Longshore Wage Case And Union Solidarity — SEE PAGE 4 — the PUBLISHEDMILITANT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE VOL. IX — No. 4 NEW YORK, N. Y., "SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1945 267 PRICE: FIVE CENTS Churchill Blames 12 Trotskyist Leaders Released His Victims For After Imprisonment Of 13 Months Greek Slaughter w Clear the Road! By Joseph Hansen Roosevelt Rejects Winston Churchill, champion of capitalist counter-revolu­ Railroaded For Opposition tion for a quarter of a century, is now openly preparing the next AFL-CIO Demand great stage of the Second World War— suppression of the ad­ vancing European socialist revolution. In a sinister speech be­ To Roosevelt War Program fore the House of Commons on January 18, Churchill raised To Raise Wages the banner of an unholy crusade against a spectre haunting Eu­ By R . Bell First Labor Victims of Smith "Gag" Act to rope. The spectre Churchill wants to exorcise is “ Trotskyism.” The labor “ statesmen” have Speak in New York, Minneapolis, Chicago This is not the first time that*^ just concluded another pilgrim ­ Britain’s Prime Minister has step­ The Unholy Alliance age to the White House where, (By Wire to THE MILITANT) ped forth as the director of reac­ hat in hand, they pleaded for tion’s vanguard. When the Soviet Against- Trotskyism By Larissa Reed Union was born in the October an upward revision of the Little 1917 revolution, Churchill organ­ Churchill labels as “ Trot­ Steel formula. The conventions MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 24— After 13 months con­ ized the protracted Allied inter­ skyist” the insurgent Greek of the GIO and A FL have re­ vention which sought to drown workers and peasants murder­ peatedly gone on record to con­ finement behind federal prison bars, the 12 Social­ ed by Allied troops. The the first workers’ state in blood. duct a fight against the wage- ist Workers Party and Minneapolis Truckdrivers’ January 11 Daily Worker, Only the heroic defense of the freeze. The spectacle of the top Red Army led by Trotsky, com­ commenting on Churchill’s use Local 544-CIO leaders railroaded under the Smith of this term iiÇj his vicious leaders of 13 million organized bined with the support of the workers crawling to the shrine “Gag” Act were released this morning from Roose­ world working class, frustrated speech, offers the assistance of "labor’s friend” to beg for Churchill’s designs. of the Stalinists in putting velt’s penitentiaries. down “ Trotskyism.” “ Commu­ a handout symbolizes t h e Churchill spoke to Commons in nists (Stalinists) everywhere The 11 men prisoners arrived here at 11:30 another attempt to quell the poli­ “fight” which Murray, Green have a long experience with tical crisis his government faces and Gompany are conducting. 4. M. today from the Sandstone, Minn., Penitentiary Trotskyists,” declares the in consequence of public indigna­ Their abject attitude prompted editor of the Daily Worker; and held a joyous reunion with their relatives, com­ tion over the slaughter of Greek one reporter to make this cynical “ if Churchill means to fight Workers and peasants. He again comment: “For whatever good it rades and friends who ®. their influence, the Commun­ slandered these heroic fighters as may do, leaders of the CIO and is being met at the prison gates ists w ill always assist him just thronged the Great North­ “ brigands.” He lied that Allied the A F L have made it plain to by her sister Mrs. Dorothy Shultz, as we have been fighting them troops invaded Greece solely to President Roosevelt this week of St. Paul. They are expected without his assistance.” ern railway station to wel­ bring the blessings of food and that the workers in their Murray Intervenes To Bolster to arrive here some time tomor­ There is a third member in democracy. He did not breathe organizations a re clamoring come and honor them . row. this unholy combination—the a word about General Scobie’s for action on their demand They .are James P. Cannon, A l­ Deep joy and excitement went Nazis. Last May, the reac­ orders that the Greek partisans for higher wages to compensate bert Goldman, Vincent Dunne, through tiie 70 to 80 men, women tionary Greek government-in­ N o-StrikePolicy In Poll and children waiting to meet the give up the arms they had used for higher living costs.” “Both exile announced that 17 mem­ Farrell Dobbs, Felix Morrow, against the German armies and groups,” he added, “ left the White train bearing the homecoming bers of the Archeo-Marxists House empty-handed ...” By A rt P,reis Carl Skoglund, Oscar Coover, prisoners. Photographers wer.e get out of Athens. He lied that brass to put into public print the (Trotskyists), among them A fte r the interview, Green and Emil Hansen, Carlos Hudson, on hand to take pictures of their the partisans had provoked civil Two sharply opposed forces a-re locked in bitter struggle as obvious and absurd lies that the Vite, the General Secretary, Max Geldman and Jake Cooper. arrival. •war, although it was British-arm­ Murray reported that, “ the Presi­ the climax approaches in the GIO United Automobile Workers’ labor movement has actually had been executed by Ger­ A similar galb welcome home is The scene was extremely mov­ ed police who fired on an unarm­ dent ‘seemed to be sympathetic’ referendum battle over the No-Strike Pledge. The militant rank been strengthened because the man occupation authorities in awaiting Grace Carlson, sole wo­ ing as those so long deprived of ed demonstration against the but told them that he would take and file, local committeemen and officers, who daily feel the “ CIO helped to re-elect Roose­ Athens. Four other Trotskyists man among the 18 Trotskyists their homes and loved-ones step­ British-supported puppet govern­ no action in advance of a report velt and elect a more progress­ fell before a German firing whiplash of corporation provocations, are mobilizing to scrap the originally imprisoned, who was ped o ff the train. There were m e n t of Papandreou. He was dis­ which the War Labor Board was ive Congress. CIO unions, main­ squad in Salonika. Vite had re­ no-strike surrender policy. Arrayed against them is the entire released today from the women’s creetly silent about his order to preparing.” With this reassuring turned from exile to help or­ top bureaucracy of the UAW and; CIO, backed by the corpora­ taining their no-strike commit­ prison at Alderson, W. Va. She Scobie to provoke civil war even pat on the head the bootlickers (Continued on page 3) ganize the workers’ struggle tions, the Roosevelt administration and the Stalinists. ments, have scored decisive gains i f he must k ill women and chil­ gratefully retired. The report, for millions of workers.” against the Nazi armies of Exploiting the vast resources dren. without which Roosevelt declares This fiction is dished out to occupation. he w ill “ take no action,” is one of MUErestJge otd 210, the pro- I\ AT ALIA TROTSKY GREETS 12 1945 RED-BAITINQ Ip fighting “Trotskyism” «3 71 5o?6Veft '' Mnrrhy-Hffimatr-.... the auto: workers as rising wails a whole series of thimble-rigged Roosevelt Breaks emanate from the pro-RooseVelt ' Warmest revolutionary greetings to our Then came Churchill’s red-bait­ along with the Nazis, Churchill “cost-of-living” reports concocted chine is now intervening directly and the Stalinists thus reveal labor leaders themselves asking ing — a repetition of his red­ by the WLB to justify the wage- in the UAW struggle. So power­ friends upon their release. My deepest wish is that both camps of imperial­ “ Who won the elections?” . This baiting tactics against Bolshev­ freeze. The battle of statistics is Cleveland Strike ful is the rising offensive of the ists and their agents, despite “ progressive” Congress already fo r your success in the continued struggle fo r ism in the First World War. Des­ another aspect of the labor auto workers against the no­ their differences, have one aim President Roosevelt with looms up as one of the most re­ cribing the infiltration into Ath­ faker’s '“fight” against the Little strike policy which has placed the better future of mankind. in common in the Second them at the mercy of the corpor­ actionary in United States his­ ens of partisans defending them­ Steel formula. It has been going ruthless dispatch last week World War. That is the sup­ ations, that the CIO chiefs have tory. Its first act was to estab­ Natalia Sedov selves against British - backed on for years. broke a strike of over 400 CIO pression of the working class been impelled to rush openly to lish a permanent Dies Witch- counter-revolution, Churchill de­ While Murray and Green spar coal passers and maintenance movement for socialism. the aid of the hard-pressed UAW Hunt Committee as a slap in the claimed: “ For three or four with Roosevelt in their sham bat­ men of the Cleveland Electric leadership. face to labor. Since the start days or more it was a struggle to tle over the wage-freeze the cost Illuminating Company. Less CIO President Philip Murray of the new session its' members prevent a hideous massacre in the being equally hated in Russia.” of living continues to rise. Frozen than fifteen hours after the proclaimed his policy of open in­ have been competing for the “ hon­ ROOSEVELT, BRASS HATS center of Athens in which all In naming Trotskyism as the wages in the face of a constant strike began at noon January tervention in the UAW referen­ or” of drafting the most viciously forms of Government would have foe of world imperialism, Church­ rise iu the cost of living has re­ 12, Army officials carrying a dum in his letter of January 12 anti-labor legislation.