Truman Flouts Workers of the World, Unite ! Bill of Rights T H E M f L I T A N T In Vatican Deal PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE By Tom Conlan The little man in the White House took another swipe Vol. X V - No. 44 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1951 PRICE: FIVE CENTS at the Bill of Rights and a further step toward reaction by his latest decree ordering full diplomatic relations with the Vatican and appointing four-®------star General Mark Clark as opinion from being fully exerted Ambassador. This is a frontal on the House and Senate. As assault on the basic democratic matters stand, it will be possible principle of the separation of to bring behind-the-scenes pres­ church and state. sure to bear on Representatives Congress Votes Everything It comes on the heels of two and Senators to whip them in line previous usurpations of constitu­ by the time Congress reconvenes tional powers: Truman’s personal in January. launching of the war in Korea and Congress has obviously been his recent imposition of the news caught off guard and so have been blackout on all government de­ the American people. But was the partments, a body blow to the Vatican ? Or the top brass in the freedom of the press. Pentagon? You may be sure both For Big Business, Goes Home In some respects this move to were fully consulted and their embrace the Vatican is the most approval obtained in advance. So sinister to date. Consider the far as the m ilitary here are con­ manner in which it was done. We cerned their complicity is amply “Equality of Sacrifice 99 do not at all mean by this the established by the very appoint­ Labor Pays Heavy Price for specious “criticism” in some anti­ ment of a four-star general, who, U.S. Backs administration papers who in addition, has the gall to an­ pretend to regard it as a trick to nounce that he will under no secure the large Catholic vote. circumstances resign his military Aggression Supporting Capitalist Parties post. PROTEST FORESEEN As for the Vatican, there was Big Business has every reason to applaud the 82nd If anything, Truman stands to never any question of getting its Against Egypt Congress, which adjourned its firs t session last week. I t lose many more votes than can approval. The biggest pressure gave the capitalists, brass hats, price-gougers and rent The British, M-ifh complete U.S. possibly gain. The storm of for “full diplomatic relations” has hogs practically everything they protest from the Protestant backing, have seized the entire come from the hierarchy, its wanted — the biggest arms pro­ clergy, from Congress and from agents and allies. Suez area in Egypt, its main ports civilian circles generally, could In this respect this move of and cities, transportation and gram in peacetime history and the Taxes Take Back not have come as a surprise to Truman and the Pentagon work­ power facilities. Martial law has biggest profits of all time. It gave Truman. ing hand in glove with the Holy been imposed and thousands more the workers one blow after an­ Quarter of Wages It was foreseen just as the British troops rushed in. See should open the eyes of those other, raised their cost of living, Federal, state and local taxes secrecy surrounding the entire who have been gulled by the The N. Y. Times, Oct. 24, ex­ increased their taxes and dragged “now take one - fourth of the Operation and its timing was pressing the new “strong” moods propaganda in this country that income of a man earning deliberate. The move was taken among the American imperialists, them closer to another world war. the question of the Vatican is ex­ $3,500” a year. This was the behind the back of Congress and assures the perpetrators of this When Congress met in January, clusively a religious one and that conclusion reached by Roswell at the last moment before it ad­ imperialist crime against the the hierarchy keeps creed scrupu­ all the polls showed that the over­ McGill, former Assistant Sec­ journed precisely in order to Egyptian people that they have lously apart from politics. whelming majority of the Ameri­ retary of the Treasury, after prevent the pressure of public "the moral support of the. greater VATICAN IN POLITICS part of the Western World,” and can people wanted the war a study of the current tax load in the United States. The new The Vatican is in politics, as it gloats' over the “holding opera­ stopped in Korea, and the troops tax law steeply increases the always has been, up to its ears tion by the British” who, the brought home. But Congress paid amount that is withdrawn from CIO Woodworkers and invariably on the side of the Times is sure, will stay in Egypt no attention to the anti-war senti­ workers’ pay envelopes. most reactionary forces. Totali­ “perhaps for a long time to ments of the people it is sup- Say No to Wilson tarianism and the Vatican are of come.” one and the same flesh and The following day the U.S. State posed to represent. be an exception, and doubled its spirit. Department announced it is rush­ Instead of stopping the war in price. No-Strike Request The Vatican needs Washington’s ing ahead with the organization Korea, Congress used it as a of the “Middle East Command” BREAD AND CIRCUSES Fire hundred delegates to the diplomatic recognition, that is pretext for rushing ahead with — without the Egyptians! This 15th annual convention of the CIO open political backing, especially preparations for extending the In Rome the ruling class used means that at one stage or an­ International Woodworkers of for its operations in Europe. In war on a global scale. Out of the to offer the masses bread' and other it is contemplated to send America unanimously rejected countries like France and Bel­ staggering $95 billion appropria­ circuses. Here the workers have :n American, French, Turkish and Economic Stabilizer Charles E. gium the' existing governments tion it made this year, Congress to labor for their bread (whose other troops to bolster the cur­ W'ilson’s request for a no-strike are hanging by a hair precisely gave 57 billion to the brass hats price also rose this year) while rent British “holding operation.” pledge by labor. > because of the Vatican’s un­ in this country (M'ho had at their the circuses come in the form of This, says Washington, will The International Woodworker, remitting pressure for closer disposal another 37 billion still Congressional investigations and assure a “peaceful settlement” of reporting on the union’s conven­ end closer consolidation of church unspent from previous appropria­ bearings. There were 130 of them the Egyptian crisis. started in this session of Con­ tion in Denver early this month, and state. With AVashmgton’s tions) and 7.3. billion to brass hats The gloating in capitalist said that Wilson, in asking for backing the Holy See hopes to Democratic Hoax Flops abroad. gress, but most of them served circles here over the “successes” only to promote the witch-hunt the pledge, had stated it was beat down the existing opposi­ It approved the sending of thus fa r scored in Egypt by this or to divert the people’s atten­ needed now “for the good of the tion. troops to Europe, a new draft “strong policy” is fully shared tion from the most significant country.” The American imperialists are law which provides for universal in London. The London Times, social, economic and political A fter the proposal was voted eager to embrace the Vatican to As Tax Law Is Passed m ilitary training and the building hailed on Oct. 17, the “changed problems facing them. down, IW A officials made the fol­ cement the projected alliance with of hundreds, of m ilitary installa­ tone” in the U.S. with regard to lowing statement: Franco and every other reac­ President Truman signed the This had no effect on Truman’s So he put on the pressure, tions here and overseas. The labor leaders are forced to Middle East policy. What espe­ recognize that conditions have “The IW A will not give a ‘no tionary element in Europe for the new tax laM’ on Oct. 20. This floor leaders in the House. They letting the Democrats M'ho had The new tax bill provides a cially delighted the British gone from bad to worse. But all strike’ pledge as long as profiteers projected world war. This open means that federal taxes are in­ asked for adoption of the bill and voted against the bill know that clear proof of the class bias of colonial despots was the manner gamble with the destinies of our alliance with the totalitarian creased 12% for M-orking people predicted it Mould pass by a Mide (hey Mould get no patronage if Congress. It raised the taxes ofi they have to propose is a “purge in which the Wall Street Journal servicemen and the general public Vatican is in keeping with the and 1% for millionaires, and that margin. they didn’t vote right. workers 12% while the growing list” of a few dozen Congressmen approved the naked imperialist with particularly brazen records, with the only thought being to whole character of Wall Street’s heavy boosts in sales (excise) The pressure was felt. When number of millionaires will have course in Egypt. “It does not THE TRUMAN SQUEEZE and their replacement by a few maintain and increase profits.” projected war. taxes on beer, cigarets, whisky, the bill was brought up again on to pay only 1% more. follow,” announced this . publica­ electrical appliances, automobiles But a number of Democratic Oct. 19, 23 liberal Democrats and dozen other politicians from the tion of tbe financial sharks, “that and many other standard items representatives from heavily pop­ 3 liberal Republicans changed FAIR DEAL DEAD stame capitalist parties. every simpering weakling must in workers’ budgets, will go into ulated working class districts, their vote, and a number of others The F air Deal program, which A HEAVY PRICE have the privilege of imposing effect on Nov. 1. who had been elected as union- made themselves absent. The bill was never anything more than a DOCK REVOLT SHAKES his moronic whims on the strong.” The bankruptcy of this policy Economically, the new law is endorsed' “friends of labor,” was passed 185-160. promise, was not even the subject The “simpering weaklings” are a blow at the living standards of decided to make a gesture to the What happened to tho claim of much talk in Washington this is shofim by the fact. that|every the Egyptian, Iranian and other workers, already depressed by labor movement. Believing that that the bill violates “the basic year. No effort was made to pass two years during the last decade “KING” RYAN’S THRONE Arab masses whose “moronic the bill would pass anyhow, they the labor leaders have had. to rising prices. Politically, it is a principles of equity and equality civil rights legislation or a health By Frank Faber whim” is to liberate them­ dead giveaway on the real nature voted against it so they could of sacrifice” ? insurance program. Nothing was characterize the current Congress NEW YORK, Oct. 25 — The insurgent East Coast selves from the abomination of cf the Democratic Party and the pose again as “friends of labor” done to curb the witch-huut. The as “the worst” in modern history. longshore strike is rocking the throne of “ King” Joe Ryan, the whole colonial system!’ Every cowardice of the labor leaders. in next year’s election. THE HOT POTATO Taft-Hartley Act remains in full And each Congress IS worse than word here drips with contempt To their consternation, the bill The CIO had nothing more to force, except for one second-rate the previous one because capital­ lifetime president of the AFL International Longshore- for the colonial masses, and this CIO PROTEST IGNORED ist politics is becoming more and ®------M-as defeated 203-157. say on the subject. It did not amendment. men’s Association. “new tone” of the American im­ When the House of Representa­ Truman of course had no in­ send any more letters to Congress Congress flatly refused to per­ more incompatible with the wel­ agreement. They demand that Beginning in New York ten perialists, will certainly not pass tives met oh Oct. 16 to consider tention of letting the matter rest until after the bill had been sign­ fare of the working people. negotiations bn reopened on the mit prices to be controlled, and days ago as a “spontaneous” unnoticed by the millions,not only the tax bill, its members had re­ there. First, he had demanded a ed. It did not want to “embarrass” went out of its way to cancel To sum up, experience with the basis of the original demands: for protest against Ryan’s sell - out in the Middle East but through­ ceived a letter from the CIO ask­ 16% billion dollar tax increase; the liberal Democrats whom It is promised meat rollbacks. Rent a 25 cents per hour wage raise, 82nd Congress has taught that contract with the employers, the out the whole former colonial ing that the bill be sent back to then he lowered the figure to 10 going to support next year even controls Mere put on a local- one shape-up a day with a guar­ labor is paying a heavy price for strike has daily gathered momen­ ■world. They are demanding, and conference for revision because it billions; and now he was deter­ though they voted against “equal­ option basis, M-ith the result that antee of eight hours work, no its leaders’ opposition to the tum and is embracing ever wider the American people should “fails to observe the basic prin­ mined to get at least the 5% bil­ ity of sacrifice.” rents were boosted in many parts reduction in the size of the 21- sections of the union. demand with them: ciples of equity and equality of lions provided in the tax bill just The liberal Democrats them* formation of an independent labor rnan gangs and more adequate of the country. Congress saw no HANDS OFF EGYPT! sacrifice.” rejected by the House. (Continued on page 2) reason to let the penny postcard party. STRIKE IS SPREADING vacation and welfare clauses. Manhattan and Brooklyn piers Accompanying the demand for were shut tight in defiance of reopening negotiations is a strong Ryan’s goons and strong-arm undercurrent welling up from the racketeers. ranks' for the ousting of Ryan. New Jersey and Staten Island Ryan is identified with gangster docks were pulled by roving control of the union. The The War Collier's DOES Want pickets and remained out despite prominent part plpyed in the By Harry Frankcl words, “alarmed . . . over the invade Yugoslavia. All that Thus is the story told by an — and tbe U.S. capitalists — “. . . the first great relief they the efforts of Ryan henchmen to attempt to smash the strike by Collier's magazine, in a special creeping pessimism of the free follows hangs upon this flimsy assortment of high-priced talent; really want, and want badly. For experienced was when the conflict prevent the walkout. such notorious thugs as Anthony issue headed “Russia’s Defeat and world as it faced the threat of pretext. Robert Sherwood, Hanson Bald­ example, the subtitle of the main actually began.” The port of Boston refused to Anastasia, brother of Albert, of Occupation 1952-1960,” lets the an unending series of Koreas.” To The U.S. and supporting im­ win, Allan Nevins, Arthur Koest- article speaks of the “inevitable These articles arc typical of work “hot” ships diverted from “Murder Incorporated” fame, has cat out of the bag. The fantastic allay these fears, they planned perialist nations immediately ler, Walter Winchell, Lowell outcome: a smashing victory for the sinister character of the whole New York. Albany followed suit. reinforced the conviction that so hopes and dreams of the Ameri­ and published an issue of their declare M-ar, and open “satura­ Thomas, Stuart Chase, W alter the West, and the promise of a magazine. They reveal the pur­ The strike is gaining support long as Ryan remains in office, can capitalist class are revealed magazine projected into the year tion A-bombing” of the USSR! Reuther, otc. better era.” The article itself says pose of the Collier’s project: to in Philadelphia and Baltimore the dock workers will be easy in a sensationalized, incredibly 1960. From this vantage point, They win this M-ar in a quick, that the first reaction of the picture a sure victory, a “better where sympathy is strong for the prey for the swarm of racketeers bloodthirsty number of the maga­ they relate the events of World easy campaign in M’hich 90% of WAR THEY WANT “American people was one of era” afterwards, and a “great strikers. who infest the union apparatus. zine, dated October.27, and billed W ar I I I which begins on May 10, the devastation is limited to the Every line of the contents of relief . . . at least the long period relief” for all peoples, when the The CIO National Maritime by Collier’s in full page news­ 1952 following a Kremlin attempt Soviet Union, and then proceed war does come. If all this is so, HIGHER LEVEL the Collier’s “1960” number is cf suspense was ended.” Another Union, meoting here in conven­ paper ads as the magazine number to assassinate Marshal Tito and to the restoration of capitalism. really about a w'ar that Collier’s article says of the Russians: why should Collier’s call it “The tion, has instructed its members The current struggle against that “can change the course 'of Unwanted War”? Better call it not to sail ships picketed by strik­ (he Ryan machine is on a much history.” “The War" We Want.” That is ing longshoremen. higher level than before. In pre­ “Preview of the W ar Wc Do what the U.S. capitalists really The Ryan contract which set vious revolts, which have regu­ Not W ant” they call it. This is a mean. off the revolt provides for a wage larly occurred whenever Ryan thin camouflage. Collier’s de­ Like crazed Pied Pipers, they negotiated a neM- contract, the Pentagon Pipe-Dream vs. Reality increase' of ten cents an hour, scribes the war it does want, play their grisly tune: “Follow us one shape-up per day with a outbreaks remained sporadic, dis­ happening as it would like to see to war. Victory is sure and easy. By Thoftias Raymond parlies the world has ever seen, What about the U.S. capitalist from one end of the globe to the guarantee of four hours work for organized, and atomized. But the it happen. The whole issue of the A better world lies beyond.” Collier’s, in its special (Oct. 27) show that, the working people of economy, already badly shaken by other will vanish with the coming those hired, and minor fringe “rebels” have learned by ex­ magazine is at one and the same issue pretends to give a realistic Europe -want socialism, and are "he crisis of world capitalism? of the war. The whole social benefits. perience. time a program — and a pipe- A-BOMB NIGHTMARE, forecast of World W ar III. Ac­ Mulling to organize and fight for W ar preparations are already trend, which is undermining, What especially infuriated the For the first time the strikers dream. It is a program for full- What about the A-bomb? As tually, the picture it gives is a it. Collier’s has no mention of cutting into the working people’s weakening and must end in men was a clause inserted in the are carrying picket signs and scale A-bomb vrar in the near ar, excuse for unlimited U.S. fantastic distortion of historical that fact — one of the most im­ standard of living. A full-scale destroying capitalism, will re­ Ryan contract empowering the conducting organized picketing. future. And it is a pipedream be­ atomic warfare, Collier’s first has development. portant social realities of our war would drive the people verse itself and begin to favor employers to hire less than the There have been a larger number cause it reveals, in all its fantasy, the Russians A-bomb six or seven Collier's inability to foretell the epoch. further down into poverty. Large- capitalism as soon, as war starts customary 21 - man longshore of mass meetings and the strike the mad dream of American im­ U.S. cities. Such bombings, as the future can be seen from what is The other great world - v ide scale resistance on the part of the and Wall Street begins to apply gangs for certain ship operations. leadership has come out more perialism; the dream that can experience of Hiroshima and '.eft out of the story. Everything upheaval, that of the colonial American Markers would surely unlimited force. That is the This surrender of working condi­ openly and numerously than be­ never come true. It is a dream of Nagasaki shows, would result in of importance, every great social follow. tions which Ryan traded for a fore. Flying squadrons are dis­ a new war, won quickly through masses of Africa and Asia, M’hich dream. at least 1% to 2 million deaths, force reshaping the present world, has groM-n so powerful during the piddling n age increase, meant in patched to weak points and are immense atomic destruction, and That is why they long for the aside from the maiming of mil* vanishes without a trace so far past ten years and which is SPECTRAL DREAM war to come. They hope to some instances, " a reduction of used to spread the strike to "pacifying the world” with the lions more. Collier’s leaves this as Collier's is concerned. spreading so rapidly, is also reverse the progressive course of tMO-thirds in the number of men adjacent areas. Contact is being peace of the grave. These omissions indicate just very vague, but goes on quickly Completely omitted from their omitted from the calculations of employed. made with other ports. While still how spectral the Collier’s pipe­ history with the A-bomb. to point out that y.S. A-bombing calculations are the vast anti­ the Collier’s editors and writers. The strike leaders contend that weak the strike organization has COLLIER’S PIPEDREAM dream is. In this dream, all the American capitalism, if and of Russia will be “roughly 100 capitalist movements of Western With the coming of the war, says the vote on the Ryan contract was thus far proved effective. Ryan Here is how the pipedream burning social problems of our when it does embark on such an to 1” in favor of the U.S. crooked and that a majority of has good cause to look to his is presented: Collier’s magazine Europe. These movements, com­ Collier’s, all of these problems of epoch that are arousing Die insane adventure, will find that Bombing on such a scale would prising the biggest working class imperialism will disappear. Die men oppose the terms of the jittery crown. editors became, in their own colonial and proletarian masses (Continued on Page 2) * (Continued on page 2) Page Tvro THE MILITANT Monday, October 29, 1951 Notebook of an Agitator Ford Local 600 Fights L A. [mployer Gets Weiss Offer to Debate Socialism THEY STRAIN AT A GNAT Gag Attempt by Reuther M INN EAPO LIS, Oct. 16—Sixty only America. The American “Politics makes strange bed-fellows,” and the withholding tax bite on your pay envelope. You By Everett Kennedy iwith general and unsupported I Thus far, no written charges have University of Minnesota students working class will have a say issue of “crime in politics,” Rudolph Halley’s one- could lose a lot of two-dollar bets to the bookies heard Myra Tanner Weiss brand about the future of the United point program in the race for President of New and still feel no pain if you had that tax money D ETRO IT _ Alarmed at the alIegations’ koth * ort* Local of- been received by the Ford Local fleers insisted on their eonstitu- ’leadership. ’ ’ ’ the U.S. Government as the ag­ States and the world.” York City Council* is a big enough blanket to back. growing opposition to his do- gressor in (he Korean war. The Following the meeting, the cover a wide assortment of sleepers. Staking out Take one more example of the big and still tional right to have any charges hothing leadership, Walter Reuth­ GROWING OPPOSITION meeting was sponsored by the audience contributed generously a place for itself on the same bunk with the slightly legal graft revealed by Joseph Alsop in against them presented in written er, president of the CIO United form, after which they were While it is not yet clear just Student Group for Political Anal­ to a collection to help make Socialist Call and the New Leader, the New York the New York Herald Tribune Oct. 10. Truman ysis, the eathpus organization be­ possible future meetings of the 'jt'imies says positively: “There is one overriding appointed his “poker crony, former Gov. Mon C. Auto Workers, has moved to prepared to submit their answer how far Reuther intends to go in in writing. his latest attempt to intimidate fore which Joseph Hansen, So­ SWP here. issue in the election of Nov. C.” That issue “is WallgTen of Washington” as chairman of the stifle all criticism of his policies his opponents, the auto workers cialist Workers Party spokesman, corruption, graft, bribery, political favoritism, Federal Power Commission, and Wallgren “turn­ and gag the opposition leaders. STELLATO ACCUSES debated Minnesota State Senator LOS ANGELES, .Oct. 17 — the Tamtnahy-Costello type of government.” ed the Power Commission over to the industries must be on guard if their demo­ Carl Stcllato, president of Ford From accused, Stellato became cratic rights are to be maintained. Joe Childs last year. Myra Tanner Weiss, chairman of fire A DA World, organ of Americans for Demo­ it is supposed to regulate.” Mrs. Weiss’s campus appear­ the Los Angeles Socialist W ork­ cratic Action, has an article on the same theme There was big dough in this deal. Alsop con­ Local 600 and chairman of the the accuser. He castigated the It is significant that Reuther’s ance was originally projected as ers Party and veteran of five by Gus Tyler, one of the bright young left- tinues: “As soon as Wallgren was named chair­ opposition Committee for a Board for its indulgence in poli­ move against Stellato came as a debate on the Korean War. electoral campaigns, has flung a wihg socialists of the 30’s, who made the remark­ man of the Federal Power Commission, he en­ Democratic UAW -CIO, and Pat tical sniping and a smear of the the Committee for a Democratic Students asked a number of challenge to debate Mr. Reese H- able discovery that socialism doesn’t pay but acted by simple administrative ruling Sen. Kerr’s Rice, vice-president of Local 600, Ford Local leadership at a time U AW is winning support for its outspoken pro-war professors to Taylor, President of the Union crime does, and something ought to be dohe bill to free natural g&s producers from Commis­ were recently ordered to appear when they are doing nothing to program among increasing num­ defend their views in debate with Oil Co. Mr. Taylor, in a speech about it. Crime, that is, not socialism. “Sin,” he sion regulation, which the President had just ve­ before the International Executive meet the emergency problems of bers of auto workers. the SWP lecturer. None, however, before the Los Angeles Chamber says, is “THE, dominant issue in the many muni­ toed.” The first beneficiary was the giant Phillips Board to answer charges that more than 100,000 unemployed REUTHER CONDEMNED eotild “find the time” to put their of Commerce, as reported in the cipal elections across our country this November.” Petroleum Company in which Senator Kerr had certain material published in auto workers in the Detroit area. The last meeting of the General ideas to the test of open discus­ Oct. 4 Los Angeles Times, attack­ Halldy, for his part, avows in the New Leader a vital interest. Says Alsop: Ford Facts was “detrimental to Reuther tried in vain to provoke Council of Ford Local 600 gave sion. ed the ideas of Marxism, and that “the fight against crime is my personal the interests of the International Stellato into a discussion of the Reuther a fitting answer to his Questions and comments from stated he was interested in war.” And Tyler comes right baok with a new “ Golden Results” Union.” p ost-U A W Convention issue of Ford Facts in which Stellato attempted crackdown on Stellato students, many of whom were defending his point of view before synonym for sin and crime and a false defini­ "The effect of the Wallgren ruling, of course, KANGAROO COURT broke with Reuther in a scathing and Rice. With only Seven dissent­ hearing a socialist analysis of the as wide an audience as possible. tion: “The BIG F IX is the selection and election was to permit the increased gas prices being de­ ing votes, more than 200 dele­ Korean war for the first time, Upon receiving a copy of the of public officials who know that they owe their manded by Phillips. In his minority opinion, Pow­ Stellato and Rice appeared be­ denunciation of the unprincipled gates adopted a resolution con­ indicated a considerable degree of newspaper article, Mrs. Weiss, elevated position in government to the under­ er-Commissioner Thomas Buchanan estimated fore Reuther’s kangaroo court ac­ politics played by the Reuther machine at the convention. Then demning the Reuther action and agreement with the SWP stand now on a national tour, wrote to world.” that these gas price increases would cost the companied by the entire Ford Reuther reluctantly agreed to pledging full support to the Ford point. Applause interrupted the Mr. Taylor urging him to debate I don’t believe a word of it. Even on their own customers of just one pipeline company, the Local 600 Executive Board. When present his charges in writing. I Local leadership. speaker when she hit the Truman the subject, “Was Marx Right or level — the level of crime, graft and corruption Michigan-Wisconsin, a total of $5,000,000 an­ they found themselves confronted Administration for posing as the Wrong?” before the people of Los — the campaign of Halley and his Liberal Party nually, or $125,000,000 for the life of the contract. defender of democracy abroad Angeles. Her tour will take her sponsors and his Republican, Democratic and For the people of Detroit alone, the bill was put while suppressing civil liberties back to Los Angeles on Nov. 7 in “Socialist” supporters is a fake and a diversion at $1,770,000 a year. Former Power Commission at home. preparation for a mass meeting from the real, big-scale political shakedown Chairman Leland Olds has also estimated that The Atomic War The foundation of a Marxist to be held on Nov. 16 at the head­ racket. They “strain at a gnat and swallow a the price increases raised the value of the nat­ How Reuther Fought the Speedup - Socialist Club on the campus was quarters of the Socialist Workers camel.” ural gas reserves of the Phillips Company alone proposed during the discussion. Party,, 1702 East Fourth St. by no less than $700,000,000. And, -of course, That Collier’s In response to Mr. Taylor’s The Real Big Steals •the Power Commission ruling in the Phillips case In 1960 -- In Nizhni Novgorod offer to “go out and to battle means similar golden results for all other gas- There is no doubt whatever, as numerous in­ American auto workers will be glad to learn that By Winifred Nelson with the communist hot - eyed producing companies like Phillips.” vestigations and exposures have already revealed, Walter Reuther is going to do something to stop “ inhuman DOES Want ST. PAUL. October 16 — Myra disciples,” wrote Mrs. Weiss: “I that the American governmental structure is Senator Kerr, who is hot on the list of crimi­ speedup-.” Not this year and not in Detroit or Flint, of (Continued from Page 1) Tanner Weiss spoke here tonight take this to mean that you would rotten with corruption from top to bottom. Bqt nals against whom rfalley is waging a “personal before a gathering of workers, be willing to ‘do battle’ with a war,” did pretty well for himself in the deal. course. His attack on speedup, 5- mean, although the Collier’s the operations of the local gamblers and gang­ the imaginary war, for attack­ students and housewives at the spokesman of Marxist theory sters are only a small part of it. The real big Alsop writes: he positively assures us, will take ing Stalin’s “vicious sweatshop editors and writers don’t bother American House on the subject, which is scientific socialism.” steals and swindles take place in Washington “Under the circumstances, it is hardly sur­ place — in 1360 — in Nizhni system that pitted worker against to stop and figure it out, casual­ “A Socialist Program for the “Even as you feel the im­ under the protecting umbrella of the Truman prising that Phillips should have shown friend­ Novgorod. worker and which inhumanly at­ ties amounting to the entire pop­ Ufiited States.” The meeting was portance of publicizing your con­ Administration. Nobody knows that better than ship to Sen. Kerr, proponent of the Kerr bill, Reuther asserts this in- the tempted to drive workers for sponsored by the St. Paul Branch ception of American economy as Rudolph Halley. Why doesn’t he tell the people worker for the Wallgren appointment, and large sensational issue of Collier’s ulation of Russia! But, not greater production under the of the Socialist Workers Party. a new economic system different the truth about the high-class grafters and in­ owner of gas and oil properties in his own right. which is devoted to fictional ac­ satisfied with this, they speak guise of patriotism.” The hall was filled to capacity from w hit Marx predicted for us,” fluence peddlers down there ? Why does he nibble And in fact, at the time when the Kerr bill was counts of the war Collier’s would If you didn’t know Reuther was savagely of saturation “conven­ with persons both old and young, she concluded, “so I feel the im­ at the fringes of the question and concentrate expected to become law, Phillips transferred 100 like to see Waged against the talking about Russia, you might tional” bombing, of atomic artil­ colored and white, who had come portance of making clear how all attention on the comparatively minor grafts sections of proven gas acreage to the Tascosa Soviet Union. The CIO United think it was an American auto lery, of bloody infantry warfare, to hear a socialist talk against American social reality is pre­ and rackets of the local criminals who have to Corporation, a specially organized subsidiary of Auto Workers president 'is the militant from Detroit describing war and for a future of peace and cisely the greatest confirmation operate in the shadows outside the law ? Sen. Kerr’s company, Kerr-McGee. Phillips also sole labor contributor to this pf disease, famine, death in every the growing speedup under plenty for all. A large sign at the cf Marxist theory.” Perhaps a speech of Halley’s, reported in the entered into a most unusual contract with Tas­ brain-storm of atomic conquest. garb. Thus they unconsciously Other articles tell how Russia Reuther’s five-year contracts. front of the hall set the theme New York Post, gives the explanation. Speaking cosa for exploitation of this acreage. reveal. their nightmare perspec­ for the meeting: “SOCIALIST WRITES EDITOR at the local convention of Americans for Demo­ “According to an official memorandum from is practically blown off the map tive: the complete physical de­ WHERE WAS REUTHER? WORKERS PARTY—END WAR Also informing Mr. Kyje the Phillips Company files, this transfer and con­ with “saturation A - bombings.” cratic Action — those dare-devil liberals who Reuther doesn’t have any struction of a quarter of the THROUGH SOCIALISM.” A lit­ Palmer, political editor of the, tract will result in a long-run profit to Tascosa, Reuther’s piece tells how he have the bookies scared to death — Halley said trouble telling us what the war globe through atomic annihilation. erature display at the back of the Los Angeles Times of her chal­ also chiefly owned by Sen. Kerr, of at least $1,- heads a team sent by the Interna­ that as a Democrat it was not a pleasant thing will do for the Russian workers hall featured the speaker’s pam­ lenge to debate Mr. Taylor, Mrs. 297,000 and more, probably upwards of $2,000,- tional Confederation of Free A PRETTY PICTURE to have to fight his own party. But, he added, — those that survive A-bomb phlet, “Vigilante Terror in Fon­ Weiss wrote: “Mr. Taylor makes 000.” Trade Unions to “assist in build­ In an attempt to gild this the organization had to be purged of gangsters “liberation.” But he says noth­ tana” and other Marxist works. no distinction between the Stal­ What Truman’s “poker crony,” Mon C. Wall­ ing free trade unions and aid in hideous picture, Collier’s carefully and self-seekers.: He meant the local organiza­ ing of the consequences for Amer­ “The primary lesson of the inist distortions of Marxism and tion of his party, Tammany, which has always gren, got out of it is not stated. But at the risk the general rehabilitation” of the ?dds that A-bombcrs will “at ican workers. According to the Korean war,” stated, Comrade that scientific system of thought been fair game for any two-bit reformer: He of getting pinched for gambling in the current Russian workers — if there are first . . . avoid population centers fictional Collier’s account, the first Weiss, “is that American foreign which Karl Marx evolved. These didn’t mean the national organization in the anti-crime crusade I ’ll lay you 6 to 5 he didn't any left to “rehabilitate.” completely,” and concentrate on Russian A-bombs hit Detroit — policy is made on Wall Street. It Stalinists with their vulgarized saddle at Washington where the big thievery goes lose anything. “industrial installation.” W h o THE SPEEDUP so that settles the Detroit auto is openly imperialistic, aggressive caricature of Marxism will never on. He didn’t tell us anything about that. So Alsop is worried about the chain reaction from makes this promise? The w ry Speedup was the big grievance workers’ speedup problem. and reactionary in the extreme.” be able to answer Mr. Taylor. But I ’ll tell him a few things; just a few — it would the Phillips case: “The ‘integrated’ pipeline com­ same capitalist class that destroy­ of the Russian auto workers be­ So long as Wall Street domi­ genuine Marxists have been take a big book to tell only a small part of what panies, including Panhandle Eastern, employing If we may be permitted' to ed Hiroshima and Nagasaki! And fore’American imperialism atem- nates, she continued, a third world answering Mr. Taylor’s argu­ informed people already know. as counsel John Scott, an ex-law office associate barge in on the prophecy act, what are “industrial installations” war is inevitable. “But,” she ments and demolishing them for of Democratic National Chairman William Boyle, bombed them into “freedom.” One we’d predict that unless Reuther if not the biggest population declared, “Wall Street is not the years." ^‘Legitimate” Graft have now come before the Federal Power Com­ of the characters Reuther invents, gets in a hustle to eliminate the centers of all? Malchin, who heads the “Auto speedup here, the American auto I ’ll skip over the well-publicized deep-freezers, mission. These companies own their own gas wells Workers’ Council of the All- workers will likely boot him out ANOTHER FIGLEAF mink coats, free hotel accommodations, big cam­ as well as pipelines. They say, ‘If Phillips can Russian Democratic Labor Fed­ of office long before he sets sail eras and medium-sized hams, and similar trifles charge whatever the traffic will bear for gas Collier’s tries a further fig- eration,” tells how he was sent for Russia on his “Mission to and trinkets which mysteriously accrued to prac­ at the wellhead, why can’t we?” ’ leaf: A fter being “provoked” into to a Siberian labor camp before Nizhni Novgorod.” tically every government official of Mr. Halley’s ■ Why not, indeed ? Especially if they have an bombing population centers, the “own party” who has been investigated yet. This ex-law office associate of ex-Chairman Boyle to U.S. will drop warning leaflets fighting campaign and program small stuff is interesting only as “atmosphere.” front for them. “If this happens,” says the in­ 10 to 30 days before the blasts. This fall’s work promises to have increased interest in The Chairman Boyle’s “legal fees” come under the dignant Joseph Alsop, “the process that began Very likely! All previous U.S. be full of lively possibilities for same general heading. A fter all, he only collected with Mon C. Wallgren can end, not with a mere bombing practices, during World Militant salesmen. Advance tapes Militant. I sold my copies in half a hundred thousand dollars or so — as fa r as additional annual bill of a couple of hundred m il­ PENTAGON PIPE-DREAM W ar I I and now in Korea, show have already been an hour and have had equally the investigation has revealed up to date. That’s lions for natural gas consumers, but an addition­ how tender - hearted the U.S. sent to literature good reports from others.” still peanuts. The appropriation of other people’s al bill of maybe $1,000,000,000 or more for elec­ brass is. agents of over 1,000 Milwaukee' is cleaning, repair­ money in the form of more or less “legitimate” tricity users.” AND THE REALITY subscriptions secur­ ing, and painting their head­ THE REAL ATROCITY graft runs into billions and tens of billions. Part ed during the cam quarters, writes Literature Ag«nt of the story is already known, but Halley, hot Spill-Over from Main Shakedown (Continued from page 1) is the portrait of the post-war Among the most sickening paign and expiring Bill Crane. Bill is taking the op­ on the trail of gamblers and gangsters, hasn’t It begins to run into money, doesn’t it? But the war, instead of relieving it of world. The articles written by stories in the entire magazine is in November and portunity to put his literature said anything about it yet. even these huge sums are only the spill-over problems, will intensify all of Walter Reuther, Arthur Koestler one by AP correspondent Hal December. Branch files in shape for a head start Take the “tax amortization” racket, for ex­ from the main shakedown of capitalist exploit­ them. The First and Second and other Social - Democratic Boyle. Boyle writes a fictional literature agents will in the Militant subscription work ample. That is really fantastic. Tom Conlan ex­ ation. That works automatically to make a few World Wars were only minor hangers-on of American capital­ description of a “bombing” of be making prepara­ this fall.

plained in The M ilitant a few weeks ago how it drones and parasites fabulously rich and keep social upheavals in comparison to ism are based on the ridiculous Washington by the Russians. This tions ahead of time “New York literature sales this to See that every works: the workers poor from working. a Third World War. assumption that they and their fictional atrocity story is nothing week took a step forward,” says name on their lists is “ ‘Tax amortization’ is a slick scheme whereby Richard Croker, the unabashed Tammany lead­ The capitalists will learn th a t! kind will be put in charge of the but a rewrite of a dispatch that Literature Agent George Rock. visited for a renewal. -the big corporations may evade paying taxes er of an earlier day, put his finger on it when he social progress cannot be halted world after the war! They do not Boyle sent from Korea on Nov. 9, “Campaigners for Michael Bar- altogether. Here is how it works. A corporation told Lincoln Steffens, “There is graft in Wall by force. The unlimited force realize that if capitalism ever 1950, in which he tells the story The new series by Harry tell, candidate for City Council files notice that it proposes to construct and Street, of course. . . Like a businessman in busi­ they dream of using will, from managed, by some miracle to of the destruction of the Korean Frankel on “Sam Adams and the President, went doorbell ringing equip such and such a plant and then gets it ness, I work for my own pocket all the time.” the very beginning, be strictly survive another world war, it city, Sinuiju. It is the story of a American Revolution” will be of Sunday in various parts of the certified as ‘vital for defense.’ Thereupon it is And then he added for the benefit of charlatah limited by the social upheavals would be in a form so reactionary, real atrocity cqmmitted by the special interest to these recent city to tell the voters about our issued special certificates enabling it to deduct reformers and their dupes who promise to solve of the people of all the world. so bestialized, so fa^cist-like that Pentagon in Korea, which Boyle subscribers who will want to be socialist, anti-war program. now uses with the names changed sure their subs are renewed in from its taxes the full cost of such a plant in social problems by fighting petty crime: “I f we In the end, the people will destroy it would have absolutely no room “The results were certainly and the roles reversed. time not to miss any issues in five yearly installments. The plant thus costs get big graft, and the cops and small-fry poli­ capitalism and its A-bombs, not for the Reuthers. heartening. In addition to dis­ ticians know it, we can’t decently kick at their this important series. Student the corporation exactly nothing. The total of the other way around. ANSWER IS CLEAR tributing copies of our election petty stuff. Can we, now? We can’t be hypocrites BIGGEST MISTAKE readers will also be interested in -such ‘amortized’ plants already amounts to al­ platform, campaigners sold four like the reformers who sometimes seem to me not THE REAL FUTURE The biggest mistake that the In this bloody daydream, Col­ regular subscription so that they most 10 billion dollars.” subscriptions to The Militant, 52 Among the more grotesque editors of Collier’s make, along lier’s unwittingly reveals many can be sure to get the whole Whose money is that? Well, pal, some of 'i t to know that they live on graft.” individual copies, five copies of — J. P. C aspects of the Collier’s picture, with the American capitalists, is truths. “The Soviets,” it says, series. Many will want to clip used to be yours before the government put the the pamphlet, ‘The Socialist to assume that American workers “had no bombers with sufficient the articles and save them for Workers Party, What It Is, What will remain as blind, timid, docile range for returning to home reference. When completed they It Stands For,’ and seven tickets and subservient as the official bases.” They have no foreign will make a valuable notebook to our November Election Rally. Just labor leaders. They will not un­ bases. Thus the few,' scattered on this important period in Published HOAX FLOPS AS DEMOCRATS One subscriber contributed a complainingly or passively endure Russian “raids” that Collier’s American history. dollar to the election campaign all the terrible burdens and invents are all “suicide” raids. Literature Agent Bert Deck fund. SWITCH TO PASS TAX BILL sacrifices of another war to The U.S., on the other hand, has reports a fine sale in Chicago of long range bombers that can “Donald and Irene, two of the (Continued from Psge 1) ment that their previous vote had promote the imperialist program the Militant featuring stories on of world subjugation. bomb the USSR ahd return. It has day’s pace-setters, sold 21 copies succeeded in “dramatizing” the the Cicero frameups. Sixteen selves also dropped the question. a world network of bomber bases Militant salesmen, Bert writes, of The Militant, one six month The only alibi they offered for faults of the bill, and that there MILITANT RECORD ringed close to the Soviet Union. sub, onq copy of the pamphlet, was now “no other responsible “hit the streets, stood outside of submitting to the pressure of the There is little in the record of It has all the facilities to deliver and a ticket to the election rally. course” for them to follow but to meetings, and knocked on doors, White House, the Pentagon and the labor movement of this coun­ “a concentrated attack of atomic “ Leo and Steve met a woman vote for that same bill, with none to sell well over 650 copies of Wall Street was the lame state- try to lead anyone to believe that tombs, the like of which had whose husband has been in Korea of its faults removed. these issues. Top scorers .were it can be led by the nose — least never been dreamed of by the John and Snow, who sold 183 15 months and hates being there. T-ROAD WHAT IT PROVES of all, degraded to the abysmal most fanciful author of science papers; Joe and Helen, 131; Bert, She was impressed with our pro­ fiction. . gram *and bought a copy of Th« Thus the mixup of Oct. 16, levels that the next global war 72; and Manny, 50.” CHICAGO will inescapably • bring in its Militant and the pamphlet to while it did not stop the soak- BASED ON FACT One of the best sales was made wake. On the contrary, U.S. f at an NAACP mass protest meet­ mail to him. the-poor bill permanently, helped This part is not based on fancy, Socialist' Forum to expose the fact that the Demo­ labor’s entire recent past guar­ ing. A leaflet calling on the “Calvin met a fellow who had antees that it will fight militantly but on fact. The Pentagon does NAACP to organize a mass picket a subscription to The Militant Sunday Evening Series cratic Party as a whole, including have a ring of offensive bombing its labor-supported liberal wing, and unwaveringly against evepy line around the County Building which had expired. He thought bases all around tlje USSR. Who, ro protest the Cicero frameups that Calvin had come to take a Our Vanishing Civil is responsible for the increased attempt to slash living levels, to then, is preparing for aggressive was distributed, and the Militant renewal on his sub. He asked Liberties tax burden on the American peo­ deprive the unions of their rights warfare? Collier’s makes the -PEACE ple. was sold to one out of every two Calvin where the heck he had answer clear enough. b y James P. Cannon Why did Cicero happen? How and independence, to convert the people attending the meeting. been. He had been hoping someone does the war drive affect TRUMAN TECHNIQUE workers into mere adjuncts of the WAR PROVOCATION Total sale was 260. would come around for his civil rights? renewal. He also bought a ticket It also exposed something else. war machine. The whole issue of the maga­ San Francisco is making pro­ Single Copy 25c 5 Copies $1.00 It showed conclusively that when gress in their election campaign to the November 2 Election Speaker: Ernest Drake A BETTER WORLD zine, from cover to cover, is the Militant sales, writes Literature Rally.” (Postage included) Prominent fighter Truman really wants to exert most jingoistic war provocation Don’t deceive yohrselves, gentle­ Agent Jane. “Last Sunday we against Jim Crow pressure on the Democratic mem­ imaginable. The front cover shows bers of Congress, he can do it. men, the working people of this an M.P. with “ Occupation Forces” covered half the Fillmore district Order from Sun., Nov. 4, 7 P.M. He always does it when the in­ country, together with the toilers stenciled on his helmet, standing with our printed election folder Campaign for Questions and Discussion terests of Big Business are at of the whole world, will live and guard over the whole of Europe and the Militant dealing with the Cicero riots,” she reports. “There PIONEER PUBLISHERS Socialist Workers Party Hall Etake. He only makes a pretense struggle on, no matter what you, and Asia. I f any Moscow maga­ Socialism of doing it when it comes to issues zine ever appeared with similar was immediate interest in the 732 S. Wabash Ave. Ha 7-0403 the capitalists, do. We will live 116 University Place New York 3, N. Y. like civil rights legislation, the contents, cries of “W ar!” would election program, and in The Admission 35c. Taft-Hartley Act and the Mc- on, and build a better world. That reSound from the walls of Con- M ilitant as the paper which sup­ Sell 'The Militant!' 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O.S0„T Tpm- Zyr; Z*3 fZfor 6 Zmo*. ! THE ■ Wo S r IMILITANT T P i m m W W W «ich-5 inT foreign Ä 2 ootmtrtea. S Ä "Entered as second das« Published Weekly in the Interests o f the W orking People Signed articles by costrlba* m atter Mar. 1. IMS at the THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION tor» do not necessarily rsp- Poet Office at Nee Tork, 11« Cnlverslty PI., N. t. 3, N. 1 . Phon«! A l. S-7M# resent The M U lta o f. policies, W. T . ander the hot ef M a r . - Editor: GEOBGE BBHTMAN Th*“ »r* « P re e e e d u> ns Capitalism Can’t Live W ithout War Economy i t m . " Bnslnesa Manager: JOSEPH HANSEN edltorlale. Bv John G. Wright shortage of consumer goods would widely publicized “price W'ars” of the main customer of industry. the people, but on the size of Vol. XV - No. 44 Monday, October 29, 1951 The American people are pound- prevail, plus a labor shortage. A failed to boost sales. September, The industrial expansion con­ their pocketbooks. shooting war in Korea, plus a a barometer to fall sales trends, tinues. Since Korea, steel capacity American monopolist industry .ed day in and day out with the hiked arms program, plus the has also proved disappointing. has grown by 10 percent ; so needs war production just to keep propaganda that arms produc­ increase of the armed forces to There has been an upturn, but has aluminum production. Other running; otherwise it faces the Atomic W ar and Social Revolution tion will not only make this coun­ 3% million men, all this spelled below the one that was seasonally boosts are scheduled. For prospect of an economic catas­ try strong, rendering it sale from universal shortages to capitalist expected, “not yet as much as aluminum, for instance, there is trophe. Collier’s magazine brazenly offers its signal for their long-awaited emancipa­ “aggressor attack,” but that it is minds still thinking in prewar merchants had hoped,” reports a 70 percent increase planned. This provides the overwhelming so-called “preview of World War III” as tion. the best guarantee of peace. This terms. the National City Bank in its economic compulsion to pass from is a barefaced hoax. Instead of shortages there Monthly Letter for October. CAPITALISM NEEDS WAR a “short of war” economy to a primarily “a warning to the Kreftilin.” To appraise the power and consequen­ ces of the colonial revolution is beyond The historical fact is that every materialized a 70 billion dollar It is impossible to run this ex­ “shooting war” economy. It is this This is a transparent subterfuge. Shoddy arms race in the past has ended glut, with merchandise piling up PRIMING ARMS PUMP panding industry indefinitely on a that renders all the peace talk, the horizon of the Pentagon or the Col­ in a major shooting war, and the in stores and warehouses from The one thing that has prevent­ “shprt of war” basis, while whether it emanates from Wash­ fiction is not likely to impress the Krem­ lier’s editorial offices. For the first time, arms race now in progress .is no one end of the country to the ed thd bottom from dropping out exacting from the population all ington or Moscow, so much sand lin rulers who are themselves specialists the great bulk of mankind on our planet, exception. But what makes the other, and with unemployment cf the whole economy, it is the sacrifices and burdens such a thrown into the eyes of all the in throwing sand into people’s eyes. No, untold hundreds of millions of the most war danger even more acute is rising sharply. universally admitted, is the arms program entails. On the other peoples. the additional factor that capital­ boom. The government is pump­ hand, to taper off government For a long time now war has the editors and owners of Collier’s are poverty stricken and oppressed have TWO MAIN FACTORS ist economy has now developed to ing in orders at the rate of four orders is to pull the rug from been the inescapable long-range aiming at a target much closer home. moved into the center of the political the point where civilian demand Two factors were primarily billion a month. Appropriations under the stupendously enlarged perspective of capitalism. Today Their stunt is part of the vast propagan­ arena. The colonial revolution has swept at home and abroad is able to responsible for this entirely un­ for a total of 100 billion dollars productive apparatus, already far war . and capitalism are being da effort to psychologize the American from the Far East into the Middle East absorb only a fraction of the expected development. First there have already passed Congress. too big for its civilian markets, fused together so as to become people into accepting the next world war in an interval of the last two years. entire productive capacity. was the tremendous growth of Early next year, it is confidently which depend not on the needs of virtually inseparable. For a market that can absorb productive capacity in the post­ predicted, a score or so more bil­ as a job, admittedly unpleasant and per­ Where will it stop ? What power can halt war period which in many cases lions will be appropriated to haps even slightly dirty, but unavoidable it? the output of American industry, capitalism requires nothing less natched and surpassed the stormy expand the air force and the atom and the sooner done, the better. So conservative a politician as Senator than the unlimited market of growth of the war years. 1» the bomb plants still further. last six years more than 100 RAMON MARTINEZ TELLS But behind these deliberate lies there Malone of Nevada did not hesitate to pre­ production for war. Of the loans currently ex­ dict on the Senate floor that “ within 5 or billion dollars have been invested tended by the banks, four dollars is the actual thinking, the whole mental in new plant and equipment. Old 6 years the Negroes of Africa will run DEPRESSION OR WAR out of five, or 80 percent, are outlook of these editors and writers who The entire postwar experience plants have been modernized and going for “defense construction.” AR0UT CONDITIONS IN mirror the outlook and thinking of the the colonial nations out of Africa — in­ has proved this to the hilt. Even productivity significantly increas­ capitalist rulers in this country. cluding us, if we are still supporting before Korea, U.S. military ap­ ed. Under the impact of Korea,, A GLOOMY VIEW the “panic buying” and soaring Let us take, for example, the interval them.” (Congressional Record, Oct. 18.) propriations set an all - time This state of affairs is mirrored LATIN-AMERICAN LANDS It is not that Sen. Malone is more fair- “peace” record. But these large prices, this productive capacity in the thinking of business. In a set by Collier’s for the duration of the went into high gear, flooding the survey conducted by Business The following interview with Ramon Martinez, mem­ sighted than his colleague, he is simply arms budgets, on top of domestic war. i t will last, assure all these editors and world-wide demand for con­ available outlets. Week, Oct. 6, one St. Louis manu­ ber of the Latin-American delegation to the Third World and writers, only a brief three years, as less ignorant of what is taking place sumer gopds, arising from the And here we come to the second facturer is reported as follows: “If Congress of the Fourth International, is translated from against the First World War which took throughout the former colonial world. destruction, shortages and scar­ factor. The purchasing power of the defense program ends, we will La Verite, French Trotskyist paper: cities of the last global conflict, the mass of the population had have one hell of a depression.” four years; and the last one which en­ The colonial revolution, the great world Question: What significance will T>- proved not enough. On the eve meanwhile been dropping off. This “philosophy,” cautiously says event of our time, has gathered its awe­ the Congress have for the Trot­ acter of the mass movement. To dured for six. el' Korea, 1G months ago, this S tiff prices and stiff taxes Business Week, “to a rpuch lesser inspiring momentum through the vic­ skyist movement in Latin Amer­ that should be added the almost country tottered on the brink “priced” several more millions out degree has come to shade most Is this “ promise” (if a comparatively ica? complete absence of the Social tory of the Chinese masses which has ef depression, with production of the market. businessmen’s long - term think­ brief and therefore “easy” war simply Answer: First of all I should Democracy and the relative weak­ brought to power the Mao Tse-tuhg re­ dropping off and unemployment As a result, throughout last ing.” But the editors then go on deception? Or is there an element of self- say that this Congress was a real ness of Stalinism, which has real climbing to five to six million. spring and summer the civilian to admit that “the smart money deception also involved? Let us recall gime. This victory was not expected by school for us. It was the first time strength only in Chile, Brazil and Washington, which staked, as it still markets and civilian production boys are placing at least some of that in World War I the Kaiser and his THE “KOREA BOOM” have steadily declined. In some their bets on a possible economic in the history of the international Cuba. In Bolivia, for example, it does, everything on Chiang Kai-shek. The “Korea boom” staved off instances, such as refrigerators dive around 1953,” when the arms workers’ movement that the prob­ Is much weaker than our move­ generals confidently expected a quick vic­ lems of Latin America were ment. tory. So did the opposing side. World Only fools and scoundrels w ill claim that the depression. It was confidently and television, comments Business program will presumably begin the Kremlin expected it or aided the forecast by all the authorities, Week, Sept. 29 sales still are tapering off. studied and decided by an inter­ The development of Trotskyism War II also began as a “blitz” but did national leadership. Even in its Chinese Revolution, either. Up to the very from the top government circles, “dead like in a cemetery.” As matters stand, the dominant in Latin America is obviously not end that way. Hitler confidently ex­ revolutionary period the Third not a homogeneous one but we last moment, Stalin continued to ped­ through the big-time speculators, Administration warnings of economic factor is the arms pro­ pected to overrun the Soviet Union in a to the little stockjobbers, that by future shortages, new regulations gram. The government has al­ International did not actually have already had a rich ex- ' dle his assistance to Chiang and Wash­ fall of last year a universal liberalizing consumer credit, ready stepped into the position come to grips with this question. perience and a real tradition few months, and so did many generals The Third World Congress gave in Washington and London. The Japan­ ington. among the most advanced sec­ Great social upheavals that never en­ a general characterization of the tions of the proletariat and even ese warlords likewise looked forward to countries of Latin America and tered into the reckoning of the warmak- among the great masses of the an easy victory, especially over China. a clear evaluation of the great proletariat as in Bolivia, Mexico, American militarists and their civilian ers resulted from both of the previous mass movements which have Chile, Brazil. In several coun­ arisen since the end of the second mouthpieces obviously suffer from the world wars. The whole world is convulsed The Philippines Aflame tries we have led local and even right now by the birth-pangs of the so­ world war, such as Peronism in national straggles of the work­ same delusions. ¡ Argentina, the M.N.R. (Movi- ing class. Several of our mem­ cial transformation already embracing rnento Nacional Revolucionario) But there is a far deeper lesson which the bulk of humanity. Yet the purblind bers have important trade union history has taught and which the capi­ With Agrarian Revolution in Bolivia, the Vargas movement positions and in Bolivia we had strategists in the Pentagon, and their in Brazil, Accion Democratica in talist-minded rulers apparently are in­ oeputies in parliament before the sensational journalistic choir-boys in By John Black course, he would like to catch providing four yfears of freedom Venezuela, the Gaitan movement repression which is now raging from any kind of taxation for capable of learning. We refer here to the Collier’s, leave the social revolution com­ Only the word revolution can them, but unable to do that he in Colombia, etc. Contrary to in that country. aims to take away the water. The any new and “necessary” business those seeking ideal conditions for revolutionary consequences of world pletely out of their calculations, and seek accurately describe the present Question.; What do you think water in which these fish swim providing it had a payroll of over the class struggle, the Congress of the milifary coup which has wars, to which Collier’s, like its prede­ situation in the Philippines. to dupe the American people into making are the farmers. 25 employees or a capital invest­ reaffirmed the anti - imperialist just occurred in Argentina? cessors in Europe, remains completely ment of over 50,000 pesos. Com­ the same incredible blunder. Against the corrupt, dictatorial, Magsaysay’s plan is to clear and anti - capitalist character of Answer: I believe that we have blind. The projected global holocaust of the reactionary and floundering gov­ large areas of farmers, burn their pare this tax gift to the rich these movements and rejected all there a confirmation of the with the big increase in the cost The next world war, as depicted by war-mad American imperialists will not ernment of landowners, mer­ villages and transport the in­ slanderous designations of these analysis which has just been made habitants to the desolate island of of living and it is easjl to see movements as fascist and dicta­ these would-be prophets, is to be in the chants and their lawyers, 10,000 by the World Congress of the check this worldwide process of social Mindanao, where they will be set how crashing is the bui'den on torial, which have emanated from hard - hitting and determined mass movement in Argentina and nature of a single combat between two transformation. It will only speed it up. to work in policed camps. These the mass of the people. imperialist, Social Democratic and Iluks are waging open warfare. of the Peron regime. Peron’s world powers — the U.S. on the one side, These rulers cannot accept the colossal camps are army projects and run The native ruling group is even Stalinist sources. main base. of support is not in the Soviet Union, isolated, on the oth,er The Iluks (the word is an accordingly. One of them is divided into two political party One of the other essential the army but among the masses. movement of Asian, African and all other abbreviation from the Tagalog — with victory guaranteed in advance to colonial peoples toward freedom, inde­ located in a wilderness 21.5 machines based on personal acquisitions of the World Con­ He has the support of a majority words for People’s Liberation kilometers from the little village allegiance and job control. When gress for our Latin American of the army only to the degree Washington. A ll this is not only accord­ Army) control large ai'oas, often pendence and economic equality; they of Tubod, province of Lanao on the incumbent President Quirino sections is its clear definition of that he retains the support of ing to Collier’s, but also according to Pen­ right up to the city limts. Some­ must clash head-on with it, otherwise Mindanao. announced his candidacy at an our tasks in fighting against the the masses. times they take over villages and tagon. No such guarantees are offered by their capitalist system dies. But the The army operates out-and-out open air rally, his opponents preparations for imperialist war In the last few days those sec­ towns for short periods. When history which has demonstrated time concentration camps too. On April pointed out he had aptly chosen as well as against the imperialist tions of the army most closely American people, above all the workers they do, they set up a govern­ and again that armies remain invincible 4 of this year Magsaysay an­ the location/Quirino managed to war itself. linked to the Argentine oligarchy and poor farmers, have every reason to ment, elected by the responsive nounced he was negotiating the have every tree, bird and bee on Question: What are the per­ and to imperialism have tried to and nations unconquerable only in na­ population, which deals out justice hail the colonial revolution for what it purchase of a former United N a­ the island vote for him. Both spectives of the Trotskyist move­ overthrow Peron. The response of tionalistic mythology. to the “collaborators,” village really is, the second harbinger, after the tions camp for displaced persons parties have learned all the ment in Latin America and what the masses was immediate. But usurers and government inform­ It is a fact that neither of the two Russian Revolution, of the socialist trans­ at Gu-iuan, province of Samar. It tricks of stuffing the ballot box is the comparative strength of their objective in intervening to ers. Before the Quirino govern­ is to bS turned into a camp for from their American mentors, Stalinism? Can you give some smash the m ilitary coup was not previous world wars followed the neatly formation of the whole world. ment is able to concentrate its political prisoners. . adding a few of their own. examples? to safeguard the established pre-arranged m ilitary patterns of belli­ Two world wars have demonstrated m ilitary forces, the Huks have Answer: The Minister of For­ order, but to defend their eco­ gerents on either side. The First World melted back into the countryside, POLICE REPRESSION. how decayed and destructive capitalism SUPPORT FOR HUKS eign Affairs in Bolivia promised nomic, trade union and political the heavy forests, the swamp The protest and anger of the War ended in the Great Russian Revolu­ has become, and how with each war it /Support for the Huks comes the participation of 30,000 Boli­ conquests. Peron symbolizes these terrain or their almost impreg­ population have brought only in­ tion of 1917 — a world event expected largely from the poor farmers vian soldiers in the Korean war conquests to the masses. digs its own grave deeper and deeper. An­ nable mountain bastions. Leaving creased repressions. CiviJ rights, and tenants in the countryside, during the last conference of But it must not be forgotten by nobody except a handful of Russian other world war, more terrible and de­ with them will be new recruits along with the writ* have long but the corruption of the ad­ ministers in Washington. This that, above all, it is because of Marxists headed by Lenin and Trotsky. structive than all that were ever waged and left behind will be-a com­ been suspended. The army and ministration, its dictatorial rule, decision provoked great ferment their anti-imperialist and anti­ munity which has tasted, even if the poiice hold “suspedts” "fo r To whom did the Second World War put together, is too big a price to pay and soaring living costs have among the Bolivian masses. Great capitalist 'aims that they fight briefly, self-government such as long periods without trial or bring victory ? The map of the world has in order to permit capitalism to survive caused broad sections of the crowds were waiting for the any return of the oligarchy and they have never received from hearing. The army has the right population to look toward the Minister’s return to La Paz and of imperialism to power. How­ indeed been changed, so drastically alter­ a little longer. The more resolutely the the Manila politicians. to search premises. •Huks. big protest meetings and demon­ ever, by the very nature of ed as to be hardly recognizable — but reigning capitalist leaders press toward Last October the government’s GUERRILLA TACTICS Inflation is a scourge. Accord­ strations were organized. The things, these objectives — and not in favor of either the victors or the war, all the more w ill the American peo­ Military Intelligence Service this has been verified by the The Huk weapons are marked ing to the last available figures minister was obliged to change defeated in the last world slaughter. The ple awaken to the truth that socialism arrested more than 100 persons recent general strike of the rail­ “Made in Japan” or “Made in the issued by the -Central Bank of the his point of debarkation and the in the city of Manila, some 30 of road workers in Argentina — greatest beneficiaries thus far have been offers them and mankind the only pro­ U.S.” Much surplus material fell Philippines the cost of living Bolivian government dissociated whom have been brought to trial. have- and will enter into conflict the colonial masses for whom the out- gram whereby it is possible to live in into the hands of these guerrillas index rose to 367.5 in April, 1950, itself from him. Similar move­ or almost four times the prewar The MIS claims that this smash­ ments were also aroused by with the objectives of the national break of hostilities in 1939 came as a ' peace. who had campaigned throughout ed the “Secretariat of the Huks,” the war years against the Jap­ level. resistance to the Korean war in bourgeoisie represented by Peron. One scandal after another rocks including its courier and financial Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay. t anese occupation and evpn more service. Six death sentences and against the native black mar­ the administration. The large- Under such conditions it is easy The Road to Peace scale surplus property swindles, 20 long jail terns were pro­ to understand that the Trotskyist keteers and collaborators. A l­ nounced in May. A t the same time Newark Fri. Night The burning need of the peoples' ism.” The essence of Cannon’s approach though organized in an efficient, the open smuggling under the movement in Latin America has eyes of officials, the scandals the government announced that it the possibilities of a fairly rapid is to bring into clear contrast the shoddy centralized fashion, with training was experimenting with one of Socialist Forum throughout the world is to find the gen­ camps, communication centers and over veteran payments and war development, all the more so be­ Stalinist counterfeit with the socialist damage claims, the more recent W all Street’s contributions to the cause we are the only tendency uine road to peace. The key task of revo­ fai-ming areas where they grow “free world.” Napalm (jellied Presents a lecture on position on the struggle, against imper­ their own supplies, their tactics cases of the Chinese immigration in the workers’ movement which lutionary socialists is the struggle against ialist war as enunciated by all genuine in­ racket, have alienated all sections gasoline) is to be used against has understood the real char- Socialism — What It Is are by and large of a guerrilla the Huks. the relentless war drive which is powered ternationalist labor leaders and especial­ type. They attack usually in small of the population. Government And How to Get It groups of 50 to 100 and maintain officials right up to the Presi­ Such in brief, is the background by American imperialism. Indispensable ly by Lenin. NEXT WEEK Speaker: H arry Ring extreme mobility, travelling very dent’s “kitchen” cabinet have of the struggle now unfolding in to such a life-and-death issue are*abso- The greater the number of workers the Philippines. I t is not just an­ fast over the old water-buffalo been implicated. Analysis of the British Fri., Nov. 2, 8:30 lute clarity, knowledge of correct meth­ other of the many agrarian reached by the vital message contained trails. “ ods of struggle, and uncompromising ex­ in this pamphlet, the broader will become BURDEN ON POOR revolts that have dotted the E le ction s at 423 Springfield Ave. posure of all phony peace slogans which the avenues for the genuine struggle for TRUE FACTS REVEALED The new budget submitted to history of all Southeast Asia. It simply exploit the genuine peace senti­ Originally concentrated on the the Philippine- Congress this is a social revolution, led by the peace. That is why we highly commend spring allots half of the total Huks and widely supported ments of the mass of the people by di­ main island cf Luzon in the the decision of the Socialist Workers “sharecropper b elt/’ their activity revenues to the armed forces. On throughout the islands. verting them into impotent pacifist chan-7 Party to place the sale of this timely now extends to all the larger is­ April 10 this year the cabinet (Next week: The Agrarian. NEW YORK nels. pamphlet on a campaign basis in order lands. The Quirino government is adopted a set of regulations Problem in the Philippines). That is why we recommend as MUST to make sure it reaches the largest pos­ grudging with its information, Socialist Workers Final Election Rally reading to our readers and their friends but a glance at the Philippine 34th Russian Revolution Anniversary Meeting sible working class audience. press reveals, piecemeal, the true the pamphlet “ The Road to Peace,” by The campaign, conducted on a national facts. Thus, during Feb. 19 to 27, Michael Bartell’s Schedule MICHAEL BARTELL James P. Cannon, just published by Pion­ scale, will go on for three months, begin­ a typical period, 14 separate 4 eer Publishers. Collected in this pamph­ ning November 15. clashes between government ' RADIO ■ SWP Council President candidate let are the articles which originally ap­ To participate in this campaign you forces and the so-called “dissi­ Mon., Oct. 29 9-9:15 PM W N EW “People’s Choice” GEORGE CLARKE peared from week to week in our paper dents” occurred, involving several need not be a member of the Socialist hundred casualties, from one end Wed., Oct. 31 Editor, Fourth International under the headings “The Stalinist Peace Workers Party. We urge all our readers of the island group to the other. Fri., Nov. 1 .10:30-11 PM WCBS “New York Story” Policy” and “ The Stalinist Ideology.” to promote its success by ordering extra ENTERTAINMENT - DANCING - REFRESHMENTS Defense Minister Magsaysay of TELEVISION The author’s treatment centers on the copies from Pioneer Publishers at 116 the Quirino government,t one of Friday, November 2 - 8 PM - Admission 25c Stalinists for the very reason that the University Place, New York 3, N. Y. the most hated men in the is­ Sat., Oct. 27 8-9 PM WCBS-TV “Ken Murray Show” Kremlin is the* main force today divert­ Urge your friends and shopmates to read lands, revealed the mass support Sun., Oct. 28 2-2:30 PM W NBT “Tex and Jinx” ADELPHI HALL for the Huks through his so- Mon., Nov. 5 7:30-8 PM WOR-TV “Press Conference” 74 Fifth Avenue (near 14th Street) ing the anti-war mass moods into fraud­ it. You will thereby be helping to pave called “fish and water” theory. ulent and demoralizing “ People’s Front- the road to peace through socialism. The Huks are the fish and, of The Negro Struggle ------The Negro Labor Council t h e MILITANT ------By Jean Blake ------VOLUM E XV MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1951 N UM BER 44 The founding convention of the National Negro Here, again, the charge of dual organization is Labor Council will be held Oct. 27 and 28 in Cin­ not valid on the basis of experience up to the cinnati. The Ohio CIO Council has labelled this present. The NAACP — unfortunately, in the Food Shoivs Biggest Price Rise new organization “communist-dominated” and opinion of this writer — has not functioned as 4 More Frameup warned local unions .not to participate in it, but a mass organization dealing with the special this does not answer a number of important ques­ problems of Negro workers in the labor 'move­ SWP Supports tions being asked about it by militants in Negro ment, and consequently cannot consider such Indictments Are FOOD UP i “ and labor circles. committees or councils as competitors. 104% i = = - The first question is: What kind of organiza Besides, the NAACP has generally cooperated I | HOUSING | tion is the National,Negro Labor Council? with other organizations dealing with problems Quashed in Cicero Isler, Mulzac of Negroes in special fields. This has been true A blast in a Cleveland daily paper which The Cook County Grand Jury’s MEDICALCARE UP I= r CLOTHING i OTHiKir ^ | UP 90% = 1 FUEL quoted CIO officials, recently characterized the in relation to both the conservative, pro-capitalist indictments charging five per­ new project as a Stalinist move toward dual un­ Urban League and the National Negro Congress sons with “conspiracy” in the 48°/° g = UP 88°/o S RENT ^ ELECTRICITY ionism. This charge must be rejected outright. before it became completely Stalinist-dominated. anti-Negro riot in Cicero, 111., last J r = = E UP 31%» I UP 4 1 % g In N.Y. Election Dual unions are separate labor organizations It is apparent, then, that the National Negro July, have all been quashed. which compete with established unions for mem­ Labor Council must be considered on its own On Oct. 11 the indictment NEW YORK, Oct. 25 — Michael Bartell, Socialist bership and contracts with employers. No one merits, apart from abstract questions of the gen­ against George Leighton, Chi­ Workers Party candidate for President of the City Council, has even suggested that the National Negro La­ eral relation of such organizations to the labor cago lawyer who tried to help today announced his party’s endorsement of Jacques Isler bor Council proposes to do that, and the charge movement and the NAACP. the Harvey E. Clark family move 1735-39 PERIOD for the State Supreme Court and of dual unionism is therefore a complete misrep­ That brings us to the really important ques­ into their apartment in Cicero, This chart, showing percentage increases in the cost of living Hugh Mulzac for Borough Presi­ midnight radio program of Barry resentation which confuses rather than clarifies tions about the new organization: Is it merely a was dismissed in the criminal since the 1935-39 period, is based on Bureau of Labor Statistics dent of Queens. Both these candi­ Gray. The SWP candidate de­ the issue. Stalinist tool and propaganda device which will court. The frameup was so raw figures. Food shows the greatest rise. But every housewife knows dates are running on the Ameri­ nounced U.S. intervention in Even a more generous interpretation of the disorient the Negro struggle, isolate militants and the indignation against it from her own experience that BLS statistics grossly understate can Labor Party ticket. Korea and proposed a referendum charge of “dual unionism” — that organizations from the. main stream of the labor and Negro so great that even officials of the the real rise in the main items that make up a working class Said Bartell: “We disagree vote on immediate withdrawal of like the National' Negro Labor Council would movements and result in victimization - of those State’s Attorney’s office asked family’s budget. That is why many unionists are demanding that fundamentally with the political the GIs. Gray, who usually tend to split the labor movement by dividing who participate in it? Or does it have substantial that it be dropped. escalator wage agreements be based on a price index prepared views of these candidates since engages in a lot of cross-fire and Negro and white workers — is not a valid point. Negro labor backing, broad eno.ugh to prevent On* Oct. -22 indictments were by labor’s own statisticians. we are socialists and they are not. questioning in his interviews, was Negro labor committees have been set up from complete Stalinist domination, and can it pro­ dismissed against four other per­ Moreover, we do not believe that unusually silent during Bartell's time to time to deal with the special problems vide a medium through which militants will be sons who had been victimized by the ALP is concerned with speech. Bartell took issue with of Negro workers in the unions, to aid in the able to provide leadership for the struggles of the Cook County Grand Jury. mobilizing the labor movement or Gray’s earlier condemnation of organization of Negro workers, to combat Jim Negro labor which is not adequately provided by the Negro people for independent the current longshore strike and Crow in the unions, to secure Negro representa­ other organizations? These are the questions the NO PUNISHMENT S. F. CAMPAIGN MOVES political action. Nor is the ALP called for support to this magnifi­ tion in union posts and committees, to spur the founding convention in Cincinnati this week • Meanwhile, 118 people arrested waging a genuine struggle cent struggle of longshoremen to integration of Negroes in industry through union should answer. during the riot were getting off against the war. Such things are get rid of Ryan, Anastasia and pressure, and to secure the support of the labor There is no doubt that the new organization with virtually no punishment. TO A FIGHTING CLIMAX precluded by its past record and the other racketeers. Only then did movement in Negro civil rights struggles. is Stalinist-inspired. The Communist Party has In Cicero’s police court, 52 were present program. Nevertheless, Gray interrupt, saying that he Some of the best known examples of this type pushed the formation of Negro Labor Councils found innocent when police claim­ By Ed Harris Socialist Workers Party members agreed the shape-up system was are the Negro Labor Committee in Harlem, head­ in the major industrial centers for the past year. ed they could not identify them will vote for, and urge others to the cause of waterfront racketeer­ ed by Frank Crosswaith, a rabid anti-Stalinist, A t the 15th convention of the Communist Party, as participants in the riot; 11 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22 — Attempts by super­ vote for, Isler and Mulzac, solely ing and that a rotary hiring hall and a similar committee in Los-Angeles organiz­ Benjamin Davis, a member of their national com­ were fined $10 each for “unlawful patriots and redbaiters to disrupt an overflow Socialist because they represent the was needed. ed by John Dial a few years ago, and dominated mittee, stated: “The test of political understand­ assembly” ; one was fined $25; 18 Workers Party campaign meeting, held last Friday night genuine aspirations of the Negro by the right wing in the CIO there. As a matter ing of the Negro liberation movement is the ex­ did not even bother to show up FLAYS POLICE BRUTALITY in San Francisco’s Mission dis- people of New York to get repre­ of fact, the Stalinists, who had not yet started tent to which Negro Labor Councils are b uilt., . ” in court, thus forfeiting their trict, wore successfully repelled remained afterwards to discuss sentation on all legislative, ex­ Bartell also appeared this week to advocate the formation of Negro Labor Coun­ The most significant base of the new organiza­ bond; and 36 are scheduled to by the SWP candidates. and donate money to the cam­ ecutive and judicial levels. The on the first of a series of three cils, attempted to smear the Los Angeles com­ tion is the Detroit Negro Labor Council, sup appear later. The audience, composed pre­ paign. The man who did the' most Negro people are not content with radio forums on the New York mittee, which they did not control, as a segre­ ported by UAW -CIO Ford Local 600, which has The fascistic instigators of the dominantly of workers, listened baiting stayed to discuss, donated the here-and-there appointments Story program. Another radio gated “Jim Crow set-up.” a membership of 60,000 workers. William R. riot have not received even that sympathetically, refusing to be fifty cents and bought a copy of cf Negroes to office by the big speech by Bartell over WNEW on Another important question Negro militant.« Hood, recording secretary of Local 600, is the much “punishment.” incited by a group of sailors who The Militant. party machines to appease the police brutality brought phone are asking about the National Negro Labor Coun­ chairman of the committee organizing the new During the past week Barbaria calls to campaign headquarters SPECIAL GRAND JURY shouted, “Go back to Russia!” Negro voters. The Negro people cil is: What is its relation to the established or­ national Council. “Get a soap box!” “Don’t listen to and Press spoke to three more and was extensively quoted in the A report and evalution of the founding con­ On Oct. 22 a special federal of New York demand and are ganization in the field of Negro rights, the this red baloney!” etc. Frank unions, bringing the total to 36. Negro newspaper, Amsterdam vention will appear in next week’s issue of The entitled to representation at all National Association for the Advancement of Col­ grand jury was impanelled to in­ A. Barbaria, Socialist Workers The three additional unions are News. ored People? Militant. vestigate the riot. Leo F. Tierney, governmental levels.” Party candidate for mayor, was the A FL Blacksmith Helpers, The SWP candidate has ap­ a Chicago lawyer who formerly applauded when he said, “It is Eaker’s Union, and Cement INDEPENDENT SUPPORT peared at a number of forums worked for the Department of the duty. of every worker to Finishers. A t the Cement Fin­ Jacques Isler, the only Negro with all the other candidates. One Justice, was appointed special defend the right of free speech. ishers meeting the chairman Candidate for the lily-white State of these was at New York Uni­ prosecutor. Richard Wright’s Movie This is a right we must not lose. refused Barbaria the floor on the Supreme Court, is running on the Some Negroes have taken a versity, another at a high school We defend this right for every­ ground that the union had al­ ALP ticket although he is not in Coney Island. A t the latter the —------By Charles H a n l e y ------“wait - and - see” attitude to the one. You must do the same. Amer­ ready endorsed Mayor Robin­ an ALP member. Isler is strongly working-class audience of over federal jirrand jury, which was Almost the entire capitalist press carried un­ enness she might betray his presence, he presses ican citizens must have the right son. A rank and filer asked, “Do supported by the Negro com­ 150 gave Bartell the biggest hand ordered by Attorney General Mc­ favorable reviews of Richard W right’s movie, a pillow on her face to silence her. A fter her to criticize the government.” we have to vote for Robinson?” munities, Negro newspapers and of all the speakers. This is becom­ Grath. They have learned from Native Son, based on the famous Negro writer’s mother leaves, he discovers he has accidentally A t the busy comer of 22nd and “No.” “Then why can’t we hear many organizations including the ing a regular pattern at forums the example of the Cook County novel. The critics reproach W right for having killed the girl. Mission, in the middle of the city’s Barbaria?” Result: Barbaria Harlem Lawyers Association. in workers’ districts. And as at Grand Jury that such bodies done a bad job — “amateurish and confused” — Thus the fear and distrust which his experience largest working-class district, 150 spoke. Hugh Mulzac, candidate for other forums, many came up to cannot be depended on to dispense and with being a poor actor. These charges, 1 am has taught him to feel toward whites have driven people stopped to hear Barbaria Harry Press spoke «by invita­ Borough President of Queens, has Bartell afterwards. One woman justice. convinced, are really a cover for an attack on him to kill, even though unintentionally. In every and Harry Press, SWP candidate tion before the San Francisco the support of the Independent commented: “It certainly is good the treatment of the subject, which some critics social drama, the psychological traits of individ­ WAIT AND SEE for Board of Supervisors, and Tenants Council. His presentation Citizens Committee to Elect after listening to those phonies uals and the force of social conditions both coi Jackie, the young woman com­ of the SWP program for commit­ Captain Mulzac, composed of non- fear may encourage “dangerous thoughts.” Leighton himself, before the to hear one honest man. You’ve tribute in shaping destiny. But we should not rade who chaired the meeting, tees of tenants and trade union ALP members. Mulzac achieved The picture may have a few technical short­ indictment against him was got my vote.” forget that psychological traits often are strong­ speak out against the Korean war, representatives to set rents was a national reputation during the comings, mainly because W right lacked sufficient quashed, said: “This is a favor­ funds and because Hollywood’s studios were bar­ ly influenced, directly and indirectly, by social against increased taxes upon the warmly received by an audience last war when he became the able development, but we should conditions. workers to pay for the war, and of 200. first Negro captain of a U.S. red to him. But W right, playing Bigger Thomas, remember that a grand jury in­ The originally innocent Bigger, whom society in defense of the Asian Revolu­ -Another highlight of the cam­ merchant ship. This vessel, the the central figure of the story, is decidedly not vestigation, federal or state, is Independent Negro a poor actor. In fact, I think he is natural and has put into a terrifying jungle of pressures and tion. paign was the appearance of both S.S. Booker T. Washington, was not much good unless properly convincing in this role, and even impressive pre­ prejudice, is now stripped of all hope, flees and candidates before a meeting of manned by an inter-racial crew. advised and guided. . . A federal cisely because of a certain quality of understate­ becomes a tragic criminal. Hiding in a deserted LET PEOPLE VOTE the local NAACP. A ll the Under New York’s peculiar grand jury is no different from Candidate Backed house he kills his girl friend because he mistak­ One of the sailors asked Bar­ capitalist candidates were there municipal set-up the real power ment. a state body. Both are made up Bigger Thomas is born in the slums of Chica­ enly believes she has betrayed him. baria, “Do you mean to say that vying for the Negro vote/ In­ — power over the purse strings — of people. Also, the jurisdiction of go’s Negro ghetto. Bred in misery, without hope Bigger Thomas is to die in the electric chair. you support those Chinese who cumbent Mayor Robinson was at­ lies with the Board of Estimate. the federal body will be limited By SWP in Akron of decent living conditions, he is driven to com­ When his second killing is revealed, nothing can 'have invaded Korea and are shoot- tacked by opponent Christopher There are no elections to this to violation of federal civil mit petty thefts. It would be easy to moralize save him and he knows it. The excellent court­ I ing down our boys?” Barbaria because the mayor’s appointees Board. However, Borough Presi­ By L.-Cooper lights.” about this, but how can he get away from the room scenes and discussions in the novel’s, last ■answered: “Suppose the American to the Board of Supervisors had Earl B. Dickerson, chairman of dents have a vote on this Board. AKRON, Oct. 19 — The voters demoralizing atmosphere of the slums? (The re­ chapters were mostly left out of the movie. / workers and farmers changed defeated the city FEPC. Robinson the Temporary Citizens Commit­ The Socialist Workers Party of the 10th ward in Akron have cent riot in Cicero, near Chicago, shows what is movie is not a novel. It has to obey its own laws. this form of government and im­ countered by pointing out that tee, said: “I ’ll have to wait until upholds the legitimate desire of the opportunity of electing an likely to happen when Negroes try to escape the Long talks or sermons have no place in a film. mediately a large imperialist Christopher’s own milk firm something is done. This grand the Negro people of New York independent Negro candidate to Its ideas can be developed only through action. army invaded Mexico and battled hired no Negroes. ghetto.) jury may be no better than the to secure representation on the the City Council on Nov. 6. He gets a job as chauffeur for a millionaire, W right obviously learned from leading Italian its way almost to the American Harry Press, speaking for the Board of Estimate and is there­ other one.” Sponsored by members of the who happens to be a kind and understanding man. and French directors. His picture has a lot to border. Would not the new Ameri­ SWP, stated, “We don’t say one fore giving critical support to Bethal Baptist Church and Yet trouble is in store for Bigger. His employer’s say, but there is no sermonizing in it. Neverthe­ can government he justified in thing to white people and anolher Mulzac’s campaign. friends, Joseph Roulac, young daughter asks him to help her get to her bed­ less, it could have been somewhat more explicit sending an army to meet the to Negroes. Our position in sup­ attorney-at-law, was certified for room one night when she returns home drunk toward the end. N. J. Candidate to enemy?” He further stated that port of Negro civil rights and MAKING A DENT the ballot on August 8. and unable to walk alone. Bigger reluctantly W right is said to be somewhat dissatisfied with the boys in Korea, according to FEPC is written in our literature . A result of Bartell’s many ap­ The Negro people of Akron all honest reporters, were opposed pearances on television, radio and obeys. the film. He probably visualized something more Speak at Forum which we distribute to colored and desperately need representation in Her blind mother, hearing a noise, enters the perfect. But even if it does not measure up to to the war find wanted to come white. We advocate Negro rights at forums as well as the active the Council. The outgoing City NEW ARK — George Breitman, bedroom. Bigger is panic-stricken. Knowing it his expectation, it is still an impressive achieve­ home. “Did Truman consult the 365 days of the year — not just campaigning with distribution of Council of 12, Democrats and ment, one of the most powerful films produced Socialist Workers Party candi­ thousands of leaflets, over twenty would be dangerous for a Negro to be discovered American people about the Ko­ before election.” Republicans, had not the faintest date for Assembly from Essex in a white girl’s room, afraid that in her drunk­ by an American in recent .years. rean War? Why he didn’t even The campaign will he climaxed street-corner meetings, press re­ intention of sponsoring a local County, will speak at a League allow Congress to vote on the with a meeting for Myra Tanner leases, etc., is that more than ever FEPC law, or curbing widespread of Women Voters forum Friday question. We say ‘Let the people Weiss on Nov. 3, at which both before the Socialist Workers discrimination against Negroes in night, Nov. 2, 8 P.M. at the vote on whether we shall have Barbaria and Press will speak. Party is making a dent in the restaurants, swimming pools, etc. On Tour for Socialism Newark News Auditorium, 215 war or peace!’ ” During the last week of the cam­ political consciousness of New Market St. He will also speak Many members of the audience paign, house to house work and York City. REVENUE DEVOURED ------By Myra Tanner Weiss ------the next evening at a pre-election stayed the full hour and a half street meetings will be nightly An example of this was Kar­ The city’s revenue is devoured social at 423 Springfield Ave. that th e " meeting lasted and projects. tell's appearance on the popular Grace Carlson and I were selected out of a ever, the attendance exceeded their most optim­ by a huge debt of ten million crowd by a man on a “street” interviewer televi­ istic expectations. The total attendance at both dollars to the bankers. The out­ sion program. He asked where I was from, and branches was the second largest .on the tour. going Council almost sponsored a then, why I was in Minneapolis. When I told him The comrades in the Twin Cities will be glad payroll tax to meet payments I was on a national tour for the Socialist Workers to know that at last I got to sec a snow storm. ARTICLES ON SAM ADAMS OPEN HIDDIH PAGES and interest. Party he quickly blocked any possible political This morning, my last day in Salt Lake City, I Meanwhile the children of discussion with the question, “What time of the awoke to see a beautiful layer of white spark­ Akron have no playgrounds, and day was Adam born?” In case you're interested ling snow covering the lawns, trees, houses and OF HISTORY; SERIES BY FRANKEl STARTS NOV. 12 (he sick and injured must pay in the answer to this “humorous” riddle, Adam mountains. My desire for snow scenes has been exorbitant rates to doctors and was born before Eve. Oh well, we were given a satisfied and I am content to let Minneapolis By George Breitman . difficult to understand or tell the though naturally it cannot Was the revolution “demo­ hospitals. An Independent Negro ■free bottle of furniture polish, a detergent, and keep its California sunshine. Two weeks from now The M ili­ truth about revolutions of the attempt to tell the whole story cratic” ? What is the relation be­ candidate could sponsor a corpora­ a cup of coffee. I decided to take a train to Salt Lake City tant will begin a series of articles past, even if they want to. in all its detail) and it sucp^cds tween the pen and the sword in tion tax (instead of a tax on A t the University of Minnesota the Student instead of a plane, on the theory that for 28 on Sam Adams and the American in throwing light on a number of periods of crisis? What is the workers’ wages) to obtain IGNORANCE OF PAST Group for Political Analysis arranged a meeting hours I should be cut off from discussions and Revolution, by Harry Frankel. problems of importance to work­ role of “force and violence” in revenue for new playgrounds, and for me on the Korean war. They hoped to make would be able to rest. But I ran into a railroad Having read it, I am of the A t the same time, the American ers today. « the making of history? a people’s hospital clinic. it a debate. Their invitation to a number of man I had known 16 years ago. He had heard opinion that it will be greeted as socialist movement, until only a Did the class struggles within SCOPE OF SERIES A SLOW STARTER university profes.sors was not accepted. So they of my activities and wanted to know all about one of the most popular features few years ago, has borne some the colonies hamper or promote announced in the student paper, the Minnesota socialism. A conductor, who had a son in the in the 22-year history of this responsibility for the widespread The seriousness and scope of the movement for independence Whether Roulac would fit the Daily, that they were “leaving a vacant chair Korean war, was also interested. We talked al­ paper and as a genuine contribu­ misunderstanding and disinterest this series can be illustrated by from Britain? Was tho^ revolu­ bill as a vigorous fighter for opposite Mrs. Weiss for anyone who cares to de­ most the entire'trip. People are so anxious for tion to American history. in the revolutionary, history of listing some of the questions tion made by a “unified” country Negro and working class rights, bate her on who is the aggressor in the Korean answers to all the questions that are bothering This country has had two great the United States. In part, this Frankel examines and answers: or by one that was divided and remains to be seen. He’s bedn a war.” However the chair remained unoccupied. them, I couldn’t refuse. revolutions, and in fact its present was due to immaturity, especially Was the American Revolution polarized around antagonistic slow starter in bringing a pro­ There were about 60 students present and after I wasn’t much better off when I arrived in strength is partly due to their to the sectarian belief that those a spontaneous uprising, or was it aims and interests? Was it gram to the people of the ward presenting -a Marxist analysis of the events Salt Lake City. I was supposed to use the power and magnitude. The first, were “capitalist revolutions” and the product of organized activity primarily a colonial war for in­ and city. It is hoped that as an in Korea we had a long and interesting discussion three-day stopover for a rest before the west in the 18th century, overthrew the therefore not the business of by revolutionists who began as dependence, or a civil war? Was independent Nfgro candidate, involving event*; all over the world and our so­ coast part of the tour; but an old childhood friend stifling domination of the Tory socialists, except to debunk them a minority of the population and it purely a political revolution, or Roulac will speak up clearly and cialist future here in America. of mine happened to be in town, so we made the ruling class and the British crown now and then. In part, it was due based themselves on the dis­ a social revolution too? forthrightly during the remaining A fter the student, meeting we had a public rounds of old haunts, calling ,on friends I haven’t and prepared the ground for the also to ignorance, flowing from content generated by an oppres­ weeks of the campaign. WILL SERVE TO EDUCATE meeting organized by the St. Paul branch of the seen in a decade. Each visit turned out to be development of industrial capital­ an uncritical acceptance of the sive system? The Socialist Workers Party of SWP. It was the first time for several years a long explanation of U.S. imperialist foreign ism. The second, in the 19th versions of history presented by What was the role of the revo­ Most readers of The Militant Akron is urging the election of that the Twin Cities branches had organized policy. Not many people know what is going on, century, abolished the slave the lackeys of the ruling class. lutionary leaders? Who were will agree that such material is Roulac, so that the Negro people separate public meetings and St. Paul regarded but they seem to be anxious to find out. I am system and insured the definitive It is only in the last two decades they, and what did they repre­ needed and welcome in the social­ iu Akron may have representation their meeting as somewhat experimental. IIow- pleased with their desire to learn even though victory of industrial capitalism. that our movement has made a sent? What was their relation to ist press, and that it will serve and a voice in the City Council. 1 am somewhat overwhelmed by all there is Thousands of books on these start in overcoming? these defi­ the masses? 1 0 educate both socialists and other, unaffiliated workers and to teach people who are thinking about social­ revolutions have been turned out ciencies, and in scientifically com­ What was the strategy of the students who are concerned with ism for the first time in their lives. by historians who are in the ser­ batting the efforts of the capital­ revolutionary movement at each Los Angeles Welcome Social for social and historical questions. I met two active participants in the recent vice or under the influence of the ist class to use American history of the decisive turning points in We hope that the Frankel series copper strike. When they learned I was on a so­ ruling class. But their works as a weapon in its struggle the struggle? What were the or­ not only will stimulate further Myra Tanner Weiss cialist tour, another lively political discussion be­ distort the true history of these against the working class. ganizational forms it assumed? study and writing on the revolu­ Meet the Chairman of the Los Angeles Local gan. One of them seemed especially pleased with events, obscure the revolutionary I thiyk (hat Harry Frankcl’s What classes made the revo­ (1?|G !V& THIS) ' ^ tionary antecedents of the modern of tlie Socialist Workers Party, back in our program and I couldn’t help but think of lessons they taught, minimize or scries (it is really a short book) lution ? Did most of the merchant ^ -MILITANT)!#) home port after a Coast-to-Goast tour. how much progress a socialist could make among deny the class character of the on the American Revolution will capitalists support the revolution American labor movement, but T I [to your shopmate/ Jl ♦ REFRESHMENTS these copper workers who have just had such a struggles that produced them. A t mark another step forward in this or did they support the Tories? that it will also be used to in­ rich experience with the strike-breaking injunc­ I / I ASK H IM TO ( ♦ DANCING their best, they tell only part of process. Written from the Marxist Were the masses limited to an troduce The M ilitant to interested tion rifle of the capitalist government. One of the truthVThat is because his­ ♦ E N T E R T A IN M E N T standpoint and bearing the signs auxiliary role, or was their in­ workers and students. Since the / \SUB5C/i/6£lA \ A these days socialism will sweep like a great tory is generally written with a cf conscientious research, it tells tervention decisive in making the SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. 10 series will run for several weeks, prairie fire across the, entire country. Our only bias, consciously or not. As a fascinating story in an ex­ revolution? Was the mass action 1702 East 4th Street SW1’ Headquarters w problem then will be to supply enough socialist Frankel remarks, those who are tremely lively style and with a of the workmen and farmers wel­ the sale of subscriptions will be teachers. afraid of revolution today find it wealth of absorbing detail (al- come to the merchants? the best way to do this.