America's World Economic Position See page 2 THE MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE

Vol. XX IV — No. 12 222 NEW YORK, N.Y., MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1960 Price 10c “Jim Crow Must Go!" Dobbs Hits 2 Parties Negro Students Extend On Rights Lunch Bar Battle Line Calls Current Defy Jailing, Bill a 'Hoax' Let's Back Them Up! Racist Clubs NEW YORK, March 18 — “No An Editorial By George Lavan TV quiz show was ever as Police-state tactics and gangs j thoroughly rigged as the so- It is not enough to nod one’s head ap­ ponents of Jim Crow can give them. These of deputized storm troopers are l called civil-rights fight current- provingly while reading the stirring dis­ chains are almost invariably non-union and being employed by Southern of­ | ly going on in Washington,” Far­ patches from the South about the student anti - union. For organized labor this ficials to smash the still spread­ rell Dobbs, presidential nominee actions against Jim Crow. Nor is it enough should be an added incentive to extend ing protest movement of Negro of the national committee of the to speak enthusiastically about the lunch- nationally the solidarity picketing already students. Socialist Workers party, declared counter sit-downs to friends and fellow- begun by a number of union bodies. If City and state officials have today. imposed a regime close to mar­ “ In Congress, Democratic and workers. labor places its full weight behind a boy­ tial law upon the Negroes of Republican leaderships, North­ The Negro people of the South, led by cott of the five-and-dime chains, the North­ Montgomery, Alabama, who ern liberals and Dixiecrats arc their courageous students, and supported ern boycott added to the Southern can now risk life and limb if they collaborating in a mutually by a small number of equally courageous soon force them to abandon their racist attempt to assemble, petition or agreed upon hoax on the Ameri­ Southern whites, are in the midst of an lunch-counter policies. peacefully demonstrate. In ad­ can people.” Dobbs' statement dition to city and slate police, continued. “The bills, amend­ extremely hard - fought battle. Their de­ A committee headed by AFL-CIO Vice gangs of deputized horsemen ments, parliamentary moves and mand for the elementary human dignity of President A. Philip Randolph has called and Ku Klux elements wearing countermoves. the Southern fili­ being served in a public eating place has for a mass demonstration on May 17 — Civil Defense insignia are ter­ buster and the liberals' cries of arrayed against them the whole entrench­ anniversary of the Supreme Court’s school rorizing Negroes, newspaper re­ porters and photographers. disappointment are all as pre­ ed power of Southern racism. desegregation decision — in New York’s arranged and rehearsed as the In this desperate battle the Southern garment district in support of the Southern Fears "Massacre" grunts and groans in a profes­ sional wrestling match.” freedom fighters need tangible, effective students. The actions of the authorities Throughout the North, students demonstrated solidarity with the Negro student freedom "All observers admit the help from above the Mason-Dixon line. The This call for a May 17 demonstration and the white-supremacist vigil­ fighters in the South who have been staging "sit-ins" at five-and-dime stores. This picket line Civil Rights Act of 1960 will picketing of five-and-dime stores in various has been endorsed by the New York Youth antes in Alabama are so omin­ in Denver March 5 included unionists. One of them, a member of the United Packinghouse be as anemic and meaningless cities by students, and in a few instances Committee for integration, an organization ous that Roy Wilkins, head of the National Association for the Workers Union, declared, "We w ill continue to picket and boycott these outfits as long as they as its predecessor, the Civil by trade unions, deserves the highest praise of campus clubs and student government profit from their ruthless dual policy toward Northern and Southern customers." Advancement of Colored Peo­ Rights Act of 1957. It w ill not as examples of tangible, effective help. bodies which emerged from the solidarity even be a civil rights act; it is ple, asked the White House to being stripped down to a mere They are no mere symbolic acts of soli­ picketing of the five-and-dime stores. Now act to avert a possible “massa­ voting rights act. But it will darity. the Young Socialist Alliance is urging that cre” of Negroes. College Groups On March 13, Walter Reuther, Lie in "U.S. News" give very few disfranchised The five-and-dime chains are not only nation-wide student demonstrations be president of the AFL-CIO Uni­ Negroes in the South an actual guilty of racial discrimination in their called on May 17 in support of the Negro ted Auto Workers, wired Eisen­ vote. H it Woolworth’s Southern stores, in many instances their students of the South. hower: “Thé reign of terror in Exposed by Cubans “The voting provision, weak store managers have made the formal com­ All efforts henceforth should be for a Montgomery, Alabama, reported By Lillian Kiezel and cumbersome in its original Again in N.Y. plaints or sworn out the warrants on which steady build-up of Northern demonstra­ to you by the Rev. Martin Lu­ “Twenty years of dreams and ran their holdings like feudal form, has been further eroded ther King, is shocking, immoral NEW YORK, March 13 — hard work, and hundreds of lords. by voluntary changes and the Southern students have been thrown tions to a crescendo of solidarity on May 17. and un-American — appealing amendments. It now appears “Aren’t you ashamed of your­ thousands of dollars — all U.S. News and W orld Report in ja il. Let such a roar arise in the North on that to you to instruct the Attorney self?” “Hope you enjoy your published Everhart’s article, en­ that the federal voting referees The Woolworth, Kress, K resge, Grant date that it will give new heart to the General to lake immediate ac­ gone,” laments Jack Hall Ever­ titled “I had My Property fo o d !” would have to go through ten and McClellan companies deserve all the Negro freedom fighters of the South and tion in your name to restore law These were some of the com­ hart, whose 20,000-acre P inar Grabbed by Castro’s Men,” in legal steps to register a Negro and order in Montgomery.” ments that greeted the people del Rio cattle ranch has been the M arch 7 issue. His main refused registration by local economic punishment that Northern op­ give pause to their racist oppressors. Pressed by questioners at who did walk through the confiscated by the Cuban revo­ complaint is that the National racist officials. The opportunities his March 16 news conference, picket line of 300 youth yester­ lutionary government. The U.S. Institute of Agrarian Reform for legal chicanery and delay the President agreed that the day to shop or cat at the large press reports his story as typi­ (INRA) took away land he this w ill afford Southern authori­ UAW Officials Constitution guaranteed peo­ Thirty-fourth Street Woolworth cal of the treatment accorded claims he was entitled to under ties would probably be enough to Everyone a Capitalist ple the right to hold peaceful store here. Many other shop­ American ranchers and cane the agrarian reform law. discourage Job himself from demonstrations but he saw no pers respected the demonstra­ growers. It seems he had two ranches. trying to vote. Seek to Purge way of protecting the Negro tion held in support of Southern These tear-jerking accounts One he owned personally and In Land of the Dollar people in this right. He sug­ Negro students fighting to end of Everhart’s ordeal at the the other was owned by a com­ "Cynical Betrayal" gested it would be good if bi- public lunch-counter discrim­ pany of which lie was presi­ Canadian Unit By Harry Ring racial conferences were held hands of the Cuban revolution “But to get a federal district ination. dent. He asked to be allowed "The rich get richer and the every market rise accelerates in every Southern community. say nothing about how the court to appoint a voting referee TORONTO, March 15 — A This was the second demon­ Cuban farm laborers suffered to keep 3,333 acres — the max­ poor get kids.” the concentration of wealth in will require winning a lengthy brigade of Walter Reuther’s Held in Stockade stration organized by the New because, for half a century. imum permissible amount un­ That’s what they used to say their hands. der the law — for each of the lawsuit, subject to two appeals, porkchoppers moved into Can­ York Youth Committee for In- Americans owned most of the in the old days of dog-eat-dog If you want some more facts In Orangeburg. South Caro­ ranches, but his request was proving that a pattern of racial ada recently in an attempt to (Continued on Page 4) island's best arable land and capitalism. But cynical sayings on this to convince yourself or lina, a demonstration by 1,000 denied. discrimination exists in local squelch the growing a n ti­ like that no longer apply since others, send 75 cents (plus sales students from South Carolina Instead, he says, IN R A o ffi­ registration practices. As with administration opposition in the the rise of our present “peo­ tax in New York City) to the State and Clafin Colleges was Too Many Babies? cials told him to go and “pick attempts to enforce school deseg­ Canadian section of the AFL- ple’s capitalism.” National Bureau of Economic met w ith tear gas and fire hoses. out” 1,650 acres “for myself” regation. this means separate CIO United Automobile Work­ Research, 261 Madison Ave., Walking in groups of one hun­ from the company ranch. He lawsuits in each of the thousands ers union. Today, the once big capital­ New York 16, N. Y. Ask for, dred, the young Negro men and received no receipt for the land of Southern electoral districts. Headed by Emil Mazey, secre- ists are taking a real shellack­ “Changes in the Share of women, attempted to converge INRA look over, nor any of the "This latest cynical betrayal tary-treasurer of the UAW. a ing. Brutally stiff income, cor­ Can W e W in Back Wealth Held By Wealth-Hold- on the downtown section by dif­ ; promised twenty-year bonds at of civil rights again demon­ committee of International Ex­ poration and inheritance taxes ers, 1922-1956.” ferent routes. They continued 4 Vi per cent interest. A day strates the vise-like grip of the ecutive Board members investi­ take away the bulk of their though drenched by hoses in laborer on his ranch before the Southern racists on Congress. gated charges that Paul Siren, hard-earned remuneration. And A Healthy Scarcity? the outrageously high cost of the forty degree weather. revolution, Vidal Gil. now man­ “At the very moment the Re­ former Toronto director of the union, had held “secret” discus- mansions, yachts and servants About 350 (one-third of them ages his erstw hile holdings. publican leadership is bidding Braden Appeals By Joseph Hansen Revolucion, newspaper of the sions with Communist Party puts a stiff bile into what little women) were herded by police for Negro votes by proposing a into a stockade beside the court Twenty-sixth of July Movement leaders during the 149-day. is left. Really rich plutocrats Seventh in a series of articles. ‘stronger’ civil-rights bill, it has house. They were arraigned in replied to Everhart in its March 1955-56 strike against the Gen­ arc just about extinct in To High Court already agreed to trim its bill to groups of fifteen, while buses 9 issue after carefully review­ eral Motors Corporation of Can­ America. W A SH IN G TO N , D.C., March What's to be done about the food explosion? There are the taste of the Southerners. stood outside to take those un­ ing the facts with the legal de­ ada. Mazey characterized such And all that dough hasn’t 11 — The Supreme Court was two schools of thought. One holds that hunger still plagues While voicing their disappoint­ able to post bond to the state partment of INRA. discussions as an “act of treason been going just to the govern­ asked today to review the ease ment in a northerly direction prison. the world and that America should help stamp it out. “Mr. Everhart was one of against the union.” ment. I t has been spread of Carl Braden, Southern inte­ over the emasculation of the Other demonstrations in As a modest beginning at home, we should assure every many who acquired lands in The “investigation" came as around very democratically. No gration fighter, who was sen­ civil-rights bill, the Northern South Carolina occurred in Cuba for a little money and en­ a result of the challenge to Can­ doubt you’ve read some of those tenced to a year in prison for family three square meals a day. This elementary public- liberals arc making deals with Rock Hill where 70 students riched themselves by exploit­ adian UAW Director. George ads explaining that almost defying the House Un-American their Southern ‘opponents’ for were arrested for picketing city welfare measure would not decrease our immense sur­ ing the workers.” His friends in Burt, at the October 1959 union everybody in the country to­ Activities Committee. the coming convention. hall; in Columbia, the state pluses. In fact it would probably ultimately help increase the old Cuban government convention in Atlantic City. day owns stocks and bonds. His attorneys charged that his capital, where ten were ar­ “favored him by constructing “An opponent of Jim Crow Burt was one of the very few Millions of American workers imprisonment would open the them because of the rise in the sense of well-being among rested for asking for service at roads and by allowing him to who supports the Democratic (Continued on Page 4) are now capitalists with a way for widespread harassment the people. lunch counters; and in Sumter use an even sterner hand with or Republican parties in the vested interest in raising pro­ and jailing of whites and Ne­ where police made no arrests. As a beginning abroad, we should at once offer flotillas the laborers.” “Batista himself coming elections w ill be betray­ duction and cutting wages. groes advocating civil rights. In Atlanta, Ga., students from of food to poverty-stricken countries, thus helping to re­ went fishing on his property.” ing not only his own desire to You think all this is a lot of They pointed out that Braden His property declaration to make civil rights a reality but 9 Face Prison marlarkey? Well, so do I. was called before the Congres­ the six Negro institutions com­ store the good name America formerly enjoyed among prising Atlanta University Cen- INRA in September 1959 ap- also the courageous Negro stu­ But in case anyone s till takes sional witch-hunters in 1958 in nations for its readiness to use its plenty to help others in (Cont i n u e d P age 4) (Continued on Page 2) dents of the South, now being Under T-H Act i such myths seriously here arc retaliation for his public opposi­ need. jailed by the hundreds by South­ a few facts to set them straight, tion to the committee and “to This generous attitude is rather widespread among Guatemala's Children ern Democratic officials — to DENVER, March 14 — Nine 1 dug up by a non-communist or­ investigate his motives in work­ He's Only the President ganization with offices right on farmers and workers but doesn’t get many headlines. In Guatemala, the mortality the great indifference of the 'Re­ I present and former officials of ing for integration.” He is one Asked if he thought Negroes publicans and Northern Demo­ ! the independent Mine, M ill and New York’s Madison Avenue. The other school holds that such a view is fat-headed, rate for children between the of 36 persons now in jail or fac­ had a constitutional right to sit ages of one and six is 42 per crats in Congress engrossed in Smelter Workers Union were It’s the National Bureau of ing jail for defying Congres­ at lunch counters. President pinko-tinged, smacking of un-Americanism, and strictly Economic Research. After a de­ thousand as compared to .9 per playing out their 1960 civil- sentenced to prison and fined sional or state inquisitorial com­ Eisenhower replied that he tailed national survey, it reports for the birds. Hunger, this school w ill admit, is an unpleas­ thousand in the U.S. rights hoax.” here today. They had been con­ mittees. wasn’t a lawyer. ant fact. However, not much can be done about it without victed Dec. 17 on the frame-up that the rich are still getting charge of violating the Taft- richer and that wealth is being cash in your pocket or in the bank. Overwhelming evidence Hartley law by “conspiring" to concentrated in fewer and shows that modern man’s main reason for growing crops Take New Steps to Form file false "non-Communist” af­ fewer hands. California Senate Deaf is not to provide people with food; but to make money. If fidavits. Following the 1929 crash, you give our crops away, how can you expect to sell them? Seven were sentenced to there was a tendency toward Labor Party in Canada a somewhat broader distribu­ To Pleas for Chessman You’ve ruined the market. To protect profits you have to three years in prison and fined The Canadian labor move­ According to a Canadian $2,000. The other tw o were tion of wealth. But in 1949 By D ella Rossa protect sales and keep prices high enough to offer a fair union dispatch, the decision to ment. is going ahead w ith its sentenced to 18 months and there was a reversal of the A bill to abolish the death pen­ er warden of San Quentin pris­ contest the two capitalist par­ re tu rn . plans to form a labor party. A fined $1,500 each. trend which, the survey found, alty in California was killed in on, testified that, “I have yet to draft program for the new ties in Nova Scotia w;is made became sharply evident by This view is so sensible that we at. once sec its merit. Sentenced to three years were the Senate Judiciary Committee find anyone executed who was party has been published, and by the Nova Scotia Federation 1953. To preserve the profit pattern in agriculture, we must Irv in g D ich ter, sec re ta ry -treas- March 10 by an eight to seven wealthy. It's only prisoners who in Nova Scotia a full slate of of Labor. District 26 of the File this fact away for the urer of the union: Maurice vote. The Democrats hold a thir­ can’t afford competent attorneys maintain relative scarcity. Obviously the current food ex­ labor candidates will challenge United Mine Workers and the nex t time you meet someone Travis, former secretary-treas­ teen to two majority on the com­ who die in the lethal gas cham­ plosion is a national calamity. th e lib e ra l and Conservative provincial Cooperative Com­ urer; Charles Wilson, an inter­ who really believes those ads m ittee. ber." Duffy also insisted that the Fortunately our capitalist experts are aware of the part ies in the pending p ro vin ­ monwealth Federation, under national representative; Harold about everyone being a stock­ death penalty is not a deterrent, grave character of the emergency and are working around cial elections. whose name the labor slate will Sanderson, controller; and Ray­ holder: By 1953, 1.6% of the The day before, an unexpec­ be run. population "owned a! least tedly large number of witnesses to crime. At the April 1950 convention mond Dennis, Chase Powers, the clock figuring out what to do. A report on their efforts A joint steering committee 80% of the corporate stock Actress P h yllis K irk , representing of the Canadian Labor Con­ and A lbert Skinner, all executive testified against capital punish­ which appeared in the Dec. 14, 1959, Wall Street Journal headed by I he presidents of the held in the personal sector, ment. the Southern California gress. counterpart of the AFL- board members. three bodies was appointed to virtually all of the state and Committee to Abolish Capital shows that there are no grounds for panic: CIO, the delegates instructed The others sentenced were The decision means that only act as a campaign committee,and local government bonds and Punishment, asked; “How can the national council to begin Jesse Van Camp, an in te rn a ­ executive clemency, which Gov. "A broad attack on the nation's huge, costly agricultural arrangements were made for re­ between 10 and 35% of each we support such enlightened mapping plans for the new tional representative, and James Brown says he is powerless to surplus problem is being launched by America's leading farm gional committees to lake re­ other type of property." programs as prison reforms and party and to report back to the Durkin, a former organizer. grant, can save Caryl Chessman organizations. sponsibility for the campaign in In 1953 the same 1.6% owned parole procedures and still be in next convention which is now The union leaders had been from the gas chamber May 2. Be­ "Convinced that the old panaceas won't work, the or­ various areas of the province. 30% of the nation’s personal favor of the ritual barbarism of scheduled to be held in Mon­ brought to trial in the midst of cause the Chessman case has ganizations are concocting a flock of new ones. Their most The Conservatives now control a bitterly fought strike against wealth. executions?” treal the week of April 25. aroused world-wide protests, urgent aim: To wipe out the Government surplus of wheat, the Nova Scotia legislature with major copper producers. The bureau says that the con­ Even before the proceedings corn and other major crops which now ties up more than $9 The new party is being 24 seats. The Liberals have 18 centration of wealth hasn't yet Brown gave Chessman a sixty- opened, the committee room billion. Removing this surplus, the farmer groups believe, formed in alliance with the Co­ scats and the CCF has one. The returned to the 1929 peak. But d a y reprieve on Feb. 19 and de­ was packed with an audience of would allow free market prices to rise to 'fairer' levels." operative Commonwealth Fed­ unionists were confident how­ Full Employment? it w ill if the stock market keeps clared his fate would be decided 350. Outside pickets carried pla­ eration, a third party which had ever that a strong labor cam­ Six thousand men applied for rising. A bureau spokesman ex­ by the legislature. cards asking for clemency for Anyone who thinks that it would be unfair to jack up been supported by the Canadian paign w ill change the relation­ 800 Philadelphia city laborers plains that since the minority At the March 9 legislative Chessman and for an end to the ( C ontinued on Page 2 ) CIO. ship of forces. jo bs th a t pay about $60 a week. owns 4 majority of the stocks, hearing, Clinton F. Duffy, form- death, penalty. Page Two THE M ILITANT Monday, March 21, 1960 Is the New “ Dream” Engine America's International Economic Position By Tom Kemp the norm in which these policies American policy in renovating were concretized and applied European capitalism and mak­ The dollar is no longer i through all the dangers and They Demanded Better Pay ing it a going concern once Good News to Auto Workers? complexities of the forties and again became dear, American “scarce” currency, at least a: By George B reitm an that term is understood in dis­ fifties. business capital, directly moti­ cussion of international economic To talk of political and eco­ vated by profit expectations, DETROIT — Good news or cars. In the U. S.. C urtiss- It is also being used in Eng­ relations. Indeed, since nomic policies as though they found its way to Europe in in­ bad? Wright has bought the rights to land on ro ta ry p rin tin g presses, the last recession there has been wore separate and distinct is creasing amounts. “The Germans blitzed the build larger versions of the en­ big cameras, textile and mining. some concern about the chang­ merely a matter of convenience. There was nothing now in auto world this year with a gine. | Easidrive was developed in ing nature of the U. S. balance In practice the two were com­ this. C apitalism is a cosmo­ dream engine,” David Scott re­ Meanwhile Rootes of England Britain by Smiths Motor Acces­ of payments, with the outflow bined; the means to tackle one politan system and American ports in the March Popular Sci­ has introduced on its H illm a n ’ sories under a complex cross­ now exceeding receipts in t. aspect had to be as far as pos­ interests in European industry ence. “Instead of pistons that Minx line a new fully automa­ licensing agreement with Eaton way which accelerates the drain sible consistent with the aims had been building up during the shuttle up and down, it uses a tic transmission suitable for Manufacturing Company of from the national gold stock. pursued in the other. Inter-war period. But the move­ tricky three-lobed rotor. A low-powered cars that is called Cleveland, which retains the Countries in Europe which To say, for example, that the ment had been checked by the cross between the ordinary in- 'as sim ple as a c h ild ’s m agnet.” North American rights. Eaton for many years after the war political aim in 1945 was to back war and the postwar crisis of ternal-combustion engine and (New York Times, Feb. 25.) has developed a slightly differ­ had a permanent dollar gap an up governments abroad able to European capitalism; now it is the turbine, it promises twice Called Easidrive, it is based ent version now being tested by now receiving or earning most stem the tide of social revolu­ resumed, under favorable con­ the .power from the same weight on a magnetic principle. “Using U. S. auto corporations, which of the dollars, they need am tion and provide positions of ditions prepared by the policies and size as conventional engines about two tablespoons of a fer­ may appear next year on some have been able to ease some of strength from which to oppose which have been discussed here. . . . ric powder that becomes mag­ D e tro it small cars. the restrictions on convertibility Russian expansion includes the For a few years American “Besides that, it’s quiet and netized, it forms what amounts Now we return to the ques­ of their own currencies which economic aim of salvaging capi­ capital found vast profitable out­ almost vibrationless. Also, to a solid coupling between the tion: Good news or bad? had been in force since the war talism. The political aim had to lets at home, or timidity and cheap to make, economical to engine and gearbox. Thus, the For the auto corporations, it's Although the “weakness” of be pursued with economic as uncertainty prevented it from run, and simple to maintain. pow der is transm itted to the wonderful. To produce engines the dollar has some unwelcome well as other means. If there seeking higher yields abroad. It has only two main moving wheels without appreciable slip­ and automatic transmissions aspects fo r certain Am erican interests were specifically economic prob­ Conclusions based upon this parts.” It can also be used in page, and there is no loss of w ill be cheaper, that is, w ill re­ , and may represent over lems, they were nonetheless di­ temporary phenomenon were trucks, boats and planes. power from wasted gasoline.” quire less labor power, and shooting, it does not represen rectly related to these overriding clearly premature. The export NSU Werke of Neckarsulm, On some big U. S. cars the therefore fewer workers. any dram atic dim inution in economic purposes — though economists of capital by private firms has Germany, plans to have the new horsepower loss is as high as For the auto workers, it’s a standing. The presen' and others customarily dealt been resumed on a considerable engine in its 1961 Prinz small 25%. mixed blessing at best. As car situation is the outcome, in fact with them in isolation, thus, scale, being c u rre n tly about owners and drivers, they wel­ of a sequence of events reach­ whether or not by design, con- twice as great as government come technological progress. ing back to the Second Work cealing their real content. economic aid. But as workers they know it War. After World War II, the U.S. government pumped billions The major fields for this in­ . . . Lie in “ U.S. News” means layoffs for some and in­ Though not much like what The Imbalance of dollars into the prostrate European economy. As the West vestment are found in Latin security for others. European capitalists began reaping new profits, the workers America, Canada and Western American policy-makers had The dominant economic problem (Continued from Page I) Everhart’s administrator says Thanks to technological prog­ pressed for a restoration of their living standards. In 1954 this Europe; little as yet goes to expected or aimed at in detail , in this context, was the in­ peared “extremely doubtful and the men used to work ten or ress and speedup,- the Big Three militant demonstration was staged in West Germany as 220,000 the underdeveloped countries of there cannot be much doubt ternational imbalance between intricate.” The “com pany” more hours “fifteen days a auto corporations can turn out Asia and Africa. that in broad outline it fits in the war-induced upsurge of the Bavarian metal workers struck for higher pay. ranch, purchased in 1946 in the m onth fo r 2 pesos a day.” To­ more cars today than five years Investments in the six coun­ with the needs of American American economy with its name of a corporation called day they earn 2.88 pesos fo r an ago, w h ile using 136,000 less They sought to preserve what The economic effects were also tries of the European Common capitalism in the difficult position massive production, side-by-side C attle and T e rrito ria l Co., San eight-hour day. production workers. in which it finds itself in they deemed vital in national in many ways comparable: the Market — France, West Ger- with the shattered economies Marcos, S.A., has 13,000 acres, When Everhart built a school, In a sensible society, where the mid-twentieth century. independence; though there first important one being that many. Belgium, Luxembourg, if Western Europe and other now valued at $918,000. E ver­ “ He paid 2 pesos fo r w o rk from the economy would be planned The major war aim of American could be differences within dollars were flowing into the the Netherlands and Italy — areas and the complete dislocation hart says a Mr. Leon Broch sold sunup to sundown.” The chil­ and controlled by the majority, the class about the draw­ world market at a rate far in lave grow n from $648 m illio n capitalism in the year? of the world market under the ranch and received 1,500 dren had to pay for equipment news about the engine and ing of lines. They used such excess of that which could have in 1950 to $1,760 m illio n in 1959, 1941-45 was to make the w o rld the stress of long years of de­ shares, valued at 150.000 pesos, they now receive free. transmission would be greeted safe for capitalism, keeping assets as they retained, even if been attained through the nor­ with Western Germany and pression and war. in return. In his U.S. News article, with dancing in the streets. It open its markets and its sphere: only intangible ones, such as mal channels of trade and in­ France the most favored coun­ Later, says Revolucion, “Mr. Everhart weeps not only for would mean another cut in the of economic penetration. Capitalism was on its knees political experience and diplo­ vestment. tries. Broch and a Mr. Louis Menocal himself but also for Ricardo work week, another step toward Policy-makers sought to dc in a number of countries in matic acumen — where they The prosperity which open­ In the European Free Trade appeared as holding 5 Vi shares Martinez, “forced” to sell a greater leisure and freedom for this not merely by smashing the 1945. The disintegration of could often score over the Am­ ed up for world capitalism Association — the so-called and the rest of the shares — store "he ran for my workers” all. German and Japanese threat the state apparatus, the de­ ericans — to win better terms, in the fifties was stimulated in “Outer Seven” countries, includ- 1,507 M; — belonged to Mr. Ever­ to INRA. But Martinez feels But in the madhouse known countering Russian moves and moralization of the ruling resist pressures and retain cer­ a direct way by its confronta­ ;tig Britain, Portugal, Denmark, hart . . . no document proves somewhat differently about the as capitalism, where things are preventing social revolution class and many of its political tain policies (such as discrim­ tion with an incompatible Norway, Sweden, Austria and Mr. Everhart ever bought the matter. He now manages the produced because they’re profit­ They also had in th e ir bags representatives, as well as the inatory trade practices) which world system and the war Switzerland — the investment shares from Mr. Broch.” INRA store. able for the few and not be­ schemes for reordering the capi­ temper of the people, held out the U. S. representatives dis­ spending which resulted. is larger, and has grown from Everhart says he “gave” ten “ From 1948,” he told Revolu­ cause they're useful for the talist world market along lines the possibility of revolutionary liked. From that basis there de­ $1,056 m illio n in 1950 to $2,560 change on the continent of peasant families eight acres cion, “I worked for food” be­ many, the main sensation of which would be favorable to the Europe was certainly not veloped in the mid-fifties a classic million in 1959. Here the Uni­ each. Actually, says Revolu­ cause people couldn’t pay. “I many workers reading such re­ interests of American capital Europe. In Britain, while transformed into a colony of capitalist investment boon' ted Kingdom is by far the larg­ there were important differ­ cion, he “forced twenty fam­ now make 100 pesos cash, aside ports is a chill along the spine. ism as the leading creditor and the United States. Though the dominated by private invest­ est investment field; direct ilies” onto sixty-seven acres and from food. . . . INRA paid me Socialists say: It’s not work­ the dominant power politically ences, the scope for change Marshall Plan made the Euro­ ment. directed largely into American investment rose from permitted no one “to take any­ . . . over 1,000 pesos fo r my m er­ ers that should be scrapped, but and economically. was equally great. pean countries dependent on hitherto neglected fields and in­ $847 m illio n in 1950 to $2,058 thing from his property. One chandise and refrigerator.” the system that has no use for However, the shaping out of The need of the hour was American imperialism, that de­ corporating a new succession of million in 1959. farmer who planted a few cof­ About living conditions on people when it can’t suck profits forces beyond the control of leadership and policy. They pendency bolstered their eco­ technological developments. Eu­ Giving these figures, the fee plants was persecuted by Everhart’s ranch before the out of them. Socialists think United States policy, the nature were lacking; both the Social nomies and permitted them to rope was catching up with the French Commercial Counselor Mr. Everhart. . . . He turned revolution several peasants said: the American workers will of the relations between the Democratic and the Communist .play the role of junior partners United States, in its own way in Washington noted that Am­ people into the rural police if “You had to make an effort not reach the same conclusion. United States and the other leaderships, for different rea­ in the imperialist coalition. with rapidly growing output of erican business was drawn to they let an animal graze the to die” and “There was much That’s when the really good capitalist states and various sons, decided to head off the cars and consumer durables in these countries by lower wages foliage alongside the road.” tyranny there.” news w ill begin. domestic pressures determined masses and co-operate in solv­ A New Phase the vanguard of the expansion and costs of production as well ing the problems of their “own” Although total American for­ as by their rapidly growing mar­ In any ease, this phase of capitalisms, rather than over­ eign aid fell off through third kets. (Problems Econorr.iques,” American international econo­ throwing them. period — some two-thirds being No. 634, Feb. 23, 1960.) mic aid quickly merged into an­ Consequently great historic tied directly to the Cold War— Tariffs play a big part. While other following the victory of . . . Can W e Win Back Scarcity? opportunities for the working the outflow of dollars which it there is some portfolio invest­ the Chinese Revolution and the class were passed up and the represented remained of con­ ment in foreign industry, the outbreak of the Korean War. (Continued from Page I) land on the farm in it. It would also scotch their tendency tasks of restoring capitalism, siderable sustaining effect for main development is the estab­ food prices any higher than they are now, should ponder to grow bigger crops on smaller acreage as a way of get­ along the lines which suited As the cold war intensified, the whole world economy. In lishment of branch factories American capitalists, made that i American funds for building up the following bit of information from the same article: ting around the government’s effort to reduce crops by the meantime the whole pattern which can leap ever tariff walls, much easier. I arm ies rose ra p id ly and uninterruptedly1 was changing. The national as it were. lowering the amount of land in production. "Spurring farmers is a pinch on their own pocketbooks, It is true that from 1947 on­ , reaching a peak of economies of the different capi­ There is a good deal o f jo in t reflected in Government statistics. At mid-November, the Opposition among farmers to such vigorous steps could wards, the Communist parties | $4 billion in 1953, while funds talist countries had now' built enterprise appearing in recent for stabilizing currencies or prices farmers received were at the lowest point in more be met in two ways. On the one hand, it would be made a were driven out of the govern­ up a much greater productive years, especially since the form­ purchasing American goods than 19 years in relation to the prices they pay. This year, ments of France and Italy and capacity than ever before. ation of the European Common serious crime, like bootlegging, to grow unauthorized food: diminished. farm profits are running about 15% below 1958, and econom­ went into opposition. However, | The whole world market was M arket. on the other hand, farmers who curbed their instinct to By this time, indeed, the ists predict that next year they'll dip to the lowest rale this did not lead them to elab­ expanding, the West European One way or another the ma­ orate revolutionary policies. For worst of the balance of pay­ since 1942." plant seeds, cu ltiva te crops and reap harvests w ould be I countries were selling more to jor American firms arc repre­ guaranteed free government grain for their livestock and many years they alternated be­ ments difficulties of Britain and l the primary producing countries sented in this investment and From this we can see that it’s only common sense to governm ent checks fo r themselves to cover w hatever losses tween appeals to the Socialist France had passed; there was , and to each other. In ad­ production drive in Western still a permanent dollar prob­ pour kerosene on that $9 billion worth of food stored by parties and capitalist liberals to dition they had built up a con­ Europe: and American indus­ they encountered because of curtailed sales. You know who resume the “popular front” lem but it was somewhat less siderable export trade to the the government. If that would create too much of a fire trial influence, already very would foot the bill. coalitions with them and ad­ acute. Moreover, the flow of United States itself, which was powerful in some sectors, is hazard, the grain could be bull-dozed into the rivers where The Wall Street Journal calls these “new concepts.” venturistic actions aimed at military aid to the NATO allies, the most direct way of earning growing. we dump our sewage. We’ve got to break out of the horse Who can be against “new concepts” in such a critical American imperialism in which as well as the building up of dollars. Easier monetary conditions and buggy kind of thinking that considers it a government they sought unity with such strategic stocks in the U. S. con­ The prosperity of the United mean that profits can be re­ problem? Before joining the claque, however, with our ultra-nationalists and near- tributed to further economic re­ duty to keep the granaries full for the lean years. This is States, too, by increasing de­ patriated more easily — and own cheers, whistles and bravos, let us pause for a mom­ fascists as Marshal Juin in covery and expansion both in mand for these manufacturing this encourages investment— bounteous modern America, not the ancient Egypt that ent of silent meditation. France who also opposed NATO the advanced countries — this exports, as well as for primary though about half the profits are suffered the famines of Biblical times! Remember how we were told that the rise in produc­ and German rearmament. was the time when West Ger­ products, fits into this overall retained for new investment, many strode forcefully onto the A bold move of this kind to remove the depressant tivity on the farm “has all but wiped out the Malthusian After 1954. the efforts of the expansion, leaving aside the in­ together with about the same CP leaders centered exclusively economic arena — arid in the fluence of the recessions (though amount of new capital from the effect of government-held mountains of food would have fear that a nation would never be able to feed an ever- on achieving “popular front” primary producing areas. And, th a t of 1953-54 was not sig n ifi­ States. The figures are as fol­ exhilarating consequences on prices and profits. Much more expanding population”? Remember how shocked we were governments. Their unprin­ except in West Germany, arma­ cant in its external effects com­ lows (in millions of dollars) for than that is required, however. If the present rate of agri­ to learn that what we really face is not the danger of over­ cipled course contributed pri­ ment spending rose in the pared w ith that of 1957-58, and the Common Market countries cultural production continued, the flood of edibles and population in one or two thousand years but a food ex­ marily t

A Home for Alice Marie Do You Win at Russian Roulette? “Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall When the leadership of the AFL-CIO Is it really true that the strike faced have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken United Packinghouse Workers Union re­ certain defeat and that the situation could away even that which he hath.” For the past few weeks cently settled the 108-day strike against be saved only by winning at Russian this text from the New Testa-* W ilson & Co., they agreed to place 4,400 roulette? The facts speak otherwise. ment has taken on fresh mean­ would, that I just don't like jobs of the strikers at the mercy of an ing for Richard Combs and his them. But I don't think it The ranks of the strikers remained makes me a moron." arbitration board. This was nearly four- wife Gloria of Old' Bridge, New solid throughout the struggle. Defections Jersey. In their appeal to the courts fifths of the normal work force of 5,500 in were negligible. The strikers were ready Four years ago the Combses, against the Board’s decision the the seven plants involved. to wage a battle which they could have theft childless, became the fos­ Combs’ lawyer told the judges The arbitration board was made up won against the scabs, as the mass picket ter parents of an infant named that today it’s “no longer neces­ of one person designated by the union, Alice Marie. Today they have sary to have shelves of books in lines at Albert Lea clearly indicated. two daughters of their own. a home for culture.” He con­ another chosen by the company, and a But the top union leadership did not A lice M arie is an unusually ceded that his clients watch TV third chosen by the first two arbitrators. mobilize the strikers’ ranks nor call on bright child with an IQ of 138. but declared: “There are a wide Thus the decisive vote rested with one the rest of the union movement to prevent Because of her “superior endow­ range of subjects on television ment” and their own limited and there are cultural subjects person. If he happened to vote against the the strikebreakers from entering the strikers and in favor of the scabs, the union cultural attainments, the New if you pick the right programs.” plants. In Albert Lea, after Democratic Jersey Child Welfare Board re­ would have found itself in an impossible “Ha.ve you any authority for Governor Freeman intervened and sent fused to allow the Combses to that?” asked one judge quietly. position. in the National Guard, the top UPWA become her legal parents. The Combs received thous­ Sooner or later, despite the contract leaders helplessly waved their hands and Peter Kerrigan, an adherent of the Socialist Labor League, sells copies of the Harbor “Alice's superior endowment ands of phone calls and let­ requires a wealthy educational signed by Wilson with the UPWA, an told the strikers to refrain from further Workers' Voice, a socialist-minded trade-union paper, to Liverpool longshoremen during ters, some from as far away as environment and cultural pre­ London and Paris, they say. NLRB election would have been held, and mass picketing. Week after week the their early morning break. Recognized among workers like these for their militancy, Kerrigan and his comrades in the British Labor party in the Liverpool area are in the forefront of the dilections so that she can profit” "rooting for us." The Gover­ the probability would have been that the from the benefits of her excep­ strikers had to stand by as their jobs were fight to save "Clause Four." (See story below.) nor's office and the Child strikebreakers would vote for no union or taken by the ever-growing number of tional intelligence, said the Welfare Board have also been for an “independent” outfit, the National strikebreakers which the union-hating State psychologist. flooded with protests. “This 3-year-old child of Brotherhood of Packinghouse Workers Wilson outfit recruited. Yet they remained The acting director of the which was in cahoots with the company charm and appealing personal­ Board remarked: “People react firm . Leftists in British Labor Party ity has potentialities for higher to a situation such as this on during the strike. It was the top union officialdom who education and should have the basis of their individual ex­ A real fluke saved the AFL-CIO union. placement where parents and caved in under pressure and blandishment periences. In this case they By a two to one vote the arbitration board family group would have high think in terms of how they from the company. They grabbed at W il­ decided to make the strikebreakers “per­ Fight to Keep Socialist Clause cultural activities and advan­ would feel if their own child son’s cynical offer to settle the fight by tages.” manent employees” together with the was taken away.” putting the arbitration pistol at the heads By William F. Warde of the Teamsters Union), the The London Assembly of Combs. 25, is a sheet metal strikers, but to fill job positions according Class Prejudice of 4,400 workers. In exchange for this National Union of Railwaymen Labor held Sunday, March 6 worker, an apprentice with to seniority, thus giving the strikers first “Gaitskell Must Go, Clause 4 and the Plumbers. put the fight against removal three years training. He makes This stupid official may not dubious concession, the top union leaders Must Stay!” The heated conflict in the of Clause 4 at the top of its $120 weekly. In another year claim to their jobs. know it but so many people are even agreed to abandon the union’s “Don’t This headline in the Feb. 27 party boiled over at the Na­ agenda. It called upon Labor when he completes his appren­ The decisive vote, of course, was cast so in d ig n a n t and offended be­ Buy Wilson” campaign which had made issue of the Newsletter, weekly tional Executive meeting of the Party members, unionists and ticeship he expects to be earn­ cause they know class discrim­ by the third member of the board, Joseph journal of the Socialist Labor Labor Party on Feb. 24. Fur­ cooperators to buttonhole N a­ ing $175 a week. His wife Gloria, serious inroads on company sales. ination when they hear about it. S. Perry, a federal judge. It turned out League, tersely sums up the ther discussion on proposed tional Executive Committee 26, doesn’t w o rk because, she They cannot help asking: How do the union members feel about main political issue now divid­ amendments to the party con­ members at their March 16 says, “ we make it O K on the that he was once a coal miner and carries “Why should Alice Marie be the “generalship” of their leaders? Has ing the right wing from the stitution was postponed by the meeting which w ill consider money and I want to be home a withdrawal card from the United Mine put in a totally different cate­ left in the British Labor move­ national executive until its next the amendments. and take care of the kids.” Workers Union. their faith been renewed in what these gory than the other children in ment. meeting on March 16. Summing up the discussion strategists can accomplish? Have they They Watch TV the Combs family? If working No doubt the leadership of the pack­ Immediately after Labor’s de­ Meanwhile Tribune reports around this issue, Brian Behan. been heartened to carry on the struggle for Their cultural level is about people like them aren’t fit to inghouse union sighed with relief at that feat in the national elections that Gaitskell has succeeded in Socialist Labor League chair­ raise bright children, what unionism on the job? Or will they now last October, close friends of arriving at a compromise with as high as the American way of one. And they were entitled to. The game man, said that “the struggle about us? Are the rich to have Labor Party leader Hugh Gait­ his opponents on the national life permits the average work­ they played was much like that reputed cautiously observe what happens as this around Clause 4 was not about not only the money but all the skell launched a campaign to executive whereby Clause 4 w ill ing class family. A social same arbitration board settles the fate of words, but was part of the strug­ intelligent offspring? And, if to be of some popularity among officers of eliminate Clause 4 from the remain but a 12-point declara­ worker investigator came to 313 union members which the company gle. to build an alternative lead­ listening to TV is a mark of low the late Czar Nicholas. You put five cart­ constitution. This clause com­ tion of aims will be added to their house once for an hour, ership to reformism. We aimed cultural status, then millions of singled out for militancy during the strike? mits the party to the socialist the constitution which will said the Combses, looked around ridges in a revolver, give it a spin, put the to win the mass of the member­ American families are in the objectives of public ownership in effect nullify it. Tribune and then reported “we were barrel to your head and pull the trigger. The company wants to fire them for ship of the Labor Party from same boat.” and control of the decisive sec­ calls this projected program only interested in TV, allowed If the hammer falls on the empty chamber “illegal” acts during the strike. What this this reformist leadership.” * ♦ ❖ tors of the national economy. “Mr. Gaitskell's New Testa­ Alice to watch it all day and you win and it gives you a wonderful feel­ means can be gathered from the fact that Despite the furious witch-hunt had no books.” P ublic protest was so strong The right-wing -forces want to m ent.” 1 mounted by the capitalist press ing of relief. 123 of them are Albert Lea strikers spotted convert the party into a respect­ Point 10 of this new declara­ “We’re no mental giants,” that the New Jersey Governor and the right wing, and the ex­ able. liberal, purely reformist tion. the essence o f the re v i­ said Combs,” but we read, intervened and persuaded the Did the union leadership have no by the company for their role in mass pulsion of some of its leaders, the electoral machine without any sion, reads: “The British Labor we’re not jerks. We belong to Board to reverse its stand. They choice but to engage in this spectacular picketing. Socialist Labor League is digging clearly-defined working class or Party believes the preceding so­ a book club, we subscribe to have agreed to let the Combses still deeper into the ranks of the gamble? When they agreed to stake the W ill the arbitration board’s decision socialist character. cial and economic objectives one for Alice, too, you know adopt Alice Marie. Chalk up a 4,400 jobs on the squeeze of a trigger, they be as fortunate for the union in the cases Gaitskell shares this aim can only be achieved on the Labor Party and giving a lead to kids’ books. victory for the cause of the explained to the membership: “The issue of the 313 as in the job-seniority issue? We but is obliged to proceed cau­ basis of a substantial measure the militants who arc determ­ "She asked me if I went to common people against class ined to safeguard its socialist operas and I said I didn't and prejudice. was presented to the workers as a choice hope so. But we would say that there is tiously and deviously in order of common ownership in vary­ to put over his anti-nationalization future. told her I probably never —Alex Harte between accepting the offer [of the com­ nothing commendable about a union lead­ ing forms, including not only measures. He began state monopolies, but also muni­ pany] and putting their jobs on the block ership that ends up in that position. The by proposing to the Labor cipal ownership, consumer co­ or continuing the strike and losing their members would do well to look for leaders Party conference at Black­ operation, individual public en­ In Other Lands union.” (From an Albert Lea dispatch more inclined to use the tested methods pool early this year that the terprises, and public participa­ reported in the Feb. 29 Militant.) of m ilitant struggle in defending the union. 43-year-old party constitution tion in private concerns — the be amended. extent of common ownership These moves to cut the social­ and its form to be decided from Labor Party Leader Quits Post ist heart out of the Labor Party time to time according to the Defending Korean 'Freedom' program have alarmed the circumstances, due regard being Hits Gag Rule Only “Communists and cer­ Last week we commented on the find­ three, accompanied by a government ranks and aroused resistance paid to the view of the workers tain student and nationalistic factions” support Cuba, says the ings of Louis Feldman, national comman­ w orker. throughout the Labor move­ directly concerned.” By Gaitskell ment. At Blackpool, in opposi­ The right wing and the cen­ Times. And when Janio Qua- der of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, on From the town of Masan, news Increasing opposition within dros, a well-known moderate tion to Gaitskell, Barbara ter elements in the national the British Labor party to the the morale of the American occupation finally broke through the government- Castle, retiring Labor Party executive who have buckled and an opponent of President right-wing policies of party Kubitschek in the forthcoming troops in South Korea. As with the troops controlled press that ten people had been chairman, and Aneurin Bevan, under their pressure may hope leader Hugh Gaitskell and to its most popular leader, de­ to put over this rotten com­ presidential race, announced he during the shooting war in Korea, he said killed and 40 injured on election night his bureaucratic attempts to would visit Cuba next month the present crop of G I’s don’t seem to know when several thousand people demon­ fended the idea that Labor promise on the nationalization suppress all criticism of these must retain its goal of taking issue. B u t they w ill have to as Castro’s guest, newspapers why they are there and are “sour” about strated their pent-up fury at the mockery policies was reflected in the denounced it as a m aneuver to over “the commanding heights beat down an indignant and resignation of Richard H. S. their hitch in the country. of “free” elections. of the economy.” alerted rank and file before “capture extreme Left-Wing Crossman from the party’s votes.” Here in this country, the March issue On Jan. 30 Harold Davies, their maneuver can succeed. “shadow cabinet” — the group The recent “re-election” of dictator Argentina’s left-wing social­ Labor M.P. for Leek, vigorously The strength of the mounting which heads the party’s parlia­ Syngman Rhee is certainly not calculated of The Voice of Korea, published by the ists and sections of the Opposi­ attacked the right wing, declar­ revulsion against the right mentary forces. Korean Affairs Institute, provides a grim tion People’s Radical party are to “sweeten” their attitude. He was re­ ing that “the so-called bright wing can be gauged by the ac­ Vice-chairman of the party’s picture of the situation. The bulletin, the only political groups that turned to the presidency for a fourth term boys of the Labor Party” had tion of Gaitskell’s own consti­ executive committee and slated identify themselves with Cuba’s which supports the moderate policies of been “ w rong so often in the tuency, the South Leeds Labor to become its next chairman, in a contest in which he had no one run­ cause, says the Times. Peron- the Korean Democratic party reports that past that it is not surprising that Party, which recently passed a Crossman’s resignation was ning against him, where the people were ist leaders are “outspokenly the Labor movement is reject­ resolution for more nationaliza­ made public March 14. He acted while “the American people have been led critical” of Castro. Argentine hauled to the polls to vote “Ja,” and where ing their demand for a change tion and explicitly rejected sup­ after Gaitskell told him that to believe the Rhee regime is a democratic government officials fear the opponents of the regime were murdered in the fundamental purpose of port of Gaitskell’s policy by an he would not tolerate criticism dispute might drive a wedge rampart in the far East,” the Asian people the Labor Party.” Just when overwhelming majority. The by a member of the “shadow in cold blood. between the U. S. and all Latin know differently. the Soviet Union was demon­ Leeds party has for years been cabinet.” FIDEL CASTRO American countries. Prior to the election, the opposition “Koreans are convinced,” the bulletin strating the immense advan­ regarded as one of the most Crossman opposes Gaitskell’s tages of a nationalized, planned conservative in the country. since the days of Venustiano Public opinion, “now cool Democratic party, a conservative move­ reports, “that Rhee’s sole aim—with Amer­ stand in favor of building up ment, protested that its election observers economy, he said, it was absurd Early this month delegates Britain’s nuclear armament, and Carranza and Lazaro Cardenas’ toward Premier Castro would ican financial support — is to perpetuate to advocate the removal of na­ representing 127,000 York­ stand against English and turn in his favor in the event were unable to register for posts as poll lie has indicated opposition to his rule through his police, military and tionalization from Labor’s pro­ shire miners rebuffed Gaits - Gaitskell’s campaign to scrap Am erican im p e ria lis m , has of intervention from abroad in watchers. One who tried was stabbed in extra-legal terrorist groups with high- gram. kell and their own president Clause 4 — which calls for such an example of virility been Cuban affairs.” the back. Week after week The Tribune by enacting a resolution by public ownership of all basic exhibited than by today’s sounding names. His Liberal Party ... is 91,750 votes "reaffirming our Students, weary of being called out has been carrying pieces by its sectors of the economy — from Cuban revolutionaries.” Today Frondizi Launches no more liberal than was Hitler’s party.” editor Michael Foot, articles by belief in Clause 4." Cuba represents the revolution­ to “demonstrate” for Rhee, tried to demon­ .lie party’s constitution. (See Aren’t the GI’s fully justified in feel­ its principal contributors and One commentator has aptly story this page.) ary vanguard “discarded by the Repressive Moves strate against demonstrations. Police ing “sour” about acting as the guardians letters from its readers center­ remarked that in Britain today Gaitskell originally moved to tired Mexican revolution. It ing fire on Gaitskell’s efforts to “the class struggle revolves defends the perspectives and President Frondizi declared clubbed and shot them down. of this foul regime? And wouldn’t it be silence opponents of his pro­ martial law in Argentina March amend the constitution. At its around the clause struggle.” progress of the democratic revo­ During the balloting, supposedly su­ a good thing for them and for the op­ capitalist policies by ordering 15 and arrested hundreds of annual meeting on Jan. 31 the Socialist Labor League the expulsion last year of the lution in all Latin America.” pervised by a United Nations team, voters pressed Korean people if they were re­ Victory for Socialism group, Peronist and union leaders. The The members and supporters Socialist Labor League, a tend­ In an article entitled, “Reac­ sweeping measures of his ad­ were led into the booths in groups of lieved of this distasteful task? embracing a number of left ency within the party that has tion to U.S.-Cuban Dispute: M.P.’s and union leaders, con­ of the Socialist Labor League, ministration make all Argentine the revolutionary tendency been fighting for the adoption Report from Four Nations,” the residents over twelve years old demned the attempts to trans­ of class-struggle policies. March 13 New York Times also form the Labor Party into “a within the Labor Party left subject to m ilitary mobilization No Thaw for Ehrenburg wing, have been conducting an Since then his attempts at im­ finds Mexican public opinion and give military courts juris­ party of social reform attuned posing gag law have included friendly to the Cuban revolu­ Ilya Ehrenburg, the Soviet writer, re­ under Stalin when artists had to pander to the permanent acceptance of energetic campaign to mobilize d ictio n over p o litic a l cases. the workers throughout the ever larger sections of the tion. cently found himself in an embarrassing to the paranoiac dictator. the so-called mixed economy” Frondizi justified these dic­ Labor movement to save and party. The Venezuelan people, too, and urged the Labor movement tatorial decrees on the ground position at a gathering of students of the strengthen Clause 4. Its paper, “seem sympathetic” to Castro. To appreciate the bitterness Ehren­ to reaffirm that “the necessary of national defense against at­ University of Moscow. They asked him the Newsletter, has pointed out Latin Americans Many are inclined that way be­ burg may have felt before these inquiring regeneration and reconstruc­ tempts to destroy the constitu­ that the struggle around Clause cause “he is the popular and for his opinion about Boris Pasternak and youth, one must recall that in 1954 he pub­ tion of society can be achieved tional Order. His repressive 4 is part of the right wing at­ Seen Backing Cuba much admired underdog and his novel “Doctor Zhivago” which won only on a Socialist basis.” moves indicate that his own ad­ lished a novel “The Thaw” which express­ tempts to weaken the Labor champion of Latins.” the Nobel prize upon being published ministration is helping that ed in a guarded way the enormous relief Unions on Record movement by stifling the demo­ In Fight with U.S. The Venezuelan government process along since the decrees abroad. Though many top union offi­ cratic rights of the rank and the Soviet people felt over the death of The United States must has been cool to Cuba in recent resemble those in force during Ehrenburg said he disliked discussing cials side with the right wing in the hated Stalin and their hopes for a file in order to hold back the “know that it cannot employ months, but the press has been Peron’s dictatorship. a novel which his listeners had not had a the struggle over Clause 4, they fight for a socialist policy both violence against Cuba” as it did friendly. “An anti-Castro ar­ return to the proletarian democracy known Frondizi is favored by Wash­ chance to read. Then he praised Pasternak do not speak for the policies of in the party and the trade against Guatemala, recently de­ ticle would be considered ‘reac­ under Lenin and Trotsky. their own organizations. The unions. Thus the banning of clared the Mexican newspaper tionary.’ ” Most newspapers ington but detested by his own as a “very great poet.” To this he added constitutions of many key unions the Newsletter and the proscrip­ people. Workers are organiz­ Ehrenburg confided to his audience La Prensa. Recalling the days, “hardly ever treat of relations that he finds “Doctor Zhivago” a “distress­ contain rules calling for “col­ tion of the Trotskyists within twenty years ago, when Cor­ between Cuba and the United ing strikes for higher wages to in g ” book. that he had long ago written the second lective ownership, under demo­ the Labor Party has been fol­ dell Hull, then Secretary of States; they treat rather — and meet the 100 per cent increase The incident is instructive for what it and final volume to “The Thaw.” This cratic control, of the means of lowed by the attempts of the State, reacted to the Mexican enthusiastically — of the Cuban in living costs over the past production, exchange and dis­ Trades Union Congress to tam­ revolution with “threats, accu­ revolution itself.” year. Leaders of the opposi­ reveals about the intellectual curiosity of news brought a question as to why it had not been published. A ll the author could tribution.” per with the autonomy of the sations and slanderous insults,” The Brazilian government, tion parties are supported by Soviet students. This curiosity undoubted­ Included are such big unions Communist-led Electrical La Prensa said, “Latin America most of the press and “serious 70 per cent of the voters. Even ly extends to the political field where the say was “Ask my publishers.” as the Confederation of Ship- Trades Union. And now Gaits­ views with sympathy the Cuban public opinion deeply deplore the army is restless. censorship is especially tight. The incident One must feel pity for an artist so building and Engineering kell is, threatening to discipline revolution and Mexico is not the conflict” between the U. S. Washington and U S . invest­ is also instructive for what it reveals about afraid that he was unable to make the Unions, the National Union of those Labor M.P.’s who oppose neutral. It is with Cuba.” and Cuba. They accuse Castro ors have staked $1,234,000,000 General and Municipal Work­ his pro-Tory stand that Britain El Diario de Mexico, another of “endangering . . . the stability on Frondizi over the past two obvious comeback: “You know as well as the position of the artist under Khrush­ ers, the Transport and General must have its own nuclear | Mexican daily, has also ac- of the whole inter-American years. It looks like a poor in­ chev. It differs little from what it was I what happened to the promised thaw.” Workers Union (the equivalent weapons. I claimed the revolution. “Not system.” vestm ent. th e MILITANT she was frightened already. Better Run Tests VOLUME XXIV M O N D A Y , M A R C H 21, 1960 N U M B E R 12 Finds Trade Dull The two places she had been to In Slave Market had lots of people applying for On Next Crop of jobs. “Must be a lot of people Six Long Years Ago Editor: out of work. I went to an Oregon Cranberries Rob’t Williams I applied for a job that was agency and they wanted $137 UAW Votes Strike advertised in the morning for a job paying $70 a week. Editor: paper. W hile I sat in the per­ Imagine, you have to work al­ Dr. J. J. Van Gasse, the first Arrested for sonnel office, nine people filled most three weeks just to pay health official in the country to out applications in 15 minutes. for the job, when they get done say publicly last fall that cran­ berries were contaminated by a At South Gate Plant By the time I had been waiting taking out all the taxes and “Trespassing” a half hour 23 people had ap­ stuff. weed killer, has quit as Coos LOS ANGELES, March 10 — By an overwhelming Robert F. Williams, president plied. “This place said they’d pay County, Oregon, health officer. of the Union County NAACP majority, the membership of United Automobile Workers There were young girls from $75 but when you come up for Dr. Van Gasse said he re­ branch, has been arrested on Local 216, has voted to strike the General Motors Buick- school, older women, middle the interview they tell you it signed his $14,500-a-year job charges of trespassing because Oldsmobile - Pontiac Assembly aged, and two elderly men. w ill be $60 to start. Even the because his actions have been of sit-downs at “white-only” Plant at South Gate, in protest Both of the men told me they ads in the newspapers for jobs restricted and he was unable to lunch counters in Monroe, over unbearable speed-up con­ couldn’t live on their pensions are phony these days.” carry out his duties properly. N o rth Carolina. This c ity is ditions. The vote by secret bal­ ...N.Y. Students and to get a job you could live B. Allen He took office last July. where Negroes several years lot was 938 for strike to 148 (Continued from Pa&c 1) on was almost impossible. If New York There was no official confirm­ ago formed an armed defense against. tegration. The committee includes the job paid any wages “they ation that Dr. Van Gasse’s role guard against raids by the Ku representatives of want to work you to death for in the cranberry furor led to When the plant reopened on Automation Offers Klux Klan. It was also the campus organizations and stu­ it, if you can get hired at our his resignation, but the- Coos December 9, upon termination scene of the “Carolina Kissing dent governments at City Col­ age.” County Court, the county’s ad­ of the steel strike, management Hot Seats for A ll Case” wherein two Negro boys, lege, H unter and B ro o klyn C ol­ Two of the women began to ministrative board has indicated began an all-out drive to regain eight and nine years old, were lege, New York University and fret at the time it takes to get Editor: its displeasure at having such a lost production by pushing the sent to reform school because Columbia University. High interviewed. Most places make I read that for a mere $345, public-minded official on the speed-up beyond human en­ one had been kissed by a school youth are also participat­ you w ait from one to two hours executives can get a swivel chair payroll. durance. The grievance pro­ seven-year-old white girl. ing — they made up almost half and that means you can only health appliance with built-in In this area it seems that the cedure was ignored, manage­ Williams’ arrest came on m ent thum bed its nose at the of yesterday’s pickets. get applications in a couple of heat and massage units and an slogan followed by both Demo­ Enthusiastic in their sup­ places a day. One of them said, automatic timer. crats and Republicans is, “What M arch 11,. when fo r the th ird shop grievance committee, time in as many weeks he led members who filed grievances port of the Southern equal-rights “Oh, yes, w ait — but the bills If all the promises about our is good for the cranberry indus­ fighters, the students go on in the meantime. You “affluent society” come true, I try is good for the country.” Negro students into downtown were harassed and victimized drugstores. The other lunch- by “disciplinary” layoffs, work­ were bitterly resentful of used to get hired right on the suppose they’ll be installing Here’s hoping at least one Mayor Wagner's cops who did spot. Now they tell you they’ll these soon for assembly-line health officer can be found in counter demonstrators were un­ ing conditions became unbear­ molested. able. their best to cut down the ef­ let you know in a day or two. workers. Washington to keep ; a double fectiveness of the picketing They give you tests, and the Or for Negroes at Southern watch on Oregon cranberries Williams was released on bail A special bulletin issued by by confining the demonstra­ questions they ask!” lunch counters. next Thanksgiving season! and his case has been continued the executive board of Local tors within barricades that The other woman said that W. F. Helen Baker till March 21. His case affords 216 gives a vivid description of kept them from the store en­ she had only gotten laid oil, but Los Angeles Seattle a perfect test of the trespass Spottswood Bolling and his mother, of Washington, D.C., conditions in the plant: trances. law — u n like so m any other smiled happily on May 17, 1954, when the Supreme Court “Speed-up, like a creeping After picketing from noon cases it is not com plicated by ruled against school segregation. He had been a plaintiff in plague, has reached such pro­ until four o’clock, the students additional charges. one of the desegregation suits. But after six long years of less portions that no employee nor marched to nearby Community No violence was threatened than snail’s pace implementation. Southern Negroes have classification has been left un­ Church where they mapped plans All in the Line of Duty by the large crowd of whites decided to win their rights by organized mass actions. touched. Skilled tradesmen can for extending the boycott ac­ and police, who as on other oc­ be seen running at top speed tion. ■ By Herman Chauka ■ casions, gathered in and about thru the plant any day, or At the meeting Monroe the store. Indeed, a young sweating thru a jack hammer as­ Wasch, a CCNY student, re­ The practitioners of payola in the broad­ The government has been paying more white couple already at the . . . Negro Students signment alone. Inspectors run ported that the committee had casting industry arc beginning to look like than $1 billion a year for the storage of surplus counter told the clerk that they 1 from job to job but can’t ever voted to support the May 17 small-time operators compared to some federal grain to such firms as the ones Mr. Corey has had no objection to the Negroes (Continued from Page 1) not accept a "compromise" quite get out of the ‘hole’; and rally here called by the Com­ officials, according to current disclosures of been hooked up with. His testimony certainly being served. Another white proposal by which any section the daily routine of the oper­ mittee to Defend Martin Luther ter staged simultaneous sit- Congressional investigators. confirms how light Secretary of Agriculture man voiced his sympathy with of a lunch counter would re­ ators bucking the line at 62 King, Jr. (See editorial page 1.) downs on March 15 in about a One man who seems to have done right Benson was when he declared Jan. 15 that Con­ the sit-downers. main segregated. jobs per hour is plain hell.” He also announced that A. dozen eating places. Seventy- well for himself as a taxpayers’ servant is Earl gress “wisely gave the job to private enter­ Addressing 600 students in a Unable to get any satisfaction Philip Randolph, chairman of Only one individual, who seven were jailed under three C. Corey who was a supervisor of government- prise.” After all, could Mr. Corey have done as rents his property to the KKK Montgomery church March 8, from management the Local 216 the committee for King, had charges including violation of owned surplus farm stock from 1956 until he well if grain elevators were federally owned? for its rallies, was heard to after police had invaded the executive called a special mem­ endorsed the Youth Committee a new trespass law providing bership meeting to hear a re­ resigned under pressure from the Agriculture Meanwhile, in another payola case, Senator agitate against the Negroes. Alabama State campus to stop for Integration as the body to sentences of a year and a half port from the bargaining com­ Department Jan. 22. Proxmire (D-Wis.) called upon the president His statements that “that nig­ a meeting and arrest 36 partici­ rally youth support for the May March 11 to withdraw the nomination of James and $1,000 fine. The next day pants, Bernard Lee, expelled as mittee. The meeting, held on 17 demonstration. Under questioning by a Senate Agriculture ger is due to be killed” were Georgia experienced its second February 25, was well attended subcommittee March 11, Corey admitted that Durfee, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics challenged by a Negro by­ a “ringleader,” urged Negroes Fred Mazelis, who sparked demonstration in Savannah to be ready to be jailed or even with some 500 members pres­ without investing a dime of his own he had Board, to the United States Court of Claims. stander who promised Monroe the initial action by CCNY where sit-downs occurred at. killed in their “fight for free­ ent. After hearing and discuss­ racked up a profit of $83,250 from a “silent” He charged that Durfee had been accepting Negroes would defend them­ students which led to forma­ seven lunch counters; three stu­ dom,” to form a “united front ing the report it was obvious partnership in a company that stores federal “unusual hospitality” from airlines that had selves. That evening Williams tion of the youth organization, dents were arrested. against guns, clubs, and tear that, the membership would grain. The company was set up the year he cases pending before his agency. received another death threat told the rally, "Our action at gas.” “By Friday.” he said, have to take action or throw in Woolworth's cannot stop here. went into government service. Among such “hospitalities,” he listed a on the phone. Mississippi Next? “the North w ill respond. They the towel. With only one dis­ We must work toward simul­ golfing trip to North Carolina as the guest of He also enjoyed a profit of more than $30,- The spread of the sit-downs w ill be 100% with you. as they senting vote the membership taneous picket lines at Wool- Flying Tiger Line and of National Airlines, a 000 on another grain storage firm in which he to Arkansas and Georgia means were during the civil war.” decided to call a special meeting worth stores throughout the had invested $3,030. four-day trip to Mexico City as the guest of that every Southern state ex­ on March 3 to take a strike vote. country M ay 17." Eastern Airlines, and a four-day trip to Rome Brooklyn Store Queried as to how these activities fitted in cept Mississippi has been af­ Management was pretty His announcement that an­ with federal regulations barring conflict of in­ as the guest of Trans World Airlines. fected. That the rulers of that cocky because a few weeks other picket line would be held terest, Corey swore under oath that although he Mr. Durfee said that these trips were all Loses Dimes most notoriously anti-N egro They Visited earlier a strike vote at the Van Saturday, March 19 from 11 had served under three Secretaries of Agricul­ part of his official duty to promote aviation. state expect demonstrations is Nuys plant of GM Chevrolet a.m. to 5 p.m. was greeted with ture, he had never heard of such a rule until His reasoning almost matches that of John BROOKLYN, N. Y„ March 12 attested by the legislature’s Fifth Avenue Local 645 failed to carry by the vigorous applause. After the sometime last year. Doerfer who resigned March. 10 as chairman of — The big Woolworth store on rushing through of a harsh requisite two-thirds majority. rally ended the entire body downtown Fulton Street paid They thought they- -had the Explaining his “concealcd” partnership in the Federal Communications Commission. Doer- anti-trespass law. Five stu­ NEW YORK, March 1C — marched back to Woolworth’s with a good part of its profits members of Local 216 suffi­ the firm that netted him the $83,250, he said fer had been under fire for a number of years for dents from Philander Smith Twenty-one tenants from five for another hour of picketing. today for the company’s racist ciently cowed and brow-beaten that his one-third share in the company was accepting “hospitality” from broadcasters. His College in Little Rock are be­ East Harlem slum buildings policies in the South. ing held for trial following the to defeat the strike vote at financed by a $30,000 “loan” which was made resignation was precipitated by the disclosure staged a picket line this after­ You Don’t Like Spinach? The store was jammed to ca­ March 10 sit-downs in that city. South Gate. The result must available to him without collateral or interest. that he had recently accepted a free plane trip noon in front of the luxurious In the fiscal year ending June pacity at 2 p.m. when more have come as a severe jolt when Asked if the lenders might have considered to Florida and a six-day vacation on a luxury In San Antonio, Texas, six apartment building on swank 30, 1959, the federal government than 50 demonstrators, includ­ the 938 to 148 vote was an­ his agricultural office sufficient collateral, he yacht from George B. Storer, a radio and TV dime stores and a city-wide lower Fifth Avenue where their ing a contingent from Local 485, nounced. seized a total of four million replied philosophically: magnate. chain of drug stores, faced with landlord, M urray Shelton, lives. International Union of Electri­ The vote confirmed the pre­ pounds of frozen spinach con­ ‘I gave up a long time ago trying to figure Doerfer vigorously denied this constituted an ultimatum by Negroes that More than 300 violations have cal Workers, set up a picket line diction made by the Local 216 taining excessive residues of payola. It was, he explained, “a social engage­ sit-downs would begin March been charged against the five DDT. out why people do the things they do. It is not out front. In short time busi­ executive board in a bulletin ment.” 17, desegregated their lunch buildings and the tenants have uncommon for friends to loan money.” ness dropped to the point where published prior to the strike counters the day before. In suffered a lack of heat. Shelton almost, a dozen clerks had noth­ vote meeting, which said: “They Nashville, Tennessee, Negroes was fined once and then given ing to do but stand in the door­ [management! are counting on were served for the first time a suspended sentence for this, ways watching the pickets. an unconcerned and indifferent Calendar at a bus station lunch counter but there still is no heat. The demonstration was called membership, plus lack of sup­ where students two weeks be­ One Fifth Avenue resident Notes in the News by the Brooklyn NAACP Labor port by the International Union, fore had been arrested for sit­ complained that the neighbor­ and Industry Committee. In ad­ to allow them to continue their ting down. hood shouldn’t be “disturbed by Of Events dition to the IUE, representa­ these rabble rousers.” A young sweatshop practices without in­ tests of two new contraceptive pills despite a Many of the approximately HE'S GOT THE PROBLEM LICKED— tives of the Congress of Racial woman retorted: “If you lived terruption. We have news for bitter attack by the Catholic Church. A group 150 students arrested in that NEW YORK New York's Governor Rockefeller has charged Equality, the Brooklyn Labor in a slum tenement for one them. The temper of the mem­ of married women volunteered for the testing city refused to pay fines and Is Marxist Theory valid for the that the movie, “On the Beach,” is harmful to Educational League and a local week, you’d change your point bership at last Thursday’s of an American pill and a newly developed are serving 35-day sentences. U.S. today? Hear the noted econ­ national morale. He said the film, which de­ parents’ school integration of view.” [Feb. 25] meeting, was con­ picts the slow extinction of mankind in the British one, both of which are taken like group participated. A number Under armed guards they arc vincing evidence that the rank omist, Dr. Otto Nathan, speak on wake of a nuclear war, left people with the aspirin. The Catholic bishop of Nottingham of students from Long Island being used to collect garbage and file is at the limit of their "Karl Marx and Contemporary feeling there is “nothing we can do.” Rocke­ branded the pills an “attack on the sanctity of College also turned out. and do similar tasks on the Academic Freedom endurance. They arc demand­ American Capitalism." Discus­ feller has energetically been promoting a cam­ marriage." He said “the church does not demand One picket was kicked in the city's streets. A bi-racial com­ The New York Board of High­ ing that proper action be taken sion period. Friday, March 25, paign to install a bomb shelter in every home that parents should have the largest families shins by a sales supervisor. She mittee appointed by the mayor er Education has ruled that the correcting the lousy shop con­ 8:30 p.m. Militant Labor Forum, and wants legislation to make this mandatory. possible,” but there should be no “artificial” had said “lousy,” when he has been holding discussions of presidents of the city colleges ditions.” 116 University Place. Contribu­ So far, however, few New Yorkers have dis­ restriction of birth. Official dogma views asked how business was. She the situation in Nashville. may remove students from cam­ After a representative of the tion 50 cents. played enthusiasm for the billionaire gov­ abstinence alone as natural. got irritated when he replied, Negro students have already pus publications for printing International Union from De­ • • • • ernor’s shelter plan. “That's good.” told this committee they will “offensive” material. troit came to South Gate and BROOKLYN • • • HOW CRAZY CAN YOU GET DEPART­ investigated the conditions at Hear CONRAD LYNN, noted GIVE EVERYBODY A CHANCE — The MENT — The Westchester County, N. Y„ the plant he recommended that civil-rights attorney, tell about attorney general of Nevada ruled March 11 that American Legion has demanded that Congress the required five days notice be the Southern student sit-ins: investigate “Left-wing leaders in the mental . . . Reutherites Seek Purge “The Struggle for Negro Equal­ the State Gambling Commission cannot bar served on the corporation. ity.” Wednesday, March 30, 8 licensed gamblers from discriminating against health field.” A legion spokesman said his (Continued front Page 1) and M ail stales: strike and negotiations were The members of Local 216 arc Negroes. outfit was not completely opposed to mental-health “It is understood that Mr. lodged in the hands of the top determined to curb the exces­ p.m., 228 Ashland Place, Brook­ * » » programs but was concerned that it Reutherite officials whose re- Siren submitted his resignation brass. Reporting the strike sive speed-up, compel manage­ lyn. (Near Fulton & Dekalb.) might lead to “a remaking of the beliefs and election was contested at the ment to abandon its arrogant Auspices: Labor Educational WE MAYHAVE TO EAT GRASS, IN­ effective Feb. 1, after he had settlement, the March 1956 is­ loyalties” of Americans. convention. His opponent was disregard of the shop grievance League. Contribution 50 cents. STEAD — A new law bringing chemical addi­ been placed under pressure to sue of The Workers Vanguard, * • » Clifford Pilkey, former presi­ committee and establish safe­ • tives under the Federal Food, Drug and Cos­ reaffirm his loyalty to the ad­ published in Toronto, states: CONCESSION TO BABY SITTERS — The dent of the large GM local at guards against the gross viola­ LOS ANGELES metics Act went into effect March 6. It took ministration and to give an un­ "This was a negotiator's New York Senate last week voted unanimously Oshawa, Ontario. Burt was re­ tions of every human consider­ “A SOCIALIST LOOKS AT eight years to draft and is supposed to guar­ dertaking that lie had no part, strike — it was handled from to exempt parents from paying state income elected by a vote of 343 to 202 ation due to management's CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: THE antee that flavoring compounds, nutrients and in any anti-administration ac­ on top. Union ranks were taxes on their children’s earnings as baby­ — much too close for comfort. greed for sweating more profits CASE OF CARYL CHESS­ preservatives are safe. But the report from tivities.” scarcely involved in it, even sitters, snow shovellers, etc. The lower house P ilkey drew his main sup­ informed of its progress. It out of the blood and bones of MAN.” Hear Della Rossa, Cor­ Washington is that “confusion and controversy” Charges were brought and is expected to concur in the measure next port in the election from the was argued out in hotel rooms the auto workers. respondent for the Militant. Fri­ reign over which chemicals come under the Siren was summarily dismissed week. Public indignation erupted when the large Ford, GM and Chrysler If Local 216 gets the kind of day, March 25, 8:15 p.m. al. new law. Of about a thousand chemicals now from office after his voluntary with UAW national and inter­ stale tax department reminded residents of the locals in Canada. Siren claims support from the International Forum Hall 1702 E. Fourth St. being used, only six have definitely been classi­ resignation was already in the national representatives suc­ "baby-sitting” clause which, they said, had that after the convention, that it deserves in this fight the fied as falling under federal control. Five hands of director Burt. The cessfully pushing into the Questions, Discussion, Refresh­ been ignored by almost all taxpayers. Burt called the UAW staff union can go a long way toward hundred have already been exempted as Reutherites seized upon the background the anti-adminis­ ments. Contribution 75 cents. • * • representatives together and establishing decent working “GRAS.” That’s the classification which is charges as a pretext to launch a tration leadership of the mas­ Students and Unemployed 35 IS TV SUBVERSIVE? — In a letter to the ordered them to use their in­ conditions at the South Gate causing the current confusion and controversy. witch hunt against the anti-ad­ sive Oshawa local." cents. Ausp.: M IL IT A N T L A ­ Dallas Evening News, Ruby Miller of Fort plant. The word is federal jargon for “generally fluence to elect pro-adminis­ ministration opposition in Can­ Was the Oshawa local guilty BOR FORUM. Worth, Texas, complains that “Television tration slates in the auto lo­ recognized as safe.” Most additive manufac­ ada. The charges arc of the of “treason” because it opposed viewers have recently been subjected to a cals. When Siren balked, the turers arc expected to insist that their par­ flimsiest, kind and reek of the the administration? On the con­ barrage of old World W ar II pictures designed "treason" charges were trary, at the 1957 UAW conven­ ticular chemical is “GRAS” and therefore not witch-hunting technique per­ to turn public sentiment against the then brought against him and subject to federal regulation. fected by Joseph McCarthy tion Emil Mazey, replying to a enemy, Germany. Today Germany is not our • • * other members. with all of the trimmings up to speech by Clifford P ilkey, then enemy but one of the strongest anti-Communist Long considered Burt’s right- and including the fam iliar ac­ financial secretary of Oshawa BOSTON NEWARK BUYER BEWARE — Thousands of New forces in the world. We are at war today, not hand man, Paul Siren had been cusation of “treason.” Local 222, said: “I don’t want Boston Labor Forum, 295 Hunting­ Newark Labor Forum, Box 361, Yorkers have been swindled by an outfit sell­ with Germany, but with international Com­ a UAW staff member for seven­ Siren is charged with having to quarrel with the fact that ing a device which supposedly turns ordinary ton Ave., Room 200. Newark, N. .1. munism guided by Communist Russia. This teen years. During the 1947 attended a meeting in 1956 in­ Local 222 is a good Local — it CHICAGO house wiring into a “super-power” television NEW YORK CITY attempt to divert attention from the present purge, following the victory of itiated by Communist Party of­ is.” Socialist Worker» Party, 777 W. Militant Labor Forum, 116 University antenna. Called “Radarex-Tenna,” the device enemy could not serve the best interests of the Reuther forces, it is re­ ficials to discuss strategy in the The real “crime” is opposi­ Adams, DE 2-9736. Place, AL 5-7852. plugs into a wall socket. State Attorney Gen­ anyone but the enemy.” ported that Burt had intervened strike. Siren does not deny at­ tion to the Reuther machine. CLEVELAND OAKLAND - BERKELEY • • ♦ eral Lefkowitz warns that the gadget is less to keep Siren on the payroll. tending a meeting in 1956 but. This fact has clearly emerged Socialist Workers Party 10609 Su­ P.O. Box 341, Berkeley 1, Calif. effective than an ordinary “rabbit car” antenna SELF-SERVICE AT THE SUPERMARKET Although regarded as a “left­ says it was at the invitation of from the so-called investigation. perior Aye., Room 301, SW 1-1818. PHILADELPHIA Open Thursday nights 8 to 10. and that a defective unit can be dangerous. — Each year supermarkets lose an estimated winger” the Jan. 16 Globe and of some union committee men. It is intended to smear and Militant Labor Forum and Socialist Workers Party, 1303 W. Girard Ave. The regular model has been selling for $3.98 $100 million in thefts by employees. “Customer Mail reports that Burt had lie denies “collaborating” with crucify the opposition and in DETROIT Eugene V. Debs Hall, 3737 Woodward Lectures and discussion* every Saturday and a “special duotronic plus” job has been pilferage is penny ante compared to what is “vouched for his future politi­ any “communists.” Whether he carrying through this dirty as­ . TEm ple 1-6135. , 8 P.M., followed by open house. going for $4.98. taken by trusted employees,” says Norman cal respectability.” did or not, of what does the signment, any stick will do. Call PO 3*5820. * • * LOS ANGELES Jaspen, president of a New York management The same paper characterizes SAN FRANCISCO “treason” consist? Was there Serving on the U A W ’s “un- Forum Hall and Modern Book Shop. TOO MANY ADDITIVES? — A St. Louis The Militant, 1145 Polk St., Rm. 4. consultant firm. And, he adds, more than 62 per Siren as “a skilled negotiator and any decision to betray the American” committee in addi­ 1702 E. 4th St. AN 9-1953 or WE 5- Sat. 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. Phone PR 6- firm has adopted the skull and cross-bones and cent of the thefts uncovered by his staff were one of the ablest union officers union and sell out the strike? tion to Emil Mazey are the fol­ 9238. the words “Palace of Poison” as a trade-mark “traced to employees on the supervisory and in the Toronto area.” Obviously There is no such charge. lowing: International vice-presi­ 7296; if no answer, VA 4-2321. MILWAUKEE SEATTLE for its frozen vegetables and baked goods. executive level.” For example, the enterprising these qualifications were not The charge rests on the accu­ dents Norman Matthews and 150 East Juneau Ave. * # * 1412— 18th Avenue, EA 2-5564. Li­ manager of a West; Coast market, installed his deemed sufficient to offset the sation that there was a “discus­ Leonard Woodcock and execu­ MINNEAPOLIS brary, bookstore. BRITISH TEST CONTRACEPTIVE PILLS own checkout, cash register in addition to those charge of “disloyalty” to the sion” of strike strategy! The tive board members Kenneth Socialist Workers Party. Box 5520. ST. L O U IS —The British government is going ahead with provided by the company. Reuther machine. The Globs fact is that the conduct of the Robinson -and Robert Johnston. Lake Street Station, Minneapolis. Minn: For information phone MO 4-719-t,