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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.
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