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VOL. IX — No. 47 NEW YORK, N. Y „ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1945 PRICE FIVE CENTS Manhattan Trotskyist Indonesian People Fight Heroically Receives 1,324 Votes In Council Elections For Freedom From Allied Despots NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—Louise Simpson, city council candidate in Manhattan of the Trotskyist Party, ballot Bringing “Four Freedoms99 To Indonesia designation of the Socialist Workers Party, received 1,324 first choice votes in the municipal elections here Novem­ San Francisco U. S. Army Weapons Used ber 6. The vote for Louise Simpson, young Negro trade un­ Machinists ionist who carried the banner of Trotskyism in the coun- In Slaughter Of Javanese cilmanic elections, was even By Joseph Hansen larger than the 1,043 votes yet available on the number of second choice votes for Louise Solid In Strike cast in the borough of Man­ The colonial peoples who have suffered cen­ Simpson or the sections which Special to THE M ILITANT hattan for Farrell Dobbs, grave her the highest proportion By Robert Chester turies of despotic foreign rule are now making a Trotskyist candidate fo r of votes. However, it is prob­ titanic effort to break the stranglehold of Allied mayor, who polled a total of able that as a result of the in­ SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14. imperialism. 4,276 votes in all five boroughs. tensive Socialist Workers Party —The joint AFL and CIO His total represented a 400 per campaign in Harlem, a signifi­ machinist strike, which has The Republic of Indonesia, which came into cent increase over the 1941 Trot­ cant portion of her votes came shut tight more than 200 being w ith the downfall of Japan, at present stands skyist vote for mayor. from the most exploited and op­ shops and shipyards in the Comrade Simpson’s vote was in the forefront of the® pressed section of the city’s pop­ Bay area, is continuing sol­ struggle, battling for in­ only 345 less than the 1,669 se­ ulation, the Negro people. idly in its third week. Jackson to Address cured by Amicus Most, candidate An analysis of the vote cast for dependence against all of the Socialist Party, a minor­ Workers of all affected estab­ Protest Rally On Farrell Dobbs shows that 341 of lishments, in an inspiring dem­ the odds of the modern ity party which in previous his 1,043 votes in Manhattan Colonial Slaughter years polled thousands of votes onstration of labor solidarity, Allied m ilitary machine. Charles Jackson, author of came from assembly districts in have respected the picket lines for its candidates in municipal Harlem, indicating that one- The hopes and aspirations of the widely read column, “ The established by the striking un­ elections. An estimated 16 per third of his votes were cast by hundreds of millions of down­ Negro Struggle,” w ill be one cent of all councilmanic ballots ions, Lodge 68, AFL Interna­ trodden people throughout the of the speakers at a mass Negro workers. From this it can tional Association of Machin­ were invalidated. Undoubtedly also be concluded that a high orient lie with this young Re­ meeting at the Hotel Dip­ ists, and CIO Steelworkers East Comrade Simpson lost many percentage of Louise Simpson’s public. I f Indonesia succeeds in lomat in New York, Friday, Bay Machinists Local 1304. votes for this reason. votes came from this area. winning freedom, then Malaya, November 30, 8 p. m. Complete information is not The ^trike has now settled Burma, India, Africa, Korea and The rally is sponsored by TROTSKYIST CAMPAIGN down to a test of strength. The the Philippines — all the op­ the Socialist Workers Party During the past year the So­ employers, combined in the j pressed colonial lands—w ill joy­ to protest the Allied mas­ sacre of the colonial peoples. cialist Workers Party has car­ Metal Trades Association, con- j fully run aloft the banners of The SWP demands the w ith­ Yale And Towne ried on an extensive subscrip­ tinue to reject out of hand the ' independence. tion campaign for The Militant drawal of Allied troops frgm unions’ demands for a 30 per The brutal, murderous colon­ in the Harlem area. Thousands China, Indonesia and Indo­ cent wage increase, holiday pay, ial system of the Allied powers Strikers Resist of Negro workers have become china. industrial accident benefits and I is being shaken to the founda­ new readers of the Trotskyist Other speakers w ill be Far­ guaranteed weekly income. Ne- 1 tions. rell Dobbs, editor of THE Open-Shop Drive paper. A new Harlem branch gotiations have been virtually BUTCHER’S JOB MILITANT and George No- of the Socialist Workers Party discontinued. vack, National Secretary of Special to THE M ILITANT has been established in recent Every employer attempt thus I Giant Auto Union Faces Great Britain was the first to the Civil Right Defense Com­ STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 14.— months and SWP members have far to smear the strikers and! leap into the breach. When the mittee. Supported by all labor in this been conducting vigorous educa­ turn “public opinion” against Dutch imperialists proved pow­ James P. Cannon, National area, 3,500 employes of Yale & tional work throughout the area. them has backfired. A “ milk erless to cut down the Indones­ Secretary of the Socialist The Trotskyists have defied po­ crisis” scare, base on an alleged j Greatest Strike Battle Towne Manufacturing Company ians, their British class brothers Workers Party, will be chair­ today continued solidly their lice intimidation and carried on “shortage” of wax paper milk Special to THE M ILITANT mands during the recent weeks agreed to carry out the butcher’s man. widespread public street sales of containers from the closed Amer­ of prolonged negotiations, the job. m ilitant picket lines. They have DETROIT, Nov. 18.—The m ili­ Trotskyist literature, including ican Can Co., has been exposed j provocative and insulting coun- W ith centuries of experience kept the plant closed tight for tant, million-headed ranks of bombs and naval fire, now with the warmly - received pamphlet, as a hoax. American Can is re- i Ser-proposals of the corporation in putting down rebellions and a week in a fight for a 30 per cent the CIO United Automobile soft words and seeming placa­ "A Practical Program to Kill ported to have a million eon- barons have aroused them to a wage increase and renewal of Workers are getting poised to t colonial uprisings, able to vary bility, again with harsh ultimat­ Jim Crow,” by Charles Jackson, (Continued on Page 8) high pitch of determination to and combine tactics with utmost the maintenance of membership the greatest and most decisive ums and ferocious slaughter. The popular Militant columnist. fight it out with no holds barred. Division Of Labor? contract granted by the War strike struggle in their fighting flexibility, the British imperial­ British are calling on all their Labor Board during the war. Louise Simpson, like Farrell “The world has nothing to ists have moved forward in Indo­ history. A titanic battle against NEGOTIATIONS FUTILE experience — probing m ilitarily The whole community, sapped Dobbs, attracted the votes of the fear from the United States ter­ nesia, now with machine guns. three of the greatest corpora­ (Continued on Page 7) for years by this sweatshop, most class conscious and politi­ Militants Gain The delegates will have before ritorially or in a m ilitary way, tions in the world, General Mo­ last week applauded when the cally advanced workers. On the them the admission of R. J. from Britain economically, or tors, Ford and Chrysler, now ap­ strikers barred from the plant ballot she was clearly labeled as Thomas, UAW president, that from any nation if the United In Akron Rubber pears almost certain. W. Gibson Carey, Jr., company the “Trotskyist Party” candi­ further negotiations with Gen­ Nations Organization is made to president, popularly called “ the date. Today some 200 delegates of eral Motors will in all likelihood function properly. Prime Min­ Withdraw Troops Sewell L. Avery of Stamford.” Louise Simpson and Farrell Union Elections more than 100 General Motors be as futile and useless as all ister Attlee declared in an ad­ STAMFORD’S “AVERY” Dobbs campaigned on a program (Special to THE M ILITANT) locals are arriving in town for previous attempts to wrest some dress to a joint session of Con­ reasonable concessions through Former president of the labor- calling for revolutionary social­ AKRON, O., Nov. 10.—M ilitant a crucial conference tomorrow gress.” (N. Y. Times, Nov. 15.) across-the-table methods. From The Far East! hating National Association of ism. One of the chief planks in forces in the Firestone and and Tuesday, to prepare for the next and possible showdown Manufacturers, Carey heads a their program was for an un­ Goodrich locals of the United In a statement made public Success A t Last By The Editors union-smashing coalition of 11 compromising struggle against Rubber Workers, CIO, won hard- stage of their conflict with the yesterday in the latest issue of local concerns refusing to renew every vestige of Jim Crow and fought election victories this power-drunk, war profits-gorged the United Automobile Worker, Several times as Senator and Great issues are at stake in the Far East. (Continued on Page 8) (Continued on Page 2) week over candidates represent­ GM corporation for a 30 per cent official international union or- Vice-President, Truman tried to The teemiitg millions of this vast area, embracing the ma­ ing the conservative policy of increase in wages. 'r I gan, Thomas indicated the im- get the nephew of the late Kan­ jority of mankind, are struggling for their freedom. These delegates, the local rep­ I minence of the strike by begin- 1 sas City Boss Pendergast a fed­ the International’s top machine. In Indonesia the entire populace has arisen in a mighty ef­ resentatives of 325,000 GM work­ , ning: “I am writing this column eral job. Truman’s personal ap­ George Bass, a former presi­ fort to strike off the shackles of more than three centuries of ers, are in a grim and bitter 1 as the showdown between your ’ peals for the relative of his old U. S. Troops Fire dent of Goodrich Local 5 and at ! frightful oppression under Dutch imperialism. present Executive Secretary of mood. The arrogant and con­ . union and the Big Three in the political mentor were turned down. As President, Truman In Indo-China the masses are giving their life-blood to froa the Akron CIO Council, defeated temptuous rejection of their de- (Continued on Page 2) again "requested” the State De­ the land from brutal French Imperialist domination. the incumbent John Saylor for In China Civil War partment to act. It did. Young In China the populace of one of the world’s oldest civilization», the Goodrich presidency by a ! By Charles Carsten close margin. The total vote of j M INE LOCAL FOILS ATTEMPT Pendergast is now on the fed­ after battling Japanese imperialism for almost a decade and a 6,273 was the largest ever cast, eral payroll at $6,200 per annum half, are girding themselves for a showdown struggle against their American planes have strafed defenseless Stalinist- in the local union. Both candi­ as Acting Director of the Office native and Allied oppressors represented by the butcher Chians held villages in Shantung, according to press reports. And dates headed well organized TO VICTIMIZE PATTERSON of Inter-American Affairs. Kai-shek. in the battle for the strategically important city of Shan- groups which conducted colorful j Special to THE M ILITANT vember 1, Patterson applied for A ll these people seek liberation from foreign despotism. They want freedom to choose their own form of government. haikwan, American planes hovered over the battle area, and energetic campaigns. The 1 his job and was told he was no Defending Constitution Goodrich plant was flooded with DAISYTOWN, Pa., Nov. 10.— But the capitalist classes of the imperialist nations wish to pre­ charged the Communist (Stalinist) controlled Kalgan ra­ Through a splendid demonstra­ longer employed by the com­ The Ford Motor Company at dio, “ to give cover to the Kuomintang armies.” 200,000 leaflets distributed by serve and extend their oppressive rule over these nations. H ie tion of solidarity by his fellow pany. At the union meeting, Albany, N. Y „ on November 13 capitalists derive colossal profits through merciless exploitation of The Shanhaikwan attack was launched by Chiang both sides. I t was clear from the begin­ members of United Mine Work­ November 4, it was voted to was fined $390 for docking three the colonial peoples. They ruthlessly drain the rich natural re­ Kai-shek’s troops. They were®------ers Local 2399, William Patter­ employes for taking time off to ning that it was a struggle be­ strike Vesta No. 2 until Patter­ sources. W ith bayonet and bomb they keep wages at starvation transported by American the most modem American tween m ilitant unionism and the son, Dalsytown coal miner who vote last November. The com­ levels. Famine and disease haunt the colonial masses. son was reinstated. pany was found guilty of vio­ forces operating from the equipment. forces of a combined Interna- recently ended a six-month pris­ American capitalists have direct interests in these lands and A Navy spokesman stated that : tional. Stalinist and company- on sentence under the notorious A few days later Patterson lating a state law requiring that likewise own stock in the British, French and Dutch companies. United States - held Ching- the American fleet had trans­ backed bloc. The Bass group won Smith-Connally anti-strike law, again conferred with the com­ employes be given two hours off The profits squeezed out of the colonial people pour into the bank wangtao base. ported more than 100,000 Na­ both the key offices of president lias won reinstatement with full pany labor relations man, who with pay on election day. The vaults of Wall Street, enormously strengthening Big Business. company is appealing the decis­ In a release which was later tionalist troops to North China j and secretary, but lost the vice- seniority, vacation pay, etc., this time proposed to reinstate That is why Wall Street is backing reaction to the hilt in the from Jones & McLaughlin Steel ion on the grounds that the law “ killed,” Navy brass-hats stated and 53,000 to Formosa. | presidency and treasurer’s post. him, but with loss of his 18 years colonial lands. War materials from America’s factories are freely ’ Executive board posts have not Corp., in whose Vesta No. 2 mine seniority. However on learning is “unconstitutional.” given Dutch, British and French troops. One of the main sources that their objective in China North China is held by Chin­ yet been decided. he has worked for 18 years. of the union’s strike threat, the of strength for the murderous rule of Chiang Kai-shek is his ac­ was ” ... support of the Nation­ ese Communist (Stalinist) forces FIRESTONE ELECTION Patterson was given a dismis­ company official quickly agreed cess to American guns and ammunition and free transportation alist Government in China in Chiang Kai-shek’s treops are Everybody’s Pal In Firestone Local 7, President sal notice last September while to Patterson’s immediate rein­ for his mercenary troops. connection with* the movement moving to that area to wrest Commenting on the effect on I. H. Watson and other m ilitant he was serving his sentence in statement with fu ll rights. The struggle of the colonial peoples is thus the struggle of of Chinese troops to newly liber­ control from the Stalinists and President Truman of the election officers were re-elected. The the Fayette County jail. This American labor. The American workers have everything to gain ated areas.” to prevent them from occupy­ The Militant, which from the of Tammany’s O’Dwyer as mayor ing the strategic region of Man­ : Firestone election battle was al­ also brought with it the threat first exposed the victimization of New York, Roscoe Drummond from supporting the battle for freedom of the colonial peoples. The TRAINED AND ARMED churia. so hard fought and a record vote of eviction of his family from of Patterson and gave national writes in the Christian Science overthrow of foreign domination means the weakening of Wall The United • States m ilitary Economically Manchuria is to of more than 5,000 was cast. De­ their company-house. But Local prominence to his case, greets Monitor, November 5: “ Mr. Tru­ Street and the strengthening of American labor. command in China, acting on China what the industrial North­ spite the fact that the full forces 2399 immediately indicated its his reinstatement and the fine man would probably find it as It is the duty of every worker to do his utmost to help the instructions from Washington, east is to the United States. Al­ of the International machine determination to fight this vic­ solidarity shown by his union easy to work with the Tammany colonial peoples. are training Chiang Kai-shek’s though its area is only about were thrown into the fight to timization. brothers in whose cause he suf­ machine in New York as with Express your solidarity with the colonial peoples. troops and arming them with (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 8) On his release from jail, No- fered unjust imprisonment. the Pendergast machine in Mo.” Demand the withdrawal of all troops from the Far East! Protest The Massacre Of The Colonial Peoples MASS Demand The Withdrawal Of Allied Troops From China, Indonesia And Indo-China MEETING Speakers: CHARLES JACKSON FARRELL DOBBS GEORGE NOVACK FRIDAY W riter of ‘The Negro Struggle’ Editor of The Militant National Secretary, CRDC N O V . 3 0 Chairman JAMES P. CANNON, National C?cretary, Socialist Workers Party 8 P. M. HOTEL DIPLOMAT, 108 West 43rd St., New York Auspices: Socialist Workers Party PAGE TW O THE MILITANT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1945 Big Vote For Detroit Labor's Mayoralty Candidate

Spurs Movement For An Independent Labor Party By Bill Morgan By Arthur Burch munism, instead of exposing and assailing the divisive, red-baiting What“Mandate” ? es. The SKF ball-bearing triist methods of Big Business. is in court with a two million A resolution on wage policy was DETROIT—Despite the use of unlimited funds by Big Busi­ Jeffries on the other hand never repudiated the support of Striking West Coast Machinists dollar suit against the union passed by the CIO Executive ness in the most vicious anti-labor and anti-Negro campaign in the fascist Gerald L. K. Smith, although Frankensteen openly for alleged damages, an injunc­ Board on November 1. Reflect­ the history of Detroit elections, labor’s mayoralty candidate Rich­ charged Jeffries with welcoming the aid of Smith’s followers, who tion to prevent picketing and a ard T. Frankensteen, vice-president of the CIO United Auto­ ing the current mood of the rank suit by some company stooges played a leading role in disseminating anti-labor and anti-Negro and file, the resolution makes mobile Workers, on November 6, received the impressive total of to tie up the union’s funds. literature on behalf of Jeffries. good reading—except for the last 216,917 votes against 274,455 for Mayor Jeffries. Frankensteen’s The SKF strikers deserve paragraph which should be read vote was 41,000 larger than that cast two years ago for Fitzgerald commendation and all possible Fails To Inspire Followers twice by every union m ilitant. who was endorsed by the CIO, AFL and Negro organizations, and support for their devotion to un­ even topped the figure of 207.821 polled then by the victorious Frankensteen failed to inspire his followers to get out labor’s After arguing strongly for ion principles. They have been Jeffries. maximum vote. I t was Jeffries who drew the class lines while wage Increases for all workers, attacked with every law In the This campaign can best be compared with that of 1937 when Frankensteen attempted to blur them over. I t was Jeffries who the resolution winds up by call­ books and every trick known to ing upon the owners of industry labor ran its own slate of candidates. A t that time O’Brien, admitted in a warning to Big Business that a victory for labor’s the bosses. The corporation has candidates in Detroit would stimulate labor throughout the country to comply with the "mandate” refused to negotiate and the backed by labor, received only 154,048 votes against 261,048 cast of President Truman to engage for Reading, the candidate of Big Business. Frankensteen’s vote, to run its own candidates. Jeffries accused the national PAC strike has become a lock-out in “ bona-fide collective bargain­ during which the workers have in this election was 62,000 larger than that rolled up by labor of sending organizers to help Frankensteen and stated frankly ing and grant substantial wage had to wait four long weeks be­ eight years ago, whereas Jeffries received only 13,000 more votes that he favored segregation of the Negro people and challenged increases.” What "mandate"? fore being eligible for unem­ than Reading. Despite a population increase of about 25 per cent, Frankensteen to make his stand known. But Frankensteen was tongue-tied. He failed to boldly as­ What has Truman said or ployment compensation. The the vote for the employers’ candidate increased only five per cent, done to make General Motors, company continues to reject ar­ whereas the labor vote rose 40 per cent. sert that he was labor’s candidate. He neglected to tie up with labor’s fight against Big Business, the struggle for better housing Ford or U. S. Steel sit down with bitration but the pickets are Never was the capitalist technique of “ divide and conquer” holding firm. for the Negro people, the fight against segregation and discrim­ union representatives to bargain more clearly illustrated than in this campaign. A veritable lynch collectively? * » • ination. He kept silent about National PAC aid and why labor spirit was aroused in the white communities against the Negro j should welcome it to combat the National Association of Manu­ But In his recent generally minority. This drive was spearheaded by a chain of 16 news- i GM’s Gravy Train facturers' support of Jeffries on a national scale. Had Frank­ vague speech on wage-price pol­ papers such as the “ Home Gazette,” the “ North Detroiter” and Alfred P. Sloan Jr., chairman ensteen rallied the ranks of labor along class lines he would have icy, Truman distinctly said. “ We the “ Bedford Record,” all under the directorship of Floyd Mc- of General Motors Corporation, stood an excellent chance of winning the election. must understand that we can­ G rlff. Containing scare headlines like “ White Neighborhoods has just announced the “ take" Through its free use of money and its scurrilous campaign, not hope with a reduced work­ Again in Peril” these papers were freely distributed throughout week, to maintain now the same for July, August and September Big Business was able to get out a maximum vote of all reac­ all white sections of the city. take-home pay for labor general­ 1945. Reported profit during tionary and anti-labor elements. This vote is fairly constant, as Striking members of East Bay Machinists Local 1304, CIO ly that It has had during the war. these three months alone came revealed by a comparison of the figures of 1937 and this year. United Steelworkers, picketing an Oakland, California, plant, to $36,791,784 despite the fact There w ill have to be a drop.” "Divide And Rule" Technique one of more than 200 San Francisco Bay area shops and ship­ that sales volume of war mate­ I t was by and large the working class which remained at home Nothing could be clearer than A t the same time Negro communities were flooded with tens yards shut tight by a united strike of AFL and CIO machinists rials fell to about one half the and only a more inspiring campaign along class lines by labor’s that to express Truman’s policy for higher wages. amount for the first six months of thousands of leaflets reading: “ So Why Should Colored Folks candidate could have brought them to the polls. on wages. Vote for Frankensteen? Frankensteen Has Not Proved Himself Frankensteen’s policy of class collaboration inside the UAW- • • • of 1945. a True Friend of Negro Race.” CIO returned to plague him on every occasion during the cam­ This huge p rofit was made In Jewish communities, the North Detroiter, appearing partly paign. Big Business, for instance, utilized such renegades as Right To Strike possible by a tax refund of $9, in English and partly in Jewish, pictured Frankensteen as anti- Charles Edgecomb to point out to the voters that it was not Akron Firestone Local 7, CIO 612,000 and a special income Semitic. Throughout other sections of town Jeffries’ crowd spread Jeffries but Frankensteen who referred to strikes as "Mobocracy.” Giant CIO Auto Union United Rubber Workers, has just credit of $24,026,000 allowed by the word that Frankensteen was “ Jewish” and urged them against And despite Frankensteen’s denunciation of "communism,” his taken action designed to prevent the Federal Government. voting for a "Jewish” candidate. In Polish sections, leaflets like alliance with Stalinists within the UAW-CIO against the pro­ any tampering with the right t,o Mr. Sloan explains that this the following appeared: “ The Truth for Polish-American Patriots. gressive and m ilitant workers was well known. Faces Biggest Battle strike at conferences between la­ windfall resulted from “ a very un­ Stalin Reaches Into Detroit. Frankensteen Supports Commun­ bor and management. The lo­ usual set of circumstances which ist Gang Who Praise the Russian Conquest of Poland.” Socialist Workers Party Support (Continued from Page 1) genuine negotiation on wages, cal Is wary of so-called “ Peace arose as a result of the term­ Jeffries and the kept press screamed that Frankensteen’s automobile industry moves to a the key issue. "We do not be­ Pacts” concluded by top union ination of the war ...” And The Socialist Workers Party supported Frankensteen for elec­ bureaucrats without benefit of he adds e n c o u r a gingly, “ In election meqnt that the PAC-CIO would take over the city hall. climax.” lieve,” said the Ford statement, tion despite his bad union record and his lack of a sound political rank and file authority. view of the fact that such cir­ This did not prevent Jeffries’ slimy crew from distributing leaf­ He stated that there would be program for labor. We gave him critical support because he was j “ that this is the time to settle on In a resolution on “ Restric­ cumstances, at least in part, may lets at plant gates with the query “ Is Frankensteen Ashamed another attempt to resume nego­ to Be a Labor Candidate?” a labor candidate and it was necessary for all labor to unite , general wage Increases.” tions on the right to strike,” Lo­ be expected to continue and af­ against the candidate of Big Business and thereby to further the ; tiations, but added that “ there cal 7 calls upon the coming fect reported earnings well into In addition to race-baiting the candidate of Big Business re­ seemed little hope that anything But that "this is the time,” sorted to its inevitable twin, red-baiting. Both at public meet­ Independent political action of the working class. Through the i Tenth Annual Convention of the next year, it is important that worth while would result. The in the minds of the auto corp­ URW to “ go on record against ings and over the radio Jeffries denounced the "Trotskyltes” and radio, the press, in meetings and leaflets we did everything pos- | our stockholders understand just corporation, the largest, richest orations, to conduct an all-out any restrictions whatsoever upon "Communists” for their support of Frankensteen. The M cGriff sible to show Frankensteen the correct method of carrying on j what these circumstances are and biggest money-making en­ Labor’s traditional right to and why.” newspapers blazoned the headline: “ New Violent Group In Frank­ a genuine labor campaign against the forces of Big Business. But war to undermine and destroy terprise in the world, has refused strike and . . . that no officers There is nothing in Mr. ensteen’s Camp. Trotskyites Already on Rampage Here, Want Frankensteen was more interested in such political hacks with­ the union, was indicated in the utterly to grant any increase in of our International Union enter Sloan’s report to GM’s stock­ Power.” The ferocity of the attack against the Trotskyists can out following as Friel, who was defeated in the primaries, Fitz­ further proposals of Ford to de­ gerald who. was defeated by Jeffries last year, and other stal­ wages without corresponding into any pact or agreement with holders about a 30 per cent raise be gleaned from the first sentence of the article: “ The Forces of price increases, and treats our stroy union security and other any corporation, group of corpo­ in pay for the workers who pro­ violence and terror threaten the city of Detroit! . . . The Social­ warts of the Democratic machine. To gain their “support” Frank­ fully justified demands for wage rations, business organizations or duce all of G.M.’s products and ist Workers Party known as Trotskyites is openly campaigning ensteen sacrificed a fighting program against Big Business. conditions which the Ford work­ The most significant lesson which labor has learned from this increases to take care of th e ! ers have won by bitter struggle. with any government agency profits. for Frankensteen . . .” which in any way restricts, qua­ • • • election is that it is necessary to build its own labor party if it losses in take-home pay as some- ! Big Business was determined to stop labor’s challenge to Declaring that its experience lifies or repudiates the right to hopes to wage a successful political fight against Big Business. thing on which they will not New Labor Shackles its political power at all costs and by any means. But how did with unionism has been “ un­ strike and . . . that copies of The absence of such a party in Detroit hampered labor at every negotiate.” The M ilitary Affairs Com­ Frankensteen meet this frenzied onslaught? By retreating. In happy” since the strike of 1941 this resolution be sent to . . . the last days before the election, for instance, Frankensteen pub­ turn. The AFL, MESA and other unions would be drawn into RANKS PREPARING Philip Murray, President Tru­ mittee of the House of Rep­ lished large advertisements in all the capitalist newspapers reas­ such a party, as well as the CIO, and no labor bureaucrat could The “tough” attitude of the forced a union contract down man and all CIO International resentatives has voted favorably suring the “ respectable” citizens that he was opposed to com- then so easily throw the support of labor organizations behind corporation, its deliberately pro­ Ford’s throat, the company is­ Unions and to the public and on a bill not only to take away the candidate of Big .Business, as happened in this campaign- vocative conduct throughout the sued 31 demands for “ company Labor press.” labor’s right to strike, but to People of the lower middle class could also become an integral part, negotiations, Thomas states, is security”—the right once more • • • make unions liable for all “ dam­ of an independent labor party. This election has convinced labor “no doubt” due to the “ provis­ to ride rough - shod over the ages” that may result from any Inspiring Struggle and all “local contract viola­ that it no longer has to rely on the capitalist political “friends ions of the Federal tax laws workers. Comrade John Travis tions.” of labor.” There is greater determination than ever among the under which GM’s strike losses The seventh week of the SKF THE REAL ISSUE strike in Philadelphia finds the On Friday, November 2, Comrade John Travis of the ranks here to wage an all-out campaign in the unions, especially would largely be repaid out of This Is the same committee Ford’s declaration leaves no strikers still on their toes match­ Boston Local of the Socialist Workers Party, passed away, fol­ the powerful UAW-CIO, to launch a labor party in the next the Federal Treasury through tax that forced through the notori­ doubt that the Big Three “ Axis” ing blow for blow with the boss- ous wartime Smith-Connally lowing an operation for the removal of a diseased lobe of immediate period. refunds.” is set for united action against anti-strike law. Now it is out to the lung. He had joined the Trotskyist movement at Lynn in That the auto union ranks the auto workers. These in­ shackle both of labor’s hands by 1936. have long since come to the con­ dustrial giants, commanding including hi this new bill a pro­ Comrade Travis became a victim of tuberculosis over clusion that the only way they staggering financial resources, vision denying trade unions the 13 years ago. But through sheer determination and g rit he Simpson Gets 1,324 Votes can negotiate with the auto cor­ 15,000 Jersey linked with the very top ruling right to participate in or con­ had conquered it so that his case became less active. He porations is on the picket lines strata of Big Business, intend to tribute to candidates running for still suffered from periodic hemorrhages and it was to rid is shown by the extensive strike mobilize a national offensive of Shipyard Men any Federal office. At the hear­ himself of these that he undertook the operation. In Manhattan For Council preparations under way for the union-busting in the interests of ings in Washington no represen­ During his membership in our movement this comrade past weeks in almost all the local (Continued from Page 1) choice vote of the Trotskyists. American capitalism. tative of labor was allowed an had but one regret and that was that his health did not unions. Throughout the giant Stage Walkout opportunity to be heard. for full and unconditional equal­ During the campaign thé Stalin­ What is at stake in the im­ permit him to function as fully as he earnestly desired. He ity for the Negro people. ists claimed that the vote for GM empire the workers have (Special to The M ilitant) The bill would nullify the right envied those who could give all and did give all, but had no pending battle is not merely the The results of the councilman- Louise Simpson would “split” the been alerted for strike action by of collective bargaining as pro­ use for those in good health who toyed with the movement. interests of the auto workers. ic elections in New York fu lly , vote for Davis. On the contrary, their local leaders. By A. Williams vided for in the Wagner Act. It He underwent the operation fu ll of joy because he envisioned The capitalist class recognizes confirm the contention of the swelling the final total of the Largely on their own initlave, KEARNY. N. J„ Nov. 10—Some provides penalties against any a new political life opening up for himself, one in which that the auto workers are spear­ SWP during the campaign that votes cast for Davis was a large local union leaders, backed by 15.000 workers of Federal Ship­labor organization or its officers he could play a leading role commensurate with his newly- heading a developing struggle of the workers of New York City proportion of second choice votes their memberships, have been building and Drydock Company, for damages that might happen won health. the entire American working want genuine independent labor cast by Trotskyist voters whose taking the practical measures re­ in the Port Newark and Kearny to any part as a result of a strike. Only the day before the operation he confided with great class. Behind the auto workers, political action and are anxious first choice was Louise Simpson. quired to conduct a prolonged, yards, walked out In a protest The most flagrant violation of optimism to the Boston organizer his determination to re­ waiting for a signal to action, contract by an employer is per­ to back candidates representing bitter strike action. Most GM demonstration yesterday after­ constitute the old Lynn branch and build It up to be a tower are the steel, electrical and ra­ mitted without penalty and with­ an independent working - class locals have voted strike assess­ noon. This demonstration was of strength in the Trotskyist movement. Happy in the thought dio, packinghouse, construction, out giving labor recourse to pro­ party. This was evidenced, in ments, which the workers, eager called by Local 16, CIO, Marine that his wife had just joined the movement, he told of how railway and millions of other tect its interests. for battle, are willingly paying. and Shipbuilding Workers, to he had advised her to make friends and contacts by enter­ part, by the successes of the Detroit SWP workers. That is what deter­ Communist Party in the council- In many areas, food and other protest the firing of a shop Section 3 of the Act makes It taining them at home so that when he capie home from the supplies are being stocked. mines the strategy of the auto impossible for any labor organ­ hospital he could “ work on them.” manic elections. moguls. They are conducting a steward for an alleged m i­ Opens New Hall nor infraction of company rules. ization to participate in the free Comrade Travis was extremely sensitive to all the suf­ WORKING CLASS VOTE STRIKE COMMITTEE class war. election of any public official In DETROIT.—On December 1, The issue will not be decided It was a direct provocation by ferings bred by capitalism with its wars and poverty. The Benjamin J. Davis, Negro can­ Here in Detroit, the center of either primary or general elec­ the. Detroit Branch of the So­ in Detroit and the other auto the company and a continuation filthy lying of the capitalist press caused deep revulsion in didate for council In Manhattan the struggle, a City-Wide Strike tion campaigns and prohibits la­ cialist Workers Party will move centers alone. The whole rec­ of Its anti-labor policy for the him. The thought that with better health he would be on the Communist (Stalinist) Committee has been established bor organizations from taking to new, larger headquarters at ord and tradition of the auto last three years. able to struggle actively for Socialism gave him an unquench­ Party ticket, was swept into of­ by the GM locals. Preparations part in political conventions. 6108 Linwood, on the corner of workers assures us that they will This was the first time that able desire to regain his health. Under the very best medical fice with the second highest are under way for a central com­ Not content with hamstring­ Marquette. These headquarters, do their part heroically. But the the leadership had acted in ac­ attention he underwent his operation successfully, only to number of votes in Manhattan. missary and food purchasing ing labor on the economic front, two blocks south of West Grand battle that is being joined is cordance with the wishes of the pass away from some undetermined cause shortly after. He received 63,498 first choice agency. A speakers’ bureau and the House Military Affairs Com­ Boulevard and three blocks east not only against the auto corp­ rank and file for action and the Comrade Travis’ devotion to the socialist movement will votes. In Brooklyn, Peter V. publicity committee have been mittee is obviously keeping an of Grand River, are easily orations. It is against the whole results spoke for themselves. always be an inspiration to all those comrades who had the Cacchione, running on th.e Com­ set up to unify the strike, sus­ eye on the growing labor party reached. The Grand Belt car ruthless gang of Wall Street f i­ Meetings were held outside of sentiment which threatens the pleasure ef knowing him. The hope of mankind for salva­ munist Party ticket, won first tain the morale of the strikers stops at the door; the Dexter nanciers and industrialists. They both yards with the speakers political power of stooges for Big tion from decaying capitalism w ill be realized through workers place with 68,095 votes. The and answer the inevitable strike­ bus, 14th street car, and Grand can be defeated with the united emphasizing the fact that all the Business. I t wants to prevent with fighting hearts and loyal qualities with which Comrade combined vote of 131,593 of these breaking propaganda barrage of River car stops w ithin a few power of ail organized labor. men responded unhesitatingly to by law the possibility of inde­ Travis was so fully endowed. two Stalinist candidates was far Big Business. Support of the blocks. A successful outcome of the this action to defend their union. pendent labor political action. in advance of the combined vote AFL ranks, thousands of whom struggle of the auto workers will of 112,624 of their closest com­ The new home Of the Detroit work for construction contrac­ A speech that received a-big have decisive bearing on the petitors running on the Demo­ Branch Is four times the size of tors in GM plants. Is being lined hand was one that condemned wage struggle of millions of oth­ cratic Party ticket. In the Bronx, the present headquarters, in up. Assurances have come from the inactivity and do-nothing er union men and women. To Stalinist Michael J. Quill, head keeping with the rapidly expand­ AFL stewards that their mem­ policy of the leadership of Local ing membership of the SWP and ensure such a successful outcome of the CIO Transport Workers bers will not cross CIO picket 16, for the past three years, and lines. Is the bounden duty and respon­ Union, came in first, running as its increased activities. Occu­ their refusal to take any real sibility of the whole labor move­ action now for a 30 per cent an American Labor Party candi­ pying the entire second floor of The Detroit City-Wide Strike Committee may take on national ment. wage increase. date. the building, it includes a meet­ proportions at the GM delegates’ However, in no Instances where ing hall which will seat more candidates jointly of the Demo­ than 200 persons; two offices: conference convening tomorrow large library; kitchen; and coat- at the Barium Hotel. Up to now cratic and American Labor Party room. the direction and conduct of the ran, did they receive anywhere struggle has been formally con­ DETROIT BRANCH near tha votes given for those December 1 and 2 have been fined to a six-man “ strategy winning candidates running on set aside for the task of mov­ Of the Socialist Workers Party committee” set up by the in ­ a strictly independent working ing and decorating. The first class party ticket. regular forum in the new head­ ternational executive board two weeks ago. Announces The Communist Party poll for quarters will be held Sunday city council in Manhattan and night, December 2. There will AUTO BARONS UNITED Brooklyn was the highest in its be a gala housewarming Decem­ Any hope- that there would be ber 15, but all M ilitant readers history, and represents about a a division in the ranks of the Gala House Warming are invited to visit the new 40 per cent increase over its vote auto corporations because of in 1943. Its votes far surpassed headquarters any time after De­ competitive factors, a hope re­ SATURDAY, DEC 15 cember 1. the votes cast for candidates of peatedly expressed by the UAW the Democratic Party who were top leaders, was rudely shattered A t Our New Headquarters endorsed by the ALP, which the Ask Your Shopmate this week when the Ford Motor Stalinists control. Company issued a statement, in Davis, on the basis of his be­ To Subscribe to advance of scheduled negotia­ 6108 LINWOOD ing a Negro candidate running tions, lining up solidly with the on an independent working class The M ilitant rest of the industry. On the Grand Belt Car Line - 2 Blocks So. of W. Grand Bind. party ticket, was the second Ford rejected out-of-hand any SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1945 THE MILITA... PAGE THREE

INTERNATIONAL NOTES Indo-Chinese Battle For Freedom

England Koreans were estimated to be laboring as virtual slaves in Jap­ The English Trotskyists have Against Imperialist Rule Of France anese factories and mines. nominated Comrade Charles While Major General A. D. Martinson, militant Liverpool Bruce, commander of the 77th By Daniel Guerin dock worker, as the Revolution­ Division occupying Hokkaido Is­ (Translated from October 15 "Front Ouvrier”—Workers’ Front—Trotskyist newspaper of Ly­ ary Communist Party candidate Hands Off Indo-China land hypocritcally proclaims that ons, France.) for the Mersey Ward, Bootle, in "No Chinese or Korean’s return the forthcoming Borough Coun­ Despite the lies and slanders of a hypocritical press — amid which Marcel Four- to the homeland will be delayed cil elections, according to the rier, in Franc-Tireur, strikes a discordantly courageous note—the truth is beginning a single day because of working Mid - October English Socialist in the mines,” he has ordered to break through. From authentic sources, we can already glean an idea of what is Appeal. the miners back into the .pits happening in Indo-China. In 1932 Comrade Martinson at a pay scale of 20 to 66 cents. The capitalist press has tried to deceive us in two ways: first by presenting the Joined the Communist Party. A “ Those who produced the most “ difficulties” as artificially fomented by the Japanese; second, by trying to make us year later he was elected or­ coal have been promised quick­ ganizer of the Bootle unemployed believe that the Anglo-French in Cochin-China dominate est repatriation,” reported the the situation. The two statements are equally false. that the repression continued movement. Under his efficient, Post. even under the Popular Front. fighting leadership, the unem­ To explain what is happening in Indo-China as a Japanese The hurricane of freedom that manuever is as absurd as to pretend that the workers’ movement ployed secured many concessions passed over France in 1936 did Nigeria in the western hemisphere is stirred up by “ agitators” or by the not extend to Indo-China. Un­ The main demand of the Ni­ "hand of Moscow.” The Anna- der the administration of Mar­ gerian workers in the general mite revolt is the culmination of ius Moutet the imprisonment of strike of Jast summer was 2 long years of frightful oppres­ AMERICAN SHIPS revolutionary Indo-Chinese m ili­ shillings and 6 pence a day m in­ sion, long years of fighting for tants did not cease. Just as at imum wage. The government freedom. CARRY FRENCH present, certain parties through promised to grant this demand. I f the Annamites today pre­ TO INDO-CHINA their silence and complicity as- Now, however. Captain D. H. fer to take up arms and die rath­ American troop ships are ! sisted in the attempts to strangle Holley, head of the Labor De­ er than be again forced under carrying French armed forces the Indo-Chinese people. partment, has broken this prom­ French domination, it is because from France to Indo-China The Indo-Chinese people as­ ise, according to a dispatch from they retain as bitter a memory to fight against the Annamese pire to liberty and are ripe for London in the Chicago Defender. people. of their prewar despots as we freedom. To explain why Indo- Instead the government has of­ have of the Hitlerian occupa­ “ The Victory ships Taos China is the most developed fered the workers a three pence tion. To depict this hell would and Pauchag” left Marseilles among all the French colonies, increase, totally inadequate to require pages and pages. ’’October 31, each tarrying the most capable of taking care meet the steep rise in the cost of more than 1,000 troops to living. IMPERIALIST OCCUPATION Indo-China,” reported a spe­ of itself, would carry us too far Leaders of the Nigerian trade Of all the French colonies, cial correspondent to PM, afield. Let us give in a few unions called a mass meeting and Indo-China has been most mis­ November 12. words the principal reasons for “ The crewmen of the Taos issued an ultimatum to Governor treated, since it has been the this maturity. signed on in New York with Sir Arthur Richards that unless most favorable land for Big First, an old and authentic Business. All travelers who have the understanding that they civilization exists in Irfdo-China; the fu ll amount promised, to­ were to proceed to India to gether with back pay, is immed­ witnessed the exploitation of the Second, neither feudalism nor a coolies on the rubber plantations bring American troops home. capitalist bourgeoisie exist« iately granted, the general strike Upon their arrival (in Mar­ or in the coal mines have uttered which would be inclined to share CHARLES MARTINSON will be renewed. seilles) they learned they were —when gold of the Bank of A mass meeting of workers in also to be used to carry with the French despots the in­ Indo-China hasn’t silenced every from the local authorities. Com­ Lagos unanimously adopted a French troops to the Orient. come from the exploitation of rade Martinson was also Chief resolution of “ No Confidence in human feeling in them — the “Prior to the sailing of the the popular masses, or to con­ Marshal of the Lancashire Hun­ the administration of Richards.” same cry of horror. We refer Taos and the Pauchag, three quer independence solely for Belgian Reaction Arms the reader to the testimony of their own exclusive profit. That ger Marchers at that time. The trade unions sent a cable to other Victory ships left I t was in Spain fighting Prime Minister Attlee and George Dorgeles, Roubaud, Paul Monet, France bound for French is why the intellectual elite of against Franco and Fascism as Hall, Secretary of State for Col­ Leon Werth, Andree Viollis, etc., Indo-China carrying French the Annamites, after having a member of the International onies, threatening a general pro­ etc. troops.” been nationalists for a time, to­ Its Bands For Civil War The domination of Big Bus­ day adhere in the m ajority to Brigade in 1936 that Comrade test strike unless their demand Meanwhile Brass Hats, in Martinson first observed the de­ for the recall of Richards and iness in Indo-China operated response to servicemen’s de­ revolutionary Marxism. Is not the By E. Germain which, in case of Nazi victory, When the reaction tried to hold through a heavily-paid, top- mands to return home, al­ President of the Viet Minh, real­ generation of the Communist other high-ranking officials is the dynasty would keep its a Leopoldist rally at Brussels, Party, and its treacherous col­ (Special to THE MILITANT) heavy administration. This ad­ leged that a "bottle-neck” in ly the militant communist Nguy­ met. throne in Belgium in exchange 2,000 Stalinists, Socialists and laboration with the bosses. To­ ministration drained the coun­ shipping prevents early w ith­ en Ai Quoc? His book The Pro­ BRUSSELS, Belgium, Oct. for incorporating the country Trotskyists in a counter dem­ day he is a member of the Trot­ Poland try’s resources—remember how? drawal of troops from over­ cess of French Colonization Is 29.—An atmosphere of civil into the economic and military onstration transformed the Roy­ —by flooding the country with seas. skyist movement. The piece-work system of pay. known to all the friends of the war reigns in Belgium. The bloc of German capitalism. alist meeting into a complete bad alcohol made by the Indo- Indo-Chinese people. W ith a long record of heroic "the worst form of capitalist ex­ But to whom does Van Acker fiasco. struggles on behalf of the work­ Catholic Party, the party of Chinese Society of Distillers, up­ 1930 with the mutiny of the In the light of what has pre­ ploitation used against the w ork-, the big bourgeoisie, has un­ issue the document? To Parlia­ The working class reacts sharpshooters of Yen Bay (Ton­ ing class, Comrade Martinson ing class” and fought for years on which they levied an “ hon­ ceded, the events now taking leashed a press campaign of ment? To the people? To his against all provocations of the est” commission, and by ped­ kin). Headed by young intel­ stands on a fighting program of by all the labor unions of the own party? Not at all! To cer­ place in Cochin - China assume revolutionary socialism. bourgeoisie with admirable class dling opium, which they monop­ lectuals who had become ac­ world, is now being introduced extreme violence for the im­ tain heads of all the parties, full meaning. The Japanese mediate return of King Leo­ instinct. The capitalists have olized. quainted in our own schools in have not “ fomented” Annamite on a vide scale in Poland, ac­ convened in secret session, in­ sought to paralyze the most m il­ France with the rights of man, Japan cording to the September-Octo- III. The Radical Socialist, Albert rebellion in order to avenge de­ pold cluding the leaders of the Cath­ itant section of the proletariat, it soon took the form of a genu­ ber Poland Fights. This "Stak­ Agitation favoring murder and Sarraut, then Governor General, feat. Nor have the Annamites Chinese and Koreans forced olic Party! He did not want to the miners, by bringing thous­ inely popular movement. Every­ hanov system” is called by the assassination is being pushed to acquired wretched notoriety by for their part “collaborated” with to labor by the Japanese capital­ publish his own documents un­ ands of German prisoners of war urging his subordinates to push where the peasants rose up. In ists during the war have now Polish press a “reform,” and was paroxysm in the Flemish villages til the king had a chance to re­ the Japanese occupation author­ to work in the mines. But this the sale of alcohol and opium in peaceful processions, unarmed ities. With remarkable political become “ slave laborers’’ for the approved by Jan Stanczyk, pres­ against the reformist Premier ply to them! He refused to em­ maneuver boomeranged against except for placards with de­ ent minister of Labor and Social Van Acker. “ Death to Van Ack­ the villages. sense, they have simply taken U. S. occupation authorities, ac­ ploy his own weapons before the bourgeoisie. Indo-China is essentially an mands, they flocked to the chief cording to a Tokyo dispatch in Welfare in the Warsaw govern­ er,” "Lynch Van Acker”—these advantage of circumstances, they had been neutralized by the The international solidarity of agricultural country; 90 per cent towns to protest against the ex­ the November 7 N. Y. Post. Some ment. slogans can be read on innum­ enemy. For he correctly fears making them serve the cause the proletariat has proved very of its people cultivate rice. The cessively heavy taxes. Big Rus- 15,000 Chinese and 78,400 Kor­ The physical exhaustion of the erable walls in the country. At that the masses, finally realizing of Independence. No freedom real! Recently when the min­ French rulers also extracted the iness replied with a blood bath. ean striking mine workers were Polish workers is close to the the same time a series of at­ the utter decay of the monarchy, without arms. The Indo-Chin­ ers of the village of Anderlues, revenues necessary for their os­ The young nationalists died ordered back into the Hokkaido limit. The death toll is mount­ tempts against the lives of work­ would resolutely launch into the ese patiently awaited the mo­ under the guidance of our com­ tentatious domination and for upon the guillotine, or through coal mines by their “ liberators,” ing steeply. According to a War­ ing class leaders have been per­ struggle for the republic! ment when the fall of Japan rade Bougard, went out on strike support of their army and police tortures which the Hitlerian instead of being granted the re­ saw dispatch in the “ N. Y. petrated. Nothomb, Catholic would place in their hands the CAPTIVES OF COALITION against the boss, they succeeded by heaping heavy taxes upon thé brutes have since only practiced patriation they were anxiously Times” of Oct. 16, “ Poland’s 20.- Senator, publicly declared that arms of the Nipponese troops. in also drawing the German pris­ small farmer, thus forcing him on a larger scale. The demon­ awaiting. 000,000 souls are dying off from “ no matter what the scoundrels When in August the Catholics I And these arms today are serv­ oners of -war into the struggle! | into the clutches of the Chinese strations of unarmed peasants Originally the Chinese were tuberculosis alone at the rate of do who are at present govern­ resigned from the government. ing them so that they will not ing the country, the King will Van Acker could have constitut­ And when a German miner died usurer. were mowed down by machine fall back into the old slavery. "grabbed” by Japanese civilian 10.000 a month. There are 1,- In order to reinforce their return before the elections and ed a Socialist-Communist gov- ; in the Charleroi Valley because guns. The demonstrators were From September 24 to October "police gangs” working with the 200.000 reported cases of tuberc­ they delayed treating him prop­ domination, the French fostered run through by bayonets of ulosis and it is believed that will be able to transform them, ernment, organized immediate: 1, there was a genuine armed In­ Japanese army in China, They erly after an accident at work, ignorance, depriving the people drunken legionnaires. The so- there may be twice that many if he wishes, into a plebiscite for elections and gained an over­ surrection, a genuine Commune were shipped to Japan and sold the Belgian miners spontaneous­ of schools. Before the conquest, called "rebellious” villages and more unreported ones.” himself!” whelming victory as in England which burst forth in Saigon. This to coal mine operators for $100 ly stopped work in protestr the Indo-Chinese enjoyed a high farms were bombed to the each, most of them serving as Introduction of the piece-work The “ Royalist M ilitia” and or in France. But in reality, the was not the work of the Japan­ against the shameful treatment level of civilization and educa­ ground. Thousands of con­ system with its inhuman speed­ the “ National Royalist Move­ reformists and Stalinists are ese or of some native “ agitator*” . slave labor without pay. At the inflicted upon their German tion. demned political prisoners were beginning of the war the Kor­ up, together with hunger and in­ ment,” as well as other reac­ afraid to take power. They All available Information prove« tionary bands, are arming open­ want nothing better than to re­ comrades! This despicable regime has deported to Guiana where they that it was a powerful mas« eans were induced to work in adequate medical care means never been accepted by the An­ suffered the same slow death as Japan on the promise of better “ disastrous epidemics this win­ ly. In brief, bourgeois reaction main captives of a coalition with BREAK THE COALITION! movement. Despite their boaste, is doing everything possible to a bourgeois party, in order to be namite people. Since the begin­ those at Buchenwald and Dach­ the Anglo-French forces do Mot rations and 23 cents a day. By ter.” Already health authorities FOR THE REPUBLIC! ning of French occupation, there au. the war’s end, however, 2,000,000 are sounding grim warnings. achieve its end: paralyze the able to absolve themselves of all at all appear to be masters of working class, prepare the dic­ their treason in the eyes of the The Revolutionary Communist has been a succession of revolts. It must also be said, for it is the situation. And the Armistice tatorship, “re-establish” the ec­ masses. Party. Belgian section of the The most important began in necessary to tell the whole truth, which they concluded with the onomy of the country by impos­ Thus while the bourgeoisie, Fourth International, unceas­ Viet M inh seems to us rather Karl Marx's Indictment ing increasingly heavy burdens thanks to its Catholic party, re­ ingly summons the workers to a sign of weakness than of on the proletariat. inforces the Leopoldist camp struggle for their own class strength. aims. Refusing to follow the re­ American Troops Bolster REFORMISTS, STALINISTS with all its means, it at the same SUPPORT VIET MINH! Of Dutch Colonial Rule formists and Stalinists onto the FEAR THE MASSES time paralyzes the anti-Leopold- ist camp thanks to its Liberal field of useless, constitutional Such is the situation at the Karl Marx, in Capital, Volume But the reformist and Stalin­ party. When Van Acker at­ quarrels, the Trotskyists try to Chiang Kai-shek Regime moment. But tomorrow it can I, first published in 1867, de­ ist leaders are not opposing the tempted a tim id reply to the mobilize the masses for the im ­ (Continued from Page 1) develop in a less favorable di­ scribes how the Dutch brought mobilization of reaction by any rection for the Indo - Chinese filth y campaigns of the reaction­ mediate overthrow of the mon­ the blessings of Western civili­ mobilization whatsoever of the one-seventh of all China and its ary press and suppressed the archy for the Republic. With people. The arrival of the French zation to the Far East. The facts masses. On the contrary, they population only one-tenth, it in­ Catholic Journal Le Quotidien this aim the RCP demands that fleet at Saigon, the debarking he presents have never been re­ are caught between their fear of cludes as many skilled workers (The Daily), the Liberal min­ fu ll light be shed on all the facts of troops, is already restoring to futed : the bourgeois offensive which as all the rest of China. isters immediately threatened to and that all the documents be French colonialism a little of Its “Of the Christian colonial threatens to throw them out of Manchuria’s industrial assets resign and Van Acker was forced published. This activity finds swagger. General Leclerc (De system, W. Howitt, a man who the government, and their fear give it predominant influence to reauthorize the publication of increasing sympathy among ever Haute Cloque) speaks again of makes a specialty of Christian­ of a working class offensive which over China. There are more fac­ this most blackly reactionary pa­ greater sections of the workers, reestablishing “order.” The big ity, says: ‘The barbarities and could rapidly plunge the coun­ tories and railroads in Manchur­ per. Nothing illustrates better and at the Congress of the So­ capitalist companies who live on desperate outrages of the so- try into a revolutionary situa­ ia than in all the rest of China. the robbery of Indo-China and the true role of the Liberal party cialist Party numerous delegates called Christian race, through­ tion. Having up to now deliv­ Manchuria produces nine times than the following fact recently likewise demanded the struggle who are very influential in the out every region of the world, ered all its blows against the as much steel and three-fifths revealed in the press: The Solvay for the Republic. Rue Saint Dominique are going, and upon every people they have working class, the Van Acker as much coal as the whole of trust, which has just given a A t the same time the PCR make no mistake about it, to been able to subdue, are not to government has itself reinforced China. I t has vast untapped re­ twenty million franc subsidy to shows the masses the only way exert pressure to change the be paralleled by those of any capitalist reaction in the most sources such as tungsten, shale Leopoldist propaganda, includes to organize a serious resistance policy of the “outstretched other race, however fierce, how­ notorious fashion. Forced to oil, gold, iron and coal. among its administrators the against the offensive of the re­ hand” to one of brutal force ever untaught, and however oppose the offensive of the Leo- Liberal deputy Ch. E. Janssens! action; that is, to transform the Chungking is prepared to wage against the Viet Minh. reckless of mercy and of shame, poldists (partisans of the return But the Stalinist paper, which "vigilance committees” a n d a bitter battle for the region The Annamite people under­ in any age of the earth.’ KARL MARX of King Leopold n i) , the Van first published this revelation, since its possession could have stand—and they are right—that Acker government strives to take "Committees of the Democratic TREACHERY, MASSACRE of Celebes, until they were ready does not add that Ch. E. Jans­ Alliance” into genuine organs of a decisive effect on the outcome they must save themselves. But the struggle out of the streets “ The history of the colonial for sending to the slave ships. sens sits “fraternally” with the struggle, through the expulsion of the civil war. great dangers still menace them. (where the most belligerent lay­ And on the hard road to their administration of Holland—and “An official report says: ‘This Stalinist leaders in the “ Com­ of the bourgeois representatives ers of the bourgeoisie and the INDUSTRIAL WEALTH Holland was the head capitalist­ one town of Macassar, e.g., is full mittee of Democratic Alliance” and the inclusion of revolution­ liberation they need the support militant workers wish to carry The United States is aiding of the French workers, or to ic nation of the 17th century— of secret prisons, one more hor­ at Brussels, and that he willing­ aries and delegates elected from CHIANG KAI-SHEK it, and place it on the Parlia­ the Kuomintang government in phrase it better, of all those in •is one of the most extraordinary rible than the other, crammed ly permits himself to be pho­ the factories and the neighbor­ mentary stage where it hopes order to prevent the Chinese the war that “ liberated” coun­ France for whom the word “de­ relations of treachery, bribery, with unfortunates, victims of tographed beside John Jean hoods. to conclude a rotten compro- j Stalinists from dominating Man­ tries would be free to choose mocracy” has not yet been emp­ massacre, and meanness.’ greed and tyranny fettered in Terfve, Secretary of the Com­ mise. Basing themselves on these churia and to bolster the utterly their own form of government tied of all meaning. “Nothing is more character­ chains, forcibly tom from their munist Party, who pretends to For months the Van Acker committees, the workers could reactionary Chiang Kai - shek after victory. Let us give this support w ith­ istic than their system of steal­ families.’ “struggle” for the nationaliza­ government has withheld a de­ organize their own m ilitia, track regime. Despite their promises to get out losing a moment. ing men, to get slaves for Java. tion of the trusts! “ SWEET COMMERCE!” vastating document on Leopold down and disarm the neo-fas­ Japanese troops, subject to the out of China, American imper­ And let us know how to thank The men stealers were trained "To secure Malacca, the Dutch in, refusing to publish it, re­ MASSES WANT TO ACT! cist gangs, compel the reform­ orders of American brass-hats, ialists are making no moves to those who, shaking o ff the at­ for this purpose. The thief, the corrupted the Portuguese gover­ fusing to show it to the people.' However, if the treacherous ists and Stalinist leaders to break have “ been purposely allowed to withdraw the troops. Wall Street mosphere of prostration, of de­ interpreter, and the seller, were nor. He let them into the town The government openly declares working class leaders do every­ the coalition with the liberal retain arms to preclude disord­ is daily becoming more deeply moralization, of impotence and the chief agents in this trade, in 1641. They hurried at once that it is afraid to “discredit” thing possible to paralyze the bourgeoisie, and engage in an ers,” said a November 16 A.P. involved in the civil war. despair in which the world has native princes the chief sellers. to his house and assassinated the monarchy which constitutes masses, the masses clearly ex­ electoral battle for a bold pro­ dispatch after a press confer­ Under-Secretary of the Navy appeared to wallow since the “ The young people stolen, were him, to ‘abstain’ from the pay­ the most solid support of the press their will to act. Ten days gram of transitional demands. ence with General Albert C. Wed- Artemus Gates declared on No­ end of the great cataclysm, have thrown into the secret dungeons ment of 21,875 Pounds, the price Belgian bourgeoisie. Driven to ago a rumor — completely un­ Along this road, and only emeyer, commander of United vember 18 according to the As­ once again raised the banner of of his treason. reply by the violent attacks of founded—spread through Brus­ along this road, the workers are States forces in China. sociated Press that “ no decision freedom. READ “ Wherever they set foot, dev­ its adversaries, it issued the sels that a coup d’etat was go­ assured of winning over the ma­ The “ disorders” are, of course, had been made on the possible Yesterday we saluted the up­ astation and depopulation fol­ famous "Schmidt document,” a ing to be attempted against Van jority of the country. But if the actions of the Chinese Stal­ future withdrawal of the Mar­ rising of the Greek people. To­ ‘THE FOURTH lowed. Banjuwangi, a province document which proves that Leo­ Acker. they continue to delay in taking inists who are defending the ter­ ines from North China.” Gates day we say from the bottom of of Java, in 1750 numbered over pold in during the war went to Immediately the miners of the this road, they can become dis­ ritory they hold. Thus the lie admitted “the possibility of in­ our hearts: “Hail to the Com­ INTERNATIONAL 80,000 inhabitants, in 1811 only Berchtesgaden and there dis­ Borinage district decided to call credited and prepare the ground is again given to the fraudulent volvement of United States mune of Saigon! Freedom foe 18,000. Sweet commerce!” cussed with Hitler a plan by a general strike the next day. for the worst bourgeois reaction. declarations of the Allies during forces.” Indo-China!” PAGE FOUR THE MILITAN SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1945

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Y. wards actual control of industry.” Men are coming back from far-flung battle front* Telephone: ALgonquIn 4-8547 It is the duty of organized labor to lay bare, where they have spent the last winters either in cold, FARRELL DOBBS, Managing Editor as Trotsky put It, "that unconscionable squan­ wet fox-holes and pup-tents, sleeping on frozen THE MILITANT follows the policy of permitting its contributors to present their own views in signed articles. dering of human labor which Is the result of ground, or in torturous heat, drenched by heavy These views therefore do not necessarily represent the capitalist anarchy and aaked pursuit of prof­ policies of THE MILITANT which are expressed in its tropical rains. Or they have stood watch on deck ex­ editorials. it.” To that end, the unions must counter posed to freezing winds. the capitalist claim of “inviolability” of "bus­ Subscriptions: $1.00 per year; 50c for 6 months. Uppermost in their thoughts was return to a com­ Foreign: $2.00 per year, $1.00 for 6 months. iness secrets” with the demand: Bundle orders: 3 cents per copy in the United States; fortable home. But what do they find on arriving in 4 cents per copy in all foreign countries. OPEN THE BOOKS AND RECORDS OF THE Single copies: 5 cents. CORPORATIONS! this country? “ Entered as second class matter March 7, 1044 at the post The only homes or apartments available are either office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March I, 1879.“ those renting for such exorbitant sums that G I’s can’t afford even to look at them, or vermin infested cold- Stalin And Indonesia water tenements with a bathtub in the kitchen and Only the world rev­ When British troops first entered Indonesia a toilet to be shared with half a dozen other families. The floors are rotting away, the doors are broken olution can save the after the defeat of Japan, they were welcomed by the heads of the Nationalist movement. and the windows — In case they aren’t broken — USSR for socialism. won’t open if they’re closed and can’t be closed If The Nationalists counted on the fulfillm ent of they’re open. But the world revolu­ the promises of the Atlantic Charter, expect­ Even these miserable places are scarce. And vet­ tion carries with it ing that the Allies would surely grant the peo­ erans don’t want that kind of a “ home” as a re­ the inescapable blot­ ple of Indonesia their freedom from Dutch ward for their long years of hardship. ting out of the Krem­ imperialism. The situation in New York is indicative of condi­ However, the British troops were ordered to lin oligarchy. tions throughout the country. Here there are 20,000 shoot down the Indonesians. Then the B rit­ veterans without homes. This number is being aug­ — Leon Trotsky ish Government announced an understanding mented at the rate of S,500 a week as men are de­ with the Dutch Government regarding restor­ mobilized from the armed forces. Many men in hos­ ation of Dutch oppression in Indonesia. pitals, men with wives and small children, can’t be The heads of the Nationalist movement ap­ **Vve been thinking how much you’d enjoy this ever since last released because they have no home to go to. pealed to Truman and Attlee for help in their Thanksgiving V* A typical occurrence was reported by the N. V. Support The UAW! struggle for independence. But bbth Truman Times, November 13. “ More than 1,000 men back and Attlee maintained a studied and con­ from the wars crowded the Commodore Hotel lobby As in the heroic days of the 1936-37 strike and overflowed into the street as they sought to temptuous silence. Allied troops, using Amer-t obtain priorities for 600 of the apartments In the wave, the m ilitant auto workers are preparing lean-made armament, dropped bombs and Bronx recently vacated by the Waves.” to spearhead a great and crucial struggle of high explosive shells on populous areas of In addition several thousand phone calls were re­ American labor. Java. ceived from veterans during the day. They were In the battles of nearly a decade ago, the Finally, Soekarno, President of the Republic told they had to apply in person. Groups of veterans auto workers humbled some of the most pow­ of Indonesia, and Soeb&rdjo, Foreign Minister, and their wives gathered on the sidewalk and erful fortresses of the open shop and climaxed addressed appeals to Molotov and Btalin, ask­ voiced their angry disapproval of the situation. They with victory the basic conflict of that period ing the Soviet Union to Intervene in behalf of spoke about a march on City Hall to demand tem­ —the right to a union and collective bargain­ One of Jack London’s finest The thread consisted of $5,000 Mexican which is not well known, porary housing. the people of Indonesia. short stories is The Mexican.* needed to buy arms. Hollywood has avoided Jack Lon­ Even in this early stage of demobilization the ing. Up to now, Stalin and Molotov, like Truman This stirring tale of the devo­ How Rivera tries to get this don’s most famous and greatest housing shortage is Approaching the proportions of a Today, all of American labor confronts a and Attlee have not seen f it to even reply to tion and heroism of a revolu­ money is one of the most excit­ work, The Iron Heel. major crisis and scandal. new stage of epic struggle. That Is the battle the plea of the besieged Indonesians. tionist has now been made into ing scenes in all of Jack London’s We can answer the question for higher living standards and permanent At the same time, the Anglo-American im­ a movie, El Mexicano, by Mex­ works. The youth had obtained by examining Hollywood's han­ The housing shortage doesn’t come as a surprise security. Shall the workers go back to the perialists now slaughtering the Indonesians ico’s studios and is showing cur­ his previous financial contribu­ dling of Martin Eden. This pow­ to the authorities. Before the war there weren’t breadlines, the welfare bureaus, the beans and rently at Spanish film theatres. tions by taking merciless beat­ erful novel of the rise of a work­ enough dwellings. No new housing units have been have launched a diplomatic offensive against built in the last five years. Buildings have depre­ gravy existence of the 1929-1940 capitalist the Soviet Union. It Is an open secret that In Jack London’s story the ings in the training camps of ing man to fame was reduced to a hero personifies the revolution professional boxers and in the simple adventure and love story ciated during the war, many have had to be aban­ crisis? this offensive Is but one of the stages toward doned and many more should be condemned as un­ Big Business says yes! The W all Street of the Mexican people against amateur ring at Los Angeles. Now after Hollywood’s surgeons had armed assaillt on the Soviet Union. Obviously the hated dictator Porfirio Diaz. he must fight to win against one (finished cutting and face-lifting. fit for human habitation. The problem was acute monopolists say yes! They are plotting and the people of the Soviet Union and the people When Rivera, a hungry-looking of the country’s leading conten­ ' All the sections about Martin during ' the war. Thousands of veterans looking scheming to drive down wages, in fla te prices, of Indonesia face the same world enemies. youth of 18 first appeared at der's for the championship. Eden’s approach to socialism for a place to live have set in bold relief the scanda­ maintain a “reserve army’’ of unemployed to Consequently, not to help the Indonesians the headquarters of the "junta” Jack London shows how the were completely amputated. lous conditions. use in undermining union organization and constitutes basest betrayal of the Interests of or local branch, the revolution­ power of the revolutionary idea However, Hollywood could not The situation was foreseeable and could have been conditions. the USSR. ists suspected him of being a inspires and fortifies the youthful cut out the socialism in The Iron averted. Yet, even now the government has no plan The American workers say no! They are spy. The hate that burned in his fighter against what seem over­ Heel, for the entire story, al­ to provide more housing. The attitude of Stalin toward the colonial eyes made them uneasy. determined to prevent the war profits-bloated masses Is the direct opposite of that of Lenin whelming odds. though written as far back as This Indifference on the part of the government 14 corporations from slicing their take-home pay He asked only one privilege— Enough of this original story 1907, prophesies the coming of in marked contrast to its actions in preparing for and Trotsky. These two founders of the Sov­ to work for the revolution. His and purchasing power. Their determination is left in E l, Mexicano to raise fascism, shows how Big Business the war. Barracks to house millions of men mush­ iet Union, throughout their lives, stood In the first assignment was washing the fosters fascism, and demon­ is expressed in the demand voiced by millions the film considerably above Hol­ roomed overnight. Factories sprang up with amazing forefront of the struggle for freedom of the floors and windows of the head­ lywood standards. strates that only the socialists speed — when it was a question of preparing for of organized workers, in every section of the quarters, cleaning out the spit-- colonial peoples. They considered the work­ HOLLYWOOD’S MOTIVES are capable of leading the fight war. labor movement, for a reduced work-week with ing people of the colonies as powerful allies oons and keeping the fires. against fascist barbarism. no reduction in take-home pay. For the auto The cold-eyed youth merely El Mexicano goes back into Typical of the speed In those days was the con­ of the working class In the industrial centers. Hollywood, completely under struction in six weeks of Atom City in Oak Ridge, a. workers that means a 30 per cent Increase In tusked: “Is It for the revolution?” Rivera’s past, shows how dic­ To see how rotten and counter-revolutionary tator Diaz machine-gunned the control of Wall Street, could city of 75,000 persons needed for work on the atomic basic wage rates.- Assured that these tasks too no more convert into movies the Stalinism has become, one need only recall were for the revolution, he went siriking workers and ferocious­ bomb. If this could be done for war why can’t It be A strike of the auto workers w ill unquestion­ how Lenin would have acted. Lenin would not ly hunted down those who op­ works Jack London based on done to house the men who fought In that war? to work without another word. socialist Ideas, than could the ably bring the developing wage conflict toward have waited for an appeal from the beleag­ posed the regime. The movie Reliable housing authorities state that temporary In Jack London’s 'story, this German studios under Hitler. full nation-wide unfoldment. Every resource also adds a wide ribbon of ro­ housing for veterans could be made available in 30 uered Indonesians. From the beginning he young revolutionist typifies the Mexico, however, still lives un­ of Big Business and its government w ill be indomitable Jimmy Higgins mance, tosses in a petty-bour­ to 60 days. But no move has been made to construct would have supported their struggle openly der the aura of the overthrow worker, the backbone of the rev­ geois sympathizer of the junta it. Nor are there plans for large scale permanent concentrated against the auto workers to and warned the colonial fighters well In ad­ of Porfirio Diaz and in addition olutionary party, willing to do who eventually turns traitor, and low-rent housing projects. smash their struggle and frustrate their de­ vance of the perfidious Intentions of Allied feels every day the bitter pres­ anything to advance the cause. completes the bill with a jail- mands. imperialism. sure of Yankee imperialism. A In this as in everything else thé government Eventually Rivera worked up break and plenty of gun-fire and clearly demonstrates its callous indifference to the The monopoly capitalists know only too well The program of Lenin—betrayed on every hard riding. portion of Jack London’s revo­ the meaning of a victory for the auto workers. to setting type for the small rev­ lutionary spirit can therefore needs of workers and veterans. In no case is It point by the Stalinists—today is the heritage olutionary press. Then a strange But the devotion of the revolu­ willing to initiate a program in the interest of the It will inspire an overwhelming tide of labor of the Fourth International alone. Only the seep into its films. thing happened. He began bring­ tionists to their cause, the power Unfortunately, English titles men who fought the war. resistance to Wall Street’s hunger plans. It Trotskyists uphold Lenin’s policy of full sup­ ing to the junta at irregular In­ of a great idea to inspire people w ill weaken, if not shatter, the Big Business are not provided with El Mexi­ port to the colonial peoples In their struggle tervals increasing amounts of and convert them into 'truly hu­ cano. Much of the stinging bits offensive to drive down the living standards for Independence. money. He not only did the "dirty man beings permeates the movie, of satire on the Yankees will of the American people and thereby to. further work,” but he helped finance the lifting it far above the usual thus be lost to those lacking a Steel Union Exposes increase the war-swollen profits of the corp­ Junta. mind-deadener cranked out by good knowledge of Spanish. How­ orations. Bandits' Agreement The climax of the story is built Hollywood. ever, the Mexican interpretation Every worker In America must appreciate on a crisis in the revolutionary An interesting question arises. of an American prize fight and Bosses' 'Poverty' Plea what he has at stake in the auto workers’ bat­ The Washington columnist Drew Pearson on movement — when the fate of Why doesn’t Hollywood utilize especially an American profes­ tle. His own chances for a steady job at a November 12 revealed a secret agreement be­ the revolution hung by a thread. themes like the one in El Mexi­ sional boxer handshaking himself decent liv in g wage are at issue. The capital­ tween Roosevelt and Churchill. At the Que­ cano? Hollywood knows about into the ring is pantomime any­ The greatest steel strike In history looms as nearly •Available in the collection, Jack London. It has even turned one can enjoy. The boxing match bec Conference held in September 1944, Pearson a million CIO steel and metal workers await the out­ ists, as a class, are .moving against the auto "The Night Born,” By Jack Lon­ out a few versions of the Call of alone Is-worth the price of ad­ workers to crush them and pave the way for reports, the two Imperialist politicians drew don. A. Appleton Century Co., the Wild and The Sea Wolf. But mission. come of an NLRB strike vote on November 27 in crushing the aspirations of the workers in all up a program to utterly destroy Germany. New York. curiously enough, besides The Reviewed by Joseph Hansen support of their demand for a $2 a day wage increase. industry. “The industries in the Ruhr 'and Saar would Pleading “ poverty” for the war-profits glutted therefore be necessarily put out of action, There can be but one answer from the en­ steel Industry, Benjamin F. Fairless, president of tire labor movement. It must rally to a man closed down,” reads the secret agreement. U. S. Steel Corporation, twice flatly refused to meet behind the auto workers. Unbreakable labor “The districts should be put under some body Congressmen At W ork a government conciliator. Instead he handed the solidarity is the order of the day. “All sup­ under the World Organization which would government an ultimatum to boost steel prices. The port to the embattled auto workers!” must be supervise dismantling the Industries, and make obedient Office of Price Administration is pushing the slogan the moment the auto workers hit sure they are not started up again by some Some of Wall Street’s Con­ whether his “ Jim Crow” signs through the price boost while Fairless continues to subterfuge. gressmen apparently have been In the modern Colosseum would flout the Labor Department. the picket lines. studying how the Roman em­ be carved in marble. Bilbo only Fairless lied that present steel prices “ do not en­ “This program looks forward to converting perors appeased the hungry pro­ specified “ a landing strip for Germany Into a country principally agricult­ letariat with circuses and games. able us to grant a wage Increase at this time.” In privately owned airplanes.” reality the steel industry could pay the $2 raise and " Business Secrets" ural and pastoral.” Senator Langer of North Da­ What with hot dog conces­ kota, for instance, evidences still treble its prewar profits next year, according Big Business corporations reject the just The document was laconically signed “ O. K .” sions, bottled pop and. all, the to Philip Murray, president of both the CIO and demands of workers fo r a 30 per cent wage in ­ and initialed by both Roosevelt and Churchill. close acquaintance with Roman stadium will eventually become a political lore: the United Steelworkers of America. crease. A t the same time, they have issued A t the tim e of the Quebec Conference, Sec­ “self-liquidating proposition.” "For many years, Mr. Presi­ Murray has disclosed a “ conservative” $800,000,000 an ultimatum to the government; demanding retary of the Treasury Morgenthau publicly But right now, to put it blunt­ of “ hidden” steel war profits In five years—“ hidden” dent, we have had an Army- ly, a small appropriation from huge price increases. However, General Mo­ advocated precisely this plan. The people were In excess reserves, excess depreciation write-offs, Navy football game . . . Mr. Pres­ public funds is needed “sp.that tors and U. S. Steel, for instance, have re­ horrified, fo r a “ peace” based on such a plan ident, I believe that the admis­ amortizations and allowances for pensions for m il­ we can convince business con­ lionaire executives. This $800,000,000 “ hidden pro­ fused to make available even to the Office of meant the annihilation of tens of millions of sion to this game should be free. cerns that may be willing to in ­ fits” brings total steel war profits to $2,000,000,000 Price Administration, the full record of their Germans. It meant, moreover, the decline of I believe that there should be vest their money to build this (tw’o billions) — enough profits in five years to pay costs and profits. all Europe. With the stilling of the Industrial no tickets reserved except 100 greatest stadium in all the so that in the next 48 years the the $2 raise for eight years. The pretext for thus concealing how much heart of the continent, millions of people out­ for the President of the United world.” game w ill have been played In Whereas the $2 raise would amount to $250,000,- these war-enriched corporations have stolen side Germany likewise would Inevitably face States and his guests and the Why don’t the two Senators every one of the 48 States.” 000 a year, the steel barons are already guaranteed Secret Service; 10 for the Secre­ make a deal? If Senator Langer from the public treasury and squeezed out of starvation and death. A few minutes later, Senator $300,000,000 In tax refunds, plus $125,000,000 already tary of War, 10 for the Secretary would give up Army-Navy games the blood and toil of the workers, is — the In view of this unfavorable public reaction, Bilbo of Mississippi reported “ on , saved by elimination of overtime pay, plus another of the Navy, and 10 for the Gov­ In 48 States and agree to stag­ “sanctity” of “business secrets.” spokesmen of the Roosevelt Administration behalf of the National Memorial $225,000,000 through repeal of the excess profit* ernor of the State in which the ing them in the super-colossal Every time an effort Is made to Investigate denied supporting the harsh and frightful Stadium Commission.” tax. What’s more, government-financed plant mod­ contest may be played.” stadium, maybe he could line up the swindling and the frauds perpetrated by “peace” outlined by Morgenthau. The rest of the Cabinet and Senator Bilbo generally cam­ Bilbo's vote. And if Bilbo would ernization has raised labor productivity about 25 per Big Business, to determine what monumental Under cover of secret diplomacy, however, State officials, presumably, paigns against the Colored peo­ limit the rake-off to the conces­ cent in steel. loot they are wringing from Ameripan work­ the heads of Angle-American imperialism would have to scramble for seats ple. but this time he had an­ sions, while .accepting Langer’s Accusing Fairless of “ crying poor” with "pockets ers, the corporations fa ll back on the same went right ahead behind the backs of the along with the Senators and other axe to grind. He wanted proposal for free tickets to the bulging with war profits,” Murray said' the steel old cry of “business secrets.” people and cynically agreed to carry out pre­ Representatives. “ the greatest stadium not only Army-Navy contest, then he industry can pay the raise in 1946 and still net in the United States but in the $474,000,000, three an^ a half times average annual Leon Trotsky, founder of the Fourth Inter­ cisely the horrible “Morgenthau” plan. BRILLIANT PROVISION could line up Langer’s vote. It world, and which is to be built looks like a natural.! 1935-39 profits or 45 per cent above the corpora­ national, stripped the veil from the hypocrit­ Right now this plan is being put into ef­ To help poor people, unable to upon such lines and be of such And to make the whole thing tions’ take-home in 1941, the most profitable war ical claim that the shady workings of the fect by Truman, Attlee and Stalin. Without afford transportation long dis­ magnitude that there will be a real whopping success, how year. corporations must be protected. In “The consulting the people of'the Allied nations, the tances to see the free game, the nothing in the world like it. It Is about donating free airplanes? U. S. Steel has boasted in business circles of being Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of Senator included a brilliant pro­ Allied Governments are methodically dismant­ to be finished in marble: it is Then anybody who wants one can “ In the best' financial position it has ever experienc­ vision: “In the bill which I am the Fourth International,” written in 1939, ling and blowing up the great productive In­ to be a covered stadium, and it try out the landing strip when ed.” In contrast, steelworkers’ wages buy 10 per introducing . . . commencing al­ Trotsky declared: dustrial plants of Germany. will have attached to it other at­ he comes to Washington to see cent less than in January, 1941, when they averaged phabetically, the game shall be “The motivation offered for the principle Capitalism has brought Europe to the brink tractions which will make it the the free Army-Navy football $33.60 a week. Cuts of 25 to 50 per pent have resulted played In every State In the great show place of the nation as from downgrading and reducing the work-week, while of ‘business secrets’ is ostensibly, as In the of the abyss. The coming w inter w ill w it­ Union, commencing next year in game in the greatest memorial epoch of liberal capitalism, that of ‘free com­ a memorial to the soldiers of prices continue to skyrocket since last year when ness scenes of such horror as to pale anything Alabama at a ' place designated ! these two great world wars." In the world to Wall Street’s the CIO determined the cost of living had risen 45 petition’! In reality, the trusts keep no secrets yet recorded in history. by the Governor of the State, I Senator Bilbo did not say wars. per cent. PAGE FIVE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1945 THE MILITANT U. S. Aims To Use Japan Against Soviet Union, Says Latest F.I.

“ There are only two major derstand that they have a com­ nationalized njpperty of the m ilitary powers left in the world mon enemy—the revolutionary USSR.” This irreconcilable an­ The Workers’ Forum columns are open to the opinions of the readers of "The M ilitant". Letters — the United States and the world working class. That is why tagonism remains, he points out, Local New York comrades and solution for the salvation of a rt welcome on any subject of interest to the workers. Keep them short and include your name and USSR,” states an important ed­ “for a generation Japan has fill­ even though the Kremlin has friends are to be commended for mankind.” address. Indicate if you do not want your name printed. itorial, “ Washington, Moscow ed the role of ‘gendarme of the thus far “limited itself In the A post-election report was sent East’ against the tide of Bolshev­ occupied countries to social re­ the excellent job they have done give his copy to someone and and Japan,” in the November to us by Abe Davis of the Brook­ ism.” in publicizing The Militant. Dur­ Scores Betrayers tell him of our fight for jobs for Fourth International, just off forms and has brutally sup­ lyn Branch: “ We held a very suc­ PRAY AND LOSE the press. The editorial points pressed the attempts of the ing the period of the election cessful street corner meeting in Of Working Class Governments take from taxpayer all. LABOR REVIVES I f there is an interested family out that the interests of these However, the. editorial con­ masses to overthrow capitalism campaign, innumerable copies of the Bedford-Stuyvesant area. We Editor: To pay the politicians in New York City unable to pay two powers clash most sharply cludes, it is not at all a foregone and place the workers in power.” the paper were distributed at distributed several hundred cop­ Monopolies rob consumers A Labor Party came to power 50 cents for a six-month sub­ “ in the-vast Pacific arena where street corner meetings. In addi­ ies of The Militant, and obtain­ Aided by traditions conclusion that Japan can be OTHER FEATURES In Australia In 1928 and ob­ scription to The Militant, I will the imperialist destiny of the U. tion, speakers at meetings advo­ ed 4 subscriptions from workers Pastors pray and ring the bells converted into an anti - Soviet The November Fourth Inter­ tained a striking Labor victory be glad to pay for it personally S. chiefly lies.” tool of American imperialism, cated the reading of The M ili­ who were impressed by our pa­ In 1843. Yet Australia has vici­ Judges fill the jails national contains many other in­ upon receiving your name, ad­ For this reason, the editorial “ for the Japanese masses have tant, pointing out “ the consis­ per, and the social program of ously treated Japanese prisoners Hysteria and sentiments teresting articles and features dress and zone number. explains, the U. S. Imperialists yet to speak their word . . . the tent role The M ilitant has play­ action our speakers discussed." Make pathetic tales. including: the 28th Anniversary * * * of war, if we are to believe re­ ed in supporting the workers in Victor A. Howell, must adopt a different policy Japanese labor movement is re­ of the Russian Revolution: the turning soldiers. They drowned Banks are filled w ith money The Militant, their fight for better living con­ Dorothy Lessing writes from from the one they used in crush­ viving . . . the victorious Amer­ fascist menace again emerging some and mutilated others and Stores control the food 116 University Place, ing and dismembering Germany. ditions, higher wages, against Baltimore: “ Here as everywhere ican imperialists are sitting on a in this country and its principal now the remaining prisoners are Masters like the wage-slaves New York 3, N. Y. Jim Crow at home and in the else that The M ilitant is sold, Alarmed by the totality of their social volcano which may erupt figure, Gerald L. K. Smith; the to be managed as you relate in Hungry, nearly nude— "destructive handiwork” in Ger­ armed forces, and proving that I’ve met with friendly and sym­ at any time.” British Dock Strike and the La­ The Militant. The unemployed workers many which “ created *n enorm­ Related to the subject matter only a socialist society was the pathetic response. Of the first In America the heavily union­ bor Government; the new "relief Are the capitalist’s delight Mother Proud of ous vacuum in which . . . the of this editorial, is another ar­ 12 people in Baltimore that I ap­ ised districts such as New York, for the greedy” tax bill passed Cheap labor and lots of it Stalinist bureaucracy of the So­ proached, 9 took subscriptions. Chicago, Detroit, etc., voted for Trotskyist Daughter ticle in the latest issue of the in the interests of the profiteers. Keeps capitalism right. viet Union proceeded to move,” The box on the masthead of the Roosevelt and his Wall Street Editor: Fourth International, “The Big “ The New Versailles and the the U. S. imperialists are now paper, ‘How Trotskyism Fight» War in about the same pro­ Governments want more taxes I am so pleased with a letter Five at London,” by William F. German Revolution” Is an ar­ preparing the Japanese ruling Jim Crow,’ drew some interest­ portion as did the Poll Tax elec­ To build more “peace” or "war” I have received from my mother Warde, which gives an analysis ticle written in March 1945 by class to become their agent in ing comments from the white torates of the South. And no Monopolies want more profits in California that I am sending of the ignominious collapse of a former member of the Com­ the Far East against the Soviet workers I canvassed. union leader large or small has To fill the banks up more it to you. I t was through me that this first peace conference, and munist Party of Germany who Union. the present jockeying for power "One housewife, whose hus­ uttered one word against the de­ Flags, prayers and profits she became acquainted with the broke with Stalinism and came band was a railroad worker, urg­ Will the Japanese capitalist and spheres of influence by the struction of the livelihood of the Give powers to millionaires Trotskyist movement. over to the position of the Fourth ed her husband to subscribe be­ class agree to this role? The edi­ imperialist "victors.” workers in the vanquished coun­ Security from monopolies “My dear Daughter Mili: You International. An article by We have a very interesting cause The Militant fought Jim to rial’ states, "Its great gamble The author shows that under­ tries. In fact Mr. Hillman, CIO Does not come from prayers said in your letter that you are Charles Carsten on the Argen­ letter from the New York local Crow, and she thought discrim­ for empire having failed, they lying the struggle among the agent In Europe, has asked that Davis Dusenbery working full time for the Party. tine crisis, a letter by Leon of the SWP this week. They ination and segregation were ter­ “Big Three” (who dominated the workers be represented on the Rochester, N. Y. I am very happy that you are. I are now content to fill the role Trotsky on the Agrarian and write: rible, and that all men were United Nations Council so they wish more people would be like of humble agent of the Wall “Big Five” Conference) “ is the National Questions, written in "During the recent period we equal.” Street brigands and to help them social-economic antagonism be­ * A * can be sure that the Potsdam ery place of employment has a you and work for the Party. Then 1935 and sent to the South A f­ have noted a greatly increased Agreement will be carried out we would build a better world— in establishing their rule in the tween the capitalist world and union, not every union is a good rican Trotskyists, round out this sale in all our books and pamph­ From Philadelphia we receiv­ and German industry destroyed. union: but it is every worker’s not like the one we have now. Far East.” For both the U. S. the degenerated workers’ state lets dealing with the Moscow ed this report: “A young Worker He no doubt is the man who duty to himself and his children “ Your work helps to better and Japanese capitalist class un- which still remains rooted in the excellent issue. Trials, our position on the So­ came into our headquarters last would have headed the Labor to join with the masses from all conditions for all workers in the viet Union, and on Russia In Friday, and said he wanted some Party (if he had not chosen to fields of labor and become a world and for the boys who come a drowning man struggling for general. This re-awakening of information on the forum to be direct it into other channels) soldier for labor Just as you were home alive from the army. some hope of existence in a rag­ interest in basic questions is very held that evening. He told u» had It succeeded in America. .. a soldier in the army fighting "This summer when I was at ing sea. Veteran Of World War II. significant in view of the fact he had been sold a subscription In England, Attlee, head of for the profits of the capital­ the West Coast Camp School, As friends would approach him that most of the queries for lit ­ to The M ilitant several weeks the Labor Party, is sending ists. Now it is time to be loyal I met the most wonderful people in a lifeboat and fight over erature and information of this ago, and prior to contact with our troops to shoot not only British to labor and fight for the secur­ I ever saw, all working so hard whether it is best to throw him Writes On Armistice Day type come from Stalinists and paper had never read such ideas. in the school and for the Party. an iron life-preserver of criti­ subjects but French and Dutch ity you were told you won by November 11, 1945 Stalinist sympathizers—especial­ To quote him : ‘I ’m a building M well. And his proposed re­ the peace. You really have fine comrades cism or a rope of hope with un­ ly young ones. construction worker, and after and I had very much pleasure derstanding — thus do I view Editor: forms in England seem to be a Every worker in America “ During the recent election work I spend an hour reading with them. a step in momentarily relinquish­ After four years in the army and one year combat in the plan for a broader distribution of should be a reader of The M ili­ campaign in New York the Daily and studying The Militant. I “ I am very, very proud of you, ing for a criticism of religion, Southwest Pacific area, it is indeed a wonderful feeling to be the spoils obtained by colonial tant, every worker should inves­ Worker renewed its vicious at­ find It very engrossing, and am M ili, and of Rudy, my darling out of uniform and free from the physical danger and stifling exploitations. tigate the cause for which it the attempt to bring the prin­ tacks on Trotskyism. The result keenly interested in the ideas Gray should do a cartoon of fights. No worker is secure so son-in-law, too, Both of you do ciples of socialism to the Ne­ intellectual atmosphere. The war has not made a jingo “ flag- waver” out of me; I can say the same for a good number of was to drive these young peo­ and program it presents. I took “ Musical Tunes” for the few long as another worker is un­ such fine, intelligent work. Keep gro people as their true solu­ the paper in to work, and show­ buddies still "in ” or “ liberated.” In fact, I am now more convinced ple to our headquarters to get w ithin the Labor movement who employed. The unions must fight on working for the Party and a tion to their economic, social ed it to some of the boys during than ever that this war, as the last war — as any war organized material on Trotskyism! They still hope that organised labor for their unemployed, for all are better world.” and political problems. lunch hour. After glancing brief­ and conducted by a capitalist state — was basically imperialistic. come to ask questions and stay and Labor Parties will use their part of the laboring class. Unless M ili Adams Subjected to the insensible in­ ly through it, they decided they A study of the boss press — from the conservative through the to buy books. Trotsky’s pamph­ strength for something other the employed fight side by side New York justice and atrocities thrust upon too wanted to subscribe.’ ” phony “liberal” — brings home with increasing clarity the fact let — Fascism — What I t is — than an immediate increase in with the unemployed, both will them by the system of capital­ * * ♦ that those who won in this war were the “ democratic imperialist” Hov To Fight I t is of especial their ‘own pay envelope, but as sooner or later belong to the ism, is it any wonder that people Elolse Gordon sends in these Cites Weakness Of regimes and those who lost, who never have anything to gain in interest to these young workers yet there have been no symptoms. army of the unemployed. of all races and nationalities two interesting experiences from such a war, were the G.I.’s slaughtering each other for “ God and who have, been taught, in the ' L. C. Workers, today we are stand­ C raft Unions seek consolation in religion? Pittsburgh: "We sold a number country” on the battlefields, and the working classes and peasants CP, that Trotsky was an arch Chicago ing at the door of golden oppor­ Editor: Today this pitiful world Is con­ of subscriptions, one of which of all lands, bluffed, misled, or bludgeoned into submission! counter-revolutionary. They not tunity. We can unite and open trolled by a decaying system of was taken by a woman who runs Some of the inadequacies of Coming from a working-class family, which, from the day of only come once but most of them the doors of every factory and rule which threatens to destroy a coffee-lunch room near the Recoversion Hits the AFL craft union system can its arrival in the “land of opportunity” knew only bitter struggle come back to discuss and get plant, or we can be cool to the the whole of mankind. more material. B. & O. Railroad roundhouse. be seen in the compositors’ strike for a union, for better wages and for job security, I do not have Negroes Hardest cause of socialism and be de­ She’s a socialist by conviction, in Chicago against the job print­ to be convinced that the international Socialist society is the only “ And that is not all. Several stroyed under capitalism. and was delighted at our sug­ Editor: ing shops. The Western News­ answer to present-day social ancj economic problems. Indeed, it of them have been attending The capitalists gloried in their gestion that she put The M ili­ The great task of reconver­ paper Union, because it is a syn­ seems to me that Socialism is the crying need of our civilization. otJr mass meetings and forums. m ilitary army, but the growing tant at the disposal of the ra il­ sion now faces our government dicate and does advertising work, There is no other out in this epoch, where capitalism can offer only At the Russian Revolution An­ and already we can see they army of the unemployed is "un­ is not considered a newspaper niversary meeting one of the road workers who ‘coffee-up’ in worthy” of consideration because periodic wars and economic crises, each more dreadful than the her little restaurant. She says she are unable to cope with the sit­ and, therefore, is not immune last; where “ democratic” capitalism and its other face, fascism, young men signed a card indicat­ it might mean a loss of profits knows just whom to show it to! uation. The best we can get is from the strike. The composi­ resort to increasing violence against the working masses, who, ing that he wants to join the the statement “ every worker is for Big Business. tors are demanding a 30 per cent party!” "Another new subscriber is a Workers of America, stop and through the class struggle, find the way to the revolutionary woman laundry worker who was entitled to a job.” increase in wages, two weeks socialist cause. The New York Local of the think a moment. 1929, 1930, and quite enthused when we explain­ This is just one of the proofs vacation with pay a year, 12 paid SWP sells a great many Pi­ later—remember the breadlines, I salute the Socialist Workers Party for its forthright stand ed the revolutionary program of that the capitalist system has holidays a year and payment of oneer books and pamphlets. hungry children, separated fami­ against the capitalist class and the flunkies of th^,t class in the the paper, and exclaimed that a outlived its time but, of course, sick leave. They have a very attractive lit ­ lies, sickness, robberies, murders, labor movement: the counter-revolutionary Stalinists and the complete economic and political the capitalists as always are In order to battle the union, erature rack, and a comrade is suffering on every side, mass un­ labor-bureaucrats. With its program of working-class struggle change was exactly what she struggling to maintain their sys­ the Western Newspaper Union at hand to talk to people who employment, all these ills of life, Wars, hunger, starvation, dis­ against imperialist war, Jim-Crow, anti-Semitism, unemployment thinks is necessary to meet the tem and profits. Just a few weeks has been able to get some of its come in to buy books. were the reward of capitalism to ease and death throughout the and capitalist oppression in general, I am sure the Socialist Work­ problems of the workers. She told ago, they screamed “ victory is syndicate mat work done out­ the workers. During those years entire world signify a decay of ers Party w ill before long become recognized among thousands Fascism—What I t Is—How to us she was one of the local or­ ours, the peace Is won, the war side of Chicago, and then has of living hell, the wealthy con­ capitalism and the inevitability of of working-class m ilitants as their party, their guide, and their Fight It, by Leon Trotsky, 15c. ganizers of the women’s suffrage Is over.” A t that very moment shipped the mats to its other tinued to consume every luxury socialism to solve these miser­ leader in the struggle of the working-class against the boss class. Order from Pioneer Publishers, movement, and led the parades we became unemployed and will printing offices throughout the of life. Are we going to re-live able problems and conditions. On this day, November 11, 1945 — fifty-eight years after 116 University place, New York through the main streets of continue to be so while plants country, of which Minneapolis those years, or learn of some­ Today it is not a question of those great heroes of the working-class were hanged in Chicago 3, N. Y. Pittsburgh." and factories are being closed is one. In this manner it is cir­ thing even worse? There is but race, color, or creed. The ques­ after the infamous Haymarket frameup—I stand with you under down. cumventing the striking com­ one escape. Every worker must tion involved is a war between the banner of international working-class solidarity. I repeat the During the war years, the Ne­ positors. at this moment realize what is classes, the working class against words of August Spies who shouted from beneath the hood which groes were the last ones hired, The casters In the AFL union happening, and join in the fight. the capitalist class. covered his head as he was being led to the gallows by the capi­ Our Program: fillin g Jobs vacated by white here are not only not going out It is left to us, the workers of Workers of all races, color and talist hangman on that memorable day in 1887: "There w ill come workers, at less pay, more work in a sympathy strike, but are 1. Full employment and Job security for all workers America, whether or not we shall also working on mats which have creeds today must build an inde­ a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you and veterans! and discrimination. Now in this strangle today!” re-live those years. pendent working class political so-called “ peacetime” the Ne­ clearly been made by non-union A sliding scale of hours! Reduce the hours of work In conclusion I want to ask party which will lead the work­ Long live the International of Lenin and Trotsky, the Fourth groes are the first ones fired labor. Such practices obviously with no reduction in pay! every reader of The M ilitant to weaken the strikers’ position ers as they militantly struggle International! Down with the Stalinist misleaders and betrayers because they were the last ones and fight along the road that of the world working class! A rising scale of wages! Increase wages to meet the hired. and the union’s. increased cost of living! If the compositors belonged to leads to socialism. Comradely, The Negroes are a minority C. P. Ex-Sergeant, V. S. Army Operate all government-built plants under workers’ and helpless people, and their the CIO instead of the AFL, an Industry-wide strike would be New York control! allies must come from the ranks which is run and overrun by Unemployment insurance equal to trade union wages of labor. Together they can fight called and the dispute would be kind of maintenance. The high­ settled in short order. In spite of On The Stalinist American fascists. est-paid attendant receives $65 during the entire period of unemployment! a battle for labor that, will un­ The management of this insti­ questionably be victorious. Today this, the strike is now (Oct. 23) a month, out of which about $6 2. Independence of the trade unions from the Q: What is the destructive ca­ Support of O'Dwyer tution, like every other that is the Negro people are being forc­ going into its third week and a month is deducted for taxes. government! pacity of the atomic bomb? capitalist, knows how to keep ed back into their former places, there is not a sign of a settlement Editor: Those who try to educate the No restriction on the right to strike! A: While the death toll of the workers divided by paying the dirtiest jobs with lowest in sight. I f the workers ever ex­ In the article in the November rest of the, employes to the value World War n ran into scores of pect to win any permanent gains, one worker a dollar a week more Withdraw union representatives from the War Labor wages and deplorable hours. Dis­ 10 M ilitant about the Tresca of organization, are reported by Board! millions, no nation lost 10 per than another. And as is natural crimination is again rising rap­ they will have to stand together case,- you point out that Gener- stooges of the management. I cent of its people in the whole under capitalism, working condi­ 3. Organization of the war veterans by the trade idly. Experienced Negro workers and throw the craft-type of oso Pope had “ intimate con­ can’t understand how Hitler’s six years of the war. Today union into the ashcan for in­ tions in this hospital, and in all unions! are being denied the opportunity nections with the fascists.” PM concentration camps can be any atomic bombs of the smallest dustry-wide organization. Philadelphia hospitals, are bad. to use their skills to the best published a photograph which worse than the conditions exist­ size can k ill 20 per cent of a na­ Once you try to fight against 4. Full equality for Negroes and national minorities! advantage. Instead, inexperienc­ W. R, shows Pope with his friend, ing in the Philadelphia hospitals, tion’s people IN AN HOUR. the miserable conditions, you can Down with Jim Crow! ed white help is employed at less Minneapolis Mayor-Elect O’Dwyer. The same and yet the hospitals are filled rest assured you won’t last long. 5. Working class political action! than standard pay. In this way, • * » issue of the M ilitant carries an with stooges. The employes here get very Establish the workers’ and farmers’ government! both workers are cheated and Q: What kind of plant and article about Peter Panto, a Com­ I give you this information Why Workers Seek small wages and very little to Build the Independent labor party! the bosses gain on two points: equipment is included in Ford’s munist Party member, who was with the hope that you w ill pub­ eat. And long hours— 12 hours the work is done cheaper, and River Rouge plant? Refuge In Religion murdered, and about the refusal lish an exposure of these condi­ 6. Tax the rich, not the poor! is a short work day here! the unity ot the laboring class A: During the war the govern­ Editor: of District Attorney O’Dwyer to tions. No taxes on Incomes under $5,000 a year! A nurse gets about $100 to has been weakened. That is the ment built four important new I have read Victor Howell’s track down those he knew to be A Reader 7. A working class answer to capitalist militarism! plants at River Rcuge; a $37,- reply to Joseph Hansen’s letter guilty. $125 a month, plus the poorest Philadelphia aim of all capitalists. Military training of workers, financed by the govern­ 000,000 engine construction in The Militant concerning Vic­ By supporting O’Dwyer in the These methods of the capital­ ment, but under control of the trade unions! ists are not new. Every worker building, a magnesium smelter tor Howell’s “ Letter To The Ne­ recent election the Stalinists re­ should recognize them even in a with a capacity of 110,000 pounds gro Children.” mind Hie workers once again that READY SOON! Trade union wages for all workers in the armed forces! blackout We all realize that un-- a month, and the largest iron I sincerely agree with Victor they, as well as the Democrats, 8. Solidarity with the revolutionary struggles of the der this capitalist system there foundry in the world. Besides Howell on his comment on the Republicans and fascists are sup­ The First Five Years off the workers in all lands! w ill never be enough Jobs for the foundries, blast and open November 3 issue of The M ilitant, porters of the system of murder For the complete independence of the colonial peoples! •veryone. hearth furnaces, River Rouge as to the procedure used in bring­ ot Innocent workers. Communist International Withdraw all American troops from foreign soil! We must remember that when includes a power and light plant, ing the principles of socialism to D. B. By Leon Trotsky the employer can get plenty of a glass factory, steel mills, «coke the N^fero people. New York employes, he is independent of oven, a cement m ill, a paper m ill, Being a Negro, I feel that I Volume I any individual, black or white. tool and die shops and machine can very well understand why Exposes Conditions Trotsky’s manifestos, articles and speeches in the per­ And he uses his independence shops and laboratories. the masses of my race seek con­ • • • solation in religion. Having been In Philadelphia iod of the first three World Congresses of the Com­ as a weapon against every work­ munist International, 1919-1921. er. Wages are reduced, hours are Q: Hqw large were U. S. in ­ oppressed and exploited for Hospitals increased, and conditions are vestments in Japan before the many, many years, religion is to — “ Pioneer Publishers carries out a historic duty in poor. These things we should war, compared with other parts them not only a sanction against Editor: making available to the present generation basic ma­ know. Now the question is, what of the Far East? the forces of injustice, but they In writing these few lines to terials of this almost forgotten period of the Third can we do? How can we fight A: At the time the U. S. en­ feel it is also a way by which you regarding your paper, I wish International.” — From the foreword by Joseph Hansen. a victorious battle? tered the war in the Pacific, faith in themselves and one an­ to state I have read the M ilitant One word . . . Organize! can American investments in Japan other can be accomplished, so as for the past year or so when I 3S4 pages Paper $2.00, cloth $2.50 to provide means for an exis­ could get a copy of it and I know explain the answer, but I shall were less than $60,000,000. But Order now from go a bit further. All factory in other parts of Asia which the tence on this earth. it is a very good paper consider­ workers, office help, salesmen, U. S. has now wrested from As the worst-oppressed minor­ ing the conditions under which PIONEER PUBLISHERS unite in one fight for labor. It Japan, nearly 200 U. S. firms ity group, especially in this you have to publish it. is only then that labor shall have direct holdings in business country, my race has grasped In Philadelphia I am working 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. really come into power. Not ev­ amounting to $250,000,000. the banner of religion, as would as an attendant at a hospital, PAGE SIX THE MILITANT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1945 6,845 New Readers Of 'Militant' Gained; J. P. Cannon Speaks In Chicago Sub Campaign Hits 68 Per Cent Of Quota On 1917 Revolution Anniversary CHICAGO, Nov. 10—James P. the topic; to go easy. A t those the imperialists w ill seek to des- By Justine Lang ers Party have now gone over the branches that have a subscrip­ Baltimore and Cincinnati, Cannon, National Secretary of times, thinking of K arl Lieb­ troy the remaining conquests t»I 100 per cent mark. Last week. tion quota of 50. This includes comparatively new branches, the Socialist Workers Party, ad­ knecht, standing alone in Vie the October Revolution,” de­ Campaign Director St. Louis, Philadelphia, Connec­ St. Louis, Cincinnati, Rochester have gone all out in this cam­ dressed a capacity audience of Reichstag against the war, she clared Comrade Clark. "Only the The end of the fifth week of ticut and Pittsburgh were the and San Diego. W ill any of these paign and in this fifth week 150 people tonight at Bucking­ would continue to speak. extension of the Revolution to our national subscription cam­ only four in this category. How­ four branches accept the chal­ have achieved 84 per cent of ham Hall on the 28th Anniver­ the advanced countries can paign brings our total of new ever, Reading, San Francisco lenge?” their respective quotas. sary of the Russian Revolution guarantee the defense of the M ilitant readers to 6,845. This and Portland, Ore. now join As reported previously, Con­ Seattle also has made a not­ The meeting was sponsored by Philadelphia Hears SovieS Union and the regenera­ is 68 per cent of our quota of them, in our “ over the top” class necticut accepted the challenge able advance this week, from six­ the Chicago Local of the Social­ tion of the First Workers’ Statei*,’ 10,000 new Subscriptions in this Reading is to be commended extended to them by Pittsburgh, teenth place to twelfthj by com­ ist Workers Party. William F. W arde campaign. for the excellent work done In and at this point in the cam­ pleting 80 per cent of its quota. Comrade Cannon’s speech in ­ By John Haas During this week, The Militant advancing from tenth place last paign, Connecticut leads by eight Several branches are making spired the audience and was re­ was introduced to 1,388 addi­ PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9 — A week to third place this week. subs. From letters received, both special efforts to complete their ceived with prolonged applause. John G. Wright tional readers. A check of the branches are aiming for 200 per capacity audience of workers A note from the branch reads: quotas ahead of schedule. We The enthusiasm of the workers scoreboard reveals that seven cent. It remains to be seen which quote from some of their let­ was demonstrated in the gener­ commemorated the 28th Anniver­ branches of the Socialist Work­ “ We want to challenge all other one w ill achieve its goal first. ters : ous collection of $150, contribu­ sary of the Russian Revolution Addresses Group tonight at 405 Girard Ave. Wil­ In addition to these seven top Fred Martin, Milwaukee Cam­ ted toward the work of building scoring branches, special recog­ the Trotskyist party. liam F. Warde, associate editor paign Director: “ We plan to of The M ilitant and Fourth In ­ In St. Paul nition is given to the next five Among the workers in the throw all our energies into ternational, reviewed the ideas ST. PAUL, Nov. 9—Despite a branches on our scoreboard who reaching our quota this week audience were 14 steel workers who traveled more than 25 miles and program of the Bolshevik snowstorm and icy streets, 21 have completed over three- with a full scale mobilization on Party of Lenin and Trotsky fourths of their quota. Sunday, November 18.” from the Calumet steel belt. Six workers turned out tonight t* workers, present for the first which led the Russian workers New York with the highest hear John G, W right speak on Libby Jones, Buffalo: “ It looks time at a Trotskyist meeting, be­ and peasants to victory in 1917. quota, 2,000, has completed 87 like Buffalo will really have to “The British Labor Victory—-It# came so convinced of the party’s The example of the Russian per cent of its quota, having ob­ step on it to compete with the program that they immediately Revolution, the speaker pointed Meaning to American Workers." tained 1.732 new readers. De­ splendid records of some of our Each figure reading “ The out, demonstrated to the work­ troit with a high quota of 1,000 M ilitant” represents 500 sub­ joined the Socialist Workers The audience listened with great other branches, particularly Party. ers of the world that they have has sent in 815 subscriptions— Philadelphia! Several of our scriptions sold. Each blank more talent and energy than interest as the speaker traced 82 per cent of its quota. best sub-getters are on the sick- figure represents 500 sub­ the ruling class. It gave them the history of the forking class scriptions not yet sold. Comrade Konikow more confidence in themselves. movement in Britain and its cul­ Today the October Revolution mination in the labor party vic­ Speaks in Boston tory. The same process is de­ list, notably Fred Kaminsky still stands as the beacon light for all the oppressed peoples veloping in the United States, who sold 190 subs in the Spring By J. K itting he stated. campaign. He just got out of seeking a way out of capitalist BOSTON, Nov. 10—The choice misery and destruction. After the meeting members of the hospital and won’t be able to before the workers today is so­ the audience remained to dis­ participate at all in this cam­ cialism or barbarism, declared cuss further with Comrade paign. Comrade Fred Mauer to an Mary Clark Gives Wright, educator and writer for “ However, the rest of us are audience of friends and sym­ the Socialist Workers Party. determined to work twice as pathizers at the Russian Revolu­ Speech in Akron Sympathizers displayed their in­ hard to make up for it.” tion Anniversary meeting. AKRON, Nov. 9. — The Ak­ terest in the SWP by purchasing C. Cathy, Brooklyn Branch: Reviewing the development of ron Branch of the Socialist many of the basic pamphlets. “Jimmie Wright, a new recruit the October Revolution, the Workers Party celebrated the has been inspiring the Brook­ speaker emphasized the role of 28th Anniversary of the Russian lyn branch with his enthusiasm Lenin and Trotsky as not only Revolution tonight. Mary Clark JOHN G. WRIGHT and steady efforts in the sub leaders of the revolution but un­ described the conquests of the drive. Last week he obtained compromising proponents of in­ first successful workers’ revolu­ TOUR SCHEDULE 10 new rcaders for The M ilitant, ternationalism. tion. She explained why we de­ C,TT DAT! and on- last Sunday’s mobiliza­ Comrade Antoinette Konikow, LOS ANOELE8. SAN DŒOO fend the remaining conquests of. Thur«., Nov. 29 to Wed.. Dec. • tion, he reported back with 17. } veteran revolutionist, spoke of the October Revolution, despite This not only sets a fine ex­ her own experiences as a fighter Stalinist degeneration. KANSAS CITY Monday. Tuesday. Dee. 10-U ample for the branch, but makes ! for socialism through two world "The two antagonistic systems ST. LOUIS Jimmie top-scorer with 43 subs ' wars. She recollected that under the imperialist system of the Un­ Thursday, Friday, De«, 1S-14 pressure of the hysteria during ited States and Britain on the to his credit.” We might point i CINCINNATI the last war, when she spoke out one side, and the Soviet system Sun., Dec. 18 to Tues.. Dec. I t out, it also makes him a national boldly against the imperialist On the other, cannot live peace­ PITTSBURGH pace-setter. war, she was urged to change fully side by side; sooner or later Thurs., Dec. 20 to Mon., Dec. M THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN TROTSKYISM - by James P. Cannon Previous installments of Comrade Cannon’s book described ; entirely different experiences and backgrounds. This party re­ the emergence of the American Communist Party out of the OUR APPROACH TO LEFT-WING DEVELOPMENTS IN '3 5 quired a little time to work together, and to have peace in com­ left wing of the Socialist Party in 1919, the expulsion of the recognized the problem and realized that if we did not bestir This was not done in a day. It took many months. Surgical mon work. That was the most reasonable, the most realistic pro­ Trotskyists in 1928, the formation of a new party and the ourselves, what had happened In Spain would happen again here. treatment followed only when the defeated Oehlerites began to gram for the first period. But you can never get reasonableness oy realism from sectarians. They came tearing Into this united Minneapolis Strikes of 1934. We had barely started our work under the independent ban­ violate party discipline systematically and to prepare a split. In organization in New York with a “Bolshevization” program. They Fresh workers and younger elements, untainted by responsibi­ ner of the Workers Party, but this problem would not wait. We the course of discussion and explanation, we educated the great were going to take these centrist Musteites and make Bolsheviks lity for the betrayals of the past, had been shaken and awakened began to insist that more and more attention be paid to the So­ majority of the party. The body of the party had been cured out of them, whether they liked it or not. And quick too. Dis­ by the tremendous impact of world events, especially the crush­ cialist Party and its developing Left Wing. We argued along the and was in good health. The tip of the little finger remained in­ cussions! They scared some of these Musteites out of their wits ing of the German labor movement with the coming of fascism following lines: We must cut in between the Stalinists and this fected and began to turn gangrenous, so we just chopped it off. to power. A new wind was blowing in this old decrepit organiza­ with their discussions, theses, and clarifications till all hours- of developing movement of Left Socialism and turn it in the direc­ That is why the party lives today and is able to talk about that the night. They went about searching for “ issues,” hounding all tion of Social Democracy. A Left Wing was. forming there, mani­ tion of genuine Marxism. And in order to accomplish this we time. festing the impulse of large numbers of people to find a revolu­ who might be deviating from the straight and narrow path of must lay aside all organizational fetishism. We cannot content After we finished with the Oehlerites we had to go through doctrine. No peace, no fraternal common work, no education in tionary program. We thought this could not be disregarded be­ ourselves with saying; “ Here is the Workers Party. It has a cor­ a rather prolonged faction struggle with the Musteites—two inter­ a calm atmosphere, no w ill to let the young party develop na­ cause it was a fact, an element of American political reality. Even rect program. Come and join it ! ” That is the attitude of sec­ nal struggles in the first year of the existence of the Workers turally and organically. An irresponsible factional struggle was though we had formed a new party, and had proclaimed it as the tarians. This Left Wing is a loose grouping of thousands of people Party—before the way was clear to solve this problem of the Left the contribution of the sectarians almost from the very beginning. unification of the vanguard, we realized that we could not ignore in the Socialist Party, somewhat hazy in their conceptions, con­ Wing of the Socialist Party. These internal struggles, which con­ or arbitrarily shut off from participation in this new movement fused and badly led, but very valuable for the future if they receive sumed the energies of the new party almost from its inception, Explosion At Pittsburgh Active Workers these new elements of strength and health and revolutionary the proper fertilization of Marxist ideas. were certainly very inconvenient. We should have had a year or Conference vitality. On the contrary, we had an obligation to help this in­ Our position was formulated in the Cannon-Shachtman res­ two of constructive work, uninterrupted by differences, conflicts choate movement in the Socialist Party to find the right road. olution. We met determined resistance in the party from Oehler and internal fights. But history didn’t work that way. We had This ruction in New York was preparing the way for an ex­ We were convinced that without our help they could not do it, and also from Muste. The Oehlerites took their stand on dogmatic no sooner launched the new party than we were confronted with plosion at the famous Active Workers Conference, called by the because they had no Marxist leaders, they had no tradition, they sectarian grounds. Not only would they have nothing to do with the problem of the Left Wing of the Socialist Party. We could party to meet in Pittsburgh in March, 1935. The Active Workers were beset on every side by influences and forces and pressures any present orientation toward the Socialist Party, but they in­ not agree on what to do, we had to spend a year fighting it out. i Conference was an excellent institution which had been brought that blocked off their road to a clear view of the revolutionary sisted, as a matter of principle, that we specifically exclude this Of course, these conflicts didn’t begin immediately. The new over from the experiences of the American Workers Party. The program. Their ultimate fate, the possibility of their develop­ from any future consideration. We have formed the party, said party, organized in early December 1934 began its work quite ! idea is to invite all the party activists in a given area, or the ment on the revolutionary road, rested with the more experienced the Oehlerites. Here it is. Let the Left Socialists join us if they auspiciously. One of the party’s first demonstrations of political whole country over, to pick up and come to a central place to and tested cadres of Marxism represented in the newly-founded accept the program. We are Mohammed and they are the moun­ activity, which was also intended to symbolize the unification * f discuss practical work, report on experiences, get acquainted with Workers Party. The leaders of the nebulous Left Wing in the So­ tain, and the mountain must come to us. That was their whole the two currents, was a joint cross-country speaking tour of Muste j one another, etc. I t is a marvelous institution, as we found out in I our experiences at Chicago in 194% and again in 1941. I t works cialist Party called themselves the “ M ilitants.” Why, we have never prescription for those confused young Left Socialists who had and myself. We were received with enthusiasm along the way. out beautifully when there is harmony in the party and you are been able to ascertain. THE M ILITANT was the name of the o ffi­ never shown the slightest inclination to join our party. We said; One could notice in the radical labor movement a general spirit cial organ of the American Trotskyists from the very beginning, and of appreciation of the fact that a process of unification had be­ able to come together to transact business and get it over with. “ No, that is too simple. Bolsheviks must have sufficient political But when there are serious disputes in the party, which nothing everybody recognized that it was the right name for our paper. gun after the long period of disintegration and splits. We had initiative to help the Left Socialists find their way to the right but a formal convention can settle, especially if an irresponsible THE MILITANT signified the party worker, the party activist, very good meetings in most places, and the tour reached its high program. If we do this the problem of uniting with them in a faction is on the loose, it is best to dispense with informal Active the party fighter. But why the leaders of the Left Wing of the common organization can be worked out easily.” point at Minneapolis. Socialist Party at that time, who were philistine to the marrow Workers Conferences which have no constitutional powers to de­ of their bones, without tradition, without serious knowledge, with­ Muste opposed this—not on principled grounds, but on grounds National Tours After the Unification cide the disputes. In such a situation informal gatherings only out anything at all, could call themselves “ M ilitants”—that re­ of organizational fetishism, perhaps personal pride. Such senti­ feed the flames of factionalism. We found that out at Pittsburgh. ments are fatal in politics. Pride, anger, spite—any kind of sub­ This was six months or so following the great strike victories; The Active Workers Conference we tried at Pittsburgh was a mains a problem to be solved by the students of historical research We were received there very well. The comrades in Minneapolis who are yet to come in our movement. The reason hasn’t been jectivity which influences a political course leads only to the, de­ horrible fizzle because, from the very opening of it, the Oehlerites feat and destruction of those who give way to if. You know, in were highly pleased that we had not allowed ourselves to become so used it as a sounding board for their factional struggle against discovered yet. A t least I never learned it. completely absorbed in economic strikes as to neglect opportunities This wretched leadership, these accidental figures, pretenders, the prize-fighting profession—“ the manly art of self-defense” —one the “ opportunism” of the leadership. The Musteite comrades, of the first lessons the young boxer learns from the casehardened of the purely political party field. Our unification with another new to the experience of political party life, came in from the windbags, incapable of any real sacrifice or serious struggle for an trainer is to keep cool when facing an antagonist in the ring. “Don’t group, whose militants they valued very highly because of the field with the naive idea, that they were going to hear each idea, without serious devotion to the movement—most of them are ever get mad in the ring. Don’t ever lose your head, because if you work they had done in the unemployed movement, the Toledo i others’ reports on party mass work and discuss how they could working for the government at various war jobs today—these do you will wake up on the canvas.” Boxers have to fight cal- strike, etc., was warmly applauded by the Minneapolis comrades. step it up a little. Instead of that, they were confronted with an “knights for an hour” didn’t interest us very much. What interest­ culatingly, not subjectively. , The same thing is doubly true in They gave us a good reception and laid themselves out to celebrate unrestrained free-for-all factional fight from the very beginning. ed us was the fact that beneath the froth on the top there was a politics. Muste couldn’t bear the thought that after we had found­ our visit 'by a well-planned series of meetings and conferences, The Oehlerites started the fight over the selection of the chair­ quite live youth movement in the Socialist Party and a considerable ed a party and proclaimed it the one and only party, we should culminating in a banquet in honor of the National Secretary of man, and thereafter continued it—in a fanatical, life and death, number of activist worker elements, trade unionists, and fighters then pay attention to any other party. We should go on in our their party and the editor of the paper that was so dear to their do or die manner—on every question. I t was a factional sham­ in the unemployed field, who constituted good raw material for own way, keep our heads up and see what happens. If they failed hearts—THE MILITANT. They always do things right in M in­ bles such as I have never seen before in such a setting. Forty the revolutionary party. There is a big different*. You enn’t to join us, well, that would be their own fault. Muste’s position neapolis. In the course of our stay there, they decided to dress or fifty innocent field workers, with little or no experience in par­ do much with the type of leader which the Socialist Party in any was not sufficiently thought out, not reasoned with the necessary us up in a manner befitting the dignity of our positions. ty politics or caucuses, who had come there looking for some in­ of its wings had then or now. But out of serious rank and file objectivity. It would not do in the situation. If we had stood The leading comrades came down from the union hall, picked spiration from this new party and some sensible guidance in their militants, trade union activists, and radical youth, you can make aside, the Stalinists would have gobbled up the Socialist Left up Muste and me—who, I must admit, were looking a bit seedy practical work, were treated to discussions and arguments and a party which can lead a revolution. We wanted to find a road to Wing and it would have been used as another club against us, as at the time—and took us on a tour of clothiers and haberdashers. factional denunciation, lasting ail day and night. I imagine many them. A t that time nobody knew, and least of all did the young in Spain. They rigged us out in new outfits from head to foot. I t was a very of them said to themselves In alarm: “ What have we got into? Socialists know, which way their movement was going to go. fine gesture. I was sharply reminded of that suit of clothes long We always heard the Trotskyists were crazy theses sharks and They were stifled by their conservative bureaucracy in the Social­ Sectarianism Is A Political Disease after I had worn it out. In the summer of 1936 Muste, disoriented professional factionalists. Perhaps the stories had some truth in ist Party, and time and time again their worthless leaders—the so- Before the Socialist Party question could be solved, and there­ by all the complications and difficulties, and overwhelmed by the them.” They saw factionalism in the worst version there. called “ M ilitants”—showed tendencies to capitulate to the Right by another obstacle removed from the path of the development of blood and violence in the Spanish civil war and Moscow trials, The mass work activist, as a rule, is inclined to want only Wing bureaucracy. the American party of the vanguard, we had to fight the question reverted as you know, to his original position as a religionist and a very little discussion, to settle a few very necessary details, and We Turn-Our Attention to the Socialist Party out in the ranks of the Workers Party. We had to fight out the went back to the church. Vincent Dunne got the news through a then proceed to action. A t Pittsburgh they—and we, too,—want­ question of principle with the sectarians; and when they remained private letter and he passed the information on to Bill Brown. ed to get down to business and have an exchange of experiences On the other hand, they were beset by the Stalinists who stubborn and became undisciplined we had to drive them out of “ B ill,” he said, “ What do you think? Muste has gone back to in the practical work of the party: trade union activity, the un­ had a powerful press and apparatus and plenty of money to cor­ the party. I said that with a little emphasis because that was the church.” Bill was flabbergasted. “ Well, I ’ll be damned,” he employed leagues, the functioning of party branches, finances, etc. rupt, and who didn’t hesitate to use money for just that purpose. the way we had to deal with the Oehlerites—with emphasis. I f we said. Then, a moment later: “ Say, Vincent, we ought to get that The sectarians weren’t interested in such humdrum matters. They At that time the Stalinists were exerting extraordinary pressure had failed to do that in 1935, if we had yielded to any kind of suit back!” But he should have known better. Preachers never insisted on discussing Ethiopia, China, “ the French turn,” and on the Socialists in order to lay hold of this progressive left-wing sentimentalism toward people who were ruining our political give anything back. other “principled questions,” which were very Important, to be movement and turn it back in the direction of reformism by way of sure, but not on the agenda of the conference. prospects with their stupid formalism, our movement would have We parted at Minneapolis. Muste went on further South to Stalinism. They had succeeded in doing this in Spain and many Oehler, Stamm and Zack were the three leaders, t don’t know been wrecked in 1935. We W'ould have been cut off from the pos­ cover other parts of the country. I went on to California to fin ­ other European countries. The young Socialist movement in how many of you know the famous Joseph Zack. He had recently sibility of further development. An inevitable disintegration would ish the tour. This was at the time of the Sacramento “criminal- Spain, which had on its own initiative announced its support of syndicalism” trial of Communist Party members. One of our com­ come over to us from Stalinism but was only bivouacking in ouf the idea of a Fourth International, was neglected by the Trotsky­ have taken place. The movement would have ended in the blind camp on his way to other destinations. He had been one of tha alley of sectarian futility. rades—Norman M ini—was among the defendants, and because ists of Spain, who, sterilized in sectarian unity, eschewed any kind he had turned Trotskyist, not only did the Stalinists refuse to inside bureaucrats of the Stalinist party, and contributed'a full of maneuvers in the direction of the young Socialists. Sectarianism is not an interesting idiosyncrasy. Sectari­ defend him, but they denounced him in their press as a “stool- share to the corruption and bureaucratic degeneration of the They were satisfied to recite the ritual of the split between anism is a political disease that w ill destroy any organization where pigeon” while he was on trial. We came to his aid. The Non- party. Then he became a Trotskyist for a few weeks—at the most the Social Democracy and the Comintern in 1914-19, with the it takes firm hold and isn’t rooted out in time. Our party is liv­ Partisan Labor Defense, a non-Stalinist defense committee, did a few months. He had no sooner got .his feet wet in our organiza­ result that the Stalinists cut right in ahead of them, took over ing today and is quite healthy thanks to the medicinal and surgical very distinguished work in providing defense for Comrade Mini. tion, than he turned and began to attack us from the “ left.” We this grandly promising Socialist youth organization and made treatment that sectarianism received in 1935. Medicinal treatment We exploited to the full all the political aspects of this situation. tolerated him for a while, but when he began to disrupt party It into an appendage of Stalinism. That was one of the decisive is the more important and must always come first in any case. While this tour was in process, lasting a couple of months, discipline, we chucked him out. He fell off into space and finally factors in the destruction of the Spanish revolution. We didn’t Ours consisted of sound education on Marxist principles and their we began to hear the first rumbling of trouble with the sectarian landed in the anti-Communist “democratic” camp, as a contrib­ want that to happen here. The Stalinists had the edge on us to sectarian caricatures; thorough discussion, patient explanation. phrasemongers back in New York. They always begin It in New utor to the New Leader—you know that Social-Democratic news­ begin with. In the Socialist Left Wing there were already strong By these methods we cleared away the miasma and, although we York. They didn’t let the party rest, they wouldn’t let it get paper over there on Fifteenth Street; that Old Renegades Home, sentiments of conciliation with Stalinism, and the Stalinists were were In a minority at the start, eventually gained a large majority a good start in its work. Consider the situation. Here was a newly where all the political cripples and lepers live. working the demagogic “ unity” slogan for all it was worth. We and isolated the Oehlerites. formed organization, representing a unification of people with (.To Be Continued) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1945 THE MILITANT PAGE SEVEN European Trotskyists Call For Aid To The Embattled Colonial Peoples Editorial Note: This Manifesto of the European Executive' Committee of the Fourth International to all the workers of Europe Indonesian Slogans In Soerahaja translated from the October 27 “ De Rode October” (.Red October), Hunger Plagues A Worker’s Fortune official organ of the Dutch Trotskyists. Publication of this Mani­ (For the benefit of the thousands of new readers of "The festo in the Netherlands indicates how the Dutch Trotskyists are Indonesians Militant,” we reprint this week one of the most inspiring and opposing Duch imperialism and defending the Indonesian strug­ widely praised of Charles Jackson’s columns on " The Negro Strug­ gle for independence. Under Dutch Rule gle.” It first appeared October 7, 1944.) • • • By Susan Adams I asked B. P., one of our newer comrades, to pinfch h it fo r A t the same time the atomic bomb demonstrates the fu ll The entire capitalist press is me this week. He chose, in retrospect, to make some personal destructive power. of world Imperialism, the complete organiza­ trying to convey the impression observations. His article follows tional weakness of capitalism is shown by the beginning of the that the Indone.-an people are and its eloquence needs no com­ esty. I felt that, someday, the revolution in the colonial countries. being terribly ungrateful to the ment. Negro must be given equal right« British and Dutch rulers. After Taking advantage of the growing difficulties of the imper­ by the government, that govern­ all didn’t these masters raise the I am a fellow worker who in­ ment which had guaranteed all ialist bourgeoisie in defending its domestic rule and in regulating standard oyiving and make peo­ herited a great fortune. It came men those rights—at least on Its International relations, the colonial peoples, one after the ple more civilized? to me after years of believing in paper. I t is so easy—and so capitalism, fighting in vain for other, are rising to sweep away the hated imperialist domination Here is some evidence from one dangerous—to rationalize. I t i* equal rights and “ butting my which has brought them nothing but double exploitation and a of the leading nutritionists in equally easy—and equally dan­ America, Dr. E. V. McCollum of head against a stone wall.” I t gerous—to become a m artyr in regime of bloody repressions. The Indo-Chinese and the Indo­ John Hopkins University, show­ came as the result of the death one’s -own thinking. nesians have thrown off the yoke of French and Dutch imper­ ing Just how rpuch imperialism of a man whose passing I have no cause to regret. , Day after day the battle raged ialism. It will not be long before the masses in Burma, India, has “ helped” the Indonesian within me before the forces of Ceylon, the Philippines and Korea too w ill go over to open strug­ people. Under such conditions of in­ mis-education began to give way McCollum states that “ in the heritance it is no more than to the truth. The trouble was gle against their imperialist masters. The period of revolution in two chief hospitals in Java, 24 fair that I should share the for 7 I lacked dominion over my own the-colonial countries is at hand. percent of the 5,500 deaths re­ tune with others. There is emotions and thoughts. The bourgeois and social-patriotic slanderers have formed ported during the years 1919 enough of it to go around no and 1920 were ascribed to star­ Dominion! That word stuck their united front against the struggle of the colonial peoples for matter how many take their cut, vation. Tiie hospital records rep­ for it is not the kind of wealth in my mind. I needed it. No Jreedom. On every hand the world press ic being mobilized against resent but a very small fraction that is washed away by bank man ever needed it more than the revolutionary movements of the Far East. But the cynical of the total illness of natives in failures, depressions or unem­ I did. But how to acquire it? “ defenders of democracy” who let hundreds of thousands of sol­ this land. The death rate from ployment. In a manner seem­ That was the rub. The mis-edu­ diers and civilians be murdered supposedly to crush "Japanese starvation is appalling.” (New­ ingly strange, division has the cation and constant propaganda militarism,” do not hesitate for one moment to use this same er Knowledge of Nutrition, Dr. effect of multiplication on this I received under capitalism mado Japanese army against the revolutionary liberation movement of E. V. McCollum.) new-found weath of mine. me rebel at the very possibility of a socialist world. But that re­ the colonial peoples! W ith the aid of the Japanese army and One region in Java, where the The man who bequeathed “ irregular” French forces the British troops attempted to stem People of Indonesia proclaim their determination to win their independence from Dutch soil is almost pure chalk, is in­ bellion was not so strong a« to riches to me resembled me in satisfy my mind and put .it at the Annamite uprising. This same Japanese army was called imperialism. “ Any effort to dominate us will be extinguished with our blood,” says one of habited by three or four mil­ every outward way. His name upon by British imperialism to maintain "peace and order” in the slogans. AP photo lion people. The only plant of ease. I thought and thought. 1 was the same as mine. He had checked back over my life. I Java before the British forces arrived on the spot. In spite of any value that can be grown the same parents, the same their diverging interests all the imperialists together will tomorrow there is the cassava from which analyzed and re-analyzed. I read childhood and the same semi­ and read some more, for I knew unleash a bloody war should one of the colonial peoples succeed tapioca is made. The diet of education. As a matter of fact, that I was facing a crisis. In temporarily achieving its independence. Javanese Battle Heroically these people consists mainly of he was my former self. cassava, almost pure starch. PLAIN TRUTH As always, the mere beginning of a revolutionary outburst was Hence they suffer from severe Yes, after a long and suffer­ sufficient to unmask the imperialist bourgeoisie and its agents. One night reading The Mili­ malnutrition. ing illness my former self gave The defense of “freedom and culture” is the defense of the right Against Imperialist Despots up a fruitless struggle and died. tant I saw this quotation of Karl EATING POISON! Marx: "Labor with a white skin ef the bankers to live off the blood and the sweat of millions of “ The cassava eater,” says Mc­ An autopsy showed that he died colonial slaves! The “defense of the rights of small nations” (Continued from Page 1) workers voted these men to pow­ of Indonesia’s cities. of mis-education, vain desires cannot emancipate itself where er to do battle against capitalism Tlie events of the past week Collum “ experiences a peculiar labor with a black skin is brand­ means that half a dozen colonial nations are denied the most for weak spots, probing political­ craving, a kind of perverted ap­ for unattainable riches, lack of and not to save this vicious out­ show that the Indonesian people, ed.” Somewhere I had read elementary of democratic rights, namely the right of Independence. ly for soft openings in the na­ petite, for the djenkol bean, the faith in the working people and moded system from its long over­ if they are to win, w ill require those words before but I hadn’t tionalist movement Itself, lying product of an indigenous tree. other complications often seen due grave. all the assistance the working given them much attention be­ and deceiving with a perfidious­ This bean is poisonous, and a in the workers under capital­ For A United Front Of The Workers! class of the world can give. cause I hadn’t realized my own ness not exceeded by the diplom­ U. S. ROLE single bean causes some degree ism. In the past week the British futility. That night the quota­ acy of Hitler. of illness, but the people per­ There is no finer sensation To this united front of the slave drivers, the oppressed of all Washington is backing the inched forward, trying to secure tion seemed almost illuminated The objective of the British is sist in eating it because the than that which comes with a lands must counterpose their own united front. True, in the last British and Dutch. American their positions in Soerabaja. ! victory over one’s self. It feels on the printed page. The light deadly clear. They Intend to bean affords a kind of misery instance the revolution in the colonial countries can only be vic­ arms, American ammunition, They need the harbor for their good to go fronting into the ob­ of truth shone through. I saw smash the independence move­ differing from -and preferable to torious when the proletariat, together with the masses of the warships. They want to land stacles of racial injustice created that under capitalist exploita­ ment. They intend to reinstate American m ilitary supplies arc deficiencies from cassava.” poor peasants, ends the domination of its own national bourge­ more troops in this strategic . by capitalism and winning a few tion I could never, no never, ob­ the Dutch slave-masters. They pouring into the hands of the The Western islands of New oisie as well as the domination of foreign imperialism, when it area. They hope to use Soera­ skirmishes now and then; but it tain equal rights as a citizen. intend to prevent above all the Guinea formerly supported a sweeps away the remnants of feudalism, solves the agrarian prob­ British and Dutch imperialist baja as a depot for the great feels a thousand times better to From that moment forward I spread of the Indonesian upris­ large population of vigorous peo­ lem, liquidates the frontiers and founds the great Socialist Fed­ troops. American ships are has­ stream of supplies carried in go forward with a program that was either to deterioriate or else ing to the colonial lands still in ple. But grants made to for­ eration of the Asiatic peoples. tening fresh contingents of sol­ American and British ships. has as its goal COMPLETE ach­ to construct a life worth living. eign companies by the European the grip of London. diers to battle the Indonesian ievement. The quotation suddenly struck But the struggle of the colonial peoples for their immediate BOMB CIVILIANS And the fact that the policy people. imperialist rulers have deprived home. “ Why, that means me," Independence is in itself an extremely progressive struggle, which the natives of the best agricult­ CONQUEST OF FEAR of massacre is being implement­ Thus are the fair promises of With Batavia already in their I said to myself. “ I t means the--proletariat of the mother country must support with all its ed by Clement Attlee and Ernest the Atlantic Charter finding hands, the scale of m ilitary ural lands. The natives have I knew the joy of skating on might. This struggle strikes at the very core of the imperialist that the white worker cannot Bevin makes the picture all the their true expression in the power is tipping in favor of the been forced to live mainly on a clear day; I knew the joy of succeed without me nor I with­ system; it shakes the world domination of finance capital to its wild fruits and starchy foods. more sickening. For the British smoking ruins and bloody streets Allied imperialists. Reinforce­ winning a baseball game with a out him. We must work to­ foundation; deprives the European bourgeoisie of its last reserves ments are following the British. ;This diet has resulted in severe home run; I knew the delight of and thus decisively favors the class struggle of the European gether. We must establish a new In addition to those listed in | malnutrition. a good meal after a long walk. ' economic order.” Working masses. previous issues of The M ilitant, But all of them put together i Due to this near starvation Obviously. Why hadn’t I seen “ about 4.600 Netherland Marines, cannot approach the th rill of A ll the workers’ organizations are faced with the immediate Why Indonesians 1 there is a tremendously high I that before? A truth discovered now in United States training conquering the fear of capitalist choice: W ITH the racapaclous imperialist bandits, or W ITH the rate of tuberculosis. always seems so plain and sim- camps, have been ordered to the injustices and capitalist insecur­ peoples who have risen against barbaric exploitation. . “ Complete In contradiction to reports in ! pie that we wonder why the dis­ East Indies,” Associated Press ity. Nor the satisfaction of solidarity with the struggle for colonial freedom!” Such is the the capitalist press, conditions covery was so long delayed. slogan of the Fourth International, such must be the line of Fight For Freedom reported November 15. Trained fighting, teaching and working ; have not improved under Dutch My next step was to find thè conduct of all workers in Europe. The cause of the colonial peoples (Special to THE M ILITANT) I the Indies, soldiers have signed by American officers and fam il­ : rule. According' to the dietary for Socialism with its peace, is their cause. They have a common enemy: blood-stained im ­ ! petitions demanding that the iar with U. S. Army equipment, ! expert, McCollum: “ Their diet plenty and equality for all. people who—today—follow the perialism which is leading humanity to the abyss. The road to By “A Sailor” ! Australian government recog­ these Marines can further in­ is very poor as compared with For twenty years I had fought teachings of the author of that liberation is the same for both: it is the road of Irreconcilable BALIKPAPAN, Borneo, Oct. 25 nize the Indonesian independ­ crease chances of an imperialist that before the foreign invasion.” against the unreasonable “jus­ quotation. I found the Marxist revolutionary struggle, of unity under the banner of Commun­ —In this village of 14,000 there ence movement. Signs were victory. The soil in the East Indies is tice” meted out under the pre­ fighters for equality and libera­ ism, under the banner of the Fourth International! is only one dispensary. Its small painted by Australian soldiers According to the Nationalists, ■ generally extremely fertile and vailing system. “ What’s the tion of the workers of the world staff is capable of administering amid the ruins of war-bombed the British advanced in Soera­ matter?” I asked myself, and WORKERS OF EUROPE! ; could well support a large pop­ in the Socialist Workers Party. only first aid and yet it must oil refineries in Balikpapan. They baja using civilians as shields ulation. Instead there is want. kept on asking that same ques­ Since joining their ranks I am You cannot permit the revolution in the colonial countries handle advanced ceases of tu­ expressed the sympathy of Aus­ and bombing the city indiscrim­ The Indonesian people, like all tion and hoping that the answer even more convinced that their to be crushed! Its supression can only be a preparation for your berculosis, beri-beri, elephanti­ tralian troops with the independ- inately. colonial peoples, are being some day would come. I prod­ strategy and their goal w ill own defeat, its success w ill be an important step toward your asis, venereal diseases, and a | ence movement. Soekarno, President of the Re­ starved to death in the midst of ded myself hard at this period bring the only solution to the own victory. thousand and one other serious “FREE JAVA! 1938 — NO public of Indonesia, issued the potential plenty. and always there was the temp­ injustices against which we have cases. tation to evade complete hon- You must follow' the example of the Australian workers who IRON FOR JAPAN; 1945 — NO following statement; “I strongly all been fighting. More than 1,500 patients daily showed in action their solidarity with their brothers from the ARMS FOR DUTCH! SOEK- protest the use of bombers and nail for their independence. line up for “treatment.” To take colonial countries. ARNO IS NO QUISLING! heavy weapons against a city Events are moving with great care of the hospital and the DON’T FALL FOR DUTCH population which is not able to rapidity in Indonesia as the Al­ You must demand of your unions and mass parties that they “more serious cases” there are , LIES! DIGGERS: SUPPORT defend itself. I hereby draw at­ lies exert their greatest energies take immediate action against imperialist intervention in the Far one Chinese doctor and two INDEPENDENCE FOR INDO- tention of the whole world to­ to stem the tide of revolt. But East. The European Executive Committee of the Fourth Interna­ Dutch nurses. The hospital is ! NESIANS! NO TROOPS FOR ward the vast massacre of men, the battle still hangs in the bal­ tional calls all workers’ organizations to the immediate forma­ usually the last resort. So long JAVA, LET US GO HOME! women and children.” ance. Vigorous aid from the tion of a united front for the defense of the revolution in the as a man is able to stand on his DUTCH PROFITS OR JAVA’S NEW PREMIER workers throughout the world colonial countries. feet and walk to the dispensary FREEDOM?” Meanwhile the Allied imperial­ can bring victory to the Indo­ he’s well enough to remain out ists continued their efforts to DOCKWORKERS OF MARSEILLE, NAPLES, ANTWERP, “Conditions under which Indo­ nesians. ROTTERDAM AND LIVERPOOL! of the hospital. The toll of undermine the leadership oj the deaths Is frightful. Mass graves nesians live beggar description. Nationalist movement. On No­ The Australian longshoremen The shining example of your Australian comrades shows you are dug to bury the dead. In Netherlands Indies Civil Au­ vember I I the Dutch predicted demonstrated their understand­ the way. Ships are leaving the harbors with weapons destined A young Indonesian worker thority villages the average the Cabinet would be.reorganized ing of the Indonesian situation worker gets approximately thir­ for the fig h t against the colonial peoples. told me: “ I have only had two to make way for the leadership by striking all ships earning teen Guilders a month or six war supplies for the Dutch. FRENCH, DUTCH AND BELGIAN RAILROAD WORKERS! years of schooling. After that of Sjahrir. Two days later the I was demanded half my work­ and a half dollars—20 cents a Dutch prediction proved correct. Workers in South Africa, Cey­ Trains are transporting soldiers and materials for embarka­ ing salary which I could not af­ day! From this is deducted a Sjahrir was made "Premier,” re­ lon and Tokyo have demonstrat­ tion to the Far East. ford. We want to learn, but the four per cent tax. Rice is held placing Soekarno as the main ed. On November I I “ the crew at exorbitant prices by the gov­ of the British ship Moreton Bay WORKING MEN AND WOMEN OF THE SOVIET UNION! Dutch make it too difficult. Be­ public figure. sides they fear that if we learn ernment. The new spokesman said his walked off the vessel . . . just Protest against the Krem lin’s abandonment of the Leninist too much, soon we may want to If the worker loses a day be­ policy would be cooperation with before it was to sail for Java policy Of complete support to the colonial revolution. Today the do without them.” cause of illness—during the wet the British. The Dutch were re­ with 1,600 Netherlands troops,” reported an AP dispatch from decisive blow for the defense of the Soviet Union is struck in This Indonesian youth, like season nearly everyone is sick— ported to be willing to negotiate Sidney, Australia. “ Demonstrat­ Saigon and Batavia. many others, slipped through the he is not paid. Some who are with him, and a N. Y. Times ors at the wharf shouted at the Japanese lines shortly after seriously ill .stay on the Job un­ editorial hailed the change. WORKING MEN AND WOMEN OF GREAT BRITAIN! soldiers, ’Go Back to Holland!’ United States troops landed in til they drop rather than report All the reports from Indonesia and ’Hands O ff Java!’ ” Show opposition, demonstrate, strike in protest against the Borneo. He volunteered to risk to the dispensary and lose their are screened by the Dutch and scandalous complicity of your "labor government” with the slave his head in espionage so that meager wage. British imperialists. Consequent­ drivers of Paris, Amsterdam, London and Tokyo. his people might be liberated CLOTHES CONFISCATED ly they must be viewed with ut­ from the yoke of Japanese im ­ most caution. The facts cannot Proletarians of all countries, unite in the struggle against The prices of available food perialism. His daring action yet be verified. Whatever Sjah- imperialism, in defense of the endangered revolution in the co­ and necessities are beyond the saved the lives of many United r ir ’s policies may be, the incon­ lonial countries. means of the Indonesian work­ States soldiers. Yet today my testable fact is the Indonesian No soldier, no rifle against the Uprising of the Colonial Peoples! ers. Many civilians obtained friend faces starvation and op­ people are fighting tooth and their first clothes in years from Sown with imperialism! Long live the revolution In the pression under the heel of Dutch generous Australian and Amer­ COloni»l countries! imperialism which is just as op­ ican m ilitary personnel. But Immediate independence for all countries! pressive as that of Japan. these clothes were confiscated by New York Long live the world solidarity of the depressed! EXPRESS SOLIDARITY NICA’s M ilitary Police under the Militant Labor Forum Australian soldiers here are pretense that civilians could not European Executive Committee, Fourth International well aware of the stakes in the wear garments similar to those Charles Carsten and the following sections of the Fourth International: present conflict. Like their of the Dutch troops who are SWP National Educational Director RCP, Great Britain PCI, Greece brother dock-workers on the equipped with Australian uni­ will speak on mainland they resent the policy forms. PCI, France GCI, Spain of the Australian government In contrast to the Indonesians, “ The U. S. and the which is helping to restore Dutch the Dutch troops are well housed PCR, Belgium IKD, Germany Argentine Crisis” colonial exploitation. and well fed while the natives Sunday, Nov. 25, 8 p.m. CRM, Netherlands MAS, Switzerland In Australia they refused to suffer inflationary government load Dutch ships with supplies prices, scarcity and scandalous­ 116 University Place The group of Indo-Chinese Internationalist Communist« in Europe. and troops destined for Java. In ly low wages. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1945 PAGE EIGHT THE MILITANT

Diary Of A Steelworker By T. Kovalesky LETTER TO ANOTHER STEELWORKER Dutch Stalinists Oppose Indonesian Freedom Dear T ony: thing like you havev been doing. You’ll be able In some ways it seems like old times, doesn’t to go to the doctor and see if it is anything it? Of course, some years ago we didn’t have to serious, before it gets to be too late. Plenty of go through so much red fellows have died because they didn’t see the Offer Full Support To Brutal Imperialist Rule tape to get ready for a doctor in time, just because they didn’t have strike, this Smith-Con- the money to go. And, Tony, look around at the nally Act voting set-up fellows you work with. How many of them have By Felix Morrow with its government bal­ gaps in their mouths where they should have Labor Solidarity In Stamford The November 17 Daily Worker publishes an appeal loting and its 30-day teeth? When a fellow’s hard up, the first thing from the head of the recently-re-established Indonesian “cooling off period.” But he lets slide is dental care. Hell, you can’t buy Communist Party, asking “ the world’s democratic forces'" we can do that too, if everything, can’t pay out money for everything. to intervene on behalf of Indonesian independence. we have to, and still Something’s got to wait. So the dentist waits, For the past five years the Stalinists listed among “ the knock the big companies and the worker loses his teeth at an early age. world’s democratic forces” A “yes” vote means a decent house to live in; to their knees. the British and Dutch gov­ Up u n til 1937 the Com m unist We want to get a big turnout for the vote, it means decent furniture, not sagging chairs ernments which are now Party continued to support the Tony, a hundred per cent if we can. You re­ with the springs coming through the seats. It traditional revolutionary slogan: member what the company did last time. They means clean wallpaper, not tattered walls and slaughtering the Indonesian put out statements to the press saying that the broken plaster. It means a refrigerator, not a people. The appeal, then, is Indonesia los van Holland nu! workers in the plant were perfectly satisfied, run down ice-box, where your meat w ill spoil also presumably addressed to (literally, Indonesia loose from and that the place had been closed down by a in a few days, and m ilk w ill turn sour overnight. the imperialist murderers. Holland now). Then it dropped strike of a few agitators, who were leading the slogan—and continues to op­ A “yes” vote means clothing. Did you know But despite the verbiage about pose i t now. the rest o f the employees around by the nose. that the average steelworker gets only one suit “ the world’s democratic forces,” That didn’t beat us, of course, and if they did in ten years, that his wife gets only four dresses the appeal has to go on to indi­ This is brazenly admitted in it again, it wouldn’t beat us this time. But a year, including house dresses? Did you know cate that it is the working class an article in the Stalinist organ it was a weapon that the companies used against his little boy doesn’t even get one new suit a alone which can help Indonesian De Waarheid which is extens­ us: and we don’t want them to have any weapons year, and that his little girl has only four new independence. It says: ively quoted in De Rode October at all that we can keep them from having. Be­ dresses a year, and one coat, one blouse, and of October 27, organ of the “We thank these Indian lead­ Dutch Trotskyists. The article, sides, the bigger the vote, the better the morale two sweaters? ers and workers, Chinese, In­ is going to be. We want every steelworkef to written by Paul De Qroot, head A “yes” vote is a chance to let your son finish dian and Malay seamen in Aus­ be saying to himself, “All the guys are together of the Communist Party, states: high school. You and I may have started work­ tralia and New Zealand, Ameri­ on this. Look at the vote.” We’ll have solidarity, ing as kids, Tony, but we don’t want our boys can trade unions who have tak­ “ We have without reserve.sup­ and we want everybody to know it in the depths to do that. Whatever anybody may say about en action in behalf of Indonesian ported the war against Japan of his heart. human beings, they always want their kids to freedom. and even more we argued that The ballot may be a little confusing, but 1 have a better life than they had, themselves. Holland should demand a great­ don’t think we’ll lose many votes because Of it, “But we remind the labor er part in that war. We pointed They’re pretty decent that way. And a “yes” movements in Britain and Hol­ If we lose any at all. As far as I know it’ll out to the Dutch people that ,it" vote w ill help them send their kids on toward, a. land that the main obligation read something like this: “Do you wish to inter­ must maintain the ties of com­ better life. More power to them, I say. for action rests with them, be­ rupt war production in time of war?” Well, we’ll merce, shipping and culture And finally, Tony, a “yes” vote means MAN­ cause British and Dutch troops be able to answer that one all right. We’ll Just which have bound it through the HOOD. In. a letter to The M ilitant a week or so are the interventionists.” tell the fellows to mark the ballot “Yes,” and ago, Eugene Debs was quoted as saying what ages to the East. ■we’ll go on to tell them what a "yes” vote deep compassion he felt for the unwilling slave; ROLE IN HOLLAND “Trouw (a Catholic newspa­ means. but for the willing slave, he felt nothing but And now we want to deal with per) demands: let us hit them. Have you thought it out, Tony? I guess you contempt. That’s what this is; a roll call of the question of what the Com­ What would happen if we would have, being a steelworker and a union man. But the willing and unwilling slaves. Those of us munist Party is doing in Holland give in to this demand? It would anyway, here’s a way of saying it. who resent our conditions are the descendants Returned war veterans; some dressed in their old uniforms, leading a sympathy parade —the decisive point for working not only cause a criminal blood A “Yes” vote means good food on the table. of Spartacus and all the rest of the rebel slaves and demonstration of the workers of the Atlas Powder Company and other Stamford, Conn., class struggle in support of Indo­ bath, b u t i t would be no less It means butter, plenty of milk for' the kids, who were free in their hearts. Those who are plants in support of the striking Yale & Town e workers. The m ilitant struggle against the nesian freedom. than suicide for Holland as a enough meat to keep you strong enough to go would-be open-shop Yale & Towne company has the backing of virtually the entire com­ satisfied are no more than beasts of burden, Diligently search through the power in the East. out into the red hell of the steel plant and sweat slaves at heart. The MEN w ill vote “Yes” on m u n ity—except, o f course, the bosses. “ We communists in 1937 with­ each day on the job. pages of the Daily Worker these November 28. past weeks, and you find not a drew our previous slogan: ‘Indo­ A “yes” vote means medical and dental care. Best luck to you and your local, nesia Loose from Holland!’, be­ It means that when you get a stomach ache or word about the policy and activ­ Fraternally, cause the Japanese threat made a queer feeling in your back, you won’t have ity of the Dutch Communist the unity of Holland and Indo­ to persuade yourself that it doesn’t mean any­ Ted Kovalesky Yale And Towne Strikers Fight Party toward the Indonesian struggle! You’ll find a lot of big nesia a necessity. talk in favor of Indonesian free­ “We hold to this. dom, in quite a few places—but OPPOSE INDEPENDENCE Shoptalks On Socialism By V. Grey Low Wages, Return Of Open Shop not in Holland where it really “And for this very reason, in counts! “Don’t worry — I ’ll be with you when the time this handful of zombies out on their ear and let (Continued from Page 1) ers four square blocks. Directly for “freedom of the press.” the interest of the maintain- Why no word in the Stalinist comes. I’ll be on the right side of the bar­ the whole people run things through workers’ closed shop contracts or even to opposite the main gates are ance of the tie between Holland" Yale & Towne workers make press here about the Dutch Com­ ricades.” delegates. accept arbitration of union de­ as little as 50 cents an hour, and Indonesia, we now stand workers’ homes. Women wheel munist Party’s activity in this Maybe you will, After we did all this figuring would we get with so much force and deter­ mands. For two months Carey baby carriages there, shout en­ with no overtime since the end situation? brother, maybe you up, shake hands, and say, “Well, so long, pal. spumed union negotiations. The of the war. Many recall getting mination for the fulfillm ent of The answer is that what the will. But we need your I ’l l see you when th e tim e comes.” T h a t would workers, members of Lodges 539 couragement to the pickets and as little as $13 fo r a 40-hour the promises made to the Indo­ Dutch Stalinists are doing is lelp RIGHT NOW We be a queer way for normal human beings to act; and 1557 International Associa­ join in songs and even occasional week in the ’30s, when the town nesians. something which the Stalinists ■iave to build a party No, we wouldn’t do that. We’d do just the tion of Machinists, AFL, voted dancing on the pavement. welfare department had to sup­ “ H olland is weak, i t possesses here and everywhere prefer not hat has the numbers opposite. We’d grab all our friends and say, overwhelmingly for strike in an Yesterday, after an especially plement such starvation wages. no army worth mentioning, no to describe. Because the Dutch and influence to take “Let’s get together on this. What are your ex­ NLRB poll and walked out Nov­ fine band concert, a picket slap­ fleet or airpower of sufficient Today most stores on Atlantic Stalinists are NOT supporting power “when the time periences? Don’t they prove this idea is right? ember 7. A ll AFL and CIO un­ ped a musician on the back, ex­ importance to assert itself as Avenue, main shopping district independence for Indonesia! comes.” That’s why we You must contribute the value of your experi­ ions here pledged moral and fi­ claiming, “A swell show today.” against others. Everything de­ for workers, have window signs De Waarheid, central organ of recruit new members. ence to make this idea richer. You must con­ nancial aid. The grinning bandsman replied, pends on courageous and wise “We Support the Yale & Towne the D utch Com m unist P arty, be-; That gag “I’ll be with you when the time tribute your prestige and popularity to spread When Carey then showed up “Tomorrow we’ll do the ‘Un­ Workers.” Some have been statesmanship. This prescribes: finished Symphony’.” This was gan its career after the expulsion comes,” is generally just an excus^ for not join­ the idea. Let’s get together and work energeti­ the first day of the strike , he threatened by anonymous phone to apply without further delay ing the revolutionary party. It’s sort of a shifty, cally to test it in life and struggle and prove to was kept out of the plant. .Other an apt prediction. of the Nazis by publishing on the the provisions of the Atlantic. calls, but they refuse to remove front page of its first issue a mumbling way of saying “I’m a no-account and everybody that we’re right." officials conferred with him in POLICE ATTACK the signs. Charter. To give Indonesia its a ne-er-do-well, but my heart’s in the right In other words, we’d start a revolutionary portrait of Queen Wilhelmina, independence and thereby use the street, to the amusement of Today 30 police formed a place, don’t you know.” party. and the Stalinists remain to this the only chance which is still the 300 pickets and thousands wedge to try to break through But some people really do think that’s all But luckily for us, that’s already been done. day Her Majesty’s Communist left to realize the unity of the of spectators. the largest picket circle to ad­ they have to do to get socialism—just be around Luckily for us, Marx and Engels didn’t say, “I’ll P arty. Dutch and Indonesian peoples.” MUSICAL PICKETS m it a group of company super­ Greyhound Bus “when the time comes.” They don’t see why a H et Parool o f October 9. o r­ The sudden reference to “in­ see you boys when the time comes.” Lenin and visors. A few pickets were party is necessary. What’s the difference, they Picketing is enlivened by a 10- gan of the Social Democrats, who dependence” in the last para­ Trotsky didn’t Say, “We’ll come along when knocked down in a 10-minute think, whether they are in it or out of it, so piece volunteer union band play­ have always been brazenly im­ graph should be read in the light you’re on the barricades." No, these men stuck scuffle but no one went through. Strikers Fight long as they agree with its ideas? ing frequent concerts of pop­ perialist, approvingly quotes a of the previous paragraphs, through thick and thin. They helped to build Police chief John Brennan If a person agrees with our ideas and does ular tunes, labor songs such as speech by Paul De Groot, head which show that it merely means the barricades. threatened to use te ar gas. A fte r Big Wage Slash not join us, his agreement doesn’t mean very Luckily for the workers of the world, the "Solidarity Forever,” and funeral of the Communist Party, which what the Queen has “promised,” much. It’s like the picture of a man painted on a dirges whenever a few executives consultation a few non-produc­ (Special to THE MILITANT) stated: thinking, fighting and dying of millions of rev­ tion men were allowed to enter, namely, so-called dominion inde­ screen. It’s high and wide and it looks real — are admitted to the plant. Man­ “Speaking about the Indones­ pendence within the Dutch Em­ olutionary heroes is crystalized in the Fourth while the bancj played dirges and KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Bus ser­ but theres no thickness to it. International, which is going to lead the world­ agement submitted a list of 192 ian problem Mr. De Groot said pire: the crowd hooted. vice from New York to Albu­ The living flesh and blood of our ideas is wide socialist revolution. men they wanted admitted ¡that our country would fall not To sum up: the Dutch Stalin­ into the plant for "reconversion The strikers were especially querque over five regional Grey­ action. We are always in action of one sort or But this thinking and this fighting is not fin­ hound lines, is tied up by a , only into temporary but into ist line is one of advice to the another—from recruiting a single member to planning.” The union pared angered yesterday by a smear ished. The party it created is still growing. Each strike o f some 6,000 employes de­ ! permanent poverty if the ties Queen on how to save Indonesia the act of revolution itself. Action needs pur­ this down to 70, who are admit­ in ¿he Hearst N. Y. Journal- new member’s muscles give it fresh sinews. Each manding a decent postwar wage. between Holland and Indonesia for the Dutch Empire. pose, plan, organization. To take the smallest ac­ new member’s thinking, his criticism and ques­ ted only by union consent. American. Following the barring were broken. For this very rea­ Now you know why you can’t Members o f Local 1313, Am­ tions against the bosses, you have to organize tions give nerve and life to the party’s brain. Children accompany mothers of Carey from the plant, the^ son the Communist Party ener­ find any word in the Daily into large unions. You have to start with a few The revolutionary party does not have to have and fathers, white and Negro, yellow Hearst paper sent a re­ algamated Association of Street, g etica lly opposes those who in ­ Worker about the Dutch Com­ Electric Railway and Motor people, spread the idea, and get more people. the majority of humanity within its ranks to on the three solid picket circles porter to demand and be denied cite to violence from the side of munist Party calling on the Coach Employes of America, I t ’s m uch the same w ith fig h tin g the bosses o f lead the revolution. But it must have their over­ before the main gates of the plant entry so the Joumal-Amer- the Dutch. We Communists working class to ACT for Indo­ the whole country and the world. whelming confidence and support. That means brick and stone plant that cov­ ican could shed crocodile tears AFL, have outlined their griev­ consider them foreign agents.” nesian independence. Suppose there were no Socialist Workers Party. that every energetic youth, boy or girl, man or ances against Southwestern And suppose you and I and a few other people woman, everyone w ith a tongue to convince, with Greyhound. They struck No­ began figuring what was wrong with things today. a character to lead, w ith hands to work, or spirit vember 4, joining their m ilitant Suppose we figured it out that the factory system to fight, should join the party so that op­ San Francisco Machinists brothers of four other compan­ ies. Progressives Gain had grown too big for its owners who couldn’t pressed humanity stirring in revolt w ill see its make it work any more: that these owners own image reflected there. Drivers are paid on a mileage couldn’t do anything for the world except try to If there is anyone at the door biting his nails Hold Firm In Joint Strike basis. A 15 per cent increase blow it sky high every few years: and suppose In Rubber Locals until “the time comes” let him come right in (Continued from Page 1) "peace” with the employers. was granted during the war to we decided that the only answer was to kick and help MAKE the time come. compensate for the 35 mile per (Continued from Page 1) tainers in storage. Claims that A key demand of the Stalin­ is just another attempt by the hour speed lim it. Put on a 40 defeat Watson, the progressive company to force their employees ship repair tie-ups were prevent­ ists is that the striking machin­ mph basis after V-J day, with forces emerged decisive victors on an eight (8) hour day so they ing the “boys from coming home” ist unions agree to a “joint strat­ their 15 per cent increase elim­ at Firestone. w ill not have to relinquish some Postwar Notes For Seamen By F.J. Lang have been exploded with the egy board” dominated by the inated, drivers were forced to Nominations and elections at of their FAT PROFITS in the revelation that 25 troop ships leaders of the Stalinist * con­ work longer th^n prewar hours The American Export Line has been awarded In 1929 E xport b u ilt the fo u r “ Aces” (a6 the the third big local in Akron, form of a wage increase.” are lying idle In San Francisco trolled unions which would de­ for prewar pay, A slash from the Mediterranean trade route by the U. S. Goodyear Local 2, w ill be held Wheeler, Bass, Watson and the company called them)—Exeter, Excambion. Ex- Bay and others have been con­ cide which shops should be pick­ §70 to §55 per week was typical. Martime Commission. The Commission is going next week. C. V. Wheeler, In­ presidents of General Local 9 and calibur, and Exochorda—all sunk during World verted to cargo and pleasure trip eted and generally direct the ahead with a $250-mil- WAGE DEMANDS cumbent president and courage­ Mohawk Local 6, Wm. A. Nelson uses. course of the walkout. This the lion government-financ­ War n. These gave Export its cut on the war ous leader who defied the War | and Robert E. Force, are spon­ machinists have firm ly refused. Overland Greyhound, a South­ ed plan fo r the con­ insurance racket. ENEMIES WITHIN Labor Board and the Interna- j sors of a program for the rubber They have correctly rejected any western associate, pays its driv­ struction of 11 passenger These four ships cost Export nothing. Their The heads of the AFL Metal ers 5.4 cents per mile over the tional top officers in a great: workers which calls for a 30- ships, 3 of w hich w ill go scheme aimed to take direction hour week with no reduction in to ta l construction cost, was $9,442,000, and to Trades Council and the Inter­ same routes on which local driv­ strike prior to end of the war, to Export for service in of the strike out of the' hands of national Association of Machin­ ers were draw ing o nly 4.25 cents will be opposed by an outright i weekly take-home pay. In a re­ the New York-Mediter­ pay fo r them the company borrowed $6,900,000 the strikers or pave the way for ists have issued statements of at the time of the strike. The Stalinist bloc headed by John cently published statement they ranean run. These pres­ from the U. S. Shipping Board. The remaining a settlement on other than the non-support in an attempt to dis­ men are demanding 5.75 cents House, now an International or­ point out that the rubber com­ ent plans of the U. S. Maritime Commission for strikers’ terms. $2,500,000 was to be paid by the company, but courage the strike. The AFL to compensate for increased liv­ ganizer. At Goodyear, the Stal­ panies increased their profits American-flag ship service to the Mediterranean by 1931 it had defaulted in these construction Central Labor Council has failed STALINIST GAME ing costs. inists have their most efficient during the war by 612 per cent almost exactly duplicate what was done after above their average annua] earn­ payments. Y e t in the same year, 1931, the fo u r to express support. The labor Now the Stalinists are at­ and largest machine. World War I by the old U. S. Shipping Board. Striking employes, all of whom ings fo r 1936 to 1939. They also “ Aces” brought in $1,620,000 in m a il subsidies. officialdom fears the spread of tempting to put teeth in their w ill benefit under the new con­ By a constant campaign of # * * provocations the Goodyear Co. state that the OPA permitted the * * * strike action, but because of the demands upon the strikers. At tract, include porters, ticket sell­ American Export Line is a typical “private r$mk and file pressure the AFL the November 8 meeting of has been trying to undermine the companies a 30 per cent price ers and other terminal workers. increase to take care of over­ operator.” This outfit got started in the Medi­ A Senate investigating committee in 1934 re­ tops have not dared openly to Bridges’ ILWU-CIO Local 1-10 a standing of C. V. Wheeler and Company executives are selling time pay which they are no long­ terranean-trade in 1920 with seven govemment- vealed that Export had received §8 m illion from condemn the strike. motion was forced through “that his group of militants. The cor­ tickets from' sidewalk booths, as er paying due to the shortened o’vned World War I freighters. By 1924 it oper­ government mail subsidies between 1928 and the officials stand instructed to poration is conducting a deter­ Stalinist, leaders of several wa­ the picket line closes the Kansas work week. ated all government-owned vessels in this trade 1934, and th a t the company was then s till §747,-. inform the Strike Committees mined battle to destroy the 6- terfront unions are continuing City station. All signs point to a showdown a t a loss o f §750,000 per annhm to the federal 000 in arrears on its govemment-Ioan subsidy. involved to have their picket hour day. A recent ruling by their oblique attack on the m ili­ fight in the near future between treasury. In 1936 this outfit was still in business and still lines removed 24 hours after they an umpire contested as illegal tant machinists under cover of the rubber workers who pion­ The fo llo w in g year, 1925, the Shipping Board collecting m a il subsidies, receiving §1,479,000 have been formed if they (the by the union, attempted to force slickly - worded expressions of Los Angeles eered the great struggles of the decided to sell these government-owned ships of the taxpayers’ money for that year. picket lines) are in conflict with Goodyear workers back to the “support” and the slogaD of 1930’s fo r the C IO , and the which had been built at a cost to the American the 6-point program adopted by JOHN G. WRIGHT 8-hour day. The company began The 1936 Merchant Marine Act established “unity.” The Stalinists, with profit-bloated rubber companies taxpayers of §29 million. Export picked them the Joint Strategy Committee of to schedule 8-hour shafts, in vi­ the Maritime Commission and was supposed to Harry Bridges’ machine in the Noted Marxist Writer which are trying to destroy the up fo r §1,062,000. Maritime and Shore Side Un­ olation of the agreement with rid the maritime Industry of much of the graft CIO Longshoremen’s and Ware­ Translotor of Trotsky’s unions and bring baek starva­ In 1929 alone the government’s mail subsidy connected with the old system of mall subsidies. housemen’s union giving the lead, ions.” Thus, the Stalinists are the union. The workers replied Works by quitting after 6-hours work. tion wage-levels. The election to Export for operating these shim amounted Nevertheless, Export continued to operate until have been advocating a tricky paving the way for open strike­ will speak on breaking. of Bass and Watson to two of to over $1 million, or about equal to Export’s the outbreak of World War II. From 1938 through “six point program” designed to MILITANT’S ANSWER the most important local union 1941 the company paid out $1,844,687 in d iv i­ enable them to take control of “The Meaning: of the original Investment in ships. Yet there was still Any blow against the success In a half-page advertisement posts Indicates that the rubber dends. Government funds poured into the indus­ the strike and undermine it. of the machinists strike is re­ British Elections” outstanding in 1929 more th a n $500,000 w hich in the Akron Beacon Journal workers know the score and are try during the war further fattened Export’s Bridges and his gang are fear­ garded by. the ranks as a blow Saturday, Dec. 1— 8 p.m. the union stated, “Local No. 2 preparing themselves for a fight Export owed the Shipping Board for the 18 stockholders. They are now back on the govern­ ful that the machinists strike against the demands of all la­ has been forced time and time for the strengthening of their ships “sold” by the government to put this EMBASSY AUDITORIUM ment gravy train in one of the coveted subsidized may inspire the waterfront bor here for substantial wage in­ again to resist the abandonment unions and for higher wages and outfit In business as a “private operator.” South Hall 843 S. Grand Ave. trade routes. workers to break the Stalinist creases. of the six (6) hour day, and this better conditions.