NATIONAL CIO BACKS 5 4 4 ’S FIGHT STALIN’S Screaming Headlines In Minneapolis Press Unmoved By FBI SPEECH Raids On SWP Press Reveals T h a t G overnm ent Had Sent 'Agents Provocateurs' Into 544-CIO; Every Word Was Alien National CIO Speakers Pledge Aid To 544

BULLETIN To The Leninist Program i By FELIX MORROW MINNEAPOLIS, July 8— Hundreds of tele­ Stalin’s speech of July 3rd was successful in its main objec­ grams from national CIO leaders, CIO international tive. It sought to assure Washington and London that the Krem­ unions and local unions, have been received by Local lin would conduct the war against Germany within political lim its 544-CIO, Motor Transport and Allied Workers In­ entirely acceptable to “democratic” capitalism. There would be dustrial Union, pledging support to Local 544’s fight. no summoning the great masses of Europe to the overthrow of The United Mine Workers, the United Rubber capitalism, breeder of fascism. There would be no pledges to the Workers, the United Shoe Workers, the Die Casting German proletariat against a second and worse Versailles. The Workers, the Transport Workers Union, and numer­ Soviet Union would not fight a revolutionary war as it did in ous regional, state and local CIO councils were 1918-1921 against the imperialist interventionists, but would lim it itself to methods acceptable to its imperialist allies. Such were among those pledging solidarity and support. the assurances which Stalin gave by his speech; and they were Meanwhile the Department of Justice continued understood very well by the class-conscious bourgeoisie. An to press for indictments against Local 544 leaders and against editorial in the New York Times made clear what Stalin’s com­ Socialist Workers Party leaders, before the federal grand ju ry at pact with the "democratic” bourgeoisie involved: St. Paul. Today was the fifth day of the secret hearings.

“ Stalin’s broadcast yesterday was not the appeal of the Republican Mayor Kline yesterday appointed as police chief Edward B. Hansen, head of the sH Communist leader to the embattled proletariat... It is no N o rth e rn Pum p C om pany’s “ p ro ­ the FBI Training School and was class war now to which the Supreme Commissar summons... tective service”—the Northwest recommended to Mayor Kline by It is a ‘national war in defense of our country.’ Over and equivalent of Ford’s “service de­ FBI head J. Edgar Hoover. “His over again he appeals to the oldest fighting instincts ... In Here are headlines and pictures from the Minneapolis news­ CIO, to prevent the Minneapolis truck drivers from exercising partment” in Minnesota’s biggest past record is his best recom­ the ultimate emergency all the revolutionary catchwords go papers on the attempts'of the FBI to frameup members and their democratic right to free themselves from the dictatorship arms plant. This Minneapolis mendation,” said Hoover of this with the wind ... More, he reverts instinctively to the tradi­ leaders of Local 544-CIO and of the Socialist Workers Party of Tobin and the AFL. Roosevelt’s intervention in this internal Harry Bennett is a graduate of company cop. tional Russian tactic of the ‘scorched earth.’ ... It is not on charges of “seditious conspiracy.” The FBI onslaught against union dispute indicates the Administration’s hostility to this strange that Stalin speaks like a muzhik relying on the power the SWP is an attempt to intimidate the members of Local 544- major trend from the reactionary A FL into the progressive CIO. of the earth, or that a wave of religious orthdoxy and old- ¿MINNEAPOLIS, July 7—The Federal Grand Jury hear­ fashioned patriotism sweeps over the Soviet Union. For ings, charging leaders of Local 544-CIO and members of the whatever the immediate fortunes of war, these are signs that Socialist Workers Party with "seditious conspiracy,” which the fate of Russia, of Germany, and the world, will be de­ John L. Lewis Blasts Roosevelt opened July 1st, recessed over the Fourth of July weekend and termined at last by the inevitable rebound of human nature were scheduled to continue today. and of the human spirit.” Following FBI raids upon the SWP headquarters a week J The editors of the New York Times cannot hide, do not even ago Friday, Victor E. Anderson, U. S. District Atlorhey, and Henry A. Schweinhaut, Special Assistant Attorney-General, try to conceal, their pleased contempt for Stalin’s adaptation to And Hillman For Strikebreaking the bourgeois methods of war. And that adaptation arouses in spent thred days presenting the government’s “ evidence” and witnesses to a grand jury consist­ these bourgeois swine the hope that “whatever the immediate istration, was that many of the ing of twenty men and three wom­ principals apprehended. He exclud­ fortunes of war”—whether the Soviet Union loses or wins under Miners' Leader Assails Their Sending Army To Break Strike; CIO’s major gains had been made en, drawn almost entirely from ed all reporters and photographers Stalin—there w ill result “ the inevitable rebound of human nature” during the period when Hillman rural areas. from the hearings and forbade any —i.e., there w ill result a return to capitalism. Unlike the Kremlin Charges Hillman Held Up Successful Settlement Of Mine Strike was exerting liis greatest Influ­ loitering in the courthouse. bureaucracy, the “ democratic” bourgeoisie never calls a halt to Among the chief witnesses ence on the Administration’s la­ After Schweinhaut had prom­ the class war. BULLETIN summoned before the Grand bor policies. He cited the instances ised on Monday that “startling Jury, according to the Min­ One burns w ith shame and bitterness that a bourgeois spokes­ of the Ford Motor and Bethlehem disclosures” might be expected, The CIO’s mobilization against the anti-labor bills in Congress began to neapolis TRIBUNE of July 3, man is in a position to speak with such patronizing contempt Steel settlements. District Attorney Anderson issued were FBI agents who had about the official leadership of the Soviet Union twenty-four produce results Tuesday, the day after John L. Lewis’ speech to the CIO con­ a statement played up by the M in­ Potofsky failed, however, to joined the Socialist Workers years after the October revolution! These “friendly” barbs of the ference blasting Roosevelt and Hillm an. neapolis press, that witnesses had mention the fact that the CIO Party and the General Drivers Kremlin’s “ally” unfortunately are an accurate description of been “threatened with violence” Administration forces appeared to be retreating. They are disavowing victories over Ford and Beth­ Union. This reveals that the Stalin’s speech and of his fixed policy. and warning that such alleged in­ the May hill, authorizing the use of th e armed forces to break strikes in “ de­ lehem were won by history­ Department of Justice sent terference would be punished by fense” industries, and also will not back other bills providing compulsory making strikes—which Hillman agents provocateurs— provoca­ arrests. It was obvious from the Stalin Bans the Methods of 1917-1921 had opposed and sought des­ tive agents—into trade unions arbitration. vague nature of his statements perately to prevent. and working-class political Since 1921 we have feared this moment of imperialist in­ Administration forces are now in the awkward situation of defending that Anderson was whipping up pa rtie s to, spy upon and help vasion of the Soviet Union. From 1918 to 1921 Trotsky’s Red Roosevelt’s use of troops hgainst the aviation strike while disavowing a bill STALINISTS EMBARASSED a fake scare around the prosecu­ frameup militant workers in Arm y successfully repelled invasion, thanks to the revolutionary which would legalize such use of troops! Lew is’s statements is causing tion to panic the jury and the these organizations. public. policy of Bolshevism, which inspired the world masses to aid the others' than the Hillmanites in FBI men played this same dirty Soviet Union and which wrought havoc and demoralization in the the CIO to squirm. The Stalinists, SWP STATEMENT John L. Lewis, fresh from his victory over the Southern coal operators role in the prosecutions against interventionist armies. The great traditions of that Civil War, who have become the most vigor­ Grace Carlson, State Organizer the Minneapolis WPA strikers two its successful methods, are obviously the traditions and methods and the National Mediation Board, last Monday bitterly assailed Roosevelt ous Roosevelt liand-raisers since of the SWP, issued a statement years ago. which must be put into practice today, if the Soviet Union is and Sidney Hillman for the use of fede ral troops to break the recent strike of June 22, are attempting to square assailing “ the obviously exagger­ to survive. North American Aviation Corporation workers in California. the circle by their efforts to hang MUMBO-JUMBO GAME ated air of secrecy which surrounds But war is the continuation of the politics of “peace.” Stalin Lewis issued his indictment of the anti-labor acts of Roosevelt and H ill­ on to Lewis’ coat-tails while back­ In an effort to work up senti­ the federal grand jury investiga­ remains today what he was yesterday. The reactionary domestic tion” and which stands “in mark­ man at the Washington conference of CIO leaders called by Philip Murray, ing the Administration. ment against the CIO leaders and and foreign policy which he pursued yesterday govern also his The Stalinists are wildly hunt­ ed contrast to the open character CIO President, to organize the nation-wide fight of the CIO against anti-labor the Socialist Workers Party, the conduct of the present war. The last thing to be expected of him ing a way out of the show-down government prosecutors enveloped of our party’s work in the Twin is that he w ill revive the ti'aditions of October and the Civil War. bills pending in Congress. at the UAW-CIO convention, the hearings in an atmosphere of C ities.” “The books and pamphlets Those are the traditions that he has trodden underfoot since From details related to the press by delegates who had attended the ses­ which opens in Buffalo August great secrecy. Federal Judge M. 1924. sion, it is apparent that Lewis minced no words in p la c in g ® - 3rd, at which the Hillmanites and M. Joyce warned the jurors, who which were seized in such a Like Molotov (who of course merely did what he was told), squarely on Roosevelt -the responsibility for government strike­ because Lewis was attacking the Lewis forces are expected to clash met behind locked doors, that melodramatic manner in the Stalin offers the defenders of the Soviet Union, as a tradition to breaking and the legislative moves against labor. Lewis linked president of the ACW. openly. It is already certain that names of witnesses could not be raid on our headquarters last emulate, the fact that “Napoleon’s army was considered in­ Hillman with Roosevelt in the execution of the Administration’s Among the arguments mustered the Stalinists will vote with the disclosed nor the nature of their Friday by the FBI could have vincible, but it was beaten successively by Russian, English and anti-labor policies, and charged Hillman directly with “ standing by Hillman’s lieutenant, in de­ Hillmanites on all pro-Roosevelt testimony even after the indict­ been easily examined or pur- German armies.” This ignoramus unerringly picks the worst con­ behind the elbow” of the President when he issued his order fense of his chief and the Admin- resolutions. ments had been returned and the (Continued on page 3) ceivable tradition; but of course no Red professor would dare to directing regular army troops to smash the North American explain to Stalin that the defeat of Napoleon came at the hands Aviation strike. of the Holy Alliance representing all that was feudal and re­ Lewis also blasted Hillman for holding up the miner’s actionary in Europe; that Napoleon, representative of bourgeois victory in the soft coal mine nego- ®- society, proclaimed the abolition of serfdom when he invaded tiations by his insistence on cer­ ing the false impression that CIO Defeats Wiretapping Bill Poland, and this serfdom was rcinstituted by Czarist Russia. tifying the cost strike last April the UMW head directed his re­ <•>- to the National Mediation Board. marks solely at Hillman, are But what cares Stalin for a Marxist understanding of his­ Persistent pressure and opposi­ bill through Congress on very ahead signal for legalized wire­ tapping, and conducts classes in belied by the testimony of the tory? Napoleon was beaten by Britain, Stalin’s present “ally”. tion from the CIO led to the de­ short notice, in order to prevent tapping when he stated at the wire-tapping technique not only WON DESPITE GOVERNMENT majority of delegates, includ­ That makes the example of Napoleon a good one to offer to his feat last week In ’the House of organized labor from having suf­ time of the bill’s introduction for its own agents but for hun­ Lewis pointedly reminded the ing the Hillman supporters who audience in London and Washington. That it can stir within the Representatives of the Adminis­ ficient time to muster strong op­ that he favored the use of wire­ dreds of local police. attempted to defend Roosevelt Soviet Union only the most narrow Russian-patriotic and re­ conference that the UMW had suc­ tration-backed wire-tapping bill, position. But the CIO and Labor’s tapping in the “interests of na­ FBI head J. Edgar Hoover and Hillman after Lewis had actionary impulses does not trouble Stalin at all. cessfully turned down all prop­ which would have authorized the Non-Partisan League held up ac­ tional defense.” admitted to a Congressional spoken. tion on the bill when they sent Likewise with his further appeal to the tradition that “ Kaiser osals of the Mediation Board FBI and other government police Defeat of this particular bill, hearing last year that he “sup­ An effort to answer Lewis was strong delegations to Congress. W ilhelm’s German A rm y... was beaten several times by Russian which were in the interests of the agencies to spy on unions and plies informal ion to employers on made by Jacob Potofsky, acting however, will not prevent the and Anglo-French forces and was finally smashed by Anglo- mine owners, and that the Board union members by tapping their The bill was formally spon­ criminal or subversive records of president of Hillman's union, the FBI from using this method to French forces.” Scarcely a tradition to stir Bolsheviks who were had prolonged the strike and ne­ telephones. sored by Roosevelt’s Attorney potential employees.” (Our em­ Amalgamated Clothing Workers. snoop on workers and their un­ telling the Russian soldiers that the war against Wilhelm was gotiations by giving government The bill was voted down by the General and the Department of phasis). That is, the FBI helps ions. All the bill provided was not their war! There are millions still living in the Soviet Union support to some of the most out­ HILLMAN’S FLIMSY ALIBI narrow margin of 154 to 146 Justice. It was drafted by the bosses m a in ta in a black-list that information secured by wire­ who participated in making the October revolution, not by defeat­ rageous proposals of the hold-out Potofsky self-righteously accus­ which shows how strong Congres Alexander Holtzoff, legal ad­ against union men, with informa­ tapping should be acceptable as ing Wilhelm, but by destroying Czarist and bourgeois Russia Southern operators. ed Lewis of “playing politics” — sional and Administration senti visor to the FBI, the agency tion of their “subversive” union ment was for the measure. Only legal evidence in the courts. Such despite the imminent danger of German invasion—but these are After-the-conference attempts Hillman is not “playing politics” particularly anxious to secure activities secured, among other the solid opposition of the CIO evidence is not now accepted. not the people, these are not the traditions and methods, to which by Stalinist delegates to min­ of course, — and tried to, impute its adoption. turned the tide. Nevertheless, without this au­ espionage methods, by wire tap­ Stalin is appealing. On the contrary, he has destroyed the entire imize the strength of Lewis’ a desire on the part of Lewis to Roosevelt him self gave the go- thority, the FBI employs wire­ ping. (Continued on Page 4) attack on Roosevelt by spread- drive the ACW out of the CIO, It had been planned to slip the 2 — THE MILITANT JULY 12, 1941' Miners Victorious Over Protest Defense Unemployment War Chest Drive Southern Mine Owners Is Speeding U p St. Louis and Buffalo came Through with contributions this W in Far M o re Than Aufo Organizers At Sea week which enabled them to join Toledo and Reading in the list of branches which have gone 100 per cent or over on their quota. Mediation Board Detroit sent in $100, bringing the branch score up to 85 per cent—-a cinch to finish up next week. Chicago shot in $225, Had Proposed pushing it up the scoreboard above New York which sent in $155. Newark came through with $116, and Los Angeles with The United Mine Workers (CIO) $75-^but L. A. remains dangerously low on the scoreboard. scored a major victory over the Southern Appalachian soft coal Cleveland’s $26, Boston's $59.80 -Boston, by the way, is operators when the latter signed lower oil the scoreboard than it’s ever been in previous competi­ a contract last Sunday in the face tions—-Youngstown's $35 and New Haven’s $22 were the other of an im pending strike of 150,000 main items this week. New Orleans’ $7 and Baltimore’s $7 bring Southern miners. them up among the best of the smaller branches. The new contract, providing a The week's contributions were as follows: $7 a day wage, eliminates the 40 St. Louis ...... $ 15.00 cent daily wage differential be­ Milwaukee ...... 20.00 tween Northern and Southern Cleveland ...... 26.00 miners, the issue over which the Los Angeles...... 75.00 Southern operators bolted nego­ Buffalo ...... 34.00 tiations conferences last March Boston ...... 59.80 and precipitated the 28-day strike New Orleans ...... 7.00 of 400,000 N o rth e rn and Southern New York ...... 155.50 miners in April. Toledo ...... 15.00 Included in the two-year con­ Workers at the Gerity-Adrian Corp., Adrian, Michigan, are shown signing petitions of the Newark . , ...... 116.00 tract was a clause granting National Association of Die Casters (CIO) in a n ation-wide protest of die-casting and plating Chicago ...... 225.50 vacations with pay for the first workers against unemployment caused by metal priorities. Metal priorities, established to offset Pittsburgh ...... 5.00 time in the history of the South­ a war shortage due to the monopoly practices of the Aluminum Corporation and other metal Youngstown ...... 35.00 ern mines, and the extension of trusts, are so mismanag>ed that the result is daily unemployment of many workers in the metal New Haven ...... 22.00 the union shop into the mines of industries. Baltimore ...... 7.00 the “Bloody” Harlan County Ken­ When these organizers of the United Automobile Workers Detroit ...... 100.00 tucky Coal Operators Association, (CIO) were refused sound truck permits for an NLRB pre­ Members-at-large . . 6.00 sole operators to refuse to sign election campaign at the River Road Chevrolet and Axle plant, the union shop agreement in 1939. Tonawanda, N. Y., they ferried their loudspeakers out on the Niagara River in front of the plant and blasted away from off­ AFL Organizer Resigns In TO TA L ...... $923.80 WON DESPITE GOVERNMENT shore. The UAW won the election, 2,160 to 626. This victory is made doubly sig­ nificant by the fact that the UMW for a slanderous attack on the of the OPM' assistant’s anti­ negotiations committee, headed by UMW and Lewis by the Southern Protest Against Tobin $10,000 War Chest labor acts, sanctioned the de­ John L. Lewis, successfully op­ m ine owners, through large ad feated NDMB proposals. posed the public recommendations vertisements, published in all the (Reprinted from the Northwest Organizer) the bosses. The whole m eeting Of the National Mediation Board, The second point won over the SCOREBOARD leading Eastern and Southern M INNEAPO LIS— In protest against the outrageous be­ stunk to the heavens, as a mobil­ which attempted to secure the heads of the Mediation Board and newspapers on May 21, entitled: ization of reactionary labor office­ elimination of two important con­ the operators gives the union the havior of Tobin’s agents in Minneapolis, Henry A Schultz, in­ "Listen America, Worse Is Yet To holders against the legitimate tract clauses which the operators right to designate memorial holi­ ternational representative of the AFL’s International Brother­ Branch Quota A m t. Pd. % Come.” rights of rank and file workers had claimed they would never days for the miners in commemor­ hood of Electrical Workers, last Thursday made public his letter Reading ...... 25.00 32.85 131 The advertisement declared in to determine the union of their grant.. ation of the miners who lose their of resignation to Michael J. Boyle, I.B.E.W. vice-president. B u ffa lo ...... 60.00 66.00 110 p a rt: Schultz announced he would take his place on the side of the choice. Refusing to bow to the dictates lives in mine disasters, and dra­ St. L o uis ...... 25.00 25.00 100 “Mr. Lewis would have the right w orkers of Local 544-CIO ju s t as® I don’t go for this, and will of the Mediation Board, Lewis and matize the need of safety devices Toledo ...... S 10.00 $ 10.00 100 to shut off any and every indus­ he had in 1934. He has been for some time but I stjll have no part in it. I consider the UMW committee demanded in the pits. D e tro it ...... 500.00 426.00 85 try from its coal supply. He would placed on the staff of Local 544- nourished the hope that I might the leaders o f Local 544 to be and secured the retention of a Louisiana ...... 25.00 20.00 80 have the right to deprive any and CIO. do my bit to serve the workers the best and most honest or­ clause which gives the interna­ B altim o re ...... 10.00 7.00 70 every city of light, heat and FBI-Gestapo At Work and improve their conditions ganizers of labor that I have tional union the “right to call and Brother Schultz through his let­ N e w ark ...... - ...... 500.00 347.00 69 power . . . Col. W illiam .1. Donovan is about within the frame-work of the encountered in all my exper­ maintain strikes throughout the ter and his actions shows how an P o rtla n d ...... 30.00 20.00 67 to be appointed head of all the AFL. ience in the labor movement. entire area covered by this agree­ "John I,. Lewis is no fool. honest-to-God unionist reacts to Cleveland ...... 150.00 93.00 62 American Intelligence Services, I have been in the labor move­ ment when necessary to preserve While America slept he has craftily the rotten dictatorial actions of I can no longer entertain this Boston ...... 350.00 217.30 61 according to the Associated Press. ment for twenty years, but and maintain the integrity and gained a death-grip on the one in­ Tobin’s imported “organizers” and hope. Last night I attended a St. Paul ...... 300.00 165.00 55 dustry which affects the destiny Donovan’s main qualification for most of what I know about competitive parity of this agree­ thugs. The conduct of this man meeting in Minneapolis under- the New Haven ...... 50.00 25.50 51 this job, according to AP^is his unionism I learned from the m ent.” of all others. Now he is appar­ of true labor principles contrasts auspices of Tobin's International familiarity with the “Nazi . . . . Chicago ...... 1200.00 560.12 47 ently using that death-grip to most strikingly with the revolting Union of Teamsters-AFL. What i leaders o f I^ocal 544 in 1934 Under this clause, the UMW can A kro n ...... 50.00 20.00 .40 shoot for the dictators’ crown.” technique in all its ramification.” actions of Tobin’s imported “or­ saw there was enough to tutu the t during the strikes, and after­ prevent the Southern operators M ilw aukee ...... 55.00 20.00 36 The Mediation Board aided Congratulations, Herr Him­ ganizers” and the local Quislings wards. They taught me By pre­ from chiseling on the terms of stomach of any loyal unioitxman. F lin t ...... 20Ö.00 70.00 35 mler. Looks like one of your who fawn upon them. One MAN; Tobin and his agents, like simitar cept and example that-the duty the contract. the operators in this slander, Philadelphia ...... 12&00 42.00 33 students is about to make good like Schultz is worth sixty of the of labor leaders is to organize by backing their demand for bureaucratic formations in otfyer New York City ...... 2500.00 790.78 32 BOSSES EAT THEIR WORDS on his own. Heîl Donovan! Tobin type of “unionist.” international unions of AFÉ, have workers and lead them in m ili­ the elimination of this strike San Francisco Bay Area 1100.00 334.33 30 *f « * * Schultz is well-known to the never been able to conduct a m ili­ tant struggle against the em­ Inclusion of this clause is parti­ clause. Sidney Hillman, of Youngstown , ...... 150.00 45.00 30 ta n t fig h t against the bosses, or ployers for better conditions. cularly gratifying to the miners whom Lew is is known to be The American Gestapo hasn’t transport drivers of this city. He Pittsburgh ...... 40.00 12.00 30 played a leading role in the strikes even to get a real mobilization of They are men of a different because it had been made the basis bitterly contemptuous because been doing bad even without the Minneapolis ...... 1200.00 330.50 28 of 1934. A form er ra ilro a d w o rk­ their forces for such a fight. This stamp from those cynical and expert direction of Herr Donovan. San Diego ...... 100.00 25.00 25 The N. Y. Times reported on July er, he has been in the labor meeting in Minneapolis was not a treacherous misnamed labor Quakertown ...... 25.00 6.00 24 4th that 25 skilled workers in the movement for over twenty years. fig h t against the bosses, hut leaders who were mobilized on Los Angeles ...... ■.. . 500.00 100,00 20 Mare Island Navy Yard in Cali­ He was one of the organizers of against the rank and file workers the platform and in the front A lle n to w n ...... 25.00 5.00 20 fornia, have been fired for “sub­ the Minnesota State Employees of the strohgest, most militant chairs last night against them South Chicago ...... 125.00 0.00 00 versive association.” Union. He was later business and most honest union in the and the workers they repre­ Rochester ...... 50.00 0.00 00 “ None of these men has com­ agent of the Electrical Workers Northwest — Local 544. For that sent. Seattle ...... 25,00 0,00 00 mitted any acts of sabotage or Union comprising Northern States fight Tobin and his perfidious A bitter fight is raging in Min­ Texas ...... 20.00 0.00 00 anything like it,” a Naval In­ Power employes, from which post gang had a real mobilization. Paid neapolis and I consider it my duty Memberss-at-Large ...... 475.00 436.00 92 telligence officer said. “They he stepped to that of International organizers and officials located in to take my place on the side of were just weeded out. These Organizer of the I.B.E.W. His places frohi Pennsylvania to San the workers, as I did in the work T O T A L S ...... §10,00,0.00 $4,251.38 43% men w ill be barred fro m a ll life for years has been devoted to Francisco were mobilized on the ers’ strikes of 1934. In order to work on ‘classified projects’.” organizing workers and helping to platform in battle array against be able to do this, I am herewith improve their conditions of life the workers in Minneapolis. The presenting my resignation as an “Subversive association” is suf­ front rows were packed with International Organizer of the In­ ficient to brand a worker, deprive His letter follows: state and local Minneapolis AFL ternational Brotherhood of Elec­ him of his job, condemn his wife Mr. Michael J. Boyle, business agents, who could never trical Workers. and children to starvation. International Vice President, be dynamited off their chairs to Fraternally yours, Herr Donovan will find a web 6th District, take part in a picket line against H. A. SCHULTZ. oiled machine when he hangs up International Brotherhood of his swastika in Washington. Electrical Workers, —CORT Chicago, Illinois. Fighting Back By Minneapolis Literature Agent copies remained in the head­ Dear Sir and Brothers: quarters. Effective this day and date I TWIN CITIES BRANCHES The St. Paul Branch, w'hich reg­ am resigning my position as In­ ADVANCE UNDER FIRE ularly handles 400 copies of THE ternational Organizer under your MILITANT per week, distributed jurisdiction in order to be free to An -important point in military 1000 copies this week, and what devote my time and efforl-s to strategy is to know how to ad­ is more, had them all distributed help the valiant leaders'*1’« of Lo­ vance while under fire. Several before Thursday evening. As a cal 544-CIO in M inneapolis in th e ir army generals in Europe, and matter of fact the St., Paul com­ heroic struggle against a dastardly rades came over to Minneapolis to combination of employers, labor elsewhere too for that matter, borrow some extra copies to send fakers and political enemies of could learn a lesson or two in this to a Stalinist mailing list., a point labor. respect from the behavior of the which they in their enthusiasm I have been working as an Minneapolis and St. Paul had overlooked. After making a International Organizer under Branches of the Socialist Workers search we were able to supply the your direction for the past Party during the past week or so. St. Paul comrades with about 40 three years. As far as personal Ordinarily the Minneapolis Branch such copies. relations with you are con­ handles 1.000 copies of the M ili­ cerned. they have always been tant per w'eek. The bundle usually FBI ATTACK ONLY satisfactory and I have nothing arrives on Sunday or Monday of STEELS US FOR BATTLE •each w'eek and quite often it takes to complain of on that score. The reaction of the comrades the remainder of the week to get The reasons for my action con­ to the attack by the FBI is a de­ the bundle properly distributed. cern fundamental questions of finite, renewmd and grim deter­ However, due to the important trade-union policy. My exper­ m in a tio n th a t nowr, more than manifesto on the defense of the iences convince me to the. hilt ever, is the time to put forth the Soviet Union contained in the that the craft-union setup be­ basic truths contained in the prog­ June 28th issue of THE MILI­ longs to the past and that the ram of the Socialist Workers great mass of the under-paid TANT, the Minneapolis Branch Tarty. decided to take 2,000 copies of th is and exploited workers require- The attendance at our public issue. and demand a more modern class, the second in a series of form of industrial organization, Now' if there are any pessimists eight on the Permanent Revolu­ which they are finding in the or fainthearts in or around the tion in American History, held on CIO. This has been clear to me SWP who thought the FBI raids the evening after the FBI raid, on the Twin Cities headquarters, was attended by 50 people in on Friday June 27, would throw spite’ of it being a sweltering hot consternation and confusion into night. Two reporters from the the activities of the Twin Cities capitalist press were in attend­ ¡ branches, they are due for a sur­ ance at the class and gave us prise. For example. THE MILI­ writeups in b°th-the Minneapolis TANT bundle containing the man­ and St. Paul newspapers the next This is the front cover of the new pamphlet issued by the ifesto arrived on Sunday forenoon morning. The next class of this CIO, which describes the vicious measures in the various anti- and by 6 P. M. on Sunday even­ series will be held on Saturday lahor bills passed by Congress, or pending, with a program for ing our Militant salesmen had July 12, at 8 P.- M„ in the Min­ organized labor to fight these bills. An important pamphlet for picked up their respective bundles neapolis headquarters, 919 Mar­ every worker to read. to the extent that only about 300 quette Ave. July 12, mr THE MILITANT * - S ' Local 544-CIO's Proud And Stainless Record “ Make Minneapolis A Union Tobin’s Sacrificial Offering Government Strikebreakers Town" Was Its Slogan And “ Tobin- urges sacrifices for defense’’ is the headline in upon” lo make sacrifices to the War-Lords and he’ll do it the June 24th A FL 'W eekly News Service” and under it are with a vengeance. two items. The first reports a speech by Tobin over a national Whicii reminds us of the original meaning of sacrifices. It More Than Achieved It radio hookup under the auspices of the Fight For Freedom When the prim itive savages offered up sacrifices to their Committee—the Organization which is campaigning fur an jungle gods, they were at great pains to see that the sacrifices The Roosevelt-Tobin-FBI employers attack oh the Min­ immediate formal declaration of war by the United States. Were appropriate. They picked, not the old or the puny, but neapolis truck drivers Union, Local 544-CIO, is an effort to crush Tobin's speech consisted of repeating over and over such the very flower of the human tribe to offer up, slaughtered the most m ilitant local union in America. statements as: “ The workers of the United States are ready on the allar, as a sacrificial offering. Local 544-CIO—originally affiliated with the AFL Team­ and willing to make the same sacrifice as the British workers And so it was with Tobin. lie wouldn’t dream of offering sters^—began its career in early 1934 with a few hundred courag­ ... .we repeat oUr promise to make any sacrifice called upon.” the War Gods a puny or stagnant union. N or would he offer eous transport workers, a m ilitant and competent leadership, a (Tobin is sure that Roosevelt won’t call upon Tobin to .as a sacrifice one of his racketeering locals. No, Tobin is as fighting, class-conscious program, and the slogan “ Make ¡Min­ sacrifice that $30,000 a year that Tobin draws for misleading particular in his choice of a sacrifice as the most finicky jungle neapolis a Union Tow n!” the Teamsters.) chieftain. He looked far and wide to find the very flower of Today, that slogan has been realized in action. Thahks to th e second item shows what Tobin means by sacrifices. the truck'd rivers’ movement, the most stalwart and sturdy 544, Minneapolis is the best organized town in the country in It announces that ‘'From eleven surrounding states, organizers union, to slaughter. It,had lo be the very best. It had to be proportion to its size. and business agehts of Teamsters unions converged oh M in­ Local 544. What is more, some 250,000 over-thë-road drivers, spread neapolis” to assault Local 544-CIO. The Minneapolis truck- Unfortunately for Tobin, Local 544 isn’t subject to throughout all the arteries of commerce, have been organized drivers built their union in the great 1934 strikes despite. Tobin’s tribal superstitions. Local 544-CIO has no intention through a union pact covering the * Tobin’s strikebreaking: built the over-thc-road drivers’ move­ of being slaughtered. The sacrificial offering has jumped off 12-state area surrounding Minne­ n u a lly have bden added to the ment. adding 200,000 drivers to organized labor; and have sota. Wages of tiib M lilheapoiis W ork­ (lie jungle altar, has knocked the sacrificial knife from the now democratically voted to change 1 heir affiliation to the All this has been the direct re­ ers. The aveiage Weekly wage for haiids of Chief Tobin, and is going to do its level best lo stop sult of the program, example and drivers in 1933 was $li. Today CIO. But all that Weighs as nothing with Tobin, he is “ called Fbbin atid all the other jungle chiefs. leadership of Local 544-CIO. which it is over $33. The total annual Initiated and directed this expan­ payroll for all Mlnheapolis driv­ subject is the vicious assault of sixty in cold blood; murdering to reinstate Local 544 in the smuggled several agents into the sion of unionism. ers rose fro n t aboiit $5.100.000 Hi thé bosses, from h iufS eH sf pickets two workers and maiming many Teamsters International without union.’ These began to make 1933 to about $23,000,000 ih 1939. at the hands of governmental others for life. any of the onerous Conditions lie Charges Of misuse of funds against WHAT ONE MILITANT Weekly hours fbh the drivers arihëd forcés ahd assassination by Ih Scores of strikes of various demanded. the union leaders ahd finally LOCAL UNION DID hired gunmen, to an unending have been deduced froth about 60 sections Of Local 544 since, and Tóbin mustered the weight Of brought suit against thé union for In 1933, M inneapolis was a c it­ flow of sewage slander and court to about 44. They receive paid an­ in many strikes in which the driv­ his $4,000,000 treasury and an arm y restitution of Hinds allegedly due frameups. adel of open-shop domination and nual vacations, a measure of job ers gave support and material of “OrgftniZgfs” and gangsters to them. During the first drivers strike exploitation. The unioh movertienf security through seniority, and aid to other unions, the bosses crush the Minneapolis drivers to The bosses and thfeir courts of M ay 1934, the employers threw was lifeless and pitifully small. m any Otheh benefits unknow n in have attempted to use the police his will. He issued a charter for leaped to support bf this suit — against the embattled transport .The employers’ associations boast­ the days of the open-shop before to provoke, intimidate and weaken a competitive drivers local—"600." known as the "Fink Suit.” The Workers the entire police force of ed and advertised that Minneapo­ the rise of Loedl 544. the union. But mere violence could His thugs beat up the Local 544 plaintiffs “fotihd” tens of thou­ Minneapolis ahd 5,000 special de Armed with bayonets, these United States Coast Guardsmen lis was the ideal city fob prospec­ These are the things which the not succeed against Local 544. I f leaders. He used every dirty dev sands of dollars to fight Local 544 puties armed with clubs and guhs. fought back with redoubled fury are standing watch at Buffalo Harbor, New York, after board­ tive industrialists because of the bosses and the unholy alliance of ice possible. in the courts. For two years the non-union, low-wage labor supply. liooseveit-Tobin-LBI are seeking In a historic battle — the "Battle at each new attack. And each day union held out against the boss ing two struck vessels of the Nicholson Transit Corp. and driv­ But to no avail. Through thick Local 544 has been p rim a rily of Bulls Run” — thé drivers It built a stronger and more en court demands that, it turn over ing off the crew members who were On strike for recognition to wipe out witii the destruction and thin, the Minneapolis drivers responsible for reversing all that. fought the police and deputies to during union organization. all its records — mlfiUtes, mem­ of the National Maritime Union (CIO). Company and govern­ of Local 544-CIO. supported and defended Local 544. Today the union movement of a standstill and chased them off The Minneapolis general drivers bership lists, etc., — to the scru­ ment officials affirmed that this latest act of government strike­ They would not join Tobin's dual Minneapolis protects some 65.000 THIS IS ONLY THE the streets of the city. union had not only to contend tiny of the employers. breaking Was in thé interests of “national defense.” outfit. And in the end, Tobin had working men and women in every LATEST ATTACK ON 544 In the s trik e of J u ly 1934, the with the enemies from without F in a lly , the bosses had to Com­ to taste the bitter brew Of defeat. trade and industry. Since 1334, scarcely a day has police ambiished a group of driv­ It met the constant, more insidi promise and the union submitted He issued a new Charter "com­ salary from $20,000 to $30,000, To­ of Local 544 voted almost unan­ Tens of millions of dollars an­ passed that Local 544 has not been ers’ union pickets and shot down ous attacks of the bosses’ agents foi1 public examination oniy the bining’’ his paper local with Lo­ bin felt he had to strike. Ldcal imously to sever their affiliations within the union movement, above pertinent records covering the Un­ cal 544,— th a t is, in re a lity he 544 lost the fight to prevent To­ with thé AFL backwash of the all, the dictatorial and union1 io n ’s finahees. reinstated Local 544, whose lead­ bin’S raise, but won a convention American labor movement and busting acts of Dah Tobin, head ership he had sworn never to per In October, 1940, the htilbh m ajority against Tobiii’S proposal hierge with the mighty for­ of the AFL Teamsters and his mit to lead a union agftin! and its leaders wfere given a to write compulsory arbitration ward-moving tide of the CIO. C IO Backs 544’s Fight corrupt personal top machine. From that time on, Local 544 clean bill of health by a hostile into the International constitu­ The CIO has received Local 544 TOBIN’S 1934-35 ATTEMPTS has gone on from success to sue judge. Despite all the probing tion. With Open arms. And the union of ers â chàhce to build a real honest hearings, called by the Depart­ (Continued from page 1) TO SMASH THE UNION cess against the bosses, its name ahd prying of a three-years in­ The Minheapblis drivers unibh these two forces — the main industrial union that can win ment of Justice against 544 and vestigation, unparalleled in the had become too great a mehaee Chased at any tim e in our book Front the firs t Tobin hated and, and reputation has become a bea­ Stream of progressive American them better conditions. the SWP, Pressman said: history of the union movement, to Tobin’s privileges and dicta­ stores. feared Local 544 and its leader­ con-light for union organization labor Organization and the dynamo a boss-dominated court Had ttt torial powers. It had become a "Moreover, our views have been “Nothing worthwhile wâs “John L. Lewis brought the ship as only the moth-eaten, craft and militant struggle throughout cf the Northwest union movement legally attest to the impeccable threat to his entire reactionary, openly expressed in scores of pub­ ever gained without a fight. truth about the poll-tax to the ridden, dues-luingry, boss-consci all the Northwest. It lent funds — haS stru c k a S hattering blow strangling embrace upon the driv­ lic lectures., and forums during You have the entire backing of attention of the Department of ous AFL type of reactionary lead­ and seasoned organizers to grow Hdnesty of Local 544 fifid its at. the reactionary AFL and the the past several years. the CIO in this country. Back Justice. If Schweinhaut wants ers can hate militant and prog1 fug driVers’ unions in many states leaders. ers movement. . boss class. Hundreds of thousands up your leaders. You have a little extra work, there’s a ressive unionism. He hid his moves behind a of drivers and other AFL workers, “The present mysterious air 544 ORGANIZED MIDWEST TODAY’S UNHOLY ALLIANCE smoke-screen of anti-radicalism. started something here that job for him— ridding the South In the very midst of the bitter who have come to know and ad­ of Victor Anderson and the OVER-THE-ROAD DRIVERS A G À IN S T LO C A L 544 And, as in 1935, once again he will spread until all the drivers of the poll tax conspiracy.” and bloody July 1934 strike mire the record and policies of other federal agents is obvious­ The defeat of the Fink Suit did of the nation will be under the which built the union, Tobin join­ The crowning achievement of sought to impbse a complete per­ Local 544, are now tu rn in g as w e ll ly calculated to give the im­ not ehd the employers’ drive sonal dictatorship over Local 544 banner of the CIO in a great CIO UNIONS WIRE ed hands with the employees and this organizing drive was the win­ in the direction of the CIO. pression‘that they áre uncover­ against Local 544. It has made and place it under a "receiver­ CIO industrial union.’’ SOLIDARITY launched a public knife-ln-the- ning in the Fall of 1937 of the 11 That is the vision that haunts ing a dangerous secret under­ them more bitter than ever, more In addition to the telegrams back attack On the striking union state over-the-road drivers con ship” of one his own agents. Roosevelt and Tobin and the ground organization. We are V. R. Dunne explained why 544 determined to destroy the greatest But this time it was not the from Lewis and Murray, more and its leaders, repeating all the tract, gaining union wages and bosses. T hat is w h y Tobin is ex­ confident that such a hoax can­ was driven to break with Tobin single bu lw a rk against th e ir open- than two hundred telegrams were slanders of the Minneapolis boss conditions and a closed shop for same as 1935. This time Local 544 not be perpetrated upon the and join the CIO. “Tobin talks shop designs. pending a huge slice of his $6,000,- received from heads of leading press against the Minneapolis some 225,000 drivers in the entire had another movement tb turn to. people of Minneapolis.” about ‘democracy’ and sends in 000 treasury for hundreds of CIO Internationals, from regional drivers, in the July, 1934 issue of territory ranging from Montana And this time they have again a m ilitant, progressive and power­ thugs and hoodlums. He talks of CIO directors, and city CIO in­ his personal organ, the so-called to Ohio, and Minnesota to Oakla- secured formidable allies; Roos­ ful industrial union organization thugs to break Local 544. That ClO MASS MEETING ‘justice’ and disregards the democ­ dustrial union councils from Con­ Teamsters Journal. homa. evelt, Tobin and the FBI. whose methods and program were is Wliy Roosevelt has sent the Ah enthusiastic audience of ratic actions of the union mem­ When the delegates of Local 544 in the tradition of Local 544 it­ necticut to California. Tobin wrote that "Communists The initiators of this contract, frb tti 1,200 to .1,500 544-CIO mem­ bership. He talks of ‘fair play’ and FBI to attempt a frameup on “Se­ and radicals” are “very prominent the leaders of this drive, the men dared to take the floor at the last self. That movement was the Con­ bers attended a mass meeting at won’t let you vote.” The only state from which no ditious conspiracy” charges in the s trik e .” The bosses ran big who put it over were the meh who international teamsters conven­ gress of Industrial Organizations. thfi Lyceum Theatre last Tuesday messages of fraternal greet­ against leaders and members of advertisements quotihg Tobiri. had organized and led Local 544 tion in opposition to Tobin’s de­ In a regular membership meet­ evening at which messages and F D R “Ain TO TOBÎN” ings came was from the Stalin­ Despite Tobin’s strikebreaking, from its first victories on. Farrell mand for an increase in his yearly in g of nearly 4.000, the members Local 544-CIO. speeches from CIO leaders pledg­ Cecil Owens, the next speaker, ist-controlled State Council of Dobbs, former secretary-treasurer ing national CIO support to the informed the leaitistcfS: . Minnesota whose Secretary, 544 was victorious ih that decisive strike . of Local 544, became the firs t sec­ motor transport and allied work­ “ Your Coming Over to the Lageman, approved the govern­ retary of the North Central Area ers were heard. CIO created a sensation in ment’s action against the union. On A p ril 14, 1935, 544 received Negotiating Committee. WPA Strikers Were Also Washihgtbn. For a few days it ft letter from Tobin, summarily Lee Pressman, national Coun­ appeared that the national ad- 544 D E M A N D S E L E C T IO N S revoking the local’s charter. The This master achievement was sel for the CIÓ; Jatnes Robb won despite Tobin and against ministratibn had dropped its Slate Labor Board hearings on pretext for this disruptive move of Indianapolis, fresh from the him. He opposed and fought the campaign of ‘Aid to England” the petitions of Local 544-CIO for carried but with a bureaucratic Ford victory in Detroit; Cecil idea from the sta rt. On the eve Persecuted By The FBI for a campaign of ‘Aid to Dan elections to determine the choice high-handedness of which Tobin Owens, publicity director Of the of the area committee’s victory. To Tobin.’ of bargaining agent for the Min­ is a past master, was that the lo United Construction Workers neapolis' teamsters began last cal owed a few hundred dollars bin sent his representatives to de­ OwenS criticized the war Organizing Committee; and V. SbariSlj' Monday find were held over until in back per capita tax to the in­ mand the discontinuance of the In The 1939 Strike, 162 Minneapolis WPA Workers Were Indicted hysteria and rëd-baitirtg emanat­ R. Dunne and Ray Raihbolt, J u ly 10th. ternational. 11-state committee. He feared the 544-CIO leaders, were the main ing from government Officials, influx of hundreds of thousands On "Conspiracy" Charges; All Labor Protested Government Trial This delay plays into the hands That was true. The local had speakers. Frank Barnhart, per­ inany of theni form erly connected of new, m ilitant workers into his of the AFL, which has opposed exhausted its funds in the long Once befofe, in the summer of 1939, Roosevelt struck with labbr. tight little conservative set-up. sonal representative of A. D. elections and is evidently count­ and gruelling strikes — Tobin of sim ilarly at Minneapolis labor and Local 544, when the Depart­ “agents provocateur” against The over-the-road driver is a real Lewis and regional director Of Ray Rainbdlt predicted: ing on the government prosecu­ course didn’t give a penny of ment of Justice secured “ conspiracy” indictments against 162 the workers. Today, it is re­ the UCWOC, presided. proletarian type, very different “Tobin has no secret weapon tions to smash 544-CIO before elec­ strike benefits — and organization Minneapolis WPA workers because of their participation in the vealed, the government is again froin the city driver-salesmen who Barnhart opened the meeting by to change the hearts and minds tion s can be held. drive of the previous 12 months. WPA strike in which thé Fédéral Workers Sectioh of Local 544 attempting to build its case formerly composed the teamsters. asserting his confidence in the of the members of 544. When But there were many other locals played a leading role. against Local 544-CIO on testi­ NATÎON-WTDE INDICTMENTS Only when the contract Was fin­ leaders of 544-CIO. "Since working the tim e comes we w ill beat in greater debt to the internation­ Local 544 showed its fighting capacity then by mobilizing mony of agents provocateur. It Is expected that about tweii- ally secured, only when the vision with these leaders, I want to tell him in the elections, we will al and Tobin was sitting on a a defense campaign that aroused nation-wide labor Opposition to After the Minneapolis WPA ty-ftvb persons will be indicted. of hundreds of thousands of dol­ you that in my forty years in the make Minneapolis a union town treasu ry o f over $4,000,000. Roosevelt’s mass persecution and attempted frame-up of these strikers were arrested they were Anderson hinted that FBI tnén ih lars in increased ahnual per ca­ labor movement I never met móré under the banner of the CIO.” I t became clear what Tobin’s 162 §60 a month WPA workers. held in jail for weeks on high c M rjje of the raids had bèën pita momentarily thrust into the honest and earnest union men in real game was within a couple In a six months battle that extended through three separate bail of $5,000 to $10,000 each. The "working in other places.” background Tobin’s inhate fear of my life than the Dunne brothers.” PRESSMAN’S SPEECH of weeks, when Tobin agreed trials; Local 544 and its labor a l1 bench, throughout the trials, op­ stream-lined, aggressive indus­ He predicted that within a short CÎO counsel, Lee Pressman “I t is quite possible,” he to restore the charter—under lies tore the FBI case to Shreds. against Roosevelt’s starvation enly expressed its hostility. But trial union methods, did Tobin re­ time all the drivers In Minnea­ Spoke foi- forty-five minutes trac­ said, “this case w ill dovetail The nation-wide storm of labor decree, he laid the basis for the so great was the pressure from certain conditions. Those condi­ luctantly yield. He had tb ap­ polis w ill be at home lii the CIÓ. in g thé i>ro£reS$ and achievements with others the FBÌ has built protest that broke in the wake of “conspiracy” charges against organized labor, that, after 32 de­ tions were that the general point Farrell Dobbs the Interna­ of thé CIO. up elsewhere. This may be the drivers union be broken up into these "conspiracy” indictments the Minneapolis strikers by his fendants had been convicted, the CIO PLEDGES AID tional Organizer in charge of this start of a nationwide drive on government did not dare go on “When a single local union a dozen different weak crafts field. cracked the prosecution wide strikebreaking assertion; “You He read messages from John w ith its case. The prosecution at­ like 544 joins the CIO, why is subversive activities.” locals, coal drivers, ice drivers, open. In the end, the government cannot strike against the gov­ L. Lewis and Philip Murray THE RECENT BOSS was forced to drop its case against tempted to make a “deal” to get there all this excitement? Why Meanwhile, the Twin Cities etc.; that Tobin personally he ernment.” welcoming Local 544-CIO into A TTA C K S ON LO C A L 544 130 of the defendants, and sought 40 of the defendants to plead have you become a national branches of the SWP have stepped given the complete control and Under the impact of Roos­ the CIO and anticipating a new to save its face by vindictively guilty in return for the release issue?*’ up their public activity, distribut­ supervision of the union; that Meanwhile the efforts of the evelt’s attack on the WPA strikes, nation-wide industrial union convicting 32 WPA strike leaders, of the remainder of the 130. This ing copies of Tllfe MILITANT every officer and member had bosses to smash Local 544 went on most of them folded up. But in movement for motor transport "The story dates back to 1934 17 of whom were forced to serve was turned down and organized carrying our story on the FBI to receive the personal ap­ relentlessly. In November 1937, Minneapolis the strikers fought on workers. when you teamsters, under your sentences of frpm 30 days to 18 labor won the release of the en­ raids throughout the Northwest. proval of Tobin. Tobin wanted Pat Corcoran, Chairman of the fo r weeks. present leadership, decided to months in federal penitentiaries. tire 130. Robb declared that “The CIO Party morale is at its peak and to dismember the union, destroy North Central District Drivers build a strong m ilitant union and F D R ’S A G E N TS has licked U. S. Steel and General the Minnesota Trotskyists are set­ its semi-industrial character, Council and a close co-worker of ROOSEVELT succeeded against great odds. The PROVOCATEURS Motors and the nation’s coal oper­ ting an example for the entire and drive out every militant- Local 544, was shot to death by SLASHED WAGES tradition behind your local union The mass arrests in the strike ators. We are certainly not fear­ party of firmness Uhder fire. and progressive member. unknown assailants. It is gener­ The strike in Minneapolis was leads right to the origin of the ful of tackling Dan Tobin any­ ally accepted in the labor move­ part of a national WPA strike were the result of charges of al­ CIO. The CIO was formed in where we meet him On the road.” PIONEERED THE TRAIL NOW ment that he met his death at the against the government’s aboli­ leged violence on the part of the 1935, led by Lfewis and Murray, "In Tobin’s home state, where TRAVELED BY THE CIO hands of gangsters hired by the tion of the prevailing wage on strikers. men determined to build a mighty IN LOS ANGELES I come from, the CIO has as many The union members and leaders bosses. WPA and slashing the starvation But, during the course of the labor organization representing teamsters In its ranks as Tobtm Buy the FOURTH INTERNA­ rejected Tobin’s vile, boss-inspired Soon the bosses trie d another monthly earnings of the WPA trials, it was rëvealed that 25 the workëfs who toil for a living. Dan backed down'before the CIO T IO N A L a t: proposal. They elected to keep on device against 544 — legal frame- workers. F B I agents, disguised as Work­ there; and now he wants to move “Your 1934 strikes gave mean­ Smith’s Consolidated News fighting as an independent union. up. This attack on the WPA work­ ers, had mingled With the strik­ out of Indiana to Washington, ing to the need of the workers Stand 613% So. H ill Street. Local 544 sent a com m ittee to The boss press began a cam­ ers was sponsored directly by ers oh the picket-lines. Thus "Dan Tobin will sell every for strong unions. The CIO has the CIO, then still within the paign of insinuation and slander Roosevelt, who himself urged Con­ Roosevelt was guilty of the General News Stand 326 W. teamster in América to become carried out concretely on a na­ AFL, to find if it had a place for against the leaders of 544 as gress to reduce the WPA stan­ ugliest find dirtiest anti-labor 5th Street. secretary of labor. That’s his ob­ tional scale what you started in drivers. It was with the agree­ “gangsters” and "racketeers” who dards. practice of all— the practice of je ct . . . I suggest Tobin gó with 1934 Sam Smith’s News Stand 5th ment of the CIO that Local 544 were “ misusing union funds.” When the WiPA workers thé fonder Czar and fill the the politicians and give the work- Referring to the Grand Jury and Main Street. decided to fight to compel Tobin The employers’ association throughout the country struck fascist dictators—the use of 4 — THE M ILIT A N T JULY 12, 1941 Stalin's Speech: Not A Proletarian Note In It

(Continued from page 1) leadership of the generation of the October revolution and extir­ pates their tradition wherever he can find it. Our Banner—The Banner of Lenin and Trotsky October Traditon and the German Worker Over the old battlefields o f the C ivil War Russia has been able to conquer the sympathy, Yet only the tradition, and methods of the October revolution where the Red Arm y is once again fighting, To Defend the Soviet Union the attention and the moral support of the can destroy Hitler’s armies. A revolutionary government in the Stalin is raising the banner of “ Holy Rus­ workers of the whole world.” How was this Soviet Union could say to the German workers, in the army and sia,” of the feudal General Suvorov, Prince accomplished? the factories: Nevsky, the Russian warriors of 1215, 1652, It was accomplished by raising the banner “ Comrades, brothers: You do not want this war, but you etc., etc. The Communist International has of the International in the struggle against the fear that if Germany is again defeated as in 1918, there will not even convened in these days of gravest onslaughts of imperialist intervention and the follow a second and worse Versailles. The ‘democratic’ armies crisis. Dim itrov, “ the helmsman of the Comin­ legions of White Guards. The Red Arm y never have made clear in advance that such is the fate in store for tern,” has nothing to say. Foster explains to a defeated Germany. Fearing above all the yoke of the fought under any other banner. On June 13, the readers of the Daily Worker that it is “ sec­ foreign invader, you endure Hitler. 1921, Leon Trotsky in the name of the Red “ But victory for the ‘democracies’ is not the only altern­ tarian” today even to talk about socialism in Arm y sent the following historic greeting to ative to Hitler. There is an entirely different road—that connection with the defense of the Soviet the "General Staff of the Revolution," namely, opened up by a victorious German socialist revolution. Have Union. The Stalinists are not defending the the Third W orld Congress of the Communist no fear that while you are destroying the Nazis, the ‘democ­ USSR by these methods, but dealing it terrible International: racies’ will succeed in occupying Germany. The Mensheviks blows. They are depriving the Red Arm y of used to try to frighten the Russian workers with the thought the only banner of victory, the banner of “ It is the greatest joy anti honor that while we would be making the socialist revolution, the October and the C ivil War of 1918-1921. for the workers, peasants and Red imperialists would overrun Russia. It is now history, how we In the first and crucial year of the struggle soldiers of Russia to welcome within made our October revolution and drove the imperialists out against imperialist intervention, the Commun­ of all Soviet territory. You can do likewise with a Soviet the walls of the Red Capital the best ist International was founded in Moscow, Germ any. where the First W orld Congress convened in representatives of the world working “This is now especially true since the Soviet Union and class. its Red Army stand ready to unite with Soviet Germany in March, 1919. Throughout the years of the repelling the imperialist powers. We give our solemn pledge C ivil War, despite unprecedented dangers and “ Red Warriors! For three and a that the day you overthrow Hitler and take the power into difficulties, the Communist International con­ half years yon have defended the first your own hands, we shall turn our guns against the imperial­ tinued to meet annually in Moscow. The toilers’ republic in world history ist enemies of Soviet Germany. Second World Congress convened in July 1920; against the unceasing attacks and as­ “Nor shall we and you have an endless battle on our the Third W'orld Congress in June, 1921. saults of the brigands and oppressors hands. On the contrary, the German revolution would inspire At the first session of the First World Con­ of all lands. On the Volga and the Obi, all Europe to put an end to the capitalism which has brought gress— on March 2, 1919— Leon Trotsky de­ Red Army troops, wearing gas masks, are shown practicing a bayonet attack supported by on Northern Dvina and the Neva, on it two devastating wars within two decades. livered a report on the Red Army. One week tanks during maneuvers last spring. “And American imperialism would send armies against later, on March 9, 1919 lie issued the follow­ the Berezina and the Dnieper, in the us only at the risk of its own head. It is one thing for Wash­ ing order to the Red Army and the Red Fleet: w ill hear with merited pride the words On March 12, 1919, Lenin reported to the Don and Kuban, you have fought and ington to send troops against a rival imperialism; entirely Petrograd Soviet on the “ Domestic and For­ died under the banner of the Inter­ different would be the attempt to send troops against us. If “ During one of its sessions the of greeting from the highest and most eign Policy of the Council of People’s Com­ American troops revolted in Siberia in 1919, refusing to fight authoritative body of the world work­ national. You have defended with Communist International adopted the missars.” The central point of the domestic against the Bolsheviks, the far more mature American work­ ing class. The Red Army and the Red your blood Soviet Russia— the fort­ following resolution of greetings to and foreign policy of the Soviet Government, ing class of today would use its gigantic powers to crush Navy w ill not fail to meet the expecta­ ress of the world proletariat.” ( Izves- any attempt of its ‘own’ imperialism to send expeditionary the Red Army of Russian Workers in Lenin’s eyes, revolved precisely around the tions and hopes of the Communist In­ tia , No. 128, June 14, 1921). forces ag ainst us. and Peasants: The Congress of the issue of rallying the world working class for “Comrades of the German factories and armies: Take Communist International sends its ternational. the struggle against imperialism and for the But Stalin has abandoned that banner. He the power into your own hands and together we shall put heartiest greetings and wishes to the “ Forward— Under the Banner of establishment of world socialism. Lenin said: has reduced the Communist International to a grotesque masquerade, to a servile agency of an end to war and fascism, capitalism and fascism, through­ Red Army of Soviet Russia for a com­ the W orld W orking Class! “ We shall understand the work of out the world!'’ the Stalinist bureaucracy. He appeals, not to plete victory in the struggle against “ Leon Trotsky, Chairman That is how a revolutionary Soviet government would ad­ the Council of People’s Commissars the international working class, but to imper­ of the Revolutionary Military dress the German working class. But the degenerate Stalinist international imperialism. This fra­ during the past year only if we eval­ ialist "allies.” Council of the Republic, bureaucrats will not and cannot thus speak to the German pro­ ternal greeting of the international uate the role of the Soviets on the The banner of the international working letariat in the name of the October revolution. proletariat must he made known to People’s Commissar of Army arena of the world revolution.” class— the banner of Lenin and Trotsky—that In Stalin’s speech these are the only references to the Ger­ every fighter in the Red Army and the and N avy.” Lenin stressed hundreds of times that the is our banner. It is the real banner of the Red man masses: “ ...a ll the finest men and women of Germany Red Navy . . . Every soldier of the Red This famous Order No. 83 was published greatest bulwark of defense for the Soviet Arm y and the Red Navy. It is the real and condemn the treacherous acts of the German fascists, approve in hvestia. No. 54, March 11, 1919. Union consisted in this: the " Soviet power in only defense of the Soviet Union. the conduct of the Soviet Government and see that ours is a just Army, every sailor of the Red Navy cause, that the enemy will be defeated, that we are bound to win.” And: “In this great war we shall have loyal allies in the class line between the rich peasants and the great masses of the Germany abides by the provisions of the Soviet-German Pact defending his client—himself—and not like a political leader. peoples of Europe and America, including German people who peasantry who are the natural allies of the proletariat, organized of Non-Aggression as unswervingly as the Soviet Union, in He lists the “gains” under the Stalin-Hitler pact. He does not are enslaved by Hitlerite despots.” the poor peasants into a powerful force guarding the Soviet Union view of which, in the opinion of Soviet quarters, the rumors lis t the losses. But if “the enemy w ill be defeated,” w ill you, Stalin, aid the against imperialist invaders and their native agents. But Stalin, of Germany’s intention to disrupt the pact and undertake an German masses to prevent the imposition of a second and worse who has feverishly been seeking during the last decade to create attack on the USSR are devoid of any ground. .. ” (DAILY W h a t the USSR Lost By the Pact Versailles ? On that, Stalin’s speech breathes not a word. Like­ a labor and peasant aristocracy as a support against the great WORKER, June 14.) The most decisive of these losses we have already referred wise silent on this basic question are the leaflets which, the masses, would scarcely rally the great masses of the peasantry In anticipation of such a new Stalin-Hitler pact, the Daily to in connection with Stalin’s seizures of territory. But this loss Daily Worker reports, the Red Army is showering on the German against his prosperous friends—even though these “friends” are Worker (June 20!) denounced the war rumors as designed “to began with the signing o-f the Hitler-Stalin pact. Untold millions troops. The leaflets are exactly like those Churchill showered on potential agents of Hitler. discredit such further steps for the advancement of peace and of class-conscious workers throughout the world, who would have Berlin. They ask the German soldiers not to fight against Britain Thus in every sphere Stalin, by his entire past, is inevitably for the safeguarding of Soviet neutrality that the Soviet Union laid down their lives in defense of the first Workers’ State, were (ox the Soviet Union). They have not a word to say about social­ driven, even at this moment of mortal danger to the Soviet Union, m ay take .” to suppress all the political weapons which saved the Soviet alienated from the Soviet Union by the pact. It was a terrible ism. In a word, they offer the German masses no alternative to But Hitler, it is now apparent, did not even bother negotiat­ Union in the Civil War. blow to their anti-fascist sentiments, one for which they do not H itler except the yoke of the foreign invader. Similarly, the Daily ing for new concessions from Stalin! The pact with Stalin had And woe to the Soviet critic of this foul Stalinist policy! forgive the Soviet Union which, unfortunately, they confuse with Worker reports that German soldiers (four or five) have crossed served its purpose: it had saved the Nazis from a two-front war Stalin cannot find time in his speech for October and the Civil the degenerate Kremlin bureaucracy. the lines, unwilling to fight against the Red Army, and are now until all Europe had been subjugated. Now, having overrun the War, but he finds time to launch a new wave of repressions. Like The Stalin-Hitler pact made possible the subjugation of w riting and radioing appeals to their German brothers. Splendid! entire continent, Hitler wanted nothing less than complete sub­ all reactionaries he resorts to the device of the amalgam to Europe by Hitler. Of course the impotence of the “democracies” But their appeals say no more than Stalin’s speech or leaflets— jugation of the Soviet Union. i.e., no more than Churchill’s leaflets. On that basis it is mani­ destroy his critics at home: he lumps them with the external played its role in that catastrophe. But no- Marxist expected any­ festly absurd to expect masses of German troops to desert or to enemy. “We must wage a ruthless fight,” he says, “against all Stalin's Alibi for the Pact W ith Hitler thing of the “democracies.” It was the workers’ organizations, overthrow Hitler. disorganizers of the rear, deserters, panic-mongers, rumor- including the Soviet Union, which should have stopped Hitler. Churchill and Roosevelt have been cementing the German mongers, exterminate spies, diversionists, enemy parachutists, Hitler struck, as Stalin admits, “under conditions favorable But, as a direct result of the Hitler-Stalin pact, the Kremlin and masses to Hitler by their imperialist policy. Stalin has now be­ rendering rapid aid in all this to our destroyer battalions.” As for German forces and unfavorable for Soviet forces.” This is the Comintern assured the victory to Hitler. As Trotsky wrote come the agent of this foul policy. Woe to the Soviet Union if the neatly turned as one of H itler’s—or Roosevelt’s—amalgams be­ true not only in the narrow sense of the immediate unprepared- on June 17, 1940: ness of Soviet forces, but also in the much broader sense that Soviet masses permit this suicidal course to continue. The Soviet tween Communists and enemy agent*. “The capitulation of France is not a simple military H itler struck under far more favorable conditions than had he had Union can assure victory over Hitler only by the methods of episode. It is part of the catastrophe of Europe. Mankind Stalin "Explains" the Plight of the USSR to fight the Red Armj> at any other period in the war. This fact October and the Civil War. can no longer live under the regime of imperialism. Hitler is easily demonstrable. But at all costs Stalin, conceding the W ith his usual modesty Stalin concluded his speech by calling is not an accident; he is only the most consistent and the most smaller point with an air of objectivity, must deny the broader How Stalin "Inspires" Soviet Masses everybody to “rally around the party of Lenin-Stalin.” Never­ bestial expression of imperialism, which threatens to crush admission. For he bears the full responsibility for having made You w ill seek in vain the word socialism in Stalin’s speech. theless, for the first time since he destroyed the Left Opposition, our whole civilization. it possible for Hitler to pick his own moment for the conflict. You w ill seek in vain the word capitalism. He does not arouse he felt compelled to justify himself. “A grave danger hangs over “But in line with the general causes of the catastrophe Hence Stalin must vehemently deny that the Hitler-Stalin pact the Soviet proletariat-—now thirty million strong in industry— our country.” How did that happen? The Soviet masses still hear inherent in imperialism, it is impermissible to forget the was an error. Here arc his arguments: with the powerful thought that they are defending the nation­ ringing in their ears the Byzantine boasts of the Kremlin about criminal, sinister role played by the Kremlin and the Comin­ 1. “Non-aggression pacts are pacts of peace between alized property against capitalist restoration. He dare not. To its invulnerability thanks to the Stalin-Hitler pact. Stalin is now tern. Nobody else rendered such support to Hitler as Stalin. two States. It was such a pact that Germany proposed to us recall that the Soviet working class made the revolution is to compelled to report that “the war of Fascist Germany on the Nobody else created such a dangerous situation for the recall also the fact that they did not make the revolution for the USSR began under conditions favorable for German forces and in 1939. Could the Soviet Government have declined such a USSR as Stalin. unfavorable for Soviet forces.” Why? Every Soviet worker must proposal? I think that not a single peace-loving State could bureaucrats! Nor does Stalin desire to disturb his capitalist “ ...W ith his shift to Hitler’s side Stalin abruptly mixed be asking himself that question, and Stalin for the first time in decline a peace treaty with a neighboring State even though “allies” with the memory of the revolution which put an end up all the cards and paralyzed the military power of tne more than ten years feels compelled to give an account of himself. ‘ the latter was headed by such fiends and cannibals like Hitler to private property on one-sixth of the earth. democracies.’ In spite of all the machines of destruction the But what an account! The USSR begins the war under un­ and Ribbentrop.” Instead, with the typical psychology of a labor bureaucrat, moral factor retains decisive importance in the war. By de­ favorable conditions because fascist troops were “ only awaiting This is less an argument than an insult to one’s intelligence. Stalin ignores the Soviet proletariat altogether in his speech, moralizing the popular masses in Europe, and not solely in the signal to move into action, whereas Soviet troops had little Stalin talks as though we are all like his flunkeys who must nod making no class appeal to them whatsoever. In this, Stalin re­ Europe, Stalin played the role of an agent provocateur in the time to effect mobilization and move up to the frontiers.” But their heads in agreement even if the Leader of the Peoples is minds one of the usual reformist labor candidate, who takes for service of Hitler. The capitulation of France is one of the why, then, was the Red Army caught unawares? “Of no little granted the support of the workers, and devotes himself entirely gibbering senseless words. Of course the Soviet Government could results of such politics. importance in this respect,” explains Stalin, “is the fact that have rejected H itler’s offer of a pact in 1939. The Stalinist hire­ to appealing to alien classes for support. That the workers may “But it is by no means the only result. In spite of the Fascist Germany suddenly and treacherously violated the non­ lings kept asserting, in the few days intervening between the be inspired by a revolutionary class appeal to do even more than Kremlin’s territorial seizures, the international position of aggression pact, disregarding the fact that she would be regarded pact and the outbreak of the Second World War, that the pact they are doing—-that consideration is alien to the labor bureau­ the USSR is worsened in the extreme. The Polish buffer as an aggressor by the whole world.” Hitler, it seems, didn’t warn was bringing peace and was a blow at the Axis—fantastic gib­ crat. disappeared. The Rumanian buffer will disappear tomorrow. Stalin of what was coming! berish but they had to say something—but Stalin knew perfectly How, indeed, could Stalin remind the Soviet workers of their Mighty Germany, master of Europe, acquires a common But couldn’t the Soviet Union, with its Intelligence Service, well that the pact was a go-ahead signal to Hitler, insuring him heroic conduct in the Civil War of 1918-1921? To do so would frontier with the USSR. Scandinavia, a place of weak and the devoted Communists within Germany (not to speak of the fact against an Eastern front. “Could the Soviet government have bring to the fore the question of the Soviets and factory com­ almost disarmed countries, is occupied by this same Germany. that for weeks before the invasion the whole world press was rife mittees which Stalin has destroyed—and which were the basic declined such a proposal?” Stalin now smirkingly asks. Yes, it Her victories in the west arc only preparation for a gigantic with rumors of it), find out in time and place itself on guard? had the elementary duty to decline, in order not to- give Hitler organizational form through which the initiative and inexhaust- move toward the east. In the attack on Finland the Red Stalin answers—-unbelievable words but here they are in the Daily able energies of the masses were then mobilized. (The Soviets of a free hand. Nor is this hindsight on our part; we denounced the Army, decapitated of its leaders, again by Stalin, demon­ Worker, July 4— : “ Naturally, our peace-loving country, not wish­ those days were rooted in every factory, formed on an occupa­ pact in precisely these terms at the time it was signed. strated its weakness before the whole world. In his coming ing to take the initiative of breaking the pact, could not resort tional basis—by deputies from the factories—functioning every 2. Stalin goes on to list the'gains which accrued from the march against the USSR, Hitler will find support in Japan.” to perfidy.” day and had nothing in common with the so-called “Soviets” of pact: “What did we gain by concluding a non-aggression Behold this gentle dove, unable to move first! Unable, that Prophetic words! And for them, and for his life-long service today which are “ elected” on the basis of vast geographical units pact with Germany? Wc secured for our country peace for a is, to move first against Hitler. Against Finland, with which the to the revolution, Trotsky was assassinated by Stalin’s GPU. and meet only pei-iodically.) year and a half and the opportunity of preparing its forces Kremlin had a pact, Stalin was able to “ take the initiative of break­ While thus ignoring the proletariat Stalin finds it necessary to repulse Fascist Germany should she risk an attack on our ing the pact.” Likewise against beaten Poland. Similarly Stalin to make a direct appeal to the class interests of the peasantry, country despite the pact.” For the Defense of the Soviet Union on whom he has so often leaned as against the proletariat. Stalin has found it quite possible “to take the initiative of breaking” Stalin has brought the Soviet Union to the brink of the abyss. knows, despite all his pretenses in past years aborit “ the irrevoc­ every clause in the statutes of the Communist Party, to violate These are all the advantages that Stalin lists. He could have His speech shows that he continues the same suicidal bureaucratic able victory of socialism” in the Soviet Union, that the collectives every clause in his own “ Stalin Constitution” of 1936. But against added a number of others: the seizure of part of Poland, the Baltic course today as before. Along this road the bottom of the abyss merely conceal the class-stratification of the peasantry: that Hitler he could not bear, for ethical reasons, to bring himself to states, Bessarabia, the land taken from Finland. Why does not can be the o n ly end. within the collectives and outside in the millions of remaining take steps in time. Has any leader ever told a more absurd tale? Stalin now list these as gains? How often the Stalinist press has individual land-holdings, the peasantry ranges from “millionaire This story alone disqualifies Stalin for leadership of the Soviet boasted about them! About how these territorial gains would That is why defense of the Soviet Union requires, today kolkhozi”—i.e., prosperous petty-bourgeois and even bourgeois U nion. safeguard the Soviet Union! Stalin now develops a sense of more than ever before, the overthrow of the totalitarian clique farmers—down to landless agricultural laborers. In the territory The true story, which is now clear enough, he dare not tell— delicacy about these territories and does not mention them at in the Kremlin and the revival of Soviet democracy. Only then which he occupies Hitler w ill be speedily seeking agents from namely that he intended all along to make a new and more far- all. Why? His silence is an im plicit admission of what we have can the full forces of the Soviet peoples be unleashed for the among the bourgeois and petty-bourgeois peasant elements. Hence reaching pact with Hitler, capitulating still further in the way said during the last two years: the loss of the sympathy of tens death-struggle against German imperialism. Only then can the Stalin appeals to them, warning them that Hitler “is out to of substantial economic and political concessions. That was why of millions of workers shocked by these brutal seizures, seizures traditions and methods of the October revolution and the Civil restore the landlords, to restore Czarism.” TASS, the Soviet press agency, on June 13, nine days before carried out in connivance with Hitler outweighs by far the War cross over the front lines to the German armies and dis­ But this appeal would have a thousand-fold more efficacy H itler’s onslaught, denounced the world-wide rumors of H itler’s episodic military-strategical advantages provided by the added integrate them with the corroding acid of the socialist revolu­ if it were to be accompanied as \n 1918-1921 by formation of the preparations for that onslaught, in the following terms: territories. tion. Soviet patriotism is inseparable from irreconcilable struggle peasants’ “committees of the poor” which, drawing sharply the “According to information at the disposal of the USSR, Stalin addresses the Soviet masses like a pettifogging lawyer, against Stalin and his degenerate clique. JULY 12, 1941 T H E MILITANT - 3

‘LABOR WITH A W H IT E SKIN CANNOT EMANCIPATE ITSELF The WHERE LABOR WITH A B L A C K W ill Japan Now SKIN IS BRANDED" — K A R L MARX. Unite the Worker and Soldier Negro Struggle Attempt To By ALBERT PARKER Bourgeoisie Deliberately Setting Soldiers Against Workers Attack the USSR?

How To Defend the Soviet Union By EUGENE VAR'LIN played a prominent role. Their-ex­ policy of the American War De­ to dr/ his full share in the when and why the militia By JACK WEBER periences have taught them tin- partm ent. strengthening of America.” would be used. When he started Last week we explained that workers, Negro The capitalist press, radio and lo speak about how riots broke Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union tends to need to organize, organization o: Fletcher Pratt, the New York This is one of the most flagrant and white, have the job of defending the Soviet other agencies of this c o u n tiy restore the situation that existed before 1939. The their class, the working class, Post “m ilitary expert,” wrote that out before this country went Union against its imperialist enemies, in spite of have been w aging a continuous and open efforts made up to this against precisely that class whose the soldiers making $21 a month into the last war also how great fear of Russia at that time was of an at­ Stalin’s crimes against the world working class campaign, sometimes overt, some time to break the bonds of sym­ representatives dominate the hour didn’t like to see already well necessary i t would be to call tack on two fronts, the Western and the Eastern. because the Soviet Union is a workers’ state and times covert, to turn the con­ pathy that tie the drafted worker geois American army. paid workers strike for more out the militia if and when The cancellation in blood of the Stalin-Hitler because its defeat by the imperialists would scripted worker in the army to iiis unionist brothers. How has the capitalist clast wages. Pratt would have liked the any city or state police forces pact serves almost automatically to cancel also greatly strengthen the bosses in their exploita­ against his worker-brother in the been attempting to overcome thés» soldiers to believe that. That it A R E V E A L IN G L E T T E R couldn’t enforce strict law and the Soviet-Japanese pact. The Japanese m ilitar­ tion and oppression of the workers everywhere. factory. difficulties? Here are some items: just what the bourgeois army of FROM A DRAFTEE order, in case of strikes. I put ists are forced to reconsider their position and This week we want to discuss how workers, and Frdm the beginning, the con ficers are trying to make them be The following excerpt from a let­ two and two together. He spoke to decide on a new line that will, in their opinion, especially Negro workers, can best defend the METHODS USED TO DIVIDE script soldier has been a problem lléve. ter addressed by a conscript to a on how vitally important it best suit their imperialist purposes. Soviet Union. for tile American bourgeo.xie. Mil SOLDIERS FROM The danger of another treacherous invasion Roosevelt did not dare to use friend shows how the officers are was for all manufacturers that By defense of the Soviet Union, it must be itary theorists like Hoffmann THE WORKERS of the Soviet Union, this time in the Far East, draftees to break the strike o! trying to poison the minds of the were making war weapons for understood, first of all we Trotskyists do not Nickerson would have liked to do? is manifest in the whole situation. If the Japanese The large majority of the draf the a irc ra ft workers. Pie used draftees. this country, to make sure that mean the same thing at all that the Stalinists 'w ith o u t a mass arm y. S.iCh ar diplomats and generals maintain complete silence tees were sent to tra in in g camps hardened veterans, many of whon “ Last Tuesday,” writes this con these weapons arc made with­ do. They don’t defend the same things we de, and hits, wrote Nickerson in his “ lhe; had broken strikes in China. But script, “we were given a lecture out delay due to strikes, he for a time, it will be due to the simple fact that they don’t defend thefn in the same way. Aimed Horde,” were dangerous: located far from their origina when Roosevelt’s Brigadier Gen by the company commander and said that if one person wanted they had not looked for so early a denouement they led to revolutions. But rhe residences. Thus they were separ What they defend in the Soviet Union eral Hers hey canceled’ the defer the subject he spoke on was for­ to work while another was on of the fascist plot against Soviet Russia in American 'bourgeoisie w a s pi-‘-p:n aied as much as possible from the first, of all is Stalinism, the power and priv­ ment of strikers, he did not speak eign agents in our army camps. strike it was no business of Europe. They had prepared, following the prev­ in;: for war and the eruditions of ileges and theories of the corrupt bureauc­ rest of their class, from their un in the name of these few hardened He pointed out that the soldier? anybody to try to make that ious line of Hitler., to turn south. Their immediate modern war demanded a mars racy that has seized control of the state. ion organizations. This policy i; veterans but in. the name of the are too far friendly with strangers particular person who wanted attention had become focused on the Dutch East conscript arm. What WE defend is the remains of the great­ reflected in the creation of tlu hundreds of thousands of drafted especially when they go to town to work go on strike. In other Indies and on Thailand as a first step towards est revolution of all time, the nationalized The workers of this country new United Service Organization! workers. He stated: and get a couple of drinks lptc words I think that if there are Singapore. This situation had reached more or property relations, the economic foundation are “bad” material for two rea­ which has been formed to raise their -systems, they blab of vfiar going to be strikes in the less of a stalemate owing to Japan’s fear of the “These citizen soldiers have which if extended will lead to socialism and sons. F irs t, there has been no es­ som ething more than 110,000,000 they do on maneuvers and what future the government is go­ Anglo-Dutch-American coalition against her. been promised that arms, sup­ a new kind of society. tablished tradition of conscrip­ to provide entertainment .facilities kin d of weapons are being used, ing to take drastic steps to Nevertheless the desire for the southern adven­ tion. The drafted soldiers are par­ plies and equipment will be also the different formations that curb the trouble. He said only ture had caused a withdrawal of troops and For example, a month ago, the Stalinists, for America’s armed forces. In ticularly reluctant to accept the its advertisements and press re­ furnished by their fellow- are used -when assembling for at in extreme cases would civilian forces from China and Manchukuo. Thus Japan feeling that the United States when it entered new, unaccustomed restl aims, leases. this organization points citizens who are engaged in the tack or retreat. I think that lit population be filed on.” was totally unprepared to exploit the new align­ the war would probably be in an alliance directed particularly when these arc im­ out that many, of the training production of ships, airplanes, was more than right, he also went ment of forces. against the Soviet Union, spent all their time Wha*t the capitalist, class is driv­ posed by officers of an alien class. camps are located over a dozen tanks, guns and other neces­ on to speak about what the fel­ The press continues to carry stories to the denouncing the war preparations of the U. S. ing at is obvious. Can it succeed? Secondly, and more important, miles from any town; that, fur­ sary munitions and supplies. lows write in their letters, he effect that Japan w ill remain neutral in the Rus­ government and trying to keep it from entering Can it really transform former the past few years have seen the: thermore, the soldiers sometimes “ They know that other regis­ said some of these letters are lost so-German war. It is repeated that Japan will the war with full military steps. As part of its union militants into opponents of rise of a mass, m ilitant t.rode-un­ outnumber the population of these trants have been deferred from and that we don't know whose soon take further measures against the French propaganda, the Communist Party dealt with the the working class and its strug­ ion movement in the United towns by as much as 10 to 1. This service in the armed forces to hands these letters are falling in Thailand in order to press forward towards Negro question and Jim Crowism, showed how gles? Can it., as Liebneeht wrote, States in which a large propor­ is hot accidental; It is an inevi­ accomplish that purpose. They into. the great menace of Singapore. But reflection w ill false are Roosevelt’s slogans about “a war for “square the circle,” “arm the peo­ tion of the young draftees have table result of the class-conscious demand that no citizen hesitate “He then went on to explain show that Japan must prepare to face the effects democracy”. ple against the people itself . . . , of the new phase of the second World War. Any Then came the Nazi invasion of the Soviet turn the workman into an oppres­ sor and an enemy, into a murder­ move southwards would bring inevitably a clash Union. And now the policy of the Stalinists in er of members of his own class with England and America. It is perfectly clear this country is not to “get out and stay out of What The New Turn Of Stalinism and his friends, of his parents, that the American imperialists do not propose the war,” but to get into it as quickly as pos­ sisters and brothers, children, to stand by while the Mikado’s forces extend sible. As a result, almost every single correct into a murderer of his own past their conquests still further. The United States argument the Stalinists used a month ago has and future.” sees its entire future at stake in Singapore and today been thrown overboard. The Daily Worker Means In China, Italy and Germany will fight any move to infiltrate into' the Malay no longer stresses the contradictions between a EXAMPLES OF 1917— region in a manner that would endanger this war for democracy abroad and Jim Crowism at WHICH SHALL WE FOLLOW? By DON DORE to put an end to the horrors of their rivals, the German bank­ great base. home. It no longer criticizes Roosevelt except w ar . . . ” ers. back in (he saddle. The Italian soldiers were not If such a war began, it is clear that it would because he is so slow at getting into the war. It “ The character of the war has changed’’ for Britain and the “That is why the German peo­ very much different from our soon transfer itself to Vladivostok and Siberia. calls on the Negro people not to oppose the war, United States, says the Communist Party. Yesterday, then, the allies of the ple do not count on the imperial­ own. Yet they comprised an es­ The USSR would be anxious to get all the help but to put pressure on Roosevelt to hasten Ameri­ This new line, as everyone knows, directly contradicts what Italian working class were “the rev­ ists of other nations to sax>e them. sential element in Mussolini’s possible from the United States through this can en try. the Stalinists said yesterday about the ruling class of Britain olutionary British workers . . . Fascist movement which crushed fighting for the defeat of British More, and more, the people ot port. Japan has practically served notice already In short, in order to get an alliance between and the United States. the organizations of the Italian Germany are realizing that for that she w ill not permit such help. The .Japanese Stalin and Roosevelt, the Stalinists are ready to That isn’t all that it contradicts. The flip-flop in America imperialism.” Today the Stalin­ w o rk in g class, th e ir class. freedom from tyranny and wars, proposal to designate the waters about Vladivo­ drop everything else, including the struggle and England might be explained away by the Stalinists on the ists declare the “alies” ol' the Ital­ And the American draftees of they must rely on their own stok as a zone of her own paramount interest, agrinst Jim Crowism. ground that these countries are ian workers are the “plutocrats of 1917? They, too, despite the rela­ strength, in collaboration with not to be used for getting help to Russia, is the now fighting a progressive war. the Daily Worker, June 4. said London” ! tive immaturity of the American the international working class first step in the direction of Japanese interven­ Yesterday, however, the Stal­ editorially: Yesterday the Stalinists correct­ trade unions, were not very much The Stalinist's and the movement. tion in the North. The Nipponese m ilitarists fear inists correctly characterized “Secretary Hull's latest contri­ ly explained (bat those “social-- different from the draftees today. Negro March “The salvation of the Ger­ that the ’I/njtetl, States win secure a base of as a progressive struggle the bution to the State Department’s ists” who support Britain against Yet, after the war, many of them man people, as of the people operations against Japan not thousands of miles A concrete example of the change in their war of the Chinese people intrigue in the Far East is a vague Italy are driving the Italian work­ joined strikebreaking, ultra-patrio­ everywhere, lies in Socialism. away—as is Singapore—but mere hundreds of approach to the Negro problem is the recently against Japan, the struggle of promise to surrender extra-terri­ ers into the arms of Mussolini tic organizations like the Ameri­ They will not permit them­ miles away. It would not be a big step from all- called-off Negro March On Washington. Before the German and Italian work­ torial privileges in China at some That is still true. Only now tin can Legion. The veterans of 1918 selves to be betrayed again out aid to Stalin, to an alliance against Japan the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Stalinists ers for liberation from fascism distant date not specified . . . Stalinists have joined the “social are in the vanguard of American when a full victory over capi­ and Germany. We do not predict such an alliance, bitterly criticized the leaders of the March be­ —and the program proposed “ Does Secretary H u ll’s vague ists” in this reactionary task. reaction to this day. talism is within reach.” but merely state Japan’s fear of one. cause they were tied to Roosevelt’s war machine, yesterday by the Stalinists for promises signify any reversal of YESTERDAY’S C.P. LINE Did this have to happen? those progressive struggles Today, however, the Stalinists No! The Russian Revolution because their demands were inadequate, because imperialist policy in China? it FOR THE GERMAN WORKER Japan P re p a rin g T o F ig h t ¡USSR they did not demand that the government support was diametrically opposite to would be very naive -to think so ... have ceased to call upon the Ger­ ought, for all time, to dispel Before June 22nd the Stalinist? man workers to fight for social­ the anti-lynch and anti-poll tax bills, because they the program they offer today "The ^Soviet Union in 1920 of its any illusions on that score. We may expect therefore, that Japan will warned the German workers that ism. That word has disappeared did not demand that the government stay out of to the Chinese, Italian and Ger­ own free w ill wiped out all imper There, the soldier-workers, far soon begin to transfer her armies back to the the fight against Hitler could be from all references to Germany.'1 war, etc. When the Roosevelt administration be­ man workers. ialist claims in China left over from being enemies of the north to be prepared for all eventualities. If H it­ waged only as a fight against Hit including the Kremlin's leaflets gan to put pressure on Randolph and White and from the imperialist Czarist re­ working class, actually aided ler gains tremendous victories over Stalin in YESTERDAY’S STALINIST le r and Churchill. An editorial ir “ appealing” to the German sol the other leaders of the March, in an attempt to gime. It did not have to make the revolution of the workers, Europe, the Japanese will be tempted to carry the June Daily Worker declared: biers. get it called off, the Daily Worker warned the PROGRAM FOR CHINA vague promises for some dislam playing a key role through the out their original plan of invading Siberia and “A Hitler or a Churchill Those leaflets call upon the Ger­ Negroes to be careful that they did not submit Yesterday the Communist Party future. Soviets of Soldiers’, Deputies. seizing the Maritime Provinces. In that case looks upon small nations and man soldiers to cease figh ting to the pressure and call off the march. warned the Chinese masses that Russia in 1917 had w h at Ita ly Vladivostok w ill be one of their first goals. But “But that was because it colonial peoples as mere pawns against the Soviet Union. But under no conditions should they and the United States lacked — as is often the case, their desire to prevent the Then came the invasion and a few days really meant it. Secretary Hull to be whipped as slaves, ex­ what do the leaflets offer the put their fate in the hands of tue a working class party fighting for United States from getting a toe-hold in Siberia, later Randolph gave in to Roosevelt, and in doesn’t mean it. Secretary Hull ploited and robbed. Under such German people as a way out? "friends” of China — Britain and the interests of the soldiers. The may precipitate just that which the Japanese return for a face saving executive order is an imperialist maneuvering N othing! the United States. rule, the people at home suffer lessons of the Russian Revolution generals fear. It is most unlikely that Roosevelt which granted very little, called off the in China for the greater glory tyranny as well as the victim­ And the Kremlin leaflet is “Only Anti-Imperialist Libera­ must he impressed on the trade will refrain from sending help to Russia through March. If this had happened a week earlier, Of W a ll S tree t and Standard silent on this score for weighty ized conquered peoples ... union movement of this country. Siberia because of any Japanese threat. His only the Stalinists would have raised holy hell, tion Policy Can Save China" was O il.” reasons: the Kremlin's allies They must protect not only the attacking and condemning Randolph. But the headline of a front page ar­ “The German Communists, in fear of aiding Stalin now would be that the We ask the members of the do not want socialism in Ger­ interests of the workers in the since the Stalinists now had a new line, they ticle in the Daily Worker of May spired by the triumphs of Social material sent might fall into German hands in Communist Party: isn’t Hull- many; the “democracies” offer factory but also the workers in uttered not a single word of criticism that 28. It cited the declarations ol ism in the Soviet Union, fear case the Red Army cannot hold out for a long Roosevelt's game in China the the German people only a sec­ the army. They must advance ? time. At any rate, some measure of help has the March had been called off. True, they saw Chou En Lai. leader of the Chin­ lessly raise the banners of na same “maneuvering in China for ond and worse Versailles. And program for the soldiers and must what they called a few “loopholes” in Roose­ ese Communist Party. The article tional liberation against theii already started, so that the clash of interests the greater glory of Wall Street in supporting Britain and the demand the. means by which this velt’s executive order, but their National declares: own Hitler imperialism. between Japan and the United States w ill soon and Standard Oil” that it was last United States, the Stalinists program can be put into effect. find a testing ground in the Far East. Negro Congress called it “a great step for­ “China must, Chou En Lai in­ “Like Communists EVERY­ month? Yet the Communist Parly are giving support to such a The bourgeoisie is trying to w ard.” sisted, always adherb to the plat­ WHERE, the German Com­ There are many who think that with Hitler’s today is sup pn rtiny all of Hull- second Versailles. divide worker and soldier. Its form of the national war of liber­ munists, bred in the Ernst invasion and the respite given to England as a We want to warn Negroes who watch the Roosevelt’s proposals to China! Such are the utterly reactionary efforts can be thwarted only by ation. and never join any bloc of Thaélmann school, reject the result, the United States w ill be held back from developments of the Stalinist line not to expect fruits of the new Stalinist line the establishment of military entering the war. But actually the new stage of imperialist warring countries.” YESTERDAY’S STALINIST subterfuge of those ‘Socialist’ a complete and open reversal overnight. If they for the German, Italian ana Chin­ training under the control of the European war has disturbed the stalemate LINE FOR ITALY gentlemen who easily see the did this, they would quickly lose all the 'influence Chou En L a i then goes on: ese masses. the trade unions. crimes of the ‘other’ imperial­ in the Pacific. Things are once more moving among the militant Negroes which they now "... China must pursue an in Did the Italian Communist ism hut lick the boots of their towards a crisis there, owing to Japan’s need to have. They will not drop their demand for the dependent and her own policy in Party yesterday call on the Ital ‘own’ imperialism and call it make a sharp turn-about in accord with the move passage of an anti-lynch bill, for instance. After the war and must not join the lan workers to support the “de­ ‘democracy’. German fascism of the Axis partner. The talk of neutrality merely all, many “liberals” who also support the im­ bloc of imperialist countries who mocratic” imperialists because the fears a Thaelmann as Wall covers intensive preparations for intervention perialist war, still think it would be good to are waging war ana mlusi i k . Allies were fighting Mussolini? Street imperialism fears a in the near future. That w ill bring the Pacific war pass such a bill. But the Stalinists w ill no longer renounce the principle of national On the contrary. The Daily Work­ B row der.” closer. make much of a point of it, and certainly will independence and freedom er, May 28, quoted the Manifesto Gn June 5, the Daily Workei support Roosevelt’s war plans despite his refusal “China cannot refuse foreign Pacific War W ill Begin in Siberia of the Communist Party of Italy published an editorial on th< to back the anti-lynch bill. aid. But we must clearly under­ Once vrar breaks out in the Pacific it will stand that the initiative, inde­ which declared: death of the former Kaiser, it naturally involve not merely Siberia, but all the pendence and achievement of vic­ .. The real interests of the which it stated: We Fight' On Against- Jim Crow imperialist possessions as well. But the first great tory with our own forces form Italian people lie in the colon­ “The Allied imperialists who battles will center in the north, in Siberia. As opposed to the Stalinist line, the Socialist the basis of state policy in our ial peoples becoming free and had been waging war against Naturally Stalin w'ould like to see the Japanese Workers Party finds no contradiction between armed resistance . . . ” independent, both from the the German barkers, also came revolutionary defense of the Soviet Union and remain neutral so as to leave the Siberian rear When Cordell Hull last month yoke of the plutocrats of Lon­ to their rescue and helped continuation of militant struggle for labor and alone. Soviet Russia could then concentrate on made some "promises" to China. don and from the yoke of the smash the revolution. Wall the European enemy. But Stalin must be well Negro rights. .plutocrats who hold sway in S tree t and London would be aw'are that the pact with Japan became another As the Manifesto of the Socialist Workers Germany and Ita ly... more terrified today if the Ger­ one of those scraps of paper the moment Hitler Party says: “The method to defend the man workers were about to “The British people today marched his armies across the Russian border. Soviet Union is to continue the class struggle overthrow Hitlerism and again are overwhelmingly workers, Stalin would prefer (so long as he still exercises against the imperialists. Defend workers’ would spare no effort to place our class brothers, exploited hi any choice in the matter) not to have any capital­ rights against government strikebreaking! the factories by the capitalists ist troops on Siberian soil. But if Japan attacks, Build (he power of the working class until it just as are the Italian workers. he w ill probably not be averse to coming to some becomes the governmental power. That is the Recently there gathered to­ agreement with the United States, giving the best service which the American workers gether in London representa­ latter bases on the Siberian mainland for opera­ can render to their brothers in the Soviet tives of hundreds of thousands tions against Japan. U nion.” of British workers who de­ Even if Stalin should suffer quick defeat, in In other words, class conscious Negroes must clared that they are fighting which case Japan would act very quickly, the continue their struggle against Jim Crowism. for the defeat of British im­ outlook of United States aid to the Siberian Together with their white brothers, they must perialism and wish to end the forces that remain is not excluded. For despite help to substitute for the present system of ex­ war ... Across the trenches and ■ the extreme importance of the English struggle ploitation and discrimination, a system of so­ war fronts we must stretch out to United States imperialism. Roosevelt could cialist brotherhood which w ill help to solve our our hand of comradeship to the not afford to allow the riches of the Pacific area problems here and to defend the Soviet Union at revolutionary British workers, to fall into the clutches of the Japanese without the same time. we must join them in struggle a fig h t. 6 — THE MILITANT JULY 12, 1941

General Marshall to make the recommendation. Roosevelt had no intention of submitting that recommendation, or the one seeking authority to Af t er Randolph Dropped take troops outside the Western Hemisphere, to a Where vote in Congress under the conditions prevailing last week. The Negro March We Stand Instead Roosevelt directed the occupation of Iceland. The people were confronted with the fact By Albert Goldman that there are now troops already outside the West­ ern Hemisphere. Randolph Hailed Roosevelt's Executive Order As The 'Second But that is only the beginning. Guarding the Emancipation Proclamation' But It Didn't Even Rate A Speech! The Soviet Union’s M ilitary Limitations routes of the North Atlantic to Iceland means It is undoubtedly true that even under the best of driving German raiders and submarines out of one By ALBERT PARKER a typical rank-and-file supporter of dent’s order and pointed out its circumstances the Soviet Union, in a strictly m ilitary sense, could not, at this time, be a match for Germany. of the chief areas in which the Nazis have been A. Philip Randolph and a few the M arch: weaknesses. He also, however, By the best of circumstances is meant a situation harassing British shipping. It means “ incidents.” others consider Roosevelt's exe­ “In Florida, a 77-year-old justified the calling off of the where the Soviet Union would be led by a party such And “ incidents,” Roosevelt and his supporters cutive order on Negroes and the woman sold a member of the m arch.” as brought victory to the Russian workers and peas­ hope, will change the conditions which confront war industries a “second Emanci­ Office of Production Manage­ * * * ants in the years of 1917-1920. pation Proclamation.” But appar­ ment staff a ‘jobless march them within this country. By the “ little ” extra- HOW ROOSEVELT’S ORDER Even if Lenin and Trotsky were alive and guiding ently Roosevelt' doesn’t. He didn't button’ and swore that she was legal action of involving the country in shooting LOOKS IN PRACTICE the destinies of the Soviet Union, the m ilitary strength speak about it over the radio; you going to take part in the par­ “ incidents” without having the constitutional au­ The New Jersey Herald Hews of Germany would be superior to that of the Soviet won’t see him reading the order in ade. She had money enough to thority to do so, Roosevelt hopes to create a situa­ states that Roosevelt order “will Union. For the simple reason that the m ilitary strength tho news reels; he d id n 't even carry her only as far as Savan­ tion in which he will get the necessary authority have little or no effect in New ol’ a nation depends in the long rung upon the develop­ hold a press conference on the nah, Ga., which is about six or from Congress to send any number of troops Jersey.” This seems certain if the ment of its industries and transportation. Nothing matter, as he does on almost ev­ 700 m iles sh o rt o f her goal, JOIN US IN FIGHTING FOR: conference between the Urban that Lenin and Trotsky could have done would have abroad, to lengthen the service of draftees, and, in erything else, small or big. but she was determined to get League and Glenn Gardiner, state succeeded in raising the general productive capacity 1. M ilitary training of workers, financed short, to wage large-scale war. The capitalist press gave the or the rest of the distance and director of defense training for of the Soviet Union to a level equal to that of Germany. In this vile game, Congress is of course a silent der practically no publicity. (It vowed she would make it if she by the government, but under control OPM, means anything. It must be The industrial capacity of the Soviet Union would would be interesting to find out had to walk.” partner of Roosevelt. Fearful of the,anti-war senti­ remembered that the first of the be far greater than it is, had the conditions during of the trade unions. Special officers’ how many newspapers south of What a'far cry this is from the ment of the great masses of the people. Congress three points of the order provides the Lenin-Trotsky regime continued to prevail up the Mason-Dixon line even men­ attitude of some of the leaders training camps, financed by the gov­ itself does not dare openly to debate the issue of that all governmental agencies until now. The destruction of workers’ democracy by tioned it). of the March, who had only to ernment but controlled by the trade war or peace. Instead Congress sits silently by “concerned with vocational and the Stalinist bureaucracy has been the greatest single Randolph had to speak about the' get into a Pullman train or a while Roosevelt executes the steps which, added training programs for defense factor in retarding the development of Soviet indus­ unions, to train workers to become order over the radio since Roos­ plane, and who were just as de­ together, means confronting the American people production shall take special meas­ try. For under a system of planning the right of the evelt wouldn’t. Hillman had to termined to see that the March o ffic e rs . with the accomplished fact of war. ures appropriate to assure that workers to check and criticize is a guarantee of the hold the press conference. Negroes did not go through! such programs are administered proper fulfillment of the plans. Take that right away And the very last thing that Roosevelt and had to wait for the Negro press 2. Trade union wages for all workers * * * and substitute for it the uncontrolled will of the to explain what the order was without discrimination.” Congress would ever agree to would be the pro­ Horace It. Cayton, labor editor bureaucrat and planned production loses a very large drafted into the army. about, and those papers didn’t do “This is a very deep-rooted posal to submit to popular vote the issue of war or of the Pittsburgh Courier', one of proportion of its effectiveness. a very good job at it either. sociological problem... I am peace. They dare not, because they know the people the speakers at the NAACP con­ The Stalinist bureaucracy to a large extent nulli­ 3. Full equality for Negroes in the armed All this indicates very clearly not very hopeful that it can be would vote against War. ference in Houston, describes a fied the tremendous potentialities of planned economy. forces and the war industries— Down how important Roosevelt considers solved ‘just like that’,” said A handful of Labor congressmen, under the s tirrin g speech by Robert M ing on Both the quantity and quality of products (especially this so-called “second Emancipa­ OPM spokesman Gardiner. “I with Jim Crowism everywhere. the Negroes and the armed forces, quality) suffered because the Soviet masses had the discipline of a trade union movement opposing tion Proclamation.” - can’t see that the President’s and then says: right only to execute the plans of the bureaucrats. entry into the war, could make a shamble of the * * * order w ill have any particular 4. A peoples’ referendum on any and all “In opp very real sense it was The strength of the Soviet Union would have been Administration’s strategy of pushing us into the effect on our program. Our a pity that they did not stop the immeasurably greater, from the point of view of its wars. war. But we do not have such Labor congressmen, NEGRO YOUTH BLAST function is helping companies meeting then, for A. Philip Ran­ industrial capacity, had the masses been directly in­ thanks to the false policy of the trade union leader­ RANDOLPH’S RETREAT in their training of employees. 5. Confiscation of all war profits. Expro­ dolph followed Ming. Randolph volved in the formulation and execution of plans. ' Randolph had no trouble in get­ It’s not for us to say who shall ship of backing Democratic and Republican can­ made an apologetic statement In addition to weakening the Soviet Union on the priation of all war industries and their ting his hand-picked national com­ be hired. didates. which finally led up to the fact industrial front, Stalin has sapped the strength of the mittee in charge of the March to operation under workers’ control. In the days of great crisis that are to come, that ‘they’ (I don’t know who “Naturally,” ho went on, “wher­ Red Army by removing and executing over ninety per approve its ‘‘postponement., but Labor must have its own party. That, if nothing ‘they’ were) had called off the ever our opinion is asked, it is cent of the highest and most qualified commanders. not. cancellation.” B u t the na­ 6. For a rising scale of wages to meet the else, is now painfully clear. In war or in peace the march to Washington. His argu­ our duty to encourage employment With those for whom black is white and white black, tional youth committee, which was ments concerning the reason for with no discrimination, but it’s the removal of so many generals and admirals con­ rising cost of living. working class cannot depend on boss parties. not hand-picked, but was made up calling off the march, as I under­ not up to us to take the initiative. stitutes strengthening of the army, but people of aver­ Build an Independent Labor Party—that is largely of delegates of different stood it, was because the Presi­ “The problem may solve itself age intelligence and not blinded by a fanatical loyalty 7. Workers Defense Guards against vig­ now an absolutely vital necessity without which youth organizations, had a differ­ dent had issued an executive or­ when there’s a shortage of un­ to Stalinism will easily recognize the demoralizing ilante and fascist attacks. the trade union movement cannot hope to survive ent attitude, and one which really der setting up a board for the pur­ skilled help, as well as skilled. effect that the removal of so many higher officers represented the feelings of 95 per this war in effective shape. Purely trade union is­ pose of integrating Negroes into It’s a tough problem, and the rea­ must necessarily have had on the Red Army. 8. An Independent Labor Party based on cent of the rank-and-file supporters sues have well-nigh ceased to exist. Every issue the defense program . . . son it’s tough is that everyone Even if one should accept the preposterous and ol' the March. the Trade Unions. involving the trade unions now brings the govern­ pussyfoots on it. I’m afraid at­ vicious falsehood that all the commanders executed At a meeting called to con­ “ It sounded pretty thin when ment into the picture, making it a political issue. tempts to pressure the thing in were fascists it would still leave an army without the sider Randolph’s report on why he stated it in the Good Hope 9. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern­ It is intolerable that at this late date Labor cannot the emergency may not work out.” services of officers who had the necessary experience the March was being called off, Baptist Church; it sounds even and ability to lead it against such a powerful instru­ m e n t. meet these issues with its own political party. That the youth com m ittee “ voted 44 worse when I write it today. And this is a statement from ment as the Germany army. must be rectified within the very next months. to 1 to repudiate the action of Randolph has a lot of explain­ an OPM official AFTER the is­ Do these facts mean that the Soviet Union, under the national executive commit­ ing to do, and so have all the suance of the so-called “ second any circumstances, would be destined to defeat? Not tee and to demand that the rest mixed up in the direction Emancipation Proclamation” ! a t a ll! "Shooting War" Stalinist Double-Talk m arch be staged w ith in 90 of the March—and he didn’t do Far better than Randolph’s days” (PITTSBURGH COUR­ it down here. Walter White, in speeches, it indicates what the Revolutionary Policy Could Defeat H itler The occupation of Iceland by American troops When John L. Lewis last Monday blasted IER). the last mass meeting on Fri­ government is really going to For the Soviet Union, were it under revolutionary w ill lead to “ shooting war” — all observers are Rdosevelt for using troops to break the North * * * day night, expressed his own do about Jim Crow in industry Marxist leadership, is in the possession of a weapon dissatisfaction with the Presi- — nothing. that is denied to every capitalist country, the weapon agreed on that. American Aviation strike, he became so impas­ The Chicago Defender tells of of revolutionary propaganda, the powerful appeal to But the Constitution of the United States pro­ sioned that his voice could be heard by news­ the masses over the heads of their rulers. Revolu­ vides that only Congress shall have the authority papermen waiting outside the closed doors of the tionary Marxists at the head of the Soviet Union to put this country into a war. CIO legislative conference. The reporters couldn’t would utilize that weapon to its fullest extent and U. S . And Britain Still it is this weapon that would more than compensate hear all that Lewis said, but they got the d rift of There is an obvious contradiction between the for the comparative m ilitary weakness of the Soviet move into Iceland and the constitutional exclusion things and knew they had a big story. Further Union. of. the President from the power to plunge this details became generally available by tacit agree­ Stalin is not capable of utilizing and w ill not util­ country into a war. ment of the CIO delegates. No paper could ignore Clash In Latin-America ize this all-powerful weapon. This is already indicated this big news. The N. Y. Times, for example, gave by the shocking fact that the heroic traditions of the To "protect” the routes from the United States American workers in steel, ma­ tions on raw materials, received 8, had secured from Churchill, last October Revolution and of the Civil War period have to Iceland—more than half-way across the North it front page display under the headline, “ J. L. a letter from an English supplier month, a promise to curtail this chinery, chemical products, rubber not been appealed to. Atlantic—means that, sooner or later. American Lewis Assails Roosevelt’s Use of Arm y in Strike.” and cloth are being sweated long offering to furnish finished trade drive. Instead, the Russian workers and peasants are ap­ warships w ill be in battle with German warships There was one paper, however,- that found hours to produce for Churchill. goods.” Tho British, it seems, now have pealed to on the basis of traditions that have nothing welched on this promise. The or submarines or bombers. That’s "shooting war.” Lewis’s war upon Roosevelt and his labor aids of And at the same time Brit­ This battle for Latin-American to do with their glorious revolutionary past. Here are Such “ shooting war” w ill, in all likelihood, oc­ little significance— in fact, not even newsworthy. ish workers in these same in­ markets between the British and trade drive has continued and a few gems gleaned from the Daily Worker: again the Congressional cloak­ cur before Congress acts on the recommendations dustries are being driven to U. S. “allies” reached its first “ Everybody knows how valiantly the Russians The Daily Worker, that "people’s champion of crisis in the early part of June rooms echo with maledictions made July 3rd by Chief of Staff General George produce capital and consumer fought during the battle on the ice of Peipus liberty, progress, peace and prosperity,” ran the when the N. Y. Times revealed in against the British. The American C. Marshall, who asked Congress to repeal the goods which are being sold by Lake. A p ril 5. 1242, when the K n ig h ts o f the June 8: drive to wrar is based upon the story of the CIO legislative conference down the the E n g lish bosses, a t a neat Teutonic Order were routed—the distant pre­ statutes which restrict service of National Guards­ theory that Germany is a threat entire length of its front page without once even profit, to South America! “On its tour of South America decessors of today’s fascists.” (D AILY WORKER, men and draftees to the Western Hemisphere. to the'South American markets. referring to Lewis’ attack on Roosevelt for strike­ This week U. S. exporters, stung early this year the British govern­ June 25.) Practically everybody was under the impres­ However, the American imperial­ breaking. by the new English commercial ment Willingdon Mission advised “The whole world knows of the splendid his­ ists w ill use this war to eliminate sion that no U. S. troops at all could be sent out­ successes in L a tin Am erica, are Latin Americans that England had torical victory of the Russians and their allies__ By patiently reading through a mass of routine a ll competitors from Latin Amer­ side the Western Hemisphere. The technicality un­ dem anding th a t Roosevelt do 1,000,000 tons of shipping serving the Poles and Lithuanians—near Tanncnberg in details concerning resolutions passed and commit­ ica, a llie d as w ell as enemy. der which Roosevelt sent regular marines and something about it. the South American ports. the fifteenth century, in July 1410. The destiny of tees established by the conference, one finally fol­ troops to Iceland plainly violates the spirit of “Crowning blow in the succes­ “ (American) exporters who rec­ WHAT THIS REVEALS the Slav world was at stake then ... The German existing statutes forbidding the main body of lows the continuation of the Daily Worker story to sion of incidents,” reports the ently returned from Argentina re­ ABOUT ENGLAND Teutonic knights threw the flower of their forces American troops from leaving the Western Hemis­ page four of the paper and there finds a buried N. Y. Times financial section of ported seeing pre-fabricated steel INTERNALLY into the fight... The battle was a fierce one. and watered-down reference to Lewis’s attack. J u ly 6th, “ came three weeks age pipe stacked up at a plant at Ros­ The Germans were utterly routed. From then on phere. This British drive for export “ There were widespread reports of a clash between when a company in Buenos Airef ario. The Argentine buyers boast­ the Teutonic Order was shattered and went to its If Roosevelt were a real and honest democrat, trade reveals much concerning the . . . Lewis and some of the followers of Sidney which was on the British black ed that the order had been placed inglorious end ... ” (DAILY WORKER, June 26.) he would have urged Congress to act on General internal situation in England. Hillm an,” the Daily Worker whispers. “ Lewis was list (of German or pro-German at a price more than 10 per cent “ In the 16th century, the troops of Ivan, the Marshall’s recommendation and would have wel­ below the lowest quoted by United The British workers are regi­ understood to have bitterly criticized Hillman for companies) entered the market Terrible, routed the German invaders in the States shippers. They added that mented in the name of the war comed general debate throughout the country on for Quantities of paper. According B altic... The struggle for the Baltic states was being at the President’s elbow’ when the executive the delivered consignment rep­ B u t the B ritis h bosses are s till whether or not American troops should go into the to exporters the order was sub a long one, running into tens of years, a struggle order ordering the Army to break the North Ame­ resented the second attempt by conducting business as usual in Eastern Hemisphere. stantial and at the instance ol full of unparalleled heroism on the part of the rican Aviation strike ... was drafted.” England to fill the order. The ship whatever' sphere they can realize But Roosevelt feared the consequences of such an English supplier the name o! Russians...” (DAILY WORKER, June 26.) Thus Lewis’s denunciation of' the anti-labor carrying the first consignment the most profits. The “most des­ a debate. He feared the pressure upon Congress of the Buenos Aires buyer was re It is obvious that Stalin is avoiding anything re­ philosophy of the Roosevelt administration is was sunk and the order was dup­ perate hour of British need” has moved from the black-list long motely connected with the revolutionary tradition of the great masses who, in spite of all Roosevelt’s licated and sent on a later boat. not imposed many restriction upon diluted and twisted until it appears to be nothing enough to enable the British com­ the Russian workers. He wants to assure his capitalist efforts, still do not want war. “ A t a paper-m aking pla n t on the big- British manufacturers. more than a flare-up between rival union leaders. pany to bid for the business and allies of his respectability. Whereas Churchill and Roosevelt is particularly fearful of the reactions the outskirts of the same city... While Nazi bombs blast England's Since the Nazi-Soviet war Roosevelt has again get its money, whereupon the com­ Roosevelt openly announce their hostility to Commun­ the owners said they were award­ production facilities and the work­ to General Marshall’s further recommendation become Galahad to the Daily Worker. It protects pany was put back on the black­ ism (which they of course confuse with Stalinism) ing a contract for paper-making ers are forced to work 70 and 80 that draftees shall be kept in service beyond the list again. Stalin has not a word to say about capitalism. him from attack, even from union leaders on the equipment to British producers hours per week to supply the war year which they were originally scheduled to serve. “ Indignation also was generated Indeed, the glorious traditions of the October revolu­ score of strikebreaking. This is the Stalinist offer­ because the latter had been able machine, the bosses produce steel last week when a manufacturer tion are completely alien to the Stalinist bureaucracy. If conditions remained as they stood last week, ing to Roosevelt in payment for his aid to Stalin. to underbid American makers by for export! of hard rubber goods, who has But they are a living part of the Soviet Union, inspir­ it would be impossible for Roosevelt to get that Fortunately the editors can’t eat all the back a wide margin. In Columbia and been compelled to curtail a rather ing the Russian workers and peasants to a fierce strug­ issues of the Daily Worker, though no doubt they’d Brazil active bidding for steel recommendation adopted by Congress. The extensive export business because gle against the capitalist enemy. If the Russian like to. When the North American strike was products was general on the part draftees themselves, as they come in on furloughs, of the defense program restric- masses win it will be in spite of the Stalinist bu- broken (before the Nazi-Soviet war) the Roose­ of English representatives who reaucracy. are expressing themselves very bitterly to their velt question was handled differently. were reported to be offering prices families and friends about this recommendation. On June 18 the paper said, “ The President is which American producers could They Love It The draftees feel that they made an honest con­ not match.” going forward (to) slavery for the organized work­ “Who says Business Men Don’t Read Books?” Is tract with the government: to serve one year. Now, Taking advantage of the war situ­ ers at the point of a bayonet.” And, on June 19, the head of a two column advertisement run by the like a Shylock who fixed up a flaw in the contract, ation, and the extreme dependency “ ...anothe r example of the rapid march by the John Day Publishing Co. in the June 17th issue of of British imperialism on Amer­ the government is trying to violate its original President in the direction of dictatorship and the the N. Y. Times. “They've made a best seller out of ican aid against the most aggres­ pledge. The draftees want their families and friends assumption of full war powers . . . “ Responsibility this one” : Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution. sive rival of both, the American to see to it that the government does not violate its for the wholesale sacrifice of fundamental princ­ The ad then quotes part of a review of Burnham’s imperialists last year launched a contract. I f Congress were to open debate this iples of government labor policy must be pinned book that appeared in Business Week: drive to force the British to relin­ week on General Marshall’s recommendation, it “ ... for the author picked the right subject at the squarely on the Roosevelt administration.” quish their hold on these markets. would be flooded with the biggest mail yet seen right time.” The latest zig-zag has beset the Stalinists with The British answered with bar­ No question about that. And he handled the sub­ by Congress, demanding that it stick to the original many problems— not the least of which is the gain prices. contract. ject in the right manner, too—to make it a best seller necessity of keeping back copies of the Daily Work­ The American government, the among businessmen. Businessmen love to be told that Roosevelt knew this very well when he directed er out of circulation. New Y o rk Times announced June socialism is impossible.