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VOL. V II—No. 21 NEW YORK, N. Y„ SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1943 ..A T T . PRICE (5) C EN TS MINERS STAND FIRM IN REPUDIATING WLB <•> Farrell Dobbs Starts Truce Extended On Request On National Tour The CIO and the Miners Of Government Manager lckes Speaks on Labor Party Prospects in His The CIO Executive Board Resolution Does Not Miners Stay United On Right to Strike; Coast to Coast Tour; Opens in Los Angeles Express the Sentiments of the CIO Membership! Murray, Green Still Aiding Roosevelt The long awaited national tour of Farrell Dobbs, National In Attempts to Smash Miners' Struggle

Labor Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, opened in Los ------An Editorial ------— Standing firm as ever on the miners’ wage de- Angeles on M ay 9 with a highly successful meeting attended by mands, their right to strike, and their repudiation many non-party workers who had come to hear Dobbs for the The growing gap between the great mass of the CIO Ihe rank and file miners exactly at the point where no distinc­ of the War Labor Board, the United Mine Workers first time as he spoke on perspectives of the labor party move­ workers and their top officials has been demonstrated in their tion exists. Lewis’ present policy and methods of struggle for scale committee announced Monday night that a sec­ ment. contrasting attitudes toward the miners’ fight. a living vyage are supported by the U M W membership to a Held at the new and enlarged headquarters of the Los man. ond 15-day truce, ending m idnight May 31, had been Angeles branch of the SWP, 232 South H ill Street, the enthu­ The workers are for the miners. Their atti­ agreed to in response to a telegram from Harold L. siasm of the meeting was indicated when four workers joined The workers are for the miners’ fight because they un­ Ickes, government manager of the mines. tude was shown in the two big conferences of the the party immediately following derstand that the miners are now the vanguard in labor's Ickes’ telegram came only a day before expira­ the discussion period. Shipbuild­ United Auto Workers — the May-1-2 conference struggle for wage increases lo compensate for spiralling-price ing, maritime and auto were the Off to a Good Start tion of the first 15-day truce, and a few hours after in Detroit of 1,000 delegates representing 350,- rises. industries represented by the new the War Labor Board, presumably speaking for recruits. 000 Michigan members, and the May 6 conference Comrade Dobbs, fully recover­ The C IO leaders, on the other hand — and this is equal­ Roosevelt, had denounced John L. Lewis as “ defy­ ed from a recent illness, spoke in New York of 1,000 delegates representing all ing the lawfully established procedures of the gov­ at length on the factors now ly true of ihe A FL executive hoard —• are against the miners’ making for the formation of an the eastern locals. Both by overwhelming major­ fight because ihesc leaders take their orders not from their ernment of the United States” by his “ refusing to Independent Labor Party based ities — only a handful of Stalinists in each case members hut from Roosevelt. As servile supporters of the seek the approval of the W ar Labor Board” for the wage in­ upon the trade unions. He dwelt creases that the miners are demanding. In its vicious attack on on the struggle of the miners’ were the main opposition from the floor — adopt­ administration, they are dragged along by it in opposition Lewis the W LB did not dare, however, to attempt to answer for a living wage and explained to the miners and all that the miners' fight stands for. how their fight has given a great ed resolutions for all-out support of the miners’ his charges that it had prejudged the miners’ cause in advance impetus to working class steps by its "Little Steel” formula which would bar the miners from toward independent political ac­ fight. Moreover, this was voted against the opposi­ Murray and the oilier C IO leaders know very well that any real increase in wages. ® ------;------*------tion. )n its statement tile WLB in until recently, we do not forget, tion of the entire UAW executive hoard! die rank and file of the C IO are,for the miners’ fight. That sisteri it would not step out ol The Los Angeles meeting, and the UM W secretary-treasurer, tiio controversy, and the mine the San Diego meeting which fol­ is why not one of the top (HO leaders has dared to put the Thomas L. Kennedy). Even if the operators simultaneously an lowed it on May 16, were the issue up to a vote by the membership in the local unions. WLB somehow manages to sur­ These two conferences of the biggest union in the CIO nounced that the WLB had opening guns in a three month vive the mine fight, its prestige On the contrary, they are doing everything they can to stifle “forbidden" them to go to New tour which will bring Comrade undoubtedly expressed the sentiments of the rank and file of and power of intimidation will A’ork to reopen negotiations with Dobbs to all the major branches the pro-miners’ sentiment of the C IO membership. never remotely approximate the CIO' as a whole. the United Mine Workers as of the party from coast to coast. what it was before. John L. Lewis had invited them Reports show that each city is This is implicitly admitted by The CIO workers must speak out! Let them to do. eagerly awaiting his arrival, On the other hand the CIO executive board met last the AVLB members in their frantic spreading word among friends week in Cleveland and could find nothing more important folloAv the lead of the auto workers’ conferences! WLB LOSES PRESTIGE efforts to save something^from the wreckage. All their energies- and contacts, and preparing to AVhatever the final form of to do than to denounce John L. Lewis. today are centered on staying in utilize the meeting for the edu­ FARRELL DOBBS A ll support to the miners! settlement of the mine controvert the mine controversy. Everything cation of the advanced workers sy, the miners have dealt an ir­ National Labor Secretary, else— cases, hearings, e{c.—has on the question of the labor Of course, ex-miner Philip Murray,' C IO President, de­ The C IO workers must see to it that their official lead­ retrievable blow to the AVar La­ party and‘to stimulate the par­ Socialist Workers Party stopped for the time being, for ______* 1, . bor Board. In its eighteen months ers stop stifling the sentiment in the ranks which is for the the AVLB well knows that if the ty ’s recruiting campaign. nies that lie is attacking the miners, claiming only to he op­ of existence this Board has been miners are decisively victorious Comrade Dobbs is well known Ilis remaining tour dates fol­ posed to the “political vendetta” conducted against “our Com­ miners. The fighting miners are the spearhead of labor’s the principal weapon used the AVLB will have to close up to worker militants throughout low; against the labor movement, the country. His record as former mander-in-chief’’ by John L. LevVis. But the C IO hoard's struggle. Every C IO worker owes it to them to find a way shop for good. DATE PLACE thanks to the participation in it international organizer of the In­ resolution pretends to find a distinction between Lewis and for his union lo express itself in favor of the miners’ fight. of the A FL and CIO leaders (and, ICKES AVOIDS SHOWDOWN ternational Brotherhood of Team­ May 24, 28— San Francisco sters, AFL, organizer of the May 30—Portland The AVLB and operators’ state­ great 12-state movement of team­ May 31, June 3— Seattle ments inspired a renewed lynch sters in the middle west, and his June 7, 10—Twin Cities campaign against John L. Lewis role as one of the principal de­ June 14— Milwaukee and the miners, radio reports and fendants in the Minneapolis la­ June 15, 18—Chicago press headlines and ■ editorials bor trial means that he brings ■June 19, 20— St. Louis branding Lewis as -an “outlaw." to the workers great experience June 23, 24—Flint Lenin’s General Staff of 1917 Apparently the stage was being and authority on the problems of June 25, 27— Detroit set for a new showdown, with the the labor movement. June 28—Toledo press and radio incitement against Comrade Dobbs came to the June 29, July 1— ClOVclaiid the miners being designed to Trotskyist movement through the July 2, 4—Akron organization of the coal drivers July 5, 7— Youngstown Stalin Destroyed It By His Moscow Trial Frameups Miners Pleased W ith in Minneapolis during 1933-34. July 8, 10— Buffalo He was then employed in a Min­ July 11, 12— Rochester “ The M ilitant” Story neapolis coal yard as a yard man. July 14^15— Boston (See "Stalin's Crimes/' Page 4) He has been Labor Secretary of July 16,’l7—New Haven Of Their Struggle the Socialist Workers Party since July 18-—New York 1940, when he came to New York Dates not ye£ anounced for PITTSBURGH. May 18 — after a visit with Comrade Trot­ Newark, Philadelphia, Reading Distributors of "The Militant." sky in Mexico. and Bayonne. among Western Pennsylvania miners during the last two weeks report the friendliest reception. Demonstrations in N. Y., Hollywood, One distributor says; "The miners liked the paper immen­ sely. ‘This is die only paper I At ‘Mission To Moscow’ Film have seen that is supporting us. AA'hy don’t others tell the Socialist Workers Party branches in New York and Los Angeles truth about us? This story is led demonstrations at showings of “Mission To Moscow” last week good. That’s what we need.’ to acquaint the public with the real facts about the film and the These are some of the com­ Moscow trials. ments they made about ’The M ilitant’.” The Now York Local of the So­ When this failed, the management Another reports: “Even high cialist Workers Party conducted a tried to serve the demonstrators officials of the UMAV district second protest demonstration a- with cups of coffee tn the hope here acclaim ‘Militant’ coverage gainst AVarner Brothers' white­ that, the passers-by would there­ of the strike. The whole press wash film “Mission to Moscow-' upon construe the demonstration has damned them to hell and last Sunday night. The purpose as an advertising stunt. you have no idea of how of the demonstration was not to Stalinist p 1 u g-u g 1 i e s milled pleased they get to see a fair prevent people from entering the about the theater obviously seek­ write-up in a paper.” theater but to call attention to ing for a pretext to break up the All reports from the mine the lies in the motion picture and action. They were prevented from fields agree that the rank and to the truth about the Moscow using their customary hooligan file miners have every determi­ frameups. methods by the disciplined and nation to hold out until their Thousands of cppics of The firm conduct of the distributors demands are met. Truth—About ‘'Mission to Mos­ and placard bearers. cow" and the Moscow Trials, a A warm reception was accorded justify bloody repressions as the four-page tabloid, were distribut­ the tabloid The Truth. Hundreds miners went on strike. ed. Hi this exposure of the .lies of people who had seen the picture But the showdown did not eome. and slanders contained in the or who had become acquainted Roosevelt was thus saved another film, the latter is branded as a with the controversy in the capi­ moral defeat like that, of his “100%Stalinist lié'' produced with talist press around “Mission to ultimatum-telegram of April 29 “unofficial” government blessing. Moscow" were eager to acquaint which called on the miners, over The demonstrators carried themselves with the Trotskyist the head of their leaders, to stay placards calling for the defense of analysis of the Moscow trials. at work. the Soviet Union and denouncing Moreover, whatever illusions' “Mission to Moscow" as a while- After the first demontration of the Socialist Workers Party con­ Roosevelt and the American wash of Stalin's crimes against capitalist class may have had on labor. The demonstration attract­ ducted against "Mission to Mos­ cow" when it. opened at the Holly­ the eve of the May 1 deadline, ed the attention and interest of concerning how the miners would thousands of theatregoers and wood Theater on April 2!). many letters were received by (lie par­ act, there were no longer such passersby. So great was llie in­ illusions on the eve of the May 15 terest of the crowd that gathered ty's New York office, 116 Univer­ sity Place, asking for further in­ deadline. Unlike last time, no to read the placards, that ihe newspapers sent reporters into the theater management, attempted to formation on the trials. “dim-out” their effectiveness by (Continued on page, 4) extinguishing the marquee lights. (Continued on page 2) T W O — THE MILITANT SA TU R D A Y , M A Y 22, 1043 Akron CIO Sets “Labor Holiday” Demonstrations in N. Y., Hollywood, T RADE UNION At ‘Mission To Moscow’ Film (Continued from page 1) of the Moscow trials as frameups For June 2 As Anti-WLB Protest by the Dewey Commission of In­ NOTES ------(y quiry in 1937. A leaflet was dis­ SWP Leaflets at tributed to those who entered or 'Mission To Moscow7 left the theater, explaining to By Michael Cori Militant Action British Soldiers Awakening To Politics, them how the ( film continued Opening in Hollyw'd Stalin’s frameups. The National Labor Relations san League Convention to work LOS ANGELES, May 13—"Mis- Aside from a few slanderous re­ for the establishment of such a Board voted 2 to 1 on May 11 to Parliament Bars Them From Participating sion to Moscow" opened in Holly­ marks by Stalinists, the crowd exclude foremen and supervisory labor party and for unity with Is Opposed By wood last night and was greeted was sympathetically interested in the AFL, Brotherhoods, and such employees from the provisions of England’s rulers have taken alarm at the growing political Se- with a Socialist Workers Party the banner and the leaflets. A the Wagner Act. The decision liberal groups as the Farmers awakening of the British soldiers, and Parliament has called and asked controversial questions demonstration. studio worker asked for extra means that organized foremen Union, in the building of a work­ Pres. Dalrymple for rigid enforcement of army regulations barring men and wo­ he might be regarded as taking A banner recalled to moviegoers leaflets, saying “The boys at the cannot demand an NLRB election ers’ party.” AKRON, May 12—The growing men in uniform from participating in political life, it is reported an active part in that meeting and passersby the condemnation studio will be glad to see this.” to plove that their union repre­ This resolution has been sent resentment of the mass produc­ and that would be forbidden.’’ sents the men involved. to all locals of the UAW -CIO in by a mid-April supplement of the Socialist Appeal, a British The haste of the NLRB to cut Wayne County, and further en­ tion workers against the anti- Trotskyist monthly. In other words, if no by-election the ground from under the fore­ dorsements are expected within labor policies of the War Labor By a vote of 195 to 33, Parliament on April 7 rejected a occurs (in his or lier constituency something which happens rather men followed the demand of the the month. Board made itself heard in this motion which attempted to relax3>------A RUSSIAN MENSHEVIK * * ♦ rarely) the rank and filer In United Mine Workers that fore­ the restrictions. The motion read speaking in public or publishing rubber center this week when the uniform would have to wait five men be admitted in their union, Michael J. Quill, Stalinist head . .that taking part in political or distributing literature in fu r­ Akron Industrial Union Council, years (the time of the regular TURNS TO STALIN and by the fact that foremen are of the Transport Workers Union, controversy while off duty should therance of the political purposes representing 100,000 CIO workers, election! In order to attend poli­ now organizing in many key not be deemed conduct to the pre­ ------By A. ROLAND ------CIO, has been busy this week of any such organization or par­ tical meetings and ask “proper plants throughout the country. breaking strikes in his own called for a one day “ Labor judice of good order and military ★ * * ty or in any other manner. . . questions”—provided also, he or union. The bus and street car Holiday” on June 2, in protest discipline.” It is the strange fate of some democracy." (Kovy Put, May While the Stalinist-dominated STILL OTHER CURBS she happened at the time to be workers in Akron struck on May against WLB delays and wage­ Thus a large section of England's would-be leaders of the masses 1943.) National Maritime Union (CIO) “on leave and I 11 mufti." 13 and 14, to protest WLB stall­ citizens was told that whatever During the debate in Parliament freezing program. But even this one-day-in-every- to take the wrong road at every WHAT DAN CONCEALS has been attempting to incite a ing on wage increases. controversy there may be con­ over the motion to relax this re­ lynch spirit against Lewis and This action has precipitated five-years “right” is still further turn in history. Quill’s pressure forced the men cerning the application of the striction, Maj. Henderson, Fin.- Dan does not. enumerate those the miners, the major A F L sea­ restricted by the fact that back to work, but did not break what may develop into a major "Four Freedoms,” they certainly Secretary to thé War Office took The October revolution was the “defects” that marred the Stalinist men’s unions have voiced full Parliament since the war has been their militancy. They announced union conflict between the local do not apply to these people: the occasion to explain that in greatest event in all history. leadership of the Soviet Union. support for the miners in their extending its life for so many that if the WLB does not reach unions of the United Rubber They are now to be barred from addition to this sweeping restric­ Dan’s opinion, it seems, is that fight for a living wage. years that a large part of the Despite its degeneration under a decision on their case within all participation in their coun­ tion, there are others. Said the Stalin in the past twenty-five Workers and the International army have yet to experience its the dictatorship of Stalin, it has The Sailors Union of the Paci­ 15 days, they will again take ac­ try’s political life by actual en­ Major: years “accumulated” moral-poli­ fic voted unanimous support for President, Sherman Dalrympie. first election. left its stamp on our entire epoch. tion. forcement of King’s Regulation “If a soldier was on leave and tical capital Instead of completely the miners at its May 4 head­ * * * Dalrymple, in a press statement, This vicious repression of the Paragraph 541 which reads: in mufti and there was an elec­ At its inspired height under the dissipating it. The tasks of the quarters meeting. The Atlantic & condemned the CIO Council call democratic rights of the English future are so great that this Fleetwood Local No. 15 of the “No officer or soldier. . . is tion in his constituency, in my leadership of Lenin and Trotsky, Gulf District of the Seafarers In­ masses is administered with the Menshevik is ready to overlook all UAW -CIO has condemned the s<5- as a violation of the "no-strike” permitted to take any active part view he would have the right to it could attract and kindle into ternational Union has not taken assistance. of Labour Party tile peccadillos of Stalin's conduct called incentive pay plan. It pledge, and as a violation of the in the affairs of any political or­ ask the candidate perfectly prop­ revolutionary flame workers from an official position but the Seafar­ flunkies, as indicated by the of the past. Here we see the passed a resolution instructing ganization or party, either by er questions. ers Log, official organ of the URW constitution. ridiculously small vote in favor all lands—but not the Russian danger to those workers who may the national negotiating commit­ acting as a member of a candi­ “But if he went to a party union, wrote editorially on May of even the above-cited inadequate Mensheviks! The Abramoviches be misled by Dan’s complete 14: “The miners’ struggle against tee of the General Motors U AW - GOODRICH RESOLUTION date’s election committee, or by political meeting at other times motion. CIO Council to “take a firm and and the Dans preferred capitalist failure to analyze the real mean­ the WLB, ‘a court packed against The “Labor Holiday” resolution ing of Stalinism. labor,’ is all labor’s struggle. A decisive position against any and exile to the living revolution. all forms of the so-called incen­ was initiated by Goodrich Local Dan leaves out the key fact (hat miners' victory over the WLB They were wrong again on the tive pay plan.” No. 5 of the United Rubber Stalin was able to gain control of and the Little Steel Formula, V. R. Dunne bitter struggle between revolu­ * * * the Soviet Union only in a period would be a victory for all union Workers-CIO, which chose June tionary Marxism under the banner of decline and reaction, and (hat men from coast to coast.” Senator Pepper’s State of Flo­ 2 because it is the first “anni­ Got 793 Votes Do You Have These of Trotsky, and revisionary he is wholly incapable of giving * * * rida is again pioneering in the versary” of the certification to “socialism In one country” under leadership in a period of advance, The Todd Erie Basin Drydock field of repressive labor legisla­ the WLB of Goodrich workers’ the'GPU-aegls of Stalin. The Men­ above all in. the period that will in New York has developed a new tion. On May 11 its House passed In Primaries wage demands. The W LB has Books And Pamphlets? sheviks Interpreted it entirely in mark the new rise of the revolu­ and airtight (they hope) method overwhelmingly a bill providing MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., May the sense of an internal, personal tionary wave. of dealing with militant members for strict governmental (that is, made no decision on the case, nor employer) regulation of all 14— Although the vote in last struggle for power. Nevertheless, Dan has managed after a whole of the Industrial Union of Marine has it granted the wage demands, Monday's primary election was unions and their functions. many Mensheviks found it to decade to grasp a few ideas of the and Shipbiulding Workers, Local pending for almost a year, of the the lowest in Minneapolis history, The bill would: Build Your Marxist Library Now their liking to move In the direc­ Trotskyist movement. Give him 39, CIO. Last week a Coast Guard the official election returns re­ Prohibit initiation fees, dues, rubber workers in all major tion of Stalinism. Many, like credit for desiring to defend the lieutenant fired two members of leased here yesterday showed that fines, assessments which would plants, despite the fact that a Memorial Address “To the Memory of the Old M an” Vyshinsky, became his hench­ Soviet Union against any attack the union, one for “disobedience 793 workers had cast their vote “create a fund in excess of the WLB panel several weeks ago — by James P. Cannon...... 16 p., paper .05 men, aiding him to exterminate by capitalism, whether of the Axis of orders” and the other for be­ for V. R. Dunne, Socialist Work­ ruthlessly the Old Bolsheviks who or the Allied variety. What he ing “asleep on post.” reasonable requirements of such recommended an 8-cent general Socialism on Trial — by James P. Cannon ers Party candidate for mayor. might yet serve to lead the still has npt learned is one When the union went to the unions” ; 116 p., paper .10 increase. proletarian revolution at its next elementary lesson: that Stalinism management, it refused to dis­ Force all unions to open their The Goodrich Local, best or­ Your Standard of Living — by C. Charles stage. and the Soviet Union are not only cuss the matter on the grounds records for governmental inspec­ ganized and most powerful local not identical, they arc antithetical« that the Navy had discharged the tions; 32 p., paper .05 TURNS TO STALIN NOW! men. 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Not Guilty — by the Dewey Commission 440 p., cloth 2.75 the rank and file rubber workers strengthened a privileged caste in mained not the faintest hope that * * * the Soviet bureaucracy could be who are fed up with wage freezing Trade Union Problems— by Darrell Dobbs 44 p., paper '.10 tl>e Soviet Union at the expense The sentiment for an Independ­ In Detroit, Mich. of the masses of workers and reformed. The history of those ten ent Labor Party based upon the You can get and WLB run-arounds while liv­ Lounding Conference of the 4th In t’l 127 p., paper .25 peasants, his foreign diplomacy, years of H itler’s power in Ger­ trade unions is rapidly mounting THE MILITANT ing costs spiral upwards. Assassination of Leon Trotsky — by Albert Goldman that weakened the international many has confirmed at every turn throughout the country« The proletariat and made capitalism the conclusion then reached by ROOSEVELT’S TOOL 74 p., paper .15 latest resolution was recently at the stronger—all this would hardly the Trotskyist movement. adopted by local 351 of the UAW- FAMILY THEATRE Dalrympie has shown himself in In Defense of Socialism — by Albert Goldman be likely to attract anybody to Far from pinning any hope in CIO. in Detroit. NEWSSTAND this situation to be one of the 95 p., paper .10 Stalinism at this late date. The a reform of the Stalinist bureau­ The resolution reads, in part, Menshevik leader, Theodore Dan, opposite the theatre most servile tools of the Roosevelt What Is Socialism? — by Albert Goldman 48 p., paper .10 cracy, and in the possibility that “That Local 351 instruct its dele­ teaches us differently. the gravediggers of the October administration. 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•‘LABOR W ITH A W HITE SKIN CAN­ NOT EMANCIPATE ITSELF WHERE Totalitarian Diplomacy The LABOR WITH A BLACK SKIN IS Mr. Winchell Is A Liar BRANDED" — KARL MARX. We reproduce this item from Walter Winchell's syndicated column as the week’s example of the Stalinist slander factory - A Recipe for Deception Negro Struggle which gave him this "inside” dope. The day after it appeared By M. Stein the Stalinist Daily Worker reprinted Winchell's item to show No one but the gullible would :By Albert Parker. that others repeat its lies. ups: Hitler did wish (o dismember ever think of associating capitalist the Soviet Union. Stalin utilized Like all practical liars, Winchell uses one kernel of truth: diplomacy with sincerity, frank­ this fact, the knowledge of which Problems Facing the Negro Conferences The Militant has been deprived of its second-class mailing priv­ ness or honesty. But it remained was widespread, as a prop for the for totalitarian diplomacy to scale monstrous frameup and murder The delegates to the coming What is this “national unity”? ileges. Not, however, for fascist connections, as Winchell lyingly new summits of falsehood and of the whole generation of conferences of the National As­ claims, but for the exact opposite reason. The persecution of Well, if you abide by what is going perfidy. Totalitarian diplomacy Bolsheviks who had made the sociation l'or the Advancement of on and don’t do anything to The Militant is a continuation of the persecution which began lias been able to bring into play Russian revolution. Colored People and of the March- change things, that’s national in the famous Minneapolis labor trial, in which eighteen trade all the power and resources of But despite all these known On-Washington Movement can unity. And if you denounce these the state—including the press, the facts, and despite the equally well learn a good deal from the current things and speak with determina­ unionists and Trotskyists were convicted because they are fol­ radio and the movies— in the known fact that, the quintessence mine struggle. lowers of Lenin — i.e., they are revolutionary Marxists, the op­ tion against them and appear to cynical game of deception. Ger­ of Soviet diplomacy under Stalin The government, the coal opera­ be serious about ending the second- posite of fascists. many has given us some choice prior to the signing of the pact tors, the press and the radio threw class citizenship status of Negroes, As for the rest of Winchell’s lies, Jacques Doriot is not and examples of this prior to the with Hitler was in a scheme of everything they had at the miners. then you are “threatening” ’na­ outbreak of the war in Saptember “collective security” that would They threatened them, they coaxed never was a Trotskyist — he was a Stalinist leader before he tional unity and you are accused 1939. isolate Germany, and tie the them, they appealed to their of stimulating race antagonism become a fascist; Quisling’s wife may be a “Ukrainian Party By the methods of totalitarian Soviet Union to the fortunes of patriotism, they exerted every and inciting race riots and helping leader,” but not of a Trotskyist party; and the only connec­ diplomacy, Hitler was able to gain England and France— despite all form of pressure they had at their the Axis and betraying your own tion between Norwegian Trotskyists and the Nazis is that any his first objectives—the militariza­ this, Stalin and Hitler having disposal. But they did not shake brothers in the armed forces, and tion of the Rhine, the Saar totalitarian power over the two the miners. Trotskyist caught in Nazi-held territory or in Germany is exe­ the capitalist press will call you plebiscite, Austrian Anschluss, the respective countries, were able in If the miners win, it will be be­ all kinds of nasty names. (If the cuted or imprisoned — our list of such martyrs is unfortunately annexation of Czechoslovakia— a short time to create a diametri­ cause they asserted their inde­ capitalist press forgets to call you all too long. without a war. Complete control cally opposite impression. pendence of the government and a few names, the Stalinists will Winchell’s reference to the Ford Instrument Co. workers frozen, wages, decided that charity begins at home. Winchell, of all the channels of public ex­ All the institutions of public followed a policy based on their step in and Supply them.) is a dead give-away of the Stalinist source of his "information.” pression in Germany, made • at "enlightenment” of the two coun­ own needs. If they had listened rolling in wealth, would never think of that explanation. As a result you may lose your The Stalinists advocated a compulsory day’s-pay assessment in We Trotskyists were fighting and dying in the struggle easy for H itler to concentrate all tries were given the order by their to all the false arguments of the job if you are a worker, and you his venom against his intended respective masters to turn on the administration and the press and may lose whatever “friends” you UE Local 425, and the membership turned it down almost against fascism when M r. Winchell thought that fascism was victim of the day and at the same faucets of love for each other and the labor fakers and the Stalinist have in Washington if you are unanimously. Those workers, victimized by rising prices and the latest dance step from Cuba. time to swear eternal love for the a steady stream of sugary, nauseat­ betrayers, if they had succumbed a leader. All of this exer.s country marked for destruction ing words began to pour out im­ to the demands for “national tremendous compulsion on the on the morrow. mediately. Stalin was prepared to unity” with themselves at the Negro leaders who don’t want to On September 30, 1938, eleven go to any extreme to please H it­ bottom and the coal operators on lose influence with what they call months prior to the outbreak of ler, and Hitler for his part knew top, if they had let themselves he the “humanitarian” administra­ ‘Jacson’ Verdict Says He Came the war, and one day after the how to repay affection. talked out of the use of their tion in Washington. And so al Munich pact had sealed the fate Fascism, the masters of the strongest weapons—then surely though Roosevelt doesn't tell these of Czechoslovakia, Hitler and Kremlin informed the world, is a they would have gained nothing. leaders what to do and even does Chamberlain, the then British “matter of taste,” and the This is of decisive importance not object to petitions and oc­ To Mexico To Murder Trotsky Prime Minister, issued a joint “friendship,” they declared after to every Negro fighting to casional demonsrations which help communique as follows: the division of Poland, “has been achieve equality and to every or­ to blow off a little steam, there By Walter O’Rourke “We regard the agreement sealed with blood.” The Stalinists, ganization working to abolish are certain things that will be signed last night and the Anglo- outside of the USSR suddenly Jim Crow. For the enemies faced frowned on and disliked in the MEXICO CITY, April 20 (By Mail). — On April 16, German naval accord as symbolic discovered that England and by the miners in their fight are White House and. in nine cases nearly two years and eight months after commission of his crime, of the desire of our two peoples France were really imperialist substantially the same forces out of ten, the labor and Negro In Memory Of never to go to war with one an­ countries undeserving of an hon­ standing in the way of Negro ad­ “ Frank Jacson” was sentenced for the murder of Leon Trotsky. leaders just don’t do them. The penalty imposed on the GPU agent was 20 years •— Mexico other again.” est man’s support and that the vancement. In peacetime these And as if this deception was not most meritorious men in America The delegates to . the NAACP does not have capital punishment or life sentence for murder. forces are always exerting pres­ Robert Sheldon Harte monstrous enough to put over on were the isolationists. (This in­ sure against the labor movement and MOWM conferences will have The lengthy written verdict constitutes a forceful rejection to make up their minds. Either the people of all countries yearn­ cluded th e German-American and the Negro people; in wartime of all the lies employed by the GPU in its defense of Jacson. Robert Sheldon Harte was murdered hy the GPU three years ing for peace, the British Prime Bund.) they exert a hundred times as they will continue to permit their organizations and leaders to be The judges rejected (1) Jacson’s story that he was sent by a ago this week. It was shortly before dawn on May 24, 1940 that Minister broadcast that same night So imposing was this display of much pressure, and intervene “member of the Fourth International” from Paris to serve as the assassins crept into Trotsky’s home in Coy'oacan, Mexico, from the balcony at No. 10 Down­ totalitarian "friendship" that, more openly in the affairs of labor subservient to the administration —or else they will assert then- secretary to Trotsky; (2) Jacson’s pretense that he was a “dis­ sprayed his bedroom with bullets and, thinking he was dead, fled ing Street the following words: outside of us Trotskyists, every­ and Negro organizations, hoping independence, as the miners did. “My good friends, this is the body was impressed with the to dominate them and stifle all illusioned Trotskyist” ; (3) Jacson’s attempted retraction of his carrying with them Bob Harte, secretary-guard to the Old Man. and break the grip of Roosevelt’s second time in our history that belief that it was genuine and militant struggles. earlier statements as to the cow- ‘ Later they shot Harte and threw his body into a lime pit. domination over their organiza­ there has come back from Ger­ lasting. It isn’t that Roosevelt calls ardly manner in which he struck sequences in the political activ­ The self-confessed leader of the May 24 murder hand was tions and policies and activities. many to Downing Street peace A characteristic incident in this Walter White or A. Philip Ran­ down Trotsky from behind; (4) ities of that, same political party, David Alfaro Siqueiras, prominent Mexican Stalinist. On June Either they will work out a with honor. I believe it is peace totalitarian diplomatic game is dolph to the White House and tells Jacson’s “new version” that, and that without a background program based on the needs of 18 he was arrested, along with 26 other Stalinists, only to he for our time.” related by William L. Shirer in them that they can't do this or after provoking him with threats in the work of the party he should the Negro struggle and go ahead released shortly afterward on bail. Once free he fled from While the Prime Minister could his book “Berlin Diary.” Under they can’t do that. (Although he to a struggle. Trotsky attempted be permitted to be at the side on the road to equality—or else Mexico. lie just as brazenly as the Nazi the date of February 4, 1940 he did virtually that in the case of to draw his gun before Jacson of the persecuted politicians.” Chancellor, he could not lie as reports: the proposed March-on-Washing- they will permit their organiza­ struck him down. (5) Finally the Bob Harte.was young when Stalin snuffed out his life — effectively for he did not have “A big German film company ton that was scheduled to take tions to continue to function in court rejected the slanderous at­ CAME TO KILL TROTSKY 25 years of age. He came from a wealthy fam ily and could have H itler’s totalitarian power over completed last summer at the place In July, 1911.) The ad­ such a way that Roosevelt and tack made by Jacson’s attorney led a life of idleness and luxury had he chosen. Instead he dedi­ Further on this point, the ver­ the entire press, radio and (he cost of several million marks a ministrative intervention into the his Southern Democratic sup­ against Trotsky and his guards cated his life •— and gave it — to the revolutionary movement. porters will be satisfied. dict analyzes how the murderer movies. It is true that the movie based on the exploits of affairs of Negro organizations ’ is in a vain effort to discredit their came to Mexico and sums up: multitudes believed him at the the German Condor Legion in usually a* lot more subtle than The lesson to be learned from statements in court. It rejected . .false passport, change of lime, but that was because in Spain. It was a super-film show­ that. It exerts its pressure less the miners’ struggle and from them by implication by citing name, also false statements about their dread of the consequences ing how German blood had been directly, but just as effectively. the state of the Negro organiza­ these very statements as proof.-1 his past, his work and means of the verdict rejects Jacson’s GPUJ “Only after nearly ten months of of war they were ready to accept shed in the holy war in Spain “We must have national unity tions today is that the basic re­ COURT SAYS HE LIED livelihood. All these are made concocted story that he was the trial have passed, or on the anything that promised peace. against Bolshevism. Hitler, Goer- in time of war,” says the ad­ quirement for a successful strug­ deceitfully and are clear proof “chosen by Leon Trotsky, a per­ 21st of June 1941, in the court However, anyone looking for a ing, Goebbels, Himmler, saw it, ministration. And while it is say­ gle against discrimination and The verdict says, concerning that he did not come to Mexico chemically pure specimen of totali­ praised it. Then came the Nazi- ing it, Negroes are being segregat­ segregation in wartime is a poli­ the assassin’s claim that he was son who, according to the ac­ record it appears that by instruc­ to fulfill the mission of secre­ tarian diplomacy would find it in Soviet pact last August. The film ed in the armed forces; the Fair cy independent of the administra­ sent by a “member” of the cused. was ‘discreet and very cau­ tion of his lawyer he refuses to tary or aide to Trotsky nor for tiie Stalin-Hitler pact. No one was is now in storage. It was never Employment Practices Committee tion’s desires and unspoken dic­ Fourth International to serve as tious,’ to fulfill a dangerous, very say anything” about his previous any other work near him; but really shocked by the Munich shown to the public.” is deprived of whatever little tates. Trotsky’s secretary: important and highly compromis­ statements. rather he came for a different pact. It was not out of line with effectiveness it ever had; Negroes “That affirmation is inadmis­ ing- mission.” Thus it dismisses The verdict rejects this retrac­ This brings us to another film In our column next week we traditional British diplomacy are being lynched and terrorized sible, for it is illogical that an and unconfessable mission that Jacson’s story that Trotsky asked tion “since there exists no rea­ —not withheld from the public in intend to discuss this further and when Czechoslovakia was thrown in the South, discriminated against individual like Mornard [one of became known when he perpetra­ him to go to Russia to commit son whatsoever, not even a pre­ the interests of totalitarian diplo­ to make it somewhat more con­ to the Nazi wolves for the sake of in jobs and in housing. Jacson’s aliases] who according ted the murder.” sabotage. text presented by the prisoner or macy, but. on the contrary, crete. the Empire. The Stalin-Hitler pact, to his own confession took part The verdict also, in denying his attorney to explain the cause recently released amid great fan-- COLD-BLOODED MURDER on the contrary, violated all the fare. Essentially, “Mission to in no activity of that party, who Jacson’s pretense that he bad been if this retraction and thus to en­ popular beliefs about the Soviet Moscow” represents an American, did not even belong to it, who a Trotskyist, cites the conclusions During the early questioning able a study of it by this court. union and Nazi Germany . attempt at totalitarian diplomacy, Kelly Postal Week Closes Wiith worked as a sports writer living of the. “careful study of his per­ of Jacson, he was so preoccupied The multiple, persistent and re­ The whole world stood aghast through the use of films in the a life of luxury and who had only- sonality” by the court psycholog­ in covering up his GPU connec­ iterated confessions of the ac­ at the spectacle of these two diplomatic game of misrepresent given trifling financial assistance ists: tions that he admitted quite cused must remain completely mortal enemies in a loving em­ tation. distortion and deception. $250 Take at New York Social to the party and this together “. . .a superficial education no­ frankly that he had given Trot­ unaffected.” As for Jacson’s “new version” brace. The Nazi movement came Some one once described an am­ The appeal of Kelly Postal's the local committees throughout with [his wife] Sylvia Ageloff, toriously' deficient to the point of sky something to read in order that he was provoked by Trotsky into existence on a program of bassador as a man sent abroad to conviction is scheduled to he the country has been splendid. was sent to be at the side of the not reaching high school level, to stand in an advantageous po­ into struggle and murder, the struggle to the death against the lie for ills country. This formula heard before the Minnesota Su- The New York Local Commit­ chief of this party and even more also with an elementary culture sition behind and above his vic­ court writes that it “has no sup­ Soviet Union. Hitler hardly made is too old fashioned and one-sided preme Court on May 17tli. tee held a very successful Spring inadmissible is his statement that concerning communism; bourge­ tim. Later, however, Jacson at­ port at all in the evidence and a speech prior to that time with­ for our times. Nowadays there is Kelly! Postal, militant trade un­ Social to wind up its Kelly Postal he should be held in such confi­ ois, with tendencies to appear tempted to retract these damn­ on the contrary, from the study out a denunciation of “Bolshev­ another side to an ambassador. ion leader, with a long and hon­ Week. Two hundred and fifty dence that Trotsky would entrust aristocratic. . ing admissions. The court deals of the evidence and testimony it ism.” In “Mein Kampf” Hitler He not only spreads the lie abroad orable record as Secretary-Treas­ dollars was raised at this affair, him with tasks of notorious con- From this and other details, with this attempt in these words; appears that the homicide in spoke openly of war against the but returns home to lie about his urer of Minneapolis Teamsters held in the hall of the New'York question was committed without Soviet Union over the Ukraine. mission. Woven into books, into Local 544-CIO, was sentenced to School of Social Science, 116 any prior struggle.” Stalin for his part had just com­ films, into the press, and with thé from one to five years in prison University Place. The social Once again in connection with pleted the series of purges and "unofficial” blessing of the au­ on the trumped-up charge of "em­ featured an exhibition and auc­ this point the verdict states: frameup trials at which he had thorities, this web of lies takes bezzlement.” He is the victim tion of contemporary American charged his political opponents on a sinister and totalitarian of Teamster President Tobin’s un­ paintings and modern French “The court has to declare that the trip of Frank Jacson or Jac­ with being in H itler’s pay for the character. It is a significant ceasing attacks upon Local 544 reproductions, donated by friends purpose of dismembering the symptom of the general trend and its leadership since the mem­ of the Civil Rights Defense Com­ Why Does Biddle Want To Ban ‘The Militant?’ ques Mornard to Mexico was un­ dertaken with the sole object of Soviet Union. There was this half- toward reaction under decaying bership voted at a regular meet­ mittee. There was a large at­ truth at the basis of the frame- capitalism. ing to disaffiliate from the AFL tendance and much spirited killing Trotsky. . .” and go into the CIO, taking their bidding for the paintings. Why did he help the Post Office revoke our mailing rights? For the background This is precisely what Natalia union funds with them. This Trade unions all over the coun­ Trotsky, Trotsky’s guards and A NEW BOOK to the present attack on freedom of the press, you should learn how and why he tried transfer of funds by order of his try continue to send in their supporters as well as the entire revolutionary movement has de­ membership is Postal’s "embezzle­ financial and moral support. A to frameup 28 members of the Socialist Workers Party and of Local 544-CIO in the ment” ! generous donation from Brewers clared since the murder. The Civil Rights Defense Com­ Union, Local 205, Minneapolis, famous Minneapolis trial of 1941. Read: Unfortunately the court did not mittee is conducting a national Minn, accompanied a letter in take the final logical step in this campaign to help defray the which it was stated; line of argument and brand Jac­ son as ati agent of the GPU. It heavy legal expenses involved in “We here in Minneapolis feel fighting for this union leader very much in sympathy toward mentions that Trotsky’s widow guilty of nothing except loyalty Kelly Postal as we are well aware as well as other persons have so to trade union democracy. Last of the circumstance in which his branded .Tncson but the proofs, it week was designated as Kelly conviction was obtained. A t our Postal Week. The response of all SOCIALISM ON TRIAL says, do not bring “legal convic­ meeting the membership voted to tion”. of this fact. One can im­ send you a contribution and we do hope that justice will prevail by James Pi Cannon agine that diplomatic considera­ in his case.” tions of the “United Nations” of From Allis Chalmers, Local 248 116 Page Pamphlet . . . Only 10 Cents! which Mexico is one played a West Allis, Wise, came another part in this formulation. substantial donation with hearty- WHY we good wishes: “Local No. 248 mem­ APPEAL IS ANNOUNCED bership is one hundred per cent Immediately following the behind you in your fight for the reading of the sentence, Jacson’s rights of labor.” Similarly from Defend United Electrical Radio, Local I I DEFENSE OF SOCIALISM lawyers announced that they 1104, St. Louis, Mo.: “We sincerely by Albert Goldman would appeal. The case will go hope that this contribution will first to the Superior Tribunal and 100 Page Pamphlet . . . Only 10 Cents! aid this militant brother's case. then, assuming the defense loses We extend our best wishes for a ^Soviet and continues its appeal, to the speedy and victorious settlement of this case.” Supreme Court. These appeals Union Among this week’s other con­ Order from: may well run into another year , tributors are: UAW-CIO Local 250 and a half of litigation. Jacson’s Detroit Mich; UAW-CIO Local b„ alberi Goldman lawyers are spending great sums 264, West Allis, Wise.: UAW-CIO Local 686, Lockport, N. Y .; UAW of money — we can easily guess CIO, Local 217. Cleveland. Ohio: PIONEER PUBLISHERS 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE where they come from, for he has Pioneer Publishers United Steelworkers of America NEW YORK no visible income. Local 1502, Monterey Park, Calif. Natalia Trotsky, of course, will U6 University Place Liberal circles likewise responded New York City to the Kelly Postal appeal, among continue to exercise her right of 182 Pages — $1.00 them the Harvard Teachers’ Union participation in each of the steps Order from PIONEER PUBLISHERS, 116 University PL, N. Y. of Cambridge, Mass. during the appeal procedure. S A T U R D A Y , M A Y 22, 1943 FOUR- THE MILITANT

The " Roll-Back" Fraud Vice-President Wallace THE MILITANT After much beating of the drums the “roll-back” W orkers’ Published in the Interests of the went into effect on May 18. This widely publi­ Blurts Out Two Truths Working People cized measure was intended by the administra­ By Ralph Johnson VOL. VII—No. 21 Saturday, May 22. 1943 tion to cut the ground from under the miners’ de­ F ORUM It was once remarked that language was created mand for higher wages to meet increased living in order to enable people to hide their real thoughts. Published Weekly by This rather cynical observation certainly applies with costs. The”miners (and other workers) were told THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASS’N full force to capitalist diplomats and statesmen. But in effect: “ You won’t need increases because pri­ at 116 University Place, New York, N. Y. The columns are opin to the opinions of the readers of The Militant. Letters precisely because language serves the end of trans­ mitting not only lies but the truth, the latter does Telephone: ALgonquin 4-8647 ces will be reduced to meet your present wages.” are welcome on any subject of interest to the workers, but keep them short and include your occasionally creep through even the pronouncements Editor: This was the program behind which M urray name and address. Indicate if you do not want your name printed. — Editor. of the most expert dissemblers, hypocrites and the GEORGE BREITMAN and Green and the entire top A FL-C IO leader­ ciation of the material I have re­ voting for company unions in common garden-variety of liars. ship rallied instead of emulating the example of Possible Use of Vice-President Henry A. Wallace, who has been TH E M IL IT A N T aws the policy of permit­ ceived. politics. Unfortunately, much of Our local union is financing the the militancy that should go with doing a lot of talking lately, is an excellent case in ting its contributors to present their own views the miners and fighting for wage increases. Force Against USSR publication of a labor newspaper a labor campaign was toned point. Speaking before the «tate executive commit­ in signed articles. These views therefore do not What were the very first consequences of the Editor: which will appear every two down by the Labor Committee's tee of the New York ALP, and referring to the prob­ necessarily represent the policies of T H E M IL I­ operation of the roll-back? Have prices been re­ The AP recently carried a dis­ weeks. I am to be one of the edi­ pro-war line, thereby failing to lem of employment under post-war conditions, Mr. TA N T which are expressed in its editorials. patch about a Chicago meeting at tors, when we start publication give the workers a clear-cut issue. AVallace said: duced even on the few items placed under the roll­ which Father B. R. Hubbard, the (in about a month). I should be Nevertheless the appeal to the Subscriptions: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for 6 months. “With unemployment, it would be impossible for “glacier priest,” stated that pleased if we could work out an workers educated many of them Foreign: $3.00 per year, $1.50 for 6 months. Bun­ back? Just the contrary has taken place. Here “either by force or t>y consent nl exchange arrangement. to the fact that labor must solve Stalin himself, no matter how hard he tried, to 6top dle orders: 3 cents per copy in the United States; are the facts: the growth of communism.” (N . Y. Times, May 17.) 4 cents per copy in all foreign countries. Single the Russian government, the I have written Attorney Gen­ its own problems with its own copies: 5 cents. The OPA ordered a 15 to 25 per cent reduction United States will obtain use of eral Biddle protesting the perse­ organizations. In these words there is more truth than meets the Russia’s Siberian air .bases to The Militant A. AVinters eye at first glance, and fa r more than Mr. AVallace in the price of vegetables. W ith the new crops cution of i. Best bomb Japan.” He did not indicate wishes for a successful outcome of Bayonne, N. J. must have originally intended. coming in the seasonal decline of vegetable prices when the Siberian bases might be your fight to get full mailing For one of the things he let slip is that Stalin’s acquired, “but he declared that To defend the USSR as rights. “democratic” allies are depending on Joseph Stalin would be much greater than this. The OPA order America now is in a position to "Parker Knows What Geo. It. Edwards the main fortress of the ■get tough’ about them.” to assist them in trying to “stop the growth of com­ thus actually limits the seasonal drop in vegetable Lorain, Ohio He's Talking About" world proletariat, against I happened to hear Father Hub­ munism.” prices and thereby increases the costs of these bard speak at a meeting on a dif­ Editor: Their expectations and confidence are not exactly all assaults of world im­ items. ferent topic recently, where he A few days ago one of the lead­ misplaced. They are backed by Stalin’s whole record perialism and of internal said he was speaking with the Labor Party Polls ing members of the NAACP in St. of never hesitating to use the world labor movement Paul, who has been reading The counter-revolution, is the So far as meats are concerned, the announced full consent of the AVar Depart­ as so much small change in his diplomatic deals Militant for some time, informed reduction of 10 per cent simply didn’t take place. ment although they had not cen­ Vote in Bayonne with capitalists, whether fascist or “democratic.” most important duty of sored his speech. I don’t know me that he always cuts out Al­ Editor: Any m ilitant in the labor movement knows that hero To begin with, the new OPA price ceilings were if Ills Chicago speech was ap­ bert Parker's column every week. every class-conscious The United Labor Committee’s Mr. Wallace refers to something that experience it­ openly boosted 3 to 5 cents a pound on B and C proved by the AVar Department “Parker knows what he's talking worker. but he evidently speaks with a candidate for Commissioner of about,” he said. I ’ve had other Ne­ self has borne out and continues to bear out every Bayonne, Chester Nadrowski. Jr., — LEON TROTSKY grades of meats, that is, the cheaper cuts bought by certain amount of authority when gro friends tell me substantially day. Stalinists are scabbing not only on the spread running on an independent labor he suggest the possibility of the the same thing. of socialism and its ideas but even on the attempts the workers. And then dealers proceded delib­ ticket, polled 3,062 votes in the U. S. using “force” against the Grace Carlson of workers to preserve their elementary organiza­ erately to conceal labels, selling C meat at B election just concluded. This was Soviet Union. This might be an St. Paul, Minn. tions, the trade unions, and their standard of living. JOIN US IN FIGHTING FOR: imporant sign of things to come. about 10% of the total vote cast. prices, and in some cases at A prices, not to men­ The United Labor Committee The Stalinists are playing the bosses’ game all the J. T. (Readers of The Militant may way down the line. 1. M ilitary training of workers, financed tion the black-market prices. Flint, Mich. had the support of the AFL and also be interested to learn that by the government, but under control CIO. Among the unions support­ Pioneer Publishers has already The second significant revelation in Wallace’s re­ Within six hours of the roll-back deadline on ing the labor candidates were sent to press a new pamphlet by of the trade unions. Special officers’ marks is: at tvhat straws the capitalists themselves M ay 18, this new price gouging scandal broke in Protests Against P.O. 5 UE unions, ILGAVU Local 160. Albert Parker and John Saun- clutch to preserve faith in the perpetuation of their training camps, financed by the gov­ IUMSAVA Local 16 and Local 41, dyrs. and that Parker is now Attack On This Paper completely decayed system. To he sure, the Vice- ernment but controlled by the trade New Yqrk City. Reports have not come in as and the United Steel AVorkers. working on an article. “Negroes Editor: Many of the workers were pre­ In The Post-AVar AVorld.” for the President became so indiscreet, only because he feels yet from other urban centers but there is little confident that employment can still be assured under unions, to train workers to become Somebody lias put my name on sented with the idea of voting la­ June Issue of the monthly maga­ o ffic e rs . reason to believe that there will be any essential your mailing list. I am writing bor for the first time in their zine, Fourth International.—-Ed.) capitalism. No doubt he is sincere in his conviction. difference in conditions elsewhere. According to this letter to express my appre­ lives. They were told to stop The trouble, however, is that there is not the slight­ 2. Trade union wages for all workers est basis for it in reality. He and his colleagues the survey of markets made by the N. Y. D aily drafted into the army. could not assure employment in the richest country News on M ay 18, “the worst offenders. . . arc in the world in the period of peace, certainly not 3. Full equality for Negroes in the armed shops on the fringes of the shabbier neighbor­ during 1929-1940 in the United States, and nowhere forces and the war industries— Down Miners Standing Firm On hoods.” This is a euphemistic way of saying that else since 1918. How then can they, assuming they with Jim Crowism everywhere. remain in power, do it after this war which has al­ \ the workers’ living standards are again taking a ready left the w'hole world including the United 4. Confiscation of all war profits. Expro­ beating. The price gouging was not confined to War Labor Board Issue States far more devastated and infinitely poorer? priation of all war industries and their meats but extended to “several hundred grocery The answer is they can’t and they won’t. Only a operation under workers’ control. (Continued from page 1) questionably they would like to AVith the friendship of t lie AVorkers’ and Farmers’ Government can do it. That items” as well. The only places any roll-back in avoid a general coal strike if pos­ workers back of him, Lewis can is why Wallace and Co. even with the aid of Stalin 5. For a rising scale of wages to meet the sible. well afford the enemies he lias meat prices were even claimed to be functioning mine Helds to dig up miners who will not prevent “the growth of communism.” simultaneously made. This goes rising cost of living. would scab at Roosevelt’s request Unlike the AFI, and CIO leaders, was in the expensive shops where choice cuts were not only for tlie open enemies of and oppose the strike call of mine however, the miners’ leaders have 6. Workers Defense Guards against vig­ quoted at ceilings for Grade A quality. union leadership. May 1 had given nothing away in the name labor—the rabid press and radio, ilante and fascist attacks. demonstrated even to the blind of ‘'statesmanship” and “avoiding the bosses in all industries, the The N. Y. Times’ Silence On All of which means that the workers are not administration— but also the labor that the miners were 100% for strikes.” On the contrary, the 7. An Independent Labor Party based on even back where they started, but worse off, with the demands and the militant miners’ leadership will not settle "leaders” wh

socialist revolution. The suffering masses will by their deeds inscribed into the annals of modern ing to “roll back” prices is a them. The miners can break thing that Pope’s task masters in the Kremlin never fraud which will not cut the New York (Manhattan)—14th through the barrier of their or­ had the gall to do previously. He further attempts rally to no other program, for no other offers any history the most glorious, heroic and titanic pages living cosls of the miners but is St., between 4th and 7th ganizational isolation by calling the moth-eaten Stalinist trick of using the successes real hope or a way out of the terrible crisis. yet recorded. Of these men and women, there now merely designed to try to confuse Aves.; Newsstands on 42nd a conference of all unions — of the Red Army as a cover for the corpses of Stalin’s public opinion. AFL, CIO, Railroad Brotherhoods The “democratic” capitalists, of course, neither St., between 4th and 5th countless victims, among them the Red Generals who remains only one survivor — the executioner Sta­ Ickes’ letter of May 18, in an­ Avcs. and the miners —* for the single desire nor are capable of inspiring mass revolu­ made these successes possible. Slimier stuff than this lin, who destroyed not only the Leninist Old swer to the union telegram ex­ San Francisco — Duncans task of a united front against tions. They are capable only of Darlanism. tending the truce, and in which Roosevelt's “hold the line” order has never appeared in any but Stalinist organs. Guard, but also countless others from among the Smoke Shop, 1986 Sutter St. But the Soviet Union could inspire the Euro­ the government manager declar­ of April 8 and the “Little Steel” At the same time, the editors of the Times refused Ray’s Smoke Shop, pean revolution. Had the Soviet government is­ next two revolutionary generations, that of the ed that any contract must have formula of freezing wages. Re­ to publish the letter of protest from Natalia Sedov the approval of the AAfLB. was 1174 Sutter St. gardless of the attitude of the Trotsky, widow of Leon Trotsky, and mother of the sued the summons for such a revolutionary strug­ Civil War and the generation which bore the brunt thus only further evidence of MacDonald’s Book Shop, top AFL and CIO union officials late Leon Sedov, the two chief defendants at all the gle, Hitler would have been overthrown by now. of Soviet reconstruction and industrialization and Roosevelt’s continued hostility to 867 Mission St. toward such a conference call, Moscow trials. Therein lies one of the greatest crimes of Stalin. raised Stalin himself to power. the miners. As a matter of fact, Golden Gate News Agency, such a campaign, if pushed with The Times still maintains editorial silence, un­ Ickes’ letter closed one of the few (he vigor the miners have This betrayer of Bolshevism bears the responsi­ 81 Third St. mindful even of its own condemnations of Stalin’s doors still left open for a pos­ lisplayed in the mine controver­ bility for the continued danger to the Soviet Union No amount of falsifications and crimes, both by Fitzgerald News Agency, sible reconciliation. sy. would provide the basis for frameups and blood-purges at the time these were 21 Fourth St. and for the prolongation of the slaughter of the the GPU and Hollywood, will ever succeed in de­ The UMAV leaders nevertheless unified action of the whole la­ perpetrated. Such are the morals of the most moral flower of the world’s population. leting or altering these historical facts. agreed to a second truce. Un­ bor movement. of capitalist newspapers.