers’ con­ ing a “big-deal” compromise of of the masses of the people in to attend Cental High School Economist of the United States finding it more difficult to put Meanwhile, the action was as­ enterprises under their manage­ trol. “For the most part the conflicts between imperialism in Little Rock, Ark. was (Continued on page 2) Charhber of Commerce has out dollars to buy American sailed by iRoy W ilkins, execu­ ment. A t the same time he has Indonesian workers who began suspended by school authori­ warned the American business goods and are imposing controls tive secretary of the National forbidden the workers from car­ taking over Dutch enterprises ties last week for a minimum community to expect a recession that cut down imports from Association for the Advance­ rying through any further sei­ two w^eeks ago were not affili­ of 3 days. According to the ‘‘a t least as severe” as the down­ the U.S. ment of Colored People. In a zures. In practice, army control ated with the Commonist Party school superintendent, a white turn of 1949 and 1954. In short, these and many other statem ent issued Dec. 18, he de­ means little change in the man­ as has been widely but inac­ Foster Renews Warfare boy in the school cafeteria The approaching Xmas season clared that with this deprivation agement of the Dutch holdings. curately reported in the outside reports on the economic situation blocked the aisle through — holiday spirit, general good of the political rights of Ala­ “In most cases,” writes W alter world,” wrote Tillman Durdin point up re-emergence of tradi­ which Miss Brown was carry­ cheer and the rest — did not bama Negroes, “Congress . . • Briggs from Jakarta in the Nov. in the Dec. 16 New York Times. tional difficulties of the capital­ ing a tray of food. “She lost deter the business executives of ist economy when its productive should reduce the number of its 16 New York Herald Tribune, Most of the worker groups were On Daily Worker Editor her temper,” the superinten­ the nation from mapping out Representatives from Alabama “Dutch entei prises have contin­ affiliated with the Nationalist powers outproduce the available dent said, “and dumped her By Harry R in g layoff plans. A news round-up market. Big Business spokesmen, in compliance with the Four­ ued to operate with Dutchmen party and the union that took food on the white boy.” The by the Wall Street Journal (Dec. teenth Amendment . . .” The in control, and an Indonesian over the Dutch KPM shipping W illiam Z. Foster has launched a renewal o f open th eir press agents and crystal- boy was not suspended. An­ 18) tells the grim story. Many amendment provides for reduc­ corporal stays posted outside as company ' headquarters had the ball gazers are united in a hope other school official said the factional warfare against the wing of the Communist of the familiar big names of tion of representation in pro­ a symbol of the Army’s protec­ reputation of being an anti- that the end of 1958 w ill see a students present said the in­ Party leadership headed by Daily Worker editor John American industry admit plans portion to the number of citi­ tion and the nation’s authority.” Communist union. resumption of business prosperity. cident “could have been an Gates. Foster’s battle cry is thei>" zens illegally deprived of their “Communist-line members of for layoffs of short or long They base their hope upon a WANT BIGGER SHARE I need to “liquidate . . . the re­ der the destructive ideological accident.” the N ational Advisory Council duration. The roll call includes new and bigger arms program vote. visionism w h i c h has almost offensive from the Right. Vari­ This does not mean, however, [top advisory body to Indone­ wrecked the Party. At the same ous Party and other Left insti­ that government seizures of sian President Sukarno] are time party secretary Eugene tutions . . . crumbled under the Dutch properties are mere for­ known to have actually spoken Dennis who has tried to play a liquidationism of the Revision­ malities. The Indonesian cap­ against the worker take-overs balance - of - power role in the ists. . . . There was the tragic italist class, whose interests the and called such moves ill-disci­ fight, is branded by Foster as fate of the splendid1 Jefferson government represents, wants to plined ‘anarcho-syndicalism.’ The N. Y. Subway Workers having “done much to deepen School, the California Labor weaken Dutch imperialism’s hold Communists advocated an or­ and prolong the Party crisis. . . . School, the Daily People’s World on the economy and gain a derly program of government Dennis has never taken a firm and the Labor Youth League— greater share for itself. Fur­ take-overs such as the system str.nd against Revisionism, a all of which perished under the thermore, the seizures allow the th at now has been put into ef­ course which has tended to ap­ Right offensive. . . . The sub­ government to invite U.S. cap­ fect.” ital to replace Dutch ownership pease and conciliate it.” stance of the present crisis is Hit Sellouts by Quill Despite Army chief Nasution’s that the Party is deeply sick Fcister’y attack is contained in the enterprises on terms that prohibition of further worker give more leeway to Indonesian in a lengthy document written with a heavy attack of Right By Fred Halstead In 1955, Quill made a deal — ciation, was established in 1956. motormen, ordered 200 of his seizures of Dutch property, the Revisionism.” based on his political connections That summer it led a brief strike “organizers” to terminals to interests. It is for this limited movement has spread fro m last October a,nd now being gen­ erally circulated among the Charges of such scopev and New York City’s eight-day with the Democratic Party ma­ over conditions. “advise our people to remain at goal that the Indonesian gov­ Java — principal island of In­ members of the Communist character leave little ground for subway strike, which ended Dec. chine —- with the Transit The MBA, all of whose officers work.” He loudly declared: “The ernment initated the take-over donesia — to Sumatra and Bor­ Party. Its first section also ap­ the type of “unity” compro­ 16 when striking motormen voted Authority, a joint city-state body are working motormen, claimed subway strike is not going to policy. But Indonesian capital­ neo. This is a new development pears in the December issue of mises patched together at the to return to work, was basically appointed by Mayor Wagner and 2,600 of the 3,167 motormen and happen/’ But the motormen ists fear the workers carrying for these islands which have Political Affairs, with the bal­ party’s national convention last a militant rank-and-file revolt Governor Harriman. demanded the right to represent walked out just the same. through the seizures, because been centers of rightist rebel- ance slated for publication next February and at the “Recon­ against low-wage, sweetheart them in the coming negotiations. In court proceedings against whenever this happened in the lions against the Sukarno gov struction” meeting of the na­ agreements between the employ­ QUILL’S GIVEAWAYS The Transit Authority announced the strike leaders, it was revealed past two weeks the workers' eminent during the past year. month. tional committee last July. The ing Transit Authority and the The TA recognized the TWU it would deal w ith only one that the Transit Authority was Some of the m aterial is iden­ charges assume particular sig­ bureaucracy of the Transport as sole bargaining agent fo r sub­ union, the one which would win using labor spies against the tical with that contained in a nificance in that they coincide Workers Union headed by Michael way employes and gave it a dues a system-wide representation MBA. A “bug” microphone was recent article by Foster in the with Kremlin declarations on J. Quill. check-off. The next contract election scheduled fo r Dec. 16. discovered in the M B A office Soviet publication Kommunist the need to stamp out “revi­ provided for insignificant wage Since the TWU was the only and a reporter found evidence AEC Admits Radiation Danger and reported in the Dec. 9 N.Y. Here is the background of the sionism” in the world Commun­ increases. It actually resulted in established union claiming of a w ire-tap on the M BA phone. Times. There Foster also assails strike: Negotiations for a new ist parties— that is to end any a loss to the workers by giving system - wide membership, i£ The New York Herald Tribune Gates for “revisionism.” The contract covering 32,00$ hourly By Cutting ‘Safe’ Limit 67 Pet. criticism of the Moscow line and up the right to sick pay for the present article is fashioned as paid employes on the city-owned could not lose. On Sunday, Dec. ran an i editorial entitled: “Fire In a damaging rdmission about its long efforts to deliberate’)- to re - establish unquestioning first day of illness and by secur­ 8, a meeting of 1,200 MBA mem­ the Strikers.” The N.Y. Times a polemic against Alexander subway system were scheduled minimize the extent of the risk involved in exposure to atomic subservience to it. ing (he union’s cooperation in a Bittleman, a Dennis supporter, to begin around the first of the bers voted to strike the next insisted on no compromise with radiation, the Atomic Energy Commission announced Dec. 10 program of increased work morning — protesting the elec­ who wrote a twelve-installment Demagogically presenting him­ year. Present wages are low, the “illegal” strike. that it has ordered a 67% cut in the permissible levels of tract in the Daily Worker last self as the champion of a “class- ranging from $1.79 per hour for loads, particularly affecting the tion and demanding craft recpgni- Both the New York City CIO radiation exposure for atomic workers and for those living in October entitled, “I Take a stiuggle perspective,” Foster porters to $2.32 for motormen. motormen. tion. Council, headed by Quill, and the the area of atomic facilities. The AEC action serves to under­ flays Bittleman’s “fresh look” Purchasing power of a motor- Quill hailed this contract as a Mayor Wagner declared the Central Trades and Labor Coun­ Fresh Look.” score the real extent ol the danger involved in atomic radiation, at “peaceful co-existence” and man’s take-home pay is actually great victory and brutally sur- Strike “illegal.” The TA an­ cil denounced the strikers and A im ing beyond Bittleman, whicji is also the basis lor the world-wide demand to halt the “welfare state” as devoid of lower than it was in 1941. pressed opposition to it within nounced it would operate the Foster charges the Gates group insisted on “no compromise” by nuclear-arms testing. The decision also confirms the charges any real socialist perspective. And Despite all kind of militant- the TWU. The lack of demo­ subways and replace anyone who the city government. Not a single with responsibility for the crisis made by leading geneticists of the danger to future generations he certainly is on safe ground sounding demagogy by Quill, cracy within the TWU tended to struck. Four 'of the MBA lead­ that has gripped the OP for the prominent A F L -C IO leader spoke caused by exposure to such ladiation. in making the charge. For ex­ there had never been a subway force the widespread discontent ers, Theodore Loos, M B A presi­ past year and a half. He writes: out publicly against the strike­ The new regulations are aimed primarily at limiting ex­ ample, Bittleman asserted: “The strike by the TWU to correct into activity outside the union dent, Augustine Johnson, Edwin “The Revisionist campaign of breaking and labor-spying used posure during the reproductive years, particularly up to the age emerging period of peaceful co­ these shameful low- wages. The and a number of craft unions Kiser and Louis Steinfeld were liquida'tionism . . . is what im­ against the motormen. of 30. For the first time a limit is set on the total accumulated existence .... does not call T W U is the industrial union to were formed seeking separate arrested minutes before the 5 Non-strikers were urged to mediately precipitated the Par­ exposure that an atomic worker may receive over the years. for the abolition of capitalism which the transit workers had bargaining rights. One of these, A. M. strike deadline. ty into crisis . . . Veteran Par­ until recently generally adhered. the Motormen’s Benevolent Asso­ Quill, who claimed 2,300 o i the (Continued on page 4) ty members . . . collapsed un- (Continued on page 4) Page 2 THE MILITANT Monday, December 23, 1957 i. Sputnik, Tggheads* The British Electrical Union Election By Peter Fryer votes of these five branches to this ordinary ETU member’s hands of the capitalist press fense of their union into their I well-appointed offices and lux­ Special London Correspondent be counted. protest got very little promi­ and feeding them with ammuni­ own hands, and to fig h t on two ury hotel accommodations when Nasty-minded critics were not nence in the press. tion for the attack on trade fronts: against Fleet Street, the they are out of London. There And U.S. Students In the past few weeks the slow to point out that pre­ The E T U leaders’ case is that unionism. To militant electri­ heart of the capitalist Press, is no suggestion of financial B'v Milton Alvin Electrical Trade« Union, the cisely similar irregularities in Cannon would have lost even if cians their employers are the and King Street, the heart of dishonesty; the point is th at last Stalinist - controlled trade the voting had taken place in the votes of the disqualified main enemy — but when their British Stalinism. It is a colos­ leaders who style themselves The launching of the Soviet Sputniks has produced a branch in the 'north of Eng­ branches were counted. But they leaders play into the hands of sal task, * but if not under­ communists, while clearly their unirtn in B ritain has been sub­ something new in the thinking of the American ruling land where the majority was refuse to put the matter to the the capitalist class by misusing taken Fleet Street and King efficiency would be impaired if jected to a fierce attack through Street between them will deliver class. They have suddenly become aware o f the fact th a t for Frazer, but the leadership test by holding the election the rule book against critics they had money worries, ought every medium of capitalist had turned a blind'eye. And again. and dissenters such as Cannon, the union into the hands of the at the same time to live modest­ science and the study of scien--® propaganda. The focal point of from the town of Reading came ¡Now all this quite clearly then those who have the inter­ Right-wingers who are simply ly and soberly at the level of tific subjects are not held in of mankind are rewarded with accounts from two neighboring raises some p re tty im portant ests of the'ir union at heart waiting on the sidelines. Only their own members. the attack S3 an election re­ high esteem by American youth. very little notice an most cases branches, one pro-Cannon, the questions of principle for mili­ must come out in its defense in the militants, under M arxist Attempts aw being made to and a good deal of abuse in oth­ cently held' fo r an im portant other pro-Frazer. Both had sent tants, socialist and rank-and- their own way. leadership, can restore the con­ WANT NEW ELECTION overcome this lack of apprecia­ ers. H igh school students are union post, in which the candi­ their voting returns in to the file communists inside the ETU. The essence of the E T U lead­ fidence of ETU members in the Thirdly, the militants call for tion. In the television program encouraged by the very nature dates were Les Cannon, who head office a couple of days Olearly the capitalist Press at­ ership’s action in this affair union’s leadership; restore dem­ the election for which Cannon “ W ide W ide W orld,” sponsored of society itself to be more resigned from the Communist late. The first had received tack on the'ir union is not mo­ (and it is this that makes them ocratic rights; end the rigging and Frazer were candidates to by the General Motors Corpora­ aware of Mickey ¡Mantle’s bat­ Party a year ago in protest at back a letter saying this breach tivated by pure-minded, disin­ a sitting target for red-baiting of elections and other abuses; be held afresh, so that confi­ tion, the world’s largest profit ting average than the latest the suppression of the Hungar­ of the rules could not possibly terested regard for the health journalists) is that they are and transform the ETU into a dence in the union’s electoral maker, a serious effort to con­ finding in science. ian Revolution, and a ¡Stalinist be overlooked, ^nd the vote was and strength of that union and unable to answer the political sound and reliable instrument machinery can be restored and vince thè audience that the pur­ Underlying the lack of inter­ candidate called Frazer. Cannon therefore discounted; the sec­ its effectiveness in the defense criticism from the left. This of of working-class advance. The the attacks o.f the capitalist suit of scientific studies is nec­ est in science is the sure knowl­ was sacked from his job as a ond a letter sayi(ng there was of its members. It is no coinci­ course is a reflection, in a spe­ militants have now launched a Press can be replied to in the essary and rewarding led to a edge th a t new discoveries w ill paid official of the ETU sev­ a breach of rules, but head dence that this attack comes at cific form, of the crisis of Brit­ three-point campaign for de­ most effective way: in demo­ series of crude but revealing be used for the private gains of eral months earlier, allegedly office fouind it possible to over­ the same tim e as a general of­ ish (Stalinism, of its inability mocracy and probitv inside the cratic deeds. facts regarding the status of huge monopoly corporations and on economy grounds, but in look it this time, only dofi’t lelt fensive, in which Britain’s Tory to cope with the truth it sought ETU. 'This is the only principled science in America. benefits to mankind, if any, will fact —: so many members be­ it happen again on any account. Government has joined, against so long to hide. Against the Their first demand is for a way in which the crisis in the I t seem» that high school come only as a by-product to lieved— because of his opposi­ A ll this o f course was cal­ the workers’ living standards, weapon of truth ETU general national committee of inquiry, ETU can be solved. Any other students are, in the main, not the main goal, that is, profits. tion to Stalinism. It was nat­ culated to make a field day for wages and jobs. Already, in secretary Frank Haxell and democratically elected* by the w ay wouild lead to big setbacks. interested in studying science. Everyone knows that the most ural that much interest should the reactionary Press, w h i c h such organs of the British cap­ president Frank, Foulkes can on­ rank and file of the union, to The Stalinists who screw their The reasons they give vary complete monopoly in America center on the election, since if seized on such stories, and ran italis t class as The Times and ly deploy the weapon of pro­ investigate its. entire machinery eyes up tight and cover their from the difficulties of the sub­ is that held by the corporations Cannon won he would be a con­ them day after day in a cre­ the Economist, the demand has cedure. 'Socialist electricians and report back to the branches. ears or who brand critics as ject matter to the relatively on scientific achievements. stant thorn in the ilesh of lead­ scendo of witch-hunting. A fo r­ been openly raised fo r a gen­ criticize them from the stand­ Seoondly, the militants are “wreckers,” “saboteurs,” “cap­ low esteem in which the scien­ Even in fields where scientific ers whose methods and affairs mer Labor MP called Woodrow eral inquiry into trade unions point of principle — and they demajnding that the salaries of italist agents” and so forth— tists are held by the public. • advances are financed by the he knew fa r more about than W y a tt who has won fam e as a and general legislation to curb wield the rule book in reply. ETU officials be cut immediate­ just as some of them did over, government, such as nuclear was healthy for them. television interviewer persuaded their power. Clearly the ETU This formalistic approach of a ly to the ordinary wage of a criticism of the Soviet and Eastp ‘EGGHEAD’ IN COMEBACK physics, the tendency is to turn a number of rank-and-file ETU members, and other militants, bureaucracy determined to cling skilled electrician, atnd that all ern European bureaucracies— 1 U nderlying th'is particular ef­ over to private monopolies as RULES MUST BE UPHELD members to appear on TV ; all must defend their union against qn to its power ahd privileges expenses be cut to the neces­ are themselves helping to drag fort over TV was an attempt to many of the new facilities as (He did not-w in. Five branches but one of them had1 their aln attack which, if successful, evefci i f in the process the sary out-of-pocket expenses en­ the good name o£ communism rehabilitate the so-called “'egg­ public opinion will stand for. where solid majorities for Can­ backs to the camera, and in would be only the prelude to a union is harried, smashed, tailed in the day-to-dav busi­ and of trade unionism through head,” one of the victims of Anything else is branded as non were a certainty had their some cases their voices were more far-reaching onslaught on wrecked as an effective work­ ness of the union. the mud. There are many rank- the witch hunt. Some, of the “creeping socialism,” t o be votes disqualified. Because of disguised; they were scared of working-class org;30’s as a ^ e m ­ 1952 and 1956 Democratic Presi­ rad Adenauer may desires Sput­ as at the 1955 Geneva Con­ Contributions 'to the w elfare dominates all phases of life. ber of the Conference f«r Prog­ dential candidate, in a Dec. 13 nik vs. sputternik has shaken ference. ressive T abor Action which was speech in Chicago, In a Dec. 9 German public support for the s The 'reaction of the NATO led by Muste. Recalling th° dra­ editorial, the 'New York Post NATO alliance. Even Prime allies to sputnik is to demand matic m?ss struggles of t^e wrote, . * no m atter how Minister Harold Macmillan [of th at the U.S. .put on a renewed Twin Cities Ohio unemployed of the fru strating the process, we must Great Britain] is facing opposi­ show of negotiation with the Calendar 1930’s and the historic Toledo always seem ready to talk.” tion to the American plan from USSRp Certainly the common New Year’s Eve auto workers sîrike battles of That the European capitalists his own Tory right wing as well people of the globe will wel­ Celebration the same period. 'P’-eis ngid el«- dare force onto Wall Street im­ as from the Labor Party. He come any tangible lessening of ouent tribute to 'Muste’s contri­ Dancing, Entertainment, Of Events perialism a tactical move serving needs time to maneuver to hold the war danger coming out of butions to the leadership of Supper their own interests is a reflec­ his public.” Chicago such negotiations •— fo r ex­ these struggles as well as his tion of the lessened awe in which ample, the ending of the nuclear Join with us it is! held since the sputniks. ‘BRINK OF APPEASEMENT’ contributions to t^p education Tuesday, Dec. 31 — New Y ear’s testing th at poisons the atmos­ The failure of U.S. imperialism President Eisenhower (right) and Soviet Premier Bulganin of many young militant social­ Eve Party. Music, Dancing, Re­ In the Dec. 19 N. Y . Herald- phere. Tues., Dec. 31, at 9 P.M. to master the colonial revolu­ at the Geneva conference in Ju?.y 1955. At that time world ists of the t^'me. freshments. Ausp.: Militant Labor Tribune Roscoe Drummond re­ tion, which has spread from the ports from Paris: “This [to gain pressure against the; mounting war drive compelled the U.S. to SOURCE OF WAR DRIVE Forum. 777 W . Adams St. MAIN PROBLEM Far East to the Middle East and time] is why such a rocklike ally put on a show of negotiating the issues of the cold war. Since An overall diplomatic agree­ In his presentation. Muste 322 Hennepin Ave., Rm. 205 North Africa, plus the revelation as Chancellor Konrad Adenauer the launching of Sputnik numerous figures in top U.S. circles • ment between the USSR and the said the. central problem con- Minneapolis that it has been surpassed in wants, without surrendering any are proposing a renewal of the posture of negotiations. U.S. fo r an end to the cold w ar fronting1 the radical movement Detroit military technology, has embol­ basic position of his pro-W est- would be desirable for the Soviet Ausp.: Socialist Workers is its almost total isolation Tron^ dened the European capitalists to ern policy, to explore the nego­ ta ry alliances and a ir bases Realizing that it was definitely bloc countries, since th eir systems the labor movement and popu­ P arty • Tuesday, Dec. 31, 9 P- M . — demand certain revisions and ad­ tiating potential of the Bul­ around the USSR that constituted stalemated both by the colonial require no wars, and fo r the lation generallv. He felt that of New Year’s Eve Party. Door justments in Washington’s con­ ganin letters to NATO before working people of the world. It U.S. preparation to launch an revolution, now spreading to the the various groupings the rad­ Prize, entertainment and favors. duct of world imperialism’s af­ accepting American missiles. He attack — “preventive war” was Middle East and North Africa, cold be desirable to the imperial­ ical pacifists had the greatest Debs Hall, 3737 Woodward. fairs. is not fooled by Moscow and he the nicer name — on the Soviet and by Soviet technological ist governments only for a limited degree of influence, but thé Donation $1.00. The same pressure forced the is not wishful. He knows that Union and its East European development, UfjS. imperialism time at the very be^t. No problem of isolation was com­ U.S. to accept jy'compromise on he must reshape German public New York buffer states. W ith economic had to tear up its much revised “sacred” treaty will prevent im­ mon to all the grooos and due the only important proposition it opinion before he Can do other­ perialism from launching war and armaments aid the capitalist timetable for the war to crush primarily to the objective sit­ Gala Celebration had to place before the con­ wise and he needs tim e to do it. nations of Western Europe were the USSR. This was not an when the circumstances become uation in the country. He held ference — establishment of In varying degrees that is true to build up big armies. The U.S. abandonment of the perspective favorable — or even, if desperate that the development of a pro­ N EW Y EA R ’S EVE IRBM (intermediate range bal­ in most of the NATO coun­ would build a ir bases on their of war but recognition that, the enough, while they are still un­ gram to cope w ith the problems Los Angeles listic missiles) launching bases tries* . . It is accurate to say territory. The NATO armies relation of forces made it ! too favorable — for the very work­ posed by capitalism in the acre Dancing Refreshment, on European soili This was th a t there was no appeasement would then have the mission of deadly a risk while the stalemate ings of the economic system of of automation and atomic en­ Entertainment New Years’ Eve Social finally voted with the proviso sentiment at the NATO con­ defending these a ir bases and lasted. capitalism impels it to war. Con­ ergy was the radical movement’s that any member nation not ference table. But there is a new stopping or holding up the Red sequently, while the Soviet lead­ Begins at 9 P.M. Tues., Dec. 31, 9 P. M . ba?ic need today. wanting such bases could refuse kind of brinkmanship — a wil­ GENEVA SMILES ers, who pretend to be Marxists, Army and its tanks while the To advance the discussion of them. Since the U.S. could lingness to venture to the brink U.S. with its air superiority Under U.S. direction the cold are perfectly justified in an • such a program, he said, the previously make arrangements of appeasement in the hope that agreement, with imperialism that atom-bombed the USSR to im­ w ar began to cool o ff some. The various groupings must take a with the countries individually nobody w ill be pushed over.” war in Indo-China was settled at would slow the.latter’s war- drive, Contribution $1.00 potence. flexible attitude including a will­ they have no justification for Forum H a ll Robert C. Doty, reporting the But the U.S. timetable for Geneva by a territorial com­ ingness to recognize p^.st er­ 116 University Place conference for the New York preventive w ar could not be promise. Similarly with the war telling the world’s masses that 1702 East 4th . Street rors in their thinking. He felt NOW AVAILABLE: \ Times (Dec. 19), wrote: “.. . poli­ carried out even when the mili­ in Korea. In 1954, taking ad­ if the im perialists do sign a co­ this wais particularly important Ausp.: Socialist Workers tical and public opinion among tary preparations had all 'been vantage of the Kremlin’s repeated existence treaty the danger of Party Ausp.: The Militant for the Socialist Workers Party, member nations indicated that competed. Revolution swept Asia. proposals for a co-existence deal, w ar w ill have been permanently because it had been provpn right popular support for the deci­ The imperialists were compelled Eisenhower attended a “summit” ended. T ha t w ill have been ended on many questions. This, he Leon Trotsky’s sions taken here could be ob­ to retire or were driven outof ope conference in Geneva with the only when capitalism has been 'SaM, m ight tend to lead it to tained only if measures for the country after another. Worse yet Soviet tops. Nothing tangible ended. feel that it had been correct on resulted, but Eisenhower emerged military, political and economic China was swept by social revo­ But such disorientation of the all questions. THE FIRST FIVE strengthening of the alliance lution upsetting the whole in the public’s eyes more than world’s masses does not deter Discussing the progress of the were accompanied by proof that balance of world power. The U^S. ever a “man of peace.” Why THE MILITANT the Kremlin’s propagandists, for American Forum, he said it had YEARS OF THE Western Allies were ready to had to divert its main energies didn’t even the Soviet leaders included in their proffered co­ met initial difficulty in organ­ A Weekly Newspaper Published in the discuss w ith the Soviet Union to trying to stop and throw and the Communist newspapers COMMUNIST existence deal to imperialism is izing discussions that came to Interests of the Working People ways of easing world tension.” back the wave of revolution in throughout the world testify much more — something that full grip with the issues at And further, . . in rallying Asia. The difficulty of this task to the goodness and peaceful in­ INTERNATIONAL workers who think co-existence hand, but that future discus­ 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. was brought home by the im­ tentions of this general and head world opinion to the support of simply means peace do not even sions would provide a more ef­ possibility of winning even the of the greatest war machine on the Wèst, the leaders of the suspect. That is an offer by the fective confrontation of differ­ Volume I I in Cloth earth ? Please enter my subscription as follows: Atlantic Pact nations must be war in Korea short of an all- Kremlin to use the Communist ing views. prepared to demonstrate at every out effort. U jSI| imperialism’s policy has $1.50 for 6 months of The Militant Parties throughout the world to He declared that the basic juncture that they prefer a In addition, {he U.S. monopoly marked contradictions. I t does 384 pages $3.50 protect the status quo in the problem was to build effective $3.00 for 1 year of The Militant settlement of the conflict with of the A-bomb, on which the not give uip the aim of even­ capitalist countries and their opposition to American capital­ communism by negotiation to a preventive war policy so heavily tual war against the Soviet colonies. This means offering the ism and militarism, and that continuation of the conflict.” depended, was broken. The USSR bloc. Consequently it must main­ capitalists a force within the an indispensable corollary to succeeded in exploding the atom tain and continually expand its working class to smother the this was support to the anti- NATO PURPOSE long before the date U.S. military war machine and that of its Class struggle, and where it Stalinist movement of the work­ The plan to create NATO, the planners had assumed it could. PIONEER PUBLISHERS allies despite the risks this nevertheless broke out, to divert ers in the Soviet -sphere. greatest peacetime military coali­ Zone Woe was piled upon woe in entails. On the other hand, realiz­ it into channels safe for capital­ tion in history, was conceived by Following the speech, the 116 University Place 1953 when the revolutionary ing that for an indefinite period ism. Such triumphs over the U.S. imperialism along with the well-attended meeting engaged army in Viet Nam triumphed in Circumstances are unfavorable working class and the colonial Marshall plan. Its formal found­ in a lengthy discussion that New York 3, N. Y. the great battle at Dienbienphu for launching its war, it is not peoples would embolden Amer­ ing took place in 1949. I t was and the USSR exploded an H- shelved a deep interest in the unwilling to improve its position ican imperialism to speed-up its problem of socialist regroup­ the center of the system of mili- bomb. by negotiations with its enemy war drive all over again. ment. THE MILITANT Pijtre 3

Algerian Nationalism Divided — I I

■Bfcacir lption I I per jmut . Ogne* article« by eontrlfr- Cl.60 for 8 month«. F'oreim: ators do not neoeesarlly rep­ resent The Militant’s policies. W*.W) per year; $2.Jk> for 0 t h e MILITANT These are expressed In It» month». Canadian: $3.50 per Published Weekly In the Interests of the Working People editorials. fear; $1.75 for 8 months. THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION " Entered as second class Brmdle Order*: 5 or more 116 University PI., N. ¥. 3. N. Y. Phone: A L 6-746« matter March 7, 1944 at the The Politics of Assassination copies 6c each In U.S., 7c Post Office at New Ylso USTA, was lured into a trap pression of subject peoples by imperialist Reston’s thesis that there is no point grdup of mem before the Mes­ Tlvesa leaders, notably Khidder per, France Observateur, favors suppressed the UGTA. Today and murdered. powers. The localized wars, it should be in trying to stop wars and that the only salists had completed their and Ben Bella, represented the the FÎLN against the MNA. and no Algerian unions aw tolerated The responsibility for these realistic thing to do is to keep them “lo­ preparations for a mass upris­ extreme left wing of the FLN: has excellent sources of infor­ in Algeria, and the leaders of noted, were either the prelude to or be­ crimes has been assumed open­ ing. th/ey had b£en leaders of the mation among the FlJN leaders. both groups are in concentra­ came part of*the two global imperialist calized” is false and reactionary. ly by the FLN. In an official Immediately after Nov. 1, the CRUIA and had the closest ties On Feb. 23, Î956, France Ob­ tion camps. conflicts. communique the FLN stated: But the one stark fact that does emerge Messalists (who now took the to Nasser. After their forceable servateur reported: “A ‘nation­ ‘‘The counter-revolutionary MINA Again Reston marshals the facts of from his pen is this: There is no peace name “Algerian National Moye- removal, leadership of the FLN alist’ union movement has now THE USTA IN FRANCE . . . has imposed on us, despite m ent” since the M T L D had been rested in the hands of the for­ been created. This movement has Meanwhile, the USTA started the indictment: “There have been 16 lo­ under capitalism. W ar will be abolished all our efforts, a violent struggle dissolved by the French gov­ mer “Centralists” (Yazid, Kiou- taken the name of ‘Algerian to organize the Algerian work­ calized wars since the end of the last for good only when capitalism itself is an armed struggle. It is in the ernm ent) took up arms, even ane) and of the outright re­ Workers’ Trade Union’ (USTA) ers in France, and quickly suc­ World War, including Korea, Indo-China abolished. process of dying from it. . .” though the movement had been formists (Ferhat Abbas, Deba- . . . it seems th at the gen­ ceeded in becoming an authentic W h a t more need be said to initiated prematurely, and with­ ghine), men who relied more eral secretary of the UGTT (Tu­ mass organization. In June 1957 characterize a politicail move­ out their 'knowledge. strongly on the aid of the T u ­ nisian labor federation) Ahmed the Federation in France of the nisian and Moroccan capitalist ment than that its preferred During the first year, the Ben iSaQah, played a considera­ UISTA held a congress at which classes and on the sympathy of method of political discussion is MNA consistently sought to es­ ble role, last December, in the there were 324 delegates rep- “enlightened” French colonial­ the assasin’s bullet? tablish unity among all tenden­ establishment of the Algerian presenting more than 70,’000 |A Study oi Youth and Crime ism, and conversely had1 iless de­ provisional organization. workers. In response to this wave of cies of Algerian nationalism in pendence on Nasser. “The two nationalist tenden­ The FLN leaders resorted to crimes on French soil, the ever- YOUTH AND CRIME, Proceedings of the Law Eiforcement Institute held at New York University, the common struggle against vigilajnt French police has pur­ In early 1956 the split be­ cies, the Liberation Front and all possible means, including edited by Frank J. Cohen International Universities Press Inc. New York, N . Y. 1357, 273 pp. $6. the French. At the beginning of sued a policy of vigorous re­ tween MiNiA and F L N was sup­ the Algerian National Move­ murder and stooling for the li*55, therefore, the National pression — against t h e U S T A ! plemented by a split in the ment, already claim the entire French police, to smash the Liberation Front w a s estab­ Within a week after the murder trade-union organization of A l­ responsibility for this initiative USTA. Books based on the proceed­ is showing delinquent tenden­ effort to undo the effects of lished in Cairo. In its original of Bekhat his provisional suc­ gerian workers. Before 1956 A l­ and dispute for leadership.” At the same time, the Stalin­ ings o f an institute or con­ cies.” urban industrialism can ever be form, the F L N was a loose al­ cessor as General Secretary, Ab­ gerian workers had not had It quickly became clear to the ist leaders of the French Con­ ference are always confjuking. initiated, and at w hat cost, liance of autonomous groups— derrahmane B e n s i d, was ar­ ENVIRONMENT their own unions, but had be­ FLN leaders that they could not federation of Labor (C G T) There are twenty-five articles in remains a matter for con­ the (MENPA, the former MTLD rested by the police on a longed to French unions, main­ get. control of a unified demo­ launched a similarly vicious at­ Youth and Crime by various Ralph Whelan, Director of the jecture.” The police approach,! Central Committee, and the trumped-up charge. Nothing ap­ C R U A . However, during 1055 ly the Stalinist-led COT. At the cratic Algerian workers’ organ­ tack on the USTA. Thus, on “specialists” including New York New York Youth Roard. gives too, ,has obvious limitations parent has been done either to beginning of February 1956, the ization. They therefore estab­ Feb. 1, 1956, the CGT local in state and city officials — judges, an honest picture of the environ­ “against syndicated and organised this initial unity was irrevoca­ “Algerian Workers Trade lished a rival movement, the Hagojndage published a leaflet prevent or apprehend the mur­ probation officers, directors of ment in which delinquency crime that has its immunities bly disrupted by the demand of Union” (USTA) was established General Union of Algerian ifli which it named the USTA derers. youth programs — as well as breeds and of the so-called “hard and protection from the same the non-Messalist members- that as a single unified Algerian Workers (UGTA). leaders for the benefit of the (Next Week: Political Divi­ psychiatrists and professors. core” families: “These groups political machines that dictate »11 Algerian organizations should union movement. Initially the UGTA benefited police: “We denounce these; sions and Prospectives of the Whatever the merits of the in­ are found in the most deteriorat­ and influence the appointment of dissolve and subordinate their At the outset both nationalist from the aid of the French ad- Boudjani, Djaborebli, Abdel Ma- Algerian Revolution.)______dividual presentations, they cer­ ed sections of our large cities. judges, prosecutors and muni­ members to the FLN, which in tain ly do not add up to any They live in overcrowded, rat-1 cipal commissioners.” He also constructive or even comprehen­ infested dwellings where every sees little hope in psychoanalytic sible program to combat juvenile room is a bedroom. They attend or psychological methods and crime. They range from plati­ old schools w ith outmoded equip­ concludes that “the problems How the Canadian Foreign Minister Got Seated tudes about strengthening the ment where frequently, instead are vaster than the solutions the SEL received but 266 votes family and remembering religion of the normal school day, there ;available.” Canadian politics were con-Q ^ didate (who hadn’t even bother leaders of the CCF, who were or 2%% of the total. For pur­ to serious research reports like are' two or three abbreviated siderably enlivened last month ed to attend his own nomina­ infuriated by the SEL’s under­ poses of comparison, however, that of Lauretta Bender, Bel­ shifts. . . There have been in­ THE CLEAR ONES by the campaign of the So­ tion meeting) into the district lining of their failure to pro­ it must be recalled that in 1949 levue psychiatrist, on “What Are stances of families who have I f Professor Shulman is cor­ cialist Educational League can­ fo r several] speeches, as well vide an alternative to Toryism the last time the CCF itself ran the Influential Factors that never been able to eat together rect, neither juvenile nor adult didate Ross Dowscjn against as M inister of Labor S ta rr and in the by-election. in this district (in a period Predispose the Youth of Our because there are only one or 1crime can be considered — as it Sidney Smith, the new Tory Minister of Transport Hees. Early in the campaign, M. J. when the Tory wave had not Society to Delinquency and two plates, no chair or table to so frequently is — a form of Minister of Foreign Affairs. Coldwell, nationail head of the reached its present height and Crim e?” accommodate the family.” emotional illness or a personal To be a member of the cab­ RESPECT DOWSON COF, in a letter to a newspaper in the district warned the “un­ in an election in which there The various points of view not Explaining that children are failure to “adjust.” The delin­ inet in Canada one must be Indicative of the national in­ suspecting voter”— not against was a bigger vote) it polled on­ only contradict each other regard­ often truant because they are quent is attempting to adjust a member of parliament. This terest in the campaign was the the Tory Smith—but against the ly 732 votes. ing cause and cure, ¡but they embarrassed to appear without to prevalent behavior problems makes necessary a system of Oct. 22 editorial in The Varsity, socialist Dowson, whom he slan­ can’t even agree on whether or suitable clothing, he says: “For in a society where aggression “safe” seats so that when the student newspaper of the Uni­ E A R N V O TES and violence are quite normal. government appoints to the versity of Toronto, of which in­ derously declared favored “world not there is a rise in juvenile some children it is unknown to Dowson and all the others Clever delinquents — or lucky Cabinet someone not in p arlia­ stitution Smith was president dictatorship.” crime. Several experts argue have a new dress or suit or to The barrage of red-baiting who participated in the cam­ th at the apparent rise is due have ever owned one.” ones — never wind up in jail. ment, that minor technicality before his entry ¡into the em­ from the Tories ahd the CCF paign feel quite pleased with largely to new methods of Com­ They become successful racket­ can be taken -care of by the ploy of the Tory government. right - wing leadership included the results -including the vote. piling statistics and changing GENERAL CAUSE eers, businessmen, politicians or mere formality of running him The editorial was entitled “The such chargies as force and vio­ They consider these as ' really procedures on the part of police But it is Harry Shulman, a labor bureaucrats. in a special election in a dis­ Lamb to Slaughter,” because, as lence, dictatorship,' being fi­ “earned” votes. Each one was professor at City College and a The professor does not offer trict where the outcome is a it pointed out. “Hastings 'is an and courts. Lauretta Bender, for like pulling teeth. Beside the Commissioner in the Department any alternative, he does not sug­ foregone conclusion. areh-conservaitive riding and nanced by foreign gold (from example, questions the validity the U.S. of all places) and, of ground-breaking socialist edu­ of Correction, who makes the gest that we can again achieve, Thus when the Diefenbaker has been so ever since it was of recent statistics and claims course, Communist. As the pub­ cation accomplished in this most enlightening contribution. on a much higher level that government recently appointed formed.” Of Dowson, the edi­ that the rise of juvenile crime lic became more and more ru ra l district (and beside the He does not deal with juvenile modern technology makes pos­ Sidney Smith, longtime, behind>- ROSS DOWSON tors wrote: “He is intelligent began about a hundred years aware of Dowsqn’s long public miies upon -miles of beautiful crime as an isolated phenomenon sible, the brotherhood of the the-seenes strategist Minister and has forceful views. He o/nce ago in Western Europe and the record as a Trotskyist, the for­ countryside seen by the social­ but discusses the general causes ¡primitive community. I didn’t of External Affairs, it ordered polled 25,000 votes in a Toronto United States, which would in­ of Acclamation,” cried the mula was amended to “the most ist campaigners, most of whom of all crime. He compares the expect him to say this in a book the member of the House of mayoralty race. We respect his dicate (although she doesn’t headline in the Toronto Globe extreme form of communist.” are from big industrial cities), security of the primitive com­ devoted to the problems of law Commons from the Hastings- ide^s and support many of mention this) that it is related and M ail. There is no doubt that the the campaign succeeded to some munity which is “a brotherhood enforcement under capitalism. Frontenac riding (district) to thorn. He proposes recognition to the rise of industrial capital­ The smail 1 Socialist Education­ red-baiting had its effect. Many extent in drawing the attention ism. bound tightly together against I ’Ll settle fo r the fact th at his resign so that Smith could take of Communist China in the Un­ al League (ISEiL) had no illu ­ Hastings-Frontenac children, for of workers throughout Canada its external enemies” where “the analysis leads to one logical con­ his seat in that 99 44/100 per ited Nations, an obvious move sions about the district in which example, were deeply disap­ to the momentous issues of fo r­ LEGAL ASPECTS products of industry are either clusion — that the real solution cent pure Tory district. which should have been made it decided to campaign. It is pointed w^hen they finally saw eign policy. Finally, the shame­ In spite of the contradictory shared or available in times of to crime is the socialist recon­ several years ago. He favoTS A FORMALITY almost exclusively rural and Dowson to discover th a t he fu l actiofn o f the CC F leaders character of the material, there tribal need” with modern in­ struction of society. diverting of defense expenses to conservative and has been pe1- didn’t really have homs. Some i,n intervening in the by-elec­ is a great deal of valuable in­ dustrial society in which “the This seat was so safe that give Canada national health — Joyce Cowley r i o d i c a 11 y gerrymandered to adults undoubtedly feared an tion to attack the socialist can­ formation in the book. Paul •hazards of illness, unemploy­ the Tories felt there was no service and free university tui­ keep it so. It is a map makers’ iron curtain would come ra t­ didate and back the Big Busi­ Tappan, professor of sociology ment and old age in firm ity be­ point in even having an elec­ tion. He wants the government nightmare— huge wTith twisting tling down over Hastings-Fron­ ness candidate cannot but have at New York University, dis­ come prim arily a personal tion. Smith should be “elected1” t» e#ge regulations governing and turning boundaries and a tenac if som'ehow Dowson won. a salutary effect in opening cusses the legal aspects of de­ responsibility.” by 'acclamation — that is he labor unions. He says the gov­ hofle. ¡in its center to eliminate The CCF bureaucracy’s red­ the eyeis of the rank and file linquency and reveals the extent BOOKS should be the ondy candidate to ernm ent should urge aholitic(n He analyzes, on the one hand, Tweed (population 1,655) as baiting probably affected those •of a party, which calls itself to which young people in our file . In th'is w ay there would o f H-Bomb tests alnd withdraw the deyelopnient of “predatory” too urban. The OOF, the party few workers who live in the labflir and socialist, to the need Children’s Courts are being AND PAMPHLETS be no bother about speeches or Its troops from Germany.” crime, (that is, crime handled of the AiFL-C IO , does not even district. In the actual polling fo r a houseclea(ning at the top. deprived of their constitutional mainly by the police and courts) voting and he could take his “The Conservative govern­ by JAMES P. CANNON seat immediately instead of have an organization in the dis­ rig ht to due process — the right in the slums of our large cities m ent a n d Dr. Sm ith oppose waiting the 28 days after clec- trict. For the last three federal to a clear and definite charge, and on the other, “the crimes of On Problems of these proposads. Y e t the new ti6n prescribed by law. elections no tendency in the la­ to counsel, to confrontation,t and the rich and powerful” — Socialism in America external affairs minister has To “elect” Smith by acclama­ bor movement has even tried to relevant proof — on the restraints of trade and monopoly, remained remarkably quiet on America’s Road to tion it was necessary to make to run candidates there. Militant Labor School ground that proceedings in these fraudulent advertising and mis­ issues of policy since assuming Socialism 80pp $.35 a deal with the other Cajnadiain For the SBL to run a candi­ courts are not “criminal” ¡but representation, bribery of cor­ office. Although we respect Dr. Socialism on parties whereby they would not date there may be compared in Winter 1958 Glasses are designed to give guidance poration and public officials — Sm ith, we feel i t is time he T ria l lll p p $.50 (nominate any rival candidates. this country to running a so­ came out and defended his and help to children in trouble. and concludes that crime is an (1) “The Road to Socialism.” Lectures by Daniel Roberts. American Stalinism and Disspirited by the Tory sweep cialist candidate for Congress in views on foreign policy. . . . If In the Adolescent Courts in aspect Of the total functional Six Sundays from 5:30 to 7 P.M., beginning Jan. 12. Anti-Stalinism $.15 In the last summer’s federal the most rock-ribbed sections of Dr. Smith and the Canadian N ew Y ork a youth who is con­ operation of urban industrial The Struggle for a elections, and for considerations Republican Vermont. people take Mr. Dowson’s chal­ sidered “disobedient and in society, “the price we pay for (2) “The Negro Struggle for Equality.” Lectures by George Proletarian Unknown, all the other parties Members and sympathizers of lenge serious8y, the ex-presi­ danger of becoming morally our society of free enterprise.” Lavan. Five Sundays from 7:15 to 8:45 P.M. beginning Jan. 12. Party 302 pp — Liberal, Social-Credit and Ca­ the ISEL carried1 on a pioneer dent’s t°f the university] views depraved” m ay be committed There is no cure for crime as Cloth $2.50 nadian Commonwealth Federa­ campaign in Hastings-Frontenac on foreign policy would be (3) “The Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present.” Lectures and sentenced up to three years, such “only the possibility of con­ ® Paper $2.00 tion (the party supported by under the slogan of peace and made explicit. He would bene­ by Murry Weiss. Six Mondays from 7 to 8:30 P.M. beginning although he is technically not a taining its bounds through main­ The History of American the AFL-CIO) agreed not to socialism. Some 12,000 copies of fit by stating them and the Jan. 13. criminal. (The judge is sending taining an equilibrium among Trotskyism 268pp run ahybodv against the Tory the election leaflets' were distrib­ Canadian people would benefit him to reform school to help him. the competing forces in a demo­ (4) “Historical Materialism — The Origins of the Capital­ Cloth $2.75 nominee. uted and several thousand social­ by knowing them.” That makes it O.K.) In another cratic society.” ist System.” Lectures by Vincent Copeland. Six Mondays from Paper 1.75 Tmagine then the howl of ist anti-war posters dotted the 8:45 to 10:15. article, the Chiefy Magistrate of This leads, of course, to a The IWW — The Great rage that went up from the wid^-open spaces. Canvassing CCF LEADERS one of these courts, John Mur- pessimistic view of various AID IN RED-BAITING Anticipation 44pp $.25 Tory press when on the last was carried on in the, main Fees: Six-week course — $2.50; Five-week course — $2.00; tagh, proudly confirms this' when measures for combating crime. Eugene V. Debs 40pp $.25 day the Socialist Educational towns and villages. Such a stir But instead of taking up this Single lectures — $.50. he points out that “any youth On broad programs fo r social League filed nomination papers was caused by the socialist cam­ challenge to debate Dowson or under twenty-one years of age I reform and social welfare which PIONEER PUBLISHERS in the H astingi-Frontenac dis­ paign that the Tories were gal­ the issues he raised, the Tories To register w rite to M ilitan t Labor School, 116 University may be put under the guidance would eliminate the worst 116 University Place tric t fo r Ross Dowson, editor vanized into action. They sent devoted themselves to a red­ Place, New York 3, N.Y. or phone Algonquin 5-7852. and authority of the court before aspects of poverty, he says: New York 3, N .Y . of the Workers’ Vanguard. out several blanket mailings to baiting campaign. In this they he has committed a crime if he / ‘W hether such a comprehensive “Dowson To Run Robbing Smith voters. They brought their can-' were aided by the right-wing “This Man Owns N o Suit'' nie MILITANT (The following letter, signed “Mrs. IND,” Is, if their father is working — courtesy of V O L U M E X X I M O N D A Y , DEC . 23, 1957 N U M B E R 51 was printed in the December 16 New York the TA . Post. The IN D is one of the three subway systems I don’t know how other people live. I don’t in New York City, and the one most affected by see other people. I can’t, feed my children and the recent motormen’s strike. The “TA ” referred buy clothes to go out in.I cannot manage. I guess Quill Strikes Militant Pose to is the Transit Authority, a government body I am a failure. We have not been out in years; Two Denver that owns and operates the subway. — Ed.) we entertain not, yet I can’t keep my children Bakery Workers P'rom smug lady commentators on the radio to in shoes, gloves, overshoes and all the fresh the editorial pages, I have read and heard scath­ whole milk they would like to drink. From $57 ing attacks upon the MBA [Motormen’s Bene­ to $67 a week, his pay fluctuates without over­ GroupsHear volent Association] leaders and their mis­ time. It would do the people who have the public Wage Fight to Build guided followers. My husband is no motorman; good at heart 5 world of good to see grown men he is a conductor, but the vilification applies to beg for extra work on their days off to keep one him too, because he rides behind the man in the step ahead of the bill collectors. cab. I f the TA can spend $15ft000 to bribe its SWP Views ‘‘Public good will,” “defiers of law and order,” underpaid, debt-ridden (except those whose wives Democratic Union DENVER, Dec. 5 — Two very “throw the book at them,” “throw them out,” work; I don’t) employes to go back to work, succesful meetings took place By Fred Halstead they say. why doesn’t it use th at money to pay the men here yesterday. Theodore Ed­ a decent wage so that men who have the lives One of the developents of the AFL4CIO convention in wards, Socialist Workers Party OWNS NO SUIT of thousands in their hands wouldn’t have to A tlan tic C ity Dec. 5-12 was the chartering o f a riv a l Educational Director for South­ But this is my husband, father of my children. work at two jobs in order to exist. ern California, replaced Murry union to the expelled Bakery and Confectionery Workers. The man who turns his pay-check over to me Formation of the new union, the®- and says, “Who is pressing us this week — let’s TA ABOVE LAW Weiss, when the latter became ill and was unable to keep his American Bakery and Confec- pay them — then we eat.” This man owns no These fiends, these law-breakers, these betray­ tionery Workers (ABC) was suit. He gets no uniform allowance and second­ ers of the public trust. These husbands, these scheduled speaking engagements in Denver. In the afternoon, close supported by 275 members of hand pea jackets are not so warm in trains, fathers, these defiers of law and order in their the old union who were dele­ where he is not allowed to turn on the heat patched, half-soled but shiny shoes, with their to 70 students heard Edwards present the SWP views on “The gated to attend the convention unless the tem perature is ibelow freezing. old patched and shiny blue serge and coveralls— Role and Need for a Third Party as “guests” by locals which op­ The public, were it not for the strike, would deserve, they say, to be punished for breaking in American Politics.” This meet­ posed the intrenched machine hold him in all “esteem” and “goodi will.” Now the law. The TA is lucky. It is above the law. ing- was .held on the campus of of the union’s president, James they scold him because he must keep the heat There were laws back in 1775 too. But whether Colorado University at Boulder, Cross. off. They believe he is at fault. they were just or not depended on whether you and was sponsored by the “In ­ The opposition had united Public good w ill does nothing for m y husband were Tory or Rebel. quirers,” a new student group aro,und the “In te g rity Comm it­ wh'en he goes down the line racked w ith aches As for Mike Quill, he ought to take his talents organized on campus w ith the tee,” consisting of four mem- and fevers, because if he took that first sick elsewhere, perhaps to the missile launching base purpose of presenting contro­ bur's of the union’s executi’ s day off, he would not get paid. in Florida. One of his speeches and that little versial speakers to the student board who broke with Cro s Some people’s children get toys for Christmas. moon would have an orbit around Proxjma body. The student audience asked after he was directed to resij i Mine, courtesy of the TA, get Mike Quill — that Centauri. many questions about socialism Transport Wrorkers President Quill at a rally of striking by the A F L -C IO because he had and the role of revolutionary so­ bus drivers in 1953. The vacant “ reserved” seat was for Mayor been exposed before the McClel­ cialists in the coming struggles Impellitteri who was bucking the strike. During the recent lan committee. The 275 “guest"’ predicted by the speaker. motormen's strike Quill emerged as a closa supporter of strike­ delegates said they represented breaking Mayor1 W'.agner. 109 locals with about half the Wednesday evening, the Denver mniotn’s membership of 125,000. Labor Alliance, a new discussion MEANY The leaders of the “Integrity group organized for presenting Comm ittee,” who now' hold the and discussing all views within Holiday Book Bargains AiBC charter, confined them­ tion,” and the Textile Workers the labor movement, hearci Ed­ ... N.Y. Subway Workers selves to pledges to obey AFL- Union and the Allied Industrial wards speak on “ W hat Road to CIO directives. “We don’t know W orkers were removed from (Use this ad as your order form) Peace.” In the audience were (Continued from page 1) house w ith an im itation of the anything about changes,” said suspension after accepting AFL- local Smith Act defendants and high-pitched (bluster of Michael stay on the job around the clock. one of them. “We just want to CIO directives to oust a few W HITE COLLAR—The Amer­ others who welcomed support of J. Quill. Even the reporters GIANT IN CHAINS b y B a r ­ By Marx and Engels change .the administration, clean top leaders and accept monitor- ican 31 iridic ClnNsp» b y C. Beds and meals were provided present doubled up with laughter. rows Dunham. A Marxist ac­ their civil liberties extended by it up. We haven't any more count of the meaning and his­ Wright Mills. Americas lead­ C A P I T A L by Karl Marx and a 25% bonus plus overtime The same afternoon, across ship by the AFL-CIO Executive Vol. I $2.00 (plus 15c) ( ) the speaker. The differing points tory of philosophy. In popular ing sociologist studies the po­ paidyi Non - striking motormen plans beyond that.” Council. Vol. II $1.75 (plus 15c) ( ) of view of the Communist Party town, Quill himself was speak­ style, not professional jargron. litical. economic and cultural were thus able to make almost Cooperation with the McClel­ position of middle class, (pa­ Both for $3.50 (plus 25c) ( ) and of the SW P on “peaceful ing to a group of his henchmen SEE PLENTY TO CHANGE Intensely Interesting- and w it­ lan committee w'as the real per) $1.75 (plus 10c) ( ) $1Q0! per day. Pay checks for gathered in front of a hall which ty book. (Originally $3.75) $1.50 HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THE­ coexistence” were discussed in a Many of the 275 "guests,” past work were withheld from keynote of the convention with (plus 15c imailing charge) ( ) T H A 1 J D E I S STEVE N S b y O R I E S by Karl Marx (Vol. 4 comradely atmosphere. had been rented fo r a meeting however, are local leaders or Ralph Korngold. Magnificent of Capital) $3.00 (plus 15c) the strikers. by some T W U bus drivers not economic questions pushed to TRAITOR OR PATRIOT. T h e As a result of the meetings workers from the shops who are the background. The convention Life and Death of Sir Roger biography of the great figure ( ) connected with the subway a number of people sympathetic WIN SYMPATHY figh ting to extend union de­ Ca.sement. By Denis Gwynn. of Ra'diical Reconstruction. MARX -ENGELS SELECTED went on record in favor of 'bar­ (Originally $6.00) $2.00 (plus system. The drivers wanted to Story of the man who became CORRESPONDENCE $1.50 (plus to the Socialist Workers Party In the face of all this, at least mocracy. A working baker from gaining demands for higher 15c) ( ) discuss their own contract nego- a huiTuumtarian hero by bis 15c) ( ) and to its advocacy of inde­ half the motormen stayed out the local 165 in Patterson, New wages and shorter hours, but exposes of iirvpenialist exploit­ KARL LIEBKNECHT bV K a r l tiatians. They had not been able MARX AND ENGELS ON pendent working class political fu ll time and a solid m ajority Jersey said: “If you are a pet failed to make preparations for ation of colonial people in Bel­ W. Meyer. Only biography of to do so at their regular local B R I T A I N $2.00 (plus 15c) ( ) action pledged to put the SWP struck for the first few days. of Cross’, if you Lack his boys, or to seriously discuss the fig h t gian Congo and South Amer­ the great German revolution­ meeting, they said, because they ica and who wtas hanged by ist in English. $3.25 (plus 15c) THE HOLY FAMILY b y M a r x national candidates on the ballot They won the sympathy of the you get help, if you don’t, you which w ill be necessary to win couldn’t get the floor. The "un­ British during World War I ( ) and Engels. $1.35 (plus 15c) in Colorado in the next elec­ city’s working class. don’t get anything. We were on such demands. for his efforts in behalf of ( ) official” meeting had been called THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN tions. The motormen finally settled a four-month's >t r i ke and we A resolution was passed pledg­ Irish Revolution. Originally C O M M U N I S M by Theodore DIALECTICS OF NATURE by off at the last moment for fear asked for help and were ig­ {3.50. N o w $1.2-5 (p lu s 15c) ( ) for a promise of “no summary ing “full cooperation with all Draper. Valuable for its pains­ Frederick Engels $1.50 (plus of violence on the part of reprisals,” and release of their nored completely.” proper investigations” by gov­ THE STORY OK MY LIFE by taking research into early 15c) ( ) Quill’s men, but a false rumor jailed leaders. In addition, Louis Another said: “ W e’ve had ernment committees. It was Clarence D arrow . A m e r ­ history of American Commu­ had spread that the drivers ica's most famous lawyer and nist Party. $C.75 (plus 20c) ( ) Buffalo Meeting Waldman, the MBA lawyer Cross’ number for a long time. qualified by an expression of the story of the many labor KARL MARX AND THE m ight strike the buses the fo l­ THE NEGRO FAMILY IN THE presented to the .meeting which We are goijng to cha|nge things “deep concern that the Senate CLOSE OF HIS SYSTEM by lowing morning. cases he defended (paper cov­ U.S. by E. Franklin Frazier. so the international executive .Select Committee [McClellan’s] ers) S-1.45 (plus 10c) ( ) Bohm-Bawcrk with a reply by Discusses Sputnik voted the strike’s end, a promise A sociological classic. (Orig­ Rudolph Hilferding $3.50 (plus from Republican state legisla­ bos^rd doesn’t have the power may aUow itself to be used for inally $5.00) $1.95 (plus 15c) BUFFALO, Dec. 9 — “The THREATENS VIOLENCE THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF 15c) ( ) they now have. We waint to par­ political retaliation, and as a A R T by Arnold Hauser. Fa­ ( ) Rise of Sputnik and the Fall tors. The lawmakers will push a ‘‘I f they stop one 'bus,” said forum for the display of anti­ mous and expensive work now THE LOGIC OF MARXISM by of the Stock Market” was the bill transferring authority to Quill to his henchmen, “give ticipate in negotiations so we BLACK BOURGEOISIE by E. William F. Warde. (mimeo­ union propaganda.” available in paper covers. Franklin Frazier; A scathing subject of a meeting held at determine bargaining units from ’em the works.” One of Quill’s dorn’t get sold out.” Vol. 1 $1.25 (¡plus 10c) ( ) graphed) $1.00 (plus 15c) ( ) •In speaking fo r this resolu­ study anid indictment. (Orig­ the Militant Forum, Sunday the Transit Authority to a state “organizers” in the crowd caught “We arc going to make some Vol. II $1.2» Oplus 10c) ( ) inally $4.00) $3.50 (plus 15c) tion, Emil Mazey, ¡Secretary- THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAP­ evening, Dec. 8. The Courier agency- Waldman, an ex-member hold of a bus driver who had changes in th e constitution,” THE THREEPENNY NOVEL ( ) Treasurer of the United Auto­ ITALISM IN RUSSIA by V . I. Express and the Buffalo ol the Social Democratic Federa­ \ome to discuss the contract. said a member of .New Vork by Bertolt Brecht. Not th« THE STRUGGLE FOR A PRO­ Lenin. $1.75 (plus 15c) ( ) mobile W'orkers, pointed o u t Evening News both estimated tion, is said to have Republican “Of course you couldn’t talk at City local 50, “to give more au­ play but a -full-length novel LETARIAN PARTY by J a m e s that investigators for the Com­ with the same period as back­ P. Can-non W llAT IS ECONOMICS? B y R o ­ attendance at about 75 per­ political connections. the local meeting,” he said. “I t tonomy to the .local unions, sa Luxemburg (mimeographed-, mittee w ere working against ground. Bitlngly humorous al­ (oloth) $2.75 (plus 15c) ( ) sons, in their coverage of the But the subway workers will was too noisy. There’s too much more control over local con­ legory on capitalist society (paper) $2.00 (plus 15c) ( ) stiff coverts). The only English the UAW'. He limited his attack translation. $l.f)'0 (.plus 15c) meeting. get no more from deals with tracts and negotiations.” “It’s and its ethics, (paper) $1.75 democracy around. People are HISTORY OF AMERICAN ( ) the Republicans than they got a real rank-and-file movement to the Republican members of (plus 10c) ( ) Murry Weiss, associate taking advantage of it.” The bus TROTSKYISM by J a m e s P. the committee, however, and to THE F O U N D A T IONS O F editor of# the Militant, was from Quill’s deals with the in our shop,” said another TWO PLAYS: CAUCASIAN C an n o n driver shrugged loose and walked CHRISTIANITY by Karl Kaut- Democrats. The strength of their this mild threat: “We ought to CHALK CIRCLE nnd GOOn (cloth) $2.75 (.plus 15c) ( ) originally scheduled as speak­ away in silence. But across town, baker, “we are financing our­ sky. A Marxist classic. (Orig­ tell the McClellan Committee WOMAN OF SET/.l:AN by B e r ­ (paper) (2.00 plus 15c) ( ) er, but illness prevented him struggle was in its mass action the motormen laughed at Quill. selves by voluntary donations inally $5.50) $3.00 (plus 15c) that if they expect our full co­ tolt Brecht. Among the most THE ECONOMIC BASIS OF from coming to. Buffalo. The by the rank-and-file independent of $1 from almost every mem­ ( ) The next day, the last day of operation then w.e should expect remarka1>le dramas of our pe­ P O L I T I C S by Charles Beard meeting was addressed by ol any deals with capitalist poli­ ber in the plant.” riod. (.paper) $1.45 (plus 10c) CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM the strike, the subway represen­ rules ajnd regulations and con­ (paper) $1.25 (plus 10 c) ( ) Samuel Ballan, Erie County ticians. ( ) O N T R I A L by Fritz Sternberg. tation election was held. Last Beside the Bakers, the con­ duct that will give the Ameri­ THE STRANGE CAREER OF (Originally $7.00) $2.50 (plus Chairman of the SWP who Their weakness was that the vention expelled the 1.3 million- CAPTAIN DREYFUS — The J I M C H O W by C. Vann W o o d ­ time, in 1954, the T W U got 25,- can labor movement and any 15c) ( ) emphasized that, “The planned demand for craft recognition member International Brother­ Story of n Mu mm H y M t e r ln . By- ward (paper) $1.50 ( p lu s 10c) 108 votes out of 29,017 cast. other grqup they investigate Nicolas Halaisz. The famous THE JEWISH ai'ESTION—A economy of the Soviet Union limited the strike to a section of hood of Teamsters and the 70,- ( ) This time almost half the work­ fair play and honest play.” anti-Semitic fnameup. By anal­ MARXIST INTERPRETATION made possible its launching the subway workers^ Although AUTOMATION AND SOCIAL by A. Leon. Excellent history ers answered the M B A ’s call to 000 member Laundry Workers ogy it throws much light on Of the first satellite and de­ they gained'the sympathy of the the rise of McCatrt.hvism in the P R O G R E S S by S. L il] e y . ( O r ig ­ and analysis. boycott the election. The TWU Union. AFlL-GIO officials said ins'll y $3.75) $3.26 (plus 15c) (cloth) $1.50 (plus 15e) ( ) monstrates its superiority U.S. (paper) $1.45 (plus 10c) overwhelming majority, they got only 10,000 of the 15,000 there was no plan for a rival A $62 a week truckdriver and ( ) (paper) $1.00 (plus 15c) ( ) ( ) over the profit system of the could not involve them in direct votes cast. The remaining voters to the Teamsters and that laun­ his family of ten were evicted TITO SPEAKS by Vlado Dedi- MAIN CURRENTS IV AMF.R RI SSIA 20 YEARS AFTER by capitalist world.” A spirited action with the craft demand. into the street on Nov. 15 by the jer. Biogra.ph.v of the Yugo­ chose one of the smaller unions dry locals that wanted to break K AN THOUGHT b y V . T>. P a r - Victor Serge. A veteran of the slav leader by his then sec­ question session lasted for The problem now is to take ad­ with the expelled union could City of New Y ork because the rington. Required reading for October Revolution and Sta­ or voided their ballots with retary. (Originally $3.50) $1.00 over an hour. A telegram was vantage of the consciousness of owner of the building said he all student« of American eul lin's prisons draws the bal­ penciled remarks such as: “To apply for direct affiliation char­ (plus 15c) ( ) sent to M urry Wreiss wishing rank-and-file strength that the ture. (paper) Vol. I The Co­ ance sheet of a revolution be­ Hell with Quill.” “Anything but ters. The Distillery Workers needed the apartment for storage lonial Mind: 1620— 1S00. $1.45 trayed. (oloth) $3.50 ( ) THE HISTORY OF A LIT­ him a speedy recovery from strike has generated to build a space fo r his business. ERARY RADICAL. B y R a n d ­ Quill.” “TWrU without Quill.’ Union was continued on “proba- (plus 10c). ( ) THE LONG DUSK b y V ic to r his illness. militant, democratic opposition olph Bourne. Essays by the Serge. A novel. Anti-fascist Vol. II The Romantic Revolu talented American rebel of the within the ranks of the TWU. tlon in America: 1800— 1860 and anti - Stalinist refugees World War I period. (Orig­ Then Quill’s machine can be caught in France by Nazi In­ $1.45 (plus 10c) ( ) inally $3.75) $1.65 (plus 15c) defeated and the subway work­ vasion. The begin-nl'ngs of re­ ( ) BLACK ANGER by W ulf Sachs sistance movement. (Original­ ers will control a union powerful THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEGEL ... Foster Renews Attack True account by a Viennese ly $2.75) $1.00 (plus 15c) ( ) enough to win them substantial refugee doctor of his psycho­ by W. T. Stace. Hold Philadelphia service to a labor party, but the world which does not takfe AMERICAN LABOR STRUG­ (cloth) $3.98 (plus 15c) ( ) gains. The very existence of (Continued from page 1) analysis of a Negro worker in continuing support to the Dem­ this realistic stand.” South Africa, and how the G L E S by Samtiel Yellen. (pa­ (paper) $1.9S (plus 15c) ( ) strong, industrial unionism in per) $1.50 (plus 15c) ( ) in the U .S ...... the social and patient finds his own therapy THE ESSENCE OF CHRIS­ ocrats. Nevertheless, Foster’s drive to Smith-Act Meting all of New York City’s transit political nature of the struggle as a leader in the heroic bus T H E COMING O F T H E T I A N I T Y by Ludwig Feuer­ But if Foster is in baisic recast the CP into its pre-20th depends upon a m ilitant opposi­ boycott in Johannesburg, (pa­ FRENCH REVOLUTION By bach. The book so important w i 1 1 be generally democratic, agreement with Gates on these Congress mold will take a lcrt. per) $1.75 (plus 10c) ( ) in development of Marx's P H IL A D E L P H IA , Dec. 6 — tion within the TWU. Georges Lefebvre (paper) $.95 not socialist.” programmatic points, then of doing. The source of the. CP THE SHAME OF THE CITIES (plus 10c) ( ) thought (paper) $1.45 (plus The outright acquittal by the t>y Lincoln Steffe-ns. The fa­ 15c) ( ) U.S. Court of Appeals of four PROSPECTS GOOD The Foster document is re­ what’s the shooting about? An crisis lies in the fact that the HUNGARIAN TRAGEDY by mous ‘‘muckraking" classic important clue to what is real­ Khrushchev revelations served, Peter Fryer. The author was DEVELOPMENT OF MONIST of the nine Philadelphia Smith The prospects fo r such a plete with left-wing phraseolo­ available in paper covers. VIEW OF HISTORY b y G. V . among other things, to smash Hungarian correspondent for Act defendants and the setting development have never been gy designed to capitalize on the ly at issue is found in Foster’s Shows the Integral connection the London Daily Worker. Plekhanov. A Marxist classic restatement of his opposition to the monolithic structure of the betwieen business and crime which bears its formidable ti­ aside of the conviction of the better. Quill is discredited even sentiments of those who want Here is the eyewitness story American CP. And when the that still explains political cor­ tle because In Defense of Ma­ other five was celebrated at a among his Tammany pals. The to rebuild the CP as an ef­ the CP participating in the pres­ of the uprising his paper ent "regroupm ent” discussions floodgates of rank-and-file crit­ ruption. $1.25 (plus 10c) ( ) wouldn't print, (paper) $ 1.00 terialism wouldn t. get by the gathering here tonight of 125 Dec. 13 N. Y. World Telegram fective instrument for partici­ (plus 10c) ( ) Czarist censor. Long unavail­ pation in the class struggle. But among radicals as expressed in icism opened it became clear able. $1.35 (plus 15c) ( ) fighters for civil liberties. Last quotes “one of the most powerful Hooks by I,eon Trotsky a careful reading of the docu­ such bodies ' as the American that a big majority of the mem­ LABOR: FREE AND SLAVE FERDINAND LASALLE — Ro­ month freedom was won by Ben figures in state and city politics” by Bernard Ma.ndel. Important Forum-For .Socialist Education. bership including many opposed HISTORY OF THE RVSSIAN mantic Revolutionary by D a ­ Wreiss, Sherman Labovits, Irw in as saying: “M ike -was in good ment shows that, as before, historical study of labor and REVOLUTION. The three vol- vid Footman. An excellent bi­ Foster has no real differences Foster is opposed to such dis­ to Gates, above all else w ant ant ¡-sla very movements. (O rig­ Katz and W'alter Lowenfels. The shape as long as he promised Ufm.es c o m p le te In one. $12.50 ography of the controversial cussion because it necessarily an end to ideological domination inally $3.00) $1.00 (plus (10c) government must now decide if the subways would keep running. with Bittleman (or Gates) over (plus 25c) ( ) German socialist pioneer. (Orig­ sparks a continuation of discus­ from abroad. ( ) inally $3.50) $1.00 (plus 15c) it is to attempt a retrial of But he couldn’t deliver.” “co-existence” or the “anti-mo­ LITERATURE AND REVOLU­ I . W . W . by Paul Brissenden. nopoly coalition.” His “differ­ sion within the CP itself. It is At the last convention, a let­ T I O N . $3.75 (plus 15c) ( ) ( ) Dave Davis, Thomas Nabried, And as fa r as a great many The classic study of the Wob­ this that he is fighting to THE SOt^IAL PHILOSOPHY Joseph Roberts, Joseph Kuzman ence” on the anti-monopoly co­ ter from Duelos, similar to the THE THIRD INTERNATION­ bly movement. (Originally subway workers are concerned, OF WILLIAM MORRIS b y A. stamp out. In line with Mos­ one that dumped Browder in AL AFTER LENIN $7.50) $5.75 (plus 15c) ( ) and Robert Klonsky. .Speakers at alition reduces itself to the von Helnvholtz-Phelan. Biogr­ they hate Quill’s dictatorship (cloth) $4.00 (plus 15c) ( ) statement that “monopoly cap­ cow, he wants to drive every 1945, was rejected by the dele­ LOOKING BACKWARD b v E d ­ aphy of the great English the meeting were Steve Nelson, and his sellouts, whic'h are ren­ (paper) $2.50 (plus 15c) ( ) disscmting voice out of the Par­ ward Bellamy. The famous poot and artist who was a recently freed in the Pittsburgh dered all the more odious to italism must be compelled to gates out of hand. Prior to the S T A L I N . A biography. $6.00 novel of a socialist utopia. founder of the socialist move­ Smith Act case; Rev. Father accept peaceful co-existence. It ty. Even if it means reducing it 20th Congress of the .Soviet (plus 15c) ( ) them by his fake talk of fighting $1.25 (phis 15c) ( ) ment. (Originally $3.50) $2.00 Kenneth Ripley Forbes; .Sol will never do so voluntarily.” to a totally isolated sect, Foster Communist Party, an attack in THE PERMANENT REVOLU­ (plus 15c) ( ) the bosses. THE HAWK AND THE SUN Rothenberg, recently subpoenaed Put aside for now is his Octo- is determined to return the CP Kommunist on the Daily Work­ T I O N $3.50 (plus 15c) ( ) by Byron Reeoe. A n o v e l b y a NEGROES ON THE MARCH — A t one of the recent jam - 'ber, 1955, prediction of a U.S. to its previous status as an er editor would have been syn­ THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF Southerner about a lynching A Frenchman's Report on the by the Eastland committee and packed M BA strike meetings, a ideological echo of the Soviet Til E COMMUNIST INTERNA­ in a small town. (Originally American Negro Struggle. B y Ben W'eiss. motorman brought down the “peace movement” 'th a t would onymous with his finish. Today TIONAL $3.00) $1.00 (plus 15c) ( ) Daniel Guerin. Best, book on embrace “important sections of P arty. Foster must try to rally the Vol. I (cloth) Jack Zucker, prominent in the THE IRON HEEL b y J a c k the modern history and pres­ the bourgeoisie and even of mo­ He will not even settle for ranks to do the job. $3.50 (plus 13c) ( ) London. The famous novel pre­ ent stage of Negro struggle, work 'of the Emergency Civil Vol. II (.paper) such capitulation as was made dicting totalitarian rule and (cloth) $2.00 (plus 15c) ( ) Liberties Committee here, pre­ nopoly capital itself.” Meanwhile, the Gates wing is $3.00 (plus 15c) ( ) revolt against it. $2.00 (plus (p a p e r ) $1.5-0 (p lu s 15c) ( ) by Gates at the national con­ faced with the question of its fu­ sided at the gathering. In open­ “What is a Peace DOUBLE-TALK, THE REVOLUTION BE­ 15c) ( ) vention with the disgraceful ture. Its main source of strength TRAYED ing the meeting he read a greet­ CASE OF THE LEGLESS VET­ His call for revival of the “compromise” agreement that . (cloth) $3.00 (plus 15) ( ( ) ing from the Philadelphia So­ Program?” within the CP today lies with E R A N by James Kutcher. The slogan of a “Labor - Fanner the party neither “condemn nor (paper) $2.00 (plus 15c) celebrated ( ) wit'Ch-hunt. victim Payment must accompany or­ cialist Workers Party, hailing those who are in revolt against condone” the Soviet interven­ IN DEiFENSE OF MARXISM tells his story, (paiper) $1.00 der. Make checks and money the victory and calling- for re­ By Leon Trotsky p arty” is also left-w ing win­ Stalinism a