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Slugged By Police ijt One of the Detroit unionists 1,000 Detroit Workers Indo-Chinese Battle i* carried away by his com­ rade* after police swung their clubs. His “crime” was pick­ Im perialist Despots eting against America’s native Picket Fascist Meeting fascists. - © By Joseph Hansen American troops are be­ POLICE USE CLUBS Hands O ff Indo-China! ing used against the Indo- Chinese movement for inde­ IN BRUTAL ATTACK pendence. Sent in by air, they broke up a demonstra­ tion on September 12 of Ah- ON ANTI-FASCISTS namese Nationalists in Ha­ By Kay (yBrien noi. They ordered Annamese leaders to release arrested DETROIT, Sept. 28— local representatives of the Detroit workers, service­ French despots. In subse­ men and war veterans quent fighting, American troops inflicited casualties gave a fitting reception among the fighters for in­ last night to America’s dependence. An American Number One Fascist, the officer in turn was killed and others wounded. Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, Saigon continues "under a vir­ by staging a mass picket tual state of siege, with Anna- line before the doors of mites firing from places of con­ cealment at French, British and Northern High School Americans,’’ according to press where Smith addressed reports. The “ American army an America First meet­ transport personnel was sum­ moned from an airfield to help ing. Over a thousand pickets re­ guard” a hotel held by Allied sponded to the last-minute call troops. . , ' sent out by the Wayne County The American forces are fight­ CIO Council, which sponsored ing in Indo-China, because, “ we the demonstration, and a still are committed,” as CBS Corres­ larger number of persons filled pondent B ill Downs puts it, “ to the narrow sidewalks and streets returning the old French colonial surrounding the school, to ex­ regime to Indo-China.” press their grim hatred of the MARTIAL LAW anti - labor, anti - Negro, anti - On September 20, the British Jewish poison which Smith is Army declared martial law attempting to spread by means throughout south Indo - China of his America First organiza­ "in a move to head off a threat­ tion. ened uprising by anti-French Zionist Protest M ass Rally nationalists.” The British com­ NEW YORKLABOR SHOWS POWERPOLICE PROTECT FASCISTS mander forbade anyone outside Three hundred and fifty po­ of Allied forces to carry arms lice, headed in person by Detroit and decreed the death penalty IN BACKING ELEVATOR STRIKE Police Commissioner Ballenger, Held In New York City for “ looters” . and "saboteurs.” were called out to protect the the Allied labels for Strikers and Ì „ , r Bulletin fascists from th e . wrath of the By Ben Joseph gram of placing faith in the tion” :• of Germany, we read & revolutionists. . NEW YORK, O'dti 1.—Officials of Locals 32B and 164 demonstrators. Patrol cars imperialists in the hope report written by Earl^ G. French despots said they I of 1 the Building, Service Employees Union, AFL, ordered :rushed t0 the scene where gas .30—A »■ 'they jryaM- 'iirid' ¡¿ S n W W 'grattt Trta&’t the strikers :back to work today after accepting a proposal masks and sawed-off s ot guns protest mass meeting of the hearts” room for the solution to sary. He tells us that large \ pendence to: Indo-China,” hut were distributed to the cops. In Jews of New York, sponsored the Jewish problem. Despite the numbers of Jewish "displaced” | the wide-spread character of the made by Governor Dewey to submit the union’s demands a nearby parking lot, partially by The American Zionist record of British imperialism. persons (victims of Nazi con­ . independence movement had for Hard Work And Brains to arbitration. concealed, stood a large squad Emergency Council, was held . Stephen Wise said that he “ still centration camps) are still to I the present “ made that impos- At the age of 28, Henry Ford of mounted police, ready to tonight at Madison Square has hope” in England. Abba H. be found in these camps 3 ! sible.” This lying propaganda II last week was made president By Bill Morgan starvation wages and intolerable charge the crowd. Police "com­ Garden. An overflow crowd Silver, Wise’s co-chairman of (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 3) of the billion-dollar Ford Motor NEW YORK, Sept. 27. — hours is beating the howling mandos,” armed and helmeted, fille d the 25,000 seating ca­ the Emergency Council, proposed Company after his grandfather, realty interests and big land­ were on hand in trucks parked that England return the man­ This huge nerve center of pacity Garden and le ft 30,000 Henry Ford, resigned the post lords to their knees. around the corner. A special date to the League of Nations— American capitalism has outside on the streets. Socialist Workers Party Protests The bosses have been raging police mobilization order, “ MO- now long defunct. Then he board saying, May I recommend :been , almost . paralyzed . . . „ since Though the meeting was called and Impotent. At one blow by a 1,” placing every precinct in pleaded with the United Nations to the board that .it consider the Monday by a strike of 15,- for 8 p.m., doors of the Garden Use O f U. $. Troops In Indo-China group of determined workers in the city on the alert and re­ to help the Jewish people, just appointment of my grandson, 1000 AFL elevator operators this city of skyscrapers, half of distributing police to strategic were closed at 6:30. The crowd NEW YORK, Sept. 26—James P. Cannon, National Sec- as the Jews helped them to win Henry Ford II, as my successor?” | backed by a million and a Manhattan’s industries and most locations, remained in effect for stood outside for almost three etary of the Socialist Workers Party, today sent the the war. * * * half workers who are refus­ of its offices have been tied up. fifty minutes. hours on a chilly September eve­ ollowing telegram to President Truman: All of the speakers looked to The only way the fat bosses As Smith’s fascist supporters ning, listening to the loud speak­ “United Press dispatch dated September 16 reports ing to cross picket lines or America and to President Tru­ Job “Opportunities” themselves can get to their arrived, they were courteously ers. The meeting was called to hat American troops have intervened in the struggle of the walk up stairs. man as their savior, their new­ swank offices is by the ”auto- escorted through a police cor­ protest against the British Labor 'ndo-Chinese people for freedom from the oppressive rule of More than half of the 62,000 In a demonstration of labor found white hope who would ped” route—up the stairs on fa ll­ don to the school doorway. A nti­ Government’s announced inten- French imperialism and that United States troops in Hanoi jobs listed by the U. S. Employ­ ! power and solidarity seldom eq- ,,_ . __ „ « w make England understand th a t; ing arches and bunions. Not fascists, on the other hand, were tion of continuing in effect ... ° ,, , i broke up a demonstration by Annamese demanding the inde­ ment Service as available to New 1 ualled in this country, hundreds we did after all fight the war; many have made it past the freely and viciously clubbed as Chamberlain’s White Paper. pendence of their country. In Saigon, British and French York City’s 200,000 laid-off work­ of thousands of garment work­ for "Four Freedoms.” No one fourth floor. the police attempted to push But the expectant crowd was roops in collaboration with the Japanese garrison are re­ ers “ are the kind that have gonr ers, furriers, truck drivers, office made any mention of American them back and keep them In only to hear repeated the old ported shooting down the Indo-Chinese people. begging for years,” says a state- workers have rallied in support PARALYZE GARMENT AREA imperialism’s interests in the1 ment of the Greater New York of the m ilitant elevator strikers, Over 2,000 business buildings two separate picket lines on shibboleths, the self-same pro- “ The Socialist Workers Party protests vigorously against question of Palestine and the CIO Council on September 18. A whose fighting refusal to accept (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 7) these Allied attempts to suppress the independence move­ Middle East. j CIO survey revealed 57 per cent ment of the Indo-Chinese people and to deny them the free­ of the jobs offered pay only from BRITISH POLICY dom which the United States and other Allied Powers prom­ $16 to $29.60 a week. 250 Hear Wright British imperialist policy, ex­ ised to all peoples in the Atlantic Charter. We request from pressed in the White Paper of you, Mr. President, a public assurance that the armed forces House Buries Jobless Bills Speak In New York May, 1939, limited Jewish immi­ of the United States w ill not henceforth be used to oppose gration to Palestine to 75,000 be­ and frustrate the just demand of the people of Indo-China Investment Counselors NEW YORK, Sept. 28. — An tween May 1939 and May 1944. for full freedom and independence.” Protesting against American In Vicious Attack On Labor attentive audience of almost 250 After this time all Jewish immi­ “outright intervention" in China, workers tonight heard John G. gration was to be curtailed. De­ the Stalinist Daily Worker, Sep­ By Art Preis “we must wait until the strikers with members of the House Ways Wright, Trotskyist educator and spite the trickle of immigration tember 15, editorialized that only get back to work and the hun­ and Means Committee, after editor, speak at Webster Hall on which has entered since the 1944 a "democratic and united” China In a savage strikebreaking dreds of thousand of jobs cry­ which his Press Secretary claim­ "The British Labor Victory—Its deadline, the broad and funda­ Louise Simpson Answers ‘ w ill get real investments from thrust at American labor, the ing for workers have been ed “ the President spoke vigor­ Meaning for American Workers.” mental aims of the White Paper our big capitalists . . . they will House of Representatives’ pow­ filled.” ously . . . He said the Senate Comrade W right pointed out were carried out by the Church­ not venture to invest in a country erful Ways and Means Com­ These brutal and cynical let him down and he expected that it was a landslide of votes ill government and are now be­ A Republican Slanderer where Chiang's rule has to be up­ words reveal that the whole in­ the House not to do so.” for “Labor to Power” in England ing carried out by the Attlee La­ mittee on September 25 "indef­ tent of Congress is to impose held by American bayonets RELIEF FOR GREEDY which swept the Churchill ad­ bor government. NEW YORK, Sept. 26—Louise Simpson, Trotskyist can­ against the masses.” initely postponed” all bills re­ starvation conditions on the un­ ministration out of office. Alth­ The reports on the situation didate for City Council, today answered the slanderous lating to unemployment compen­ employed and on striking work­ But the House has other busi­ ough there have been other labor of the Jews in Europe tell a tale attack of a Republican “bigwig” which appeared in the sation, with the admission that ers and to force them into jobs ness to take up—how to provide governments in European coun- of devastation and horror. Now, Sept. 22 Amsterdam News. The Republican “bigwig,” one One-Man World “the strike feature was the de­ at any wages and under any more “ relief for the greedy,” the war - fattened profiteers. (Continued on Page 6) three months after the “libera- Edgar Brown, alleged that the Trotskyist candidate sat President Truman on Septem­ ciding factor.” conditions. It is the hunger, Chairman Doughton of the Ways “mute” during an “interview” and refused to divulge her ber 23 told reporters that he Thus, the Ways and Means wage-slashing and strikebreak­ and Means Committee announc­ would take “ fu ll responsibility” Committee struck a death blow ing program of Wall Street and views on the five cent fare and related matters. Brown’s ed: " I don’t see how we can for the future development of the at the measure from which the the open shoppers. propaganda was headlined as “Profiles of Women Candi­ break off consideration of the atom bomb and “ emphasized that Senate already had amputated Truman, whose secret memor­ Harlem Ghetto Arrest dates for City Council of New York.” tax bill to take anything up he would make the decision on the most vital provision, for a andum to the Senate Finance In an indignant letter of pro-® again.” Administration policy on the $25 weekly maximum unemploy­ plied that he represented ’his Committee paved the way for The committee, after denying test to the Amsterdam News, bomb and atomic energy when killing the $25 provision, had Protested By SWP clients In Washington.’ When I ment allowance. improved unemployment com­ Louise Simpson declared: “ Mr. the time came—that he would The House Committee’s final inquired as to who his ‘clients’ been laying low on the issue he pensation to the millions of Un­ NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—The | the popular pamphlet “ A Prac- have to make it.” (N. Y. Times, action, however, was preceded by Brown is guilty of perpetrating were, he assured me he would said was "must” legislation. But employed, is going directly into New York Local of the Socialist tical Program to Kill Jim Crow” a shabby hoax. Under the guise give me all the particulars when Sept. 24.) an 18 to 6 vote of the commit­ after the House committee re­ * * * consideration of a bill to reduce Workers Party is protesting th e ! have been so,d in past few of being interested in ‘interview- he came. The appointment was tee against the Forand bill, fused to act on the bill even taxes on corporation profits and House counterpart of the Sen­ in emasculated form, Truman JLTTcst of RuthTj„*h LRn3nsn,r s> o mem- i weeks. • In addition . , to .its street : mg’ me as a Negro candidate, he made on this basis.” Not Enough Butchery add more tax refunds to the bil­ ; sales campaign against the po- has disclosed that his sole Inter­ ate’s Kilgore measure, which was compelled to make a pre­ ber of the Workers Party, for, lice attempt to build a ghetto ACTIONS HYSTERICAL The Army newspaper, Stars lions already being poured from est was that of serving the Re­ called for the $25 provision. The tense of opposition, if only to the public treasury into the cof­ distributing election campaign Louise Simpson then related and Stripes, on September 24 committee wanted to make sure wall around Harlem, the Social­ publican Party, a party which save face with the embittered fers of the big corporations. * ■ literature in the Harlem area. ist Workers Party is announcing shares equally with the Demo­ what happened at the “ inter­ quoted Fleet Admiral Halsey as that its attitude on providing workers. view.” “ Mr. Thomas, organizer When arrested Miss Lanahan the formal opening of a Harlem crats, the odious responsibility of saying the war “ended too soon even the miserable $25 maxi­ of Local New York of the So­ TRUMAN’S DOUBLETALK was Informed by. the police of­ branch at 103 West 110th Street, preserving and perpetuating the because there are too many Nips mum was made clear. cialist Workers Party, and I met First he insisted on September ON THE INSIDE ficer that Harlem is a “restricted Room 23. present system of exploitation left.” • * • ' WHY BILL WAS KILLED 26 in a press conference “ that Westinghouse Pittsburgh Strike 2 area” and oppression of my people.” with Mr. Brown. When I asked OPEN HARLEM BRANCH who he was he simply replied, According to Representative he did not know that it had Allied Rule in Germany . ...is In defiance of the police cam­ The new SWP headquarters on THE “INTERVIEW” ‘Mr. Brown.’ I told him I was Smothered In Oil Knutsen, a member of the House been killed,” and when told it Camden Shipyard Strike paign to “ keep w-hltes out of the comer of 110th Street and The Trotskyist candidate re­ unacquainted with the name and The final draft of the new An­ committee, the motion that “ fur­ had at least been "shelved” he COLUMNS AND FEATURE^’ Harlem” members and friends of Lenox Avenue, w ill be used dur­ vealed the facts about the so- asked whom he represented. At glo-American oil agreement, ne­ ther consideration of the jobless said “ that he was sorry that Trade Union Notes ...... ;....'.2 the Socialist Workers Party will called "interview.” “Mr. Brown,” this point he yelled he was Mr. gotiated last week, eliminated a bill passed by the Senate and such action had been taken, if International Notes ...... i3 conduct the third of a series of ing the municipal election cam­ she said, “ called me at the down­ Edgar Brown, whipped out a pen­ clause in the original agreement related House bills be indefin­ it had been taken.” (N. Y. Veterans Problems ...... vrn.4 weekly street sales of anti-Jim paign as the Harlem headquar­ town headquarters of the Social­ cil and pad and screeched, “ What which said that the world’s “am­ itely postponed” was passed be­ Times,. Sept. 27.J Workers Forum ...... „'....5 Crow pamphlets, Saturday eve­ ters for the Trotskyist candi­ ist Workers Party and asked for do you think of the five-cent ple supplies of petroleum” should cause the committee “ needed This attempt to deny the pat­ Pioneer Notes ...... 5 ning, September 29, in the Har­ dates, Farrell Dobbs for mayor an interview. I informed him that fare?” be made available "in accordance I more concrete information as to ent facts—“if it had been tak-! The Negro Struggle ...... lem area. and Louise Simpson for city I was busy and asked who he was “From his hysterical actions,” with the principles of the Atlan­ | what the unemployment situa- en!”—was so lame that the nextj Diary o t Steelworker ...... Over two thousand copies of council. and what he represented. He re­ (Continued on Page 6) tic Charter.” i tion is,” and specifically because day he held a secret conference Shoptalks on Socialism . ...* TWO THE MILITANT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1945 Westinghouse “White Collar” Workers Demonstrate RADE UNIO T NOTES Militant Methods Of Labor Struggle In Strike By Joseph Keller w The "Inside-Dope" Boys strikes during the waif, called Special to THE M ILITANT Now comes the flood of em­ any worker who opposed the no» By Eloiae Black ployer - inspired propaganda strike pledge a “ Hitler agent,” Fighting The Oil Barons For 30% Raise were the first to propose a per» PITTSBURGH, Sept. 24. — Added to the com pany-in­ N. Y. Zionist Rally about how the CIO auto work­ manent no-strike pledge, sup­ Sixty - five hundred striking spired attack on these "white ers don’t want to strike but are "white' collar” workers of the just being pushed and shoved ported President Roosevelt’s pro» collar” strikers is a needling as­ Protests British Westinghouse Electric Corpora­ and hornswoggled into it by this posal for a forced labor law, eto. sault against their union led by tion have held production at a or that small faction inside the Less than two months ago, the standstill at the company’s huge the Stalinist heads of Local 601, Palestine Policy United Automobile Workers. Stalinist Party would have or­ East Pittsburgh plant here since CIO United Electric, Radio and (Continued from Page 1) On the one hand, Scrlpps- dered its members to scab in the their walkout began September Howard columnist Fred Perkins Machine Workers of America, months after V-E Day. They elevator or any other strike. It 10. | wrote last week that he had union of Westinghouse produc­ live in wholly unsanitary condi­ can’t hide its stripes now under The strike was called when talked to a couple of “ rank and tion workers. A genuine senti- tions, with Inadequate medical a triple-coating of self-admin» the salaried workers’ union failed | ment among the strikers for an filers” and that they didn’t like care, having foul bread and cof­ istered whitewash. in a two-year attempt to force organisation embracing all West­ fee for food, and still garbed in the idea of strike one bit, but • « • the corporation or the War La­ inghouse workers is stymied by their concentration camp “ uni­ they didn’t “ dare” speak out bor Board to consider its de­ the stupid campaign of the Stal­ forms.” Harrison tells us that loud against the policies of the UAW and Smith Act mands for pay increases to meet inists against the AWSE. the great majority want to emi­ "leaders.” rising living costs. Believe it or not, the General STALINIST NEEDLING grate: for these he says, Pales­ Then we have such “ inslde- Motors workers on October 24 According to officers of the tine is first choice. dopesters" as Victor Riesel, labor Association of Westinghouse Sal­ Their charge« .that the union are going to vote under the terms of the salarlod worker« is com­ These facts are well known to columnist of the liberal New of the Smith-Connally anti­ aried Employes, the WLB has Striking oil workers picket the huge Socony-Vacuum refinery near East Chicago, Ind., in the the Attlee government. Before York Post, who on September 24 had the case of Westinghouse pany dominated are hotly denied strike act on the question: "Do by AWSE member«, who point national battle of the CIO Oil Workers for a 49-hour week with no reduction in take-home pay. the Labor Party took power, its gave us the "story behind last you wish to permit an interrup­ salaried workers on its books leaders repeatedly expressed in­ week’s maneuvering—which may since October 1944. Not until a out that It was the Stalinist UE tion of war production in war­ leadership who «addled West­ terest and concern with the fate throw 325,000 men on the picket time as a result of this dispute?” strike vote of the AWSE mem­ of European Jewry—both as vic­ line.” bership indicated that the "white inghouse worker* w ith the “ no- That’s like trying to answer the tims of fascism and as a perse­ You guessed It. The story Is ccülar” workers were prepared strike” pledge during the war. question: “ Are you going to stop Extension Of Oil Walkout cuted national minority. At its filled with “the crazy-quilt” of t^ fte h t did the Board take ac- The ouïrent drive of Local 601 beating your wife? Answer yes last four conventions, the Labor “left-wing polltlos of Trotskyltes, On the case. On September to recruit the white collar work­ or no!” Party had clearly condemned Communists and Socialists.” the balloting on the strike ers away from the AWSE Is re­ Even the capitalist spokesmen every vestige of the White Paper Take for Instance, says Riesel, “ a proposal neared completion, the sented by the strikers at a time Authorized By Union Board want the repeal of the Smith- when their union Is engaged In Policy, only for Attlee and Bevln typical ‘wild-catter’,” the Kelsey- Connally Act, including its chief VËyp,. wired the AWSE that its CHICAGO, Sept. 27. — Some which the oil barons can more battle with a powerful corpora­ determined oil workers from Hayes strike, a bitter, prolonged author, Representative Howard •MS», imd been turned down. 220,000 more oil workers nation­ than afford to pay. tion. their stand that they will take struggle for over a month. Do W. Smith, Virginia Democrat. IMPURE BANKS SOLID ally may join the 36,000 already nothing less than the full in­ In a statement published in the See Editorial you know why 4,500 workers are Papers like the N. Y. Times and NEW DEVELOPMENT on strike in eight states if the w ith ’ the strike now entering crease they demand. 11 current issue of the CIO Inter­ out on strike? They are “ con­ N. Y. World - Telegram have Something new is developing CIO Oil Workers Union fails to “Anti-Semitism" Ç* s4th day, it appears that GOVERNMENT PRESSURE F ? national Oil Worker, the union’s trolled by some 150 left-wing called for its repeal—to be sure here in the action of these get agreement from the major official organ, its president, O. 'activists’ who come early and Vfestinghouse is banking on the Increasing pressure was being Page 4 because it’s not tough enough. theory that "white collar” work- thousands of "white collar” oil companies to an industry­ A. Knight, points out that the stay late at union meetings.” workers. Not only have they wide wage increase of 30 per brought to bear by the govern­ “ oil companies enjoy the lowest But here are the leaders of «¡%-jnéW to the fighting methods ment to coerce the oil workers Yes sir, and “the Trotskyltes, the CIO United Automobile rifwganlzed industrial labor, will built a union that employs the cent. labor cost of any major industry. to enforce it themselves when into halting their effective strike who insist on immediate revolu­ Workers Insisting that the ranks sooner or later break ranks and weapon of industrial labor, but That was indicated today when They could double their wage they became “His Majesty’s action and permitting their, just tion. no less, were there in full go through the solemn farce of d rift back to work. To date their picket lines are manned officials of the union, meeting scales without seriously incon­ Government.” demands to be dealt with in the force , . . decided, of course to a vote under this same anti­ heist*cl, the strikers have exhib­ by a strata of workers to whom with federal conciliators here, veniencing stockholders.” The Jewish people in the well-known fashion made notor­ continue striking to keep the labor law, thereby supporting ited -an inspiring resistance to united action is a brand new announced that the OWIU-CIO United States are looking for a ious by such government arbi­ ‘revolutionary situation’ alive." the principle of such legislation. the provocations, misrepresenta­ experience. The pickets who international executive board realistic program to save the re­ tration and conciliation agencies Riesel, who represents the And right now, of all times, tions- and slanders circulated by parade before the gates of West­ has authorized such a national mainder of the Jewish masses as the WLB. Schwellenbach has streamlined school of “ pro-la­ when hundreds of thousands of corporation interests. inghouse Electric in East Pitts­ walkout In the event the de­ in Europe. But the Zionist lead­ ordered the union leaders to UMW Local 2399 bor" columnists, uses the cynical, workers are on strike without A back-to-work order issued burgh include engineers, typists, mands of the union are not se­ ership is bereft of any program Washington where the heat can sneering, technique, with a misp­ any by-your-leave of the bosses bp. the WLB on the second day draughtsmen, and file clerks. cured in present negotiations. or plan to meet these needs. Since be put on them more effectively. Takes Action On leading lie thrown in about the or their government agencies or of the strike failed to induce a If the “white-collar” strikers The m ilitant oil workers, in a the promulgation of the White radicals—crack-pots, you know the Smith Act. single salaried worker back into emerge as winners in this con­ spreading walkout, are spear­ No sooner did the union Paper, and before, the fulcrum threaten serious strike action, —“ who insist on immediate revo The UAW leaders are pretty the plant. They know they are test, the organization of salar­ heading the fight of millions of Patterson Case of their activity has been a com­ lution.” in for a hard fight when they ied workers throughout the CIO workers in a dozen in ­ than the big oil companies, The Militant this week re­ plete reliance on the good will desperate though, and willing to Perkins or Riesel, it’s all the buck the powerful Westinghouse country w ill receive a tremend­ dustries to win a 40-hour week which have made monumental ceived a communication from of the imperialist governments use any pretext to stall or pre­ same game. The auto workers, Corporation, but the union lead­ ous advanoe, and the efforts of or less with no reduction in profits during the war, hastened Joseph Zibrida, recording secre­ of Britain and the United States. vent strike action for the UAW’« most m ilitant and advanced un­ ers took the precaution to warn the capitalists to maintain an take-home pay. to stem the struggle for a full tary of United Mine Workers Lo­ 30 per cent wage raise demand. 30 per cent raise to compensate ONLY PROMISES ionists in the country, are just the membership in the begin­ artificial distinction between Government conciliators of the cal 2399, Daisytown, Pa., de­ * * * From Churchill they flitted to being led around by the nose, ning that it would take time “hand workers” and “brain Department of Labor, sent by for reduced hours by offering 15 scribing the action being taken former President Roosevelt. They either by their “ leaders” (says Cotton Pickers Swindled and sacrifice to bring Westing- workers” w ill be dealt a heavy Labor Secretary Schwellenbach, and in some instances 20 per by the local on behalf of its established Congressional and Parkins) or the “Trotskyltes” house to terms. blow. have so far failed to budge the cent increases. member, W illiam Patterson, now Some 50,000 Southern cotton Parliamentary committees. They (says Riesel). I t just seems the HOLD FIRM serving six months’ imprison­ pickers were cut from a war­ flew back and forth between auto workers don’t want that ment as the first victim of the time average weekly wage of Union officials here declared London and Washington. And 30 per cent raise. Smith-Connally anti-strlkq act. about $28 to $15.76, when T ru­ today that they wouid const all they ever had to show for It's true enough the man’s Secretary of Agriculture New York Labor Shows Gigantic nothing less than their origl In the letter, the-Local-2399 their •^efforts -'wis ‘the-dong TfotSkylsts gte' gtvmg'fun Sup­ Anderson ruled) at-the behest- of- demand, which the workers must representative writes: “ A t the standing reward meted out so port to the Kelsey-Hayes work­ the planters, that cotton picker? request of your reporter, the fol­ win if they are not to suffer a freely by imperialists—a boat­ ers and back the strike struggles are to be paid only $2.10 per Power In Elevator Strike lowing information is given you big slash in weekly earnings and load of promises. of the workers to the hilt. But hundred pounds instead of $3.90, to publish about what this lo­ „{Continued from Page 1) and issued a directive providing bosses — distinguished by their The victory of the Labor Party we have the impression that the the wartime rate. cal union is doing to help free led them to place all their faith were shut down on the first day for take-home pay of only $28.05 swank suits and angry voices— driver who parked his huge semi­ auto workers don’t need much H. L. Mitchell, president of the William Patterson. in Attlee and Bevin. The Zion­ of- the strike. In the midtown to $32.50 for the loft and office tried with little success to arouse trailer across the service en­ coaxing these days to h it the Southern Tenant Farmers Un­ ist Organization misled its ranks garment district, heart of New some anti-union sentiment trance. RESOLUTION SENT picket lines and stay there. ion which also represents the building employes and corres­ to believe that the old British York’s largest industry, hundreds among the bank clerks and “ Look at the place,” she said “ A resolution was sent to ootton pickers, revealed that a ponding cuts for the apartment stenographers. imperialist policy would be of thousands of AFL Ladies Gar­ with pride. “Not one office work­ President Truman asking him to referendum was conducted by workers. changed, that the White Paper Rewriting History ment Workers and CIO Amalga­ “ I t ’s a nice day to get out and ing over the fifth floor. We got free Patterson under a fu ll par­ special “ wage boards” whioh set The Realty Advisory Board would be abrogated. The blunt mated- Clothing Workers mem­ walk in the sunshine for a it tied up tight. And do you don. An attorney was also hired The Communist (Stalinist) a wage celling of $2 per hundred­ and Midtown Realty Owners As­ insistence of the Labor Govern­ bers, CIO furriers and low-pay change," said striker John Lo- know more people work in this to help him out in this matter. Party in its current attempt to weight for pickers and that the sociation, representatives of the ment that it would continue to office clerks put on a tremend­ tamo, as he strolled slowly up building than live in many whole “ The members and officers make the workers forget about only ones permitted to vote In biggest property owners, are now carry forth British imperialist ous ..demonstration in support of and down before a gigantic towns In this country. And we also see that he gets bis pay its wartime strikebreaking rec­ the referendum were the plant­ yelling to high heaven — they policy left the Jewish masses the .elevator men. AFL truck- structure of steel and concrete girls closed it down in ten min­ semi-monthly the same as when ord has been trying to make a ers and farmers, Anderson pro­ won’t get there on an elevator! shocked and angry. I t was to drivers are dumping deliveries on on Wall Street. “ I ’ve been run­ utes! If we can run a place this he worked at the mine. Collec­ little capital among the work­ posed to make it $2.50, but fin ­ —that the workers are striking calm this anger and to provide the» „sidewalks, refusing to go ning an elevator in that build­ big don’t you think we should tions are had at the pay win­ ers of New York through leaf­ ally agreed with the planters to “ against the government.” The on outlet for pent-up feelings through the picket lines. ing fo r ten, twelve hours a day get mofle than twenty-four bucks dows at different times to keep lets calling for support of the make ~it $2.10—slashing boss press is raging. Mayor La that this meeting was called to wages That is the answer of the New for five years and I don’t care a week?” this fund up to care for his elevator workers strike. Of almost in half. Guardia is threatening to use “ protest against imperialist if the strike lasts a month.” One of the tallest structures family.” course, the m ilitant New York York workers to the scurvy ac­ strike breakers “ in the interests treachery." When the highly - unionized tions of the real estate sharks Across the street and up a few in the world is at 40 Wall Street. The Militant in a series of ex workers didn’t wait for the Stal­ of public health” if the apart­ However, not one word was and relatively better paid work* A mI the War Labor Board blocks at 165 Broadway, one of On the sidewalk the pickets look­ elusive stories, last June exposed inists to speak before acting. ment house workers go out, as said to educate the large audi­ ers demand wage increases, the Against a group of the most ex­ the pickets stopped and lit a ed up and said, “ I ’ve worked here the facts about how the govern­ In the leaflet which the New the union has threatened. The ence on the nature of this administration puts out propa­ ploited workers In this city. War Labor Board has rushed in cigarette. “ This place would be six years and the boss never gave ment and coal operators rail York County section of the Com­ ganda about being primarily signed up by now only the union me anything but a growl until roaded Patterson to prison. treachery. Not one word was munist Party is distributing we The strike was called by AFL to try to do a job for the real said to indicate that today concerned over those getting won’t settle until the boss pays we walked out. Now he is sure read how “ the Communist Party Building Service Employes Locals estate sharks and ordered the Amerioa stands out as the lead­ sub-standard wages. But \yhat SJ^B'and 164 when the Regional Union into a “show cause” hear­ up some back pay. I got $140.00 v anxious to get us back. I guess . . . at all times stood in the the administration actually does coming that’s been held up for a Shakespeare was right when he ing imperialist power in the forefront in the struggle to de­ DJt®; reversed a WLB panel re­ ing today. world. Not one word was said for the most exploited sections commendation for a 40-hour long time. The owners thought said, ‘Absence makes the heart Urge N. Y. Police fend and advance the condi­ of the workers—and there aro 700 SIGNED UP they could rush uptown and sign grow fonder.’ Why this morning about how to FIGHT imperial­ tions of the workers.” wtfik' at weekly pay of $30.16 to ism. none more exploited than the $34.98, the present wages for a Already, union leaders report, up with the union and leave us the boss came by and offered to Most workers w ill recall, how­ Southern cotton pickers—can be holding the sack for our back To Solve Murder The slogan of the meeting was 46-feour week for lo ft and office some 700 buildings have signed buy us coffee an’ or a drink, if ever, how the Stalinists aoted seen in its vicious policy toward up. There is no indication that overtime—but this time they arc we wanted . . . We said ‘Thanks Just a blind, a sop to mass senti­ building service employes. The ment, a popular catchword cov­ *s strikebreakers in scores of the agricultural laborers. PMMd also called for an Increase the workers are going to give in going to learn a lesson.” but the union’s going to get us Of Carlo Tresca at this 6tage of the struggle. pork chops from now on . . . ’ New York City’s new Police ering a role no less treacherous a i 42.46 weekly for daytime STRIKERS AREN’T WORRIED —that of the Zionist leaders. spgrtment house workers now Everywhere they are picketing That stopped him.” Commissioner, Arthur W. Wal- “ We ain’t worried a tbit,” said getting $26.96 to $30.58 and re- the struck buildings—and they lp.nder, was urged to “ make an FLINT AUTO LOCAL VOTES one of the pickets at the M ari­ NOTHING RUNS dfatlon of the hours from 61 to feel their power. They are de­ intensive new investigation of time Exchange Building, 80 Uptown on F ifth Avenue, in Mine Workers Unpaid and from 60 to 51 hours with termined to get a square deal. the Tresca murder one of the Broad Street. “ We won’t lose a the lobby of the tallest building 30-DA Y STRIKE DEADLINE no loss of weekly pay for the The narrow streets of the first orders of business after he For Atomic Bomb Ore cent in back pay and the boss is in the world, the Empire Ststte night workers. world-famous financial district takes office," in a resolution Although the Government Special to THE M ILITANT in lower Manhattan were crowd­ losing plenty for every day he Building, loose newspapers and adopted last week by the na­ poured the colossal amount WLB DIRECTIVE By Jerry Kirk ed today with the thousands of holds out. Why just look at all cigarette butts lay scattered tional executive committee of of $2,000,000,000 Into building The Regional War Labor office workers who stood about the support we are getting from about, swirling in the draft that the Socialist Party. the atomic bomb, the miners FLINT, Mich., Sept. 25—Lo- i the other locals in Flint glgo to Board last week tossed this re­ laughing and talking with their the other unions. Up in the gar­ blew about as in an abandoned District Attorney Frank S, who produced the basic source, cal 659, CIO U nite d A utom o- { send delegates, commendation out the window J friends. Here and there a few ment district everybody is re­ house. The observation tower of­ Hogan was challenged in the uranium, often did not re­ bile Workers, has voted by an f ig h t WAGE-CUTS fusing to cross the picket line. fice was closed and all the eleva­ ceive a cent for their labor. same resolution to demonstrate overwhelming majority to The .trike sentiment Here It * Down here there’re some jerks tor floor-indicators were frozen The United Mine Workers’ that his office is doing some establish picket lines around reflection of the ruthless climbing fifteen and twenty at zero. In the entrances uni,on thing about apprehending the District 50 News reports that floors to punch the time clock. the General Motors Chevrolet i cutting program of General shop-stewards kept their sharp slayers of Carlo Tresca. the ore, for which the men p la n t here 30 days a fte r the i Motors, conducted under tba But we’ll get w’hat they win up­ eyes on the managers and super­ More than two years and eight were paid only on the basis of t h e MILITANT town." intendents to make sure nothing UAW’s application for a GM I guise of layoffs. For instance, months have passed since the its vanadium content by the strike vote under the Smith- \ workers are dropped from jobs A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER A t each struck building pickets ran. Idle crowds walked by look­ murder of the editor of the Ital­ Vanadium Corp., also con­ 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE walked in pairs. Negro and ing upwards toward the 102nd tained uranium. The tailings Connally anti-strike law. paying $1.39 an hour at AC a$d ian anti-fascist weekly, II Mar- rehired at 89 cents. The same NEW YORK 3, N. Y. white workers, shoulder to floor where life was completely tello. Universally recognized as from which the vanadium had This decision sets a definite policy exists at Fisher Body and shoulder, walked up and down absent. a political murder, it remains un­ been extracted was then pro­ time limit, so far as the mili­ Published in the interests of the working: people Buick, in front of the skyscrapers. “ Fifteen thousand people a day cessed — without pay to the tant Chevrolet workers here are The only newspaper in this country that tells solved. Attempts to get the FBI Every auto local here is pre­ the truth about labor’s struggles Nothing else moved. Sidewalks went in and out of this place be­ into the case have been balked miners — by a . government- concerned, on the negotiations for a better world. senting the corporations with a were littered with undelivered fore we walked out,” said Bet­ operated uranium plant. for the 30 per cent wage Increase by chief Edgar J. Hoover’s re­ long list of demands. Chevrolet goods and boxes heaped high ty, one of the pickets at the which the UAW has demanded fusal to enter it unless invited has 15; Buick, 10. During the war, You may start my subscription to The M ili­ along the curbs. Teamsters park­ F ifth Avenue entrance, “ and by the district attorney, while murder at the bidding of Mus­ from GM. ed their trucks and mailmen now nobody but a few dopes the UAW’s GM department, tant for « months. I enclose 50 cents (coin the latter refuses to do so. solini, claimed Ernest Rupolo, A t an earlier meeting, Local headed by Walter Reuther, stall­ or stamps) □ stood about distributing letters who want to bust their blood POLITICAL MURDER convicted gunman, whose sen­ 659 had already voted to petition to bosses who waited in door­ vessels climbing stairs can get in ed the locals here from taking Send me The Militant at your regular rate “ So long as any political mur­ tence was deferred by Judge for the strike vote. Last week ways and restaurants. Telegrams or out.” any action in defense of union o f $1 fo r 12 months. I enclose $1 (coin, der in this country remains un­ Samuel Liebowitz pending fu r­ Buick Local 599 also voted 95 per conditions. stamps or Money Order) q and letters piled up in the lob­ In front of almost every build­ punished,” said the resolution, ther investigation of his charge. cent in favor of a strike petition. bies and on the steps of empty GM locals in F lint are deter­ ing teamsters, furriers, garment “no individual within its boun­ This was several months ago and Next Sunday. Fisher Body, Local mined to restore collective bar­ Name office buildings. workers, window washers and daries expressing outspoken po­ 581, w ill vote, to be followed by (Please Print) nothing has since been reported. gaining and obtain a 30 per cent The Woolworth Building, once workers of every trade and oc­ litical views w ill be safe.” The Tresca Memorial Com­ A. C. Spark Plug Local 561. wage increase in one decisive Street ...... A pt., famous as the tallest structure cupation stopped to cheer the Tresca was bitterly hated by mittee. formed to press for ac­ This past week, Archie Meyers, strike. They are watching and cf its time, stood silent and hol­ building service workers and of­ both the fascists and the Stalin­ tion to find Tresca’s assassins, AC local president, stated that waiting to see if Reuther is really C ity Zone. low. A t the Brdidway entrance fer their support. “ Go to it boys!” ists. The latest suspect was does not rule out the possibility he was attending the UAW local going to lead them in the fight. six girl pickets stopped all tra f­ shouted one woman worker from Vito Genovese, extradited from that a real investigation, if pur­ presidents’ meeting in Detroit to Chevrolet local is giving Reu­ State fic. Martha, a tall blonde with a a needle trades shop, “ If you Italy and returned here in June sued, would lead to a Stalinist protest the international leader­ ther 30 days. That Is the mean­ determined look in her eye. stood don’t take what’s eoming to you on a 1934 murder charge, assassin such as killed Leon ship’s postponement of the UAW ing of its latest vote for a 30- near-by talking with a truck now you’ll never get it!" | Genovese arranged Tresca’s Trotsky. convention. He said he expected day strike deadline. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1945 THE MILITANT PAGE THRE0: INTERNATIONAL Australian Dock Strike Supports NOTES

public offices in many cities, in­ Indonesian Battle For Freedom ilaly cluding Seoul.” These Commun­ ists, according to the report, had By Robert L. Birchmar Prime Minister Ferruccio Par- “ no connection with th ' Soviet ri, the puppet installed by the Union.” 'Iheir exact political Thirty thousand Australian Allied authorities to help Brit­ views are not mentioned. dock workers have struck in ish and American troops keep The promises of the Allien con­ support of Indonesian National­ Allied Rule Tightens down the people, narrowly es­ querors to grant Korea her inde­ ists. • The stoppage was called in caped demonstrating workers in pendence are not being earned sympathy with Indonesian crews Naples September 22. Bottles out. Maj. Gen. Arnold, who. has who refused to sail ships for the and bricks were hurled by the been appointed m ilitary gover­ Netherlands East Indies loaded Over German People nor, said September 15 that 6,000 demonstrators at the hat­ with m ilitary supplies for use The deathly hand of Allied ^ ed agent of Allied imperialism. American occupation may last against the independence move­ .de is closing tighter on the Parri had come to Naples to up to 15 years. “ We will give ment. Foraging For Coal -copie of Germany. “ Conditions confer with individuals listed by Korea back to the Koreans when The dock workers’ strike n that country are becoming capitalist correspondents as “ la­ they are qualified to govern the quickly spread from Sidney to ppalling,” declared William bor leaders.” As he discussed country,” the general declared. ’ Brisbane and Melbourne. The Tiilip Simms, correspondent of Ita ly’s unemployment problem The promises of the Allied con- New South Wales trades labor he N. Y. World Telegram on , with these "leaders,” the dem­ pattern as those made by Amer­ council officially supported th 'eptember 25. “ Misery, desease onstrators outside the building ican imperialism to the Puerto strike, placing "a total ban or nd starvation are . . . getting broke through police lines, Ricans and Filipinos during, the Dutch ships loading for the Eas ut of control of the m ilitary j forced their way inside the build­ Spanish-American War. These Indies.” uthoritles.” ing and smashed chairs and promises, made almost a half Sidney dock workers demon­ Ida Landau, overseas corres- tables. xentury ago, still remain to be strated on September 28 in sup­ carried out. port of the Indonesia National­ ■xndent of the N. Y. Post, wrote ! The Premier managed to es­ ist “struggle for independence.’ eptember 24. “ The story of our cape in an automobile, but a "T h irty banners were carrier' ratment of displaced persons in 1 similar car carrying his secre­ France among a crowd of 3,000 bearin: - rmany is one of the most sick- 1 tary and a police official was ling pages in our war history." ’ overturned by the workers. Total German and Italian such inscription.^ as ‘Hands Of prisoners of war now held by t ilt indau visited the "best camp Later the demonstrators Our Allies, the Indonesians,’ and de Gaulle regime is 925,000. O f ‘Down W ith Dutch Imperial x Germany” at Hanau-on-Main ; marched through the streets de­ this number 300,000 have been ism.’ ” Representatives of th- here the “ miserable unfortu- manding "jobs and bread." They assigned to reconstruction pro­ longshoremen also protested th- 'tes . . . trudge miles to get to were finally dispersed by the jects in France while another Use of Japanese troops by B rit ” This camp “ •helters” 8,000 carabinieri, according to the 'opie. The buildings are ruins press. 63.000 are slaving In Tunisia fend ish authorities against the Na­ Algeria. .. tionalist Government in Java th “ hardly a pane of glass.” A September 25 United Press e-e is no heat. “ As many as In addition to this vast am aufll Police broke up the demonstra dispatch reports 10,000 persons ; men, women and children of slave labor, the United St&tbl tion. demonstrated against the high icp, eat and live in a single Control Council in Berlin 10» cost of living in Lecce, in south­ MASS RALLY om without curtains or parti- nounced September 4 that 6 » ern Italy. Three civilians were In Batavia, the Associated ms for privacy.” The Army, 300.000 German prisoners of W*V killed and 40 wounded when the Press reported September 21 tha' xe says, "provides no fuel, do­ now held in the United Statai crowd stormed and looted the 10,000 Indonesian Nationalist- ing. medical supplies or équip­ will be turned over to de GaaflM police headquarters. held a mass rally demanding in ent.” for exploitation. Beginning 10 dependence for the Netherlan German people, facing the most bitter winter in their December they w ill be haw ftd Bast Indies. The Nationalist, '.VEEFING OUT W’ATER history, hunt desperately for lumps of coal spilled from barges. over at the rate of 50,000. $ "have started a campaign for A second camp visited by Lan­ Japan Jlu;» o c. l.coph. n , ar East oppose imper­ month. On top of this, 427yOQQ. postwar freedom from foreign dau, at Wiesbaden "is far worse.” ialist powers seeking to restore colonial rule at close of second ed her trying desperately to force New Zealanders Inflation is running rampant now herded into American eaapft rule, with some extremists de­ She reached it 12 hours after a i World War. Armed upris'ngs have broken out in Indo-China milk from her milkless breasts— in Japan since the end of the in Europe will be transferred (0 manding the death penalty for rain. The people "still were a pitiful effort (hat only left her Protest Delays war. Food and clothing shops the French capitalists. returning European colonists.” (shaded on map) and in Java. j sweeping out the water that had crying at her failure . . .” In Discharges in Tokyo are nearly all closed. So frightful are the oondltton# “ Japanese tanks and machine rained in through the gaping I The August 30 London News Such common items as butter In a m ilitant protest against in the camps where these Art*-- guns ringed the demonstrators,” roof and the paneless windows, j chronicle reports, “ Some 4,000,- and salt are virtually unobtain­ delays in receiving discharges oners are confined in F ra m i continued the dispatch. The For two days and nights the rain I Ooo starved and homeless Ger- able. Although wages rose by from the armed forces, New that even the capitalist paper Japanese ax-e ruling the Dutch Annamese Battle had soaked down on these help- j mans, mostly women and chil- four or five times during the Zealand airmen stopped work in Figaro has been moved to pro­ East Indies under British Navy less people, saturated bedclothes i dren, expelled from Eastern Ger- war, the cost of foodstuffs has Whenuapai Field September 16. test. In the September 18 issue, orders until Allied occupation and clothing, loosening the plast- j many by the Poles have been skyrocketed as much as 200 The airmen held a meeting in a the editor declared: “We have forces are powerful enough to Troops Of Allies ei so that lumps of it fell into oi'dered to leave Saxony with- times. Before the war 40 pounds hangar to formulate demands learned . . . that In certain suppress the independence move­ the puddles on the floor.” | in two days by the German local of rice cost 30 yen. The price for their early release to civilian camps a large proportion of food ment. Admiral Mountbatten. ac­ (Continued from Page 1) The Manchester Guardian, ac- government.” (Quoted by the is now 2,000 yen. A pound of life. A delegation of 150 met that should in principle be suf­ cording to a September 24 Reu­ is cut from the same cloth that' SWP Protest cording to the September Soc­ September 8 Freedom.) These potatoes leaped from 1/5 yen to alleges the Indo-Chinese battle with the station commander, ficient has been diverted from ters dispatch, “ instructed Jap­ Crbled to Attlee ialist Appeal, official organ of refugees apparently been or­ 3 yen; a pound of beef from 1 its destination so that living' anese forces in Java . . . not to for freedom is “ Japanese - in ­ the British Trotskyists, declares: dered to go to Berlin. Capt. C. C. Hunter. The cap­ j yen to 40 yen. American news­ spired.” NEW YORK, Sept, 26 — tain agreed to transmit their skeletons may be seen in them, hand over authority to any Java “ There are plenty of people in At Berlin, according to the paper correspondents report that The British command has in­ James P. Cannon, National grievances to the Air Depart­ almost like those in German-eon* faction.” Berlin trying to sustain life on August 24 News Chronicle “ 25,000 crowds in Tokyo look "underfed structed the Annamese to turn Secretary of the Socialist ment. centratlon camps; and deaths WANT COMPLETE BREAK no more than a slice or two of people were being turned away .. and dressed like Bowery dere­ over utilities to “ Japanese com­ Workers Party today sent the The Allied press characterized from undernourishment are nu­ Meanwhile Dr. I. R. Soekamo dry bread a day. There are wo­ every day.” The Chronicle de­ licts.” manders/’ These commanders following cable to British the protest as “mutiny.” merous. We learn further that —middle-of-the-road leader of men who take to the streets and scribes a scene at the Stettiner in turn would relinquish control Prime Minister Attlee: Unemployed workers are re­ war prisoners have been savage­ the Indonesian Nationalists—is offer themselves with a kind of Sftllway station: “ I looked this to thp British who are trying to - .-‘^Socialist Workers • Party ported wandering “ aimlessly ly and systematically mistreated Said to'-have formed a cabinet of casual hopelessness to anybody afternoon inside a cattle truck hold down the Indo-Chinese un- strongiy protests British m ili­ through the countryside search­ and that some have been em­ 17 ministers as a step toward who cares to give them a few shunted beside the buffers of til the Fi’ench can get sufficient j tary intervention in Indo- Guerilla Bands ing for relatives or jamming the ployed in removing mines w ith­ autonomy, but “ the Japanese scraps of bread ...” No. 2 Platfonn. On one side four troops into their former colony China and use of Britisb railroads in an attempt to escape out apparatus or protection, so warned him to desist.” Soek- forms lay dead under blankets to do the job. troops in conjunction wit? TERRIBLE STARVATION to the country.” In the great that they have thus been con­ arno claims that the National­ on cane and raffia stretchers; in Fight Franco Rule On September 25 the British Japanese forces to restore op­ Starvation is so bad in Ger­ industrial belt of Tokyo the demned to death with more or ists represent 95 per cent of the another coi'ner four more, all turned “ mortars and heavy ma­ pressive rule of French Im- many, according to William Pitched battles were fought workers live in "shanty towns.” less delay.” - ’ 5; 70,000,000 people in the East women, were dying. One, in a chine guns" n the independ- nerialism. Dispatches from Simms, that the American Army September 19 between Franco’s Many of the shacks are built of Figaro pointed out it was th« Indies. “ A complete break from 1 j ence forces in a bi'utal attempt Saigon report British gw- has posted signs “ ordering the , voice we could hardly hear' was civil guards and two small rusty iron sheets. duty of France to live up to in-* Holland was desired,” Soekamo | to drawn in blood the growing turned on Indo-Chinese in ­ men not to give uneaten scraps I crying out for water- s ittin S on bands of guerrilla fighters in According to the most con- temational agreements and to asserted, "but the Dutch would dependence forces in Saigon. of food to the civilians, but to a stretcher, so weakened by the mountain ranges of western I servative estimates, there w ill be treat the prisoners with a cer­ be' freeto live side by'side with ! dprising’ “ e d . Japantf This action is a crime against throw...... them...... into. . garbage...... cans. staiwation that he could not Catalonia, according to a dis- more than 10,000,000 unemployed tain amount of humanity. “Peo­ the Indonesians." ’ slda by slda ; with British and French against the liberating movement ol This is not due to" heartlessness | move hls head or his m°uth, his j patch released by the fascist workers before the end of the ple of course will bring up th« The Indonesians rose against ; the revolutionist Annamites,” de- the colonial peoples and but to prevent any rioting over eyes open in a deranged, uncom- Franco Government. In one of year. Industrialists who dined Gestapo’s tortures, the gaa the Japanese imperialists before 1 clared B ill Downs. against the British working the scraps.” prehending stare, was the wast- the fights, six of the guerrillas with American correspondents chambers and the mountain» of Allied troops arrived. A “ de- ' class, your government Is sup­ The August 24 London Daily ed frame of a man. He was dy- were captured, two of them ser- in Tokyo predicted that _ more human bodies found in the in­ layed” September 13 United REVOLUTIONISTS RESIST posed to represent. We de­ Herald as quoted by the Socialist ing, too. iously wounded. Six machine than 8,000,000 people w ill die ternment camps in Germany/* Press report said that “ Eui-o- ; “ The revolutionists are resist- mand immediate withdrawal Appeal, reports: “ I saw at the “ As I walked about the station guns ,a quantity of ammunition of starvation this winter. the editor said. “ But these bo#*' peans have been stabbed and ins the return of French rule of all British forces from Indo- Stettiner Station (Berlin) miser­ a score of others came up to me, and hand grenades were seized The industrialists feared that rors should not become a kind Japanese Army officers have ' which would leave them sub- China.” able remnants of humanity, with all ravenous and starved, for by the fascists. In the second as the situation worsens, com­ of sports competition in which been murdered in their cars as servient as in the days before death already shining out of their whom also, like those in the cat- clash, one pei'son was killed and munism will grow by leaps and we endeavor to outdo the Neat*. tie truck mortuary, nothing could more machine guns, grenades they drove through Batavia at general strike” and called for “ a eyes—with that awful, wide-eyed bounds among the working class. If the Allies intend to deUvet be done—until death.” , and ammunition taken. night,” The killing of the “ o ffi­ boycott against all French in stare. Four were dead already, A socialist revolution is a very blow for blow and eye for cers” of the Japanese Army See Editorial Southern Indo-China.” By Sep- another five or six were lying real possibility, in their opin- the horror will never end.” would indicate that rank and ‘Colonial Independence” tember 25 the fighting had alongside them, given up as ion. file Japanese soldiers sympathize grown intensive. The Nation­ hopeless by the doctor, and just Two top executives of the India with the Indonesians. The dis­ Page 4 alists burned the Saigon market being allowed to die. The rest Trotskyists In Chile house of Mitsubishi, however, patch even refers ambiguously place. This fire together with rat or lay about, whimpering, informed N. Y. Post correspond­ British officials predict flwn» to “ rebel Japanese.” crying or just waiting, hanging ent William McGaffin that in­ ine will sweep India next-jWftVi the war. Armed bands of thou­ the capture of the city slaughter The Nationalists have three house left the city virtually with­ on to the slenderest hope that Forge Steadily Ahead vestment of American capital­ reports a September 22 United sands of these Annamite ii-regu- Press dispatch from New radio transmitters and “ daily out food. The Annamese fire something, somehow, sometime With a well-organized pro­ sembly was followed by a radio ists had been protected during lars are now moving toward Sai­ The rice shortage w ill reach i conduct violent anti - Japanese gon. Truckloads of Japanese ! department took the f.re eng.nes would be done for them . . . gram, the Chilean Trotskyists broadcast at 11:30, in which the wrar as well as possible. 500,000 tons, say these offic and anti - Dutch propaganda.” troops with rifles drive through and joi,,ed the Nationalists, DESPERATE MOTHERS commemorated the life of Leon Diego Henriquez, General Sec­ Kwanzo Tanaka, chairman of The Nationalists call the Jap­ The Food Advisory Council *e| the streets toward the front.” | "There is every indication that “ They have no money, no Trotsky on the fifth anniversary retary of the POR, talked on the the Mitsubishi Electrical Engi­ anese “ policemen of the Allies,” of his assassination by a Stalin- liie and program of Leon Trot­ neering Co. declared: “ We re­ up by the British-dominated JBi* Some of the fighters for the' the revolt will continue in the valuables, nothing with which . . . . dian government declared th at and “ traitors, fascists and im­ freedom of Indo - China are northern section of Annam,” says they can barter or buy a crust 1S? An assembly was call- sky. served their dividends for them perialists.” Pamphlets distrib­ “controls” would probably do ad armed with rifles they obtained a September 25 press dispatch, ot bread. And the mothers’ only ed for 11 a.m. August 19, in the On August 20 a mass meeting during the war. They can get uted in Batavia said. "We don’t good and passed a resolution t t by one means or another from i “ The Nationalists are reported thought is food for the children. Plazuela Balmaceda, Santiago, was held to honor Trotsky and them whenever they care to want to be ruled by the Dutch." by the Partido Obrero Revolu­ come.” “call the matter to the atten- the Japanese foixes, “ but m ost1 to have withdrawn into the jun- 11 spoke to many. One woman, to explain how his ideas on build­ Tramcars in the same city bpre tion of the British Government* have only sticks and clubs and | Sle country to organize resist- emaciated, with dark rings under { cionario (Revolutionary Workers ing the socialist society applied roughly painted slogans such as: Party), Chilean Section of the Under British domination th« bamboo poles tipped with knife ance forces.” ! her eyes and sores breaking out to the workers of Chile. Principal “ Better to Hell than Be Colon­ Fourth International. This as- Korea Indian people are prevented' all over her face, could only speakers were Diego Henriquez, ized Again.” blades.” The scope of the movement from undertaking measure*- mutter self-condemnation be­ Humberto Valenzuela and Vin­ General Hodge’s decision to British occupation troops land­ The British commander at can be Judged from a September themselves to forestall such fam­ cause she was unable to feed her cente Blanco. retain the Japanese administra­ ed in Batavia September 16. Saigon, according to the Sep- 25 Christian Science Monitor ine. tember 26 PM, “ is using 5,000 report: “ Since August 19, the two whimpering babies. I watch- tion and armed Japanese troops Japanese officials ordered troops Nigerian Strike ELECTION GAINS In the 1943 famine in Bengal, to"help~ unload ”the~~shìps” ~ànd I anpcd dapa?es.e ‘ rT°°ps “ WeU Annamites have been in control in Korea was not as "inexplic­ a staggering total of 3,000,00b According to El Militante, of­ able” as some supporters of the asked if “ the Japanese troops” as his 2,500 British Indian troops of most of the coastal provinces rights—the right to be free, the people perished, according to Supported By ficial organ of the POR, the Truman administration would should keep their aims “ for fear and about 2,000 French soldiers of Annam, Cochin-China, and right to look for happiness . . . Sadar Vallabhai Patel, one of the Chilean Trotskyists are forging like to make out. It has now of uprisings among Java’s . . . released from prison camps.1’ Tonkin, where they have set up Yet for more than 80 years . . . leaders of the All-India Congress steadily ahead. In a recent elec­ been revealed that on August population.” I The number of American troops the Republic of Viet Nam. They France refused us all liberty, Caribbean Workers Party. tion at Concepcion, Comrade 15 when the Mikado surrendered, On September 25 a group of in use is not listed. are being backed by the prim­ thrust upon us inhuman laws, A grim order was recently is­ The House of Representatives Edgardo Condeza gained 400 Korean workers went out on a 2,000 Indonesians attacked Euro- REPEATED INSURRECTIONS itive Moi tribesmen from the and planned to set up three dif- sued in the Belgaum district, hills.” in Jamaica unanimously passed votes, of which the Election widespread strike. This strike, peans in Surabaya. Japanese The resistance of the Indo- ferent administrative regimes in | a resolution sympathizing with Board declared 321 valid. The according to a Bombay dispatch: Saigon Radio reported Sep­ : directed against the Japanese, troops were used against the Chinese against the Japanese the north, center and south to , the strike of 200,000 Govern- opposing candidate, backed by a In the cremation of bodies, a tember 19: “ Backed with 80,000 ; “brought manufacturing . . demonstrators. was Punched soon after imper- prevent our national unity. 1 nient workers in Nigeria. The coalition of Socialists, Stalinists forest ranger must examine the . . . . rifles and several wealthy Anna- virtually to a standstill.” Hodges bodies and ration wood for th« IMPERIALISTS UNITE lahst Japan seized^ the colony mite financiers the . . . party France built more prisons than resolution condemned the strike- ; and Falangists, received 1,663 apparently decided to utilize the schools, executed without mercy funeral pyre on the basis of the1 Mountbatten landed 2,250 | from the French. Insurrections breaking role of Governor Sir votes. The POR conducted an Japanese despots to crush this holds marches through Saigon men whose only crime was that weight of the body. British troops in Batavia Sep- ; occurred repeatedly. The first Arthur Richards. This action active campaign, holding street movement. with youths marching in blue they loved their motherland, For plump.bodies 2,400 pounds tember 29. He ran up the Stars j took place in October, 1940, at ol the House received wide ac­ meetings, posting up leaflets, Miners left their picks and and white uniforms . . . M ili­ suppressed in blood all efforts of wood may be used, b u t-fo r and Stripes as well as the Union ! Bac-son in the mountains of claim among the workers and and speaking over the radio. shovels. Printers for the Kor­ tary training continues daily in at independence, strangled pub­ lean ones, only 1,600 potindi Jack and Netherlands Tricolor. | northern Tonkin; the second in people of Jamaica. Fearful of the growing influen­ ean Times walked out too, after a large park . . . and today the lic opinion, muffled news, and may be apportioned. Lieut. Gen. Sir Philip Christison, Cochin China in November, 1940. The majority of the members ce of Trotskyism in Chile, the printing one edition under the city is packed with Annamites. used opium and alcohol to ex­ Residents had complained tha{ Allied Commander for the Neth- This uprising spread to Saigon, of the House of Representatives Stalinists have been conducting ; Americans. Their demands are They live outside the city area, haust our race.” the previous amount of 1, 60d erlands Indies, said that “ Jap- 1 The third insurrection was at in Jamaica belong to the Labor a vicious campaign of slander not reported, although they are but come in each morning.” pounds for all bodies, permitted- anese forces in Java will con- Do-louong in January 1941. The The proclamation charged the Party. The balance are inde­ and physical assault against our said to have i-efused an offer of FRENCH ROLE by the British, was insufficient? tinue to be used temporarily . . . present battle for independence French with opening the doors pendents or members of the comrades. The Stalinists are fol­ 100 yen. They got 18 yen under in many instances. to avoid the taking of sides by , began as early as last March Chinese troops in control of to the Japanese imperialists and People’s National Party. lowing the slogans, "Expel the the Japanese capitalists, corres­ the British in the dispute be- j when both Tokyo and Paris re­ Hanoi’ have not interfered with describes the joint French-Jap- The Barbados Workers Union Trotskyists from the trade un- pondents report. tween the Netherlands and the i ported fighting in various parts the Nationalist administration of anese oppression during the oc­ and the Barbados Progressive ions,” and "Refuse to discuss The strikes were in most cases THE MILITANlf Indonesian Republican Govern- - of Indo-China. Tokyo said the the city. The Hanoi Radio con- cupation years. The declara- League sent telegrams to the | with the Trotskyists.” All evi- spontaneous although some are ment.” ! fighting was over in a few daysi ; sequently is broadcasting to the tion concludes:concludes: “ His Majesty Government of Nigeria in sup- 1 dence indicates that at the re­ said to have been organized by In New York City The Netherlands Indies Gov- ! in the south and central axeas world the Nationalist side of the Bao Dai abdicated and we have port of the Nigerian strikers. ■ cent Sixteenth Plenum of the "communists.” Announced Ovei ernment has asked release of and in a few weeks in the north, struggle. On September 19 a broken our 100-year old chains They protested the banning of 1 Stalinist Party in Chile a deci- A “ delayed” dispatch from Staiion WINS Dutch ships from the Allied ship- Paris,however, claimed the Declaration of Independence was of monarchy, which have given Lhe West African Pilot and the 1 sion was made to “ carry out the Seoul, the capital, reports that ping pool to transport 43,000 ! struggle continued. bioadcast. It said in part: place to the republic, and there- Daily Comet and the threats | struggle against Trotskyism with “ Just after the Japanese sur­ 1010 On Your Dial tioops to Java “ to cope with the On September 16, the Nation-. “ All men are born equal: na- fore we pi'oclaim a definite break made against their editor, I increasing violence,” reports El render the Communists had Twice Daily . . , Indonesian uprising.” i allst movement proclaimed “ a ture has given them sacred with France.” Nnamdi Azikiwe. Militante. taken over police stations and 7:05 a.m an;! 8:00 p.nt, PAGE FOUR THE MILITANT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1945 ..i. ' ...... - ...... * groms. The September 21 New York Post re­ ports “ a transport of 650 Jews who escaped from Poland” and arrived in the American zone. PROBLEMS FACING t h e MILITANT | They tried to pass themselves off as German Jews returning to Munich. “ Rut their faulty Published in the interests of the German gave them away. Whereupon an Ameri­ Working People WAR VETERANS can general ordered them all returned to Po­ Vol. IX—No. 40 Solurdoj, October fi, 194S land. The next morning the camp was sur­ ------By CHARLES CARSTEN ------Published Weekly by rounded by American troops armed with ma­ THE MILITANT PUW.I.SIIING ASS’N chine guns. The soldiers drove the resisting Jews Hershey’s Campaign to Divide at 116 U niversity Place. New York 3. N. Y. from the huts, using the butts of their rifles Veterans and Non-Veterans Telephone: Algonquin 4-8547 indiscriminately against women and children.” * FARRELL DOBBS, Managing Editor And so on. General Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Select­ THE MILITANT follow» the policy of permitting its ive Service, intensified his efforts to create a contributes to present their own views in signed articles. Most of the refugees don't want to return to These views therefore do not necessarily represent the the places where their brothers and sisters have division between veterans and non-veterans and policies of THE MILITANT which are expressed in iti brazenly struck against unions through new di­ editorials. been murdered by tbe Nazis and tb.eir satellites, and where anti-Semitism has not been burned rectives Issued In the form of a handbook to• Subscriptions: 61.00 per year; 60c for 6 months. the guidance of local draft boards. Foreign: $2.00 per year, $1.00 for 6 months. out by the transformation of tbe old social order Bundle orders: 3 cents per copy in the United States; In broadening and strengthening his anti­ 4 cents per copy in all foreign countries. which breeds it. Single copies: 6 cents. union position Hershey ruled that “ union mem­ They are not asking to go to Palestine. That bership or other conditions not enumerated ia “ Entered as second -class matter March 7. 1944 at the post is being asked for them by the Zionist and other office at New York. N. Y., under the act of M arch 3. 1879." the law' may not . . . be required of a veteran “ respectable” Jewish leaders. But in Palestine as a prerequisite to his reinstatement.” the Arab masses, whipped up by the Arab land­ In the past Hershey attempted to force the lords, don’t want more Jews to come in. violation of the seniority clause in union con­ Only the world rev­ We can be sure the refugees would be glad tracts by insisting that a World War II veteran olution con save the to come to the western Hemisphere, where thè must be reinstated, if the employer desired, re­ USSR for socialism. Statue of Liberty was put up in the days when gardless of the- seniority of a World War I veteran or a non-veteran whose job he took. But the world revolu­ this country was populated and built by such immigrants and refugees. But those days are Further evidence that the Selective Service tion carries with it gone now,• and the difcor is barred to them, and acts only in the interest of the employers is th« inescapable blot­ contained in the following section of the new the respectable leaders who claim to speak for directive: "The proviso ‘unless the employer’s ting out of the Krem­ them don’t even demand that the doors be circumstances have so changed as to make it lin oligarchy., opened. And meanwhile the signs multiply of impossible or unreasonable to do so’ applies only the growth of anti-Semitism here, as the Gerald to the employer . . .” — Leon TroHky K. Smiths build their fascist gangs. He continues to the effect that consequences There is no haven on earth for the Jews. That to a third person are not involved and that it is the simple, terrible truth. Nor w ill there be makes no difference if a non-veteran wdth higher one, so long as capitalism which breeds anti- seniority loses his job. And protests from un­ Semitism continues to exist. “ They’re go selfish—you may be sure if THEY lived in pent houses ions against super-seniority are declared to be groundless because, he says, the law is concerned Policy For Labor they’d keep the elevators runningV* only with the employer and the veteran employe. A militant strike wave such as this country All of organized labor has declared1 Itself in hM not seen since the 1937 sitdowns is sweeping For Colonial Freedom favor of granting seniority to veterans for th* time they had accrued before being drafted, plus America. Last week alone nearly a half million When the Second World War broke out, the woticers were battling it out on picket lines for their time in service. But organized labor doe» Trotskyists once again emphasized what they oppose granting of super-seniority to veteran». jr»ges and job security. had said countless times before. The second This explosion of labor struggle comes as a great slaughter, they declared, like the one Wall Street Gloats Over Ruling l»volt against four years of frozen wages while / before it in 1914-1918, was not at all a war prices and profits soared, of submission to em­ Reporting the directive in its September 24 to establish democracy and freedom, but an­ issue, the New York Sun. organ of Wall Street, ployer provocation under the no-strike policy, other imperialist war for the redivision of the spoke w'ith unconcealed satisfaction concerning of witnessing the workers’ just demands buried earth among the capitalist powers. FASCISM—WHAT IT IS, HOW 1 class, destroy its organizations naked military-police dictator­ the section dealing with the reinstatement of in that “ graveyard of grievances,” the corpora­ The prediction of the Trotskyists has been TO FIGHT IT: a compilation and stifle political liberties when ship. men Who held temporary positions prior to in­ tion-dominated W ar Labor Board. verified to the hilt. In the Far Fast, British of writings by Leon Trotsky: the capitalists find themselves Trotsky demonstrates from the duction: “The burden of proof whether the vet­ No sooner did American capitalism enter the and American troops are spearheading an as­ Introduction by E. R. Frank. unable to govern and dominate experiences of Italy and Ger­ eran left a temporary job or not rests with the war, than the trade union leaders rushed to sault against the colonial movement for inde­ Pioneer Publishers, 1944; 48 with the help of democratic ma- many, that Fascism can become employer under the new interpretation of the Washington to give away the rights of Ameri­ pendence. American troops have invaded Korea. pp. 15 cents. j chinery.” The capitalists turn to a sweeping mass movement only law’ . . .” ! Fascist brutality not out of after the revolutionary party has In every respect the new ruling is favorable to can labor. They committed the workers to a no­ American troops have been scheduled for occu­ No sooner had the roar of im­ strike policy and bound them to compulsory pation'of Chinese cities. American, British and choice, but of necessity to pre­ had its chance to mobilize the the employers. They determine whether or not perialist battle ceased in Europe, serve their rule. masses for the socialist revolu­ their circumstances have changed so as to make arbitration in the hands of a government agency French troops, in collaboration with a Japa­ than native fascists in America “ The sober bourgeoisie,” says tion and failed to do so. Only It “ unreasonable” to rehire a veteran. They de­ of Big Business, the W LB . The workers were nese army, are shooting down the natives of began crawling from their holes. then does the disillusioned middle cide whether or not the veteran’s position war squeezed to the wall while the corporations Indo-China. Iritis h troops are moving against Gerald L. K. Smith, former Sena­ Trotsky, “ does not look very fa­ vorably even upon the Fascist class turn its back on the work­ temporary. looted the country. the people of the Netherlands Fast Indies. tor Robert R. Reynolds, John C. ing class movement and place its Scott of “Christian America,” mode of resolving its tasks, for The decision is a blow at unions because it for­ Now the workers are smashing through these The purpose of these acts of hostility is the concussions, although they hope for salvation in Fascism. bids insistence on union membership even in a absolutely clear. Rritish imperialism seeks to Upton Close, Father Coughlin, What the American Trotsky­ wartime barriers which the union leaders helped these and others emerged from are brought forth in the inter­ closed shop. Veterans can be h‘red to take the W all Street to erect. W ithout a by-your-leave recover its empire iu the Far Fast. The French ests of bourgeois society, are link­ ists did to combat the Fascist place of union militants through the super- hiding to feed on the funds al­ menace in New York. City is from the bosses, their government or the union and Dutch imperialists seek to reestablish their ready being handed out by capi­ ed up with dangers to it. There­ seniority ruling. bloody and oppressive despotism over the Fast fore the opposition between Fas­ shown in a number of illustra­ bureaucrats, the workers have trampled the no­ talism to smash the labor move­ tions. A picture of the demon­ The veteran is not protected. He can be dis­ strike policy into the dust and are running Indies and Indo-China. W all Street, the most ment. cism and the bourgeois parties. charged whenever the employer decides "circum­ The big bourgeoisie likes Fascism stration summoned by the So­ rough-shod over the Little Steel formula. sinister and powerful imperialist despotism of Smith, after a series of meet­ cialist Workers. Party against the stances" have changed. At most the l*w gives all, backs the aims of these capitalist gangsters, as little as’ a man w ith aching dubious prolection to the veteran for • year. Big business and its government are des­ ings in Los Angeles (concluded molars to have his teeth pulled.” Fascist, rally on February 20, and in the process intends to establish its own ignomlniously when the CIO 1939 at Madison Square Garden, Real security for the veteran lies in the strength­ perately seeking to establish more effective ma­ But like the man with a tooth­ ening and growth of the uniops. chinery to continue the profitable wage-freez­ domination over the entire area. called a mass counter-meeting), ache, Big Business inevitably shows a section of the 50,000 invades Detroit, the stronghold The new ruling places even disabled veterans ing, wage-slashing, strikebreaking, union-bust­ But the people of the Far Fast are not meekly goes to the Mussolinis, Hitlers workers protesting Fascist provo­ submitting to the knives of the ‘ imperialist of the powerful United Auto and Francos for “ relief” from cation. at the mercy of vhe employers. The UAW said ing policy. To that end, Truman has called a Workers Union, on & speaking- In action, the Trotskyists thus in a statement issued through Victor O. Reuther capitgl-government-labor conference on Novem­ butchers. For long decades they fought for inde­ the threat of the proletarian rev­ pendence against the bandits of the Western tour which next will bring him olution. demonstrated how Fascism can that Hershey’s interpretation “Jeaves the door ber 5 to get renewed commitments from the to New York. The many fascist and must be fought. wide open for the employer to deny re-employ­ labor leaders which w ill again bind the arms Hemisphere. When the Japanese capitalists elements are preparing to unite FASCIST DEMAGOGUES A COMPILATION ment to a disabled veteran on the claim, true or of labor. seized control over these rich lands, the people their forces. Nowhere has a city The Fascist demagogues, fin ­ The excerpts from Trotsky’s false, that his disability might prevent him from continued their struggle. As the Japanese grew And just as they rushed eagerly at the start or state administration raised a anced and controlled by Big Bus­ writings in this compilation, are working quite as fast or producing quite as weak under the blows of the Anglo-American voice of disapproval. The federal iness, utilize Socialist slogans to of the war. to Roosevelt’s conference and ten­ taken from articles, letters and much as he previously could.” bjoc and finally went down in defeat, the government is silent. win over large masses and build books written over a period of Thus Hershey is again acting as the spear­ dered labor's rights to the mercies of the politi­ colonial peoples seized the opportunity to run It is readily apparent that the a popular mass movement. Their nine years. Included arc extracts head of a drive by employers to cause friction cal agents of Big Business, so today these union up tbe banners of independence.- capitalist government, which last shock troops were made up pri­ from a letter to an English com­ between organized labor and returning veterans. leaders are preparing to repeat the betrayal of Throughout the Far Fast the masses are be­ year quashed the trial of 30 na­ marily In both Italy and Ger­ rade, from “ What Next?” “ The Employers hope to hire veterans with anti-union four years ago, by participating in a conference many of middle class elements: ginning to rise against imperialist domination. tive fascists, has no Intention of Only Road,” “ Whither France,” bias to replace union militants. This ruling 1» whose sole purpose is to set up machinery to tie unemployed youth, sons of shop­ and from articles published in They see no reason to submit once again to combatting the enemies of the another weapon employers hope to use in their keepers and professionals, return­ “The Militant,” "Fourth Interna­ efforts to smash the unions. It Is to the in­ labor hand and foot. foreign conquerors. They want to choose their working class. The tremendous strike wave however is clear But how can Fascism be ing veterans, etc. tional” and "American Mercury.” terest of veteran and non-veteran workers alike own form of government. Virtually all the press fought? A pamphlet issued a few Once in power, Fascism rules The introduction by E. R. Frank to see that their plan falls. testimony that the union ranks are fed up with correspondents report that the peoples of Java. discusses the problem of Fas- back-room deals, with commitments to hand over months ago by Pioneer Publish­ as the brutal agency of monop­ Malaya, Burma, India, and Siam as well as ers, “ Fascism—What It is, How oly capitalism. The du#ed middle scism in the United States. or blunt their powerful strike weapon, with the Korea and Indo-China are setting out on the To Fight It,” by Leon Trotsky, classes clamor for the “reforms” The American working class red-tape and Philadelphia-lawyer tricks of “ con­ road to national independence. Thus, terrible explains the nature of Fascism, promised to them; Fascism which alone can fight and de­ Standard Oil's Battle ciliators” and “ mediators” and the whole tribe and sanguinary struggles will wrack these lands and points to the only way Fas­ thereupon purges its ranks (H it­ stroy Fascism in this country, of capitalist government agents whose function of the imperialist powers, try— as they surely cism can be combatted and de­ ler’s “ blood purge” of 1934». Fas­ must begin by learning the na­ is to swindle the workers. will — to carry out their plans. stroyed. cism which came to power as a ture of its enemy. This lucid To Seal the Pipelines This instinct of the workers is sound. The War It is the duty of the American working class Fascism, Leon Trotsky explains, mass movement, thus gradually pamphlet provides this analysis. loses all popular support as it It should be read by every think­ Labor Board experience has merely confirmed grows out of the insoluble con­ to do its utmost to help these peoples in their tradictions of decaying capital­ ■ disillusions one section of the ing worker. tba workers’ suspicion that nothing good ever fight for independence. Demand the withdrawal . population after another. In its Reviewed by How the oil magnate» work behind the scenes ism. "The historic function of to maintain high prices and monopoly control has or ever w ill come to them from these slick of Allied troops from these areas! Bring the Fascism is to smash the working later stage, Fascism rules as a Ruth Johnson in&nagement-government-labor set-ups. They soldiers back home! over the nation's oil products is again being ean trust only in their own organized strength brought to light in a Congressional debate over the closing of government-owned pipelines. Sen­ io action. ator Joseph C. O’Mahoney from Wyoming and The workers want a real fighting labor pro­ Sir Bernard Pares Congressmen At W ork Representative Jerry Voorhis from California are gram» a united militant mass offensive of labor demanding that the Reconstruction Finance Cor­ on the political as well as the economic field in A capitalist “ expert” on communism — Sir poration hold up Its recently announced plans defense of their rights and living standards. Bernard Pares—is making himself a piece of Wall Street’s Congressmen * A group of Western Congress­ to close the Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines Yes, there should be a conference in Wash­ change at the University of Kansas by slander­ have been mopping their brows men figured they could entice the on October 1., veterans with first choice at ington-—but not the kind Truman is calling. ing Trotskyism. In the first of a series of pretty frequently of late. They These huge pipelines, running a total of 3,729 homesteads in the West. They miles, W'ere built by the government during the The conference that is imperatively needed lectures he alleged that the Trotskyists “ have support the imperialist plan to forgot to mention whether vet­ by the workers is the kind proposed by the re­ always been close to Germany. Maybe that war to carry gas and oil from the Texas oil fields maintain a gigantic peacetime erans’ crops would be plowed un­ to the New York City ports. Costing the public cent national General Motors conference of the w ill explain something for you.” army. Yet they want to appear der In the next depression, but CIO auto workers. $145,000,000 their operation netted the govern­ Besides slandering Trotskyism, Pares like­ as champions of the servicemen didn’t forget to ask for funds to ment a profit of $135,000,000 during the war. That is a giant Congress of American Labor, wise attacked Lenin. From the rostrum of who demand just one thing—a build dams for reservoirs to pro­ Under the Surplus Property Act. no facilities vide irrigation for the home-' with representatives from every local union and the University of Kansas he condemned Lenin discharge. which cost the government more than $5,000,000 steads. labor body in the country, which w ill hammer for championing socialism, for opposing the A number of Congressmen be­ can be disposed of without a report. On Sep­ out an effective program for labor and mobilize First World War and for signing the Brest-V lieve pay boosta will make army Representative Gross of Penn­ tember 14, at the same time that the government a nation-wide struggle to win its adoption. Litovsk Peace Treaty which the German life so enticing that the demand sylvania, however, was not very hung a “ for sale” sign on these public facilities, imperialists forced on the newly-born workers' for discharges w ill slack off. But enthusiastic: “ To induce them the RFC, obviously under heavy pressure from state. others are opposed to pay boosts now to go out into the West on the Rockefeller oil trust, announced plans to seal for servicemen—since these capi­ Representative Starkey of new lands,” he declared, “ where up the pipelines almost; immediately. No effort Anti-Semitísm A t the same time he praised Stalin for his rattlesnakes might bite their talist politicians raised their own Minnesota thought of a happy m made to find out if the pipelines could be “ non-communistic trend.” children and coyotes and wolves Mass protest meetings are being held in a pay a cool tax-exempt $2,500 last operated as a common carrier by independent Sir Bernard Pares is not a novice in the pro­ way to Induce men to stay in the endanger the lives of their wives, oil companies. Access to these transportation number of cities against the British govern­ session, they've been ultra-con- ' fession of red-baiting. After the October 1917 servative on the question of rais­ armed forces without a pay and where their greatest asset is facilities would serve to reduce the cost of oil ment’s refusal to admit more than a trickle of Revolution h» violently opposed the Bolshevik ing other people’s wages. boost: “ I am satisfied that many sunshine, which never pays products to the consumers. refugee Jews into Palestine. regime and called for intervention by the Representative May of Ken­ of those who have gone through j mortgages or educates their chil­ Voorhis revealed why the RFC Is so deter­ Why do they want to go to Palestine? Some capitalists. A t that time too the capitalist tucky, speaking from experience, the tortures of hell in the Pacific dren, and where foxes w ill kill mined to hurry up the closing of the pipeline». of oijr readers may wonder. declared: “ It Is awfully easy to are so sick and tired of that area their chickens and crows pick the He declared that “ the key to the monopolistic enemies of the workers’ state spread the foul eyes out of any livestock that is The answer is that the refugees haven’t said lie that Lenin and Trotsky, the revolutionary be liberal, especially when you that no amount of money would power of the major companies lies in their con­ I induce them to re-enlist even for born outside, is Just not right. trol of pipelines. Therefore the one thing they they prefer Palestine. They want a safe haven. leaders of the Russian working class, were are handing out somebody else’s But there is none for them. money. May I suggest . . . that a year in the occupation forces, | . . . They ought to be located east fear most Is the existence of true common car­ agents of Germany. of the Mississippi River, where In* Germany large numbers of Jews are still this matter of demobilization is yet they might be willing because rier pipelines.” Before the war, Standard Oil Times change hut the lies against commun­ there is enough rainfall . . kept; in the very same concentration camps like running into a nest of live of the educational value to serve owned or controlled more than 99 per cent of ism remain the same. hornets. If you run into the north a year in the European theater.” Meanwhile millions of service­ the interstate trunk pipelines through which where the Nazis placed them. I t ’s for their own nearly 80 per cent of the crude oil produced ia good, say American and British authorities. And side you are stung; if you run Mulling over the attractiveness men and their families wonder into the south side you are stung; to soldiers of educational oppor­ what’s holding up Congress in transported. Thus to turn over these pipeline» it is; a fact that anti-Semitism is still rife in READ if you run into the east or west tunities in other war-torn areas, getting the men back home from to independent companies would represent a di­ Germany, thanks to the Allied policy of not side you are also stung. So we Starkey had another happy ■ overseas. They don’t realize that rect threat to Standard Oil’s monopoly. letting the German anti-fascists purge the coun­ THE FOURTH better get down to business here i thought: “ And w-hat goes for the a capitalist politician has first The agents of the big oil companies want to try of the Nazis. and find < out whether we are boys in the Pacific would like­ 1 Rot to settle which farms are best seal the pipelines swiftly before the American Yet this same Germany looks like a haven to going to completely wreck the wise be true of those who served for veterans, those East of the people have a chance to learn what is going on ¡P olish Jews fleeing from a new wave of po- INTERNATIONAL Treasury ...” in the European theater.” I Mississippi River or those West. and can intervene to prevent it. PAGE FIVE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1945 THI MILITANT bjg, but more vicious. I t was a deliberate campaign to instill in our minds a hatred and a mis­ conception of the Japanese peo­ ple as being so imbued with the love of their Emperor that .they thought of nothing except Hiro- hito’s will and hara-kari. And now we have an inkling of the truth buried in the middle The Workers’ Forum, columns are open to the opinions of the readers of "The M ilitant". Letters of the New York World-Tele­ firs welcome on any subject of interest to the workers. Keep them short and include Ilour name and gram, September 6. An A.P. re­ Militant Army boosters will be placing of The M ilitant on news­ address. Indicate if you do not want your name printed. lease stating that . . . “a labor happy to learn that the in­ stands in all borough has been leader had been arreeted five creased circulation and general very successful. Approximately times for his labor activities and growth of The M ilitant, combined 1,500 papers are sold weekly, and British Member of Y.C.L. Sends Red Sunday for opposing the war against with the impending subscription many news dealers report all Mobilization China” ! campaign, have necessitated their papers are sold within a Let us not think that this “line moving our press to a much lar­ couple of days after their display Correction on French Martyrs A National Red Sunday enlightenment’1 was printed be­ ger and more modern printshop. on the stand. Mobilization to sell the new cause the U. S. policy-makers This change w ill be good news “In addition, we are experi­ Editor: Pioneer Publisher’s pamphlet, have suddenly realized that there tc all subscribers, especially those menting w ith a new way to sell I would be grateful if you would send me five copies of The JOBS FOR ALL! Is scheduled are workers in Japan that dis­ in the Mid and Far West who The M ilitant — via the radio. for October 7 by the Socialist Militant of March 3, which contains an article from La Verite trains are becoming more miU- 1 assist you in any other way we agree with Japanese Imperialist will receive their M ilitants al­ Radio Station WINS will carry Workers Party. can ip; securing employment. tant every day. There is no policy: but rather that they are most two days earlier.. plugs advertising The M ilitant at showing that the French Trotskyists fought against the German Wd were glad to have you as a A ll readers of The M ilitant question but that they w ill run somewhat concerned with the * * * ' s 7:05 a. m. (daily except Sunday) fascist occupation. Although I am still in the YCL (Young Harvester employe, and we hope are cordially invited to par­ up against opposition from the attitude of thousands of Amer­ Local New York advises: "The and at 8:00 p.m. (daily except it w ilfbe possible for us to work Communist League) and do not accept the Trotskyist position in ticipate in the mobllizatidn. union bureaucracy in this in­ ican workers in uniform when Saturday and Sunday). This will out some means of making you a many respects—and any contact I have with the Trotskyists is Consult the Socialist Work­ dustry which is probably as re­ these soldiers see for themselves enable us to reach a large circle naturally “ secret”—this article proves very well that the Trotsky­ ers Party branch in your lo­ actionary as any in the Ameri- Harvester empl^oye again actua! sentiment in Japan of potential M ilitant subscribers." cality for the exact time and ; can labor movement. Let us For some time to come we w ill ...... , ,. . * * • ists are not "H itler’s agents” as the CP says they are. place. speed the day when we will get have employment counselors at write the truth in Pioneer The CP omits to mention that Bourhis and Guegen—shot St. Paul works. Thereafter, we let* rs hom,e’ , . . . .. „ S. Crabbe, our Boston »rent rid of it. writes “Our renewal drive will at Chateaubriant— (with 25 of our own comrades in the CP— Jack Pearson suggest that you contact, either to coincide with Railroad Locals Call continue for three weeks, and Timbaud, Charles Midrels, Gardette, Dr. Ternine, etc.)—were St Paul in writing or personally if con- | Notes • \ enient, the Personnel Depart- 1 lts own lnterests’ and lts con" then stop temporarily during the For 36 Hour Waek tradictions are flaunted in the Trotskyists. ment, International Harvester new subscription campaign, The Editor: face of the workers, to be accept­ However, in your issue of April 28 and in Fourth Interna­ Harvester Company Company, 180 North Michigan A letter from the New York result of our first day's renewal Last week in Chicago a meet­ ed without question. tional, when listing some of your martyrs, you make a mistake, “ Explains” Job Lost Avenue, Chicago 1, Illinois. Such Trotskyist Youth Group this week activity was very fruitful; wq ing of all the general chairmen contact should be made within Jerry Baker obtained 12 six-month and 9 one- Trotskyist comrades, which might do you a good deal of harm. New York indicates that the branches of the shop craft’s locals of AFL To A Sailor 90 days of the date of your dis­ which have exhausted their sup­ year, renewals, plus 4 six-month You list Timbaud as one of your own people, saying that he was and 1 one-year new sub and I railroad unions went on record Editor: charge from m ilitary service. ply of Charles Jackson's pamph­ a member of the French Internationalist Communist Party—the Sincerely yours. A '‘Great” World one-year combination to both to secure a 36-hour week at 48 The following letter was sent let A Practical Program to Kill French Trotskyist organization. This is completely untrue! Tim­ to my husband, a sailor aboard International Harvester Editor: Jim Crow are taking advantage The Militant and Fourth Inter­ hours pay. national. Forty-three per oent baud, who was executed at Chateaubriant in October, 1941—at a cruiser now in Korea by the Company Out of sheer curiosity I bought of the new campaign methods to For nearly a year now the St. Paul Works of those we visited renewed, the same time as your two comrades—was never a Trotskyist. International Harvester Com­ your paper today and read prac­ sell other basic literature on the railroad workers have been de­ pany. I thought maybe you could tically every article. I was par­ Negro struggle. A letter from the which is a very good percentage "Le petit Timbaud,” as every French worker could tell you, and has given us quite a booet,** manding a change from the AFL use the irony of it! Calyinist Cant ticularly impressed with the ar­ organizer of the Youth Group was the ever-popular secretary of the Paris Metal Workers’ reads: • * • leaders’ old do-nothing policy. In addition, I may say that this ' Editor: ticle captioned: “Wall Street the Union and a leading member of the French Communist Party: “ We had scheduled a street sale H. M. Smith of Chicago wrnda company, in St. Paul at least, H. V. Kaltenborn with his Real Victor in Second World- Some of the locals have even Wide Slaughter." and demonstration in Harlem for this enthusiastic note: "More In fact, he was probably what the Trotskyists would call—In gave nothing to employes when "Polly wants a cracker” painful threatened to withhold per cap­ last Saturday to sell A Practical subs! We, too, rejoice over the their own language of abuse—a “ Stalinist trade union bureaucrat!” they were drafted. They do, to be delivery, tells us that America I am in agreement with the ita tax until they were guaran­ sure, send a package at Christ- j fV,_ . „ . . ._ thread of its thought that this . Program to Kill Jim Crow and way they keep coming in. And This man, like other prominent leaders of the French CP— mas Hm. time. And A «#4 -.„„la regularly ..„H send oa '* l0Slng ^ m0ral »«lerthip war is . a ,“ money" . ------war. I also to distributet r i b u t e The M Militant. i l i t a n t especially when they are sold in teed some action. I heard one of the world! Gabriel, Peri, Jean Catelas, Pierre Sernard, Lucien Sampaik, etc., company newsletter, too: know that which is not men­ When we learned that New York the plants as all six of these worker say in a union meeting Our* M ilitant (Homer nods!) whose names were household words among the French workers that as long as we keep sending Sailor’s Wife tioned — that certain powerful Local had sold all of the more were . . . three of them in steel quotes a preacher who tells us plants .and the other three in an —was among the 15,000 “ Stalinists” executed by the Nazis: he them money they will keep rais­ St. Paul, Minn. that “ America has lost her moral new^ apers «old out the people than 2,000 copies which they had * • * bought, we decided to try the auto plant.” died with the words of the "Internationale” on his lips. Do not ing their own pay and doing position.” in this war into the clammy campaign methods on The Strug­ Chicago friends w ill be pleased nothing for us. I am sure that the end of the This is worthy of the Stalin­ clutches of the Dictator, war­ forget either that Timbaud and the "Stalinists” executed with mongering politicians in Wash­ gle for Negro Equality and Ne­ to learn that two people whor The general chairman on re­ war has turned your thoughts ists at their most muddled. him were arrested by order of the Germans on October 5, 1040 ington. groes in- the Post-War World. In bought copies of the excellent turning from the Chicago meet­ toward your return to civilian Where in Gehenna did Amer­ However, I cannot agree with less than three hours we sold 89 pamphlet, "A Practical Program —eight months before Germany attacked Russia! ing, told the workers here that life and toward job opportuni­ ica get her job? Trotsky’s opinion that "Peace copies! The comrades met with to K ill Jim Crow,” by columnist No, the leaders of the CP—although I disagree with their, there were just stacks of reso­ ties. For that reason I want to Fascism means basically “ for explain our situation at St. Paul self only;.. lt is endlessly anti_ will come to this world only very enthusiastic response from Charles Jackson, mailed The M il­ present policy—are not such degenerates as you make out, as lutions from local unions on the the people, many workers stop­ itant advertising coupon and ob­ table at the front of the hall. Works to you. to assist you in social; its Satanic tentacles pen- ! ,’h*n the workers of the world is shown by the last letter of Gabriel Peri—brllliat foreign edi­ making your plans. take matters into their own ping on the street to ask for in­ tained subscriptions to our paper. tor of L ’Humanite and Communist member of the French Par­ The car men’s union here circu­ etrate and strangle the souls of formation about the Socialist * • * lated their own resolution na­ As you know, the International the flower of the flock; its most ^ nds, and ,throw of* the, ban* Workers Party.” Each mail brings in scores of liament—who was shot because he refused to accept the offers tion-wide inside their own craft, Harvester Company had no man­ subtle weapon is Calvinist cant. dl*. who rule over ,them’ C? day. Therefore, fitting myself Pacific and Great Northern lo­ and it was necessary for us to into today’s groove as I trust tion, with a new introduction by renewals and 1 six-month new because Marcel Cachin was my good teacher that I face death Joseph McNamee cals in their craft. System Fed­ i&y .off St. Paul employes. For __ «J»- __ __ _ ' you must now understand, with Charles Jackson. Albert Parker, sub. with fortitude .... . I d|$. that. France m^y llyp. New York • * * eration, 101. which is a sort of that, reason, I am sorry to say, allowances, I tell you this: who collaborated with John (Needless to' say, both Vaillant and Couturier—who died in "■ ’ V ' • • • council of shop crafts on the there is no job at St. Paul Works Politicians, capitalists and the Saunders in writing this pamph­ M ilitant Army welcomes into 1937—and Cachin—veteran French working class and resistance Great Northern, passed a resolu­ for us to offer you. There are, Capitalist Press workers were all willing to feast let, is well remembered as the its ranks M. Karen, literature leader—were considered by the Trotskyists as the ‘blackest of tion calling for a 40-hour week however, two other possibilities and fatten themselves by the first editor of the fighting col­ agent of Kansas City, who writes: the black’!) Charges A Line with Increased pay to offset the which I will outline. Editor:' spilled blood from the slaughter umn The Negro Struggle, pub­ “We had a good mobilization for lished weekly in The M ilitant, Doubtless your mistake about Timbaud was not made in­ reduction in hours. We have re­ 1. Because our Company has The end of armed hostilities is and the desecration of great cit­ M ilitant sub selling this week, tentionally but through a misinterpretation of some document. ceived copies of resolutions from been favorably impressed with proving more clearly to the work- ies. The votes at the election and now written by Charles and here are our results—11 six- Jackson. Parker also wrote I hope, however, that you correct the mistake in The M ilitant locals as far away as Sacra­ the spirit of employes and the ers how capitalism lies. The press | proved that. If the “ workers” month and 1 one-year subscrip­ and Fourth International—which seems usually to be a reliable mento, Cal., all demanding Negroes in the Post-War World. tion. general success of our wartime is only one of the many outlets who were well organized had re- * • * and well-informed journal and which in the main has impressed shorter hours and wage in­ operation at St. Paul, the man­ the capitalists have to propagan­ fused to make the Inhuman and “ We received excellent reac­ me very much—and w ill give due recognition to the bravery creases. agement is making studies to de­ dize their lies as truths. The most death dealing instruments for The Struggle for Negro Equal­ tions from the workers we talk­ ity, by Albert Parker and John and strength of conviction of the leaders of the CP, while con­ Now that the war is over and termine whether any Harvester vicious propaganda form is to es­ the ambitious politicians and ed with, many of whom exr tinuing of course to criticize their policy. the railroads all over the U nit­ civilian products can be manu­ tablish that monstrous ghost call­ militarists to wield there would Saunders, with an introduction pressed a desire to attend our by Charles Jackson, 10 cents. Ne­ Hoping I will see some more of your papers, etc., which I ed States are cutting out all factured in the Twin Cities area ed ‘Public Opinion;’ which in have been no war. future meetings. One of the groes in the Post-War World, by find very interesting, and that you will be able to send me those overtime work, the workers are as a permanent peacetime ar­ reality is not public opinion, but Communistic Russia attacked workers, an active member of Albert Parker, 5 cents. copies of The M ilitant so that CP comrades may be shown that receiving from one-fifth to one- rangement. The problem requires only a capitalist trick to hold the little Finland before this big war the NAACP, National Association Order from Pioneer Publishers, the Trotskyists are an anti-fascist proletarian organization like third less wages than during the careful study because the area workers in check. started and, pardon me while I for the Advancement of Colored ourselves. waff. Coupled with the fact is at a cost disadvantage for a Prior to December 8, 1941, the 116 University Place, New York People, Invited us to their next smile, the “ mighty British Em­ 3 N. Y. Fraternally, that rail workers as a group re­ metal working industry like ours, news we were given on and about pire” through the pygmy, whis­ meeting.” ENGLISH READER ceived from a quarter to a third since the Twin Cities are at a Japan was of a fairy-tale char­ key-bloated mind of Churchill, less pay than war plant workers, considerable distance both from acter. The Jarpanese imperialists declared war on that little coun­ we can readily see the reason the supplies of steel and other were painted as Gilbert and Sul­ try—ah, well! All I can say is Our Program: for this trend. raw materials and from the cen­ livan creations; and the Japanese —we are living in a “ great” Editor's Reply The workers who run the ter of distribution for most of workers , . .? We never heard of world. The actions of the hu­ 1. Full employment and job security for all workers our products. We do hope, how­ them. (Better close our eyes and man family the past six years and veterans! The English YCL comrade is right about Timbaud. Timbaud ever, to find a product which can take an indifferent attitude on make one sorry they were born A sliding scale of hours! Reduoe the hour* of work was, indeed, never a member of the French Section of the Fourth be made in the Twin Cities with­ what was happening in China.) a human. with no reduction in pay! International, but a member of the C.P. in that country. The out too much cost penalty. If we After December 8, that lie was G. Cornell mistake in The M ilitant of April 28, which described him as a QUESTION BOX are successful, this will involve discarded for another, just as New York City A rising scale of wages! Increase wages to meet the Trotskyist, was due to a misconstruction of information trans­ the acquisition or construction increased cost of living! lated from the organ of our French comrades, La Verite, of Sep­ of a plant other than the present Operate all government-built plants under F o rk in ’ tember 29, 1944. The Militant incorrectly assumed that Tim­ Q: Were there many strikes St. Paul Works, which is not well control! baud, like Bourhis and Guegen, was a Trotskyist. We are glad after the last war? adapted to efficient peacetime Socialist Workers Party manufacture. 2. Independence of the trade unions from th e that the comrade called the error to our attention and are nat­ A. At the end of the first world government! urally desirous of correcting it. war, there was a great wave I f such a manufacturing opera­ As to some of the young comrade’s o:her comments, j^re of strikes. The year 1919 spt a tion is established in the Twin Branch Activities Rescind the no-strike pledge! is what we have to say: Unquestionably a considerable number of record that still stands for the Cities, we certainly will give Withdraw union representatives from the War Labor Stalinist militants, including well-known leaders, behaved hero­ number of workers Involved in preference in hiring to former Board! AKRON—V i«lt Th« M ilita n t Club, 405-8 ter«, 938 Plsnklngton Av»„ Room 31, ically under the Hitler te rro r.' As the comrade is probably aware, strikes. During that year, there employes of St. Paul Works, and Everett Bldg., 38 East Market St., open any evening between 7 and 9:30 p.m. 3. Organization of the war veterans by the trade there have been numerous reformist Socialists who have behaved were 4,160,348 persons on strike especially to veterans who have Tuea. and Thurs. 3 to 4 p.m.; Mon., Wed.. P rl. 7 to 9 p.m. NEWARK—lectures are held every Fri­ unions! no less heroically in the face of the fascist persecutors. We need or 20.8 per cent of the total work­ worked at this operation. I t is day at the Progressive worker»’ only call attention to the most famous of all such cases—that of ing force in industry. This com­ only fair to say, however, that if MLlNTOiVN-BETHLEHEM—Public dlt- School. 423 S pringfield Ave., a t 8:30 '• Full equality for Negroes and national minorities! cuaaion meeting on current tqplcs ev­ p.m. Giacomo Matteotti in Italy. pared with 6.2 per cent on strike we do establish a new plant in ery Thursday, 8 p.m. at M ilitant labor Down with Jim Crow! in 1918. Forum, 8. E. corner Front and Ham­ PHILADELPHIA—S \^ Headquarters, 405 But the heroism of these individuals has never blinded Marx­ the Twin Cities it cannot begin ilton Streets, Allentown. ists to the treacherous policies pursued by the parties to which * * • operation for a considerable time, W. Girard Ave. Open forums every 5. Working class political action! • Friday 8 p.m. on current topics. Establish the workers’ and farmers’ government! they belonged, nor to the degenerate class collaborationist char­ Q. How many years, on the probably more than a year. BOSTON—office at 30 Stuart St., open Socialist Tenth Group meets on al­ evenings (except Sundays) until 8:30: ternate Baturdays. 8 p.m. All young Build the independent labor party! acter of the bureaucracies which ruled them. The same holds average, have the men in the 2. The other possibility would also Monday and Saturday afternoons. people Invited. true io r the Stalinist bureaucracy. While giving all due honor U. S. Army served? involve your being willing to Como in and get acquainted. Complete I. Tax the rich, not the poor! to the heroism of the Individual militants who died under the A. According to a September stocky of literature. PORTLAND, Ore.—^ s it SWP headquar­ leave the Twin Cities and work • ters, 220 S. W. Alder St., Room 500; No taxes on incomes under $5,000 a year! dastardly persecution of the Nazis and their henchmen, our cri­ 1, 1945, estimate, a total of 8,- elsewhere. Under the Harvester L'FFALO—Open house every Saturday open 1 to 4 p.m. dally except Sunday, terion for judging their party remains the Marxist criterion, 050,000 men in the U. S. army night at the M ilitant Forum, 839 Main and 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday and Friday. '• A working class answer to capitalist militarism! Veterans’ Re-employment Plan, St., 3nd floor. Sunday, Oct. 21—"Unemployment. what class does its policies aid? The M ilitant, in treating this have served as follows: 800,000 if you desire, we will try to find How to Fight It.” Speaker: C. M. M ilitary training of workers, financed by the govern­ question, has adduced volumes of factual proof to show that the more than 4 years; 1,200,000 be­ you a job for which you are qual­ ’ITCAGO—Visit the Chicago SWP head- Hmsw- ment, but under control of the trade unions! Trotskyist evaluation of Stalinism—as a degenerate workers’ bu­ tween 3 and 4 years; 3,600,000 quarters to obtain The Militant, Fourth „ „ ______• ified at some other International International, Marxist books and pani- FRANCISCO—Visit the San Fran- Trade union wages for all workers in the armed forces! ... .. eleoA OnhoAl „ 4 P-.l.l _____••• — reaucracy serving world imperialism—is well grounded. I t is on between 2 and 3 years; 1,450,000 Harvester location, provided you phiets, as well as information about elsoo School o f Social Science 305 G ra n t that basis, and not on some abstract ethical considerations, that between one and two years; 1,- make application to us within 90 the SWP. Open 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. ev­ Ava., oornar of Grant and Sutter, 4th \ Hands off the European and colonial peoples! ery day except Sunday. Tel. Dear­ floor; open from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Withdraw the Allied Occupation Troops from Europe! we ask the young comrade to judge between us and the com­ 000,000 less than one year. days after being discharged from born 7502. Monday through Saturday, and 7 to 9 pletely Stalinized Communist parties. • • » m ilitary service. Under the Se­ p.m. Monday through Friday. Solidarity with the revolutionary struggles of the One final point, on Walter Dauge. He was a left Social “TROIT—All Militant readers invited European and colonial peoples! Q. I hear that the mechanical lective Training and Service Act, to the SWP Open House held every TOLEDO—Forums ?eld every Sunday evening at 905 Jefferson Ave., Room Democrat of long standing who for only a few short years be­ cotton picker is now perfected. and under existing union con­ Saturday evening, from 8 p.m. on. 304, 8 p.m. Music, dancing, cards, refreshments. longed to the Belgian Trotskyist party and is, to the best of How many are in use, and will tracts, you would have to begin Open House every Saturday night; Admission free. Room 21. 3513 Wood­ dancing, refreshments. our knowledge, the only case internationally of a member of they displace much labor? such a job as a new employe from ward. Join the Socialist Workers Party! one of our organizations who betrayed it and went over to the the standpoint of work seniority. Forums or topical questions every A. Already more than 100 cot­ Sunday 8 p.m. Refreshments. No SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY "collaborationists.” (Isn’t it somewhat unfair to compare this ton pickers are in commercial However, any other rights for remission charge. Newark 116 University Place isolated case to the group betrayals like those of Paul Faure and use. These machines pick more the purpose of vacation, extra Basic Training Class in Fundamental New Y ork 3, New Y ork Principles of Marxism every Thursday Buy THE MILITANT Co. of the French Socialist Party, Henry De Man and Co. of the than 1,000 pounds of seed cotton compensation, E. B. A. and other 8 p.m. I would like: Belgian Labor Party, Clamamus and Co. of the French C.P.? in an hour, compared to an av­ company plans w ill be computed Saturday, October 18—October Barn snd □ To Join the Socialist Workers Party. However, when we speak of traitors and treachery we are from the date your service record Dance, music and program of enter­ FOURTH INTERNATIONAL. erage of 15 pounds an hour by tainm ent. □ To obtain further information about your organization. not concerned with the actions of individuals belonging to a a human being. How much labor began, at St. Paul Works or other • AT THE given party (such betrayals cannot be prevented even in the a mechanical picker displaces is International Harvester Com­ IOS ANGELES—Buy The Militant, 4th □ To attend meetings and forums of the Socialist Workers Party International and other Marxist books PROGRESSIVE WORKERS in my city. most revolutionary parties and, indeed, there were numerous indicated by its application on pany operations. and pamphlets and get information such cases even in the Bolshevik party of Lenin’s day.) We about the SWP at the following places SCHOOL cne plantation of 4,000 acres If neither of these possibilities in the Los Angeles area: LOS AN­ Name ...... are concerned with the declared and established policy of the which uses 40 skilled workmen appeal to you, or if we are un­ GELES, Socialist Workers Party, Rooms 423 Springfield Avenue (Please P rin t) party itself over American Workers Party, which themselves with him in that situation. We threw them out of The hotel organization campaign began, and as so frequently the Conference for Progressive Labor Action had set up at their farther away from us. We tried hard, in the most comradely way, our organization in the midst of the strike. Those members of happens in trade union developments, luck played a part. By Pittsburgh conference in the preceding month. In this open in the most humble way, to convince this swell-headed fool that the Field faction who didn’t want to break with the party, who chance, a few members of our party belonged to this independent letter we took note of their convention decision to move toward he was leading not only himself but the strike to destruction, agreed to accept the discipline of the party, were given an op­ union which became the medium for the organization campaign. the constitution of a political party; we proposed to open dis­ and was threatening to bring discredit upon our movement. We portunity to do so and are still members of the party. Some of As the hotel workers began to turn toward unionism in a big cussions with the objective of coming to an agreement on pro­ begged him to consult us, to come and talk to the National Com­ those whom we expelled remained in political isolation for years. way, this handful of Trotskyists found themselves in the midst gram so that we could form a political party unitedly, putting mittee about the policy of the strike, which was • beginning to Eventually they drew the lessons of that experience and returned ‘ o f‘ a swirling mass movement. W¿ had a comrade, an old-time their forces and ours together in one organization. It is symptom­ sag because it was being directed wrongly. Instead of organiz­ to us. m ilitant in the trade, and after years of isolation he suddenly atic, it is significant, that the initiative came from us. In every ing the militancy of the ranks from below, and thus coming to foúnd himself an Influential figure. Then we had in the party relationship ever established between the Trotskyists and any the negotiations with a power behind him—the only thing that “The Trotskyists Mean Business” really counts in negotiations when the chips are down—he was at that time a man named B. J. Field, an intellectual. He had other political grouping, the initiative always came from the That was a very drastic action, considering the circumstances moderating the militancy of the masses and spending all his never been engaged In trade union work before. But he was a Trotskyists. That was not because of our personal superiority of the strike in progress; and by that action we startled the. time running around from one conference to another with these man of many Intellectual accomplishments, and in our general or because we were less bashful than other people—we have al­ radical labor movement. Nobody outside our organization ever government sharks, politicians and labor skates who had no other push toward mass work, In our drive for contact with the mass ways been modest enough—but because we knew what we wanted dreamed that a little political grouping like ours, confronted with purpose except to knife the strike. movement, Field was assigned to go Into the hotel situation to all the time. We had a more clearly defined program and were a member at the head of a movement of 10,000 workers, would help our faction and to give the union the benefit of his knowl­ always sure of what we were doing, or at least we thought we dare to expel him at the height of his glory, when his picture was edge as a statistician, an economist and a linguist. were. This gave us confidence, initiative. The Party Must Determine The Line all over the newspapers and he seemed to be a thousand times The hotel strike had a very promising beginning. A series Field became more and more disdainful. How could he, who bigger than our party. There were two reactions at first. One Organizing the N. Y. Hotel Workers of great mass meetings was held, culminating in a mass meet­ had no time, come down and meet with us? A ll right, we said, reaction was summed up by people who said: “ This means the R happened that the most strategically important sectqr in ing in the annex of Madison Square Garden with not less than we have time; we w ill meet you at meal time in a restaurant a end of the Trotskyists; they have lost their trade union con­ the hotel situation was a group of French chefs. Because of 10,000 in attendance. There I had the privilege of speaking as j block from the union headquarters. He didn’t have the time tacts and forces.” They were mistaken. The other reaction, the their strategic position in the trade and their prestige as the most one of the featured speakers of the strike committee, along with even for that. He began to pass disparaging remarks. There was important one, was summed up by those who said: “ The Trotsky­ skilled craftsmen, they played, as is always the case with the Field and others. Our comrades in the union were in a position a little political group down on Sixteenth Street, and all they ists mean business.” Those who predicted fatal consequences best mechanics everywhere, a predominant role. Many of these from the start to influence strike policy most decisively, although had was a program and a handful of people; and here he was from this disgrace and debacle of the hotel strike were soon re­ French chefs could not speak or discuss things in English. Our we never pursued the policy of monopolizing strike leadership. with .10.000 strikers under his influence. Why should he bother futed by further developments. Many who saw this little political Intellectual could talk French with them till the cows came home. Our policy has been to draw into cooperation all the leading | with ur? He said. “ I could not get in contact with you even if grouping take a stand like that towards an “untouchable” trade This gave him extraordinary importance in their eyes. The old militants, and share responsibility with them, in order Chat the I wanted to; you haven’t even got a telephone in your office.” union leader at the head of a big strike acquired a healthy re­ secretary was leaving office, and before anybody knew what had strike leadership may be really representative of the membership That was true, and we really winced under the accusation—we spect for the Trotskyists. and sensitively responsive to it. happened, the French chefs insisted that Reid should be sec­ had no telephone. That deficiency was a relic of our isolation, Serious people were attracted to the League, and our whole a hangover from the past when we had no need of a telephone retary of this promising union and he was duly elected; naturally Strike Encounters Difficulties membership was stiffened up with a new sense of discipline and that meant not only an opportunity for us, but also a responsi­ because nobody wanted to call us up, and we couldn’t call any­ responsibility toward the organization. Then, right on the heels bility. The organization campaign then went on with full force. Naturally, the strike began to encounter many of the d if­ one. Besides, up till then, we couldn’t afford a telephone. of the hotel disaster, came the Minneapolis coal yard strike. O a r. League gave the most energetic help from the start. I per­ ficulties which scuttled so many strikes of that period, particularly Eventually the hotel strike bogged down for lack of militant Before the hotel strike grew cold there was a flare-up in Minnea­ sonally participated quite actively and spoke at several organiza­ the machinations of the Federal Labor Board. It required political policy because of a crawling reliance on the Labor Board which polis and a strike of the coal yard workers. I t was led by this tion mass meetings. After five years of isolation down on Tenth awareness to prevent the ostensible “ help” of these governmental was aiming to scuttle the strike. Days were wasted in futile group of Minneapolis Trotskyists who are known to all of you, Street and Sixteenth Street, making innumerable speeches at agencies from being transformed into a noose for the strike. We negotiations with Mayor LaGuardia, while the strike was dying and conducted as a model of organization and militancy. Party striali forums and internal meetings—and not only making the had sufficient political experience, we knew enough about the on its feet for lack of proper leadership. Meanwhile our enemies discipline of our comrades in this endeavor—100 percent effective speeches, but listening to other speakers interminably—I was role of government mediators, to have some ideas about how to were waiting to say: “ We told you so. The Trotskyists are noth­ —was in no small degree affected and reinforced by the un­ happy to have an opportunity to speak to hundreds and hundreds deal with them—not only to turn one’s back on them in sectarian ing but sectarian hair splitters. They can’t do mass work. They fortunate experience we had in New York. Whereas the tendency of workers on elementary trade unionism. fashion, but to utilize every possibility they might afford to bring can’t lead strikes.” It was a heavy blow to us. We had the of the trade union leaders in New York had been to pull away Hugo Oehler, who later became a quite famous sectarian, the bosses into negotiations; and to do this without placing the name of leading the strike but not the influence to shape its from the party, in Minneapolis the leaders came closer to the but who. strangely enough, was an excellent trade unionist— slightest confidence in these people or giving them the initiative. policy, thanks to the treachery of Field. We were in danger party and concluded the strike in the most intimate contact with and more than that, a member of this craft—was sent into this A ll this we tried to impress upon our brilliant young in ­ of having our movement compromised. I f we should condone the party, both locally and nationally. tellectual prodigy, B. J. Field. But he in the meantime had gone union to help. In addition, a number of other comrades were what was being done by Field and his group we could only spread The coal yard strike came to a smashing victory. The through a certain transformation; from nothing he had suddenly assigned to help in the organizing campaign. We publicized the demoralization in our own ranks. We could convert our young Trotskyist trade union policy, carried out by able and loyal men, become everything. His picture was in all the New York papers. campaign in The Militant and gave whatever help we could, in­ revolutionary group into a caricature model of the Socialist was brilliantly vindicated in this battle of the coal yards, and He was the leader of a great mass movement. And strange as : cluding advice and direction to our comrades, until the movement Party, which had people all over the trade union movement but did much to counterbalance the bad impressions of the New culminated in a general strike of New York hotel workers on it may seem, sometimes these things which are purely external, had no serious party influence because the Socialist Party trade York hotel strike. January 24, 1934. At the invitation of the union committee, I having absolutely nothing to do with what is inside a man, exert unionists never felt any obligation to the party. a profound effect on his self-estimation. This, unfortunately, was Following these events, we addressed another letter to the màde the main speech at the mass meeting of the hotel workers, We had before us a fundamental problem which is decisive the case with Field. By nature he was rather conservative, and American Workers Party proposing that we send a committee the night when the general strike was proclaimed. Thereafter for every revolutionary political party; Shall trade union func­ to discuss fusion with them. There were elements in their ranks thè National Committee of our League assigned me to devote my by no means free from petty-bourgeois sentiment, from being tionaries determine the party line and lay down the law to the impressed by government representatives, politicians and labor who by no means wanted to talk to us. We were the last people whole time to assisting and collaborating with Field and the party, or shall the party determine the line and lay down the they wanted to unite with, but there were others In the AWP who fraction in the hotel workers union... Many others—a dozen or skates into whose company he was suddenly thrust. He began law to the trade union functionaries? The problem was posed to carry out his negotiations with these people, and to conduct were seriously Interested in uniting with us to form a bigger mère—were assigned to help In every way from picketing to run­ point-blank in the midst of this strike. We did not evade the party. And, since we didn’t keep our approaches a secret, but ning errands, from writing publicity to distributing handbills and himself generally, like a Napoleon, as he thought, but in reality issue. The decisive action we took at that time colored all the like a schoolboy. He disregarded the fraction of his own party always printed them in the paper where the membership of the sweeping up headquarters; any and every kind of task which future developments of our party in the trade union field and did American Workers Party could read them, the leaders found it would be required of them in such a situation. in the union—which is always the sign of a man who has lost his a great deal to shape the character of our party. head. But it often happens with party members who are sud­ judicious to agree to meet us. The formal negotiations for the ■' Our League went all out for the strike, just as we had done We put Mr. Field on trial in the middle of the strike. Big fusion of the American Workers Party and the Communist in the German crisis in the early part of 1933. When the Ger­ denly projected into important strategic positions in unions. They are seized by the utterly irrational idea that they are bigger then as he was, we brought charges against him for violating party League began in the spring of 1934. mán situation came to the breaking poi^t, we brought out The policy and party discipline, before the New York organization. (To Be Continued) Militant three times a week in order to dramatize the events the party, that they don’t need the party any more. Field began to disregard the m ilitants of his own party We had a fu ll discussion—as I recall, it lasted two Sunday after­ and increase our striking power. We did the same thing in the noons—to give everybody in the League a chance to speak. The New York hotel strike. The Militant was carried by our com­ fraction who were right there by his side and should have been the machine through which he carried out everything. Not J great man Field disdained to appear. He had no time. So he rades to all meetings and picket lines. So that every worker in j was tried In his absence. By this time he had organized a little .. : > thje jndustry on strike saw The M ilitant every other day popular­ only that. He began to disregard the National Committee of the New Low League. We could have helped him a lot because our committee I faction of his own of League members whom he had misled, and izing the strike, giving the strikers’ side, exposing the bosses’ lies, ’ who had become unbalanced by the magnitude of the mass k3| il ^ apd offering some ideas on ways of making the strike successful. embodied the experience not of one strike but of many, to say ■ ljr » nothing of the political experience which would have been so 1 movement as against the size of our little political grouping on Prices! $ Our whole organization, all over the country, was mobilized Sixteenth Street. They came down to the League meetings as ■ b o öfTSVvJ to£help the New York strike as task number one; to help the useful in dealing with the Labor Board sharks. We wanted to NOW! help him because we were bound up in the situation as much 1 Field’s spokesmen, full of arrogance and impudence and said: uiáon win the strike and to help our comrades establish the in- “ You can’t expel us. You are only expelling yourselves from the as he was. All over town, and all over the country in fact, every­ i r a i Paper $1 — formerly $2.00 fhi|iice and prestige of Trotskyism in the fight. That is one trade union mass movement.” body was talking about the Trotskyist strike. Our movement was lv " B a. d r Ti K i w UU olpthe characteristics of Trotskyism. Trotskyism never does Like many trade unionists before them, they felt bigger than &P»y■■ > i I* .1 lUflfl aq^thing half-way. Trotskyism acts according to the old motto: on trial before the labor movement of the country. All our Cloth $2 — formerly $2.75 enemies were hoping for disaster; nobody wanted to help us. 1 the party. They thought they could violate party policy and Ik'rlB | | i Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. That is the ' break party discipline with impunity because the party wouldn't O rder from W ® we acted in the hotel strike. We poured everything we had We knew very well that if the strike had a bad outcome the Trotskyist organization would get a black eye. No matter how dare to discipline them. That is what really happened in the PIONEER PUBLISHERS in # that task to make it successful. The whole New York or­ case of the Socialist Party, and that is one important reason why far Field might depart from the party policy, it would not be 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE ganization was mobilized; they scraped down to the bottom of the Socialist Party has wound up in such a p itiful debacle in the their pockets, to the last dime, to pay the tremendous expense Field who would be remembered and blamed for the failure, New Y o rk 3, N . Y . but the Trotskyist movement, the Trotskyist organization. trade union field. All its great trade union leaders, lifted Into of the three-times-a-week M ilitant. The comrades all over the office with the help of the party, are still there but once in of­ country did likewise. We strained the organization almost to Each day that went by, our heedless intellectual pulled 5ATURDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1945 T H E MILITANT PAGE SEVEN

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"Labor with a white skin cannot emancipate itself 1,000 Detroit Workers Picket Fascist Meeting; where labor with a black skin is branded.” —K asl M a m

Police Use Clubs In Attack On Anti-Fascists by CHARLES JACKSON (Continued from Pace 1) Party, went to the executive*?) <*)wiil no longer be permitted the spokesmen, for Frankensteen to use. of public schools for meet­ get mixed up in the fight against &ther side of the school ent­ board of the Wayne County CIO niiiiiiiiiaiiniiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiHittaiiiiiiinifiDiiiiiiMiiiiDiiiiimiiiiaiiiuiiiimaii rance. Council which was meeting that ings, V * the fascist Smith. The policy of ignoring Hitler, Several pickets, including a same night, to repeat in person JOB WELL DONE The True Role of Religion the recommendations contained of refusing to lead the German war veteran still in uniform, The magnificent response of The Negro people have been bound down by the ch a in s in the telegram, and to point out DRIVE OUT THE FASCISTS! masses in an all-out fight against were knocked unconscious. As the Detroit workers to the hast­ of servitude and persecution for the last 300 years. A lth o u g h that local unions had been given him, and of not publieizing that the veteran slumped forward, ily called picket line, and the se­ many of us have been taught to look upon religious b e lie f an incorrect date for the picket fight to the workers before the blood pouring out of his ears vere setback suffered by Smith, line by CIO officials. Picket The G«L*K* Smith Meeting fascists became strong, was pre­ as a beacon of hope that has had a helpful influence during from a blow on the head, he was point to a Job well done. He had a hostile reception, the cisely the kind of "smart poli­ all this time, the fact of the matter is that no small link heard to protest "I haven't done However, the question still re­ board voting 6-to-l not to give at Northern High School tics” to which the German work­ In those very chains that bind us, has been the white man’s anything. I was just walking on mains: "What next to drive the him a hearing. When he man­ C*m*r Wm Jw«i4 and CI*lrm«uM ers were treated b | their leaders ruling class religion. ©■ the picket line.1’ In answer a fascists out of Detroit altogeth­ ing that the pamphlet contained aged nevertheless to state the before Hitler came to power. It is not accidental that one of policeman lifted his club to strike er?” The flnky role of the Stal­ a fighting program to gain full party’s recommendations and to Detroit workers Insist that the first slave ships to leave the him again, but the veteran had equality, our comrade soon in ­ offer the party’s help in raising Thursday, Sept. 27 inists is well understood in labor their union and their political port of Bristol, England, to go already fainted. terested the workers in getting funds and supplying material as­ circles here, and many UAW lo­ leaders DO become "mixed up” to Africa and obtain native blacks Rev. Gerald L, K. Smith, leading fascist demagogue, the pamphlet. The preacher, STALINIST FINGERMEN cals are already planning to with the fight against fascism, to be taken to the new world sistance needed to properly pub­ | however, said “ Don't buy that Police brutality to pickets is hat dared to call an anti-labor rally In this U A W make a sharp protest at the next that they get out and lead It or and sold Into bondage, was nam­ licize the picket line, the board brothers, we w ill never gain our not a new thing to Detroit stronghold at the very time that the workers are fight­ general meeting of the Wayne be replaced by leaders who will. ed the "Jesus Christ.” remained silent, except that W il­ rights through fighting. That to workers. However, union mem­ ing for a 30 per cent wage increase. County CIO Council against its Tire next few weeks may well I t Is no accident that the clergy liams, president of Local 208 not the way of Christ." bers were shocked to learn that treacherous actions. The Stal­ see such a leadership established. unanimously sanctioned th e UAW-CIO, kept interrupting by Rev. Smith is stirring up anti-Negro and anti-Jew- When it was made clear that the official leadership of the inist officials of the Council will A number of UAW local presl shouting hysterically, "You can’t ish hatred after the pattern of Hitler. slaveholding policies of the we were opposed to a fight of Stalinist - dominated Wayne be caHed to account, but there ¡dents> indignant at the treach- southern landowners—wrapping talk here. We voted not to black against white and th a t we County CIO Council had been This is all part of the drive of Big Business to crush still is the task of establishing erous role played by the Stalin­ up this Inhuman practice in such hear you.” / stood for the workers of all colors collaborating with the police and the unions. a genuine anti-fascist leader­ tinsel as this: “ I t is to the great The Stalinist conspiracy of si­ ist CIO Council, have already de­ getting together in a solid alli­ had acted as firigermen. ship to guide the workers in their advantage of the slaves that the lence about the Wayne County Stop fascism from getting a foothold In Detroit. clared the need for a broad anti­ ance, the minister came back struggles. slavers took them from their A reporter for a Detroit daily CIO Council’s plans to picket fascist united front, based on the with the answer that our only ally What dissappointed the work­ heathen existence in Africa and newspaper stated that "CIO of­ the Smith meeting was finally Do not stand Idly by and permit fascism to smash labor movement and led by m ili­ was Jesus Christ. He thus euc- ers was the silent and aloof at­ brought them here so that they ficials gave the police informa­ broken the next day through the labor movement. tants who want to involve the cessfully prevented these oppreM- titude of the UAW-CIO interna­ could be taught the Christian tion about individual pickets.” press releases sent by the Social- masses in genuine struggle. A ed Negroes from getting the Answer the call of the Wayne County tional officials whose political religion and thereby become Police Commissioner Ballenger ialist Workers Party to the three resolution to that effect will In pamphlet and thereby arnaiBS lead the Detroit workers are worthy of everlasting life”—(in­ told a UAW member who pro­ daily papers. CIO Connell to picket* He at Northern all probability be introduced at themselves with the truth. tested the beatings, “ We knew more Inclined to follow. Right the next presidents’ conference cidentally, while they were here The Detroit News on Wednes­ High School Thnrs. 7 p.m. sharp last night what was coming. One now, when the Detroit labor to be held early in October. they tended and harvested the CLOTHED IN RELIGION day, September 26, carried a of your boys tipped us off. You movement .16 engaged in an elec­ cotton crops under forced labor Every leading enemy of equal­ front, page story announcing the SMASH FASCISM BEFORE FASCISM SMASHES YDU!~ LABOR HOLIDAY got Just what you asked for.” tion campaign to put its own so that their masters could live ity for the Negro, from the rabid demonstration and admitting . MUO IY THE There is talk also of declar­ The treachery of the official candidates in the offices of in palatial splendor.) Southern slaveholders through that “news of the picket line SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY and THE MILITANT mayor and common council, the ing a general labor holiday in CIO leadership was further cor­ “FOR WHITES ONLY” the venomous Senator Bilbo and leaked out when one of the co- HU WOODWMT, BOOM II T O M E ® !« * DCTBOIT. M O W ** pickets had every right to ex­ Detroit the next time Smith at­ Harry Truman, commander-in- roborated. . . by ___ a picket , from . Local . , operating groups sent out a press tempts to hold a meeting here, It Is no accident that Senator *6S UAW-CIO who overheard | ^ lease n lg h t„ ^ us pect from their candidates a chief of the Jim Crow U. 8. Army and of bringing down the pow­ Bilbo (a devout Christian), in Sam Sage, Stalinist Secretary of demonstration of solidarity in and President of the Country in did Detroit workers finally learn, Leaflet Issued by the Detroit Branch of the Socialist erful F lin t and Pontiac locals to April, 1944, declared before a the Wayne County CIO Couneii the fight against fascism and whose national capital Negroes one day before the event, that Workers Party and The Militant supporting the CIO call Join In a mass antl-fasoist dem­ special joint meeting of the Mis­ M l the police “ We’re going to police brutality. They could be are forcibly barred from "white” they would have an opportunity for a demonstration against the fascist demagogue, Ger­ onstration. sissippi legislature that the su­ call OUR line off. You’ll know heard, asking one another on theaters, on down to Rev. Gerald to demonstrate their hatred of ald L. K. Smith. Smith has announced that he periority of the white race has how to take care of the others.” the picket line: "Where is Frank­ L. K. Smith, the Number 1 fascist fascism and of those who would ensteen? Where are Doll and will be back in December for a been proved . . . The white race —each of these purveyors of the “WHERE’S GANLEY?” try to spread fascism In this token protest were unavailing. The small groups of fascists Hill? Why aren’t they here?” return engagement. I f he dares is the custodian of the gospel of He of white supremacy clothes The conspiracy between the country. Although the demonstration was who ventured through the police to return he will find a solid Jesus Christ.” Thus Bilbo in the himself in the snow-white robes’ "SMART” POLITICS name of Christianity would even stalinists and the police depart­ LEAFLETS DISTRIBUTED called for 7:00 p.m. pickets be­ lines were greeted by boos and front arrayed against him. Given of religion. "'1 ment to have the pickets beaten Jeers, as were the police rein­ Nor w ill the workers be satis­ two months Instead of two days put a “for white only” sign on On Wednesday, the same day, gan arriving at the school with Only Socialism w ill bring ft UP explains in part why Stalin­ forcements. Cheers and ap­ fied with the answer given by in which to organize, the anti­ the Pearly gates. the daily papers carried news of their placards well ahead of Brotherhood of Man and that ist-dominated auto locals were plause, on the other hand, wel­ the Wayne County Political Ac­ fascists can easily make it im ­ Almost unanimously the offi­ the coming demonstration, the time. After looking around for is what we must fight for. In the •o conspicuously absent from the the official CIO sponsors, who comed the flying squadrons from tion Committee, controlled by possible for Smith to hold a cial church organizations in this Socialist Workers Party distrib­ the UAW top leadership, to the country, in England, Germany meantime, to one who, because picket line. Their absence did were not there, the pickets the various auto locals as they meeting in public schools or In uted 20,000 leaflets calling on reiiuesf made by the Socialist of the insecurity and the frustrat­ not set well with the pickets formed their own line of march, arrived to take their place on any other meeting hall in the and Japan supported this past Workeirs Party that Franken­ ing contradictions of life in cap­ however, who were heard asking led by AFL. representatives who the picket line. city. By their numbers and their Imperialist slaughter where boys steen take the lead In the dem­ were sent out to cut the throats italist society, feels a need to "Where is Ganley? Where’s had come promptly. willingness to fight, the work­ safeguard his soul after death, UNDERSTAND POLICE ROLE onstration — It would not be of fellow humans whom they had Quinn? Where is John Ander­ ers will drive the fascists out we say: join us also in fighting LINES SWELL The pickets also showed a fine “smart politics,” said the PAC of Detroit. never even seen, and where air son?” „ .. to safeguard your body during understanding of the role of the force bombardiers on both sides Ihe betrayal of militant pick­ W ithin a few minutes the lines life. police. They answered the beat­ squeezed releases that reduced ets, into the hands of the police had swelled to huge proportions, There have been, of course a ings by shouting: “ Mayor Jeff­ tens of millions of innocent men, was the final attempt of the j the m ajority of pickets being few religious people who also sac­ Stalinists to prevent a mass auto workers and their families. ries’ Storm Troopers Protect The Fight In Los Angeles women and children to bloody mush. rificed in action for the oppress­ anti-fascist demonstration, after All racial groups were well rep­ Fascists” ; “ We Want a LABOR ed class; for example, John all their earlier efforts at sab­ resented, as were veterans or­ Police Commissioner"; “ Down DIVIDES WORKERS Brown. But where are the John With Jeffries”; and “Elect otage had failed. Although the ganizations, servicemen in uni­ Against Race Segregation Isn’t it true that religion sets Browns of today? No one should Wayne. Council...CIO Council, form, students, civic and frater­ Frankensteen and the Cops W ill Protestant workers against Cath­ be denied the right to his belief All Be Union. Members.” controlled by ’Stalinists,' had nal organizations, and finally, r ‘~" By Jem Simon olic workers, Mohammedan work­ but on the other hand, who can known for two weeks about the somewhat late, the Stalinist There were many demands (The first of two articles) ers against Jewish workers, and deny the truth of this slogan: If church group. that the plants be closed for a America First meeting, they W ith good reason Los Angeles First World War, the war for so on down the line? Even in fried chicken Is good for the one-day protest against the bru­ kept silent until two days before Particularly in evidence on has become the center of the so-called “ democracy.” A t that starving India the British leeches preacher, it Is also good for the tal actions of the police, and a the event. the picket line were the flying legal fight against isolating Ne­ time a wave of migration brought promote a hatred of the Hin­ working man? number of UAW-CIO locals sent Only the pressure of the ranks squadrons from a number of groes Into ghettoes. While some Negroes into the labor markets dus against their blood brothers, delegations to the protest meet­ finally forced'them to endorse a tcj<=52BO UAW-CIO locals, including Lo­ 23,000 Negro families have of the industrial cities through­ the Moslems, through religion. IN THE COMING picket line, and even then they cals 212, 490, 306, 15, 154, 681, ing which Sage had called at moved into this city during the out the country. The ignorant Thus religion is, in fact a be­ the mayor’s office for today. tried to sidetrack the action. G. L. K. SMITH 600, 174 and 50. In the absence past five years, nearly every res­ and the reactionary, the mis­ lief whioh assumes the practical New York Election. They made plans for only a of any leadership given by the However, the Stalinist Sage re­ form of a prejudice. It is strange­ the workers of Detroit to answer idential district opened in the guided and vtotous, organized on sthall "token” picket line'across CIO Council, these flying squad­ neged on his promise, and due ly similar as far as destroying VOTE AGAINST: the call of the Wayne County past 20 years has been limited a wider scale to bar so-called the street from Northern High ron members, cooperating with to the complete absence of any working class solidarity is con­ CIO Council to picket at North­ by race restrictions. “ blacks” from the so - called Capitalist Hunger School, where It would not in ­ Socialist Workers Party leaders, officials from the UAW or from cerned to our own fam iliar buga­ ern High School the following Moreover out of some 54,000 “ white” neighborhoods. • Capitalist Misery terfere with the Smith meeting. took the dead of the demonstra­ the Wayne County CIO Council, boo—racial prejudice. When you night. The leaflet set forth the privately built houses for war The Fourteenth Amendment Capitalist War They attempted to muster the tion. the protest meeting did not take hear someone claim they have dangers of fascism to the labor workers, only five per, cent are to the Constitution says that no pickets through two Stalfinist place. “got religion” what they’ve really movement and to ail minority I t was this committee, organ­ available to Negroes who made state shall deny any person VOTE FOR: stooge organizations, the People’s got is religious prejudice. groups and called on the work­ ized in the action itself, which STALINIST SLANDER up a good 14 per cent of the in­ within its jurisdiction equal pro­ Institute of Applied Religion and On a recent Socialist Workers Socialist Plenty ers to “ Smash Fascism Before kept the lines together when the Why did Sage oall off the pro­ coming population. tection within the law. How­ the Civil Rights Federation, police tried to break them up ever, capitalist politicians got Party mobilization to sell the Socialist Prosperity Fascism Smashes You.” test against police brutality? The GHETTO EVILS pamphlet, “A Practical Program rather than through the organ­ and push the pickets back. They around it by legal sleight of Socialist Peace These leaflets were distributed answer can be found in the All the evils of the ghetto to K ill Jim Crow,” one of our ized labor movement. Finally bore the brunt of the police bru­ Daily Worker of September 29 hand. . Vote for they made every effort to keep in all the working class neigh­ tality and took care of their system are glaringly apparent in agents entered a house where borhoods, where they were re­ which says: “The Trotzkyites Los Angeles. Negroes are forced “RIGHT TO DISCRIMINATE" several colored workers and a their plans for a picket line a wounded, refusing to permit the sought to Incite a violent clash. DOBBS & SIMPSON! secret, at the same time claim­ ceived enthusiastically at plant pickets to be taken away in a to pay fantastically high prices In a series of decisions, state preacher were gathered. Explain­ gates; and to as many local They were partially successful for run-down houses that are ing that the unions were being police ambulance. They kept and two persons were hurt.” and federal courts ruled that union halls as could be reached packed together and without while states and communities notified. the picket lines going In spite of This makes it clear that the in the short time that remained. sanitary facilities, to say noth­ could not establish restricted res­ A Timely Pamphlet! NOT INFORMED repeated Stalinist pronounce­ Stalinist chiefs gave the order Local union officials, with two ing of conveniences. The at­ idential districts, individuals ments that the demonstration to whitewash the police and to Phone calls made by the So­ exceptions, willingly posted the tempt is being made to set Ne­ could. "The individual,” it was was over. place the blame for police vio­ cialist Workers Party to leading leaflets on their bulletin boards; groes apart in isolated commun­ ruled, “ has the right to discrim­ lence on the pickets. CIO local* throughout the city apologized that they had not PROMISES A PROTEST ities by what amounts to vir­ inate against whomever he disclosed the shameful fact that had sufficient notice to get put Sam Sage finally persuaded It was reported that the fas­ tually a separate school system, chooses.” most of the locals were NOT be­ leaflets of their own; and asked some of the pickets to quit, but cist Smith did not have things separate police and so forth. Given the legal basis, the ing Informed of the Council’s for ample supplies of the Social­ only on the promise that the all his way*at the meeting in­ To make matters worse, native practice was made more effect­ plans, although they were eager ist Workers Party leaflets to dis­ CIO Council would organize & side the school, as is his usual American fascists, miniature ive by the so-called Roosevelt to set against the fascists and tribute to their members. The protest meeting the following custom. Although it was claimed Senator Bilbos and understudies New Deal through its Federal to cooperate with the Council two exceptions were Local 208 day at the mayor’s office at that 500 attended the meeting, of Gerald L. K. Smith, are ex­ Housing Administration. The In every way. Those few locals UAW-CIO, where Williams eject­ which he personally would be no more than 160 of his own tremely active in whipping up FHA, following a policy set which had been notified were ed the Socialist Workers Party present to protest police bru­ people were seen to enter; oth­ prejudice to aggravate the situ­ down with the approval of Roos­ jrtven Wednesday, September 26, representative, and the Wayne tality. With the demonstration ers at the meeting were mostly ation. evelt, extends credit to Negroes as the date of the demonstration, County CIO Council, where the thus weakened by Sage, Arthur teachers and students who had But the Negro people aren’t only If “ they build in Negro instead of the correct date Stalinist Sam Sage, Council sec­ Burch, who led the Socialist I been attending night school and taking it lying down. While neighborhoods and to whites Thursday, September 27. retary, refused to post the leaf­ Workers Party delegation, a d -, who reportedly heckled Smith most states have laws aimed to only if they build in white On Tuesday, September 25, the let. A t neither place was there dressed the pickets remaining on throughout his three - hour force racial minorities into ghet­ neighborhoods.” Socialist Workers Party sent a any announcement to be found the line, pointing out that the speech. This heckling was in toes, there are more cases During the Second World Wa: telegram to the Wayne County of the CIO picket line. lslation of genuine anti-fascists sharp contrast to a meeting against such segregation in Cali­ the vicious pattern of segrega CIO Council announcing its full in a smaller picket line was pre­ Smith held in the same auditor­ fornia courts than in all other AFL ENDORSEMENT tion has been greatly extended support of the Council's action cisely what the police were wait­ ium about a year ago, when 600 states combined. Most of these And the “ democratic” govern in calling for a picket line and In spite of the short notice ing for. I t would be better, of his supporters cheered his cases are in Los Angeles. ment, its courts and its agencies recommending that the Council which they were given, at least Burch told them, to disband in every word. NO LEGAL BASIS are clearly responsible. four UAW-CIO locals, Briggs make every effort to secure a an organized fashion and pre­ SMITH A “STINKER” The present drive to force Ne­ (To Be Continued) 212, Budd 306, Fleetwood 15, pare for a gigantic demonstra­ groes into the same sort of hell­ mass turnout by publicizing the The police tried to stop a and Bower Bearing 681, man­ tion if and when Smith returned holes that segregated the Jew­ demonstration through press re- group of Jewish soldiers in uni­ aged to distribute thousands of in December. ish people in Europe actually has lèases, handbills, advertisements, form from entering, but were Minneapolis their own leaflets to their mem­ no legal basis in the United broadcasts, sound trucks, and PICKET SIGNS forced to admit seven when a bers, resulting in an especially States. But It’s nothing new. Buy THE MILITANT all other means available. U. S. Army major interceded. I t large turnout on the picket line The scores of picket signs W ith the often open and always AT THE Similar telegrams asking for was reported that one of the from these four locals. showed that the workers well tacit support of the Federal Gov­ support to the Wayne County soldiers managed to make his LABOR BOOK STORE Frank Martel, chairman of understood the meaning of fas­ ernment, It got started on a CIO Council and calling for way to the platform where Smith 10 S. 4fh Street the AFL Central Labor Council, cism and its dangers to the labor nation-wide scale during the publicity were also sent by the was speaking, and called Smith Socialist Workers Party to the announced the AFL’s endorse­ movement. Besides the slogans ment of the demonstration, and of “ Drive the Fascist Rev. G. L. a “ stinker” , whereupon there Wayne County Political Action were loud cheers from the aud­ Committee; to the United Auto­ called on all AFL locals to be K. Smith Out of Detroit” and ience. mobile Workers, CIO; to the present. In contrast, R. J. “ Smash Fascism Before Fascism National Association for the Ad­ Thomas and other UAW-CIO Smashes You,” repeated many When the meeting was over, In vancement of Colored People; officials remained silent. The times over, there were such signs hundreds of pickets still milled and to Richard Frankensteen, Wayne County CIO Council, as “ Big Business Supports Fas­ around the school, although the NEW YORK vice-president of the UAW-CIO whose picket line this was, did cism” ; “ Smith Preaches Nation­ picket line had been disbanded and labor candidate for mayor. not get around to notifying af­ alism. So Did H itler” ; “ Smith almost two hours before. The Frankensteen was particularly filiated CIO locals until 5:00 Divides the Workers — Worker fascists, who had assumed a Buy ‘The Militant' urged to make an immediate p.m. Wednesday, on the very eve Against Veteran, Christian jaunty manner upon entering statement to the press and over of the action, when it was too Against Jew, White Against Col­ the meeting, came out frig h t the radio in support of the anti- late for most unions to organize ored” ; “ Why Did Smith Leave ened and downcast, and again at Your Smith demonstration. a large turnout. Los Angeles?” “ Smith, Bilbo, had to be escorted through po All the efforts of the Stalinists Reynolds, Rankin, Coughlin” ; lice lines. HOSTILE RECEPTION to sabotage the anti-fascist m il­ “ Hitler Was a Jew Hater—So Is Today the Detroit Board of Arthur Burch, Detroit organ­ itancy of the workers and to re­ Smith” ; and "H itler Was Anti- Education announced that Smith Neighborhood Newsstand Order from Pioneer Publishers izer of the Socialist Workers duce their picket lines to a mere Negro—So Is Smith.” and his America First Group iiiifiniiiiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiiiniiihiinniuitffiiM iiiiiiiaasiiiinaHiiEiniiiiiTiiiinm i 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1945 \G E E IG H T THE MILITANT * D ia n e f^ ^ 14,000 Workers In Militant Sitdown Strike STEEL WORKER .B y T h e o d o r* K ovaU aky. "Hold The Fort" At New Jersey Shipyard LETTER TO THE STEELWORKERS / B rothers: B ulletin We are a people that Is dying. Sitdoumers Massed In Camden Shipyard Our lungs are choked with the dust and gases of the steel CAMDEN, N. J., Sept. 26.— plants. ' Andrew W. Reeder, President Our bodies are rotted from long years of sweating and chill­ Local 1 of the Shipyard Workers ing on the furnace floors. Union, announced to cheering Our constitutions are warped and cracked from the poor meals, the cold houses, and the worries of depression years. strikers settlement of the six- How many of our brothers lie in their graves, their bodies day old sit-down strike at the crushed in the mills and yards, burnt and charred in the flames New York Shipbuilding Corpora­ One thing you can't help noticing wherever you work. In and explosions of the coke ovens, tion here. As the workers flockec fact, you not only notice it, you’re a part of it. And that’s the open hearths, and blast furnaces? to the main gates of the plant universal system of hiding when you’re not busy. How many of our brothers lie Reeder got up on the steps of a What a humiliating thing it is, when you stop to think of dead of tuberculosis and pneu­ t, to have to hide from some punk of a supervisor, while you building at the entrance. “It’s monia? ;moke a cigarette! Oh sure, it’s fun to steal that little pleasure How many exist today with a good union victory . . . all the while you crouch under the steam pipes somewhere. It’s human maimed, crippled, or worn - out main points of the dispute have nature, they say, to enjoy stolen pleasures the most. bodies that are no longer of use been won by the union,” he said. But what kind of pleasure is it for a grown man to reflect to the steel companies or to them­ Singing and cheering, led by that he has so little dignity as this? You’re hiding for an hour selves? a brass band, the workers filec oefore quitting time. You know you’ve worked hard the other * * * out of the yard to the strains of seven hours—damned hard. Maybe you’ve done tw ice your usual We are a people that is dying. “Solidarity Forever.” They work. Maybe you were on an emergency job, maybe a big repair But what have they paid us for marched up Camden’s Broad job on a blast furnace that just had to be done before the next cast. our lives, for our living sweat and way to union headquarters a But you have to hide all the same. our dying agony? block away. There Reeder reac If the master mechanic were to walk by at 2:30 and see you O nly in recent tim es have we the complete terms of the agree squatting under the pipes he’d sure as hell think of something received even a subsistence wage; ment to take up the reinstate­ or you to do. You couldn’t explain that you had done your work and now that is about to be ment of the workers fired Iasi for the day without having a fight with him. But why couldn’t wrested from us, if the masters week for so-called "loafing.” you? As a matter of fact, why shouldn’t you smoke on top of of Industry have their way. the pipes and offer the m. m. a cigarette too, if he came along? And how did we gain that subsistence wage? Special to THE MILITANT And why shouldn’t he know just by seeing you taking it easy We gained it by years of struggles for organization. there, that you had earned a rest? Why should he even bother Our fathers fought the gunmen and Pinkertons at Homestead. By Susana H ill asking what you had 'done, if he were a real man? Our brothers met violence and murder in 1919 and tightened CAMDEN, N. J., Sept. 2 7 - The master mechanic is the engineer boss. He is supposed their belts when they were blacklisted. Going into the fifth day, the to know the most and be the most skilled. Maybe he does Ten of us died martyrs' deaths at Republic Steel in Chicago sit-down strike of 14,000 Nev and maybe he is. But the fellows do their work. They are on M em orial Day, 1937. York shipyard workers hen mechanics too, those fellows in the repair gang. They take an But we won; and we organized a million steelworkers into interest in their jobs. (They couldn’t do that type of work if our union. is holding solid in face oi * • • company attempts to break they didn’t.) So why should the master mechanic tell them jlu is ,u.i-ihat>ie p ic vin e snows more than 14,0 j u s. h . o w ii strikers massed behind the gates at to work harder, when they are working hard enough already? the strikers’ solidarity. Con­ Today once again the battle lines are being drawn up. Our the New York Shipbuilding Company yard in Camden, N. J. The simple fact is that he not only wants to get more work enemies, the owners of the huge steel companies, seek to smash fronted with the militant de- out of you like any other boss, but he’s afraid that if you take our union and thrust us back into the darkness of poverty from termination of the workers, one hour today, you will take two tomorrow. He doesn’t trust which we have struggled so hard to come so short a way. the company could only make you any more than you trust him. The battle lines are once again being drawn up, and we w ill an impotent gesture by an­ take our place in these lines, glad to be able to strike a blow Capitalism Steals Your Dignity nouncing that the yard was for ourselves and our wives and children, eager to meet our Lumber Workers Walk Out Neither he nor you can act like very much of a man. That’s closed for the duration of the old enemies on the field of battle. because this is the capitalist system. And that sytem forces For we do not fear them, we, who have gone out daily and strike. you to be scared and sneak away for a smoke just as It forces nightly to face the blasting flames of the furnaces, the yellow- In the meantime, the workers I him to be mean. It forces people not to trust each other, even hot billets and slabs that tear down the m ill lines, the flaming under the leadership of m ili­ In Fight For General Wage Raise when they can see that the others are doing their best. It takes ta n t Local 1, C IO In d u s tria l the dignity out of you and prevents you from standing on your white coke of the coke oven batteries. v (Special to THE MILITANT) 3. The wage scale and con­ drivers for the most part observe Union of Marine and Shipbuild­ own two legs whenever you want to. We do not fear them. We are ready for them. tract to be applied uniformly the picket lines of their own * * • ing Workers, proceeded to or­ SEATTLE, Sept. 28.—Because In a socialist society, the master mechanic w ill be just that— ganize for a showdown fight for of the operators’ refusal to con­ over a seven-state area, includ­ accord. But, brothers, remember that this battle is only part of ing Montana, Idaho, Utah, the most skilled mechanic—not a boss. People w ill be Interested our w ar. reinstatement of the 25 workers sider any change in the 1940 WHAT BOSSES OWE in their work. They won’t feel under obligation to a boss or fired last week on charge of al­ pay scale, 60,000 AFL lum ber Washington, Oregon, Northern Win it we can and must. But it is not enough. California and Arizona. The operators have thus far any other individual—but only to themselves and the rest of For as long as the capitalists own the factories and mills, leged loafing on the Job, plus and sawmill workers went on displayed an unyielding attitude. humanity, for whom they’ll be working. They won’t feel obliged we have not triumphed entirely. additional demands for settle­ ; strike at midnight Monday. This RANK-AND-FILE SUPPORT In 1941 the operators stated that to hide under pipes ’til quitting time. If they finish their work We will win higher wages and safeguard our unions, be­ ment of a heap of old grievances is the first large-scale walkout Local CIO tops, mostly Stalin­ they could afford to pay only early, they’ll go home early, that’s all. cause we must. and immediate negotiation for a since the industry-wide strikes ists, have hedged in giving sup­ 62 'A cents per hour at the price The master mechanic of the socialist future might hot But the day is drawing ever nearer when we must fight for long-delayed new contract. in 1935 through which the AFL port, or have even sabotaged the they were then getting for lumb­ know why you quit your job early, but he’d know there was a a greater prize, for the ownership of all the factories and the Negotiations between union Lumber and Sawmill Workers strike. Rank and file members er. They said, however, that they reason and he wouldn’t bother asking it of you. He would have control of the government, for a Socialist Society. representatives, Navy officials Union established itself. of the CIO International Wood­ could add 7 Vi cents per hour in the same faith in you that he had in himself. So, as we fight for our lives and welfare in this battle, we and company heads broke down A cutback in hours ffo m 48 workers of America have voted wages for every dollar they got For in those days we’re going to be grown men. must look ahead to the greater battles that are coming. yesterday when company offi­ to 40 also cut back the workers’ to go on strike themselves for a over $21.50 per thousand, w hich We must learn as we fight, so that we will be prepared for cials refused to rehire the 25. wages by 23 per cent, according 25 cent wage increase and for was the 1941 price for lumber. to Ernest C. Jorgensen, secre­ the great battles that lie before us. Thomas W. Saul, executive sec­ the most part observe picket Lumber is now selling for tary of Local 2519 of Seattle. THEATERS PICKETED And when that day comes, when we win the last battle, then retary of Local 1, declared, “This lines. Last Monday the Pacific $43.50 per thousand. Accord­ is the worst doublecross ever Involved in the dispute are the we shall have peace and plenty; and our children w ill grow up Coast Metal Trades Council, ing ly, the lum ber bosses owe the dealt this union.” following points: in the sunshine of the Socialist Society. meeting in Seattle, voted full workers 22 times 7V4 cents, or IN STUDIO STRIKE Fraternally, COMPANY “WELCHED” 1. Establishment of an in­ support for the strike. The AFL $1.65 per hour. Special to THE MILITANT Theodore Kovalesky He also charged that the com­ dustry-wide minimum wage of Sailors Union of the Pacific here $1.10 per hour. T his would took the same action. Urgent Need For pany “welched” on the agree­ . By Lois Saunders ment made in the presence of eliminate the present differen­ Dave Beck, AFL teamsters LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19.— Child Care Centers Navy officials to reinstate the tial between west coast and head, who loudly called upon Vets Criticize Montgomery Ward Is Heaven mountain states. It would also the whole movement to support New York and Washington mo- 1 How necessary It is to con­ men and end the sitdown. “We tinue the operation of govern­ accepted the agreement,” Saul eliminate the so-called “punk” him in his beef with the laundry tion picture houses were being scale for beginner yard men and bosses ju s t a few weeks ago, now Mechanical Limbs ment-financed child care cen­ According To Its Job Ads said, “but when we attempted to picketed this week as workers In ters can be gathered from for a few box company classi­ finks on the lumber and saw­ A delegation of three veterans put it into effect today, the com­ these cities gave practical dem­ sample figures recently taken fications. m ill workers because “they did from Walter Reed Hospital ap­ B y Jack pany did a complete flip-flop in the Baltimore area by the Pearson 2. A general across-the-board not first obtain formal approval peared before a Congressional onstration of their support of and backed out of the agree­ Woman’s Bureau of the De­ ST. PAUL, M inn., Sept. 20.— women and men” it says. As I increase of 20 cents per hour in from the Central Labor Union committee September 19 to pro­ the six - month - old Hollywood m ent.” partment of Labor. all classifications. executive board.” However, the test the government’s failure to The J. P. Morgan firm of. Mont­ look over the jobs I can see the The union is maintaining a studio strike. They join the Eighty per cent of the work­ provide serviceable mechanical gomery Ward and Co. in its at­ majority of them are for girls skeleton force o f 1,500 strikers unionists here, both AFL and ing women want, and need, to limbs for amputees. tempt to get workers is circu­ and at low pay. “Have fun in within the yard on a 24-hour ro­ CIO, who have been picketing keep their jobs in the coming “ The artificial limbs which are lating a leaflet which in glow­ Wards recreation rooms.” Just tation basis. The workers patrol period. They prefer factory the huge grounds, manning the Postwar Notes given us are crude and outmod­ Los Angeles theaters for weeks. ing terms gives “SIX good rea­ as though workers had lots of work. Ninety-five per cent gates and keeping strict check of ed,” declared Lieut. Sol Rael. Pickets were to be thrown want to stay in the area where sons why you’ll like working at time to spend there. all activities within the yard fo r “ We. who wear them laugh a t around theaters in the nation’s they are now employed. One Wards.” On the front page it “Enjoy tasty meals in Wards Since the company reneged on reports of great progress in de­ capital, in order to bring the out of every seven working strike forcefully to the atten­ says: “Wards, a fine establish­ cafeteria.” The person that its agreement to rehire the dis­ velopment of these limbs.” women is the sole wage- charged workers, union stewards S eam en tion of W illiam Green, president ment, invites your interest in a wrote that never ate there. He TOO HEAVY earner in the family. were instructed to stand ready to of the American Federation of future of security.” It pleads to is their publicity man and like n o tify the e ntire force o f 14,000 Howard Moss told the com­ Labor, who, together with his Proposed legislation to prevent At present 35 yards are engaged accounts made by the strikers, the workers to “Think of today all the other big shots eats dif­ to reoccupy the yard at a mo­ mittee he preferred to get along executive committee, has failed government sale of wartime in construction work, and of without the mechanical arm and tomorrow.” It says, “At ferent food in a separate cafe, ment’s notice. thus far to curb the piracy of WIDESPREAD SUPPORT ships to foreign operators would these only 12 have contracts car­ provided him by the Army. It leaders of the International Al­ Wards you start a career.” That’s which the workers are not al­ “GOLD BUTTON MEN” was too heavy to be guided by Response to strikers’ appeals allow resale of the same ships ryin g them in to 1946. liance of Theatrical Stage Em­ made throughout California and what It says. lowed to enter. Besides that he The temper of the workers was by American buyers to foreign- the muscles of the stump left of ployes. indicated by the reception they • his arm. He said a fellow officer in many other sections of the Some people, it is true, find has the money to pay for it, flag shipping companies. This ITASE officials, in collabora­ gave to 78 departm ent heads Coastwise and intercoastal had given his artificial limb to country has been enthusiastic. careers at Wards — the career whereas the workers have only fact was established at the Sep­ tion with the movie magnates, (called gold button men) when shipping is being resumed be­ his younger brother as a toy, In addition to picket lines form­ boys who come in as trainees enough for sandwiches. tember 20 hearings on the Bland have attempted to grab the con­ ed in New York, Washington they attempted to leave the plant Bill. Ira L. Ewers, attorney for cause the Interstate Commerce “and says he is glad to have from business colleges and are yesterday. As even the local news­ tracts formerly held by the strik­ and elsewhere, San Francisco DON’T BE BORED ten government-subsidized com­ Commission has found that found a use fo r it . ” papers admit, they were under ing unions. Green was holding workers donated $2,250 to sup­ sons of the well-to-do petty- Karl Marx said (Capital, pg. panies, admitted that the Mari- there is “an immediate and ur­ The artificial limbs given am­ no actual restraint—except that a conference in Washington port the strike; the New York bourgeois merchant class. But 329, Modern Library edition) ; time Commission chairman Ad- gent need for temporary oper­ putees are “ a throwback to horse the gates and exits were block­ with Richard Walsh, president Painters District Council, which not the overwhelming majority ; mirai Emory S. Land, has prom­ ation by the WSA as a common and buggy days,” the veterans “The less the skill and exertion ed by the strikers. Rather than of IATSE, and other AFL in- is conducting a strike of its own, ised American ship - “owners” or contract carrier by water in declared. They reported that of low-pay “help.” or strength implied in manual buck the strikers, the gold but­ i temational union officials. donated $3,000; the CIO Screen that the Commission Will allow coastwise and intercoastal ser­ amputees say the miracle hand ton men preferred to be “prison­ Publicists Guild of New York As for security, it is one of labor, in other words, the more them to sell ships abroad under Is so called “because it’s a m ir­ INTERNATIONAL APPEAL ers” of the sitdowners for 24 vice.” This “immediate and ur­ gave $1,000. the big questions of dispute now modem industry becomes devel­ Section 9 of the 1916 Shipping acle there’s never been a better Strikers have also sent an ap­ hours. It was not until 6:00 p.m. gent need,” according to Admiral The dispute, which originally before management. Unions oped, the more is the labor of Act. Land,'head of the WSA, is to get one made.” peal to organized labor in Eng­ yesterday that they came out land, Australia and Mexico, urg­ involved only 78 set decorators, have been calling strikes against men superceded by that of wo­ under a truce effected by union • cargo for ships returning from members of the Screen Set De­ Lewis D. Parmelle, executive ing workers in these countries Montgomery Ward in an at­ men. Differences of age and and management negotiators. the Pacific to join the ghost signers Local No. 1421, AFL, now sex have no longer any distinc­ vice president of AGWI Lines, fleets on the Atlantic coast. The to boycott theaters showing tempt to get security for the last When they left, they had to run films put out by struck studios. involves 15 unions with a com­ tive social validity for the work­ a gauntlet of boos and pointed is asking Congress to let “hard ICC decision grants temporary Chicago Social bined membership o f 7,000. 10 years. If the company were Plans are likewise being perfect­ ing class. A ll are instruments of rem arks. pressed” American ship operat­ authority to WSA for domestic really interested in security, all labor, more or less expensive to ors pay for ships out of their operations until December 31. ed to picket theatres in Chicago The strike was called last Negotiations between the union To Feature Skit use, according to their age and “earnings.” These “earnings” By that date most of the ships and 10 eastern cities, in addition March, after producers refused it would have to do is to put and the company were resumed sex.” We find this Marxist law come from the government sub­ now in the Pacific and consigned A special social to raise funds to those already affected. to continue recognizing Screen into effect any one of the num­ today: But the workers are hold­ in full force at Montgomery sidies poured into the industry. to ghost fleets are expected to for the International Solidarity In Hollywood and the rest of Set Designers Local No. 1421 as ber of union contracts presented ing on solidly to their best nego­ Wards regardless of what they This is the kind of financial be in the ships’ graveyards along Fund campaign, w ill be held by Los Angeles, all first run and the bargaining agent for the set in the last few years. tiations argument—continuation may say in a leaflet. sleight-of-hand they want to the Atlantic. the Chicago Branch of the So­ important neighborhood motion decorators, although this union of the sitdown until their de­ “EXTRA MONEY” Small pay, long hours, pre­ palm off in Washington as ship cialist Workers Party on Satur­ picture houses are being picket­ had been chosen by the workers mands are met. • “Employees discount means dominance of youth, especially “ sales.” The French luxury liner Nor­ day, October 13. The m ain fea­ ed in force. Strikers are using some time previously, and- al­ ture of the evening w ill be a five- extra money,” the Ward blurb girls, is the rule at Wards. The Copies of The M ilitant passed • mandie, which has cost the this method of bringing pres­ though the producers for many scene musical - dramatic skit says. At 45 cents an hour start­ leaflet says “Why take a job to the strikers through the bars Congressman Bland, chairman American public $11 - million sure upon theater box offices in months had given de facto rec­ which vividly depicts the activi­ in g rate and a m axim um o f 60c which bores you? Why lead a of the gates were passed from of the House Merchant Marine since she caught fire and cap­ an endeavor to force a settle­ ognition to the jurisdiction of ties of our comrade revolution­ Local 1421. for the vast majority how could dull humdrum existence? Why worker to worker and avidly Committee, says he is “sick and sized in the North River in 1942 ment of the strike, which in­ aries throughout the world. one have “extra money?” “Pay take a path in business which read. tired” of haggling over how the after having been taken from volves all major producers. is good—earn while you learn” leads you nowhere?” nation’s wartime fleet will be her French owners by the Navy BRING PACKAGE ITEMS Effectiveness of the method is another slogan which is sup­ But Isn’t that exactly what New York Readers scrapped, suffers “mental stag­ Department, w ill be scrapped un­ The admission w ill be $1, plus can be judged by the fact that posed to make you rush out to Wards has been doing to the nation,” wants to “get rid” of less the Maritime Commission any item suitable for packages to a picket line thrown around Vote Trotskyist! get a job at Wards. “A full workers all the time? The work­ Register Oct. 8 to 13 the ship disposal b ill—and 5,000 decides to rebuild her. One of send to our comrades overseas: Paramount Theater m th is week staff of instructors to teach you” ers in all the factories, not only To Vote For government-owned ships. the great prewar liners, the Nor­ soap, needles, razor blades, as­ from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. re­ fo r it also proclaims. But there is Wards, will always have jobs • mandie now is of “no Interest” pirin, quinine, etc. Festivities be­ duced patronage at the open­ nothing to learn for the begin­ which lead to nowhere, w ill al­ DOBBS AND SIMPSON In 1943 there were 81 w ar- to American operators because gin at 8:30 p.m., Saturday night, in g here o f the $2,000,000 s ta r- DOBBS & SIMPSON ner because division of labor ways lead a dull humdrum exist­ boom shipyards instead of the “the cost of completing the ship Trotskyist Candidates October 13, at the Socialist Work­ showered “Duffy’s Tavern” from and simplicity is the rule. ence as long as we allow this cap­ prewar ten. The trend is rap­ would be greater than her fu­ ers Party headquarters, 160 N, a normal attendance of 3,000 to In Hie Coming “Immediate placements for italist system to rule over us. For Mayor and City Council idly back to the original figure. ture earning power.” W ells St., Room 317. approximately 800, according to N. Y. ELECTIONS