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.