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Vol. X X III — No. 33 222 NEW YORK, N.Y., MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1959 Price 10c Two Parties Vie 5 Negro Students Brave In Pushing Bills Against Unions Little Rock Racist Mobs As the Strike Began By Tom Kerry Oil Workers The twin-pronged assault on the organized labor Faubus Tells Hate Gang movement reached a crescendo this past week as Wall Street and Washington ganged up to heighten the em­ ployer - government offensive. Fight to Save Not to Turn to Violence against the unions. drum-Griffin bill. A few more Abandoning all pretense of such "labor reforms" and the “impartiality,” Eisenhower unions w ill be reformed right Union Cains stepped forward as chief hat­ out of existence. Except as ‘Last Resort’ chet man for the corporations Although potentially the Steel workers aren't the only in demanding congressional en­ strongest power in this country, target of the employer cam­ AUG. 13—Five Negro students yesterday demon­ actment of additional repres­ the organized labor movement paign to destroy hard-won job strated the heroism that assures ultimate victory 6ver the sive labor legislation. is on the defensive and “run­ conditions. Some 2,600 oil re­ forces of race hatred. Two of them, Elizabeth Eckford, 17, Emboldened by the clamor ning scared.” The dismal record finery workers are currently and Jefferson Thomas, 16, calmly from the White House and of the union leaders in the engaged in three bitterly fought walked into Little Rock’s Cen Congress for more punitive field of legislative and political strikes to resist a similar drive tral High School after a mob of in plants operated by the no­ labor measures, the Wall Street action has disheartened the 250 racists, incited by Gov. Fau­ Louisiana Racists torious union-hating Standard boodlers pressed forward their ranks and left them bewilder­ bus, had tried to claw through Oil of Indiana. union-busting campaign of im- ed and confused. For years the police and firemen in front of Ban Mixed Fishing posing yellow-dog contracts on bureaucrats have preached re­ The strikers are members of the school. The night before, 20 workers forced on strike to liance on “friends of labor” in the Oil, Chemical and Atomic minutes after a TV speech by In Children’s Books preserve their union living stan­ Washington to defend the in­ Workers International Union, Faubus, a carload of white men Louisiana officials haven’t dards and working conditions. terests of the unions. In a AFL-CIO. The July 27 issue of pumped bullets at the home of yet doped out how they can showdown these “friends” al­ Union News, voice of the Negro leader Daisy Bates. FOUR B ILLS ways wind up advocating a segregate different colored OCAW, describes their strike The mob al Central High came policy of retreat in order to fish in the state’s streams. There are now four so-called as “a struggle, in which the ward off the blows of reaction. directly from a Negro-bailing But they have succeeded in “labor reform” bills before fabulously wealthy oil ‘ colos­ rally al the stale capitol where removing from library shel­ Congress. The Kennedy-Ervin As against the Landrum- sus seeks to destroy completely Griffin bill, the “friends” 'sup­ Faubus said he was with them ves a children’s book en­ bill has already been passed the effectiveness of the local "all the way." He urged that titled, “The First Book of by the Senate by a vote of 90 port the- lesser evil o f the E l­ unions. The company demands liott and Kennedy-Ervin mea­ they avoid violence except as "a Fishing.” to 1. The leaders of the AFL- would force the unions com­ sures. The AFL-CIO sponsored last resort." It contains illustrations CIO first supported this mea­ pletely out of existence.” . Taken six days after the strike began July 14, this picture shows striking Steelworkers in In the battle at Central High, showing white and Negro sure; then reconsidered after Shelley bill is given short shrift. Because of the unbridled The three locals involved are long queue at gate of South Works of United Stales Steel Co. in Chicago, waiting to gel last pay­ 21 hose-drenched demonstrators, children fishing and pic­ it was amended; then came out character of the employer-gov- at Texas City, Texas, Sugar some with heads bloodied from nicking together. A library in opposition after James Hoffa, check. Despite financial hardships since then, strikers have shown solid determination to hold ernment offensive against labor, Creek, Mo., and El Dorado, police clubs, were hauled off to official said the illustrations John L. Lewis and others at­ tough on the picket line against an attack that is aimed at entire labor movement. Union gains Ark.’ None of the striking ja il. “presents as typical that tacked the bill as repressive. some union circles are begin­ won in decades of hard struggle are at slake as American capitalists seek higher profits. ning to talk about going over locals have presented new A racist woman stood up to a which is not typical for the In the House, three bills are contract demands. Their fight area.” up for consideration. The El­ from defensive to offensive fire hose, screaming, “I’m not actions. This would require, is lim ite d to w in n in g renewal Several other children’s liott bill, which was reported going to school with niggers!” first of all, a complete reversal and enforcement of old agree­ books have been banned on out by the House Committee Another shrieked, “Communists, of policy on the legislative and ments. GOP Exploits Dip in Cold War Communists!” similar grounds in the South on Education and Labor with-, In El Dorado, the union of­ in recent weeks. Alabama out recommendation; the Lan- political front. As Elizabeth and Jefferson fered to extend the present walked toward the school en­ put an embargo on “The drum-Griffin bill, a bipartisan T-H EXPERIENCE agreement for another year Rabbits’ Wedding” and Flo­ Republican-Democrat measure trance, one demonstrator shout­ without change. The company rida followed suit with “The and the Shelley bill, which is When the Taft-Hartley law To Put New Heat in Glass War ed, “Use the hose on the nig­ replied with a tough "no," and Three Little Pigs.” supported by the AFL-CIO was . enacted - the .union leaders gers!” “Kick ’em,” cried a girl is demanding complete free­ As Eisenhower eases the ten­ propped up the sagging popular­ ward with doves on their shoul­ heads. Of the three, the Lan- broke ranks and permitted the to a nearby white student. dom to change job assignments sions in Soviei-American rela­ drum-Griffin bill is considered imposition and gradual exten­ ity of the Republicans who have ders and such Democrats as Tru­ Meanwhile, three other Negro and increase work loads as it tions, he is intensifying his in ­ day's New York Post that Eliz­ the most savagely anti-labor. sion of what they themselves been hunting for a dramatic man and Acheson wanting the students, Effie Jones, 17; Elsie sees fit. tervention on the side of the abeth told him, "I just can't let In his nation-wide television characterized as a “slave labor” vote-getting issue. They appear cold war heated up. Robinson, 16, and Estella Thomp­ corporations in their war against Jeff go back there alone. I know broadcast last Thursday Eisen­ b ill. In Texas City, the company to have struck gold in the peace I. F. Stone, for example, un­ son, 16, spent their first day at the unions. Softer on the Soviet how bad it was when there were hower demanded that Congress For the first period after its offered to extend the present initiative. restrainedly throws his cap in the previously all-white Horace nine of us. It would be ten limes adopt the union-busting Lan- adoption the policy of the un­ agreement because it has found Union — tougher on the A m eri­ The Republican strategists the air for Eisenhower, .Nixon Mann High without trouble. enough loopholes in it to strip can unions: that's the current as bad if no one was with him ." drum-Griffin bill as “a good ion heads was to demand Taft-Hartley have turned their bipartisan and Khrushchev •— the peace- Elizabeth and Jefferson were guiding line of administration start1 toward a real labor re­ repeal. Truman was the workers of virtually all foreign policy with the Demo­ mongers. .“Mr. Nixon' . . . spoke among the original nine who at­ Her decision to join Jefferson form bill.” elected in 1948 with labor sup­ protection. The union is asking policy. crats to good account. They are in Moscow in one world tones tended Central High last year in braving the racists came the for a new contract that will The president is a hard man port on the basis of his slogan The Chief Executive went on succeeding in covering their top that recalled Wilkie and Wal­ under protection of federal same night as the attack on the adhere to “the spirit” of the to please.. In addition to Taft-Hartley to repeal the Taft-Hartley the air Aug. 6 to urge passage figures with the shining mantle lace,” he wrote in the Aug. 10 troops. The nine were tormented home of Daisy Bates which has old one, with some of the loop­ he now wants the Lan- (Continued on Page 3) of the Griffin-Landrum bill “as of peace-lovers while making issue of his Weekly. “Mr. Eisen­ by racist students before Faubus been the target in the past of holes plugged up. a good start toward a real labor the Democrats look at best as hower’s eight years in office shut down the city’s four high bullets, rocks and stink bombs. At Sugar Creek, the workers reform bill.” seconders of Republican leader­ would be historical all else schools. i Ted Poston, who was standing are fighting for their first That same evening AFL-CIO ship or else as obstructionists would be forgiven — if the During that first session Jef­ on the lawn of the home talking and carpers standing in the way N.Y. Labor Day Parade OCAW contract after having Pres. George Meany condemned President who began by ending ferson was knocked unconscious with Mr. Bates when the shoot­ been members of an- indepen­ this Democrat-Republican spon­ of a better international atmos­ the war in Korea finished by by a blow. ing occurred, reports that the phere. dent union. The union says it sored measure as a “ blunderbuss laying the foundations for peace­ Along with a third student, bullets missed the house but w ill accept the old independent that would inflict grievous harm One cartoonist depicts the des­ ful co-existence with the Soviet Carlotta Walls, now attending went through the living room of Of 150,000 Predicted contract for a new period. The pairing donkey spinning the on all unions.” U nion.” summer school in Chicago, they a neighboring home where three company has refused this offer globe and saying: "There must NEW YORK—More than 300 huge illuminated signs Meany said that this coalition It would be wise to note that were the only ones assigned to white children were watching and is pressing for the -right to be some place we can go — television. A bullet missed one will soon be on display in the world’s largest city to bill is “supported by the very Eisenhower didn’t go on the air Central High this year. The two assign work as it pleases. Somebody we can invite!" to speak for a strong civil-rights o f them by less th a n a foot. publicize the first Labor Day parade here in 20 years. elements in Congress which have remaining students of the orig­ consistently through the years bill. He went out hustling for inal nine were reassigned to the Sponsored by the Central "ROCKEFELLER TACTICS" AMONG RADICALS ARMED GUARD .voted for the program of big big business in its attack upon all-Negro high school. Labor Council, AFL-CIO, the tu rn o u t of 150,000 fo r the pa­ Union News also charges business and against every pro­ The new situation is producing the rights and organizations of Although Elizabeth was read­ Since the first outbreaks - of parade is being organized as a rade which will be held Mon­ that in its efforts to defeat the gressive measure that could some revisions of opinion in American working men and mitted to Central High, she had violence in Little Rock, Mr. and demonstration of solidarity with day, Sept. 7. strikes. Standard "is resorting benefit all the American people.” radical circles, too. Hitherto the women. Eisenhower pursues the already been accepted by an Il­ Mrs. Bates, who are Arkansas the striking Steelworkers and The parade will begin at to the Rockefeller tactics of 30 While pressing the anti-labor Democrats have been touted as same aims, suitably disguised, linois College although she was leaders in the school integration to register labor’s opposition to 10 a.m., and the line of, march years ago except that so far drive, the Republican high com­ pro-peace and the Republicans in the field of diplomacy. This fight, have maintained a private the employer-inspired drive for will extend along Fifth Avenue short of two of the high-school nobody has been shot down in mand is working hard to extract as pro-war, even though the should neither be forgotten — anti-union legislation. from 26th Street to 60th Street. credits normally required. armed guard at their home, gen­ cold blood on thè picketlines. maximum advantage in domestic three big wars involving the nor forgiven. The 12- by 25-foot billboard If the goal of 150,000 marchers On the eve of the opening of erally off-duty Negro policemen. politics from the turn in diplom­ U.S. in this century were all signs w ill urge: "Men and is achieved, the parade may “High - pressure propaganda Central High, she suddenly real­ On the night of the shooting the waged under Democratic aus­ SHOCK TREATMENT Women of Organized Labor — last as long as 15 hours. There experts are daily pouring innu­ acy. ized that with the third student guards were on duty with the pices. Join the Mammoth March to were 125,000 participants in endo and, in some cases, b la t­ Most commentators agree that A recent issue of TV guide in Chicago, Jefferson would be rest of the police force preparing Help Workers to a Better Life." the last parade held in 1929. ant lies into the newspapers the thaw has given a big boost Now, suddenly, the cards are featured an article entitled, alone at the school. She changed for the school opening. and radio and television sta­ to Nixon’s bid to head the 1960 m ixed. Some radicals see the “How TV Is Helping the Men­ her plans on the spot. After yesterday’s violence at W ith more than 1,000 local "STILL MILITANT" unions affiliated to the council, tions of the area.” Republican ticket. It has also Republican leaders stepping for­ tally Ill.” Ted Poston reported in yester- (Continued on Page 3) a drive is being made for a In urging maximum partici­ pation by all affiliated unions, Matthew Guinan, vice presi­ Should Have dent of the Central Labor The Real Forces Behind the Thaw in Cold War Council and chairman of the 21-man Labor Day Parade By William F. Warde if possible, crushing the Soviet The exit of revolutionary can alliance set u p by General machine composed of docile with the determination of big Invited DuBois Committee, declared that the What were the main forces Union. Their aims have been China from the capitalist sys­ Marshall. and willing soldiers. Instead, business to protect the inter­ A prominent Southern Negro march will demonstrate that at work behind the thaw in frustrated fro m m any sides. tem in 1949 snatched the chief All these developments of a they found themselves faced ests of private property and leader, Bishop C. E. Tucker of “the labor movement is still the cold-war atmosphere sig­ Capitalism has not even been prize of World War II from revolutionary character, wheth­ with insurgents in uniform who the profit system here and the AMEZ Episcopalian Church militant, vital and determined nalized by the Khrushchev- able to hold its own; it has the clutches of the American er anti-capitalist, anti-colonial­ wanted only to go home and abroad. This is the basic and in Louisville, Ky., charged the to safeguard and advance the Eisenhower visits? How did the been abolished in Eastern Eu­ capitalists. (“We lost China!”) ist or purely nationalist, have forget about any more fighting. unalterable determinant be­ rope and Eastern Asia, and is Thè victory of the Chinese rev­ leadership of the National As­ rights of the organized and change come about? What has upset the strategic plans of the This same phenomenon could neath and behind the advances gravely threatened in other olution radically altered the sociation for the Advancement non-organized workers in this curbed the war-makers and militarist-monopolist clique- in be observed in different forms and retreats, the twists and places. relation of forcés in the Far of Colored People with a c ity .” lent strength to the cause of Washington and compelled in the reaction to Truman’s turns of State Department “grave error” in not inviting "If the labor movement is io peace? East. This was dramatically them to pause and reconsider diplom acy. COLONIAL UPRISINGS demonstrated when MacArthur “police action” in Korea. Abun­ Dr. W. E. B. DuBois to address continue to make gains," he The '‘power e lite ” of U.S. their course. dant testimony has since been In the class war they con­ set out for the Yalu River dur­ the Fiftieth Anniversary Con­ continued, "it must pass from imperialism has not been sud­ released from official military duct on the world arena, On one continent after an­ ing the Korean “police action” AT HOME, TOO vention of the organization last the defensive to the offensive denly transformed from tigers sources about the unwillingness America's capitalist rulers must other the colonial peoples have ,and was hurled back by the m onth. and for this reason the New to doves of peace. Nor has the sometimes, under compulsion succeeded in' casting ' off their entry of the Chinese reinforce­ The anti-war forces and ac­ of most GI’s to fight to the end “Dr. DuBois was one of the York City Central Labor Coun­ change been brought about by and of their lack of morale of uncontrollable conditions, subordination to foreign domination ments. Korea was the first war tions have not been confined founders of the NAACP and cil must have a parade." the clever maneuvering or dip­ which broke down easily after take a step backward— lo pre­ and delivering the in our national history which to foreign fields; they have also has given his life to the cause A proclamation, issued in lomatic pressures exerted by capture. pare for a new advance later most damaging blows to the did not end with a definitive been operating here at home in of freedom and civil rights,” conjunction with announcement the Kremlin, at a more favorable moment. imposing prewar structure of triumph for American arms. unsuspected ways. “They did not know why Bishop Tucker wrote in the of the parade, describes the The decisive factor that has Such a limited retreat in good imperialism. When, for example, the GI’s they were in Korea and what Aug. 8 Pittsburgh. Courier. “He march as “answering the forces led to the new turn in interna­ In the past year the revolu­ order is the gist of the present they were fighting for,” report­ is a world-renowned scholar of greed and intolerance which tional relations is the change Two keystones were removed tionary Iraqis yanked the un­ shouted to be let out of service situation. from the British Empire when derpinnings from the Baghdad and sent, home rig h t aw ay at ed the Army psychologists. and he is an outstanding cham­ are seeking to undermine our in the relationship of forces Big Business must sometimes India won independence in Pact in which the Pentagon the close of World War II, Moreover, Korea was the most pion of the oppressed and sub­ vast economic and social pro­ between the revolutionary temporarily accede to accept a 1947 and E gypt in 1946-52. The hoped to use N uri-es-S aid’s dic­ their conscious thought was to unpopular war in American jugated people of the world.” gress. . movements of the peoples and loss, and to maneuver in order dominions of Holland were tatorship as a bulwark against get out of uniform and back to history. Eisenhower cinched his “I express the hope,” he said, The committee in charge has the defenders of the old order. to safeguard its major positions. “that his militancy in matters announced th a t there w ill be The advances and pressures of destroyed when the Dutch were popular uprisings and the civilian life. They would have election in 1952 by promising That, for example, is the pertaining to acquisition of floats, bands and colorful ban­ the revolutionary forces have ousted from Indonesia in 1949. spread of neutralist and pro- been astounded to know that by to end it, just as he and Nixon problem U.S. tacticians now freedom and first-class citizen­ ners to be carried by the proved powerful enough to The loss of the war in Indo- Soviet sentiments in the Middle raising and enforcing this de­ are seeking to win the 1960 confront in Cuba. There, under ship for all people was not a marchers. slow down and halt the war China followed by independ­ East. mand they were nullifying the election for the Republicans the impulsion of the popular barrier to his being invited ... A number of local unions drive of American imperialism. ence -for Morocco and Tunisia To cap it all, the nationalist far-ranging post-war plans of by posing as the great peace­ insurgency, Castro has had to “Passive resistance is all have established parade com­ After World War II, the and now the remarkable resist­ movement in Cuba, headed by the Pentagon strategists to keep makers. Castro, overthrew Batista's dic­ a big army in being for fur­ impose agrarian reforms and rig h t as fa r as it goes, b u t one mittees, and special shop stew­ global strategists in Washing­ ance of the Algerian freedom BASIC DETERMINANT does not cure a cancerous ards and committee meetings ton set a course to complete fighters have exhausted Fiance tatorship which had been re­ ther operations on a • world propose nationalization of sugar growth by the application- of are being called to assure a their conquests in that conflict and made it an unreliable ally ceiving arms from Washington scale. The White House advisers and tobacco plantations, cattle talcum powder or vaseline.” maximum turnout. by first containing, and then, of U.S. imperialism. as a girder of the Inter-Ameri- The generals needed a war- guide themselves in accord (Continued on Page 2) Page Tw o T H E MILITANT M onday, August 17, 1959 The Two Cops Pulled Their Guns Perspectives of American Marxism Dear Comrade Calverton: ly, a fellow-traveler is better I received your pamphlet, “For than an enemy. But a Marxist But Were Afraid to Use Them cannot be a fellow-traveler of Revolution,” and read it with in­ By Harry Ring terest as well as profit to myself. the revolution. About the Letter Your arguments against the Moreover, as historical experi­ Trotsky wrote this open letter from exile at Prinkipo, NEW YORK. Aug. 11—"They for-all started when Tyson Another witness, Henry Mas­ American “knights of pure re­ ence bears out, at the most crit­ Turkey, Nov. 4, 1932, lo V. F. Calverton, then editor of the were closing in on us lighter King, the proprietor, “started sey, confirmed to reporters that form” are very convincing, cer­ ical moments the storm of the Modern Monthly. The magazine claimed to be for Marxism but and lighter. We were both scar­ to struggle and gave me his the crowd was aroused by the tain of them are really splendid. struggle tosses the m a jo rity of above and beyond allegiances to any organized political ten­ ed stiff." elbow in my chest.” He didn’t beating of, Edwards. "They But, so far as I understand your the intellectual fellow-travelers dency. That was the reported reac­ explain w h y K in g w ould be treat people like a bunch of request, what you wanted from into the enemy’s camp. If they The letter was drafted a short time before the Communist tion of one of the two white struggling if he hadn’t laid animals," he said. "They just me was not literary compliments do return, it is only after the Left Opposition's decisive break with the Stalinized Third detectives who received a firm hands on him while making beat him over the head with a but a political evaluation. I am victory has been consolidated. International and its proclamation of the need for new revolu­ anti-brutality lesson Sunday the arrest. blackjack when he pulled his all the more willing to grant Maxim Gorky is the clearest but tionary parties in each country under the banner of the Fourth from 300 angry residents of a The other detective, Jeremiah arm away." your request since the problems not the only example: In the International. Negro community in the East O’Connor, added that while his Edwards had to be taken to of American Marxism have ac­ present Soviet apparatus, inci­ W ritten more than 25 years ago, its ideas and arguments B ronx. partner was struggling with his a nearby hospital where he re­ quired at the present time an ex­ dentally, clear up to the top a are directly relevant to one of the main issues posed by the The people had decided that prisoner, an employee in the ceived three stitches to close a ceptional importance. very important percentage of regroupment developments within radical circles over the past they weren’t going to simply restaurant, Miss Lucy Quick, head wound. King was treated By its character and structure, people stood fifteen years ago three years: what kind of organizational conclusions should a stand by while the two cops beat lunged at him with a pair of for body abrasions and the two openly on the other side of the and clubbed a woman and two your pamphlet is most approp­ serious socialist draw who has broken with Stalinism and Social scissors. So, he said, he had to detectives for bruises. riate for the thinking represen­ October 1917 barricades. Democracy? men they had just arrested. use force. It took five patrol cars and Also arrested was William tatives of the student youth. To Is it necessary to recall that It also indicates Trotsky's keen interest and insight into the They also arrested Robert 25 cops a full half hour to dis­ Golden. Police charged he urg­ ignore this youth would, in any Marxism not only interprets the problems of creating a genuine Marxist movement in the United Edwards and beat him with a perse the crowd. Meanwhile the ed the crowd “to kill the cops.” case, be out of the question; on world but also teaches how to Stales. gun in front of the restaurant. two detectives, who had drawn the contrary, it is necessary to change it? The w ill is the motor It was the sight of this beating NAACP CONCLUSION their guns as soon as the pro-, know how to talk to these stu­ force in the domain of know­ ist theoretician to pass by the cow ruling faction upon the that drew the crowd. ledge, too. The moment Marxism testers gathered, found they This particular claim, along dents in their ,own language. Congresses of the First Interna­ Communist International has al­ were in no position to use EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT with the entire police version However, you .yourself repeated­ loses its w ill to transform in a tional. But a thousand times ready become a brake on the revolutionary way political real­ them. Both were roughed up a of the incident, has been chal­ ly emphasize in your study the more urgent is the study of the development of the world prole­ bit and the tires of their car O'Connor and Martino have thought which is elementary to ity, at that moment it loses the lenged by the Bronx Branch Leon Trotsky, killed Aug. living differences over the Ams­ tariat. The fertilizing, ideological were slashed. been flatly contradicted in a Marxist; namely, that the abo­ ability to correctly understand of the NAACP. Frederick 21, 1940, by Stalin's secret terdam “anti-war” Congress of hegemony of Bolshevism has One of the detectives said their story that they. arrested lition of capitalism can be political reality. A Marxist who, Jones, branch president, said political police. An indication 1932. Indeed, how much is the been replaced in recent years by later — perhaps in apology — and beat Edwards because he achieved only by the working for one secondary consideration today that investigation had of what the Marxist move­ sincerest and warmest sympathy the stifling oppression of the ap­ that they were so hemmed in tried to jump them as they class1. The revolutionary educa­ or another, does not draw his substantiated that police bru­ ment and mankind lost in for the Soviet Union worth, if it paratus. he was afraid to shoot for fear were dragging their prisoners tion of the proletarian vanguard, conclusions to the end, betrays- tality was responsible for the the death of this Soviet is accompanied by indifference It is not necessary to prove the of hitting his partner. from the store. you correctly proclaim as the Marxism. To pretend to ignore near-riot. founder can be gained from to the methods of its defense? disastrous consequences of this The incident was similar lo Thurston Christian, who was the different Communist fac­ Of the arrest of Golden he chief task. But in your pamphlet,. the accompanying letter. As regime: It suffices to point to the one that occurred in Harlem on with Edwards, told reporters: tions, so as not to become involv­ Is there today a subject more said, "There seems to be a I do not find the bridge to that a true citizen of the world, important for a revolutionist, leadership of the American July 13. There a crowd of more “No one cared that they made task, nor any indication of the ed and compromise oneself, sig­ complete mystery as to why he Trotsky's interests covered all more gripping, more burning, Communist party. The liberation than 1,000 intervened to stop an arrest. That’s their business. direction in which it must be nifies to ignore that activity was singled out. Our informa­ countries and a wide range than the struggle and the fate of from the unprincipled bureau­ two cops from beating a woman Edwards was d rin k in g a soda sought. which, through all the contradic­ tion indicates that he was sit­ of cultural fields. the German proletariat? Is it cratic command has become a prisoner on the street and then in the store when one of the Is this a reproach on my part? tions, consolidates the vanguard ting in his car watching what possible, on the other hand, to question of life and death for gathered in outraged protest in detectives told him to get out. Yes and no. In its essence your of the class; it signifies to cover front of the local police station. was going on when he was touchy but also an extremely define one’s attitude to the prob­ the revolution and for Marxism. He told him, ‘Let me finish little book represents an answer oneself with the abstraction of The East Bronx demonstra­ pulled out and arrested/' important question, which im­ lems of the German revolution my soda first.’ The detectives to that special variety of petty- the revolution, as with a shield, "AMERICANIZE MARXISM!" tion developed when the two poses obligations and leads to while passing by the differences didn’t say anything until the King and Miss Quick were bourgeois radicals (in America from the blows and bruises of detectives moved in on a neigh­ patrol cars came. Then they charged yesterday w ith posses­ consequences. I may perhaps be in the camp of German and in­ You are perfectly right in say­ they seem to be wearing out the the real revolutionary process. borhood luncheonette to arrest started manhandling him. When sion of illegal alcohol, felon­ mistaken with respect to you ternational Communism? A rev­ ing that the vanguard of the threadbare name of “liberals”) the proprietor for alleged pos­ Edwards tried to pull his arm ious assault and inciting to personally, but many American VICTORY NOT ASSURED olutionist who has no opinion on American proletariat must learn who are ready to accept the session of bootleg whiskey. away from his grasp he pushed riot; Edwards with felonious Marxists obviously and stub­ the policies of Stalin-Thaelmann to base itself on the revolution­ boldest social conclusions pro­ When the left bourgeois jour­ • Detective Thomas Martino him out into the street and assault and inciting to riot, and bornly avoid fixing their position is not a Marxist. A Marxist who ary traditions of its own coun­ vided they incur no political ob­ nalists summarily defend the told newsmen that the free- started beating him.” Golden with inciting to riot. with respect to party. They en­ has an opinion but remains si­ try, too. In a certain sense we ligations whatever. Socialism? Soviet Republic as it is, they ac­ ro ll themselves among the lent is not a revolutionist. can accept the slogan, “Ameri­ ■Communism? Anarchism? Very complish a progressive and “friends” of the Soviet Union, It is not enough to preach the canize Marxism!” This does not Good! But not otherwise than by praiseworthy work. For a Marx­ they “sympathize” with Com­ benefits of technology; it is nec­ mean, of course, to submit its way of reforms. Transform so­ ist revolutionist, it is absolutely munism, write articles about essary to build bridges. How principle and method to revision. ...Thaw in Cold War ciety, morality, the family from insufficient. The problem of the Hegel and the inevitability of would a young doctor be judged The attempt of Max Eastman to To be sure, when big busi­ between Washington and Mos­ top to bottom? Splendid! But October Revolution — let us not (Continued from Page 1) the revolution and — nothing who, instead of practising as an throw overboard the materialist ness is menaced w ith losing cow. absolutely with the permission forget! — has not yet been solv­ ranches and other American- more. But this is not enough. interne would satisfy himself dialectic in the interests of the everything in a country or a They cannot look to the of the White House and Tam­ ed. Only parrots can find satis­ owned enterprises. For the instrument of the revo­ with reading biographies of “engineering art of revolution” continent, its representatives roomed dinosaurs of capitalist many. faction in repeating the words, These radical measures are lution is the party, don’t you great surgeons of the past? represents an obviously hopeless will not hesitate to hurl the diplomacy for genuine disarm­ Against these pretentious and “Victory is assured.” not at all to Washington and agree? What would Marx have said and in its possible consequences full weight of their armed ament and a secure peace. sterile tendencies you present, as Wall Street’s liking. But they I would not like to be misun­ No, it is not assured! Victory about a theory which, instead of retrograde adventure. The sys­ might into the balance. But Nor ‘ can they rely on the I have said before, a very suc­ poses the problem of strategy. must, for the time being, yield derstood. Under the tendency to deepening revolutionary prac­ tem of Marxism has completely that is not the case today. The machinations of the opportun­ cessful line of argumentation. There is no book which sets in to the unfavorable relation of avoid the practical consequences tice, serves to separate one from passed the test of history. Especially world power struggle has been istic Khrushchev who is most But this controversy itself there­ advance the correct orbit for the forces and contrive to get a of a clear position, I do not at it? Most probably he would re­ now, in the epoch of cap­ compromise settlement which in a stalemate—and Washing­ concerned with promoting the by inevitably takes on the char­ first workers’ state. The head all mean the concern for per­ peat his sarcastic statement, “No, italist decline — the epoch of ton aims to extricate itself interests of the Soviet bureau­ acter of a domestic dispute in an does not and cannot exist which w ill save as much as possible sonal welfare. Admittedly, there I am not a Marxist.” wars and revolutions, storms and from the debacle of their pre­ from that deadlock with the cracy, and not with the wel­ intellectual club with its own can contain the ready-made are some quasi-“Marxists” whom From all indications the cur­ shocks — the materialist dialec­ vious backing of Batista and maximum of advantage and fare of the world working reformist and its own Marxist formula for socialist society. The the Communist party scares off rent crisis w ill be a great mile­ tic fully reveals its inexorable yie ld as little as possible to the minimum of risks to its class. wing. It was in this way that roads of economy and politics by its aim of bringing the revo­ stone on the historical road of force. the demands of the workers positions, profits and prospects. To ensure that the first ten­ thirty and forty years ago in must still be determined only lution out of the discussion club the United States. Smug Amer­ To Americanize Marxism sig­ and peasants. tative steps toward reducing Petersburg and Moscow the aca­ through experience and worked THE SOCIALIST VIEW and into the street. But to dis ican p rovincialism is in any. case nifies to root it in American soil, hostility between the U.S. and demic Marxists disputed with out collectively, that is, through pute about a revolutionary party nearing its end. Those common­ to verify it against the events of Socialists should be aware of the USSR be buttressed by fur­ the academic Populists: must a constant conflict of ideas. A with such snobs is generally a places which invariably nourish­ American history, to elaborate these deeper social forces and ther moves in a peaceful di­ Russia pass through the stage Marxist who limits himself to a waste of time. We are talking ed American political thought in by its methods the problems of class considerations and be rection, the socialists must un­ of capitalism or not? How much summary “sympathy” without Subscribe! about other, more serious Marx­ all its ramifications are com­ American economy and politics, guided by them in approaching derstand the prime role played water has flowed over the dam taking part in the struggle over ists, who are in no way inclined pletely spent. 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A trained Marxist studies the was the historical sequence of that you are not calling anybody capitalism w ill unavoidably pro­ Three fundamental factions differences between Engels and the residency of socialism and voke a blossoming of critical and in particular to go anywhere in A t Mountain Spring Camp have been formed, which have Lassalle with regard to the Eur­ Marxism. The present revolu­ particular. You explain the in­ generalizing thought, and it may succeeded in demonstrating opean war of 1859. This is nec­ tionary hegemony of Russia can be that we are not very far evitability of the revolution. their character in the course of essary. But if he is not a pedant least of all lay claim to durabil­ away from the time when the However, the intellectual who is the great events and problems of of Marxist historiography, not a ity. The fact itself of the exist­ convinced by you can quietly theoretical center of the interna­ recent years. The struggle among bookworm, but a proletarian ence of a Soviet Union, especi­ finish smoking his cigarette and tional revolution is transferred them has taken on all the sharp­ revolutionist, it is a thousand ally before the proletarian vic­ to New York. pass on to the next item- on his er character since in the Soviet times more important and ur­ daily agenda. To this' extent tory in one of the advanced Before the American Marxists Union every difference with the gent for him to elaborate for states, has naturally an immeas­ there is in my words an element open truly colossal, breathtaking current ruling group leads to himself an independent judg­ urable importance for1 the labor of reproach. perspectives! immediate expulsion from the ment about the revolutionary movement of all countries. But W ith sincere greetings, TYPICAL POSITION party and to state repressions. strategy in China from 1925 to the direct influence of the Mos­ L. Trotsky The Marxist intelligentsia in “1932. 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Another group wanders us say, the old differences among Why did an important publishing house decide to having achieved in the slightest without a party home, defends, Russian Marxists on the char­ do a major promotion job on Bernard Wolfe’s novel, degree the power of European where it can, the Soviet Union acter of the future Russian revo­ “The Great Prince Died,” which purports to psycho­ reformism, Am erican Social from slander, and occupies itself lution; a study, naturally, from Democracyi has acquired all of with abstract sermons in favor the original sources and not from analyze Leon Trotsky? Does Wolfe create a valid its vices, and, barely past child­ of the revolution without indi­ the ignorant and unconscionable psychological portrait of the late revolutionary leader? hood, has already fallen into cating through which gate one compilations of the epigones. what the Russians call “senility must pass to meet it. But far more important is it to In a critical review of Wolfe’s novel, Joseph of dogs.” I trust that you agree The difference between these elaborate for oneself a clear un­ Hansen, Trotsky’s secretary at the time he was mur­ with this evaluation and have two groups, however, is not so derstanding of the theory and dered in Mexico in 1940, describes the real personality Labor Day Week End Speakers, Sept. 5-7: perhaps, more than once even, great. On both sides there is re­ practice of the Anglo-Russian and views of the revolutionary exile. expressed similar views. nunciation of the creative effort Committee, of the “third period,” Dr. Annette Rubinstein, author and lecturer, "A Socialist Looks at American Literature." But in the pamphlet “For Rev­ in working out an independent of “social fascism,” of the “dem­ Read it in the summer issue of International Social­ Tom Kerry, Militant staff writer, "American Labor at the Cross Roads." olution” you did not say a word opinion, and renunciation of the ocratic dictatorship” in Spain, ist Review. Send 35 cents for a copy. Nat Weinstein, delegate io NAACP convention, "Methods of Negro Struggle — a Historical about Social Democracy. Why? courageous struggle in its de­ and the policy of the united Approach." It seems to me because, had you fense which is precisely where front. The study of the past is in Rates: from $6 a day, including meals. For reservations or information write Mountain spoken of Social Democracy, you the revolutionist begins. On both the last analysis justified by this, International Socialist Review would have also had to give an sides we have the fellow-travel- that it helps one to orient him­ S pring Camp, R.D. 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Theater owners have been packing audiences in with special An Instructive Parallel double - feature horror - terror*- When Khrushchev travels through Not so long ago President David J. shockers like “Dracula’s Darl­ ger appropriations in the next ing” or “The Day All Life military budget. the United States and Eisenhower returns McDonald of the Steelworkers union was Ended.” Lending a hand, the House the visit to the Soviet Union, they will travelling from coast to coast with the Reality has a way of catch­ Committee on Science and As­ be greeted by enthusiastic and cheering President of the U.S. Steel Corporation, ing up with and even outstrip­ tronautics last week issued a crowds. The American and the Soviet Benjamin F. Fairless. Their joint tour ping the story-tellers. Thus the lengthy report on the subject peoples w ill thereby be expressing their was touted in both the big business and brains at work in the Pentagon which urged trebling the coun­ have discovered that humanity, try’s spending on chemical-bio­ desire for disarmament-, an end to the labor press as the dawn of a new era in and our own citizens, have not logical-radiological research and cold war and a new era of peace in the labor-management relations. McDonald been scared by the threat of development. w orld. and his stooges tried to sell this line of A- and H-bombs alone. They This report has some good The tours and meetings of the two goods to the ranks of the union. are also terrified by reports of news for worried Americans. It says that while chemical, statesmen undeniably coincide with the There were militants in the mills who the horrors which might be in­ flicted by new and undisclos­ biological and radiological war­ cautioned their fellow workers against aspirations of the peoples for a suspen­ ed discoveries in bacteriological fare can be “ ju s t as disagree­ sion of warlike words and moves and these illusions. They pointed out that, re­ and chemical warfare. able as any of the other forms represents a gain for the antiwar forces. gardless of the wishes of McDonald or This, their public relations of destruction in vogue in the But, amidst all the jubilation over even Fairless, the clash of interests which men believe, is definitely not a world,” it can offer “some rays of hope for a more sane ap­ the change in the cold war temperature, had caused four steel strikes since World good thing. It is necessary to do something about the pub­ proach to an activity which we it is important to keep a sense of realism War II had not been eliminated. These 'A $7 billion slump and Khrushchev hasn't even got here yet!" lic’s state of nerves. Pass the wish could be classified as ir­ and to understand the limitations imposed would come to the surface again and tranquillizers, please. rational.” by the different social systems upon the 'compel the Steelworkers to fight even to What concerns the Defense What are these rays of hope?- heads of the two governments. Otherwise, hold their previous gains. The basic inter­ D epartm ent is not so much the Two new groups of psycho­ chemicals which act as incapa­ exaggerated hopes can be placed in their ests of the steel bosses and the steel Nine African Nations Denounce emotional havoc caused by these fears as the possibility citating agents. The first group negotiations. Workers are incompatible, they stressed, that overwrought nerves might includes those that "produce Eisenhower speaks and acts for the no matter what the bureaucrats said. deter the development of new temporarily physical disability. billionaire rulers of U.S. capitalism — and Who was the better prophet? Mc­ deadly w a r gases and more such as. paralysis, blindness and Atomic Bomb Tests in Sahara deafness." The second group in ­ he w ill make no concessions that serious­ Donald, patted on the back by the head virulent bacteriological agents. cludes agents that produce AUG . 12 — France is about precautions have been taken to The French assurance about According to N.Y. Times re­ ly undermine the national and interna­ of U.S. Steel as he proclaimed the end of "temporary mental aberrations." lo become a full-fledged mem­ clear the test zone of all traf­ the safety of a “lonely and un­ porter Jack Raymond, "leading tional positions of the profiteers. class warfare in the steel industry? Or “ U n like lethal w a r gases and ber of the previously exclusive fic and that “the ’ danger of inhabited” area is equally military officials are trying to While Khrushchev is the direct the militants in his union who refused to the more virulent biological U.S. - Soviet - British "atomic radioactivity resulting fro m worthless. U.S. and British tests overcome public horror of agents, these incapacitants can spokesman for the bureaucratic upper believe in this repudiation of the facts of club." Despite bitter protest French low-altitude bomb tests in remote areas of the Pacific chemical, biological and radio­ produce purely temporary ef­ crust of the USSR, he is bound not only economic life under capitalism and ad­ from nine African nations, the is negligible” in comparison to and Soviet tests in equally re­ logical warfare. Pentagon fects without permanent dam­ De Gaullist regime will soon the am ount released by U.S., mote regions of Siberia have strategists fear that unless a by their interests but also by the anti­ vised the steel workers to be on their age,” the re p o rt assures us. * explode its first atomic bomb Soviet and British tests. scattered strontium 90 and formidable program of public capitalist economic framework of nation­ guard against new aggressions by the I feel more at ease already. in southwestern Algeria. The statement, which sounds other poisonous elements across education in this field is car­ alized property and planned economy. steel corporations? Or is that only a “temporary like it was copied from a U.S. the entire globe.- The French ried out, the country may suf­ The selection of the Algerian mental aberration” induced by He cannot, for fear of being ousted by his The present bitter battle in steel A tom ic Energy Commission tests will only add to the al­ fer as significantly as if it were sector of the Sahara for the the Pentagon’s toxicology? rivals, as he ousted Malenkov and others, gives the answer. press handout, has just about ready dangerous radioactive behind in nuclear-armed mis­ French atomic test site is grim­ siles." — John' Marshall yield up to the American imperialists It would be wise to keep this parallel ly ironical. The Algerian inde­ as much w o rth as those hand­ pollution of the earth’s atmos­ outs. phere. “What the public must know, anything which strikes at the foundations in mind as Eisenhower and Khrushchev pendence fighters who have according to the highest De­ The AEC has regularly in­ The projected French atomic of the privileges or power of the Soviet clasp hands and each exploits for his own suffered so many deaths at the fense Department authorities, Court Upholds hands of French ^ troops will sisted that the fallout from explosions underscore again the bureaucracy. benefit the peace sentiments of the is that many forms of chemical now face the added hazard of each of its tests is "negligible." compelling need for effective Travis Conviction The current steel strike can serve to American and Soviet peoples. Permanent only to be confronted later and allied warfare are more intense nuclear fallout. international mass action to DENVER, Aug. 4 — The Cir­ peace w ill not be attained by smiles and with the fact that the cancer- ‘humane’ than existing wea­ throw light upon the relations between Cautiously worded French ban the bomb. If the current pons.” cuit Court of Appeals yesterday breeding debris has consistent­ stockpiles are not scrapped and the U.S. and the USSR and the dealings handshakes but by continued struggle for statements on the coming tests You are not easily convinced? upheld the conviction of Mau­ indicate that the dictatorial ly been far greater than ad-. the tests halted, use of the of their official chiefs. a socialist world. mitted. Then listen. “For example, cer­ rice Travis on a charge of fil­ government is well aware of bomb will continue to spread tain types of ‘psychochemicals’ ing a false “non-Communist” the depth of African and world from country to country. would make it possible to par­ affidavit with the National opposition to the lethal blasts. It no longer requires great alyze temporarily entire popu­ Labor Relations Board. The Impact on Wall Street But, unfortunately, that protest ...Little Rock wealth or vast industrial re­ lation centers without damage The former international sec- has not been organized in a (Continued from Page 1) sources to manufacture and to homes and other structures.” retary-treasurer of the Mine, sufficiently effective way to test nuclear weapons. If a The public has to be enlight­ Mill & Smelter Workers union Monday, Aug. 11, the New York Here is his answer: “There is little Central High Mrs. Bates told h a lt them. fourth-rate economic power like ened about this “mild” brand was convicted in 1957 and sen­ reporters she was certain there stock market suffered its sharpest drop doubt that a period of readjustment The recently concluded con­ France is already on the verge of warmaking or otherwise it tenced to eight years in prison, since Nov. 24, 1958. Almost $7 billion was would follow, during which the total ference of nine independent would be further attacks on of test explosions, how soon won’t be easy to get accept­ and a $4,000 fine. pared from the over-all values of listed amount of business done would fall. An African states at Monrovia, Li­ Negro homes by racists. will it be before the “atomic ance for heretofore “disreput­ The union has long been a beria, denounced “with the The Negro students and their stocks. almost immédiate absorption into the club” includes countries like able” war techniques. And that target of employer-inspired fed­ greatest indignation” French parents remain undaunted. Germany, Italy and Spain? w ill make it harder to get big­ eral union-busting moves. The losses were centered in shares civilian working force of both arms plant plans for A-tests. in Algeria or When Elizabeth made up her of companies engaged in military busi­ workers and soldiers, such as followed any other part of Africa. The mind to go to school with Jef­ ness—airplane, missile and electronic World War II, probably would not be resolution declared that ap­ ferson, her mother said, “I’m stocks. Heavy losses were also taken by repeated. At that time accumulated short­ peals would be made to the glad and I’m proud, although United Nations and any other I’ve been thanking God she auto, aluminum and steel stocks. ages created a h u n g ry demand fo r goods international organizations to didn’t have to go back to Cen­ Headlines in Other Lands The announcement of the Eisenhow- of all kinds. Today no such shortages “avert the serious danger which tral. I wouldn’t have suggested er-Khrushchev visits is behind this break exists.” overhangs the Sahara in par­ it or anything in the world but would allow opposition parties editor of the banned Communist in the stock market, say most financial ticular and the African people I’m glad she thought it up her­ Bolivian Trotskyists to run candidates for office. newspaper Al-Nour, said that This financial expert refers to what commentators, because cutbacks in arms in particular.” self.” These parties in turn have an­ Communist countries financed happened after the Korean war ended in The French government re­ Imprisoned for Role spending might follow if these visits And then she added: “My child nounced that they do not intend the newspaper and the Syrian mid-1953. U.S. government spending fell plied to this resolution with has grown up.” to take part in fixed elections for Communist Party. One of these should lead to lessened tensions. the insulting "assurance" that In Demonstrations from $74 billion in fiscal 1953 to $64 bil­ a legislature that can be abolish­ states gave the newspaper print­ Moscow radio attributed the setback the tests would be conducted in lion in fiscal »1955. This $10 billion decline TRIPLE AWARD The pro-imperialist Siles gov­ ed by a stroke of the president’s ing presses w o rth $56,000, he on Wall Street to panic among the arms- "a lonely and uninhabited area A worker at Republic Avia­ ernment of Bolivia arrested pen. said. in the arms budget played a big part in in the middle of the Sahara, race profiteers “to whom no prospect is tion Corp. received three items Hugo Gonzalez Moscoso, secre­ They also assailed an election The Syrian CP aims at the the 1954 recession. some 2,750 kilometers (about more terrible than an easing of world in his pay envelope recently. tary of the Revolutionary law that would have the oppo­ destruction of any liberation 1,720 miles) as the crow flies They were a letter from the Workers Party (POR), in La sition turn over to the police full movement whose policy does not tension, as this would threaten their from Monrovia." What new stimulant for business can company president congratulat­ Paz, June 25, because of the lists of all party members. These match that of international com­ pockets and profits.” replace arms spending? The conclusion POLLYANA PROPAGANDA ing him on five years service, a party’s vigorous participation in oppositionists evidently don’t munism, including Arab nation­ On June 10, George Shea, chief finan- • of this authoritative analyst of High five-year-service pin, and a lay­ the workers’ and peasants’ think Paraguay’s Subversive Ac­ alism, these right-wing dissi­ cial .writer of the Wall Street Journal, Finance is somewhat startling. He says The statement explained that off notice. movements. tivities Control Board is very dents stated. appraised the effects the tours "are likely that out of truly peaceful agreements His imprisonment follows the democratic! Washington, please arrests of other Trotskyist note. to have upon the U.S. economy. would come “increased trade with Russia leaders in recent weeks. Victor Egyptians Prove He first, emphasizes that, whatever and some of her satellites.” ...Two Parties Vie Villegas, executive committee agreements may be reached, “the defense the roost in Washington. The member of the POR, was ar­ Algerians Prepare They Can Run Canal “Tremendous new opportunities would (Continued from Page 1) program is not likely to be abandoned or attempt to do so is a blatant rested June 5 for having led Three years ago Nasser na­ "labor reform" law. Nothing even deeply slashed.” This program w ill open up there for the sale of machinery confession of bankruptcy and the anti-imperialist demonstra­ For "Years" of W ar tionalized the Suez canal. The came of it. tions in March in Bolivia’s rather “operate on a steady basis through and all kinds of equipment that we are can only lead to the most dire Seven of the nine independent Anglo - French - Israeli forces able to make in larger quantities than Instead of repeal, Truman consequences. capital. Mauro Vallejo, peasant African states have recognized moved in to stop him on the the years ahead.” sought to alter the “slave labor” leader in Chuquisaca, has been any other nation. Perhaps we could even So long as labor remains the Algerian Provisional Gov­ pretext that Egypt could not run He fails, however, to mention the law by the introduction of politically disarmed because it jailed since May for having sell consumer goods there.” ernment. Liberia and Ethiopia this strategic waterway proper­ depressing effect that even a stabilization amendments similar to those of does not have its own labor distributed the paper and prop­ remain the sole holdouts. ly. Millions of dollars and hun­ of arms spending would have on the eco­ Wall Street’s world is turning topsy­ the bills now pending in Con­ party, passing over from the aganda material of the party. dreds of lives were lost in this gress. The union heads then Addressing their conference at defensive to the offensive must Fernando James, who was reckless venture. nomic outlook, since the war profiteers turvy. For years socialists have been call­ «abandoned the policy of repeal Monrovia, Liberia, last week, begin with the demand: Hands arrested along with the party Today, a Wall Street Journal could no longer look forward to enlarged ing for an end to arms spending and for and adopted the position of M’hammed Yazid, Algerian na­ off the labor movement. Labor secretary, was released thanks correspondent admits, the Egyp­ seeking amendments to the to the pressure of university tionalist Information minister, orders. This would tend to take the force trade between the U.S. and the USSR. reform is the duty and respon­ tians are operating the canal “at law. The Truman election in students who threatened to* declared that his government out of the arms-powered boom. Now the Wall Street Journal confirms sibility of labor itself. least as well as the old manag­ 1948 was hailed as the greatest strike if he was kept in jail. was preparing for “many years” Shea does speculate on possible de­ their contention that the postwar pros­ The illusion that Taft-Hartley ers.” ‘ of labor victories. Ten years The sharpening of the re­ of war and that an Algerian can be amended in the interests An average of 50 ships a day, velopm ents in case w orkable agreements perity of U.S. capitalism largely depend­ later, in 1958, the union heads pression against these revolu­ Dienbienphu is being prepared of labor should be abandoned four more than the old com­ on disarmament are enforced. “Suppose ed upon arms appropriations, that any hailed another victory — the tionists is part of the govern­ for the French, “not tomorrow in favor of the slogan: Repeal pany’s best average, now pass military spending is cut in half all over cut& in these would produce big disloca­ election of a preponderantly ment’s preparation for new at­ or next month but in terms of the union-busting, slave labor, through the canal quickly and Democratic Congress. tacks upon the conquests of years.” the world, as a result of iron-bound, self- tions in the economy—and that a good Taft-Hartley law. efficiently. Canal improvements enforcing pacts? What could that do to alternative is to open trade with the So­ In March 1958, said George The policy of trying tDamascus that the party arisen,” reports the Christian judice-ridden Florida. Reid was jailed in New York under mary responsibility of the un­ To which John L. Lewis re­ cluding the former ambassador is facing “inevitable collapse.” Science Monitor, “out of the More than 80% of its members, The organizations and individuals Harriman’s administration. If Governor ions themselves — both mem­ plied: "You can't do that by to the U.S., have fled to Brazil. peasants’ mistaken conception putting free men in chains. Anticipating possible action they claim, oppose the present that the land automatically has who have come to W illie Reid’s defense, Rockefeller refused to extradite him, he bers and leaders. This task cannot be farmed Damn the chains and those by the conference, Paraguay’s leadership and ideology of the become theirs through the mere among them the Brooklyn NAACP and could be freed immediately and his life out to the representatives of who advocate them." To which government announced last party. promulgation of the land reform the Committee to Combat Racial In- spared. the business interests who rule we can only add: Amen! week a new electoral law that Abdel Baqi al-Jamali, former la w .” Letters from Our Readers THE MILITANT When we were passing through tio n on cases they used the m eet­ VOLUME XXIII MONDAY. AUGUST 17, 1959 N U M B E R 33 Steelworkers Pay at the end of July the Bunker ings to publicize thè cases and Is No Gravy Train Hill Mine in Kellog was shut arouse sentiment about them. down tight. The 750 men em­ This steady public pressure on Peaceful Coexistence Editor: ployed there had reported for the cops helped à good deal According to the steel com­ duty but they refused to work Once they began to realize that Los Angeles panies, their workers have been when they learned one of their people were doing something "Nothing Rolls!" riding the gravy train. The Steel brothers had been fired. A fore­ about it in an organized way Companies Coordinating Com­ man had tried to lay hands on they weren’t quite so quick to Teachers H it \ mittee and the American Iron him which, of course, he didn’t slap people around. I think this and Steel Institute have been take. is something that NAACP flooding the newspapers and The union, the Mine, M ill & branches should consider doing School Probe magazines with ads claiming Smelter Workers, is having a today. San Francisco that the average wage in the hard time getting a new con­ H. C. B y D ella Rossa steel industry is over $3 an hour. tract. The old one was extended New York LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 —■ They would have us believe three times in the last two Attorneys for the American that the average steel worker months. The union charged that Says Organization Civil Liberties Union filed suit makes $3 an hour, 40 hours a the firing, which came the day today in the U.S. District Teamsters Say week, 52 weeks a year. The fact after the last renewal, was a Is Key to Resisting Court to enjoin the House Un- is that less than one-third of the deliberate company provocation. American Activities Commit- By Roy Gale workers fit into this category. The strike was still on when we Club-Happy Cops te from releasing the names of SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7 — A long-smoldering rank- The Heller Budget, which is le ft so we don’t know the o u t­ 70 teachers subpoenaed for Editor: and-file revolt erupted here yesterday when members of prepared annually by the Uni­ come. hearings scheduled here Sept. Teamsters Local 85 defied their leadership and forced a versity of California, says that M. B. I think that George Breitman’s 15. strike. On two separate oc-*----- *------a home-renting fam ily needs $6,- Seattle article on police brutality in last The suit was brought by casions in the past week the A t this point the strike is 087 a year for an adequate stan­ week’s issue is a timely one. Florence M. Sloat, 52, who leadership failed to sell the tight. All trucks are off the dard of living. How the New York There is no question in my mind teaches in a school for emo­ but that the mass reactions that membership on a contract they streets. But the officials are Not only do more than 65% tio n a lly disturbed teen-age had negotiated with the two desperately trying to regain of the workers make less than NAACP Combatted took place in Harlem and other girls. Negro communities are the heat major employer associations. control. Business Manager Har­ this, but over a third of them ACLU attorneys A. L. Wirin lightning of more stormy reac The offer rejected by the old Lopez issued strike instruc­ took home less than $4,700 in Police Brutality and Fred Okrand said the tions to police brutality yet to teamsters provided a $10 a tions warning of injunctions 1958. Editor: court action sought to prevent week increase annually for come. I agree with Breitman which might be brought by the Em ploym ent is so irre g u la r in George Breitman’s .article in dismissal of any teacher as a three years plus fringe bene employers if the strike is not that mass resistance to police the steel industry that the claim­ the Aug. 9 M ilitant on the prob­ .esult of testimony before the fits. The men insisted on a one- conducted in an orderly man­ terror is one of the principal ed $3 an hour average wage is a lem of dealing with trigger- House probers. United Steelworkers Pres. David J. McDonald beams hap­ year contract. They fear that a ner. (As if employers ever cared real joke when it is added up on means of curbing it. happy cops reminded me of what “Our goal is to prevent ex­ pily at U.S. Steel Corp. head Clifford Hook during 1956 three-year contract w ould whether a strike was orderly a yearly basis. the New York Branch of the The problem Negroes and posure for exposure’s sake,” contract negotiations. Glad-hand diplomacy has failed- to stymie any efforts they might or not when they seek injunc­ I guess the steel companies NAACP did about this right their allies are faced with, of Wirin said. “A congressional bridge class struggle as steel workers have found in repealed make to fight automation or tions.) just want to prove the old ad­ after the war. course, is how and through what committee should investigate strikes. inflation — twin threats to A key point in Lopez’s in­ age: “Figures don’t lie, but liars There were a great many com­ forms can effective resistance be for the purpose of enacting their security. structions was that no trucks sure can figure.” plaints in Harlem then, too, organized. There is the danger new laws. Trial by exposure is The teamsters also want a were to be stopped unless they B. D. about police brutality and the that without leadership, the not a congressional function.” guaranteed 40-hour week — were “obviously” doing work New Jersey branch set up a special commit­ Negro masses, out of despera He called,the summoning of something the leadership ap­ normally done by Local 85 tion, and acting wholly spon­ Mich. Steel Pickets parently didn’t even mention tee to do something about it. 110 California teachers—70 in (Rank-and-file teamsters logic­ IW W Tradition The committee held frequent taneously, may be provoked in­ southern California and 40 in to the employers. Local 85 ally asked — how are we to street meetings in the center of to adventures, w ith consequences northern California— a “drag­ teamsters work out of a hiring know if we don’t stop them?) Of Solidarity Harlem and widely publicized that would tend to undercut net procedure.” Public exposure hall on assignment for drayage In m any ways this strike is the fact that the NAACP office their self-confidence. and the coercion of employers, Dig In for Duration firms in the city. reminiscent of the “thirties.” A live in Idaho was open every night to receive Above all the Negro people he said, constitute “pillorying.” The rank and file are now The strike has been forced Editor: complaints from people who must be shown that they can Miss Sloat heads the Teach­ There- are about 30,000 Steelworkers on' strike in engaged in a two-front strug against the wishes of the lead­ We just drove through Idaho were manhandled by cops. Soon count upon their white allies for ers Defense Com m ittee w hich Michigan. They are beginning to feel the pinch of payless gle. First, the economic strug ership. A small group, esti­ gle against the tight-fisted mated a t between 50 and 100 on our vacation. We saw some a steady stream of people were more than moral support and ad­ .-»hares offices with the Citizens weeks. But a series of interviews reported in the July 30 vice. It would be very good if a Committee to Preserve Ameri­ bosses; and, second, the strug men, seem to be sparking the beautiful scenery and along coming in to file complaints. A F L -C IO News indicates they-*- can Freedoms, a group that is gle either lo oust their present “rebellion.” with it a demonstration showing The committee arranged to way could be found for social­ are solidly behind their union. added, "and I don't see what campaigning against the Un- leadership or to make it more that the tradition of militancy hold regular meetings with the ists, pending action' by the labor Paul Hill, a Great Lake Steel they're yelling about — the American Committee and its responsive to their needs. and solidarity is still alive among officer in charge of the central movement, to demonstrate their Corp. scarfer for 15 years, has union is just asking for the Sept. hearings. Joseph Diviny, president, and the hard-rock miners in the twenty-eighth precinct and took willingness to participate* in self- five daughters, rents his home crumbs, not the loaf of bread." St. Louis Teamsters The Citizens Committee, like Harold Lopez, business man­ Coeur D’Alene area where Big up these grievances at the meet­ defense actions alongside the and is making payments on a Small businessmen in the lhe Chicago Committee to De­ ager, are long-time jobholders, Bill Haywood led some fierce ings. A t the same time the street Negro people. car. “I have a couple of days steel town of Ecorse are being Angered at Contract fend Democratic Rights and the second ones to hold their strikes at the turn of the cen­ meetings were continued and Nat Weinstein pay coming . . . a little sav­ hurt by the strike and many the New York Emergency respective posts since the local ST. LOUIS, Aug. 5 — Some tu ry . where they didn’t get satisfac- Brooklyn ings. How long we can make put the blame on the companies Civil Liberties Union, is send­ was founded in 1904. They are it stretch is debatable,” he told 110 angry members of St. Louis ing out extensive mailings of big men in the Teamsters’ Teamsters Local 682 stopped Judge Black’s dissent in the the News. Joseph Ciotti, a bar owner, hierarchy. "The steel companies are work Monday when they noted Barenblatt decision. These whose place is popular among The angry temper of the giving us a hard time," he said, the steel workers, angrily said, 14 to 20 cents less per ion in committees support the cam­ membership was indicated by "and I'm not for any compro­ “These big shots — they don’t their pay checks for sand and Notes in the News paign to do away with the the turbulent start of the meet mise. We should stay out until gravel hauling than their con­ Un-American Committee. care about the working people. ing Thursday night when the we get what we deserve." If the union gives up, which tract called for. Ruth Bishop, a local teacher, strike was finally called. At its Local president E. E. W alla WASN'T RUNNING FOR HIS HEALTH emotional difficulties spring from the stress of Mrs. Anna Dahlman, 35, has it won’t, the companies will goes on trial Sept. 16 on beginning a motion was made rushed back from vacation in — Harry K. Moreland, a defeated Democratic trying to rise from the middle to the top of worked as a crane operator at just keep putting the pressure to expel from the meeting any charges of "assault and bat­ Minnesota and urged the men to candidate for Congress from Oklahoma in the middle class. The drive to keep up with Great Lakes Steel for 16 years. on.” member who used violent or tery." A process-server of the return to work. He met a solid 1956, is currently engaged in a hassle with the Jones’s is so sharp, he reported, that a She expected the strike and John Barklarz, a supermark­ profane language. Un-American outfit claims that wall of opposition. the Treasury Department. He is claiming the blade of crab grass in a lawn is sufficient to began saving for it months et operator who looks to the The motion was hooted down she used a broom on him. Miss Walla admitted today that he right to deduct from his income tax the $20,- throw the suburban climber into a tizzy. “For Bishop says that he became ahead; so she doesn’t expect to steel workers for 50% of his — with an uncontrollable but feel the pinch too hard, es­ had signed a new contract last 000 that he sank into his unsuccessful cam­ the already overstrained couple,” the doctor’s frightened at her display of business, says he doesn’t expect burst of abuse and profanity. pecially since she and her hus­ to be selling much round steak month, including a rate cut, paign and offers the perfectly plausible ex­ report said, “conspicuous consumption can anger and ran down the stairs, The strike is officially' called band don’t have any children. without submitting it for mem­ planation that it was a business loss “incurred help cause bad tempers and high blood pres the broom falling after him. at 99 cents a pound. against the two major employer bership approval. He told the in a transaction entered into for profit. . sure.” She feels the problem is that “The run will be on frying associations — the Draymen’s • * * * * '« infuriated drivers that he had “the company just doesn’t want chickens (29 cents a pound), Association and the California MAN BITES DOG — The New York Pub­ WHY YOU SHOULD QUIT SMOKING — Lavan to Speak to get down to brass tacks.” hamburgers (59 cents a pound), Trucking Association. But the talked to a majority of them per­ lic Service Commission announced Aug. 7 Twelve states hiked their taxes on cigarettes Michael Stankoff, 63, is near and of course, bologna, hot teamsters in action this morn­ sonally and “assumed” they ap­ that the Consolidated Edison Company has this year. Twenty-five states now collect five In Bay Area the retirem ent age. A charter dogs and anything else cheap,” ing stopped every truck they proved the pact. taken the unusual step of withdrawing its cents or more on each pack sold. That’s on member of the union, he has he explained. could find on the streets and .“What happens if the com­ request for a rate increase to offset the new top of the eight-cent federal tax. “Negroes’ Right to Self De­ worked 24 years at Great On the basis of his interviews sealed every entrance to the panies fire every one of you and 1% gross utility tax in New York. This un­ » * * fense” is the topic of a talk .by Lakes. “When the money runs with the steel workers, the city. hire new truckers?”* Walla ask­ expected outburst of generosity by the power CUT IN GI SERVANTS — As a result of George Lavan scheduled in out, we’ll live like the rest of AFL-CIO News reporter con­ After the pickets had been ed after he told the men their monopoly may be intended to help grease exposures in the press and the resentment of Berkeley. He w ill consider the them—the best way we can,” cluded: “Despite the anxiety stopping trucks for some time strike was illegal. the skids for a $3 1/2 million hike in electric enlisted men, the army will restrict the use various positions taken on the he said. “I know the union felt by many families on how a > steward came ' rushing up, "W e'll be better off," shouted rates pending before the commission. The gas of enlisted men as cooks, bus boys, bartenders, issue at the Fiftieth Anniver­ can’t compromise on this mat­ they will survive in future waving a paper. He shouted: Evan Crawford, chairman of the ta x w ill cost the company less than $700,000 etc. This will make the “gracious living,” to sary Convention of the NAACP. ter and I don’t want to see weeks, a fierce determination We got sanction from Lopez nine-man committee organized a year. which officers have become accustomed, a bit The meeting will be held at them do it.” and sense of p rid e stretches now to hold the bridge.” to combat the loss in tonnage * * * more expensive. The Officers' Club at Fort Wilcher Studio, 2901 Telegraph The steel barons "are trying throughout the downriver area “We need his sanction like pay. "We'll dig ditches or some­ Ave., Fri., Aug. 21, at 8:30 p.m. to take away everything we've where many of the area Steel­ thing." SOCIAL REFORM UNDER CHIANG — Hamilton, a small post in Brooklyn, N.Y., for we need a hole in the head,” The contribution is 25 cents. gotten in the past years," he workers live.” Chiang Kai-shek’s police in Taiwan have is­ example, announced a reduction from 13 to retorted a big grinning team­ Walla finally suggested that sued a regulation that a woman can’t become three in the number of enlisted men used as ster as he finished instructing a committee of drivers go with a prostitute without written permission from flunkies and an increase in club dues from a truck to “get the hell back him to see i f the companies her parents, guardian or husband. $4 to $5 a month. Still to be aired is the Air where you came from.” would renegotiate the contract. Force’s duty assignments of enlisted men as * * » Detroit Steel Workers A milling group, reporting baby-sitters, dog-walkers and chauffeurs for 'POCKETS OF POVERTY' — A Senate for picket duty, expressed bit­ officers’ wives. terness over Teamsters’ leader­ Labor subcommittee studying the plight of *. * * Teamsters Factions more than 800,000 m igratory fa rm workers ship in repeated statements to COLD-WAR LIBERALS — The congres­ has found pay scales and living conditions Press Local Demands reporters: “The bastards sold Battle in Cincinnati sional “Captive Nations Week” resolution that “appalling.” Sen. Harrison Williams (D-N.J.) us out,” shouted a ' big blond dogged Nixon throughout his Soviet visit did By Evelyn Sell fectively answered in a July 30 CAL CONDITIONS MUST BE A dozen members of a pro- said their predicament represented “pockets trucker. “You print how the not originate with Sen. Eastland, as column­ DETROIT, Aug. 11 — The letter written by the assistant RESOLVED BEFORE WE RE­ Hoffa faction of Cincinnati of poverty” and “human degradation” in bastards sold us out.” ists have indicated. I. F. Stone’s Weekly re­ Steelworkers in this area were editor of Three Plant Carrier, TURN TO WORK!” Teamsters Local 100 were ar­ American society. Contractors and crew leaders “We’re fed up to here!” yell­ ported Aug. 3 that it was introduced by among the first in the country voice of McClouth Local 2659. The statement takes on added rested July 30 after they had who prey on the migratory workers engage in ed another, hitting his throat Douglas, the liberal Democrat from Illinois, to walk off the job. One de­ His point-by-point refutation of weight since Schwartz led taken over the union head­ wholesale swindling methods. The committee with his open hand. . “They’d and Javits, the liberal Republican from New partment at the McClouth Steel the distortions and lies in the a ticket of militant young rank sell the damn building if it quarters in a brawling fist fight. found that they misrepresent wages and living York. Other liberal co-sponsors included Company, fed up with local editorial concluded with the and filers which swept the con­ wasn’t nailed down.” They were trying to oust a 16- conditions; collect double fees for travel ex­ Humphrey of Minnesota, Neuberger and Morse conditions, walked out 20 hours statement, “I must say your servative McDonald supporters man executive committee elect­ penses and mark up the cost of food, splitting “Now we’re going to run of Oregon and Langer of N. Dakota. ahead of the official call. OPINION STINKS!” out of office last June. They things,” said* another in tri­ ed last winter on an anti-Hoffa the extra money between the employers and * * * There are more than 16,000 The July 30 issue of Three ran on a program sharply criti­ platform. * crew leaders. Cases were found where fees umph. “Nothing’s going to roll. MURDER FOR PROFIT — Company neg­ steel workers on strike in this Plant’ Carrier indicates sub­ cal of the way the union were collected from workers for services ren­ You get that? Nothing.” After the ruckus Secretary- ligence substantially „contributed to the deaths area and they are standing stantial membership sentiment bureaucracy disregards the dered free by county health departments. When a reporter cautiously Treasurer Frobe staled: “The of 12 coal miners last January in Pittston, solid in the face of company to stay out until major local needs of the membership. * * * asked the rebels what they vicious attacks and beatings of Pa., says the unanimous report of the special provocations and pro-company grievances, as well as the na­ thought of International Pres. the officers of Local 100 demon­ UNION FARM DRIVE? — Plans for or­ investigating committee of the Pennsylvania propaganda in the daily press. tional ones, are settled. James Hoffa, he was met with strated again the type of hood- ganizing farmworkers will be discussed at legislature. The miners were drowned when Newspapers are exploiting A. E. Schwartz, president of angry glances and a stony lumism represented by the Cin­ an Aug. 17 meeting of the AFL-CIO Execu­ the rising waters of the Susquehanna River every opportunity to discredit the local, describes how the silence until an older man de­ cinnati pro-Hoffa teamsters. tive Council, according lo a federation spokes­ Calendar trapped them at work. “Indifference and ap­ the strikers and to shake their membership roared its approval clared: "We don't like him Ever since they were beaten by man. Organizing director John Livingston w ill athy” by the company, “uninformed and unin­ confidence. at a July 14 meeting for a neither. But I tell you we don't a vote of the membership in report to the council on preliminary surveys terested” owners and Pennsylvania’s “archaic” The July 22 Detroit News, motion that said in part: “and go around crying about it. We a secret ballot election they have made since the executive meeting in San Juan anthracite mine laws were all scored in the for example, seized on one in­ remain on strike until our eco­ Of Events don't want the McClellan com­ been trying to get control of the last February. report. But the 10-man committee said that cident at the McClouth plant as nomic and local problems are mittee coming in here and * * » Cincinnati truck drivers through any prosecutions would be up to the state’s the occasion for a threatening solved.” busting our union." terror and abuse.” CHISELING EMPLOYERS — The Labor attorney general. < editorial entitled, “Lawless Un­ “The reason I am beginning N E W Y O R K Department reports that in the fiscal year - • * * * ion.” my column with the latter part Socialist Sociables ending July 1, 1959, it recovered more than DR. TELLER PREDICTS SOVIET LEAD The peg for the editorial was of the motion,” Schwartz ex­ To Enliven Your Summer $1 1/ 2 million in back wages for workers — Dr. Edward Teller, the atomic scientist the fact that the strikers there plains, “is lo put a stop to the STARLIGHT FORUM, Sun­ cheated out of proper payments under federal recognized as “father of the H-Bomb,” has militantly resisted efforts by a fears that some of our union day, Aug. 16, 8 p.m. — Dr. Otto Local Directory minimum-wage and overtime-pay laws. This predicted that the Soviet Union will forge large group of supervisory em­ brothers have been expressing Nathan, Marxist economist, w ill was 50% greater than last year. The average ahead of the U.S. in science within a decade. ployees to enter the plant in lately, namely, we w ill go back speak on Inflation and the Labor BOSTON nepin Ave., 2nd floor. Open noon to sum recovered was $1,230, also a new record. Science students now in schools “are in great­ violation of the agreement gov­ to work as soon as the national Boston Labor Forum, 295 Hunting­ * * * Movement (Incl. the Wage-Price' 6 P .M . daily except Sundays. er number and they are better educated in erning maintenance personnel. pattern is set, and forget all Issue in the Steel Strike.) T er­ ton Ave., Room 200. NEWARK In its blast against the strik­ WHAT THE RECESSION FIGURES CON­ the Soviet Union.” The U.S. is powerless to about our local problems. The race, Penthouse 10a, 59 W. 71 St. CHICAGO Newarrk Labor Forum, Box 361, CEALED — A report just made public by the prevent the loss of scientific preeminence to ers, the News tried to combine motion speaks for itself and * * * Socialist Workers Party, 777 W. Newark, N. J. Department of Commerce confirms that work­ the USSR, Teller says, because the die is al­ the “soft cop” and “hard cop” what it says is a resounding Adams, DE 2-9736. NEW YORK CITY WEEKEND AT CAMP ers were hit far harder by last year’s reces­ ready cast for the coming decade. All Amer­ approach in the same editorial. NO. CLEVELAND Militant Labor Forum, 116 Univer­ sity Place, AL S-7852. sion than the official statistics showed. Many ica can do is to make efforts to regain the After assuring the strikers that “The company might well W IN G D A LE , N.Y.— Aug. 22-24. Socialist Workers Party 10609 Su­ OAKLAND - BERKELEY more workers were jobless at one time or an­ leadership later. a few hundred supervisors think,” lie continued, “that by Swimming, tennis, all .sports, perior Ave., Room 301, SW 1-1818. Open Wednesday nights 7 to 9. P.O. Box 341, Berkeley 1, Calif. other than the officially claimed live million. * * * couldn't substitute themselves the time the national strike is entertainment. Special guests from VIENNA YOUTH FESTI­ The Militant, P.O. 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Call PO 3-5820. showed up in the statistics. concentration of carbon 14 in the atmosphere well to bear in mind that re­ what they are thinking, they ward. TEmple 1-6135. « • • SAN FRANCISCO * * * of the Western Hemisphere has been increas­ strictive legislation, present and have never been more wrong. LOS ANGELES The Militant, 11'45 Polk St., Rm. 4 . PSYCHOSOMATIC SUBURBIA — M id ­ ing about 5% annually. The nuclear-produced prospective, which unionists be­ They should speak to our mem­ Watch this column for name Forum Hall and Modern Book Shop. Sat. 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. 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