.The Truth About Cuba. Operation Brainwash ' Fills American Press THE — —— — — By Joseph Hansen — MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE First in a series of articles. Vol. X X IV — No. 19 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY. MAY 9. I960 Price 10c In their plush skyscraper offices at 444 Madison Ave nue, high above Manhattan’s famous street of hucksters, the editors and executives of one of the country’s most For President widely circulated magazines were planning their April 25 issue. To anyone but these cynics, the problem might have seemed tough. Where should they turn the crystal ball? What was the most important spot i/i the world news? Dobbs Opens Campaign Newsweek’s top forecasters didn’t take long to decide. Cuba, of course. The tiny, poverty-stricken island of Cuba down there in the Caribbean just ninety miles from Florida. This is the startling prediction they put as No. 1 item in “The Periscope,” that fast-reading dish of inside dope that keeps you “Ahead of the News”: With TV Defense of Cuba "STATE DEPARTMENT — W ill Castro sever relations with the U.S. soon? This is highly possible — maybe on May Cuba’s Soldiers Help Build Homes Million Hear Day. Another possibility for May Day, when 1.5 million highly Myra Weiss volatile Cubans will be on the streets: A violent showdown between Castro and the growing opposition to his regime. LA Telecasts Still another possibility, according to well-placed diplomats: By Della Rossa That Castro will unveil a number of Red-built MIG jet Reports on fighters said to have arrived on a Czech freighter recently.” LOS ANGELES, May 1—The truth about the Cuban revolu That Was No Prediction Sit-In Fight tion was\ brought to more than a million people here this week NEW YORK — The Southern Was the prediction accurate? An honest question like end as Farrell Dobbs, presiden that is good for a laugh at 444 Madison Avenue. That was Negro battle for equality, the tial nominee of the Socialist no prediction; it was bait for the suckers. struggles against tyranny in Workers party, opened a na Some relations were severed all right. On April 28 Korea and Turkey — these tional speaking tour intended events, so heartening to social Guatemala severed diplomatic relations with Cuba. United to combat the campaign of ists, inspired a May Day rally smear and slander inspired by Fruit, a giant Wall Street monopoly, dominates Guatemala; here. the State Department against United Fruit also has large holdings in Cuba; United Fruit Highlight of the meeting, Cuba. Dobbs recently returned doesn’t like Castro. FARRELL DOBBS, 52, pres which was attended by more from a visit to Cuba, where he Was there a “violent showdown” in Cuba May 1? No. idential candidate of the So than 200 people, was a report on studied the revolution at first Instead some 1,200,000 farm and city workers paraded in cialist Workers party, is a the Southern sit-in movement hand. by Myra Tanner Weiss, Socialist every city and town to demonstrate their solidarity and former organizer for the A press conference on his Workers party vice-presidential arrival in Los Angeles F ri their support of the government they put in power through Teamsters Union. In 1934, he was a leader of truckdrivers' nominee, just returned from a day was covered by three a popular revolution like our revolution of 1776. strikes in Minneapolis that tour of Southern campuses. major T V stations and by the Did Castro “unveil a number of Red-built MIG jet helped pave the way for the The rally, sponsored by the three major daily papers. All fighters”? A ll Castro did was “ unveil” another school April rise of the CIO. Dobbs was im New York Committee for three TV interviews, devoted 29, a school converted from a m ilitary barracks. prisoned under the Smith Act Dobbs and Weiss and the N.Y. largely to the Cuban issue, were carried on widely viewed But if you had read Newsweek’s “prediction” without in 1944 for socialist opposition Stale Students for Dobbs and to the war. Weiss Committee, also showed dinner-hour newscasts. stopping to think, would you have felt favorably impressed that important independent so Last night Dobbs addressed by the Castro government? Would you have felt like visit cialist backing is shaping up an overflow May Day rally of ing Cuba? for the SWP presidential cam the Socialist Workers party and Let’s sample something a little less slick. Not a “pre Turkish Youth paign. tomorrow night he is scheduled to be interviewed on the popu diction” hand-tooled by the Madison Avenue craftsmen, Declarations of support to the lar TV program, the Tom Dug but a rough-talking editorial from the Sarasota, Florida, Demand End to ticket were made at the rally by Elinor Ferry, Muriel McAvoy, gan show. He has been invited Herald Tribune. It was inserted in the April 29 Congres Fred Mazelis ^nd William A. % Militant photo by J. H. to address two college campus sional Record by Senator Russell B. Long, who represents Dictatorial Rule Price, administrative committee Unlike the United States where the main In the photo above, three soldiers place groups and a trade-union gath Louisiana’s sugar-cane barons; members of the recently dis government preoccupation is stockpiling H- rods in forms for concrete slabs. When finished ering. By Lillian Kiezel solved United Independent-So bombs and building intercontinental rocket these w ill be put together to make walls and Telecasts cialist Committee. A message of missiles, Cuba's new government is building roof. Image of “ The Enemy” The heroic struggle led by stu solidarity was read from the dis decent homes for workers and campesinos as The new housing projects are much less “The only presidential* candi “The Cuban regime has failed to honor its international dents that ousted South Korean tinguished civil rights attorney, rapidly as possible. pretentious than are usually seen in the United date who supports the Cuban agreements, has brutalized its own citizens, and is not worthy dictator Rhee has fired Turkish Conrad Lynn. The National Institute of Agrarian Reform Slates but are solidly constructed in the most revolution. That’s how Farrell of the diplomatic recognition the U.S. Government has students with the spirit of free Mrs. Weiss gave a stirring ac supplies the concrete at low cost and shows modern architectural styles and are artistic Dobbs of the Socialist Workers extended . . . dom. In Turkey’s major cities — count of the many young civil- those who are going to move into the new ally finished in attractive pastel colors that party described himself in Los ' “Castro has turned Cuba into an armed camp, with even Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and homes how to make it a do-it-yourself project. make them seem an integral part of the balmy Angeles today,” reported Ed children and parents drilling in the streets. He has spent rights fighters she had met and Erzurum — thousands of youths Cuba's soldiers roll up their sleeves and pitch tropical countryside. F leming over KABC. millions of dollars for war materials in Europe, and ¿s even ■ discussed w ith in the South. She have, since A pril 28, led demon in, too. -He also reported Dobbs’ now concluding a deal with Communist Poland t
« Rank-and-File Opinions The Most Unpopular War in U.S. History By Art Preis j could have occupied all Korea. two years before the outbreak Instead, it retained control over of the Korean War, The Militant? (First in a series of articles.) Liven Up Union Paper the northern half, with nine Did They Survive 6Police Action ’? featured a front-page editorial,' “The Korean War is not only million population, and turned “Korea — The Next Step,” By George Breitman the most murderous and de over the southern half, with 21 which noted that “American im structive war in history for the million people, to the U.S. oc perialism’s military pincers DETROIT — Anyone who reads several In his report from Plant 2, Days, Crisco area and tim e involved, it has cupiers. around the Soviet Union will union papers knows how dull most of them says: “I see there is a strike fund report in the also produced the biggest lies. With intensification of the be tightened in the Far East are. They are short on imagination and liveli last issue of the Solidarity (UAW international U.S. imperialism has lied about “cold war,” the artificial divi with a so-called ‘aid-to-Korea’ ness; a regular reader can usually tell what the paper). What I can't understand about it is the every aspect of this war, politi sion of Korea was hardened in program .. . It is part of a tre articles say before reading them. It’s not that balance. Does this include what we never got cal or military.” That is what May 1948. The People’s Demo mendous plan ‘for stopping they are incompetent journalistically; the flat that was coming to us or was it lost? I sure I wrote in a review of the first cratic Republic of Korea was Communist expansion’ . . . It is ness comes, I think, from the fact that they never could find out.” year of the Korean War, whose established in North Korea un a further long step down the present only one point of view, that of the Bernard L. Pasco, Plant 6, Days, pleads for formal starting date is given as der the rule of the Korean road to war against the Soviet officials, in the form of articles signed by them members to give a dollar for COPE and ex June 25, 1950. I take this occa Communist party. In South' Union and suppression of all or written about them, quoting copiously from presses the Reutherite line without fancy trim sion to reaffirm that statement Korea, the Republic of Korea revolutionary struggles for free their speeches and statements. Altogether ab mings: “There are those who would have you published in the Militant of was set up under the U.S.-im dom. \ . .” sent is any expression of the feelings, hopes, believe that your COPE dollar goes solely to June 18, 1951. posed puppet-dictator Syngman Naturally it was not possible Rhee, who had live d in the U.S. grievances and illusions of the rank and fil.e support Dem. candidates. This is not so . . . Every propaganda claim made to predict precisely the develop for more than 40 years. He had workers these unions are supposed to be repre The records show we have supported some Rep. by Washington and its United' ment of the Korean events. senting. in the past and w ill do so again if their records Nations allies for their inter been brought into Korea and These were hastened by the tre placed in power by the Amer So far I am talking about the national warrant it . . . We do not expect nor want a vention in the Korean civil war mendous Chinese revolution. ican M ilitary Government. labor press. Local union papers used to be better, candidate that is solely for labor but we do was false. But this deception The explosion of the Chinese reflecting some of the opinions of local mem want and demand a candidate for the welfare fell short of its aim. The ma Police Terror people in 1949 shattered the rot of all the people.” bers, especially in the form of letters to the jority of the American people The possibility of a Korean ten regime of dictator Chiang Jack Palmer packs several punches in an editor. But most of them have been flattened —including those who suffered war had not been unforeseen. Kai-shek. This butcher, whc> article, What Ails the Union Movement? “The out and turned into grey little carbon copies of and died in Korea — indicated The Militant in 1946 and 1947 had been given more than chieftains of labor are balding, paunchy, faces the national papers, mairily featuring canned hostility and opposition to the carried several eyewitness ac $4V2 billion in U.S. funds and lined with wrinkles, smug with soft living and material from the national office. U.S. invasion of Korea, sus counts of the horrors visited on arms after World War II was like all elder people set in their conservative A notable exception in Michigan is the picion of its aims and motives, sthe Koreans under the U.S. oc driven off the Chinese mainland Searchlight, put out every other week by UAW groove.” These “tired old men” have little' ap disgust and shame at its con cupation. In addition to de and fled to Formosa (now called Local 659 in Flint, the biggest of the GM locals. peal for the younger generation of workers, sequences. scribing the want and starva Taiwan) where he established whp are faced with “the greatest problems of Its appearance is nothing exceptional; its edit It was the most unpopular tion, Bill Morgan reported in his rule after a terrible blood all. They are Automation, Peace and Politics.” ors do not spend much time correcting grammar war in American history. This the March 15, 1947, M ilitant on letting of the Formosan people. or punctuation; and most of the space is given was shown in every public the savage oppression he saw in Despite the tremendous U.S. to reporting of news and views from the local’s Hits Link with Democrats opinion poll of the period and the port city of Pusan: aid, the Chinese Nationalist plants and districts, together with articles and He denies another member’s claim that “ the in the November 1&52 elections “In a few days our crew Government had fallen of its letters by members. UAW has been successful in politics.” He says when the Korean War was the learned more about the police. own weight and disintegrated. And yet this paper is alive and readable in Three Korean children try to get a litile warmth in the the younger members well might ask: “Labor decisive factor contributing to We saw them beating workers— The Chinese Stalinist regime in a way you never find in the more expensively ruins of Seoul. The time is December 1952. Hundreds of thous supported Mayor Egan and City Manager Car the defeat of the Democratic men and women and children— the country’s interior which had and professionally edited national papers. Take ands of children like them were left homeless by the U.S. ter and didn’t they sell us out on the water- machine after its twenty-year every day. We had never seen been seeking an alliance with the April 21 issue as an example: "police action," as Pres. Truman designated the Korean War. sewage tax? Labor supported the Democrats in reign in the White House. so much cold-blooded brutality. Chiang, took over and filled the The headline story, written by editor Dick The children were the "most pitiful" victims, according to Michigan who joined hands with Republicans to Most Americans recall the We had heard about life being void left by Chiang’s retreating Austin, reports that the Local 659 Joint Council a N.Y. World-Telegram reporter, of "the bombs of their pro put a sales tax on the ballot, didn’t they? Didn’t week o f June 25, 1950. as a cheap in the Orient. No matter forces. Much of Chiang’s U.S.- delegates took the unusual step of voting not tectors, the Americans." Many of them died of wounds, ex labor support scores of senators from both par blur of events moving at dizzy how often you hear these words, supplied arms fell into the to send delegates to the coming state AFL-CIO posure or starvation. All told, five million Koreans perished ties in Congress, who voted to cut our throats ing speed. Within a few hours they are meaningless until you hands of the Chinese Red Army. convention because the local’s convention fund during the war. with the Landrum-Griffin Bill?” And he asks: of a radio report that North face the real thing. These po In August 1949, the Truman is in the red. The question may be reconsidered 1------“Is it any wonder the younger members think Korean troops had crossed the lice, organized and trained by administration felt impelled to at a special meeting. Meanwhile Austin reports can civil war broke out, Stan He added that the average that union politics is like a pile of manure; the South Korean border, President the Japanese imperialists, are explain the catastrophic defeat the pros and cons, and then quotes a number of ley Earl, Economic Cooperation w o rke r earned $2.50 a m onth, deeper you get in, the more it stinks?” Truman announced that he had masters in the art of torture, facing Chiang, then almost cor questions which he has heard are being asked Administration Labor Advisor while the rice supply for an av Palmer concludes by repeating his previous dispatched U.S. planes, warships brutes skilled in Judo, profes nered along southern China’s by the members: in Korea, returned to the Uni erage family of five for a month proposal, “ that our union select 20 to 50 metro and troops in what he light- sional killers armed with the coastland. Secretary of State “What does the Local do with all the money ted States and threatened to cost four times that amount. politan centers and run union members for mindedly called a “police ac latest type of American and Acheson issued a “White Paper” they take in? Do they want to raise dues again? “blow the lid off” the frightful Congress, without the label of Democrat or tio n ” to “defen d” South Japanese guns. These police Rhee Backers Defeated which for the first time re . . . Why is it necessary to send so many dele conditions of the workers in Republican,” and by asking the members to Korea. The U.S. State D epart now work under the direction vealed that State Department gates to these conventions in the first place? South Korea. Earl, a former discuss and debate this proposal “if we hope ment rounded up sleepy-eyed of the American authorities . . . In spite of the jailings, tor investigators as far back as 1943 . . . Some members felt the State AFL-CIO con secretary:treasurer of the Ore to win the young men to unionism.” members of the United Nations they form the storm troopers of tures and murders of his oppon and 1944 had reported on the vention was not important enough for the Local gon State CIO, said in an in In the V-8 engine plant column, Jack Security Council after midnight the new puppet government set ents, Rhee’s supporters were dis “incompetence and corruption” to go further in the red; they felt this was just terview on July 14, 1950, that Burton explains why he refused a suggestion and stampeded them into an im- up by Lieut. Gen. John B. astrously defeated in the May of the Chinese ruling clique. a political convention to allow big-time politi the “workers had no faith in blank from a foreman who said he might win mediate statement branding Hodges in Seoul. . . . 31, 1950 elections. Rhee’s party The report had described “the cians to address big crowds of union members.” the corrupt union leadership of $5,000 from GM for a good suggestion. Burton North Korea an “aggressor.” "Evidence of a powerful won only 45 of the more than scramble for place and power” The Soviet bloc members were class struggle is everywhere. the government-controlled un 200 seats in the South Korean says he doesn't want to make money at the cost ions, or in the wbrd of the gov inside the Chiang regime and absent, having withdrawn over The American brass hats and parliament. Rhee was slated for The Stepping Stone of someone else’s job. “A few weeks ago a union ernment itself in adjusting Kuomintang party and the another issue. Before the week the Korean police have not the political scrap heap less In another article, Peter H. Turner, of brother told me he heard of an employe turn grievances.” “economic deterioration” and was out. without a declaration been able to prevent strikes. than a month before North Maintenance, Nights, asks: “Who was the elec ing in a suggestion to eliminate some of our “maladministration” e v e ry of war by Congress and with Trade union leaders are ar He said: "Last year the Korea’s alleged “unprovoked trician who was seen in Gregory’s on Ballinger brothers’ jobs. My God, I thought, have we got where in Nationalist China. The out any expression of w ill by rested and tortured, but the Rhee government put 150.000 aggression” gave him the pre Highway last Saturday night with a couple of a Judas here at the V-8 plant? . . . Please! Don’t country, it was disclosed, “was the A m erican people, U.S. struggle goes on day and people with families in jail. text for establishing his m ili members of supervision. From the news I got, misunderstand me, I’m not telling you not to in the grip of the reactionaries troops were dying in Korea. night. Many workers are tary dictatorship and for he told the waitress, ‘I want them to have the turn in a suggestion. Sure you may, but don’t The prisons are bulging . . . w ho were indistinguishable U.S. State D epartm ent propa armed and fight to maintain slaughtering scores of thousands biggest steaks you have in the house and give do it if you think it would eliminate a brother’s I went through them . . . from the war lords of the past.” ganda labeled the clouded the independence of their in South Korea as “Communist me the bill, they are my guests.’ This man is job. My friends, I think we have got enough events in Korea an “unprovoked towns and villages. Free elec The workers are oppressed, spies” and “ infiltrators.” Acheson's "W hite Paper" also quite high in the skilled trades union movement. automation as it is now. Don’t you think ¿0? ... aggression” by North Korea and tions are banned. . . suppressed and regimented." explained why it was inad A ll I can say is, if you want to go on supervision I hope I have not offended anyone with this On March 29, 1947, more than by the Chinese People’s Repub A glimpse of the type of visable for the U.S. to "inter •— go ahead, but don’t use the union for a step article.” The article contains many biblical lic, after the latter had entered “democracy” prevailing in the ping stone.” quotations, but somehow we don’t think GM vene m ilitarily on a major the war with “volunteers” in new Republic of Korea was An unsigned article exults over the 659 w ill be happy about it. scale to assist the Nationalists November 1950. According to given by Walter Sullivan in team’s winning the UAW basketball league The Searchlight probably is unusual be ...Dobbs Opens Campaign Secretary of State Dean Ache- the February 1 and 2, 1950 New to destroy the Communists." championship and then complains: “The Local cause Local 659 is unusual, never having been son, the U.S. aim was to “ estab York Times. South Korea was ( C ontinued fro m Page I ) Guatemala-type overthrow of While this policy "may look would not even buy a ball for them to play fully brainwashed by the Reuther machine. But lish a free, independent and a police state. Concentration the Castro government, he said with, they had to buy their own. In regard to all workers’ papers could be improved consid in Cuba or restrictions on attractive theoretically," Ache democratic Korea” by an armed camps, torture and murder were his visit had convinced him that erably if they would set aside at least one page access to news. son glumly admitted, "the' suits, they didn’t expect complete suits but at intervention that was to involve the chief methods of political the Cuban people would resist where rank-and-file members would be free to Station KNX reported Dobbs least the local could have furnished shirts. What more than five million members rule. “Torture appears to be any invasion to the death. American people would not question, criticize and suggest. I think the as declaring about the SWP’s happened to the new shirts that the local bought of the U.S. armed forces and the accepted practice,” said Sul He stressed that U.S. labor have sanctioned such a colos last year? No one seems to know. Maybe it Militant, too, would be better if the letters de platform: “The wealth - of the cost the United States alone livan. He reported that many nation, the bulk of the budget, has a vital stake in defending sal commitment of our armies would be good if this were checked on . . .” partment could be greatly expanded. prominent people were “dying the Cuban revolution and that more than 150,000 battle casual should go for the benefit of the in 1945 or later." ties. •under police and army torture.” people. There should be homes the union movement should ex Most Americans were stunned He cited the official figure of built in this country. There tend the same solidarity to the By June 1950, however, Am at our swift, involvement in a 40,000 p o litic a l prisoners. In should be a vast, improvement Cuban workers that they would erican imperialism was pre ...AFL-CIO Unions in Canada war some nine thousand miles his February 1 dispatch, Sulli in the medical program, there to a striking fellow union. pared for such a “colossal com away in a land many of them van reported: should be a vast improvement He strongly urged unions, Ne mitment” in a desperate ven at the bargaining table opposition was that expressed could not quite place on the gro and student organizations to ture to retrieve something from (C o n tin u e d fro m Page 1) 'Human Flesh Distribution' in the educational program. tical issues through a particular alone?" by British Columbia Boilermak map. Korea, a peninsula jut “What we should do in the send delegations to Cuba and the Chinese revolutionary tide, party is something foreign to Steel leader Eamon Park in ers’ secretary and delegate Bill ting south from Manchuria and “On Jan. 17, several as United States is what they are declared that they would not even without the sanction of the the labor movement. Nothing troduced the political education Stewart. He voiced one of the touching Siberia on the north semblymen brought their griev doing in Cuba, where they are only receive a warm welcome American people. That is why could be further from the truth committee’s report as an “his variations of the Communist east, had been seized by Japan ances against the police into the converting the military bar but w ould see som ething they Trum an was so quick to th ru st . . . to remain withdrawn from toric decision which may change party position, which has been in the Russo-Japanese war of open — an action that today racks into schools so the chil could believe in and would this country into the Korean participation in political life is the course of Canadian political one of opposition to the Labor 1905 and annexed in 1910. demands courage. One referred dren can have school facilities want to defend. struggle. Korea was the last re the exception rather than the history.” The new party is party. Stewart laid down as a At the Potsdam Conference in to what critics of the police call, until they get some new schools Stand on Chessman maining mainland beachhead ru le .” needed, he told the delegates, condition of support the ad July, 1945, a secret agreement ‘the human flesh distribution b u ilt.” Before adjourning, the meet for military assault on the Hitting out against the anti “to create a sense of realism— mission of the independent un had been made between the case’ that occurred last Septem Asked whether Russia ing voted to send a wire to Gov. Chinese revolution. The Korean labor Progressive Conservative we must end the Tweedle-dee ions that have been undemo- Allied powers and the Soviet ber [1949] at Mokpo, seaport at wouldn’t “take over the world” Brown demanding he use the events, in turn, gave Truman a party and the Liberal party and Tweedle-dum of Liberals cratically barred from partici Union to invade Korea and di the southwest corner of Korea. if the U.S. adopted such a pro powers of his office to save Caryl pretext for assuming the de (Canadian counterparts of the and Tories.” pation in the party. vide it along the 38th parallel Escaped and recaptured prison gram, Dobbs declared: “The Chessman from “the vindictive fense of the Chiang regime on of latitude. Soviet troops en ers allegedly were shot on the Formosa and maintaining him Republican and Democratic par The 40-man delegation of the Behind the CP ultimatum that greatest threat of war today judicial murder awaiting him” tered Korea on August 10, 1945; doorsteps of various citizens and as a counte r-revolutionary ties in the U.S.), he declared International Brotherhood of it be a federated party open to comes from this country. . . . on May 2. Chessman, said the American forces did not begin left there, apparently as an ob threat to the Chinese people. that not only has labor the Electrical Workers walked out its participation, lies its real Not from Russia. And I’m not wire, had “already been subject their occupation until Septem ject lesson.” right but it has “a responsibility in a body before a dinner hour support o f the reactionary Dief- a supporter of the Stalinist re ed to unconstitutional, cruel and (Next week: Opposition at ber 8, 1945. The Soviet Union Just afterNthe full-scale Kor- to help provide the people of recess to demonstrate opposition enbaker government. The CP gime.” unusual punishment.” Home to the Korean War.) their country with an opportu to any part of its per capita hopes to widen the Canadian At the May Day rally, where nity to exercise a meaningful dues “being used or channeled government’s tactical differences a large portion of the audience Choice as to their representa to the formation or assistance with its British and U.S. allies Strikers in Manitoba o f 150 were yo.uths, Dobbs tion in parliament and the leg of any political party.” in the interest of “peaceful co shared the platform with Erroll islatures and municipal coun But thè effect of their absten existence.” It also argues for Meet Attack on Union Banks, Socialist Workers con cils. tion was undercut. When IBEW an all-inclusive, non-class “peo gressional candidate in the It's Special 'T o argue as some do that delegate Angus MacDonald de ple’s movement” instead of an By Gerry McKinney Twenty-third District, and Su there is no room for politics livered their statement that “the independent labor party. zanne Weiss, a teen-age spokes is to argue that there is no party would be detrimental to A strike that points up the needed if the strike is not to be man for the Young Socialist Pulp and Sulphite union room for life itself in the tfceir continued advancement growing anti-labor offensive in broken. Alliance. delegate Macphee of British Co labor movement. How can and welfare” he expressed his Canada has been in progress Dozens of scabs have been im At the rally, Dobbs scored lumbia touched on the question During Election we," he asked, ''as trade personal hope that the IBEW’s since Feb. 29 in Brandon, Mani ported from backward rural Eisenhower’s complaint that of program. A proposed draft unionists, rule out of our lives 30,000 Canadian members w ould toba. I t involves Local 255, U.S. citizens who invested their drawn up by the joint CLC-CCF areas in the province with the all the tissues in which we heed the convention action and United Packinghouse Workers “savings” in Cuba have been committee is already being cir promise of jobs. Some have suc To help win a wider audience for the truth about have such a great slake and change their minds. and the Brandon Packers. denied their legal rights. U.S. culated through union locals ceeded in entering the plant and such big issues as independent political action, the which we can never resolve The only other noteworthy capitalists exploited the country and CCF clubs. Referring to a Recently, John Olver, presi are maintaining partial opera brutally, Dobbs charged, and struggle for Negro equality, the freedom fight of coun previous discussion on drug dent of Local 255 was ra il tions. worked hand in glove with the tries like Cuba, the growing movement for a world of price-gouging during which a roaded to prison for nine To their credit, many farmers Batista regime, which murdered peace and abundance, we’re making a special sub , delegate called for socialization months on a trumped-up have refused to deal with Bran 20,000 Cubans. of the industry, Macphee ex charge of assault and battery. don Packers, even though Bran scription offer during the election campaign. A full 26 . Socialist Fund Scoreboard Dobbs also debunked the pressed the view that a demo He had been defending him don is offering them higher- weeks for only 50 cents! City Quota Paid Percent claim that internal rebellion cratically controlled plânned self from an attack by three than-usual prices. Connecticut $ 100 $ 94 94 is now developing in Cuba. . economy is needed in the in scabs. The company has officially We hope you’ll continue to subscribe to America’s N ew Y o rk 4,300 2,194 "We found in the country a 51 terests of the working people "fired" the strikers, number fighting socialist newspaper after you’ve read it for 26- D e tro it 625 284 Unionists have been assaulted peaceful, orderly atmosphere," 46 ‘ to resolve the mounting crises ing about 115, and is carrying Chicago 800 325 41 at night and arson has been com he said. "The people were weeks, but there’s no obligation. of capitalism. He stressed the on a propaganda campaign to 60 24 mitted at Olver’s home. industriously and enthusi D enver 40 acuteness of the problems win "public" support for its 4,500 astically engaged in building Los Angeles 1,473 33 created by automation and The police have attacked union-busting drive. B ay A rea 925 260 28 for their future. That was the pointed to the danger of atomic strikers with clubs while escort The- com pany’s campaign is Cleveland 650 184 28 norm, the atmosphere, the cli destruction should another war ing scabs through the picket backed by the reactionary Pro The Militant San Diego 245 68 28 mate we found. break out. lines. The cops have worked vincial Conservative Govern 116 University Place St. Louis 80 20 25 hand in glove with the company The fact that the army has New York 3, N. Y. The acceptance of the new ment of Premier Robbins. Only Milwaukee 300 70 23 in its efforts to crush the strike, been put to. work and that the party by the national CCF con broad, m ilitant and united work- workers and peasants are given Boston 350 60 17 which has also been the target Yes, I’d like to take advantage of your special election Philadelphia 400 54 14 vention to be held in Regina in ing-class action can halt this at arms, is the best testimony to of a savage attack by the local tack which could create a dan offer. Enclosed is 50 cents for a 26-week subscription. Twin Cities 1,700 235 14 August is a certainty. There the genuineness of the new after the long postponed dis daily press, particularly the gerous union-smashing pattern N ew ark 265 34 13 Brandon Sun. Cuban democracy, he said. He A lle n to w n 110 10 9 cussion on the constitution and that would inevitably hit other also cited a Cuban proposal program w ill begin. A large motorcade of unionists Name ...... Seattle 500 30 6 unions. > that Dominican dictator Trujillo from Winnipeg went to Brandon Pittsburgh , 10 0 0 The workers of Local 255 ap give arms to the people of that South Korea, w ith 22,655,000 in a demonstration of solidarity General 80 20 25 pear determined to carry country “and then let’s see who people, received $293 m illion in with their striking brothers. The Street ...... Apt...... / through the struggle despite the supports what regime.” U.S. aid d u rin g 1959 w h ile In Manitoba Federation of Labor Total through heavy odds they face. For this Declaring his agreement with dia, w ith 397,540,000 people, re has indicated its full support tp they deserve the gratitude of 4 * the Cuban charge that the State M ay 3 $16,000 $5,439 CO City ...... Zone ...... State ‘ ceived only $106 m illio n . the strike, but more support is workers everywhere. Department is aiming at a - - - • Monday, May 9, 1960 T H E MILITANT Page T h re e ...... ■ i.
Subscription: $3 a year; Ca Second class postage paid When "Coexistence" Flowered in Asia nadian, $3.SO; foreign, $4.50. t h e MILITANT at New York, N. Y. the American Editor: JOSEPH HANSEN Managing Editor: DANIEL ROBERTS Business Manager: KAROLYN KERRY Published weekly by the Militant Publishing Assn., 116 University PI., N. Y. 3, N. Y. Phone: CH 3-2140. Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent the Militaries policies. These are expressed in editorials. Way of Life Vol. XXIV — No. 19 Monday, May 9, 1960 A Bill of Rights for Children The Murder of Caryl Chessman On the basis of a year’s collective study, the sixth grade class at Roger Sherman School in New Haven, has The execution of Caryl Chessman tries, why pick on the U.S.? To the masses written a Bill of Rights for Children. May 2 was an act of premeditated, cold of youth demonstrating against tyrannies The youngsters presented their*- document to Congress, which abilities. With proper educa blooded murder by the highest policy that are backed by U.S. dollars and arms, took no action except 10 print tion harmful prejudice could be makers of the American ruling class. The the rulers of the U.S. personify all that is the bill of rights in the appen abolished. . . . dix of the Congressional Record world knows that after the state of'Cali brutal, oppressive, greedy and heartless. CONCLUSION fornia submitted Chessman to twelve years It may also be asked: why single out (April 28). To our knowledge, of unprecedented agony — eleven years in this one deed? Hasn’t American capitalism the national press has not re In our classroom we are a ported on it. < Death Row, seven “final” decisions for far more hideous crimes to answer for? class family. Three religions The following are excerpts: and three races are represented. execution and seven postponements — the By the decision of one arrogant little man Every child needs love. . . . All the children work together U.S. State Department in effect ordered the rulers of the United States executed Therefore every child should be and visit each other’s homes. an eighth postponement two months ago. without warning, and with no other pur loved regardless of creed, color, We help each other. The purpose was to gain time to calculate pose than to terrify and cow all of man sex, nationality, or occupation This is the way we would like the pros and cons of gassing Chessman to kind, close to a quarter of a million men, of parents. . . . to be. In our classroom this is Every child should have the Chinese Premier Chou En-lai (left, holding bouquet) at 1955 Bandung Conference of Asian our daily life. We wish that the death from the point of view of the influ women and children at Hiroshima and joy of planting and watching and African nations. Next to him is former Indonesian Premier Sastroamidjojo. At Con outside world would enjoy our ence this might have on the world political Nagasaki. live things grow. . . . freedom. ference, the Chinese CP leaders said "peaceful coexistence" was possible among independent situation. Again, the U.S. rulers intervened in Every child is entitled to the You, the adults of the world, nations in Asia and among the major powers throughout the world, regardless of differences in kind of living conditions that After Chessman was executed, the the Korean civil war under the sole auth social systems. Since then pro-capitalist regimes in India and Indonesia have adopted hostile are responsible for our safety, Sydney Sun in Australia declared: “Hardly ority of two men — first a Democratic, produce good health. our lives. Children never stands toward China. Six hundred million of the anything can equal the cynicism which than a Republican president — and mas- started war. Adults did, but world’s nine hundred million children suffer the most from could reprieve Chessman two months ago . sacred over five million Koreans as well children are unhealthy because them. for political reasons but allow him to die as 54,000 G I’s. And the execution of the of lack of proper food, clothing, If our Declaration is to reach when those reasons no longer exist.” The Rosenbergs was a clear case of p o litica l Capitalist System Breeds War shelter and medical help. Asia all the children of the world main point of this observation is correct: murder calculated to bring the Korean with more than one half of the world’s population has less than there must be global peace. the decision to reprieve and the decision cold-war frenzy to its highest pitch. one-fifth of the world’s food. . . . to kill were political decisions. The point is that the execution of Says Chinese CP, Citing Lenin The “have” nations should share The reasons for this are obvious. The Chessman has become the concentrated more generously their blessings ... Koreans with the “have not” nations. . . . Chessman case became a m ajor w o rld symbol of all the criminal deeds of the (For the information of our ing advantage of the interval, period following the Second (C o n tin u e d fro m Page 1) readers we are printing the fol they work energetically to ex World War is the surging wave political issue. Specifically it became a American capitalist rulers. Humanity Enough to Eat deeply involved in the aid swin lowing excerpts from an article, pand their arms and prepare for of national independence move focal point of what the monopoly press cried out for justice and mercy foi^him, dle, co-operating with govern “Imperialism — Source of War the next war. . . . ments in the colonial and semi Every child should have calls “a wave of anti-Americanism abroad.” and the U.S. rulers gave back a stone of in Modern Times and the colonial countries and the con ment figures in accepting col Of late certain representative enough to eat. . . . Every This was due in part to the fact that Chess arrogant contempt for the opinion of man Path of the People’s Struggle tinued suppression and use of lusive bids for4the purchase of figures in U.S. ruling circles one should have adequate shel for Peace,” by Yu Chao-Li. It U.S. dollars at a fraction of their man’s eloquent pen had carried his story kind. In this it was true to its innermost seem to be paying greater lip armed force by imperialism ter. Slums should be rede first appeared in the April 1 is value. beyond Cell 2455, beyond the usual cur nature. The State Department dangled service to peace than hitherto against them. . . . veloped into properly equipped sue of Hongqi (Red Flag), fort “South Korea’s economy re tain of silence behind which capitalist Chessman with one hand over the pit of and playing more peace games. In the imperialist countries, houses with play areas on green nightly magazine of the Central mains a mess . . . the wealth of They hope to create the illusion the broad masses, w ith the grass,. . . . Medicine should be society quietly inflicts its punishment on oblivion and weighed world opinion with Committee of the Chinese Com among people that Eisenhower working . class in the lead, are distributed by governments the country resides in the gov victims of laws made by the rich and pow the other. It finally decided that it was munist party, to commemorate and his kind are capable of fighting resolutely for peace, for where needed. If governments ernment, thanks to U.S. eco the ninetieth anniversary of erful against the poor and defenseless. enough to wait until Eisenhower had pass “laying down the butcher’s people’s democracy and for so cannot afford to do this, the nomic aid. This means a Korean Lenin’s birth. The article was Chessman’s story aroused deep sym ed a critical area of his Latin American knife and turning into budd- cialism. They are another im United Nations should do so. . . . seeking to improve his lot must published in English in the has.” They want people to be portant and indispensable force Education for doctors and seek a career in politics or the pathy in every corner of the globe; it tour — and then drop Chessman into the A p ril 12 Peking Review.— lieve that U.S. imperialism w ill in the peace movement. Hav nurses should be free in every bureaucracy, a situation that en aroused grave doubt that he had been pit. E ditor.) oifer the gift of peace to the ing experienced the hardships country so that there will be courages corruption and self given a fair trial and review; it aroused No wonder the world ig horrified: Lenin taught us that in the w orld. of two world wars, these people enough doctors. There are perpetuation in office,” ex suspicion that the hideous practice of Press comment in Rio De Janeiro — “The era of imperialism, the im are not willing to fight another. 900,000 doctors in the world, plained the April 28 Wall Street W ill Eisenhower and his like capital punishment was being compounded United States justice is against tne world;” perialist system is the source but we need twice as m any.. .. Journal. of war. Imperialist war is a really lay down their butcher’s The widespread popular sen To survive people w ill have to with a lynch spirit based on the bureau in Germany — “Inhumanity!”; in Italy — knives? Does U.S. im perialism timent means that the enemies Rhee’s police-state rule opera continuation of its policy of study how to get along with one ted on behalf of the corrupt cratic axiom that the state makes no mis “an atrocious crime;” in Denmark — “a aggression and enslavement. In actually desire world peace'? of world peace inevitably find another. People will have to time-servers as well as of the takes, or at least must never admit to any; loathsome drama;” in France — “a parody times of peace, the imperialists Facts are most eloquent. Nu themselves constantly encircled learn about the well-being of landlords. The only steps taken always pursue a whole set of merous events have demon by the broad masses in their others. That is why we are con and, it aroused a great revulsion against of justice.” In Equador, high school stu by Huh so far to curb Rhee’s to policies for the continuous ex strated that ju g g lin g w ith peace, own countries. The struggle cerned with children the world the brute savagery of capital punishment. dents cried: “Down with the Yankees! talitarian machine has been to tension of the rule of monopoly Eisenhower and those like him of the people of West Germany over, not just ourselves. . . . There is truly historic justice in the Assassins! Criminals!” In Uruguay they dissolve the state-controlled Stu capital. The exploitation and are actively preparing for against rearmament is deepen Every child should be taught dent Defense Corps and to ac fact that millions of people have identified shouted: “Yankee murderers!” oppression of their peoples at war. . . . ing with each passing day. how to work with his hands as cept the resignation of the nine their hatred and horror of capital punish The American ruling class can con home, their domination and [Thus] in their electioneer The Japanese people’s well as his mind. . . . Every provincial governors and of 21 ment with hatred for the rulers of the tinue to clamor that Chessman was justly plunder of the colonies and ing, the two major bourgeois struggle against the “Japan-U.S. child should be taught not only police officials. United States and horror of its latest deed. executed; mankind has formed a different semi-colonies and the rivalry political parties in the United Security Treaty” is developing facts, but also how to think for among monopoly capital groups himself and express his opinion. Obtaining the police resigna It is idle to argue that since capital punish verdict, and that verdict we believe w ill States, the Democratic and Re vigorously on a nationwide in various countries do in fact publican parties, are not cam scale. The peoples of the Uni . . . Children should not be tions was no particular feat. A t ment is after all practiced in many coun stand. breed new wars. To the im paigning on a program for peace ted States, Britain, France and overworked to help support a the height of the revolution, perialists, peace is no more than and easing of international ten Italy are making headway family. . . . No one should be most of the cops hid their uni an interval between wars. Tak- sions but competing ,for better against the reactionary rule of permitted to take advantage of forms and tried to get lost. Many records in armaments expan the monopoly capitalist class, children. . . . have ignored government orders China and the Summit sion and war preparations. . . . the militarization of their bour Every child should have the to return to duty. geois governments and the lat- Meanwhile, Seoul newspapers As the summit meeting of the Ameri abandon its policy of war. The peace which Facts show clearly that today, opportunity of a free education ... Turkey just as Lenin pointed out more ter’s plans for enslavement. All through college, if he qualifies. report that socialists have been can, British, French and Soviet heads of U.S. imperialism seeks is nothing but peace (C o n tin u e d fro m Page 1) than forty years ago, the danger these struggles, each merging . . . Everyone should have equal meeting in that city and in Pusan state draws near, the Chinese Communist with U.S. global domination ... a peace in of war still lies in the imperial with the other, w ill play an ever rights because no one race is to form a new party in opposi the troops to "open fire" on ist system. . . . There has been greater part in blocking war superior to another. Everyone tion to the Liberals and Demo party continues to express radically differ which socialism is eliminated, revolutions student demonstrators. ent opinions than the Khrushchev regime in all countries are ‘strictly verboten’ and no change whatever in this fun preparations and war-making should have equal rights to a crats. Both old parties are re Embarrassed U.S. State De damental nature of imperialism by the imperialist forces. . . . on the questions of Western imperialism’s full education, according to his ported torn by dissension. the peoples of the world submissively partment officials had “no com since the end of World War II. drive to war and of “peaceful coexistence.” knuckle under to the oppression and ex ment” to make. But on May 2 It is absolutely impermissible (See excerpts on this page from the article ploitation of U.S. monopoly capital.” President Eisenhower, speaking for us to mistake certain tac In Other Lands in Hongqi, organ of the Central Committee The Chinese' CP spokesmen also take at a dinner, described how U.S. tical changes on the part of im of the CCP.) issue w ith the Twentieth Congress revision foreign aid had turned Turkey perialism for changes in the into “a bastion of freedom.” very nature of imperialism. Im of the Leninist concept of the road to The points on which Peking has ex Like South Korea, Turkey has perialism may adopt this or Cuba Recalls Chicago Martyrs pressed sharp disagreement with the workers’ power and its adoption of an ex received massive U.S. economic that tactic at different periods, Kremlin — without, however, taking issue plicitly reformist position. Without men and m ilita ry aid ($2 b illio n ) but it w ill not change its nature, who are plotting to smash the However, he demonstrated his tioning the Twentieth Congress, the Chin since 1947 with which it sup nor will it alter its basic Million Marchers with the Soviet Communist party by name Cuban revolution, he said: “A unwillingness to let the people ports a m ilita ry force o f 440,000 policies. . . . — are as follows: ese spell out the Leninist view of the class revolution that has the support of Guatemala hear the Cuban men out of a 25-million popula Comrade Mao Tse-tung said: Renew Their Vow struggle and revolution; they underscore of all the honest men of the reply to this charge. He followed The Twentieth Congress of the Com tion. Turkey borders on the So “The propaganda about an anti- that the peoples of colonial countries must world will not be defeated. up the diplomatic break by munist party of the Soviet Union in 1956 viet Union. It has important Soviet war consists of two as To Defend Country % They must resign themselves, forcing Prensa Latina, a Latin- take the revolutionary road if they wish N ATO a ir and naval bases and pects. On the one hand, U.S. Cuba celebrated May Day in declared outdated the Leninist belief that lest in their stupid attempt to American press-wire service to the drive to war is inevitable so long as to be rid of imperialist domination. a large radar station, used to imperialism is really preparing the spirit of the Haymarket destroy it, they lose much more a war against the Soviet Union; close its Guatemalan offices. capitalism continues to exist. Under the They also view the struggle for peace observe Soviet movements. A martyrs, who gave their lives than they have lost already. NATO rocket base is to be con the current talk about an anti- on the gallows in Chicago as One of the news reports car conditions of a new world relation of forces as inseparable from the revolutionary The Cuban revolution is a structed on Turkish soil. Soviet war and other anti- part of the socialist vanguard re a lity .” ried by Prensa Latina which following World War II, the Congress said, struggle of the working class against capi Soviet propaganda is the politi Despite Menderes’ threat of struggling for a better world. The Prime Minister warned Ydigoras apparently preferred talism and the colonial people against cal preparation for an anti- capitalist countries can be persuaded to heavy reprisals, 3,000 yo u th fu l Revolucion, newspaper of the that a plot may be cooking to to keep from the Guatemalan imperialism: “All these struggles, each Soviet war. abandon war and to coexist peacefully demonstrators appeared outside July 26 Movement, commemo make it appear that Guantana newspapers was this statement with the countries that have overthrown merging with the other, w ill play an ever NATO’s opening session on May On the other hand, this pro rated the American socialist mo base, held by the A m erican by Fidel Castro: capitalism. greater part in blocking war preparations 2. They clashed with soldiers in paganda is a smokescreen put martyrs by republishing Jose navy, is being attacked. It “ What a coincidence that these and war-making by the imperialist forces.” full view of reporters and NATO up by the U.S. reactionaries to Marti’s account of their heroic would be a self-attack, he said, charges [that Cuba intended to In line with this policy, the Kremlin deaths and the mighty social The Militant has carefully reported officials, just as Secretary of cover up the many real con a “self-aggression.” invade Guatemala] were made struggle for the eight-hour day has, since Khrushchev’s visit to the U.S. State Christian Herter arrived tradictions U.S. imperialism is The Cuban government, he when 10,000 caballerías of land the stand of the Chinese Communist party. which they led. last September, depicted Washington’s on the scene. now facing. These are the con said, “is conscious of the fact [approxim ately 33,000 acres] be (See issues of Oct. 12, Nov. 30, Dec. 14, 21 tradictions between the U.S. re course as “ genuinely in favor of peace” and “The troops went into action Marti’s burning report was that its slanderers, in a state longing to the United Fruit Com and 28, _ 1959.) We have made clear that actionaries and the American with their rifle butts,” reported dated “New York, 13 de Novi of hysteria, m ay go so fa r as pany were transferred to Cuba. consistent with the new reality of the people and those between U.S. despite our thorough going disagreement the Associated Press. “Shouts [of embre de 1887.” T hat was tw o to plot a self-aggression. We What a coincidence that the nuclear age w hich has made w a r “ impos imperialism and other capitalist days after Parson, Spies, Fischer with the Chinese CP leaders on many “Hurriyet” — “Freedom”] arose want to make this clear. It charges come from Guatemala, sible.” countries and colonial and semi and Engel were executed by questions, we believe they are absolutely and a banner appeared. Sudden may be that the war criminals where United Fruit is an all- colonial countries. At present the Chicago capitalists and The Chinese CP leaders vigorously re ly the crowd broke and scatter and mercenaries w ill find a pre powerful institution and where right in their appraisal of the real policy the U.S. slogan o f w aging an their courts. text to attack our country. To ject these notions. They argue that Ameri of American imperialism. We think the ed.” anti-Soviet war actually means an invasion against a democratic Cuba’s workers and campesi- those who are seeking pretexts, government was organized. No can big business has not changed its im Some form of struggle the oppression of the American nos celebrated May Day in par- we say that we are not going Chinese have every right to be worried body can govern there today perialist course; that it has even stepped against Menderes " had long people and the expansion of its to provide them with any.” about a reactionary “summit” deal behind ades throughout the island. In without the support of United up its war drive; that “peace” talk by the been expected," according to aggressive forces in the capital Havana some 1,200,000 marched closed doors at the expense of their coun F ru it.” the April 29 New York Times, ist world. . . . for eight hours through the vast State Department merely screens the drive try. Such a deal would help no one but the Guatemala Breaks to war and represents a “ two-faced” tactic. because of "a lack of consumer When the working class Civic Plaza before the review imperialist war makers, despite any illu goods, high prices and general seized state power following the ing stand at the base of the Relations with Cuba Advertisement The Chinese detail a number of war sions of the Kremlin bureaucrats to the poverty." The fact that it was October Revolution, Lenin said: giant statue of Jose Marti. Miguel Ydigoras, president of like moves made by the U.S. government contrary. headed by students "came as “Now the struggle for peace Tens of thousands of them has started. This is a difficult Guatemala, used a TV interview Labor Politics as refutation of the glib talk of achieving In the meantime, the American Com a surprise to observers." had walked on foot to Havana struggle. Whoever has thought April 28 to announce he was "Which Way for Labor: lasting peace under capitalism. Above all, There are only 34,000 students to demonstrate their solidarity munist party continues to remain silent th a t it is easy to a tta in peace, breaking off diplomatic rela Democratic Party or Labor they insist that Washington’s refusal to in Turkey’s universities and they and complete support of the tions with Cuba. about the position of the Chinese CP. The that one has only to mention government they put in power Party?" by Murry Weiss. recognize China and its maintenance of Worker and Political Affairs have not even “have been traditionally cloister the word peace and the bour The move was apparently in Bulletin No. 3 of Marxist ed, ta kin g no p a rt and, m any after overthrowing the hated m ilitary bases on China’s borders disprove reported the Chinese viewpoint let alone geoisie will present it on a Batista dictatorship. They response to Cuban Foreign M in Studies. 22 pp. 25 cents. thought, little interest in poli silver platter is a very naive ister Raul Roa’s revelations A pril Pioneer Publishers the contention that the policy of American commented on it. vowed to defend their revolu tics.” person.” . . . 24 that some 500 mercenaries are 116 University Place imperialism has changed. tion with their lives if need Considering that the dispute between They have been joined, how To strive for and realize be. being trained on various farms New York 3, N.Y. They also argue that Lenin’s analysis Peking and the Kremlin is over the ques ever, by other sections of the world peace, resolute struggles Fidel Castro voiced their feel in Guatemala for an invasion population, including professors of the dynamics of the imperialist system tion of the character and policy of Ameri must be waged against the im ings when he declared, “Any attempt on Cuba. as a breeder of war retains its fu ll validity; can imperialism and what attitude the and lawyers. When 100 attor perialist policy of aggression attack against our country w ill Among other items, Roa said neys, attired in long, black ju CHINA that imperialism is incapable of altering American working class should take tow and plunder. In the colonial have to face . . . the most that two B-26 light bombers dicial robes, attempted to march and semi-colonial countries, the resolute resistance ever met by had been flown from Miami to THE CHINESE REVOLU its fundamental character, and that while ards it, isn’t such silence inexplicable? from the Palace of Justice to the masses of the oppressed fighting an aggressor.” secret airports in Guatemala TION, Problems and Perspec any lessening of international tensions It must also be noted that a similar scene of the NATO conference, for complete national independ He likewise voiced the feel as part of the armaments be tives, by Leon Trotsky. A 30 of them (24 men and six should be welcomed and peaceful coexist silence has afflicted other radical publica ence have battled unswervingly ings of unnumbered thousands ing stockpiled for the invasion. sampling of Trotsky’s views against colonialism, old and ence should be urged, it is “clear that tions like the National Guardian and the women) were arrested. Resent in other lands when he said Ydigoras, furious over the ex on a subject that finally shook, new. Eisenhower and his kind w ill never lay Monthly Review. Isn’t it high time that ment which led to the demon that an attack would face “re posure, tried to brazen it out by the world. 22 pp. 350. strations was triggered- by in They form an important and ctown their butcher’s knives. U.S. imperial this debate be reported and frankly dis sistance also in all America . . . claiming that the Castro govern Pioneer Publishers tensified repressive measures indispensable force in the peace and in all the world.” ment was planning to invade 116 University PI. New York 3$ ism being what it is will certainly not cussed in the American radical press? decreed by Menderes. movement. A feature of the Referring to the sinister forces Guatemala. t h e MILITANT ericanism” is. I fairly seethe Smith Act), with H.R. 9069 (the VOLUME XXIV MONDAY, MAY 9, 1960 NUMBER 19 Have Tories in rage at the stupidity of these worst of the various passport Recaptured modern so-called patriots. It is bills pending before Congress). evident that today it is an honor All readers of the Militant New Hampshire? to be a stool pigeon and, as should write their Senators to shown by the Rosenberg case, be on guard against efforts by George Stanton Editor: refusal to “rat” on one’s friends the chairman of the Judiciary Biloxi Boycott Committee, Senator Eastland popular history of the Canadian When this, writer was a raw means to subject oneself to By Ross Dowson (D-Miss.) to push S. 2652. labor movement. In 1950, when recruit in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry torture, imprisonment and even Clark Foreman With the death of George the Canadian Congress of Labor he first heard the story of Ethan death. Director, Stanton on April 25, the Can organized the National Federa Allen and his Green Mountain And to think that once I was Emergency Civil adian labor and socialist move tion of Unemployed Workers, he Boys and their gallant capture stupid enough to bear arms for all of this. Liberties Committee m ent suffered a grievous loss. was appointed full-time or Pinches Racists of Fort Ticonderoga in the Rev Affectionately known as Paddy, ganizer for the Toronto Labor olutionary War. Paul Dennie he was a colorful figure widely Council. New Hampshire farmers con Los Angeles Opposes Demand known over the past 35 years stituted a strong part of the For Nationalizing from coast to coast. An Internationalist forces that fought with Allen, Warns of Sinister and they were death on the Steeped in the great revolu Not only did Stanton vigor Where It Harts Railroad Industry Tories, But evidently the Tories Anti-Liberties Bill tionary traditions .of his class ously strive to develop the By Arthur Jordan have since recaptured New Editor: and supremely confident of its militancy of his fellow workers future victory, his voice, his Hampshire as indicated by the Pending in Senate I don’t think socialists should but he persistently explained A boycott movement by the Negro community in- conviction and incarceration of advocate public ownership of manner, everything about him how their struggle was part of was cut from the one cloth. His Biloxi, Miss, has already forced three white-operated stores' that champion of peace and Editor: thet railroads at this stage be a world-wide class struggle. A dramatic postures, his booming to close down. A t a meeting May 1 Gilbert Mason, 31-year- freedom, Dr. Willard Uphaus. I would like to bring to the cause it would merely be a de newspaper clipping announcing When one thinks back to the voice, his vivid earthy imagery his decisive re-election as pres old physician, called for the corl-*- attention of your good paper vice to make capitalism operate tal where he is the sole Negro early days of the U.S. and the were a familiar part of union ident of the Prince Rupert tinuation of the boycott which and its readers a most danger more efficiently. was he a theoretician in the physician. He was arrested and courage and gallantry of men meetings, conferences, political Boilermakers records a motion was initiated after an armed at ous bill now pending in the In Canada I notice that there ordinary meaning of the w,ord. warned never to try again. like Ethan Allen and Tom forums and street-corner rallies. that he presented, and which tack on the Negro community a Senate — S. 2652. This is an is a great 'deal of opinion in But he was an earnest student, But after filing a petition ask Paine, it is to wonder what has Stanton collapsed and died was passed unanimously, con week before. omnibus bill compiled by Sen favor of nationalizing the re well acquainted with the major ing for equal rights on thè happened to the country in the from a heart attack as he picked demning the Churchill govern On Sunday afternoon, April ator Keating (R-N.Y.) and Sen maining privately-owned rail writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin, beach, Mason with several meantim e. up his welding torch on a job ment for its counter-revolu- 24, some eighty Negroes, many ator Dodd (D-Conn.) — two roads, and it is pointed out that Trotsky, their associates and others made a second atempt on It is beyond my comprehen freshmen Senators who are ap at Malton just outside Toronto, tionary terror against the Greek of them women and children, to have both private and state- their opponents. April 17. He was again arrested sion how a state with the re in “the harness” of the class of people. proceeded under Mason’s lead parently trying to make a owned railroads is a waste of When the class moved for and released under $25 bond. volutionary traditions of New w hich he was so proud to be a ership to Biloxi’s “white only” name for themselves by fighting the country’s wealth. I don’t ward, Paddy moved forward Very early in the struggle, The May 2 New York Times' Hampshire can even .consider member. beach, developed with the help against civil liberties. think the Canadian socialists with it to hold posts of leader Stanton identified .himself with reported that city authorities be the imprisonment of such a ship and responsibility. He at of a million dollars of federal S. 2652 combines the threats should get mixed up with this Paddy knew many defeats as the revolutionary-socialist views lieved the “crisis” could be set gallant man as Dr. Uphaus be funds and maintained by a two of H.R. 1992 (extending the ap reform that would merely help well as victories. He saw tended many national CLC-CIO of Leon Trotsky and became an tled by allocating part of the cause of his refusal to be a stool plication of Chapter 37 of Title conventions as a rank-and-file cent gasoline tax. After they had the greater Canadian capitalists strikes broken, unions collapse, enthusiastic supporter of the beach to Negroes on a segre pigeon. 13 U.S. Code, relating to espion delegate. It was at the height been swimming almost an hour, (and U.S. capitalism, which associates weaken, falter and Militant. He took a large gated basis. But Dr. Mason was I’m beginning to wonder why age and censorship), with H.R. of the war when Stalinist-in several carloads of whites sud owns much industry in Canada) fall in the course of struggle. bundle, which, together with quoted in the May 7 Afro-Amer I wasted so m any years in the 6817 (extending the Foreign fluenced delegates were at denly appeared. at the expense of the railroad He saw squabbles and splits, books and p&mphlets put out by ican as saying: “I . . . voice thtì Spanish-American War and the Agents Registration Act), with tempting to saddle the CLC Pioneer Publishers, he vigor capitalists. but he never lost the long view. In full view of patrolling po sentiments of the vast majority Philippine insurrection. H.R. 2369 (broadening the defi convention with a no-strike ously spread throughout the G. P. He became a materialist and lice the whites piled out and of colored persons here when I What a miserable fraud “Am nition of -“.organize” in the pledge that Stanton delivered New York class-conscious militant very Vancouver labor and socialist with clubs, bats and steel say the whole, is better than some the major opposition address. movement. early in life. He was launched chains assaulted the Negro of its parts.” in this course by a group of A t the climax of his speech, As early as 1934, just one bathers, wounding several and German socialist prisoners of he turned to the Stalinist year after it was founded, he driving them from the beach. World War I which, as a caucus *o declare his soli joined the Co-operative Com Dr. Mason was arrested and The "Golden Years" stripling soldier, he had been darity with "the greatest monwealth Federation in Bri fined $50 for disturbing the strike in history" led by Lenin House Probers By Mary McKay placed in charge of. tish Columbia to fight within peace and obstructing traffic. Born in Dublin, 1901, of a and Trotsky in the midst of a it for a revolutionary-socialist Five hundred Negroes as war which "started the Oc “We’re told we’ve reached the ‘Golden “Only 20 per cent of the aged with income middle-class family, upon his program. In 1954 the right sembled to protest the arrest. Plan Attack on tober Revolution of 1917 and Years,’ ” said the old man, speaking to the ■below ^1.200 carry any hospital insurance, and arrival in America in the early wing of the Ontario CCF ex twenties, he came into contact which will continue until the pelled him and some 15 others That night more carloads of packed hall in one of a nation-wide series of two-thirds of these have individual insurance whites entered the Negro section with the Wobblies. Stanton ab last capitalist bond and de because of their views. Sit-In Backers labor rallies supporting health insurance for policies with token benefits.” of Biloxi, pouring shotgun blasts sorbed the best that was in benture is shriveled up on the Later the top brass of the retired workers. After meeting with Walter Reuther, who NEW ORLEANS, May 5 — the Industrial Workers of the funeral pyre of the last im Ironworkers Union brought him into two cafes and a gas station. “Well, take it from one who got there,” he brought 7,000 names to W ashington on a pe-. All night the cars prowled. Fight Rep. Edwin E. Willis of Louisi World and the “One Big Union” perialist warlord." up on charges because he urged continued. “There ain’t much gold in them thar' tition collected at an auto workers’ rally in ana heads a Congressional sub movement which inspired a S h o rtly after transferring his local and sister locals to Negroes were shot, including h ills .” Michigan, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, pre committee which w ill quiz supr generation of radicals with their from Vancouver Local No. 1 of protest plans to bring the in three women. Twenty-four more “There are those,” he continued, “who say viously “neutral,” agreed to work for a “modi porters of Southern sit-ins at revolutionary spirit — and it the Boilermakers Union in 1943, famous Senator McCarthy to were injured. In addition to Ma the Forand bill is socialism. But they don’t hearings in San Francisco, it fied” version of the Forand Bill, limited to hos never left him. he became president of Prince Toronto for a public rally. son, nineteen Negroes were ar think it’s socialism for an insurance company was reported here. pitalization and other institutional care but in Stanton was in his element Rupert Local No. 4 and presi At the Time of his death he rested and fined. or for Blue Cross to pay a hospital bill.” The Dixiecrat Congressman is cluding no surgical or medical benefits. His ver when the workers were moving dent of the Prince Rupert Labor was chairman of the Socialist The April 24 events followed “If there is one thing we' retired people a member of the House Un- sion would include financing through the Social in militant anticapitalist Council. For a period he was Educational League. His com by almost a year Dr. Mason’s have,” he said, “it’s time. I assure you that we American Activities Committee. Security tax system. This is what the American struggle and needed a voice. He chairman of the Educational rades and- the thousands who first lone attempt to use the Willis comes from one of are ready to give that time to support the Medical Association and insurance-companies was a powerful agitator and Committee of the Toronto area ; were influenced by his vibrant beach. Last May he put on his the worst areas of Louisiana, Council’s campaign for the Forand bill. We are are principally opposed to. popularizer of the socialist pro council of the United Steel j personality and ideas w ill sorely bathing suit and went down to so far as Negro voting rights old fighters and we promise to -keep fighting Bad as the Rayburn “modification” is, the gram. He was no writer, nor workers for whom he wrote a miss him . swim in front of the city hospi- until the Forand Bill is law.” liberal Republican substitute is even worse. are concerned. He was also a Political commentators generally have Sponsored by Senator Javits of New York and leader in raising large sums pointed out that under ordinary circumstances seven colleagues, the bill provides that those of money to support Gov. the b ill (H.R. 4700) w ould have been k ille d in over 65 must meet premiums based on “ability Faubus of Arkansas in his ef Monitors Suit Against Hoffa forts to keep Negro children the House Ways and Means Committee. That, to pay,” with the insurance provided by private instead, it is front page news, proves the zeal of companies and “non-profit” groups, and with out of previously all-white ceeded to modify the original “The argument appeared to restoration of their democratic schools in Little Rock. its supporters — and the undodgeable reality the extent of benefits determined by the states, (C o n tin u e d fro m Vqge 1) decree making the time of hold have reached a dead end yes rights and a motion by the un A wide variety of people are that the measure is needed. w ith a maximum of $250 a year provided for the monitor racket by members ing a convention “subject to terday when the chairman of ion for a convention were sub to be summoned to the Califor This was documented in a letter last month hospitalization. of Congress. The prostitutes of recommendation by the board the monitors, Martin F. O’Don- mitted to Judge Letts. An ad nia hearings. The only thing to the New York Times by Dr. George Baehr, a Like the demand for Negro rights, the suf the press, you see, are also out of monitors to the general exe oghue, failed to get support for verse ruling on the motion they have in common is that former leader of the American Hospital Asso fering of the aged sick can no longer be brushed to “get Hoffa.” cutive board of the international his motion to file in court an would have permitted the un they have been active in or ciation. Pointing out that by 1960, 26 million aside. In an election year, the deals have to In the 26 months of its exist brotherhood, with the exact interim report containing addi- ion to carry the action on ap ganizing picket lines, boycotts, Americans w ill be over 65 and that 74 per cent be subtler. The real question w ill be how in ence, the monitor setup has time of holding the convention t i o n a 1 charges against Mr. peal to a higher court. and other support for the resist of the aged have annual incomes of less than effective the compromise may be — how far cost the Teamsters Union close being subject to final approval Hoffa.” Judge Letts neatly solved this ance movement in the South. $1,000, he w rote: “ O nly 35 per cent of the people short of real socialized medicine. to a milliom dollars; it has pre of the court.” Godfrey Schmidt, ousted dilemma by pigeonholing the Some are teachers who were over 65 have hospital insurance, most of it with For socialists, the task is to point out how vented the holding of a conven This ruling meant the board monitor and attorney for the petition and motion while pre able to block the House Com inadequate benefit coverage. good genuine socialized medicine could be. tion; led to innumerable law of monitors had the power to plaintiffs, sided with O'Don- parations for the “get Hoffa” mittee from holding hearings in suits, bickering and strife; pre extend their sway indefinitely. noghue and threatened to trial were hastened in the hope California last fall. vented the institution of much On appeal, the court of appeals have Smith removed as un of reaching a verdict before the The San Francisco hearings needed reforms; has been the held that Judge Letts’ ruling satisfactory to his clients. lid blew off the monitor scandal. recall similar proceedings held spearhead of the anti-union was in error so far as giving Instead, a majority of the in Atlanta, Ga., in 1958. At that labor-baiters who, in the name the monitors such power was "rebels" who had instituted time W illis was a member of the of “getting Hoffa” are out to concerned, but upheld the au the original suit, announced subcommittee that quizzed emasculate the powerful Team thority of the District Court to that they had dropped God Lovell Assails. Southern integration workers. GILT-EDGE VOTING PLAN — Discussing istration and the Federal Housing Administra sters Union. control the setting of a conven frey Schmidt as their attor One of the integralionists, the problem of how to keep Negroes from vot tion date. Although the court ney. Their spokesman, An tion against discrimination are a “pious fraud.” 13 File Suit Carl Braden, of Louisville, Ky., ing, William J. Mahoney, Jr., a columnist for He said that less than two per cent of FHA- of appeals urged the “desir drew Boggia, said: "We did U.S. Policy on was- la te r sentenced to a year in the Montgomery, Ala., Advertiser, offers the insured homes are open to non-Caucasians. The monitor story begins in ability of early transition from not get into this thing pri prison for refusing to co-operate considered opinion of Sebie Smith, an executive » * » 1957. A s'uit was filed in Septem court supervision to normal or m arily to 'get' M r. Hoffa. We Korea and Cuba with the subcommittee. The U.S. of the paper. Smith asks: “Why not a voter ber 1957 by 13 members of the ganizational management,” to got in to get straightened out NO HEADLINES ON THIS — U.S. head D ETR O IT, M ay 1 — U.S. p o l Supreme Court has agreed to re qualification based on an individual’s federal Teamsters Union charging that all intents and purposes the rul at the local level." view his case. Braden is a field line writers had a field day when a Soviet fish icy toward Korea and Cuba was income tax return? And graduate it, allowing the convention which elected ing gave the monitors what they This brannigan between the secretary and 'editor for the ing vessel was sighted near the spot where the condemned at a May Day dinner a vote fo r every $1,000 paid in income tax, so Hoffa president had been rig wanted. Judge Letts and the monitors, attorneys and clients, aton\ic submarine, Polaris, was making a test here by Frank Lovell, opening Southern Conference Education th a t persons paying $10,000 . . . w ould have ten ged. The suit charged violation monitors saw eye to eye on all left the whole setup in a state al Fund, a southwide group run April 26. But an inconspicuous item in the his campaign for the U.S. Senate times the voting power of the one paying only of the union’s constitution, fi crucial issues. of crisis. The monitors were May 2 New York Times revealed that “on the I as candidate of the Socialist working to end segregation' and $1,000.” Says M ahoney about his colleague’s nancial irregularities and the deadlocked. Action required other hand, our submarines have been lolling Seek Hoffa's . Ouster Workers party. discrimination. suggestion: “ I t makes a lo t of sense. We are a fact that at the time of the con agreement of a majority of two about . . . the ‘target area’ the Soviet Union has “It’s good to see the downfall capitalist nation . . . There is a price tag on vention, 109 of the affiliated Having acquired the power out of the three monitors. The Why not pass this copy of the marked off in the Central Pacific as the drop of dictators like Rhee and almost everything.” local unions were in receiver to perpetuate themselves in of union m onitor, D aniel B. * * * zone for its long-range ballistic missiles. We Batista,” Lovell said. “Our gov M ilitant on to a friend? ship. fice by forestalling a conven Maher, had resigned because of almost retrieved the dummy last stage of one ill health. With Smith and ernment should now be made to CONSPIRACY — Pittsburgh Safety Direc After preliminary hearings tion the monitors set out de of the two Soviet missiles fired into the area O’Donoghue at loggerheads stop interfering in Korea and to tor Louis Rosenberg complains that his men the case was settled out of liberately to carry through their last January. But one of the Soviet ships got there was no way of getting a stop putting pressure on the Cu have trouble getting evidence against gamblers court through a compromise aim of removing Hoffa. This there first.” majority. The inimitable God ban government. U.S. troops because bookies and players have an under agreement embodied in a con objective was vigorously pur • • • frey Schmidt had been repudi should be withdrawn from Ko standing whereby the player does not demand sent decree issued by the court sued on the premise that oust NOBODY'S TALKING — Attorney-General ated by his clients. T ru ly a case rea and from Guantanamo Bay a receipt for his bet. The police head contended on January 31, 1958. Under ing Hoffa was the necessary MacDonald Gallion of Alabama has instructed calling for the wisdom of in Cuba.” that this understanding constitutes a “conspir the consent decree a three-man prerequisite to the holding of state prison officials to contact his office before Solomon. Evelyn Sell, candidate for acy” against the cops and that it should stop board of monitors was estab a convention. Spokesmen for giving any information to federal investigators. lieutenant-governor, said she because “the police have other things to do be lished to supervise compliance the union charge that the real Judge F. D ickinson Letts rose The order came after it was learned that two has asked both houses of the sides fighting the rackets.” with the court order, to institute aim of the monitors is to estab to the occasion. It seems that N EW YORK * * * FBI agents had inquired about conditions at statQ legislature to adopt a reso administrative and procedural lish a court receivership which Mr. Schmidt had prevailed upon Atmore State Prison where more than'75 Negro lution of sympathy with the “POPULAR UPRISING IN SOLIDARITY — The Mississippi legislature reforms, - and to create the would give them control of the three of the original 13 to re has adopted a resolution commending the South prisoners had demonstrated against conditions union and its treasury. tain his services. As this was Southern sit-in demonstrations. KOREA AND THE CRISIS OF “proper atmosphere” under Other Socialist Workers state African government for its “firm segregation last February. Guards had broken up the dem In the meantime, difficulties a “ class” action, th a t is, one in U.S. FOREIGN'POLICY.” Hear which a democratic election candidates are Robert Himmel stand.” Theresolution notes that “there exists onstration with clubs and blackjacks. Seventy- arose and conflict developed be which the attorney for the plain Daniel Roberts, Managing Edi could be held. for governor, Larry Dolinski for a definite parallel between events in that coun two prisoners were put in solitary confinement tween the monitors themselves. tiffs contends that he actually tor, The Militant. FRIDAY, It was stipulated that: "A secretary of state, Rita Shaw for try [South Africa! and the recent disorders in for 18 days and 15 are still in solitary. The Jus First, }.he monitor of the 13 represents the entire “class” of M A Y 13, 8:30 p.m., 116 U n iv e r new convention and election the southern states of the United States.” tice Department has refused to release the plaintiffs, Godfrey P. Schmidt, 1,600,000 members of the union, attorney general, Harriet Talan sity Place (off Union Square). of officers shall be held at any » * * findings of the FBI investigation. was compelled to resign when it Schmidt insisted upon his right for state treasurer and Edith Contribution 50 cents. Ausp.: time after the expiration of 1 SALES PITCH — Aluminium, Ltd., is pro * » • became known that he was in to spe.ak fo r a ll members of the Gbur for auditor general. Militant Labor Forum. year from the date of this moting the sale of aluminum coffee cups to penal volved in a “conflict of inter Teamsters Union. DISPLACED STEEL WORKERS — Ten order (Jan. 31, 1958) when the institutions on the ground that they’re “less thousand production and maintenance jobs were est.” general executive board by Ex-FBI Agent Named effective as a weapon in case of a prison rio t.” eliminated in the steel industry last year by ' * * * majority vote shall resolve to It seems that while serving automation and labor-saving devices, according call such convention and hold as a monitor, presumably Judge Letts proceeded to re BUT WILL THEY CHASE AMBULANCES? to David J. McDonald, president of the United such election," representing the interests of move Lawrence Smith, because — Automation is coming to the legal profession. Steel Workers. He cited such developments as One monitor represented the his client members of the he had been convinced that A t the University of Pittsburgh, computers and BOSTON high-speed sheet steel mills, the use of tele 13 plaintiffs, the other repre union, he was at the same Smith “did not have his heart N E W A R K “memory tapes” are being developed that are vision cameras to monitor blast furnaces and time representing numerous in his work.” Letts then refused Boston Labor Forwm, 295 Hunting Newark Labor Forum, Box 361, sented the union and the third ton Avc., Room 200. expected to do a day’s legal research in five the spread of the oxygen method of steel- employers in their negotia to accept the resignation of Newark, N. J. was appointed by Judge Letts. C H IC A G O NEW YORK CITY minutes. m aking. tions with the Teamsters union monitor Maher as he * * * The court order provided that Socialist Workers Party, Hall 210, Militant Labor Forum, 116 Univer * * * the monitorship was to be dis Union. found the substitute submitted 302 S. Canal St., WE 9-5044. sity Place, AL 5-7852. RACIST 'HORSEPLAY' — The school HORATIO ALGER CLIMB IS HARD ON solved when a new convention Upon his resignation, 'Judge by the union not to his liking. C L E V E L A N D OAKLAND - BERKELEY placement law adopted by six Southern states ARTERIES — A man who is a self-made suc and election of officers was Letts permitted Schmidt' to ap Then, to replace Smith, the Socialist Workers Party 10609 Su P.O. Box 341, Berkeley 1, Calif. and approved by the U.S. Supreme Court was cess in the business woild pays for it by im held, presumably one year after point Lawrence T. Smith, a judge, on nomination of lawyer perior Ave., Room 301, SW 1-1818. PHILADELPHIA Open Thursday nights 8 to 10. branded “legalistic horseplay” designed to pre paired health, -according to a New York Hospi- the issuance of the consent de member of his law firm, as his Godfrey Schmidt, appointed an Militant Labor Forum and Socialist Workers Party, 1303 W. Girard Avo. vent school integration by Marion A. Wright, tal-Cornell Medical Center research team. The ex-FBI agent named Terence F. D E T R O IT cree. The primary function of successor. For a while Smith Lectures and discussions every Satur« vice-president of the Southern Regional Coun medical study compared health conditions McShane, whose qualification Eugene V. 'Debs Hall, 3737 Wood the monitors, ostensibly, was to collaborated with monitor board ward. TEmpIe 1-6135. day, 8 P.M., followed by open hout«* cil. Addressing the biennial conference of the among business executives who went to work create the conditions in which chairm an M a rtin F. O’Donog- seemed to be that he had pre Call PO 3-5820. LOS ANGELES American Civil Liberties Union in Chicago, immediately after leaving high school and viously “investigated” Hoffa. SAN FRANCISCO an election could be held as soon hue, but had then become in Forum Hall and Modern Book Shop. April 22, Wright said the federal government The M ilitant, 1145 Polk St., Rm. 4. those that graduated from college into junior as possible. volved in controversy with him With a majority assured and 1702 E. 4th St. AN 9-»953 or WE 5- Sat. 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. Phone PR 4- should intervene to prevent such use of the executive positions. The executives who rose However, when the union over' “strategy.” It seems that with the blessing of Judge Letts 9238. placement laws. Loren Miller, vice-president 7296; if no answer, VA 4-2321. from the ranks were found to have many more petitioned for an election, under Smith objected to the too nar the monitors pressed forward M IL W A U K E E of the ACLU, told the conference that the fed symptoms of heart diseases and other illnesses. the consent decree in February row aim of concentrating on the suit designed to remove ' S E A T T L E 150 East Juneau Ave. 1412— 18 th Avenue, EA 2-5554. U> eral government follows policies that preserve The death risk for members of the non-college 1959, the monitors objected “getting Hoffa” as a solution to Hoffa from office. A petition MINNEAPOLIS brary, bookstore. residential segregation and that rules adopted group was ten times higher than of those be stating that “the time was not all problems. The March 6 signed by 160,000 Teamsters Socialist Workers Party. Box 5520, ST. L O U IS against discrimination by the Veterans A d m in longing to the Ivy-League set. yet ripe.” Judge Letts then pro New York Times reports: Union members asking for the Lake Street Station, Minneapolis, Minn. For information pbons MO 4-7184.