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Fight Against Deportation of Harry Bridges! Fight Against Deportation Of Harry Bridges! Biddle Ruling Is Blow A t Whole LaborMovement the MILITANT PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Deportation Order Is Part of Long Range Govt.-Boss Plan to Housebreak the Unions VOL. V I— No. 23 NEW YORK, N. Y.. SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1042 FIV E ( 5) CENTS By FELIX MORROW The government order to deport Harry Bridges is a blow against the entire labor movement. Every class-conscious work­ er, as an elementary class duty, must defend Bridges against deportation. Success in the struggle to prevent his deportation would be a step forward in smashing deportation and other administrative and judicial anti-iabor weapons. In order to win, such a struggle requires the utmost clarity. Who struck this blow against labor? Was it Biddle alone? Who stood back of Biddle? What was Roosevelt’s role? Who spon­ REAL PRICES KEEP RISING sored and who endorsed the ultra-reactionary lav.' under which Bridges is ordered deported? These questions must be answered correctly if we are to know whom we are fighting when we Dutch Cops K ill fight against the deportation of Bridges. Standard Oil Officials Despite Price-Fixing Bosses 18 Chinese for Roosevelt and the 1040 Smith Gag Act In the first place, how was it possible again to order Bridges Asking Pay Rise; Get More For Their Products deported, after James M. Landis’ December 28, 1939 decision that Lied About Nazi Deals Eighteen Chinese sailors were Bridges was not subject to deportation? As the law then stood killed and 54 wounded early Lowered Quality and New Labels Cut Down (requiring proof c.f present membership in a subversive organ­ Arnold's Statement to Truman Committee as regards performance of their last week by the “democratic” ization), Bridges could not be deported. So — the law was fighting equipment.' ” police at Curacao, Netherlands Living Standards of the Working Class changed, with Roosevelt’s approval. Nails False Claims Made By Oil Trust Howard's 1935 letter had stated West Indies, according to a A t that time reactionaries in Congress, led by the notorious in part that such cooperation with UP dispatch of May 25. By ANTHONY MASSINI Howard (Poll Tax) Smith of Virginia, were writing what became By WALTER FREEMAN the Army Air Corps “bristles with The dispatch stated that the Despile ihe price-fixing order which went into The Truman Senate Investigating Committee last Monday difficulties and sacrifices from our dead and wounded were all known as the “Omnibus Gag” bill, which the N. Y. Times char­ effect on May 19, every working class fam ily knows received from Assistant Attorney-General Thurman Arnold a standpoint . we shall have to members of Royal Dutch Shell acterized as "a compendium of the anti-labor legislation pro­ Company tanker crews. The posed during the last twenty years.” The chief provision of the point-by-point documented answer to Standard O il’s lying claim violate our agreements and per­ that the cost of living is still going up, and that there­ haps forfeit the confidence of our “crime” for which they paid hid made it a criminal offense to “advocate the overthrow of the that its patents-pool with the Nazi I. G. Earbenindustrie has not fore ‘wage stabilization’ and ‘ceilings on wage raises’ associates, both American and for­ with their lives and blood was government by force and violence” or to belong to an organ­ impeded American production, eign ...” (principally I. (5. a demand for war-risk insur­ are resulting in a general lowering of their living ization advocating it. After the Landis decision, the bill’s spon­ particularly of synthetic rubber. rubberl to the American govern­ F a rb e n ). ance and wage increases. sors added another provision, making deportable any alien who Referring to Standard's asser­ ment or to American companies, Dutch “democracy” may not standards. Standard officials claim that Ceilings on the prices of most consumers’ commodities have advocated such overthrow of the government or who belonged tion that its patents-pool was de­ although it did give full informa­ the continuing war-time agree­ be able to secure the support of the colonial people in the to such an organization at any time during his residence in this signed to make German synthetic tion to its cartel partner, I. G. ment with I. G. are a “simple been fixed at their highest March, 1942 level. But the price rubber processes available to this Far East war against the country. (The previous law, as interpreted by the courts, re­ Farben. question of money payments” sub­ regulations are full of loopholes, and there is no real policing country and that it had not with­ Standard officials had claimed ject to government control. Arn­ Japanese, but they are certain­ of prices. As a result, many manufacturers are getting away quired proof of membership at the time deportation proceed­ ly at least as expert as the held information from the Amer­ that the agreement with I. G. old answered this on two scores. with murder, and the consumers are finding that they have to ings began.) Japanese when it comes to ican government or impeded Farben had been made in order He cited the letter of Howard, pay more in real prices for certain commodities than they did Many such ultra-reactionary laws had been proposed in Con­ smothering the colonial people production, Arnold submitted con­ to get the German company’s proc­ written in October 1939. setting — —<?in March. gress previously, but without success. Now, however, it was in blood. trary evidence from Standard's esses fo r synthetic gasoline. A rn ­ forth the need of a “modus Viv­ One of the most important June 1910, the World War was on, American entry was only a own files, and stated: old showed that these processes endi” for maintaining the cartel loopholes in the price regulations matter of time, and “national unity” between the New Dealers "Standard prevented indepen­ were secured by Standard in | arrangement with T. G. through­ is the failure to do anything to dent development of synthetic Bread Prices and the ultra-reactionaries was being cemented. During the 1927, two years before the patents- out the war "whether or not tile Local 544 Fights prevent deterioration in the qual­ hearings on the Smith Gag Bill, it was revealed that the Navy rubber by conducting false nego­ pool arrangement was first con­ ! U. S. came in.” Arnold also ity of commodities produced. The tiations with the rubber compa­ Department had collaborated in writing the key sections of the cluded. 1 quoted from a Standard memoran- Wall Street Journal of May 28 nies. Standard did not reveal I dum indicating that Standard had Are Boosted points out th a t in some cases b ill. RELATIONSHIP WITH To Keep Kelly the process for manufacturing | received an offer from 1. G. to “the quality of the article is not In the Congressional debate it was clearly brought out that ARMY AIR CORPS this new synthetic rubber (butyl, purchase Standard’s German sub- up to that of a few months ago, the provisions of the Smith Bill if passed would be the most the best and lowest cost synthetic To the assertion of Frank How­ I sidiarv in order to “safeguard Postal From Jail By Monopolies although the price is left un­ reactionary sections in the U. S. Code. ard. vice-president of Standard Jersey’s interest for the duration.” changed.” As Harold Mager Rep. Geyer of California said: “This bill is an attempt to Oil of New Jersey, that the Stand- Union Secretary Was says in the May 30 issue of The put an end to real democracy. It is an attempt to break the ard-Nazi cartel had not prevented THE REAL MOTIVE Bread is called the "staff of Nation: “If prices remain the 1the American trust from cooper­ A rno ld reo.allod his o rig in a l labor movement.” “It is enough to make Jefferson turn over 'Guilty' of Obeying same while product deterioration Biddle Rushes testimony last March and em­ life.” Eor the masses of low in his grave,” said Rep. Martin of Colorado', "it is without a tin g w ith Ute Am erican govern­ sets in, is this not tantamount ment, Arnold answered by asking phasized the point that he had Members' Directives income earners, bread has al­ precedent in the history of labor legislation. It is an invention to a price rise?” if “ he (H ow ard) had forgotten been “ ca re fu l" to show th a t To Defense of Bv JACK RANGER ways been the chief diet main­ of intolerance contrary to every principle of democracy.” there was “no alliance with Ger­ •PRODUCT DETERIORATION’ the memorandum which he sent stay. In recent months, bread Nevertheless, New Dealers joined with reactionaries to pass to Teagle (chairman of Standard's j man interests from unpatriotic MINNEAPOLIS — Local 544- Mager asserts that “product the b ill on June 28, 1940. The Monopolies hoard) and Farish (Standard's motives.” Standard's “sole mo­ CIO is engaged in a fund-rais­ prices have risen drastically deterioration has been going on The American Civil Liberties Union pleaded with President On the v e ry day, M ay 28, president) on Mar. 29, 1935, out­ tives." lie declared, are "to get ing campaign to secure the $1,- everywhere. for some time. Consumers have Roosevelt to veto the Smith Act, predicting that it “would be­ that Attorney-General Biddle lining the extent to which the a protected market .
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