‘Peaceful Coexistence’ And the Sputnik (See Page 3) t h e MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE

Vol. XXI ■ No. 42 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1957 PRICE 10c WALL ST. PINS HOPES ON ARMS RACE SWP Election Drive Inspires Pushes War United Activities by Socialists Spending to Block Slump AFTER LITTLE ROCK. Candidates Campaign By Joseph Keller OCT. 15 — Sputnik didn’t Integration and flash into outer space a day In N.Y., San Francisco too soon for Wall Street. By Herman Chauka The Southern The stock market, an important indicator of the condition of the The election campaigns being waged by the Socialist “Moderates” profit system, had begun in Workers Party .in New York and San Francisco are By George Lavan recent months to sag in the providing a growing basis for united action by socialists middle and droop at both ends, The American public is sud­ it the hopes of America’s of various persuasion who share a common belief in the denly hearing a lot about South­ need to advance an independent socialist alternative to the ern “moderates.” Northern news­ declining 15% since July. The Soviet “moon” has lifted with Republican and Democratic parties of Big Business. In paper editors are hailing them as the hope of the South, the financial rulers. They see in it both cities prominent figures in the radical movement answer to the school desegrega­ a pretext to speed up U.S. militarization and thereby give are lending their support to public rallies on behalf of tion problem, the people who can prevent the reoccurrence ,of the capitalist economy another Socialist Workers Party candidates. such “ tragedies” as the federal shot-in-the-arm of war spending. Yesterday’s Wall St. Journal, Vincent Hallinan, former Progressive party leader, enforcement of desegregation at' JOYCE COW LEY, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Central High School in Little which complains that “cuts in w ill speak at rallies in both New Y ork and San Francisco Mayor of N. Y. and YINCENT HALLINAN, 1952 Progressive Rock. war spending have already made themselves felt in part,” observes on behalf of the SWP slates. The San Francisco rally on Party candidate for president, will speak at New York rally Who are these Southern “mod­ Oct. 25 for independent socialist political action . erates” ? What is théir program? in its lead article that “Sputnik Oci. 30 will be chaired by Warren K. Billings, heroic What can fighters against Jim and kindred Soviet achievements are propelling the cold war into fighter with Tom Mooney, against capitalist injustice. Crow expect from them? These questions and their answers will a tough new phase.” Both Hallinan and Billings have urged San Francisco assume increasing importance “TOUGH” TALK workers to vote for Barbaria and Jordan, Socialist Work­ Nat I Guardian Editors since the Southern “moderates” This leading financial and are being pushed forward into business newspaper cites the ers candidates for Supervisor. the national political limelight speech of Army Secretary occupied up tiil now by the Further support in San Francisco to the movement Brucker last week before a for united socialist political action came this week with Back SWP Rally in N.Y. Byrnes - Byrd - Griffin - Eastland women's group, when he stated: the endorsement of the Socialist Workers nominees by School of Southern politics. “You’ll never know the power (The following is the text of the Oct 10 letter from The pushing is being done by this country has, unless there is George Hitchcock and George Olshausen. Hitchcock, a well James Aronson and John T. McManus, editor and general important economic and political known San Francisco playwright, is chairman of the Inde­ a war. That power is so massive manager of the National Guardian respectively, urging interests in the South. And that nobody should ever risk pendent Socialist Forum in that city. Olshausen is a pro­ support to the New York rally- helping hands are being extended trying it out.” Ford-built rocket, planned to be launched from a balloon- minent civil liberties lawyer. for Vincent Hallinan and Joyce in a dark time in America have toy the Eisenhower administra­ The Journal then quotes “ one Cowley. The letter is addressed been most heartening to so many tion, the Northern Democrats suspended platform above Eniwetok Atoll, is one of U.S. of the Administrations’s most Their statement declares: “We believe that Labor answers to the Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile that has to Miss Cowley’s campaign man­ of us who suffered far less for and the Northern press. skilled diplomats’’ as follows: disrupted Wall St.’s war perspective. should have independent representation in government. ager, Carol Lynn. — Ed ) our convictions than he did. A PECULIAR TERM “ When you ta lk peace a ll the In addition, 1 am convinced Frank Barbaria and Joan Jordan, candidates for Super­ Use of the label “moderate” time, people get to believe that Dear Miss Lynn, that the dismal record of both visor, are running fo r office because they feel the same is as wide, all-em'bracing, and you’re never going to use what­ This is to let you know, in major parties in the city and consequently as vague, as cur­ ever power you have.” way. Moreover, they are both active socialists whose reply to your query, that I will nation leave only one recourse rent usage of the term “liberal.” All this “tough” talk, of course, program emphasizes the socialist future of mankind. Al­ be glad to give my support to for intelligent voters — inde­ As applied to the (Southern scene Hurl "Spy" Smear at Wife doesn’t preclude some maneuvers the meeting oh Oct. 25 at Central pendent political action. In my though the undersigned do not necessarily agree with it is being employed to describe in the direction of “peaceful co­ Plaza, when Vincent Hallinan opinion, for a progressive citi­ every point in the program of Frank Barbaria and Mrs. (1) anti-integrationists not iaen- existence.” But it does indicate will speak for the candidacy of zen to vote for the candidates tiiied with fire-eating statements that official propaganda is Jordan, we endorse their candidacies for the stated rea­ Joyce Cowley for Mayor. of either of the major parties of absolute defiance ot the Su­ To Prejudice Sobell Appeal being pitched to prepare the sons and call upon the citizens of San Francisco to vote I have the utmost admiration in the New York Mayoralty preme Court decision and legis­ American people for an intensi­ for Mr. Hallinan whom the Na­ election on November 5 would By Myra Tanner Weiss for them on Nov. 5.” lation to destroy it at any cost, fied arms race and the sacrifices tional Guardian supported in his be a foolish waste of a valuable (2) those who may have taken that further inflationary war In New York, support continues to grow for the Oct. campaign for the Presidency on ballot. OCT. 17 — A ferocious campaign, inspired and or­ the abovç positions but who spending w ill entail. 25 Cowley rally, at which Hallinan w ill speak. In a letter the Progressive Party ticket in Sincerely, ganized by the FBI and the Department of Justice, was nave since indicated that they 1W52. His courage and optimism James Aronson unleashed this week in a desperate attempt to prejudice MORE SACRIFICES of Oct. 10, James Aronson, Editor of the influential iheiieve nulluication, interposi­ I concur! Certainly, the Democrats are weekly, the National Guardian, urges support to the rally. tion or abolition ol the public the appeal of M orton Sobel! t

Bittleman's Tresh Hungary and ‘Plot’ Theory of History By John Thayer -&) is one taken at random: Aptheker, plosion and general strike in coincidence is the Russian word THE TRUTH ABOUT HUN­ Poznan which so g re a tly for the same thing. GARY. Ry Herbert Aptheker. building a case th a t the uprising Look7 at CP Crisis New York: Mainstream Pub­ was planned abroad and the accelerated the march of events. plans known to insiders, finds Is this because Poznan was a FACTS TREATED VAGUELY lishers 1957, 256 pp., $3.00 significant ‘‘fo r its clear sense of miniature of the Hungarian Though A ptheker does not By Harry Ring (paper $2.Q0). immediacy” and a “firmly Revolution and because Apthek- essay an estimate of the number “By its very nature the 20th Congress tof the Com­ This book’s purpose is to phrophetic vision th a t very soon er’s thesis was attempted and of Communist Party members killed in the ‘‘white terror” and munist Party of the Soviet Union] was bound to inspire furnish. jiisÇoric^ï proof fpr the this [uprising] would be at­ ingloriously disproved in the claim by the Kremlin and Kadar tempted,'' the following state­ trials which followed ? More­ “pogrom'" that he maintains was true democrats, Socialists and Communists,” says Alex­ regime that last year's Hun­ ment by the exiled, former over, Aptheker is in the Curious the Hungarian Revolution, he ander Bittleman in his serialized garian Revolution was really a Premier of Hungary ferenc position of approving Poland’s gives the impression that it runs construction” project necessary counter - révolution to restore Nagy (not to 1» confused w ith October while denigrating Hun-j into the tens of thousands. In article on the crisis of the Com­ ijj the fir s t place. Such a dis­ capitalism and was principally Imre Nagy). “I know that soon g a ry’s. the summer of 1957 the Kadar munist Party entitled, “I Take cussion would yey^&l npt only inspired and led by imperialist the time w ill come when I shall The chapter entitled “Efforts government issued Volume III a Fresh Look.” As of this writ­ that the CP leaders ?nMe the agents and |fç>rthyite fascists. bend my knee and kiss that at Change” attempts to give the of its “White Book’’ on the “error” of serving as blind apol­ uprising, containing a list of ing, eleven installments have Thé Stalinist'movement in this sacred American soil, and thank regime credit for reforms, un­ ogists for 'Stalin, but also that country has in the past com- it for paving given bread to my wittingly it traces the rapid CPers killed by the revolution­ appeared in the Daily Worker. their politics were, and still re­ /hissioried similar jobs. The aim, family, and respect to me. Then growth of a storm y mass move­ ists. There are 201 names — According; to Bittleman, “ Com­ main, tailored to serve the inter­ a decade ago, o f The Great Con­ I shall turn my steps home, to ment. This movement abruptly 166 of them were members of munists especially were ’bound ests of Kremlin foreign policy spiracy by Sayers and Kahn was my Hungarian people, to shoulder disappears in the next chapter the AVH, the hated secret police, to be stimulated by the fresh and not the interests of the to prove the Moscow “confes­ humbly new cares and new entitled “The Uprising,” and in 26 were party officials or in the American, the iSoviet, or the service of the AVH. Between Oct. look which the 20th Congress sion” trials were gospel truth burdens, and build with my its stead emerge Horthyites, im­ w orld w orking class. and that Trotskyists were fascist modest strength, on the physical perialist agents and a pitifully 3 and Nov. 4, 1956 the freedom took at the world, to themselves For example, Bittleman points mad dogs. Such “ proof” depended and spiritual ruins — a new na­ smail handful of duped workers. fighters jailed 2,829 persons. take a fresh lopk at th e ir own to the period when Earl Brow on slander and falsification. But tion.” In life, the growing mass move­ Over 2,000 of these were mem­ programs, policies and organiza­ der was dumped as one where times have changed requiring a If one is patient enough to ment, in the next chapter, made bers of the AVH. tions.” the party “went overboard” in different method and different hunt back almost a hundred the leap onto the barricades. This does not excuse lynching changing its line. Omitted, But. he woefully adds, “ in our authors. pages, one learns that the book If newspaper readers learned or execution without trial. however, is the key fact that own Party it did not work out Aptheker, the author of this in which this statement appeared anything about the Hungarian B ut i t shows th a t the neither the decision to oust quite like that. The bright new book, has a reputation as a was published in 1948 and that Revolution it was that workers’ vengeance wreaked was not of Browder, nor the cfiange in line, vision tended to become some­ scholar for his very creditable consequently its “ clear sense of councils played a very important the mass proportions claimed by what obscured for the American studies on Negro history. How immediacy” predates the out­ role. I recall but one mention Aptheker but compares with tihe people and the American Com­ well that reputation will sui’vive break of the Hungarian Revolu­ in this whole book of workers’ unrestrained acts of other popular munist Party by certain aspects this present work is question­ tion by eight years. councils. Here it is: “In the uprisings. It is, for example, less Some Buried History major factories it [the Kadar than that which followed the in the reanpraisal of Stalin’s able, but he indubitably stands Budapest workers shown inspecting two of the Kremlin's In laying the groundwork regime] is encouraging the overthrow of Mussolini. More­ role. . . This may not have on a higher m oral plane than artillery guns they knocked out of action during the Hungarian Aptheker minimizes facts that development of workers’ councils over, can Aptheker claim that added much to our difficulties.” About Bittleman the literary frame-up artists revolution which began Oct. 23 last year. The anniversary would weaken his case. Notable (not regional councils) which are the Kadar regime since its Bittleman informs us, “but it The Daily Worker failed to who concocted The Great Con­ Article on this page exposes the propaganda lies of the Soviet is the ignoring of the effect in to Confine their activities to triumph has not executed more certainly did not help.” offer a single biographical spiracy*. H is method is not th a t bureaucrats against the vuppressed uprising. Hungary of Tito’s break from of open, conscious falsification. economic and management ques­ than 201 communists and so­ This almost ludicrous “esti­ note in publishing Alexander the Kremlin and the mere His sins are those of omission tions, however, and not, in a cialists and jailed more than mate” of the shattering impact Bittleman’s “fresh look” passing mention given the frame- rather than Commission. agents to dethrone Louis XVI able money to increase wartime syndicalist manner, enter into 2,829? of the 20th Congress on the series. This ommission un­ up that shook Hungary — the befoye and during the Revolution. dissaffection in Czarist Russia. the p o litica l arena."'’ In addition The Kadar regime has had a doubtedly. arises out of the Rajk trial. Moscow,'s Control Communist Party is born of Bit- NOT CHEMICALLY PURE And in the Russian Revolution I t hadl spies and secret agents in to a definition which would make year now to produce evidence fact that Communist Party over Budapest is sloughed over. tleman’s efforts to prove the Since revolutionary upheavals of 1905 what about those crowds Russia. Did they not participate the Russian soviets of 1917 proving its thesis — which is history proved embarrassing Thus Aptheker explains the 195f roots of tlio CP crisis aj’e pure­ and the masses th a t make them expressing at times reactionary in the February events ? A “syndicalist,” a history of the Aptheker’s — that the revolu­ ly “American,” springing from after the Stalin revelations. downfall and expulsion of are never chemically pure, almost and anti-Semitic prejudices? And jucier fact than any Aptheker Hungarian Revolution minus tion was imperialist and fascist unfavorable “ objective” circum­ Yet some of Bittlem an’s his­ Premier Imre Nagy solely by any revolution in history can be what about the insurgent groups cites on Hungary is that the workers’ councils is like a his­ inspired and led. That it has not tory should be of interest. In internal economic causes, not stances in thi? country and “sub­ detracted, smeared, even that were getting money from German General Staff trans­ tory of the Bolshevik Revolution been able to do so is the 1937 he undertook the defense hinting that Nagy was a ‘‘Malen­ jective” errors by the party. “proven” its opposite by omission the Japanese imperialists with ported Lenin from Switzerland minus soviets, which by no mere strongest refutation of this bobk. of Stalin’s frame-up trials. kov man” and was accordingly of disagreeable facts and care­ whom Czarist Russia was then to Russia. Using the treatment STEIN S VIEW He wrote a pamphlet called dumped by Khrushchev when ful selection and compiling of at war? Lenin noted them, said today employed by Aptheker The entire tract is intended to “Trotsky the Traitor” in the latter won round one in the those Conducive to the desired Such things were inevitable in => quite an impressive “documenta­ provide a “theoretical” platform which he said, “ Conspiracy conclusion. This is the method revolution and of minor im­ tion'' was once assembled "prov­ Kremlin. Wherever the author for the drive now being launched with Hitler and Japan to dis­ feels it necessary to censure the of the plot theory of history portance. ' ing” that the Bolshevik revolu­ Young Socialist' Creates ¡by the Eugene Dennis-Sid iStein member the Soviet Union . . . Kremlin, he softens the blow as according to which blind masses tion was a German-inspired plot. wing of the CP leadership (with to engage in wrecking activi­ What a travesty of historical much as possible. are manipulated by clever con­ reality Aptheker’s plot-theory the apparent acquiescence of ties . . . to plan assassination In his treatment of the spirators. Thus the standard and selection-omission method FALSE USE OF QUOTE Wm. Z. Porter) to “reconstruct” of Soviet leaders. . . Trotsky “errors” of the Hungarian CP bourgeois “ explanation’-’ of Rus­ could make of the February 1917 Stir at Two Universities the crisis-ridden organization. and his agents have been Three-quarters of this book is leadership he also engages in sia’s October Revolution is that •Revolution which overthrew This drive was opened w ith a proven guiSty of a ll these un­ devoted to laying the historical apologetics. Though sometimes By Fred Halstead it was a clevely executed coup Czarism. How many figures that report by Stein, national organ­ speakable crimes.” From the and political basis for the con­ he goes as fa r as to describe d’etat by a tiny minority, not a emerged in leading roles turned The official student newspapers of two major Western ization secretary of the party, 20th Congress came the ad­ cluding thesis about the actual these “errors’’ as “crimes,’'’ the real' revolution by conscious out in ten months to be white to e. July 27 National Committee mission that these charges revolution. Many useful and in­ reluctance is painfully apparent. universities devoted front-page-lead articles to the ap­ masses. A century ago French terrorists, anti-Semites, restora- teresting facts are presented. meeting and entitled, “ Rebuild were all lies. Little wonder pearance of the new radical youth newspaper, The Young royalists "proved” that the Great tionists? And would Aptheker The author has ransacked books, POLISH STRUGGLE the Party!” he and his fellow CP leaders •Socialist, on the occasion o f its French Revolution of 1789 broke maintain th a t even those masses articles, speeches by U.S. p o li­ IGNORED fear discussion of the 20th first distribution at the cam­ the mixture of youth and intel­ In this report, to the party bu­ out and raged fo r years because which swung over to support of ticians and Hungarian emigres, Congress. It is easier to forget Notably lacking is a descrip­ puses. The Colorado Daily which lect.” The students sre told to reaucrats, Stein did not try to the Orleans branch of the royal Bolshevism completely shed and etc., fo r a useful phrase or than to explain. tion of the interaction of the reaches 11,000 students at the steer clear of “the untried” un­ slither around the obvious rela­ family aimed to supplant the never expressed their centuries- sentence to fortify his argument. events in Poland and Hungary University of Colorado in Boul­ til “the quieting judgment bf tion of the 20th Congress to the Bourbons. It is indisputable that old prejudices of anti-Semitism This slanting, this straining for leading up to their fateful der, headlined an objective and maturity sets in.” CP crisis j> s Bittlem an does in the Duke of Orleans paid huge during and after October? Ger­ detective-story clues, leads to October Conclusions. There is no factual interview with a YS dis­ One of the editorials ends Jhe Daily Worker. The basis for originated in the American CP. sums of money to innumerable man imperialism spent consider­ many ludicrous assertions. ]Here •mention of the working-class ex- the crisis, said Stein, is found That particular somersault — as tributor: “Socialist Distributes with this frantic note: “Once “in the serious weakening of with all the others since the Paper, Proposes Discussion you have embraced an ideal as what some o f us call our moor­ Stalinization of the party in the Group.” your own it w ill become hard to ings or our ideological founda­ 1920’s — sprang directlv from The Daily Bruin, published at lose, even though la te r consider­ tions.” Tfiese consist of “confi­ the changed foreign policy needs A Paper Victory at Brighton the University of California at ation may show it wrong for dence in the firs t land of so­ of the bureaucratic caste in the Los Angeles (17,000 students) you. Think!” Another Daily Bruin editorial cialism. . . For 27 years such K rem lin. By Peter Fryer Industry and Society (the new participation of every militant In addition to campaigning for devoted half the front page and attacks the YS proposal for free confidence abounded in our par­ But, it will be argued, all of1 Labor Party program) was de­ worker in his local Labor Party: such demands as these, the B rit­ three long editorials in its Oct. This is the conclusion of the discussion of socialism alleging ty .” But, he added, “ the founda­ that ip in the past. Now “ the scribed by Bevan in lobby con­ these are the guarantees th a t so­ ish Left will have to think about 7 issue to an attack on the analysis of the recent confer­ that “this group does not desire tions crumbled when it became ideological roots of our party versations at Brighton as “rub­ cialist policies will prevail in strengthening its links with the Young Socialist. The Daily clear from the 20th Congress of ence of the B ritish Labor P art;’ to come into the open with the are right here in our own coun­ bish” (though this did not pre­ the Labor Party. industrial workers by setting its Bruin’s banner headline reads: the CPSU that Soviet society try .” and the tasks of the Left in vent his applauding it!) It is “Socialists Stir at UCLA.” presentation of its ideas to the Britain. — Ed.) * * * face resolutely against any pro­ was not as we had pictured it.” rubbish indeed, for it envisages an The Colorado Daily reported general student body,” and that LIVE TOGETHER The Right wing cannot derive posal for a wages standstill, 'Stein, like Bittleman, signaled approach to the economic tasks When the nevt Labor govern- that YS supporters hope “to es­ the UCLA campus already hhs much satisfaction from its pa­ from whatever quarter that pro­ the need to divert the discussion Those who may believe this of the next Labor government ment takes office it will start tablish an organization cither on ample free discussion. per victories at Brighton. The posal may come; and by playing in CP circles from the grave is­ should read Bittleman with par­ which would castrate that gov­ with a substantial nnd experi­ or off campus, according to the British workers are moving Left­ a part in the important strug­ A QUICK REPLY sues posed by the 20th Congress. ticular care. I f nothing else, he ernment and pave the way for enced L e ft wino- in the partv, a wishes of its members. His Tthe wards. Right-wing influence will gle for one-hundred percent trade The need of the hour, they both has the dubious distinction of another spell of Toryism. factor which did not exirt in YS distributor who was inter­ These attacks were answered melt like snow under the influ­ unionism, which is essential if say, is to concentrate on “Amer­ spelling out the T>olicv of the 1945.. The Brighton conference viewed) hopes were raised by in an open letter to the Daily ence of the class struggle. A has given the Left the opnor- the employers’ offensive is to be Bruin editors by Peter Allan, ican” problems. nartv leadership in surprisingly CAV-t STAGE-MANAGE the ‘fine reception of the ma­ mass movement on wages and tunitv, if its lessons are studied contained and beaten back. Los Angeles corresponding Ed­ Stein assured one and all that frank fa^hiVn. w;s point of de­ WORKERS jority of students who accepted rents, against the hydrogen in the constituencies, as thev itor of the Young Socialist. democratization w ill be “ ac­ parture is the line reiterated at The R ight w in '1, can no long­ FOR IDEOLOGICAL ARMING the newspaper.’ ” bomb and the Tory government, surely will be, of beginning to “Since the Daily Bruin monopo­ celerated” by Khrushchev and the 20t*i Congress on the need er succeed, as i t used to, in will solve the paradoxes which arm itself now for the General The political arming of the The Colorado Daily article ly on campus,'"’ A llan said, “ is Company. B ut he was very charry to establish a “durable era” of willing the wool over the eyes marked the conference. Election and the great tasks movement with a common pro­ continues: “ He stresr-ed repeat­ well fortified by an administra­ of putting all the CP’s eggs in peaceful co-exi^ten^e with w'orld of the rank and file. (No one The trade union leaders and which will follow it. The most gram oup-ht to be supplemented edly that his aim is to further tive ban on distribution of ‘ra­ one basket. “I do not want to capitalism. He spells out the fact has anv illusions about the ef­ the Gaitskellites are very much essential weapon in the armory by an ideological arming. The discussion of socialism, but not dical’ literature, a few of us create the impression,” he hasti­ that the Kremlin concept of co­ ficacy of the decision taken on afraid of the rising tide of work­ is a program: a list of funda­ results of the Brighton confer­ to propagate any particular be­ stood outside the gates of ly added, “that it is the founda­ existence means a “live- and let rents, for instance. Tt. means pre­ lief. The socialist youth group ing-class militancy. This is why mental "political objectives around ence have set tens of thousands UCLA, in broad daylight, and tion of our ideological rebuild­ live” deal with capitalism which cisely nothing, as The Observer which publishes the newspaper is the union leaders are so eager which the entire Labor Left. of Labor Party members talk­ handed out the paper to all stu­ ing. . . For the ideological roots completely sacrifices the inter­ was cmick to point out.) For the largest within the U.S., he for a new Labor government. non-M arxist and M arxist, can ing: there is a new and salutary dents willing to read it. . . of our party are right here in ests of the workers. vears it has been nossible gent- claimed. It has no connection They are frightened that the unite. To the extent th a t such a readiness to go to the very roots “ M r. Welch, on his p a rt rests our own country.” “The emerging period of Iv and unobtrusively to stage- with either the Communist Par­ Tory government will provoke urogram is agreed and fought of the -problems the movement is his case on the reports of the This does not mean that Stein peaceful co-existence and com­ manage the annual conference. industrial strife on a scale which for together by such vehicles of ty or any adult socialist party, C alifornia Committee on un-­ favors cutting the CP’s ideo­ petition,” announces Bittleman, But the movement of /millions of grappling with. In discussions on •might have unsettling effects in L e ft-w in g opinion as Tribune he explained. The group has sup­ American Activities. I have be­ logical ties with the Kremlin. It “ does not call fo r the abolition workers determined not to theory with other socialists, just trade union head ¿ffices. The and bv the tens of thousands of ported the Hungarian and Po­ fore me the 4th and 5th reports is necessary to combat the po­ nf capitalism in the U jS. . . . knuckle under to the blows being as in the industrial and political union leaders do not want to “ old-fashioned socialists” in the lish Revolutions, he said. (1948 and 1949) by this com­ tion, he declared, “that our fu­ To use the scientific terminolo­ struck at their hard-won rights fields, British Marxists can make challenge the big capitalists; localities, it will act as a magnet “ As a w orking force, it hopes mittee, Mr. Welch. . . The re­ ture depends on disassociating gy of Marxism-Leninism, the is not to be stage-managed. a useful contribution to the they do not want to mobilize for all the healthv forces in the common pool of ideas, provided ‘to establish a joint relationship ports list as alleged Communist ourselves from the land of so­ social and political nature of the Nothing can prevent the work­ their forces, lest these forces get British working-class movement with all radical youth groups or Communist fronters suih cialism .” struggle will be generally dem­ ers from resisting; and in the they remember that they do not out of hand-. The logical exten­ and will galvanize and inspire willing to work together for a people and groups as John ocratic, not socialist.” course of their resistance there know all the answers, and that sion of this unwillingness to the active members of the party Socialist Movement. We w ill take Huston, Danny Kaye, Gene DANGER IN DISCUSSION Can the OP be “ reconstructed” wrill £e manv who will learn that thev have something to learn as fight is the Fabian New States­ for the hard, slogging Ibut re­ anyone, even a form er commu­ Kelly, Gregory Peck, Edward But both Stein and Bittleman on tVie basis of a urogram which economic militancy is incomplete well as something to teach. man’s appeal last week that the w arding w ork th a t afwaits them. nist, who believes in Democratic G. Robinson, Judge Isaac understand that the projected rules out a socialist perspective without political militancy; that There now begins an uncom­ unions should undertake to ac­ Socialism’. . .” Pacht, Lena Horne, Assembly­ “ reconstruction” cannot proceed for an entire “historical pe­ their place is inside the Labor PROGRAM FOR LEFT monly favourable period for the on the ¡basis of a searching, riod?” Does such a program co­ cept “restraints and responsibili­ development of a real, combative, man Hawkins, Prof. Charles Party, demanding there that the This program ought to sum­ UCLA — A “FOCAL POINT” party-wide discussion of the incide with the realitv of Amer­ ties” under the next Labor gov­ united Left in Britain, strongly Beard, the American Civil Lib­ political fight against capitalism marize the most important so­ The Daily. Bruin article, by revelations from “the land of so­ ican developments? We w ill Re­ ernment. In other words, work­ influenced by Marxist ideas, re­ erties Union, and a number of is waged relentlessly, thorough­ cialist steps which the Left be­ Bruin City Editor Tom Welch, cialism” which made the “re­ turn to these questions. ing-class standards are to be sponsive to the feelings of the noted professors who are at this ly an

Iption U p* r year. ■Urne* artielea faqr eomtrfb» 41.60 fo r 6 m o n tla . F o re irn : ators do not neoessa rlly reP* resent The WQlltanl’s pollaiee. *«.00 per year; *2 .*o fo r 0 t h e MILITANT These are ezpresseé in ita month»#. C anadian: |3.60 per Published Weekly in the Interests of the Working People editoriale. The Sputnik and Disarmament re a r; 91-75 fo r 6 m onths. THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION “ Entered as second olass By Art Preis Bundle Orders: B or more 116 U n ive rsity PL» N . T . 3. N . T . Phone: AT. 5-7466 tn a tte r M arch 7, 1944 a t thè ooples 6c each tn U .S., 7o Post Office at New York. Editor: DANIEL ROBERTS N.Y., under thè act of March In the heyday of world cap­ sized the latter point when he against those who spread the •aoh In foreign countries. Business Manager: FRANCES JAMES *. 1879/* italism before World War I, said on Oct. 8 that ‘‘the rocket slogan ‘‘disarmament.” He wrote many leaders of the. Second (So is a terrible and pitiless weapon. in his famous article in the Dec. Vol. XXI - No. 42 Monday, October 21, 1957 cialist) International held the We do not want to misuse our 1916 Sbornik Sotsial-demokrata, view that the capitalist system superiority. But . . . we are now a Bolshevik journal published in would evolve peacefully and entering the period when fight­ Switzerland, that “ the preaching painlessly into socialism. They ers and bombers w ill have to be of ‘disarmament,’ which is de­ claimed that the class struggle, confined to museums . . .” Prav- liberately addressed to the pres­ da, the leading Kremlin news­ Set-Back for U.S. Imperialism as depicted by Marx and Engels, ent governments of the imperial­ ist great powers, is the most was “outmoded” and that the paper, declared that the Ameri­ The Eisenhower Doctrine, blared forth Hussein just dissolved the parliament and hackneyed opportunism, bour­ capitalists themselves could be can rulers now face the “ inex­ orable necessity of peaceful co­ geois pacifism, which in reality after the Suez crisis, is now under attack declared m artial law. The U.S. fleet sailed persuaded by appeals to reason into view and Jordan was apparently and humanitarian feelings existence, cessation of the arms serves only . . . to divert the even by its staunchest supporters. The race, and renunciation of their workers from the revolutionary delivered over to the U.S. to abandon their in fe rio r and U.S. took over from Britain and France ■brutal system fo r the superior cold war policy.” struggle. For such preachings in- The State Department’s time-table The idea that the great cap­ noculate the workers with the the job of “policing” the Arab countries system of socialism. italist powers can revert at will thought that the present bour­ listed Syria and Egypt next. First, • ■When the firs t world war to keep them safe for the profit system. to a non - imperialist, non - war geois governments of the im­ economic pressure was applied — called broke out, these preachers of The instrument for this task was the perialist powers are not entan­ moral persuasion could not be­ policy completely contraverts the by Egyptians the “ Big Squeeze.” Around fundamental concepts of Marx gled in thousands of threads of “ Eisenhower Doctrine,’' announced by the lieve that the capitalists had $30 million of Egypt’s assets in the U.S. finance capital and dozens of President at a special session of Congress been deaf to their entreaties. Ob­ and the great Marxist teachers, Lenin in particular. hundreds of corresponding (i.e. last year. were “ frozen.” The U.S. cut its export of viously, the enlightened capital­ lubricating oil, cut its economic aid pro­ ists of their own country must Before and during World War predatory, murderous, preparato­ ry to imperialist wars) secret The fine print in this Doctrine soon be­ have been provoked to war by I, Lenin revealed in a series of gram, turned down Egypt’s request to treaties between themselves.” came clear. K ing Saud, the slave-holding exceptional and particularly jus­ brilliant studies, climaxed by his buy wheat and cut o ff sales o f spare (Emphasis in original.) monarch of Saudi Arabia, was wined and tifiable circumstances. These “so­ master work Imperialism—The parts for Egypt’s canal tugs. Highest Stage of Capitalism, Disarmament, said Lenin, is dined in Washington, then sent forth as cialists” ended up by supporting Syria and Egypt accused the U.S. of that imperialism and war are in­ conceivable only-under world so­ chief sales agent fo r U.S. policy. Now the war. • aiding plots to overthrow their govern­ When Stalin was alive, he herent in the very nature of cialism, because “ in the socialist Saud him self is begging the U.S. State capitalism. He showed that im­ society there will be no wars, ments. Eisenhower then waved his war added a new twist to this con­ Department to renounce its policy and ception. The capitalist nations perialism was that stage in the which means that disarmament threat. He declared Syria a danger to the development of the capitalist reassure the Arab countries of its “ peace­ had not been persuaded to main­ w ill be realized.” peace of the Mideast, claimed Jordan and profit system where great mo­ ful” intentions. tain the peace among themselves O f course, under certain un­ Lebanon were frightened by Soviet arms despite the similarity of their nopolies controlled the basic favorable conditions, even the means of production and huge Lebanon, one of the first Arab coun­ shipments and threatened to invoke the economic system. But the Krem­ mighty U.S. imperialists might tries to O.K. the Eisenhower Doctrine, is lin leaders after World War II aggregates of' capital in the agree to some “ peaceful co­ Eisenhower Doctrine to meet the “Com­ hands of tiny financial cliques reported to have asked the U.S. to release propounded the view that the existence” treaty, including some munist challenge.” (The U.S. had re­ capitalist world could be per­ dominated' the world. The ac­ form of “disarmament.” They it from the agreement. (Lebanon has al­ jected an earlier Soviet proposal that the suaded to peacefully accept the Lenin, speaking, and Trotsky (marked X), co-leaders of cumulation of capital which m ig h t fa vo r some such tempora­ ready received its share of the $200 mil­ m ajor powers agree to send no arms to coexistence and the competition the Russian Revolution of Nov., 1917, at a meeting of revolu­ could not be profitably invested ry expedient in the event of a lions provided in the Eisenhower Doctrine of a large end growing area in tionary workers ancl soldiers. Both urged international revo­ at home led to a drive for the cruc’al crisis at home, a new Arab countries.) export of capital and to a strug­ for support of U.S. policy.) King Saud is which the profit system had lutionary socialist class struggle as the only way to halt or upsurge of laibor struggle for in­ But the Eisenhower Doctrine failed to prevent imperialist wars. gle for foreign fields for cap­ stance, or a great revolutionary also proposing the abandonment of the been abolished and nationaliza­ scare the Arab nationalists. The Arab tion of the basic industries in-, ital investment and trade. upheaval in another part of the Lenin showed that ‘‘imperialist Eisenhower Doctrine. revolution has far greater strength than stituted. could be changed. The question to themselves, they might agree capitalist world. wars are absolutely inevitable of peace and w ar thus boiled to a peace pact w ith the So­ The Kremlin has repeatedly At first, it appeared the U.S., loaded the Wail-Street government thought. The MERELY BAD “POLICY” under such an economic system, down to an ability to reach the viet Union. Thus, the great ad­ demonstrated its willingness to >vith dollars and atom bombs, would meet previously willing servants of pro-West as long as private property in Both the earlier Social Demo­ minds and the decent instincts vances in Soviet military power, betray the emancipating strug­ the means of production exist.” little opposition. Iraq, the home of the policies had to retreat. Eisenhower and cratic and the later Stalinist of the capitalist rulers. now capped by the development gles of the working class and (Emphasis in original.) Baghdad pact, went along. Lebanon Dulles were left with a Doctrine to views started from the same The Kremlin has added a still of the intercontinental rocket as colonial peoples for the sakfe of agreed. In Jordan, where there was con­ “protect” Arab countries that don’t want premise. They 'both contended further argument to this concep­ revealed in the .projection of the CONFIRMED BY HISTORY deals with the imperialist pow­ that imperialist aggression, mil­ tion that the capitalists can be Sputnik in to outer space, are siderable nationalist onDosition, King “projection.” The history of the world' since ers. During the war-t'me coali­ itarization and war are simply made to see the light and aban­ regarded as the clinching argu­ 19(14 has repeatedly and con­ tion between the allied imperial­ don w ar as a basic instrum ent of a policy deliberately chosen and ment in convincing capitalism in clusively proved the truth of ist powers and the Soviet Union, preferred by certain capitalist their international policy. If the general, and U.S. capitalism in Lenin’s theory. Over and over the American Stalinist leaders leading capitalists could be con­ governments or c 1 i q u e s. If particular, to accept “peaceful again the richest and the most were the most rabid strike­ The Hungarian Revolution vinced that imperialism and war enough pressure or persuasion coexistence.” powerful capitalist nations have breakers and advocates of the in­ are not only wrong tout costly, This week marks the anniversary of ers continued. For two months the Work­ were used upon these war-in^ Soviet Communist Party lead­ temporarily saved themselves centive pay speed-up plan. Even clined elements, their minds unprofitable and even hazardous er Nikita Khrushchev empha- conservative laibor bureaucrats, the great Hungarian revolution for na­ ers Councils continued the ir open activity, from mortal economic crises by resorting to militarization and like the late Philip Murray, at­ tional independence and workers demo­ organizing new demonstrations and strikes war. The world-wide economic tacked the Stalinist union lead­ and repeating the demands raised early cracy. I t began on October 23, one year depression of the Thirties was ers for their criminal strike­ in the revolution — withdrawal of Soviet ended only by the advent of breaking and their offer of a ago, when security police fired on a ... Smear Sobell’s Wife peace-time no-strike pledge. troops and the institution of workers World War II. The post-war in­ demonstration in Budapest. democracy The central demand of the (Continued from page 1) Tompkins: What did you do “After two and a half days stability, wrhich threatened to A ll programs fo r peace which The Hungarian masses armed them ­ rect examination of Reino Hay­ with the $5>000 that you buried on the stand, he stood revealed turn into a full-blown depression do not have as their starting general strikes was for legalization of in Bear Mountain? as a bungler who could not car­ by 1949 when unemployment selves as popular revolutionary masses hanen, who is represented as a point the class struggle and the the Workers Councils as permanent poli­ Hayhanen: I kept it myself. ry out the simplest assignment. rose to nearly six million in the fight for socialism, are a snare. always have, by disarming the police, self-confessed Soviet spy, an un­ tical bodies w ith sole a uthority over the derling of Abel. According to the Judge Mortimer W. Byers: His own testimony gave rise to U.S., was quickly turned into a They do not alter the war-like capturing arsenals and winning over the management of industry. Department of Justice prosecu­ Didn't he bury it? How could the question of how he escaped new war “prosperity” with Tru­ nature of capitalism in its most ranks of the army. The workers launched tors, Hayhanen turn-coated five he both bury it and keep it? detection from the time he en­ man’s military intervention' in advanced stage of imperialist de­ The reply of the Kadar regime was to Tompkins: Did you dig up the tered this country illegally in the Korean civil war. Only the a general strike. Councils — organs of months ago in Paris and volun­ cay. But they can and do delude outlaw the regional and city-wide Work­ tarily offered his services to the money ? 1952 until he turned himself in continuation of gigantic milita­ and disarm the working class in workers power like the Soviets of 1917 — Hayhanen: Yes. ers Councils, to arrest their leaders and FBI. to officials of the American Em­ ry expenditures has enabled U.S. the real battle against war—the appeared on a nation-wide scale in the One wonders at the ineptness, bassy in Paris five months ago. capitalism to delay economic decree a death penalty for strikers. The On Oct. 15, as a prosecution struggle for workers’ rule and not to say idiocy, of the depart­ catastrophe. factories, the army and neighborhood witness, Hayhanen was led by “The prosecution finished di­ arrested leaders — including Bela Annicz, ment of espionage in Moscow Lenin was especially $cathing socialism. Assistant U.S. Attorney William rect examination of Hayhanen by kreas. The workers fought overwhelming Sandor Bali and the 23-year-old president which would order its allegedly F. Tompkins into a statement having him give a long, almost military odds with a spirit akin to that key agents to have anything to of the Budapest Workers Council Sandor that the witness and Abel re­ unintelligible explanation of the of the Paris Commune which inspired do w ith anybody connected w ith Racz — have s till not been released. ceived $5,000 in 1955 from the code he used to exchange mes­ Sobell’s wife. As claimed in this generations of class-conscious workers. Neither have the other prominent par­ Soviet government to try to buy sages with Moscow. The content very hearing, she was under con­ of the messages was not reveal­ .. Southern'Moderates' The blood-bath, begun Nov. 4 by the ticipants in the October events — the the services of Mrs. Sobell to spy stant surveillance by police and for the Kremlin. Sobell had been ed nor was the reason for his (Continued from page 1) and Clement believe in consti­ bureaucrats in the Kremlin, demonstrated the F B I. I t would be obvious long-time Communist and Spanish Civil originally arrested on spy charg­ final defection.” tuted government of laws.” even to amateurs in espionage L ittle Rock crisis came to a head. once and for all the idiocy of any belief War veteran. General Pal Maleter, and And Hayhanen hasn’t even It should be sufficient com­ es five years before. that Mrs. Sobell was sure poison in the possibility of their “self reform.” been cross-examined yet by de­ It was also at this conference mentary on the reliability of the the writers Tibor Dery, Byula Hay, Tibor Hayhanen, carefully guided by for any spy. fense counsel. that the “moderates” w’ith the Southern “moderates” to point The role of the Workers Councils after Tardos and Zoltán Zelk. the questions of the prosecution, A good portion of the press is apparent consent of the anti- If veteran court-room observ­ out that Gov. Faubus himself the armed conflict ended — with the The fate of these and thousands more made plain that he had never treating ‘this aspect of the Hay­ Negro extrem ists, such as Gov. ers and correspondents of the qualified for that label until last spoken to Mrs. Sobell, never con­ hanen testimony with scarcely Timmerman of South Carolina workers o f “ red Csepel,” the industrial — workers, intellectuals and Communists conservative press wonder how August when he began his cam­ tacted her in any way and that concealed disbelief. The account and Gov. G riffin of Georgia, as­ heart of Budapest, being the last to lay who participated in the revolution and she didn’t even know of his ex­ Hayhanen was “ selected fo r es­ paign against the court order to in the Oct. 17 N.Y. Herald-Tri- sumed the role of public spokes­ down arms — gave the lie in the most istence. He and allegedly Abel pionage work in the first place,” integrate Central High. Indeed, who were arrested — remains unknown. bune, which hitherto has taken men for the South and inter­ fina'ily took the alleged $5,000 we have the rig h t to question Faubus was considered an out­ ¡convincing way to Stalinist propaganda They have not been put on public tria l unquestionably the FBI side of mediaries with the administra­ and buried it in Bear Mountain. whether he was a Soviet spy to standing Southern “liberal” and about saving Hungary from “Fascism.” this and sim ilar cases, is w orth tion for withdrawal of federal because a revolution cannot be tried w ith ­ After adjournment of court Tues­ begin with. After all, so far we on that basis received campaign quoting a bit extensively to in­ troops just sent to Little Rock. For over a month after the Nagy govern­ out convicting its accusers. It is the duty day, the prosecution must, have have only his word for it, the support from t he AFL-CIO and dicate its disgust with Hayha­ Gov. Collins was also elected ment and any capitalist-restorationist realized that someone might ask word of a confessed lia r and Negro voters. of class conscious workers everywhere to nen and his testimony. The Tri­ chairman of the Conference. elements there were had dissappeared, to see this money — have it bune reported: thief. Is he not, in fact, a paid What is the political record demand the immediate release of these A clue to what may be ex­ dug up. “ Reino Hayhanen. . . described agent of the UiS. Justice De­ which entitles Collins to the la­ the general strike by the socialist work-** prisoners. pected of these “moderates” is So, the prosecution put its star how he double-crossed his boss partment giving perjured testi­ bel “modorat e” ? Campaign­ that during the conference none witness Hayhanen on the stand and others long before he de­ mony to bolster its flimsy cases ing for reelection in 1956, he of them condemned the actions again the next day and asked fected to the West in May of this and tainted evidence? boasted that during his tenure of their fellow delegate, Gov. him if the money was still buriad. year. The stolid, balding agent Mrs. Sobell has issued a state­ Florida had not admitted a sin­ Helen Sobell Faubus of Arkansas, even though This time, the witness Claimed for the Kremtin described him­ ment contemptuously denying gle Negro child to a white the Little Rock crisis was oc­ to recall that he, unknown to self as a lia r and a th ie f in such Hayhanen’s statement as a Anyone who has followed the sensa­ was proved guilty or was framed up by cupying the attention of the school, that no lawsuits were Abel, had secretly gone to Bear matter-of-fact tones that ob­ cooked up scheme to prejudice tionalized press treatment of the state­ the FBI? pending for admission of a Ne­ Mountain, dug up the money nnd servers in the court room won­ her husband’s appeal. Even if whole country. Only Gov. Mc- ments about Helen Sobell, wife of the Who .is persecuting Helen Sobell and pocketed it himself. The actual dered how he could have been she had not said a word, H ay­ Keldin of Maryland, a Republic­ gro to an elementary or second­ famous Alcatraz prisoner, Morton Sobell, why? The answer is simple. After long course of the questioning went selected for espionage work in the hanen’s story would have spoken an, who owes his election in ary school and that a Negro stu­ large part to the Negro vote, py Reino Hayhanen, witness against years, the case of Morton Sobell is now like this: first place. loudest against itself. dent had successfully been kept condemned Faubus. On the other accused spy, Rudolph Abel, must wonder before the Supreme Court. That court hand the “moderates” quickly out of the University of Florida what the press is up to. Some o f the has never studied o r passed judgement on and unanimously deplored the despite a Supreme Court order headlines create the impression that Helen the “conspiracy” case of Julius and Ethel ¿ending of federal troops to that he be admitted. Sobell is now being accused o f being a Rosenberg and Morton Sobell despite the Arkansas as “tragic.” They were Against the counter claims of then given the assignment of his rivals for the white-su- spy. fact that the Rosenbergs were executed going as a .deputation to confer The Oct. 16 Ni.Y. Mirror’s front-page (the first execution in an espionage case with Eisenhower on means of premacist vote, Collins argued headline read, “Spy Got 5Gs to Lure Wife in the history of the U.S. by a civil court recalling the troops. that their methods and plans of Sobell.” A page three headline said, in peace time) and Sobell put in prison. Gov. Marvin Griffin of Geor­ for thwarting the Supreme “Spy N?mes Sobell’s Wife.” However, The Department of Justice and the By Anne Chester figure and leader. By the author KARL LIEBNECHT. Man With­ gia, defeated for the conference •Court’s desegregation ruling of Two Friends of Man. out a Country. By Karl W. chairmanship by Collins, was put were impracticable while his those who went on to read the story, cooperating capitalist press are trying to Manager, Pioneer Publishers * * * on the deputation as the sole Meyer. 1957. 180 pp. $3.25. were practical. Upon reelection learned that Helen Sobefll had never intimidate the Supreme Court. They are representative of the fire-eaters, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN In the generation since the he called a special session of received tn y money, had never been trying to pressure the Court out of look­ COMMUNISM. By Theodore assassination of this great revo­ but to facilitate the venture he MONIST VIEW OF HISTORY resigned. legislature to pass a five propositioned by Hayhanen, and had never ing into the 1951 trial of so-called “atom” (IN DEFENSE OF MA- Draper. 1957. 498 pp. $6.75. lutionary leader there has been The first detailed, extensively point anti-integration program even laid eyes on the man. spies. I f this case were objectively in ­ T E R IA LS M .) By G. V. Plek- only one other biography of him SHORT-LIVED documented history of the for­ w ritte n and i t has not been devised by a committee of eight vestigated, if the new evidence, obtained hanov. 410 pp. $1.35. The ‘‘moderates” quickly made Furthermore, the charges made by mative period of the Communist translated from the German. Long unavailable in this coun­ a deal for the troop withdrawal. lawyers of his choosing. Hayhanen would strain the imagination of by the defenders of Morton Sobell, were Party. Reviewing it in the This new biography in English try, this brilliant study of the O nly a second look 'by the W hite The program was passed and even the most gullible and hysterical spy- examined, Sobell would have to be set free. Summer 1957 issue of Interna­ will fill a depjoraible gap in the rise of materialist philosophy, House at the temper of public tional Socialist Review, James bookcases of socialist-minded became the ¡model fo r that soon hunter, searching for agents under the But more important to the government, beginning with the French opinion both in the U.S. and P. Cannon, one of the founders Americans. adopted by North Carolina. It the FBI would be convicted of organizing materialists of the 18th Century, abroad led to its hasty repudia­ bed each night. W hy should the K rem lin of the Communist Party and now * * * may well become the form ula fo r a monstrous frame-up, instigating false is an unusual bargain at this tion and the obviously correct seek, to obtain the “spy” services of a chairman of the, Socialist Work­ Southern racist frustration of price. Lenin said of it: “A ers Party, said, “It belongs in BLACK BOURGEOISIE. By E. stE.tement that Faubus couldn’t woman who is known throughout the testimony in a U.S. court and knowingly remarkably logical and valuable school integration. At present it the library of every socialist Franklin Frazier. 1957. 264 be depended on to protect the country for her tireless efforts to win permitting, if not instructing, witnesses exposition of dialectical material­ m ilita n t.” pp. $3.50 plus 15 cents fo r nine Negro children at Central is the second line of defense to justice fo r her husband who has been to lie to a jury. ism.” * * * mailing costs. (Originally High. * * * which the Jim Crow forces, buried in Alcatraz for eight years — on ^he FBI fears exposure. But its present AUTOMATION AND SOCIAL $4.00). Following the failure of the routed at Little Rock where they alleged “ spy” charges. pressure campaign may boomerang. The THADDEUS STEVENS. By PROGRESS. By S. Lilley. A searching examination of the deal with Faubus, Republican Ralph Korngold. 160 pp. $2.00 fought under Faubus and the What “spying” could she do with the 1957. 225 pp. $3.25. economic position of the Negro Governor McKcldin of Maryland, hounding of Helen Sobell, we believe, will plus 15 cents for mailing “ Dr. Lilley explodes the myth middle class and its pretensions a member of the deputation, told banner of interposition, have re­ FBI hounding her every step? What in­ not weaken her in her fight for justice. costs. (Originally $6.00). that the only reason capitalism — social', cultural and political — a TV audience that Faubus was treated. Commanding this second formation could she obtain, when many But it should arouse indignation among A magnificent biography of; does not make a massive tu rn to leadership of the Negro strug­ “ no more opposed to interracial defense line are the “moderates” people have been so frightened by the many thousands who m ust have been at the leading capitalist revolu­ to automation is because of gle fo r equality. By one of use of public schools than are —Collins and Hodges. witch hunt that they’re afraid even to tionist of the Civil War and. prohibitive costs,’"’ said an Aug. America’s outstanding sociol­ the three Governors who worked least amazed and pijzzjed by the obvious Reconstruction periods. A full- 12 review of this book in The ogists. A “must” book for all with me. The only difference is (Next week: The “moderate’* look into her husband’s case to see i f he smear c^pipaign. length portrait of a tremendous! M ilita n t. serious students. , that Governors Collins, Hodges record in Florida and N.C.) Detroit Socialist Leader Tne MILITANT Urges Vote for Patrick VOLUM E X X I MONDAY, OCT. 21, 1957 N U M B E R 42 By Saraih Lovell Negro representation in office, Another weakness of the Pat­ Patrick puts himself forward as rick movement is the attitude of DETROIT, Oct. 13— Only one a candidate of “all the people.” its leadership toward forces Dr. Nathan important question will be set­ This is supposed to be “smart” whose only interest in Negroes tled in the Detroit election on politics, but ■ it isn’t really. is how to use and exploit them. Nov. 5, and it is this: Will the An example is its inviting May­ Labor Party, A-Tests Negro people, over one-fifth of HIS REAL STRENGTH or M iria n i to speak a t some of Gives Class the c ity ’s population, at last, win The PACT is that Patrick the Patrick meetings. representation on the Common wouldn’t even be in the runoffs Council, or will the anti-Negro if the Negro community wasn’t WHOM MIRIANI SPEAKS FOR O n K. Marx elements succeed in keeping the determined to win representa­ Miriani, tlie big business can­ Issues in S.F. Campaign NEW YORK, Oct. 16. — Dr. Council lily-white? tion on the Council. This is didate (stupidly endorsed by the Otto Nathan, executor of the As candidate for Mayor in the Patrick’s strength, not his weak­ labor movement), promises to SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13 — The Socialist candidates Albert Einstein estate, will teach September “non-partisan” pri­ ness. By proceeding fro m this continue the policies of his pre­ for Supervisors, Frank Barbaria and Joan Jordan, spoke a course in “Karl Marx and mary election, I advocated the fact, and by defending and ex­ decessor, the late Cobo, whose Contemporary Capitalism” as to a filled hall here last night on their campaign ex­ nomination and election of Wil­ pounding the principle of- Ne­ record on civil rig h ts issues was part of a program of socialist periences. Joan Jordan told of-3 liam T. Patrick, Jr. as Coucil- gro representation, he could in­ notoriously reactionary. Miriani dangerous cloud and advise them studies beginning next week, her appearance at the CIO Coun­ anan. So did the Wayne County spire and mobilize the many Ne­ is also the candidate of the to do likewise. The head of the sponsored by the Socialist Unity cil where she was questioned on CIO Council, the Socialist Work­ groes who did not bother to vote groups circulating -the "Vote team agreed but had second Forum. Dr. W. E. B. Dubois, her program for over 45 ers Party and large sections of in the primary, and whose pres-' Right, Vote White” poison right minutes. thoughts at the entrance and the Negro community. Patrick renowned Negro Historian and ence at the polls next month now. “The Council members were called his boss. He was fo r­ ran ninth among the 18 candi­ author, will lecture on “The Ne­ may spell the difference between | The fight for Negro repre very interested in our call for bidden to mention the danger dates nominated for the runoff gro in American History,” as election and defeat. sentation is not helped, hut hurt the formation of a Labor Party,'' and would not allow Mr. Crandai, where nine Council members will part of the same series. Other By speaking out openly for and discredited by letting Mi­ said Mrs. Jordan. “In fact this the editor to make one. I t is to be elected. instructors are Dr. Barrows be hoped that everyone took their the principle of Negro repre­ riani speak at Patrick rallies. Dunham, former chairman of idea is getting a very fine Patrick’s good showing in the regular Saturday-night bath and sentation, and by stressing the The main asset of the Pat­ the Department of Philosophy, reception. In nearly every union prim ary was due chiefly to the added the precaution of a common interests of the white rick movement is that it is in­ Temple- University, Kumar that allows questions from the Negro community’s justified de­ workers and the Negro people, | dependently organized, but that floor the members want to know shampoo as w ell,” she said. sire to win representation in of­ Goshal, World affairs editor of Patrick also could win greater 1 asset can be dissipated by asso- how a Labor Party would work.” Carl Fine, speaking on the fice at all levels. The desire the National Guardian and F. G. interest and support among 1 ciation with the Mirianis and Frank Barbaria reported a struggle to stop atomic weapons was also reflected in the nomina­ Clarke, socialist writer and lec­ white workers. Candidates claim­ other capitalist politicians who similar experience and added, “I testing, said, “There are three tion of two other Negro candi­ turer. ing to stand for “all the peo­ are responsible for the Com­ find that officials of the unions things we can do now. First, we dates, George H. Edwards and A reception for the faculty of ple” are a dime a dozen, and mon Council being all-white to­ are listening with a great deal urge the unions to pass resolu­ Charles M. Diggs, who ran 13th the series of classes was held tions sim ilar to those passed in make little impression. day. October IS at which Dr. Nathan of care to the idea of forming and 16th in the primary. .Despite such serious weak- one of the Los Angeles UAW B u t many w hite workers can spoke. He said that the society a Labor Party. They realize that ; nesses, the P atrick movement locals and here by the ILWU. . . HAS BEST CHANCE ■be attracted by a Negro candi­ we live in is “profoundly sick” more and more repressive labor 1 remains the best vehicle of win- Second, we can jo in groups th a t P atrick ran ahead of Ed­ date trying to show them that and pointed to the preparations Warren K. Billings (left) and John T. McManus. Billings has legislation is being supported ! ning Negro representation in seek to educate people about the wards and Diggs, and has a their interests too will be pro­ for nuclear warfare and wide­ endorsed Socialist Workers nominees in San Francisco. McManus by their so-called ‘friends.’ Inde­ ! this election. We socialists urge dangers and lastly we can vote better chance of being elected moted by having on the Council spread corruption even within is urging support to the New York raliy for Vincent Hallinan pendent political action is be­ ^ all enemies of Jim Crow, white for the socialist candidates for two reasons: His candidacy a candidate representing the as­ the unions as symptoms of that and Joyce Cowley Oct. 25. (see story page 1.) coming mors attractive especially 1 and colored alike, to promote irank Barbaria and Joan Jordan, is the result of independent and pirations of 7the Negro commun­ sickness. Dr. Nathan stressed the in the eyes o f local officials ity , which are basically the same 1 that principle by working active­ who are closest to the rank and who have a clear record of op­ fairly broad organization in the need for socialist education position to nuclear weapons aspirations that the white work­ ly between now and Nov. 5 to among workers in particular. file .” Negro community, which they testing.” ers have. ■ elect Patrick to the Council. Quoting from Trotsky’s work lack, although Negroes voted for Publications Fund Drive FALLOUT HAZZARDS The socialist candidates are them too; and he has CIO sup­ “In Defense of (Marxism,” he The main topic for the evening visiting union meetings and civic p o rt. .said, “ No m atter how talented was the danger of atomic groups every night. They had i But Patrick’s election is by and devoted to socialism an emi­ Poll Shows Extent Of Detroit Bias fallout. L. Kelly Mayhew, an very good response last week at no means assured. grant from the bourgeois milieu DETROIT, Oct. 13 — Last week the University of Michigan Gets Growing Response expert on the dangers of radio­ the legislative committee of the 'For one thing, he has the b it­ may be, before becoming a Institute for Social Research reported the results of a survey active fallout gave a graphic International Longshoremen an# ter opposition of the organized teacher, he must first go to Warehousemens Union. among whites in Detroit. Here is what they found: school in the w'orking class.” By Constance Farr illustration of how the Atomic anti-Ne.gro forces in this city. In Energy Commission hides very the primary they circulated vi­ Fifty-six percent think that white and Negro schoolchildren National Campaign Director MEMORIAL TO McAVOY real hazzards to our health. “A t cious white-supremacist litera­ who live in the same neighborhood should attend classes together in Detroit. Corliss Lamont was master of “ We were very pleased to get several contributions a horse show recently held in tu re urging people to “ Votja Nevada,” she said, “a radio­ “ What is a Peace Right, Vote White.” Under that Ten per cent think they should attend the same schools but ceremonies for the faculty re­ in separate classes. ception. A memorial tribute to to the Press and Publications Fund from Militant readers active cloud passed over the slogan they are still trying to bleachers. The editor of the Program?” mobilize the prejudiced and back­ And the rest, a Sittle over one-third, favor complete segrega­ Clifford T. McAvoy was deliv­ who want to do all they can to build for socialism and tion ol the two races in different schools. ered by H arvey O’Connor. M r. know the importance of our-i Tonapah Times Bonanza while ward elements, who make up a going into town on an errand The Detroit News hailed this with the headline: “Tolerant McAvoy was chairman of the ideas and publications . . . and, specializing in the works of By Leon Trotsky large part of the population, to ran into an AEC monitoring View on Integration Found in City.” Committee for Socialist Unity also, what it means to ‘pay the Trotsky. “We are the Italian 38 pp. 23 cents. turn out at the polls Nov. 5 team. He told them of the cloud Almost half the whites are against school integration in a until his recent death. He was bills.’ ” From the Twin Cities publishers of Trotsky’s works for the express purpose of pre­ and they said they knew of it. venting any Negro from being city where integration is the official policy and is supposed to for many years a prominent fig­ fund director. and have already published ‘The be in effect — and this is called “tolerance” ! He asked them if it would be a elected to the Council. ure in labor and radical politics “ Pledges are rather easy to Revolution Betrayed’ (in 1956), No wonder that the prospect of electing a Negro Council­ good idea to take a bath and Another danger results from in the New York area and de- obtain from our close sympathiz­ ‘The Third International After Pioneer Publishers man -- already achieved in many non-Southern cities where wash his hair. They assured him the way the Patrick campaign ! voted his last year to the proc- ers who are readers of the Lenin’ (in 1957), and we are Negroes arc a smaller proportion of the population than here — j it would be a very good idea. 116 University Place is being conducted. Instead of ess of socialist regroupment as a Militant,” writes Ann Dorsey, planning to issue within the first receives sveh virulent and passionate opposition in Detroit! He then asked them if they boldly and proudly proclaiming staunch advocate of independent Seattle. months of next year: ‘The New York 3, N.Y. labor political action. Autobiography.’ would go back to the horse show that he defends the principle of From other branches, we hear The program of studies will “ U nfortunately, we do n it and tell the people about the that the newest members have consist of five, six-week courses have the texts for the following been among the most generous. in economics, philosophy, history works of Trotsky which you have From Allentown: “This ¡remit­ and world politics. Classes will ■published,” he said. The pub­ tance has been made possible by Poor Families Ousted from LA Area be conducted at Adelphi Hall, 74 lisher then lists a number of the generosity of our newest Fifth Avenue, New York City, works by Trotsky and asks our comrade and now this leaves and w ill commence Oct. 22 run­ aid in furthering his publica­ just $42 for us to pull for so we ning fo r six weeks, three eve­ tion program. should be able to make it in Condemned for City, Sold to Dodgers nings a week. The participation I t has often been said that the good tim e.” Chicago, as previ­ of “ everyone interested in the so­ mark of a serious political per­ ously reported, received a size­ By Della Rossa Naval Academy and six old and ez Ravine, who is beginning his cialist viewpoint, and of social­ son is how deep he w ill dig into faithful oil wells on the other. second term as Mayor, had ju st able sum from a new member, Concrete steps lead to nowhere ists of all persuasions” is in­ his pocket fir the advancement The Los Angeles City Hall shaft been elected to his fir s t term. who paid on the spot. except weeds and refuse. There vited. Further information may o f his ideas. Nowadays, when is seen nearby above the h ill­ The Press and Publications are narrow little roads, with DREAMS KILLED be obtained by writing the So­ the “ Hidden Persuaders'’ use the top. cialist Unity Forum, 74 Fifth •Fund w ill make possible the sign posts, Garibaldi, Reposa, It occurred when the dreams ideas o f Freud to bombard us Voices have been clamoring Avenue, N.Y. 3, N.Y. publication of many of the out- with pressure to BUY, it is ■Paducah. A solid school still of the respected architect, Rich­ stands, but its windows are lately, “Look, what waste! This of-print works of Leon Trotsky. indeed a p o litica lly - Conscious is the ideal home for the Brook­ ard Neutra for a housing proj­ His books are being read by all (boarded up. Nearby there is a ect w ith play ai-eas and fa c ili­ person who is willing to sacri­ lyn Dodgers.” serious political people today. fice for the growth of the party little grocery store, plastei’ed ties for working families, were The cause of the waste, the BOOKS - PAMPHLETS They contain the best key to an which offers the rewards of with advertising, and a vegeta­ thrown out. Families had al­ maneuvers, the treachery to the understanding of the events in being in tune with the great ble garden by its side. Its sign ready been forced out, Federal On Socialism says, “City Center Grocery people who left behind only Eastern Europe and the Soviet historical transition from capital­ funds were available, but the and the Labor Union. lit New York recently, Store.” Occasionally its screen their concrete steps and a fry­ ism to socialism. first act of the newly elected Otto Nathan, professor and doors bang because a handful of ing pan beside a rose bush, Movement Readers of the Militant are Mayor Poulson was to fly to executor for Albert Einstein, in families in scattered houses re­ (th e ir abandoned homes burned Order Free Catalog from: urged to help us in our fund Washington to cancel the whole a talk about education for main, with .their cactus patches, down, perhaps 'by vandals) are plan. PIONEER PUBLISHER drive. Remember the sweetest ignored by these voices. Yet it workers, quoted from “In Defense opening line of a letter reads, th e ir chickens and th e ir dogs. Three people, two of them 116 University Place took place not long ago, when of Marxism”, by Trotsky. “ Enclosed find check.” Send your This is the Chavez Ravine from Chavez Ravine, have filed New York 3, N. Y. the smiling, pleasant faced Nor­ Last week, we received word contribution today to 116 Uni­ area of Los Angeles. It’s bor­ a suit in Superior Court. Cut­ fro m an Italian publisher versity Place, New Y ork 3, N. Y. dered by Elysian Park and the ris Poulson, front man for the ting into the clamor for bring­ enemies of the families of Chav- Police Academy on one side, the ing the Dodgers here, they want to remind the City Council that a 1953 deed restriction provides th a t Chavez Ravine must be Corrupt Politics and Labor Corruption New York Socialist Workers Party held fo r public use fo r 20 years. By S. W. Argus crooked misleaders of labor was ployers’ association: “These fel­ Only democratic, rank-and- first magnitude that would car­ L A N D GRAB exemplified by Wm. P. Kennelly, lows [labor bureaucrats under file, militant unionism supported ry through its program not by One aspect of the current Candidates on TV and Radio | ^ “ This is not a baseball deal, this vice-president of the Council, investigation] are really all right by a labor party administra­ lobbying or currying favors ¡at exposure of labor racketeering JOYCE COWLEY ON TV JOYCE COWLEY ON RADIO is an enormous land deal”—these who served as chief of the Tam­ when you get to know them. tion can break the hold of the the table of Big Business—but has escaped the attention of the Sunday, October 27 Sunday, October 20 are the words of Julius Rubens, many wigwam and later became After all, they are just out for unholy combination of employer, by exercising its own organized working people. That is the link 2 P.M. 9 to 9:30 P.M. an attorney, and one o f the three chairman of Tammany’s execu­ themselves, like you and me.” racketeer, labor - bureaucrat and m ight. between the two-party system Citizens Union Searchlight who filed the ^Superior Court tive committee. Sheriff Tom Far­ An official of the employers’ Independent political action is Campus Press Conference and the labor bureaucracy in corrupt political machine. Interview Program suit. He had joined the Sept. 30 ley of tinbox fame was a former association summed it up as fol­ not only a necessary but a thor­ fostering the unholy alliance of The first step in this direction WRCA — Channel 4 W NYC — 830 on Dial debate before the City Council. business agent of the Cement lows: “Brindell [leader of the oughly logical step to rescue the corrupt big-city political ma­ on the political arena this fall Wednesday, October 23 The hearing room was jammed and Concrete workers. (Robert Building Trades unions] is doing rank-and-file from bondage to chines and the racket-ridden ap­ is to cast a vote for independ­ 10 P.M. to 12:30 A.M. and most of the speakers were Hunter’s book, “Labor in Poli­ a wonderful job in stabilizing the the labor racketeer, the employ­ paratus of the conservative ent working-class political action Central Queens A llied in agreement. This is business tics” and Joel 'Seidman’s book, business and we must stand be­ LILLIAN KIEZEL craft-conscious trade unions. by supporting the municipal er and the corrupt two-party Civic Council Program and profit, they said unblushing- “Laibor Czars,” are extremely hind him .” ticket and the program of the ON RADIO Particularly in connection with system. If the labor movement WRCA — 660 on the dial ly. They omitted to mention that valuable in setting forth these re­ The same sentiment is voiced Tuesday, October 22 the municipal elections in New SWP headed by its N. Y . mayor­ it did not profit the majority lationships.) today in the testimony of Car­ is to go forward on the political 10:05 to 10:30 P.M. Monday, October 28 York City is there a burning alty candidate, Joyce Cowley. of Los Angeles residents, and The motto of the crooked labor ney Matheson, an attorney whose as well as economic fro n t, i t can Round Table Discussion on 11:20 P.M. to 12:15 A.M. urgency to clarify this connec­ The iSWP recognizes— alone of especially did not profit the leader-crooked politician hookup firm represents several large The New York City Council Tex and Jinx Show tion for the workers and for the all the left-wing forces in the only do so by freeing itself first families who had left their was “get a fair flip”—which is T ruckers’ Associations. “The WRCA — 660 on the dial WRCA — 660 on Dial class-conscious members and fol­ field— that a laibor p arty embrac­ from the narrow-minded bureau­ homes in Chavez Ravine. not so different from the con­ trucking industry thinks a lot of lowers of the Communist Party. ing 30 or 40 m illion skilled, Among those who gloated that cept behind Reuther’s and Hof- Hoffa,” said Matheson. “He’s crats and the ill-advised course of Clarity on this point will assist semi-skilled and unskilled work­ it was the “opportunity of a fa’s endorsement of an anti-la tough but we respect him. We the Communist Party leadership them to break with support to ers allied to the working farmers lifetime” were the former head bor Republican mayoralty can­ think he’s one of the most for- of trafficking with the corrupt Tammany and to take the road and to the Negro people, would of the Chamber of Commerce didate in Detroit this fall. ward-looking labor leaders.” of independent political a-ction. in no sense be a m in o rity party. Tammany machine of Carmine and the manager of the big This crass class-collaboration This was said at a $100-a-plate It would be a political force of De Sapio. Statler Hotel. The frankest expi’ession sum­ is a natural consequence of the testimonial dinner last year for The manager of a community marizing the unholy alliance of traditional policy of the labor H offa. newspaper remarked: “Profes­ corrupt political and union boss­ bureaucracy to reward its (but A secretary of the Chicago sional sports are' big business es.. was given by laibor czar, Jo­ not labor’s) friends in both ma­ Employers’ Association has ad­ and should be treated as big seph P. Ryan, once life-tim e jor political parties and torpedo mitted that “employers in in­ business.” president of the Internation­ any attempts to launch an inde­ creasing numbers have seized A representative of the four al Longshoremen’s Association, pendent anti-capitalist and anti- upon this type of labor union Los Angeles daily papers said, when he was quoted as follows: two - party - machine movement leadership and utilized it through “ These newspapers are 100 per “The [New York] Central La­ based on laibor and its allies. rackets and racketeering to the cent behind this move.” bor and Trades Council was ■Gompers’ dictum (“reward self-same ends which half-a-cen- Perhaps that is why they rare­ Tammany first and labor after­ your friends, punish your ene­ tury ago brought capitalism to a ly print the words of people wards.” When the late Mayor mies”) has permeated the labor position of general disrepute.” like J. J. Rodriguez, president “Jimmy” Walker resigned under bureaucracy and spawned the la­ To whom, then, can the or­ of Los Angeles Community fire, Ryan and the CLTC were bor racketeer. Labor bureaucrats ganized labor movement turn to Service Organization, a com­ the only forces crass enough to granted support to corrupt po­ rid itself of labor “czars” and mittee of iMexican-Americans in­ defend him. The old Building litical machines which provided racketeers. Not to the employers terested in protecting their civil Trades Council in New York protection in exchange for the which promote them. Nor to the rights. Mr. Rodriguez said at was notoriously known as the votes afforded by their friends legislative committees crusading the Council hearings: “annex of Tammany Hall.” All in the labor movement. for even stiffer Taft-Hartley- “I am not opposed to the New York labor racketeers of Examine, for instance, the rev­ type laws. Nor to the “clean” Dodgers but I am opposed to the period under review were elations many years ago of the labor bureaucrats and their un­ the fact that the land in Chavez represented exclusively by Tam­ Lockwood investigations into holy partners, the Big-city Dem­ Ravine was condemned fo r one many attorneys. corruption in labor. You will find ocratic or Republican machines purpose and now is going to be The reciprocal relationship be­ the follow ing statement of an who spawned the labor racket­ sold for another purpose.” tween dishonest politicians and attorney for a prominent em­ eer.