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 — —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 . . . restrict 500 required to appeal Keliy Pos­ Reactionary interests have been g e ttin g ¡css fo r th e ir money tal’s case to the State Supreme come an instrument of oppression against unpopular minorities issued his deportation order ! 1929 cartel agreement might ham- world production . . . eliminate been trying to blame these price not only because prices have been against Harry Bridges, CIO ! per Standard from giving to our independent competition." C ourt. increases on the farmers, claim­ on the rise but even because and organized labor.” The AFL and CIO were opposed to- the Postal was given a 60-day stay Longshoremen’s leader, he ow ij Army Air Corps ‘superior I In short. Standard was just ing that the prices the farmers where prices have not risen the A ct. launched another campaign in fuels which would put them far | fo llo w in g typical monopoly of sentence May 15 for purposes are getting for wheat have caus­ quantity or quality of the goods Nevertheless, on June 29, 1940, re je c tin g a ll appeals fo r a the interests of the reaction­ ahead of the rest of the world ; “good business” policies. of appeal. On April 24 Postal, ed a precipitate rise in bread has been reduced. Cakes and veto, President Roosevelt attached his signature to it, making it secretary-treasurer of Local 544- ary owning class. costs. loaves of bread are smaller; cot­ CIO, was found guilty by a dis­ the law of the land. No one can pretend, after all that had gone Biddle urged a Senate Judi­ Actually, the price the farmer ton shirts have a large admix­ trict court jury of “first degree before, that Roosevelt did not know the full reactionary signi­ ciary subcommittee to initiate gets for his wheat constitutes ture. of rayon; many packaged grand larceny,” because he had ficance of his endorsement of the Smith Omnibus Gag Act. legislation specifically forbid­ only a tiny fraction of the cost foods have lessened content; PHILA. CIO COUNCIL carried out the instructions given The first use of the deportation provisions of the Smith Act ding anti-trust law prosecu­ of a loaf of bread usually less some soft drinks have lost their him by the overwhelming major­ zip .” tions against monopolies en­ than 571. The wheat speculators, was against Bridges, the Immigration Service (now transferred ity of the Minneapolis drivers gaged in war production in freight interests, grain elevator Since the original price reg­ from the Labor to the Justice Department) arresting him on BACKS BUDD STRIKERS union which was engaged in a ulations on April 27 Price Admin­ compliance with the directions operators and flour mills all add F ebru ary 14, 1941. The firs t use o f the other provisions o f the fight against the dictatorship of of the War Production Board. their big share to the cost of a istrator Leon Henderson has is­ Smith Act was against the Socialist Workers Party and Local President Daniel Tobin of the sued additional decisions, some of With one hand, this repre of the skilled workers get at the loaf of bread. But finally, it is 544-CIO, 29 members being indicted on July 15, 1941, for “advo­ AFL Teamsters. the monopoly baking interests which relate, to reductions in sentative of the Roosevelt ad Strike Started After plant here. cating overthrow”, eighteen being convicted in the famous Min­ The jury acted under pressure quantity. On May 14 he ruled ministration strikes a blew at The minimum hourly rate is which really boost bread prices of instructions from Judge Se- that “the maximum price must neapolis “sedition” trial. the rights of American labor Lock-Out of Welders 60 cents as compared with the sky-high. lover, who ruled that a union An example is contained in the be reduced in the same p ro p o r­ The same provision used against Bridges is also being used With the other, he tenders a guaranteed 90 cent minimum at Protesting Pay Cut membership has no right to de­ indictment handed down by a fed­ tion as the reduction in size, (Continued on page 2) signed blank check to the mon­ Ford’s Chester, Pa., plant where termine what union they want to eral grand jury in Boston on May number and quantity.” Under opoly corporations. P H ILA D E LP H IA . June 2.— a UAW contract is in force. See Editorial, “Biddle and the Stalinists”, On Page 4. belong to and how their union i 28 ag ainst 20 baking corporations this ruling, those manufacturers There arc, in fact no set wage j The CIO Industrial Union funds should be expended. in the Now England and New who reduce the quantity of com­ scales and classifications, and j Council here has voted unani­ Scores of Minneapolis drivers York areas. It was disclosed that modities without reducing the Budd pays whatever lie can get have responded to a letter from price paid in March are guilty mously to support the strike of these corporations, controlling British Workers' Discontent aw ay w ith . ! Local 544-CIO’s Recording Sec­ the broad supply of 13,000,000 of violating the regulations. Local 813. United Automobile retary, Ray Rainbolt, appealing NO JOB SECURITY people and doing an aggregate But while Henderson made a Workers, at the big Budd plant, for funds to finance Postal’s ap­ annual business of $185,000.000. special point of the question of OR SET WAGE SCALES peal. Several unions, both AFL popularly known as “ the had arbitrarily boosted prices hy quantity, he had nothing to say Shown At Labor Party Parley Seniority and job security do' and CIO. have contributed to the secret agreement, fixed and about QUALITY. The only order slaughterhouse.” A resolution not exist at Budd’s. Workers are j appeal fund, hut several hundred maintained a high minimum of affecting quality so far is that of passed by the Council calls on fired on the mere, w h im o f the j| dollars is still needed. monopoly prices, and used illegal May 25, an Office of Price Ad­ in the Labor Party was passage conference were cited by corre­ all its affiliated local unions to management. Favoritism is rife, j The crooked Blair decision of methods to eliminate all inde­ ministration regulation on prices of a resolution calling on the gov­ spondents of American news­ ! last September, denying state pendent competition. Political Truce give full moral and material aid as the company gives special | for 19)2 fall style women’s, girls’ ernment to lift the ban on the papers as an indication of the privileges to its stooges in order i labor board elections to the M in­ Among the indicted companies and children's cloth outerwear to the strikers, who are complet­ Daily Worker. Communist party rank and file dissatisfaction with to use them against the majority neapolis drivers, was upheld late arc such giant national corpora­ garments, requiring the same Maintained by organ, which was suppressed Jan. the capitalist-labor coalition gov­ ing the second week of their m ili­ of the workers. in May by District Judge Mc­ tions as National Biscuit, Genera! “workmanship and quality” which 1940. ernment. policy. tant. struggle to bring genuine Nally, who agreed with Governor Baking, Ward Baking and Con­ were put into these garments in The vole for restoration of the There is no genuine machinery Slim Majority Gault MacGowan, in a special unionism to the company-union Stassen and his state labor eon- tinental Baking. the period from Julv to Septem­ paper was very close, 1,244,000 radio dispatch to the Now York for adjusting grievances. All I cilia tor that Minneapolis drivers ber. 1941. Budd plant. The growing dissatisfaction to 1,231.000 against. Sun, M ay 25, w ro te : grievances are referred to the I should not be permitted to de­ This is the only order affect­ of the British workers with the A proposal of the National Ex­ The im m ediate cause, of the company’s Employees Represent­ cide by democratic vote which “ In an atmosphere of dissatis­ ing quality thus far. The door Churchill-Labor Party govern­ ecutive Committee that school strike was the physical ejection ation Association, where they are union they wish to belong to. Negro Columnist faction with England’s war ef­ is therefore wide open for de- children, between the ages of 12 promptly buried. The ERP has At the same time the state un­ ment and its war policies was fort and with the roles played by from the plant by Budd’s Service S tcrioration of quality in all other and 14, should be ordered by the already been declared a company employment division rejected the reflected with surprising the Laborite members of the Department thugs of a group of Recommends “4th j fields while the same prices must government to work twenty half­ union by the local NLRB, but appeal of officers and staff mem­ strength when a motion to Churchill government, the annual union welders, who had dared to he paid. Many of the manufac­ days this summer on farms, was Budd is appealing this decision. bers of Local 544-CIO that they Labor Party conference got un- protest against a 25 coni an hour turers who have been reducing maintain the war-time political voted down by a vote of 1,447,000 be paid the unemployment com­ truce passed by only the nar­ der way here today. Outside wage cut, from 85 cents an hour MANAGEMENT RAISES In ti” Article I the quality of their products for to 080,000. to the low plant minimum of 60 pensation to which they are en- I the last year or two w ill feel per- the meeting hall, copies of the j RACIAL ISSUES rowest margin at the three-day These three votes arc far more t it l ed. ‘Socialist Appeal’ carrying head- | cents. | fectl.v free to continue with these annual British Labor Party con­ significant than the successes of Both anti-labor decisions were George S. Schuyler, most wide­ lines which read ‘Masses Losing This lock-out, enforced by com­ Through the ERA, the compa­ practices which hit the eonsum- ference, which closed May 27. the machine on other questions. rendered immediately after Gov­ ly read Negro columnist in the Confidence in Labor Leaders' pany violence, aroused a protest ny has been trying to break the | ci's just as hard as price rises The National Executive Com­ Carrying the convention despite ernor Stassen had returned to the country, last week warmly recom­ were sold in large numbers.” demonstration in the plant, which strike, spreading every kind of : would. mittee motion, committing the capital from a naval station mended an article by Albert Park­ the full pressure of the machine, quickly developed into a general slander and false rumor in an party in Parliamentary by-elec­ The M ay 26 Jew ish M o rn in g j er on the Negro Maroh-on-Wash- WHY HENDERSON they indicate the coming revolt plant-wide strike. effort to discourage the strikers where he was undergoing a 30- tions to support candidates be­ Journal reported: ington movement printed in the LEFT THIS OUT of British labor against its and confuse the issue. The man­ day training period as lieuten­ longing to the party which held "While in the conference the REAL CAUSE OF STRIKE May issue of the monthly maga­ treacherous leaders. agement is also attempting to di­ ant-commander in the U. S. Mager in The Nation wonders the seat before the vacancy, was fight went on between pro-and The lock-out of the welders zine, Fourth International. vide the workers by raising e Navy. The anti-labor governor why the price regulations had adopted b y the close vote o f 1,- anti-Churchill delegates, outside was just the spark. The real In his column, front page in race issue, handing its Negro recently received his officer’s nothing to say about product de­ 275,000 to' 1,209,000. I t is expec­ the socialist newspaper. ‘Socialist; cause of the strike is the condi­ the May 30 Pittsburgh Courier. workers the same kind of pro­ commission in the navy, though terioration, and suggests two rea­ ted that the closeness of the vote Appeal', was being sold, carry- ; tions at Budd, which are notori­ Schuyler declared: Trotskyist Press paganda that the Negro workers ho had no previous naval experi­ sons: "This may have been be- will lead some Labor candidates ing a big headline: ‘Masses Los­ ously among the worst of any ence. in Ford's repudiated so decisive­ "Rest, critique of Randolph's : cause, the problem is in fin ite ly in coming by-elections to violate ing Confidence in the Labor plants in this city. ly. Inasmuch as the Blair decision March-on-Washington movement more delicate and complex than the decision and run against Tory Has Big Sale At Leaders.’ The paper was eagerly | Wages arc the lowest in the will only hold for one year, un­ appears in the magazine “ Fourth Price control itself, or because the and Liberal candidates. Success­ seized by the crowd and was sold industry. The top hourly rate for The dispute is to go to the til September, 1942, it is doubt­ International” (20 cents), pub­ authorities recognized that the es and big votes for independent Labor Party Meet out very quickly, which shows skilled welders and machine op­ War Labor Board this week, but ful if Local 544-CIO, will appeal lished at 116 U n iv e rs ity Place, diversion of materials to more candidates in recent by-elections, that dissatisfaction really ex­ erators is 80 cents, in compari­ the picket line continues. The the crooked ruling to the State New York. The caustic comments essential uses might compel the have indicated mass dissatisfac­ Huge sales of the Trotskyist ists.” son to the $1.25 rates paid in strikers are asking for the re­ Supreme Court. of the author, Albert Parker, and employment of substitutes.” tion with the government coali­ newspaper. Socialist Appeal, to Socialist Appeal is the organ of Budd’s unionized Detroit plant. hiring of all strikers without dis­ Next. September the whole is­ his sound logic should provoke i In other words, the OPA has tion. the W o r k e r s International The minimum rate in the Detroit crimination, an NLRB election, sue w ill automatically be reopen­ the delegates and visitors at the considerable thought in colored i not tackled this problem because Another index of opposition to League, affiliate of the Fourth j plant, 88 cents for unskilled la­ and an increase in the minimum ed, and Local 544-CIO is laying America about the eminent labor first of all it would be practical- the policy of the ruling clique British Labor Party annual International. bor, is higher than what most wages. plans for that day. leader and Spingarn Medallist.” (Continued on page 2) who work in the factories have Farm-Labor Leaders Act not yet learned. President Roose­ Trotskyist Paper Faces velt has called for national unity. Some workers think this means, To Join With Democrats W orkers unity of the labor movement. However, it does not mean unity Suppression In England of labor to beat the companies. Both Conservative and Stalinist Wings It does not mean unity of the Want to Put End to Independent Action FORUM companies to beat labor. It does MP Asks Ban Because Publication Exposed mese and Chinese as well as all not mean the unity of farmer’s to beat both the companies and la­ the ether colonial slaves for the S3 . PAUL, M inn., .May 29. — Manifest in every resolution Atrocities On Both Sides In the Far East past 100 years and m ore.” bor. That would be national dis­ and declaration made in the Farmer-Labor Party Conference, chance at the pot, amounting to ruption, a divided nation like we CALL FOR END The Speedup LONDON, England (By Mail) — The Socialist Appeal, which concluded its two-day session here late this afternoon, is I about $50. have now’. National unity means organ of the Workers International League, affiliate of the OF IMPERIALISM the identity of outlook, program and policy of the dominant E d ito r: J The workers are not being' unity with the companies. Fourth International, was attacked by Sir J. Lucas in the House The rest of the leaflet is a factions fighting for control of the machinery of the Parmer- In an effort to popularize the | fooled by these bailed snares, “Why? The Chicago Tribune list of outstanding repressions of of Commons on A pril 30, with a request that Herbert Morrison, Labor Party. ®------speedup now being- introduced in Throughout the yard discussions recently ran a series of articles colonial peoples by the British The opportunist trade unionists the local shipyards, the local about the swindling practices of called ‘You Can’t Do Business Minister of Home Security, ban the paper. imperialists. It concludes: discovered to their embarnssment politicians of the so-called right press last week featured n race tlu: corporation are resulting in With Hitler.’ They showed what Sir J. Lucas raised the question on the ground that the “The working people really that a score or more of Stalinist wing and the equally opportunist by two >fanp,s of riveters at the indignant demands that produc­ would happen to American com­ Socialist Appeal had published a i want to see an end to these vile delegates were in attendance. Led Stalinists, mis-called the left wing, Los Angeles Shipbuilding Corp. tion be increased by hiring MORE panies if Hitler wins. They photograph o f 16 Burmese be­ and inhuman actions. By taking by well-known Stalinist function­ the Japanese Government In this clashed several- times over incon­ U sing a $25 purse as bait, and men, not bv grueling speedups. would lose their industries. So, headed by the British, with the aries and supporters, these dele­ way they materially assisted the tlie reigns of government into establishing ideal working condi­ if Hitler wins, they have some­ following caption: “ 16 Burmese sequential issues In their attempts N. L. Japanese imperialists in extend­ our own hands, and freeing the j gates outdid the so-called right thing to lose; we have something patriots beheaded by the British to gerrymander the conference. tions in advance, they made it San Diego. Calif. ing their conquest of China and colonial people from the slavery wing in their insistence upon a possible fo r over 1400 rive ts to to- lose. We both have something in T harra w a d y in 1931, and pub­ But on the central question of are therefore responsible for the of British oppression, by ending conservative that form and pro­ be driven by one gang in one to lose. That means that we can licly exhibited to terrorize the delivering the Farmer-Labor A Stalinist On consequent atrocities. . . British imperialism — only then gram for all-out support of the unite together and fight so that rest of the population. Is it sur­ movement into the hands of Roos­ day. Immediately, the daily “ Every imperialist government can we ensure that we have con­ war. quota for riveters was raised National Unity we don’t both lose. prising that in this district the tributed something to the wiping evelt and the Democratic Party, indulges in vile atrocities against from 250 to 400. E d ito r: “I know' that it is hard for Japanese are succeeding in gain­ out of atrocities. Only then can there wasn't a whisper of a dif­ KEYNOTE SPEECH the conquered peoples. The ma­ Despite the patriotic declara­ On May 10 the Illinois State workers to realize that they must ing a large measure of aid from we wipe out the hatred from the ference. Keynoting the Conference. De­ nuals of the British army, of the tions attributed to the rival Industrial Union Council of the unite with their bosses. But that the population?” Sir J. Lucas did minds of the colonial peoples The Conference was called by mocratic Congressman John M. American armv, of the German teams in the capitalist press, the CIO held a conference on War is what must be done now and not tell that side by side with upon whom the British imperial­ the conservatives in a last desper­ Coffee of Washington called for army, as well as of the Japanese majority of the riveters under­ and Production in Chicago. There we must sharpen our approach to this picture from Burma was ists have perpetrated such vile ate effort to shake oft’ the Stalin­ unity among “progressives” in army, contain special sections stood in advance the speedup were at least .'¡00 delegates pres­ this problem.” published another of Chinese be­ ists who have controlled tlie ma­ the Republican, Democratic and dealing with the problem of acts. That is how to strike at character of the race, and ex­ ent, many of them from strong headed by the Japanese, with the chinery of the Farmer-Labor As­ Farmer-Labor parties in support Every time the speakers talked arousing the blood lust and ha­ the Japanese imperialists; that pressed their indignation by re­ and important unions. caption: "A group of Chinese sol­ sociation for almost six years. of Roosevelt and Ilia program. about victory over Hitler and tred of the common troopers for is the way to remember Hong marks sucli as “the son of a b— The speakers were the usual diers, their heads severed from But these unrealistic politicians Congressman Coffee listed among fascism, the workers applauded the enemy. . . K o n g !” oughta have his union card pull­ assortment of army, navy and their bodies by the Japanese in his supporters AFL and CIO un­ vigorously. They even applauded “Lest any workers be swayed ed.” No one has dared to propose government board representa­ Manchuria. Why did the British ions as w ell as the railroa d b ro th ­ a little when De Maio said that by the feigned ‘horror’ of the a race since the last one, and the tives. making the usual pleas. capitalists not protest then?” erhoods. In addition, he boasted those who- in te rfe re w ith produc­ British bosses, lest any workers ‘THE MILITANT' IS BARRED attitude of the workers is, “If Nevertheless, the high point in 1 •of the fact that he had the whole­ tion "must be sougTit out, expos­ believe that the British are in­ they want to build these boats patriotic fervor was not reached | LUCAS ASKS FOR hearted support of Chambers of ed as fifth columnists, treated SUPPRESSION OTF PAPER capable of doing these things, let FROM BRITISH COLONY in a hurry, well and good — but by them, but by Ernest Dc Maio, i Commerce and the power interests like traitors, and —- yes — us say right now that the worst why don’t they stop fooling a U E fu n c tio n a ry who is w e ll The incident in the House of The Governor of Sierra Leone, British Colony in West in his homo state. Although ob­ ihot!” But there was no applause atrocity committed by the Jap­ around and hire some more known as a Stalinist. Perhaps I Commons is reported as follows Africa, has recently prohibited the importation of 6 United viously embarassed by Congress­ at all when De Maio instructed by “ Hansard,” the official record: anese is but a pale reflection of men ? ” you will be interested in some | States working class newspapers and magazines, including 1111: man Coffee’s boasts and reaction­ us to unite with our bosses. “Sir .1. Lucas (by Private No­ what British imperialism has car­ This week the same trick was of his remarks which I copied M IL IT A N T , according to information received in this country ary formulations, speaker after tice) asked the Home Secretary ried out upon the Indians, Bur- pulled on the drillers. To make it flown • A . F. speaker took the floor to give en­ whether lie has studied a month­ last week. look like a popular idea, every­ “There is one lesson which we 1 Chicago', 111. thusiastic support to thp main ly publication, a copy of which It is reported from England that all natives to whom the one was asked to come to the proposition of the keynote ad­ has been sent to him, and in par­ papers are addressed are being® ------foreman’s shack at lunch time. dress. ticular an illustration under a More Unions arrested. I -now been exiled from Siena Before anyone knew what was caption “British Atrocity in Bur­ The Governor, appointed by j Leone> j ohnson was arrested by Former Governor Rimer A. happening, he was being asked REAL PRICES ARE Benson, invited by the Conference ma,” and the contents of a lead­ British imperialism, acted under I the British Governor as soon as to chip in for a pot for a drillers’ Vote Aid to to speak, managed to get through ing article contained therein, and the dictatorial powers he exer­ the war began, and confined un­ race. This was the only wav the STILL GOING UP what action he intends taking in cises through the Undesirable til recently to a concentration a 20 minute discourse without , drillers could be trapped’ into toes, which are exactly or almost the matter by way of suspending 18 Defendants Pub.ications Ordinance of 1939. camp without trial. making u positive organizational supporting a race — the intimid- , (Continued from page 1) or warning the paper? The ban applies not only to cur­ proposal. ating pressure of the big shot in ly impossible by its methods to the same in quality and quantity. “Mr. H. Morrison: My hon. and rent and future issues but to Railroad and Warehouse Com­ the office. The resentment was police the manufacture of the B rand A he sells fo r 10 cents; gallant friend was good enough Four UAW Locals past issues of the papers as well. missioner Hjalmer Petersen, like- so great that the race was call- thousands of different commodi- brand B lie sells for 15 cents. He to send me yesterday a copy of Act to Help Work No reason for the suppression wlse n former Governor, was also : ed off for a day or two. Then ties and the untold numbers of now withdraws brand A from the the publication to which he re­ of the papers was given by the Retail Clerks Are invited to apeak. Petersen's speech 1 it was held prim arily because the | different brands of these com- market, and the consumer can buy only brand B. fers. I am considering the mat­ Of CRDC Governor. But it is not hard to brlstled with charges that Min- \ more backward workers wanted a j moditics, and secondly because ter, but I am not in a position understand why the government Opposed to the nesota is in the grip of the W ill the authorities, hiding behind the In connection with this, Hen­ to make any further statement NEW YORK, June 3. — Lo­ of West Africa, appointed by the kie-Stassen machine financed by ! pretext of war production needs, derson’s statement on May 14 commodities be sold to consumers said the following: “Q—How w ill at the present time. cals of the CIO United Auto British government to keep the the monopolies and huge mining are reconciling themselves to the “Mr. Garro Jones: Can my native people in subjection, is Stalinist Line companies of the state. at tlie cost of production. idea of “substitute” materiais, price ceilings be determined Workers in four different states The once powerful Fanner-La- t)lat ¡s right hon. friend give the name afraid to permit the circulation Especially noteworthy was the of actual price rises. where identical articles have been bor Association, tlie organization­ sold under different brand names of this paper? voted last week to support the of papers which advocate unity j speech of Paul A. Rassmussen. Needless to say, where manufac­ The Stalinist forces at the re­ al dues-paying set-up for tlie at different prices? A—The seller “Mr. Morrison: It is a paper defense movement in behalf of of the Negro and. white masses . lie spoke in tlie Conference with turers use substitutes that cost cent Chicago convention of the Farmer-Labor Party, to which (he iess than the original, they will cannot sell the lower-priced brand called ‘Socialist Appeal.’ against their oppressors. (lie authority of a representative the 18 Trotskyist and CIO economic organizations of the at the price for the higher brand. "Sir J. Lucas: In view of the The other papers banned w ere I United Retail. Wholesale and of the Democratic National Com­ ask for the same prices; and workers and farmers are formally Different brands are different fact that this paper attacks our members convicted in the M in­ Fourth International, New Inter- j Department Store Employees of mittee. Proposing a coalition where the substitute materials Allies and war aims and is en­ neapolis “ sedition” trial, the affiliated, lias been reduced by cost more, they w ill ask, and the commodities.” And further, natinnal. Labor Action, Fighting America suffered .a decisive de- ticket of Democrats and Farmer- Civil Rights Defense Committee Stalinist manipulations (o a OPA wi 1 authorize, higher pri­ “Whether brand A is dropped or tirely subversive, can the right Worker and International News. feat on all trade union questions. Laborltes fo r the fa ll election, tie hon. gentleman state any good reported today. shadow of its former self. The As­ ces. continued at 10 cents is imma­ The Convention voted down, a made a v irtu a l nom ination speech renson for allowing it to conti­ Locals whose contributions N A T IV E P A P E R ’S S T A N D sociation meets in convention in terial. If the manufacturer mere­ motion introduced by the Staiin- for Hjalmer Petersen as the can­ There are in addition numerous nue? have already been received at the This information was printed Minneapolis on June 27. Before ly rebrands his article, a sale at ists to commit the union to an didate for Governor on this ticket. other practices of manufacturers “Mr. Morrison: The House national office of the CRDC, 160 I in the April 3 issue of The A fri­ this date, a committee of 21 a higher price is a violation.” absolute no-strike pledge. In ad­ and sellers which raise the real Fifth Ave., Now York City, are: can Standard, official weekly or­ A “LEFT” PROGRAM named by the Farmer-Labor Par­ In other words, it is illegal to knows that these matters require dition, the Stalinists failed to prices of commodities. Some of Local 82 of Racine, Wisconsin. gan of the West African Youth Knowing that the thoroughly ty Conference, has been instructed sell brand A for the price of a great deal of careful considera­ win any places for their follow­ these the OPA has characterized tion, and I think it would be best Iax-al 663 of Anderson, Indiana. League, Sierra Leone section, reactionary proposal of a coalition to meet with a similar committee brand B, but it is perfectly all ers as officers or members of the as illegal: others it recognizes and that I should consider all the Local 263 o f Cleveland, Ohio. which points out that the papers ticket must be camouflaged if the from the Association. Tlie com­ right to stop manufacturing executive board. perm its. circumstances before intimating In addition, General Motors Lo­ are not prohibited in Britain or support of the workers and farm­ bined committee of 12 will have brand A and to sell brand B only. The delegates reacted violently any decision.” cal 216 of Los Angeles, Califor­ the United States, and states that ers of Minnesota is to he won. virtually full power to put across OTHER DEVICES The M ay 28 W a ll S tre e t Jo u r­ it sees no good reason fo r th e ir against a speech of the Stalinist For example, a manufacturer nal describes another trick now What may come after Morri­ nia, sent a letter expressing sup­ file leaders of the Conference per­ the program of coalition with tlie suppression in Sierra Ler/ne, es­ Arthur Osman of Local 65 in New puts out a brand of canned to­ son’s “careful consideration” is port for the work of the CRDC, mitted I lie adoption of a “left” Democrats. being resorted to: pecially' during a war being con­ York, when he declared that be­ “Another variation is to make indicated by the fact that the and promising to take up a col­ program. Some outstanding points Whether or not this reactionary matoes which sold for 10 cents ducted in the name of democ­ cause of the war this is not the “Daily Worker” is still prohibit­ lection fo r the 18 when th e ir of tiiis program are: That prop­ plot can be carried out at tlie June in March. Today he withdraws a slight change in specifications, racy. time to carry on a vigorous fight and then up the price of an ar­ ed, and that many papers have members return to work. erty ns w ell as persons should he 27 convention, w ill he determined this brand of tomatoes from the against racial discrimination. ticle. Only yesterday the OPA been muzzled by threats of sus­ Other loea's which sent money The outstanding leader of the drafted for the war: that the gov­ by the attitude of the trade un­ market and puts out a new brand pension. to the CRDC last week were: West African Youth League, ernment take over the war plants ions and farm organizations under another label, and sells it was confronted with a rug manu­ Wallace Johnson, who won the and operate them without profit which have now been instructed for 15 cents. The OPA frowns facturer that changed its popular In view of this threat to the K nitgoods W orkers Local 155, enmity of the British authorities Subscribe to the to the owners: that there be fixed by the Farmer-Labor Party Con­ on this practice, but everyone sized ’9 by 12’ rugs to 9 by 1$ Socialist Appeal, the Workers In­ International Ladies Garment by his international attitude to parity farm prices; that the jobB ference to reaffiliate to the Farm­ knows that it is going on. feet one inch, in order to com­ ternational League issued for Workers Union, AFL, of New the war and by his organization­ " of dollar-a-year men he abolished: er-Labor Association, so long in Then the re are m any cases mand a ‘cut order price,’ 17 per widespread distribution a four- Y o rk C ity. 'Fourth International al activities among the native that the competitive price system the strangle-hold of the Stalin­ where a manufacturer has been cent higher than the old price. page leaflet republishing the ar­ Local 182 of the United Rubber dock workers and miners, has be ended and that all goods and ists. putting out two brands of toma- OPA said this practice was a vio­ ticle and photographs in question. Workers, CIO, of Rahway, N. J. lation of the price regulations.” In an introduction to the article, But when the same trick is the W IL says: used a little more subtly, the CRIMES ON BOTH SIDES OPA raises no objections, as for “The authenticity of these facts Fight Against Bridges’ Deportation! example when coffee formerly cannot be denied; what causes sold in “loose” containers is re­ the issue to be raised is the re­ (Continued from page 1) made by the Department of Justice in the indictment it wrote time “emergency” scheme. It started long before the war, it moved from the market, and sold percussion among the British against one of the eighteen, Carl Skoglund, against whom deport­ for the Minneapolis trial against the Trotskyists. We cite but will be carried out even more ruthlessly after the war — if the thereafter only in cans, which workers at the exposure of the ation proceedings are now pending. two main points: capitalists and their government have their way. considerably raises the price of coffee by the pound. crimes of British imperialism in 1. Bridges allegedly belonged to an organization which the colonies, these crimes being Roosevelt’s Connection W ith the Bridges Ruling "advocates and teaches the overthrow by force and violence of The Question of the Soviet Union ONLY THE BEGINNING the fundamental cause for the de­ In the Minneapolis trial, there were apologists for Roose­ Many of those who understand the long-range government These devices to raise real p ri­ feats in the Far East.” the government of the United States.” This is “proved,” in the velt who tried to claim that he had no responsibility for that plan may ask: But why did they pick on Bridges? No one today ces to the consum er are o n ly the The article reprinted from the Bridges ruling as in the Minneapolis trial, by twisted quota­ anti-labor prosecution, that Biddle did it on his own initiative. more vociferously supports Roosevelt’s policies, including speed­ beginning. When conversion of April Socialist Appeal is titled: tions from the famous Communist Manifesto of 1848 of Marx industry to war production reach­ “Remember Hong Kong and Ail But those apologists could not explain away the direct appeal and Engels, and citations from Lenin — in the trial there were up of the longshoremen, subordination of the unions to govern­ es a more advanced stage and This Too.” “The tales of the of Teamsters’ President Daniel J. Tobin to Roosevelt for aid ment boards, etc. Bridges is practicing class-collaboration be­ also quotations from Trotsky. Thus the Roosevelt Administra­ when shortages in consumers’ atrocities committed by the Jap­ against the Local 544-CIO “secessionists” , Roosevelt’s public sup­ yond the bounds of the usual labor-faker. He is one of the most tion openly moves to outlaw the theoretical heritage of a hun­ commodities become really acute, anese Army upon British soldiers useful lieutenants that the government has in the labor move­ port of Tobin against Local 544-CIO, and Roosevelt’s threat dred years of Marxist thought. In the Minneapolis trial we the tendency w ill be for the man­ at Hong Kong,” it reports, “have that “the appropriate government agencies” had been told to showed that the Marxists do not advocate force and violence ment. Even after this blow, Bridges is licking the hand that ufacturers to divert a large por­ aroused the B ritis h masses as act. smites him. Why, then, Bridges? tion of their products off the no atrocity story has done since against the government; that the Marxists, learning from the One reason suggested is that, having let Browder out, Roose­ open market, and to sell them at the outbreak of the war.” It then Likewise now, apologists are trying to cover up Roosevelt. terrible lessons of history, know that the capitalists and their velt is now conciliating the ultra-reactionaries by smiting greatly increased, illegal, prices. recalls the Japanese imperialist The New York newspaper, PM, for example, says that “Biddle political agents use force and violence against the labor move­ Bridges, just to show the government’s “impartiality.” If this This illegal sale of commodi­ record in Manchuria — and its made his decision absolutely on his own — without consultation ment as the working class moves toward socialism; that the ties in great demand is known British imperialist apologists: with the President or with any of his fellow Cabinet members were so, the score is decidedly to the advantage of the reaction­ Marxists, therefore, warn the workers to prepare to- defend them­ as the “black market” in Europe, “ We publish here a photograph aries. Browder is a nonentity, easily replaceable by the Stalin­ . . .No national policy is involved in Biddle’s ruling.” The Stalin­ selves against capitalist force and violence. The Roosevelt formula and it operates something like of the heads of a group of Chi­ ists; whereas Bridges is the elected head of a powerful trade ists also are trying to absolve Roosevelt. of pinning the advocacy of “force and violence” on the Trot­ the sale of liquor did in the Uni­ nese, severed from their bodies But the idea of Biddle acting on his own is preposterous. skyists. Bridges and others is an attempt to crush the vanguard union. And that Roosevelt proceeds by conciliating the reac­ ted States during prohibition by the Japanese imperialists dur­ Judge Sears’ ord er o f September 26, 1941 fo r B rid ge s’ deporta­ of the labor movement. tionaries is an ominous warning to the labor movement. days. The effect of this bootleg ing the conquest of Manchuria. Washington does not want any friends of the Soviet Union market is to swell the pockets of It was the left wing of the work­ tion had been reversed and cancelled on January 3, 1942 by a 2. As in the Minneapolis trial, Bridges is accused of ad­ in positions of power in the labor movement. The fundamental the war profiteers and to sharp­ ing class movement which pub­ higher body, the Board of Immigration Appeals, which accepted hering to organizations which “advocated the class struggle,” ly reduce the living standards of lished these pictures and tried to Bridges’ denial of C. P. membership at any time. Ordinarily, antagonism between the capitalist “democracies” and the work­ and “penetration into trade unions. . . and conversion of their the masses, who are forced rouse the masses of the world the Attorney General would abide by such a decision of the high­ ers’ state has been allayed by the war alliances and Stalin’s members by constant agitation and propaganda.” As in the against their will to patronize against this. But what were the er body. Furthermore, Biddle and everyone else knew in ad­ reactionary policies, but that basic antagonism remains, to flare Minneapolis.trial where all the officers of Local 544-CIO were the bootleg market because they journals of British imperialism up at any moment. There can be no lasting peace between capi­ vance that the entire CIO would back Bridges, the elected head cannot get the products they need saying? They were not interest­ indicted because Trotskyists were among the leaders, so Biddle of the CIO’s Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union. Fur­ talist economy and the nationalized property of the Soviet Union. anywhere else. ed in rousing the masses then! now says that Bridges’ “affiliation with the Marine Workers thermore, who is Biddle? He is not a powerful politician with Washington knows that very well and does not cease preparing The price rises already in effect They were apologists for Japan­ Industrial Union was grounds for deportation.” for an eventual conflict. Part of those preparations is the crush­ since May 19 and the threat of a ese imperialism and were justi­ his own following. On the contrary, he is one of the weakest Thus belief in the class struggle — m ilitant struggle against ing of all defenders of the Soviet Union, including among them bootleg market make it more ne­ fying their actions! Each suc­ political figures ever to sit in a .Cabinet, a man without power the bosses — is a crime in the eyes of Roosevelt. And for a defenders of the Kremlin bureaucracy. cessary than ever for the labor cessive Government of British in the Democratic Party, who could hardly get himseif elected union to elect leaders believing in the class struggle makes the movement to launch a struggle: capitalism covered up the atroci­ as a Congressman. He is one of the many puppets, utterly sub­ Whatever the immediate motivation of the government’s 1. Against governmental moves ties of their Japanese class entire union suspect! This is a brazen attempt by the govern­ blow at Bridges, it is clear that it is reactionary to the core servient to his master’s will, with whom Roosevelt has surround­ to freeze wages! brothers and official British ment to'tell the unions what their policy should be, what kind and must be fought by the labor movement. ed himself. It is preposterous to think that such a man acted 2. For a rising scale of wages spokesmen tried to minimize of leaders they can have, and to behead any union which follows in such a matter without the explicit approval of Roosevelt. While doing all they can to defend Bridges against deporta­ to meet increased living costs! what wag taking place, or even a militant policy! If the government gets away with this, it This blow against the labor movement comes, not from an acci­ tion, the revolutionists and all class-conscious workers must at 3. For the creation of demo­ directly claimed that the Japan­ dental figure in the Cabinet, but from Roosevelt himself. means that the capitalist class and its political agents have a the same time condemn Bridges and the Stalinists for their white­ cratic committees of consumers ese were carrying civilization into veto power over union policies and union elections. to control prices and rationing! China. washing of Roosevelt, their reactionary aid to Roosevelt in ham­ The Anti-Labor Doctrine of Biddle’s Ruling On the basis of our foregoing analysis, we can place the stringing the unions, and the harm they are doing the Soviet ENGLAND AIDED JAPAN Every worker should carefully read the text of Biddle’s ruling against Bridges in its proper setting. Like the Minnea­ Union by such class-collaboration. For a Rising Scale of “Only a few months ago Mr. ruling against Bridges. He should see for himself how the ruling polis trial, it is part of the long-range government-capitalist The militant fight for the independence of the labor move­ Churchill in the House of Com­ attempts to outlaw the main ideas which have been held by the plan to regiment Labor, house-break the union, take away then- ment is also the only real way to help the Soviet Union. Irre­ mons admitted that the British Wages to Meet vanguard of the labor movement for a hundred years. Point most potent weapons, and leave them at the mercy of the gov­ Government had closed the Bur­ concilable class struggle against the capitalist world — that is Rising Living Costs ma Road at the instigation of by point, this deportation ruling repeats the main argument ernment and its various boards. Nor is this plan merely a war­ the only road for the future of labor. Portrait Head Of Leon Hitler Explodes Basic Trotsky Now Available Theory Of Stalinism <•)- ! By Albert Parker : — By M. MORRISON — Pioneer to Reproduce Portrait Head Recently Finished Because of the great number hypocrites, are in a position to The Right to Vote, the Southern Head Sculptured by of controversial subjects that create great confusion. While Democrats and the Communist Party necessarily arise between us and we must be alert to nail every Famous U. S. Artist the Stalinists there is some dan­ lie and answer every false argu­ Recently this column report­ tive and that they will join ger that we fail to stress suffi­ ment, it. is useless to deny that ed the unsuccessful move o f a good white people in seeking ciently the one subject upon the Stalinists will have great small group of southern Demo­ good government. There is in Pioneer Publishers announces which tlie Stalinists must he as success on th is question, espe­ crats to get their party in South this an opportunity for the that it lias secured a portrait silent as the tomb, for tlie sim­ cially if Hitler is defeated. Most ple reason that tiiey are unable people w ill not go to the trouble Carolina to permit Negroes to whites and blacks to develop a head of Leon Trotsky, sculpt­ vote in the primaries. That is mutual respect and good feel­ to present any valid argument of investigating and analyzing the state where the present ing. If the problem is to be ured by the well-known Amer­ in its favor. And this subject all the facts and circumstances Democratic Party rules for pri­ attacked by the Negro with the ican sculptor, Duncan Fergu­ happens to he tlie basic theory of the executions. The ignor­ of Stalinism, the theory of so­ ance of the masses is what the mary, voting require a Negro to aid from outside sources, we be­ son. By arrangement with the he 87 years old and to have lieve that both the whites and cialism in one country. Stalinist leaders and the capital­ voted the straight Democratic- Negroes w ill lose in the process. sculptor, Pioneer Publishers For the basic Stalinist theory ists depend upon. ticket for G6 years. has been so com pletely shattered “4. We do not believe it is may reproduce plaster casts of A t tlie present, it is not so Shortly after this a friend of by events that not even Stalin­ either necessary or advisable the head for sale. easy for the Stalinist theoretic­ ours who happened to be pass­ ist 'falsehoods and subterfuges that the Democratic Party be The portrait head stands 18 ians to confuse people on their ing through South Carolina can succeed in reviving it. thrown open to Negroes indis­ inches in height — slightly over basic position that socialism can sent us a letter and some news­ It is significant that the Stal­ criminately. Nor do we believe life-size. The material is hard he, and in fact has already been, paper clippings which indicated inists rarely, if ever, mention that anything but good would piaster, colored to resemble built in the Soviet Union. It is that the motives of these white their basic theory, at the pres­ come from establishing minor bronze; this is a permanent ma­ this theory that has been com­ Southern Democrats in seeking ent time. And for the very good educational and character terial and will last indefinitely pletely annihilated by Hitler’s to open the primaries to Ne reason that there is nothing for qualifications for membership indoors if given reasonable care. attack on the Soviet Union and groes were not exactly motives them to say about it. And it of whites in the party. We be­ It weighs about 40 pounds when the'terrible destruction that has which most Negroes would ap­ is for that reason that we must lieve that carefully considered boxed for shipment. The price resulted from that attack. plaud. press the point. qualifications of this kind, ap­ is $25, boxed fo r shipm ent fro m DAILY WORKER’S STORY plied to whites and blacks, New York (freight charge to be CREATING CONFUSION REACTION TO OUR Before we had a chance to might result in a definite im­ paid by purchaser.) The Stalinist theoreticians BASIC ARGUMENTS print this information, the Sta­ provement in our political in­ Duncan Ferguson is one of the and leaders are concentrating stitutions.” Up to now our arguments a- linist Daily Worker appeared on foremost American sculptors. their attention on the resistance gainst the Stalinist theory of No wonder the Stalinists left M ay 21 w ith a sto ry th a t was His work is represented in the of the Red Army because it is building socialism in one coun­ these two paragraphs out! For permanent collections of sculp­ greatly at variance with the in­ on that question that they can try were theoretical in nature the y reveal th a t these 21 men ture at the Museum of Modem formation we had received. We best create confusion. In the and it m ust be adm itted th a t therefore held up on printing are not friends hut shrewd ene­ Art, the Whitney Museum of fierce resistance offered by the they did not succeed in convinc­ mies of the Negro masses. American Art, etc. The major this information from our Red Army to the invasion of the ing many people. The Stalinists friend until we could check fu r­ galleries have exhibited his work WHAT THE 21 DEMOCRATS German imperialist forces the could and did point to, the huge th e r. during the past fifteen years. REALLY WANT Stalinists, as well as other hypo­ area and rich resources of the This week the Associated Ne­ Mr. Ferguson was until recently crites and fools, see, or presume Soviet Union, and, they claimed, gro Press ran a story printed What does this resolution Professor of Sculpture at the to see. ju stific a tio n of the pol­ that: contrary to our theory, so­ in many Negro newspapers, show? It shows that these 21 Louisiana State University. icies of Stalin, especially his ex­ cialism was being built in the which cleared up the question men believe that sooner or later Pioneer Publishers’ arrange­ ecution of the Red Army lead­ Soviet Union. The less intelli­ and which proved definitely that the Negro will win his rights, ments make it possible to pro­ ers. gent Stalinists maintained, on the Communist Party is guilty and they feel that in the long vide this splendid head at a nom­ That resistance came after the the basis of S ta lin ’s speeches, of whitewashing the reaction­ run it would benefit the Demo­ inal price to all interested groups executions and this proves that that socialism already existed: ary southern Democrats who cratic Party to begin now to and individuals. Pioneer’s ad­ the resistance is the result of the more intelligent were satis­ look down on the mass of Ne­ appear as a “friend” of the Ne­ dress is 11G University Place, the executions and this in turn fied with the contention that so­ groes as “ inferior” and who for gro. They are afraid that if New York City. proves that the executed build­ cialism w ill come with the com­ their own benefit are trying to the problem is solved by the ers and leaders of the Red Army plete industrialization of the So­ open the Democratic primary militant action of the Negro were “fifth columnists.” This viet Union. polls to a limited number of with aid from “outside sources,” reasoning is exactly like the Negroes. meaning the labor movement, Red Caps Vote to reasoning of the savages who at­ We could and did point to the The headlines on the Daily that the southern Democrats tribute the coming of rain to’ many crying contradictions ex­ Worker’s story read as follows: will lose all their power. What the medicine man because the isting in the Soviet Union — to “ Carolina Democrats Ask Negro they are worried about is sav­ Affiliate to CIO rain came the day or the week the poverty, the lack of democ­ Poll Rights. 21 South Carolina ing the Democratic Party be­ or the month after the holy racy, etc. The more intelligent Leaders Push Fight for Full fore it is too late. m an’s magic. Stalinists would answer: These Political Equality in State.” The The resolution also shows The third convention of the will disappear with time. second head is false from be­ that these 21 men are not pro­ R ed Caps union, United WHY SUCH DEFEATISM? B u t w h a t answer can be given ginning to end. An examination posing that all Negroes be given Transport Service Employees of Behind the absurd proposition now. when before our very eyes of the Stalinist story with the the right to vote. On the con­ Welles Lays Groundwork that the resistance of the Red the horrible picture is presented America, independent, voted ANP story proves that the last trary, they propose by “educa­ Army is due to the execution of of the destruction, within those thing in the world these 21 unanimously last week in Cin­ tional and character qualifica­ the leading generals is the as­ areas invaded by Hitler, of ev­ “ leaders” were asking for was tions” to keep both Negroes and cinnati to become an interna­ sumption, that the best the Red erything that was built in the “full political equality,” for the whites from voting. This edu­ tional affiliate of the CIO. For Another Versailles Army could possibly do is to of­ last fifteen years? Socialism is Negro people. cational requirement is an old It is regarded as certain that fer fierce resistance, lose battles based on factories, on power, on It is only by comparing the gag in the south; a clerk can the CIO w ill accept their applica­ By A. ROLAND and enormous territory. Why mines and railroads, and these two stories side by side that abolition in the post-war world always find a question that even tion for affiliation. such terrible defeatism? Why have been ruined. one can fully appreciate the The Memorial Day speech of Sumner Welles should be of the "selfishness of small a college graduate couldn’t an­ The convention also voted to not assume that under the. lead­ treachery and duplicity of the groups.” We too are for national The fact. that, the Soviet Un­ swer to the clerk’s “satisfac­ undertak e an organizational carefully read by every worker. It expresses tire aims of the ership of the experienced and Stalinists. In the main the two and individual liberty. But the ion lias to appeal for material tion,” and the same clerk can campaign among dining car United States in the war in terms of the domination of the post­ brilliant generalship of Tukacli- stories are based on the same meaning we give these terms and aid to capitalists of the United always accept as correct the an­ waiters, train porters, firemen war world by the United Nations. One need only remember evskv and the others who were document — a resolution sub­ the meaning given them by Well­ States and of England shows swers of illiterates. With the and maintenance rail workers that the United States is the giant-like senior partner of these, executed, the Red Army could mitted to the state Democratic es are ns fa r apart as the two that socialism is far from having aid of “character qualifications” who- have been unorganized or nations to understand that this means domination of the whole and would have defeated H itler’s convention by 21 w h ite Dem o­ poles. By individual liberty, the been achieved in the Soviet Un­ the political big shots could al­ discriminated against by other armies? Or at. least would have crats. The only difference is w orld by the U nited States, w ith ® ------Under-Secretary means the right ion. For the productive capacity ways bar any Negro (or white) unions because they are Negroes. stopped the German armies long that the Stalinists left certain the aid of England which will be the Declaration of Independence of the capitalist, to continue to ex­ of a huge country like the So­ who might think about organiz­ before they took the Ukraine important parts of the resolu­ reduced considerably in rank as in recognizing the right of a peo­ ploit the worker, the right to pri­ viet Union, under socialism, ing a union or a militant poli­ and destroyed the richest agri­ tion out, while the ANP story a world power after the war. ple to revolt in order to set up vate property in the means of would be infinitely greater than tical group. cultural and industrial section printed the resolution in full. They Look the According to Welles, the defeat­ the government they think best. production. He means the right the productive capacity of any of the Soviet Union? The resolution started as fol­ And these are the people who ed na tions are to be disarmed and United States isolationism has of the individual (and the mono­ capitalist, country. No socialist the Daily Worker claims are Nazis Frankly lows; “The undersigned white placed completely at the mercy of been ended forever. The U nited poly corporation) to invest his If the leading figures of an country would ever require food, pushing a “fight for full poli­ citizens of South Carolina be­ the victors. The United Nations States will become the leading money abroad and to earn divi­ engineering firm are murdered tanks and planes from a capital­ tical equality!” In the Eye. . . lieve that the time has come will send m ilitary “police” forces exponent of the new League bf dends. and the firm continues to exist ist country. when steps should be taken to­ I)e National Socialist, a Nazi into all the countries of Europe Nations, the new world organiza­ But those are the very rights with third and fourth raters at WHY THE STALINISTS UNDENIABLE FACTS ward recognizing the political (except Russia) until govern­ tion of the victorious powers bent the head, steadily losing ground WRITE SUCH LIES controlled paper published in that ha'Ve brought on the present We need not, however, resort rights of the Negroes of this ments suitable to the victorious on maintaining and consolidating to competitors, does it mean that Flemish in Ghent, Belgium, war. They are the foundations of to theoretical arguments. The state. The following consider­ Some of our readers may he Allies have been firmly set up. their world domination. If this the continued existence of the undeniable fact stares us in the ations prompt us in this view:” confused by all this, may won­ published on April 11 extracts The armies abroad will he main­ differs from the Versailles system imperialism. The great mass of firm is a result of the murder face, that Hitler has either des­ The Daily Worker printed this der why the Communist Party from a letter received last win­ tained “ until a permanent system that laid the foundations for the "individuals” cannot have liberty of the leading engineers? Ts it troyed the socialism that the paragraph. goes out of its way to white­ ter from a Belgian fascist vol­ of general security is established.” second World War, then it is only so long as the few have the right not rather the loss of ground Stalinists said existed in the So­ wash people like these. unteer in the German Arm y in This clause is interpreted as in the sense of being even more to own the nation's and the that is to be attributed to the WHAT THE CP LEFT OUT viet Union or he has at least To understand this, you must meaning that no European gov­ severe. Welles distinctly eschews world’s wealth. The nations can­ murders? It is. of course, im­ The next paragraph of the Russia: prevented its being completed. know how the Stalinist move­ ernment w ill be recognized and any return to “normalcy” such not. have lib e rty so long as the possible to prove what the firm resolution read as follows: “1. What, other proof is necessary ment functions. Every couple of “ Among the Russian partisans permitted to exist that “may as occurred after the last war. most advanced ones can exploit would have done had the lead­ Many -of our Negro citizens are to convince intelligent and hon­ years the Stalinist attitude to­ are young fellows of 16 and 17 threaten aggression outside of This country is embarked on a the backward ones through their ing engineers not been murder­ keenly desirous of exercising est people of the correctness of ward the Negro struggle (and years of age, and even women. their frontiers.” One might sup­ new course and it must continue powerful means of production and ed. but the fact rem ains th a t their rights of citizenship. We tlie Trotskyist arguments a- almost every other question) When they are caught they are pose that this applies to fascist on it after the war. their privately-controlled wealth. without them the firm is retreat­ believe they are now fitted by gainst the possibility of realiz­ undergoes a sharp change. shot immediately, but they look elements that might, attempt to The “ unenlightened selfishness” When Welles grandiloquently de­ in g and not. advancing. education and experience to as­ ing socialism in one country These changes in line do not you frankly in the eyes or laugh continue in power in Germany, of those who caused the country clares that the age of imperialism It must be recognized that the sume the responsibilities of ci­ alone? Need we present any depend on changes in the ob­ at you. War is terribly brutal Italy, Rumania, Bugaria, etc. This to turn its back on the opportunity has ended, all that he means is; defeats or the resistance of the tizenship.” further arguments that social­ jective situation, but on what and without being here one can­ interpretation is entirely too nar­ to share in maintaining “world! that the old imperialism is ended. Red A rm y cannot he u tilize d as What does this mean? It ism is impossible unless the the Stalin bureaucracy in the not imagine it.” row. True, most of those who peace” is blamed today for the I A new imperialism has come on an argument to prove either that means that the 21 who signed proletarian revolution Is extend­ Soviet Union thinks is best to have led these countries in the course of events after the last | the w o rld scene, that, of the the executed generals were or this resolution imply that up ed to the advanced countries of protect its own interests. A present war will be ousted. But war. This time that w ill not re- I United States. The bases of the were not “fifth columnists." until now the disfranchisement the w orld? year ago for example the Sta­ actual struggle against Jim much more than this js intended. turn. The victor’s peace will be I new world laid down by Velios That fact can he proved only by of the Negroes was justified be­ linists talked very radical about Crow.- There is quite a difference be­ guaranteed with the armed forces j cannot possibly bring any per­ their personal histories and the I can hear some Stalinist say cause they weren’t ready to “as­ both the war and Jim Crow. One of their means for achiev­ tween this view and that of W il­ of the United States. manent peace, any more than did circumstances surrounding their that when Hitler is beaten so­ sume the responsibilities of ci­ Then Hitler invaded the Soviet ing this is to keep reminding son in the last war. Wilson told “If this war is in fact a war the Versailles Treaty. They can murders. Since the trials and cialism w ill once more he erect­ tizenship.” Every word in this Union, and the Communist Par­ the Negro people that "condi­ the Gormans then that he would for the liberation of peoples, it only prepare the ground for a executions were shrouded in se­ ed in the Soviet Union. But paragraph stinks of smug ty in this country became a sup­ tions are improving” and that not treat with the Kaiser’s gov­ must, assure the sovereign equal­ third and more devastating world crecy and nobody knows what even if he is defeated, as we “white superiority.” The Daily porter of the war and tried to “progress is being made.” They ernment. He did not say, how­ war that will engulf all civiliza­ evidence, if any, was produced, hope lie will he, will that, not Worker story solved this un­ ity of peoples throughout the hush down the Negro struggle. continually sing the praises of ever. that lie would Intervene di­ tion. we m ust base our judgm ent on mean to build socialism once pleasant problem by leaving out w orld, as w ell as in the w o rld of Roosevelt and of every faker rectly in Germany to set up a the character of the men execut­ more with the possibility of hav­ the first two words of the first Today they believe the strug­ the Americas. Our victory must like Knox who offers "conces­ government that would suit him. ed and the circumstances under ing it destroyed by another H it­ sentence in that paragraph, gle against Jim Crow is second­ bring in its train the liberation sions” which are intehded to ler? ary — that what comes first is The German people did this them­ of all peoples. Discrimination be­ WV.WWAW.WÎWWWV which they were executed. thus changing its meaning, and quiet the dissatisfaction of the the war against Hitler, and selves when they set up the Wei­ tween peoples because of their These, together with the fact To retain the theory of social­ by leaving out the whole second Negro without granting his de­ that everything else must be mar Republic. race, creed or color must be abo­ that the onen trials held of lead­ ism in one country means to sentence! mands for equality. subordinated to the war. Today lished. The age of imperialism NEW YORK ing Bolsheviks, were proved ask the working masses of the The next paragraph was That is why they whitewash WHAT WELLES FEARS they call for “national unity,” is ended.” frame-ups. can lead to one con­ Soviet Union to sacrifice and printed in full by the Daily ed the 21 Dem ocrats — because The reason for the new formu­ that is, unity of the worker with clusion — that the builders and build socialism only to see it Worker: “2. The Constitution of they want the Negro people to lation and the new state of af­ This sounds most gratifying in­ the boss who exploits him, uni­ PICNIC leaders of the Red Army were destroyed by some Hitler. What the United States gives them believe that things are chang­ fairs is not far to seek. The first deed. If the Negroes of this coun­ ty of the Negro with the Jim executed because Stalin was a wonderful Stalinist perspec­ these rights in theory, but they ing for the better and that grad­ imperialist war ended in the first try remain unimpressed, it will Crow ruling class that oppresses afraid of their actual or possible tive ! have been denied them by poli­ ually, through the benevolence stage of the proletarian revolution be due merely to the every day him ; and they denounce as “ Nazi opposition. I t would be naive fo r us to tical devices within the South­ of such people, equality w ill be in Russia. Welles and the other reality of their existence. Perhaps Sunday, June 9tli agents” those who expose the While it is impossible to say expect all intelligent and honest ern'States. These devices can­ achieved. representatives of the govern­ Welles meant his words as a re­ character of this "national uni­ with absolute certainty that, had Stalinists to he won over to not continue to1 stand and are But the treacherous decep­ ments of the United Nations (and buke to one of the English gen­ ty .” Clove Lake Park the executed Red Army leaders Trotskyism on the basis of any certain to he destroyed by the tions practiced by the Stalinists th is does not. exclude S talin) erals, General Alexander. That lived. Hitler would never have argument, no matter how sound courts of this country.” Naturally, the Stalinists do do not change the facts — the mean to sec to it that there shall military leader — they are usu­ gained the successes he lia.? or irrefutable. But it is neces­ But then the Daily Worker not dare to come out openly all Negro people will not achieve be no second stage of the change ally more blunt and less suave on Staten Island achieved within the Soviet Un­ sary, without ignoring any other completely eliminated the fol­ the way and tell the Negro to their full rights without a m ili­ from capitalism to socialism with made it clear in a talk to corres­ (Take Staten Island Ferry, the ion. the probability is very great arguments, to emphasize our lowing two paragraphs, ex­ stop fighting for his rights, for tant struggle against the capi­ the ending of the second World pondents in India that of course th a t such w ould be the case. At main theory which has been so plaining the motives of the 21 this would result in the destruc­ talist system that breeds Jim War. Any such attempt in Ger­ he would return to Burma and Bus No. 6 on Staten Island, any rate to ascribe the resist­ tragically confirmed by events. and the methods suggested by tion of whatever little influence Crowism, fascism, war and un­ many or France or anywhere else retake It with new forces. Was ance of the Red Army to the ex­ them. These important para­ the Stalinists still wield among employment. And in this strug­ It not part of the British Empire? to Clove Lake Park) will be fiercely resisted hv the ecution of the leading generals graphs read as follows: Negroes. They therefore con­ gle their allies w ill be the work­ The fact that the Burmese might armed forces of the victorious na­ is possible only on the part of “3. We believe that an un­ tinue to call for “equal rights” ing class which is also exploit­ not desire to be part of that era Games - B o a tin g - H ik in tions. Welles gives assurance scoundrels or nlt-wits. derstanding and sympathetic —always adding apologetically ed by the ruling class, not the that the United States will ar­ pire troubled the General not the Auspices: SWP Central Bran« It must be recognized, how­ Join the Socialist approach to this problem by the that equal rights are a neces­ fake liberals who have nothing range the world in conformity slightest. ever, that, on such a question ns white people of South Carolina sity for winning the war — but but contempt for the Negro with the interests of the present, W E L L E S ’ M E A N IN G — New York City the reasons for the resistance Workers Party will result in making our Negro at the same time they do every­ masses and hatred for the revo­ social system in this country. The A N D OURS citizens friendly and coopera­ Avtvw w w .vw vyj'vyvsi of the Red Army the Stalinist thing they can to discourage an lutionary methods of straggle. Atlantic Charter will not repeat Like Welles we too are for the MMMAUUWWUW W, leaders, with the help of other ation at face value, it means that the Stalinists are appealing to Biddle to persecute the Trotsky­ ists at the same moment that Biddle is doing the Effects Of The Speedup THE MILITANT bidding of the Trotskyists. Such is the mad world How The Liberals Published in the interests of the of Stalinist "explanations.” Working People. On The Workers’ Health Argue Against The VO L. V I— No. 23 Saturday. June 6. 1942 The Attack ed activities, longer hours of Published Weekly by Union Contracts Should Have Provisions work and associated war stresses Ruling On Bridges THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASS'N should be parallelled by a corre­ eft 116 University Place. New Yerk, N. Y. To Protect Workers Under War Conditions On Heydrich sponding increase of anti-tuber- By M. STEIN Teleehone: Alronu uln 4-8547 By GRACE CARLSON cuiosis activities if an unneces­ Editor: Of considerable significance is the successful at­ In a recent address before the American Industrial Hygiene sary toll of lives is not to be The Concept of Wicked Counselors GEORGE BREITMAN tack on Heydrich, No. 2 man of the Gestapo. If paid.” Association, Dr. Harold I labein warned businessmen against it was carried out by Czechs, it indicates not only The dynasty of the Romanovs ruled Russia for high-speed work and expressed concern over the effect which UNIONS MUST TAKE THE MILITANT follows the policy of permit­ the widespread hostility of the Czech people — over three centuries not by terror alone. The Rus­ the strain created by the war would have on the health of busi­ ACTION ting- its contributors to present their own views that was already clear, as is the universal'hostility sian masses had the illusion that the Czar, “the lit­ ness executives. Summing up the findings of in signed articles. These views therefore do not tle father,” could do no wrong, that their bitter lot of the masses in the occupied countries against the "The average executive,” Di . Habein said, "is likely to have these and many other medical in­ necessarily represent the policies of THE M ILI­ vestigators, United States Sur­ was to be blamed only on the wicked counselors of Nazis — but also the weakening of the Nazi ap­ bad working, recreational, eating ,i TANT which are expressed in its editorials. geon General Thomas Parran has the Czar. This illusion of the Russian masses was paratus of repression. Heydrich was, next to H il­ smoking and drinking habits. He these in turn, were due to the issued a sharp warning about the dramatized most vividly in the bloody events of Jan­ ler and Himmler, perhaps the most carefully guard­ is frequently nervously and phys­ Subscriptions: *2.00 per year; *1.00 Tor six months, terrific speed-up of modern in­ seriousness of the worker s’ uary 9, 1905 when they marched in great numbers ed Nazi official. To waylay him must have re­ ically fatigued and emotionally roraign; *«.00 per year. *1.60 for six months. Bundle dustry and to the terrifying health problems. The health of under the leadership of Father Capon to the Winter tense. His working hours are problems with which the war industrial workers, under the best asvlers; « oents per copy In the United States; 4 crofts quired an elaborate plan involving considerable Palace in St. Petersburg to petition the Czar against not governed by union rules but confronts the American people, conditions, is never as good as per eopy In all foreign countries. Single copies; 6 cent*. resources in manpower and equipment. Tor Czechs the abuses of his counselors. The rest of it is history. by an inward drive which we call ho added. that o f.the rest of the popula­ to have such resources indicates great holes in the ambition and intense competi­ Those of the marchers who survived the massacre "Reentered as second class matter February 13. 1*41 tion, he points out in an article at thi» iHwt offlc« at New York. N. Y-. under the Act ol Nazi armor. tion. . . Now, because of the na­ T B DEATH RATE RISING in the May issue of the Na­ at the hands of the Czar’s guard learned the bitter March 3. 1878.” The only other possibility is that oppositional tional emergency, speed must be War conditions — the speed­ tional Tuberculosis Association lesson that not only the Czar’s counselors, but the increased even more. That this up, as well as the lengthened elements within the German machine — most Bulletin. Death rates are Czar as well, were part of one and the same machine is going to have a deleterious ef­ hours of work — have reversed two and three times as high as of brutal, murderous oppression and exploitation. The JOIN US IN FIGHTING FOR: likely the army officers corps — put Heydrich fect on health in high places can the downward trend of the tu­ in non-industrial groups during whole event was a fitting prelude to the 1905 Revo­ out of the way. h a rd ly be doubted.” berculosis death rate. This dread the active working years of life. 1. M ilitary training of workers, financed lu tio n . In either case, Heydrich's assassination is a sig­ Now, it is undoubtedly true disease, w hich up u n til 1912 was Exposure to harmful dusts, me­ by the government, but under control nificant index of the weakening of Nazi rule in that businessmen die, as do the the leading cause of death in the tals, gases, vapoTs and other in­ We have no Romanov here. But there is a deliber­ of the trade unions. Special officers’ occupied Europe. members of other sections of the United States, has now dropped jurious substances, excessive ate and concerted attempt to foster the concept of training camps, financed by the gov­ population. It is probably true to seventh place in the list. But heat, humidity, \sudden changes Roosevelt as “ the little father” in the White House. that the strain of making prof­ for the first time since the end of temperature, defective light­ In Russia the concept of the little father was root­ ernment but controlled by the trade its and of keeping these profits of World War I, public health ing, intense noise have serious ed deep among the backward masses, and there the unions, to train workers to become away from the workers whom officials are noting a steady riso effects on the health of the work­ liberals joined hands with the socialists to break it they exploit may drive some of in the tuberculosis death rate, as er and shortens his life span. o ffic e rs . Mexico At War down. Here, however, in this classical country of them into early graves — the well as in the number of new The speed-up and the length­ Mexico’s rulers have taken it into the war. 2. Trade union wages for all workers victim s o f hig h blo-od pressure, cases of tuberculosis in the largo ened hours demanded in war pro­ machine politics, the liberal journalists have taken it drafted into the army. Mexico is a semi-colonial country and we are for hardening of the arteries, coron­ cities. duction create a further serious upon themselves to single out individual departmen­ its national independence from imperialist domin­ ary thrombosis and other dis­ Godias Drolct, statistician for hazard to industrial workers’ tal administrators as those responsible for the par­ 3. Full equality for Negroes in the armed ation. The Fourth International has correctly in­ eases of the heart and circula­ the New York Tuberculosis As­ health. Trade unionists would do ticularly raw acts of the Roosevelt administration. tory system. forces and the war industries— Down scribed in its program the support of all colonial sociation, reported recently that well to consider the recommenda­ Who was responsible, for example, for Washing­ with Jim Crowism everywhere. Not so worried about the the death rate from tuberculosis tions which Dr. Parran makes ton’s pro-Vichy policies? Secretary Hull and the and semi-colonial countries against imperialist ag­ health problems of the wealthy, had risen in 19 cities in 1940 — 4. Confiscation of all war profits. Expro­ and to incorporate them into con­ Vichy men in his administration, of course. The Na­ gression. For that reason we support China against however. Dr. Walter Alvarez, a chiefly industrial centers affect­ tracts. Shifts should not be ro­ tion, tlie New Republic, Samuel Grafton on the New priation of all war industries and their Japan, India against Britain. It should be clear, colleague of Dr. Habein’s at the ed by the rapidly expanding war tated more often than once every York Post, and many others of their stripe wrote operation under workers’ control. however, that this principle is not involved in Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minne­ production. The tuberculosis 2 or 3 months, he warns. A t least reams upon reams to prove this. Mexico's declaration of war against the Axis im ­ sota, believes that the possession death rate rose 5% in Philadel­ one day in seven should be re­ 5. For a rising scale of wages to meet the of wealth is the best way to guar­ phia; 20% in Baltimore; 21% in served for rest and recreation; Now comes Biddle’s ruling on the deportation of perialists. rising cost of living. antee good health and a long life. Cincinnati; 13% in Newark; 27% organized rest periods during the Bridges. Ralph Ingefsoll, who is trying to make a Mexico’s declaration represents a capitulation to In fact, he told the Internation­ in Akron; 3099 in Omaha. work day should be introduced; profession of liberalism, burst forth with a two page 6. Workers Defense Guards against vig­ al Medical Assembly a few In New York City. Mr. Drolct paid vacations of at least one or the pressure of American imperialism. The main editorial in the May 29 PM. The title of the PM ilante and fascist attacks. enemy of Mexico is the gang of big capitalists months ago that if the average reports, a 29? increase in new two weeks a year should be given man with stomach ulcers were editorial is; “Once a Biddle, Always a Biddle — Or 7. An Independent Labor Party based on which has a death-grip on Mexico’s natural re­ cases o f tuberculosis in 1941 over to workers; high sfandards of left an income of $250 per month 1940. B altim ore , Chicago, De­ lighting and ventilation should be What is a Biddle?” The theme of the editorial is; the Trade Unions. sources and industrial economy, preventing the for the rest of his life, he would troit and Philadelphia also show­ maintained, he further recom­ “Biddle made his decision absolutely on his own — 8. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern­ independent national development of the country soon be cured and would never ed increases in the number of mends. without consultation with the Pi-csident. . m e n t. — and that gang has its headquarters in the have ulcers again. new cases in 1941 over 1940 — Despite the grave warnings of United States. It is in the service of that gang Worry and fear are the lead­ in varying amounts up to 239?. medical men as to the dangers to ing causes of stomach and intes­ The alarming trend continues How a Liberal Defends Bridges that the subservient bourgeoisie of Mexico has en­ the health of industrial workers tinal disorders, Dr. Alvarez said. with the latest report from New which are inherent in the speed­ Time was when the mark of a liberal was his moral tered the war. Mexico is fighting solely' as the Between 60 and 75 per cent of a York City that in the first 7 up system of the war industries, courage to fight on the principal ground of free speech Biddle And group of cases examined showred weeks o f 1942 there had been a agent of American imperialism against its rival profit-hungry monopolists do not against such deportation rulings as the one directed no physical causes of the disor­ 49? increase in new cases over guard their workers effectively. imperialisms, in no way is this a fight for the against Bridges. But you will look for it in vain ders. Practically all of these the corresponding period in 1941. Only the militant action of the The Stalinists independence of Mexico. in Ingersoli’s long editorial. His task above all else cases were brought on by fear, Warning employers that these trade unions can protect the 'Hie day that Biddle ordered the deportation frustration, worry, anger, ner­ are danger signals which must be health of industrial workers in was to absolve the President of responsibility for the Biddle decision. To have opposed the Bridges deporta­ of Bridges, the Stalinist Daily Worker approving­ vous and mental exhaustion, and heeded, Mr. Drolet said, “ Increas­ this emergency. tion order on the grounds of free speech would have ly published a story that the executive board of Arguments On also committed Ingcrsoll and PM to a defense of Local 475, UE-CIO, had asked Biddle to “ inves­ revolutionary socialists when they are persecuted for tigate the fifth-column activities of the Trotsky­ their views as they were, fox- example, in last year’s ists in vital Brooklyn war plants’’ and to “ take Soldiers' Pay Anti-Labor Propaganda Minneapolis “sedition” trial. Ingersoll does not con­ immediate steps to halt the sale and distribution "The Arm y-Navy pay bill to raise the pay to a ceive of this as the mission of liberals in war time. of T H E M IL IT A N T and ’Labor Action’.” minimum of $42 a month (the Senate proposal) Under normal, peace conditions, perhaps, but not now It is typical of Stalinist methods in the trade or $50 a month (the House proposal) is still be­ Makes Progress in Army — now, you see, i t ’s d iffe re n t. ing kicked around by the House-Senate confer­ unions that this foully reactionary proposal to *>- Ingersoll’s defense of Bridges is based exclusively ence committee. Months have passed since the on Bridges’ all-out war effort, on the fact that “he Biddle was made by the Stalinist-controlled exe­ I politicians in Washington know bill was first introduced — not to speak of the Soldier's Letter Shows Even Unionists has continued to- advise his men to waive all kinds cutive board of the union, without giving the better. For the last month, they of advantages — won from their employers over a 6,000 members of the union a chance to pass on preceding months of widespread demand for the Are Being Turned Against Labor Movement have been debating over how long period of years — so that they might get on the question. Perhaps the Stalinists feared that pay raise. The government spokesmen, holding large a pay increase to give to By DAVID WARNER the men in the army. with the job of loading ships for the battle of the the union membership would stand by the prin­ out for the lower figure, appear to be just as well pleased to drag the matter out interminably. Last .week wc discussed the anti-labor campaign of the The Congressmen know that the Southwest Pacific.” But suppose that Bridges had ciple of working class solidarity. What possible argument can they advance to bosses in the armed forces, the conscious attempts of the capital­ low pay of the rank and file sol­ advised his men to hold fast to their working con­ diers and sailors lias long been ditions, suppose that lie had advised them to demand T H E M IL I TANT is a working class paper. It justify not adopting the $50 a month figure? Cer­ ist class to utilize all their instruments to poison the minds of the soldiers and sailors against the labor movement and every­ a source of discontent. They wage increases to meet the rising cost of living? defends the democratic rights of 1 he Daily Worker, tainly they can’t pretend the soldiers and their th in g that. it. represents. ------hasten today to raise the wage Would Ingcrsoll then oppose the Biddle ruling? The Browder, Bridges and the Stalinists because they families don’t need the money! Well, as Samuel scales only because they are A letter printed in the N.Y. necessity for the labor move­ implication of the whole article is that he would not. are part of the labor movement, and the labor afraid of any open manifestation Johnson said, patriotism is the last refuge of the Times of May 2, by David II. ment to effectively answer these Says Ingefsoll: “Harry Bridges in this country — movement as a whole must stand together against of this discontent. Another and scoundrel; so too with the opponents of the high­ Campbell, a former active trade charges and combat the cam­ at this writing — is a valuable man.” (Ingersoll’s not. unimportant reason for their persecution by the capitalist class and its political unionist now in ttic army, fur­ paign of lies and slanders that er pay rate. Listen to Congressman May, spout­ sudden rush to get on the baud own emphasis.) agents. No matter how fundamental our disagree­ nishes us with significant evi­ have permitted them to gain ing away in the I louse on May 27: wagon is the knowledge of the dence of the extent to which this ground. ment with the Stalinists, or with any other sec­ "The soldiers are not asking for bonuses or attitude of the families and drive has already succeed in turn­ Although Campbell presents his The Complaint Dwindles tion of the labor movement, we defend them friends of the drafted men at the bounties at the hands of Congress, because they ing many workers now in the ar­ letter as a plea to the trade against the class enemy. That is the principle of uext election if they do not vote Ingcrsoll, who starts his editorial with a lot of are fighting for the defense of their country from my against the unions. unions and implies that he is for now for the pay raises. sound and fury directed ostensibly at Biddle, in re­ class solidarity. wholly patriotic motives and they must not be put Campbell’s letter repeats many the preservation and growth of ality reduces his differences with Biddle to the ques­ of tIre anti-labor charges of the the unions, his program would TASKS OF THE UNIONS This principle is systematically violated by the in the position of demanding a price for their tion o f the tim eliness o f the d e po rta tion OTder. A nd boss press and is in the nature only mean the complete destruc­ On this one issue alone, what Stalinists. Wherever they can in the unions, they loyalty to the country. I am sure that if they then, as if frightened by tlie boldness of even this of a rebuke to the unions. Camp­ tion of the trade union move­ an effective answer it would are sabotaging support to the 18 Local 544-00 were permitted to express their feelings on the stand, lie hastens to narrow the point down still fur­ bell prefaces his attack by giviug ment. His theory that “when a have been to the lies and sland­ th e r: and Socialist Workers Party members convicted in question, 95 per cent of them would resent this bis credentials: “ Before entering man docs what he is supposed ers of tile capitalist press if the the Minneapolis “sedition” trial — a conviction proposal (for the higher pay figure).” military service I was active in to, there is no need for griev­ unions had conducted a serious “Biddle,” says Ingersoll, “ must at least have sensed secured by Biddle under the same Smith Gag Act We'd like to see-Congressman M ay’s b lu ff call­ the labor movement and held the ances,” is outspoken enough for campaign for trade union wages this, for ho made pointed reference to the fact that of 1940 under which Biddle has now ordered ed. Yes, just put it up to the men what pay following offices in Local 260, the most reactionary employer. for the soldiers and sailors! Bridges might appeal and that it would take a year CIO: Shop Steward, member Con­ More than a n yth in g else, it for his case to go through the courts. So this useful Bridges deported. Every union voice raised against they should get for marching into the valley of tract Committee, member Senior­ HAVE THEY NO would have convinced the thou­ man, Bridges, is to spend the very year when he the Smith Act prosecution in Minneapolis would, death! If America’s Sixty Families can pile up ity Committee, member XVages GRIEVANCES? sands of new recruits in the can be most useful to us — in conference with his have made it that much harder for Biddle to go astronomical war profits and still be called pa­ and Hours Committee, member Docs Campbell mean that the armed forces that only the lawyers, under the strain of going- through court after* through with the Smith Act deportation of Bridges. triots, then, we are certain, the worker-soldiers and Wage Adjustment Committee, workers have no grievances? For w o rkin g class organizations c o u rt!” ' Instead, the Stalinists preferred to back Biddle sailors won’t “ resent” not only the §50 a month member Grievance Committee, after all, never let it be said of have their interests truly at Tiny indeed is Ingersoli’s complaint against Biddle. figure, but also the equivalent of union wages for chairman Election Committee, the bosses that they are not al­ heart. against the Trotskyists in Minneapolis, even at chairman Membership Committee, ways willing to tell the worker It is so tiny that it would not justify even a PM all men in the armed forces. It is not yet too late for the the cost of further blows against labor. Now they editor Local paper.” what he is “supposed” to do-. union movement to win the work­ editorial, were it not for Ingersoll’s great anxiety ask Biddle to halt the sale of T H E M IL IT A N T Incidentally, a fact unrefiorted in the press, but Campbell knows that his theory ers in the armed forces over to to absolve the little father in the White House of CAMPBELL’S ARGUMENTS .— a precedent which would endanger every work­ mentioned in the M ay 27 discussion in Congress, is fantastic — because he spent their side and away from the in­ responsibility for a deportation order which is so Brother Campbell refers to the years in the trade, union move­ ing class paper in the country. (To this day the is that the conferees have quietly written into fluence of the anti-democratic sweeping that it jeopardizes every m ilitant worker w ork of the trade "Unions today ment fighting precisely for those Daily Worker of England remains under the ban the bill “ an increase in allowances for officers for forces trying to indoctrinate the who happens to be an alien, and consequently is a as "squabbling about petty griev­ “ grievances” which he now denies servicemen with fascist ideas. The subsistence and quarters amounting to as much as blow against every other worker as well. Speaking of the Churchill government.) ances, less w o rk and more pay, exist! soldiers and sailors have plenty 'The coincidence that this latest Stalinist appeal §50 per month.” (Congressional Record, May 27, slowing up production.” He pre­ And similarly the theory that of other grievances besides the through this deportation order is not Biddle alone, for government action against the Trotskyists was p. 4771.) sents the army as a model for the the soldiers have no grievances wage issue. Later in this series but the President and the whole ruling class, and they trade unions where. “Not much is also false. The public hardly say in essence: “Bridges, your services in smashing made public the same day that Biddle struck at Endless haggling over a total of §50 per month wc shall discuss sonic of the more time is spent in foolishness . . . ever hears of them, it is true, but important of these grievances in the living- standards of the West Coast longshore­ Bridges should bring home to workers under Sta­ for a private, but complete agreement on giving fori through agitation for short­ that is because the army bureau­ detail. men, a service in which you are presently engaged, officers §50 per month extra — that is the pic­ cracy uses all of its powers to linist influence the starkly reactionary character er hours and higher pay. You wc appreciate. c hope to be able to. use you for ture of the government's attitude toward the rank see. we don’t think of working to suppress the knowledge of of the Stalinist police'. The Communist Party be­ at least another year while you appeal to the courts. trays the interests of the working class as a whole and file of the armed forces. hours. What I thought was hard their existence and is quick to use Trotsky's Last Work work while in private employ the court-martial against any sol­ But your militant past we can neither forget nor in its unprincipled attempts to advance Stalinist forgive. We must make an example of you so as to would bo child’s play now. ‘Griev­ dier who dares to express a griev­ MANIFESTO OF THE interests. ance. discourage militancy, so- as to crush any spirit of A Timely Political Document! ances' do nor exist. If there are FOURTH, INTERNATIONAL Appealing to Biddle for aid against the labor any, they are called courts mar­ The (rouble with the trade un­ resistance there may be among workers.” on the opponents of the Communist Party, the Stalin­ tial. Tlie Army is excellent proof ions is not that they fight for For our part, we are fighting Biddle’s deportation IN DEFENSE OF THE of the theory that when a man IMPERIALIST WAR ists are unable to explain why Biddle pursues anti­ adequate wage scales and decent order not because Biddle is responsible for it, and does w h at be is supposed to. there living conditions — which will and the certainly not because of Bridges’ treachery to the labor policies. The Worker of May 31 brilliantly SOVIET UNION is no need fo r grievances. " preserve the standards of the cause of the working class. We are fighting it be­ bits on the idea that in ordering Bridges’ deporta­ PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION B y LEON TROTSKY Such words are fitting indeed workers in uniform when the war cause we sec the ruling class behind it, and wc sec is over - - but. that they have 48 pages 5 cents per copy tion Biddle succumbed to the pressure of the T ro t­ (A Compilation 1927-1937) when they come from the pen of the working class at whom it is directed. skyists! 'I bis "explanation” is supposed to do two a Westbrook Pegier. an open neglected to fight for the present things: conceal the fact that the Trotskyists arc 10 CENTS and avowed enemy of the labor justified demands and grievances movement. "Rut the fact that oi the rank and file soldiers and PIONEER PUBLISHERS defending Bridges against Biddle, and also cover PIONEER PUBLISHERS they come from a former active sailors. Does Campbell really Against Governmental Moves 116 U n iv e rs ity Place up the fact that Biddle is simply carrying out 116 U N IV E R S IT Y P L A C E N E W YO R K trade unionist is convincing think that the men in the service Roosevelt’s orders. If we took the Stalinist explan­ proof that it is an immediate have no grievances? The seasoned To Freeze Wages!