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VOL. IX—No. 2 NEW YORK, N. Y„ SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1943' 267 PRICE: FIVE CENTS Labor Leaders Roosevelt Demands Slave Labor Will Speak A t Bill In First Congress Message Meeting For 12 © ' Congress Hoists Its Flag The C ivil Rights Defense Corhmittee this week announced First Act of New a list of distinguished labor and civil liberties leaders who will Calls For Immediate Action participate in the New York ‘‘Welcome Home” Mass Meeting for James P. Cannon, Albert Goldman, Farrell Dobbs and Felix Congress Revives Morrow, 4 of the 12 imprisoned Trotskyists who. are being re On Forced Labor Measures leased from federal prison on January 24. The meeting will be Dies Committee held at the Hotel Diplomat, 108 W. 43rd Street, on February Political Agents of Big Business Combine 2, 8 P. M. ®------By R. B e ll To Enslave Workers and Paralyze Unions Included among the speakers CRDC Fund Drive The members of the new Con who will greet the Minneapolis gress had hardly warmed their Labor Case prisoners are Osmond Goes Over Top By C. Thomas K. Fraenkel, Counsel for the seats when a coalition of Roose NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 8— American Civil Liberties Union; velt Democrats and Dewey Re-' Following on the heels of a national campaign A total of $5,500 was con James T. Farrell, noted novelist publicans led by poll-tax Ran tributed in the $5,000 Christ to whip up sentiment for labor conscription, Roose and CRDC National Chairman; kin of Mississippi, anti-semite, mas Fund Campaign to aid Benjamin S. McLaurin, Interna labor-hater and Negro lynch velt submitted his annual message to the new Con the .Minneapolis Labor Case tional Field Organizer, Brother prisoners and their families, inciter, pushed through an gress demanding immediate enactment of forced la hood of Sleeping Car Porters, the Civil Rights Defense Com amendment setting up a perma AFL; Benjamin A. Gebiner, As bor legislation. Roosevelt’s lengthy message can be mittee National Office an nent Committee on Un-Ameri sistant General Secretary of the nounced today. can Activities, more commonly boiled down to the following specific proposals: (1) Workmen’s Circle; Henry Fruch- George Novack, CRDC Na known as the Dies Committee. ter, Educational Director, CIO a National Service Act to be adopted ‘at the earliest tional Secretary, expressed the United Retail, Wholesale and By establishing the hated'Dies deep appreciation of his or Department Store Employes; Committee as a permanent in possible moment;’ (2) immediate legislation pro ganization and of the im George Novack, CRDC National stitution in its first official ac prisoned labor leaders for the viding for the conscription of those now classified as Secretary, w ill chair the meeting. tion, the new Congress served generous response from the notice of its aim to surpass the 4-F (3) universal peacetime military training for A big turn-out is anticipated many working class organiza viciously anti-labor record of to pay honor to the Socialist tions and the local CRDC com American youth; and (4) amendment of the Selec Workers Party and Minneapolis its predecessor. mittees which helped put the tive Services Act ‘to pro • > - T ru c k d riv e rs Local 544 - CIO fund campaign over the top. In its six years of existence the his usual deceitful window-dress leaders who were railroaded to Dies Committee had become a vide for the induction of ing. A year ago, when he first prison by the Roosevelt ad symbol of prejudice, bigotry and proposed a forced labor law, Roos ministration because of their reaction. Under the pretext of nurses into the armed evelt made it part of a “5-poijit m ilitant defense of labor’s rights New York Local investigating “un-American" ac forces.’ program.” The “program” called and socialist opposition to the tivities it had engaged in unre for laws to take “undue profits imperialist war. lenting attacks upon organized These four measures were the out of war*” to place a ceiling only concrete legislative propos OTHER MEETINGS Phone Operators labor. Individuals in all walks over food costs, and to re-enact of life who held opinions consid als made by Roosevelt. In es the “stabilization” statutes. This meeting will be the first ered tainted by “liberalism” be sence they embody the domestic “ These five measures taken to opportunity for New York work Vote to Strike came the objects of smear cam program of the fourth term ad gether,” declared Roosevelt, ers to hear James P. Cannon, NEW YORK CITY — By an paigns. Organized witch-hunts ministration. These measures “ form a just and equitable whole, SWP National Secretary, Albert overwhelming majority of 9,600 were conducted against those are intended to supplement Roos I would not recommend a nation Goldman, defense attorney in the against 250, the members of the whose ideas didn’t conform with evelt’s job-freeze decrees, to place al Service law unless -the other Minneapolis trial, Farrell Dobbs, Traffic Employes Association of the violent prejudices of Martin practically the whole working laws were passed to keep down Editor of The Militant, and Felix the New' York Telephone Com Dies and his cohorts. So hated population under the control of the cost of living, to share equi Morrow, Editor of the Fourth pany, an independent union, last and discredited did the Commit a m ilitary caste, to Prussianize tably the burdens of taxation, to International, since they were week voted in favor of a strike tee on Un-American Activities be American life, and to straitjaoket hold the stabilization line and to forced behind prison bars on for a $5 weekly pay increase. The come that three, of the,.more rabid the labor movement. prevent undue profits.” iN«w-Year'»-Eve a year ago. vote was takeir in-a'-2-73tty--NDRB, WALL STREET PLAN Ih view of What has occurred A Minneapolis mass meeting poll. defeated in the last election and The plan to conscript labor the 5-point program sounds like on Jan ua ry 27 w ill gre e t the This is the second union of tele Martin Dies himself did net dare for work in private industry was a hideous jest. War profits have other released prisoners, Grace phone operators in the New York run for reelection. conceived in Wall Street. It was soared to the highest olevels in Carlson, Vincent Dunne, Max area which has voted to strike in originated by Grenville Clark, a history. An increasing load of Geldman, Carlos Hudson, Emil the past two weeks because of SLAP AT LABOR notorious Wall Street lawyer. It taxes has been burdened on those Hansen, Carl Skoglund, Oscar disgust over the long delay of- the The CIO Political Action Com was embraced by Roosevelt and least able to ' pay while the cor Coover and Jake Cooper. Albert WLB in granting their wage mittee made the Dies Commit is being spearheaded by his brass porations have accumulated bil Goldman w ill address a Chicago demands. Over 3,000 members of tee a major issue in the last hats. It was kept hidden during lions in tax reserves and refunds. mass meeting on January 25, at the Federation of Long Line election campaign. The liberals Greek Premier Follows Allied the recent election campaign to The cost of living has continued the Ashland Auditorium, Ashland Telephone Operators had previ and labor “statesmen” loudly pro enable the treacherous labor bur to rise, due largely to skyrocket ¡Blvd and Van Buren St., at 8 ously voted for strike action. claimed the electoral defeat of eaucrats to deceive the workers. ing food prices. The only point of P. M. The strike w ill not begin until Dies and his henchmen as a death It is advanced now at a “psycho Roosevelt’s “program” that has These mass meetings will be after the 30 day "cooling-off” blow to reaction. James B. Carey, Policy Of Counter-Revolution logical” moment when rumors of been rigidly enforced is the wage held not only to honor the period imposed under the Smith- Secretary-Treasurer of the CIO. tremendous casualties are caus freezing Little Steel formula. released Trotskyist fighters for Connally Anti-Strike Act. This declared: “ I t w ill be a better By Joseph Hansen heavy artillery proceeded against ing great foreboding. “THE GREAT LIBERAL” workers’ rights, but to rally labor also requires another vote at the Congress without Dies, Starnes, The dance of puppets in the counter-revolutionary govern the partisan?. According to latest and progressive forces for the end of the 30 day delay. Both Costello, Dewey, Busby and Ham Those solely and directly re In his latest proposal for labor reports, the ELAS has now been next steps in the campaign to unions are expected to coordinate ilton Fish.” The CIO News boast ment which British imperialism is trying to impose on Greece sponsible for the recent military conscription Roosevelt failed to forced to withdraw from Athens. reverses are attempting to fan repeal the infamous Smith “Gag” their walkouts, which threaten to ed jhat “labor’s contribution to continued this week with the spotlight shifting from the new re utter “a mumbling word” about The civil war is affecting the Act under which the Trotskyists tie up the hub of the nation’s ward the re-election of President gent, black-robed Archbishop Damaskinos, to his first premier, this alarm into an emotional his abortive 5-point program or were the first labor victims. communications. Roosevelt and the election of a the be-mcdaled General Plastiras. This tubercular general was blaze against the labor move of his equally defunct 7-point more progressive Congress” had whisked by the British from his wheel chair on the French R i (Continued on page 3) ment. They have whipped up an “stabilization” program. Nor did won “national recognition.” The viera several weeks ago and flown to Athens to replace puppet hystaaa under cover of which Big he bother to sugar-coat the bitter time-servers and pie-cards who Business aims to enslave the Papandreou. slave labor pill. He bluntly packed the recent CIO convention workers by chaining them to their demanded a national service law B ritiá h ba ttleship in 1922, Plas Negroes Denied War Jobs cheered Hillman and Murray to The new premier’s first public Government Uses jobs at wages, hours and work tiras acted as dictator. Later the that would assure “the right the rafters for their election “vic declaration was a demand that ing conditions dictated by the monarchy was again patched to numbers of workers in the right tory’’ which “eliminated" the Dies the Greek people lay down their employers. Roosevelt is the in gether. British imperialism ob Ward Case to Aid places at the right times.” Committee and returned a “pro arms. This signified a continua- strument through which these Despite Labor "Shortage” viously hopes that Plastiras w ill Roosevelt demands that the gressive Congress" to Capitol tion of Churchill’s policy of blood aims are being advanced. workers be degraded to the level now be able to reenact his role, H ill. and iron. “ I don’t see how we are Anti-Strike Power In introducing his forced labor By R. Chester going to solve the present prob not as a farce this time but as The revival of the defunct Dies proposal, Roosevelt departed from (Continued on page-5) *I lem without bloodshed,” Plastiras a tragedy. By Art Preis SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3.—The San Francisco Bay area Committee by the opening session announced on December 29 with When he landed in Athens, De has, according to various government officials, a severe man of Congress was a direct slap at In the guise of a federal court grim cynicism, “ because we are cember 12, h« bitterly denounced power shortage. Periodic statements in the daily press stress the the labor movement. But it is the ELAS (Greek National action ostensibly directed constant need for more men. Yet, in practice, this need takes only one in a series of blows facing a plan that aims at Liberation Army) which is the against a recalcitrant employer AMERICAN A R M Y OFFICER which have rewarded the labor provoking civil war to serve second place to the practice of discrimination against Negroes. obscure foreign interests.” fighting arm of the EAM (Greek lackeys for the time, effort and in the Montgomery Ward case, This practice is general. Here are a few experiences suffered Plastiras, of course, is subject to Liberation Front). The cabinet the Roosevelt administration is by men working in a prominent, government-built shipyard, money spent in reelecting Roos evelt and other such “friends of Churchill’s orders to provoke set up by Plastiras is a body of attempting to fortify its legal A TTACKS FRENCH UNION devoted exclusively to navy work. British quislings. labor.” Since the November 7 civil war in order to maintain powers for government strike “ Discrimination begins from & Britain’s economic and m ilitary While Churchill’s puppets 'l lie following is an extract from a letter written last Novem nose. Once you got it, it sticks, election the Roosevelt Adminis breaking through plant "seiz the time we hit the yard. I al grip on Greece. gyrated madly about the’political ber by a leading member of the Longshoremen’s Union of Gran you just can’t get rid of it. tration has taken the lead in ures.” ways watch what happens to a When the Greek people swept stage, Allied troops continued “ M'en take i t as long as they pushing reactionary measures de- That was the clear meaning ville France to the central trade union body of the Department King Constantine from the their ruthless warfare on the group of recruits,” said Joe can. They are hired as m achin of administration arguments be of de la Manche located at Cherbourg. It demonstrates the con throne, forcing him to flee in a Greek people. Tanks, airplanes, Green as he illustrated the scene ist’s helpers and they are inter (Continued on page 5) fore federal court hearings which temptuous fascist-minded attitude of the U.S. officer caste toward tvith sardonic pantomime. ‘They ested in learning the work. They opened in Chicago last Monday. the French people they have supposedly come to “ liberate.” It come up to the foreman’s desk want to improve themselves. But The.government is seeking an in also reveals the same hostility toward trade unionism in France with sardonic pantomime. “They they don’t get the chance. So junction to bar company “inter that the brass hats’ display in this country. and' sizes them up. He takes Soviet Prisoners Of War Hail they quit. Colored men keep ference” with government opera “Today the union committee ®~ the white men first. ‘0. K. you,’ com ing and going. I ’ve seen over tio n o f 16 W ard properties was summoned to the hiring hall comrade Minieux, waS received. he says pointing to the first 18 men go through my depart “seized” in order to halt strikes to learn that it had been liquid Here in substance is the dialogue man (white) ‘you start working Rising Revolution In Europe ment in the last year. in Detroit, Chicago and Kansas ated. The reasons: because it had between them: hero — this man will show you Many Russian prisoners of houses with 1,000 hectares (about overtime had become something City, Mo., as well as a threatened been organized and because of its “The Colonel: I am a soldier. what to do — and you, (white THÉ BÉOOM STICKS war are anti-Stalin, and look 2400 acres) of land. Planning is like what he knew as Staklian- CIO “labor holiday” in the auto purposes. A t the same time a no I am boss here. I do not want to man, too) you come over here — “Suppose you put a squawk, as carried out by an elected soviet ovism. The heavy taxation by center. tice was put up on the bulletin hear any talk about a trade union. you work on this machine, this m y frie n d here tried . He’s been for the Socialist United States with a president as director. The the state I also dwelt upon. In presenting the government’s board with a warning to the same If we employ Frenchmen, it is man will show you how’ — and fighting to keep on the work he of Europe to bring peace, ac work is distributed and planned “To the question of ‘How long effect. Here is a full reproduction purely out of charity. was hired to do, but he's still on cording to a letter received by brief Hugh Cox, Assistant Solici so on. by this body. Division of produce will the war last?’ I had to go o f it. “ Minieux: Trade unions are le the broom.” the Socialist Appeal, organ of tor General, stated flatly that “And then he comes to the col is carried out on the principle of deeper: until the proletariat of “ the real question here is whether N ov. 11, 1944 gal and recognized by the French “I was hired in a midwest the Revolutionary Communist ored man. He picks up the pa so much g ra in fo r each day’s Europe institute ‘the Socialist the United States has the power Government. state,’’ his friend picked up the “Hq. Sub. Port Granville, Ele per, looks at the man quick, Party, British section of the 4th work per min. They seem very United States of Europe.’ He in time of war to take possession “The Colonel: That’s enough. story. “I signed a six-month con venth Port, Normandy Base See scratches his cheek and walks International. keen on their Collectives and went into rapturous agreement. wherein a labor controversy I’ve-spoken. Get out, or I’ll have tract as a machinist’s helper. Com. Z, APO 562 U . S. A rm y . around a little. Then he comes “Dear Comrades,” the letter were countcrposing it to Capital He was surprised when I men threatens to interfere with the you arrested.” They paid my fare out here and, “Any employe found belonging back and looks at the man again says; “I have come into contact ist land tenure. The word ‘egal’ tioned Zimmerwald and chauvin successful prosecution of the “P. S. According to our most gave me a room in the dormitory. to or affiliated with the Labor and says: ‘Well, I ain’t got any with some Russian prisoners — keeps cropping up, it means equal ism, ‘Die International Kaput,’ w a r.” recent information, the union openings just yet —- I expect to The first week I got a break and some belong to the Ukraine and in German. They are all so keen (The Third International Is ers Trade Union of this Port will committee has been suspended for NOT FOR LABOR have some soon — we have to worked on the machine as a help others (Mongols) from Turkes to learn, and love to converse and Dead!) ‘Long Live the 4th Inter be im m e d ia te ly fire d .” eight days and an investigation er. Then I was shifted to nights keep you busy. — Suppose you tan. discuss things. national.’ When I said that the “We are not here to argue the William Hummel, will be made of its six members. take this broom for a while and because, they said, the job I was “ There has not been much tim e “There was one fellow in par merits of the labor controversy,” European revolution would Lt. Colonel Port Command Only those will be rehired whom sweep this aisle. As soon as I on was finishing. On nights the to talk to them up to now. I have ticular who acted as group lead tumble the bureaucrat Stalin an'd he admitted, “ because we are not the investigation finds are not get something for you I’ll put first thing they did was give me talked to a few Ukrainians, who er. He asked various questions: bring Russia again on the path here to assist labor or to vin “We notified the local union,” implicated. Meanwhile the Colon you on a machine.’ That job the broom. There’s where iny dicate the W ar Labor Board.” The weqe on Collectives there. Most ‘What hours do you work in the mapped out by Lenin and Trotsky, the longshoremen’s leader writes, el himself has formed a union and never comes up. trouble started. of them are young lads. It is so different industries? What is the main issue, he contended, was the “and; accompanied by two dele has designated six delegates (two he was rapturous and hastened “It’s a funny thing about that “I refused to take the broom. interesting to hoar them talk of pay?’ And many others concern threat to the “structure and or- gates, we asked for an interview are trade unionists and have al Tiiroom,” ruefully grinned my in the Collectives. Each Collective ing labor conditions here. I an to explain it to the other com with the Colonel who signed the ready handed in their resigna formant, “it’s like a cancer on the (Continued on page 2) consists of about seventeen or so swered him pointing out that rades.” (Continued on page 5) notice. Only one of the delegates, tions; tile others are not.)” IB W 9 - [THE M I li I T A N |U SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1945 T RADE UNI0N Socialist Workers Party Branches Speed NOTES Contributions Toward $18,000 Fund By Joseph Keller Battlelines Form in UAW Referendum $28,000 Party Expansion Fund The CIO United Automobile organization.” A t the same 'time,' A F itting Welcome to Our 18 Class-War Prisoners NEGROES DENIED JOBS Workers’ national referendum on, the employers’ “no lock - out the no-strike pledge is an ex-' pledge” was a "cruel joke plaÿed By Rose Kttrsner, Campaign Director traordinary event in the American on us. . . Companies needed labor trade union movement. This re to maintain the highest salaries Less than two weeks to go*—and the 12 imprisoned comrades DESPITE “SHORTAGE” ferendum, for which the mailing in the history of corporation ex will be back in our ranks. The best way to celebrate their home- (Continued from page 1) work at machinists’ wages. of ballots began January 4, in ecutives, and the largest, fat coming is to score the highest possible percentage in the $18,000 Pushing a broom is laborer’s I went to the quartermaster for volves the vote o f over 1,200,000 test, bloodiest profits the world Party Expansion Fund for the January 27th issue of The Militant, i work and iny contract said ma a raise. He said be could not re workers on the most immediate has ever known.” FRIENDS AND SYMPATHIZERS, demonstrate your solidarity! chinist’s helper. I told them so. commend it — I would have to and v ita l issufe co n fro n tin g the The pamphlet 'effectively an Send your contributions to the national office of the Socialist Work They sent me to the personnel see the shop-master.- I knew that labor movement, the no-strike; swers the flag-Wavihg propa ers P a rty . department. After heaving my was not right, so after a week I pledge. ganda of the lab'Or-haters that The branches of the party are all stepping up their collections story, the personnel manager went to personnel. They sent hie Membership referendums are m ilitant defense of labor’s rights of pledges in the campaign. Many expect to complete their quotas said: ‘O. K. I’ll put you back back to the quartermaster. I not unique in the unions. But is “against the interests” of the by January 23rd. Some will need the full three months, but all on days and see that you get ma went back and kind of put him almost invariably they have dealt the “boys in the foxholes.” will fulfill their quotas—and more—by March 1st. c h in is t’s helper’s w ork. B u t don’t on the spot. with problems which are largely “The boÿs in the foxholes are tell anyone what happened on “I saw some kind of conference organizational, such as affilia-! our relatives. . . When we fight n ig h ts.’ between him and personnel. Then tions, dues increases or elections to make our union strong and FROM THE BRANCHES they came over to me and told me of officers. In this instance an effective, we also are fighting for San Francisco, Anne: “It was a little difficult getting started REPLACED BY WHITE that the only way to get a raise entire union membership—of the them .” on the collections for the Expansion Fund, due to the heavy expenses “The foreman took me to the >. * I* was to transfer into a different most powerful and dynamic uYiion' quarterman and told him I was we were under prior to the convention, but we w ill try to fulfill our department. If I wanted a trans in the country—is being polled on While the militant rank and being transferred back to days. quota by the time our comrades are released from prison.” fer they would work something a basic policy affecting the entire file must depend solely on their Los Angeles, Dan Roberts: “Enclosed find two checks for the The quarterman said: ‘I don’t out. organized labor movement. own resources and strength to have any work for him—put him special fund. We are taking steps to speed up the collections.” “ What they worked out was this. Today, the UAW-CIO is a spread the message of their op back on nights.’ So back I went Toledo, Mac: “Collections.have been coming in slowly due to I had to take a test on a com battleground of contending forces. position to the no-strike pledge, to personnel. Personnel then told the holiday season, as many of our comrades had to lose work days plicated boring mill that they On one side, fighting for revoca the UAW heads have found me to stay on my other job until to celebrate Christmas with their children. However, we hope to knew I could not handle. Then tion of the no-strike pledge, are powerful allies outside their own they find something. So I stayed. if I failed, I would be dropped to the militant men and women in union to aid their attempt to rivet collect our auota by the 22nd of January and go over it before the A week la te r they p u t me on a helper at a lower rate than the ranks, local officers and com the no - strike shackles more campaign is over.” polishing brass. Meanwhile I I was getting. That way they mitteemen, who daily feel the securely on the membership. Chicago, Belle: “Enclosed find check on our quota. We expect found out that a white man had forced me to stay on my old job. wfiip-lash of corporation provoca The Murray-Hillman machine to forge ahead in the next month now that Christmas and New Year been put on the job I originally “I always get the heavy or the tions. Against them stand the top in the national CIO has thrown are over.” had. tedious or the complicated jobs. bureaucrats, drawing down com its influence behind the UAW “About that time we got a new Milwaukee, H. Burns: “We had thought that we would be able The others get the gravy. One fortable salaries, ’mote at home top leadership, Thomas-Addes- foreman. He assigned me to to make the complete quota by January 20th, but we w ill not qliitei time they gave me a heavy plate in the waiting-room of the em Frankensteen-Reuther. The capi picking up sticks and scraps. I make it. A ll but one comrade, due to special economic circumstances, job to do. 1 struggled with it for ployers and capitalist government talist press from coast to coast refused. He sent me to personnel w ill be able to fulfill their pledges by that date.” We are sure that two weeks. Usually jobs are kept officials than among the workers has opened its columns gener and we went over the whole busi Milwaukee will find some way of completing its quota in time for working on night and day shifts. and their struggles in the shops. ously to the no - strike rantings ness again. Finally, personnel Yet for over a week I would come Around these bureaucrats are and down-right slanders against the Jan. 27th issue of The M ilitant. said: ‘Do as you are told or get back to the machine and find lined up the most treacherous the militants issuing from the Boston: F. Daniels sent in another check toward their quota your release.’ I was pretty sore everything just as I left it. agents of capitalism within the bull-frog throat of R. J. Thomas, which brings this branch to third on the list. A t this rate, Boston and said the release is O. K. UAW President. union, notably the Stalinists. will surely be among the hundred percenters by January 27th. w ith me. FINALLY GETS RAISE The radio monopoly has placed Within the past four weeks Twin Cities, Minn, bears watching on the Scoreboard. When they "But I had to change my mind. “I finally got my raise. It hap a state-wide Michigan hook-up at these opposing forces have been get going they shoot right ahead. This week they wiped out their I didn’t have any money. The pened this way. I had a colored the disposal of1 Thomas, Addes, increasing the tempo of their zero. It won’t be long before they w ill be toward the top of the list. checks come through the week helper working alongside me who Frankensteen and Reuther, ac struggle. The Detroit Ward strike Pittsburgh, J. Cook: “ A brief note to apologize for our tardiness. after you work, and they take I was teaching the ropes. One gave an unexpected impetus to cording to the Stalinist Daily out your rent, war-bond money day they shifted him. A couple Worker. They are scheduled to We have assessed ourselves $80 in the Party Expansion Fund. We this struggle. Reports from the and other things in advance. I had days later they put a white man speak in favor of the no-strike expect to complete this quota by the end of January.” center of the auto industry dis been borrowing ‘money from my in his place. I Could see that he Quakertown: “We are scattered and don’t get together very close that the Ward strike in policy next week over station friends. I did not have the price was raw — I had. to keep show WXYZ. Walter Reuther, whose spired a wave of labor militancy, often, but we hope to have our quota filled by January 22nd.” of a fare home. The release they ing him what to do. Then one reminiscent of the days of the game of “left cover” for the top Plenty wood: “ Just a line to-day in regards to the party fund. would give hie would prevent me day at the time clock I noticed bureaucrats is rapidly playing great auto strikes. This response The enclosed $20 is from a small group here. That is the best we from taking a job on any other that, his card was on a different itself out, is no longer able to of the ranks in support of the can do at this time but will try to send more.” A good example to w ar w ork. rack. As soon as I got the chance straddle the fence. He is lining Ward strike in turn aroused other groups of friends and sympathizers! “I went back to personnel and I looked at his card. He was get himself up openly with the camp frantic fear among the UAW tops Philadelphia, D. F.: “At the same time that we are raising the said that I would stay on and take ting machinist wages. he has always really served, the and their Stalinist henchmen. quota in the Ejfransion Fund campaign, we have expanded our local anything that they gave me. He “ I got sore. I went to the second servile leadership against the Both forces have geared up their got nicer then ahd sent me back steward and said ‘I’m quitting militant ranks. budget greatly, and we are keeping up our monthly Sustaining Fund propaganda campaigns, utilizing to the quarterman. The quarter- I’m tired of having to work at The main organizers and cam to the national office. We shall do our best however, to send in as every means at their command to mail acted big. ‘As long as you lower wages because of the color paigners foi- the leadership’s much as possible by January 22nd, and we shall certainly have met reach and influence the member take orders 6.K.,’ he said, ‘but of my skin.’ We Went to the boss reactionary policy are the Stalin the entire quota before March 1st.” We might add here, that almost ship. The referendum fight ovèr IF you come here to tell me how and beefed. That week I got my ists. Whole pages of the Daily all the branches and locals are keeping up with their monthly, the no-strike pledge in the UAW to run the shop, I get sore/ And raise. Worker are being devoted every Sustaining Fund, While collections on the special fund proceeds. appears to be developing into a I stood there and took it. Jive “ White men advance fast in the day to slandering the UAW m ili momentous struggle. been on the broom ever since.” yard. They get,tlie opportunities * * * tants, publicizing the anti-strike for better jobs and more pay. The Rank and File Caucus, statements of the UAW officials, The first man took up the story When firings come the colored which organized the magnificent and clanioring for continuation of again. “My trouble was getting men on the broom and the lower four-day battle against the no the no-strike pledge. a raise. I have been here 16 ratings are going to be fired ‘first. strike pledge at 'the last UAW Inside the UAW, the Stalinists months. I was an 'experienced The yard has over 10,000 men convention, has become the rally initiated the Committee to Up machinist before I cable here and but I don’t know of one colored ing center for the militants in the hold the No-Strike Pledge, which I started before ihos't of the col man getting higher than machin referendum campaign. It has they and their front-men control ored men were hired. That is ist, second class wages, or having established a large and powerful and activate. This has become the how I missed the broom. I got the job Of leaderman. principal machinery for whipping committee in Wayne County Larry had in Detroit which had a reputation for doing good work. “They keep talking about the up support for the no-strike The following letter from Mil-, (Detroit.) and initiated an in a receipt attached. We 'think “My kjck was that I worked four freedoms over there. They policy. Thus, the Stalinists are waukee is fu rth e r proof th a t Our. creasingly agressive drive to that this is an excellent idea. at machine operator’s wages. ought to try to save a few for speàr-heading the no-strike drive subscribers are helping us get mobilize the votes against the no- “We are planning to make a Oscar Shoenfeld White men were doing the same us here at home.” and have thrown their tremend The M ilitant in'to the hands of as strike surrender policy. special effort to get subs at the ous material resources behind the many workers as possible: Last week, the Rank and File new low rates. We are sending Pioneer U A W tops. “While in conversation with Will Address steering committee issued a * * * friends 'and relatives on Christ a letter to a number of people who strongly - worded pamphlet for are acquainted with The Militant The ÜÀW leaders find them- mas Day, I spoke of the work of NEW YORK circulation to the auto workers through a free mailing that we 1 selves dependent in the reféren- the Socialist Workers Party and New York Forum throughout the country. The sent out. Also expect to have a ‘ dum battle oh shameless finks The Militant. I said, when ques NEW YORK, Jan. 7 — On Sun Notes
By Martha Murray <9 By V. G rey “ IT Takes Guts to Run This Country' On January 15, 1919—twenty five years ago— the German UAW East Coast “ Say, who’s running this shop anyway, you or me?” the foreman proletariat was robbed of two of its greatest revolutionary fight said. ers, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. They were assas And Slim said, “I don’t see where you’re doing so much to run sinated in the streets of Berlin by Junker hirelings of the Social- Committee Fights it.” The foreman got mad at that. But he didn’t say anything. Democracy. But neither the ideas nor the tradition of personal Mainly because there wasn’t anything to say. heroism bequeathed by these Marxists of the First World War No-Strike Pledge But later on in the washroom Scissorbill Sam sneered out to could be slain. Their names w ill be inscribed in flaming letters M ilita n t members and offi nobody in particular, “ Some people think they’re pretty good around when the mighty German working class again rises against its cers of leading CIO United Au here. They know how to run the shop with their eyes shut.” oppressors to find the path to peace and security under the red tomobile Workers locals in New “ If some people don’t slow down a little on running that punch banner of international socialism. York State have established the press they’ll lose a couple of fingers—with their eyes wide open, Intransigent opponents of capi--^ too,” said Shorty. Junkers. The Russian Revolution UAW East Coast Committee to talist war, both Liebknecht and “They might get their eyes closed at that,” said Slim. deeply inspired her. Enemies ot Revoke the No-Strike Pledge as Luxemburg fought persecution There was some more sarcasm back and forth, until Scissorbill and imprisonment to lead the the October Revolution have tried part of a national campaign to Sam came back to the point. “ If you guys think you can get along ■workers of Germany in the $
I f lr i 1 ‘‘LABOR WITH 4 WHITE 8KIX CAN- I |-| p not emancipate itself where M. Aa v > labor with a black skin ib Ward ‘Seizure' Aimed At Strikes ■BRANDED" — KARL MARX. (Continued from page 1) But it is precisely against strikes, under any and all cir The Negro Struggle ganization of the War Labor cumstances, that the Roosevelt Army “Seizure” at Ward s Board,” that is, the government’s administration is directing its apparatus for preventing strikes real attack. Strikes were the real __By Charles Jackson ___ through compulsory arbitration motivation for these latest Ward and for maintaining Roosevelt’s “seizures.” It is the argument of By Theodore Kovalesky strike prevention that the gov wage - freezing “wage-stabiliza I stopped swearing. Jimmy grinned at me and said, “Seems The Truth in Dixie ernment is using in court to tion” program. like you’re never satisfied. In the summertime you’re swearing be Cox argued the right of gov justify these “seizures.” The not M any Negroes who for years I propose to protest against what cause it’s too hot. Now you’re swearing because it’s too cold. What we arc doing. . . That man was ernment “seizure” in the Ward effect, regardless of the im*» have seen and felt the dirty deals do you want?” handed them by whites, have a tried, convicted, and probably case, where the government had mediate outcome of the »Ward 1 grinned back at him, because that’s what you do. You’re cold. strong doubt in their minds that w ill be electrocuted because he is failed previously to enforce long case, is to reinforce the power of j You have a bad cough that you’ve had a couple of months, but you there can over be a real solidarity a Negro. If he were not black standing orders against the com government “ seizure” as a strike between the whites and blacks he would be a free man today, pany, specifically because of the breaking weapon. just joke about it. What else are you going to do—go to Palm Beach even if it is for the common good strictly in accordance with the strikes. He stressed particularly This power will be all the more and lie in the sand like the stockholders ? of both groups of people. Experi taws'of Texas. But being a Negro, need for government action in the potent precisely because the It’s bad enough just getting to work in the winter. But wheta ence has caused them to have a he is about to be killed because Ward strikes because of their “seizure” was demanded by the you do get there, you’re really in for something. blinding mistrust Of all White peo we white Southerners do not give “adverse effect” on the CIO unions and directed, ostensibly, You put on your furnace tags, a Negro justice. I know it and ple as w e ll as a lack of hope tha t United Automobile Workers re against an anti-labor employer. torn and burnt from your work. you know it. The judges know it ferendum on the no-strike pledge. The most important instances of the majority of people w ill ever The locker room’s an old place, unite to wipe out Jim Crow. and the prosecutors, and the'jur Thus, Cox indicated, that non- such “seizures” previously, par and cracks and badly fitted There are also many Northern ors, and the newspapers; and compliance with a WLB order by ticularly of the railroads and coal windows and doors let the winter whites who do not know of the they all keep their fnouths dis an employer is not • in itself a mines, were openly directed actual extent of Negro oppression creetly shut, consenting to the matter for government action. against the workers. This w ill be in on you as you dress. or at least think it is greatly ex death. . . The government acts only where just as true in the future—with You pick up your lunch bag aggerated by the Negro spokes FACTS FROM HISTORY a “labor controversy” leading to this addition: The government and coffee bottle and start out in a strike or threat of strike, to will be able to point to the Ward the snow and darkness of early men. “It seems to me that when ¡For the enlightenment of these “interference with production,” ease in order to claim “ im white people refuse Negroes, sole morning, headed for your furnace, two groups an* to show that occurs. This supported Attorney partiality” in its strikebreaking. ly on their color, legal rights to almost half a mile down the line. there are, evert now, some who General Biddle’s previous ad vote, to jury service, to equal What is basically involved is i When you’re halfway there your are strong enough to break mission that WLB orders, are only educational opportunities to con the administration’s endeavor to face has stiffened with the cold, through the maze of lies which “ recommendations.” sideration for work on merit, they reinforce WLB authority, chal and you’re covered with snow. are taught to everyone under the In reality, they are only “re are seeking to gain an undeserved lenged by Avery. But that present system , who can see and com m endations” so fa r as the You drag your wet feet up the advantage in those respects authority is not needed because speak the truth, we quote from employers are concerned. So long stairs of the blast furnace, grate which justice . . . w ill eventually of the employers. Fundamentally, Breaking the Montgomery W-rd strike in Detroit at Roose an address that was recently de as the workers do not strike, the ful for the flames and molten iron. destroy.” it is needed against the workers, velt’s order, soldiers post a “seizure” notice informing the workers government admits in effect, the But it doesn’t take very long for livered before the Dallas Bar As because the very purpose of the that they are under army rule. Quoting the historical facts, sociation by a local attorney, employer can disregard WLB board, \s anti-labor—to impose this gratitude to be forgotten, washed out of you with your sweat. George Clifton Edwards, who Mr. Edwards shows that in directives when he doesn’t like compulsory arbitration, bury la After cast you have to clean up, and cleaning up on the drty “ 1619, a year before the la nd ing happens to be the father of De them, or stall them with delaying bor grievances in red tape, and, shift usually means “pulling” the trough. With a bar and shovel of the pilgrims at Plymouth tro it’s liberal councilman, Cor'por court actions. above all, to enforce the wage y ou dig the slag and coke (red hot a short time ago and now still ral George Edwards. Rock, a Dutch privateer—polite Roosevelt Demands Congress freeze. That has been conclusively red irt places) out <5f the trough and rebuild the bottom and sides name fo r pir-a.te — brought 20 AIMED AT STRIKES After showing how slavery aft demonstrated in all the decisive Negro slaves taken from a Span But the workers—against whom with clay. W ith the smell of your burning shoe soles in your nose er invention of the cotton gin wage cases, coal, railway, steel, ish slaver and traded them to most of the corporation-dominat you dig and pound until the job is finished. brought huge profits to the cotton auto, packinghouse, rubber, tex ed W LB’s decisions are' directed Pass Slave Labor Measures planters, lie stated: the colonists for tobacco.” The Tired, your heavy underwear soggy with sweat, you climb out —are compelled to accept WLB tiles, etc. "Those extremists who made British profiteering policy, he (Continued from page1!) Under the impetus given by and trtke care of the rest of your work. Only, now you’re out of the orders automatically. For the Avery, by his actions, was the Civil War inevitable were showed, was responsible for the Roosevelt a number of forced trough, it isn’t hot any more. You’ve stepped out of hell and straight way slavery was fastened on the employers, who control wages, tossing a monkey-wrench into the the original advocates of the con labor measures have already been into Siberia. The wind hits you. Slivers of snow dig into you. Soon hours, working conditions, , con very machinery for controlling rtf oxen driven to labor in field tention that Southerners alone American colonies. introduced into Congress. The the hot sweat that covers your body has cooled, and you begin to tractual relations, enforce these labor that the employers as a drtd factory. He wants them are qualified to haiidle the Negro Mr. Edwards continued: “ There most vicious of these measures shiver . . . and probably to swear. orders—except when workers go class themselves require. Hence, shifted from place to place with problem . . . ¡They were bound to is little difference in spirit be are the bills designed to conscript on strike. Whichever way the the big business government was out regard to their desires. He Your cleanup finished, you try to get warm. Even the coffee that fail. The facts wrere against them tween the tirades of persons such 4-F’s into labor battalions. It is workers turn, their only recourse finally compelled to act—although slants them kepi in abject sub you’ve put on the steam pipes doesn’t help much at first. Finally, and the facts are against their as the whirling dervish — this type of legislation which for self- protection is strike ac “reluctantly,” as it admitted— mission to a profiteering task just as you begin to feel almost human it’s time to cast again, so present imitators. ‘Pappy’ O’Daniel — and the pro Roosevelt demanded Congress tion. WLB orders against em against an employer who broke master who sole concern is to cut you go into the cold once more. slavery talk of 1850-60.” enact “immediately” pending “ ac EXCLUDE NEGROES ployers cannot be enforced with the discipline of his own capital squeeze (he last ounce of profit Warning the South against its tion by Congress on the broader “The important question is not out strikes—as the four-year old is t class. obt of the blood and bone of his Discomforts— And Dangers present oppression of the Negroes, aspects of national service.” our leniency, or our good nature, Ward case amply proves. Anti But only to be in better posi wage slaves. This is the man the he said: “Let us not repeat the But it’s not just discomfort that makes winter so bad on the or our handouts to Uncle Tom, but labor decrees of the WLB cannot tion ultimately to squeeze the , labor “statesmen” dub, “t h e A Scripps-Howard staff writer pro-slavery error . . . Before the blast furnace line: it’s much more dangerous on the furnaces during whether we in the South intend be resisted without strikes. vise tighter on labor! i greatest liberal of them all!” indicates what the brass hats to give the Negro his rights. . . . Civil War wc had the power to have in mind for the 4-F con winter. What if a ladle’s wet? Even a cinder ladle is sure to get We have not been and are not bring on a near-wreck of the na script: “He would be in uniform, some iron in it during cast, and when that iron gets down to the now just or fair to the Negro in tional government but we did not doing hard work without benefit moisture in the bottom, the whole thing blows up. If you’re near it, evert then have the power to turn law, in education, in economics Dies Committee Is Revived of high civilian pay —■ but also you haven’t got a chance. back human evolution and hold and irt employment . . . We main without the benefits voted by Con What if you set the gates with wet coke, what if there’s a little tain a great nrtiversity and law back the development, of human gress to men in the armed serv snow or ice in it? When the iron hits it, there will be fire and a school and medical school and lib e rty .” In First Congress Action ices. He would be in a stigma shower of molten metal all over the furnace floor . . . and the keeper dental school and exclude -Ne We may indeed feel more opti tized service.” (Continued from page 1) ed -by - the, Adipimstration baY*' pond to kicks;jb^ , crajyling back groes from all of them. had better duck and run if he wants to live. mistic when We gee white South emboldened the extrême reaction-' fo r lick their master’s' boots. The ANTI-UNION BILLS “Negroes, are nowhere - gi ve«, What if the clay is frozen when it’s time to stop the tapping erners like Mr. Edwards get up aries. The political’agents of W all reconstitution of the Dies Com Undersecretary of Navy Bard equal and impartial consideration hole? There have been cafees where the clay gun (which must weigh and present our case so strongly signed to cripple the unions. The Street dominate Hillman’s new mittee before the "echoes of the testified that the object of 4-F save in the lowest' ranks of un at least five torts and probably much more) has been blown apart in the South itself. That is the wage-freezing Little Steel foamula “progressive” Congress just asi ■¿opening prayer had scarcely died legislation is to make “work bat skilled employment. The only ac foundation upon which our pro and scattered all over the furnace. remains in effect. More stringent much as they dominated the old.® .away in the House,” was intend talion” service so unattractive tive force for Negro justice is gram is built—to keep stating Well, these things don’t happen to occur today, so you’re alive regulations are .decreed freezing They have nothing but contempt; ed, in part, to put the crowing “that practically no ono in his the CIO. the truth to the working people. workers to their jobs. Legislation for the servile labor bureaucrats liberals and labor lackyes in right mind would be Interested in at the end of your shift, and, drenched again with sweat, you go “ We have a whole code of spe Regardless of- the tremendous is demanded conscripting labor who keep the workers subordin “their place.” joining it.” Chairman May of down the stairs and start plodding back through the snow, tripping cial anti-Negro legislation aimed pressure of all the forces in so for work in private industry. ated to the political parties of the At the time this is written the House M ilitary Affairs Com on railroad tracks, skidding into icecold puddles, and shivering. at putting Negroes, at a disad ciety today, yet. some w ill Wee Prices and profits rise while the capitalist ruling class. Hillman, ¿either Hillman or Murray have mittee, author of a 4-F bill, stated Although you’ve got a long cold trip home, you’ve got to get vantage whites would violently through the fog even now. Others, workers’ standard of living con Murray, Green and Company are -uttered a pc-ep. Many workers that lie would oppose any “com into the shower first, because you can’t put your street clothes on rebel at. yes, even in the South, will only tinues to decline. treated, as they deservo to be, who participated in the prema pulsion" on 4-F conscripts to "At this' very time,’’ courage learn to throw off their prejudi over all the sweat and dirt that you’ve accumulated during the past The anti-labor measures initiat- like snivelling flunkies who res- ture CIO-PAC “victory” celebra “join unions if assigned to closed ously continued Mr. Edwards, ces out of personal necessity. eight hours. That is still another invitation to pneumonia, but you tion are wondering, “who won shops.” ‘Ve, the people of Dallas, are in Through our common struggle can’t afford to Yuin your clothing, not as long as the blast furnace the election?” After the action the process of sharing in the the truth will triumph, not only Another Roosevelt Democrat, workers make only ninety cents to a little better than a dollar an of Congress at its opening session, judicial murder of a young Ne here on the Negro question, but Representative Colmer of Missis hour, depending on what job they have. the Washington correspondent of gro nam'ed A kin . throughout the- World on the basic sippi has introduced a bill provid Buy ‘The Militant’ Here: the Scripps-Howard press com So you swear. You swear in the summer When it’s too hot, and “ I do not wArtt any of his blood qrtestfort Of the exploitation of ing that “strikers in essential in mented: “The CIO has more reas you swear in the winter when it’s too cold. You don’t go to Palm on my hands, and so far as I can man by man. AKRON N E W H A V E N dustry or workers with bad Beach, because you can’t afford it. You don’t even stay home in bed News Exchange, 51 S. Main Nodelman’s News Depot, on today to wonder, ‘who won • absentee records” be drafted into 106 Ghurch St. the election?’ and its president, labor battalions. Other Democrats on mornings when the temperature slides shuddering down below BOSTON Philip Murray, is expected to and Republicans criticize the 4-F zero and the black wind pushes at your house and hoots at you. No, Bay State Pharmacy, NEWARK have a statement on that subject bills for not going far enough. you get up and get out and risk your life in the dangers and dis 840 Tremont St.; Andel- Downtown — Newsstand at before long.” It should prove in They want a fpll-blown national comforts of the steel mill, because you’re a worker, and if you don’t m an’s Newsstand, 46 Shaw- 11 Springfield Ave. teresting! service act that would conscript do it, you won’t eat. BOLSHEVISM GAVE GREATEST m u t Ave. DEEPENING REACTION all men and women between the N E W YO R K ages o f 18 and 45. Manhattan: 14th St. between As for the liberals, life is full of BUFFALO Both the AFL and CIO are on EXAMPLE OF REAL DEMOCRACY SE corner Main & Mohawk 2nd Avenue and Sixth Ave. ‘surprises for that political breed. Newsstands on 42nd St. be They joined with the labor “sta record against labor conscription. In September, 1917, General They were not leaders in the CAMPBELL, O. tesmen” in hailing Roosevelt as It was. labor’s vote that elected 10 Years Ago sense that this word has assumed tween 5th and 6th Aves.; Kornilov’s putsch collapsed pill- ■ the "greatest liberal of them all” Roosevelt. By their unconditional since the appearance of the Duce: Eidelman’s Newsstand, W il fully, and the situation was com PHILADELPHIA and in jubilating over the demise support of the fourth term the Ghazi, the Fuehrer, and the son Ave. near Sheet and pletely transformed. Reality, Germantown and Lehigh of the Dies Committee. They candidate the labor “ statesmert” stronger than slanderous legends Beloved Leader in the USSR. Tube Employment Office. Aves., N.W. corner 13th St. looked forward to the new “pro freed Roosevelt from any re In The Militant based on facsimiles forged in the Their popularity was not manu CHICAGO and Market St. gressive” Congress with confi straint in carrying through the offices of the secret service, show factured nor imposed; it grew up Ceshinsky’s Book Store, dence and hope. The first news program of’ Big Business. H ill spontaneously on the basis of the ed who the revolutionists were READING of the “unforeseen” resurrection man, Murray and to., boasted of JANUARY 12, 1935 confidence they earned. Their ac 2750 W. Division and who the phrase-mongers, fak Herman’s Newsstand, 131 of the Dies Committee set them their great “election victory” and ers and counter-revolutionists. tions and their words were dis Socialist Workers Bookshop, WASHINGTON—While millions of unemployed workers struggled Buttonwood St. stuttering in confusion. But you hailed the election of a “ progres cussed everywhere. Room 317, 160 N . W ells. to exist on starvation handouts of relief, President Roosevelt The Kerensky cabinet demon can always depend on the liberal sive” Congress. Yet not a single in his annual budgetary message to Congress proclaimed: “The strated clearly that it was They were only the first among DETROIT SAN DIEGO, CAL. muddle heads to find a silver lin voice in Congress has been raised nothing more than a phantom comrades, and they would have, Family Theatre Newsstand, 242 Broadway ing in every reactionary cloud. to defend the labor movement Federal Government must and shall quit this business of private government, buffeted about be accorded a cold reception to the opposite theater A Washington correspondent of against this drive to paralyze the re lie f.” SAN FRANCISCO tween two possible dictatorships; dangerous imbecile who took it “ M ilitant” Bookshop, the “liberal” N. Y. daily PM, re unions and enslave the workers. Vastly understating the true conditions, Roosevelt estimated Fitzgerald News Agency, ■either the generals, who on the into his head to place them above 3513 Woodward - Room 21. ports that: “House liberals, still that 5,000,000 workers, “ 1,500,000 of them unemployable,” were 21-4th St.; Duncan’s News reactionary side were the only th e ir comrades o r above blinking at the spectre of the jobless. For the 3,500,000 “employables” he advocated public the party. The life of the Polit- LOS ANGELES stand, 1986 S u ite r S t.; R ay’s fnen gifted with sufficient insight Dies Committee which the House works—-with an appropriation which could not provide work and force (for in periods of social bnreau and the Central Commit Downtown : NE corner 5th Smoke Shop, 1174 S u tte r S t.; retrieved from the grave and im for more than a third of them for 1935. Even these, Roosevelt instability any military second- tee was at all times collective. and Main; 326 W. 5 St.; Con M acD onald’s Book Store, 867 mortalized today gathered their recommended, were to be paid wages “not so large as to en Tater is intelligent enough to The party discussed, tendencies solidated Bldg. 6th and H ill; Mission St.; Golden Gate* forces to make certain that the courage the rejection of opportunities in private employment” comprehend the benefits, to the appeared and disappeared, and op Modern Book Shop 232 So. News Agency, 81 - 3rd St.; 1945-style un-American activities position elements, which must not Hill, Room 200. where a $12 a week minimum existed for most industries under financiers, of authority), would S A N PEDRO group is composed of a majority resume their activity and the be confused with counter-revolu Boyle Hgt.: corner Wabash of fair-minded men.” * the National Recovery Act codes. The rubber tire industry, how tionists, agitated unceasingly in & Evergreen; 2210)4 Bklyn Johnson’s Pool H a ll, revolution would go the way of The record of the Roosevelt ad ever, had a $10 minimum; textile bag workers, $8.60; southern Ave. 531 Beacon S t.; LaRue Bonapartism, or else the work broad daylight during the whole ministration since the election, laundry workers $5.60—and work project wages were not to Hollywood: Stands at Holly Pharmacy, 1 3 0 9 Pacific; ers, soldiers and peasants, the c iv il w ar — u n til 1921. the very first action of the new conflict with such magnificent “opportunities.” wood and Cahuenga, Holly Williams’ Bookstore, 284-6 Soviets, the Bolsheviks, would They were not to disappear Congress, the anti-labor legisla Thus Roosevelt’s much-praised public works program was wood and Los Palmos, Hol S t.; A bram s Pharm acy, 1002 conquer by force, since there was completely until 1925-26, when in tion already thrown into the Con exposed once more as a means of holding down the wage level lywood & N. Highland. S. G pffey. no other way. What compromise consequence all internal life dis gressional hopper, are signs of Southwest: corner Robert of the American working class, while attempting to avert re could there be between military appeared from the party. Lenin SEATTLE a deepening reaction. By their son & Pico Blvds. sistance to capitalist chaos by “ameliorating” intolerable con dictatorship and proletarian dic invited old opponents, Martov and support of the capitalist two South Gate: South side Book E c k e rt’s, corner W ashington ditions. ta to rsh ip ? Dan, the Menshevik leaders, to party system, the liberals and la Shop, 8026 Seville Ave. St. and 1st Ave.; Bishop’s L e n in and T ro ts k y see th is speak in the Central Executive D ru g Store, 507 Jackson S t.; bor bureaucrats have led the work SACRAMENTO—Albert Goldman, noted labor attorney retained -by plainly and hence they demand, Committee of the Soviets. An MINNEAPOLIS Raymer’s Book Store, 905- ers into a trap. This is not the the Non-Partisan Labor Defense, was recognized as attorney archists belonged to the Commit suggest,- proclaim and initiate the La bo r Book Store, 10 S. 4 St. 3rd A ve ; Pool Room, 500 time, they howled, to launch an for Norman Mini, in a brief session of the Criminal Syndical tee. The Left Social Revolution Independent Labor Party. This advance toward insurrection. The Shinder’s News Agency Main St.; Liberty News, 3rd ism trial. Mini was one of the 18 m jlitant leaders of the Cannery one, at the head of the party, aries participated in the power is the time, they said, to support Hennepin Ave. and 6th St.; and Pike. and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union who were arrested which he succeeds in convincing for several months at the begin Pioneer News * Agency, Roosevelt and “progressive’’ Dem ning of the regime. . . Bolshevism on frame-up charges at the demand of West Coast agricultural not without resistance; the other, 238 2nd Ave., South; Hap TOLEDO ocrats and Republicans. W ith the triumphed by proclaiming to the aid of their support Roosevelt barons, after their union had won significant gains for the at the head of the Petrograd So py’s Stand, 8th St. and Nic Branch’s Sports Center, 908 viet where he forms a Revolution masses and to the world a democ and a “progressive” Congress downtrodden migratory workers. ollet. Washington St. ary M ilitary Committee, distrib racy of free workers, such as had were elected. Main Drug Store, Michigan MINNEAPOLIS—As 2,000 garage mechanics went out on strike utes arms to the workers and per never before been seen. MILWAUKEE The fruits of that “victory” St. and Madison Ave. in the Twin Cities, General Drivers Uniort Local 574 sprang suades the Soviet to decide that (From “From Lenin to Stalin,” N.W. corner, Wisconsin Ave. have already turned to bitter to their help, delegating V. R. Dunne to aid the strike commit the revolutionary garrison will by V ic to r Serge, pp. 20 - 22. on Third St. YOUNGSTOWN gall. The workers are waiting not obey the Provisional Govern Pioneer Publishers, 1987-; 112 pp., M ilita n t Bookshop, 926 Terrace Confectionary, for Hillman, Murray and Com tee. The Mechanics Union demanded union recognition, a m ini ment and w ill not leave the city. 50 cents. Order from Pioneer Plankington Ave., Rm. 21. 1947 Jacobs Road pany to submit an accounting of mum of 30 hours work a week, a minimum of 90 cents an hour lo r He has organized the insurrection Publishers, 116 University Place, their political leadership. Who mechanics, 65 cents for mechanics and washers, seniority list before the actual uprising. . . New York 3, N. Y.) won the election? ings, and no discrimination for'union activity. ■ !X - T H E H I L I T A N ïi SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1945
The slogan “ For a Socialist United States of Europe!” formulates the common problem facing the entire European working class. That is, to unite, No Faith in Roosevelt’s THE MILITANT centralize and plan the economy of the continent, WORKERS' dissolving the outgrown frontiers which throttle Published in the interests of the Wage and Job Promises production and help generate the explosive force Working People of reactionary war. V O L. IX — No. 2 S aturday. J a n u a ry 13, 1945 The interlocking of the struggle of the Greek FORUM All Roosevelt’s pre-election promises to the con trary, the vast majority of the American people do workers with the class struggles of the Belgian, Published Weekly by not believe we are entering an era of “60,000,000 French, Italian and German workers would mark THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASS’* postwar jobs” based on an annual national income at 116 University Place, New York 3, N. 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Even if their voice is becoming in the yards know that the light | r was more than pleased with lieves that instead of increasing, the weekly incomes necessarily represent the policies of THE M ILI stronger, however, the counter-revolutionary Stal The Los Angeles Union Pas senger Terminal which is owned against these conditions is the the pamphlets (sent by Pioneer of wage-earners are going to decline. TANT which are expressed in its editorials. inists still head the mass movement and are doing and operated by the three rail common fight ot all the workers. Publishers) and certainly consi- The poll was taken on the question: “ After the war their utmost to remain there while attempting to Subscriptions: $1.00 per year; 50c for 6 months. road systems it serves (Santa Fe, Dan Dreiser der them strong medicine capable do you think the weekly income of workers will be of in s p irin g -any hum an being F o re ig n : $2 00 per year, $1.00 fo r 6 months. sell out the armed workers and peasants to Church Southern Pacific, and Union Paci Los Angeles about the same as it is now or will it be more or to join the class struggle. Bundle orders: 3 cents per copy in the United ill. So Iông as the'Stalinists are able to appear fic) has had great difficulty dur less?” Only 5 per cent thought it would be more, and ing the war in getting sufficient I was very happy and pleased States; 4 cents per copy in all foreign countries. as spokesmen for the masses, they w ill cover up, 20 per cent, the same. Thus, comments George Gallyp, help, particularly during the Marshall Field with Comrade Stein’s recent Single copies: 5 cents. deny, and struggle against the revolutionary aims director of the poll, “ seven in every 10 say they think Christmas seasons, prim arily due E d ito r: letter and was also flattered on of these masses. to the low wages and bad condi reading his speech to the conven workers will make less after the war, only two in 10 “ E ntered as second class m a tte r M arch 7, 1944 In the December 16 issue o f tions offered. The base pay has tion in regard to a correspondent think business and industry w ill be able to maintain at the post office at New York, N. Y., under The present situation among the insurgent Greek The Militant, the following fac been recently raised from 71 to in Cincinnati who wishes to be existing levels.” the Act of March 3, 1879.” workers makes it all the more imperative for' the tual misstatement occurs: 80 cents but it is very difficult put to work. It shows our efforts Significantly, 6§ per cent of the businessmen polled “ It is perhaps mere coincidence American and British workers to rally to the de to get an increase. For instance or interests are appreciated by were of the opinion that wages and incomes will that Marshall Field, multi-mil fense of their class brothers. The struggle of the an experienced tractor driver who each other more than we realize. lionaire merchant prince and decline. The capitalists are among the gloomiest To defend the USSR as must know virtually every bag It is hardly necessary for me to working class at home is inevitably affected by the owner of sweat-shop cotton tex elements with respect to the “postwar” prospects the main fortress of the gage car on every train leaving attempt to express how great my outcome of the struggle abroad. If counter-revolu tile mills in the South, is also the under their “ free enterprise” monopoly profit system. and arriving at Los Angeles is desire is to include Cincinnati as world proletariat, against tion succeeds in crushing the Greek workers, re owner of PM.” “Although a great deal of postwar planning is be paid, believe it or not, 81 cents!- a real contributor to our cause. This is a carelessly incorrect ing predicated upon a high national income,” Gallup all assaults of world im action will be strengthened in both America and Two- years ago the L.A.U.P.T. statement. It weakens the whole Adopting our slogan of “doing observes, “ the American public is not convinced that Great Britain. hired boys under sixteen' in an what is necessary,” I am sending perialism and of internal article and betrays serious care income levels for workers w ill be maintained once the Labor must safeguard the rising European revo attempt to clear the heaviest in 8 more names for our sub counter-revolution, is the lessness. Watch these things, war ends. . . Moreover, their thinking on the postwar lution. The slogans of the day for American work Christmas mail in the city’s his please. It’s a great paper, mostly. scription list. most important duty of tory. In addition to this, by an income question is consistent with their feeling about Incidentally, what would you ers are: Hands o ff Greece! Hands o ff the European agreement between the Army, the A Reader postwar job prospects. A recent survey showed a every class - conscious Chicago suggest for literature for what I Revolution ! Post Office,* and the L.A.U.P.T,, majority believing that once the war ends not every refer to as the fourth generation, w orker. scores of soldiers were forced to one is going' to be able to find one.” Ed. Note: Naturally, the New my daughter, 14 and my son, 12 work in the yards and Post — LEON TROTSKY York PM and Chicago Sun, which (he is only interested in Hi-Ho The Stalinist prattle about the “golden era of Office Terminal Annex for Army purport to be liberal and pro Silver! etc. on the radio). I re Teheran” and the glib repetition by the liberals and Militarism pay. This year, however, far from labor, are not making public the call a cartoon I saw in the Appeal labor fakers of Roosevelt’s grandiose promise are a being^ny shortage of labor, there In his January 6 message to the new Congress, fact that their owner, Marshall to Reason in my youth, of old cover-up for the real “postwar” future under capital was such an oversupply that all Field III, holds large interests in JOIN US IN FIGHTING FOR: Roosevelt bluntly demanded a federal law to make Henry Dubbs (how the fat capi ism: wage-slashing, unionbusting and mass unemploy of the extra help was hired by southern textile mills, nine of talist rode around on Henry’s ment. m ilitary conscription permanent. Such legislation the day and hundreds of men them in Draper, Leaksville and 1. M ilitary training of workers, financed (not boys but laborers capable of shoulders until Henry Jr. grew would profoundly alter the character of American Spray, North Carolina. up, when he rode on Junior’s jy the government, but under control doing the heaviest work) would life during peacetime, forcing every youth in the ! This information was made shoulders). wait hoping to get a days work public in the January 1942 Tex- of the trade unions. Special officers’ land to undergo compulsory military training for I think perhaps the greatest in order to get something for I tile Labor, official organ of the one or more years. impression made on me as a boy Where the Carrion Lies training camps, financed by the gov their families for Christmas. CIO Textile Workers Union, and was by actually experiencing dra This is the first time Roosevelt has openly in Even at the peak of the rush, re p rin te d in the Jan ua ry 17, 1942 ernment but controlled by the trade ma from real life. An aged Ne sisted on peacetime conscription. Last year, he scores of these men would be Militant. Textile Labor reported gro, a former slave, came over to The Vultures Hover turned away to return the next that these mills were organized unions, to train workers to become called for a National Service Act for young people help my father cut weeds out of day or another shift, still hoping I only “after bitter company op that would force them to give up a year of their his cornfield, and during the day o ffic e rs . to get on. In the meantime, the position.” The company, it further The notorious slogan of American imperialism, he made this remark to my dad lives in the service of the nation. change in conditions ha^s brought ! reported, refused to renew the “trade follows the flag,” is already heard above the and me: "A lot of colored folks 2. Trade union wages for all workers Now Roosevelt is seizing what he thinks to be a no change in the arrangement union contract which contained roaf of shells and bombs just reaching their peak of j begged Massa to take them back golden opportunity to ram this legislation through w ith the A rm y . This year as | “improvements which are now slaughter and devastation in Europe. For where the drafted into the army. after the War was over.” usual, the soldiers were forced to I standard practice.” Negotiations carrion is, the vultures hover. And first to swarm to Congress. The reverses on the battlefront and the I th in k I read Uncle T om ’s Ca work on the mails for Army pay, were conducted by the U. S. De the feast on the prostrate prey of Europe are the 3. Full equality for Negroes in the armed heavy casualties cast such a pall that Roosevelt bin at approximately the same thus throwing other men out of partment of Conciliation. On De American bankers, vanguard of “ dollar imperialism.” forces and the war industries— Down hopes the public will not oppose the proposed new w ork. cember 20, 1942,'the government time, and being a boy I couldn’t tie Simon Legree’s treatment to A January 3 United Press dispatch from London federal law. This is the way the Govern conciliators proposed a basis of with Jim Crowism everywhere. a desire to go back to Massa. (I reports that “20 American bankers spent last night Roosevelt is carrying out the conspiracy of Big ment pampers the big railroads settlement acceptable to the didn’t know the meaning of econ gazing at the coast of Britain while their ship rode at which are making bigger profits union, but which the company re 4. Confiscation of all war profits. Expro Business to Prussianize America. Proof that such omic pressure at the time). But I anchor waiting to go to France.” They lacked visas than ever before due to tremen jected. a conspiracy exists is irrefutable. Last September, heard literate workers say to me, for Britain, so could not land there before proceeding priation of all war industries and their dously increased traffic, increased If “A Reader” is questioning “Why bite the hand that feeds Charles E. Wilson, president of the General Elec rates and frozerf low wages, to our reference to Field’s connec to the continent. They are, however, the vanguard of operation under workers’ control. you?” How absurd this sounds tric Corporation, speaking before the Arm y Ord say no th in g of the widespread use tion with PM, we bring his atten “ 700 busiriesspieh granted permits to resume business” to us comrades, but if we could of faulty stock which is largely tion to the paper’s daily published in “liberated” Europe. 5. A rising scale of wages to meet the nance Association, told the brass hats and Big Busi just sell the masses on the fact responsible for the tragic acci statement of ownership: “PM The most vexing problem for these big business ness representatives present that it was necessary that we feed ourselves and also rising cost of living. dents so numerous in recent (O ffices, 164 Duane St., N ew agents is lack of transportation, it is claimed. But to "set the machinery in motion” for a program the employer, we would c.ertainly months'. Y o rk 13, N . Y .) is owned and pub a Paris dispatch to the N. Y. Times gives the as of peacetime militarization, because “ the revulsion have come a long way. 6. W orkers Defense Guards against vigil There is plently of resentment lished daily except Saturday by surance that “this problem will be eased shortly.” against these conditions by sol The Newspaper PM, Inc.: MAR H . C. against war not too long hence w ill be an almost Then the impatient plutocratic swarm will join “the ante and fascist attacks. diers and workers alike, both SHALL FIELD, president.” C incin na ti insuperable obstacle to overcome.” pioneers now' in Paris. . . Phil Copeland of General 7. An Independent Labor Party based on Roosevelt’s demand for peacetime conscription Motors, Alan Arx-agon of a Morgan banking firm and the Trade Unions. proves that Big Business is already preparing for Augustus Rode and E. M. Ryan of International a Third World War. Harvester.” 8. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern The workers, however, cannot oppose the princi It isn’t all pretzels and beer for these hardy pioneers. These bankers and industrialists have to be m e n t. ple of m ilitary training. Nowadays all questions are settled in the final analysis by armed power. rugged. They have made “ the unpleasant discovery that the Army is in very nearly total possession of 9. The defense of the Soviet Union It would be folly, consequently, to reject training reformist Socialist Party control Spain the hotel facilities of Paris, that they cannot eat in that could save the labor movement from destruc led the mass following. But the against im perialist attack. Signs are multiplying that the latter’s treacherous policies have "Liberation" •Army messes and that a dinner on the black market tion at the hands of a fascist m inority in this coun bloody Franco dictatorship is runs from $10 up”. since placed it in great discredit The disillusionment of sol try. tottering and mass unrest, includ with the Workers. Today, the “So diers fighting in the Second But that’s a small sacrifice to pay for the privilege ing armed clashes with Franco’s But to safeguard its own interests labor must cialist” leaders are trying to sur Imperialist World War is re of being first on the scene to grab the spoils of im troops and police, are increasing. Labor Solidarity vive by clinging to the detested flected in the changing slang perialist conquest. exercise control over military training. That is why An evidence of the instability Allied puppet regime of Pierlot. phrases, which become more The life and death question facing the Greek trade union militants áre duty .bound to demand of Franco’s regime is indicated Hatred for the Pierlot regime and more cynical as the war by the recent stir among the vari workers in the civil war provoked by the Allies is that m ilitary training be taken out of the hands and a desire for revolutionary aims of the capitalists grow ous political faetjons ' in exile aid from the working class in the rest of Europe of the reactionary brass hats and placed under the change have turned the Belgian more clear. Latest example in which aspire to return to power —and Great Britain and the United States. The control of the trade unions. masses in the direction ,of the the British army, according to Federal Court Goes Easy in Spain. Stalinist party, which they mis the New Statesman and Na Greek workers lack abundant m ilitary supplies. One faction, the Spanish “ Dem takenly believe to be still the tion, is this one: They lack an industrial machine to produce such ocrats,” led by Miguel Maura in party of the October Revolution. “ In the early stages of this On Corporation Criminals Paris, is reported to be seeking supplies. No matter how heroically they fight, the The active role of the Stalinists war if you got extra leave or an agreement with Franco in or Greek partisans are doomed in a purely m ilitary Fiction A nd Fact in the anti-Nazi resistance move gasoline or rations, you were der to establish a new "demo “The quality of mercy is not strained” whenever ment and the victories of the Red said to have ‘organized’ them. struggle against the Allied aggressor with his m il When he asked for a declaration of war, Roose cratic” government “without civil the capitalist courts deal with big business criminals. Army have further enhanced The latest variant I have heard lions of troops and unlimited sources of materiel. war.” . This idea has received A federal court in Newark, N. J., recently gave velt told the American people that the United Stalinist prestige. was -.in a conversation in a unofficial support from the Vati another typical example of that “justice tempered The situation faced by the Greek workers has States was entering the conflict to save the world train, where a soldier opposite can, since it was endorsed by In the first wave of revolution with mercy” tbw'ard corporate crooks w'hich the courts a historic precedent. The Bolsheviks, when they for democracy. He spoke about Four Freedoms ary upsurge, it is to be expected said to his friend: ‘That’s ‘ a 11 Popolo’s editor, Guido Gonella, rarely display toward luckless workers caught in the led the Russian workers in overthrowing the Rus that the Allied armies would bring to the people that the workers should turn to fine coat you have. Where did “known to be very close to toils of the law. sian capitalists, were destitute of m ilitary resources. of Europe. He talked about the necessity of com the Stalinist Party. That, how you liberate that?” ’ Vatican circles and his opinions The government had instituted criminal proceedings are in te rpre te d as expressing ever, is a temporary phase. Tlie But they called ojn the workers of the rest of the batting fascism and nazism. Churchill sold the against nine leading corporations and their officers Vatican thought in the matter,” Belgian workers will turn (N. Y. Times, January 4). He world to save them from Allied intervention. The same bill of goods to the English workers. against Stalinism as fast-unfold has ceded to this point of view for collusive bidding on war contracts for the manufac workers responded. The power of the working class reports ’ the January 6 N. Y. Most of the workers and farmers undoubtedly Times. ing events disclose its counter under British pressure and with ture of wire cable. These corporations included in-B ritain, and Europe, in the U. S. and other took Roosevelt's declarations for good coin. They Juan Negrin, lost Premier of revolutionary aims. Some of the the example of Greece before General Electric, Anaconda Wire and Cable, Phelps capitalist countries was decisive in saving the hate fascism and nazism. They know what hap the defeated Loyalist government, best revolutionary elements have him . Dodge Copper Products, American Steel and Wire, already begun to find their way young workers’ state from the m ilitary might of pened to the workers and poor people under the broke a five-year political silence The proposal for a regency General Cable, National Electric Products, Rockbestos last week in a statement to an to the Fourth International. The council is contained in an agree Products, Okonite and Collyer Insulated Wire. the imperialist bandits. savage rule of Hitler and Mussolini. Democratic London Times, November 21, con anti-Franco rally in New York. m ent w hich P rem ier Iva n Suba, But these corporate criminals, holding hundreds of The policy of the Bolsheviks offers the only road rights, they are convinced, must be defended tains the first capitalist press sitch of the Yugoslav government Thus putting in his revived bid millions in government war contracts, are not going out for the Greek workers. This policy is contin against the attack of reaction. mention of the activity of “Trot made with Tito and brought to for leadership of- a Spanish capi to jail. They pleaded the usual “ nola contendere,” no talist republic. He hopes, as ever, skyists” in Belgium. London on December, 10, 1943. ued today in the program of Trotskyism. A party But the reality of the struggle has proved to lit contest of the government’s charges, a virtual ad based on this program would centralize the strug quite different from what Roosevelt promised. to avert a socialist revolution. Among the signatories of the Meanwhile, the Spanish masses pAct which set up the present mission of guilt. Then, the broad-minded judge merely gle, explain to the American and British workers First there were deals with former Nazi collabora are not waiting for the Mauras Yugoslavia Yugoslav coalition government, imposed a total of $70,000 in fines—a microscopic the real situation in Greece, the revolutionary aims tors such as Darlan. Then there were deals with and Negrins. Repeated struggles the Stalinist-monarchical combi fraction of the war profits the defendants have clean The Allied powers and the of the Greek workers and the counter-revolution- former pillars of fascism such as Badoglio and the have been reported from Spain nation sponsoring the regency, is ed up on their illegal practices. I Kremlin bureaucracy are trying in recent weeks. The latest was Dr. Jurg Sutej. He was finance In addition, the government kindly agreed to ary aims of Allied imperialism! Such a party would Italian monarch. to pave tlie way for restoration a battle between guerilla forces minister under the savage regime dismiss all pending civil proceedings for the recovery fight for socialism and begin organizing a work Now the workers and farmers in the Allied ar of hated and currently jobless Eu and Franco police that raged of Prince Paul who preceded King ropean monarchs, now quartered of excess profits.” It was announced that the ers’ state in Greece. mies are ordered to shoot down the very people during Christmas week at TA'r- Peter. Sutej, a Croat, went over in Britain, through the device of defendant corporations had niade a “settlement,” in Above all, the revolutionary socialist party they thought were to be freed. In Belgium the ragona. Many arrests have been to H itler’s side, transferring $10.- "regencies.” which they henceforth agreed" to accept the Navy De reported in Madrid, Barcelona 000,000 of Yugoslav governm ent would link the struggle of the Greek workers with American general Eisenhower gave these orders; in Greece and Italy have set the funds from America to Argentina, partment’s determination of a “reasonable return” that of the workers throughout Europe. The im Greece the British general Scobie. How bitter the and Saragossa. pattern for the regency method vdiere it is being used by Croa on contracts. of preserving monarchism. Yugo perious Allied command to disarm and bow meek Allied troops must feel when they are forced to tia’s pro-Nazi Quisling govern The magnitude of the profits raked in by these slavia, under the control of ly before a counter-revolutionary puppet govern level their guns on the European workers who are ment. Today Sutej holds the (torporations, with the aid of their criminal practices, Belgium Stalinist Marshal Tito’s forces ment has been addressed to the workers of Italy, fighting for their freedom! posts in the Tito government of is indicated by an announcement of U. S. Attorney The Belgian Communist (Stal and the Red Army, is the next France and Belgium as well as the workers of Thus Roosevelt's promises have turned out to Minister of Finance, Trade and John McGohey. He reported that these corporations inist) Party has recently experi country slated for a regency, as War. As for Tito’s Prime Minis have renegotiated the contracts involved in the col Greece. be treacherous fiction. The reality of this war is enced a phenomenal growth. a bridge to the ultimate restora ter, Subasitch, he openly defended lusive bidding and made restitution to the government The main strategic problem facing the European becoming more evident' each day. It is not at all RraPeau Jtouge. the Stalinist dai tion of King Peter. the previous Yugoslav Pact with workers is to unite politically against the common a struggle for democracy against fascism, but a ly, is , reported^ to have over 140.- Peter at first balked at the idea Hitler and as Governor of Croatia of “excess profits” amounting to $100,000,000. And 000 circulation, an enormous fig that’s just part of the loot! evil of capitalist rule. Everywhere the workers face sordid struggle betweeh imperialist gangs, over col of a regency, but at. latest reports, introduced anti-Semitic legisla ure fog tiny Belgium. he “is reconciled to the idea” tion. Such is the “democratic” Thus, corporation swindlers of hundreds of millions a common enemy— the tiny rapacious imperialist onies, spheres of influence, economic and m ilitary Prior to the war," the Stalinists provided it is “one he himself, regime Stalin and the Allies have are “punished” with picayune fines that their firms cliques. bases. exercised a lesser influence. The would he allowed to appoint.”,) •imposed bn Yugoslavia. probably charge up to “petty cash.”