'Study' of Annual Wage

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VOL. IX—No. 13 NEW YORK, N. Y„ SAT URDAY, MARCH 31, 1945 267 PRICE: FIVE CENTS

ADMINISTRATION AIDS MEAT PROFITEERS9 Documents Show Wacs Protesting 66Equality of Sacrifice99 Yields To "Famine" Threat Jim-Crow Given By Granting Price Subsidy British Bribe Hard Labor Terms FORT DEVENS, Mass., Mar. Roosevelt Tells People to "Tighten Belts" 21.— Four Negro Wacs who While Packers Divert Meat to Black Market struck at Lovell General Hospi­ Greek Royalists By Art Preis tal in protest against Jim Crow In his column of March 22, Drew Pearson published the restriction to menial jobs, were Two weeks ago before the Senate bearings on sensational revelation that a British Intelligence Officer wearing today sentenced to one year at an.American uniform had given bribes to Greek leaders of Royal­ hard labor and dishonorable the price control act lobbyists of the Meat Trust ist and right-wing organizations who served Churchill in the discharge. threatened to impose a “ meat famine” upon the massacre of Greek workers. The court martial imposed sen­ country unless OPA “ inconsistencies,” meaning “ Governor Lehman's UNRRA is British Deport 15,000 tence after only twenty minutes doing its best to hush it up, but “ deliberation” by nine officers, in­ price ceilings, were promptly removed. They issued a very strange thing has hap­ Greeks to N. Africa cluding two Wac officers and two pened in Greece,” Peprson wrote. One of the charges hurled Negro officers. Col. Crandall, this ultimatum even though the packers have boost­ “A British UNRRA worker was against ELAS by Churchill commanding officer of the hos­ ed their profits almost eight times during the war killed, and in his possession were was that they “held hostages” pital, who told some of the de­ found receipts for money paid by during their struggles against fendants that he did not want and llieir spokesmen admitted that “ the country has /the British to Greek factions, to the British-supported reaction­ “black Waos” in the motor pool ^the raw beef.” encourage them to fight against ary forces. Now the other or as medical technicians, did not each other. . . side of the picture — the B rit­ appear at the proceedings. He is Last week the Roose­ “ Here are the so far suppressed ish seizure of ELAS hostages on thirty-day leave, granted just $5,000 Reward facts as to what happened. The — has been revealed by Over­ prior to the opening of the court velt administration UNRRA worker who was killed seas News Agency. m a rtia l. promptly yielded to the was L. F. R. Shepherd, chief of According to the report The fo u r g irls , Pvts. A nna C. In Tresca Murder the UNRRA’s Greek Mission In­ dated March 17, “ The B ritis h Morrison, 20; Johnnie Murphy, profit-greedy meat bar- telligence Division. On the rolls have deported 15,000 Greeks, 20; Mary E. Green, 21; and Alice Posted By Police oils’ brazen threat of en­ he was listed as “ Mister” Shep­ many of them veterans of the Young, 23, had stru ck w ith 56 Prodded by public indignation herd but actually he was a colonel campaign against Italy in other Negro Wacs on March 7. forced scarcity. in the British Arm y and had been over its inertia in this important 1910-41 and alm ost a ll o f They charged that they were OPA Director Chester Bowles case, the N. Y. Police Department in MO-4 and Force 133. them veterans of the fighting forced to scrub floors and wind­ on Feb. 20 finally posted and sent announced to the Senate Banking “ Colonel Shepherd jo in e d against the German occupa­ ows because of their color, while out to 14,000 police throughout UNRRA right after the liberation tion forces, to North African white Wacs with .similar educa­ and Currency Committee that the country the $5,000 offer made the goverment is granting an ad­ of Athens, but during the whole concentration camps. tion and training did not do men­ .time up until his death lie was “Reports had been current ia l w ork. Anti-Stalinist Militants Gain over three months ago by the Tre­ d itio n a l subsidy o f 50c a hun­ sca Reward Committee for in­ acting for British Intelligence, earlier that the British had Ordered back to w o rk on dred pounds to the cattle slaught­ formation leading to the appre­ erers. He further revealed that though using the American flag deported some Greeks to A f­ M arch 10 b y Gen. M iles, 54 com­ on his car. rica, but until now there had plied. Two others later returned hension and conviction of the as­ previously the government had sassins of Carlo Tresca. Tre­ quietly granted a subsidy of 75 been no approximation of to duty. Strength In Ford Local 600 EVIDENCE OF BRIBES sca, the beloved editor of the their number.” Pvt. Morrison, who told her cents a hundredweight on hogs. “After he was killed, U'NRRA By Roy Weston Italian paper 11 Martello and An American government white Wac commanding officer officials who took an inventory prominent working class leader, ROOSEVELT’S PRETEXT official said that “The Greeks that she could not continue doing DETROIT, March 17 — A significant development in the of property in the Colonel’s hotel was shot to death in a di-'v.rt At the same time, Roosevelt were taken from their home­ heavy work, said before the trial, CIO United Automobile Workers ijs the weakening of the Stalin­ room found receipts for huge IN THE NEWS while leaving his office on Janu­ himself provided a cover for the land before, during and after “If it will help my people I will amounts of gold sovereigns. The ist influence on the huge Ford Local 600 as evidenced in the existing scarcity, in part delib­ take a court martial.” She told a ry 11, 1943. receipts were dated Oct. 22 to the recent civil war in the elections now in progress. erately created by the food pro­ country, where indications are the court that she would have On March 19 the Tresca Re­ Nov. 29, four days . before the The most powerful blow yet delivered to the Stalinist-con­ Taking No Chances 1 fiteers to force up prices. He accumulating th a t, another “preferred to dig” rather than ward Committee extended its ef­ trouble broke in Athens. trolled Grant-Tappes machine was struck by J. B. Jones, a lead­ At National Labor Relations declared that the American peo­ crisis is blowing up.” continue doing work which white forts to find the slayers of Tre­ “The receipts said: ‘I have re­ Board hearings on CIO charges ple must “tighten their belts” be­ Wacs were n o t compelled to do er in the huge Press Steel Unit, when he announced his can­ sca to other continents. Leaflets ceived from Mr. L. F. R. Shepherd cause, he falsely claimed, the also. didacy for the presidency of h is ^ of unfair practices by the North were sent to about 40 principal a sealed bag said to contain 1,000 the British zone and the ELAS Carolina Shipbuilding Corpora­ “humanitarian” capitalist gov­ , All defendants testified that o f 1941. M ost of you also know cities in South America, Central gold sovereigns.’ These receipts zone. And he did. Furthermore, he unit in opposition to the Stalin­ tion, Leo Grooms, a labor spy ernment intends to “feed” starv­ the Negro Wacs were assigned that after all the workers had left America, Europe and Africa. The were signed by Greek leaders of did so, in a car draped with the ist machine. who joined the union to secure a ing Europe. Actually, during different duties than white Wacs. (he plant on the night of the Reward Committee is appealing various royalist and right-wing American flag. Under cover of Jones, an old - timer in the blacklist for the company, testi­ 1944, on ly 6.8 percent o f a ll the Taking the stand against the strike, 1 re-entered the Produc­ to sympathetic newspapers and organizations. The amounts men­ the American flag he went into Stalinist ranks and the man who fied, according to The Shipyard nation’s meat, and but seven- defendants, Lt. Virginia Lawson tion Foundry with the Reverend progressive organizations in for­ tioned in the receipts varied from ELAS territory ostensibly to talk played the outstanding role in Worker, that “stooges were tenths of one percent of the beef, of Tulsa, Oklahoma was compel­ Horace White and we asked the eign and American cities to pub­ 100 sovereigns to 2,000. about food distribution, but ac­ o rg a n izin g and leading the 1941 watching stooges and supervisors was shipped in Lend-Lease to all led to a d m it th a t o f 178 w h ite Negro brothers to leave the plant licize its $5,000 offer. “In other words, all during the tually to get m ilitary information. historic strike, shook the local were watching supervisors.” the “United Nations,” according Wacs»only 15 are classified as or­ with us and to join the union. The Committee regards Tre- period when Greek political fac­ “ When Colonel Shepherd’s car union to its foundations when he * * * to official government figures. derlies, w hile 60 o f the 99 N egro During the balance of that even­ sca’s killing as a political murd­ tions were trying to work out hit an ELAS mine during the last openly proclaimed his break with The government’s generous Wacs, college-trained medical ing and the following day I sign­ er committed by a hired assassin. their own problems, a British days of the battle, it was still the Stalinists and organized a Labor, Gas Shortages? treatment of the meat prQfiteers, technicians, are so classified. ed up more than 700 o f these “We know that Carlo Tresca Colonel, disguised as an UNRRA proudly bearing the Stars and caucus on a militant program to Lord Halifax, British Anibas who openly admitted that 90 per­ There are no Negroes classified workers into'our union. made bitter enemies because of Worker, was paying Greek Royal­ Stripes, symbol of the land in fight their reactionary, bureau­ sador to the United States, rode cent of the civilian meat supplies as technicians at the hospital, Lt. “ Many of our so-called leaders his outspoken attacks upon and ist factions to fight the EAM- which the Greek people have so cratic rule. in a coyote hunt last week near have been diverted into black Lawson testified, and only six today are men I had to beg to join opposition to both Fascists and ELAS group which had done most much faith.” Elk City, Oklahoma. Three market channels, is in striking Negro clerks, all of whom are FLAYS STALINISTS the union when they were afraid Communists (Stalinists),” said of the guerrilla fighting against Drew Pearson further revealed coyotes were bagged. Over 60 contrast to the Roosevelt admin­ restricted to work on the Negro Because of the high regard in to do so for fear Mr. Ford would Morris L. Ernst, head of the Re­ the Germans. that the “chief loans which the persons rode in the hunt and 11 ward Committee. “ There are per­ istration’s ferocity against work­ company’s affairs. which the Ford workers hold him fire them. It is not easy for me “After the fighting started, Greek government owes abroad airplanes acted as spotters. His sistent reports in Italian circles ers forced to strike for a few The National Association for and the fact that his conduct in to make a complete break with Colonel Shepherd kept on stirring are to the Hambro Bank of Lon­ Lordship said it was “all very that ‘many people’ know who cents more wages to meet the in- the Advancement of Colored Peo­ the strike won him the Press Steel men whom I have known for tip trouble. As an UNRRA officer, don. At one time Churchill was jo lly .” continued on page 4) ple has announced it is placing U n it presidency in 1941, Jones many years. However, I am committed it.” supposedly on a mission of mercy, helped out financially by the * * * attorneys at the service of the shared largely in enabling the telling you today that I am break­ he could travel freely between Hambro family.” convicted girls. Stalinists to gain control of the ing with these people forever be­ Army of Democracy local. During the past two years cause they no longer serve the The Mediterranean Stars and of Stalinist sell-outs, he had tem­ best interests of the American Stripes, Army newspaper, recent­ WEST COAST STALINISTS porarily retired to the back­ w orkers. ly curtailed its “Mail Call” col­ ground. His statement, made at a “They stand for a No-Strike umn devoted to soldiers’ letters WhyRooseveltPromises recent caucus meeting, brought Pledge at a time when the em­ to the editor. This followed an cheers from the workers and ployers are using the pledge to order that “gripe” letters could SEEK TO SUPPRESS SWP flabbergasted the Stalinist lead­ destroy our union. They are op­ be published only with an “of­ The mayoralty campaign conducted by the Socialist W ork­ ership. posed to an Independent Labor ficial Army answer.” The paper’s ers Party of Los Angeles, California, has aroused great interest ‘Study’ Of Annual Wage “ Most of you know,” he stated, Party at a time when an Inde­ staff condemned the order as an among the workers of that city. M yra Tanner Weiss, the T rot­ “that I was one of the chief or­ pendent Labor Party is a crying infringement on soldier’s press By C. Thomas skyist candidate, is running on a working class program that ganizers and leaders of the strike (Continued on page 4) freedom. One critic said that if A few days after the Advisory Board of the Office of War still ten million unemployed dur­ a soldier wrote in saying, “I cuts through the fraud of “ national unity” and exposes the re­ Mobilization and Reconversion made public a resolution com­ in g the w a r boom year o f 1940. don’t like Spam,” then “we are actionary aims of America’s Sixty Ruling Families and their plaining that they were not being called upon for “ advice,” It was not until war production supposed to tell him the stuff is political agents. $------full of vitamins and all that.” The Trotskyist program cham­ or the war effort.” This is nothing Roosevelt announced he had ordered the board to “ study”, the and the draft absorbed the avail­ MYRA WEISS ISSUES question of a guaranteed annual wage. The demand for a guar­ pions the cause of the poor less than “treason,” foamed the able labor force that unemploy­ against the rich; of the exploited anteed annual wage was part of the steel wage case before the professional Stalinist patriots. In ment was reduced to a minimum. ELECTION STATEMENT Labor ‘Friend’ against their exploiters. It calls the political dictionary of Stalin­ War Labor Board and has become part of the CIO program. for an end to race discrimination ism, it has become “treason” to The WLB rejected the demand® During the ten years in which LOS A N G E L E S , M arch 22. — Pays O ff by demanding full economic, defend the rights of the workers but recommended a “study” of Roosevelt claims he “talked” W ith the election campaign drive The New York State Senate guaranteed annual wage express­ political and social equality for against the plunderbund which is the question to determine wheth­ about a guaranteed wage, one- for mayor about to enter the final last week adopted a resolution es the profound desire of the all persecuted minorities. It con­ coining fabulous riches out of the* er industry could “afford” to give third of the people, by his own week before the primaries, Myra for a federal constitutional con­ workers for a decent standard of demns the wage and job freeze agony of mankind. It is “sub­ such a guarantee. In a letter to admission, were ill-fed, ill-clothed vention to pass the “Millionaires living for all those able and wil­ Tanner Weiss last night issued a and flays the forced labor schemes versive” to fight the wage and job Roosevelt, the chairman of the and ill-housed. Millions of men ling to work. In essence, it re­ stirring call to the workers of Amendment” to free the rich of the Rqosevelt administration. freeze or the slave labor schemes WLB disclosed that the fear of and women were on the dole from paying income taxes higher presents a revulsion against the Los Angeles to go to the polls It raises high the banner of “So­ ot the political deputies of Wall unemployment which has led to while factories stood idle. Under than 25 per cent. Republican Sen­ insanity of the profit system April 3 and record their votes for cialism in a World of Peace and Street. It is “seditious, rebellious, the demand for a guaranteed an­ the planned sabotage of the “ New- ator Costanzo, elected with Am­ which dooms millions of workers the fighting program of labor P le n ty !” mutinous,” to condemn the “Big nual wage, “is contributing also Deal,” cotton, corn and live stock erican Labor Party and CIO-PAC to dire want, while factories re­ Three” for stifling the aspira­ to the pressure for a change in were plowed under in order to which she has presented during support, voted for the resolution. “CALL THE COPS” main idle and food moulders in tions of the European workers the national wage stabilization create an economy of artificial almost two months of intensive Asked why, he said: “ There is warehouses or rots in the fields. To the advanced workers of Los and peasants who seek to free p o licy.” scarcity. These measures “guar­ campaigning. no reason. I just thought about Angeles and to all persecuted race Tlie working masses are haunted anteed” only poverty and inse­ themselves from landlord-capital­ By shunting the demand for a “We have advanced the only it. There is really no reason.” and minority groups, the Trot­ by the memory of the pre-war curity for the masses. But while is t rule. guaranteed wage to the WMR ad­ solutions to the burning questions * * * skyist campaign platform comes depression which condemned m il­ all this was going on, Roosevelt, “This should not be tolerated,” visory board, Roosevelt aims to facing the workers,” the Trot­ like a breath of fresh a'ir penetrat­ lions to idleness, hunger and des­ according to his latest revelation, screamed the March 1 Peoples kill three birds with one stone. The Real Communism ing the miasma of wartime reac­ pair, through no fault of their kept “ talking about a guaranteed skyist candidate declared. “Our World. “The FBI and the United (1) To divert the attention of the London correspondent Godfrey tion. They have hailed the own. They seek some measure of annual wage.” How consoling! task is now to make the vote for States District Attorney should w orkers fro m the struggle courageous candidate and party protection against a recurrence of our program a powerful demon­ Blumden reported in the Sydney, act at once to clamp down” on the against th e administration’s Roosevelt’s demogogic gesture Australia, Sunday Tribune that: who threw the challenge of work­ such conditions. stration of the workers’ deter­ Trotskyists. Stop the mouths of wage-freezing “stabilization pol­ in burying the demand in the “ I have seen it suggested in very ing class solidarity and struggle all working class fighters who tell In ordering the study, Roos­ mination to fight for their rights. icy.” (2) To aid the “labor WMR advisory board is intended high quarters that there is an­ into the teeth of the bosses. This the truth: this is the chief “argu­ statesmen” in lulling their own evelt blandly announced that “ he In this period when the bosses to head off the independent ac­ other underground movement, warm response alarmed the ment” in the arsenal of Stalinism. had been talking about a guar­ membership with the illusion that tion of the workers in the fight are attempting to ride rough­ which will follow in the wake of agents of capitalist reaction— But their hysteria is proof that anteed annual wage for about ten ■something is being done about for economic security. The fight shod over the labor movement, the Nazis, and that is a German especially the Stalinist traitors the Trotskyist program is gain­ years.” To whom had he been the problem of “post-war” secur­ for a guaranteed annual wage is when the union bureaucrats have MYRA TANNER WEISS Leftist movement which will whose record of betrayal is a ing an ever-wider circle of sup­ talking about this for “ten ity. (3) To quiet the clamor of essentially a political struggle. If suppressed any. independent expression of labor’s political stand, sponsor ‘Trotskyism. This word stench in the nostrils of every port among the working masses. years?” Obviously, to himself— the WMR “advisory board,: meant seriously, it requires first ‘Trotskyism’ appears to have: honest worker, The workers of Los Angeles w ill if it took ten years to get around and seek to rally workers’ votes for boss politicians, we must see which has been completely ignor­ of all that labor break with the been deprived of all its original | The Peoples World, West Coast long remember that when the to the point of asking that a to it that the true voice of labor is heard. ed by director James F. Byrnes, political parties and agents of the meaning by Allied spokesmen paper of the Stalinist strike­ Trotskyists were out in front “study” be made of the question. “We must now make sure that every vote for labor is cast. whose anti-labor decisions have employing class and take the and now connotes Communism, breakers, sputtered and raged. fighting their battle, the Stalinists You, your neighbor, your shopmate, your family must act together been made without benefit of And what ten years! The road of fighting for its own pro­ but a Communism which they in­ “This (Trotskyist) program' con­ proposed to “call the cops” to their advice. economic crisis raged during his gram under its own political ban on April 3. Don’t waste your votes on boss politicians. Vote Trot­ fer has not the approval of Stalin tains not a single sentence or deprive our honest working-class The popular demand for a whole period of office. There were ner. skyist! Vote Socialist!” and is greatly abhorred by him.” j word in support of national unity party of its democratic rights. TWO THE MILITANT SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1945 TRADE UNION Over 5,600 New Subscriptions Obtained NOTES In F irst Month Of “ M ilita n t” Campaign By Joseph Keller By Reba Aubrey, Campaign Director „ i > - UAW Convention some of his New York associates on his own lifelong fellow-union­ Subscriptions sold by members of the Socialist Workers The CIO United Automobile SCOREBOARD ists.” Party through the fourth week of our M ilitant Subscription Cam­ “TRAILBLAZERS” VISIT Workers, whose annual conven­ * Jjt 5jC tions always make labor history, paign total 5,637. W ith nipe weeks to go, six of the Socialist Branches of the faces difficulty in holding: a con­ Avery Carries On Workers Party branches have already gone over 100 percent— Socialist Workers Party Quotas Subs Percent AHeptow n 121 242 vention this year because of the Roosevelt’s army “ seizure” of Akron; Allentown, Flint, San Diego, and Toledo. Nationally 50 MINERS, STEEL WORKERS government ban on conventions a tiny fraction of Montgomery San Diegp 50 67 134 npt "in the interest of the war Ward’s vast mercantile network vve have fulfilled over 56 percent of our quota for 10,000 new A kro n 85 112 132 Eloise Black and Rudy Rhodes, The M ilita n t Trail-Blazers e ffo rt.” didn't interfere with the com­ readers to The M ilitant. Toledo 250 275 110 who are touring Pennsylvania to secure subscriptions in this George Addes, UAW-CIO Sec­ pany's profits, although the CIO F lin t 50 53 106 campaign, send inspiring reports of the reception given them unions are still without a con­ retary-Treasurer, has filed a re­ FROM THE BRANCHES M ilw aukee 100 90 90 by the workers in the Allentown and Bethlehem area. They quest with the W ar Committee on tract after the “seizure” broke Reading 64 write about their activities of last week. “ The area we’ve covered their strikes. Mike Warren, New York Pace-Setter: “ I welcome Jerry Kirk’s 75 85 Conventions for authorization of the past three days has been peopled to a large extent with tex­ Sewell Avery, chairman of the challenge. Judging from the New York Local’s spirit and results, B u ffa lo 350 255 73 ttys union’s convention next Sep­ tile and garment workers, besides some from the smaller mixed tember 10 at Grand Rapids, Mich­ company’s board and leading I would say that we intend to have our share among the top scorers Youngstow n 300 218 73 igan. open-shopper, announced last in the country.” Chicago 1000 664 66 plants around Allentown. week that “all divisions of the New Y o rk 2500 1391 56 “The textile workers are not*?'- His petition stated: “Only Bob Kingsley, Cleveland: “The Youngstown challenge has ac­ business operated profitably for Minneapolis 300 163 54 al! organized here and we run through such a convention can complished its purpose, i.e., urged the comrades into greater activ­ into contrasts of militancy and Notice To tjie year.” He reportecl $21,285,- D e tro it 1000 523 52 there be achieved the unity and 839 net profits for the year end­ ity. Remind me to thank them when the campaign is over and when backwardness continually. The cohesion necessary for sound Philadelphia 150 78 52 Subscribers ing January 31,1945, as compared we have received our winning reward of the Little Lenin Library.” older w o rk in g women w!ho have Boston 200 96 48 planning, discipline and the es­ to $20,677,098 for the previous A. Field, Minneapplis: “ Twenty pf the been through the m ill, even those According to postal regula­ tablishment of peaceful labor St. Paul 100 41 41 year. subs I am enclosing were sold by Cpm- who are housewives at present, tions, your address is not com? relations making for continuity 350 143 40 . After the army “ seizure” last rade Knute at one time. He is our high­ N ew ark are m ilitant apd angry. One fine plete unless it shows the postal of production and full participa­ Cleveland 200 79 40 older woman whose husband December 27 — an action since est scorer up to this time although there zone number. For example: tion by the workers in the war Los Angeles 2000 671 34 works iq textiles told us yester­ e ffo rt." ruled illegal by the Chicago Fed­ are others who are working hard and The M ilitant’s zone number is eral District Court — “the Army Bayonne 150 51 34 day that the local meat packing A t the 1942 anc 1943 U A W expect to catch up with him in a short N ew Y o rk 3, N. Y . The postal by Jan. 31 had paid from its own San Francisco 350 113 32 company is laying off dozens conventions, however, Addes and tim e .” of union women currently in authorities are now insisting funds $2,306,474.36 more than it Seattle 400 98 25 the other top leaders tried to H. Npwell, Allentown: ,fWe baYe just preparation for an attack against that this regulation be carried had appropriated” from cash on Rochester 50 0 0 push over resolutions to suspend hand and sales according to Av­ returned from Tomaqua. We were join­ the union whose contract is ex­ out in the mailing of The the annual conventions “for the Groups, Members-at- ery. The army had a tough time ed by some Quakertown comrades and piring. She jumped into our argu­ M ilitant. Check the wrapper in duration” because they claimed La rge and Friends 140 58 41 ment that the bosses are now operating, due to the refusal of the Trail-Blazers. The total was 46 subs. which The M ilitant is mailed conventions “interfered with full Eloise Black and Rudy engaged in a concerted drive to the Ward officials to cooperate. Approximately one-half were to miners to you and if the zone number participation by the workers in Rhodes (Trail-Blazers) 213 bust the labor movement and her But the brass hats made sure that and the others to railroad workers, A t­ is not included, be sure to send the war effort.” The real motive, the company didn’t go into the eyes sparkled when we outlined las Powder and miscellaneous trades.” it to us at once, to assure of course, was to prevent the “ red,” even to the extent of mak­ T O T A L 10,200 5637 56 our program to combat the attack. N. Collins, San Biego: “We have a delivery of your paper. rank and file conventions from ing up losses with government Of course she subscribed! “interfering” with the bureau­ Send the zone number to: funds. successful idea that might go well else-, “We had a most inspiring talk cratic designs of the leadership. The Army however has not en­ where. Whenever we hit a house where with two other women. One was So the UAW ranks had better forced the W LB decisions whose the paper is particularly welcomed, we the mother of two boys in the Business Manager be on the alert for a fast move rejection by the company led to ask if they would like to take out« a service and the other a younger 116 U N IV E R S IT Y P L A C E to block their convention — with the strikes and the “seizure.” ‘gift subscription’ for friends or rel­ woman. We had been explaining the purpose behind the campaign N E W Y O R K 3, N. Y. the government carrying the ball atives. We have g'often several in this for the UAW leaders, who took of the boss press to slander the manncp. San Diego’s Pace-Setter js Na­ a terrific shellacking at the last Terror At Weirton European workers and had shown dine Collins with 29 subs. We have gone months—because of lung infec­ convention when the rank-and- A long string of former em bow this is related to the union- over the top and will continue to top tions. A number of them referred file delegates almost defeated the ployes of the Weirton Steel Com­ busting campaign the employers our own record.” b itte rly to the $20 a m onth pen­ no-strike policy. pany, which has successfully res­ We quote a few of the many factory workers to The Militant. are conducting here. You can D. Hilson, Akron: “We're forging sion. isted unionization by the CIO experiences reported by our Jerry Kirk, Detroit: “It is very imagine our delight when the “Three Italian families sub­ Steelworkers since 1936, la st week ahead in the sub campaign. The 19 subs agents in their door-to-door work encouraging to report that over older woman told us: ‘Only the scribed to The M ilitant beginning testified to the ruthless physical I am sending in today brings our total to sell subscriptions to The M ili­ 130 new readers of The Militant organized working class can lead Quislings in Labor terrorism, intimidation and ille­ to 112.” tan t. are in one of the big plants here. us out of this world-wide mess— with the Italian issue. We were nothing short of a complete social tempted to sing Bandiera Rossa The March 15 Justice, organ of gal firings for union membership A1 Lypn, Los Angeles Local: “Our Mili Adams of New York Lo­ A score of militants have been t“The Scarlet Banner” ) for one the AFL International Ladies that has prevailed at the com­ cal, West Side Branch, told us plugging the paper during the change will solve the problem.’ branch scores are as follows: Southside family to explain our program, Garment Workers Union, pub­ pany’s plants. about a young shipyard worker strike and in the shop. We ex­ They were fired with genuine joy 51 percent w ith 153 subs, E ast Side 47 to see two young working women but at the mere mention of the lishes a slashing denunciation of The hearings were being held she m et. “ He was happy to see I pect to obtain many more sub­ percent with 212 subs, San Pedro 37 out plugging for the idea of song, they subscribed. The articles the Stalinist leaders of the Great before a special master of the had The M ilitant. He had seen i t scriptions before the drive closes. percent w ith 163 subs, W est Side 23 p e r­ socialism and repeated over and on Germany serve to interest er New York CIO Council for Third Federal Circuit Court of and read if through our distribu­ The articles in the paper score cent w ith 69 subs, and C entral 18 per­ over again their hopes were many German-American workers their resolution which attacked Appeals in contempt proceedings tions at his shipyard. During the forcefully. revived by the knowledge that an —especially the older ones here. the United Mine Workers Union against the company filed by the cent with 91 subs. One of the most in­ course of our discussion, after he “But then The Militant is not organization of such people is We tell them we have a socialist in the current UMWA contract National Labor Relations Board. teresting incidents is that two com­ had bought a sub, he told me his som ething new1 to them . H u n ­ pushing a socialist program. They program and this seems to be negotiations. The Stalinists call­ The NLRB charges the company rades went out one night and secured brothers read the paper and they dreds have read the paper in the would have talked all day but we what they are searching for,” ed for government “seizure” of with refusal to abide by the five subs from seven houses visited in had told him we were selling subs last' year and they know it is the door-to-door so he was waiting had more work to do! the mines to prevent a “strike board’s orders not. to interfere twenty minutes.” only political paper that tells the for someone to sell him a sub truth in forceful unadulterated p lo t.” with tbe union, and specifically P. Pavidson, Boston: “Four crews DISGUSTED W ITH OFFICIALS foo. When I asked what he Style. Truth, a small word met Entitled “ Quislings In Labor,” accuses Weirton with maintain­ .went out in a Negro neighborhood in “With the working man in Uhe Heritage of Marx thought of The M ilitant from his up w ith, so often, is so ra re th a t the editorial points out that the ing a company union in violation past few days we’ve run across Cambridge. In one hour they obtained previous contact.with it, he said, it is keenly appreciated when a “ miners’ demands, Viewed in their of a federal court order of 1943. with impressive frequency some­ 35 subs. Comrade Nina with 31 subs ‘There’s one thing about this pa­ worker sees it and reads it. The entirety, are quite moderate.” It Actually, the case goes back thing we didn’t sense before. They Is Forum Topic leads in Boston.” per that’s different — it’s got Militant is swiftly becoming the states that both the ILGWU and to 1936! Through slick legal are disgusted and cynical at first guts! It prints things no other paper of all the workers in this the CIO Amalgamated Clothing maneuvering, delaying tactics Kathryn Zellon, Milwaukee: “ Six com­ and sometimes even appear in the paper dares to say’.” p la n t.” At N. Y. School Workers have long enjoyed con­ and the assistance of hair-split­ rades cbvered an industrial suburb of beginning to be anti-union. As we A correspondent in St. Louis tract provisions for a “royalty” ting judges, the company stalled Milwaukee this Sunday. We weren’t too Connie Locke of New York Lo­ unfold our program as a fighting NEW YORK, March 25—“The cal, East Side Branch, writes: “ I writes the following letter: Heritage of Karl Marx” will be on pay rolls to. provide a union off a decision for seven years un­ well acquainted with the district and we program for labor, we find their “The shop workers who used to welfare fund similar to what the til October 1943, The company found that Grace Carlson’s ar­ disgust is with the trade union the subject of the forthcoming soon found that we had made a mis­ be hostile to, or joked at the Trot­ miners are now demanding. It then filed a lengthy and compli­ ticle in the March 17 issue on bureaucrats. The lack of faith in Sunday Night Forum to be held take |n beginning the door-to-door can­ skyists, etc., are becoming pas­ further concedes that ‘“ any other cated “bill of exceptions.” The 'How to Relax’ was a great help the official trade union leadership on April 1st at 116 University vassing too close to the business sec­ sive, sympathetic and in some union under similar circumstan­ present hearings were petitioned in selling subs. During my in­ is profound. Many of them in­ Place. Comrade A rt Sharon will tion. We found that such people as beau­ cases even friendly. But they ces, doubtless, would have per­ last August- troductory sentences, I turned the dicate that the manner in which be the speaker. still seem to have some illusions formed the same gesture” of fil­ By these means, it w ill be pos­ ty shop managers, a government guard, paper to the drawing, which the official leadership has re­ Tonight the forum audience about the ‘friend of the forgotten ing a formal 30-day strike notice sible for the company to string etc., were unsympathetic to what The shows the harrassed housewife, treated and compromised has heard Comrade Harry Frankel man.’ Anyhow time and right­ under the Smith-Connally Act the case out for another seven M ilitant has to say but further on down and the response was invariably sickened and demoralized even the discuss “Germany, the Key to ness are on our side. We must provisions. years. This is a further illustra­ in the next block or two we came across a smile, followed by signing up best rank and file militants. Europe’s Fate.” The lecture and be patient, carefully explain and tion of the futility of the workers for a trial sub. This kind of ar­ “Among the miners we talked the discussion which followed It is against this background real proletarians. We sold 17 subs. Jack O’Connell is still Milwau­ build on the foundation of Marx­ relying on the capitalist courts ticle and illustration is certainly to, many were anxious to im­ were interesting and informative. tiiat the Stalinists made their kee’s PacerSetter with 20 subs.” ism, make sacrifices in time and for justice. The workers have 3 great help in breaking the ice press us with the hazards of their Visitors attending the forum for anti-miners attack, described by Harriet Collins. Chicago: “ More subs—all 25c introductory sub­ money in our pioneering for a only one reliable weapon — their with prospective women readers.” jobs. They were very interested the first time commented favor­ Justipe “as dastardly a piece of better world in which to work, 0 w n independent organized scriptions sold on Red Sunday. The branch got 106 ip all Sunday.” I. Cope, Youngstown: “Last when vve told them how The M ili­ ably on the presentation and sabotage as has disgraced the play and live.” strength in action. R. Haddon, San Francisco: “ We are planning a Sub Campaign Wednesday’s mobilization gave us tant defended and hailed their bought literature on the topic. American labor scene within re­ Party for March 25. The committee is getting publicity under way. another demonstration of the fight in 1943. Some of them talked All readers of The M ilitant are cent memory.” Justice charges finky nature of the Stalinists. with such slow burning indigna­ invited to attend these Sunday the resolution of the Stalinists What we w ill try to do w ill be to ipvolve all our subscribers active­ One of pur people was threatened tion that the object of their Night forums and remain for re­ spoke “in the language even a ly in the campaign—get them all out selling subs. Tori and I went Shipyard Layoffs with the police if he didn’t get off hatred bad better look out. Some freshments and discussion. Girdler or a Weir would have out on Monday night for an hour, between seven and eight, and Henry J. Kaiser, shipyard ty­ the street and out of the neighbor Pioneer of this wrath has been accumulat­ hesitated to use” apd pi'ovides got six subs. We think it an excellent way to spend a spare hour.” coon who is proclaimecj an indus­ hood by a Stalinist who had been ing in these miners for 20 to 30 “generous moral support to the trial “genius” for his capacity to J. Miller, Philadelphia: “Enclosed find 12 new subs. This approached, in his home, for a sub years. mine operators.” Newark Forum get tremendous government hand­ boosts our total for the drive to 78 subs. Philadelphia’s Pace-Setter to The Militant. A little further “One man, no more than 40 “ We are just wondering,” con­ outs, recently admitted to a press is Comrade Seton \vith 21 subs.” down the street another Stalinist Notes yeqrs old, told us he’d been in the cludes the editorial, “how Philip conference that the government’s slammed the door in our com­ M. McGowan, Toledo: “ Enclosed are 85 new trial subs. Most of pits for 30 years. When we were Hears C.Thomas Murray, himself a coal m ifer and shipbuilding program may wind rade’s face. But we showed them. In response to requests from talking to him about the 10 per­ these were obtained in our mobilization yesterday going house-to- The regular monthly forum of fpr thirty years intimately linked up within a year. Over a million Two of our people covered the their customers, bookstores from cent the UMW is demanding house. About 20 of them were sold by friends. We.have only begun the Progressive Workers School, with the woes and struggles of shipyard workers face mass un­ street thoroughly and now the every part of the country are or­ to partially provide insurance to sell M ilitant subs in Toledo.” 423 Springfield Ave., Newark, the coal miners, feels about this employment. two Stalinists are surrounded by dering The History of American against the health risks faced by N. J. held on Sunday, March 25 latest quisling job perpetrated by Since November 1943, when 15 subscribers to The Militant. Trotskyism — the report of a the miners, he pointed out that FROM OUR SUBSCRIBERS under the auspices of the Social­ private shipyard employment hit This is really calling their bluff. participant — by James P. Can­ coal miners never live long ist Workers Party of Newark, a peak of 1,293,000, the number It’s ope neighborhood that we non. Libraries are also receiving enough to take advantage of the We have been informed that E. D., a Detroit subscriber, has featured a lecture on the mean­ of shipyard workers has declined won’t have to worry much about requests and ordering the book. social security provisions that go THE MILITANT sold 71 subscriptions to The Militant. ing of the forced labor drive for to 1,035,000 in January 1945. The Stalinist misleading of the work­ From upstate New York a read­ into effect after a man reaches Many of our readers feel that enthusiastic about The Militant. the American workers. The may now be purchased at rate of decline has increased ers.” er who had secured the history 65. Help spread the truth about the workers’ struggle for a better * * * speaker, C. Thomas of The M ili­ since the first of the year with from the public library ordered 242 Broadway, San Diego, CaL tant staff, exposed the hoax of a steady decrease in production world. Follow the example of this Detroit subscriber and sell The Other reports from our agents a copy for himself and another MINERS' CASUALTIES “ We talked to an old fellow of “voluntary” labor under wartime schedules. Militant to your friends. indicate the warm response of for a friend. He writes: “I have capitalism. He stressed the need had a nodding acquaintance with 63—half blind. He couldn’t sub­ of ap Independent Labor Party the Trotskyist movement for scribe because he lost his eyesight to supplement the activity-of the some years, but have never been in the mines. 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Frances Roberts Southside, Los Angeles 36 116 U n iv e rs ity PI., New Y o rk 3, MAGGIE McGOWAN, Toledo Campaign Mgr. N. Y. SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1945 THE MILITANT THREE Belgian Trotskyists Call For Workers Government “LEGAL” INTERVENTION The following article is translated from the Jan. 28-Feb. 4$ issue of “ La Voie De Levine’’ (The Road of Lenin), weekly IN LATIN AMERICA organ of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Belgian section Belgian Trotskyist Paper By M. Morrison of the Fourth International. Under the heading: " Break the BRITISH TROTSKYISTS What has become known as the “Act of Chapultepec” is Truce!” , the Belgian Trotskyists call upon the Belgian Labor considered the major achievement of the Inter-American Con­ Party and the Communist Party to break with the capitalist ference held receittly in Mexico City. The masses of the Latin parties and form a Workers’ Government upon a program of ENTER ELECTION RACE American countries can with justification feel disquieted about independent working class action. Following the collapse of the Challenging the reactionary Tory-Labor Party coalition this achievement. Through it the door has been opened for the hated Pierlot government on Feb. 7, however, these two parties upholding the British imperialist program,.the Trotskyist Revo­ apparently “ legal” intervention by American imperialism in the once again saved capitalist rule by entering another coalition lutionary Communist Party of Britain is entering its own can­ affairs of Latin American countries. cabinet headed by the Social-Democrat Van Acker. didate for Parliament in the forthcoming by-election at Neath, . Fo r the representatives of® ------A t the same time the American press carried reports that South Wales, “ heart of the anthracite coal mining valleys.’’ twenty American republics meet­ tepee. But to depend upon U. S. the Belgian Trotskyists had “ opened a vigorous drive” in de­ The coal miners of this m ili® ~ ing in Mexioo City to deal “with imperialism to defend the terri­ fense of the striking mine workers in the Charleroi area. tant labor stronghold have re- problems of war and peace” ac­ torial integrity and political in­ * * * ceived the announcement of the cepted a proposition which dependence of any Latin Ameri­ Since the von Rundstedt offensive the governmental crisis has candidacy of Jock Haston, RCP obligates these governments to can country is a sign of imbecility given way to a truce, under the sign of the “Sacred Union.” In this iNa'tional Secretary, with keen­ guarantee the territorial integrity or a conscious betrayal of the and the political independence of masses of the Latin American sense, von Rundstedt has been a sort of godsend for Pierlot and est interest and have accorded a every country signing the Act of countries. One might as well his gang. “magnificent response” to the Chapultepec. In case of a threat depend upon the tiger for defense But now that the territory has been liberated once more, and campaign literature of the Trot­ skyist party, according to the lat­ to any of the nations that sent against the wolf. now that the Hitler menace may collapse any day under the blows est issues of the Socialist Appeal, representatives to the conference, At present it is the military- of the Red Army, it is inevitable that the mortal crisis in which RCP newspaper, received in this either by an American or non- police dictatorship of Argentina the Belgian bourgeoisie is floundering once again takes on an acute country. American aggressor, ail the that has aroused the displeasure others promise to consult, to of the United States Government. character, and shakes the government. And evidently because he Haston received wide sympa­ agree on measures to be taken All other Latin American repub­ foresees the revival of opposition M. De Sehryver, Minister of the thy and acclaim from the British against the aggressor, and to use lics have willingly exchanged Interior, is thinking of instituting the censorship. workers last year when he and force if necessary to prevent or their independence of action for How well one understands M. De Sehryver! How well one un­ three other RCP leaders were repel aggression. economic help from the rich uncle. railroaded to prison under the derstands that our ministers wish to stifle the voices of critics in For the duration of the war It happens that Argentina is not anti-labor Trades Disputes Act order to hear only the voice of the British Foreign Office. any intervention under the Act so dependent upon help from this for their support to the striking JOCK HASTON Whichever way one turns, one sees mounting chaos and anarchy. of Chapultepec is to take place country. It is in fact a competitor miners and their aid to the strug­ In every sphere the impotence of the Government is evident. only if the aggression interferes of the United States on the world gles of the “Bevin Boys,” the the full burden of the war and with the "“War effort.” After the market for meat and grain shipyard apprentices who were postwar capitalist chaos on the The Bankruptcy of the Government*s Policies war a treaty is to be drafted to products. Behind Argentina are resisting being sent as forced workers. In the colonies such as be presented to the United States the British imperialists who are How bankrupt is the financial policy of M. Gutt! Prices continue Reproduction of “La Voie de Lenine” (The Road of Lenin), labor into the mines. India, the coalition has worsened Senate for ratification providing deriving great satisfaction from to rise despite the clamping down on the currency. The gulf be­ weekly organ of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Belgian the conditions of starvation and SUPPORT MINERS for the same guarantees but w ith­ the Argentina-United States con­ tween prices and wages does not cease to widen. No one has any section of the Fourth International. “Are the New Soviet Victories brutal oppression for hundreds The Trotskyist party and its out the necessity of justifying troversy. of millions of colonial slaves. In confidence in the Belgian money. The price of gold has doubled a Preparation for the German Revolution?” is the headline over any intervention because of in­ candidate are going before the Europe, the coalition govern­ W ILL SCRAP TREATIES in two months. The race towards inflation and bankruptcy is speed­ the main story. Neath miners with a record of terference with the war effort. ment has given armed backing But it will not always be a ing up again worse than ever. consistent and uncompromising This distinction was made to to the ex-fascists and monarchs reactionary government that w ill How bankrupt is the purge! The big collaborators remain, and support of the miners’ struggles avoid any /Conflict between the seeking to crawl back into rule. oppose the dictates of the Ameri­ w ill remain, unpunished. Because how can they make Mm. Empain, against both the coal operators Roosevelt administration and the can imperialists. On the contrary, De Launoit, Devillez and Company disgorge, when the administra­ March F. I. Analyzes and the Tory-Labor Party gov­ WARM RECEPTION Senate. * * * the more democratic and progres­ ernment which backed the rich The RCP is hammering home tors of the Prayon-Trooz firm, great industrial collaborators, are sive a government of any Latin owners. One of the main planks the fact that the Labor Party in seated in the government? How is one to punish the propagandists By signing the declaration the American country is, the more Role Of Stalinism of the RCP platform is for the the coalition government has sur­ of the “New Order” when it. is known that M. Pierlot himself would Latin American republics have likely is it to come in conflict with nationalization of the coal mines rendered every scrap of indepen­ have encouraged a Robert Poulet? Today, as the m ilitary danger to the Soviet Union has re­ given up a tradition in existence tiie colossus of the north. without compensation to the mine dence of the trade unions and ceded and the masses o f Europe are rising in revolt against their for many decades—the tradition It must be recognized of course How bankrupt is the organization of food provisioning! The profiteers and for the operation labor movement to the capital­ oppressors, Stalinism emerges as the greatest internal danger of opposition to any interference that the imperialists of this coun­ miserable butter ration, twice as low as the lowest ration during of the mines under workers’ con­ ists. The RCP calls on the Neath by the United States in their in­ try will not, in the last analysis, the time of the German occupation, wasn’t even delivered for Novem­ to the world working class. A detailed discussion of the Stalinist tro l. workers to support its candidate te rn a l or exte rn al a ffa irs . In 1933 be guided by provisions in any ber! The children, pregnant women and the old people do not have menace to world revolution is featured in the March issue of on a Trotskyist platform of un­ The main emphasis of the at the conference held in Lima agreement or treaty. If and when Fourth International, now on sale. deviating allegiance to the work­ any milk! The sugar ration is diminishing. The 25 grams of coffee, Trotskyist campaign is a call for these republics insisted on a they think that intervention on in g class. promised for a month, remain bottled up, no one knows where. The role of the Kremlin bur-® * the workers to break with the statement that “the intervention (heir part, is necessary to protect The coal scandal cries out for vengeance. Thousands of firesides eaucracy, allied with Anglo-Am­ capitalist parties and support a Comrade Haston has been ad­ of any state in the internal or ex­ their interests, they will do so have not received a kilo on the legal market since the “ liberation.” erican imperialism in the plot to Kremlin Upholds revolutionary socialist program dressing meetings throughout the ternal affairs of another is in­ with or without any provisions in in a struggle for workers’ pow'er. Even in the coal mining areas they do not receive any. More than stifle all struggles of the mass­ mining valley. Even Stalinist admissible.” This statement was any treaty. But under no circum­ es, is analyzed in three articles. The central slogan of the cam­ rank and filers are showing inter­ aimed at American imperialism. half of the quota set aside for domestic use has passed on to the stances should U. S. imperialism These are “The Fight Against Capitalist Rule paign is directed to the Labor est in his campaign and are anx­ Roosevelt agreed to it because he black market, and the Government has shown itself incapable up to be furnishe d w ith a “ le ga l” Stalinism,” by the editors of Party rank and file urging them ious to discuss the issues. “ Many had decided to introduce the pretext by the very countries who now of curbing this scandalous traffic. How can one be surprised, Fourth International; a discus­ Inside Rumania to smash the treacherous coali­ ex-Stalinists have offered us as­ “good neighbor policy” and to ought to oppose intervention when the ministers themselves get their provisions on the black sion article by G. Munis; and tion of the Labor Party leaders sistance,” the Socialist Appeal re­ use the silk glove instead of the That the Crimea Conference under any circumstances. The market, when it is true that M. Gutt has gotten 10 tons of coal! “Twenty Years of Stalinism,” with the Tory bankers and indus­ ports. The Communist (Stalinist) mailed fist in order to guard the masses of Latin America must trialists. “Break the coalition Here is the height of impotence and anarchy! The Food min­ w ritte n b y Leon T ro tsky in 1938. was a conspiracy to saddle the Party supports the Tories. supremacy of American imperial­ defend themselves against the ister avows that he is not certain of his ability to print ration The program and tactics of the peoples of Europe with reaction­ with the Tories! Labor to power!” At one RCP campaign meet­ ism in the Western Hemisphere. dictatorships of Argentina and is the appeal of the British Trot­ stamps for lack of gas, electricity and paper! It is said that the European Trotskyists were ham­ ary and monarchist regimes is ing held in the Miners Welfare When one takes into considera­ other South American countries skyists. Hall, Gwaun-Cae-Gunven, t h e tion the fact that the only power Government itself must go to the black market in order to get mered out of the living experi­ now just as evident in Rumania but they must never rely on the In contrast to the RCP’s record chairman was a leading local that is really capable of using the necessary paper to print the ration stamps! ences of tfye masses in their under the heel of Stalin as it American imperialists. ■struggles against fascism . and of full support to the miners’ miner and the first ..speaker was force to prevent “aggression” * * * Bankruptcy and impotence!« every'sphere! And it is clear that was yesterday in Greece sub­ Struggles, the campaign points a “ Bevin Boy,” one of the youth against any Latin American war. The magazine presents two jugated by the military might If the Act of Chapultepec re­ we are not faced with a simple governmental crisis, but with a out that the labor leaders in the sent to forced labor in the mines, republic is the United States, it extensive sections of the theses ceived the lion’s share of atten­ crisis of the whole regime. A change of ministry will change ab­ of Churchill. coalition government consistently who stressed the need for nation­ becomes clear that the represen­ adopted by the European Trot­ tion at the conference, the eco­ solutely nothing in this case. The Communist Party seems to have Exploiting the revolutionary sided with th e coal-owrners alization of the mines under tatives of the Latin American skyists after a six-day confer­ nomic problems facing the Latin sentiments of the Rumanian against the miners. These lackeys workers’ control. Jock Haston ex­ republics have permitted a loop­ realized this at last, when it abandoned its campaign for a govern­ ence held under the heel of the American countries gave the rep­ workers and peasants against the are giving similar support to all posed the counter-revolutionary hole which the imperialists of this ment of “democratic concentration.” Gestapo in February 1944. “The resentatives of those countries the old regime of capitalists and the reactionary domestic and role of the Churchill government country may utilize as a legal What, then, is keeping the great working class parties from Transformation of the Imperial­ greatest worry. What will the landlords, Stalin’s personal agents foreign policies of the British and the British labor leaders in cover for any future intervention. breaking the truce and the coalition, sweeping out this Parlement- ist war into Civil War” surveys capitalists of the United States backed up by the Red Arm y’s oc­ capitalists. Greece and Europe. Raising the It may be true, as is claimed, Croupion that the deputies themselves no longer take seriously the changes in the situation of and their government do to help cupation troops intervened direct­ At home, the labor leaders’ slogan, “Workers of the World that fear of a possible attack by the working class in the final the Latin American countries (which does not keep them from pocketing 160,000 francs in back ly to establish a government bloc with the Churchill Tories has Unite!” he urged the British Argentina against its weak neigh­ phases of the war. It discusses economically after the war? Fojj pay!), demanding elections, opening up a campaign for a workers’ “friendly” to the Kremlin clique. strengthened rapacious Big Bus­ workers to “ clasp the hands of the bors ,is the factor that led some the moods of the masses, “Al­ the present the Latin American government? Such a government could seriously devote itself to Andrei Vishinsky, state prose­ iness, furthered conscription of workers of Europe and Germany” •of the L a tin A m erican represen­ lied” strategy, and how the Trot­ governments depend for their the task of reconstructing the economy with the aid of the unions cutor in the infamous Moscow labor for private profit, institut­ and break the imperialist-labor tatives to introduce the proposal skyists can best educate and or­ frame-up trials, was rushed to economic stability upon the con­ and the factory committees; it could expropriate the banks and ed a n ti-la b o r law s and imposed coalition. embodied in the Act of Chapul- ganize the masses to reach their Bucharest after popular demon­ tracts for the sale of raw material trusts, and organize at last an equitable distribution of products and goal of peace and security strations had rocked the discre­ to the United States. Should the break the black market by appealing to the housewives’ and neigh­ through socialism. dited government of General Ra- United States cease its purchases borhoods’ committees. In “The Proletarian Revolution descu to its foundations. Under it would result in economic break­ The longshoremen of Antwerp and the miners of Charleroi have and Tasks of the 4th Internation­ his supervision, the government I nternational notes down and possible revolutionary begun the fight to defend their right to live, to protest against the al,” the program and composition was reorganized. A few days la­ upheavals. impotence of the government. The miners of the Borinage District of the various “national libera­ ter, the Soviet foreign office re­ SOCIALIST LATIN AMERICA tion” and “Partisan” movements cognized the annexation of Tran­ have passed to action in the coal fields by creating their own con­ What the Latin American rep­ are examined and many seeming sylvania, f o r m e r Hungarian trol committees to break the bosses’ sabotage. He was permitted free movement the Kremlin gang. If large num­ resentatives received from the contradictions explained. These province, as a prop to bolster the India It is on these workers’ movements, on this desire for action around the country. bers nevertheless voted for the representatives of the United documents offer valuable aids to new government. Another indication that the Olano says that the people are Stalinist bloc, it was only as a States were some declarations on on the part of the working class which only awaits a signal to mani­ every American worker who Except for a little face-lifting, San Francisco conference w ill do not only antagonistic to the war “lesser evil” choice to the dis­ the necessity of a higher standard fest itself that the working class parties must rely in order to form seeks to understand the complex no fundamental changes have nothing to lift the burdens of but sometimes do not even dis­ asters that had befallen them un­ of living and of encouragement a Workers’ Government. problems of the revolutionary resulted. Radescu is out but Tat- oppression from the enslaved col­ cuss it. Even at the time of the der the Social Democracy. for private investments. The Latin Enough empty words! Let us see some action! crises in Europe. arescu, foreign minister under onial peoples is contained in the Allied defeats at Singapore and American politicians were not the degenerate monarchy of King manner in which India will be elsewhere, there were “ big mani­ greatly interested in empty “NOTES OF THE MONTH” Carol, is in. King Michael who “ represented.” festations” in Japan. Great Britain declarations. The best they could The first section of a pamphlet succeeded his father, sent inva­ India’s “representatives” have “The military c 1 i q u e,” the While the entire British labor get, however, was a promise that by the Indian Trotskyist Lily sion troops against the Soviet NEW YORK been appointed by the British Bishop reported, “ controls every­ movement is straining at the the contracts for the purchase of Roy, “ Socialism Reaffirmed,” ex­ Union and ruled as a puppet of Governor General, Lord Wavell. thing by an intricate organiza­ leash to break the Tory-Labour raw material would be canceled poses the conception of the “ man­ Hitler until Red Army victories They are all flunkeys of British tion d iv id in g each c ity in to 10- party coalition, the Stalinist onlv after due notice. ag erial re v o lu tio n ” as a th e o re ti­ made him change horses. He imperialism and in no way re­ house sections. One man is in Communist party has publicly de­ Undoubtedly United States im ­ Socialist Youth Forum cal justification for capitalism. quickly gave his blessings to the present India’s 390,000,000 peo charge of each small section. clared for continuation of this perialism will try to keep the Friday, April 6, 8 p. m. It is a brilliant and annihilating new government. pie who despise their overlords Other men are in charge of larg­ coalition after the German defeat. L a tin American governments reply to the mayor of Bombay, CAPITALISTS GO FREE and await only the opportunity er sections. If anybody* in the So reactionary Is this proposal satisfied. But the fundamental “U. S. IMPERIALISM IN LATIN AMERICA” an Indian renegade from social­ After much ado about punish­ to throw the tyrants off their 10-house section doesn’t cooper­ that, up to the time of its issu­ contradiction between American Hear A Trotskyist Analysis ism whose views mirror those of ing “war criminals,” the govern­ backs. ate or contribute to the war ance, not one of the treacherous imperialism anxious to make pro­ Speaker: RUTH GRAYSON the American James Burnham. ment officially announced in a The delegates are Sir Ramas- funds, the men in charge w ill—” leadens of the British Labour fits out of its investments in A review of the honest war wami Mudaliar and Sir Firo^khan Q uestions Discussion statement by Lucretiu Patras- Here the priest expressively drew party have dared to indicate any Latin America and the welfare of correspondent Jack Belden’s Noon, both members of the Vice­ 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE eanu, the Staiinist Minister of a finger across his neck. plan along this line. The British the Latin American masses cannot book, “ Still Time to Die,” reveals Justice, that the native class en­ roy’s Council and Sir V. T. workers have long been aroused possibly he solved. The in-’ (comer 13th St., between Broadway and F ifth Avenue the author’s disillusionment with emies of the Rumanian masses Krishnamachari, former Premier to the crimes perpetrated by dustrialization of Latin America, near Union Square) the war which places him on the would go scot free. of Barodia. They have been cor­ Finland Churchill’s government, with thy the raising of the standard of Free Admission Refreshments side of the oppressed peoples. “Industrialists, business men rectly designated as “collabora­ Conservatives and a Stalinist Labour ministers assigned to do living for the masses, the com­ The “Notes of the Month” by and bankers w ill escape punish­ tionists,” persona non grata with peoples front bloc gained seats the dirty work of keeping wages plete independence of the Latin the editors include comment on ment as war criminals under a the Indian people, by J. J. Singh, in the Finnish Rikstag elections frozen, enforcing slave labor laws American republics are problems forced labor in the United States, new law- drawn up by Lucretiu President of the India League of at the expense of the Social Dem­ and breaking strikes. The La­ that cannot be solved with the Canadian anti-war struggles, the Patrascanu . . . Responsibility for Am erica. ocratic Party. The ■ combined bour leadens had only one fraud- aid of American imperialism. Yalta Conference, and the World Rumania’s part in the war would Win. Philip Simms, Scripps- votes of the right wing parties, ulent excuse: “the wan against They can be solved only by a NEW YORK Trade Union Conference recently (fall) upon officials who nego­ Howard columnist, inadvertently however, outnumbered the total fascism” — an excuse that was Socialist Latin America with the concluded in London. tiated economic agreements with exposed the real character of the of votes received by Social Dem­ thoroughly exposed when Church­ aid of a Socialist United States. G erm any.” San Francisco conference by ocrats and Stalinist Popylar ill massacred the Greek workers. Sunday Night Forum Single copies of Fourth Interna­ Patrascanu added that “Ruma­ commenting: “To side with or Democrats (732,000 to 711,000). Now that the war against Ger­ tio n a l can be obtained fo r 20c., nia could not afford to lose the against independence movements, The most prominent feature of many is coming to an end they The Russian "THE HERITAGE OF KARL MARX” yearly subscription $2. by writing services of merchants and indus­ or to rule out a delegation sent the election was the large losses have no alternative but to go to to Business Manager, 116 Univer­ trialists. He expressed the opin­ by a duly recognized regime as suffered by the Social Democ­ the polls, hoping perhaps that What His Teachings Mean to the American Workers s ity Place, N . Y . 3, N . Y . ion that the country would pur­ lacking popularity, would wreck racy, the governing party since they w ill find some other means R evolution the conference!” Marxism in the Light of the Present World Events sue a more liberafl policy toward 1939, which dropped fro m 83 to of continuing the class truce. The this class than the French have.” 52 seats in the parliament. This Stalinists are now attempting to As a sop to the land-hungry reflects the intense dissatisfac­ provide them with the formula: Two Lectures Speaker: In Philadelphia peasantry, a law has been enact­ Japan tion of the Finnish people with a continuation of the coalition B uy ed to break up large estates and The Japanese people show no the policy of Social Democracy with the Tories but with a “la­ ART SHARON by THE MILITANT sell them in five acre lots. Lands enthusiasm for the war that has that made Finland a pawn al­ bour and progressive majority” Sunday, April l ,-8 p. m. held by “ war criminals,” Germans been forced upon them by the ternatively of Allied and German in the House of Commons. The and and those who left the country desperate caste of m ilitary ad­ imperialism and a spearhead program: “support of the deci­ James P. Cannon FOURTH INTERNATIONAL since the armstice are to become venturers that rules the country against the Soviet Union. In this sions of the Crimea conference.” 30 Pages 10 Cents Q uestions Refreshments for a handful of financial capi­ The British Stalinists, some­ a t property of the government. But way the country was subjected to the largest and most important talists. This is the gist of an the devastation of imperialist what restrained by the pressure NEW YORK SCHOOL OP SOCIAL SCIENCE PIONEER PUBLISHERS LABOR FORUM landed estates are to be left un­ interview given by Bishop Mich­ war. of the British workers, are just 116 U n iv e rs ity Place 405 W. Girard Avenue touched. The law specifically ex­ ael Angel Olano of Guam who Although the gains of the Stal­ a step behind their American: 116 University Place (cor. 13th Street, between 5th and Broadway) and 13th and Market St., cluded the gigantic holdings of the returned to that island after inists are striking, they were far henchmen who have openly pro­ Royal Family and the state-sup­ spending 21 m onths in Japan, from a landslide. Stalin’s brutal claimed their support of “post­ N ew Y o rk 3, N . Y. N.W. corner ported Orthodox Church from from the time of the attack on policy toward Finland has cre­ war” free-enterprise — that is, confiscation and re-distribution. Pearl Harbor to October 1943. ated an undying hostility towards W all Street. FOUR THE MILITANT SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1945

‘ Vote For Socialism ! Says SWP Candidate Following is the text oj a speech by Myra Tanner Weiss, (•)------Trotskyist candidate for mayor, to the -voters of Los Angeles delivered March 26, over station KNX. Station KHJ, to which Meat Profiteers the script was originally submitted, censored out the passages ■which we have put in parentheses in this text and the speech was Get Price Subsidy not given over that station. Minus the censored passages, it was By V. Grey delivered over station KMX. From Government Pile-it-high Patterson, that unappreciated genius of production, (Continued from page 1) was over by the spot welder talking to Marjorie, and as usual, For the past three years I have been the Los Angeles organ­ piling it high. izer of the Socialist Workers' Party, popularly known as the Trot­ satiable demands of the price- “I’m taking off a little early today, Marge” said he. From the skyists. For ten years I have been active in the labor movement— gougers. tone of his voice you’d have thought the whole shop would go down as a shop steward in the canneries of San Pedro, on picket lines, Instead of throwing the crim­ if Pile-it-high didn’t give it every moment of his attention. on union negotiating committees, and as a delegate to AFL con­ inal meat profiteers into prison “Really?” Marjorie asked, trying to be polite. She hadn’t been for withholding supplies and div­ ventions. around too long. But she knew enough to duck when Patterson erting a major food necessity I tell you my record, and what my affiliations are, in order to started slinging the bull. Still, it gave her a little excuse to dog the into the black market to force up make clear the character of my campaign for the office of Mayor prices, the government gives job a few minutes, letting him talk to her. of Los Angeles. I stand for the working-class. My program, the them another fat subsidy out of “ Yes, I have a golf engagement this afternoon. I suppose you program of my party, is the program of socialism. I hate the evil, the public treasury. noticed my golf clubs in the time office.” decaying system o f capitalism w ith its W'ars, its race hatreds, the Instead of answering the meat Of course she noticed. Everybody in the shop had noticed. perpetual privation and insecurity which it represents for millions profiteers’ vicious meat “famine” Pile-it-high had put them right where you couldn’t help but notice o f people. threats — already half fulfilled them when you rang in on a job. And we were all making wise­ — with government seizure of all I speak for a party which challenges the capitalist system and cracks about them. “First sign of spring” and all that. But Marge meat supplies and meat packing proposes to remove it, (as if it were a cancerous growth on human wanted to string him along some—so she let on she didn’t happen facilities, Roosevelt actually con­ society.) Socialism means a society of peace and plenty, instead of ceals their role in the meat to see them. a society of war and hunger. Only the working class, which has shortages. Moreover he appeals Any ordinary guy wouldn’t have kept trying to impress a girl nothing to gain and everything to lose under capitalism, can create to the people to accept them when she didn’t want to be impressed. But Pile-it-high was not a socialist world. without protest and offers a hy­ ordinary. He was made of different stuff. Meanwhile, the working-class is under attack. The lords of pocritical justification for the “I bet you can’t guess who I have the golf engagement with Big Business, here in California as throughout the nation, are greater profiteer-created food M arge.” scarcity to come. eternally seeking ways and means to undermine and destroy the “ With Rita Hayworth and Donald Duck, huh?” But these latest government workers’ own organizations, the trade unions. They want to con­ “Ha, ha, ha,” he laughed a little weakly. “As a matter of concessions to the meat packers vert the workers into helpless serfs, unable to defend their hard- Poorly-Housed Workers has not quieted their clamor. On fact—” he cleared his throat, and rustled his sheaf of important won rights and living standards. the contrary, they returned to papers—“I'm going out with the Superintendent to the Park Crest the attack on price ceilings last Club.” The Workers Must Open Their Counter-Offensive Long For ' Dream Home' week with redoubled fury before Marjorie didn’t fall into a faint at this exciting news. So Pile- the Senate price control hearings. it-high added his biggest bombshell. “I ’m going to give his daughter Here in California, the notorious open-shoppers vie with the living.” No sharecropper or By Grace Carlson furnished, adapted . to the needs HUGE PROFITS a little golf lesson.” capitalist politicians in Washington in devising new blows at or­ “dirt farmer” is Mr. Rietheimer of growing children. The Senate committeemen “ No kidding?” said Marge without enthusiasm. ganized labor. Proposition 12, defeated by the California voters for we learn from the article that If the average reader of “ Good “ Do you dream about ‘that wagged their heads in open sym­ “Oh yes, you see I’ve been at it quite a while. Had a chance last November, was to sanctify the open-shop in law. (It was of a he “commutes to his business in Housekeeping” were told of life place in the country'?’’ begins pathy and interjected expressions to be a professional at the Happy Valley when the war came. piece with the Roosevelt-sponsored National Service Act and all the city.” His wife and daughter in Hearst’s Enchanted Hill an article in the March issue of putter around in the garden of Castle on his 75,000 acre estate of approval as the meat trust But I-ah-felt my career was here.” other freedom-destroying legislation.) lobbyists sniffed scornfully at the their 30-acre farmyard and raise in San Simeon, California or on “ Say, how old is this daughter of old sourpuss?” Marge asked The labor movement can survive only by militant struggle “ Good Housekeeping” maga­ flush subsidies handed them by fresh vegetables for the family one of bis luxurious “ranches” in suddenly. zine. Then the author goes on to the government. They lamented against all the forces of reaction. Against the offensive of the dinners, but they wear gloves Texas or in Mexico, it would Patterson’s face got red and he tried to be a little nonchalant about how price ceilings are bosses and the boss politicians, the workers must open their own answer her own question. “ We while working to keep from get­ seem so unreal that it would have when he said, “Oh I don’t know. About twenty.” “bankrupting” them and demand­ counter-offensive. Labor must withdraw from the War Labor Board, ting “farmyard hands,” Casual little meaning. Such remote, do. We like to think of the room ed nothing less than removal of that graveyard of workers’ grievances. The No-Strike Pledge, a country living is very different lofty and obviously unattainable pictured above in the farm­ all price control bars to their MAKING A PLAY FOR THE BOSSES’ DAUGHTER straitjacket for labor, must be rescinded. The Little Steel formula, from the life of backbreaking toil luxury can never form the basis house of Mr. and Mrs. W illiam “fa ir” , profits. “Teaching her golf, huh? Giving all the girls around here the and grinding poverty which is the of the poor housewife’s dream. which holds wages down while profits and prices soar ever higher, Here is what these parasites, Rietheimer in Woodstock, Illi­ daily experience of millions of But a cottage in the country, with brush-off while you make a play for one bosses’ daughter.” (Pile- must be thrown overboard. who thrive on the desperate nois.'' agricultural workers and “dirt plenty of “storage and closet it-high figures he’s quite a ladies’ man, and Marge was rubbing it But even more than this is needed. To defend itself with its needs of the people, mean by You may be very, very sure fa rm e rs !” space,” “ crisp organdie curtains” in.) “You’re not going to go and marry the girl are you?” united power in every field where it is attacked, labor must break “fair profits.” Between 1940 and that the room pictured there was at the windows, “built-in beds Patterson laughed his smooth, self-conscious laugh, and pulled for all time with the capitalist political parties, the Democrats and ONLY A DREAM 1941 the e ig h t la rg e st m eat pack­ not the unlighted, shabbily-furn­ with deep drawer space under­ in his pot belly a little. “Oh, no. Of course it’s nothing like that,” Republicans, and every type of boss politician. The workers must ished one room of a sharecrop­ Why does “Good Housekeep­ ing firms secured total net profits neath” — this is a dream that he said with a sort of pooh-pooh in his voice. After all, he was build their own party, an independent labor patty, based on the per’s cabin. No, indeed not! No­ ing” show its readers glimpses of even a worker may have I equalling 80 percent of their total a life which they can never hope capital investments! only trying to give the girls in the shop an insight into his true trade unions, with a program dedicated to the interests of labor. body “dreams” of that kind of But under this social system, .to experience? Designed as “ the Bold as brass, the chief spokes­ charm. He didn’t want to give them the impression he wras going Through this party they can achieve a fighting alliance with the a “place in the country." Neither it will remain only a dream. Ac­ magazine America lives by,” man for the National Independ­ to be taken out of circulation for good. agricultural workers and small farmers who are exploited and op­ the gushy writer of the “Good cording to the latest government “Good Housekeeping” is read ent Meat Packers’ Association “Seriously, though, Marge, it isn’t a laughing matter. You Housekeeping” article, nor her figures on housing conditions, pressed by the self-same enemies of labor. chiefly by housewives of the confessed to the Senate commit­ millionaire boss, William. Ran­ half of the homes in the United know Taylor C. Wilkins himself got to be vice-president that way. There are no “friends of labor” in the capitalist parties. La­ workingclass and lower middle tee that “many honest” meat dolph Hearst nor the magazine’s States — nearly 17 million—had He married the president’s daughter. You’d be surprised at the bor’s only true friend is its own strong right arm. By casting your class. When William Randolph packers “felt the OPA regula­ readers. As for the sharecrop­ no private bath. Eight million number of the big executives who got their start that way. And vote for me, you will be voting in favor of independent working- Hearst and his associates want tions were unjust and unlawful per himself, his “place in the homes had neither gas nor elec­ even if they don’t get a big position, it’s a life-time job, you know.” class political action—the crying need of the hour. to tell the members of the and concluded that they would country” is much more of a tricity; 11 million had no refri­ There was real awe in his voice. “Smart Set” how to live or what not be bankrupted b y u n la w fu l nightmare than a “dream.” geration equipment; 4% million to wear, they use one of the ma­ regulations.” “ Is that so!” Marge exclaimed. “ Well say I better finish spotting had no central heating or stoves. Cast Your Vote for Socialism! “CASUAL LIVING” ny other Hearst-owned periodi­ The worthy Senators listened these brackets.” And shd Said to herself, “ Can you imagine that? Houses in rural communities cals, such as “Town and Coun­ to this confession of wholesale That little four-flushing pipsqueak thinks lie's going to marry A real fighting program is a life and death question for the Photographs of the interior and were said to be in even worse exterior of this real “dream try,” “Harpers Bazaar” and law-breaking by rich businessmen workers. Already, in the midst of the great war production boom, condition than those in the cities. Miss Millionbucks and be a big time four-flusher for the rest of his house” are shown in the article “House Beautiful.” .The “upper without blinking an eye. Not a its shadow of post-war unemployment falls across the workers’ Farmhouses were the worst of life. Well, it takes all kinds of people to make a world, I guess.” with details to appeal to the classes” do not read “Good peep was uttered in protest, much a ll. But Pile-it-high is a pathetic sort of four-flusher, though. lives. Capitalism offers breadlines, soup kitchens, apple-selling. The housewife-reader, weary of the Housekeeping.” Why does every less a call for investigation and Housing conditions have Running around shining the shoes of the higher-ups like he does, bosses know this. That is. why they are so intent on crushing the cramped living-quarters and the issue of this magazine continue punishment of the offenders. grow n s till worse since 1940. The always keeping his eye on the main chance. organized labor movement. They want no resistance from their dirt of city life. “ The sun stream­ to offer its readers the kind of HIDE RECORDS advice about their homes which war has .stopped the building of He doesn’t realize he lacks sophistication, poise, polish^ “ educa­ victim s. ing through the crisp organdie Further, the meat packers’ re­ only the rich could use? new houses almost entirely. The tion” to m arry Miss Millionbucks. He hasn’t guzzled enough cocktails (Attacks on the labor movement go hand in hand with armed curtains filled the rooms with presentative renewed the threat virtual absence of vacancies in or seen enough dog-races to make the grade, poor fellow. assaults on Japanese-American citizens, some of whose homes have warmth and friendliness.” And That is exactly why “Good lower-priced houses and apart­ of a meat famine unless the meat more delectable details — “The Housekeeping” magazine is so It is done sometimes, you know. Richer girls do occasionally been shot up and burned by undercover terrorists.) Reactionary or­ ments makes it impossible for packers had their way on price entire attic was covered with pine popular with working-class marry up-and-coming young executives like Pile-it-high. Yes, if ganizations are inciting race hatred against Japanese-Americans, workers to force their landlords ceilings. “ We believe the policy pa ne lling” ... “ Storage and closet housewives — it gives them a you’re a smooth, smart young fellow, who’s been to the “right” Negroes, Mexicarfs and other minorities. Anti-Semitism is rife. In to make necessary repairs on the of OPA in maintaining present space was cleverly tucked under chance to dream and to hope. college and knows the “right” people, maybe you can marry a all these activities we can easily recognize an incipient fascism old buildings. maximum price ceilings is one of the sloping roof”... “There were Amid the dirt, noise, clutter and And so, w orking-class women the main causes of maldistribu­ bosses' daughter and be set for life as a big-time “ Yes-Man.” Quite whose ultimate aim is the destruction of the labor movement. three built-in beds with deep general confusion that form the continue to dream of “that place tion of meat,” he said. In short, a future before you under the capitalist system. In asking you to vote for me, I am asking you to vote against drawer space underneath.” warp and woof of life in work­ in the country,” while they' go the meat shortage w ill be reme­ But what a future . . . for a MAN! all these manifestations of black reaction, (and against the capitalist This all adds up to what the ers homes, the housewife can through the dreary round of daily died just as soon as the govern­ system which nourishes them.) Make YOUR vote a vote for Social­ “Good Housekeeping” writer dream of “a place in the country” housekeeping tasks in crowded, ment permits the food profiteers —quiet, comfortable, clean, well- ism. calls a “ design for casual country uncomfortable, run-down city unrestricted prices! homes! One of the most astounding facts presented to the hearings Ford Local Anti-Stalinist by the OPA was that, despite the Flint Chevrolet Paper Publishes Reply Imperialists Compete “bankruptcy” wails of the meat packers, they have persistently Militants Gain In Strength In Cynical Phrases refused to let OPA examine their Of SWP Organizer To Clayton Fountain detailed financial records. The capitalist powers seek (Continued from page 1) issues. His sole apparent reason Deputy O P A administrator The followiijg letter is reprinted from the March 15 issue to outdo each other not merely for entering the race is to re­ Brownlee disclosed that OPA of­ But Fountain is not satisfied of the Kremlin bureaucracy but in bloody imperialist grabs, necessity. They prop up the WLB place the Stalinists with “deserv­ of The Searchlight, official publication of Chevrolet Local 659, ficials attempted “for several with setting forth the reasons “because they think that is the but in the cynical “humanitar­ at a time when the W’LB has ing” Reutherites. This slate suf­ UAW-CiO. Flint, Michigan. It was written by Arthur Burch, years” to gain access to the pack­ which prompted him to change his way to help the Russians.” Foun­ ian” pretenses with which they amply demonstrated that it is an fers, moreover, from the lack of Michigan organizer of the Socialist Workers Party, in reply to ers’ books, but were refused. The position. He goes far afield to tain draws no distinction between cloak their greedy aims. Har­ agency of the employing classes any record of militant action on an attack on Trotskyism which appeared in an earlier issue of meat packers’ spokesman ans­ attack the Trotskyists because of this vicious bureaucracy in Mos­ old Callender, Paris corres­ designed solely to keep labor be­ behalf of the 20,000 Negro work­ wered that the OPA wanted fig­ The Searchlight. their adherence to a revolutionary cow and the masses of the Soviet pondent, writing in the March hind the eight-ball while the em­ ers at the Ford Rouge plant. It ures “as far back as 1943” but favoring the no-strike pledge, and program. This is, of course, Union whose interests like those 25 N. Y. Tim es about the e f­ ployers are reaping colossal ¡6 running no Negro for office “some companies have felt that now comes out definitely for neither the time nor the place to of the American workers would forts of French imperialism profits from an alleged war and is putting forward as a vice- George Carroll, they should not be called on to rescinding it. We can only com­ discuss this program but for be helped by the scrapping of to save its colonial empire against fascism.” presidential candidate a notorious Editor of Searchlight supply historical figures.” The mend him for his change of view Fountain’s benefit I might state the no-strike pledge. from its Allied “friends,” He concluded with the dramatic red-baiter. government, of course, goes back D e ar S ir: on this important question since that I would gladly debate this In only one respect does Foun­ states: announcement: “I w ill no longer This lack of a general slate "to the “historical” figures of In an article by Clayton W. it is by the correction of its subject with him at a time and tain remain consistent—his resort “Meanwhile, if the great go along with these people who with a genuine fighting program January 1941 living costs to im­ Fountain which a p p ea re d in the errors in the course of the strug­ place of his own choosing. to red-baiting, the stock device of powers are going to pretend call themselves progressives but in principled opposition to the pose the w age-freezing L ittle February 15th issue of The gle that the working class the .employers to sow dissension that they conquered empires who are actually the worst reac­ talinists weakens the anti-Stalin- It is strange, to say the least, Steel Formula. Searchlight, he acknowledges his develops itself and approaches in the labor movement. The reac­ with motives of Christian tionaries in the labor movement ist forces. that in an article calling for the The farce of these hearings previous lack of foresight in m a tu rity . tions y role of the Stalinists in charity and to vow they in­ today.” relocation of the no-strike pledge, equalled anything ever seen in Larry Yost, President of the the labor movement would have tend to apply the doctrines of Fountain should denounce the the Senate. Instead of cross ex­ MILITANT PROGRAM Aircraft Unit of Local 600 and long ago come to an end if they Thomas Jefferson to the Ma­ Trotskyists who have consistently amining the meat packing lob­ National Chairman of the Rank were exposed for their crimes lays and Hottentots, then Jones is running for the unit opposed this pledge from the very byists, the Senators submitted and File Committee which has led against labor, i.e., their position France will give them a run presidency on a 10-point program, NEW YORK beginning and have continuously OPA head Bowles to a three-hour the fight in the UAW against the on the no-strike pledge, their un­ for their money along that including revocation of the No- warned the rest of the labor grilling intended to bring out an No-Strike pledge, refused to run savory role in the Montgomery path. The French Empire, like Strike Pledge, removal of all movement against the dangers admission that the OPA was “ in­ for re-election on the McCusker Ward strike, their undercover others, can take a new and labor members from the WLB, During the Month of April which would inevitably accrue to terfering” with “legitimate” pro­ slate because of its failure to put support of the pending “Slave gentler name and profess to and formation of an Independent labor as the result of the sacrifice fits. forth a m ilitant program. He has The New York School of Social Science Presents Labor Bill,” etc. have become an eleemosyn­ Labor Party. His campaign is of its most powerful weapon. We being conducted by the newly- announced he is not a candidate A Series of Lectures On It is the unfavorable reaction ary (charitable) institution. HECKLED BY SENATORS and w ill instead devote himself to have set forth in The Militant organized Press Steel Rank and of the workers to the red-baiting Rather this than that moral­ Bowles, for his part, protested organization of the m ilitant Rank CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF WORLD WAR II some of the very arguments which File Committee. For the first tactics of people like Fountain izing ‘Anglo-Saxons’ should that the OPA wasn’t interested and File Caucus throughout the Fountain now espouses. We must time, the powerful Stalinist ma­ which has continually helped to hint that. French colonies and in how much profits were made Rouge plant. Speaker: therefore accuse Fountain of the chine in the great Press Steel bolster the Stalinists and prevent­ bases should be looked a fte r and cited reams of facts and fig­ very charge which he has so Unit is being challenged by an One of the most bitter cam­ MARK BRADEN, Labor Secretary Newark Branch, SWP ed their complete elimination by others than Frenchmen.” ures to show how much richer wrongfully hurled at the Trot­ organized, m ilitant opposition. paigns is being waged in the Classes Begin at 8 p. m. skyists, namely: that he “has con­ from the labor movement. the profiteers have become pre­ Production Foundry, composed al­ The Local 600 Stalinist leader­ fused this issue almost beyond The Trotskyists are concerned cisely during the period of price most entirely of Negroes, where ship is being opposed for posts WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4th: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18th: recognition for what it really is.” with Fountain’s red-baiting not “ controls.” Horace Sheffield, a former Inter­ by a Reutherite slate led by Joe Capitalist Rule in Germany only because it harms our ten­ The Senators took delight in national Representative, is op­ Economic Reasons for World REAL ROLE OF STALINISTS McCusker, a member of the Tool and the U. S. A. dency but because it injures the heckling Bowles all over the lot. posing the incumbent, Edward W a r I I and Die U nit and a vice-president Concentration of Wealth and Fountain not only attacks the labor movement as a whole. All Only once did Senator Wagner, Hester, for the unit presidency. “Fight for Freedom” or Trotskyists for having the fore­ workers irrespective of their of New York, touted as the “con­ of the Michigan CIO Council. Control of Government Sheffield, one of the most m ili­ sight that, he himself lacked but political beliefs must learn to sumers’ representative,” plaintiv­ Reuther is the UAW vice-presi­ Struggle for Profits WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25th: tant and capable Negro leaders also in the same paragraph recognize this fact. My letter is ely interject, “we’ve got to think dent who plays “militant” while Socialism—The Coming in Ford local, is running on a pro­ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11th: attacks the Stalinists whose posi­ written so that this chronic red- of the consumers, too.” After always going along with the rest World System gram similar to that of Jones in tion in favor of the no-strike baiter may be exposed at the very this brave sally, he was silent. of the top leadership on all basic America and Britain How Socialism W ill Be Built Press Steel Unit. Despite an un­ pledge was until recently> shared scene of his crime. I hope, there­ The Senate committee ended issues, such as the no-strike Allies and Antagonists in A m erica precedented slander campaign by himself. To he sure Fountain fore, that you w ill be kind enough the hearings and retired to secret policy, etc. against, him by the Stalinists, does not denounce the Stalinists to print this letter. session. There they are expected McCusker’s program, differing their fink activities have dis­ for their reactionary role on the to mourn the sad plight, of the in no essential from that of Fraternally yours, credited them with so many NEW YORK SCHOOL of SOCIÂL SCIENCE no-strike pledge as well as for profit-gorged meat packers and Grant, present Local 600 presi­ Negro militants that Sheffield their entire finky role in the labor ARTHUR BURCH figure out. some new w ays to help dent and notorious Stalinist 116 University Place (Corner 13th St., bet. 5th and Broadway) movement in which they have Michigan Organizer, Socialist them reach deeper into the wage- stooge, is in virtual agreement stands a good chance of winning acted as the unscrupulous agents Workers Party (Trotskyists) earners’ pockets. with the Stalinists on all key 1 the election. SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1945 T H E MILITANT FIVE Why Miners Should Get A “Royalty” By Larissa Reed The demand of the United Mine Workers Union for 10 cents on every ton of coal to be set aside for a Union Welfare D iary of a Fund deserves full support. However, it js misleading to call this fund a “royalty”. The STEEL WORKER Powell, the Political Contortionist term “ royalty,” as its name in­ ______Theodore Kovalesky ------The feeble capacity of those political leaders who attempt dicates, was originally used to to straddle the fence of reality by calling for racial equality and, designate the tribute demanded The other day when I happened to be uptown, I saw a woman. at the same time, giving fu ll support to the very system of capC by kings. She was obviously a rich woman, because she was very expensively talism which makes Negro oppression profitable is further exem­ In more recent times the word dressed and was being helped out of a large, shiny limousine. She plified by the antics of Harlem’s fair-haired faker Congressman is used to designate the per­ was a fragile woman, listless in her manner, and her face held, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. centage of profits or “royalty” guaranteed to the author of a under all its gloss, an expression of extreme boredom. This formerly outspoken cham-i> book or the owner of a new in­ Then, yesterday on my way to work, I saw another woman, pion of Negro rights whom the against the “commpn people” — vention. In general “royalty” and I remember her also. I do not know what her nationality could voters of Harlem sent to Con- whoever they are. If, by using means a share of the profits for have been. She was a gaunt woman, swarthy of skin, with fierce gress with confidence in his in­ the owner of a property, process the scathing term “common peo­ black eyes like an eagle’s eyes and a hooked nose like an eagle’s beak. tegrity, is now playing the role ple,” the Congressman means the or product. For example, the This woman had felt suffering of a slick betrayer of the Negro w o rkin g class — (and i f so, w hy owner of a mine who leases it to masses. In his corrupt attempt to is he afraid to say so?) — then others for operation can exact a and hardships. As she sat sullenly make further personal, opportun­ we agree that they peed advance­ share of the profits as “royalty.” in the seat of the lurching bus, you istic gains he is whitewashing the ment even to the position of ab­ But the mine worker does not could see the marks that poverty role of American imperialism solute rule in order to displace own anything except his own and pain had left upon her lean and its present political agent, the present handful of exploit­ labor power—two strong arms face. You could see the mark of toil the Roosevelt administration. ers. In fact, we are always tell­ and a sturdy back that can stand In a recent debate on the slave upon her lean body, so like the body ing the Negro people that only up under the grinding toil in the of a roaming, hunger-ridden wolf, labor bill Powell was so anxious by m ilitant struggle alongside the mine pits. Unlike the idle and to honey up to the Roosevelt ad­ gaunt and taut-muscled, spare with white workers w ill they success­ rapacious bosses whose only work ministration that he, the osten­ fully attain equal citizenship is to rake in their profits, rents, the w in te r’s hunger. sible Negro spokesman, spoke rig h ts. royalties and other tribute, the I have said that her eye was against the incorporation into “ Give tvorkers an annual wage and they’ll never dó an honest day’s work.” miners are wage-slaves. Like all fierce, that her body was that of a that reactionary measure of Only the simplest fool or the workers, they are compelled to fierce and hungry beast. But in her a non-discrimination amendment. most deceptive liar, however, w ill engage in the bitterest struggle, today contend that there is no arms she carried a little bundle of Here is his excuse: “ I opposed it not only to gain a decent life for further need to struggle for Ne­ soft cloth and swarthy, tender because there was an order by themselves and their families, but our Commander-in-Chief, Execu­ gro equality as such. The most Bosses' Reconversion Plans flesh. And when her eye turned also to protect their lives .and naive country bumpkin knows toward her child, it lost its anger, tiv e O rder No. 8802, w hich as­ limbs from the destructive greed sured that in war industries that throughout thp greater part became large and soft, the eye of of America a black man can of the mine operators. there would be no discrimina­ For over half a century the a m other. neither go the same places, en­ Are Cutbacks,Unemployment tion.” He claims that he is op­ miners have fought to improve The bus groaned and swayed over the rough roads, past'docks gage in the same political activ- alarmed at the prospect of mass posed to “too much protection” _ their wages and conditions of By R. Bell cast reports that there would be and warehouses that thickened the air with their odors. The woman’s against anti-Negroism — as if ! 'ty, nor hold the same jobs as a unemployment, the Congress was little or no change in production >vork. Now, among other things, dark eyes again stared out morosely at a world that had been such could be possible in present- w h ite man. Predictions of an early termi­ at that time hastily summoned and employment after the defeat they are demanding their own hostile to her and would be so to the little bundle of dusky flesh in day America! Such is the flimsy nation of the war in Europe are from its summer vacation to enact of Germany. They deliberately set DOUBLY OPPRESSED Union Welfare Fund. This can “demobilization” and “reconver­ her arms. An old worker sat next to her, a newspaper-wrapped lunch excuse offered by this faker for easily be provided by the opera­ again pushing to the fore the out to disarm the workers by lining up with Rankin, the Ne­ We cannot ignore the fact that sion” legislation. A bill was distorting and suppressing official on his lap and a shiny black workcap on his head. From time to tors, who have grabbed up the problem of reconversion to civ­ groes’ most open and outspoken the Negro is doubly oppressed — adopted covering the termination figures of the extent which cut­ time his eyes strayed to the sleeping baby at his side, and an almost hugest profits jn history during enemy. as a worker and as a Negro — ilian production. This problem of w ir contracts. It provided backs w ill reduce employment in imperceptible smile hovered over the comers of bis mouth. th is w ar. and therefore he must put up a generous cash payments to war The mine worker wants to concerns the welfare of millions the “reconversion” period. Then suddenly a wail rose from the bundle. Black eyes were FALSE CLAIM special struggle for basic dem­ contractors. Another measure protect his wife and children of workers now directly or in­ In a speech made last Decem­ opened now, and a toothless little mouth gaped wide, petulant and Powell further stated in the ocratic rights which is not neces­ greased the way for the disposal against the ever-present tragedy directly engaged in war produc­ ber, Leo Cheme, executive secre­ imploring. The woman turned from the window, her face instantly House of Representatives on sary for the white worker. Down of billions-worth of government- tary of the Research Institute of of sudden death in a mine tender and solicitous. A brown and sinewy hand gently smoothed March 6 that Order 8802 (FEPC), with the government and civilian tion. They remember the flu rry owned land, productive equipment disaster. Who w ill then take care America, declared that one of the “ has been obeyed (now watch the Jim Crow that unjustly con­ of cutbacks and plant shut­ and plant capacity to Big Busi­ the coverlet, stroked the swarthy little forehead, ridged with com­ of his widow and orphans? Cer­ most “tantalizing” problems of wording) more or less in increas­ demns us to second-class citizen­ downs last summer following ness. The human side of recon­ the year, “ is the determination of plaining wrinkles. The infant howled more loudly, its cries filling ship! tainly not the operators. T9 them ing numbers in our war plants.” the forecasts made by high version was disposed of by the the extent of post V-E day cut­ the bus. By such weasel-worded phraseo­ a dead miner is nothing but a One thousand Seabees are forc­ ranking military officials of the George “states rights” bill which backs.” Estimates have ranged as Calmly, with no thought of false modesty, the woman fumbled logy he tries to substantiate the worn-out profit-making machine. ed to go on a hunger strike to impending collapse of Ger­ provided unemployment compen­ high as 75 percent, he said. The a moment with her clothing, bared a lean breast, and fed her child. lie that the FEPC has brought The proposed Union Welfare call attention to the rotten dis­ sation (as low as $2 a week in W ar Production Board, he added, The old worker at her side turned his head, embarassed and uncom­ Negroes equality in hiring and in Fund w ill prevent his grieved and many. crimination in upgrading practic­ some states) for workers “disem­ began with a “cautious” estimate upgrading in industry. A claim destitute family from being Workers were discharged by the fortable. A kid nearby grinned lewdly, and a young girl with ed against them. And Powell ployed” by war production cut­ of 32 percent in August, raised it as obviously false as this one thrown out on the streets. thousands. They were thrown onto heavily rouged lips and a small gold cross hanging about her neck says: Forget that ypu are a Ne­ backs. to 40 in September, and finally to needs no re b u tta l as fa r as N egro The mine worker often gets the streets with no provision made sniffed with shocked distaste. But of all this the woman saw gro! Four colored girls are sen­ 50 percent in November. factory workers are concerned. sick from overwork and the many for their welfare or security. The These measures constitute the nothing. Smilipg, soft-eyed she looked straight before her, exulting tenced to a year at hard labor “Toward the end of November The fact that this political con­ diseases that lurk in the un­ outstanding incident of that '‘reconversion” program of the by an Army court-martial fo;; a strange reversal in estimates in the flow of life from her to her little one. tortionist is no longer interested healthy pits. Lung diseases are period was the sudden shutdown Roosevelt administration as em­ having guts enough to refuse to took place. They went from 50 in liberating the Negro masses common and require a lengthy of the Brewster Aircraft plant bodied in legislative form. With perform the dirty work at Fort percent down to 32 percent, Then “ Such People W ill One Day Rule This W orld” but only in advancing his own cure. Thousands of miners are which became a national issue by these “relief” measures enacted, Devens, Mass, which was not re­ high Army procurement officials prestige among the ruling class maimed and crippled every year ; . virtue of the m ilitant demonstra­ the brass hats clamped down on The baby turned its head fr.om jts mother’s breast, a thin line quired of the white WACS. And unofficially let it be known that is further borne out by the type some of them are permanently tion ‘' staged by the Brewster all further reconversion “plan­ of white milk running from its mouth to its chin. The woman Powell says: Forget that you the cutback would be less than 25 of “ fight” he is advocating in his disabled. With their wages cut w orkers. ning.” As part of their "psy­ tenderly wiped the dark little face, and the baby went back to sleep.' are a Negro! He who says to percent, and a lew days later a public speeches. off, who will provide food and Under pressure of the workers, chological warfare” they broad- Sitting there in the bus, I thought of that other woman I had the black people “ Forget that you m edical care? W ho w ill see th a t -rir------:------15 percent figure made its ap­ The M arch 17 issue o f his own seen the day before, jaded, bored with life, weak, and altogether are a Negro,” has already forgot­ his family does not suffer cold, pearance.” On the basis of a con- paper, People’s Voice (right un­ foolish, a creature with no reason for existence. And my mind ten that he is their elected hunger and distress? Certainly servative estimate, Cherne ad­ der the corner you can clip out spokesman. not the minle owners, for an in­ vised his business audience, the contrasted her With this woman who sat two seats ahead of me a coupon and send for a pin-up capacitated miner can no longer “wisest” policy would be to bank riding out to her home in the steel m ill district. picture) carries a report of his Instead of diluting or disband­ turn out profits. The Union Wel­ on the 35 to 45 percent estimate. And I thought, this is the kind of woman you find in the work­ recent address in Detroit where ing the NAACP, Mr. Powell, we fare Fund will not only give the Buy ‘The Militant’ Here: The magazine Business Week ing class. This strength, this hardness, this intractibility toward he condemned Negro “national­ need to build it bigger and miners at least a measure of openly scoffs at the figure- ism.” “The National Association AKRON NEWARK all things hostile, this fierceness toward all enemies and this stronger. We also need to trans­ security now but w ill give him aid juggling of the brass hats. “The for the Advancement of Colored Downtown — Newsstand at tenderness toward her Own, this is part and parcel of the woman fer its strategy into the stream in the days of unemployment News Exchange, 51 S. M ain Army and Navy, after carefully People,” said Powell, “should of militant mass action along 11 S p rin g fie ld A ve. who has tasted toil and hardship, poverty and tragedy. This is a ahead. ‘Militant’ Bookshop, 6 Ever- nursipg the phony theory that now change its name to the Na­ with the progressive labor move­ ett Bldg, Rm 405. Progressive W o r k e r s ’ one war will be as big as two, woman to give strength to her man and comfort in his struggles. The miners are not demanding tional Association for the Ad­ ment so that we can force the School, 423 S pringfield. won’t backtrack right away,” it Such people as these will one day rule the world. something for nothing. Only the vancement of Common People.” Big Business government to BUFFALO cynically observes. The magazine bosses demand and get something We certainly have nothing grant our democratic demands. SE corner Main & Mohawk N E W YO R K conclud&s that “cutbacks will for nothing. They get millions of Manhattan: 14th St. between reach or exceed 35% inside a year dollars worth of profits every CAMPBELL, O. 2nd Avenue and Sixth Ave. after victory in Europe.” year, wrung out of the sweat and Eidelman’s Newsstand, W il- Newsstands on 42nd St. be- These advisers of corporation 10 Years Ago blood of the mine workers. The Pioneer Paragraphs executives and business men miners have every right to protect son Ave. near Sheet and tween 5th and 6th Aves;; aren’t fooled by the propaganda themselves and to ¡make sure that Tube Employment Office. 116 U n iv e rs ity Place. of the brass hats. Big Business is their families are protected in FOOD SHORTAGE MADE WORSE PHILADELPHIA preparing for “reconversion” on case of illness, disaster or death. CHICAGO In The M ilitant the basis of realistic estimates Ih reality this demand of the Ceshinsky’s Book Store, Germantown and Lehigh and inside information received miner» is far too modest and in­ 2750 W. Division Aves., N.W. corner 13th St. BY RUTHLESS PROFITEERING from their agents who occupy key MARCH 30, 1935 adequate to meet the needs of half Socialist Workers Bookshop, and Market St. The food shortage, we are told The present system of price positions in all government NEW YORK—Warning American workers of impending war as a million underpaid and over­ Room 317, 160 N . W ells. Labor Forum, 405 West by the capitalists, their newspa­ ceilings works to cut the supply procurement and planning agen­ imperialist rivalries sharpened, The M ilitant declared in a front­ pers and their politicians, is of food available to the workers, worked men with families to care G irard. DETROIT cies. page editorial that “The imperialist niters . . . are plunging caused by the war. This is true to assure the wealthy plenty of for. The demand for their own Family Theatre Newsstand, READING headlong into a new world war, dragging the masses of the — to a certain extent. But it is food, and to enrich the food man­ Welfare Fund is good. But the DECEIVE WORKERS opposite theater not the whole truth, and a part ufacturers, wholesalers, and re­ miners will never gain real Herman’s Newsstand, 131 It is only the laboring masses working people along with them as cannon fodder. “ M ilitant” Bookshop, truth is the worst kind of lie. ta ile rs. security until they have thrown Buttonwood St. who are being lulled into a false “How it will start is really a matter of little moment. . . the parasitic mine owners off 3513 Woodward - Room 21. The truth is that the shortage Price ceilings were set on near­ Paddy’s Smoke Shop, 201 sense of security by the doctored The fact that Hitler asks re-armament rights in the name of their hacks once and for all. They statistics of the administration of food available for workers is ly all foods, as well as other LOS ANGELES Franklin St. a ‘Holy War’ against Bolshevism . . . that he really wants to can achieve this only by putting spokesmen. The corporations are being deliberately mad? worse by item s, on M ay 15 and Oct. 5, 1942. Downtown: NE corner 5th begin Germany’s imperialist re-expansiion by exterminating an end to private ownership and SAN DIEGO, CAL. protected against losses incurred certain capitalists in order to get Each store has its own ceiling on and Main; 326 W. 5 St.; Con­ the Workers’ State—does not mean that (the war) would end profiteering through the national­ 242 Broadway by shutting down for recon­ extra profits. every item sold. The ceilings are solidated Bldg. 6th and H ill; th a t way. ization of the mines and their version. The tax laws guarantee Profits, not the needs of the different for different stores. M odern Book Shop 232 So. operation under workers’ control. SAN FRANCISCO their profits even if they fail to “The conflicts in the camp of the imperialists make a war masses, determine the allocation H ill, Room 200. Generally the stores in the sec­ Fitzgerald News Agency, produce a single commodity. The among themselves inevitable. . . American imperialism has in­ of food. The food capitalists sell tions of town where the rich live Tesskrs’ Newsstand, 335% the food at the highest 21-4th St.; Duncan’s News- legislation on contract termina­ terests in Europe and Asia far too vital to its preservation and charged higher prices during the S. H ill S t.; 837 S. H ill, Cor. stand, 1986 S u tte r S t.; R ay’s tions and surplus disposal safe­ expansion for it to allow them to be affected without America’s prices they can get. The wealthy base periods than were charged 5th and S p rin g Sts,; 128 W . Smoke Shop, 1174 S u tte r S t.; guards their property interests. active and direct intervention.” can pay higher prices than the in the stores which sell to work 3d St. MacDonald’s Book Store, 867 They are well-cushioned against workers, thus get the food they ers. The manufacturer and whole­ TOLEDO—Seething with discontent under near-starvation wages need. Only what is left, if any, Boyle Hgt.: corner Wabash Mission St.; Golden Gate the “ ‘shock of reconversion.” saler can make more profits by and widespread unemployment, the American workers were en­ & Evergreen; 2210% Bklyn News Agency, 81 - 3rd St.; The workers, on the other hand, reaches the workers. selling to the higher price stores gaged in copstant strike actions. In Toledo, five strikes were Ave. have nothing to fend off these than by selling to stores patron­ San Francisco School of So- in progress. M ilk drivers, Federal Emergency Relief Workers, Hollywood: Stands' at Holly- shocks but Roosevelt’s vague and ized by workers. Therefore, the cial Science, 305 W. Grant. metal workers, and grocery employes simultaneously fought Wood and Cahuenga, H o lly ­ unrealizable promise of 60 million stores in the wealthier sections for better conditions. wood and Los Palmos, Hoi- S A N PEDRO jobs some time in the indefinite and the luxurious eating places future. And to tide them over the First to be settled was the milk drivers’ strike, with an get as much food as they need lywood & N. Highland. Johnson’s Pool Hall, “reconversion” period, they will agreement on March 25 providing wage-increases of 14 to 24 with only the leavings to trickle Southwest: corner Robert- 531 Beacon S t.; LaRue have only meager unemployment down to the workers. son & Pico Blvds. Pharmacy, 1 3 0 9 Pacific percent for lower paid men. Increases in other categories were doles as low as $2 a week in some South Gate: South side Book S t.; A bram s Pharm acy, 1002 to be determined by further negotiations. This is true from one corner states. of the country to the other. In Shop, 8026 Seville Ave. S. G affey. San Francisco, the conservative MINNEAPOLIS SEATTLE Butchers’ Union of the three La bo r Book Store, 10 S. 4 St. West Coast states met on Jan. 10, Eckert’s, corner Washington Twin Cities 1943, to discuss the acute meat Shinder’s News Agency St. and 1st Ave.; Bishop’s situation. At this meeting the Hennepin Ave. and 6th St. D ru g Store, 607 Jackson St.; Fascism and Big Business delegate from Southern Califor­ Pioneer News Agency, Raymer’s Book Store, 905- Forum nia “accused these packers 238 2nd Ave., South; Hap- 3rd Ave; Pool Room, 500 By DANIEL GUERIN EVERY SUNDAY (Swift, Cudahy, Armour and W il­ py’s Stand, 8th St. and Nic- Main St.; Liberty News, 3rd son, the largest meat packers in ollet. and Pike. 3:30 P. M. An analysis of Fascism — its strategy and development — the nation) of ignoring retail essential to an understanding of Italy today. butchers and selling their produce Cosl-Plus. Magic MILWAUKEE TOLEDO Minneapolis Headquarters Branch’s Sports Center, 908 to the hotels and restaurants who Congressman W o o d r u ff, N.W. corner, Wisconsin Ave. 336 Pages L is t price $1.00 are willing to buy meat at any quoting figures supplied by the on Third St. Washington St. Socialist Workers Party Main Drug Store, Michigan Special sale price .75 price.” (San Francisco Chronicle, U. S. Comptroller General, dis­ ; Militant Bookshop, 926 10 South 4th S treet Jan. 11, 1943). closed that the shipbuilding Plankington Ave., Rm. 21. St. and Madison Aye. Come and Hear (From “Your Standard of liv­ capitalist, Henry Kaiser, had Order from 48 pages, paper .15 N E W H A V E N YOUNGSTOWN ing — What’s Happening to It” ) realized a profit “after rene­ Nodelman’s News Depot, Terrace Confectionary, by C. Charles, pp. 18-19. Pioneer gotiation” of $27,274,487.24 ow PIONEER PUBLISHERS Pioneer Publishers 106 Church St. ‘‘The News Behind the Publishers, 1943, 32 pp., 5 cents. an original investment of 1947 Jacobs Road 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE 116 University Place New York 3, N. Y. Order from Pioneer Publishers, $100,000. These figures cov­ Headlines’ ’ N E W Y O R K 3, N . Y , 116 U n iv e rs ity Place, N ew Y o rk ered only two of the Kaiser 3, N . Y .). shipyards. SIX THE MILITANT SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1945

Kremlin is working hand in hand with the Anglo- The Same Old Racket American imperialists to strangle the European revolution and to drown it in blood. Red Army Latest Report On Social THE MILITANT troops in non-Soviet territories (Rumania, Bul­ garia, Poland, East Prussia, and elsewhere) are to­ Published in the interests of the day being used as the police and guardians of Season at Palm Beach Working People capitalist property and capitalist rule. Dear Cynthia: V ol. IX — No. 13 S aturday, M arch 31, 1945 Reviewing the Russian question in the light of My dear, I’m simply heart-broken about leaving Published Weekly by this new situation, the November 1944 Convention •Palm Beach so early. Here I am practically chained THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASS’* of the Socialist Workers Party adopted the change in New York with this dreadful curfew—when I could a t 116 U n iv e rs ity Place, N ew Y o rk 3, N . Y . in tactics indicated by the change in the citations. have remaine'd in Palm Beach where everything— Telephone: ALgonquin 4-8M7 Whereas in the preceding period we correctly sub­ simply everything—is beginning to happen. I’m so FARRELL DOBBS. Editor ordinated the struggle for the overthrow of the upset— I mean I could tear up my last two dozen black Stalinist regime to the needs of m ilitary defense, market nylons—but simply to shreds! THE MILITANT follows the policy of permit­ it is now imperative to subordinate everything I just wanted to die when I read the society coluYnn ting its contributors to present their own views in the New York World-Telegram this afternoon. else to the defense of the advancing European in signed articles. These views therefore do not Imagine how I felt when I read: “PALM BEACH, necessarily represent the policies of THE M ILI­ revolution. March 20— After weeks of grousing about the lack of TANT which are expressed in its editorials. Genuine defense of the USSR today demands glamour on the Gold Coast this season the frothier the overthrow of the profit system which breeds Subscriptions: $1.00 per year; 50c for 6 months. element in Palm Beach has finally hit its social Foreign: $2.00 per year, $1.00 for 6 months. wars, insecurity and fascism. It requires implac­ stride. This week has witnessed a revival of the Bundle orders: 3 cents per copy in the United able struggle against all the forces upholding cap­ robust entertaining that delighted, the glitter set this States; 4 cents per copy in all foreign countries. italism, including Stalin’s Bonapartist gang. year. Once again the pick-me-up has become the Single copies: 5 cents. standing morning drink, and bronzed Mayfair mara­ thoners are shuttling from one party to another from “ E ntered as second class m a tte r M arch 7, 1944 dawn to dawn.” at the post office at New York, N. Y., under And it has the most delicious bit about “parties the A ct o f M arch 3. 1879.” Forced Labor Drive that are planned for a handful wind up with The approaching, climax of the war in Europe hundreds.” It seems the junior Arthur Pearsons had a delightful cocktail party and “guests were amused has led Roosevelt and his brass hats to intensify to read in the local paper the following day that Only the ‘world revo­ their drive to enact a forced labor law. Under ad­ they had entertained for 40. Actually there were at lution can save the ministration pressure, an “ unexpected” agreement least 400 who enjoyed the buffet, a strolling band USSR for socialism. But was reached by a Congress conference committee and dancing under the stars until a late hour.” But of considering labor draft legislation adopted by the course, they couldn’t report 400—with so much talk the world revolution 1 louse and Senate. Preparations have been made about ration points these days! carries with it the ines­ to rush the measure through Congress before the And I simply admire their fortitude. What wonders capable blotting out of m ilitary collapse of Germany. Members of Con­ they seem to accomplish with the servant problem as gress who had left on a scheduled Easter recess it is. Think of the awful types one is forced to do the Krem lin oligarchy. with. The column reports that “one of the extra were called back to begin immediate consideration — Leon Trotsky butlers called in to aid with .the party and obviously of the committee proposal. anxious for the affair to come to a conclusion handed W hy are the forced labor advocates so insistent a guest a drink with the remark: ‘This party is so on pushing through a forced labor law now? The typically American, really! People never know when magazine, Business Week, discloses that; “ The to go home’.” Such fam iliarity! But—e’est la guerre! JOIN US IN FIGHTING FOR: main purpose for which the Arm y wants a na­ And here I am, practically imprisoned in New York and another one of those coal strikes on the way. 1. Military training of workers, financed tional service law is to give it a firm hold on work­ ers after Germany goes under.” The military One would think those dreadful miners would have jy the government, but imder control agents of Big Business want this weapon to curb more consideration when we’re all sacrificing so much! Though, of course, we use only oil. of the trade unions. Special officers’ the resistance of the workers to the wage-slashing, training camps, financed by the gov­ union-busting “ reconversion” plans of Wall Street. I be columns are open to toe op inions oj the readers of 1 he Militant. Letters are welcome on any subject of interest to the workers, but keep them short and include your ernment but controlled by the trade It is designed to prevent the workers from re­ gaining their independence of action, to break name and address. Indicate if you do not want your name printed. Editor. Nazis Protected Profits of unions, to train workers to become strikes, and to victimize militants. “Sick of Lies“ So long as I am able I am going oifo Saturday night a week officers. The drive for additional measures of labor re­ to fight against this damnable watching the place. A ll this while E d ito r: his body was becoming paralyzed Harvester Corporation pression to be applied A FTER Germany is de­ system. 2. Trade union wages for all workers I would like to have 100 copies Wishing success for The M ili­ from his feet up. He was given feated completely exposes the fraud of “ peace, se­ of The M ilita n t o f M arch 10, tant and the movement, I am no medical care. American corporations with large holdings in drafted into the army. curity and jobs-for-all” in the “ post-war” period. 1945, or even m ore tha n 100 if yours for socialism. He had the second accident in European countries were considerably cheered up last 3. Full equality for Negroes in the armed If capitalism could guarantee a decent standard you have them. I want to mail Robert H. Miller August or September (it’s in the week by the report of the good care taken by the record at the State Building in them out to my friends. I myself Carbon, Ind. Nazis and their collaborators of the French factories of living for the masses on the basis of “ peace­ Buffalo). They gave him $85 forces and the war industries— Down am so sick of reading lies in our and branch houses of the International Harvester time” production, it would have no need of P. S. Enclosed is one dollar. compensation (to cover two daily papers and I believe my Company. with Jim Crowism everywhere. strengthening its machinery of repression. On the Would have renewed my sub months) for the first accident. friends are too. t After a four-month’s inspection of the company’s 4. Confiscation of all war profits. Expro­ contrary, it cannot maintain even the present low The March 10 issue has on page sooner had I had the money. Am The second accident injured his an old age pensioner. head, as he fell forward while French plants, A. Maxwell Rode, ■director-general of priation of all war industries and their standard of living but must drive it still lower. six your editorial “ U. S. Role in Greece.” I want my friends to (Ed. NOTE: We deeply ap­ trying to draw gasoline. its European operations, reported that IHC’s directors This end cannot be attained by “peaceful” or I see in the records th a t a la w ­ operation under workers’ control. read that, and some crazy news preciate the work you are doing were “needlessly pessimistic” in writing off their "voluntary” methods. dealers I know. I want them to and the .sacrifices you are making yer was drawing $20 per week foreign investments in 1941-42. from somewhere pretending to re­ 5. A rising scale of wages to meet the read it too. for the movement. Selling sub­ The Nazis who treated the workers so brutally scriptions is a very important present me, while in reality he R. O. Z. observed great “correctness” toward their American rising cost of living. part of our fight for socialism. was a Company lawyer. St. Louis, Mo. capitalist class brothers. IHC’s French subsidiaries 6. Workers Defense Guards against vigil­ The Militant educates and re­ There were so m any queer Churchill's Speech cruits new workers to help re­ things happening all these years. were placed under French management prior to the ante and fascist attacks. His Toughest Fights place the veterans. Comrade For instance, a Mrs. Ward Pierre arrival of the Nazis. The French management was 7. An Independent Labor Party based on With victory over Germany almost in their M iller’s devotion certainly serves absconded with thousands of dol­ very punctilious in conforming to Nazi regulations. grasp, Churchill and Roosevelt now feel free to With Union Haters as an inspiration to the younger lars of the State’s money which Thus, not only were the properties left intact and she obtained for representing the Trade Unions. drop their fine phrases about the “ Four Freedoms,” E d ito r: comrades). ready for operation when the Nazis departed, but the clients. company did business as usual under a Nazi trustee. 8. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern­ "the protection of small nations,” “the rights of A union machinist who is a veteran of seven major battles re­ A banker called and told Mr. “Tlie Germans set prices at levels designed to provide Wood that he had loft the sum of m ent. the common man.” They needed these deceitful cently gave his answer to the Tells the Story a normal rate of profit. The company was able to promises in the early years of World War II to anti-union propaganda that brass $13.30 a t a bank where he had 9. The defense of the Soviet Union Of Her Husband kept funds at one time. (I think pay dividends on cumulative preferred shares. . . This win the support of the masses for the imperialist hats are trying to spread in the E d ito r: they wanted to give him a differ­ cash piled up bo the company’s credit in French banks, army. In an interview with the against imperialist attack. war. Now, however, they must bare their fangs where it remains.” (Business Week, March 24). Detroit News oh March 12, Sgt. This is the story of my hus­ ent personality). I jfound later of reaction to the workers who let themselves hope Caesar Garcia, home on furlough band. I hope you can print it. that the check was to someone else with the same name as my that the end of the war in Europe would bring after two and a half years over I t was on October 10, 1930, husband but living at a different some slight return on all the lavish promises made seas, said that his toughest fights when Mr. Wood fell from the top of a Mobile Oil truck he was re­ address. I have been told that Manufacturers Association Role O f Stalinism by the Allied leaders in the “ Atlantic Charter” had been not with the Germans, but with “ill-informed union ha­ pairing at the Connecticut St. they switched our case to some­ With this issue of The M ilita n t we are replacing one else. period. ters in the army.” garage. It happened at two a citation from Leon Trotsky stressing the defense Can the returning British soldiers expect fin ­ He defended wartime strikes, o’clock in the morning. He ac­ Mr. Wood, my husband, lived Blasts at Price Controls of the USSR against imperialist attack with an­ ancial help from a "grateful” government in order saying that he and “about 18 coal quired several broken ribs — a eight years with a broken back, miners from West Virginia and crushed pelvis — and a definite with no medical care and no The National Association of Manufacturers, organ­ other emphasizing that only through the world to re-establish themselves in civilian life? Prime compensation. Mr. Wood died Pennsylvania” had an argument gpinal injury. They sent him to ization of open-shop war profiteers, has joined the revolution and (he overthrow of the Kremlin o li­ Minister Churchill answered this question in the the Millard Fillmore Hospital and Oct. 5, 1938 a t General H o spita l. on their hands “every time news big- business offensive against price controls with all sent him home in three days. This is my story. garchy by the workers can the Soviet Union be negative at the annual conference of his Conserva­ of a strike reached our group.” guns blazing. The current issue of NAM News shouts As one of the workers at the Ford His employer called for him to Mrs. W. H. Wood saved for socialism. tive Party held on March 15. "It would be very the battle-cry of the corporation lobbyists who re­ M otor Company d u rin g the 1937 come back to work. He was in Buffalo, N. Y. This change of citations flows from the changes easy,” he said, “ for us all to promise. presents, cently stormed the Senate price control bill hearings Rouge Plant “Battle of the Over­ a maniacal state and tried to kill which have occurred both in relationship of for­ bonuses and gratuities in the most enthusiastic pass,” he knows what strikes himself. They gave him work and howled that the OPA’s feeble price restrictions ces on the m ilitary arena and in the European manner,” but he went on to warn his fellow Con­ mean. Security Council and are “ruining” them despite the greatest profits in situation. When the Soviet Union was invaded by servatives against trying to win support “ by Garcia said “It’s pretty hard League of Nation their history. Hitler, we Trotskyists made paramount the task of promising what we cannot perform.” trying to explain strikes in war With the approaching end of the war with Ger­ time to a bunch of cowboys and E d ito r: safeguarding against imperialist assault the na­ Do the members of the British Labor Party ex­ many, the manufacturers are anxious to shatter all farmers, and some of the strikes QUESTION BOX There are two important things price controls on civilian goods. They want their tionalized property and planned economy—con­ pect some social gains for the English workers in that I think The M ilitant should I couldn’t justify myself.” (Prob­ record war profits to continue into the “post-war” ably because the only information carry articles on. First, the so- quests of the October Revolution which constituted partial return for their bitter sacrifices during five era—and that means unrestricted price inflation on he had about them were the lying Q: Who was the first labor called security council that is the foundations of the Soviet state. We never for and a half years of total warfare? England’s Prime consumers goods. and inadequate reports in the member of Congress? scheduled to meet in Frisco soon a moment renounced our irreconcilable opposition Tory took care to disillusion them. “ A t the head capitalist and army-edited press). A: Ely Moore, elected to Con­ needs an analysis and discussion. Thus, the NAM News declares: “Manufacturing to the Stalinist bureaucracy whose reactionary poli­ of our mainmast, we fly the flag of free enter­ “But I started to work in fac­ gress by the Workingmen’s Par-' I believe it is necessary to point judgment seems practically unanimous in believing cies menaced and undermined these precious con­ prise,” said this exponent of the capitalist system tories when I was 17 years old. ty o f New Y o rk in 1834. out the similarity between the 'that the application of current OPA pricing policies quests'of the world working class. As soon as the of wealth for the few and grinding poverty for And I remember the speeches * * * presently proposed deal and the to civilian goods in the reconversion period would made by foremen who threatened defunct League of Nations, show­ external threat to the USSR was eliminated, we the many. Q: What was “Coxey’s Arm y?” constitute a great obstacle to production and jobs.” to fire us if we joined a union. I A: It was an army of unem­ ing how the capitalist contradic­ What- this means, translated from NAM' double- stated at that time, the revolutionary vanguard Lashing out at "our Socialist friends” and their remembered a lot of things that tions prevent us from having any ployed workers which in the de­ talk, is that the manufacturers are unanimous in helped me w in .some o f m y a r­ protracted period of peace, and would be obliged to push to the fore the struggle “program for nationalizing all the meins of pro­ pression o f 1894 m arched fro m believing that any curbs on their price-gouging would gum ents.” proving that the only road to for the revolutionary removal of the Stalinist duction, distribution and exchange,” he delighted Massilon, Ohio to Washington, constitute a “great obstacle” to their unlimited A. C. D. C. to demand federal relief. In world peace is the socialist pro­ ruling caste. his Conservative Party colleagues with the asser­ profiteering—and to hell with jobs and production! D e tro it Washington Coxey and many gram and method. The sponsors That is precisely the situation which prevails at tion that this would im ply “ not only the destruc­ Specifically, the NAM proposes that “Congress other leaders of the demonstra­ of the present set-up are basing this stage of the war. Instead of the Nazi armies tion of life of the whole of our existing system 'of tion were arrested — on charges themselves on the real mass de­ should declare now that when the war ends on one beseiging Moscow, the Red Arm y now stands be­ society and life and labor but the creation and en­ in the Fight- of “ w a lk in g on the. grass o f the sire for peace and security and major front, the pricing policy should permit the are perpetrating a gigantic hoax fore Berlin. But although the attack of German forcement of another system or systems borrowed For 45 Years Capitol lawns” — and the march­ making of a fair profit on each individual item ers dispersed. on the people who are sick and produced; and that in the meantime OPA should be imperialism has been beaten off, this purely m ili­ from foreign lands and alien minds.” E d ito r: tired of capitalist wars. * * * getting ready to put the new policy into effect when tary victory by no means ensures the definitive But the outstanding example of Churchill’s con­ Some months ago I requested Second, I w ould lik e to see an Q: How many industrial acci­ only one major war front remains.” salvation of the USSR, as the Kremlin would have temptuous cynicism toward the “ Atlantic Charter” that 12 subscription cards be sent occasional ai'ticle on the workers dents are there annually in the in the army and those already The NAM not only wants the government to the workers believe. promises came in his March 15 speech in the House to me. I received them but as I have been confined to the house United States? discharged. Something to prod guarantee tremendous over-all profits- for every As Leon Trotsky explained time and again, the of Commons. Replying to a question from a Labor- ever since, I have been able to A : F igures fo r 1944 are not the unions into a close relation capitalist, but to ensure a “fa ir”—meaning unlimited preservation of the conquests made by the world ite member of the House, Churchill characterized dispose of but two of them for yet available, but the rate has with them. I think that if the —profit on each single item produced. They want which I remit 50 cents, ,and 50 risen steadily during the war due unions do not do something in this protection both coming and going. working class in the Soviet Union depend upon any program for protecting small nations from ag­ to speed-ups, fatigue, and faulty cents for the renewal of my field, many veterans w ill be swept The manufacturers insist that labor give up its the extension of the anti-capitalist revolution be­ gression as a “ hopeless ideal.” Under the “ realistic” equipm ent. In 1943 there were up both by the old and new vet­ subscription. right to strike “for the duration”—and after. But they yond the boundaries of the present Soviet Union. Yalta agreement, he remarked, there w ill be a 2,414,000 workers disabled by in­ erans organizations who will ex­ I write a letter for the Terre want no restrictions whatsoever placed upon their Penned up within the USSR under the domination "differentiation between the treatment of the great­ Haute Advocate each week and juries suffered at their jobs. ploit their desires for a break * * * capitalist “right” to bleed consumers white. These of the Stalinist bureaucracy these conquests are est powers in these matters and of the smallest mail the clippings to other papers. into reactionary channels. I have Q: What are the current pro­ heard men in the army express dollar-patriots aren’t waiting until “after the last directly threatened with decay and destruction. powers.” Am enclosing a few. On account of my age, 71, I am fits of the meat packers, who are the idea that after the war the bullet is fired” before smashing all price controls. The continued rule of the Kremlin oligarchy en­ A return to pre-war poverty and unemployment unable to work for the cause ex­ trying to get prices raised again? veterans should “run the coun­ tails direct encroachments upon the nationalized under the decaying capitalist system, the rule of cept by my pen. I have been in A: Meat packers are making try” and they plan to organize READ economy and thus facilitates the restoration of •the many by the few and the tyranny of the pow­ the fight for 45 years. I have about seven times their pre-war servicemen by themselves and profits. Last year the eight ma­ not with any “ civilian” organiza­ capitalist property forms. erful over the weak— by Churchill’s own admis­ been active, not always in the sticks; Pittsburgh, Chicago, and jor packing firms had a net profit tions. 'THE FOURTH W hile shielding and stimulating the tendencies sions, these arc the rightful results of this terrible 25 years in Terre Haute where of $153,193,000, as against the M . A. toward capitalist restoration within the USSR, the war. I am or used to be well known. 1935-36 average of $22,382,000. New Orleans, La. !NTERNATIONAL/