Asian-African Conference Seen /momentous Event By Art Preis A momentous event is scheduled fo r the last week in A pril at Bandung, Indonesia — an Asia-Africa Conference to which 30 nations of the two largest continents have been invited. This conference, which will be the greatest of its kind Central African Federation (the ever held, will be attended by Rhodesias and Nyas aland), government leaders ■ of countries Egypt, Ethiopia, the Gold Coast, Labor-Haters, Racists Take inhabited by more than half the Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Laos, world’s people. Most of them Lebanon, Liberia, Lybia, Nepal, have been freed only recently the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, from, dii-cct western imperialist the Sudan, Syria, Thailand, South rule or exploitation. Vietnam and Yemen. The Prime Ministers of India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Burma and CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT Over Posts in Congress Conspicuously absent from the Key Ceylon — known as the Colombo powers because their original invitation list are Australia and meeting took place in Colombo, New- Zealand, two of the eight Ceylon — announced plans for countries, including the United Blaekòut on Progress the conference on Dec. 29 after States, England and France, Govt. Official their meeting at Bogor, Indone which make up the so-called All Progressive Bills sia. South East Asia Treaty Organ Among the countries invited ization organized by the western Sees Chronic are new China and North Viet- imperialists last September in nam, which has just been won Manila. South Africa, dominated To Come under Axe from imperialist France through by white racists, was also not a revolutionary independence invited. Joblessness struggle. Also invited are Tur Several of the invited countries A decline in the number of key, Afghanistan, Cambodia, the especially influenced by the Un Of Southern Democrats ited States and its dollar appeal persons drawing unemployment are not expected to attend. These compensation does not necessari By George Lavan include Turkey, Thailand and the ly mean a decline in the number As the 84th Congress opened, the onlooker had the of unemployed. This is indicated U.S. State Dept. Philippines. The latter two are uncanny feeling that history had been turned back and signatories to the Manila Pact. by the figures on workers who But Sir John Kotelarvala, Prime had exhausted their allowable un reversed — that General Robert E. Lee and the Con Seeks to Counter 'Ministea- of Ceylon, has ssaid that employment insurance benefits in federate Army had finally cap not less than 22 countries will the first nine months of 1954. tured Washington and was en- participate, including the four According to Undersecretary camped on Capitol H ill. Southern Asia Conference giants, India, China, Pakistan of Labor Larson, in a Christmas- Democrats were busy taking over The U.S. State Department and Indonesia, which total more week address before the Indus practically every important post, announced on Jan. 3 that the than a billion population. trial Relations Research Assn, in in the Senate and House of eight signatories of the Manila Detroit, nearly 1,500,000 workers Representatives. Pact will meet in Bangkok, SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE nationally used up all their un The job of Speaker of the Thailand, on Feb. 23 to implement Whatever the deliberations and employment payments within the House — second in power only the military alliance drafted last decisions of the conference, the first three quarters of the year. to the presidency — went to Sam September on the initiative of mere fact that it is held will be In Pennsylvania they numbered Rayburn of Texas. Lyndon B. the western imperialist powers. of the greatest historic signifi 200,000; in Michigan, 100,000; Johnson, also of Texas, took over Although labelled the South cance. It will be a visible symbol and sin five other states over the most important position in East Asia Treaty Organization, of a titanic revolutionary trans 75,000. the Senate — majority leader. formation that has taken place the alliance is' headed by three CHRONIC UNEMPLOYMENT KEY POSITIONS non-Asian nations, the United in the world within the past 15 Larsen called this condition States, Britain and France. Out years ^ the crumbling of the The all - important chairman “chronic unemployment” and de ships of committees in both side of these big capitalist vast colonial empires controlled and exploited by the advanced scribed it as “the situation of Houses went almost exclusively powers, only Pakistan, Thailand, those people who exhaust the full the Philippines, Australia and capitalist nations and the emer to Deep South and border state gence of great new independent duration of unemployment insur Democrats. In the House of Rep New Zealand — the latter three ance benefits and still go on un not parts of the Asian mainland nations hostile to western imper resentatives, where committee ialism. It will be a graphic de able to get work, either because chairmen wield even more power — are associated in the alliance. of the locality or of the industry.” monstration that the western than in the Senate, 13 of the 19 PRETENSE EXPLODED powers do not speak for the He added that “as to him (the committees are headed by South worker who has exhausted his Announcement of the Manila Asian and African people and ern Democrats. O f the 12 most benefits but remains without a Pact conference was intended to can make no claim to their un Bosses Set up Secret important .committees South job) our available insurance and counter the effect of the cafll by questioning support. erners wield the gavels in ten. REP. RAYBURN services have broken down.” He India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Burma In their call to the conference, Rules Committee chairman is then asks: and Ceylon for a 30-nation Asia- the five Colombo powers include labor-hating banker, Howard W. years on labor and civil rights “But is it possible that the Africa conference next April to among its purposes, “to consider “Right-to-Scab” Groups Smith of Virginia. Jere Cooper legislation. When it was announc matter could be approached by which China and North Vietnam problems of special interest to of Tennessee heads the Ways and ed that Eisenhower’« State of the means of a combination of some have been invited. This confer Asian and African people, for Secret national and state or Legislaiture . . . to enact such a argument is especially prominent. Means Committee. Other chair Union address would recommend extension of benefits . . . coupled ence will encompass countries example, problems affecting na ganizations of employers are law. . . The fight will mirror It is claimed the laws help at men are: Clarence Cannon of an increase in the minimum wage with an entire new special pro tional sovereignty and of racial being formed to push through so- coming strife in more than a tract Northern industry. . . Mayor Missouri, Carl Vinson of Georgia, from the present 75 cents to 90 totalling more than half the gram aimed at removing the in ism and colonialism.” called “right-to-work” laws in the dozen other state legislatures and H. C. Rhodes of Pelalhatchie, James P. Richards of South cents per hour Northern liberal world’s population. dividual’s cause- of unemploy The five Prime ‘Ministers state 31 states still free of such anti- in the U.S. Congress.as well.” Miss., for instance, used his Carolina, Harold D. Cooley of Senator James Murray (D-Mont.) The call for the Asia-Africa ment?” Conference exploded the pretense their support of Indonesia union legislation. The existence The state organizations of both state’s adoption of a ‘right-to- North Carolina, Brent Spence of declared for $1.00 per hour. This of the Manila Pact group that it against Holland in the conflict SCOPE OF LAYOFFS of these secret organizations to the A FL and CIO in Maryland work’ law last year as an argu Kentucky, Graham A. Barden of was already giving awiry 25 cents railroad through laws to prohibit are lining up their forces and ment to encourage a Connecticut North Carolina, Olm E. Teague of the $1.25 which the labor move spoke for the people of South over New' Guinea. They especial A better idea of the real scope union security contracts was preparing for a battle. The manufacturer to move to his of Texas and Tom Murray of ment has been demanding and East Asia or any other part of ly stress their “continued sup of unemployment during the past revealed in the Jan. 4 Wall Street Legislature convenes Jan. 5. Tennessee. which Murray and other Darno- the colonial world. In fact, there port to the demands of the peo year was given on Jan. 1 by ‘veritable industrial paradise’ ” — Journal. a “paradise” of low-pay, unor As if to show that there were ci'aitic liberals had agreed to. But was speculation that the Bangkok ple of Tunisia and Morocco for Secretary of Labor James P. “Businessmen backing the laws ‘‘NATIONAL SCRAP” ganized, race-divided wage slaves. other .parts of the U.S. than the then Senator Russell of Georgia, conference .might have to be their national independence and Mitchell. He reported that alto But this ¡is a “national scrap," .South — two chairmanships of the real power in the Senate postponed to save face for the their legitimate right to self- gether 6,600,000 workers received are forming a so-far-secret na states the -Wall Street Journal, the 1'2 most important House Democratic majority, spoke out western powers. “ We’re in new determination.” one or more unemployment ben tional organization and several state organizations to promote and “similar fights arc in pros committees went to non - South saying that there should be no trouble in Asia,“ wrote the Wash In addition, they expressed efit checks. One out of every five pect in Kentucky; Missouri, Okla Truth about Stalin's erners. The Judiciary Committee hasty action on increasing the ington staff of the Scripps- their “great concern in respect of these workers was dropped the laws’ passage in the 31 states homa, California, Colorado and went to Emmanuel Celler, New minimum wage from 75 cents. He Howard newspapers in (heir Dec. of the destructive potential of from the rolls while still unem that still allow ‘union security’ Slave Labor Camps Wisconsin, as well as Kansas and York liberal, who promptly in wanted time to “study” and see if 31 weekly round - up. They said nuclear and thermonuclear ex ployed. contracts that, make union menn- .possibly in other states also.” Next issue we begin a series troduced a bill to raise Congress an increase would raise farm the Asia-Africa conference is “al plosions for experimental pur Bert Seidman, an A FL staff bership a condition of employ These “right-to-scab" laws, as of articles by Brigitte Ger- men’s pay from $12,500 to $22,- labor costs. ready a psychological victory for poses” and called for “a cessa economist, shows in the Dec., ment,” reports the Journal. unionists correctly call them, land, German author and jour 500, and Un-American Activities Reds” so “calculated to weaken tion of such experiments” with 1954, American Federationist that Smell laws, if passed as secretly The outlook for FEPC and civil have the aim of impeding union and undermine Manila Pact con H-bombs and A-bombs. “more than 9,000,000 workers plotted by the conspiratorial em nalist, who , spent about eight Committee to Francis E. Walter, rights legislation has completely organization and preventing or Pennsylvania banker, best known ference” that, “we may even have, Under any circumstances, an have been unemployed at some ployer’ groups, would undermine years in Stalin’s concentra vanished in the new Congress. ganization of the unorganized. tion camps. “My Life in Sta for bis sponsrslrip of the infam to postpone our meeting.” (Continued on page 3) time during the past year.” the union rights of 12,000,000 or Indicative of the fate of such ganized workers who arc already They permit the employers lo in lin’s Concentration Camps” of ous MeCarran - Walter Immigra measures was the surrender by protected by some sort of union filtrate non-union and anti-union fers the first authentic infor tion Act. Senate liberals of the fight to security clause. elements into the plants and to mation published in this coun In (he Senate the same pattern change Senate Rule 22. This is influence the weaker elements in try concerning forced labor, prevails. The South is firmly in the rule which makes it virtually FIGHT ON IN MARYLAND the unions to discontinue paying camp conditions and opposi the saddle. Domination of Con impossible to stop a filibuster and Is Reuther Right When He Claims The underground bosses’ groups dues while getting union benefits. tional tendencies there. The gress by the South will have bring civil rights legislation to a have selected Maryland as the They are especially potent as author, a Gorman Communist profound effects on LT.S. politics. vote. It can he changed the first first battleground in the in legal cover for 6cab-herding in militant, was sentenced by The land of honeysuckle and day of a new session of the tensified drive to subvert labor’s strikes. Stalin’s secret police to 15 cotton is also the land of white Senate hut after that it auto America Has No 'Fixed Classes’ ? rights and destroy union organ In the Democratic South, \uhicih years in prison on the frame- supremacy and open shop “right- matically goes into effect and it izations. is blanketed with LI of the 17 up charge of being “a British to-work” laws. The most back is then virtually impossible to fixed and increasingly hostile to Now, it. is true that the cap By Murry Weiss “Maryland’s lawmakers will existing state “rig h t-to -s c a b ” spy.” She spent over six years ward and reactionary section of change. each other. italist system is in constant flux. shortly clash in impassioned laws, there is little pretense that of her term in Stalin’s Arctic the country is now dominant on The Leadership Conference on W alter Reuther, president of Profound ' changes . have taken •In the U.S., as in all capitalist debate over the nation’s hottest these are designed to “protect Circle camps. Capitol Hill. Civil Rights, a coalition group of the CIO, made a defense of the place in its structure, both in countries, the nature of tjie labor issuer” says the Journal. workers.” Down in open - shop, (Brigitte Gerland’s Biogra Two events showed which way 52 Negro, labor and civil rights capitalist twio-party system at the U.S. and on a world scale. the CIO convention, Dec. 8. and working class and capitalist class “ A drive is building up here white supremacist Dixieland, con phy — See Page 4) the wind would be blowing in organizations including the is defined by their mutual rela The question is: In what direc dropped all pretense of favoring (Baltimore) to get the Maryland cedes the Journal, “the economic Washington for the next two (Continued on page 2) tions in the process of produc tion is capitalism changing? Is a Labor Party “sometime in the tion. The capitalists are owners the system of capitalism becom future.” ing less rigid and distinct, is “W hat we are trying to do,” of the means of production — factories, mines, railroads, etc. capital becoming “democratized” said Reuther, “is work within as the Wall Street propagandists the two-party system of America The workers, as a class, own no property in the means of produc claim ? Threaten New Blows to Civil Liberties and bring about . . . a funda The evidence shows that in mental realignment of basic po tion. They own only their labor power, that is, their ability to stead of a “blending” of classes By Lewis Peterson Judge McLaughlin claimed, man type of hearing which Mc liberties of persons accused of In the latest moves to put the litical forcts.” work and they must sell their in the U.S. there has been a The old year ended and the however, that the constitutional Carthy had used to gain publicity being "subversive” is a “subver Bill of Rights in the deep freeze, Reuther contended that the labor power to the capitalist in concentration of greater and new began on an ominous note right against self-incrimination for himself. But the Democrat sive” himself. Thus, Professor Attorney General Brownell's De labor party idea is not for Am order to live. greater wealth in the means of for civil liberties. From Wash does not guarantee a worker also made plain that he would Vern Countryman, of Yale Uni partment of Justice has indicated erica: “In Europe where you production in the hands of few ington came a whole series of against “unfavorable inference” continue “relentlessly” the witch versity, who assisted the defense it does not intend to remain in have . . . rigid class groupings, Through the money system the er and fewer capitalists, and at policy orders, rulings and state or dismissal . from his job. In hunt interrogations of alleged in two federal appeals in cases active. there labor parties arc a natural workers receive wages when they the same time the steady growth ments which threaten new blows fact, he contended that the 20 “communists” and “subversives” involving so-called “subversion,” On Dec. 30 Brownell announced political expression.” (But, he are fortunate enough to be hired- of the working class. at the rights of union militants were fired for "obvious cause” which are designed to terrorize felt compelled to resign hi« job he intends to place another 27 continued, “America is a society With their wages the workers According to Theodore K. and political dissenters. and he cited GE’s own definition independent political expression. after being denied scheduled organizations on the Attorney in which social groups are in buiy the. means of subsistence, Quinn, former vice-president of Anti-union corporations were of “obvious cause” as ‘‘those On Jan. 3, at a subcommittee promotion at. the university. General’s list of alleged “sub flux, in which we do not have food, clothing and shelter, and the General Electric Co., “More handed another powerful juridical things which, in the opinion of session to which four 'witnesses More direct denial of legal de versive” organizations, which al this rigid class structure.” are able to restore their energy than half of all workers in the weapon against unionists' when the management, made an em from GE had been subpoenaed, fense in so-called “loyalty” cases ready contains the names of 254 Reuther rested his whole case for more work and raise families country are employed by 1% of Judge Charles F. McLaughlin of ployee an undesirable employee McClellan backed up McCarthy is the aim of an investigation groups. This political blacklist, against the idea of a Labor Par to provide a continuous supply the corporations, which control the Federal District Court in and therefore one who should in issuing a contempt of Con to be undertaken by the House. begun under an executive order ty on this estimate of the unique of workers. over 50 % of the corporate Washington Deo. 30 upheld the be immediately removed from gress order against Edwin Gar Committee on Un-American Ac issued by former president Tru character of the social structure EXPLOITATION wealth.” (Oct.. 25, 1954, speech firing of General Electric work the plant.” field. Allston, Mass., who had tivities, as announced on Jan. 3 man, will be broadened to in of the U.S. By “social groups in before convention of the Cooper ers who had invoked their con This leaves it up to the cor failed to show up and had sent by Chairman-to-be Francis E. clude the National Lawyers Guild flux,” he means that the work The relationship between the ative League in Chicago.) stitutional rights at hearings of porations to decide what consti a telegram saying he had been Walter (D-Pa.). Rep. Walter suc and a number of civil liberties ing class is becoming more and owners of the means of produc What about the working class? Senator Joseph McCarthy’s smear tutes an “undesirable employee.” unable to secure counsel. ceeds the notorious McCarthyite defense groups. more a part of the middle class tion who do not work, and work Has it declined or increased nu committee. Within four days of Judge This incident highlights an Velde as head of the House This announcement was fol and the capitalist class is blend ers who do not own means of merically? According to the More than 20 GE workers had McLaughlin’s ruling, Sen. Mc other aspect of the drive to es- witch-hunt committee. lowed on Jan. 1 by a statement ing into the population production, is properly termed the capitalist exploitation of la ‘Bureau of the Census, in its been fired in violation of the Carthy, together with Sen. John tabiish a police state and The Pennsylvania Democrat from William F. Tompkins, As FIXED .CLASSES bor. Because the workers pro Historical) Statistics of the United union contract since Dec. 9, 1953, L. McClellan (D -A rk.), who suc thought-control in the United said he would investigate law sistant Attorney General in What are the facts about the duce more value in the. period Statès, published in 1949, p. 65, when the company, at McCar ceeds him as chairman of the States. Now the witch-hunters yers who defend “communists” Charge of the Interna] Security class structure of the U.S. ? they work than they receive in the chart on “ Labor Force thy’s behest, started victimizing Senate’s Permanent Subcomlttee are seeking to deny their vic and groups set up to finance Division, who threatened that the More liian any other nation in the form of wages. This system —Industrial Distribution of Em employees who stood on their on Investigations, were holding tims even adequate legal coun the defense of civil liberties and Justice Department and FB I will history the U.S. has become di of exploitation of labor is the ployed,” the number of workers rights under the Fifth Amend more inquisitions of GE workers sel and defense. constitutional rights in cases “accelerate” their drive to 'ra il vided into two basic classes— source of all capitalist profits. increased from 29,025,000 in 1900, ment. The unionists had declined at Washington hearings. This is being done under the arising out of the Smith “Gag” road “subversives” to prison un workers and capitalists. These And profit is the motive force to 56,769,000 in 1945. In 1900 to answer McCarthy’s trick McClellan had said on Dec. 31 pretext that anyone who under Act and other repressive anti der the Smith Act and other po two classes have become more of the capitalist system. (Continued on page 2) questions. that he would not hold the one- takes the defense of the civil democratic laws. lice-state laws. Papp Two THE MILITANT Monday, January 10, 1955 The American Who Owns the Democratic Party? By Joseph Keller plete story of how big oil oper seems assured of protection from] which have “paid the piper and try’s richest tycoons and worst ors to Roosevelt’s 1932 campaign ates in our politics; though we too great exposure.” called the tune” for the Demo labor - haters — manufacturers, who contributed a total of $408, The most insidious political lie Way of Life It is quite true, as Stokes says, cratic Party. As recently as March liquor distillers and dealers, mo 528. Lundberg records that “about know already how government circulated by the pro-capitalist protects its special privileges, in that the Democrats as well as 1950, during Truman’s adminis tion picture producers, aircraft $1,000,000 of the Democratic fund union leaders is that, while the the Republicans, have been get tration, The Machinist, official corporation executives, etc. appears to have come from the Republican Party is controlled cluding the tax bonanza in the 27/% depletion allowance which ting the “pay-offs” from Big publication of the International The Machinist published the wealthiest families. The remain Taxes and Justice by big money, the Democratic the big companies just mark off Business. But it is not simply a Association of Mechanists, show list “so that union members may der was collected by professional Party belongs to the “little man.” question of politicians being ed who owns the Democratic and know who is putting up the big politicians from the host of as Justice in America inexorably grinds away. No Many labor bureaucrats concede before they begin to figure their income tax. . . bought, off. The party machines Republican parties. ■money to help finance our ma pirants to political berths in the criminal big or small can escape, and all are treated With defects in the Democratic Party, “. . . Many of the free and are actually owned and control The Machinist published a list jor political parties.” new administration.” and even deny they are tied to equal severity. I f you don’t believe it, look at the case of easy political dollars originate led by wealthy interests. They of 78 big money boys w'ho in One of the most revealing, and the tail of either of the big par The situation hasn’t changed Stanley Roman, a $75-a-week crane operator. He pleaded with the fabulous oil barons of select as candidates those who 1949 contributed from $2,000 to still invaluable, studies of Big ties, but they always wind up by since that day —■ it has just be can be counted on to defend and $5,000
Domestic policy confronts the tion to the middle class, we must culture.” merely the echo of the “opinion- Marxist quarterly, Fourth In which makes it possible to de City M*,l,M,MM,(lt„,,,,,*MM.— MMMI.MM StSt® ...... molding” propaganda machine of port anyone of foreign birth, Democrats with a dilemma. The assess the relative social weight These striking figures demon ternational, 116 University PL, [ ] $1.50 Six months Q $3.00 Full year Q New Q Renewal reactionary Southern Democrats of the workers and the middle strate indirectly the growing so •the American capitalists. New York 8, N. Y. even if they have been natural see eye to eye with the Repub class in the U.S. cial weight of the industrial The capitalists apparently rea- ized. THE MILITANT — Page Three Out of Their Own Mouths United Fruit Gets Deal in What They Say About North Vietnam What They Say About South Vietnam Guatemala (What the capitalist press now admits about the Ho (What the same capitalist press admits about the Chi Minh regime in North Vietnam.) anti-Communist regime in “ Free” South Vietnam.) The Guatemala dictator, Carlos Is the Witch Hunt Abating? Castillo Armas,, has paid off his debt to his Wall Street allies The deferred of political liberty in the U.S. All reports agree that North The .fading of McCarthy from the headlines munists are building up here in The Government of Premier It may be shocking to say so, who helped him overthrow the Vietnam is being well and enthu and the Democrats taking control of Congress now means, according to official propaganda, the north. Ngo Dinh Diem is riddled with but the refugees would have been popular government of Arbenz siastically organized by the Com- —Joseph Alsop, jailing those believing in certain ¡political feuds and incompetence and is better off in their own homes in June last year. On Dec. 31 he has led a number of well-intentioned people to ¡numisit Vietminh, with a strong N.Y. Herald Tribune, Dec. 31 and fields . . . creeds. Defense of constitutional government * £ « woefully weak. The playboy Em signed a bill approving of two conclude that the witch hunt is passing from army, civic discipline and social —.Joseph Alsop, agreements with the United Fruit means persecution and loss of livelihood for North Vietnam’s top adminis peror (Bao Dai is enjoying him the American scene. reforms. . . This . is the true N.Y. Herald Tribune, Dec. 31 Company. One of the .contracts those who invoke the guarantees of the Con picture. . . It will take extra trators are Communists hardened self uselessly on the French Ri " I f washes were ¡horses, then beggars would * * * returns the uncultivated land to stitution’s 5th Amendment. ordinary efforts to save Indo by long experience in tackling al viera. The most respected Viet the United Fruit Company that ch in a from communism. . . most insuperable problems in ride,” ¡goes the old proverb. Similarly ¡if wish- The witch hunt proper rests on four main namese General, Army Chief of South Vietnam’s administrative had been expropriated by the —N.Y. Times editorial, conditions of almost unimagin machinery creaks and cracks ... thinking cou'ld do it, the Bill of Rights would supports. (1) The Smith Act; (2) the A t Staff Nguyen Van Hinh, is at Arbenz Government. In the other Dec. 30,'1954 able difficulty . . , Non-Commun Last year the south experimented already Ire back in operation. It will take much torney General’s arbitrary ¡political blacklist: agreement the Company “settled” ist correspondents could not fail odds with his Premier. The po with elections on a local basis, more to restore civil liberties In this country. * * * its tax obligation to the Guate (5) !t.he McCarran “concentration camp” Law; to be simultaneously impressed lice force is also under dissident but there has never been a na malan government. Jus?t what is the actual status of the witch and (4) the Humphrey-Bo tier Communist N EW D E L H I, India, Dec. 30 and depressed by the smooth, control. Communists have infest tional or constitutional assembly. The Arbenz government had —The Indian chairman of the disciplined efficiency of the Viet- ed South Vietnam and are in hunt today? McCarthy ism, has suffered a Control Act. The witch hunt w ill have suf Corruption, though widespread, expropriated, with offers of com International Armistice Commis mihh in taking over the northern filtrating in ever - growing num defeat. But McCairthyism was the ugly Gothic fered a serious setback when any of these sup is probably no more corrosive a pensation, 234,000 of the 600,000 sion for Vietnam said today that metropolis of Hanoi from the bers. There is widespread cor force than plain inefficiency. acres of land owned by the Un steeple which jutted out crazily from the much ports has ¡been smashed. It w ill have been the Communist Leader, Ho Chi French. Throughout the latter ruption. Unless one counts the under ited Fruit Company. The US Am solider main edifice — the witch hunt proper. destroyed when these infamous laws (one is Mirth, was ‘‘die symbol of na years of the war, the Vietminh —«N.Y. Times editorial, ground Communists, there are bassador demanded that the A r merely an executive order) have been wiped off tionalism” in both parts of di effectively controlled the coun This ¡grim structure has not been perceptihiy no political parties in South Viet benz government pay over $15 vided Vietnam. M. J. Desai, head tryside and villages of North Dec. 30, 1954 •affected by the setback suffered by MoCarthe the books. nam, largely because throughout million to United Fruit for this of the three-nation commission Vietnam and some of the south * * « ism. Both big parties swear its architecture is the war the French permitted no land. The Guatemalans refused, Until then there can be no question of the supervising the Geneva armistice and center, not only through gov On the struggle’s other side, real political activity by nation of the purest American .style, it must he witch hunt abating. There can only be minor agreement expressed the opinion ernmental and party organs but providing added incentive to the meanwhile, there is nothing as alists . . . subsequent armed invasion of remembered that many who spoke out against fluctuations in the intensity of ¡the witch ¡hunt. that Ho Chi Minh had substan* through all the innumerable yet but an obscene basket of eels. McCarthy i-sm were opposed only to his liai support in South Vietnam, “people’s” organizations to which' There is not. one public figure their country by a United Fruit As long as the witch hunt ¡proper exists as a A fter months of open warfare in South Vietnam who com inspired “army.” as well as in the northern part every single individual, young or methods-and "excesses” land were for the witch base it is always possible for McCarthyism to between the civil and m ilitary of the country, whose govern old, must belong: associations of mands widespread respect and In the new agreements, with hunt itself •— "properly” conducted by the branches of the non-Communist support . . . Bao Dai has squan start reconstructing its tower of ¡darkness on ment he heads . . . The northern women, children, Buddhists, Cath the return of the expropriated government of southern Indo- Attorney General and tire FBI. top — and once again the threatening gargoyle adminstr&tion of Hanoi lboked olics, old men, families of sol dered whatever popularity he land, the Company “gives” to China, the crisis has ended in a once had . . , living in luxury face o f American fascism w ill ¡reveal itself. good in comparison with the re diers and so on . . . Guatemala 100,000 acres of its The witch hunt proper is the official per “solution” which parodies the gime set up under the French, In Saigon ask any Frenchman in Dalat and on the Riviera, ac land. The company also drops secution of the Communist Party and other Only a steady and determined counterattack worst solutions of Chiank Kai- Mr. Desai indicated. To many or Vietnamese who is not afraid cumulating a tremendous per the demand of the U.S. Ambas political organizations and o f thousands of by all those believing in civil liberties can shek’s last year on the main sonal fortune, and holding cor persons the city’s new adminis o f1 you who would win nation sador for payment of the $15 land. individuals closely or remotely connected with destroy the bases- o f the witch bunt. Such a tration must seem “cleaner arid wide elections in Vietnam today rupt friends in office . . . Skill million,. fully reared by the French to be (these organizations at present or in the past. counterattack can be launched only from a more honest” than under the and he will tell you bluntly, “ Ho The army is demoralized and The N.Y. Times, Jan. 1, edi a puppet, this blank-faced, cyn Such persecution for .political beliefs — Stalin; principled position — defense of all victims of French, he said. Chi Minh.” . . . this sixty-two- disorganized. The civil adminis torially hails the signing of the tration is generally corrupt, ical and intelligent man is backed ist as well as an'ti-Stalinist — can be carried political persecution regardless of their political — A. M. Rosenthal, N.Y. year-old Vietnamese . . . is still agreements as a step “toward regarded by most Vietnamese, where it exists at all, and in today chiefly by those Vietnamese normalcy . . . closing another out only by suspension of the Bill of Rights beliefs. In this .period to refuse, or to lack Times, Dec. 31, 1954 north and south as a tireless most places it has less authority who count on him to unseat their chapter in the stormy history of ♦ * * enemies . . . and other constitutional guarantees. courage enough, to ¡defend the constitutional fighter for his people’s indepen than the underground adminis that great American company.” This has been done so well by the ruling rights of the Communist Party is to concede On one side in this crucial dence, a selfless ascetic patriot trations of the Vietminh . . . No government of South Viet The editors regard the new con class of this country and its kept press and in advance over half the battle to the witch struggle are the passionate eon- and the father of his country. As one peers down these grim nam has had popular support or tract as “eminently fair” and victon, the frightening dynam done much to get it. Neither politicians that an atmosphere somewhat hunters. The slogan should be; An injury to An effective drive against il perspectives out hel-e, the bland hope that the settlement will ism, the remarkable power to do literacy and for land reform on language and optimistic actions propaganda nor social and poli anyone’s civil liberties is an injury to all. help to overcome “a historic resembling Orwell's fantasy, “ 1984,” prevails. much with little, which this re the China pattern has made the of the Washington authorities tical reform has been undertaken background that the United Fruit porter saw at first hand in the Communists friends among the seem more and more inexplicable. on a broad basis. W ith the would like to have forgotten.” main southern base of the Viet- poorer villagers. Westerners tend Consider the hideous fate, for French Army still around, inde Before the Arbenz regime was minh. There is also the power, to forget that independence is instance, of the 500,000 Indo- pendence cannot be dramatized overthrown last summer the un AFL-CIO Unity never forgotten in Southern real and tangible in the north .. . Chinese Catholic refugees from very effectively. cultivated land reclaimed by the Indo-China, of the big Commun —Peggy Durdin, the North, who now crouch in —Peggy Durdin, There are indications that serious merger This tendency to act as an organized class government was parceled out to ist m ilitary force that the Com- The Reporter Dec. ?0 squalid camps in the. south . . . The Reporter, Dec. 30 moves are being considered by the leaders of in the political field remains 'hemmed in by the peasants. In addition, workers on dass-coflaborationist political policy of the the banana plantations of United ¡the ALL and CIO. A meeting of unity com labor officials and the illusions of the work Fruit were permitted to organize mittees from both organizations in Washing Tito Visits Nehru unions and struggle for higher ers. The idea of winning basic concessions wages. ton, Jan. 4, agreed to consider a draft next through a ¡coalition of the labor movement “ HOW FREE IS FREE The return to “normalcy” month specifying concrete steps towards unity. and the Democratic Party liberals is un means an end to the improve While the moves ¡are taking place prim arily doubtedly dominant at this time. ment of the living standards of WORLD ?” ASK LIBERALS the Guatemalan people. United behind the scenes, and the jockeying of power But the greater the power, cohesiveness and experience of the labor movement, the more the Fruit, through the Armas dicta groups in the American labor bureaucracy “The West (is) determined to safeguard the ‘free torship, is firm ly back in the idea of .launching an independent political plays a considerable ¡role, the consummation of world’ against the encroachment not only of communism saddle. Fabulous profits are once party will arise at every turning point. but also of freedom.” That is the verdict of the editors of more guaranteed. a merger ¡between the ¡two major section of the For ’this ¡reason labor unity is not separated the liberal magazine The Nation, Furthermore, with the smash American labor movement could have profound from the basic problem of ¡political action and whose entire Jan. 1 issue is de- United Nations. But unification ing of the union movement by progressive significance. ■program. If unity maneuvers, and even merg voted to the question of colonial is not in sight. the Armas dictatorship, United ism, under the title “How Free The hypocrisy of all talk by Fruit will no longer be plagued er, are subordinated to the factional struggles (No doubt ¡a powerful factor in the trend Is the Free World?” the United Nations and the U.S. by demands for a living wage within the bureaucracy for the extension o i toward unity is the desire of the labor officials “That we (the United States) government of bringing freedom from the railroad workers on the to strengthen their hands in their relations with preservation of this or that bureaucratic clique’s have lost our zest for revolution, to the colonies is best exposed International Railways of Cen the Democratic Party machine. W ith a unified power ; or, ¡if labor unity remains merely a our own as well as others, is in the article by M.O.M. Mad- tral America (a United Fruit subsidiary.) bloc of 15,000,000 .unionists behind them the bargaining weapon in negotiations between the nothing new,” says Victor H. uagwu, a leader of the Nigerian officials and capitalist politicians, it cannot in Bernstein in an editorial entitled independence movement. Madua- But perhaps the most impor 'heads of .the labor movement could ¡hope to gwu sums up his recital of broken tant gain of all to United Fruit any way serve the interests of the American “Containment of Freedom.” strengthen their bargaining position with the “What is startling is how quick promises of colonial freedom by is the lesson it is trying to teach Democrats in deciding candidates and posts. working ¡class. ly and how far we have traveled the imperialists powers by quot all of Central America where it But the plans of the labor bureaucracy are But if ¡unity is tied to the opening of a in recent years toward complete ing the Russian novelist Leo owns around three million acres m ilitant struggle. to beat back the anti-labor identification with the interests Tolstoy: of land. Ruthless suppression will one thing and the logic of the political strug “I sit on a man’s back, chok follow in the wake of any and drive, to defeat Taft-Hartleyism, the Right-to- of the dwindling but still power gle of the labor movement is another. The ful imperialism of the West.” ing him and making him carry all attempts to limit the power merger of AFL-C IO would underscore the Work laws, and the menace of the witch hunt “We have ourselves hecome a me and yet assure myself and of United Fruit in behalf of na enormous ¡power of the American working class ¡against the labor movement, it can become the colonial power. . . The sun never others that I am very sorry for tive populations. The cry of him and wish (o ease his lot by on the ¡political field. Already the American ■prelude to labor taking the road of building its sets on the American empire.” “communism” will be raised and workers feel that they are intervening in elec own class parly and liberating itself from Pres. Tito of Yugoslavia (right) and Premier Pandit Nehru says Bernstein. The United States all possible means — except by the US State Department will getting off his back.” intervene. tions as a cohesive force, voting as a class bloc. political serfdom to capitalism. of India are shown during an informal chat in New Delhi. They holds military bases in Europe, voiced opposition to establishment of any “third force” or North Africa and throughout the Pacific. In addition it holds Puer “third bloc” of nations, but called for “co-existei\ce.” Tito is the to Rico, the Virgin Islands. Haw Why Soviet Union Is Catching Up first head of a foreign state to visit independent India. aii and Alaska as territories de prived of the right of self gov World Events iron Age, national weekly of the metal fair to the U.S. industry, which operated well ernment. working industry in the U.S. reports that below capacity for a good part of the year. But “beyond our visible empire The Soviets on the other hand kept their plants is another and greater one.” U.S. GOVERNMENT INTER virtually everywhere from the Sòvièt bloc nations produced 7.7% more Steel at full production. ... Asia-Africa Parley That is the subjugation of nomi VEN TIO N in Italian union af Union to the Sahara.” in 1954 than ¡in 1953, while steel production in nally “independent” states who fairs was bitterly attacked by (Continued from page 1) kyo on Jan. 4: “I am of the * * * However, ¡this too, is to the credit of the continue in a colonial status be L ’Unita, a newspaper described us (the capitalist nations declined 9 per cent. In opinion that to normalize our Soviet economy. This meant no unemployment Asian-African conference, “com cause of their economic depen “Commfuinisit” by the N.Y. Times, THE BRITISH RAILWAY country’s relations with Commu the U.S., steel output fell by 20.8% since 1953, there and a steady increase in the national posed of nations that for the dence on the United States. Dec. 31. The Times reported tihat WORKERS are all set for a na nist China and the Soviet Union While in Soviet Russia it gained 7.4%. In wealth, while the steel that was not produced most part have been the colonial- However, The Nation does not many unions are voting out tional walkout scheduled to be ized underdogs of the. last two is the way that will lead to world investigate all the ramifications in the U.S. and the wages the workers didn’t “Communist” shop stewards be gin at midnight Jam 9. Prime actual volume U.S. steel mills turned out 88.- centuries,” as Tillman Durdin peace.” of imperialism. It directs its at Minister Churchill has been mov receive are lost forever. Soviet ¡planned econo cause Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, 300.000 tons in 1954 while USSR produced puts in the Jan. 2 N.Y. Times, United Nations Secretary-Gen tention to the problem of out American Ambassador to Italy, ing to prevent the strike. James my does not move from boom to bust — or would be galling to W all Street eral Dag Hammarskjold’s trip to right colonial holdings of the Campbell, General Secretary of 44.900.000 tons. started a “get tough with com even from prosperity to “ reoession” — as does imperialism, But, in addition, the China to appeal for release of Western powers. Two hundred munism policy” and ordered the National Union of Railwaymcn, These figures by themselves testify to the the .capitalist economy of the U.S., but main invitation to new China and North Americans imprisoned as alleged million people are still held in cancellation of two oT-shore declared that the decision to Vietnam has the American ruling spies is generally regarded as a outright colonial bondage. This steady growth of Soviet production ¡under a tains full employment and ¡planned growth procurement contracts where strike was not taken lightly. He class shaking with rage and “de facto” recognition of the includes most of the population said the men had been denied a planned economy and nationalized ownership C o m m u n i s-t Party influence year-in, year-out. fright. Mao Tze-tung government and a of Africa. square deal for a long time. of' industry. But ¡they do not yet tell the whole among workers was rising. L’Uni- This principle ¡of socialist -production, ap The conference, regardless of long step toward actual “de jure” Jn the article, “American Pol ta said: “Mrs. Luce’s declarations Wage increases of $1.12 to $1.32 icy — the iStatus Quo,” William story o f the giant leap forward of Soviet plied to the U.S. would produce conquests of any formal stand it may take, recognition and admission of new confirm that the American Am weekly are the main demands Bross Lloyd Jn. shows that the economy ¡thanks to the pew ¡property forms is almost certain to strengthen China into the United Nations. bassador considers Italy oil a sought by the union. They now economic growth on a scale far larger than U.S. delegates in the United Na and production relations created by the work the drive to recognize new China The Asia - Africa Conference par with Guatemala and that make Own $17.78 to $24.44, those shown in the Soviet Union. Furthermore, tions since 1946 voted uniformly and give it a seat in the United will likely demonstrate how lit the Italian Government permits weekly. Campbell said that the ers' revolution of October, 1917. with the imperialist powers or a socialist economy here would not have to Nations. Tillman Durdin writes tle support Washington has a diplomatic representative of a union was involved in the 1926 'abstained in every dispute involv Prior to the revolution, Russia was an eco contend with the parasitism and dictatorial from Jakarta, Indonesia: among the nations rising up out foreign power to behave • as in general strike but that they had ing a colonial holding. For ex nomically backward area of the world, hardly rule, mismanagent and inefficiency of a “With some reservations on of colonialism — more than half a protectorate.” not been out on purely economic the part of Pakistan, the Colom ample, the U.S. representatives issues since 1919. more advanced than India ¡is today. It was a bureaucratic caste such as the Soviet workers the world — for the policy of * * * bo powers believe the way to deal non-recognition and counter-rev in 1951 voted against even dis land dominated by Czar, ¡feudal landowners have had to endure. GOLD COAST RIVAL OF * * * with Communist China in the olution against the Chinese peo cussing the complaints of Mor and foreign capital. In 1913. the ratio of steel SOUTH AFRICA. The Gold This bureaucracy is not an inevitable com world picture is to accord Pei ple. occo and Tunisia against the OIL-RICH VENEZUELA is ex Coast (in West Africa) which production between ¡the U.S. and Russia was ponent ¡part o f ¡the new mode of production'. ping a seat in the United Na French in the General Assembly. periencing an unprecedented eco 7-*to-l in favor of the U.S. tions and full acceptance in world The U.N., too, stands exposed is expected to get .dominion sta nomic boom. More precisely it is On the contrary the Stalinist rule impedes and as an instrument for the imper tus in 1956, is causing concern being enjoyed by the handful of In 1929, at the peak of ¡the boom of the councils. They believe in addi distorts Soviet growth. Stalinism has arisen tion that trade should be devel Why South Africa ialists powers. A colony under to the racist regime in the Un militarists, landowners and na twenties in the capitalist world and at the from the Soviet Union’s heritage of Czarist oped with Communist China and U . N. trusteeship is supposedion to of South Africa. Some of the tive capitalists, who run the coun start of the first Soviet Five-Year-Plan, the ■poverty and backwardness, from the years an opportunity be afforded the Wasn't Invited achieve its independence. But John most astute and dedicated lead try under agreement with the Red regime for settling into V. Murra, though a supporter of ers of African nationalism are international oil cartel. Luxury U.S. advantage in steel production was nearly of imperialist intervention, civil war and Explaining why the South peaceful reconstruction and nor the trusteeship system, never to be found in the Gold Coast, spending by this corrupt c|ass 11-to-1. blockade, the constant threat of imperialist African government was not mal international relations.” theless gives numerous examples the first African colony that compares with the heyday of the invited to participate in the Since then, although U.S. steel production aggression, and the country’s isolation from On the other hand, “for Asian in his article of how it keeps the has won an independent Negro- robber barons in the U. S. Ex Asia-Africa conference next bounded forward during World War 11, while world economy. nations to join m ilitary pacts with imperialist system in full control. administered regime. Recently amples: a $3,000,000 officers April, one of the five Prime the Nazi invasion ¡devastated Soviet industry, Western nations, and particularly He cites the case of the Ewes, the Union of South Africa closed club, a $6,000,000 rifle range for Socialist United States on the other hand Ministers who called the con the United States, contributes to an African people numbering its door to “foreign” African the m ilitary, lavish statuary etc. the Soviets began systematically to catch up. would start from the fyighest levels of industrial ference, Sir John Kotelawala the polarization they oppose.” more than a million, who were Negroes. Daniel F. Malan, for The workers live in shacks in In 1947, U.S. advantage was 5.6-40-1. (Soviet and cultural achievement. A bureaucracy of Ceylon, said, with obvious partitioned among three powers mer Prime Minister of South slums and are sent to concentra economy was just beginning to repair the war HAMMARSKJOLD’S TRIP allusion to South Africa’s would have no basis. The ¡rest of the World under trusteeships and in con Africa, said on one occasion: “If tions camps for union activity or time destruction of its industrial equipment.) Even Japan, in which Amer racial laws: sequence “have suffered endless the other African territories are, criticizing the government. Rul In 1950, U.S. advantage was cut to 3.2-to-l. would rapidly ¡become socialist onCe tile U.S. ican troops are still quartered, “I can’t go there; we can’t economic, social and religious with the same success, going to er is U. S. State Department- demand what the Negroes of In 1953 it was 2.7-to-l, and in 1954, 2-to-l. took the road. A ll ¡peoples would move forward is pressing for a renewal of go there, so why the hell difficulties!.” “Since 1947,” says favorite, Colonel Perez Jimenez, peaceful ties both with China and Murra, “the Ewe petition (for West Africa have gained, then who was recently decorated with It can be argued that the comparison of U.S. to universal abundance and freedom under the the Soviet bloc. Thus, Premier should we invite them here?” unification) has annually reap it means nothing less than the the Legion of M erit by Eisen- and Soviet steel production in 1954 is not planned world economy. Ichiro, Hatoyama declared in Tb- peared on the agenda” of the exclusion of the white man from howeiv The Negro Struggle ------By John Thayer ------
The National Association for the Advance may be replied the Negro people have been VOLUM E X IX MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1955 NUM BER 2 ment o f Colored People’s Legal Department playing an active role in politics. That's tirue, has made its report for 1954. Besides the but what kind of enforcers of the law (as well historic Supreme Court decision against school as lawmakers) have their votes been 'going to? In “Don't Buy ” C a m p a ig n segregation i’t lists an Impressive number of The answer is mostly Democrats and in a fetw Lamont other legal actions against Jim Crdw. NAACP ■places Republicans. N.y. Longshore lawyers took .part in over 100 judicial and ad There’s the hitch! The kind of "enforce ministrative proceedings. They put ten briefs ment” Democrats in the South give to civil Aids Civil before the U.S. Supreme Court and another rights is well known. But in the 'rest of the Pact Approved ten before state supreme courts and federal country — it doesn’t matter whether the courts of appeal. mayors or governors are Democrats or Repub Liberties Of one category of cases the report states licans — police brutality towards Negroes, The Bill of Rights -Fund, found In Light Vote “ . . . our job is far more than to expand the discrimination in hiring, segregation in hous ed last November, has already law, n't is also to vigilantly protect the enjoy ing, school's etc., are thriving. granted $10,760 to aid the legal By James O’Hara ment and unrestricted exercise of rights al A basic change in enforcement of civil rights defense in numerous civil liber NEW YORK, Jan. 5 — A new contract between the — from the lowest enforcement agency to the ready clearly defined as being constitutionally ties cases now pending in the shipping bosses and the independent International Long highest — w ill come only when Republican and protected.” courts. shoremen’s Association granting a 17-cent an hour wage Democratic executives are replaced by inde In other words it went to court not only to The cases aided form a repre and welfare package increase be pendent representatives of labor and the Negro establish new legal principles of equal rights sentative and non-partisan cross came the legal agreement cover written into the legal agreement people who are committed to war against Jim but to enforce rights where ’the principle has section of the resistance to the ing the dockers of this port a f was clearly inviting trouble from Crow, T his means independent political action ter a long and difficult cam the shipping bosses. These latter been previously established. witch hunt.. by the Negro people. It can’t all be done in one paign by the union leaders to are a hard-headed lot not known A ll involve important legal Are laws enforced automatically once the day but a beginning can be made. In many put it over. to have ever given anything ¡points which must be defended in away. And the dockers have lit courts have interpreted them? Sad experience places the Negro people are numerous enough The last hurdle was member teaches they are not. Everyone knows how the the courts if political freedom Striking members of CIO United Packinghouse Workers ship acceptance. It was a rouugh tle illusion about the “Christian fo run and elect their own independent -repre is not to disappear completely charity” of these gentlemen. laws involving civil rights are enforced below Local 11 hitch old Dobbin to the shay and ask Boston shoppers go for the new leaders of the sentatives against the candidates of the old from this country. not to buy scab-produced hams and sausages from the Colonial The new contract contains a the Mason-Dixon line. That is '.the key to the IL A to get that acceptance, and political parties. On a state and national level The highest grant, $2,000, was Provision Co. it will probably be argued for clause recognizing existing prac struggle over the coming installment of the the Negro people are already 'learning that the to the defense of Dr. Howard a long time to come on the tices and customs and hedges on the no-strike clause. The dockers Supreme Court’s school segregation decision. Democratic Party w ill not root out Jim Grow. Chandler Davis, mathematics waterfront that they didn’t real Who w ill enforce rhe outlawing of segregation? teacher at the University of ly get membership approval. But cannot be forced to cross a picket This disillusionment will coincide with a line. Furthermore the powers of The white supremacists want the local au Michigan, who invoked the First it is clear that regardless of how similar disillusionment on the part of the white Amendment before the House LADEJINSKY CASE REEKS the umpire set up to arbitrate thorities 'to “enforce” it because their kind of much support or non-support the workers with the Democratic -politicians. Un-American Activities Commit new contract has it is now the differences are restricted. The enforcement means no .integration. These two great and interrelated sections of tee. legal contract. original agreement gave him the Not only does enforcement of the law work the American population w ill then see the need Seven grants of $1,000 were OF VILE ANTI-SEMITISM considerable power of exacting Four weeks ago the rank and penalties from dockers who vio against the ¡rights of the Negro people in the made, four of $500 and three of file dockers stunned their lead to build a new independent party -that will late any provisions of the con $250. A grant of $1,000 went to The fantastically reactionary logic of the witch hunt ers, the shipping bosses and so- South but in practically every city in the pass and enforce laws in -the interests of all tract. the Southern California Branch has revealed itself fully in the case of W olf Ladejinsky. called public opinion with their country the Negro people live in fear of police Working people regardless of color. The road Nevertheless the IL A leaders of the American Civil Liberties rejection of the contract in a se brutality. Ladejinsky is an agricultural expert who has been em took no chance on a second re to this new kind of -party is the way out of the Union as the beginning of a $10,- cret vote. It was widely conceded ployed by the government for the jection by the ranks. The first Since the executive branch — the enforcing -political dilemma the Negro people are in to 000 special legal action fund the write against communism mean that the proposed contract pro past twenty years. Since the war balloting was conducted by the branch — is so all important, what can the day. Negro militants should get out their branch is-planning. Another $500 he had a secret agreement wilh vision against strikes caused the he has directed the timid land Honest Ballot Association. The Negro people do to get fair, unbiased enforcers? political roadmaps now and start studying for •went to the A CLU ’s-. Northern Stalin not to harm his relatives. rejection. California branch. Other grants reform programs sponsored by new balloting was put into the In other words isn’t it probable Many important conditions of The answer is obvious — political action. It the journey ahead. were for cases involving use of the U.S. in Asian countries in an hands of the officials of the thir that Ladejinsky is a camouflaged work on the docks have been es the First, Fifth and Sixth Amend attempt to stave off agrarian ty-one different locals of the Soviet agent? tablished through rank-and-file ments; defense of a Communist revolt. IL A . Furthermore other groupa When this tortured logic was strike action. These so called wild Party leader indicted under the belonging to the IL A , the priv Last month the Agricultural not swallowed by public opinion, cat strikes have brought into ex membership clausa of the -Smith Department fired Mr. Ladejinsky ileged groups like the carpenters, Prefabricated Bureaucrats but on the contrary provoked in istence a body of procedures Act; the Louisville Sedition cases coopers, checkers, etc., were al ------By Henry Gitano ------for security reasons. The reasons dignant protests, the Agricultural known as existing port practices growing out of the case of a Ne lowed to vote. These latter num are most revealing. First, Mr. Department produced an expert and customs. These bar many of gro buying a home in a white ber about 4000, and were known At 1710 Broadway in New York City, a sign Institute for one year, it’s a study-work pro Ladejinsky was born in Russia. to provide a clinching argument. the more nefarious tricks of the neighborhood; and a test of the to back up the leadership solidly, Although in 1919 he fled the Rus George V itt, a white Russian of boss stevedore who would like to points to the “ Institute,” up one flig h t of gram. Part of the time is spent In the field, Florida Subversive Law. A grant W ith all these steps taken the sian Revolution and is now a the old anti-Semitic school, wrote treat the dock wolloper as a piece stairs. Beneath the indirect lighting, around part at the Institute. You come out as an of $250 was made to the defense outcome was a foregone conclu naturalized citizen, his foreign Secretary of Agriculture Benson of cargo . . . throw him into his tables set up in one circular pattern sit seven organizer or business agent. “ But even if you of Vern Davidson, a prominent birth is highly suspicious in the sion. The vote was announced aa a letter backing up the firing of place and keep him there. 11,266 for and 4,206 against. V ir teen male and four female future adminis graduate as an organizer it’s not too bad, be member of the Socialist Party, eyes of the security snoopers. Ladejinsky 100%, His letter ar To bar strikes and not have tually half of the port’s long trators of the International Ladies Garment cause you can move up to business agent.” who was sentenced to three years In 1930-31 while working his gued: Ladejinsky is a Jew; a imprisonment as a conscientious way through Columbia Universi existing practices and customs shore workers did not vote at all. Workers Union. The prospectus says that “ the primary pur high proportion of the revolu objector because his pacifism is ty he took a job as an interpreter tionaries who have come to the A class on “ comparative economic systems” pose in setting up the Institute is to train not based on religious but on so for Amtorg, the Russian trading U.S. since 1890 are Jews; pro- by Mr. Belfer is in session. The instructor's young people to qualify for job opportunities cial and ethical convictions. agency. This is also highly sus Soviet Jews are the “worst kind observation that the class absorbed remarkably in the IL.GWU,” and that “ any young man or Another $1,000 was granted picious. No evidence of leftist of traitors.” Mr. Ladejinsky quite little of its previous readings, evoked a kidding woman between the ages of 21 and 35 with for the legal defense of James political sympathy by Ladejinsky correctly called V itt’s letter “vi Labor News response from one of the students, that “ a high school education or its equivalent may iM. Staebler, a private in the could be discovered by the A gri cious, anti-Semitic, fascist tripe.” Army who received an undesir cultural Department witch hunt good administrator doesn't have to understand apply for admission to the Institute. . . In the According to the most recent able discharge because of alleged ers, Indeed, they found just the reports the White House has in what’s going on, he has enough good subor selection of students, only those interested in association with the Socialist. opposite. tervened in the case of Ladejin Women Workers CIO Scores dinates for that.” M r. Belfer summarizes his the ILGWU with a view to making it their Workers Party before his induc In the 1940’s Ladejinsky wrote sky and he has been offered a The CIO Textile Workers Un tion in the Army. <, Gain Increases 75 minutes by saying that “ the future belongs life work will be enrolled.” Dubi.nsky wrote anti-Soviet articles. This, declar post with- Foreign Operations Ad ion won bargaining rights for to the sophisticated 20th Century capitalism that “graduates of the Training Institute are A grant of $1,000 went to the ed the Agricultural Department’s ministration — to fight Com Women workers of Local 707 International Union of Electrical, 6,000 workers of the Cone Mills represented by groups of the Fortune and Busi guaranteed staff jobs with the ILG W U.” First Unitarian Church of Los security chief, one J. G. Cassity, munism in Indo-China!' Evident Corp. Five of the mills were in was the mosyt highly suspicious ly the Eisenhower administration Radio and ¡Machine Workers ness Week variety.” The students feel that the labor movement Angeles which is contesting a North Carolina. state law that religious organ-: thing of all. Ladejinsky still had feels that the witch hunt has (C IO ) Cleveland, Ohio, won a A discussion of individual projects is next is a good field to enter. It offers good pay, jzations claiming tax exemption relatives in the Soviet Union. gone too far in this particular fight to break through the Gen on the agenda. One of the students is working status and opportunities for travel, there are execute a loyalty oath. Doesn’t the fact that he dared instance!. eral Electric Co. wage-ceiling IUE Defeats on a paper dealing with union -dues. A com possibilities of entering a world of power and formula which stipulated that no woman could make more than the ment is made that only 30 cents a week goes prestige. But aside from aiming at a career, Open Shop lowest-paid man. G.E. at first to New York and that one wage increase far there is a spark of genuine feeling for the refused to grant the women’s The CIO International Union outweighs this piddling amount. A discussion aspirations o f the workers in these leader demands for rates higher than of Electrical, Radio and Machine ensues: “ When I was in the field, the workers trainees. Victim of Stalin Labor Camps common labor rate. When the Workers won a Dec. 16 NLRB asked if we were living in the best hotel in But this spark is sure to be extinguished in 1,200 women workers said “No election held to determine whe ther the IU E-O IO or no union ¡town, and they wanted to know what’s happen the further experience ¡they w ill have in the Brigitte GeVland, German au the birth' of a Socialist Germany. after, while on a visit to her contract, no work,” G.E. caved She immediately joined the Ger kome city, she was kidnapped by in on Dec. 6 and granted the would represent the 350 workers Dubinsky trade union machine. In the union, thor and journalist, whose arti ing to their dues.” man Communist Party in the So Stalin’s secret police, “tried” on women two job ratings higher at the Humphreys Manufactur cles on “Stalin’s Concentration Another project deals with “ over the top these uninitiated will owe their position entirely viet zone. As one of the few who a frame-up charge of “a British than the common labor rate. ing C a, Mansfield, Ohio. The organizing,” organizing without involving the * to the ruling labor bureaucrats. They w ill learn Camps” will begin in next week's had not compromised with Nazism spy” and imprisoned first in plant has been open shop since workers. This topic posed problems: "When I to conform to all the standards imposed by the Militant, was born 36 years ago in the past, she was appointed Germany (15 months) and then 1949 when the company broke a in Dresden, Germany. Young Union Man Shot strike called by the independent was in the field, this shop was all lined up, ihe cynical officialdom. the political director of the East in the Soviet Union (for over Brigitte’s first experience with six years). A1 Hernandez, member of Los United Electrical Workers. teamsters union wouldn’t deliver, the contract Genuine leaders of the labor movement are Zone Soviet Information Agency. jailers and with concentration A cushy career was hers for the She was transported from one Angeles Cutter’s Local 84 of the Was In the bag. We bad to k ill the day. so we not manufactured this way, they are brought camps came at the age of 16, taking. Stalinist concentration camp to International Ladies Garment went to visit a few workers, is that over the forth in the course of actual struggle. They when Hitler’s police jailed her another, more than 20 all told, Workers was shot down last Runaway Plant top organizing?” A'job evaluation for a buwi- become leaders because they are capable of for membership in an outlawed BREAKS WITH STALINISTS including those beyond the Arc month by Ellis Poole, a strike youth group, the “Red Falcons.” But six months of association tic Circle. breaking cutter working for Jeri Must Pay Workers ■ness agent was another’s theme. outstanding service in the class struggle of the She was opposed to Hitler and with Stalinist bureaucrats suf A t the age of 35, in Dec. 1953 Holmes of California — a non Job reinstatements for ten auio During the lunch period, one of the stink-' workers. They arc selected and tested in the everything he stood for. She be ficed to disillusion her complete she regained her freedom, after union shop. Instead of arresting workers plus $6,193 was won in explains the set-up to me. You train at the* heat of battle. lieved in socialism. ly. Her first-hand acquaintance the amnesty proclamation by ¡Poole, the police arrested Her an ¡NLiBR ruling by the CIO Un Two years later, upon falling with the bureaucrats’ fear of the Malenkov & Co. Her eyewitness nandez and Robert Villalobos, an gravely ill, she was released. No .masses and of the revolutionary account, is authentic — one of other union cutter. The scab ited Automobile Workers. Wheft sooner did Hitler’s “Third Reich” movement, repelled her. The de the few authentic stories about Poole is being glorified by the the Waco Manufacturing Co, Notes from the News crumble, than this courageous cision she had to make was Stalin’s forced labor. Los Angeles labor-hating press. moved operations from Elyria, woman decided to make her way. clinched for her when she saw The English translation of her According to Jan. 1 Justice, the Ohio, to Cleveland, the company to East Berlin, despite all the how the workers were demoral articles, which the Militant, starts union’s newspaper, Hernandez is refused to take a single applicant M IDW EST TRUCK DRIVERS, 250,000 strong, original sin, however, .must be laid at the door barriers set up by the “demo-' ized by the regime. She escaped with the next issue, has been still in the hospital with two bul from the Elyria plant. The UAW- are demanding ¡pay raises of 25 cents an hour. ■of those in high places who have built the ‘red cratic” occupying powers. from the East Zone, with the made from the French text pub lets in his body. He and Villalo The present International Brotherhood of Team scare’ into such fantastic proportions that gossip- She believed that Soviet occu primary intention of telling the lished by Verite, the revolution bos have each been released on CIO took the case to the NLRB sters’ three-year contract for the 12 midwest ers arc able to make headlines out of their pation would help bring about workers the truth. Shortly there ary socialist, periodical in France. $20,000 bail. and won. states over-the-road drivers expires Jan. 1 and irreponsible chatter.” Feb. 1. The earliest expiration affects 25,000 truck * * * drivers in Chicago. The 12-state drivers’ council DISCRIMINATORY EMPLOYMENT PRAC grew out of the m ilitant Minneapolis Local 544 TICES cost American business 30 million dollars which was active In organizing the North Central every year says Elmo Roper in a pamphlet issued Stalinists Warm to Quill’s Political Line District Council of Drivers. Farrell Dobbs, first •by the National Conference of Christians and secretary of the council, headed the organizing Jews. “By 1980, industrial concerns will no longer By Carl Goodman compel the Tammany machine to Therefore they say the CP must and a “stiffened labor backbone.” with labor nor share political support the Democrats at this In what way do Quill and other committee Which signed the first contract in Aug. even think in torms of race, religion or na nominate “New Deal” liberals. domination of the U.S. with the The Communist Party leaders time and must not ad\ocatc a CIO officials show their political 1938. Dobbs is now National Secretary of the So tionality when they hire employees,” he said.-“It “Most of the Tammany gang working people. Quill’s policy of have welcomed the political stand break until the labor movement independence by bargaining for cialist Workers Party. seems like an awful long time to wait,’’ com despised the New Deal program “bargaining collectively” for fa * * * taken by Mike Quill, president is ready to make that move. The mented the Dec. 30 N. Y. Post. and the men chosen by Roosevelt the nomination of New Deal can vors only spells more subser of the Transport Workers Union, to make that program work,” Stalinist leaders point to Quill’s didates on the Democratic tick BOWING TO AMERICAN LEGION CENSOR * * * vience to Big Business. SHIP the new edition of the Girl 'Scout handbook CIO. At the recent CIO conven said Quill. “Tammany bosses are demagogy to bolster their argu et? These are not even union 'For a union leader to genuine THE MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY HIT A has 60 changes from the 1953 edition. Denouncing tion, Quill advocated that labor not stupid . . . and they grud ments that their policy will ul men and women. In some cases ly advocate labor’s political in FOUR-Y EAR LOW’ as November orders dropped the “unwarranted” criticism of*the earlier hand consider building its own party gingly supported the Democratic timately lead to the creation of — as for instance Lehman and dependence, he must on principle to 835 million, the lowest since May, 1950. Orders book Mrs. ¡Marshall Simpson, head of the organ as a means of pressuring the New Dealers because the people a Labor Party. Roosevelt — they belong to the refuse to support Democratic or for all 1954 — $535 million — showed a slwinp ization, said: “. . . (this criticism) made us Democrats for more concessions. Supported them. Today it’s an The Stalinist position was pre wealthiest families in the land. Republican candidates. He must drop from the $862 million 1953 total!. (W all aware of the climate in which we have to live.” Two weeks ago in the TW U Ex other story.” Pressure is required sented on Dec. 23 by George In all cases they are loyal to the advise that since labor and cap Street Journal, Dec. 28, 1954). Examples of changes: “ You are preparing your press, the newspaper of his un to bring Tammany back into Morris, labor editor of the Daily interests of W all ¡Street. How ital have no interests in common, self for world citizenship” (page 19(1 old edition) * * * ion, Quill repeated the proposaL line. Worker. This is how Morris por will their nomination and elec the working people must build now reads, “ You are preparing yourself to be a A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST, Father Nor As the M ilitant has already The Stalinists hope for their trays Quill’s declarations: Quill tion end Big Business domina their own party. friend to all.” The “One World” badge in the 1953 man Stuber, revealed that he ¡had severed his con explained, Quill and other N.Y. part that by joining forces with “is pressing his fight against tion of the Democratic Party or edition now reads “My World” badge. nection with the church so that .he could marry CIO leaders do not really want Quill they can win influence in ‘writing blank checks for the of the nation? * * * Dorothy Rogers of Corpus Christ, Texas. “I have a Labor Party. They want more the Democratic Party, too. In Democratic Party’ by the CIO What Morris conceals with his A Marxist Classic UNION PROTESTS DEFENSE ORDERS. A experienced many difficulties and threats since influence and posts in the Demo addition, Quill’s tough talk gives and for genuine independent talk about Quill’s course towards delegation froim Local 833 U AW -CIO, represent my decision and I want no further publicity,” he cratic Party. It galls them that them the chance to pacify those political action by labor, even “independent political action” is The Foundations ing- the Kohler Company workers on strike since said. Tammany Hall disregards their militants in their own ranks who the formation of a labor party that as long as labor is tied to April 5, 1954, protested Dec. 29 the recent orders * * * wishes as to candidates, al rebel against the CP’s support . . . The Democratic Party poli the Democratic Party the best Of Christianity for 105mm. artillery shells placed by the Army A PROGRAM FOR UNEMPLOYMENT was though it was primarily labor’s for the Big Business dominated ticians are taking it seriously ... it can hope to get — even by by with Kohler Company. outlined in Business W’eek Jan. 1, 1955. They said vote that elected the Democrats Democratic Party. They sec a trend for political pressure moves — is a few more * $ * that factory production was rising without a in 1954. The Stalinists explain this pol independence by labor and to favors from Big Business. The Karl Kautsky Originally published at $5.50 BANKER RETRACTS RED SMEAR. Conrad “commensurate rise in employment” and called Quill himself said in the TW U icy to their ranks on “tactical” wards a stiffened labor back greater part of these won’t even E. Aronson, assistant cashier of the Toy National that “good sense, from a cost standpoint.” They Express article that he wants grounds. They claim that since bone in relations with the Dem be of use to the ranks of the Now only $2.50 Eank of Sioux City, Iowa, charged that Local 70 then advised employers tliat it was “good sense labor to engage in “collective the labor movement as a whole ocratic Party’s leaders.” workers but will serve the am Order from United Packinghouse Workers of America was to hire rather than pay overtime. . . Besides, bargaining” with the Democrats is still backing the Democratic The hoax Morris plays on the bitions of the union bureaucrats PIONEER PUBLISHERS “Omnraniist dominated” but had to retract the there still is considerable need for workers in over candidates. Quill doesn’t Party, the CP would isolate it Communist Party ranks is to call exclusively. 116 University Place statement three days later. The Dec., 1954, lower-paid lines that can be satisfied by growth want to smash Tammany Hall’s self from the working people by Quill’s agitation “genuine inde Big Business will never share New York 3, N. Y. Packinghouse Worker in an editorial said: “The in the labor force.” power in N .Y. He ouly wants to advocating a Labor Party now. pendent political action by labor” control of the Democratic Party