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Voi. XII-No. 42 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY OCTOBER 18, 1948 PRICE: FIVE CENTS MARSHALL PLOTS DEAL WITH FRANCO “A Remarkable Likeness!” SWP Candidates S.W.P. Candidates Hit Latest War Conspiracy Moves On Ballot in 13 States By FARRELL DOBBS and GRACE CARLSON (In all other states including California and Ohio, write in SWP Presidential and Vice-Presidential Candidates' Farrell Dobbs and Grace Carlson) The capitalist rulers ot Candidate for Candidate for U. S. President U. S. Vice-President America are broadening their drive to strengthen CALIFORNIA MICHIGAN and bolster up the forces of fascism and world re­ GENORA DOLLINGER action. HARRY PRESS First came the brazen S.W.P. Candidate S.W.P. Candidate reduction of the sentence for U. S. Senator for 20th Assembly District of Use Koch, the “ Beast of Buchenwald,” together (San Francisco) with the commutation of the sentences of other leading Nazis. WILLIAM YANCEY MYRA TANNER WEISS Now on the very heels S.W.P. Candidate of this scandal, comes the S.W.P. Candidate for Secretary of State move to include Franco for 19th Congressional Dist. in the ‘democratic’ camp. (Los Angeles) Everyone knows that Franco conspired against Kutcher, Legless Vet, the legally constituted COLORADO government of Spain in HOWARD LERNER 1936 and with the armed FARRELL DOBBS GRACE CARLSON S.W.P. Candidate Suspended Without Pay aid o f H itle r and Musso­ lini, overthrew the Span­ for Governor James Kutcher, Newark war veteran who lost both legs in action in Italy, received formal ish government by force CONNECTICUT notification on October 12 that “effective upon receipt of this notice” he was suspended with­ out pay from his $42-a-week clerical job with the Veterans A d-® and violence in one of the ministration for “disloyalty” because of his membership in the 11, N.Y., sent out a national ap­ bloodiest civil wars of Socialist Workers Party. peal for support of Kutcher on NEW YORK tary of the Kutcher Civil Rights Oct. 6. It was signed by Harold modern times. He was further notified that Committee; Peter Flynn, Secre­ Russell, armless star of the mo­ the Branch Loyalty Board of the Everyone knows that MORRIS CHERTOV FARRELL DOBBS GRACE CARLSON tary-Treasurer of the New Jer­ tion picture, “The Best Years of VA in Philadelphia has ruled that sey CIO Council and chairman of Our Lives;” Bill Mauldin, author this newest hero of the he be fired permanently on Oct. S.W.P. Candidate the state Kutcher Civil Rights of “ Up Front” and “ Back Home;” 25, if the decision is not reversed Democratic and Republi­ Committee; and Arthur Burch, Carl Holderman, President of the WISCONSIN by a higher body after final ap­ for Governor one of Kutcher’s attorneys. N.J. CIO Council; Merle Miller, can bi-partisan coalition, peal to the Administrator. The Kutcher Civil Rights Com­ former editor of “Yank,” novelist This is the answer that Kutcher is not only a Spanish fas­ mittee, T9 W. 10th St., New York and Editor of Harpers magazine; received after his personal meet­ and Mr. Novack. cist. He served the Nazi ing with Attorney General Tom JAMES BOULTON Clark in Washington on Sept. 30. SWP Election News The A VC Bulletin, national cause faith fu lly during Clark then told Kutcher that he publication of the American Vet­ World War II and sent his S.W.P. Candidate would “study the record" of the erans Committee, in its current MINNESOTA case. issue carries a report on the Blue Division to fight side for Governor Kutcher had demanded that Kutcher case and publishes the by side with’ the Nazi ar­ Clark grant an open hearing to resolution of the AVC National the Socialist Workers Party on Planning Committee calling for mies against the Allies. the charge that it is “subversive,” all liberal organizations to join It is also public knowledge VINCENT R. DUNNE that being the sole ground for in his Defense. the persecution of the war-maim­ Norman Mailer, author of the that the prisons and Con­ S.W.P. Candidate PENNSYLVANIA ed veteran. The SWP was put on great war novel, “The Naked and centration camps where Clark’s “subversive” list without By George Clarke the Dead,” who recently joined fo r U. S. Senator FARRELL DOBBS GRACE CARLSON so much as a notice,^ and subse­ the Kutcher defense committee, thousands of members of quently denied the right of a issued the following statement on on ballot as Militant Workers Party SWP Campaign Manager the Spanish labor move­ hearing to defend itself. the case: “The attack and perse­ A t a press conference in New­ You see elsewhere on this page cution of men of.any left-wing ment are held to this day ark on Oct. 13 arranged by the the pictures of the Socialist political persuasion — Commun­ are just as vile and hor­ WASHINGTON Kutcher Civil Rights Committee, Workers Party standard bearers ist, Socialist Workers, Socialist the victimized veteran told the in this election from coast to or Anarchist — is a direct indica­ rible as those maintained NEW JERSEY reporters: “Five years ago I be­ coast. They occupy top place on tion of the strength of fascism in by Franco’s former came a casualty of World War the revolutionary scroll of honor America. It is part of a larger II. Today I am a casualty in the in America. These candidates are process which is designed to sil­ friends, Hitler and Mus­ battle for civil rights and freedom not place-seekers or opportunists ence finally even the mildest lib­ solini. DANIELS ROBERTS of speech. Two years ago, when but working class fighters —> eral conception in America today. l learned how to use my artifi every last one of them. The facts in Kutcher’s persecu-' But what difference do GEORGE RREITMAN Their candidacy is a challenge S.W.P. Candidate cial limbs, the government gave tion are hideous.” (Continued on page 2) — the only real challenge — in for Governor me a job. Now it has taken that S.W.P. Candidate job away — not for any fault in the midst of a hurricane of reac­ for U. S. Senator the way 1 did my work, but solely tion to the profitmad rulers of because of my political views. our country. Where others have retreated to the storm-cellars, “Meanwhile, I naturally intend to appeal the decision of the the SWP candidates are out in Philadelphia Loyalty Board, front fighting for a new day for OHIO which refused to consider the real American labor. The best way to issues in my case — is the Social­ honor their fight and join their ist Workers Party actually sub­ struggle is to vote SWP. versive; and is it constitutional The SWP is on the presidential to blacklist a legal party without ballot in eleven states, and has WILLIAM E. BOHANNAN HARRY BRAVERMAN local candidates on the ballot in giving it a hearing?” If necessary, Kutcher said, he two other states. Despite the S.W.P. Candidate seemingly small number, this is S.W.P. Candidate will take his ease to the civil fo r llth Congressional Dist. courts and fight it tip to the a great achievement for a first for 19th Congressional Dist. try. Its full significance is esti­ Supreme Court. (N ew ark) mated in the editorial column. (Youngstown) THANKS SUPPORTERS Your campaign manager wants to doff his hat once again in (Still contested in Courts) He took the occasion to thank “the many organizations, perio­ tribute to the gallant comrades dicals and individuals who have who put the party on the ballot come to my support even though — to the few who have done so they don’t share my socialist much. * * * IOWA UTAH ideas.” Participating in the press con­ A roar of approval for our FARRELL DOBBS GRACE CARLSON FARRELL DOBBS GRACE CARLSON ference with Kutcher were Presidential candidate from the George Novack, National Secre- (Continued on page 2) Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, October 18, 1948 Welcome- Grace Carlson! W orld Events Wallace - A Defender of Capitalism ■ By Joseph Hansen ■ — Indian Trotskyist countryside, back to the big port cities. Polls Highest Vote When the Viet-Nam republic And Supporter of Imperialist War In Madras Election was formed three years ago At the elections to the Madras some 90% of the people were il­ literate. Today this figure has By Art Preis Municipal Corporation, the third city, incalculable death and de­ largest local body in India, held been cut down to 20%, about Sudden conversions invite suspicion. Henry Wallace’s case is no exception. There is a 7,000,000 Indo-Chinese having struction. on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, Comrade been taught to read and write remarkable coincidence between his decision to run for president and his interest in labor, the In spite of this, there are those S.C.C. Antonipillai, member of since the new’ government wad Negro people, civil rights, etc.® who will say that by voting for the Central Committee of the formed. Wallace has already left many urge of the capitalist system, Wallace “right now” they will at Bolshevik-Leninist Party was Lacking customary school sup­ footprints in the political sands. Wallace counterposes his childish least be casting a protest vote elected by an overwhelming maj­ notion that all that is needed to against war. This is a delusion. plies such as paper, pens,' irik, We can trace his imprints back ority to represent Division No. 32 chalk, books, the pupils use wood­ through 14 years as Cabinet keep the peace is a sensible and By voting for Wallace they will in the City Corporation. Comrade en plates, leaves, charcoal, bricks, member, Vice President and loyal cool-headed man-to-man confer­ Le helping to disorient the people Antonipillai polled over 5,000 of as to the true, cause and cure of clay and so forth. servant of the Democratic Admin­ ence between himself and Stalin. the 7,000 votes cast, the remain­ istration. That record of 14 years The essence of his plan, for capitalist war. ing being divided among 5 other “In many villages,” declares speaks more loudly than the prom­ example, of restoring Ëuropean The only genuine vote that will candidates. Comrade Antonipil- the report; “whole families frorn ises of 14 months. economy is nothing but a crasser help to build an effective move­ lai’s vote is the highest recorded grandmothers down to 5-year-old and cruder form of the Potsdam ment against the war is a vote The “Fact Book” published by vote in the history of the Madras boys go to the same school, sit agreement — a cold-blooded divi­ for Farrell Dobbs and Grace Carl­ at the same table and drawl out Wallace’s campaign committee Municipal Corporation. sion of the world between the son, of the Socialist Workers the same alphabet.” says that in office “he invariably Six members of the Madras great powers, with the peoples of party — the party that by its used this power and influence to Labor Union were also elected to the world as the pawns. actions as well as words has advance labor’s cause.” The record the Corporation. Being sympa­ Violence Flares as Wallace was for the Morgen- demonstrated that it is dedicated proves otherwise. thizers of the Trotskyist move­ thau plan, to gut and loot Ger­ to the mobilization of the work­ ment they will work in coopera­ Strikes in France Through all the great labor Grace Carlson, Socialist Workers Party Vice-Presidential many, the heart of industrial Eu­ ing masses for the elimination of tion with Comrade Antonipillai. battles of the Thirties, Wallace candidate, being greeted by welcoming delegation on her arrival Continue to Mount rope, and reduce it to an agricul­ capitalism, the breeder of wars. These seven will be the only was as silent as the Sphinx. If he in New York City at Grand Central Station following her national Violence flared again in France tural province. Last February, spokesmen for the labor move-, ever defended labor, it was the tour. Farrell Dobbs, Presidential candidate, is speaking to thè when the Queuille regime ordered before the House Foreign Affairs audience of several hundred in the station. ment in the Council of 80, as the mpst silent ¡defense .ever known. Mobile’ Guardsmen to oust sit- Committee, Wallace proposed “the Socialist and Communist Parties You won’t find a hint of it in from the seed of weeds, only Workers Party down strikers from a steel mill in United Nations plan (to) place did not run any candidates. Com­ any public document or the public weeds ctjn grow. . , Lorraine. One worker was killed the Ruhr under international ad­ Wins Ballot Fight rade Antonipillai is trie President press. .' Wallace’s basic social concep­ in another clash. ministration and control by the of the Madras Labor Union and tion is his complete faith in The Workers Party is to be You will find that in 1935 Sec­ Big Four — thé United States, a member of the General Council When the guards used tear gas, capitalism, He promises ,tb bring congratulated on their success­ Campaigning retary of Agriculture Wallace B ritain,. Spviet. Russia, France.” the angry workers answered ful court fight against an of the All-India Trade Union tried to sneak out the back door about reforms, to prevent' imper­ This program would çpndemn hot them with stones, bricks and attempt by the Democratic Congress. of his office to avoid talking with ialist war, to eliminate the dan­ ortly the people of Germany. — tiles. They finally regained pos­ Party and the Board of Elec­ H. L. Mitchell, president of the gers of both inflation and depres­ but of all Europe — to starva­ session o f the plant after ten per­ sion within the, framework of the tions to rule their sole candi­ Viet'Nam Celebrates Southern Tenant Farmers Union, tion. For Socialism sons had been seriously injured. outmoded, anarchic capitalist sys­ date, off the ballot in the 19th who led a delegation to protest Against the assurances of tjpe Third Year of Fight Premier Queuille called thè tem, I t is this fact which belies Congressional District in New (Continued from page 1) Mason where the army has been Wallace’s policy of subsidizing utopian Wallace that he can se­ miners’ strike “insurrectionary” all his promises and makes them York City. Every victory oyer stamping ground of Jack London trying to recruit scabs. Comrade Southern landowners to lim it cot­ cure peace through itiëre “good For Independence and threatened to use force tp mere demagogy. t h e discriminatory election Dobbs’ exposure of the army as a ton production and thus providing w ill” and “negotiations,” we have and the Frisco General Strike On Sept. 23, the Indo-Chinese break it. A decree was issued, When Wallace says; he cah laws strengthens civil rights reverberated across the country strikebreaking agency was in them with a pretext for evicting the more realistic conclusions of a people celebrated the third anniv­ drafting all the technicians of the prevent war under capitalism, he and weakens the bipartisan last weekend. with the spirit . of the pickets’ hundreds of thousands of share­ Winston Churchill who last week ersary of their struggle for in­ coking ovens in northern France practices a base deception. Amer­ stranglehold over the ballot placards which read: “If you want croppers and tenant farmers. You declared that war is “remorse­ Farrell Dobbs covered the dependence from imperialist into the armed forces. ican capitalism, with its vast and box. to work for the army why don’t will also find that Wallace sup­ lessly approaching” and that even strike-bound waterfront in San France. The young Viet-Nam re­ growing accumulations' of Idle But in their rapturous ac­ you join it? ” and “No union man pressed the report of his own if “some formula will be found Francisco for the Socialist Work­ public has an impressive record capital, is forced inexorably • to claim for Attorney Joseph will pass this line.” "Trotskyist Dangler" investigators, who upheld the or some artificial ^compromise ef­ Glass, a ritember of the Social­ ers Party. Fropi the. foot rtf the of achievement. seek new fields for profitable in­ After the meeting one of the position of the STFU, on the fected which w ill'be hailed as a ist Party, who represented famous Embarcadero, he spbke “Three years ago,” reports the Arouses Fears vestment, new markets, new picket captains took the mike to grounds that the report was “too solution and a deliverance. ... trie them in court, they do violence over a loudspeaker system to Vietnam American Friendship sources of cheap labor. In its in­ announce that although the meet­ Italian Staliiiists hot to handle.” fundamental danger and antagon­ to the fact arid Whitewash a hundreds of striking longshore­ Association, “people in South satiable drive for profits, Amer­ ing was not sponsored by the A t a late September meeting isms will still remain.” black mark on Glass’ record. men and seamen telling them that Viet-Nam faced the French ar­ ican capitalism must exterminate ILW U , the union supported our BAD RECORD The fact that the Socialist (he SWP supported their strug­ mor and tanks with rusty rifles of the Central Committee of the lights and welcomed our speech­ During the war, while he was all that stands in its path, tolerate TO SUPPORT WAR Party and the Socialist W ork­ gle against the shipowners “un­ and bamboo spears. Today Viet- Italian Communist Party atterid- Vice President, Wallace never no rivals or competitors. W ar — Moreover, Wallace has already ers Party appear on the New equivocally and without reserva­ es. Nam war factories are turning ed by Togliatti, the various speak­ said a word against the wage- costly and temporary expedient promised in advance, on April 2b, York ballot this year is not tions and qualifications.” Comrade Dobbs also returns out bazookas, mortars, anti-tank ers dwelt at some length on the that it is — is the only prospect “Trotskyist danger.” freeze, the pro-employer W ar that, “If the U.S. should go to “the result of a court victory Bob Chester writes that the with glowing reports of magnif­ grenades, land-mines and other Wall Street capitalism sees for Labor Board, the Smith-Connally war I, of course, would withdraw” w.on two years ago by _ A t­ speeches were so clearly a call icent meetings in Los Angeles. deadly weapons. Hand-grenades Here are some extracts from its own survival. AntiStrike Law. When the Smith- from candidacy and opposition to torney Glass” as Labor Action to working class struggle and the Next week we’ll have the full have been manufactured in so the speeches of various Central Against this fundamental inner Connally predecessor of the Taft- the U.S. foreign policy. Regard­ (Oct. 11) claims. Just the con­ analysis so powerfully drawn that report. great quantities that they now Committee members published in Hartley Act was pending, a com­ less of its foreign policy, Wallace trary. Glass, representing the serve as wedding presents in the the Sept. 25 l’Unità, official organ well-known Stalinists, old Wob- CARLSON STUMPS THE mittee of union leaders called on said, he would “certainly” sup­ SP, brought the suit in the villages.” of the Italian Communist Party: blies and young seamen stood NORTHWEST Wallace as President of the Sen­ port the U.S. war effort. State Supreme Court to prevent around for well over an hour During the past three years Roasio declared that “increased Last week Comrade Carlson ate to use his influence to block And in the same sense, this the SWP from using its own listening to every word. Bob says Viet-Nam troops killed 21 French vigilance is necessary to, avoid made a flying trip to Seattle. this strikebreaking law. The Uni­ defender of capitalism would have name. And he did this in the that the playing of old working colonels and majors, 53,600 enemy the infiltration of Trotskyist ted Mine Workers Journal of Aug­ to support the consequences of very midst of proceedings to Highlights of the trip were a soldiers, wounded 45,000 others, theory in the party. Trotskyism class songs and the Internationale good-sized meeting of students ust 15 recalls: the war — military dictatorship, throw all minority parties off brought a light into many a work­ seized 103 field guns and mortars is not yet a danger in Italy, but on the University of Washington “The report on the Wallace suppression of the rights of the the ballot. Fortunately, he did er’s eye. and 75 bazookas as well as de­ it can be in the future if we do campus and a lively public meet­ visit was to the effect that W al­ workers, forced labor, conscrip­ not win his case. He lost it. From the Embarcadero, the stroying a great number of weap­ not intervene in time. .,.” ing organized by the party. The lace didn’t seem to know what tion, terrible shortages and scar- candidates truck went to Fort ons. Ciufoli insisted “on the neces­ party’s hall was crowded to the the bill provided or what the com­ Although the French despots sity of assimilating our doctrine doors, consisting of many vict­ mittee was talking about, and the maintain an army of 110,000 men (Stalinism) in order to struggle imized Boeing workers, Negroes committee in turn could not un­ at an annual cost of about $200,- against Trotskyist, maximalist — a young and enthusiastic aud­ derstand what Wallace thought 000,000 (of which about §40,009,- and anarchist conceptions.” ience, Dan Roberts our Washing­ f.r said.” Denounce Marshall Plot 000 will come from Marshall Dozza “took up and developed ton gubernatorial candidate Plan supplies this year) they have once again the subject treated by Wallace now poses as a cham­ writes. been forced to retreat from the Comrade Roasio. pion of Negro rights. We do not recall, however, that Wallace WE TAKE OVER ever protested segregation in the For Deal with Franco GRAND CENTRAL armed forces during the war. (Continued from page 1) ington to pour American dollars ostic policy are intimately bound With Minneapolis giving the And we do have the testimony’ of these unpleasant details and arms into fascist Spain with­ together. The same Big Business inspiration, the New York com­ W alter White, Executive Secre­ out the embarassmqnt of violating circles anxious to strengthen fa­ rades and campaign workers tary of the National Association make to the bi-partisan U N resolutions. scism in Spain, Germany and marched in and took over the N. Y. Campaign ing a Socialist Workers Party for the Advancement of Colored France will just as readily nour­ Grand Central station in a wel­ radio broadcast last July. He coalition of Democrats PITILESS LIGHT People, that the worst conditions ish fascism here in America. come reception for The Only Nets 304 Subs writes: of segregation and discrimination and Republicans? Franco The campaign to enlist Spanish Woman Candidate for Vice-Presi­ New York’s three-week sub­ “k y subscription to The. M ili­ prevailed in the Department of is against “communism,” isn’t he? fascism in W all Street’s war CRUCIAL QUESTION dent on her arrival from speaking scription campaign netted 304 tant is soon to expire so I would Agriculture and the Department He’s against Russia, isn't he? camp throws a pitiless light on The question of war or peace is engagements in Milwaukee and subs. Brooklyn led with 80, of like to have it extended. I am of Commerce and that Wallace, That makes him a blood ‘ brother what these war preparations real­ the most crucial question in the a radio broadcast in Detroit. The which 15 were obtained by the sending §1 to cover this. Be sin;e when head of these departments, of the W all Street gang who are ly mean. The inclusion of Franco 1948 election campaign. A vote station was full of comrades new Bedford-Stuyvesant Doobs- and send me a copy each week was deaf to all appeals to elim­ lining up' every dictatorial cut­ bares the real aims of American for the bi-partisan bloc of Dem­ wearing sashes saying Welcome Carlson club. F ifty new subs are because I want to know what Is inate the anti-Negro practices in throat, every fascist criminal, imperialism, its real program, ocrats and Republicans can only Dobbs and Carlson and distribut­ in the Brownsville area. going on here in the United States and also in other countries. Yorir his departments. Wallace had full every despot and authoritarian and the kind of world it aims at hasten World W ar III. A vote for ing election platforms and leaf­ N at Weinstein leads all in­ paper has more important articles power to change conditions but butcher to fight for “democracy” building. Big Business envisions Wallace and his “peace” program lets announcing Grace’s arrival. dividual sub-geters, with 22 of in it than any copy of our Lansing refused to do so. in thé Third World W ar against an earth made safe for tyranny is a vote thrown away for Wal­ A great cheer went up as Grace Ihe 25 subs turned in by. paint­ paper.” The mere recital of the record “totalitarianism.” and despotism, where dictators lace has already promised to sup­ came through the gate. Here she ers. Harlem got 61, Bronx 54, — which is evidence enough for The conspiracy of the W all ruling in the interests of a priv­ port the war if and when it was greeted by Farrell Dobbs, Central 48, East Side 44 (in­ the politically astute — will not Street gang to rehabilitate Fran­ ileged few will sit enthroned over breaks out. who had arrived early that morn­ cluding Youth). Jean Bennett of suffice to convince many ardent co, bring him into the United Na­ the slaves of a new dark ages. You cannot fight war or secure ing by plane. Farrell presented Harlem was second high in­ SWP Broadcasts Wallaceite3. They will argue that tions, and send him American These ominous moves clearly enduring peace by permitting the Grace with a bouquet of red dividual scorer with 17. IN 15 Forums Wallace was not in position, while arms and dollars, has been ¿are- portend the clearing of the decks capitalist class — th? real rulers dahlias. By this time hundreds of This fall The Militant will in office, to do much on the issues fully engineered and plotted step for action. They reveal with what and masters of America — to onlookers had gathered around, celebrate its 20th anniversary Over N. Y. Station about which he speaks so loudly by step. speed World W ar I I I is approach­ remain at the helm of govern­ and to the assembled crowd Grace with a fund-raising campaign to today. Or they will grant that cover the difference between T h e Socialist Workers First, Senator Chan Gurney, ing, if these war-makers have ment and in control of the coun­ and Farrell spoke briefly of the dollar subs and the actual cost Party is broadcasting in the the record is extremely unfavor­ Republican head of the Senate their way. try’s destiny. W ar can be pre­ reception our great socialist plat­ able, but that Wallace has of publication. It is not too soon Armed Forces Committee, went So it is not surprising that vented only by taking power out form had met from coast to coast. series of election forums “changed.” for readers to begin making to Madrid with a group of high- Winston Churchill, who went to of the hands of the war-makers. The reception concluded with lusty sponsored by station W N E W , But Wallace’s fundamental donations and getting new sub­ ranking Brass Hats to discuss Truman’s home state of Missouri Any program that promises to cheers for the candidates and the The series entitled “ Peoples’ ideas remain the same as before. in 1946 to make the first an­ singing of Solidarity. scribers to build up toward a “communism” and World W ar bring peace — as does that of smashing anniversary celebra­ Choice” consists of 30 broad­ These have not changed. And nouncement to a stunned world III with the fascist dictator. Ela­ Wallace — without kicking out But the capitalist press,, which tion. casts running nightly from of the “get tough” policy with ted over the “moral courage” of the war-makers is either con­ gives columns to the arrival of + * * 9:45 to 10 P.M. Franco’s fascist legions which Russia, should now herald the scious deception or muddle-head­ all type of characters, kept its James W. Connery, 75-year- The next SWP broadcasts “both the Generalissimo and my­ “remorselessly approaching third ed ignorance. iron curtain drawn against two old sub-getter of Kewanee, 111., self would be delighted to see world war.” The platform of the Socialist of the bravest people in America. will be heard on Mon., Oct. This watch dog of the British has sent $1 for himself and $3 18, Wed., Oct. 20, Fri., Oct. reinstated throughout Europe,” Workers Party calls on the peo­ from two of his subscribers, for Empire hails the “rearming” of FROM THE AUTO EMPIRE Gurney called for a full military ple to take the war-making pow­ the SWP election campaign fund. 22. the U.S. “on a large scale,” con­ In a letter from Flint, a while alliance with Franco. ers out of the hands of Congress. From a little village in the W N E W is 1130 on your back, there was a report of a Then James A. Farley carried demns the “trials of former .Naz­ Let the people vote through na­ Michigan Thumb came a $5 dona­ dial. NAACP meeting where Bill Yan­ the ball for the Democrats. A is,” urges “our American friends tion-wide referendum on the tion to The Militant. cey and Genora Dollinger our few daya^ after Çurney, he too to let bygones be bygones” so far question of w'ar or peace! An upstate New Yorker renew­ candidates for Secretary of State shook hands with the executioner as Nazism is concerned, tells his Withdraw all troops from for­ ed his sub into 1953. of tens of thousands of Spanish friends of the bi-partisan coali­ eign soil! For the complete inde­ and U.S. Senator from Michigan A St. Paul reader renewed both trade unionists. “We had a fresh tion not “to destroy the stocks of pendence of the colonial peoples! spoke. The report says that one Militant and Fourth International interchange of views and ideas,” atomic bombs which they have No confidence whatever in the of the conservatives tried to scare subs for a year with a §10 bill. said Farley, “and I can truthfully accumulated” and then shouts at United Nations, dominated by the audience with “the force and * * * say we were in general accord on the top of his lungs for an early despots of every variety and de­ violence” claptrap. our observations.” war: “We ought to bring matters signed to spread the illusion that Genora took him apart and had Detroit sold 35 of the new 10c. barley likewise called for a to a head and make a final set­ peace is possible under capital­ the audience applauding her re­ pamphlet A Letter to American Negroes, by William E. Bohan­ full m ilitary alliance with Franco tlement.” ism! Full solidarity .with the re­ peatedly. Her theme was that non, at a neighborhood street and freely admitted that it was Let no one imagine that the volutionary struggles of workers human rights came before pro­ meeting. “ It was cold, but a very designed for “trouble” with Rus­ American ruling class will pro­ and farmers in all lands — those perty rights and unjust laws enthusiastic crowd heard us. We sia. mote dictatorship and fascism dominated by American imperial­ must be fought as Jesus fought sold two subs and also gave away In accordance with the careful­ abroad without touching democra­ ism as well as those dominated many copies of the platform,” ly drawn time table, these declar­ cy here at home. Just as the new by reactionary Stalinism! For the the laws of Pontius Pilate. . . A writes Bea Allen. ations of friendship were followed Congress will be asked to convert Socialist United States of the' round of applause goes to the up by Secretary of State Marshall. the Marshall Plan into a plan for W orld! comrades in Michigan who hold * * * Marshall approached Bevin of the full scale armament of West­ YOU ARE VOTING FOR down jobs in the auto plants, “Whatever you do, don’t stop Britain and Schumann of France ern Europe, so it will be asked to THIS GENUINE SOCIALIST publishing your paper!” pleads a function as union workers and on revising the United Nations enact anti-labor legislation even ANTI-WAR PROGRAM WHEN Michigan State College student, policy toward Spanish, fascism. more savage than the Taft-H art- YOU VOTE FOR DOBBS AND campaign night after night for renewing for one year a 15-week Such revision would perrnit Wash­ ley law. Foreign policy and dom- CARLSON ON NOV. 2. our candidates. subscription he took after hear­ Pá&e Titrée Election Fund Reaches $17,850; 71 Percent of Total Campaign Quota The experience of my life, in which there has been no lack either of successes or of failures, has not only not destroyed - a By William F. War de, National Fund Director my faith in the clear, .bright future of mankind, but, on the contrary, has given it an indestructible temper. This faith in Selling Out the Rank and File A total of $874 was received New York nosed up to 77% reason, in truth, in human solidarity, which at the age of this week on the Socialist Work­ with $330 for the week, thus en­ eighteen I took with me into the workers’ quarters of the ers Party election fund campaign, tering the stretch for thé final provincial Russian town of Nikolaiev — this faith I have pre­ bringing us to 71% of our goal of one-quarter of their goal of $7,- served fully and completely. It has become more mature, but 500. not less ardent. $25,000. Boston was the only branch to West Virginia also hit the — Leon Trotsky, Address before Dewey Commission, move Up into the 100%-or-better three-quarter mark with $5 for Mexico City, 1937. category, with a score to date of the week. TROTSKY LENIN 129%. At a joint meeting of the Pittsburgh sent $15, bringing Boston and Lynn branches it was them to 73%. An accompanying decided to divide the goals which note says: “We are sure now of had formerly been combined. fulfilling our quota.” Minnesota sent in a $100 con­ San Diego collected $20 for the A Remarkable Achievement tribution, bringing them to 95%, fund this week, thus jumping well in advance of those branches We are proud to report that in the first For the best comparison we have to go from 32% to 72% at one leap. with the bigger goals. Trotskyist national election campaign the back to the first campaign of the old Com­ Flint reached the 85% mark Detroit moved up to 65% with Socialist Workers Party presidential ticket munist Party in 1924. W ith many times the with $19. “We expect to reach our a contribution for the week of has been placed on the ballot in 11 states— membership of the present SWP, and with goal before the campaign is over,” $265. Connecticut, New York. New Jersey, Penn­ far more liberal election laws, the CP suc­ they write. Lynn sent $10 to reach 28% of their goal. sylvania. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, ceeded in getting on the ballot in only 14 Ak«;on jumped from 52% last Thanks to L.A. and J.J, of Iowa, Colorado, Utah and Washington. states. week to 77% with a contribution ot $101. They write: “We are Kewanee, 111., for $1 contribu­ According to the latest Census Bureau The accomplishment of the SWP is all the pushing very hard so that we can tions each; and also to M.M. of figures, these states comprise 36% of the more remarkable because it comes- at a time come through with the $400 which Minneapolis for a $1 contribua present U.S. population of 146,114,000. whert the capitalist government is giving full we have promised.” tion. In other key states, such as California, vent to its campaign of intimidation ’and Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts, etc., where ex­ terror. In a state like Connecticut, for ex­ ceptionally restrictive election laws have made ample, voters signed the SWP nominating SCOREBOARD FOR 025,000 it next to impossible for the SWP to get on petitions in the face of a threat to publish the ballot, the party is conducting a write-in their names in the daily papers. SWP ELECTION FUND campaign for Dobbs and Carlson. The fact that the SWP overcame these Branch Quota Paid Percent For the SWP to get on the ballot in II “Labor Statesmen” from A FL and independent unions trotted down to the White House to many obstacles in 11 states is testimony to $ 50 $ 65 131 assure strikebreaker Truman of their support for his reelection. Shaking Truman's hand on the Baltimore states is a truly remarkable— indeed, a unique 275 355 129 the powerful motive force of -its program and right is George Harrison, Chairman of Labor’s Committee for Truman and Barkley and President Boston — achievement. No minority party of com­ 50 61 122 of the A F L Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Federated Pictures Tacoma parable size— and on the first attempt too— a herald of its growing position of influence St. Louis 50 60 121 has ever come near this achievement. in the American working class. Milwaukee 400 419 105 Allentown 50 50 100 Philadelphia 500 500 100 Reading 150 150 100 An Answer to James T. Farrell Rochester 50 50 100 Minnesota 2,000 1,892 95 One of the most vociferous of the disoriented liberties. Such a concept is abhorrent not Flint 400 347 87 for a radical change in the state 1,222 81 intellectuals supporting Norman Thomas is only to revolutionary Marxists but to all British RCP Hails Thanks Militant San Francisco-Oakland 1,500 of things. Conditions in the world Newark 750 600 80 the novelist, James T. Farrell. Farrell once Editor: genuine fighters, for civil rights. SWP Campaign are forcing them to cast about for Seattle 600 480 80 prided himself on being a Marxist, lie was We, as revolutionary Marxists, consider Editor: Thank you very much for edu­ solutions to alleviate the terrible Akron 400 307 77 cating the workers to understand feeling of insecurity which plague 400 308 77 one of the few intellectuals who, so far as-we that an integral part of the fight against The Political Bureau and mem­ Cleveland their economic interest in this all of us. I f we can focus the 7,500 5,754 77 know, gave no support to the second world capitalist reaction is the exposure of those bers of the Revolutionary Com­ New York City insane society. W ith your tireless attention of the rising army of 800 612 77 war. Norman Thomas, on the contrary, whom munist Party send the Socialist Youngstown who parade under a “Socialist” label while striving for a better world to discontented workers on the solu­ 100 75 75 Workers Party our best wishes West Virginia Farrell now favors, was a supporter of the1 giving aid and comfort to the class enemy. live in, we are bound some day tions offered by the SWP we will Pittsburgh 200 145 73 on the occasion of your participa­ imperialist slaughter and today endorses the In this fight we were not intimidated by to build a new society without make great strides forward. San ‘Diego 50 36 72 tion in the U.S. presidential elec­ superstition, war, murder and Detroit 1,600 1,040 65 major planks of the bi-partisan war policy of repression and we will not now be intimidated tion. W. K. slavery, so we some day can live Los Angeles 2,500 1,476 59 the State Department. How does Farrell by blackmail. The 18 Minneapolis defendants We are following with deep St. Paul, Minn. happy and secure. Buffalo 1,000 524 52 square his position during the last war with to nterest and pride, the magnificent * * * made no concessions their prosecutors al­ H. A. Toledo 200 101 51 campaign you are conducting support of Norman Thomas today? though they might have purchased liberty Chicago, III. 'Subversive List' - A Chicago 2,000 982 49 which is doing such a fine job of * *! * 125 35 28 A letter by James T. Farrell printed in the with such concessions. We have far less Lynn work in putting Trotskyism on Hitlerite Act Connecticut 250 32 13 Sept. 29 N. Y. Post gives a partial answer. reason to compromise our principles to buy the political map in the U.S.A. Sends $10 for SWP Editor: General 1,050 172 17 In the letter, Farrell, who is noted for the the support of anyone who would make that The politically conscious work­ Campaign The following is from a speech politeness of his manner and tone in con­ the price of defending our civil liberties. ers in Britain take a deep interest Total $25,000 $17,850 71 Whether one agrees with revolutionary in the election campaign for U.S. Editor: delivered by Adolf Hitler to his troversy with bourgeois and literary figures, president, and we are proud to rubber-stamp Reichstag on March launches an insulting personal attick against Marxism or not, no honest fighter for civil I have enclosed $10 to cover 23, 1933— only a few weeks after take part in politics of this bring to their notice the existence the subscription rates of both the SWP Campaign Manager George Clarke and liberties would dare question our right to of independent working class being handed the power of state: world. We are looking for the "Socialist’ Workers Militant and Fourth International Government spoken about at uphold our program or threaten to withhold candidates, about whom the “Theoretical equality in the a slanderous denunciation of the SWP. The for a period of one year. Isaiah 9,6,7—“ Christ’s Kingdom” Party - What It Is - support to our victims of capitalist repression capitalist and Stalinist press are eyes of the law cannot be ex­ pretext for this unrestrained diatribe was a I realize that your rates are not of course. You’ll say that will silent. tended to the toleration on an What It Stands For" if we continue to defend our political ideas. nearly enough to cover the cost never be done but man has been letter by Clarke to the N '.Y. Post calling To the candidates, the cam­ equal basis of those who scorn Whether he knows it or not, Farrell is flirting of printing and mailing these 6,000 years trying to bring a Who rules America? Who attention to Norman Thomas’ role in the paign organizers and all the the laws on principle, or indeed here with a method made infamous by the publications, so please accept the better Government but all in vain. are the “informal, invisible, second world war, contrasting it with the party members, we extend our to surrendering the nation’s balance as an appreciative gesture Remember what I tell you (mqn shadow” figures behind the revolutionary stand of Eugene V. Debs in Stalinists. They too are ready to defend civil greetings and wish you every freedom to them on the basis of on my part to help meet the cost will fail again) only God can pull White House? What future do liberties— but only for themselves and their success. Yours is a real contribu­ democratic doctrines. But the the first world war, and noting the continuity of producing these splendid dis­ us out of this mess. Things have they plan for America? What political supporters! tion in the fight for world social­ Government will accord equality of the Debs tradition by the candidates of seminations of truth. You can be in the eyes of the law to all those gone too far. do the inside works of capital­ But it is easy to defend one’s political ism. ism look like? Where is the the SWP. sure the amount is limited not who take their stand on the line We have also served long prison Your fraternally, capitalist system headed? How friends. The test comes in the defense of the by the extent of my appreciation adopted by the nation and behind terms during the first and last Unwilling to frankly repudiate his own J. Haston, will socialism work out? What civil liberties of political opponents. We have but only by my means. the national interests and who war and expect to have to again, General Secretary, R.C.P. inspires the members of the past, unable to square it with his present I have learned a great deal do not deny their support to the passed this test many times, actively defend­ (British Section of Fourth cnly because we were looking Socialist Workers Party? position, unable to challenge the facts, Farrfll since becoming acquainted with Government.” for “God’s Government” where ing social democrats, anarchists, Stalinists International.) Th’ese and many similar attacks the very act of making these facts the Militant and the Fourth In ­ Clearly the Attorney General Revelations 21 chapter says, God and all other victims of political persecution. * * * ternational, as well as various questions are answered by Jo­ public. This leads Farrell toward some of the United States has taken will make the earth new. seph Hansen in this lively, We have always joined with opponents in A Letter from Vienna works of Leon Trotsky. As a a leaf out of H itler’s book by mischievous and dangerous conclusions. He student of sociology, I am happy Mrs. N . C. hard-hitting pamphlet just off these struggles without any political condi­ drawing up his infamous “sub­ Fort Worth, Tex. the press. I f you want to know says: Editor: • to discover that one can learn the tions whatever. versive” list and prominently more about the Socialist Work­ We are following your Presi­ underlying processes and com­ "Today Mr. Norman Thomas is supporting displaying in it the name of the ers Party and the world of en­ This traditional labor solidarity, however, dential campaign with great in­ position of our civilization from Socialist Workers Party. during peace, freedom and the appeal of M r. Dobbs and other M in ­ cannot operate if one or another party or terest and wish you great success. the Trotskyites if not from our S. T. abundance it is fighting for, neapolis defendants who are seeking a presi­ individual attempts to extort political con­ We’re sure that you are aware colleges. Chicago, 111. send for this 32-page pamph­ dential pardon. When this so-called political cessions from another party or from the of the following: Trotskyists the I want to assure you that I ’m * * * let today. 10 cents per copy. party needs support, i( acts one way. When victims of the persecution. Such blackmail world over are watching you; a a hundred percent for , Dobbs and significant, success on your part Carlson. While it’s quite certain PIONEER PUBLISHERS it needs to act like a radical Get-Rich-Quick- will not work, and it certainly will not work Position of will also be of real value to us that they won’t be elected this 116 University PL, New York 3, Wallingford, it performs in another manner." with us. We never demand political con­ here. fall, their splended campaigning 'Jehovah's Witnesses' New York In plain English, this means that Norman cessions from others as the price for our — A letter from Vienna, Austria should have valuable results. Editor: Thomas should be entitled to absolution for cooperation in the defense of civil liberties. Great numbers of working people I am one of “Jehovah’s W it­ his political crimes because of a decent act— And it is useless for others to demand such are beginning to feel the need nesses” and as you know we don’t which is to his credit— in behalf of civil concessions from us. Political Bankruptcy Press Comment On John L. Lewis last week blasted those union does he offer the miners and American labor Kutcher Case leaders who run down to the White House in the decisive field of politics? Nothing,' "at the whim of the President” and there absolutely nothing. Though they confront the (Reprinted from the Oct. 9 Nation,) "sell out the labor movement and sell out machinations of the capitalist government at Mr. Truman’s Administration, whose battle against the their own union for a lunch.” Lewis told the every turn, the miners are told by Lewis, in Republicans on loyalty inquiries does not obscure the fact Mine Workers convention: effect, to abstain from a presidential choice. that some of the most unfair and ludicrous loyalty-check pro­ "Labor in America is given too much to the cedure has been established by Mr. Truman’s own Attorney- What is the source of this political bank­ General, would seem to have caught a Tartar in the person appeasement of its oppressors. . . They seem ruptcy? Lewis, for all his aggressiveness on of James Kutcher of Newark, New Jersey. Mr. Kutcher, who to fawn too much in the presence of the rich the economic field, is wedded to the profit had both his legs blown off. by a German mortar shell in Italy, and powerful, and they are untrue to the men system and to capitalist politics. This blinds was recently dismissed from his job in the Veterans Admin­ istration because he is a member of the Socialist Workers who work and pay their salaries and sustain him to what his own experiences should have them in the comforts they enjoy. I have a Party, which Tom Clark included on his blacklist of some taught him— that this government is an in­ 400 “subversive” organizations. The Socialist Workers are contempt for such men." strument of the capitalist class, that this class Trotskyites, few in number albeit scrappy and articulate. But Lewis’s scathing indictment. of the has a monopoly of political power which it They are not fond of Stalinist Russia, nor, they state, do they American trade union leaders only under- exercises ruthlessly to subdue the working believe in overthrowing the United States government by force liries his own bankruptcy on the political and violence. Mr. Kutcher, after a futile closed hearing before class. a loyalty review board in Philadelphia, has appealed to Mr. field. That is why Lewis leads his own union Clark and to the President for reinstatement in his job and Witness the developments at the mine astray no less than the A FL and C IO officials for the clearing of his party’s good name. From the beginning, union convention itself. Kutcber has “proudly affirmed” his membership in the So­ who seek to tie labor to Truman and the Lewis began with a scorching denunciation cialist Workers; while considering "the entire procedure in­ Democratic Party. That is why he does not volved in (loyalty) hearings as illegal and unconstitutional,” of Truman for his strikebreaking against the and cannot give leadership in the next great he has complied with all its demands. Mr. Clark granted him miners union. So far, so good. Then, with forward step that the American labor move­ an audience last week and, though assuring the veteran that Truman eliminated, Lewis offered as an his case would be carefully looked into, maintained that it was ment must and will take— the building of a alternative — Dewey, banner-bearer of the impossible to grant public hearings to all — and therefore labor party. For that next great step, labor Taft-H artley party! But no sooner was this presumably any — so-called “subversive.” We have a feeling cannot depend on Lewis, but must select new that this almost perfect test case will not end there: Mr. Kutch­ position adopted than Dewey came out flatly young leaders who understand the class nature er is obviously a fighter, and he has received strong support .for the Taft-H artley slave labor law. Lewis to date from the CIO, the AVC, and, among others, Eleanor of modern society and -the compelling thereupon had to eat his own words of the Roosevelt, Bill Mauldin, Merle Miller and Harold Russell, the day before. necessity for labor to build its own party on disabled veteran of “The Best Years of Our Lives.” Now where does Lewis stand, what program the political field. SWP Election Tour ------■------SWP Western Campaign t h e MILITANT — By Farrell Dobbs, Presidential Candidate —■ V O LU M E X I I MONDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1948 N UM BER 42 Los Angeles, Oct. 11 — Because of the ex­ Democratic politician, Chet Hollifield. tremely anti-democratic election laws, we must In both Los Angeles and San Francisco we conduct a write-in campaign for the presidential had record breaking indoor election rallies. ticket in California. However, Predominant in the audiences were workers from we will have two local cand­ maritime, auto, steel, aircraft, oil refineries, idates on the ballot, thanks to needle trades and other fields. Oil Strikers Fight Desperate the long hard hours of labor Another contact from Sandstone prison showed of the party membership, up at the Los Angeles meeting. He is a former working against terrific odds. Jehovah’s witness who learned about the SWP Myra Tanner Weiss is bat­ and its program through his prison conversations tling for election to Congress with Oscar Coover. He asked to be remembered to Oscar for whom he has the warmest feeling Battle Against Scab-Herders from the Los Angeles area. of gratitude and friendship. The Los Angeles H arry Press is slugging it out R IC H M O N D , C A LIF., Oct. 7— Seasoned by thirty days with his capitalist opponent comrades will now take up where Oscar left off experience on one of labor’s toughest picket lines the members in San Francisco’s 20th As­ and we hope soon to have another recruit. sembly district. Both Myra Our campaign work in Salt Lake City is al­ of the CIO Oil Workers In-f^ ------* and Harry'were in there pitching on the streets ready bearing rich fruit. A former member, now ternational Union have entered ol Union Oil and Martinez, where and at the indoor rallies during my visit. living in that Utah city, came out to Los Angeles the second month of their strike Shell is located, are all out for We had two rousing street meetings on the during my visit. He will take the initiative, with against the six major refineries the strike. Wives and even chil­ San Francisco waterfront where about 600 strik­ the assistance of the Los Angeles comrades, to on the West Coast. dren of union men join the lines ing longshoremen and other maritime workers organize a party branch among the excellent At first the only major issue and help the . total, all-out strike heard the program of the Socialist Workers contacts developed in Salt Lake City during the wa$ wages. The union asked for iffo rt. election campaign. Party. Stalinist slander merchants got busy an increase of 23 cents an hour Now the issue is union recogni­ While in San Francisco I fulfilled a long-held against us right away, but. they couldn’t cut and the best company offer was tion and it is a life or death strug­ desire to clasp the strong hand and look into the the mustard. The SWP hit the waterfront with 12% cents per hour. This the gle. an impact that flattened the Stalinist liars under honest eyes of Warren K. Billings. He together union rejected and pointed to the Attempts made from within the the hammer blows of truth. with Tom Mooney, spent 20 cruel years in prison higher wages being paid by the as a victim of capitalist injustice because of his union to start a back to work We also took to the streets in the Los Angeles same companies, in the East and fidelity 'to the working class. As I stood in the movement have all met with a district where Myra is campaigning. Here too, Middle West for the same work. we are hammering the Stalinist betrayers, who presence of that incorruptible hero of labor, I speedy end. The International support not only the Wallace swindle but also found new inspiration to go forward in the Some of the smaller companies president, K. O. Knight, twice the pro-Marshall Plan, pro-military conscription struggle for man’s socialist future. as Union Oil and Richfield were tried to make a settlement based willing to discuss the union’s de­ upon the companies’ demands but mand, but Standard Oil — the local meetings quickly voted SWP Election Tour ...... 11 "■ — octopus of the oil industry — down his surrender terms. promptly put the squeeze on the A small group of union mem­ smaller companies and took on bers under company influence be­ the task of destroying the union. Seattle and Milwaukee gan to circulate a petition asking Several attempts to smash the _ _ _ — By Grace Carlson, Vice-Presidential Candidate ■ the local officials to accept the picket lines were defeated. Scabs, 12% cent offer and proposed a led by AFL officials from the To make campaign speeches within the space of social and political problems. The next day, secret referendum of the mem­ Boilermakers union and police of two days in places as far apart as Seattle and the University of Washington Daily carried a Police attack the picket line for the second time in the current strike of the CIO Oil Workers bership on the question of going were hurled back from the gates Milwaukee is possible because of “the miracle of long story with the- headline, “Trotskyist Speaks against the Standard Oil Company in Richmond, Calif. Four pickets were arrested on charges of back to work. Local officials of the Standard Oil refinery in modern aviation.” A much big­ Here,” to tell to the whole student body that “inciting to rio t” Federated Pictures promptly called mass meetings Richmond. Officials of the Ma­ ger miracle in our circles is Trotskyism is alive on the U. of W. campus. and the proposition was practic­ chinists union joined the Boiler­ that the Seattle Branch was ally drowned in a landslide of Although one might have thought that the maker union bureaucrats and to­ able to raise the money for solid union sentiment. members of the Milwaukee branch would have gether with hired goons made an­ the plane ticket and organize been laid low by the job of collecting 20,000 Ship-Owners Announce other attempt only to |u ffe r the LOCKOUT OF SAILORS such fine election rallies in signatures on the election petition, they were same fate — rout and defeat. Incident to this drive to smash such a short space of time. bouncing all over, looking for campaign possibili­ Tear-gas and clubs were rendered the CIO oil union is the lockout I wasn’t scheduled to appear ties. And they found many. I was interviewed ineffective when massed pickets by Union Oil Co. against the CIO in Seattle, but the branch there by reporters from both large Milwaukee dailies Union-Busting Scheme held their ground and returned National Maritime Union. The saw a few doors opening up as well as by the editor of the Deutsche Zeilung, blow for blow with police and N M U seamen aboard Union Oil and they wanted a Trotskyist a German language daily which goes out to. many SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10— Industry spokesmen last week publicly reaffirmed their thugs. tankers have had an agreement candidate to stick her foot in thousands of Socialist-minded workers and farm ­ determination to keep ships and docks idle until the maritime unions here are smashed and for the past eight years with these doors. I know we got in ers in Wisconsin. $ •------—— INJUNCTION SUITS striking longshoremen and sea­ Union Oil but refused to connect •some good socialist sales talks to many new A radio interview over Milwaukee’s independent med starved back to their jobs. affidavits. Harry Bridges, inter­ with the tough policy of the Injunctions followed quickly. oil hoses behind picket lines eince friends during this Seattle trip. And we sold national president of the IL W U , operators; they are also badgered Restricted to only four pickets station W EXT offered the opportunity to give a The present formula • of the it violated that section of their the Socialist Workers Party program to one was not present at the meeting. by the union-raiding designs of covered by four or five cops the 16-minute presentation of the Socialist Workers operators is slightly different agreement calling for “safe work­ railroad worker w ho. joined the Seattle branch 2. Allan Haywood and R. J. the A F L officialdom. Last week companies again tried to run Party platform to Milwaukee housewives. Called from the original declarations ing conditions.” Immediately the after one of the election rallies. Thomas, national director and the Washington State Federation scabs into the Standard plant in the “Lady of the House” program, the inter­ which said that there would be company paid off the crews and W e had another very important group of assistant national director of CIO of Labor announced that Tacoma Richmond. This time flying viewer is a young, idealistic radio worker who no negotiations with any union hired scabs off the dock. The customers at a campaign meeting at the Univer­ organization, arrived here and A FL longshoremen will handle squads in cars made life miserable told me that she wants to bring housewives more “unless each of its officers files N M U membership on the West sity of Washington. This meeting was sponsored are seeking to resume negotia­ cargo from all ships diverted to for the scabs and police, and the than “fashion chit-chat.” In marked contrast to with the National Labor Rela­ Coast are locked out for express­ by the “Students for Dobbs and Carlson,” which tions with the employers. Long­ that port. This is the only port strike held firm . most radio interviewers, she asked questions for tions Board, in pursuance of law, ing their solidarity with union is a small group with big ideas— and a lot of the sake of getting answers and not just to fill shore local 1-10 asked Murray’s on the coast that is not struck. know-how! I ’m sure that it will become a big his affidavit he is not a member Then law suits were filed men on strike. up the time. Even more unorthodox, she departed support in the strike. William Gettings, regional group with big ideas in the near future! of the Communist party.” The against local unions and local of­ The A FL Sailors Union of the from her script completely so as to get at points 3. Bridges demanded of the director of the CIO longshoremen The “Students for Dobbs and Carlson” members latest statement of the employ­ ficials until, today, suits amount­ Pacific thereupon proceeded to which she thought the listeners would like to have ship operators to “cut out the in Seattle said that picket lines aided by Seattle branch members passed out ers emphasizes that they “cannot ing to ten million dollars are announce that since no contract developed— how does the SWP differ from the stalling and get before the court will be maintained but that no hundreds of printed leaflets announcing the meet­ regard the present leadership of pending against these valiant de- existed between Union Oil and SP; do we believe in just “dividing everything on your charges of Communism, attempt will be made to keep ing, issued press releases and took a big ad in the the International Longshoremen’s tenders of their union. the scabs, it would organize them up,” etc. sabotage, irresponsibility and all A FL longshoremen from work­ University of Washington Daily. Despite com­ and " Warehousemen’s Union and The strikers,have set up an ex­ the other things you have thought ing, as the vessels will be declared into the SUP. Today six Union petition from the Democratic Party’s election We also had a radio interview in Kenosha, an of the Marine Cooks and Stewards cellent organization which includes up.” “hot” and tied up by sympathetic Oil tankers are sailing with scabs rally, we had 66 students at our meeting, in­ old Socialist Party stronghold. Through all this Union as responsible.” This lays a series of soup kitchens managed After issuing their latest union- dock workers throughout the supported by the SUP. This is cluding a reporter from the campus daily. We work, Wisconsin workers and farmers are learn­ the basis for refusing to negotiate by wives and daughters of the busting pronouncements through world. the sordid role of the A F L offi­ had a long discussion period and afterwards ing that there is a real socialist party function­ even if the present leaders sign members, flying squads to keep paid advertisements in the local cialdom in their blind struggle to several students took Militant subs so that they ing in Wisconsin, the Socialist Workers Party the Taft-Hartley non-communist There were other moves during scab oil trucks from moving and dailies, leading spokesmen for the smash the CIO on the West Coast. can continue to make an intelligent investigation and that it’s here to stay! affidavits. the week by the strike leadership a veritable “navy” of fishing employer groups departed for The oil workers and the long­ This shift of emphasis in the itself which permitted movement boats to patrol San Francisco New York to attend an industry­ shoremen, together with thous­ employers’ union-smashing for­ of strike-bound cargoes. In Los Bay so that oil barges and tank­ wide conference of the Propeller ands of rank and file A F L mem­ mula was apparently prompted, Angeles, the striking unions are ers can be stopped. Local strike Club there. These west coast allowing shippers to move cargoes bers, are fighting to preserve by indications that the Stalinist bulletins are issued daily and sev­ operators are expected to present off the dock. Checkers and long­ trade union solidarity and work­ His Master’s Voice top leadership of the IL W U and eral sound trucks, patrol the lines their union- busting formula to shoremen, when needed, are hired ing class unity against the bosses MC&S may move to sign the with the latest news and instruc­ non-communist affidavits. the shipping fraternity of the directly by the shippers from the — and against reactionary union ^ — By Joseph Keller ■ ■— tions. Atlantic coast for approval and union hall and paid at pre-strike officials who aim to stamp out Right while Harry S. Truman was touring the If anybody thinks the President calls the tune WEEK’S EVENTS support. wages with retroactivity guar­ Towns like Richmond, where militancy and democracy in the country trying to convince voters how big and on policy, this incident helps to correct that The following developments The reason the ship operators anteed. Similar movements of Standard is located, Rodeo, home labor movement. tough and independent-minded he is, the real illusion. Truman may be the highest elected occurred during the week: can afford to behave so arrogantly cargo have been reported in the £owers-that-be slapped trim down publicly and official in the land—but he doesn’t run the gov­ 1. Vincent J. Malone, president is because they now have reserve port of Stockton. In Seattle, the let the people know who really runs the govern­ ernment. This government is run— its most of the independent Marine .Fire­ funds amounting to $629 million, leaders of the striking unions CARLSON PULLS NO PUNCHES ment, including the President of the United States. fateful decisions aVe made—by a small handful men, which is one of the striking built up through collusion with met with Mayor William F. Devin 'In the enthusiasm of his election campaign, of individuals operating behind the scenes for unions and one of the first in the the U.S. Maritime Commission and offered to sail all ships of Truman got the notion that he really has a lot the real masters—the Wall Street money lords. country to sign the non-com­ during the lush war years. These the Alaska fleet under an interim IN DETROIT RADIO PROGRAM They don’t hesitate to crack down on anyone, munist affidavits, appeared be­ agreement with the Alaska 'to do with determining the conduct of foreign monies came out of the U.S. D F R O IT , Mich. Oct. 14 — “Yes, but how about his sons? including the President, who gets out of line. fore ILW U local 1-10 and urged treasury and are tax-exempt. ■policy. So he cooked up the idea of sending one Steamship Association at pre­ What did they ever do? And how of his cronies, Supreme Court Chief Justice- Fred The maneuvers in the U N , the war prepara­ the union to alter its position and Striking CIO longshoremen and strike wages with a guarantee of Sitting at opposite sides of the about the Tommy Manvilles, the -M. Vinson, as a personal emissary to Moscow to tions, the very decisions on war and peace are instruct its officials to sign the seamen are confronted not only retroactivity, if and when an table, Dr. Grace Carlson. Vice- Doris Duke Cromwells?” negotiate man-to-man with Stalin over the Berlin determined by this tiny clique of Brass Hats and agreement is signed with PASA Presidential candidate of the “Well, I ’ll have to admit that crisis. Wall Street representatives who run the State and W EA. Socialist Workers Party and Mr. you mjght have something there,” •But he didn’t hold on to that project very long. Department and dominate the White House. No McMahon, news editor of Detroit’s Agreements of this sort, if reluctantly admitted the question­ ."Secretary of State George Marshall— who is a less an authority than the well-known columnist Dobbs Pledges His Full Support entered into, would allow for the largest radio station WWJ (NBC) er. non-elective appointee with no constitutional Walter Lippman wrote in the Sept. 27 N . Y. gradual movement of cargoes and went at each other hammer and powers of any kind— came flying across the ocean Herald-Tribune: To West Coast Maritime Strikers thus remove the pressure fo r an tongs in a radio interview here Again seeking to trap Dr. Carl­ •from the U N conference to let the man who “There is, one might say, a certain honesty in early settlement of the strike. son and to prove that the Social­ SWP candidate for the California tonight. The issue was: Socialism appointed him know he wasn’t standing for any admitting that Mr. Marshall, Mr. Lovett and By Frank Daniels Such strategy on the part of the ist Workers Party believes in state legislature from San Fran­ vs. Capitalism. mere President reversing decisions of the Wall Mr. Bohlen, Mr. Forrestal, Mr. Draper, Mr. strike leadership may extend the seizing control by a minority, the SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9— cisco’s 20th Assembly district. “When did you run afoul of the Street bosses. Royall, General Clay and Mr. Douglas have -been strike indefinitely and permit the radio commentator asked, “How Press delivered a sharp attack federal law? Of what were you Truman dropped the Vinson idea like a boy handling the great conflict, which may mean peace “ Bring up that strong left arm operators to carry through their many of the 140 million of this on the ship operators as recipients accused?” demanded McMahon. caught with his hand in the cookie jar. And or war, that they have not had guidance and of independent political action policy of starving the strikers country are workers and farm ­ of billions of dollars of public “We were accused on the basis Marshall took off to Paris again with a state­ leadership from the President, and that therefore to match your strong right of back to the job. ers?” money in the form of mail sub­ of the Smith Act,” answered Dr. ment to the press that made his “Boss” out to his absence from Washington makes no dif­ economic action. Away with com­ Carlson, “but actually for our “We speak of workers of both sidies and other grafting. He STRIKE FIRM be nothing but a political stumblebum. ference.” pany-unionism in politics. Form anti-war views like that workers’ hand and brain — the majority,” your own party, based on the exposed the role of the Maritime This tendency to let strike­ said Carlson. Commission in building ships from leader, Eugene V. Debs.” trade unions and take the power bound cargoes dribble through the “And how about news editors?” public funds and then handing “What is your philosophy of away from the corrupt boss par­ picket lines has as yet not be­ “Well,” Carlson replied, “I them over to the operators for a government?” asked McMahon. ties,” SWP Presidential candidate come wide-spread and the grip of don’t know what you think of song. He cited the testimony be­ “We are against the capitalist Farrell Dobbs told throngs of the strike is being felt in several yourself, but I think you’re a fore the Senate committee pre­ government, the government of workers in three separate meet­ industries on the coast. The great­ worker.” sided over by the now Supreme bankers and industrialists. We ings in San Francisco. est cry has come from agricultu­ “Well, I agree there,” said the Court Justice Hugo Black which are for a majority ruling in real­ RR BOSSES W A N T PRICE H IK E — Class I of the ecclesiastical member of the Film Censor­ ral interests. California cotton buffeted questioner. Speaking at an open-air meet­ uncovered numerous instances of ity, through a Workers and Farm­ railroads asked the Interstate Commerce Com­ ship Board. The order stated in part: “Evil growers claim the strike will cost The evening before the radio ing on the Embarcadero, the shady deals and outright graft. ers Government,” answered Carl­ mission for an 8 per cent increase in freight should be despised and evildoers pitied, but to their industry an estimated $5 interview, Dr. Carlson was met SWP nominee told a crowd of Press concluded by stating that son. rates. The railroads, making condescend to what is wrong . . . is entirely dif­ million if it. forces shipment via at the station by a group of 3C0 striking unionists, “You can­ if he were elected to the legisla­ Seeking to (tie her up, Mr. Mc­ ferent. That is why it is asked of the Lord that Gulf ports. “Youth for Dobbs and Carlson more money than ever before, not solve your problems under ture he would demand that the Mahon asked about private own­ He should deign to humiliate the enemies of His Strikers are holding fast to Club” members. They carried a are pleading poverty. the capitalist system.” Dobbs books of the ship operators be ership: “So you are opposed to all Holy Church, and as such might Jews be con­ their demands for a 15 cents three-foot sign reading, “Wel­ * * * made clear that the anti-union opened and that the “parasitical private property?” sidered.” drive had its origin in W all hourly increase for longshoremen come to Detroit — Grace Carl­ MIXED MARRIAGES — * * * operators” be eliminated from “Now wait a minute; you don’t and an average monthly increase son.” Street’s preparations for world the industry. He further declared catch me on that one,” she re­ The California Supreme Court of $17.50 per month for seamen. by a 4 to 3 decision ruled the W IR E-TAPPIN G — That the FB I is an uncon­ war II I. that he would demand that “all sponded. “What, we want is more Hundreds in the train station The morale of the strikers re­ state’s ban on inter-racial marriages as unconsti­ trolled, law-unto-itself secret police is revealed The SWP nominee placed him­ workers on strike be awarded un­ private property — shoes, clothes, were attracted by the singing of mains high. The jiower of their tutional. 29 other states still have laws prohibit­ in a sensational series currently being run by the self and the Socialist Workers employment compensation from houses — for the people. But we the union’s traditional song, “Sol­ strike can force a successful set­ idarity,” and the playing of this ing! mixed marriages. New York Star. Ex-FBI agents testify that they Party squarely behind the strug­ the money that rightfully belongs don’t believe that any one indiv­ were assigned to even spy on ex-Postmaster gle of the maritime workers to to them.” tlement if this is not dissipated idual should control the lives of union song over the party’s sound General Farley, tap his telephone wires and defend their unions. He scored On Friday evening, Dobbs de­ through the gradual releasing of thousands and deny them these car at the station. Platforms of POPE ON TA X A TIO N — The Pope came out search his personal belongings — all because the W EA, the organization of livered a major campaign speech ships and cargoes on the mistak­ things.” the Socialist Workers Party were foursquare against heavy taxation of the rich. In G-man Hoover was trying to “get” something on Ihe W aterfront employers as a at Solomon Hall. Dobbs’ inspir­ en assumption that this is the “So you’re opposed to all capi­ distributed to several hundred in­ an ‘interview with delegates representing the him, as he feared that Farley was out to get “band of plunderers and graft­ ing speech was enthusiastically way to gain public sympathy and talists?” asked the news editor. terested by-standers; financial administrations of Brazil, Turkey and Hoover fired from his job. ers.” He concluded his talk by applauded by the audience of 200 win victory. “That’s an understatement. We The interview over station seven other countries, he condemned taxation sys­ * * * stating that he would carry “your working people, a large percent­ want a government of the major­ WWJ was granted only after a tems that are “confiscatory.” case all over the country.” age of them strikers. Despite the ity — a Workers and Farmers month-lohg fight with the station * * * MIKADO MACARTHUR—A U. S. Provost court in Japan sentenced a labor union official Preceding Dobbs on the speak­ fact that many of those in at­ Government — where" real ability by the Detroit branch of the So­ A N T I-S E M IT IS M —• The Hollywood film to three years in prison and fined him 10,000 ers’ stand was Harry Press, a tendance were maritime strikers, can rise to the top.” cialist Workers Party after the “Gentleman’s Agreement,” which attacks anti- yen for publishing “derogatory remarks” about member of the striking Marine the audience liberally contributed “How about Ford?” she was station granted a 15-minute in­ Éémitism, was banned in Franco Spain by order the American occupation. Cooks & Stewards Union, $150 to the SWP campaign fund.| asked, “Wasn’t he a poor man?” terview to Glen Taylor,