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Stalinists Intensify Anti-Trotskyist Slander Drive Military Alliance 'Daily Worker' Forms a Red-Baiters United Front with Tobin, Anderson, H the MILITANT PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE VOL. V III— No. 26 NEW YORK, N. Y„ SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1944 PRICE: FIVE CENTS ROOSEVELT DISCLOSES REAL WAR AIMS Wants 3-Power Stalinists Intensify Anti-Trotskyist Slander Drive Military Alliance 'Daily Worker' Forms A Red-Baiters United Front With Tobin, Anderson, H. W. Smith Unions Pledge Aid A Fascist Faces the Wrath of Italian Workers Dominated By U.S. By Art Preis To Police World For The latest Stalinist frameup and lynch-incitation campaign To the 18 at CRDC American Capitalists against the labor militants, particularly the Trotskyists, has reached a sustained pitch and is pouring out ever-increasing Meetings in East By Ralph Graham volumes of slanderous filth. The first manifestations of this The pattern of the post­ GPU-inspired drive were described in detail in last week’s NEWARK, N. JL. June 17. — Militant. 80 members and leaders of im­ war world which Amer­ During the past ten days, this campaign has touched new portant trade union and civil lib­ erties organizations participated ican imperialism intends heights of fury and malevolence. Stalinist panic has been aroused in a Civil Rights Defense Com­ to construct was outlined by the most recent expressions mittee dinner-meeting here to­ of mounting trade union sup­ George Baldanzi, executive vice- night to hear George Novack, by President Roosevelt on president of the CIO Textile port for the defense of the 18 National Secretary of the CRDC, June 15 in a form al state­ imprisoned Trotskyists, framed Workers. Thomas I)e Lorenzo, report on the growing support of under the infamous Smith president of the militant Brew­ labor dnd civil liberties groups ment which foreshadows ster Aeronautical Local 365, CIO for the 18 imprisoned Trotskyists, “ Gag” Act for their socialist United Automobile Workers, and the creation of a m odified opposition to the imperialist and to mobilize the progressive at Samuel Wolchok, international forces in this area for the fight League of Nations domin­ war. president of the CIO Retail, to free the 18. Two events in particular have Wholesale and Department Store ated by a three-power m il­ been the inspiration for the cur­ Among prominent union lead­ Employes, who had sent his per­ ers who participated as speakers rent Stalinist lies and hysterical itary alliance of the Uni­ sonal representative to address and pledged the backing of their Invective. One was the highly the meeting. organizations to the CRDC cam­ ted States, B ritain and the successful Civil Rights Defense After assuring Its gullible read­ paign were Sol Stetin, Manager Committee's united labor rally Soviet Union. ers that the imprisoned Trot­ of the Northern New Jersey Joint two weeks ago in New York Ctv skyists "helped Hitler,” the Daily Board of the CIO Textile Workers Appearing ten days after on behalf of the Minneapolis La­ Worker then whined that “Bald­ Union; Wa;ter Czejkowski, Presi­ bor Case victim s, when national anzi and De Lorenzo spoke exact­ dent of the Trenton, N. J., CIO Allied troops had waded leaders of important CIO intern­ ly like the Trotskyists.” De Lor­ Industrial Union Council; Irving ationals denounced the scabby at­ ashore on the Normandy enzo's “ Trotskyism,” according to Rosenberg, President of Local tempts of the Stalinist strike­ the horrified Stalinist press gang­ 108, U nited R e ta il, W holesale and coast to commence the breakers to sabotage the cam­ sters, consisted of the fact that Department Store Workers, CIO; “liberation” of Europe, paign to free the 18. The other he “charged that the Brewster and Carl Thol, member of the was the unanimous resolution plant was shut down because the New Jersey State Industrial Roosevelt’s “ master de­ passed by the Boston convention government wants to ‘break the Union Council and President of sign” , as Washington of the AFL International Ladies union contract’.” Baldanzi was Local 260, United Automobile Garment Workers Union, which accused of a “red-batting tirade" Workers, CIO. Thol spoke as the commentators have re­ nrged immediate unconditional — because he nailed the Stalinists personal representative of Irving presidential pardon for the rail­ ferred to it, should serve to as reactionary agents of W all Abramson, President of the state shatter all remaining illusions roaded Trotskyist leaders. Street. CIO. built up around the idealistic Following the singular failure So agitated were the Stalinists In the report of his recent promises of the “Atlantic Char­ Of the S ta lin is t Daily Worker to over this meeting, that a few three-month coast-to-coast tour, ter.” intimidate outstanding union days later the Daily Worker raved Novack stated: “I have rejoiced AlTie'd soldiers are shedding leaders from speaking at the New about it in a lead editorial, under to discover from one end of the This remarkable photograph, together with others taken at the same scene which are reproduced on Page 3, shows how the their blood, not in order to lib­ York CRDC rally by a howling the invidious heading “Abysmal country to the other how much armed anti-fascist workers and soldiers fought and hunted down the hated fascists as the Allied armies entered Rome. In the above erate the European peoples from diatribe accusing them of being Spectacle.” After turning an apop­ more receptive than two and a picture, a fascist is cornered by the workers, whose feelings towards fascism and its minions are clearly revealed in their faces. An­ Nazism, not to assure exercise of “suckers” for the Trotskyists ana lectic red, white and blue over the half years ago the labor move­ other fascist is cowering behind the steel grille of the tobacco shop where he and his colleagues tried to hide. the right of self-determination by aiding "seditionists,” the Daily fact that workers would dare to ment is. Recause labor has learn­ all nations and peoples, not to Worker then went into a spate of ed in these tw o and a h a lf years hold a meeting protesting the out­ establish the “ Four Freedoms” in slanderous frothing alter the to understand the march of reac­ standing violation of labor's de­ the four corners of the earth — m eeting. tion and the necessity to defend mocratic rights during this war Nail Harry Bridges but to restore the old balance of while Allied invasion forces “ were civil liberties and labor’s rights.” Anti-Fascists Are Suppressed First, the Daily Worker printed power system in such manner as storming the beachheads,” the edi­ The CIO council of Toledo, a “news” report of the meeting PLEDGED SUPPORT to guarantee the world domina­ which fabricated the scurrilous torial repeats once more the Ohio, representing over 60,000 tion of American imperialism. Pledging the full moral and libel that the "hope” of the 18 frameup amalgam between the In Rome Under Rule Of Allies industrial workers, last week Roosevelt’s statement contem­ imprisoned working-class anti­ imprisoned Trotskyists and in­ material aid of the 40 Textile unanimously adopted a resolu­ plates the formation of an inter­ fascist Trotskyist lighters “is dicted fascists on trial in Wash­ Workers locals in New Jersey, By Louis Bonn tion urging the national CIO national organization of “all bound up with the defense of the ington. Sol Stetin declared “ these 18 don’t to remove Harry Bridges, Stal­ When the Allied m ilitary forces marched into Rome, as in the case of their previous oc­ peace-loving nations,” together seditionists on trial at Washing­ The editorial then reveals the belong in jail. What happened to inist head of the CIO Long­ with an international court of ton.” nub of Its frenzy — its Chief them could happen to me or other cupation of Naples, they found a city already being cleansed of armed fascists. The Italian shoremen's Union, from his justice, to “ maintain peace and Stalinist venom was spit par­ workers and anti-fascists know how to deal w ith the fascist scum. post as CIO regional director security and to assist the creation, ticularly at the union speakers. (Continued on page 5) (Continued on page 6) Delayed, censored and garbled Allied press reports from Rome, issued when the Allied on the West Coast. through international coopera­ troops first entered the city, reveal something of the violent and successful armed struggle put Over 200 delegates endorsed tion, of conditions of stability and up by the proletarian masses. As a tiny delayed Associated Press dispatch, written on June 4, th e resolution denouncing well-being necessary for peace­ discloses: "Anti-Fascist Italians clashed with German soldiers and Italian Fascists in bitter, hand- Bridges for his strikebreaking ful and friendly relations among to-hand fighting in the Rome area today. The anti-Fascists were in civilian clothes but were role in the Montgomery Ward nations. We are not thinking SWP Issues Appeal For strike and his enunciation of a of a super-state with its own po­ wearing red arm bands bearing ® permanent no - strike policy. lice forces and other parapher- the hammer and sickle insig­ retain and entrench all the vilest made its way through the Allied During the discussion on the na'ia of coercive power. We are nia.” forces of capitalist reaction in the censorship to give some idea of seeking effective agreement and Nothing is more revealing of local government. At the same the AMG acts against the rising resolution, one delegate $1000 Solidarity Fund declared: “I can remember arrangements through which the how the Roman masses fought time, the power of “democratic” masses. That dispatch, by Homer when this body discussed reso­ nations would maintain, accord­ and subdued the fascists than the imperialist arms was turned Bigart, published in the June 17 ing to their capacities, adequate Workers Asked to Express Solidarity With British Trotskyists Associated Press photographs against the anti-fascist workers N.
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