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Vol. XXIV — No. 47 NEW YORK. N. Y., MONDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1960 P ric e 10c Auto Group Calls “Algeria Is Algerian!" Steel Production For "30-for-40" Plunges to Lowest Urges Nationwide Conference Of AFL-CIO in Fight for Jobs Since the Thirties DETROIT, Dec. 19 — The immediate calling of a national conference of all AFL-CIO unions to fight for Corporations Decide to Stop the 30-hour week at 40-hours pay, and to formulate a united legislative program for Bares Truth Announcing Rate of Capacity the new Congress, was proposed Socialist Slate here last week by the National About Crisis By Tom Kerry Committee for Democratic Ac Dec. 22 — It is estimated that the rate of steel produc tion in the United Automobile Wins Gains in Workers union, . In Caribbean tion next week w ill be at 40 per cent of capacity or lower. The proposal was made in the Remember how Eisenhower Next week’s rate, says the Dec. 20, New York Times, “may form of a letter by NCFDA be the lowest for a nonstrike period since the depression Toronto Race Chairman Eugene Hoffman to ordered the U.S. fleet into the Walter Reuther and the UAW Caribbean in November to “pro days of the Nineteen Thirties.” The Toronto municipal elec international executive board, tect” the dictators in Nicaragua The hoped for rise in steel demand by the auto industry tion Dec. 5 was the most fruitful which was holding a meeting in and Guatemala from being over one for socialists in a decade. Detroit. The letter also out failed to materialize. With car- The Socialist Educational League lined a program of action to thrown by “Communist” forces inventory now over the one-mil contested for mayor and con mobilize the UAW membership from abroad? Here is how Rich lion mark auto producers are Laos Dictator troller while the Young Socialist in preparation for contract ne ard Dudman, in the Nov. 27 St. welcoming the holiday shut Alliance ran an effective ward down. gotiations in 1961. Louis Post-Dispatch, describes campaign for the Board of Edu The slump in steel and auto, * The NCFDA has been active the true facts about what hap Fits State Dept. cation. While they were hit by all year popularizing the need those sensitive barometers of the a news blackout in the daily for the 30-hour week, which pened in the two Central Amer health of the economy, is re press they got on radio and TV has been gaining support from ican countries: flected in the rise of unemploy For the first time in the six-year struggle for independence from imperialist France, the Specifications for the first time and aroused an UAW locals as unemployment ment and part-time employ masses in Algiers poured out of the Casbah in a mighty demonstration that brought new power “In Nicaragua, the outbreak of “The forces of pro-American encouraging amount of interest has grown. Its letter was ment. Unemployment is now to the rebel side. In the face of machinegun lire from the French army, young Algerians con Nov. 11 was made by a group counter- revolutionary Gen. and support for their campaign. sharply critical of the Reuther nearing the five-million mark. tinued to wave flags of the National Liberation Front and to shout "Independence!" "Down of about 1 0 sons of wealthy Phoumi Nosavan were in control Ross Dowson, SEL candidate leadership because “no action The number of workers on short leaders of the Conservative op of Ventiane after two days of for mayor, polled 1,656 votes in other than lip service has been with the Ultras!" and "Long Live the FLN!" Still wearing their traditional veils, women were weeks is estimated at close to a contest heavily stacked against in the forefront of the demonstration with a "You-you-you" cry that struck terror among the position. They had taken part fighting which set buildings i n taken by the UAW executive in an abortive uprising a few two million. And the curve in him . board. . . . Certainly your share- French "ultras" who oppose independence. both categories is upward. the administrative capital months before and were said to ablaze. . . . General Phoumi is Alan Harris, SEL nominee for the-profits plan is not a full be sm arting from taunts that Deputy Premier in a regime now controller, won 14,674 votes. employment plan. A share-the- Heads in Sand John Darling, YSA candidate they had failed to fire a shot. recognized by the United States work plan is the only practical The steel barons have a rather for board of education, received Criminal Action “The group, armed with sub as the legitimate government of road to full employment.” Teachers Pay Cut Off unique solution for the problem 6,043 votes, 21 per cent of the machine guns, took over Guar- Laos.” of growing unemployment in the total cast in the ward. Convention Instructions dia Nacional headquarters at That in a nutshell was the sit industry. They propose to dis Dowson had to buck opposi Urged Against Jinotepe and Diriamba, 25 miles uation in Laos Dec. 17, as re It also noted that the last By Louisiana Racists continue, after Jan. 1, the publi tion from the officials of the south of Managua, and am ported in brutally frank terms UAW convention, held in 1959, cation of figures showing the Toronto and District Labor bushed government reinforce by Ronald Stead, Southeast Asia specifically instructed the lead As the New Orleans crisis of corted her daughter through the Tenn. Racists rate of operation in the steel in Council. While these officials ments arriving from Managua, Correspondent of the Christian ership to prepare and publicize token school integration en mob of egg-hurling .hoodlums. With many Negro families al dustry. This is on the theory had declared they we re not for tered its sixth week Dec. 19, the k illin g 1 1 guardsmen and Science Monitor. a program for the shorter work Mr. Gabrielle was fired from his ready living in roadside tents, that what the people don’t see the Tory or Liberal candidates, wounding nine others. . . . week. B ut: racist-controlled Louisiana state job as a gas-meter reader for the federal government has they can’t know — and what The ousted government, they said they did not feel that legislature cut off the salaries refusing to retreat from his pro "No action has been taken, filed suit in two Tennessee “A gang of perhaps 200 mem they don’t know can’t hurt which is backed by the work D owson’s clear-cut working- of all the city’s teachers. The integration stand. The police or educational effort made, to counties to block the slated bers of a pro-Castro youth, them! It’s more com m only ers and peasants, was fighting class program represented “the move aimed at forcing the clos failed to provide them adequate comply w ith these instruc Jan. 1 eviction of 700 Negro group, knowing something was known as the “ostrich policy.” a defensive action in which aspirations of this council.” ing of the two previously all- protection. the outcome still remains un tions of the convention. Ac tenant farmers who dared to brewing, helped out by seizing Some time ago the United The Toronto press made spe white schools now being at So they finally packed up and certain. tually the question of the register at the polls. Hundreds briefly the central telephone and Steelworkers union published cial note of the fact that both tended by four Negro children. along with their six children re . shorter work week has been of, Negro farm ers w ho own telegraph office and a radio sta- figures showing that the indus In Washington there was Harris and Darling out polled A possible way out for the New turned to their former home in ’ avoided, even when Presi their own land and a number , tion in Jinotepe. By the next try can operate at 40 percent ca jubilation over “the breather ” Communist party candidates. Orleans school board came North Providence, R.I. dent-elect Kennedy reaffirmed of Negro businessmen are also morning the government had re pacity and still make a profit. for it was not necessary to write The CP did not run for mayor. when an heiress offered a half Mr. Gabrielle told news his opposition to a shorter being starved out by an or gained control. Technological advances in the off the $300,000,000 of A m erican million dollars to help meet the men, "We want people to work week at the Steelwork ganized racist boycott. The Ne “The closest thing to evidence process of steelmaking have tax-payers’ money that has been payroll. know how the minority has ers convention during the re groes involved say the civil of Castro’s participation were a sharply increased productivity. poured into Laos to shore up Meanwhile, eight white chil poisoned people's minds. It's cent campaign." suits are not enough to stop the few red and black flags and Today more than half the force the counter-revolution. Memorial Held dren continued to attend the the ignorance of the minor racists, who should be hit with Asking the UAW leadership banners found afterward in the is partially employed or totally Frantz school with the lone Ne ity that caused it all." federal criminal actions. Appeal for Help to “seriously consider the facts m ilitary post at. Jinotepe. They unemployed and tens of thou gro child enrolled there. The Mrs. Gabrielle said she was A Justice Department suit For Skoglund of life,” the NCFDA presented were crudely fashioned and ap sands w ill never again find em The revolutionary forces three other Negro children were “happy to be in Rhode Island, was filed Dec. 14 against 82 the following proposals: peared to have been made lo ployment in the industry under headed by Kong Le appealed NEW YORK — A memorial still alone at McDonogh school. but I hate to leave New Orleans. defendants in Fayette county, On the economic front: cally, but there is disagreement the current weekly work sched for help in their difficult meeting for Carl Skoglund was Two new white children en That was my home. I hope that including more than 45 land (1) Immediate action to eli whether by the conservative ule. I struggle. They have accepted held here Dec. 18. tered Frantz as one was forced integration succeeds. I still be owners, two dozen merchants minate all overtime schedules rebels or by the national guards The same process of mechani aid from Communist-led guer The principal speaker was to drop out. (The other absence lieve in the principle of inte and one bank. A similar suit and get additional shifts to ab men as fabricated evidence. . . . zation and automation is being rilla forces. Last week the press Farrell Dobbs, national secre was unaccounted for.) gration.” was filed earlier in neighboring sorb the unemployed auto introduced throughout the whole reported that they had received tary of the Socialist. Workers The drop out was the daugh Meanwhile, Ellen Steinberg Haywood county. Like a Comic Opera workers. ^ of the American economy with some arms from the Soviet party and a close friend and as ter of Mr. and Mrs. James of New Y ork, who offered $500,- The campaign of economic (2) Ask the special UAW con similar effect. Millions of work Union, including a few heavy sociate of Carl’s since the days Gabrielle who were finally 0 0 0 to the school board with the victimization was opened last In Guatemala, the trouble be vention (A p ril 26-28) to make ers arc being squeezed out of the pieces of artillery. when they shared in the leader forced to leave town after tak understanding that it might not summer when a boldly or gan Nov. 13 with an attack by the 30-hour week at 40-hours productive process to swell the ship of the Minneapolis Team ing a, heroic stand against the be returned, paid tribute to the ganized drive by the Negroes junior army officers on Army But there were other reports pay the No. 1 demand in the growing number of unemployed sters’ strikes. racists. From the opening day Negro children who had to face in the area won voting rights headquarters in Guatemala City. that Soviet material aid from 1961 negotiations. workers. Chronic unemployment The meeting also heard Sherry of school Mrs. G abrielle es- the hate mob. for 1,400. The raiders quickly withdrew to Soviet forces is pitifully meager. (3) Im m ediate steps to e li is once again becoming a char* Finer of the Young Socialist A l “I realize I could never be The federal application for an the provincial city of Azacapa However, that may be, the minate speed-up. acteristic feature of American liance, who knew Carl from (4) Organize the unemployed able to put myself in their injunction charged that in ad and the Caribbean port of Puer Soviet Union charged Wash place,” she told the New York dition to the evictions, coercive to Barrios. President Ydigoras social life. ington with intervening in the childhood on, and a veteran to help stop overtime work and UN Congo Policy What we are witnessing to Minneapolis unionist who was win the shorter week. Post. “I couldn’t even try.” moves against Negro voters in personally directed a three-day internal affairs of Laos. The A psychiatric social worker cluded refusal to sell them aerial attack to retake the cities. day is a merging of the State Department response first introduced to socialism by (5) S ubm it to the referendum streams of "conjunctural" and Carl. Fred Halstead was chair vote of the entire membership Scored us by training, Miss Steinberg goods for cash or credit, refusal “Ydigoras later suspended the was in essence "You're an added: “Perhaps it is not the to renew various types of insur "structural" unemployment. It other!" man. a list of basic contract demands, NEW YORK, Dec. 19 — Daniel newspaper El Imparcial because children who are the real suf ance policies and refusal, to pro is estimated that the peak will Meanwhile the conflict be He read messages to the meet beginning with 30-for-40, and H. Watts, chairman of the Lib its publisher reported from ferers. Those who jerred and vide goods and services to Ne be reached in February when tween the contending forces in ing that arrived from Socialist including corporation-paid hos eration Committee for Africa, Puerto Barrios that the whole spit arc the ones in shackles. gro merchants. the number of unemployed Laos appears to have developed Workers blanches and from pitalization and insurance; low charged the U.S. and Belgium incident there was like a comic They are loaded down with The skepticism of the Negro may reach seven million. It into a civil war in which the Carl’s comrades and friends ering of retirement age to 60; and their NATO partners with opera and that the rebels could bigotry and prejudice. How can community about the federal would be folly for the labor counter-revolutionaries are in across the country. increase in SUB payments and trying to carry out a thoroughly have been put down by two they possibly be free human action was reported in a Dec. movement to wait until then tent on establishing a naked [See pages two and three for full coverage for the entire racist policy in the. Congo, in truckloads of soldiers instead of beings?” 10 dispatch to the Philadelphia before taking effective action. dictatorship completely depend articles about Carl Skoglund.] (Continued on Page 3 ) Algeria, and elsewhere in Africa the $1,000,000 a ir attack. O ther Explaining why she offered Tribune. The dispatch said: Now is the time for the AFL- ent on Washington for arms and and in the United Nations. observers tended to support the the money, which the school “Negro leaders say that a law CIO tops to call a nationwide finances. “Unfortunately," Watts said, newspaper account.” board says it is considering ac suit filed by federal officials in unemployment conference in Gen. Phoumi shrilly proclaims “UN Secretary General Dag cepting, she said: “I get so im Haywood county has not had Washington to be attended by his “anti-Communism,” his Uphaus, Pauling Urge Hammarskjöld appears to have patient with all of the destruc much effect in stopping the boy rank-and-file delegates from un aversion to friendly relations become caught up in this policy. tive pettiness that goes on in cott. W hat is needed is c rim N e x t W eek ions throughout the country. Let with China and North Vietnam, One has only to hear Hammar this world. If everybody would inal action for violating the the new administration know and his opposition to “Neutral The issues involving the New Spirit of Militancy skjöld maintain he has no man invest more in people instead rights of American citizens. what the working people of, this ism .” date to use force in the Congo of things, we’d all really be Letters to that effect to the De Cuban Electrical Workers country want them to do about From the vie w p o in t of. the By William A. Price when African and Asian UN much happier. It’s time we partment of Justice, Washing union. fulfilling their campaign pro State Department, he appears personnel in the Congo are Dr. Willard Uphaus, lay reli bol through which many un- learned to love One another.” ton, D.C., are in order.” mises. to be an ideal puppet. gious leader and pacifist, and dersood the continuing threat molested and abused, by mem Dr. Linus Pauling, Nobel prize- of McCarthyite legislative com bers of the armed gang headed winning scientist, have emerged mittees. by Joseph D. M obutu, the U.S. from the ordeal of prison and Dr. Uphaus spoke of the Po and Belgian puppet in Leopold ville. Yet when there are merely Kennedy Rewards Arthur J. Goldberg congressional slander to call for laris Action protests of pacifists a new militancy in the fight who. had boarded nuclear sub rumors of some whites being en By Tom Kerry groups. Kennedy also lauded holding whispered consultations against inquisitorial legislative marines in New London, Conn., dangered by forces still loyal to Goldberg for his role in driving with, the union bureaucrats on on the need for increased gov an apostle of full production to committees. and also of one of the many the only legitimate government If Kennedy’s appointment of the Teamsters union out of the the platform and lengthier eminent intervention in union meet the “Communist chal Dr. Uphaus, imprisoned in demonstrations in support of of the Congo headed by Premier Arthur J. Goldberg as Secretary AFL-CIO after the McClellan conferences in hotel and office affairs. Goldberg has recently lenge” Goldberg has been virtual solitary confinement for his stand against informing on Patrice Lumumba, Mr. Ham of Labor is intended as a pay Committee smear attack on the rooms with the union brass, ad been beating the drums for the preaching the necessity for un marskjöld frantically rushed off for labor’s support in the 1 2 months, was released from the guests of the World Fel unions. vising, counselling, directing. establishment of a permanent trammeled acceleration of
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Vol. XXIV — No. 47 Monday, December 26, 1960 28, 1943, at a banquet given in honor of the 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers party and Motor Transport Workers union, "30-for-40" Needed Now Local 544, convicted under the antilabor Smith “Gag” Act, his The struggle for the shorter work Donald is compelled to recognize it, is the remarks were brief but pro phetic: week has been traditional with the Ameri reduction of the work week with no reduc " I can guarantee you," he can labor movement. The fight for the tion in pay. Because of the deep-seated said, "that we are not the last eight-hour day is part of the glorious his American tradition, most labor statesmen ones that will go to prison for tory of the workers movement in this give lip service to the demand for a reduc their political opinions. Many country. In the years of the Great Depres tion of the work week. of the best thinkers in the past have gone but I hope that such sion and its aftermath many unions fought With some 500,000 members of his sacrifices w ill be reduced to a for and won the six-hour day. Unfortun union totally unemployed or working minimum and that the work ately some were seduced by the siren song short weeks, McDonald has been talking a ing class will come to under of patriotism into surrendering what had lot about leading the fight for a 32-hour stand and to prevent them." The 18 victims of the Min been gained in bitter battle. week. He made a big point of this at the neapolis witch-hunt trial were A result of the movement for the recent Steelworkers convention in Atlantic certainly not “the last” to go shorter work week was the Wage and Hour City. However, when John F. Kennedy, to prison under the notorious Law, the last piece of major social legisla convention guest speaker and presidential Smith Act, but they were the tion to be won by the American workers, candidate, went out of his way to repudi first. Before the end of the decade,- the leaders of the Com enacted in 1938. That was 22 years ago. It ate the proposals, McDonald didn’t say a munist party, who had joined established, for most workers, a basic 5- mumbling word. the pack in clamoring for the day, 40-hour week. Nor has he said anything since his imprisonment of the 18 were, Since then the productivity of Ameri * very close friend and trusted adviser, A r in turn, placed in the dock and can labor has increased by leaps and thur J. Goldberg, recent Kennedy ap hounded into prison, Although tardy in learning their lesson bounds. Automation and mechanization in pointee as Secretary of Labor, came out they later did change their American mines, factories, offices and publicly against the shorter work week as position on defense of all work transportation facilities, has made possible a means of combatting unemployment. In ing-class victims of the witch the production, processing and distribu the light of his silence can McDonald be hunt. tion of an ever larger mountain of com taken seriously as a champion of the Along with his 17 comrades Carl Skoglund was sentenced modities with fewer and fewer workers. struggle for the shorter work week? We America's first Smith Act victims leave in a body from non. Immediately behind them are Oscar Coover and Carl to 16 months in federal prison Spectacular technological advances in doubt it! Knowing the man, it is probably Socialist Workers party headquarters in Minneapolis Dec. 31, Skoglund (right). at Sandstone, Minnesota, as 1943, to march to the U.S. Marshal's office. There they were Others in the march included Farrell Dobbs, a key figure McDonald’s idea to attempt to disarm the all economic fields is creating an ever more the first victims of the Smith taken into custody and sent Jan. 3, 1944, to the federal in the great organizing drives of the Teamsters union, a num pressing problem of structural unemploy opposition in his union by appearing to be "Gag" Law. penitentiary at Sandstone, Minn. They served 13 months of ber of well-known leaders of the Minneapolis Truckdrivers ment — that is, workers who are perman somewhat of a radical himself. The Smith Act was adopted their 16 months sentences. In the front rank march Vincent Union Local 544-CIO, and prominent leaders and members of in 1940, after the outbreak of ently replaced by the machine and sent to Walter Reuther, head of the United R. Dunne (left) and SWP National Secretary James P. Can the Socialist Workers party. World War II. It was the first join the growing army of chronically un Automobile Workers, has often played that law since the notorious Alien & employed. This process is seen most game with the 30-for-40 demand. As have Sedition Laws of 1798 to make the Roosevelt government se head of the International Local 544 rejected this pro press: “When I advised the graphically in the steel industry which is so many of the other labor statesmen. In thinking and the expression of lected to strike down the Brotherhood of Teamsters and posal and at a regular mem President of Tobin’s representa able to supply all the steel required by the view of this record it is encouraging to see opinion a federal crime. leadership of Truckdrivers Lo an influential labor figure in the bership meeting held on June tions this morning, he asked me The AFL and CIO opposed its cal 544 and send the 18 to Democratic party. With the out 9, 1941, attended by some 4,000 to immediately have the Gov enormous American industrial complex that the rank-and-file oppositions in both enactment and stigmatized it as prison. break of the war in Europe and members, a practically unan ernment departments and agen while operating at only 40 per cent of auto and steel have correctly advanced an anti-labor measure. The The prosecution of Carl Skog Roosevelt’s preparation to in imous vote was taken to dis cies interested in this matter capacity. the struggle for the 30-hour week at 40- American Civil Liberties Union lund and his comrades arose di volve this country the clashes affiliate from the AFL and notified.” (N.Y. Times, June 14, The obvious answer, so obvious that hours pay as central to their programmatic pleaded with President Roose rectly out of the influence of the with Tobin became more acute. join the CIO. 1941) even steel union president David J. Mc- fight. velt to veto the Smith Act be Socialist Workers party in the The conflict came to a head in Tobin immediately called This was followed by raids on cause it violated the Bill of Minneapolis trade-union move June 1941 when a committee of upon President Roosevelt for the headquarters of the Social Rights. Its author, Howard W. ment. Members and sympath Local 544 leaders was summoned help. As a member of the Demo ist Workers party in Minne Smith of Virginia, gained his izers of the SWP played a lead to appear before a meeting of cratic party’s National Commit apolis and St. Paul, indictments The Santa Claus Boycott notoriety as a savage foe of ing role in Truckdrivers Local the Teamsters International tee and head of the Democratic and arrests of 29 members of the labor, civil liberties and civil 544. It was under the guidance Executive Board in Washington, party Labor Committee in the SWP and of the newly formed rights. of this union and its leadership D.C. to answer charges of “ radi 1940 election, Tobin saw eye to Motor Transport and Allied Not all of the decline in department sensitive part of the white supremacist’s Although Roosevelt vetoed that Minneapolis became trans calism” filed against them. There eye with Roosevelt on the war Workers Industrial Union, Local store sales can be attributed to the eco anatomy—like that of his Yankee cousin in the measure, his administration formed from one of the foremost Tobin demanded that the 544 policy of the administration. 544, CIO. applied little or no pressure to open-shop cities in the U.S. to a delegation “request” his ap Roosevelt quickly responded Of the 29 originally indicted, nomic downturn or other such “natural” the North — is his pocketbook. “Hit them in the pocketbook,” is the rallying cry of have the veto sustained and the strongly organized union town. pointment of a dictator-re- to the appeal of his friend, the 18 were convicted and sentenced causes, say executives in metropolitan Smith Act became law by ac Because of the militant policy ceiver over the union, with ab union bureaucrat, faced with a to terms up to 16 months, among the Santa Claus boycott. centers throughout the Deep South. Pre- tion of a reactionary majority of the leaders of Local 544 they solute powers, including the membership revolt. them Carl Skoglund who, as a The boycott has proven an effective in both houses of Congress. came repeatedly into collision power to expel any union mem Stephen * Early, Roosevelt’s member of the SWP and leader Christmas sales have skidded so steeply companion piece to the sitdown in the This was the weapon that with Dan Tobin, bureaucratic ber. press secretary, informed the of the Truckdrivers played a in a number of major cities in,the area that arsenal of weapons against the Jim Crow prominent role in organizing investigators probing for the reason have system. Businessmen of cities in the “not- the union and carrying forward the struggle for socialism. come up with an answer unique in com so-deep-south” have felt the sharp cutting The government took three mercial history: a Santa Claus boycott! edge of the boycott weapon and have "Don't Mourn; But Organize" weeks to present its case in the “The Santa Claus boycott,” says the blanched at the blood-letting suffered by Minneapolis trial. Aside from Dec. 20, Wall Street Journal, “is the latest their profit ledgers. Many have come to [O u t of the m any messages you go!” For those of us who knew thoughts and actions pointed in the perjured “evidence” of gov in a series of economic measures Negroes received at the memorial meet He prided himself on being in Skogie, his death creates a void only one direction — the social ernment informers and stool see the light and some have integrated ing for Carl Skoglund in New touch with, history and to Carl that cannot be filled. During his ist revolution and the society have adopted in their struggle for integra pigeons the prosecution intro their lunch counters. Not so the mer York Dec. 18, we are publish this meant consciousness of last years he found constant in of the future. duced into evidence over 150 tion; it is aimed prim arily at drug, variety chants of the Deep South. At least not ing the following selection. We man’s past, present and future spiration in the growing number Boston SWP “exhibits” consisting of official and department store chains in the Deep yet! But judging by the caterwauling and have taken the liberty of con —combined with the necessity of youth attracted to our move documents and articles pub densing some of them.— Editor.] to do something about it. ment. In turn, he inspired many South states of Georgia, South Carolina, hand-wringing going on in the business Carl was a truly great and lished by the Socialist Workers Denver SWP of us, both by the exam ple of Alabama and Mississippi.” fearless man who had the cour party together with many of the community of the Deep South the boycott his own life and by his rich The party has lost a true and age to live as he believed. Those best-known works by Marx, En In the course of their heroic struggle is beginning to hurt. , understanding and optimism devoted pioneer in whom the Carl used to kid about shar who knew him and worked gels, Lenin and Trotsky. A ll to about the future. against Jim Crow the Negro people have And the unkindest cut of all is this best of its tradition was em ing his scientific knowledge with with him were indeed fortunate, prove “conspiracy” to teach learned the effectiveness of the economic most unique of all economic withdrawals— bodied. The working class has the youngsters at the Mountain The best possible tribute we as was my privilege for 28 and/or advocate the “overthrow boycott. They have learned that the most the Santa Claus boycott. lost a sterling fighter and Spring Children’s Camp, but he can pay to Skogie’s memory is years. Carl was always there. of the government by force or champion. knew as well as any of us how by redoubling our efforts to His passing leaves a numbing violence.” However, on such an occasion much he helped to carry our justify his confidence in us, by sadness. Most of these works were clas Carl himself would no doubt camp program. working even harder to build Jack Maloney sics translated into many lan Jim Crow Theaters Must Co! follow the example of Joe Hill, It was truly remarkable how the kind of a world that he guages and fo r p u b lic sale, in and say: “Don’t mourn, but or he studied and prepared for his fought for so well and couldn’t countries throughout the world, We mourn Carl’s passing. We A few determined individuals fighting National Theater in Washington closed its ganize. Organize and build the lectures to the kids. He knew live to see. including these benighted States party, build for the future of that little science is given to Detroit Young remember his selfless devotion for a principle can often achieve results doors to the legitimate theater for several of America. Among them was mankind.” • lower grade children and he Socialist Alliance and unflinching courage. They the Communist Manifesto, a clas have become a part of the basic in even the most conservative unions. A years rather than admit Negroes. Such Hildegarde and worked like the teacher of the sic work translated into as many substance of our party. case in point is the news th a t A c to r’s world-prominent performers as Marion Arne Swabeck future. He tried to help those languages as the Bible and sold It is hard to believe that the San Diego SWP Los Angeles kids zoom into the realm of publicly in about as many Equity, the union representing stage per Anderson had refused to appear at the staunch fighter for workers’ knowledge. And how proud he places. formers, has called upon the League of theater because of its Jim Crow policy. rights and a socialist America was when one of them would To his dying day Carl Skog- New York Theaters, the organization of Although the theater reopened after The world seems smaller, the is gone. Carl leaves us a proud Skogie was a very polite and human race is poorer without throw a question at him that generous man. At times he was lund remained true to the teach stage producers and theater owners, to end changing its policy the original clause re revealed serious interest. tradition and an example of un Carl Skoglund. Inspired in his flinching devotion to the cause strict. But he was strict be ing of the great Marxist masters segregation on stage or before the foot mained in the union contract. The most gratifying event of and neither government per youth by the socialist ideal, his of workers’ liberation. cause he didn’t want anything lights, on a nationwide scale. The question now arises as to what life in turn becomes an inspira the season would be the closing to harm us. Skogie also gave secution nor imprisonment could campfire with Skogie on a Joe Ross A movement begun by a few members course Actor’s Equity can take in view tion for young people rebelling Lbs Angeles us lectures on science every shake his faith in the ultimate bench telling about man. To a Thursday at children’s camp. victory of the working class to amend Rule 23 (B) of the contract has of the fact that the contract containing the against social injustice. He often experienced hard hushed audience, full of hot We w ill miss him very much. struggle for a new socialist posed pointblank the question of basic existing clause has been signed. In the ship and victimization, but he dogs and chocolate cake, he told An inspiration and pleasure Jack and Kent Sanders world of peace, security and principle and succeeded in setting in mo event the theater owners and producers never complained except about those little tykes about the ’34 to all who knew him. Though Oakland, Calif. plenty for all. tion a move to correct what is claimed to refuse to cooperate in amending the clause being forced out of the active teamsters’ strikes, about social gone from our sight, our Carl ism, sometimes a tale about be an oversight when negotiating the cur and other theatrical unions refuse to join battle temporarily, because he w ill never be forgotten. lived the only kind of life worth himself. The kids, to show their Allentown SWP rent contract. Rule 23 (B) now reads: Actor’s Equity in forcing the issue it living — the kind where you love of man, sang Solidarity. ... Auto Group Calls “The actor shall not be required to promises to break through the narrow con Pearl Spangler fight for what you believe, and (Continued fro m Page 1 ) year and the dismal failure of perform in any theater in Washington, fines of contractual relations and become try to practice what you preach. Philadelphia One more from the old guard of class fighters and interna period of layoff; corporation the International Union of Elec- D.C., where discrimination is practiced part of the general fight to overthrow Jim Detroit SWP trical Workers strike at General We mourn the death of Carl tional working-class citizens has payment of expenses and costs against any actor or patron of the theater Crow in all fields. gone. Let us bring the in to workers resulting from plant Electric, as well as our 1958 fail Comradely Carl Skoglund, Skoglund, socialist warrior for by reason of his race, color or creed.” Congratulations are due those who spiring story of these men to relocation; contracts of no more ure, call for united and deter big, capable, incorruptible, per over 50 years. Those who came mined action by all labor.” the youth who now emerge in than two years duration, with The amendment is simply to delete the through their initiative have succeeded in sonified in his lifetime the his to know Carl well feel a par growing numbers to undertake wages and other economic is It therefore called on the words “in Washington, D.C.” The rule was putting the issue right in the center of the to ric role of the w o rkin g class. tic u la r sense of loss. the task of principled struggle sues to be reopened in the in UAW board to ask the AFL- Now a part of our heritage, San Francisco SWP written into the contract in 1948 when the civil-rights spotlight. in the American socialist move terim year. CIO executive board to "im Carl’s example and abundant mediately convene a national ment. On the legislative front, the contribution to our movement The news of Carl’s death sad conference of all AFL-CIO Milwaukee SWP NÇFDA urged the UAW to seek continues to be for us an undy dened all of us here in Los An unions, to include rank-and- the following program from ing source of stimulation to geles. file delegates elected on a "No Defense" Congress: progress and confidence in our We were particularly for It is hard to believe that Carl per capita basis, to: (1) Amend the wage-hour law Some of the biggest companies in the the world are caught red-handed pilfering future. tunate at the West Coast Vaca has died. Just three months ago, “ (1) F orm ulate a united labor tion School in September to to provide the 30-hour week at electrical manufacturing field, including millions from the pockets of the public Chicago SWP when Carl was in Seattle he program and utilize the entire have his warmth, strength and 40-hours pay. they are permitted to enter into an agree found time to speak to a group resources of the AFL-CIO for the corporate giants, Westinghouse and fresh interest to enliven our (2) Lo w e r re tire m e n t age to a determined campaign for jobs ment with the public prosecutor to settle From those he taught their of young friends at an informal General Electric, have pleaded guilty to place in the class struggle to the encampment. Many o f the gathering at a comrade’s home. 60 and pass the Forand b ill. for all who want to work the matter on an amicable basis. younger comrades came to The young students told us they (3) Increase jobless compen through establishment of the 30- criminal antitrust charges. The indict little ones he taught about the In this instance the corporate pick sun and the stars and their know and appreciate him for learned more about the world sation and pay it to unemployed hour week with 40-hours pay ments charged price fixing and rigging of pockets were permitted to enter pleas of place in the universe — fare the first time. in an hour with Carl than in all during entire period of layoff. and elimination of overtime bids on heavy electrical apparatus sold to well and thanks. “Skogie” w ill live on with us their classes in the university. (4) Repeal all antilabor laws, with people laid off. “no defense” on some of the charges and as an inspiration for he was a including Taft-Hartley and “(2) Formulate a united legis private and government agencies. The Cleveland SWP Whole growing older, he kept to plead “guilty” on others. The plea of fine example of a worker who us all young. Landrum-Griffin. lative program for the incoming amount involved was close to $2 billion “no defense” is designed to avoid payment recognized the validity of so Seattle SWP (5) Enact a federal civil- Congress which w ill include the worth of products for each of three years We deeply mourn the passing cialist ideas and dedicated his rights law. above legislative program [pro of treble damages provided for antitrust of Carl Skoglund. His life-long from 1956 to 1959. law violators. life to furthering that ideology. (6) Pass laws to im prove posed for the UAW]. record as a fighter for socialism He was wherever that struggle Carl’s life represented to us housing, schools, hospitals, etc. “(3) Establish a united AFL- When a pickpocket is seized for snatch A number of individuals included in the w ill live with us as an inspira required him to be; in railroad everything that was decent in (7) Tax cuts fo r w o rkin g CIO and all-inclusive labor ing a purse, or picking a pocket, summary antitrust law violations come up for sen tion to carry on the struggle. yards, driving a truck, in the this filthy society that we live people. strike fund, democratically con Newark SWP and swift “justice” is meted out to the cul tencing probably in January. No big busi unemployed organizations, in in today. His work represents (8) Jobs fo r the unem ployed trolled, which w ill guarantee prit. A “stretch up the river” is the usual nessman has ever been jailed for violating the leadership of organizing the the continuity of Marxism from at trade-union wages. the implementation of the One of Carl’s favorite sayings teamsters, in prison, and at all the Russian Revolution up to (9) Peace with disarmament. united labor program through remedy prescribed for the criminal. But those laws. It w ill be interesting to see was, “Either you are in touch times a thinking and acting so today. He lived and acted like “Furthermore,” the NCFDA immediate collective bargaining when some of the largest corporations in what happens. with history or — in the ditch cialist. Los Angeles SWP a Marxist at. all times. A ll his continued, “the steel strike last and congressional action.” Page Four T H E MILITANT Monday, December 26, 1960 Kennedy's Billion-Dollar Cabinet They Stole Encouraging Cain for Socialism By Joseph Keller progressive Republicans as Gov. All sectors of the American Rockefeller. By Harry Ring SWP campaigners definitely press are making their ap “Mr. Nixon, I think, under M y Vote knew that votes had been cast praisals of President-elect John stood this. But President Eisen The 1960 socialist presidential for Dobbs and Weiss, not a vote represents an encouraging F. Kennedy’s cabinet. One of hower did not, and when he in SOCIALIST SOCIALIST single vote was reported in the trend. A total of 87,723 votes the very few dissents from the tervened in the campaign he For Dobbs STATE WORKERS LABOR TOTAL official return. The SLP reports almost unanimous approbation misrepresented wholly the eco were cast for Dobbs and Weiss of similar experiences. is voiced by that melancholy nomic philosophy of Kennedy By George Breitman the Socialist Workers party and Arizona 469 469 . Nevertheless, even the offi lib e ra l colum nist M u rra y in regard to the budget, spend Hass and Cozzini of the Socialist California 1,050 1,050 cial count is heartening. For the Kempton in the Dec. 12 New ing and saying, gold and the On Nov. 8 I entered a church Labor party. It was the largest Colorado 572 2,803 3,375 Dobbs-Weiss ticket, it reflected York Post. He called it “the dim balance of payments. The truth, at Linwood and Hogarth, a total socialist presidential vote Delaware 1 1 0 110 the growing desire for united so mest cabinet since Buchanan’s” as was evident to anyone who block from my home in Detroit, since 1948. Illinois 10,560 10,560 cialist political action that was and asserted that with a single cared to seek it, is that Kennedy in order to cast my ballot as a Official returns credited the Indiana 1,136 1,136 so impressively registered in the exception “there is not a man is a conservative of the age he registered voter in the 10th Socialist Workers ticket with 40,- Iowa 634 230 864 declaration of support to the on it to whom the slightest re lives in. . . .” ward, 22nd precinct. 174 votes in 12 state. The Social- Massachusetts 3,892 3,892 ticket by 65 prominent inde sponse is possible.” This may be Eisenhower, it has been re- Wanting to express my op- ist Labor party, which ran in 16 Michigan 4,347 1,718 6,065 pendents and unaffiliated social an accurate psychological de vealed, now regrets his great er- position to social injustice, war, states, were credited with 47,- Minnesota 3,077 962 4,039 ists from New York to Califor scription. As a sociological ap ror in judgment about Kennedy, recessions and racial oppression, 549 votes. Montana 391 391 nia. praisal it is dead wrong. The “Heard in Washington” I naturally did not vote for any The UPI listed 39,692 votes New Jersey 11,402 4,262 15,664 These included such noted figures as Vincent Hallinan, K ennedy’s choice is the most column of the pro-Nixon candidates of the Democratic or for (_be SWP and 48,031 for the New Mexico 570 570 Dr. Otto Nathan, Rev. William glittering, blue-chip, 24-carat, Scripps-Howard newspapers on Republican parties. SLP. The discrepancy appears New York 14,319 14,319 diamond-studded, billion-dollar Dec. 17 reported Eisenhower’s Instead I voted for the due to transposition by the UPI North Dakota 158 158 T. Baird, Warren K. Billings, cabinet ever to be assembled. By changed views after his three- ticket of the Socialist W ork of the SLP and SWP votes in Pennsylvania 2,678 7,185 9,863 Conrad J. Lynn, Dr. Annette comparison, Roosevelt’s wartime hour conference with the Presi ers party, beginning with its Wisconsin.] Utah 100 100 T. Rubinstein and Rev. Joseph P. King. cabinet, headed by U.S. Steel dent-elect. The president’s re presidential candidate, Far For the SWP it was the big Virginia 397 397 Finally, the vote won for the Chairman Edward Stettinius as marks are directly quoted: rell Dobbs. gest vote since it first contested Washington 704 10,895 11,599 Socialist Workers ticket by its Secretary of State and President "I didn't know this man I also voted against increas for president in 1948. Wisconsin 1,792 1,310 3,102 hard -w o rkin g campaigners, Eisenhower’s first cabinet, star [Kennedy] at all. I've been ing the state sales tax and In that year, out of a total proved to be but one expression ring General Motors’ Charles E. misinformed about him. I feel against holding an unrepresent- socialist vote of 182,271 Norman TOTAL 40,174 47,549 87,723 Wilson as Secretary of Defense, more comfortable now about ative constitutional convention Thomas of the Socialist party re- of the gains registered for social ism. were poor men’s clubs. the future of this nation." —two referendum measures ceived 139,414. The SWP polled cialist vote on a national and tion requirements restricted the While they had less radio and The new team contains direct If Eisenhower still has any which unfortunately were 13,613 votes in 1 1 states, agents or heirs of the greatest adopted that day. t 1952 the SW P state basis reflect the revival of ballot choice to. the two major TV time than in previous cam- lingering regret that his candi 10,3 1 2 , ..°Pp socialist consciousness that has parties, 46,952 people who went paigns, the appearances of the aggregate of wealth ever to be date Nixon lost, he can console I don’t know, if my votes ,to 10,312 and in 1956 it was been apparent in the country to the polls didn’t vote for either SWP nominees drew more mail given joint control of the federal himself at least in one respect, against the sales tax and consti- down to 7,233. Did Kennedy select "fhe the past several years. presidential candidate. responses than in any previous administration. The list speaks As the Dec. 26 Newsweek notes: tutional convention were count- The 1960 returns for SWP dimmest cabinet since Buch The gain at the polls had In Illinois 54,599 voters didn’t election. Their vigorous defense fo r its e lf “If Vice President Richard ed. But I do know that my stale tickets were also en anan's"? added significance in view of see enough difference between of the Cuban Revolution Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Nixon . . . had been elected in vote for Dobbs was not counted. couraging. Like the national the fact that leaders of two radi- Kennedy and Nixon to make it brought many requests for fur- president of the Rockefeller stead, registered Republican Dil- How can I be so sure? vote, they represented gains cal groupings — the Communist worth while to vote for either. ther information about the SWP Foundation, set up by the bil union-probing c om m i tt e e over previous years. Ion [Kennedy’s Treasury Secre Because I went to the coun I M T headed by Senator John L. a , party and the Socialist Party- These abstentionist votes platform and an unprecedented lionaire Standard Oil family. tary] probably would have been ty clerk's office and asked In New Jersey Gladys Barker social Democratic Federation— might have gone into the social- number of requests for campaign McClellan, which initiated the Secretary of Defense Robert S. his selection for Secretary of how many votes Dobbs had Grauer, candidate for the U.S. gave shamefaced support toto ist ist column column if if the the socialist socialist can- can- literature literature for,,.for distribution. antilabor Kennedy-Landrum- McNamara, Republican and State.” got in the 10th ward, 22nd Senate, polled 11,784 votes. The Kennedy and Johnson. d i d a t e s had had adequate Both Farrell Dobbs and Myra Griffin Act. president of the Ford Motor But Eisenhower wasn’t the precinct. The answer was SLP candidate for the same of However, some members means to bring their message to Tanner Weiss spoke to more au- Company. Postmaster General J. Edward only person misinformed about "None." fice was credited w ith 3,840 and supporters of these two the entire public. But the gen diences and larger ones in this Secretary, of the Treasury C. Day, vice president of the $11- Kennedy. The American work- votes. tendencies ignored the treach eral news blackout on socialist campaign than in any previous I know another voter in this In Michigan, where the SWP. Douglas Dillon, son of the billion Prudential Insurance Co. ers were even more deceived, precinct who worked for many n‘ jvl‘Y,“u'7 ’ w“t7 ° vv/"' erous advice to support capi candidates in the daily press ones and, particularly hearten- founder of the Wall Street in- Secretary of Commerce Lu- They were told by most of the long weeks collecting petitions polled )ts best Presidential vote talist politicians and voted so and the absolute minimum of ing, these audiences included a vestment-banking firm of Dillon, ther H. Hodges, governor of se- union leaders that this cold, to put Dobbs on the ballot, and 3 ,? vote cialist. air time granted them excluded greater number of young people. Read & Co. The new Treasury gregationist North Carolina and calculating, power-hungry, class- who campaigned actively for ?• 3ny k°n < °' Some of the votes cast f-or the a big part of the electolate from That the interest displayed in Secretary was chairman of Dil- former vice president of one of proud, supermillionaire Kennedy him from the first to the last pai,ties_on, ballot SLP, Tax socialist tickets were general learning that an effective means the campaign was not simply an Ion, Read & Co. before acting Marshall Field’s largest South- was a “friend of labor,” a “lib- day of the campaign. If any- Cut, Prohibition, Independent protest votes by people who was open to cast a protest vote election-time phenomenon is in- as ambassador to France and ern textile plants — nonunion, eral,” a political figure “in the body in this state voted for American], these^ returns were don’t subscribe to socialist be- against both Nixon and Ken- dicated by the significant num- then Undersecretary of State in Even the Republican press is mold of Jefferson, Lincoln and Dobbs, she did. reported for statewide candi- liefs but correctly view both nedy. . ber of new regular readers the Eisenhower administration; hard put to pick flaws in Ken- FDR.” In addition, she and I have r h , major candidates as unworthy of It should also be noted that which the M ilitant gained. Attorney General Robert F. nedy’s cabinet as reliable, de- These were lies on the face of been told by some other voters „ p in supp?rt- . . the vote officially credited to the socialist tickets is not Kennedy, younger brother of the voted defenders of the ruling it and American labor during in this precinct that they voted c’ aIn„ 0 9 0 9 . r 1 ’ q \i f ‘This sentiment was also regis- Ersatz Vanilla President-elect and like him a capitalist interests. Walter Lipp- the next period is going to learn for Dobbs too. lieutenant governor 2,967 I m te,rGd “1 the “abstention” complete one. principal heir to one of the ten mann, political savant of the Re- that truth in its flesh and bones. But I leave them all aside. 7 ’ 7 column. According to official For example, . . in one Wisconsin Bowing„ ^ to , „ industry , , ^ demands, greatest American fortunes, esti- publican New York Herald Kennedy’s cabinet already sug- The point I am making here is ir“' ’\(<;a a l y °j ’ reports, 224,931 people across district where a recount was .the Federal Food and Drug Ad- mated at more than $400 million, Tribune, writing in the Dec. 20 gests what an aggressive, ruth- about the vote on which I can , 9 noc Y . i ,aU°*,ney the country did not mark the made, 61 SWP presidential votes ministration has authorized the with financial holdings in a vast issue on„ “The Cabinet Com- 1less,__ antilabor__ ___ capitalist______gang_ have nnno nnssihilitvpossibility nfof a doubt general, 3,096; Harriett Talan, Presidentialpresidential column of their were “discovered” that had not use of artificial vanilla in ice ramification of corporations. pleted,” candidly admits: holds the summits of political mine. for treasurer, 2,679; Edith Gbur, ballot, yet voted for other can- been included in the first official cream. It also approved the use for auditor general, 2,635. (We dates. count. From certain Montana of artificial flavors in fruit sher- The appointee first made his “The selection of Douglas power in Washington. I cast it for Dobbs. The elec tion officials did not count it. have not received returns for In Ohio, where arbitrary peti- and Minnesota districts where bets. mark as the Democratic coun Dillon confirms the view, which This cabinet may well be, in the SLP candidates in Michigan.) sel hired by the late Senator some of us expressed during the columnist Kempton’s words, the I therefore accuse them of fraud. In Minnesota, Carl Feingold McCarthy for the infamous campaign, that in general eco- “dimmest cabinet” — for the witch-hunting Senate Sub nomic philosophy there is no workers. It will certainly seek Remember, I am talking drew 4 ’0 8 5 votes for U.S. Sen‘ about just one little precinct. At a^°|" ln a contest that included committee. Subsequently he serious difference between Ken- to be the most brilliant ever for least two, maybe four or five, Hubert Humphrey, a top Demo- was counsel for the Senate nedy and such modern and big business. Dobbs votes were stolen there. cratic vote-getter. The SLP Letters from Our Readers There are 5,075 precincts in gubernatorial candidate polled Escalator C lause veterans’ benefits if they per- Interests of the Working Peo- Michigan alone. I don’t know 5,518 votes. sisted in their activity, they pie,” is more important to em- The American Way of life how many hundreds of thou- Jack Wright, Socialist Work- F o r the L a A g e d would not be able to get a job phasize than the more abstract, sands there are in the country. ers candidate for governor of *» anywhere and would be brand- less concrete “The Militant” Washington, was officially cred- Editor: ed “Communists.’ part of the title. Typical Thieves ited with 992 votes. The aged,_ unlike the worker, This is is the tne answer to the G.L. Girls Break Out of Jail F igure o u t f o r y o u rse lf h o w Returns for the Pennsylvania is completely powerless to fight Puerto Rican prayer for a better New York On Tuesday, Dec. 13, while Youth House for Girls is a to hold 105 inmates. Its many votes were robbed if my £*«*•». >•* •>» •*«. * J.A. New York City lay prostrate private agency, run by the The Four P's present population is 180-al- P~ M S * ^ ^ a n d I have b~“ 0F UkT W ri£ln ^YetfterehS^eiTno“effective New York under its first winter storm, boards of directors of Protes- most double its capacity A no reason to think t h eDemo- votes fo). Erroll Banks, Con. legislatlon t0 come from 0Ur with 30-mile northwest winds tant, Jewish and Catholic chari- Editor: S e S 8 r; ssional candidate in Los An- government bodies, state or fed- swirling the dry snow into a ties. It is a temporary jail for the votes in my precinct are dif- ‘ Ho v, gov,ernmuen , »oaies, state or One Difference When you see the photograph fcrent from those in other ?-e~eS’ -and Howard Mayhew, eral, which would allow the blizzard, 17 young inmates of children already committed to ferent from Editor: ed battle scenes of the last war But whatever the facts of precincts. u.o. oenaionai candidate in aged to weather an economic the Bronx Youth House for “correctional” and custodial in- this story are, they are in- Illinois. storm. Since the elections T ha vp you raiely see our own men Girls overpowered their guard, stitutions — prisons, that is. I am not suggesting that dead or dying. No bulldozers «dental to the horrifying condi- Dobbs wou](J have been elected The modest gains in the so- I believe it is necessary that been reading the Militant and took his keys and escaped into The inmates are girls from tions which they revealed. Why if there had been an honest - they be given a program whVch the Weekly People and I’m still coyering American dead. the bitter cold. Most of them seven to 16 years old. Mark -in this largest city in the count j know as well as Wh not clear on the differences be- .H°w. Ho lywood Jams the that, seven-year-old tots! In O L . p would allow the amount of their were dressed only in their country,T its boastedK/\riPTrtrJ /111 cultural I T( 11m I * tween you, although the M ilitant <:haplalns >pt° every war picture. this whole sordid story, that is one else that socialist vot k o d o t era pensions to rise or fall in rela- But in reality war causes men shoddy uniforms. center, the home of the United does seem to have a more prac While the police were the single most shocking fact. are still a small minority H . _ . tion to the cost of living. to curse God. Fox holes mul- _ Nations the financial heart of this country tical approach...... rounding up the shivering ■ 4"C I" I C Such a program would assure rho iMohoct honu*i net pnnntrv in ____ One difference I can see is that _ Wham ‘iCri meS’l Can n eVe?; the richest capitalist country in What I am saying is that r C I I I O our aged the economic security The preachers, politicians and children and herding them year-°ld bables be t.y of? the world - why do we treat the Militant seems to have a while they are a minority, press conceal the truth in order back, another 13 broke out Are they dependent children Qur children with such cruelty? A I , I they are now denied under ex- sense of hum or w h ile the W eek- and scattered into the snow. snatched from their parents and they are more numerous than A f i a I O k V O isting legislation. to justify enlistments and justi It was not hard for New made wards of the state — dis- What is a “juvenile delin- "the official vole" indicates. • It is our obligation to sec to it Y People is rather grim. fy the draft. York's "finest" to capture turbed babies already in revolt quent”? Is it the youth of to- And what I am thinking, as Robots, mechanical and hu- that the aged are free from any , £B* How can one ever have faith ______these children,____ loo, ______and soon against tms society — wno can- aar wno ls delinquent, 01 tne i try to control me indignation manman navehave beenbeen in in thethe newsnews in financial worries. As Senator Wew York or believe in the politicians who they were back behind behind locked locked not be placed in foster homes? society he was born in? Most I feel about my vote being FranceFrance andand Japan.Japan. Barry Goldwater so aptly put it: „ promote wars in the interest of doors,doors. Is prison the answer to a sociologists blame the parents stolen, is this: • jn Paris, a storm of angry T, , 'Scalawags' the capitalists who profit from When word seeped through problem which should be dealt f°r *he r*se 'n juvenile crime. I f the Democrats and Reppb- protest was kicked up at the me w*len *m °‘d> ^ ^ whale the Editor: patriotism, the forerunner of the prison that all the girls had with by raising the standard of What then makes the parents licans don’t hesitate to commit Renault auto plant when an tar out of them ” In an Open Letter to the U.S. war? been captured, rioting spread living to a decent level, or, if delinquent? Didn’t the same fraud with the voters of a small electronic computer was used to D.M.T.^ ™ Congress, I wrote: Each and all Without the three prostitutes and once again the cops were necessary, by psychiatric or society shape them? workers party, how far will they se]ect 3,000 workers to be fired, Fresno, Calif. of you were elected and pledged —press, pulpit and politician— called. medical help as would be done Under capitalism, profits are go, what crimes will they com- When management decided to by oath of honor to uphold, de- there would be no war. And to It is reported that the police in a society which loves its chil- sacred, humanity expendable. It mit, in order to prevent a big cut back production, it fed Still Time to Send fend and preserve our U.S. Con- the three “P’s” we c&n add the had their hands full — they dren instead of being afraid of is long past time to reverse that workers party from being punch cards summarizing the stitution. I ask why have you fourth, the profiteers, were bitten, scratched and had them? relation. elected to office and taking dossiers of 40,000 workers into A New Year's Card violated that pledge of trust and Paul Dennie their uniforms torn. Youth House was designed — Marvel Scholl power? the “magic brain.” The cards Editor: joined w ith those Southern race- Los Angeles were said to contain such in- There is currently a move-1 hating gangsters in their mon- formation as quality of work, ment underway to support the hey filibuster sessions? You D is a p p o in te d ability, attitude toward rules courageous antiwar stand of know they should have been and regulations, plus tardiness Robert E. McGrath, a pacifist disqualified and impeached as SW P V o te It Was Reported in the Press and absentee record. (Plant who is now serving two years in representatives of whites only, spokesmen insisted to newsmen prison for “draft evasion” apd 1 doubt you know, much less Editor: TV Dinner Anyone? — A and $75,000 a year for one that Dec. 15 New York Times article he knows one attorney “who that political outlook was not we would like Militant readers care what a Republic or a De- As a student I am deeply federal survey of plants pro- pays apiddling $25,000. It’s concluded: “Prospects at present absolutely will not allow a one of the factors fed into the to help in this campaign by just rnocracy means. Honestly, a gueved at the showing of the ducing frozen precooked foods tough on him but good for the are for a flurry of maneuver on curly-headed man” to sit on a' machine.) adding one name to their Christ- group of 12-year-old school chil- Socialist Workers party in the generally “revealed sanitary country,” said a fellow officer the floor when the Senate meets jury. Huseby said, as for him- At any rate, in a matter of mas card list. His address is; dren might administer better election, but nevertheless we conditions and operating prac- of the foundation. but for inadequate Democratic self, “I like the stern, Nordic minutes the electronic pink- Robert E. M cG rath government. You political seal- should strive to get the party tices [and], were considerably . support to make it more than a type of juror.” He tends to slip dispenser sifted out the Box 1000 awags monopolize the conven- where it belongs. I hope the below the ;ievel desired.” A Pollution — Describing the token battle.” avoid jurors of Jewish or Irish names of those to be fired. Sandstone Prison tion halls and control the nomin- time w ill come when we shall at.ion of all candidates on your see a Socialist America. government:t; spokesman said Polluted state of this country s descent because, “I believe they While union representatives Sandstone, Minn. that;*J(}p to now” no outbreak streams as a ‘national dis- TV Poll — A Gallup poll re have too much compassion for ]11C^ with management to pro We hope you will print this stuck-together Siamese Twin I am enclosing payment for a of food poisoning have been Srace, U.S. Surgeon General poits that 54 pei cent of the ^kejr fellow man. information in the next issue of parties and then have the little- subscription to the Militant. T' T7’ I y .... m —I ~ „ ,,n J If 1 n I A r. « i /\».t i m a el i i « . . o ai n test the electronic-age layoff, Leroy E. Burney declared Dec. people queried in a study said ness o f soul to brag. (Ours are M.C. traced to this type of food. Advance Warning — Dis- old-fashioned hell broke loose. your PaPel’- 1 2 : “ It- is tragic for the they would prefer their televi------= — Brian Peterson free elections.) Further, you for New York A Wnc* Pni-man world’s richest, most powerful sion without advertising. How- covery of life on other planets Enraged workers stormed the Definition Iowa City, Iowa tify your political deviltry by lie Hnfinitinn nf and most technologically ad- ever, 29 per cent were in favor, could lead to the collapse of lobby of the plant, office, official gave this definition of appointing watch-dog commit "A New Era” vanced nation to foul its o\in The remaining 17 per cent civilization as we 'know it, par- smashed windows and over a railroad inspector: “Inspectors tees to harass and intimidate nest, lim it its own growth,' and weren’t accounted for in the ticularly if we are “confronted fumed furniture, Puerto Ricans Editor: are civil servants assigned to those who might expose your threaten the health of its published report, perhaps be- by a superior society,” the Na- A battery of guards managed We liv e in an eventful age assist chief inspectors and to frauds. people.” cause they were in such a state tional Aernautics and Space f° prevent them from getting Under Harassment when social changes develop oversee the work of assistant in For illustration, consider your ...... of commercial-induced stupor Administration warned in a 190- into the hall where the computer Editor: w ith great and grow ing speed. spectors.” Which recalls a “Un-American Activities Com- ^ ,° n.,te m p * ^ SS*SS!PP‘~ that they couldn’t answer. The page report prepared at a cost *s kept. por cievon years a Puerto mittee.” That, by its very nature, Old social forms which have al novefa“Mr *Adam”^ “/ ^ ^ - C’yde ^ ennard’- a ^ cgro p°uU PoU did ^provide"a" clea7-cut an- of $96,000. Rican friend of mine has had to is the most un-American con- ways been considered natural, ’ ' ‘ , y try farmer, was sentenced to swer to whether the opportunity Battle Briefings r*i i m m • < ’ • > ’--- J Jim Crow deprive himself of his civil lib- spiracy I know of. immutable and everlasting, are nized Klutz as one of the public seven years at hard labor by a t 0 see comm ercials was one o f '***“ Judge — *“In ***»an M eanw hile a TeLwr, hail ertiec; Meanwhile, a Tokyo including his right to A. C. Gregerson crumbling right before our eyes. servants who has no equals. He Forest County, Miss., court on tjle reasons why people watch °P ih io n on a suit brought by a bearine nla reDOrted that' it vote Since 1949 he has been A new world, the world of so has only superiors or inferiors. a charge of “agreeing to the TV Thirteen nor cent reniiod Seattle Negro couple against a , ^ ? Plant lepoi.ted that it vote. 7 7 Filmore, Utah Evervbodv is neatlv tneeed Yi « « r u ■ i • thirteen pel cent leplied r ° ^ _ had hiked production on a mill- afraid to speak to anyone about cialism, has succeeded capital .Everybody is neatly^ tagged theft of $25 worth of chicken “yes” and 87 per cent “no.” Jim Crow cemetery, Washington »nv nnlitim l nn^Qtinn anH fn ism over a large section of the either above him, or below him. feed. Kennard had previously ...... Supreme Court Judge Joseph tary basis. any political question and to Time for a Change? “The whole operation . . . is this day he is afraid of reprisals. earth. This new society is gain- He keeps his nose nestled close applied for, admission to theJob Opportunity — The Flori- Mallery declared: “This lawsuit ...... T . ,, , , Free Edilor: ing strength from year to year. under the coattails of those state’s all-white. Southern Uni- da State Employment Service is but an incident . . . in the cal.'J'led 011. ki a. batt,le can.1’ c < o- ° attended a No\\ that the Militant has New socialist states are coming above, and his feet firmly versity. Medga$'Jsivans, NAACP has a job open for a sender for over-all Negro crusade to judi- palgn’ sa a Reu,eis dispatch. Pueito Rico rally in Puerto more readers, due to the success into existence in Asia, Africa planted on the heads of those fiejd secretary; called the con- the inside of the cones of space cially deprive white people of ic woikmen die ess in uniforms Rico. Shortly after, he and a underneath, and if he maintains viction a “mockery” of justice, missiles. The job pays $3 to $4 their right to choose their as- Yvhich cIosely resemble the old number of his intends were vis- of the subscription drive and the and Latin America 1 v b 1 — - * " - 1 *u~ vor „..j u.„ t — election, campaign, you can af- Mankind has already w it- this balance for 30 years he gets He was immediately tried for an hour, plus transj»oration. sociates in their private af- JaPanesc nnpeiial aimy uni- ited by the FBI. He and his fam- , , , , . . .. a pension ” “contempt of court” and sen- The applicant must be a midget fairs.” forms and tbey wear shoulder ily were warned to cease and ford to change the format into nessed the fall of capitalism m tenced to 30 davs in iail and who can squeeze through a ensigns or gold stripes according desist from this political protest, something more modern. most regions of the world. It Tough Situation—When Dean cjqq «ne ten-inch hole in the missle Thought for the Week— to rank. Workers literally march (“Show of ingratitude toward Also, in the meanwhile, you now becomes clear that the Rusk leaves his job as head of ’ “Milk cows before fallout oc- to their job. Orders are barked the United States»” one agent could pare down the size of the world has entered a new era, the the Rockefeller Foundation to Rights Fighters — Analyzing Public Defender — Cass curS. You may not be able to out in true sergeant-major style, said!) . masthead type for the words, era of transition from capital- become Secretary, of State, he the prospects for revision of County State Attorney Lyle do so for a day or two after- The lower ranks salute their of- He was told that he and his “The Militant,” since in the pres- ism to socialism, will be giving up a job that is filibuster Rule 22 when the Huseby told the North Dakota wards.” — The United States fleers and get battle briefings in friends, all of whom are veter- cnt period the masthead sub- D.E. fumbred to pay between $50,000 Senate convenes in January, a States Attorney Institute that Department of Agriculture. wartime jargon.” ans, would be deprived of their title, “Published Weekly in the Chicago