THE Campaign for 30-Hour Week, 40-Hour Pay Gains I in Unions

Build a Labor Party Now?/ Hail 25 Hi Year Of Fighting for THE PUBLISHED WEEKLYMILITANT IN THE INTERESTS OP THE WORKING PEOPLE

Sodalist U. S. 267 Vol. XVII - No. 43 NEW YORK, M. Y., MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1953 PRICE: 10 CENTS By Murry Weiss This week we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Socialist Workers Party and a quarter of a century’s bat­ tle for a Socialist America. On Oct. 27, 1928, James P. Cannon; Max Shaehtman and *► Martin Abern were expelled from pioneer Trotskyists bore another the Communist Party by its Cen­ proud tradition — they were tral Committee. They were ex­ Leninists. They had assimilated Campaign for 30-Hour Week, pelled for their views on Trot­ the experience of the Bolshevik skyism — support of Leon Trot­ Party of Russia, the lessons of sky’s struggle against Stalinism. the Russian revolution and the These views were set forth in a First World War. This gave Statement, “ For the Russian Op­ depth and clarity to their native position! Against Opportunism American radicalism. and Bureaucracy in the Workers In 1928 the Trotskyist leaders Communist Party of America.” served notice to the Stalinists: 40-Hour Pay Gains I in Unions From October 1928 to October “ We w ill not allow you to destroy 1953, the line of continuity is the revolutionary party of the unbroken in the struggle of American workers.” By this prin­ American Trotskyism to build a cipled stand they assured the revolutionary party in this coun­ continuity of the struggle to Fear Another try. But 1928 was really not the build a revolutionary party. They West Coast GM Locals, beginning — it was a landmark — 'prevented the Stalinists _ from a landmark in the history of transforming the entire revolu­ Cicero Case American radicalism. tionary movement in America into ■Our pioneer Trotskyists of a tool of the Kremlin’s foreign Illinois AFL Endorse 1928 were the custodians of the policy. la Chicago precious experience and lessons STALINIST ARSENAL of the pre-World W ar I Wob- blies, the Socialist Party of Gene There were two interrelated By Marjorie Ball Plan on Unemployment Debs, and the foundation period reasons why Stalinism couid CHICAGfc), Oct. 14 — Jim Crow By Art Preis of - the American Communist wreck a revolutionary party. violence flared here again on Party. A t the same time our First, the Kremlin bureaucrats the Southside as three Negro Sentiment is rapidly growing in the labor movement had abandoned the program of f a mi lies moved into the Trumbull for a shorter work-week with no loss of take-home pay to revolutionary internationalism. Park public project. Although the meet the rising threat of unemployment. Both CIO and They replaced it with “ Socialism Chicagb Housing Authority had SWP Founder in one country.” A party dominat­ the families accompanied by 13 A FL bodies in important industrial areas have adopted ed by Stalinism was henceforth police cars, hooligan elements, official resolutions in the past>2>- transformed into a “border guard” aware of the anti-Negro senti­ veek or two calling for the “30- stituent. locals had acted on this of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin ments of the police, shouted in ­ hour week at 40 hours pay.” issue. Among the locals are the used these parties to make deals vectives and hurled tomatoes and This slogan has just been Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac with the capitalists at the expense rocks at the families. Four endorsed by a number of West Local 216 and the Chevrolet Local of the workers. The workers paid demonstrators were finally ar­ Coast General Motors locals of in the Los Angeles area and heavily for this treacherous policy rested. Only one lives in the pro­ the CIO United Automobile Work­ Local 76, Chevrolet Local 1031 with decades of defeats. ject. This prolonged anti-Negro ers. Similar action has been taken and Fisher Body in the Oakland Second, the Kremlin introduced terror is being organized and by the 900,000-member Illinois area. the practice of handpicking and maintained by elements outside State Federation of Labor. Some 1,700 delegates to the corrupting the leaders of the the project. These actions are in line with Illinois state AFL convention in Communist Parties. It thereby Similar violence broke out in the most important resolution Springfieid recently voted over­ assured itself of a spineless, Trumbull Park last August when adopted by the recent national whelmingly for a 30-hour week functionary-type party leadership the first Negro family moved convention of the American at 40 hours pay to meet a possible which could be relied upon to into this tax-built project, which Federation of Labor. The AFC, crisis in which, according to carry out Kremlin dictates but had been kept all-white for 15 taking cognizance of the im­ union leaders, as many as 20,- were worthless in the struggle years in violation of the public pending serious economic situa­ 900,000 could lose jobs. (Story against capitalism. Thus the housing law. * tion, called for a 35-hour week on page 4). , revolutionary party could be built An extreme housing shortage “with no loss of take-home pay.” These practical unionists are only in irreconcilable struggle faces the Chicago working class, The M ilitant is especially pushing today the shorter work­ with Stalinism. the Negro people in particular. pleased to see the movement of week program which was only “30 fo r 40" begin to take on Special conditions fostered the The influx of 20,000 Negroes a NEWS ITEM : Eisenhower on Oct. 14 ordered government agencies to fire any federal employ­ recently brushed aside by top momentum because we initiated labor bureaucrats as “unrealistic.” JAMES P. CANNON (Continued on page 3) year from the South with no ees who dare to exercise their rights under the F ifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and this proposal as part of our pro­ It now appears as a Iqsrhs&ti increase in dweljing units has in­ refuse to testify at Congressional witch-hunt hearings. tensified these conditions. In gram to meet unemployment. realizable and absolutely neces­ their desperate attempt ttr break We urged the unions 'to 1 adopt sary >step. For the unionists a» from over-crowded ghettoes and this program back in 1933 and rio mere “calamity howlers” Weiss Scores Wagner, firetraps, Chicago Negroes are 1939 before Roosevelt “ solved” when they accept with deadly moving into areas formerly all- U ntT Of 60P IN WISCONSIN SHOWS the depression w ith a war seriousness the real possibility of white. economy. We revived the slogan a depression. Last year the newly purchased in the period from 19415 to 1949, Siqce early August, the Mili­ Halley Labor Records home of a Negro fam ily in an QUICK SHIFT IN POUT IC Al MOODS before Truman was able to again tant has warned of the great all-white suburb was burned by avert an economic crash with ■possibility of big lay-offs and cut­ a racist mob. Trumbull Park has Whether the Oct. 13 upset of it constitutes dissatisfaction with Not that these farmers are huge war spending and the backs. The most important eco­ NEW YORK, Oct. 16 — In a speech presented on Korean War. radio station WNEW, David Weiss, Socialist Workers Par­ all the potentialities of another I he Republicans in Wisconsin’s Republican policies, particularly starving and facing dispossession, nomic factors and statistical Cicero with even more dangerous trends now more than confirm ty candidate for mayor, today exposed the major party Ninth District congressional elec­ on farm problems, rather than as many did in the early thirties. UAW LOCALS ACT implications. tion is viewed as a “ flash of strong faith in the Democrats. But. the whole point is that even this. Our recent issues have given The UA'W-GM Sub Council No. candidates whom he said try “ to*'- Since August the project has The Republicans concede the a slight threat to their economic an abundance of figures. Here win better wages and conditions. lightning in the political skies” 7, which includes all G-M locals paint themselves up as friends been guarded by Chicago police. or a mere “ straw in the wind,” it significance of the abrupt shift security meets with immediate are some further recent ones. of labor before election day.” Weiss said • that “ the so-called in California, adopted a “ 30 for But anti-Negro attacks are con­ clearly indicates the instability in the Ninth D istrict as a reflec­ political response. The same is Paul G. Hoffman, board chair- He pointed out that both outlaw strikes on the waterfront 40” resolution after its con- (Continued on page 2) tinuing. Numerous workers at of political loyalties in America tion of moods that may have true of the workers. An Eau Wagner, the Democratic candi­ were attempts by the rank and Wisconsin Steel Co., a nearby today and the rapidity of shifts national currency and can deci­ Claire hotel manager who gets a file to get rid of Ryan and force date, and Halley, the Liberal plant, have been attacked and good b it of business from union better contracts from the employ­ in the political mood. sively affect the outcome of the Soviet Farm Crisis — 1. Party candidate, did nothing beaten. A continuous state of Only last November the Ninth ’54 congresisonal elections. workers quotes them as saying: while in city office to aid the re­ ers. Why weren’t the rank-and-file tension has been kept aflame by District, predominantly farmers Defeated candidate Padrutt “ We’re sore about layoffs and peated struggles of the New longshoremen able to clean up (Continued on page 2) although there is a good block said: “ The results showed clearly loss of overtime pay.” York longshoremen to clean out their dictator-ridden union? Well, of union workers in Eau Claire, that the farmer and laboring man Even a slow economic downslide gangster rule of their union and up to a short ti#ne ago Ryan and Malenkov Caught Co. had powerful friends. Not gave the late Republican Merlin does not like Republican policy.” and a “ small” depression today Hull C5% of their votes. This only among the waterfront em­ Cannon to Speak Leonard U. Hall, Republican Na­ can set off sweeping political ployers but in every capitalist same district also ran heavily for tional Chairman, admitted that trends, reversals and new ten­ At N.Y. Rally witch-hunting Republican Sen­ SWP Candidate political party and in City Hall, by “any realistic appraisal” the dencies. It ’s not w ritten .in the By the "Scissors” Albany and Washington. When­ James I*. Cannon, National ator Joseph' McCarthy both in Ninth District results were “not stars that such trends lhust be ever Ryan went to City Hall they Chairman of the Socialist 1946 and 1952. good.” • | completely back to Democrats, By John G. Wright In the election to fill the In S.F. Addresses practically rolled out a red Workers Party, w ill speak at repudiated last November. These vacancy left by H ull’s death, WHY THE QUICK TURN carpet. the 25th anniversary celebra­ moods and trends can gain a What is the matter with Soviet agriculture? To be­ tion and election rally of Ihe Democrat Lester R. Johnson got . Why this quick political turn sw ift momentum, carrying over lieve the Kremlin and its apologists, it is simply a ques­ Bldg. Trades Body THEY DID NOTHING party in New York, Friday, 57% of the vote to Republican in this sensitive farm district? into a movement for a decisive tion of assuring a “ sharp upturn” of production with tne Lester R. Padrutt’s 43%. Johnson The Milwaukee Journal’s political . Prank Barbaria and Prances “ Ryan was highly praised by Oct. 30, 8 P.M., Cornish Arms political change, a movement for aim of assuring an “ abundance” 1®- is the first Democratic congress­ analyst Edward Bailey seems to .lames, candidates of the Socialist politicians and newspapers for Hotel, 23rd and 8th Avc. a labor party, fo r instance. of food and raw materials within, agriculture, the other industry — man ever elected from this dis­ have put his finger on it. “ Dis­ Workers Party for supervisor in his anti-communist campaigns. Other speakers include Dav­ the next “two or three years.” remain today wide apart, as they trict. However, Roosevelt carried trict Nine . . . is composed largely the. San Francisco municipal elec­ Of course, the main targets of id L. Weiss, Catherine Gratta The Stalinists portray matters as have fo r the last 30 years. it three times as did Truman in of marginal farmers who are the Since the start, of the. Korean tions, addressed 18 more union Ryan’s anti-communism were rank and Joyce Cowley. Timoteo, if nothing more were involved The backwardness of agricul­ 1948. But it gave a landslide first to feeli economic setbacks war, corporations have been meetings last week. and file longshoremen who wanted guitarist and ballad singer, w ill than the growing pains of ture Inherited from Czarism is vote to Eisenhower. They got hit first and hardest in allowed to write off 817 billion The speech made by Frances an honest m ilitant union.” present a selection of Spanish “Further Development of Agricul­ the primary cause of this gap. The Democrats, of course, are the depression and they haven’t against taxes for capital expan­ James to the Building Trades Weiss linked Wagner fo Ryan’s and American ballads. ture in the USSR,” as the official What perpetuated atid aggravat­ elated by the outcome, although forgotten it.” sion over five years. Council was given a fu ll and corrupt past by pointing out that documents put it. ed it has been the policy of the friendly write-up in the semi in 1951 the Tammany candidate . The capitalists fo r their part bureaucracy. In its planning, the monthly newspaper, Organized Wagner had been “ listed as vice have seized upon the Kremlin’s Kremlin has persistently ignored Labor. Reporting her statements chairman of an affair fo r the unavoidable admissions to raise a the need of the mass of the peo­ on inflation, taxes, the witch­ greater glory of Joe Ryan. hue and cry about the “ bank­ ple, the vital needs of the workers hunt and the threat of a third Halley’s main labor support That " Average Income" Gimmick ruptcy of communism.” The as well as of the peasants. The world war, the A FL paper con­ conies from David Dubinsky of shocking admissions of existing bureaucratic over - emphasis on partment of Commerce (whieu showing the spread of family H alf the above-listed familie cluded its account of the speech the AFL Garments Workers who By Joseph Keller “shortcomings,” “abnormalities,” expansion of heavy industry had also produced the “ average income as reported by the Com­ were $600 or more a year short w ith the comment, “ President “ fo r years sat complacently while Last week I took up the little etc,, have been used by the im­ resulted in a chronic lag of the fam ily” figures so widely quoted merce Dept.: of (his minimum “ modest but John Hogg courteously expressed longshoremen got their heads matter of every “ average family’ perialists to besmirch nationaliz­ light, consumer - goods industry, in the capitalist press) that gave adequate” standard; two-thirds of ed property and ¡planned economy everyone’s sentiments when he beaten fo r trying to bring honest, in'this country being owed $1,063 Income Percent of accompanied by a chronic lag of an actual breakdown of the them did not make it. — the conquests of the 1917 agriculture. said that ‘we’re all certain that a m ilitant unionism to the docks." this ye-r because of the difference Families line-looking girl like yourself will between what the government fam ily incomes according to the That’s the answer to this flo >d Russian Revolution — which Throughout the entire history be a credit to the Board of Super­ H ALLE Y ’S RECORD claims we’ve been making in various income ’ levels. This Under $500 5.0% of propaganda the capitalist, permit rhythms of industrial of the USSR under Stalinist rule $500 to $999 4.1% visors.’ ” “ Fearless Fosdick Halle y,” family incomes and what we’re revealed that in 1951 — a wav- newspapers and radio have been growth wholly impossible under the agricultural policy has zig­ $1,000 to* $1,499 4.2% The President of a Local of Weiss said, “ talked a lot about really getting due to price rises boom year — while the “ average drenching us w ith about how capitalism. It is not the first time zagged between administrative, $1,500 to $1,999 5.9% Electrical Workers heard Mrs. crime and g ra ft on the water­ I showed that when the govern­ family” was getting $4,460, two- “ rich” the American w.orktn that the Kremlin despots have coercive measures of the most $2,000 to $2,499 8.3% James talk, add declared, “ I was front Did Halley support the so- ment says that the “ average thirds of all the real actual people are getting, how we’re supplied the imperialists with brutal sort, and concessions to 8.7 % proud to present Mrs. James to­ called outlaw' strikes of the long- \ family” was $850 “richer” in families in the U-S. were getting $2,500 to $2,999 all becoming “capitalists” and weapons to attack the Soviet stimulate private, individualist night, and would certainly like shoremen against the combined \ 1950 than in 1944, because its less than that. $3,000 to $3,499 10.8% how we don’t need any socialist Union and to try to discredit the production. These violent shifts $3,500 to $3,999 10.3% to see he)1 sitting on the City forces of Joe Ryan and the em­ money income rose from $3,610 revolution because we’ve already struggle for the socialist future of policy failed to produce ONE-THIRD OF A NATION’^ $4,000 to $4,499 9.5% Council.” ployers? Did he ever do anything a year to $4,460, we were actually had a “revolution” — a ver" of mankind. Both sides are stabilization. The struggle of the $4,500 to $4,999 6.5% about the waterfront that was $478.87 poorer in real buying In fact, they were getting even quiet one, to be sure — in the deliberately misrepresenting the peasant against the state, while $5,000 to $5,999 11.0% for the benefit of the longshore­ power. While income went up less than the government’s own distribution of income. situation. changing. in form , has all the S6.010 to $6,999 6.7% men and not just to build his own 23.5%, prices in the same period figures fo r a “ modest but ade­ The truth is that one of the while continued. The Stalinist $7,000 to $9,999 7.0% political reputation?” rose 36.7%. By August 1953 prices quate” living fo r a family. Indeed unresolved contradictions of lie remains, as it has been, that $10,000 to $14,909 1.6% The only mayoralty candidate pad gone up 53%, leaving the the late President Roosevelt’s Soviet economic life — the con­ this struggle has long ago been $15,000 and over 0.4% Witch Hunt in Iran who has been a real, consistent “average family” $1,063 in the words in 1937 about “one-third tradiction between agriculture liquidated; that the peasants have hole compared to 1944 in pur­ of a nation . . . ill-housed, lil* The counter-revolutionary drive and industry — has once again grown into socialism and. will supporter of the rank-and-file NO EXTRAS longshoremen and all other work­ chasing power. elad, ill-nourished” still apply to­ against Communists and sup­ erupted to the surface. A t no “ gradually grow into commu­ day. For the Commerce Dept, ers is the Socialist Workers Party As 1 indicated, however, I was The U.S. Department of Labor porters of Mossadegh in Iran time, under the bureaucracy’s nism.” candidate David L. Weiss. The taking the government’s own survey in 1951 showed that a third in 1951 estimated $4,218 was method of administration and continues to roll up victims. Ac­ WHY PEASANTS RESIST SWP has been exposing Ryan and figures about what an “ average of all families living entirely on necessary fo r a “ modest bat rule, has progress in Soviet the waterfront situation not just fam ily” makes a year. I usually wages and salaries — 31.6 million adequate” living standard for cording to a spokesman of the agriculture been in the remotest Just the opposite is true. The recently but since Ryan got his think of my fam ily as average out of 40.4 million total family mother, father and two children, new royalist regime, 1,222 per­ degree comparable to progress in peasants today under the new stranglehold on the longshoremen. and 1 know blame well we didn’t units — had incomes of less than the average city or town fam ily sons Were arrested during the industry. Leon Trotsky long ago conditions, refuse as in the past, Weiss and his party have publicly make $4,430 in 1950, even before $3,000, the equivalent in pur­ This “ modest but adequate” past month because of their poli­ likened the gap between agricul­ to voluntarily supply foodstuffs suppor ted every rank - and - file taxes, which the government chasing power to a 1939 hunger standard provided for no extras tical views. Of these, 413 were ture and industry to a “ scissors.” and raw materials. Why? Be­ ■movement against the Ryan forgot to mention in its figures. income of about $1,500 a year, — no new auto, television, opo’-a- released after questioning and The task is to close the blades. cause the “ scissors” between in- leadership and every “ outlaw” Well, I searched around until I or less than $29 a week. tion, a college education or money 181, all Communists, were sent The reality is that the’two scissor dustry and agriculture has not FRANCES JAMES strike. found a survey of, the U.S. De­ Here’s the table of figures in the bank. to penal labor camps. blades — the one representing! (Continued on page 2) Page Two !THB Ä IC IT Ä lfT Monday, Oct. 26, 10 “ 0

$18,000 Funid Sciweboard Is l an Eisenho wer-Malenkov "Peate” Patt in Cards ? Branch Quota Paid Percent By Joseph Hansen prise. The probability of such a w ith the Soviet Union is clearly- of our actually seeing “ a kind of cerned about knocking out the it, “So State Department of­ PHILADELPHIA $ 400 $ 493 123 (Last of a series.) turn in diplomacy was forecast becoming an integral part of peace treaty for the cold war,” opposition to the war within the ficials figure they can’t lose. A t AKRON 150 175 117 To readers of the M ilitant, Sec­ by the M ilitant as long ago as American foreign policy.” (Oct. to use the formula of the Wall the labor movement by stepping the least, if the Russians rejert Ch ic a g o 1,500 1,725 115 retary of State Dulles’ announce­ last January — some weeks be­ 9.) Street Journal? up the witch-hunt still more and the pact, the U.S. w ill have made MILWAUKEE 400 430 108 ment to the press Oct. 6 that a fore Eisenhower was sworn into But it is one thing to offer First of all, I^do not know of a dealing some paralyzing blows to a gesture calculated to help MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL 1,200 1,247 104 “ nonaggression pact between th office. such a pact — quite another to single serious political observer the unions. cement relations with its Western, BUFFALO 1.500 1,546 103 United States and the USSR” is Ever, the Wall Street Journal actually sign one. It takes two who believes a long-term pact is A temporary pact with the allies. A t the most, the U.S. w ill ST. JOUIS 75 77 103 “ being studied” among the now admits that “In some form to make a bargain, as the old in sight. Such a course, advocated Kremlin could facilitate achieve­ have won important concessions CLEVELAND 350 354 101 Western powers came as no sur or other, a non-aggression pact saying goes. What are the chance. by Wallace in 1946-48, was ruled ment of these ends. Just ^s the in three hot spots. Germany, ALLENTOWN 60 60 100 out by Truman under the pres­ Stalinists painted up the Stalin- Austria, and Korea.” BOSTON 550 550 100 sure of Big Business. The reason Hitler pact as a great achieve­ Far from the impression that FLINT 250 250 100 for this was that the capitalist ment for peace, thereby helping the press may have given LOS ANGELES 2,500 2,500 100 Violent Over throw of B r. G uiana G ovt, tycoons who are the real rulers to lull workers everywhere into recently, the negotiations are not NEWARK 500 500 100 in America require world domina­ a false sense of security, so a out in the. open. W'illiam R. F ;,y OAKLAND 250 250 100 tion to maintain their economic Malenkov-Eisenhower pact would of the Christian Science Monitor PITTSBURGH 30 30 100 system. They need colonial areas be pictured by the Stalinists as reported Oct. 8 in relat on to the SEATTLE 450 450 100 for investments., raw materials a new guarantee of peace. The Korean conference that an Amer­ New York 4,500 4,044 90 and cheap labor power. By taking intended effect would be to divert ican message “ needs t > be read . . Ydungstown 450 396 88 these and also smashing the workers from taking the only in the context of private negona­ San Francisco 1,000 851 85 Soviet Union, they could gain a possible road to enduring peace, tions which have been taking Detroit 1,500 88ft 59 new lease on life fo r their profit that is, the road to socialism. place both among the western General 385 224 58 system. Being realists of a kind, While the Stalinists are thor­ nations and indirectly between they knew that the bureaucracy oughly discredited in the Amer­ East and West in re-.-nt days.” Total through Oct. 21 $18,000 $17,035 * 95 in the Soviet Union would pot ican labor movement and con Why certain of the negotia­ voluntarily commit suicide, and sequently have little influence in tions are held in secret is quite therefore they projected the new this country, in other places such dear. Main victims of the pact world war for which they are now as France and Italy where they would be the insurgent colonial preparing. head the bulk of the labor move­ peoples and working people of Their main strategy is designed ment, they could play a most the entire world. The common un­ Fund Campaign Ends; to further this objective. perfidious role. derstanding between Western im­ In ‘he Aug. 22 Nation, Mark perialism and the Kremlin would SHORT-TERM FACT? Gayn suggests some of the be reached at their expense. It But what about a short-term counter-revolutionary services the would be a united front against Final Total, $17,035 pact? Here the possibilities, in Kremlin might perform for Amer­ mass upthrusts that could un­ ican Big Business in return for seat either of these counter­ By Reba Aubrey, Campaign Manager . my opinion, are fa r from ruled out. They hinge on Wall Street’s a pact: “. . . we might find Mos revolutionary forces. The Socialist Workers Party campaign to raise an timetable for war and on the cow and Peking ready to sacrifice It is noteworthy that in the $18,000 Party-Building and Publication Fund has ended. advantages such a pact might 'he Communist regimes in East June uprising in East Germany, On Oct. 21 when the scoreboard was posted for the last offer in preparing for the con­ Germany and Indo - China, as the Western powers refrained flict. We should not forget that Stalin once sacrificed the Com­ from giving any serious aid to time, the final total was $17,035® Hitler, too. in readying his in munist rebels in Greece. . . And a the insurgents. By their course or 05% — 5% short of the $18,000 all those branches that reached Communist pledge to still ‘.he they demonstrated their capacity 100% or better: vasion of the Soviet Union found goal. spirit of revolt and conspiracy to give tangible support to the “ Yes, comrade, it is wonderful it advantageous, some two years This showing represents a great in the more turbulent segments Kremlin against a common foe. that Milwaukee has gone over the before he sent his panzer divisions victory’ fo r the party. Every of thé non - Communist world By way of reciprocity, in the top in the Party’-Building and into the Ukraine, to sign and seal branch scored 100% or better on might prove a belter incentive to August general strike in France, Publication Fund! a non-aggression pact with the its local quota excepting only Kremlin. American investments than an the Stalinists refrained from New York, Youngstown, San “No doubt our treasurer’s uncertain stability based on our guiding the most promising move­ Francisco and Detroit. report has reached y’ou by this As I have pointed out in previous articles, Wall Street has threats. A time of peace is als-j ment since 1936 toward govern­ ■ The campaign finished with time. Or at least that part of her a time when our best allies, ment power, thereby demonstrat­ Philadelphia taking first place report in which she sends an postponed the scheduled outbreak of hostilities several times. Eisen­ Japan and Germany, France and ing their capacity to give with a score of 123%. Akron, additional $25 to be contributed England, can regain economic hower last spring cancelled all tangible support to Wall Street Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis- toward Milwaukee’s quota. This health through world-wide trade.-’ projected dates. Charles E. W il • against the class they both fear. St, Paul, Buffalo, St. Louis and brings us up to $430 or 108%. Of course, it is another ques­ These reciprocal stands of Wall Cleveland likewise oversubscribed “ We were confident that M il­ son, head of the Defense (fo r­ merly “War”) Department, re­ tion whether or not the Stalinists Street and the Kremlin in East their quotas. But each and every waukee would go over the top by can deliver the goods. But in cently saw a “ three-year” period Germany and France are in the branch wins top honors for the the Oct. 16 deadline. This should combination with direct force at least “ before the Soviet would pattern of a tacit understanding. extra push and e ffo rt that brought at least compensate some fo r applied by the U.S., Great be ready to attack,” which is the This pattern could simply be ex­ the campaign so near the goal. those branches that fo r special Britain, France, etc., a Stalinist tended, and it could turn out that We want to quote a letter from reasons beyond their control were formula generally used for the projected date. betrayal might prove decisive. a non-aggresison pact might not II, Mahler, Milwaukee Financial unable to come through in the In Indo - China, for example, American Big Business needs actually be put down on paper Committee Chairman, because we traditional Trotskyist style of French troops supplied from this time (1) to complete the but just go into effect as an believe it expresses the feeling of .‘IN FU LL AND ON TIM E.’ ” American arsenals might prove rearmament of Japan and Ger­ uneasy and unstable “ gentlemen’s sufficient to put down the free­ British imperialist troops, rushed to George town, British Guiana, by warship, are shown (bot­ many, (2) to wipe out the world­ agreement.” Such an accord would dom-seeking movement if the tom) disembarking in move to crush elected government of the sugar colony. Gov. Sir Alfred wide impression that it wants be in keeping with the traditions Stalinists cooperated with a stab Savage (top le ft) ousted prime minister Cheddi Jagan and his wife (top right) and other gov­ war, (3) to tame the American of capitalist diplomacy. in the back. Negro Families Brave Racist ernment officials. Sir Savage suspended the constitution. British government overthrew the workers, possibly through a NO CONFIDENCE Guiana government and suspended parliament with Washington’s approval. London claims it “ small” depression. Dulles, representing the in­ terests of American Big Business, The lesson to the working class was foiling a “Communist plot.” Wall Street is especially con- naturally seeks other concessions of these “ peace” maneuvers can Hooligans in Chicago Project from the Kremlin in addition. The be summed up briefly: No confi­ Oct. 7 Wall Street Journal reports dence whatsoever in the inten­ ' (Centipued from page 1) the Negro-baiters to act rationally that in return fo r the. projected tions f either Wall Street or the anti-Negro stories in the Daily and legally. The Communist Party non - aggression pact, “ Russia Kremlin. Even if a “peace” pact Calumet, a neighborhood news­ asks everyone to w rite to the Malenkov Caught by “Scissors” would be asked to agree to a were signed, it could prove only paper, and the activities of the President, Governor and Con­ unified Germany, a unified Korea, short-lived. At most it would turn released by Malenkov-Khruschev deliveries and purchases, are S o u-t h Deering Improvement gressmen. (Continued from page I ) farm-yard fertilizer, etc., are by and to a peace treaty for out to be not much more than the and Co. estimated by the Kremlin at 25 Association. Real estate interests The solution of the CHA and been closed. In other words, the themselves incontestable proof Austria.” In addition, the Krem­ lull before the storm of World Under the Stalinist rule the to 30 billion rubles annually. This have spurred the activities of the City Hall is to keep over 1,000 peasants have not been assured, that the struggle of the peasants lin would “ have to agree to w ith­ War III. To save civilization from mass of the Soviet people have represents a marked shift in the hoodlums. anti-Negro cops in the area. In return fo r food and raw against- the state has fa r from draw their troops from Germany,- the threat of atomic war, it is Wishful thinking is the best materials, adequate supplies of ended. several times in the past sud­ distribution of the annual income, Austria, and Korea; the U.S. and necessary to take the revolu­ TENSION IS HIGH the Negro press has to offer. The manufactured goods, tools, build­ The official Kremlin cxplana- denly learned that the situation •in favor of the proprietary and its allies would promise to do tionary road to socialism. .1 walked into the area Wednes­ Chicago Defender reports the ing materials, machines and the iion gingerly skirts around this in agriculture doesn’t at all look xygstorationist tendencies in agri likewise.” To interpret the postponement day and fe lt the tension im­ Trumbull Park terror has been like. They “ neglect” their work in reaffirmation of the proprietary the way the authorities had por­ culture. The exact proportions of Eisenhower-ChurcMll may only of war — with or without a pact mediately. Police cars blocked o ff smashed with arrests of four the collective farms because to individualist tendencies in Soviet trayed it the day before. Every­ this shift are impossible to be p’-obing, hoping that the — as the opening of a prolonged the area two blocks from the hoodlums. The Chicago edition of eke out their existence they must agriculture. I t l explodes the Stal­ thing is turned upside down. estimate. But an indirect gauge Malenkov regime may be so in­ period of peace would prove fatal. project. Four cops were on every the Courier, a national Negro cultivate their own midget plots, inist lie of “ socialism in one Previous plus signs give way to may be obtained from the fact terested in gaining time to take The task is to take advantage of corner Every driver turning into weekly, reports “ Trumbull Area each with its own midget crop, country.” It underscores the utter minuses. New criteria are pro­ that the total sum surpasses the care of a precarious domestic the difficulties Wall Street faces a street leading to the project is 'A ll Quiet.’ ” Both headlines are privately-owned livestock, etc. bankruptcy of the Malenkov claimed in place of the old. An combined state budgets fo r 1953 position that it will grant unex­ in plunging our planet into an­ had to identify himself as a misleading. The fascist-like ac­ To measures of coercion, to the regime, that is to say of Stalinism abrupt shift of policy is-decreed. of the second, third and fourth pected concessions. The Western other war. That means utilizing resident or turn back. On the tivities of the real - estate in­ continued lack of manufactured which lives on although Stalin I t is not bard to show that this largest Soviet Republics (Ukraine, powers may settle for less. In the breathing space to fight for project grounds there were more terests have not subsided. The goods, they respond with the is dead. It underscores the com has happened again. Byelorussia and Uzbekistan). any case, they count on coming the establishment of a Workers squad cars and other cops “ all quiet” is one of tension and traditional peasant methods of plete irreconcilability between Less than a year ago, last Changes that strengthen these out in these maneuvers with the and Farmers Government in the strolling and lounging every­ apprehension. cuts in production. From the this regime and the needs and in­ 'October, at the 19th Congress of same tendencies have been in­ aura of “peace-lovers.” United 'States. There is no other where. Kremlin’s 'own statistics — the terests of the Soviet people an-1 the Russian party, Malenkov troduced into structure of the As the Wall Street Journal purs way to win enduring peace. SWP STAND claimed that progress in Soviet Many children were kept from first in 15 years — it is clear Soviet economy, industry and Machine and Tractor Stations. The Socialist Workers Party, that this is precisely what has agriculture alike. agriculture had kept pace with Brigadiers of the tractor teams, school by apprehensive mothers on the other hand, sees the situa­ the stormy growth of industry. afraid to let them out of sight. been taking place in recent years. This is what the existing situa­ tractor drivers and their helpers, tion as fraught with peril both Soviet factories were assured For the kids it was a holiday. The official admitted declines in tion in Soviet agriculture dis­ harvester - combine drivers and for the Negro people and the supplies of raw materials. Soviet Adults spoke in whispers. There livestock, in the production of closes. We -propose to -prove this their helpers, fuel-record keepers M e M l U TANT A KM Y unions. It asks that Chicago’s “ industrial enterprises experience was no bantering as the women potatoes and vegetables, fodder, from the facts and figures were all previously members of organized labor movement in­ no shortage of raw materials or the collective farms. Henceforth hung up their wash. The women tervene in this situation. other supplies,” boasted Maleu- Literature Agent Murray For­ “Sunday Dotty, Julie and Nat I talked- to had the same story: ihey become permanent members The violence has already flowed kov. The people, the cities in bes reports good sales and dis­ participated in a door-to-door The property owners outside the of the state-owned MTS, detach over to an attack against the particular, were assured growing tribution of the Militant at street sale in Brooklyn. Within a half project were starting the riots. ed from the collectives, and placed Negro workers at Wisconsin 30-HOUR WEEK, 40-HOUR PAY food supplies. “ Our agriculture,” meetings in the cur­ hour they ran up the following Any antagonism of the tenants on the state payroll. The entire Steel who do not even live in the he said; “ is becoming more and permanent staff of the MTS and rent N e w York score: Julie, seven papers and to Negroes in the project stems neighborhood. They are being more perfected, more prductive mayoralty campaign. two SWP pamhlets; Dotty, six ¡more fro m . living in this tense of the specialized stations — attacked as they leave the plant. CAMPAIGN GROWS IN UNIONS and is turning out more and more He writes, “ The fo l­ Militants; and Nat, one paper atmosphere than to having non­ directors, chief engineers, repair- The assaults are" a forecast of (Continued from page 1) of the excess profits tax and produce fo r the market.” lowing listing of and three pamphlets. More sales white neighbors. shop superintendents, agricultural the future of an organized anti- man c f the Studebaker Corp., on reduced personal and corporation In September 1953, from the specialists plus the new per­ sales and distribu­ are being planned for this week at which we hope to do as well TIMID OFFICIALS Negro hysteria by all those in­ Oct. 15 told the Federation of income taxes next year w ill lips of Khruschev came the fol­ manent machine personnel — are tion fo r the past lowing: “ A definite disproportion two weeks should and better.” C ity officials, civic bodies and terests that benefit from the Automobile Dealer Associations actually mean net profits as large by law alloted “ household plots has set in between the rate of indicate what we can An encouraging door - to - door Negro organizations have met division of the working class. that the auto industry is in an as ever. of their own. growth of our large-scale socialist accomplish in the sale last Sunday is reported by the situation so far only with Strung along Lake Michigan “unhealthy” state and that the Thus, J. D. W right, president They enjoy special tax exemp­ cf Thompson Products, Inc., industry . . . and the present level future. We view this San Francisco Literature Agent expressions of fear and tim id half from 83rd to Gary’, Indiana, are “auto factories must limit their tions. They ' are exempt from cf agricultural production.” As a only as a first step Nick Bennett. “ Eight of us went actions. The National Association many steel plants — U.S. Steel, production to that volume of cars boasted in an interview in the obligatory deliveries to the state. result of this “ obvious lag” toward a more in­ out with papers and programs fo r the Advancement of Colored Carnegie, Inland, etc. In the which, with hard intelligent Oct. 15 Wall Street Journal that In addition, a special state fund Soviet agriculture “ does not fully tensive and concentrated lite r­ and were able to sell 17 copies People has limited its interven­ residential area west of the lake, selling, can he sold at a profit his firm “ expects to sell less next of almost half a billion rubles satisfy the population’s growing ature campaign in New York. of the M ilitant. We plan to visit tion to filing a federal suit against which includes the Trumbull Pari by retail dealers.” His own com­ year” but “anticipates . . . earn­ has been set aside in order “ to need for food, or the light in­ “ Our first sale was at an open- the same people again next Sun­ the Chicago Housing A uthority to project, live many workers of pany cut back production bv a ings slightly higher1 than for grant workers, engineers and dustry’s need for raw materials,” air election rally held on the day and trv for another sale or enjoin them to accept qualified these plants. fu ll third on Sept. 14 — which 1053 because of the expected technical personnel and other said Khruschev. This happens to lower East Side. Thirty Militants for a sub. The following week we Negro applicants. To date they W ith Contract negotiations shows what they think of deal­ elimination of the excess profits employees of the MTS loans of be poles apart from Malenkov’s weTe sold. Several papers were will go again and try for a sub. have not issued any literature coming up, the steel companies ers’ prospects even with “ hard tax.” up to 12,000 rubles for a term picture of an agriculture “be sold the following Wednesday at Also we w ill hit new places. on the subject. are making all efforts to weaken intelligent selling.” Business Week cynically head­ of ten years, repayable beginning coming more and more perfected.” a small meeting in the Bronx. “ I have been using the M ilitant the union. A union divided lined its Oct. 17 article on an­ with the third year.” The Daily News and the Chi­ along race lines is a weak union. Freight carloadings have been ticipated steel cutbacks of as Instead of denying shortages The weather was cold and there on the job. I give a copy away cago Sun-Times, both slightly 'It is no accident that management five to ten percent below a year much as 20%, “ Steel Slides with Khruschev now affirms them. In this way, paralleling the were only a few people on the and then after discussing the liberal, have condemned the ac­ representatives are the ones most ago for the sixth straight week. a Smile.” A hundred thousand Shortages exist in every branch of midget households of the peasants streets but one woman who paper I try a sale and later a tivities of the Jim Crow hooligans talkative about the Trumbull Farm income is down almost steel workers may get the gate — agriculture with the sole exception there has now been set up a net­ bought the paper was especially sub. A ll I have spoken to have and are fearful that another Park incidents, trying to stir up 25% from the 1950 peak. Sec­ but the leading steel companies of grains. Moreover Khruschev work of new individual proprietors impressed with the headline ‘AFL expressed their approval of our Cicero w ill occur. Their program, backward Jim Crow sentiments retary of the Interior McKay ad­ have it rigged so they won’t lose r.ow warns that the lagging in the countryside attached to Urges 35-Hour Week With No program and some are very en­ however, is to merely plead with in the white workers. mitted on Oct. 20 that the a penny. They are “ actual'-' agriculture “ retards the further state-owned enterprise -and with Take-Home Pay Loss.’ The same thusiastic.” depressed state of the coal in­ viewing current operations with development of the light and privileges previously unknown. night Johnny T., Johnny A., Jack* Booth sends in the fo l­ DEFENSE GUARDS NEDEED- dustry “ is so obvious that it is a smiles on their faces.” food industries.” In other words Their number is not insignificant. and Manny went to a Transport lowing roundup report on the A CIO and AFL-sponsored de­ cause fo r national concern.” But it’s no joke to the several agricultural lag threatens an in­ Inasmuch as the existing number Workers Union meeting- where work the comrades have been Newark Fri. Night fense guard at the homes of these Delinquencies in payments on million already laid off or put on dustrial lag. of tractors and harvester com­ they were able to sell five M ili­ doing for the past eight weeks Socialist Forum Negro families and at the gates consumer and personal loans and part iime and the millions more Corresponding to this abrupt bines is officially estimated at tants in a few minutes. around one of Chicago’s South of Wisconsin Steel would say to repossessions of autos and ap­ who face the same fate in the not about-face in official claims con­ over a million, the drivers and “At a Harlem open air rally Side s'um areas. presents a talk on the boss class: “This is an attack pliances are “ at post-war highs,” distant future. The sociallv- cerning agriculture, there has their helpers, alone, counting two 150 copies of the Oct. 12 issue “ We are constantly expanding against the unity of labor. It will reports the Oct. 20 Wall Street irresponvsible profiteering para­ been decreed an abrupt shift in shifts for each machine, will of The Militant containing the our area of work, and have .The Troth About not be tolerated.” Such a defense Journal. sites may welcome a “ small” agricultural policy. It is a shift number in the neighborhood of New York election program of the worked up to selling an average three to four million. Yugoslavia guard would say to the real estate Many Big Business corporatio’- depression in which they hope to the right, marked by sweeping Socialist Workers Party, and 25 of 30 papers each week. There interests: “We’re not like the and monopolies look with equa­ to put the squeeze on organized concessions to the individualist, There is evidence, as we shall copies of ‘The Socialist Workers is an interest and a need for the Speaker: cops — ready to overlook your nimity, if not even “cheerfully.” labor while ensuring their own proprietary elements among the show in subsequent articles, that Party — What I t Is and What paper and the program it racist attacks. We intend to see at the prospects of what thev profits. peasantry. Special emphasis is the process of differentiation of It Stands For’ were distributed presents on housing — the setting Lewis Scott Negro civil rights enforced.” themselves concede w ill be “ only” The workers, however, have no placed on developing the free the peasantry has been speeded to those who listened to the meet­ up of tenants’ organizations, etc. The Chicago labor movement market and stimulating production up in the post-war years. The ing. Johnny.A. sold 12 copies of .n the past month on this project Friday, Oct. 30, at 8:30 a 10 or 15 percent decline in the choice but to begin the fight in has a great opportunity to strike economy, with a “ mere” five to earnest fo r the 30-hour week at on individual plots. new reforms will speed up th:s the Harry T. Moore pamphlet. Barney has sold 14 papers; Dottie, differentiation still further, 13; Bert, four; Wilson, 15; Jacki, at 52 Market Streot a real blow at race-dividing Jim eight million unemployed. Their, 40 hours pay and other demands In monetary terms, the con­ A fter the meeting two members Crow practices, the weapon of cheerfulness is explained, in to mpet the deadly threat of cessions, through tax reductions, preparing the ground for new of the audience spent the rest 12; Elaine, 14; Alice, 19; Carol, union-busting company interests. part, by the fact that expiration depression that looms so close. higher prices for obligatory state collisions at the next stage. of'the evening discussing with us. four; and Marj, four.” Page th re e

S u b s c rip tio n « : $3 p e r y e a r; filmed articles bp contrib­ utors do not necessarily rep­ |1.50 for 6 month«. Foreign: rerent The M ilitant’s polldee. |4.50 per y e a r; $2.25 fo r fl THE MILITANT These are expressed In It» months. Canadian: $3.50 per Published Weekly In the Interests of the W orkint People editorials. pear; $1.75 fo r 6 m onth». THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION "Entered as second class Bundle Order«: 5 or more m a tte r M arch 7, 1944 a t the 116 University P I., N . Y . 3, N . Y. P h o n e: A i. 5-746$ copies 6c each In U .8., 7c Post Office at New York, N.Y., under the act of March each in foreign countries. Editor: GEORGE BRE3TMAN Highlights of S History 3. 1879." Business Manager: JOSEPH HANSEN 1928: James P. Cannon, Max'«)' $>Workers Party. Kutcher launches Vol. X V II - No. n Monday, October 26, 1933 Shachtman, and M artin Abern ex­ fight-to be reinstated. The Case pelled from Communist Party Oct. of the Legless Veteran becomes 27 for supporting program of The SWP Alone Did Not Betray a key test case in the fight against Trotsky against Stalinist degen­ the witch hunt. Eisenhower Scraps Fifth Amendment eration. First issue of The M ili­ 1950: SW'P leader James P. tant appears Nov. 15. Cannon attacked the Truman ad­ When General Eisenhower on Oct. 14 issued invented that amendment and slipped it into 1929-32: Communist League of ministration for plunging America the Constitution when no one was looking.” America, forerunner of Socialist into the Korean civil war. In a an order prohibiting government workers from letter to Truman and members of Attorney General Brownell is gleeful over Workers Party, is founded. Prin­ using the Fifth Amendment, he “ liberated" cipal work of these years is pro­ congress he demanded: “ W ith­ the Executive Order, but he wants to go still draw the American troops and let with one stroke of the pen some 2,000,000 gov­ paganda among advanced workers further. He says, l ‘The interests of justice and for revolutionary socialist pro­ the Korean people alone.” He ernment employees from their Constitutional the nation's safety w ill be served . . . if the gram. Main efforts directed to­ scored the capitalist rulers for 'rights under this vital provision. testimony of witnesses can be compelled, upon ward Stalinists in hope of achiev­ their unprovoked, unauthorized ing reform of Communist Party. assault on the Korean people: The federal order w ill now be emulated by grant of immunity, from criminal prosecution.” Numerous books and pamphlets “ You are a pack of scoundrels. state and municipal governments, so that be­ This gimmick of “ immunity” is diabolical. by Leon Trotsky published. You are traitors to the human fore we are through, over 6,000,000 workers It works as follows: They haul you before ; 1932-33: Campaign fo r united- race. I hate your rudeness and McCarthyite inquisition committee. You are front policy between Socialist brutality. You make me ashamed w ill be affected. of mv country, which I have al­ asked to give information as to the beliefs and and Communist Parties in Ger­ Including their families, that makes roughly many to stop H itler. Trotsky’s ways loved, and ashamed of my 24,000,000 people in this country who wiil political affiliations of your relatives and burning and eloquent appeals for race, which I used to think was as good as any . . . American have been placed outside the protection of the friends. You give that information and some united front gained wide circula­ McCarthyite official may fire your friends tion among Communist workers. boys are being sent 10,000 miles Bill of Rights. away to k ill and be killed, for "dangerous thoughts.” Then of course you Criminal policies of Stalinists and If anyone wants to argue that after all only Social Democrats allow H itler to not in order to liberate the are a confessed “ associate” of the victims. So one s|nall right has been taken away from march to power unobstructed. Korean people, but to conquer you can be bounced and disgraced. and subjugate them. I t is outrage­ these workers, we say, “ Don’t delude yourself. Militant published three times a Aware of all this, you say: “ I refuse to week at height of campaign. Hun­ ous. It is monstrous.” The SWP If a tyrant cuts away one right, the others :s thq only party in America answer under the F ifth Amendment.” dreds of Communist workers turn can go next.” that has persistently and unam­ “ Stop right there,” they reply, “ You can’t to Trotskyism. Hitler’s victory taken by Trotsky as definite proof Fourteen of the 18 leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Truckdrivers Un­ biguously campaigned for im­ Besides, this is no “small” right. Not with refuse. We grant you immunity from prosecu­ mediate withdrawal of troops McCarthy running wild. Any government of bankruptcy of Third Interna­ ion Local 544-CIO march in closed ranks Friday afternoon, Dec. 31, to the U.S. Marshal’s office tion.” tional. He calls for organization in Minneav olis. Th re they were taken into custody and sent the following Monday to the Fed­ from Korea. worker who doesn’t want to turn stoolpigeon of new international. eral Penitentiary at Sandstone, Minn., to serve their prison sentences for opposing imperialist 1952: In SWP’s second presi­ But here is the trick. There is no question dential campaign, Farrell Dobbs or who refuses to lay himself open to frameups of “criminal prosecution” in most of these 19:13-35: American' Workers war and advocating socialism.- In the lead (le ft to right) are: Vincent R. Dunne, James P. Cannon, Oscar Coover and Carl Skoglund. end Myra Tanner Weiss, candi­ is forced by this decree to “ talk or else.” witch-hunt procedures. A ll they do is fire you, Party m ilitants lead firs t great dates fo r President and Vice It therefore means heightened fear and in­ auto strike at Toledo Auto-lite. President, utilize nation - wide blacklist you, disgrace you, imply you are a They use Flying Squadrons for security for millions of Americans. of American Trotskyism. «The support demonstration. Five thou­ of socialism. F irst indictment radio and TV programs to demand spy, hound you, snoop on you. and your neigh­ first time in American labor his­ AWP and CLA fuse and form sand workers in anti-fascist dem­ under the infamous Act. Eighteen withdrawal of American troops The Fifth Amendment plainly states that bors, intimidate and frighten your children. tory. Minneapolis Trotskyists, Workers Party. Lead National onstration in Los Angeles under of the defendants convicted Dec. from Korea, and oppose Wall Vincent R. Dunne, Farrell Dobbs no one shall be forced to bear witness against That’s all. Otherwise you are as free as a bird. Unemployed League in struggles SWP leadership. 8, 1941, same day U.S. declared Street’s war drive, the Mc­ and Carl Skoglund, lead magnifi­ himself. Now the witch hunters have it turned You’re not going to be prosecuted. You're just involving hundreds of thousands. 1940: A fter six months of in­ war on Japan. Carthyite witch hunt, Taft cently organized truck-drivers 1936-1937: Trotskyists enter ternal struggle, a petty-bourgeois 1941-43: SWP conducts vigorous Hartleyism and Jim Crow, v around — no one shall be allowed to use this a “poor security risk.” strike. Turning point in history Socialist Party and merge with opposition led by James Burnham struggle against Minneapolis 1953: SWJ> leads fight against provision without becoming a suspected, That’s the way the witch hunt works. It cuts its left wing. Socialist Party left and Max Shachtman splits from Trial convictions. Socialist mes­ Wall Street preparations for victimized and hounded outcast. Even the deeper and deeper into the whole body of basic wing opposes treacherous policy SWfP Opposition refused to sage against war and capitalism World War H I. Party candidates reactionary N. Y. 1Vorld Telegram said Oct. •riglits the American people won in more than of Social Democrats and Stalinists defend Soviet Union in impend­ voiced by Trotskyist defendants conduct vigorous election cam­ 17: “ One might get the impression from some a century and a half of bitter struggle. When in struggle against Franco in ing war with German imperialism. in courtroom published in paigns in Los Angeles, San Fran­ Spain. L e ft wing likewise opposes Discussion, ied by Leon Trotsky pamphlet form and distributed by cisco, Detroit and New York Senators and Congressmen that the Commies are we going to put a stop to it? support ■ given by SP leaders to and James P. Cannon, became an the thousands. Eighteen sent to James Kutcher publishes his auto­ LaGuardia in New York. Right ideological landmark in world prison for their revolutionary biography, The Case of the Leg­ wing bureaucratically expels the Trotskyist movement and build­ socialist convictions on Dec. 31, less Veteran, marking five years left. Great majority of active m ili­ ing of the SWP. 194ft. Protest movement organiz­ of his fight, and launches eleventh Our Stand on Trieste tants and the entire youth organ­ 1941: Twenty-nine leaders of ed, enlisting support of organ­ legal appeal. ization (YPSL) rally to the sup­ What is fundamentally involved in the preparation for later expansion at the expense the Socialist Workers Party and izations representing millions of port of expelled le ft wing. Stalin’s Minneapolis Truck Drivers Union- American workers. SWP in the Trieste dispute? The 270,000 inhabitants of of Yugoslavia. It is in the same pattern as monstrous frame-up trials reach CIO indicted under notorious forefront of m ilitant class actions this 80-mile strip of land are obviously not their support to Adenauer, the Mikado, Syng- their height. Through tireless ef­ Smith “G-ag” Act for opposition of the American workers. The being consulted about their fate. Historically man Rhee, Gen. Franco and similar despots. forts, American Trotskyists suc­ to capitalist war and advocacy progressive left v/ing fights the I ceed in enlisting support of prom­ this may not be new to Trieste which has been The Kremlin wants to maintain the status no-strike pledge in the unions. inent educators and liberals to Militant unionists and Trotskyists fought over for 20 centuries, but that doesn’t quo; that is, the counter-revolutionary deals of form John Dewey Commission to are fingered by Stalinist stool- make it any the less oppressive to its citizens. Yalta, Teheran and Potsdam. give Trotsky chance to answer pigeons who worked with th e ' Trieste was “given” to Italy after World The T ito regime in Yugoslavia helped lay Stalin’s charges. Commission FBI to destroy the left wing in hearings held A pril 10 to 17 In War I by the Allied imperialists. In 1947 the the basis for the present situation, as we pointed the unions. SWP gains in members Mexico. Trotsky exposes Stalin’s end influence because of its m ili­ Italian Peace Treaty signed by the U.S.. Great out last week, by a foreign policy supportin' “greatest frame-up in history.” tant anti-war stand. ! Britain and the Soviet Union set up the "Brea. the western capitalist powers. How this policy Commission publishes verdict: 1945-47: SWP on the picket line Territory of Trieste” to be governed by an in­ has weakened Yugoslavia can be gathered from “Trotsky is Not Guilty.” They de­ in the post-war strike wave, the clare: “ The Moscow Trials w ire ternational administration. After some squab­ the fact that the people of Trieste are obviously struggle against Jim Crow, the frame-ups.” Trotskyist workers fight against American fascism. bling over who should be governor, Trieste was not clamoring to be included in the Yugoslav’ from coast to coast plunge into The party distinguishes itself in divided into “ Zone A ” to be governed by a workers state. historic labor upsurge during rise leading m ilitant actions against joint U.S.-British military administration and Yet the Yugoslavs, despite their bad policy, of CIO. Fight militantly on picket the race-haters in the Fontana lines and in sitdowns in auto, “ Zone B’’ to be governed by Yugoslavia. are defending the anti-capitalist foundations Murder Case (Calif.), the Fer­ steel, rubber, textiles and other guson case (New York), White of their state against imperialist aggression in Now the U.S. and Britain have violated the major industries. City and Hickman cases (Illinois). treaty and handed over Zone A to Italy. Yugo­ this situation. From this basic class point 1938: Convention of Socialist The 1946 SWP convention adopts slavia protested. The USSR protested. The of view the Yugoslavs are in the right against Party left wing meets in Chicago Theses on Coming American the American and British capitalists. In this on New Year’s week-end and Revolution that forecast America situation became tense when the Yugoslavs founds Socialist Workers Party. Vincent R. Dunne, pioneer situation, the Yugoslav interest in Trieste, going socialist in not - distant threatened m ilitary action. To this the U.S. Fourth Intel-national, world party Trotskyist in the 1928 split future. Farrell Dobbs, National Sec­ State Dept, and the British reacted with from the viewpoint of the world socialist JAMES KUTCHER, legless of socialist revolution, founded in from the Stalinized Communist 1948: The first presidential elec­ retary of the SWP and its first customary cynicism. They seem to feel that revolution, takes precedence. World War II veteran, whose Europe by Leon Trotsky. Party, made American labor tion campaign of the Socialist candidate for President of the treaties they sign need not be honored. ' We must be on guard against U.S.-British five-year fight against govern­ 1939: Socialist Workers Party history through his leadership Workers Party. Farrell Dobbs United States when he ran in leads demonstration of 50,000 Third W orld War maneuvers and counter- ment “ loyalty” purge has sym­ of the famous Minneapolis candidate for President. Millions 1948. He was the party’s To otir view the participants in this power bolized the SWP’s great record workers against American fascist truckdrivers strikes in 1934 of people hear the socialist fight­ banner-bearer again in 1952 play have the following roles: The IIS , and 'revolutionary machinations in the Balkan in defense of civil liberties. The mobilization at Madison Square and in the subsequent building ing program. James Kutcher, and carried the SWP’s anti-war Great Britain are trying to bolster the decrepit tinder box. Keep Italian imperialism out of publication of Kutcher’s book, Garden in New York, Feb. 20. of famous Teamsters Local 544. legless veteran of World War II, message from coast to coast to Italian government and give Italian imperial­ Trieste! Give the people of Trieste a say in “ The Case o f the Legless Vet­ Despite sabotage by Stalinist He has served the cause of purged from a clerical job in the millions of people over the leaders, thousands of rank and determining their fate! eran,” now climaxes his cou­ socialism for more than 40 Newark Veterans Administration radio and TV and in numerous ism a new beachhead on the Balkan coast in rageous struggle. file Communist Party members years. for his membership-in Socialist mass meetings. THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PA R TÏ- Hail 25th Year of Fighting for Socialist America WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT STARDS FOR (Continued from page 1) capacity to lead workers in strug­ tion with the “good capitalists” But the radicalization of the growth of Stalinism in the Amer­ gle and become a part of the mass and to an open policy of class fifties w ill not be dominated by (The following excerpts are viction that we shall witness a trained in theory and practice, ican Communist Party. The workers’ movement. betrayal, the Trotskyists forged the Stalinists and the Social from the pamphlet, The Socialist third revolution in America, a the party keeps up with events, radical vanguard of 1928 was But before the American Trot­ ahead in their work. They wee Democrats and thus suffer be­ Workers Party — What It is, revolution that w ill end the alien correctly . interprets them and under pressure of the capitalist skyists could enter the broad able to fuse with the revolu­ trayal and defeat. The Socialist What It Stands For, by Joseph rule of the Government of Money prepares for what is coming. boom of the twenties. The arena of class struggle they had tionary le ft party. Inside the Workers Party has built fo r 25 Hansen. This extremely clear and and establish a new government Through the party membership penetration of Stalinism was to pass through the most dif­ labor movement they fought the years to create the nucleus of the interesting explanation of the of the people — a Workers and and the party press, the work­ facilitated by opportunist cor­ ficult test of their early history. combination of Stalinism and the revolutionary mass party of the program and history of the SWP Farmers Government. ing people as a whole gain under­ rosion of the leading circles of From 1929 to 1934 the ordeal of labor bureaucracy. The debate in American workers. In the storm v can be obtained by sending 1ft standing of the political issues the CP. A right - wing faction, small halls and pamphlets was NEED FOR PARTY terrible isolation from the mass struggles ahead our program and cents to Pioneer Publishers, 116 affecting their interests. headed by Jay Lovestone, had of radical workers was inflicted now translated into the language our cadres w ill prove their his­ University PI., New York 3, Ne-.v History has known many revo­ The party is the head of the been placed in power by the on our pioneer movement. The of the daily struggle of the work­ torical validity. York. — Ed.) lutionary struggles that failed working class, its eyes, 'its ears, Comintern bosses against the will radical workers and youth turned ers. During the Second World The Socialist Workers Party, America -faced two great despite every promise of success. its tongue, its brain and its will. of the overwhelming majority of to the official Communist Party. War Stalinist strikebreaking and and only the Socialist Workers dangers to its development. It Failure was due to lack of a The most essential task facing the party. While the capitalist world was betrayal of the Negro struggle Party, has been built for the met both with revolution. (1776 political party based on a correct the American workers today is In the first issue of the M ili­ demonstrating its bankruptcy the drove home the lesson of Stalinist tasks that will face the workers and 1861-65.) Tf we judge from program and intimately linked building such a party on a mass tant, Nov. 15, 1928, the three Soviet Union was forging ahead treachery to millions of workers. in the coming showdown between history, no obstacles are great with the people. scale. Trotskyist founders published a economically. The first Five Year Notwithstanding many simi­ the American worki ig class and enough to halt the American peo­ Organization of such a party resolution on the “ Right Danger Plan was introduced and showed larities there are profound d if­ the capitalists. That is why tile THE SWP ple long in their forward march. in time means the difference be­ in the American .Party.” This the superiority of nationalized and ferences between 1928 and 1953. Socialist Workers Parly pan vie.r When nothing else w ill clear the tween b rilliant success and catas­ The aim of the Socialist Work­ resolution was originally in­ planned economy over the anar­ Today the capitalist prosperity the future with unshakable con­ road, they employ the irresistible trophe. An outstanding example ers Party is to become the mass troduced by the le ft - wing op­ chy of capitalism. The Communist has even less substance and fidence. force of revolution. of success in the struggle against party needed to build social­ position which included William Party exploited the radical moods durability than in 1928. And the Today America is faced with capitalism was the one scored ism in America. The harmonious Z. Foster, Bill Dunne and Alex of the workers with left phras­ next wave of American working- the greatest danger of all — the by the Bolshevik Party under combination of the American Bittleman and the Trotskyists. eology. The Trotskyists, expelled class radicalization , w ill be far LOS ANGELES danger that the Government of Lenin and Trotsky.- Failures oc­ revolutionary tradition with the Foster, Dunne and Bittleman more profound and revolutionary LEON TROTSKY and hounded by the Stalinists, Money w ill plunge us into an­ curred in Germany, Italy, China best of international thought dis­ capitulated to Stalinism but the seemed to be an obscure sect The American workers have Friday Night Forum other World War — the danger H925-27), Austria and Spain. tinguishes the Socialist Workers resolution retained all of its inevitably become the forerunner quibbling over some abstract acquired a vast fund of ex­ presents that Big Business w ill drag us With the failure of the revolu­ Party from all other parties. In power and exposure of the op­ of a deep-going crisis.” theoretical differences. perience. They have built- power­ A Series of Lectures down into barbarism. tion, reaction swept triumphantly the p’-ogram of the Socialist portunist degeneration in the This remarkable forecast of the These were hard years. But it ful organizations. They w ill meet (1) The Walter-McCarran into power in these countries. Workers Party the American Can it be held that the Amer party leadership. The Loves- pioneer Trotskyists was sw iftly was precisely during this period the next economic convulsion of , Immigration Act jean people of today w ill prove Hitler, Mussolini, Chiang-Kai- working people w ill find the most toneites tended to minimize all confirmed. Their analysis was all of Stalinist “leftism” that the American capitalism with a Speaker: less far-sighted, less courageous, shek, Doifuss and Franco — these highly developed political thought the signs of an approaching the more noteworthy' because it American Trotskyists showed radical political counter - attack Robert Morris lqss energetic tljan their revolu­ dictators won out because the of our times. economic crisis fo r capitalism. calmly rejected the noisy and their mettle. They stuck firmly far exceeding- the movement of Chairman, Committee on Im ­ tionary forefathers? workers did not succeed in build­ Along with this they disparaged aggressive capitalist propaganda to their principled positions. In the thirties. migration and Deportation Already we see the break-up ing a revolutionary party soon the tendencies of radicalization about how American prosperity spired by the leadership of Leon American Civil Liberties Union of the old political alignments enough. in the working class. bad refuted Marx. Wall Street’s Trotsky they insistently warned Swept Under Rug Fri., October 30, 8 P.M. and the formation of new, more A revolutionary party trains To this right-wing conception Black Friday in October 1929, that the false policies of Stalin­ radical currents, such as we saw and educates the m ilitant rank- The FBI made public its half- of th° Lovestoneites the resolu­ put a stop to all that nonsense. ism would lead to defeat and CHICAGO (2) Anniversary Russian prior to 1771 and 1860. History is and-file members of the working yearly collection of crime data. In tion counterposed the conception The crisis opened a new stage cafastrophe. History offered Socialist Workers Revolution repeating itself in a new setting. class who have qualities of leader­ the firs t half of 1953, 1,047,290 of American capitalism approach­ in the history of the American tragic confirmation of the cor­ Speaker: presents We have every right to the eon- ship. It binds them together in a crimes were committed. This is ing catastrophic decline. I t show­ working class. The great CIO rectness of these warnings. David Dreiser cohesive body of professional a 2.5% increase over the same ed how economic, contradictions upsurge of the thirties followed Tn the process of the struggle Black Magic Marxist Lecturer working-class politicians. It mul­ period in 1952. Unlisted are were compelling Big Business to after the first revivals of in­ for program the American Trot­ Sat., Oct. 31, 9 P.M. Fri., Nov. 6, 8 P.M. A One-Year Subscription tiplies their individual strength crimes committed by the FBI open an offensive against the dustry from total stagnation. The skyists assembled a cadre that SWP Hall FORUM HALL to THE MILITANT a thousandfold. itself — wiretapping, tampering living standards of the workers. American working class revealed was immune to Stalinist op­ 1702 E. 4«h St. Tel. AN 9-4958 734 South Wabash Only $3 Through its program, the party with the mails, snooping into It marked out the features of its enormous capacity fo r m ilitant portunism and corruption. That Questions — Discussion keeps its eyes on the main goal private political opinions, hound­ the depression already underway action. In this upsurge the Trot- is why, when the Stalinists Dancing, Entertainment, Refreshments 116 University PL N. T. S, N. Y. and major steps leading to its ing and conspiracy against civil in 1928 and predicted that “the skyists-were in the thick of the turned the helm of their policy Refreshments Subscription 85 cents attainment. Through leaders liberties, present economic depression must battle and demonstrated their to Peoples Frontism, to collabora­ The Negro Struggle Burke on Jim Crow me MILITANT By Jean Blake VOLUME XVII MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1953 NUMBER 43 You’d need a strong stomach and a big Mrs. Wendell Stewart attempted to move shovel to dig through the mountains of into their newlj/ purchased home in an ballyhoo that appeared in the press last area where unsegregated Federal housing A rt Museum Strikers week about the man appointed by Ohio’s projects have been fought consistently by Phila. SWP Gov. Frank J. Lausche to succeed the late private real-estate interests. The Stewarts Wright Lay-offs Senator Taft. were threatened, mobs were collected and “ Never in Mayor and Senator-Designate hopped up so that police protection had Defends Nine Thomas A. Burke’s nearly nine years as tr be provided. Stir Depression Cleveland’s chief executive has anyone But instead of issuing a firm statement been foolhardy enough to question his per­ upholding the rights of the Stewarts, and CP Victims taking action against those threatening PHILAD ELPH IA, Oct. 16 - r sonal character and integrity,” was the Talk \ in Plant typical comment in the Cleveland Plain force and violence, as community relations “The Socialist Workers Party Dealer. groups urged the Mayor to do, he. “ nego­ stands unconditionally for- the By Tom Denver defense of the nine Pennsylvania “ Never a Scandal in Burke Career” and tiated” with some of the ringleaders. Stalinists as a fundamental PATERSON, Oct. 16—“The best job you can get is to “ New Senator’s Character Above Re­ What’s more, the “ spotless” Mayor ex­ necessity in the fight for civil go somewhere where they make golf balls and golf bags. proach” were the headlines. pressed -sympathy for the feeling of the liberties.” Howard Lee, speaking They’ll use plenty of them.” This was one worker’s re­ We beg to disagree. Politely, of course; residents that their property values might at the Friday Night Socialist sponse here to the I,oOO-man>S^" a politician like Burke is liable to end up be harmed by Negroes moving into the Forum made this one of his main lay-off notice that appeared to­ ‘Life Can Be Beautiful’ on the points. day in the five New Jersey plants radio. They ought to put on in the Supreme Court or in charge of some area. He advised them that while there The speaker traced the course ‘Life Can Be Miserable’ instead. was nothing they could do legally to avoid of the Wright Aeronautical Co. Senate investigating committee, so we of the prosecution of the nine His oblique reference to Eisen­ Last week they laid me off at don’t want to provide any grounds for this — in view of the outlawing of race- from the time they were picked hower drew a few laughs from Plant 7, and two days later they “ contempt” proceedings against us (tech­ restrictive covenants by the U.S. Supreme up in pre-dawn raids July 30 and the group of workers who were rehired me at Plant 8, for a nical or otherwise) if we can help it. Court — they could form neighborhood 31 on the charge of violating the all trying to talk at once. You nickel less an hour. If they lay Smith Act. The case shows a few get a little excited when your me o ff again I ’m going to school But we charge Mayor and Senator-Desig­ committees and agreements among them­ new wrinkles in the methods of under the GI bill and learn some­ selves to sell only to “ desirable” occupants. job that looked so secure yester­ nate Burke with scandalous conduct in the witch hunjt. Once arrested, day is suddenly threatened today. thing I can get a steady job at.” the defendants found themselves giving aid and comfort recently to some They did. Another voice rose above the in a maze. Their bails were set “IT ALL SOUNDS PHONY” of Cleveland’s most notorious “ race-ha­ 'Despite all the double-talk, this was thin­ lively discussion, saying half •at the impossible sums of $25,000 “ Where do you think you’ll work ters” and white supremacists. In a situa­ ly concealed aiding and abetting of the kiddingly, “ Well, boys, it looks to $75,000 each, and were dropped when you get out?” a new voice like another depression.” tion that bordered on violence and blood­ local mob in evading the law. More im­ only after long, tedious appeals. Pickets march before the Metropolitan Museum of Art joined in “They’re laying off in shed, instead of taking a firm stand against portant — it shows where the new Sena­ The chairman of their bail com­ in New York City after 170 guards, who protect the museum’s “ Yeah,” said a young worker all the big plants. You’ll probably a group attempting to bar a new Negro tor stands on segregated housing more mittee found himself under Senate priceless exhibits, went on strike for the first time in its 83-year seriously, “ I was thinking about wind up in New York stock- occupant from living in the Lee-Seville clearly than all his high-sounding, liberal Subcommittee investigation. .The history. The guards, members of an independent union, are that last week. I read where the clerking fo r thirty-five a week.” victims could not find a lawyer demanding a $500 annual wage increase. stock market was booming. Up “ Say, what about the ads area of Cleveland, Mayor Burke first tem­ speeches. three points in one day and The lesson, for the hundred-thousand tn to take their case, since he ran W right’s been running in the porized, then advised the bigoted white the danger of being blackballed. they’re laying us off. What a papers? They had one in yester­ residents on how to evade the law. time: No confidence in capitalist politi­ A fter a two-month search proved joke.” day asking for 1,000 men and The incident occurred when Mr. and -- cians! fruitless, the Bar Association had THE LIFE “BEAUTIFUL” today they’re laying off 1,500,” to supply one. Newspapers and ILLINOIS AFL DEMANDS said a puzzled worker. “ It all But it was no joke to the next commentators act as if the nine sounds phony to me.” worker. “ I read somewhere that were already condemned. They To this a long-term, war-plant Eisenhower said we won’t have a face tria l with every card stacked worker replied, “ Maybe they have 30-H0DR, 40-PAY WEEK depression while he’s in office, A Scrubbed Brain against them. lie ’s only been in for nine months a cost-plus contract with the gov­ ------By Myra Tanner ------“ Repressive actions of this kind ernment and get a couple hundred CHICAGO, Oct. 19 — An overwhelming majority of and look what happens — we get against minorities and opponent the 1,700 delegates at the Illinois State Federation of Labor dollars fo r each new man they A new book was published this month cliches you get everyday in capitalist pro­ political parties are intended by laid off.” Convention last week voted for a 30-hour week at 40 hours hire.” in a nice, shiny, red, white and blue cover. paganda. Business men generally, and Ran­ the ruling class as. a show of A veteran of the depression in The starting buzzer interrupted strength.” said comrade Lee. pay. The delegates at Springfield & the thirties followed these re­ the flow of talk and the group Freedom’s Faith by Clarence B. Randall, dall in particular, know practically nothing for employees who lose then- of the ideas of their socialist opponents. As “ History has shown that in every represented 900,000 union mem-” marks with, “ You know what broke up to start work. The Chairman of the Board of Inland Steel, ¡s such case the state is caught in bers. The 30 - hour week was hearing because of industrial Eisenhower said. ‘We’re going to a matter of fact, in my years of activity as noises although they may con­ depression worker slipped on his “ A fresh survey of the intangibles which a vise of contradictions. The recommended to meet the possible have unlimited prosperity.' apron, stepped out into the aisle a socialist, I have encountered only pne truth is that beneath the display crisis of 20,000,000 workers losing tinue working with no loss of They’ll take away your house, command one American’s loyalty,” ac­ pay. W ith certain exceptions, the and his voice boomed derisively representative of Big Business that had of brutal power lies a fearful defense jobs and being released your car, your TV, and starve down the long line of machines: cording to the publisher’s blurb on the weakness. from m ilitary service. Illinois workmen’s compensation you, but we won’t have a apparently made a study of Marxist doc­ laws at present deny benefit pay­ “ O.K. boys! Get those goggles on. jacket. The almighty dollar is the tangi­ “ The defense of the Stalinist Reuben G. Söderström, presi­ depression.” Maybe if you produce enough trines; only one who even met the first ments to such cases. ble source of Randall’s “ patriotism” and leaders, whether or not you agree dent of the I1SFL, predicted a “ The audacity of these people” units tonight you might not get requirement of a debater: to know the The demand for a 30-hour requires no special “ survey.” with their political ideas, must sharp slump in employment in the said the serious worker “ putting laid off.” position of the opponent, although he re­ be seen as an application of the next eight months unless defense week, a great step forward for Randall begins his book with the fol­ fused to debate with a socialist. That was basic principle of defense of civil production continues or a giant the AFL, was marred by the lowing confession: “The whole process of Reece Taylor, President of Union Oil Com­ liberties. In defending the rights fedcral-state-local public works executive board’s support of high writing a book constitutes a mental scrub­ of these victims, we are in reality program is begun to provide jobs. taxes to maintain arms spending pany. The fact that the conservative bing that is very wholesome for a man in defending the rights of all in­ The Executive Board of the Mr. Randall presents obviously stupid dividuals, political currents and ISFL called the Illinois manu­ AFL bureaucracy proposed In the Unions industry.” The fact that the minds of busi­ ideas, claims they are socialist, and wins the labor movement itself.” facturers the worst ; safety law, shortened work week indicates ness men need a scrubbing may not be very an easy victory in this kind of argument. A fter a lively discussion the breakers in the country. Thé the great fear of depression now Bv Joseph Keller startling to most people, but it should be For example, in Chapter 2 of Freedom's meeting passed a resolution con­ chairman of the IS'FL safety com­ pervading the ranks of the demning the Smith Act, calling mittee. John Fewkes, estimated unions. What is needed now is a 'Some 500 union delegates, AFL over the IL A membership, to ■ explained. Randall fails to do this, so I Faith, Randall says: “ The socialist plan­ Congress of Labor in Washington as well as CIO, called by the CIO shall Come to his assistance. Men in busi­ for the defense of rights of the that there were 200,000 industrial sign a “no-raiding” pact. He ner argues. . . that efficiency would be Stalinists and offering to join in accidents in Illinois in 1952. with rank and file delegates from to a special meeting at the Com­ indicated strong fear that' the ness live on the moraTcpdes of “ free enter­ better served if all products and all services united front activities in their The Convention began a drive all unions to consider ways of modore Hotel in New York City SIU, a direct rival of the NMU, prise” which establish sVlf-interest, profit, were standardized. He would have but one behalf. to win workmen’s compensation enforcing this justified demand Oct. 14, heard Louis Hollander, was out to take over control of state CIO president, deliver an individual gain as paramount. Six days a kind of automobile, one church, one uni­ the waterfront with the aid of the impassioned appeal for union ac­ Teamsters. Curran said, “ I want week, therefore, a business man looks after form set of textbooks in the schools, and tion to break injunctions. His his own welfare and that of his company, to serve notice on the SIU here one form of ownership, in the delusion remarks were inspired by the in­ and now that while we do not as long as these don’t clash. that sameness is efficiency.” junction banning all picketing in nave spies in their back room Oakland Transit Strike the five-month-old Hearn's De­ The mental scrubbing comes in when Where or when socialists ever made this meetings we know what is going partment Stores strike. The state on and wc have fought many this business man has to take time out argument, Randall doesn’t tell us. I ’ve CIO head said that “ sometimes from his care of “ self” to address the pub­ never heard it from a socialist. We do tougher groups before and defeat­ Ends After Tough Fight we have to test these injunc­ ed them.” Curran also attacked lic. Then he must clean himself up and think capitalism is inefficient. But not tions. . . We have to be ready to the recently passed New York- go to ja il if necessary fo r our think of the common good. He must try because of the variety of use-values thal By Paul Williams Everywhere support for the tortionate profits. The SWP then New Jersey waterfront law setting rights to picket and to protect up state-controlled hiring halls to convince everyone that while he is look­ the workers produce. The inefficiency of OAKLAND, Oct. 18 — A fte r 77 union and hostility toward Key suggested that the labor move our unions.” I t is, of course, a and regimentation - registration ing after No. 1, still — whether he likes it capitalism is demonstrated by at least two days of sticking it out against was in evidence. Yet the union meat should demand that the Key System be taken over and run long- established fact that the lo r the longshoremen. or not, or intends to or not — he is really obvious facts: (1) Capitalism wastes labor an adamant company, the mem­ leadership eventually buckled and only effective way to bust an under union control. bership of AFL Carmen’s Union, took the company’s “ final” offer. anti-union injunction is by mili­ serving the best interests of all. And any power through mass unemployment in de­ Many workers thought that Local 192, voted 759 to 201 to end The refusal of the union of­ tant mass picketing. But just socialist who thinks that the welfare of pressions. (2) It wastes labor power by ficialdom to press for opening of this was a “ good idea” but not A month-long picket line set their strike against the Key when the delegates were getting up by AFL Bridge and Struc­ humanity should come first is just “ un- destroying it in imperialist wars. I don't transit system. Buses began the company’s books was evidence “ legal.}’ The SWIP in return called for ready to push fo r a huge mass tural Iron Workers Local 595 in American.” • deny Randall’s right to scrub his mind, ~nd rolling again Oct. 8. of its conservatism and incapacity picketing demonstration, Hol­ election of labor’s own represen a construction strike at the The defense of “ free enterprise” by this write books against socialism. But don’t Original demands of the union to provide dynamic leadership. lander sidetracked the idea by The commuting public proved to tatives to the City Council to mammoth power plant for an steel magnate offers nothing new. I t ’s a you think a serious author should at least included an immediate increase indicating that the Hearn’s situa­ atomic energy project at Joppa, of 30 to 40 cents in pay, abolish­ be to the left of the labor of­ provide the legal means. With threadbare re-hash of all the fables and know his subject? labor in office, the community tion might be “ worked out” soon. II!., has been halted by a federal ment of the split shift, improve­ ficials. But there’s no sign of a favorable The slogan “ Open the Books,” would be able to answer the com injunction. Leaders of the inter­ ments in working schedules and settlement yet, national union had ordered the advocated for many years by the pany s refusal to provide for the * * * conditions. After more than two Local 595 picket line removed Socialist Workers Party as a public’s basic needs by ta king ‘ it and a half months of battle, the Speaking of injunctions, the and even set up another local to means of exposing the lies of over. union felt forced to accept the A F L leadership is helping to cook receive its members, but could Notes from the News profiteering corporations, became A heartening feature of the company offer of a pay rise of 10 up a bitter dish they may have not force the workers back on the one of the main issues in the strike was the performance of cents now, five cents more in to swallow themselves by their job. Moreover, some 2,500 A F L strike. the newest and youngest drivers THE “ MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY,’1 after workers arc admitted to the public schools for A pril and an additional three tacit support of Eisenhower's workers belonging to 18 other A resolution adopted by tlie many of them Negroes with as two years of trying 1x> get ashore, finally made it. short periods although they are not legal cents next. July. The split shift Taft-iHartley injunction issued unions had adamantly refused to Alameda • County CIO Council little as seven months .service Michael Patrick O’Brien, his White Russian wife residents.” Excuse of the authorities fo r theii and working conditions remain as against the strike of the old In ­ cross the Ldcal 595 picket line. before. demanded in clear and forthright They formed the most m ilitant and child have been given permission to live in sadistic attitude toward the children was that group in the union. They were ternational Longshoremen’s Asso­ Once more, however, a m ilitant Even before the settlement had language that Key open its books ciation, which the A F L conven­ the Dominican Republic. For'ten months he rode they were trying to prevent “ overcrowding” always ready to take on either union struggle has been broken been filed, Key demanded per­ fo r inspection to let the public tion expelled for failure to rid a ferry between Hong Kong and Portuguese the schools. * * * the most simple or most difficult by the use of the federal in­ Macao.' He sailed to Brazil in August but Brazil mission from the Public U tilities judge whether a wage increase itself of gangsters and racketeers. junction. SURPRISE! According to Scripps - Howard could be afforded by the com­ tasks and carry them out with wouldn’t let him land. He returned to Europe bui staff w riter William Cooper, “ A lot of people Commission to raise local “ zone” A temporary restraining order has # * * pany. genuine spirit. France turned him down. Ita ly did too. He looking forward to the income tax-cut next fares from 15 to 20 cents and Bay already been issued against the Bridge fares from 35 to 50 cents This layer of workers, return­ Railroad labor unions represent­ ’ sailed back to Brazil and' was again refused January 1 are due for a surprise.” Withholding DEMAND UNION CONTROL ing to their jobs still in a fight­ ■new A F L longshoremen’s union. ing 1,300,000 members opened a. entry. O’Brien claims U.'S. citizenship but the one way. A F L President George Meany taxes w ill go down J.0% but social security pay­ When the company refused to ing mood, speaks well for future drive Oct. 1 to win wage in­ United States wouldn’t let him land. This unique called (his anti-AFL restrainder, ments w ill rise on the same date. Cooper says COMMUTERS STRANDED accede to this demand, spokesmen m ilitant struggles and the pos­ creases up to 40 cents an hour.’ exile on the sea is over but it still stands as in classic understatement, “ an that this w ill mean “ smaller take-home pay” for of the Socialist Workers Party sibility of a new leadership The four Railway Brotherhoods quite a commentary on the state of civilization in In addition, under excuse of unfriendly act.” W hat’s most many large families “or families with low in­ “ financial exigencies,” m a n y; pointed out that this was in arising from the ranks. While representing 300,000 engineers, the capitalist world of today. comes.” We are warned not to blame ,the boss the “ 30-year men” supported the serious is that the A.FL leaders firemen, conductors and switch­ ❖ * # feeder and auxiliary services were effect a damning admission that have given the labor-haters a and to remember that it w ill all come back to us arbitrarily discontinued, leaving- the company’s books could not struggle, the “ 7-month” men were men served notice on 200 com­ in our old age . . . if we live that long. precedent by approval of a T-H THE KU KLU X KLA N in Florida has an­ many commuters stranded with­ bear inspection because of its ex­ in the forefront of the fight. panies of their desire to open nounced a “ new” policy. The Grand Dragon, C. * 8 » injunction, or at least failure to negotiations. Fifteen non-operat­ out transit service. ■. protest it, in the case of the IDA L. Parker, said that “ all races, creeds or colors’’ SEVERAL VICTORIES have been scored The way in which basic issues ing rail unions, mostly AFU, w ill now be admitted to membership in the hooded recently in the struggle against racial dis­ strike. representing a million workers, were posed and brought out in * * * order. However, since the Klan believes that crimination. In the nation’s capital, the manage­ are scheduled to follow suit and this strike is considered signifi«' Not the least worried by the “ segregation of the races is the law of God,” ment of Loews Inc. announced that its three big cant here. In the heat and have already authorized a strike any Negroes’ that join the racist-terror organ­ downtown theaters would start admitting Negroes LETTERS FROM READERS developments oil the New York vote. The division of the ra il­ sharpness of the strike, Key waterfront is the CIO National ization w ill be put- in segregated chapters super­ without segregation. In Philadelphia a suit to thing to complain about they road workers into so many crafts stood before the whole com­ Maritime Union and its president vised by the Grand Dragon himself. enjoin Boulevard Pools from discrimination munity as nothing but a profit- Auto Workers should do something about it.” and unions prevents them from 9k * * Joseph Curran. A t the NMU con­ against Negroes was brought under the city’s “A 24-hour strike is a good bringing their fu ll combined gouging outfit. After refusing to Approve Strike vention Oct. 20, Curran called “EVERYBODY KNOWS I’M HONEST! So Accommodations Act of 1938 which provides open its books for public inspec­ effective way to bring to the strength to bear on the com­ what’s wrong?” This question was asked by Sen­ criminal penalties for discriminating against attention of all your dissatisfac­ on the AP L Seafarers Interna­ panies. The last contracts of the tion, the company was unable to Action in Italy tional Union, which is spear- ator. Bricker of Ohio (Rep.) after it was revealed anyone in public places because of race, color, or tion.” Brotherhoods were signed in May, get a sympathetic ear anywhere lieading the A F L attempt to take that he was receiving a lucrative cut in law fees religion. When the court granted an injunction to its claim that any wage in­ Editor: “ We should help them, send 1952 after a three-year fight. from a firm representing the Pennsylvania Rail­ against the pools, the city’s Commission on crease would have to be accom­ 1 think the M ilitant and its them some money or soinething. road. Bricker is Chairman of the Interstate Coir Human Rights succeeded in obtaining an agree­ panied by a fare increase. readers m ight be interested in a The American government is al­ mcrce Committee where he can exercise ke- ment among operators to end discriminatory In an atmosphere of hostility little survey I conducted on my ways sending money to help influencc in legislation affecting the railroad practices among skating rinks. theirs, wc should help ours.” The History * * * and suspicion on the part of the own. trust. Oakland area population toward “ Good for them. They really * * -e • I t was about the ‘Italian work­ of WHAT IS THE MYSTERY? An unidentified Key and its officials, even the stick together.” THE CRUEL PERSECUTION of the Rosen­ woman had a reported income of 8(5,413,000 in ers g.iing on strike. I asked about “ I guess they have their American Trotskyism boss press, always anxious to aid 20 of the fellows I work with berg children has aroused considerable revulsion. 1950. A fter taxes she had only $2,000,000 left to any attempt to smash a strike, troubles the same as we have. i'Mchael, 10, and Robert, 6, were ousted from the live on fo r the year. I t is suspected that this is what they thought about it. Not The bosses are all alike. It take! Report of a Participant had to maintain a “ neutral” one was opposed. Toms River, N. J., Elementary School on the ■the same person “ whose income was reported to attitude. all the workers to fight them.” By JAMES P. CANNON technical pretext of not being legal residents. be $5,592,000 in 1946 and $5,032,000 in 1947, but I would like to give you some “ They must have some good The real reason, it is widely felt, is that the witch who* suffered lean years in 1948 and 1949 with COUNCIL BOWS TO CLAMOR of the answers which were unions over there.” 280 pages .. cloth 2.50 hunters are still not satisfied with electrocuting income of less than $5,000,000.” (AP, Oct. 8.) The Oakland City Council, al­ necessarily short because there The other answers were about paper 1.50 their parents as alleged “ atom spies.” Clyde Who this person is, is quite a mystery since the though dominated by real-estate isn’t much time to talk on the the same. I would like to see Order from Slocum, supervising principal of the local schools, government will not reveal her identity. But a interests, was forded under public assembly line. A couple of the some of your .other readers con­ said the publicity about the children while the! - greater mystery is how two-thirds ‘ of the clamor to officially demand that fellows didn’t have anything to duct a survey on their own, Pioneer Publishers parents were in the fling Sing death house had families in the United States live on incomes less Key open its books to demon­ say one way or the other. The where they work, and send a time 116 University Place, New York 3 “given; the town a black eye.” The N. Y. Post •than $4,460 annually — the government estimate strate that it was not in the others said: reaction of the workers of their New York Said that “ Toms River, a farming community, has fo r a minimum, modest but adequate standard of poorhouse as it tried to make “ That’s the way it should be, feelings on these matters. much itinerant labor and children of the migrant living. out. anytime the people have some­ West Coast Auto Worker