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Murray Machine Washington Uses Pushes D rive to Oust Stalinists TRUMAN CLUBS WURKERS Reuther Raids UE, FE Italian Election to And Mine-Mill Unions The drive of the C IO leader­ ship to purge the Stalinists is going ahead full blast and now Incite War Fever dominates the political life of the organization from top to bottom. WITH TAFT-HARTLET LAW Washington is continuing its incitement of war hysteria since Truman’s sabre-rattling speech on March 1£ to the joint The slow - moving, do-nothing Murray machine in the CIO, which Mine Strike Spreads session of Congress. In t h e * - - - the^j; ifintain'and has not been able to find the energy Slave Act Injunctions past week, American imperial- p rar>ce would favor restoration of to organize a united campaign for ism’s drive toward a third world the territory of Trieste to Italy. wage increases, has revealed a sur­ war was going strong on every This appeal to the nationalistic prising vigor in lining up the CIO MenaceAtomic,Coal/ front. sentiments of the Italian people behind the Marshall Plan. The newest arena of the “cold was an obvious direct offer of a President Murray sent out a letter war” between Wall Street and the \ bride. A t the same time, unusu- last week to all CIO affiliates urging MeatPrintersUnions ,, . T. , , __ . , 1 ally reliable diplomatic sources” them to act with “utmost speed" to Kremlin is Italy, where a crucial I * . „ . . . broadcast the promise that some of pressure Congressmen to pass the The federal government has swung the strike)-, election is scheduled for Apiil 18, ( Italy’s former African colonies Marshall Plan by April 1. We must The State Department is inter-1 might likewise be returned, have, he exclaimed, “Action Now,” breaking club of the Taft-Hartley Act in a rapid vening in the Italian elections in | W ith equal cynicism and disrc- and told all CIO groups to make series of blows against AFL atomic workers, soft this the “No. 1 priority task.” Such lhe most brazen manner imaginable. I eard °f the wil1 of lhe Peoples in- coal miners, CIO pack-tHis first move was the establish:-' voived, U. S.-British imperialism decisiveness has not beeri seen It. is issuing dire threats against ha({ made a deaI with the Kremlin around CIO headquarters for years. in g h o u se workers and ment of an "impartial" three-map the Italian people if they exercise at the cnd of tlie war to divide AFL printers ! “fact-finding” committee composed Meanwhile, the letter sent out by T t ,, i of a federal judge, the former head' their democratic rights by voting: control of Trieste with Yugoslavia Murray's stooge, John Brophy, ad­ In the first use or the na- of ^ wage.freezlng Nafcional Wal.; and to hand the Italian colonies to for the Communist (Stalinist) Party vising all CIO state and city bodies tional emergency” clause of the Labor Board, and the publisher #; the victorious imperialists. Now as candidates. These threats are com­ that they must accept Murray’s Slave Labor Law, Truman on March a boss newspaper in Louisville; AS further means of influencing the bined with promises and outright policy on backing the Marshall Plan 19 demanded and secured a federal Italian elections, Trieste and the bribes. and rejecting a third party, is be­ court injunction to halt the sched­ African colonies are being used as coming the instrument of dislodg­ In two speeches on the West pawns and bajt uled strike of 800 members of the j Cost of Living Rises ing the Stalinists from all positions Coast, Secretary of State Marshall I AFL Atomic Trades and Labor j There has been no “weaken# Even conservative commentators of leadership in these bodies. The bluntly announced a new policy of of capita)ist newspapers have to ad- Council at the Oak Ridge National ing" of prices and the high cost;;; Murray machine, according to all open U. S. intervention in the in -, m it tha|. “already the United States Laboratory. This is a government- of living is continuing, the U. S.; indications, intends to proceed ruth­ ternal politics of all,countries seek- ¡las veered from its traditions of owned plant operated for private Department jot' Commerce re--'* lessly to isolate the Stalinists. ported on Mar. 22 in its latest * ing U. S. economic aid. the past” in its intervention in profit by the Carbide and Carbon , Chemical Corporation. monthly review of current busi- “I f the people of any nation," he Italy, as James Reston states in the | LIN E D UP These Pittsburgh members of the United Mine Workers join the walkout of saft coal miners to pro­ ness. threatened on March 19 in Berkeley, March 23 N. Y. Times. He describes Tlie last March 22 CIO News car­ test the coal operators’ failure to set up a pension plan. On March 12. U M W President John L. I.cvvis The White House has likewise set; This is the Commerce Depart-? “choose to vote into power a gov- , the “moral problems” involved and ries the box score on this battle, announced the mine owners had “dishonored" their contract; on March 15, miners struck. in motion “fact-finding” machinery ment’s first detailed analysis Of>; ernment in which the dominant asks. "How can a democracy, based according to which all state CIO Federated Pictures prelimiiiary to invoking a Taft- price trends since the drop I n . political force would be a party | on the right of all men to organize bodies have lined up behind the j Hartley injunction against the pen­ commodity market prices in Feb­ | Murray machine with the exception! sion strike of 400,000 United Mine whose hostility to this program has i political parties of any persuasion, ruary. ; of California and Iowa. Workers members and the “Big | been frequently enunciated,” then | declare that it will oppose the right Wholesale prices for farm ' this “could only be considered evi- : of the Communists to take power Four” meat trust walkout of 100,000 The struggle is proceeding with Penn. SWP Nears Goal products dipped 10% during the:. dence of the desire of that country i by legal means in another country?" i the same determination in all City members of the CIO Packinghouse1 Workers. February break, but these have, to disassociate itself from the pro- I STREET’S W IL L CIO bodies. In the Cleveland CIO since "recovered some ground.’’! gram (U. S. economic aid),’’ He 1 Council, as reported last week, the Meanwhile, in Indianapolis, a fed- : Retail food 'prices, whose ad», pointed specifically to Italy "in con- 1 F5110'1 moial problems do not , Murray machine decisively trounced In '48 Petition Campaign era! judge'was holding hearings on1 vance was temporarily halted by- nection with the electoral campaign j disturb u - s- imperialism. Its pro­ the Stalinists and took over the a National Labor Relations Board gram is the “containment of com­ SWP National Committee for Presi- | DETROIT, Mar. 22 — The the wholesale market drop, l^ave now in progress.” . ----- leadership. This Council ha's been PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 23 petition for a sweeping injunction munism" all over the world and the dent and Vice-PresidcJnt respectively. | resumed their climb since caiiy in Stalinist hands ever since its for­ —The campaign to put the Michigan branches of the So­ against the AFL International Typo­ OFFER A BRIBE preparation of war as the means to The biggest spurt in the cam­ March. .Non-farm prices ate mation in 1937. cialist Workers Party ended | graphical Union, whose members On March 20, immediately follow- impose Wall Street’s will every- Socialist Workers Party presi­ paign came last week-end, when I “above the 1947 year-end aver-, the first week of their presidential have been on strike four months ing this threat of economic retalia- where. FULL BLOWN SPLITS dential ticket on the ballot in members and friends of the Phila- j ag e" ' Pennsylvania has already passed petition campaign last Saturday, against the Big Business dailies in tion, Washington announced th a t! In Greece, U. S. imperialism is The vast majority of the CIO dciphia SWP Branch gathered over the three-quarter mark, state cam­ with a total of 3.250 signatures. This Chicago. soon as this board reports its “find*i! in the event the Italian people 1 already engaged in a shooting war Councils are similarly passing into 2,000 signatures. By a week ago paign manager Irene LeCompte an­ represents almost one-third of the mgs," the government can seek an to force the Greek monarchy on the the hands of the Murray machine, more than 1,000 had also been col­ FOLLOWED PRECEDENT nounced today. Of the 8.000' signa­ signatures needed by May 2, when injunction. ''¿'m jM Greek workers and peasants. Amer- although full blown splits appeal- lected in Pittsburgh, Allentown, Truman has followed his strike­ tures needed, over 6,500 have al­ the petition-collection period ends. -ican officers are directing the likely in Los Angeles, New York Reading and New Castle. Work will breaking precedent in the Novem­ REJECT ULTIMATUM ready been collected, with almost i continue in all these centers, and Over 2,000 of the signatures have royalist armed forces. On March City and possibly Detroit. In Los ber 1946 coal strike, when he ini- I The miners began their walkout two more weeks to go. will also begin in Eric. been collected in Wayne County. 24, it is reported, 17 U. S. warships Angeles, the Murray machine sup­ tiated the federal injunction ana on March 15, after Lewis declairejcl SWP petitions have the ballot Canvassers who t.ail felt the Quotas have also been over-fulfilled entered Greek waters. porters have already walked out of $2.500,000 robber fine against the the operators had dishonored the designation of Militant Workers Wallace campaign might interfere! in Jackson, St. Clair and Wash- Behind the anti-Russian propa­ the CIO Council after the majority UMW . Since that time the T a ft- contract by blocking all benefit pays Party in this state because the law with that of the SWP found they l tenaw Counties. Although police in ganda barrage, the bi-partisan coali- tried to straddle the Brophy letter j Hartley Act incorporated Truman's ments from the union health and prohibits the use of the word had nothing to fear in this respect. Port Huron tried to intimidate the : tion is pushing through the Marshall instructions. injunction procedure into law. welfare fund, now totalling 30 mil­ socialist in the designation of more Wherever they have gene, the re­ canvassers, they were unsuccessful Plan bill, now frankly revealed as The Detroit CIO Council tabled The atomic laboratory workers lion dollars. Lewis last week re­ than one party. The petitions are sponse has been warm. Workers in preventing them from completing ! part of the military preparations the Brophy letter, and in New York were forced to vote strike action fused to order the miners to return being collected for Farrell Dobbs are more ready to discuss politics their job. for war between the U. S.-dominated City, the letter was overwhelmingly | when Carbide and Carbon Chemical to work and rejected an ultimatuik and Grace Carlson, nominees of the than ever before. The most fre­ j rejected. In both cities preparations The most intensive work of the refused to continue a contract made from federal conciliator Cyrus S. ’'capitalist bloc and Russia. quently expressed comment is: “I t ’s i I are already underway for either week was carried on in the city of with the former operators of the Ching. Lewis called the conciliatioii All pretense that the ERP is just about time we had somebody on placing administrators over these Detroit—on busy street corners, in atomic laboratory, Monsanto Chem­ proceedings “grotesque.” Teachers Win the ballot to represent the workers.” j an “economic recovery” program j counoils or setting up rival bodies. public markets, at union and liberal ical Company. The union extended Strikers against the “Big Four” NO OTHER ROAD has been abandoned. As Chairman At the same time, the raiding i meetings, and door-to-door in hous- its original strike deadline on March meat packers are facing a similar ing projects. Charles A. Eaton of the House drive spearheaded by the auto union Strike Demand The canvassers have been cheered 5 and at the last minute proposed threat of Injunction when Truman’s : under Reuther against the Stalinist- by several encouraging incidents. An award of a week’s vacation at arbitration. The company arrogant­ Foreign Affairs Committee admitted “fact-finding” committee of thretj led unions—the electrical, farm One worker, who offered to sign camp has been offered by the De­ ly rejected arbitration and joined college professors reports on April 1, ROBERT A. TA FT ; on March 22, a third world war is equipment. Mine, Mill and Smelter In Minneapolis before being asked, said: “Sure I ’ll troit Branch to the individual get­ with Justice Department attorneys They are holding hearings to find Big Business choice for U. S. | "not very remote” and “all this aid sign. I ’m a socialist myself, because Workers—is being pushed. This By F. Carter ting the most signatures, and good- in demanding the injunction. out why meat packing workers who President. (See story on Page 2.) I is essentially military aid.” I week Hartford, Conn. Local 251 of all my life I ’ve been a worker and natured competition speeds up the The company Is seeking to cut get as little as 9114 cents an hour the Electrical Workers, seceded and MINNEAPOLIS, Mar. 22- I ’ve seen nothing but wars and work. the wages and sick leave of the want a 29-cent raise from the meat depressions. I can’t see any other i was promptly chartered by the auto Public schools h ere reopened A much more important incentive, workers, whose pay now ranges from barons who doubled their profits union. road for the workers but socialism.” of course, is the fact that the drive 88 cents to $1.78 an hour. Under i today after a month-long strike af­ in 1947 over 1946. ! Big Brass Pressures The raiding strategy to bust up Another refused to sign until he to put- the SWP on the ballot m the old contract, the workers were As Washington presses its war fecting 2.300 teachers and 65,000 the Stalinist-led unions and re­ was sure the petition was not for this key industrial state is bringing granted 90 days sick leave because preparations for conquest a rid .e x ­ apportion them among other CIO students, one of the largest and Wallace. When he learned the SWP the name of the party to thousands of the extreme hazard of work in ploitation of peoples abroad, -it affiliates was apparently meeting longest teachers’ strikes in history. was a real workers’ organization, he of workers. For further informa­ proximity to deadly atomic radia­ clubbing labor at home with jftjjji Congress for UMT signed enthusiastically and wished tion, call the SWP campaign head­ ; with the quiet acquiescence of tlie The strike was called by Locals 238 tions. domestic complement of the.J|$l|S top Murray machine. the party success in its attempt to quarters at 6108 Linwood Ave., and 59 of the American Federation Truman is getting set to slap man-Marshall Doctrine — the Taft- Behind Washington’s drum-fire barrage of war propaganda, get on the ballot. phone T Y 7-6267. another injunction on the miners. Hartley Act. FROM ALL SIDES of Teachers on Feb. 24. protesting military totalitarianism is advancing toward conquest of the The Stalinists thus find them­ a four week cut in the 1948 school American people. + selves under attack from all sides year and curtailments in equipment The ambitious and arrogant Big was reported “convinced” of the in the CIO, facing the danger of and maintenance budgets. This Brass have already established “absolute necessity” of lining up Partition Fiasco Shows Zionist Bankruptcy American youth for the next would have resulted in a 10% cut strong beach-heads in the top gov­ j tually portrayed Truman as a savior political leadership cf the Jewish are overcome with despair. T iieif slaughter through UMT. in pay for teachers, clerks, and By Irving Dale ernment apparatus. They are now ; of the Jewish people; and pictured other school employes. In addi­ masses. proclamation to establish a Jewish pushing spearheads deep into civil­ Meanwhile, Truman's cabinet nf The Crisis of W ith ice-cold ruthles^ness, : American imperialism as the agent tion to demands for tlie restoration One of the lowest forms of the state May 16 (they could not do it Wall Street bankers and military th e U. S. government is pro­ of the liberation. On Dec. 5, Eir.an- ian life. of the four weeks and maintenance human-species is the political leader even with the help of the UN, how brass hats, plus the Chiefs of Staff, World Production : uel Neuman, president of the Zion- They are hammering on two im ­ standards, the teachers also pre­ ceeding to bury its plan to par­ of an oppressed minority who grov­ will they do it against its opposi­ met in the White House to discuss j ist Organization of America, speak­ mediate key objectives: 1. military UN REPORT SHOWS sented new wage demands. tition Palestine and establish a els before tlie imperialist power, tion?) is no more than an act. Of increased armaments appropriations. ing to a mass meeting in Manhattan regimentation of the youth through Under terms of the settlement, Jewish state. On March 20, Senator who works with might and main .desperation, which shows the blind Testimony before the Senate hear­ CAPITALISM OFFERS Center in New York, said: “I f we universal military training and a all teachers will get an increase in Austin’ announced in the UN Se­ to induce faith and trust in im­ alley in which the Zionist movement ings revealed plans for increasing peacetime draft; 2. a huge increase NOTHING FOR MASSES pay of $40 per month for the bal­ curity Council that the U. S. had now have this decision of the United perialism, instead of leading an un­ has landed. the 1949 military budget by as much in the arms budget. ance of this year. Teachers receiv­ abandoned partition and was now Nations, it is due in very large compromising fight against it. Such as 10 billion dollars over what T ru ­ TIME TO EVALUATE —See Page 3— ing $2,500 or less, before the strike proposing a “temporary trustee­ measure to the sustained interest has been the role of the leaders of Secretary of National Defense man has already called for in his M ilitant Jewish workers and ypjajtrt l were given a $400 pay raise an- ship.“ Behind this switch are the and unflagging efforts of President all the Zionist parties without ex­ Forrestal, flanked by the Secretaries 40 billion dollar budget message. will recognize that this is • nually, effective at once. The min­ interests of American oil imperial­ Truman.” ception, ever since the foundation of the Army. Navy and Air Forces, . These new estimates are based on for reconsideration. This it- tjv§ being isolated and removed from imum salary was raised from S2.000 ism. When it became clear that the On Dec. 6, in his column in the of the Zionist movement. Such was put the UMT and conscription de­ Truman's own program for the moment to evaluate the Zionist all positions of leadership. j to $2,400 for beginning ^teachers Arab feudal rulers, on whose do­ Jewish Day, Dr. Margoshcs said: their role in the support of the im ­ mands of Truman and the militar­ UMT, draft and a vastly-expanded policy — its negative results, ■¡its! | with no experience. Maximum mains is to be found about 40% "There is hardly a Jewish citizen perialist-sponsored plan for carving ists before hearings of the Senate air force. The Reuther - Inspired raiding mistakes, its objective betrayals, apd rates were ¡increased from $4,200 to of the world oil supply, were un­ up Palestine. The net effect of their Armed Services Committee on campaign is especially dangerous to in the United States who does not its present hopeless confusion. Now The sway of the military caste $4,400 annually. compromisingly hostile to the par­ find himself deeply indebted to activity is to deliver the Jewish March 18. the Stalinists, because in most cases is the time to study the program of over the government and foreign The strike gained mass support, tition proposal, the State Depart­ Harry S. Truman and the political masses to tlie imperialist oppressors, Stalinist leadership is based ex­ the Fourth International and learn WAR PREPARATION policy is becoming an open secret. particularly among Parent-Teacher ment abruptly reversed its Pales­ and to divert them from an ef­ clusively upon machine control, with party whose standard bearer he has that only by joining with the ad-i There was no more bilge about The Wall Street Journal on March groups, who organized supporting tine policy. fective struggle. the membership actually hostile. been. . . ." On the same day, Dr. vanced revolutionary section of the the “physical and moral benefits” 18 declared in its lead story that meetings in working-class sections I t is difficult to believe that only The central need for revolution- Furthermore, the UAW has a better- Abba Hillel Silver, one of the In ­ . . . , . .. . world labor movement, and fighting of “universal training” for the of the city. four months have passed since the ternational leaders of the • Zionist ary Jewish workers and youth is . , . , . , . , , Fa “planning of the Administration's reputation among workers than the ..______,, . . . side by side in labor s struggle, loan In a joint statement issued after partition resolution came out of the to drive a wedge between the Jewish youth. Cold - bloodedly, Forrestal stop-Russia foreign policy is slip­ movement wrote a letter to Presi­ the Jews work to destroy a n ti| UE. And in the present raiding, it the settlement of the strike, the UN on Nov. 30. In these four months dent Truman in which he awarded masses and the reactionary and stated: “The case for UM T, despite ping from the hands of diplomats semitism and fight to build a peW lias the support of the government heads of the Teachers Federation the Jews have run the. gamut from the latter "the place of distinction utopian Zionist movement. The j socialist society where Jews dap numerous collateral benefits, rests into the hands of soldiers.” urged all to join in the fight for wild jubilation to despair and dis­ in Jewish history ” Jewish masses of Palestine are in- agents, and in many cases of the , . , . . . , take an equal place with all other on its military justification." It is better schools. They said: illusionment. Last winter, partition The program of Truman’s mili­ employers as well. erested m a program which will peop)es. And even in more lrn^ “We are grateful for the many was greeted in the Jewish, liberal WORTHLESS WORDS war preparation. tarist advisers, says the Wall Street lead to peace between Jewish a n d ; diate tenns the alliance with Thus far the Stalinists have made hundreds of expressions of public and Stalinist press with banner Today everyone knows what the \rfih \unrl/i»rc nnH D ivtc'inic om l In a secret session of the Senate Journal, includes “a promise of labor movement is the necessa^» no important moves to retaliate support which we have received for headlines literally proclaiming the high-sounding phrases and promis- I not to war. Tlie Jewish masses | precondition for the organization;# committee on March 22, Marshall U. S. arms to any country" to “fight against the Murray machine attack, our cause. Now this same mass sup­ millenium. Rabbis announced that es of President Truman are worth.! throughout the world need a pro­ a big-scale campaign to open p p for the second time within a week communism”; and “dispatch of a other than their actions in the Los port must be turned to finding a "it is possible for the first time to j How was it possible for adult politi- gram for their liberation — and permanent long-range solution for say that our six million dead have doors of the U. S. and other, cduri;» demanded endorsement of'the mili­ ‘token’ force of American troops to Angeles, Detroit and New York City i cal leaders, like the Zionists, to be this can only be achieved in struggle the school system’s needs. The time not died in vain." (Jewish Day, Dec. j so easily fooled? At the very least, against capitalist imperialism, not tries to all Jewish refugees — the tarization program. On the same some countries — such as Greece CIO Councils, and the withdrawal to start planning and working for 7, 1947. ; their recent conduct demonstrates ! in struggle for an imperialist policy. only realistic short-term program day, a m ajority of the Committee and China.” of the UE officers from the PAC. that solution is now,” The Zionist leaders and press ac- their unfittness for the role of At present, the Zionist leaders to save European Jewry. PAGE TWO THE MIEITANT MONDAY, MARCH 29,.1S>4S Major Fallacy in Wallace's Anti-War Campaign lace's position on war is its denial that war is on Hitler ten years ago. “Reasonable” argu­ There is no need here to enter into the By George Breitman men who are running our government fear It is not enough, therefore, to point an ac­ the power of the common men and Women the cusing linger at the greedy and evil men who an inseparable feature of capitalism. Being ments of this kind are shrugged off by the question ol Wallace’s sincerity—although It imperialists—like rain off a duck’s back—be­ should never be forgotten that he was against • One reason why Henry W allace will World ever . . . We have come tt> this World are ruhtiing the government today. Their a devoted defender of capitalism, he holds, on crisis because willful men with private inter­ individual avarice and lust for power arc cause it’s a dog-eat-dog system, where each World War II before it started and then be­ get a big vote next November is that he the contrary, that peace is possible tinder ests are dictating our foreign policy. Their important factors in the situation, but not dog is ready to Undergo some suffering himself came its busiest apologist once the guns began ¿Spelling the people a considerable num­ interest is profit, not people. They seek to the decisive ones. In the first place, they capitalism. Put in good men, reform or patch in order to remain or become the top dog, and to boom. W hat counts in these big questions ber of truths and half-truths, especially protect and • extend their foreign investments are not acting on their own; they are the up the system, show the ruling class how where all the dogs are indifferent to the wel­ is program. And Wallace’s program for pre­ venting war can have no different outcome about the responsibility of the Democrats and against the democratic actions of people representatives and administrators of their much it stands to lose by going to war, build fare of doghood as a whole. .Republicans for the growing war danger. But class, the capitalist class. Without- the con­ than Wilson’s or Roosevelt’s or that of the pre- abroad.” up some mechanism like the United Nations COMPETITION BREEDS WAR St the same time he is propagating one of the sent of their class they would never dare em­ World W ar I I isolationists. That is an example of the half-truths and—according to Wallace—you can have Moreover, Wallace’s contention that there ¿most insidious lies of all—the illusion that it bark on such a dangerous venture as war. spread by Wallace. I t is correct so far as it everlasting peace. is no competition' which cannot be settled by GET RID OF CAUSE Is possible for a party like his own to prevent goes. Properly understood and applied, it has peaceful- means flies in the face of all Capi­ Fundamentally, the reason Is that you imperialist war. SYSTEM DRIVES THEM Wallace tried in his radio address to show a placé' within the scientific explanation of can’t end war without ending its cause, capi­ how "reasonable” tnis position is: talist history. Tragic experience has shown While Wallace is at his weakest (and why the U. S. is being driven down the road Iii the second place, they are driven to us too often that under imperialism, competi­ talism. No m atter how fine his intCntitifts . desperate measures for resolving international "Shall we fight Russia because we are com­ ~mosttuncomfortable) when he tries to explain to war. But because it is only a part of the tion always leads to economic warfare, the may be, a man who clings to this decaying disputes not merely by some quirk in their peting fca* the raw materials of the world? „or justify the Stalinist policy in Europe, he broader explanation, it can and does lead to all precursor of m ilitary explosions. Was World system can’t help misleading his followers We shall dissipate more raw materials in such kinds of false conclusions when it is presented individual or collective minds or hearts, but War I just an accident, due to unreasonable­ •who want to fight against war. As long as ^ on his strongest ground politically when he by the very needs of the capitalist system it­ a war than they are worth to either the as the basic reason. ness? Was World War II a fluke that could his influence is able to dissuade the people ^attacks the bi-partisan war policy and manu- self. W ar represents a terrible risk for them, United States or Russia. There is no competi­ have been prevented by an amicable conference from replacing capitalism with a socialist Sys­ ONLY PART OF CAUSE but an even more terrible prospect is the tion or raw materials which cannot be settled . faptuYe of war hysteria. A good example was to settle competition in a friendly kind of tem, just "So long will the prospect 6f War be by peaceful means.” *his Tadio speech answering Trum an’s demand To understand this problem, it is necessary collapse of capitalism in Europe. Because of way? To imply that is to mock at the lessons with us the very nature of the system, American capi­ tprt March 17 for the resumption of the draft to begin by recognizing that war is an in­ In a rational world order there would of of history and thereby to prevent the kind of Many workers intend to vote for Wallace talism could not long survive in an anti-capi­ and the passage of U M T. evitable product of the capitalist system in Its course be no war over raw materials, whirh understanding of modern world conflicts that because he, like them, expresses opposition to talist world. would be accessible to all and collectively “America's mothers and sons . . . rightfully present monopoly stage. No big capitalist alone can lead to peace. the war now being prepared. But it Is neces­ •believe that a draft and compulsory military power can prosper within its own borders Within this framework, the Wallace state­ used for the common welfare. But a world History has also taught us to be on guard sary, precisely in the interests of preventing ^training are not the way to preserve freedom alone; it must expand or sillier paralyzing ment quoted above has full validity. But sep­ dominated by capitalism is not a rational against capitalist reformism and pacifism. that war, to warn them most insistently that world. I t ’s a world whose very fate is based bat Home or to guarantee democracy abroad economic icrisis; to survive, it must get new arated from it, it becomes a- snare, having Wallace is not the first of his kind. There no party dedicated to the maintenance of capi­ on such conflicts as the competition for raw p i -. . The program to militarize America, if markets abroad, new sources of raw materials, meaning only as a ’devil" theory on the cause was Wilson before him, who was going to re­ talism can prevent war. The exposure of materials. Carried out, will Impose a police state.”' new fields of investment, new spheres of in- of Imperialist war. Used as Wallace uses it, form capitalism and keep us out of war, and Wallace’s big lie. the destruction of all pacifiet it means wars are caused by "bad men.” And This competition is costly and in the long Roosevelt after that, who sang the same illusions about his patty being able to stop ’ .'"'-These’are the things a worried'people want llucncc. When it is blocked from securing or : to hear, the things they know to be true. Wal­ the obvkms corollary is: Get rid of the bad run undermines the system it seeks to main- sweet song. They, too, were “reasonable” men the war drive—these are important tasks ill consolidating these objectives by the economic la c e also gives them the following explanation men, put in good men, and then we won’t have tain—‘-but that fact never prevented imperialist but in the end their reputation as men of today’s struggle for a new socialist society, n6f why'this situation exists: •• or political' power of other nations; it résorts to worry about war any more. and commercial wars before, and it has no peace served only to facilitate their efforts to •where war will be a horrible memory rather “We have reached this state because the to militarv means. The main- thing to remember about Wal­ more effect on W all Street today than it had drag the country into war. than an ever-present threat.

Presidential Aspirants— I VK Head Joins Wallace Robert H. Taft—Scion of line Political Developments Of Sixty Richest Families In Los Angeles AFL By Richard Page to councils cannot done constitute ; Thereupon the locals were Invited an effective political organization.” : to set up their own political com- LOS ANGELES, Calif.—In | mittees to work with the UAFL. Bv Georjre La van estate in downtown Cincinnati. ! catch is that he pays only lip serv­ FIR S T STEP line with the decision of the Finally, a resolution was intro- r . White the size of the Taft family ice to such-measures, and they are The Jan.' 12 meeting of the UAFL This IS the first of a series fortune is a carefully guarded secret, ! duced at the March 3 meeting which never passed. A F L at its recent convention was the first step in the develop­ of sketches on the leading as- Lundberg makes an adjusted esti- j in effect aims at the complete re­ A "COLD FISH” in San Francisco to get into poli­ ment of the UAFL away from an or­ pirants for the U. S. Presi- mate based on 1924 tax figures of tics through the medium of Labor's organization of the UAFL: Elec­ Like every multi-millionaire, T a ft; ganization controlled completely by 54 m illion dollars. He does not ven­ Educational and Political League, tion instead of appointment of ex- U«ncy. is surrounded by a horde of flun- 1 the top officials of the Los Angeles ture an estimate of the family’s the LA Central Council has launch­ i ecutive board members, broadening • . * * * kies and yes-men.. A t present they: AFL, toward a more democratic or- maximum wealth. ed its own local political program of the executive board, a more demo­ f iAmong the leading Republi­ are trying to build him up as a j ; ganization. Even after the repeat- through the United American Fed­ cratic and representative basis for In the early Twenties, Cincinnati great statesman and the logical ed rebuffs from the capitalist poli- can candidates for president eration of Labor, known as the the organization. v, was one of the most corrupt cities j choice for the White House. T h e; , ticians, the AFL officials still tried w name of Robert Alphonso jn America. I t was run by a R e - 1 UAFL. Tire bankruptcy of the old lead- campaign is being pushed all the j to restrict the rights of the rank m f t looms large. T a ft Is the senior j publican machine under boss H y-' , ership was so complete that no one more strongly because of T a ft’s “un­ Actually the Los Angeles AFL I and file. Sehator f£om Ohio and_ Congres- | njcfca, wn0 didn’t even bother to j j dared oppose the motion openly. fortunate" personality. Raised as has had its own political setup for In the call sent but to the yari- Sional leader of the Republican ' live in Cincinnati but ran it by | an aristocrat-, he has difficulty in ous locals to set up political com- i The Executive Secretary, Bassett, Party. His ripe statesmanship was four or five years. But in the past, telephone from New York. Since j concealing his contempt for others, j mlttees to work with the UAFL, delivered a depressing report to the displayed in the co-authorship of the organization restricted itself to T a ft could afford long-distance' including his fellow-politicians who was a paragraph to the effect that meeting. “No co-operation,” “Many the Taft-Hartley Act. As a presi­ the endorsement of this or that phone calls and always made good are, in the main, unCouth hired 1 “final responsibility for seeing the locals are against u« before we get dential aspirant, he is on the pre- connections, he got Hynicka’s Re- hands of Big Business. This h as1 capitalist candidate. This policy ; membership of local unions is fit- started,” “Maybe if we can unite iari’ed list of both Wall Street and | publican machine to back him in given rise to the widely-circulated! naturally led no place and the local ; ted into program in election dis- on a non-partisan campaign we can the. Republican machine. The main i 1 9 2 0 for the state legislature, stories that T a ft is a "cold fish," j AFL leaders arc now frantically ; tricts rests up6n the UA FL execu- get some unity,” etc. etc. * thing standing between him and ■ p l a y EH BOTH SIDES that he is “rude," etc. | tive board. To place such respon- the' presidential nomination is the ! trying to find an answer to the COMPLETE RE-ORGANIZATION In 1926 a big reform movement Such is the man being pushed by : I : sibility in Ideal union committees doubt in the minds of the Republi­ problem. I ‘ b was started against the grafting the Republicans and the Big Money- 1 - invites confusion and disorganiza- In the speeches and discussions can strategists that the voting public Hynicka machine. This movement bags as one of the leading contend- ; Henry A. Wallace- (left) chats with President Albert J. Fitzgerald Their latest disappointment was | tion.” \ around the main resolution, one •Would swallow him. “kicked the rascals out” of office ers for the highest office in the j of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers after the latter Governor Warren. The UAFL en­ Up to the present time the UAFL 1 delegate after another related how Robert A. Taft became prominent and instituted a city manager form country — the Presidency .of th e’ became chairman of the iabor-for-Wallacc committee. dorsed the Governor in the last has consisted chiefly of the top of­ i in his or her local, the members in national politics only in 1939 of government. In the fight against United States. Federated Pictures election. Shortly after his election ficials of the Los Angeles AFL. En­ j were willing to co-operate, but they when he first entered the Senate. the Kynlcka gang Robert A . T a ft he backed the vieious anti-labor dorsements were made without even wanted to have a voice about what Hfe is the only member of America’s skuck by his political benefactor. But “hot cargo” law. This brought vig­ consulting the membership of the was to be decided. They explained fop millionaire 60 Families, in Con- a multi-millionaire family like the orous denunciation from the L A locals. Then the endorsements were why some locals were against What­ ¿rCss. Ferdinand Lundberg, in his 'pafjs pr]ays poth sides of the street, Council Secretary, Bassett, who printed in the union paper and ever the UAFL said. I t was because study of the 60 richest families that . -paf^'s younger brother and law part­ Militant Mass Picket Lines Close called Warren a black reactionary. ; there matters stood. I the decisions were handed down rftle the United States, places the ner played a leading role in the The fact has begun to penetrate \ The latest political developments I without even consulting thé locals. Tail family thirty-third. reform movement. tire heads of the AFL trade union j have hit the AFL officials like a They were tired of all that and >Taft knows his way around the When the smoke of battle had officials that they cannot by them­ j ton of bricks. Even they could wouldn’t co-operate until things ty^ite House. Hi? father, William Major Packing Plants in St. Paul cleared, the Tafts were still on top selves participate effectively in pol­ | see that a change was necessary. were changed so they could help Howard Taft, a hard-bitten pro- — in the reform movement, and in of Dakota county district court, now itics. Petty maneuvers have not ; First, they tried to get a dollar j decide. / • -ki « -(wporation judge. Was President By Barbara Bruce None of the office workers made: the Republican machine, where set for Wednesday, March 24. been able to block the march of re­ from each member for political ac- 1 The action of the last UAFL gen­ f/om 1909 to 19-12. Young T a ft grew any attempt to enter. Robert T aft took over complete con­ SOUTH ST. PAUL. Minn.. Officials of Superior Packing action. Bassett stated the matter • tivity. The response was poor. The eral assembly has great significance. tip amid wealth and power. After At the Armour plant, Dieter and clearly when lie declared, "Business trol, becoming chairman of the Re­ Company of St. Paul, an independ­ cry of apathy was heard from the • I t lays the basis for a genuine rank finishing private school he went to March 23 — Mass picket lines his companions again attempted to agents, union officials and delegates publican County Committee. Since ent. plant, have been meeting with ! leaders. and file political organization. Yale and then to the Harvard Law at Swift and Armour plants break through the picket line. There that day T a ft has continued to run union representatives in the federal . School. On one of the family's stood firm here today when police ' the sheriff asked John Ross, execu­ the Republican machine In southern conciliator’s office in Minneapolis • European tours, he and his mother, attempted to gain entrance for a j tive hoard member of Armour’s Ohio. in an effort to reach a separate although Protests lit. were received group of office workers into the \ Local 4 if he had heard of the court Since his membership In the U. S. agreement. ,by the Pope who gave the 12-year- sti'uck plants. Packinghouses have I order. * Senate, and his emergence as a na­ Testimony heard before a presi old T a ft a special blessing and ex­ been shut down tight since March ' “We haven’t been served yet,” WORKERS’ FORUM tional politieal figure, the labor dential fact-finding board in Chi­ pressed the hope that he would 16, with 6.500 workers on strike in Ross said.. movement has come to know him cago, where union families stated become a president ol the United the second largest meat packing as a consistent, trustworthy, hard­ “You’ve been served through the and Congress as follows: D O N T States. center in the country. Dakota Coun­ that even while they were working Two Stalinist Parties erally feels itself strongest aftd is working hatchet man for the Big Secretary of State,” Dieter replied. they had to use their small savings START WORLD WAR III. THIS least inclined to become scared-off THE “HARD WAY” ty Sheriff, Norman Dieter, inform­ Business interests. “You’re in contempt.” to cover living expenses, has1 been In Palestine IS FAIR WARNING. WE WON'T from waging war by a general strike. ed reporters fom St. Paul and M in ­ Although the restraining order '"ih 1913 Taft went to Cincinnati Every once in a while Taft in­ borne out by the number of appli­ Editor: PRODUCE AND WE WON'T The patriotic moods of great masses neapolis newspapers that he will was signed last Friday, the proper to establish a lew practice. But terrupts his labors on behalf of cations for emergency relief among Please publish an article about TRANSPORT FOR ANOTHER at the beginnings of a wbr, plus the “very likely” refer the matter to union leaders could not be found tjiere was no hanging out- a shingle himself and Ids fellow millionaires South St. Paul workers. To date 75 1 the two Communist Parties of Pal­ WAR AGAINST ANY NATION. WE war terror, render hopeless, as. a Governor Luther W. Youngdahl. for service. For the first time since ! anti, waiting lor clients for him. His to sponsor a liberal measure, as for cases have been presented to the estine. Wiry should there be a MEAN IT. Now wouldn't that just rule, the very carrying thfough of Prior to this morning’s demon­ ;imc3e_ and aunt, the chief custodians1 example, the Taft - Wagner - Ellen- its passage, a 1947 state law, per- j county relief office, while hundreds I Jewish and an Arab party? tie the hands of the capitalists?1’ such a general strike. ! '«-6 stration of solidarity by striking 6f the family fortune, put the young der Housing Bill. Of course the initting service through the secre­ more are in preparation. j Explain the program -of each; The others seemed much excited I f the masses, 'at' the beginning of • members of CIO Packinghouse in charge of their multi- tary of state’s office, was utilized. j whether they work together or not, over the idea, but they wondered a war, are ready by their whole million dollar affairs. j Workers. Dieter announced that he what the result would be. A very STOOD THEIR GROUND : etc. previous development to call a gen­ and South St. Paul police would at- •*in the First World War. Herbert TWIN CITIES READERS Schedule of A Reader interesting discussion ensued. eral strike against the war, then ' tempt to enforce an injunction re­ Pickets, massed at the entrance 1 Hoover appointed T a ft assistant hear George Clarke speaking on j Ed. Note: “I think the' idea’s fine,“ said one they are equally ready to move to straining pickets from preventing to the Armour plant, stood their j Clarke Tour Counsel of the Food Administration, The Communist Party of Pales­ worker, ”we are the only ones who overthrow the capitalist government "THE POLITICAL CRISIS ] office workers and administrative ground and the police were turned Pittsburgh Saturday .April 3 ¿¡¿ter he went to Europe with Hoov­ tine split in two when the Stalin- could stop war. W hat I ’ve never and replace it with a workers and IN THE UNITED STATES" personnel from going to their jobs. away. Copies of the daily strike Akron Tuesday . . April •fi er’s postwar relief organization. Re- | ists became enthusiastic supporters liked about anti-war movements is farmers government which would Friday. April 16—8 P. M. bulletin distributed to Swift and Cleveland Thursday April S ;turning to Cincinnati lie took his "HOLD THAT LINE!” of the imperialist war in 1940, with this—it’s always middle-class people, put an end to the war. I f they are Armour office workers today, urged Toledo Saturday . April 1C . j'Oungei; brother into the law firm ! “ 10 So. 4th St. H itler’s attack upon Russia. The preachers, students, editors, • etc. not yet ready to do this, then any Accompanied by Deputy Sheriff them to join the union. Chicago Sunday .. . April u tvhich—became T a ft and T a ft (now MINNEAPOLIS Jewish Stalinists thereupon began They may be nice guys to know all j attempt at calling a general strike Charles Cherry and two South St. “The packing bosses believe now' Milwaukee Tuesday . A pril 13 yaft, Stettinius and Hollister'. The to support Zionism. As the Arabs right, but they couldn’t stop a war | against the war would have the . . ® Paul policemen, Dieter inarched up the only way they can break our u firm specialized in corporation prac­ Twin Cities Friday .. . April if they wanted to. Let all the school character of an adventure; which to the picket line at the Swift plant 20 could not stomach this policy, the tice. Most of Taft's law experience strike is by turning the office work­ F lin t Tuesday . April would be ciushed and lead to the AKRON READERS early this morning while a number ! Party split along national lines. The teachers, for instance, go on strike has been in handling estates and ers into scabs,” the bulletin stated. D etroit Thursday . April 22 against war. Let them say, ‘If a annihilation of the most - militant hear George Clarke on of white collar employes hovered , 23 Jewish Communist Party does not trusts, primarily those of his enor­ Union attorneys will ask for a Youngstown Friday . April war starts, we won’t teach school and courageous working -class ele­ , behind him. 24 have any Arab members. The Arab mously wealthy family. "THE POLITICAL CRISIS continuance of the hearing on the Buffalo Saturday . April any more.’ What good does that ments. ■ - “We want to get through,” the Communist Party can take in, ac­ Among' the estates of his aunt and IN THE UNITED STATES” order, signed by Judge W. A. Schultz do? The war starts and'goes right Tliis whole question is discussed ' sheriff declared. cording to its constitution, only uncle were the Tknos-St*r, Cincin­ Tuesday. April 6—8:15 P. M. on without them. But with us in greater detail -in an article by , Swift pickets, 250 strong, stand- \ Arab members. Each backs a dif­ nati’s largest newspaper <— in which workers it’s different. If we won’t Leon Trotsky on the ILF. whith ap­ 4 So. Howard Street ing shoulder to shoulder, five deep, ferent program for Palestine. T aft personally owns a quarter m il­ produce or transport war stuff, then peared in the December, 1935, num­ answered with shouts of “Hold that For further information on this, lion dollars of stock — and at least A k r o n THE MILITANT ARMY there’s no war. WE CAN STOP IT ber of New International. line!” “Tighten up!” and “Don't we refer you to the article by T. four million dollars worth of real Cliff.' on the role of Stalinism ip THAT WAY IF WE WANT TO. let them through!” street 'to give them a couple more Harlem Branch Runs the Middle East in Fourth Inter­ WE ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO Milton Siegel, UPWA field rep­ subs for a relative and a neigh­ national, Feb., 1946. CAN. So I ’m all for it.” Alliance of Workers resentative, told Dieter. “No one’s H ...... Renewal Sub Campaign bor..'“And my doctor read the paper, As I write these lines. I seem to getting through. We’re struck.” too, and wants to get it. Be sure New York’s Harlem Branch con­ recall that Lenin was of the opinion AndI • Poor« • (, Farmers-*• —...... » < V- -, Mail this coupon with 50c for 6 months of When asked by Dieter whether he cluded a renewal campaign with to see him.” The General Strike that a gênerai strike against war Editor: f knew about a restraining order sign- * * * more than 70 subscriptions, nearly wasn’t workable or practical. And I have read with interest the ac­ ! ed Saturday forbidding blocking of And Imperialist War a ll. renewals, of which 20 were ob­ In the last few weeks 19 Cana­ so, in commenting upon this letter, count (in The Militant of March 8) | the Swift entrance, Siegel replied tained by Bob Williams. Bob won dian readers have renewed their Editor: I wish you would discuss Lenin’s of the five months farm strike in thc that he was aware of it. subscriptions by mail, 17 of them E MILITANT j A group of trade unionists were j position on this, and the reasons California. the branch prize, a book. The His- “You know you are in contempt also renewing for the Fourth In te r­ 9 A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER History of American Trotskyism, by discussing the rapidly approaching I for it. May I suggest that here is an ex- of court, don’t you?" asked Cherry. national. We are mighty proud of 9 11 C> University Place, New York 3, N. Y. James P. Cannon. World War III. ; I was never quite sure, myself, of j cedent opportunity to issue a leaf­ “I don’t know anything about our large Canadian group of readers Suddenly one of them said: “W hat : Lenin's reason for condemning an It was almost like a fam ily re­ let featuring your long promoted that,” Siegel said. “No one's getting and their continued interest in The is wrong with us. anyway? Why j anti-war strike movement, or per- M I enclose------(stamps, currency or money order). union. calling back on these old ; principle of a "Farmer-Labor Gov­ through.” Militant and its revolutionary pro­ should we sit down and let the | haps I misunderstood Lenin. |H Please enter my subscription as follows: friends, the Harlem workers report­ ernment." Here you have them, The sheriff and other police of­ gram. Many of them have read The maniacs in New York and Wash­ Anyway, I would appreciate your H C] Six months (2fi Issues) for 50 cent«. ed. They were generally greeted like j each on his respective side of the ficers then walked away, while pick­ M ilitant for years. ington set the world ablaze before opinion and your comments upon class line, convenient to your per- c S □ One year (52 issues) for $1. long-lost friends: "Where you been? 0 6 * ets cheered and burst Into a chorus our eyes and burn up what's left of a matter so vital to everyone In the We began to think you were o u t! ; suasion. W hat are you waiting for? of “Solidarity Forever.” New York distributed 500 Mili­ it, after their last brainstorm? Why world. A. C. Booth, hI N a m e ...... of business. We got the notice to "Going through there would be tants to the meeting of the Inter­ don't, we stop them? I mean, stop Bebe Patch, - , Bran.scornb, Calif. K 3 t l’ tfusf Trinl) renew, but never remembered to like trying to crack Europe with a national Typographical Union on them NOW. before they've done it.” Cambridge, Mass. Ed. Note: .. do anything about it. You’ll just platoon," Dieter told an officer. Sunday, just before the job print­ A chorus of voices asked, "How? Ed. Note: The Militant favors a “Workers h B- S treet ...... A p t...... have to keep coming back. We d o: "They've got us outnumbered 10 ing plants were closed down by a Hew?" Here is a brief description of the and Farmers Goverhment,” that is, like the paper, and missed it a lot. | to 1." lockout. The printers received The “Here's how," said the first speak­ Leninist position on this question: a government representing thè Don’t wait so long next time." s * C ity ...... Postal Zone...... According to the Minneapolis Star, Militant readily and read it with er, "and I think it the only way to Leninists have rejected the gen­ workers, dirt farmers, share-crop­ ^ ■ > 3 ;v-. “pickets had. about a 20 to 1 edge. After the sub-getters had left one much interest before the meeting stop any war. Every trade union eral strike as an effective weapon to pers, etc.—not the millionaire fann­ H ln fp ...... Dieter's total force numbered three J reader, having written up his re­ and presumably afterward, as none local, all over capitalist United stop war. A t the time Of the decla­ ers, who are large-scale exploiters of deputies and 10 city' policemen.” newal, he followed them down the were left at the nail. States, should write or wire Truman ration of war, the government gen- ■— ...... - . -_L- ■■ ------— — *— ■ labor. PAGÈ THftÈË MONDAY, Ma r c h 29, 1948 THE MILITANT

Bundle Order* (6 or more Subscriptions: $1 per year; copies): 3c each in U .S ., 4c 60c fo r 6 m onths. F o re ig n : $2 each in foreign countries. per year: $1 for 6 months. t h e MILITANT Signed articles by contribu­ “ Entered as second class Published Weekly in the Interests of the Working People tors do not necessarily repre­ UN Economic Report Shows m a tte r M ar. 7, 1944 a t the Post THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION sent The Militant’s policies. Office at New York, N. Y., 116 University PI.. N. Y. 8. N. Y. (Phone: AL 4-9330) These are expressed jn its edi­ under the act of Mar. 3, 1879.“ FARRELL DOBBS, Editor to rials. Vol. XII.—No. 13 Monday, M arch 29, 1948 Decay of World Capitalism "Socialism would have no value if if should not bring with By G. F. Eckstein it, not only the juridical inviolability but also the full safeguarding Packinghouse Strike Continues of all the interests of the human personality. Mankind would not The Department of Eco­ tolerate a totalitarian abomination of the Kremlin pattern. The nomic Affairs of the United Events on the 1 political regime of the USSR is not a new society, but the worst Nations has just completed its caricature of the old. With the might of the techniques and or­ survey of world economy for ganizational methods of the United States; with the high well­ the period. 1945-47. (The USSR is being which planned economy could assure there to all citizens, not included as it submitted no International Scene! figures to the UN.) So bleak a story the socialist regime in your country would signify from the begin­ By Paul G. Stevens ning the rise of independence, initiative and creative power of did the statistics tell that the very first paragraph of the report con­ the human personality." UNITED FRONT AGAINST FAKE "INDEPENDENCE" OF C EYtO ft cludes that "the year 1947 must be In a recent column we reported •>0,0(10 attended the meeting -Joiwtly •- LENIN TROTSKY — Leon Trotsky, Interview with St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Feb., 1940. regarded as one of frustrated how the Trotskyist deputies led the ca,,e<1 by the Trotskyists hopes." struggle in the Ceylon parliament Communist Party of O y lo n D- idfi* The world is now producing less against the fake "independence" a counter-demonstration to tM .lW * than it did a decade earlier while 1 bill, by means of which m ilitary dependence’ celebrations -of" H it population has increased by one- I control of the island is left in the bourgeoisie. The UN—Fulfilling Its Destiny tenth. The exact extent of how! hands of British imperialism. In "The magnificent response by tfie much less it is producing is made the ensuing vote, the Communist people of Ceylon to the The United Nations was once hailed as Nations wen); on. But in effect it is dead, clear when we exclude from world (Stalinist) Party representatives call,” the report concludes}.!/"^« the hope of world peace, but today that illu- This is an admission' that the liberals were production the United States, upon joined the Trotskyists in opposing crushing answer not only to.stira whose high production and dollars I sion has been largely dispelled. Even its wrong in their expectations about the U N the bill. bourgeois political leaders who tried the whole world now depends. formerly most naive and enthusiastic sup- while the Marxist predictions were fully This was followed up by a United 10 Pa'm off the fake indepefidefjiee U. S. G RO W TH Front of Action. as genuine, but also to the dissident porters now recognize that it is a docile confirmed. But it doesn’t signify that the i The United States, with its re­ LSSP (a split-off group “The largest political meeting in instrument for promoting the interests of liberals have really learned anything from sources undamaged by the war, ex­ Trotskyist Party) which contriüÿi- U. S. imperialism. the experience with the U N . perienced a phenomenal growth of Ceylon,” we are informed, “was led its mite lo this deception of tíífe both industrial and agricultural | held on Feb. 11 at Colombo, when masses." % Washington decides that Palestine should i n the first place, the U N is not dead. On production, which stands out against | be partitioned, so the U N votes for partition. the contrary, it is very much alive and fulL a background of European and j LEFT W ING CONFERENCE IN INDIA Washington changes its mind, so the U N filling its true destiny— the mobilization of world ruin. 1 New Spark, central organ of the of (he Front. Although most of the decides not to partition Palestine after all. the international Capitalist forces for thè Average production of the world, Indian Trotskyists, reports: ‘‘At a parties were in favor of including excluding the. U. S. is 20% below And everybody knows that on bothof these preservation of world capitalism. The trouble conference held on Jan. 21, in Patna, the aim of a Workers’ and Peaoahis’ pre-war. Industrial production in 25 representatives of 12 left parties Government in the program» ¿'¿his occasions the decisive factor was not the w jth the liberals was that they never‘Under­ the United States rose 70% above and also of other working class and could not be secured on account-Wf interests of the people of Palestine but Wash- stood the nature of the beast they werodeà'P 1939. peasant mass organizations decided the opposition of the Communist ington’s determination to safeguard W all ing with. Only am incurable romantic will be In specific commodities the real to build a United Left Front, and (Stalinist) Party. F in a lly ,.*1 tcom- devastation is .seen even mors pre­ issued a joint statement ol program, promise formula, “Government Street’s sphere of influence in the Middle surprised when an infant vulture grows1 up cisely. World steel production, ex­ subject to subsequent ratification by standing for the rights o f-th e 'eg* East and to afford the best possible maneu- be an adult vulture instead of a dove. cluding the U. S. is 61% of the pre­ the respective parties. ploited people,” wa3 • adopted.;' T]|e vering position for its cold war against The ]esson of m U N | Hke that o{ the war level. Steel production in the ' This program includes complete Stalinists’ formula was"Beuaoeratki United States is 147,% above pre-war. The Swift plant in Los Angeles is picketed by members of the C IO independence, severance from the People’s Government,” ' ’w ^ uss'a- League of Nations, is that you can’t achiebfe Packinghouse Workers as the union fights for wage increases. Below— World production-:<>f coal, exclud­ British Empire, confiscation of all In the stormily rising mass hiove* Similarly with all the other issues brought peace and harmony in a wor]d dominated by are »cattle in Chicago stockyards, hoping, no doubt, that the strike lasts ing the ‘U. S. is 81% of pre-war. British and foreign interests in- ment of India, the Stalinists ase before the U N the Balkans, Czechoslovakia, imperialist cut-throats, no matter how often forever. UPW President Ralph Helstcin declared the walkout 100% Production in tho-iU. S. is 135% eluding banks, insurances, planta- forced to participate in united f lt o t effective. Trieste, disarmament, relief, the atomic and how fervently they promiSe to work above pre-war. tions, factories, mines, etc.; repeal actions with the Trotskyists../'Ob- ^ Federated Pictures bomb, etc., W all Street calls the tune, and together peacefully and harmoniously. Before BLEAK OUTLOOK f of all repressive laws, release of all viously this is not clue to a chafige political prisoners, right of iree of heart on the part of the K tW i- the U N dances accordingly. The U N has peace and genuine international cooperation „.sWhat are the »prospects? 1 Steel, ground the fraud of the Marshall, tor prevent “a deflationary tend- •speech, press and association, etc. lin henchmen. I t is testimohypra been called the fig leaf for American im- , .» _.. coal .and timber, -are. key commodit ies Plan becomes patent (17 billion ency" from appearing? 4 “On the insistence of the B LPI the pressure of the ranks and tim. • i- — u . •„ i i ,, • are possible, it is necessary to destroy the for, economic , reconstruction. The dollars for four years) as a basis NOTHING FOR MASSES perialism, but it no longer conceals anything. . . . J J .. (Trotskyist) representative. Com- already deep roots struck fey. report states that planned increase for European reconstruction. Liberals like Max Lerner of. PM are wail- political and economic power of thè capp­ The report concerns itseif not rade A jit Rov, the right of one par- young party of the Fourth Jrifiijkv in steel, even if realized,, would not ing that the U N is dead: “ It will go on for talists. A new era will dawn only with the EFFECTS OF DEPRESSION j only with the U. S. and Europe but ty to criticize other parties was national among the workers )« « meet needs. It continues: "The great The United Nations report realizes | the whole world. It shows that safeguarded, save on joint platforms peasants of the sub-continent. WB' a while holding meetings, as the League of victory of socialism. possibilities cf expansion in the iron that if U. S. economy collapses, the Canada is the only other country industry are limited by shortage of world economy collapses with it. where industry and agriculture ex­ DUTCH DEMAND RELEASE OF TAN MALAKKA ’*;V |S good coking coal . . . iack of mine Tiie report is therefore nervous panded during the war. There was The Revolutionary Communist of the Diitch Trotskyists for trticld* equipment impedes expansion of also a slight increase in production Party, Dutch Section of the Fourth nesian independence, the statement coal production and of stepl; lack of about the “shaky foundations” of The Labor Statesmen and Truman American capitalism. A possible in the Middle East and Turkey, es­ International, has issued a state- condemns the anti-workingj .$¡¡8$ equipment impedes further expan­ depression, it warns, would have pecially in oil. But the masses have ment “protesting against the arbi- policy of Mohamed Wnt.t.n ■ sion in the generation of electric Truman’s chances ior election were slim But failure to win an election — that is the “devastating deflationary effects on not benefitted from this increase«} trary arrest and continued detention M in iste r of the Indonesian Republic, power; and lack of sawmills and enough after the launching of the Wallace truly unpardonable sin. the economies of other parts of the production. In Iran the cost of liv­ in prison of Comrade Tan Malakka, _. ,, , logging equipment hampers lumber candidacy and the outbreak of the Southern world.” I t is necessary, it continues, ing increased no less than 779% the accredited leader of the Indo- 11 calls upon workers Such is the reasoning that passes for production." nesian workers and peasants,” everywhere to demand Taft “to" reduce the tension in inter- over 1937, in Turkey 354%. Simi- rebellion. W ith Truman’s switch on Pales­ “labor statesmanship” in the top circles of The same picture prevails in agii- nátional economic relations in the I larly in Latin America. Recalling the unremitting struggle ka’s immediate release. tine partition, leading to defections of Demo­ the union bureaucracy. It is by no means oulture. World agricultural produc­ future.” Soil fertility must be re­ As for Asia and the Far East., tion, excluding the U. S.. is 10% VIET NAM DELEGATE FREED . crats and liberals in New York and the threat confined to these circles, but is rather pre­ stored. Deteriorated machinery “millions of people are living under below pre-war. Per capita food cor.- ] The Viet Nam News Letter, pub- France” which launched the mass- of the same on the West Coast, his chances valent in the animal world. For instance, it must be replaced. The individual threat of starvation because of sumption in many countries is fully 1 lished in New York, reports that protest movement that obtained worker, through exhaustion and floods, droughts, plagues and dif­ have dwindled to the vanishing point. Now is this type of reasoning that persuades rats 30% below pre-war and in Germany Tran Ngoc Danth, President of the Danth’s release. This moveTlteSlVia hunger, has lost his "technical skill.” ficulties of transportation." These at long last we have heard from one of the to leave a sinking ship. it is below starvation level. Viet Nam Delegation in Paris, has continuing with united front He, too, must be somehow restored troubles, says the United Nations, “labor statesmen,” Max Zaritsky of the A F L This comparison is not wholly fair — to Agricultural output in the U. S. is | been released by the French govern- tions to free V iet Nam (In&fei to productive health. This immense are heightened by “political dis- one-third above pre-war level. This I ment after being held in ‘ protective Chinese) .workers in various lattbr United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers. rats. They are at least impelled by an in­ task rests upon the U. S. and its »tm bances.” The same is true of 33% increase was accomplished with | custody” since Jan. 29. He was ar- camps in France. A notable united stinct regarding a doomed ship. The labor “shaky foundations.” | French North Africa, including The nomination of Tr,uman by the Demo­ an agricultural population which i rested in connection with the French front action was organized fo r crats would be a “misfortune,” said Zaritsky, leaders, on the other hand, continue to de­ declined from 9.5 million in 1939 to I Conscious of the terrible crisis of , Algeria and Morrocco. In these, govermnent plans to return fol.mcr recently in Toulouse w & fe the United Nations grain-producing, countries, the peo-1 purpose lecenuy in rouiouse, wnere because Truman has “completely lost” the lude themselves and the public with the 8.3 million in 1946. The higher pro- | their system, puppet-emperor Bao Dai to the economic spokesmen have stated j pie are suffering from such low j throne of Indo-China the CGT (trade union federation^ confidence of American workers and could notion that the Democratic Party itself is a ductivity is the result of doubling the case in guarded but unmistak- j agricultural production that they In a recent column, we carried t'*lc (Stalinists) and the P 6 l not be elected in November. Although Zar­ fundamentally sound ship, needing only a the consumption of fertilizer and increasing farm machinery, both able language. W hat is the solu- ' must jmport grain. a press statement by the “Central (Trotskyists) formally joined in--'»'; new pilot. Give them a different nominee — tion? “The kev factor in the situ- . itsky spoke only for himself, the N. Y. Times of which are lacking in Europe. Thus the picture emerges sharp Committee of Viet Nam Workers in campaign. an Eisenhower or Douglas or even a Bark­ ation appears to be the net level says: “It is an open secret that his opinion So deteriorated is Europe’s soil and and clear: the production mechan­ that Mr. Truman cannot command any im­ ley — and they’re ready to endanger the so lacking in fertilizer and agri­ of exports.” TROTSKYIST MOVEMENT IN NORTH INDO-CHiNA These experts had to say seme ism of capitalism is a wreck. Despite Militant readers are familiar with the Trotskyist movement- in Ton- portant section of the labor vote .is almost whole future of the labor movement by chain­ cultural machinery, that even exist­ tiling and this was the best they . the tremendous technological ad- the story of the Trotskyists’ strug- king, as well as other militants of ing it to the Democratic Party as they did in ing low levels could not have been universally shared by ranking officials of both reached without the billops poured j could do. This “solution” is just a ; vances made during the war, the gle in Cochin China, the southern the Fourth International NWjMstWfA' 1946, when the most reactionary Congress in the American Federation of Labor and the In through UNRRA, Lend-Lease, j lot of nonsense. Exports are a economic system is horribly dislo­ part of Indo-China. Now comes a less, he could not h a lt,the publfcA- American history was elected. small part of the American econo- direct report of Trotskyist activity lion of the paper, The Struggles Congress of Industrial Organization.” etc. cated and unbalanced. Capitalism Labor is in dire political danger this year, No less than 17.1 billion dollars | my. Last year, desnite the huge in Tonking, the northern section of prevent Trotskyist! .participation.-tin ■ Zaritsky specifically criticized only the cannot bring it back to a har­ and it doesn’t have the means of warding it has been contributed by the U. S. ! loans and handouts,' exports were the country. the movement, whioh wxffn has tts administration’s policy on Palestine. Aside no .more than 6-7% of the gross monious development, cannot feed, The Trotskyist movement in Ton- center in Siam. , ■ p->!.y off — an independent Labor Party based on for the period July 1, 1945 to the i from that, he is apparently ready to give end of 1947.: Against this back- national product. How can this fac- clothe or shelter the people. king is supported by a large number The Fourth International move- Truman a clean bill of health on everything the trade unions and attracting'the support' of workers and students. It has or- ment in Tonking has been- but his ability to win the election. W ar­ of all the other discontented forces in so­ ganized many big meetings in which btiilcl up a well functioning (HfcM&s ciety. The militant workers are aware of even speakers of the Viet Nam gov- zation which is even Stronger th&fl mongering, promotion of inflation, use of ernment participated. .For instance, that of Cochin China, the enormity of this danger must awaken the injunctions to break strikes, etc. — none of at Bach Mai, the meeting was a the activities of courageous.tvdrltiiSit rank and file to the need for overcoming the great success and the population of ;ind students. But the group • is these is considered by the labor leaders as a this region in its vast majority ap- - ,, . opposition of the labor bureaucrats and for „ __ ... ,r-„. i - \ .... : subjected to the same terror as-the' reason for breaking with the administration. launchirtg their own party. proved the Trotskyist political line. ' , : After this meeting, pro-Stalinist China group. A large ntajnp; President, Ho Chi Minh, secretly ber of Trotskyists perished' ATREASURY OFSCIENCE, ginning with the universe at large tensity of electrical discharge are gave orders to arrest the leader of the “resistence period.” ltd and ending with man. ’The sub­ determined by relations between the The Miners' Faith edited by Harlow Shapley, M è U » divisions of each part continue the chemicals which fill the cells and Samuel Rapport and Helen A walkout of the miners is always the oc­ barons. logical progression. Thus the third those which circulate Outside in the Activities of ‘M ilitant’ Readers and tjhfc ’ W right, Harper and Broth­ casion for the kept press to hurl bitter dia­ The issue over which the miners have part, The Physical World, is sub­ blood”). . tribes against “union bosses,” “labor mono­ ers, 1946, xii -j- 772 pages, divided into The Heavens, The The conspicuous deficiency of this now walked out— pensions, health and wel­ Barth. Matter, Energy, Physical anthology is its omission of M arx­ polies” and above all to rant against the rank $3.95. Socialist Workers P ari* fare fund— is especially close to every min­ Law; the. fourth part. The World of ism, the science of man as a social —______% jV. and file coal miners as unthinking sheep, who The puipose of this book is stated er's heart. Consider the damning facts: In in the. preface: “We envisaged the Life, is subdivided into Tire Riddle animal, which lays bare the laws AKRON—4 So. Howard St., 2nd fl. Mon. NEW YORK CITY (Hq.)— through Fri., 7 to 9 p. m. ; Branch meeting can be pulled out on strike by the mere 1947 1,165 miners were killed in mine acci­ audience as the person without spe­ of Life, Tiro Spectacle of Life, The behind the relations and antagon­ •ty PI. Phone OR. 5-8149. • V- ’•■■■¿■if ■ I Evolution of Life; the fifth and isms of men and behind the develop­ Sun. 8 p. m .; .Socialist Youth Club meet­ EAST SIDE-251 E. Houston St' SK whim of one man. dents. 63,000 were injured. This represented cialized knowledge; we accepted as ing Sun. 3 p. m. ft ' j final part. The World of Man. is ment of society, Including the direc­ It is true that Lewis exercises dictatorial a sizable increase in both categories over the our purpose to give some realization BOSTON— 30 S tu a rt St., Sat., 1-5 p. m., H A R L E M — 108 W . lTO of how the scientist works, of the subdivided into From Ape to Civili- tion taken by natural science. The Tics., 7:30-9:30 p. m. Phone MO. 2-18G6. Oven diacuaetofl. ' control over the miners union. But in strug­ previous year. T h u r., 8 p. tn. body of knowledge that has resulted ] zatior.. The Human Machine. The reason for this is explained bf M arx­ BUFFALO—TVfilitant Forum, 629 Main gles for higher wages, pensions, health funds, After the Centralia disaster, where 111 Conquest of Disease, M an’s Mind ism itself. Marxism has not boon St., 2nd fl. Phone MAdison 3960. Every RRONX —1034 Prospect lit'* and of the excitement of the scien­ afternoon except Sun. ft Plione LU. 9-0101. better working conditions in the mines, the lives were snuffed out, the U.S. Senate sub­ tists search.” and M an’s Future. accepted as science by the official guardians of learning because its CHICAGO—777 W. Adams (corner Hal- BROOKLYN—63G Fulton St. PbdwiG' miners are behind him to a man. It is a committee that investigated the ' explosion To do this the editors have cuilea One may, therefore, dip into the fited). Phone D E A rborn 4767. D a ily except ST. 3-7433. • , findings go counter to the interests Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p. m. Library, bookstore. damnable calumny of these union men to promised to see that the Federal Government extracts and selections from scien­ book to read in aiid around Ills C H E L S E A — 130 W . 23rd St. tists like Eddington. Huxley and special interest, whether it be psy­ of the ruling class of modern s'ociety. CLEVELAND — Ikulitant Forum, Sun., .state or insinuate that they don’t know what would enact safety legislation with.teeth in 8:30 p. m., Peck’s Hail, 1446 E. 82nd St. c«-.*-**»*• »■■ti.m Haldane who have been able to sum­ chology or astronomy, or read it thè capitalists. Just so did the re­ OAKLAND (Cnl.)-Write P. O. (off Wade Park Ave.). 1851, Oakland 4. / • f . they are striking for. it. As the U M W Journal ruefully states: marize lucidly for the benefit of the through from beginning to end. In actionary . Catholic Church of the seventeenth century refuse to accept DETROIT— 6108 Linwood Ave. Phone P H IL A D E L P H IA — 1803415 W .“ « » 4 $ L The malice and viciousness of this sug­ “Running true to form, the Congress did a layman the findings in their fields reading it through, the reader will T Y 7-6267. Mon. through Sat., 12-5 p. m. Avc., 2nd fl. Phone Stevenson 44^« Galileo’s proof that the "earth re­ gestion is equalled only by its ignorance. 1 0 0 % job of forgetting its pledges for mine and from the scientific interpreters find the answers which science is l F L IN T —215 . E. N in th St. D a ily 7-9 Open daily. Forum, Fri., 8 p. m. like Kaempfert, de Kruif and Dietz able to give to such questions as volves around the'sun. p. m. Open house, Sat. eve. Forum, Sun. PITTSBURGH — 1418 Fifth .Avfc, ¿¿4 Anyone even slightly acquainted with the safety legislation as soon as. the disaster sub­ eve. who have been able to mediate what are the chances of life exist­ Tlie absence of Marxism is not fl. Open meetings, l^t & 3rd history of coal unionism knows how many merged as a leading public topic.” only an important gap in the book; LOS ANGELES — M ilitant Publ. Assn.. p. m. M a rxist Study Class, T h u r.i between the specialists and the gen­ ing on other worlds, how far awav 316% W. Pico Blvd. Phone Richmond SAN DIEGO (Cal.)—FoP HfottaMteo The miners have learned better than arc the stars, how old is the earth, it results in a false picture of the 4644. D a ily , 12-5 p. m. struggles,'pitched battles, bloodshed, hunger, eral public. The result is a book w rite P. O. Box 857. . , other groups of workers that they are the for­ which is sometimes tough sledding how long has mankind been on future of science and of society. Wc SAN PED RO — M ilita n t, 1008 S. P acific and untold sacrifice went into building the S A N FR A N C IS C O — 1739 FlItm oY* but generally interesting and often earth, how long will the earth be get a vivid impression of the great Room 214. •• union and establishing the firm morale and gotten men ; that neither the owners, who \ 4th fl. Phone F I. 6*0410. D a ily excfcpt fascinating. i able to support life--and how sci­ vistas being opened up in each W A T T S — M ilita n t. 1720 E. 97th St. Sun., 12-4:80 p. m. ,. amazing discipline and spirit of solidarity scfueeze wealth out of their dangerous toil, The editors have arranged theii ence is able to arrive at its esti- scientific field, as knowledge ac­ LYNN, (Mass.)—44 Central Sq., Rm. 11 • W ATTfP nor the crooked press which shrieks and Sat. 1-5 p . m. Discussion. Tues., 7 :30 J AT/ L ® ly h nrd B!Id*., Ul Jfrm which is now the hallmark of the miners. material according to a nlan that ■ inhtes. cumulates, at a geometric ratio. _ ^ South & Washington. Phone M*l&; W$8i The miners didn’t gain unionism or dis­ howls whenever they fight for their rights has logical sequence. The first part, He will get a conception of the There is no mention of the fact that 1 Mon. through Sat., 12-5 p. m. B c fa c tl progress is being held back or di­ MILWAUKEE — Militant Bookshop, COS meeting, Fri., 8 p. m. Library* jio £ 2 H cipline or solidarity the easy way. They won nor the government which acts as the agent an introduction by Harlow Shapley, immensity of the universe (“our sun S. 5th St. Mon. through Fri.. 7:30-9:30! • describes the thrill of sharing in j is just one star in a system of thou­ verted to the purposes of destruc­ p. m. Phone BRoadway 9645. ^T. LOUIS—1023 N. GrAiwI Blvd« Iktii it in dangerous and constant class warfare and front-man for the coal bosses, care any­ MINNEAPOLIS—10 So. 4th St. Phone | 312- Forum* ^hurs., 7:30-10 p. scientific discovery through reading sands of millions of stars; and that tion ' by. an obsolete social system thing about them or their lives or problems Main 7781 Dally except Sun., 10 a. m.- Sy. PAl„ 540 Cedar St. Phon. ’'¿ d i their sinew and blood, to rely on. That is gets from making the universe and machine, “the [brain] waves reflect book was first published before the tant Labor Club, 165 Main St. (next to , ]079. Meeting Wed.. 8 p. m., Odd FeUcA. old history and tradition—rather than Lewis’ their only hope and guarantee for manhood its workings more coherent to us. j the electrical activity of the ten atom boinb exploded. Since then, Strand Theatre). s Hall, 6th & Fawcett. personality or ability— that accounts for his elation at penetrating into the billion cells which make up the many scientists have swung from NEW HAVEN — Labor Scbncl, 855 ; TOLEDO — 113 St Clair St. 2nd fL and decency. That is why they back their Grand Ave.. 3rd fl., Tues. 8-10:30 p. m. : open daily. ' unknown. cortical tissue of the brain. These the extreme of complacent optimism Lewis’ great economic power and ability to union in every class fight with such solidarity The following» parts present the cells may be likened to so many Jo that. Of fearful foreboding. NEWARK—428 Springfield Ave. Phone j YOUNGSTOWN — 115 B. fW etd' M¿ and such unanimity. B igelow 8-2574. Reading room, we<“k I Rro. 802. Phono 3-1355. W ed., f r i , iS if c bargain'and gain concessions from the coal findings of the various sciences, be­ batteries whose frequency and hi-. ‘. «-Paul Schapiro rrisrhta. $«r0 t>. m.' ...... " r.’9h,*x><'W **. * * ' . . Mu' <■ ; * < W ! “Defend Our Shores” t h e MILITANT By Art Preis

W e’ve been reading in the past few weeks the his way all around a tree and exclaimed. “Trapped!” PAGE FOUR NEW YORK, N. Y. MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1948 testimony of the military experts on how "weak" the We are “contained” on the Danube, the Persian a ir...a . armed forces are. True enough, the atomic Gulf, the Japanese Sea and beyond the Yangzte River. bomb Is in mass production. But this country is We stand guard at Tierra Del Fuego and glare eye to “threatened” and where is the “trained man­ eye with the “red hordes” across the Antarctic reaches. power” to “defend our shores?” And let us not forget "our border" in—Indonesia— ' Probably you are one of the many millions of now patrolled by U. S.-equipped-and-trained Nether­ JSmeriCans who think “our shores” or “our borders” lands troops fighting the good fight for “American Rank and File Caucus of NMU ¿y«-be located on any standard map. Defined on democracy” against the Javanese republican “ban­ north and south by treaties with Canada and dits.” Mexico; fenced in on the east and west by Acts of Of course, if you don’t look at “our borders” wll-h CÉjMTthe Atlantic and Pacific. the sternly patriotic eye of a Wall Street imperialist ,^,J}ut there you are in error, according to the m ili­ or militarist, you are apt to see the political map in Runs Full Anti-Stalinist Slate tary'experts. "Our borders" are very elastic. They a different perspective. You might be tempted to ------— — ------— ------— * R , , By r C. Thomas= o in thein thepages pages of the of the union union papc paper. sketch like a big rubber band and include about say, " It looks like we’ve got those Russians squeezed The caucus is concentrating its every habitable and uninhabitable portion of the in a vise.” The bitterly fought internal fire on the sell-out policies and bu­ globe. You can take Secretary of State Marshall’s You might even be led to the further conclusion, N. Y. Printers struggle for control of the CIO reaucratic methods of the Stalinist woird-for that. “It looks like Russia is surrounded and threatened on National Maritime Union w ill leadership which have weakened . “Our responsibilities" and "our leadership" and all sides by American imperialism. It looks like the Locked Out By reach its climax with the bi-annual and undermined the union. The ‘‘our interests,” he told a Berkeley. California, audi­ U. S. has its hooks in most of the world—and Russia election of officers beginning April Stalinist method of slandering and ence pn March 19, “are not confined to Europe.” Not is next." 1. With approximately 150 elec- crucifying opponents is exposed. even to Europe! "They exist in the Middle East, You’d be right, too. Job Shop Bosses : tive offices to be filled, balloting The Stalinists are attacked as a re­ ini.Indonesia, in China—and we cannot ignore Latin The next time you hear that radio propagandist , will be extended over a period of 90 actionary, demagogic and disruptive America, or our direct responsibilities in Japan and or read the testimony of that brass hat before a By Fred Newman days lo permit men at sea to vole force in the union. The elimina­ tion of this cancer is advocated as ¿orea.” Senate committee telling you we need U M T and the NEW YORK, Mar. 24 — upon their return to port. • .‘i'When you take this broad view of “our borders” draft and more billions for aims to "defend our This will be the most hotly con­ the necessary prerequisite tor the which we must “defend from aggression,” it becomes country”—remember he’s not talking about "from the Printers in 137 book and job tested election in the history of the healthy growth and development of qjegr why Russia is such a grave menace. We are rocky shores of Maine to the sunny strands of Cali- shops were locked, out this week organization. It will be the first the union. The caucus announced fornia.*’ He means the whole planet. it will dissolve upon completion of entirely surrounded by Russia, like the drunk who felt by the N. Y. Employing Printers time in ten years that Stalinist ; control of the NM U has been seri­ this task. League. This action followed a | The Negro Struggle------—------ously challenged. The opposition The Stalinist election, propaganda series of provocations on the part Rank & File Caucus, headed by is aimed especially at ¿he minority of the printing bosses. For four ! President Joseph Curran, is running groups in the union. Among the Negro members they circulate the The Cause of Race Prejudice and a half months they refused to a full slate of candidates under the i? . ; slogan: “Smash the Communist charge that the Curran group is discuss any terms for a new agree­ anti-Negro. Among the Spanish­ —— ------By Albert Parker ------ment unless Local 6 of the Interna- ; i Party Machine." From the beginning the opposi­ speaking section they pose as the Although it is now two months since the publica- comings, reactionary implications and scientific tional Typographical Union would tion has centered its attack on the sole defenders of that national mi­ Of Oliver C. Cox's book—Caste, Class and Race worthlessness. On the contrary, he shows, “the race first agree to a contract under the bureaucratic methods and record of nority. Among the aliens they hurl problem developed out of the need of the planter Taft-H artley Law. This would mean iDoubleday and Co., $7.50>—very little attention has the Stalinist leadership. .A number the charge that the Rank & File been given to this scholarly work class, the ruling class, to keep the freed Negro ex­ the surrender of present union con­ of democratic reforms were intro­ Caucus is anti-alien, etc. The re­ by the capitalist press. This an­ ploitable. To do this, the ruling class had to do what ditions. duced by the Curran group at the sult of this type of a campaign is a every ruling class must do; that is, develop mass sup­ Oil IVIarch 10, (he shops belonging noys us because in our opinion ' September convention of the NMU heightened tension between the ra­ it is the most important book port for its policy. Race prejudice was and is the to the League posted conditions of and adopted over the opposition of cial and national groups. published in this country since convenient vehicle.” employment, increasing the work the Stalinist delegates. Actually, the NMU, alone among the war and by far the best ever week from 36 and one-quarter hours Then there is the large school of writers relying These reforms were designed to the seafaring unions, lias a splendid to 40 hours. At a special meeting written by an American on the on the theory of the caste system as their guide to curb the power of the Stalinist- tradition of anti-discrimination. The on March 13, the membership voted j question of race prejudice, the studyi of race relations in the U. S. Actually, as deminated National Council and tactics of the Stalinists tend to un­ 4,001 to 49 to request that- the IT U is interesting to contrast this with the big build- Dr. Cox demonstrates on the basis of a detailed ex­ vest greater control in the member­ dermine tills tradition and raise Hie Executive Council recognize this ac­ tip a few years ago for a book that really isn’t in the amination of the caste system in India, this analogy ship. It was during the course of danger of violent outbreaks which tion as a lockout. same class—Myrdal’s An American Dilemma. Of has no basis whatever, either historically or so­ this convention fight that the Rank would victimize the minority groups Course, you don’t have to search far to learn the rea­ ciologically. It falsely assumes that each of the Then followed another week of j & File Caucus took organization and scandalize the entire labor son for the different receptions given these books. races isolates itself, thus denying the. aspirations of negotiations, fhis time with ITU form. Foliowing the convention the movement. I t is necessary to warn M yrdal’s represents an apology for the status quo, the Negroes lor equality of social opportunity, and President Randolph and Vice Pres- 1 caucus set up an apparatus, ap­ against this danger and fight any implying that race prejudice presents a problem that implying at best that segregation is the real solution. ident Brown, brought in to assist pealed to the members for funds, manifestation of prejudice engen­ Only time can solve. On the other hand. Cox’s book, Dr. Cox also deals effectively with the Myrdal Local 6 President Victory. began publication of regular bulle­ dered by this reckless policy. despite certain defects, leads to profoundly revolu­ book, which presents a variation of the caste theory. A mutually' satisfactory argee-! tins and preparations for the elec­ It is apparent that the Stalinists tionary conclusions, showing that Negro oppression ;s Myrdal’s approach is shown to be based on a mis­ are prepared to use any method to ment was worked out for contract Reprinted from the latest CIO Economic Outlook, this chart shows tion campaign. product of capitalism and can be ended by social- retain control of this important representation of the problem as a “moral Issue,” provisions which the union felt that corporations can increase wages and still have plenty of profits Composed of diverse elements, the void of all class analysis, and as a “mistaken" or section of the maritime labor move­ ipaC -' would protect its working condi­ left. Note that even with a 20% wage boost, profits would still be Rank & File Caucus was confronted •.w:’ Perhaps we can indicate the value of this book "wicked” idea shared by all the whites equally, and ment. But all indications are that tions. The jurisdiction of the union above the 1929 level. with the problem of working out a by. .referring to. trie section analyzing the theories of thus in effect exonerating the ruling class from its was defined, as was a journeyman; the members of the N M U are turn­ Federated Pictures policy that would hold the group 'the conservative, orthodox and non-revolutionary responsibility for instigating and promoting race pre­ union members would not be com­ together. All were agreed on the ing against them in increasing Schools of thought on race relations in the U. S. judice. pelled to handle “struck work”; IT U necessity of eliminating Stalinist in­ number. Unless the Rank & File Caucus leaders commit some grave Among those dealt with are; Finally, for the benefit of those who think the laws would be respected. fluence and control, and restoring The Theory that race prejudice is due to some "Socialist" Zeidler Wins blunders between now' and the end answer lies in “education,” we present this quotation LEAGUE’S PROPOSAL democratic methods as a prelimin­ fundamental color antipathy between the races. The from Dr. Cox; “We cannot defeat race prejudice by ary step in revitalizing the union. of the election the final tally of However, when the negotiators ballots will see the finish of Stalin­ theory that, it is due to “custom" or the “irrational proving that it is wrong. The reason for this is But it was recognized from the first started to discuss terms, the League ist control of the NMU. upthrust of primitive folk attitudes." The theory that that race prejudice is only a symptom of a materi­ Milwaukee Primaries that this essential task would be | proposed a 40-hour week and a 10- ular audience. He also spoke to 24 ’it. can be explained by “ethnocentrism,” that is, “the alistic social fact. If, for instance, we should discover .MILWAUKEE, Mar. 21— complicated by serious differences j cent per hour increase. Tins meant CIO and AFL union meetings, and View of things in which one’s own group, is the center by ’scientific’ method that Negroes and Chinese are James E. Boulton, SWP can­ over questions that could split the 1 an increase of three and three- to church, business, women's league Survey on Wallace Of everything, and all others are scaled and rated in ’superior’ to tall, long-skulled blonds . . . then, to the didate for mayor, finished 13th in caucus. | quarter hours in the work week at and Democratic clubs. reference to it." The theory of race prejudice as powers that be, so much the worse for Negroes and a field of 15 candidates that in­ Shows Large Vote no increase in pay, as the workers CONFUSE THE ISSUES According to the People’s World, ft : “belief” without regard for the “materialistic” Chinese. Our proof accomplishes nothing. The artic­ cluded the former Socialist mayor, The Stalinist candidate. Sigmund would normally receive tim e-and-a- In fact, the Stalinists have re-: Fortune magazine asked Elmo source of the rationalization.” Dan Hoan, and “social usefulness Eisencher, polled 750 votes, a decline ulate white man’s ideas aoout his racial superiority half for these excess hours. peatediy attempted to exploit such Roper to make an estimate of After presenting these and other theories objective­ socialist,” Frank Zeidler, in M il­ from the previous CP vote of 1,060. are rooted deeply in the social system, and it can be differences in an effort to split the ly, the author subjects them to historical and materi­ At the union meeting March 21. waukee’s March 16 primary election. the Wallace vote. Roper made corrected only by changing the system itself.” opposition. They have constantly alistic tests, exposing all their contradictions, short- these “proposals” of the bosses were The vote of the minor candidates the study and was supposed to attempted to divert- the attention of booed out of court by the member­ was: Boulton, 219; De Marks, 219; have turned in an estimate of the members by confusing the issue. ship. When it was announced that George Skramstad, 115. Zeidler led 11 million votes. Thus, for example, the Wallace the Executive Council had recog­ the field with a vote of 49,766. His Henry Luce, owner of Fortune question was injected into the union nized a lockout in those shops post­ closest rival, the liberal capitalist magazine, was supposed to have Medical Research vs Armaments as the “real" issue which divides the ing the new conditions of employ­ candidate and young banker, Henry hit the ceiling when he saw this sheep from the goats. Or the M ar­ ment, there was a veritable ovation. Reuss, polled 11,530 votes. Both and maintained that it couldn’t — ------By Grace Carlson ------The following day saw the N. Y. shall Plan! Or the Smith Case, etc., nominees were hailed by the capi­ be right. He demanded that printers picketing for the first time etc. Roper make another study. y. Through the “Walking Man" radio contest, m il­ the occurrence of coronary thrombosis where the blood talist daily the Milwaukee Journal, since 1919. To avoid falling into this trap the This was said to be done and people heard about the work of the American supply to a portion of the heart is suddenly cut off by as the two best choices of the voters. lions of caucus adopted the policy of re- I plugging one of the coronary arteries. The lockout is by no means solid. Dan Hoan ran a poor fourth with the second study showed the vote Heart Association, many of them, for the first time. training from committing the group Very likely, the majority of these Twenty years ago, the patient with coronary The League represents 247 shops, 22,000 votes. in excess of 11 million. to an official position on such ques- j radio listeners felt that the mil­ thrombosis looked forward to a life of invalidism if and about half of these did not post According to W alter Winchell, James Boulton was the first Tro t­ lions. Each tendency within the : lion dollars, which they had con­ he survived his attack. Today, most of these people the provocative conditions of em­ who broke the same story, the skyist candidate to be televised in caucus is free to express its own tributed in the contest, would en­ are continuing to carry on their daily activities and ployment, and are continuing the second study showed the vote to two broadcasts that reached an es­ opinion on such questions in mem- ! able the American Heart Associa­ many of them are living out their life expectancies. conditions of the old contract, pend­ be 15 million for Wallace. bership meetings, aboard ship and 1 tion to carry on its research on a One very valuable piece of research, which has en­ ing a settlement. timated 7,500 people, plus the reg- greatly expanded scale. Unfor­ abled doctors to give added years of life to the coro­ tunately, this is not the case. nary patient has been the use of anticoagulants. The fact is that an adequate re­ Drugs, like heparin and dicum.arol, have been used search program for heart disease to prevent the blood from clotting. They have been H O W THE COST-OF-LIVING BONUS WORKS utilized in cases of coronary thrombosis, in which would cost hundreds of millions wage increase in their present ne­ He says that only Sinclair and a “I f the UAW accepts the Sinclair Sinclair Oil workers. I t is esti­ blood clots migrate from one spot in the circulatory By Art Preis of dollars. gotiations. few of the smaller oil companies 1 Oil type of escalator clause, AS mated that, even in that case, the system to another. A t present, 17 institutions are Heart disease is the Number One Killer. In 1946, In 1938 The Militant pro­ agreed to the sliding scale of wages RECOMMENDED BY PALMER, average auto worker would have cooperating with the American Heart Association in For the most part, however, the AVer .one-half million people died from diseases of the principle. The big companies in­ ' (former Local 659 president) a fall received $500 more in wagesthan studying the value of this type of drug therapy in posed, a wa£e program for the top C IO leaders have opposed this or blood vessels. This is a larger number than sisted on fixed wage scales “.some­ in prices would leave the workers he actually received and today coronary disease. So far, one thousand patients have program. Their method of opposi­ died of the next five causes of death combined. Nine American labor movement in times nearly meeting” the wages with no gain in their living stand- would be enjoying $50 more a benefited by this treatment. tion has usually been evasion of the million people in the United States now suffer from anticipation of the coming war paid the Sinclair workers. At the ) ards.” month. The amount oi money available for research in issue, rather than direct attack. But the Sinclair contract, as diseases of the heart and blood vessels but there are But now, for the first time since time the Sinclair workers' contract But then, in the very next sen­ diseases of the heart and blood vessels averages only and the inevitable war-borne infla­ Walker admits, is not what the Only 700 doctors who specialize in this disease. Only 1938 we have the opportunity to was changed, they were getting "3 tence, Walker contradicts himself; five dollars per death from these causes. In infantile tion, called "The Sliding Scale of UAW progressives ask. They ask one .hundred medical research specialists are investi­ defend this program in debate with cents above what competitive com­ "Palmer and his friends are really paralysis, five hundred thousand dollars is used per Wages." for a wage program that will im ­ gating this disease and only two hundred hospital beds attempted reasoned arguments panies’ agreements called for.” asking for something different from death. At this rate, one hundred sixty million dollars The predicted inflation has fol­ prove the workers’ living standard are- available for their research work. against it. The Reutherites in the At that time—midsummer of 1947 what the Oil Workers got.” should be made available for research into America's lowed a nine-year course. Despite and keep it improved. T ha t’s why •jrtvThis despite the fact that significant advances in CIO Automobile Workers, who have —the leaders of the O W IU thought The original Sinclair Oil contract Number One public health problem. the recent slump in the wholesale they want their basic wages forti­ the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease have opposed the sliding scale bonus de­ that the economic situation ^didn’t tied all wages to prices. T h a t is But a capitalist government, which is driving at commodity market prices, the cost- fied by a cost-of-living bonus. come about from research. Take, for example, coro­ mand as proposed by five UAW lo­ forecast any further sharp in ­ one type of escalator clause. I t has break-neck speed toward the Third World War—the of-living is substantially what it nary thrombosis, which was a fatal disease twenty cal presidents in Flint, have set creases” in prices. They decided to a possible weakness if prices should PRESENT UAW DEMANDS Global War—the Atomic War—has no money for was in January, at the peak of the years ago. Today, the deaths from this disease have forth the reasons for their opposi­ consolidate their sliding scale in­ fall below those at the time the con-, As a matter of fact, the present saving human lives through medical research. Wal­ price spiral and prices are resuming been materially reduced in those patients who receive tion publicly and in detail. creases on the basis of a 25-cent an tract was signed. basic wage demands of the UAW ls an expensive undertaking! The total money spent their upward trend. prompt medical treatment. Coronary artery disease hour raise In basic wages. The are not designed to improve living for all medical research in this country in 1944 would Today, many far-seeing union OPPOSITION’S ARGUMENTS BASIC AND BONUS }ias. to do with an interference of the blood supply to actual contracts signed provided, in standards at all, but just to restore pay for only eight hours and twenty minutes of the militants have come to the conclu­ Their arguments are contained in But the program advanced by the heart. The most serious phase of this disorder is most cases, a 15-cent basic raise, them to the level of June 1946. the last war. sion that the principle of the sliding a lengthy article entitled “Escalator plus a 10-cent bonus to continue un­ Flint local presidents and the rub­ Walker himself says that 15 cents scale of wages, or, as it is often ber and packinghouse workers Clause,” signed by Coburn S. til the summer of 1948. of the demand is to restore the liv­ called, the cost-of-ltving bonus, Walker, financial secretary' of doesn’t tie basic wages to prices. Had the old contract continued, ing standards of two years ago and contains the only immediately effec­ Chevrolet Local 659, Flint, and pub­ I t calls for basic wage increases however, Phelps now admits, “the the other 10 cents is for further tive protection for real wages against lished in the Feb. 12 issue of The PLUS a cost-of-living bonus ad­ Notes from the News economic conditions would have price rises which “the Board ex­ S :vv. . rising prices. Searchlight, Local 659’s paper. justable for price rises. Walker’s benefited the membership to the pected.” This is just a program of m i m V.------■ ______- ______only answer to the real demand SET WAGE, SLIDING BONUS Walker's article is based largely extent of about 10 cents an hour.” chasing after high prices. on the example of the operations of formulated by the Flint local presi­ ¿¿'HUGE PROFITS OK—A coalition of Democrats This is nearly half a million dollars a year. It is dif­ This is a bonus to be paid in addi­ Phelps further reveals that “a Walker’s—or rather the Reuther­ a sliding "scale wage clause in the dents is that it is "illogical.” Why, Sind Republicans turned thumbs down on the proposal ficult to compute the wages on an hourly basis, as tion to the negotiated wage scale. few settlements have been made ites’—arguments break down at contract, of the Sinclair Oil Co. with he asks, should the basic wage be to . restore the excess profits tax. The tax amend- kings don’t work. The latter remains fixed during the containing these minimum base every stage. They say escalator * * # the CIO Oil Workers International fixed, while only the bonus is ad­ ment offered by Senator O’Maho­ life of the contract regardless of the rate adjustments (25-30 cents an clauses might result in pay cuts. Union. Walker rests his arguments justed to price movements? ney of Wyoming, would have levied WITCH HUNT IN CANADA—Acting jointly with ups or downs of prices. But the hour), ACCOMPANIED WITH A Then they say that the sliding scale on his interpretation of a letter sent Far from being “illogical,” it is a 50% tax on net profits which Washington, the Canadian government has sealed its bonus is paid over and above regu­ FURTHER COST OF LIVING cost-of-living bonus, which does not to the UAW by E. E. Phelps, O W IU exactly what the situation calls for. were 135 % above the normal pre­ border to labor and trade union leaders. The ”3,000 lar wages if the cost of living rises, BONUS THAT PAYS AS MUCH have this weakness, is an “illogical” Director of Research and Education. Even Phelps’ letter indicates that in war profits, and a 100% tax on miles of unguarded border” now bristle with “anti- and in amounts directly proportion­ AS 7 TO 12 CENTS (an hour)).” demand. Why this is any more some of the oil companies, W HERE profits running more than 150% subversive” squads. At the same time the Montreal al to the increase of prices. Thus, This letter also published in The illogical than the simultaneous de­ TWO THINGS CLEAR above the normal. provincial police raided the offices of the Stalinist the bonus is adjustable; the basic Searchlight, says the Sinclair work­ THE WORKERS WERE READY * * * mand for basic wage increases and French language weekly. Combat, and padlocked the wage is fixed. I f prices go up, the ers secured a cost-of-living sliding Two things stand out pretty clear­ AND ABLE TO ENFORCE THEIR pensions, they don’t explain. DEMANDS, they got not only a ,. DP’S IN U. S.—Southern tenant farmers, share­ premises, in a revival of the notorious Padlock Law'. bonus goes up proportionately. If scale contract which was in effect ly in Phelps' letter. First, the oil The two wage demands proposed * * * basic wage increase of 25 to 30 croppers and poor farmers are being rapidly dis­ prices go down, the bonus goes from „January to Sept. 15, 1947. workers raised their wages 28 cents by the UAW progressives deal with placed by machinery. Frank MeCallister. director of OPTIMISTS CLUB—The IWW paper, the Indus­ down. But the basic hourly wages After eight months, the escalator an hour during the period that ail cents an hour, but also “a further two different aspects of the wage the Georgia Workers' Education Service, estimates trial Worker, has for a long time carried a banner remain the same during the life clause -was dropped and a fixed other C IO unions, including the J cost of living bonus that pays as question: much as 7 to 12 cents.” During the that over one million have left farms and predicts headline on Its back page, reading “The Future Be­ of the contract. wage increase alone was written in auto workers, got raises of only 10 1. The improvement of living same period the auto workers have that nearly five million will leave before the mechani­ longs to Labor.” Recently its editors inserted the The demand for the sliding scale the contract. to 15 cents an hour. Second, for | standards through basic wage in­ received only an 11»¿-cent basic sation process Is finished. clause. “If There Is One” after “The Future.” cost-of-living bonus was first put What were the effects of the es­ some of the oil workers, their full creases; 2. The protection of basic i £ ~ ‘ * » * » * * raise. forward by the CIO Packinghouse calator clause and would the Sin­ cost-of-living increase has been con­ wage increases from future price 3; .BRITAIN’S RED PURGE—The British Labor gov­ THE FIRE-EATER—James Burnham, the fire- Workers during negotiations in the clair workers have done better if verted into a permanent basic in­ Another argument of Walker is rises through a cost-of-living bonus ernment is planning a purge of all government em­ eating professor of Washington Square, told a meet­ Spring of 1947. The UPW leaders they had retained the clause? crease—plus cost-of-living bonuses that “escalator clauses freeze work­ clause. ployes supposed to be communists or communist sup­ ing of 1,000 alumni of New York University that the did hot press for the demand, how­ Phelps’ letter, though it attempts of 7 to 12 cents. ers living standards and prevent It is because they confuse these porters. United States must get busy and adopt a policy of ever. and settled for a small fixed | to justify the discontinuation of the Walker takes the fact that the them from improving the conditions two different aspects of the wage * * • resistance to Soviet expansion. "The world is now on wage increase. The CIO Rubber clause, shows that if it had been Sinclair workers discontinued their of their families.” .This would not question that the Reiitherites raise ’¿¿GOING WAGE RATES FOR KINGS— The go­ fire,” Burnham cried. ‘T h e flames of Communism Workers have now called for a slid­ retained, the Sinclair workers would particular escalator clause as a dem­ have happened if the UAW con­ such contradictory and foolish argu­ ing rates for royalty still run pretty high. The Greek /have already jumped the retaining walls of Eurasia, ing scale cost-of-living bonus in j have received higher wages than onstration that all such clauses are tracts even had an admittedly in ­ ments ■ against the., cost-of-living king, for instance, is paid $40,000 a month, tax free. and are smouldering on eveiV continent.” addition to a 30-'cent hourly basic j they now have. i no good. He says, lor instance, adequate escalator clause like the bonus wage programs.