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Vol. XXI - No. 46 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1957 PR IC E 10c U S Supreme Court Refuses to Review GOP, Democrats Beat Drums Sobells Conviction By Myra Tanner Weiss NOV. 13 — The United States Supreme Court yester For Arms Race, “Sacrifices” ------i day dealt a tragic blow to justice in this country. Once again the highest court of the land refused to consider whether justice was done in the & Eisenhower's Speeches most famous case since Sace«. its callous and brutal indif ference to justice and to the life What the Elections Show and Vanzetti were legally of Morton Sobell — and it didn’t. murdered by the state of Mas But it is not difficult to under sachusetts three decades ago. stand why the Justices turned Socialist Banner-Bearers Stress War Spending; Despite world-wide protest that their backs. While the Sobell Economic Fears the Rosenberg-Sobell trial was appeal was in the hands of the a frame-up; despite the fact that Supreme Court the FBI and the Justice Department issued a Reflected in Turn a man and a woman, Julius and special “study' of the case and Less for Working People Ethel Rosenberg were the first released it to a national maga To the Democrats By Fred Halstead alleged peacetime ‘‘conspirators” zine. This was a shocking move in U.S. histcry to 'be executed; that could only serve as ¡pres By C. R. Hubbard The issues of “sputnik” and growing unemployment sure on the high court to deny despite the fact that Morton NOV. 13 — The reasons for are being used by the government and corporations t<> the appeal of prisoner Sobell. Sobell, a talented young scientist, the Democratic victories in the launch a drive to cut the standard of living of American has languished for eight years POPULAR DOUBT Nov. 5 election are not hard to workers. In his “Science and i>------discover. The beginning of eco Security” speeches, President in «prison on a 30-year sentence; The special Justice Department nomic downturn, which has cut Eisenhower has proposed “a very “ study” was explained as neces despite the fact that unchal average weekly pay and increased considerable” increase in spend sary because of widespread doubt Just How Wide lenged evidence has been ac layoffs, reduced capital invest ing for war preparations^ At about the guilt of the Rosen cumulated since the 1951 trial ment and shaken the .stock the same time he proposed in his borgs and Sobell. This admission Is that Margin? market, has caused deep and Nov. 13 speech “the cutting out” th a t justice was not done — of public concern should have A t a conference of the Na widespread concern in the work of “entire categories” of non despite ail these compelling moved the Court to re-open the tional Defense Executive Re ing class over problems of eco military federal expenditures. serve, Nov. 13, Sec. of State reasons for a Supreme Court, case. But it didn’t. Was the Court nomic security. Shifts in the The country must prepare Dulles announced that Amer review of the case, the Justices afraid to took into this case? economy, even Slight, are now itself for a shift to “less butter icans m ight have to “ give up Did it fear that the FBI and the reflected by even larger shifts turned their backs. and more guns,” said Commerce small marginal freedoms” to Justice Department, not Sobell, in voting. would be convicted of a mon Secretary Sinclair Weeks at a meet the urgency of the cold REFUTATION DAMAGED This does not mean th a t the strous crime — that government W ashington speech Nov. 13. A war. “The essential thing,” workers have strong illusions The recently won reputation of perjury and frame-up would be week previously Eisenhower said said. Dulles, “ is whether we that the Democrats will solve the Supreme Court for “fairness" exposed? that the increased spending for can retain the great bulk of their economic problems. But the guided missiles race would our freedoms.” W’hile Dulles doesn’t look so good when the As if the court wanted to w ithout another choice, the be met only if “we set our puts a question mark over high court lacks the courage even balance one of the most unfair record of the Republicans drives priorities and stick to them and American liberty — the fruit to put that new evidence of decisions of its history with a the labor vote into the Demo i f each of us is ready to carry of decades and centuries of Sobell’s innocence to a judicial show of fairness, the Supreme cratic column. his own burden willingly and struggle — Sec. of Commerce test. Court did permit the filing of without complaint.” Weeks, forecast the loss of our '1'he Supreme Court doesn’t the “friend of■, the court” brief A TREN D More on the same theme came living standards. Weeks asked need to give any explanation for prepared on behalf o f 5,300 peo The vote last week in New from Bernard Baruch, Wail for support to a program of ple including the atomic scient York and New Jersey continued, Street financier and “elder “ less butter and more guns.” ist, Dr. Harold. C. Urey. This the trend of Proxmire’s victory statesman” of Washington poli brief urged the Court to1 study in the Wisconsin senatorial race tics, when He'recently urged the Rep. Walter Smears Sobelis conviction by granting last August. Involved in that intensified arms race and added: Street Journal, “bristles when a new trial. Yet despite this plea campaign was also the issue of “ If America ever crashes, it will he is asked about possible pay Civil Liberties Group of thousands of Americans who the witch hunt, for the vacant tie in a two-tone convertible. . . demands in the auto industry not only signed their names to seat was the late Senator Mc There are worse burdens than next spring; he would prefer a Chairman Francis E. Walter petitions but also financed the Carthy’s. However, even then taxes. . . Sputnik represents the s tiff management stand — even of the House Un-American appeal to the high court, the the economic picture was gloomy. test, . .” if it leads to a walkout.” Activities Committee has un The Socialist Workers candidates in the New York ejection. Morris Zuckoff (left) ran for In spite of the inflationary Justices refused to grant the Inflation had reached its high Comptroller; Joyce Cowley (seated), for Mayor; Lillian Kiezel and Alvin Berman for President covered a “plot” to destroy est point, cutting deep into living “FAT AND LAZY” effects of the war budget, the appeal. of the City Council and Brooklyn Borough President. his witch-hunting apparatus. standards th a t had already fallen Showing that the drive for economy continues to dip. An The “plot’’ is the public cam MUST BE FREED fo r the second quarter of 1957. sacrifice of living standards to expected “year-end pick up in paign of the Emergency Civil The Committee To Secure Proxmire went directly to the war preparations is a bi-par steel orders'' says the Nov. 10 Liberties Committee, a body Justice for Morton Sobell, with factories to appeal for support. tisan policy, former President N. Y. Times, failed to materialize. devoted exclusively to defense officcs at 940 Broadway, New He also reaped the harvest of Truman urged increased arma In addition, a McGraw-Hill sur of the B ill of Rights, to end SWP Municipal Tickets vey of anticipated capital spend York, 10, announced that “new increased dissatisfaction of the ments in a Nov. 11 speech and the extra-judicial persecution legal motions will be explored.” long-suffering farmers. said that what’s wrong with the ing in 1958 found that the figure of Americans by “subversive'’- The Committee said it “intends Last week’s most significant U.S. is “ th a t we are fa t and would drop 7% below this year’s hunters like Walter. “Opera to work with even more in contest was for the New Jersey lazy and want too many cars and outlay which would bring it tion Abolition,” charged W alt tensity and speed, not only be governorship. Democrat Robert Win Encouraging Votes gadgets.” below the 1956 total. This means, er’s Committee, has “attained cause of the urgent need to B. Meyner won by a plurality of The theme is repeated in the according to the Nov. 9 Busi almost country-wide propor establish the truth, but because 203,613 votes w ith a total of The vote registered by the So baria polled 17,082 votes. His j Vincent Hallinan, Muriel Mc capitalist press. For example, ness Week, th a t “ one o f the tions.*’ Harvey O’Connor, M orton Sobell has suffered over a million, the largest vote cialist Workers tickets in New running ‘mate, Joan Jordan, • in Avoy, Tim Wohlforth and oth the Nov. 11 New York World- biggest, cosiest cushions beneath ECLC Chairman, pointed out enough and must not be per e\er won by a Democrat in that York and San Francisco repre her first bid for office, received ( ers, the SWP ticket registered Telegram attributes the U.S. the U.S. economy is losing a that Walter’s attack only mitted to languish in Alcatraz state. The Democrats also cap sents a small .but significant 15,636 votes. Registering 8% of a significant increase over the missile-satellite lag to the fact significant part of its stuffing.” emphasizes the need to abolish any longer.” (See full text of tured control of the State As gain for the principle of inde the total vote cast, they placed 1953 mayoralty election when it that after World War II “the Officials of the Commerce his witch-hunting group. statement by Helen and Rose sembly for the first time in 20 pendent working c.ass political 12th and 13th in a field of 15. polled under 4,000 votes. American people were too in Department last week released 1 Sobell on this page) years. action. In New York, Joyce I The SWP vote in New York Eric Hass, the Socialist La terested in the resumption of the first government estimate of Republicans made the N. J. Cowley, Socialist Workers can-j came in an election marked by bor Party candidate for Mayor, production of consumer goods unemployment for next year — election a test campaign. For didate for Mayor, was credited' deep apathy and a correspond received under 5,OiCiO votes. In and to anxious to turn away “ an assumption based on the best Gov. Meyner had won w ith only with 13,915 votes in unofficial ingly small turnout at the polls the 24th Councilmanic district, from weapons.’ guess now available” that it a small margin in 1953. Eisen returns. Morris Zuckoff, candi-| —a factor that always favors Communist Party leader Eliza As the politicians run inter would increase by one million. hower swept the state by 750,- date for Comptroller, received the entrenched machine. Also, beth Gurley Flynn polled 696 ference with their appeals to This is below estimates made by Helen Sobell’s G00 votes in 1956. The chances, 14,042 votes and L illia n Kiezel, the entire labor officialdom cam votes according to unofficial “sacrifice” and their “guns not private business. therefore, of a Republican vic candidate for President of the! paigned for Tammany’s candi Board cf Election figures. Joyce butter” statements, the corpora tory seemed good. The Repub City Council, 12,634 votes. None] date, Mayor Wagner, who also Cowley was credited with 692 tions are already taking ad TURNABOUT licans moved into the campaign of the write-in votes for Alvin had the support of the various votes in the same district. vantage of increased unemploy Prof. Otto Hahn, German with all their national political Berman, candidate for Brooklyn social-democratic groupings in ment to cut wages, increase Plea For Justice ENDORSEMENTS Nobel prize winner, who has weight. Both Eisenhower and Borough President, w ere re the city as well as that of the speed-up, and get rid of “ m ar The vote for the socialist can urged an international gathering Nixon gave strong support to ported. leaders of the Communist Party. ginal workers.” (See story on (The following is the full text of the statement issued didates in San Francisco was of scientists to discuss ways of the Republican contender, State In San Francisco, running fo r Yet, with the support extended page three.) They are also by Helen Sobell and Rose Sobell, wife and mother of equally gratifying, even though preventing war, recites the fol Senator Malcolm S. Forbes. the nine-man Board of Super by the National Guardian and preparing to resist attempts by the fact that the voters had lowing verse: Morton Sobell. — Ed.) ^ visor, SWP nominee Frank Bar- such independent radicals as organized workers to hold on to For more than eight years BIGGER PROMISES nine choices must be considered their standard' of living in the To smash the simple atom we have lived from day to day To meet the challenge Meyner in weighing the not unsubstan face of rising prices. All mankind was intent. in the hope that the injustice engaged in more than usual tial percentage of the vote “A top official of a Midwest Now any day which has destroyed the life of demagogy in his appeal for labor polled. Here too, public apathy automotive parts concern, for The atom may our family would be reviewed support. Accompanied by union SWP Candidates Express was reflected in an unuiualiy example,” says the Nov. 12 Wall Return the compliment. by the courts of our country so officials he went into the fac small turnout at the polls. But th a t an innocent man could be tories to speak directly to the with significant independent sup saved from destruction. The workers about unemployment port, Barbaria and Jordan were S.F. Campaigners horror of knowing that the and medical compensation, equal Thanks for Campaign Aid able to make a genuine dent in job opportunities, etc. He even the campaign. Endorsement of steadfastness of a father, a sofi. Editor, We also express special thanks and a husband, of a man who went so far as to say he would their candidacies came from favor “relaxation” of state laws We wish to expre:;s our warm to those who voteu fo r us de such figures as Vincent H a lli is a brilliant scientist has been spite pressure to vote other •rewarded only by continuing barring unemployment compensa thanks to all those who cam nan, Warren K. Billings, George paigned so well in support of wise. We have been informed, torment is a difficult thing to tion for strikers — “after a Hitchcock and George Olshau- reasonable waiting period.” our candidacies and to all those for example, that numerous sen. bear fo r M orton’s mother and members and supporters of the for myself. We can never stop Evidently counting on the Ad who hacked us at the polls. The The impact of the Barbaria- 14,000 votes recorded fo r us Communist Party voted for us, our efforts to make known all of ministration’s help and the Jordan campaign was particu effect of Senate hearings on cor was modest compared to the to register their opposition to larly evident in radical circles. the immorality, lying and con capitalist rule, even though their niving that went on in this trial. ruption in the labor movement, votes for the capitalist candi This was reflected in the cov leaders favored voting for the L ife has no meaning to us if it Forbes attacked Meyner as a dates, but it was heartening erage given their campaign by “tool” of the CIO. “The people and significant in that they Democrat Wagner on the Liberal the Peoples World which re must be lived together with such party line. monstrous injustice. We know HELEN SOBELL are tired of watching labor of were votes cast for a clear-cut flects the views of the Com We believe the principle of Morton’s goodness, his kindness,1------ficials of the Congress of In w orking clai,s program. munist Party. In addition to independent working class poli-1 his honesty and his innocence of, powerful court, the court of the dustrial Organizations dominate Furthermore, the increil.se in news reports, a pro-and-con dis tics gained as a result of this I crime. All that has gone before people. W’e know that those who the State House/ said Forbes. votes registered for the Social cussion of the SWP campaign campaign and that the united! will be but a beginning to the have rea<} the trial record, who “We don’t want to see Walter ist Workers Party in this elec ran in the paper’s letters col action it brought will aid in' cries which must awaken every-( have studied the facts in this Reuther run business out of New tion was due in good measure umn for four weeks. fu rth e rin g unity on v ita l is one and show them that Morton case wj]l continue their efforts Jersey as he has in Michigan.” to the independent support ex sues in the post-election period. must toe treated as a human j on Morton’s behalf. All those Then Forbes promised, “I will tended by the National Guard By the same token, partisans ■being, not as a pawn in a strug-: great and eminent scientists and never stop my fight to end the ian, by Vincent Hallinsn, Muriel j of independent labor politics can In this Issue: gle for power over man s mind. J thinkers of our country who have domination of our state govern McAvoy, Tim Wohlforth and ment by this handful of power- others. Their action was a| look forw ard to the 1958 elec It is an unworthy thing which cxpi'essed their support before tions with renewed optimism. our great Supreme Court has have received no answer but an hungry men.” source of inspiration to many Why Zhukov Was done in not even taking this added question when our country Mayor Wagner of New York socialists who for the first time Joyce Cowley Frank Barbaria and Joan Jordan ran an effective socialist also benefited from the workers’ in many years saw effective, Purged matter in its jurisdiction. W7hat refuses to hear one of its own. Morris Zuckoff campaign in the San Francisco election for Board of Super can it fear when all that we History will award a verdict of economic sensitivity. He polled united action among radicals visors. They found increased interest in their plank for inde Lillian Kiezel (See Page 2) seek to establish is the truth innocent to Morton, but we must the largest plurality in city his- against the twin parties of Big pendent labor politics at the union meetings they addressed as itself? We turn now to the most, find that verdict now. (Ccntinued on page 4) Business. Alvin Berman well as in organizations of the Negro people. Page 2 THE MILITANT Monday, November 18, 1957
Political Revolution Why Zhukov Was Put on Purge List By George Lavan !find it imperative to strike at!» ®?racy from Moscow, may be him so quickly? found in “Moscow” by Theo In his speech at the 40th an dore Plivier the famous German Sputniks May Get In the Soviet Union niversary celebration of the The simple fact is that the Birds of a Feather instability of the Soviet bu Communist novelist who spent Russian Revolution, on Nov. 7, reaucracy and thè pressure of the war years in the Soviet A Patron Saint By Harry Ring K rem lin boss Khrushchev de Union.) the Soviet masses from which According to a Nov. 11 marcated the political area on Only the prospect of total de In the November issue of Monthly Review, an inde which the bureaucracy is at this instability flows is so United Press dispatch from great that further delay threat feat forced Stalin to relinquish Rome “authorities of the pendent socialist magazine, editors Leo Huberman and tempting to consolidate its rule. adequate command powers to Sweezy devote themselves to the. problem of the bureau The real limit of political con ened to convert Khrushchev’s Roman Catholic Church are savior of July into his destroyer. his generals. Then the counter informally considering selec cra tic regime in the Soviet.®------cessions to the masses is the That Zhukov had already be offensives mounted at Stalin tion ef a patron saint for tion which is fundamentally dif 20th Congress, “the most im Union. The problem is also dis gun building up his own forces grad, .Moscow, and Leningrad ppace travelers, a Vatican o f ferent from the social revolution portant historic phase . . . in cussed in an article toy Joseph for the ultimate contest explains sent the Nazis reeling back ficial said today. “It was Clark, former foreign editor of that Clark is apparently speak the life of the party and the Khrushchev’s urgency in strik wards. The outstanding com believed that the most likely ing of. The aimi o f a social- revo Soviet people.” “ Such occur the Daily Worker who recently mander throughout these battles, patron would be St. Joseph of lution is to change the ruling rences as under S talin’s per ing while the challenge was po resigned from the Communist tential and not yet actual. as w ell as in the invasion of Copertino, a seventeenth cen class. This requires two indivisi sonality cult,” Khrushchev prom Party. Germany and capture of Berlin, tury Italian Franciscan friar. ble tasks—a fundamental change ised, “ should never be permitted Zhukov’s preparations may be W ritin g on the 40th anniver was Zhukov. According to tradition, he sary of the Russian Revolution, in property relations and crea in the future.” divided into three categories: 1) After the war Stalin sent floated in the air during the MR editors characterize the tion of a new political super He then marked off the for Consolidation erf his own base Zhukov into obscurity of minor religious ecstasies.” Khrushchev regime as “self structure to correspond with the ward lim it of concessions by de in the bureaucracy — tbe offi posts out of the public eye’ chosen and self-perpetuating; en change in the economic base. cers’ caste of tbe armed forces claring Stalin a “dedicated and sent'many of his friends to joying the good things of life, Marxist - (Leninist” whom “the —by dislodging or neutralizing Obviously then, if one proceeds concentration camps. Such a re packed. Zhukov was elevated to it leads an existence quite apart from the correct assumption that party and Soviet people will the agencies of other sections of the bureaucracy in the armed ward for the services rendered full membership in it. from the masses; it . . . imposes Stalinist degeneration in the give his due.” He addressed a KHRUSHCHEVSTALIN forces, primarily those of the the UlSSR could only increase its will through its monopoly of USSR does not mean the ex warning to those attempting to Tlie then No. 2 power in the Communist Party, and strength Zhukov’s secret popularity. economic and political power. In istence of a new ruling class, a carry de-IStalinization too far, Kremlin lost little time in try ening his grip on the military short, the Soviet Union is a'dic program of social revolution, does who "call leaders . . . Stalinists, ZHUKOV RETURNS ing to throw onto the scales of machine by manning all stra the coming contest with Khrush tatorship, but not the dictator not apply. The only basic 'change giving it negative meaning. influence in them and on his threshold of becoming mast*r It is noteworthy that a few tegic posts in it with command bid for mass popularity there chev the weight of his popu ship of the proletariat. . .” How in class rule th a t can be pro Critics of' this kind are either in its own house. hours after their master’s death, ers of whose loyalty he was is ample documentation. la rity w ith the masses. On the ever, they note, "this does not jected in the Soviet Union is thorough . slanderers or people Stalin’s heirs recalled Zhukov to sure. CP UNITS IN THE WAY occasion of Red Navy Day he mean the dictatorship of a ‘new counter-revoEutionary — that is, who have descended to the ro t Like every other section of Moscow. This was an obvious 2) A campaign to capitalize With the secret police extir courted and received in Lenin class’: the Party is a self-re- capitalist restoration. This is ten positions of revisionism. . .” the bureaucracy, the military move by the new and worried upon his own already great pated the only extraneous ele grad the greatest popular ova newing group which . . . has none certainly the program of Dulles Khrushchev’s program has be greatly benefited from the regime to associate a genuinely popularity w ith the masses, as tion given a Soviet political fig of the essential hereditary char and Kennan. But there is no come the official program as a downfall of the secret police. ment in the Red A rm y and popular figure with itself. From compared to that of other po ure since before the crushing of acteristic of a class.” valid reason for confusing it result of his victory, first over P rio r to th a t each bureaucratic Navy was the apparatus of the that point on Zhukov rose in litical figures in the USSR, and Reviewing their previous stand with the socialist program of Molotov, Malenkov and Kagano faction was checkmated on its Communist Party. This large position and power w ith each Trotsky and the Left Opposition to extend it by appearing pub on this problem, Huberman and political revolution. vich, who threatened the rear own sphere. Thus the destruc and powerful apparatus, con crisis in the Kremlin and be in 1927. Its mood was described licly as the champion of further Sweezy write: “we have always Political revolution in the limit, and recently over Zhukov, tion of Beria and relegation of sisted of the Political Admin came more and more identified by the Leningrad correspondent de-Stalinization. tended to draw the Conclusion USSR means abolition of the who threatened the forward the secret police to subordinate istration of the Ministry of De With de-Stalinization. of the N.Y. Times (July 15): that when the conditions which 3) Overtures to other sections status, not only greatly en fense wnth b u ilt - in agencies “The crowd waved and roared present dictatorial rule and re lim it. When Beria attempted to over produced the dictatorship — eco of the bureaucracy for an alli hanced the . position of the mili staffed by full-time bureaucrats cheers .... spontaneous and establishment of the political throw the collective leadership— nomic backwardness and interna QUICK DEMOTION ance against Khrushchev.. .Such ta ry because it overwhelmed the on every echelon from highest even idolatrous demonstration rule of the workers through the which was simply an agreement tional insecurity — have been Marshal Zhukov enjoyed his approaches are necessarily se NKVD troops and arrested and down to the regimental level. fo r him .... The crowd went recreation of the Soviets (work by the top leaders of the • main overcome, the Soviet regime position as the second most cret and must be assumed. executed Beria, not only left it Paralleling this on all levels wild. Hundreds of men and wom ers’ councils) as democratically faction of the bureaucracy to would, in some unspecified man powerful figure in the Kremlin However, on Zhukov’s attem pt the sole faction of the bureau- were political units composed of en, many w ith children on th e ir elected bodies. Such a change abide by their own majority ner democratize itself. bureaucracy for only four to solidify his control of the | cracy disposing of troops, tanks enlisted men and officers who shoulders, pushed through the would bring the political super vote in the presidium—the col “Our theory is being put to months. Why did Khrushchev armed forces as against party and guns, but p ut , i t on the were party members. throng running and stumbling structure in the USSR bade into lective leadership called on Zhu-. the crucial test of practice,” they harmony with its economic base. Since the death of >talin there a fte r the vessel fo r a second and add, “ And so fa r — let us face kov and the army to crush the While Trotsky was the first to has been a steady struggle by third look at the beaming mili it frankly — there is precious dread secret police. For this elaborate such a program, he did the officers’ caste against the tary hero.” Leningrad’s recep little evidence to confirm it.” immensely popular act of de- not "invent” the political revolu power of the party‘apparatus in tion of Khrushchev two weeks Probing for mew answers to The Record of Inflation Stalinization Zhukov was ele earlier paled into regimented in tion any more than Marx “in the armed forces. Under Zhukov the problem, the MR editors dis vated to Beria’s vacant seat in vented” the class struggle. It By Joseph Keller Year Index Number completed his final term, almost this fight was brought to it? significance beside that. miss as barren the contributions the CP Central Committee. When flows, rather, from Trotsky's 1939 99.4 20 points were added to the greatest success. There can be ¡Equally significant was the of both the Communist Party What subject is more often at the 20th Congress Khrush analysis of the political degen 1940 100.2 index. no question but that he was chev made his famous speech speech th a t Zhukov delivered and the spokesmen for capital on the minds of more people than 1915 128.6 eration of the Soviet state. PEACETIME WAR BUDGET thereby expressing the interests exposing Stalin— a speech Zhu the next day to the workers of ism. ‘'The Trotskyites have come any other? No — not love, not 1946 139.5 the huge factory which bears the the Sputnik nor football. It’» the of the officers’ caste as a whole. kov is believed to have urged— closest to defining the problem USURPERS 1947 159.6 During 1953, the first year name “Bolshevik.’1- Though only Confirmation of this cam the story of Stalin’s military correctly,” they say. “But their This analysis may be outlined high cost of living. Nothing 1948 171.9 Eisenhower resided in the White an embarrassed summary was paign to make the generals mas muddling, his jealousy and ha solution (an anti-bureaucratic as follows: In an economy of worries and harasses the Amer 1949 170.2 House, the Korean War finally printed in Pravda it is plain ters in th e ir own house comes tred of Zhukov comprised an revolution of the Soviet masses) scarcity, a bureaucracy developed ican people more than the con 1950 171.9 ground to a [halt and an that Zhukov pushed the official from the Khruschev’s press cam important element in it. Zhu is part wishful thinking and part which took for itself material tinuous rise in prices of every 1951 185.6 armistice was reached. Through charges of Stalinism against thing we need — from food, paign against Zhukov and the kov was then made a candidate sheer revolutionary romanti privileges not available to the 1952 189.8 1954 and a brief post-war reces Molotov, Malenkov and Kaga housing, clothing and medical official statement of the CP (voteless) member of the pre cism. . . the masses are not people as a whole. The p rim a ry 1953 191.3 sion, the price index slowed down novich much further than had care, to marriages and funerals. to a two point rise. Then came Central Committee purging him. sidium. going to revolt against a system concern of this bureaucracy 1954 191.9 Khrushchev and called fo r com the greatest peace-time federal The principal accusation is that that works as well as the Soviet (which came to number millions Reliable information on trends 1957 (Oct.) 203.9 BACKS KHRUSHCHEV plete exposure of their com military budget in history, plus Zhukov “tried to diminish the System no matter how undemo of party and government func in the cost of living is hard to plicity in Stalin’s crimes. This importance of political work in Last June when Malenkov, cratic the government may be. tionaries, factory managers, etc.) dig out. Republicans and Demo Certain facts are easily ob increased corporation investment was not only a call to extend the arm v and n a w .” to “ sun Molotov and Kaganovich rallied became the defense of its outrage crats alike lie shamelessly about servable from -this statistical in new automated plants and de-Stalinization but an unspoken LOOK TO SLOW PROCESS equipment to Cut labor costs. press criticism.” to “distort” his a majority of the collective ously high living standards the pertinent facts bearing on table. The cost of Jiving is now but understood threat to tory by belittling "the leading leadership against Khrushchev, Outlining in “tentative” form usurped at the expense of the their own contributions to in the highest it has ever been. Another 12 points were Heaped' Khrushchev. For if Stalin’s ac on the index. and inspiring role of the Com it was Zhukov who made it pos w hat they see as a possible masses. flation. Both work together to This rise has been almost con complices ought to be brought develonment, the MR editors tinual since 1939. It has taken The Democrats are quick and munist Party” in the victories sible to overrule the collective To safeguard its privileges, the. conceal the real extent of the to trial “before the people for say: “ Some or all of the com its in itia l impulse, at each new eager to point out that “prices of World War II. leadership by refusing' to accept bureaucracy smashed the demo leap in living costs over the exceeding their powers and com peting factions in the leadership spurt, either from war spending are now the highest in our his the presidum’s decision as fi cratically-elected Soviets and entire period since 1939, when mitting unlawful actions,” then might . . . appeal increasingly for or the ending of war-time Con tory.” Working people scarcely SOUGHT GREATER nal. Zhukov’s placing of the the revolutionary Bolshevik party. war preparations and war have the finger of accusation points the support of public opinion as trols during periods of war- need to be told that. W hat the POPULARITY army behind Khrushchev allowed They substituted the bloody dominated the economy most of not only to Molotov and the a means of getting the upper Democrats and their apologists him to appeal the presidium’s rule of the secret police and per- the time. induced scarcity. Almost 90 per Zhukov’s bid to the Soviet others but also to Khrushchev, hand over rivals. . . Such a among the union bureaucrats, decision to the party’s central verted the Communist party into cent of the total rise occurred masses was not fo r mere popu who seized the main chance to development might be the begin REVISE PRICE INDEX liberals and Stalinists are quiet committee— in which, as fir s t their own reactionary instru under-Democratic administrations. la rity — he already had a great rise in the bureaucracy during ning of a slow but genuine about, or only m urm ur sweet and party secretary, Khrushchev has ment. In January 1953, the U.S. The inflationary process is Con deal of that—'"but vastly to in the purges o f the 1930’s in the process of democratization.” low, is the record of inflation his main strength. Not only was Bureau of Labor Statistics tinuing under the Republicans. crease it. His original ponulari Ukraine. But with the expansion of under the Democrats. They bring the presidium majority over In his article, Joseph Clark, revised its Average Consumers’ ty stemmed from his military gives no snecific indication as to Soviet economy, the bureaucracy EFFECT OF WORLD WAR to , mind the man who gulped ruled but purged, enlarged and (Second o f a series o f three.) Price Index. The average prices victories which shined all the how he thinks Stalinism will be finds itself in growing conflict down ten drinks of whiskey, rose, o f the 1935-39 period were dis For the six-year period 1935 hrisrhter because they were won eliminated, but he takes issue w ith a w orking class th a t has said, “ Just one fo r the road,''’ continued as the index base of through 1940, the consumers’ despite S talin and because they ■with Leon Trotsky on the grown s w iftly in size, skill and drank his eleventh and then fell 100. The 1947-49 average was price index hovered between 98 brought Zhukov persecution problem. self-confidence; a working class flat on his face. When he finally substituted as the new base. and 101. From 1940 through from Stalin. Here is the record. He writes: ‘‘If a new exploit ever more opposed to the idea came to, he'moahed: “ It was that The Republicans were happy 1945, during active U.S. par ing class is in power in Russia, that it must endure privation last drink that floored me.” The initial months of the war about the chanp-e because the ticipation in World War II, the counter-revolution has triumphed. while the bureaucrats prosper. saw complete confusion and mil new peak of prices under their index shot up almost 29%. WHEN WILL IT END? itp.rv disaster, because of its Then the Trotskyist slogan of a SOURCE OF CRISIS workers revolution’. . . would administration would atmear not However, goods and food were When will the inflation end? political ineptness the Krem SYRIA'S preoccupation with This may explain the right This developing pressure of so high with the new index. The scarce and a number of com have validity. But it hasn't. It could end, according to the lin a 11 b w e d the USSR to be the possibility of imperialist- w ing’s acquiescence in a more the workers is the root source of Tiomoernts were even more B rillia n t as was T ro tsky’s modities were rationed. When workings of the capitalist eco taken by surprise and was com inspired attack is no fake, judg militant campaign for Hamburg. the present crisis of the Kremlin delighted because the new index the w ar ended, the controls, analysis of the rise of the nomy, with a depression, with pletely unprepared on its west ing from the country’s “Pop The Nov. 11 New York Times regime. I t poses in ever sharper completely buried their maior which had been partially effec bureaucracy in Russia and his mass purchasing power so ern borders. The situation was ular Resistance” movement. This frankly states that Wehner and form the issue of who is going contribution to high living costs tive, we»-e quickly lifted by Tru forecast of degeneration in the reduced that accumulated un infinitely worsened bv the bloody is a very broad civilian combat Schmid ‘‘are likely to take the to be the political master — the before 1947. man. The corporations were Soviet state, his slogan of ‘work salable goods w ill be thrown on actions of the NKVD, acting organization, that almost any power away from the party bu giant w orking class or the self- allowed to hold up the com- ers revolution’ can only imnede According to the new index, the market for lower prices. But, under Stab'n’s ignorant and ca S yrian can and does join. I t reaucrats at the next election seeking bui-eaucracy. While the mnditv-hungrv nublic with higher the steadv struggle to eliminate the hi>h peak in October 1957 we might experience a con pricious orders, and interfering stands by the side of the reg and give the party a more mili bureaucracy is not a class, as a prices fo r scarce goods. In one the baleful legacy of Stalinism. was 121.1 compared to the 1947- tradictory process — slowly with command decisions in the ular army. The members are tant leadership.” caste it is deeply entrenched. And year. prices rose another 11% That slogan can become confused 40 base o f 100. or a 21.1% rise. growing unemployment and field and flow of military sup armed with automatic and semi there is nothing in its record to »hove the index base. W ithin — and has 'been in actual polities That doesn't look good, but it’s rising prices. That could happen plies. At this neriod Stalin tried automatic weapons. They are give the slightest credence to three years. 1946-48. the total — with George Kennan’s old- a lot prettier that the real pic if arms spending were increased to direct military operations, trained, not for fighting in the CP OFFICIALS IN POLAND the idea that it will relinquish rise — durin°- peacetime — was ‘containment’ policy and the ture when we translate the new and the government debt lifted even down to tactical move field, but as a partisan force have paused a moment with its power without a struggle. more than 43%. Dulles ‘liberation’ crusade.” index into the old. Usin [The following is the text of a brief generals to power in Germany, to prop VO LU M E X X I MONDAY, NOV. 18, 1957 N U M B E R 46 speech given by Joyce Cowley, Socialist up dying British and French imperialism. Workers Party candidate for New York Here at home, the political spokesmen mayor in the recent elections, on the for these plutocrats permit ugly racism to “Sunday Schedule” program over WNBC- flourish and permit millions of Americans TV, Press White Citizens Council Slate TV, Nov. 3. She spoke under the “ W hy I to work long, hard hours just to keep Love America” portion of the program. one step ahead of the landlord, butcher — Ed.] and installment collector. Cover Weiss America is a nation in which the ma But I consider the America I spoke of De feated in Little Rock Vote jo rity o f the people have a deep devotion first as the real America, the America 1 By Henry Gitano when she did that. And we just came down here today with our mind set on it Lthat] we weren't to the ideals of truth, justice and free love. It is the America of the working The voting power of a South weren’t behaving ourselves — VisitinMinn. going to change our mind that dom. The overwhelming majority of the people — the industrial workers, the ern Negro community was dem just jeering her. I think if we we were fully against integra people of this country want to live at farmers, the professional workers — all By Winifred Nelson onstrated in Little Rock’s elec had had any sort o f decency, we wouldn’t have acted that tion. but I know now that we’re Minneapolis, Nov. 10— Speak tion where six of the seven po ]peac£ w ith one another and w ith the peo those whose brain and brawn took the way . . . How would you like going to change our mind. ing at a [Socialist Workers Par sitions in the city’s new Board ples of the rest of the world. bountiful resources of our land and built to have to . . . walk down the ty celebration of the 40th an of Directors were won by the Mrs. Ricketts: What do your street with everybody yelling Unfortunately, there are two Americas. the greatest productive machine the niversary of the Russian Revo Good Government Committee. parents say to that? behind you like they yelled be There is also the America of the fabulously world has yet known. lution held here last night, Mur The Capital City White Citizens Kay: I think I’m going to hind Elizabeth? .... ry Weiss, associate editor of Council which bitterly opposed have a long talk with my par Wealthy financiers and industrialists. It is to this America that we of the Minnie Jean: Hold your hand the Militant, declared that the the moderates placed only one ents. They are only a microscopic fraction of Socialist Workers Party address ourselves. up. I’m brown, you are white. launching of Sputnik I and II ' man. The vote was very close Kay and Sammy will have the population, but they control the great We say to the working people: You have What’s the difference? We are demonstrated that mankind will and it was the Negro people plenty to tell, f or instance, tney all of the same thoughts . . . bulk of the wealth of America and they the power to make our nation into the “banish poverty, war, disease1 voting as a bloc that determined could cite tne courage and ae- Kay, Joe and Robin— do you are the dominant power in all phases of golden land that we all aspire to — a so and tyranny from the fa?e of the outcome of the election. termination of MeiDa Jt'attillo the earth.” He spoke here as The W'OC fe lt pained since know anything about me, or is government. cialist America of security and abundance it just that your mother has wno was pusfted so hard sne part of a national tour on the MURRY WEISS, currently the League of Central High almost fell on her face on tne Last week, Fortune magazine reported for all. An America where everyone will told you about Negroes? . . . . topic of “The Future of Amer Mothers which claimed “thou on national tour, hailed Sput Ernest: Well, getting back to one aay the feaeralized A rka n th a t 76 Americans possess fortunes th a t have the opportunity to engage in fruit ican Socialism.” sands” of members, w>as forced sas tjuarasmen replaced the nik I and II at a Twin Cities this intermarriage and all total almost ten billion dollars. This in ful, productive labor under conditions “If the human race can cre to file a sworn membership celebration of the 40th Anni that. . . I’m going there for an paratroopers at the school. ate new moons and open the list, which turned out to be credible portion of American wealth was befitting the dignity of man. An America education. Really if I’m going ivielba is certain of one thing: path to the stars,” said Weiss, versary of the Russian Revo 163; the W’OC then made the “The only way they’ll get me piled up at the direct expense of the mil where racial and religious bigotry will there to socialize, I don’t need “who can say that it is inca lution. Said Weiss, if the hu city election a test of support be unknown. An America that will re to be going to school. I can out of Central now, is to take lions who labor in the oil fields, the fac pable of regulating its own af man race “can open a path to fo r Fau'bus. The Good Govern me out— feet firs t. And I in tories, the mills. ment Committee was accused stand out on the corner and establish itself in the eyes of the world fairs and organizing a new so the stars, who can say that it tend to keep on standing on cial structure?” by the WOC of favoring inte socialize. . . . These 76 men symbolize the ruling capi as a leader in the march toward universal is incapable of. . . organizing Kay: [Sammy and I] We both my feet.” talist class of America that has made our freedom and brotherhood. gration in schools, in swimming LIVELY QUESTION PERIOD a new social structure.” pools and in public parks. Rich country feared and hated throughout the Our aspirations can and will come true. The meeting was attended by ard C. Butler, speaking on TV world. To protect their far-flung empire All that is necessary is that the Ameri many students and persons from in behalf of the spineless GGC of the Russian Revolution, news other left-wing tendencies who declared that it had been “ un of oil and dollars, Truman put us in the can working people end the political power paper headlines read-, “Trot contributed to a lively question justly accused” of being pro Korean war and John Foster Dulles of the plutocrats and establish their own skyists to Mark Red Revolt,” and discussion period on the integration. Without looking and quoted Weiss’ statement: marches the American people from one government. important issues of the day— upon them as friends in any brink of war to another. When tha t is done, we w ill be on the Sputnik, China, Hungary, the “We socialists of America see way, the Negro community voted In the interests of these monopolists, road to a socialist America where a conflicting social systems of the a profound connection between for the GGC candidates as a recent scientific achievements in Am erican guns and dollars are used to rational and truly democratic economy of Soviet Union and the U. S. A., lesser evil, and demonstrated the Soviet Union and the grow that their united vote is a force keep the fascist dictator Franco in power and socialist regroupment. production for use will realize the great Remaining for a social hour ing movement of the workers, to be reckoned with. in Spain — to restore Nazi bankers and potential of our country. a fte r the speech, the audience intellectuals and students in the showed a real interest in con Soviet orbit to overthrow bu STUDENTS EXPLAIN tinuing the evening’s discussion, reaucratic dictatorship and es Meanwhile, the nine Negro and purchased litersfture and tablish socialist democracy. The students at Little Rock Central subs to the Militant. kussian Revolution laid the ba H igh School are explaining to How Anastasia Managed News media in the Twin sis for a socialist economic sys wfiite children the justice of Cities carried accounts of Murry tem which has demonstrated a their equal - rights demand, as Weiss’ talk both before and aft tremendous capacity to stimu evidenced by an Oct. 16 NBC er the meeting. On Friday, late scientific and technical broaacast ox a panel discussion. for So Long To Survive WCCO-TV’s most popular news progress. . . The American peo The cast consisted of seven stu- caster, Cedric Adams, gave a ple have nothing to fear from aents from the school—namely, italist politicians connive against boys handled the cold-blooded By S. W. Argus spot on his 6:00 P.M. news pro Soviet science and the Soviet three Negro students (iMinnie honest and militant unionists. assassination of Morris Dia Albert- Anastasia, the Lord gram to an interview with the working class.” Jean Brown, Ernest Green and In hot midsummer, 1939, Pete mond, Teamster Local 138 Busi High Executioner of the in SWP spokesman on Eisenho Following the talk, the Sun Meiba Patillo) and four white Panto was conducting a deter ness agent who went> to the famous national crime syndicate, wer’s speech o f the night be day papers in both Minneapolis students ('Sammy Dean Parker, mined war against domination DA’s oliice to register his com Murder, Inc., is dead, murdered fore. Comrade Weiss dedared and St. Paul covered the meet Kay Bacon, ana Robin Woods). of the wateriront. Pursuing a plaint about the labor racket that Eisenhower had nothing to ing, carrying these headlines: Mrs. Ricketts, a correspondent last month in a New ^ork mid policy of organizing the rank- eers. town hotel barber-shop by the offer the American people but “Socialist Sees End to Poverty” for Norwegian papers, brought and - file dockers, Panto saw his gunfire of two hired hoods. It O’DWYER HIT a war program. and “Trotskyite Says Man Can them together. Here are excerpts efforts bearing fruit in the face from the broadcast. to be noted that it was not Five years later, while O’Dwy On Thursday, the anniversary Banish Poverty and War.” of widespread intimidation and Mrs. Ricketts: . . . What have the forces of law and order who er was campaigning for mayor red-baiting. The struggle against you against Negroes in your moved him from the scene. In a grand jury censured him in the Anastasia mob ana its hench school, Kay? deed New York's former Mayor the following terms: “The un men in the ILA locals reached Kay: I think that they’ve O Dwyer, a Tammany Ha'll stal disputed proof is that DA Wil its culmination in a rank-and- got Schools to go to of th e ir own. wart, was generally regarded as file meeting of Local 929 called liam O’Dwyer and his assistant National Guardians T hat’s what most of us have instrumental in keeping Anasta Edward Hefferman were in pos by Panto on the night of July against them. sia free until the hoodlums’ gun session of competent legal ev THELMA MOTHEIiSHED, one of the heroic Negro youths 8. Over 1200 dpek workers ra l Ernest: . . . Why should my fire cut short the long rule of idence that Anastasia was guilty who walked through racist mobs for the right to an equal lied to the banner of rank-and- friends get out tnere and die the man who was known as the of first degree muruer ana otn- education, with her mother, Mrs. A. L. MOTHERSHED, looks ine revolt and resoundingly ap Post Election View fo r a cause called "democracy” "$zar” of the New York water er crimes. This proof w'as ad over a picture of Eisenhower shaking hand with Gov, Faubus. proved the Panto program to when I can’t exercise my rights fro n t. mittedly sufficient to warrant (The following is the complete text of a “ Report to Readers” en restore union democracy to the — tell me that. ‘‘Organized crime could not racket - ridden ILA. Anastasia’s Anastasia’s indictment and con titled “The Glass Jaw” in the Nov. 11 National Guardian. We Robin: . . . And wrhen Eliza last 48 hours if every official empire was menaced. Panto dis viction. . . . We find that the printed a. small excerpt last week. — Ed.) beth ¿ad to W'alk down in front charged with law enforcement— appeared less than a week later. ‘perfect murder case’ was al iMore in sorrow than in anger, pose M iria n i in the run-off, most completed to the Kings of the school I was there and I American Forum Issues municipal, state or national— Abe Reles, inform er on Brook we offer for your post-election thereby greatly enhancing the saw that. And may I say, I was were incorruptible. . . . The lyn Murder, Inc. spilled the County grand ju ry in 1940, by reading a le tte r from Sarah socialist education of Detroit’s very ashamed—I felt like cry gang lords have ingeniously crept beans in the course of prelim assistant D. A. Hefferman, who Lovell of Detroit, whose inde voters. ing— because she was so brave' into official circles in many inary talks, while he w-as nego then suspended and abandoned pendent candidacy for Mayor we “This wonderful opportunity Discussion Pamphlet ways and into the highest places. tiating a deal with O’Dwyer. the case. He [Hefferman] endorsed, among the few' other was muffed—thanks to a mix Sometimes they have done it "Mendy strangled him [Pan stated that this case was drop independent candidacies we could ture of opportunism, timidity, The American Forum — For Socialist Education has with votes; sometimes by help to] as a favor for Albert [Anas ped on instructions fro m his su learn about, in our Oct. 28 is apathy and (if they will per . . What Election released its first public discussion pamphlet. The pam of one sort or another in a po tasia].” Mendy told Reles: ‘'I periors.” sue. She w rites: mit me th§ expression) narrow litic a l campaign; sometimes O’Dwyer’s election in 1<9|46 phlet’s title pièce, “ Questions for the Left” by Sidney Lens, had to do it fo r A lbert, because “Unfortunately, my name was sectarianism by most of De Hierely by ‘contacts’ or connec marked Tammany Hall’s come Chicago trade unionist, is A lb e rt has been good to me.” not on the Nov. 5 ballot, and tr o it’s radical groups. Returns Showed rights attorney, challenges the tions they have established.” back in New Y ork C ity. I t was lowed 'by b rie f commentary ar- "Pittsburgh Phil,” another well- there was no way of register “ I hope th a t your firm re (Continued from page 1) proposition th a t some form of achieved with the support of ticles by six additional mem This sober, unchallenged ob known hoodlum, confided to Re ing a progressive vote in the statement of the need for inde socialism must move mankind to the American Labor Party, then tory — 919,902 — and a total bers of the Forum’s National servation comes from Burton les: “ A lb e rt mentions to me a mayoral election here. Under the pendent political action will help a higher stage. He says, “There dominated jointly by Hillman’s of 1,504,342. W agner’s victo ry Committee. 3-yirkus, prom inent in the last couple of days ago that some non-partisan system in effect radicals and socialists to avoid are no final . answers, there is machine in the Amalgamated was expected. Democratic pre 1 In his introduction to the decade as a prosecutor of the thing will have to be done about in Detroit elections, a primary such mistakes in the future, a general libertarian goal which Clothing Workers and by the election boasting was for 60% of pamphlet, American Forum Murder, Inc. syndicate. Abe a guy named Panto. This guy is held in September, eliminat here and elsewhere.” should never become dimmed in Stalinists. In pursuit of their the vote, actually they polled chairman A. J. Muste says, “The lieles, Murder Inc. gun-for-hire, is making trouble in the dock ing all but the top two candi In New York the Communist the exigencies of the moment.” union. I see Albert yesterday, class - collaborationist policy over 70%. 1 [Lens] paper . . . illuminates under investigation confirmed dates for a November run-off. Party, in a 3-column last-min A. E. Blumberg of the Com both ACW and CP leaders dum The New York and New Jersey the fact of complete agreement” this: “And we got connections and I ask him what’s new on it. This insured the election of the ute editorial in the Nov. 3 munist Party says that “scien mied up on O’Dwyer’s record in votes indicate, the beginning of among Forum National Commit where they count.” He says, ‘It’s all finished, and conservative Republican candi Worker, signed by two of its tific progress — atomic energy the Panto case, although the a leftward shift of the workers. tee members “that all important everything’s all right.’ ” date, Louis C. Miriani (sup state leaders, Benjamin J. Da automation and now the Soviet’s’ tfOCKETBOOK DECIDES The same year as the Panto Daily Worker had fully exposed While this shift is aided 'by the problems should be raised and earth satellite—is making peace ported by GM - Ford - Chrysler - vis and George Blake Charney, improved1 climate resulting from When Mayor O’Dwyer, on murder, Anastasia’s Brooklyn it in 1941. ‘frankly and sharply discussed,’ ful co-existence more than ever' Reuther - Hoffa), opposed in the attacked the mayoralty campaign the lessening of the witch hunt leave from his refuge in Mex no matter how’ controversial.” imperative and social advance run-off by a conservative Dem of the Socialist Workers Party and also reflects accumulated ico, testified before the Ive- as “ disorienting and dangerous” Lens poses a n d elaborates ever more possible.” ocrat whom even the labor lead disappointments with the Eisen fauver Committee in 1951, he some o f his o w n th in k (Copies of “ Questions fo r the ers rejected.” and said that a vote for the hower administration, it is prin \frent a long way toward clari Incite Wisconsin employers ing on seven questions. These L e ft” may be obtained at 25c There is a lesson to be learned SWP candidates ‘‘does not ad cipally caused by the chill winds fying the magnetic attraction are: “W'hat is socialism? per copy from Pioneer Publish from this, Miss Lovell sa^s: “I vance the cause of socialism.” beginning to blow over the eco W^ich gangsters and big-time The editors of the GUARDIAN What is the actual character of ers, 116 University Place, New spent the first half of this year nomy and the consequent feeling gamblers have for capitalist po To Resist Strikers More are chided fo r urging such a the state? How do we achieve j y k 3 N Y. or in bundles of campaigning in the unions for of insecurity. Xtrue_____ •internationalism? i ______A.Z______i : _____o r Can* ______cap7 liticians.. He said, "It doesn’t value of the Senate rackets com vote as a socialist alternative. 25 or more at 20c per copy from fhatter whether it’s a banker, a By William Krainik labor to run its ow-n slate in Confined in the prison of the italism be ‘reformed?’ What mittee investigations. this election. But the Reuther- Rather, the CP recommended American Forum, Room 221, business man or gangster; his MILWAUKEE, Oct. 29 — The two-party system by the labor role does love or humanism The general counsel of the Hoffa policy prevailed, and the as “sound . . . the position of 1133 Broadway, New York, 10, pocketbook is always attrac problem of provoking and break bureaucracy the workers’ first play in a leftist philosophy? national chamber, William B. labor movement tagged along many that a large vote for the N. Y. tive.” ing strikes broke out in a public move is to unify themselves How can the social revolution Barton in his report before this behind capitalist politicians. Liberal Party [Mayor Wagner, A conference on “America’s session of the Wisconsin politically and vote in the only proceed along democratic lines? When asked last month for a panel stated, that it would be “ A t the suggestion of the So the Democrat, was its candi Future in the Age of Automa Chamber of Commerce at its way th a t seems, at present,] How is social change to be statement on Anastasia’s siay- better for them if the battle cialist Workers Party, I then date] will exert independent tion and Atomic Energy” will annual meeting here. practical to them — that is for brought a bo tit in the United be hcld by the American Forum, irig, O’Dwyer muttered “No around James R. Hoffa of the appealed several times to all pressure on the incoming admin The general manager of the the Democrats, particularly for States of America?” gat> Dcc. 7; at the Great North- cbmment.” In 1945 though, long Teamsters Union would be drag the radical groups in this city istration.” The editorial then Wisconsin Motor Carriers asso liberal and supposedly pro-labor softer O’Dwyer had permitted ged out. He pointed out that, to run candidates of their own wound up with a plea for post In his comment John Dickin- ern Hotel, 118 W. 57 Street in ciation, John Varda, complained Democrats. Anastasia to go scot free “Public opinion may cool and for mayor or city council; and election unity. son takes issue with Lens’ crit- New York City, starting at from the floor that in a past Election of the Democratic- (though he had reportedly been that would be unfortunate.” to form a left-wing or socialist We marvel, aS at a fancy box icism of Marx as well as with 10:30 AM. Panel discussions responsible for over 60 mur teamsters strike his group did . He made clear the anti-labor labor coalition’s candidates under his method of posing questions; will be held on labor, culture, electoral bloc of candidates to er protecting a glass jaw, at worsening economic conditions ders) the mayor facing grand not get the solid backing of big stand of the Chamber of Com instead of stating opinions as youth, “ Socialism and Democra* offer as an alternative to the the facile logic which can ana can only put them on the spot as jtiry investigation of his con business. merce and the real purpose of clearly as possible. cy,” and political action. capitalist politicians. thematize a socialist campaign! far as the workers’ increased “We re selfish as hell” replied the Senate committee by point Tim W olforth, managing ed- duct of the Murder, Inc. inves “The ballot , requirements in as not advancing the cause of I demands for remedial action are Robert C. Bassett, industrial ing out that in his view', “The itor of the Young Socialist, em tigation, stated: “No mob mur city elections here are quite socialism; and in the same com-! concerned. The disillusioning ex relations expert of the Schlitz real problem is the concentra phasizes “reaching agreement der in Brooklyn was committed easy to meet; every one of the bination can approve (pardon: perience of the workers with without Anastasia’s permission Brewing Company. “There isn’t tion of power in the hands of on those questions which re radical groups could have put approve the approval of) a tail- Democratic politicians whom they a man in this room who hasn’t a few union leaders.” quire action,” and he elaborates 8hd approval.” at least one candidate on the ist campaign which hates so have themselves put in office faced this problem — whether a number of questions on which Anastasia — until bis sudden ballot. I even offered to w ith cialism like the devil hates holy will but further exipose the to fight and risk going broke united action is possible. dem ise— had been g e tting away draw from the mayoralty race water. liberal and pro - labor veneer or knuckle under. But, has any Stephen Grattan defends and with murder for over 20 years. and run for the city council if a We look forward with inter over the hard capitalist core of body in America ever figured a urges study of the “primary I t has been conceded th a t he conference of these groups would est to the extent and solidarity these politicians. It was pre strike as an investment in fu tu re theories of Marx.” was one of the top dogs on the labor peace?” prefer some other choice fo r of the post-election unity which cisely a first dose of this disil Farrell Dobbs of the Social waterfront, on the docks'and in Robert T. Borth, employee the top office. w ill have been thus forged. lusion with the Truman ad ist Workers Party offers a se the several ILA locals for relations representative of the “But neither the Communist ministration that contributed ries of specific programmatic nearly two decades. Assistant General Electric Company stated, Party, the Socialist Party, the greatly to the Eisenhower sweep statements as propositions for Attorney - 'General Stammler of “ Every time the businessman of American Socialist group nor in 1952. But in the period that discussion. They are advanced, JNew Jersey said in 1951 that America gets into trouble he any of the other organizations lies ahead the workers will he says, “ in a sincere e ffo rt to "Anastasia might be, in addi buys his way out of it. And there responded to our appeal. Not neither fall into political apathy promote discussion of a very tion, the labor ‘enforcer’ in gen arc some who have tried to buy one of them ran any candidate nor vote in considerable numbers eral strike-breaking in New Jer their way out and now can’t get for any office. for the Republican “alternative.” real problem, the shaping of a revolutionary - socialist program sey.” out. Sometimes you have to take “I am firmly convinced (and On the contrary, they will be The assassination of Pete a strike.” the primary statistics support impelled, af.ong w ith the Negro for the coming period when the American working class again Panto and the failure of au ihe panel session at which the this view) that a united cam people and small farmers, to thorities to prosecute Anastasia outburst against those who paign by the left-wang could break out of the capitalist two- swings into action and turns to ward socialist leadership.” in. this connection is an exam tended to be “soft” toward labor have placed an anti-capitalist party system, by building a new *le of how gangsters and cap took place was devoted to the candidate on the ballot to op party — a labor party. Conrad Lynn, prominent civil