Labor Must Crush The Anti-Negro Terror Statement Of National Committee, Socialist Workers Party A series of assaults upon the Negro people throughout the country has reached a bloody-climax in Detroit. This latest fero­ cious lynch attack murdered 24 Negroes, beat and injured hun­ dreds, struck terror into the hearts of Detroit’s community of almost 200,000 Negroes. This was not a “race riot" but an un­ provoked attack by “ white supremacy” mobs. The hoodlums who constituted the lynch mobs in Detroit operated with comparative immunity. That is proven not only by the many eye-witness accounts testifying that the police either tolerated or directly aided the mobsters, but also by the official figures showing that 85% of those arrested were Negroes. Em­ boldened by their success, the hoodlums are undoubtedly ready for further lynch attacks against the Negro people. It is unfortunately all too plain that the anti-Negro elements have made advances in their aim of keeping the Negro “in his place” and halting his struggle for equality and emancipation. Large numbers of Negroes have been terrorized and intimidated. Many others are becoming attracted toward “ Negro nationalist” ANTI-UNION DRIVE CLIMAXED sentiments and feel hostility towards white people as a whole. There is great danger that these Negro workers w ill turn away in distrust and despair from the trade union movement. The attacks on the Negroes threaten the unity of the work­ ing class. And this threat to labor unity comes at the very mo­ ment when the labor movement must mobilize its full fighting strength to beat back the union-busting offensive of Big Business and Washington. BY OUTLAWING OF STRIKES Jim Crow Is Responsible

Why has this epidemic of the lynch spirit broken out like a plague all over the nation ? Roosevelt Advocates The capitalist, liberal and Stalinist press claim that Axis agents and Japanese “fifth columnists” provoked these outbursts. Although the Axis powers unquestionably exploit these acts of D raft violence for their own reactionary ends, any informed person Work-Or-Fight knows that such an explanation is absolutely worthless and noth­ ing more than a fake alibi to cover up the real conditions and Murray-Green Continue Policy of Subservience to White House forces responsible for the crimes. But Rank and File of Unions Are Losing Faith in Roosevelt The real causes and cutyrits are here at home. Lynch as­ saults upon Negroes took place decades befoi-e the fascists came By E. R. Frank to power or the United States went to war with the Axis. These attacks are an inevitable outgrowth of the Jim Crow The furious lahor-baiting, union-busting campaign of Congress reached system fostered by reactionary capitalist interests, protected by its climax with the enactment of the Smitli-Connally slave-labor Bill on June 25. Congress was all set for the kill and les^ than two hours after receipt of Other articles on the anti-Negro Roosevelt’s veto message re-passed the bill. This infamous law makes it a crime terror in Detroit w ill be found on Page punishable by one year’s imprisonment and $5,000 fine to “ coerce, instigate, 3 of this issue. induce, conspire with or encourage any person to interfere by lockout, strike, slow-down or otlier inter­ the Democratic and Republican parties, and buttressed by the ruption with the opera­ They called off the third coal and bypiss the chief culprit him­ government’s policies of discrimination against Negroes in war strike and returned to work only self. industry and segregation in the armed forces. This vicious sys­ tions of plants in posses­ because it was their conviction It is generally realized in la­ tem breeds race hatred, officially sanctions and deliberately sharp­ sion of the government.” that it was best to support the bor ranks that Roosevelt’s oppo­ ens antagonisms between white and colored. The Jim Crow sys­ union Policy Committee, not be­ sition to the Smith-Connally bill tem provides the social basis for the poisonous propaganda and The provisions of this law are cause of fear of the slave-labor was hypocritical and perfunctory. activities of the Ku-Kluxers, Black Legions, Christian-Americans so general and broad as to make act. Immediately after its pas­ He just went through the mo­ it possible to jail every trade sage, the workers of the Detroit and other native, fascist cliques. The adherents, beneficiaries and tions in order to deceive labor. union official and shop militant Chrysler Highland Park plant iupes of the Jim Crow system take advantage of every source of As a matter of fact, in his veto who has the courage to fight for walked out in protest against the message to Congress he wrote friction between white and Negro to stimulate ill-feelings bétween labor’s rights. The law makes it suspension of a union steward. that he fully approved seven out ’ them, inflame their prejudices, incite and hurl them against each possible to harass the unions with The ending of the third coal of the nine points in the bill — other. civil damage suits in order to strike has not ended the labor the seven points that deprive la­ bankrupt the union treasuries. crisis. The crisis continues to bor of its right to. strike, that Aggravated by the War The industrialists and bankers rage. The capitalists have not make it possible to jail and fine are in deadly fear of the power­ solved their problems, they have union militants, that make it pos­ This carefully cultivated hostility has been aggravated by ful American labor movement. not stilled labor’s voice by the sible to bankrupt union treasuries the consequences of the war. Bad housing, poor transportation, They are aware of labor’s rising passage of the Smith-Connally “If the bill were limited to these dislocation of family life, juvenile delinquency, scarcity of food, resentment to Big Business’ war Act. Their problems are just be­ seven sections,” Roosevelt wrote, The Roosevelt-Congress profiteering and looting of the ginning. Labor ranks are seething “I would sign it.” frozen wages and burdensome taxes in the face of soaring prices, public treasury. The coal strikes, afflict all sections of the working masses and create enormous with bitterness, dissatisfaction the militancy and solidarity of (Continued on page 4) discontent and rebelliousness. Because of their no-strike pledge and hostility as never before. La­ the miners, the response of the bor’s voice is growing clearer, and slavish subservience to Roosevelt’s labor policies, the CIO-AFL Conspiracy Against Labor auto, rubber and other groups of louder and bolder in pressing for leadership has completely failed to provide the workers with any workers, threw them into a panic. its just demands. program of resistance to the encroachments of the capitalists, An Editorial Through their agents in Con­ CIO in Michigan to stop profiteering and the mounting cost of living. That is the gress they determined to push ROOSEVELT’S ROLE more actively their anti-labor of­ reason why fascist demagogues and preachers of race hate and The oppressive, tyrannical Smith-Connally anti­ And yet in the face of this conspiracy between Roosevelt has exposed his hand fensive. They determined to de­ Condemns Lynch violence are able to receive a hearing from some Workers. strike bill is now law. This brazen union-busting Roosevelt and Congress against the labor move­ in his struggle with the miners. stroy labor’s strike weapon. They For their own ends the ultra-reactionary forces are trying measure reestablishes the doctrine of'conspiracy. It is now clear to an increasing ment, this studied campaign to hamstring, hog- determined to reestablish the old to divert the justifiable indignation of the workers away from number of union militants that It makes legal the jailing of union militants and tie and disembowel the labor unions, Murray and relationship of masters and Mob Attacks Roosevelt is responsible for the the real causes and authors of their misery. The actual instiga- officials who have the courage to fight for their Green have the nerve to write Roosevelt thanking slaves. They determined to disem­ wage-freezing policy of the ad­ rights. It attempts to destroy the democratic him for his veto, praising him for his “states­ bowel the labor movement so that ministration. They see clearly (Continued on page 2) rights of labor by virtually abolishing the right manship” and “courage” and pledging to continue it would have no strength to fight now that Roosevelt aims to keep Delegates Assert against their rapacity and their to strike . their “ no-strike” policy. Is there no lim it to the the working, man in a debased crimes. In its hour of need labor was defenseless on cowardice, to the, grovelling, to the toadyism of condition while the cost-plus con­ Smith-Connally Act the political field. Labor did not possess one efr these sell-out artists ? Murray and Green implied FIRST REACTIONS tractors are growing fat and rich Smacks of Fascism Launch Drive To fective spokesman in the halls of Congress. Every that they might have to resign from the War and prices continue sky-rocket­ But the American capitalists corporation lackey was on hand to denounce labor. Labor Board if the Smith-Connally bill were en­ are reckoning without their host. ing. The time is past when labor’s Every millionaire lawyer was there to slander acted into law. Now that it is law, they are sing­ — BULLETIN — The miners were neither fright­ anger w ill vent itself upon Roose­ the workingman. All the timeservers of the bil­ ing another tune. Murray and Green are de­ ened or cow'ed by the new law. velt’s underlings and subordinates DETROIT, Mich., June 29 (By Free Kelly Postal lion dollar corporations joined like a pack of coy­ termined, come what may, to continue to hang W ire). — The Michigan CIO Con­ otes baying their victim to death. The legislative on to the coat-tails of Roosevelt and his war A national petition campaign to secure the par­ vention today passed a strong branch of the government was converted into a Administration. They are as much frightened by resolution denouncing the Smith- don of Kelly Postal will be launched immediately, convention of open-shop labor-baiters and strike­ the independent action of labor as the corpora­ Connally Act as the most vicious Miners Angered By Passage anti-labor legislation ever enacted the Civil Rights Defense Committee announced this breakers. tions and their congressional stooges. And where was Roosevelt when Congress was in this country, which makes a mockery of the avowed claims week. The Defense Committee plans to collect many carrying through its nefarious work ? Why, the The national strikebreaking organization par­ that this is a war for democracy ading under the name of the Communist Party Of Smith-Connally Bill labor fakers reply, Roosevelt is labor’s greatest thousands of signatures together with trade union and which is similar to the ac­ takes its stand beside the head bureaucrats of the and other organizational resolutions asking the Gov­ friend. Roosevelt vetoed the bill. It is not his By Art Preis tions taken by the fascist in Ger­ fault that Congress overrode his veto. He did AFL and CIO. Indeed it goes Murray and Green many. ernor of Minnesota to pardon and liberate the framed what he could and all he could. one better. Whereas these “ statesmen” are talk­ PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 28. — After demon­ The convention also passed a ing about defeating every Congressman who voted resolution blaming the anti-Negro up labor leader. Complete details of this campaign We say that Roosevelt is as much responsible strating their scorn and defiance of President Roose­ for the passage of this infamous law as any labor­ for the Smith-Connally Act, the finking sheet of riots in Detroit on intolerance w ill shortly be made pub­ the Stalinists, the Daily Worker, warns that “It fostered by the employers and one of the most flagrant frame- baiting poll tax Congressman. Roosevelt’s con­ velt’s m ilitary forced-labor threat and the newly en­ lic . is wrong to judge members of Congress only on their agents for the purpose 6f ups and vicious perversions of duct on the Smith-Connally bill was marked by acted Smith-Connally slave-labor hill by continuing further exploiting the workers Postal, Secretary-Treasurer of the basis of the vote on the (Smith-Connally) justice in American labor history. hypocrisy, trickery and deceit. It was none other through the policy of divide and Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544- b ill.” their strike for four days after the United Mine W ork­ Scores of unions, recognizing than Byrnes, Roosevelt’s assistant, who pushed conquer. CIO and among the best-known the importance of the issues in­ for the passage of the Smith-Connally bill. Roose­ ers Policy Committee’s anounced truce, the bulk of trade union figures in the North­ We are sure that the enactment of the Smith- volved in his case have rallied to velt launched no fight to defeat the. ipeasure. west, entered the State Peni­ Connally slave-labor bill will serve as an im­ the Western Pennsylvania soft coal miners have voted By JOHN SAUNDERS Postal’s defense. (A discussion His legislative representatives made no effort to tentiary at Stillwater last week to portant object lesson for the ranks of American of the issues in the case will be in their local meetings to return to work today. serve a five-year sentence for al­ line up the necessary votes against the bill. labor. They will learn that the policy of sub­ D E T R O IT, Mich., June 28— A found in the column by M. Mor­ leged “cmblezzlement” of un- Roosevelt made no real attempt to ensure the up­ servience to the war machine, the policy of giv­ In part, the continued resolution on the anti-Negro riots rison on Page 3 of this issue). miners and force them to work in D e tro it, presented to the 1800 ioii funds. He did no more than holding of his veto by either the Senate or the ing up labor’s rights and independence, the policy strike reflected their nat­ transfer the funds of his local U A W Lincoln Local 900 of De­ House. under military regulations struck delegates at the Michigan State tr o it last week contributed $100 of “company unionism” on the political field only union from one treasury to an­ In his veto message to Congress, Roosevelt ural disappointment at a spark to an already explosive CIO convention today, was re­ to the Postal Defense Fund. emboldens the capitalists, only paves the way for situation. As one UMW official ferred back to the Resolutions other when 544’s membership pointed out that he was in complete agreement being asked to accept another in­ Other contributors last week in­ further retreats and the further, weakening of the expressed it, Roosevelt’s state­ Committee amidst considerable voted to leave the AFL for the with seven out of the nine points of the Smith- decisive truce and to return to cluded Local 1981 of the United labor movement. work once more without a con­ ment was like “throwing gasoline confusion caused by the Stalin­ CIO. His indictments and con­ Connally bill; his only objection to the other two viction grew out of the conspir­ Steelworkers of America, May- tract. But the provocative threat on a hot fire.” ists and reactionaries. points was that they were not sufficiently effec­ The Smith-Connally Act must be fought tooth acy, headed by AFL Teamsters wood, California, and UAW Lo­ by Roosevelt to draft all striking Only the desire to back their The sentiment of the delegates tive anti-strike provisions or irrelevant. His mes­ and nail! The reactionaries, the labor baiters must International President Tobin and cal 260, N ew ark. New Jersey. Policy Committee in the difficult was overwhelmingly in favor of be driven back into their holes. Not only by court aided by the Department of Jus­ At a garden party held on June sage was thus a virtual invitation for Congress negotiations and straggle ahead, placing the blame for the lynch tice and reactionary Minnesota 26 the Ne\v York branch of the to pass the bill as a whole now with the pos­ tests of the law and demands for its repeal, but What The Miners Say arid to preserve the coal miners’ terror on the employer-inspired CRDC raised over $100. primarily by breaking with Roosevelt, by break­ justly-famed unity and discipline Jim Crow, setup in this ,country state officials, to smash the mili4 sibility of later revoking the two sections ob­ A b o u t The Militant — tant teamsters movement in Min­ Contributions for the Kelly jected to by Roosevelt. And finally his own pro­ ing with» the Democratic and Republican Parties, in. the face bf the gang-up of the and the Resolutions Committee nesota. Postal Defense Fund should be posal to place all workers between the ages of by breaking with the policy of subservience to the see sto ry on Page 2 by government, the bosses and the expressed willingness to accept cowardly “stab-in-the-back” AFL amendments from the ranks Postal had been placed on trial sent to the National Office of 18 and 65 under the provisions of the draft law is war machine and by reasserting the independence the Civil Rights Defense Com­ Arl Preis, our special and CIO leaders, has moved the strengthening the resolution in and cleared twice before, once on every bit as vicious and totalitarian as the Smith- of the labor movement on both the economic and m ittee, 160 F ifth Ave., N . Y . C. miners to reluctantly accept the condemnation of , the Ku Klux a similar count based on the Connally Act itself. Such is the real record of political fields. The day that labor launches its correspondent in the same facts. He was finally nail­ James T. Farrell is Chairman and Policy Committee’s request that Klan and in providing for a Roosevelt in this disgraceful labor-baiting cam­ own independent political party w ill sound the coal fields. ed on the third attempt. His con­ John Dos Passos Vice-Chairman paign. death knell of the Smith-Connally Act. viction has been condemned as of the CRDC. (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 4) TWO — THE MILITANT SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1943 Labor Must End Passage Of Bill Angers Miners (Continued from page 1) and do us out of our increase. Let apples to stay alive. But we’re Jim Crow Terror the War Labor Board go into still living and we’re still fight­ the mine for one day and see in g .” (Continued from page 1) they terminate their third national strike within the past two months. what it’s like!” When another speaker stated, What The Miners Say Other speakers, realizing the “There’s teeth in that bill. We tors of these attacks come from the capitalist 'class and their BITTER FURY danger of a split in the ranks can all be arrested,” there was a loud chorus from the floor: conscious or unconscious toils. It has already been disclosed that Words cannot adequately des­ and ofi dissipating the energies “ Let’s all go to ja il!” agents of the employers planned and provoked the anti-Negro cribe the bitter fury that shook of the miners' struggle by iso­ lated strikes in opposition to the It was freely admitted by all demonstrations in Mobile and elsewhere. About 'The Militant' the miners when they learned of Roosevelt’s threat. decision of the Policy Committee, those who spoke in favor of sup­ By Art Preis “Let ’em throw us into the pleaded with the men to accept porting the policy committee’s Part of the Anti-Labor Drive army,” was the typical expression the decision. An inconclusive de­ recommendations that “none of PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 25,—“The M ilitant’s The Hearst reporter appeared very uncomfort­ heard in the miners’ meetings and cision was. finally reached to go us like the decision.” As one of along with the Policy Committee, the leaders stated: “ We’re all sore Every worker is aware that the capitalist interests are con­ the only paper in the country that’s told the able, but the miners seemed to be enjoying the throughout the mining towns in but no date for a return to work about the decision, but we must ducting today a furious campaign against the labor movement, truth about us miners.” conversation a great deal. th is area. “ T hey’ll see how much was set. To datq the men are still accept jt. We can’t help the sit­ Those are the literal words from the lips of coal they’ll get out of the pits The blows against the coal miners, the anti-labor decisions of the uation by staying out another few that way! They won’t make slave | out on strike. War Labor Board, the passing of the Smith-Connally slave-labor striking miners and local union officials I heard F ills a R eal Need days. It would look like we’re not labor out of us!” act, Roosevelt’s demand for the drafting of all strikers, have been during the past week in the mining towns of | WORKING CONDITIONS backing the Policy Committee Praise for The M ilitant has come not merely So far as the rank and file high points in this offensive. California, Coverdale, Library,' Hillcrest, Mari­ After the Thursday meeting, I any m ore.” from rank and filers, but from leading district miners are concerned, the present A ll workers must realize that the concerted attacks upon the anna and a half dozen others. interviewed John G. Harris, the By a close margin, it was de­ UMW officials. One International Board mem­ truce is just that—a truce. There colored people are an essential and integral part of this national To fembattled miners all along the Monongahe- president of Local 2399. We talk­ cided to return to work the next ber with whom I spoke Wednesday — and they can be little doubt that they union-busting drive. The employing class hopes by these mur­ la Valley, site of the world’s richest soft coal ed with a group of the members day. Subsequently, the men pulled are usually non-committal — stated quite open­ intend to.renew the struggle by out again and did not return to derous means to split the workers along race and color lines, to seam, the name of The' M ilitant is becoming a around us, who frequently inter­ every means at their command if posed information of their own work until today. throw white workers against black, to undermine and demoralize by-word for truth and justice to their cause. ly : in the coming period they do not about their working and living Although only a few thousand Militants have “ Yes, I read The M ilitant and I know it is wide­ THEY WANT A CONTRACT the unions; and thus to turn the attention of the workers away receive a satisfactory contract and conditions. from their real enemies. been circulated in this area, many more thousands ly read among the officials around here. And their deserved portal-to-pprtal Of course, here, as in every The support Lewis has main­ I have heard some very favorable comments about pay. The miners have not been Divide and rule: this policy, everywhere pursued by the pos­ of miners have read it, for a single copy passes mining town, staggering prices tained so far in this battle is the job you boys have been doing on the- mine intimidated by threats of "jail ot sessing classes and their agents, has alone enabled them to hold through many hands. In fact, wherever I went ■have imposed an intolerable bur­ based on the conviction of the m ilitary forced 'labor. On the con­ down the exploited masses. Britain incites Moslems against I was besieged for copies by scores who knew situation.” den on the miners. Harris de­ men that he is really fighting for Hindus. Hitler uses the Jews for scapegoats. All of them of the paper only by its fast-growing reputation. The splendid reception which The M ilitant is trary, such threats have only in­ clared that in the local company them. Lewis did not call them out creased their fighting determina­ hurl the workers of one country against another in periodical receiving in this important mining area is due store, “ prices are up 100 to 125 against their will. On the con- tion. The mine situation is far trary, it is only because Lewis world wars. W arm W elcom e to one fact; The Militant, insofar as its limited percent.” from settled. It has only entered At this point, a young miner has given them leadership in an For generations here in .the United States employers have It’ was a heart-warming experience .for me last circulation has permitted, has filled a real need the phase of transitory, uneasy exclaimed: “If you want to see open struggle which the miners grown fat and powerful by playing native workers against for­ of these coal miners for accurate information and Wednesday when I was welcomed into the meet­ peace. daylight robbery, just come themselves demanded that he has a clear and forceful presentation of the issues. eign-born, white against black, craft against craft. The Amer­ ing of Local 73, in Library, Pa., and heard one Every miner’s town in the past around to Daisytown and buy sustained his authority aiid pres­ ican workers were able to build their powerful union movement of the local officers state, “ We gave an interview Wherever it has penetrated. The M ilitant has few days in this area has been something in our store.” tige. in the last decade by sweeping aside, overcoming, and fighting to The Militant during the first strike, and I helped to give the miners additional strength and the scene o f heated debate a t “And put this in your paper,” However, many express the against all these artificially-fomented divisions. The Negro must say that it’s the only paper that printed uftderstanding. The miners have been able to use UMW local meetings. For the Harris added: “Ask the govern­ feeling that in calling the latest workers played a heroic role in the building of the industrial what we said just like we told it. We were its arsenal of facts and clearly formulated argu­ most part, there has been con­ ment why it don’t publish the truce and In establishing the terms of that truce, the opinions union movement. They fought side by side with their white promised by this reporter here that the straight ments on their behalf as real weapons in their siderable confusion as to the exact OWI’s report on prices in the meaning of the latest truce. But, Kentucky coal mine areas?” He of the rank and file have not been brothers against the bosses. Race prejudice and discrimination truth Was going into his paper, and I must say struggle. having expressed their dissatisfac­ then informed me that the OWI sufficiently consulted. cannot be permitted to penetrate again and regain a foothold that this paper has kept its word.” tion with the truce and demon­ had conducted a recent price sur­ One of the miners told me: within the trade unions. How to Get This Paper Coming from a coal miner, that’s a tribute to strated that their return to work vey which was so damaging to “We’re just handed orders from he prized. The miners have a sound and healthy Now I want to say a few words to the miners is in no way based upon fear of the operators that it has not been the top but we don’t know where The Government’s Role hostility toward all reporters, because the type who complained to me after the meeting in Walk- government reprisal, a majority made public. we really stand. This is our strike, they’ve met is usually from the boss papers which of the miners have' accepted the not John L. Lewis’, and we’d like erstown yesterday, and to the many others who PORTAL-TO-PORTAL ISSUE necessity for continuing to act to l»e consulted more. Don’t mis­ The capitalist government bears a large share of responsibili­ misquote them, twist their words, and distort raised the same complaint about not being able the true story of the miners’ struggle. together despite their understand­ On the portal-to-portal pay is­ understand me. We have fu ll con­ ty for these attack^. The administration’s recent decision for to get copies of the paper, that The M ilitant has fidence in our union and our lead­ Over in Walkerstown, near California, Pa., able " feelings and to follow the sue, Harris revealed that at Ves­ segregation of colored workers in the Mobile shipyards and the been taxing all its small resources trying to get ta No. 4, ru n n in g 28 m iles under- ers. -But we don’t like to be kept where I had the privilege of listening in on a strategy laid out by their na­ policy of segregation practiced in the armed forces provide offi­ as many copies of the paper to you as possible. tional leaders. ground, the men spend 12 hours in the dark about all that’s go­ cial example and encouragement to the Jim Crow elements. union local meeting yesterday afternoon and later ing on behind the doors in Wash­ The M ilitant is a workers’ paper, maintained and The capitalist press in Pitts­ a day in the mine, only seven interviewing the local officers, I was met with in g to n .” The government fails to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment supported by the pennies, nickels and dimes of burgh and the other mining areas, of which are working time. The open hostility outside the hall when I announced Their suspicion of accepting, Or the federal statutes against discrimination, and even violates union men and women who want to see the truth which has been calling for nothing- men spend from four to five myself as a reporter. In a few seconds, the word hours on the man-trip to and even temporarily, any settlement the provisions of the Selective Service Act against discrimination. about the workers’ conditions and problems put less than jailing and shooting the from the working face of the but a signed and sealed contract This authorized lawlessness has encouraged sim ilar lawlessness had passed on inside -and a voice whooped out, forth. A t present, The M ilitant can supply only striking miners, has tried to in­ mine. “ And then,” another miner is very evident. During the meet­ amongst the advocates of “white supremacy.” The failure of "Another reporter! Throw him in the creek with cite a split in the UMW ranks hundreds of copies where tens of thousands are added, “we’re often waiting 20 ing at Library, for instance, there the rest of them!” by suddenly shedding crocodile Roosevelt’s administration to press for the passage of anti-lynch­ wanted and needed. and 25 minutes- late to get the was much questioning of the poli­ But in another few seconds, when I had an­ tears for the miners because ing and anti-poll tax legislation has given aid and comfort to all Our paper doesn’t have big financial sponsors man-trip out.” cy of returning to work even if enemies of the Negro people. Roosevelt has brought neither free­ nounced my paper, the word spread ahead, “ He’s “Lewis didn’t win them any­ the mines remain under the pres­ and it can’t be bought off with juicy corpora­ thing.” Naturally, such “sym­ Harris also explained the fre­ dom from want nor freedom from fear to the Negro people. On O. K. He’s from that M ilitant paper.” ent nominal control of the gov­ tion advertising contracts. Because we tell the p a th y ” fro m th,e v ile s t enemies quency of lay-offs in the mine, the contrary they are today more terrorized and troubled than After the meeting, I managed to bum a lift, ernm ent. truth boldly and without mincing words, the gov­ of the miners will receive the either because of penalties un­ along with three miners, in a car driven by a One miner asked: “ Has it been ever before. ernment officials have tried to silence us by tak­ response it merits. The mine justly placed on the men or to H e a rst re p o rte r. He was a good fe llo w aside- beat out the payment of overtime. confirmed that the government ing- away our second-class m a ilin g privileges. w o rkers can see the hook beneath from his job — anyone who gives you a lif* “ W e’re not., allow ed .to have has taken over complete control the bait and' will shun it accord­ The Allies of the Negroes So, if you want to make sure of receiving The more than 83 pounds of -dirt 'in. .of the mines? If it’s the pres­ in these gas-rationed days must be fundament­ ingly. The miners understand that M ilitant regularly, the best thing to do is get a- a 7300 pound load of coal, The ent setup, I’m for sticking out.” ally decent at bottom. But after we became ac­ their unity and discipline is their Another stated: “First it will What must be done to stop this lynch violence ? Certainly no quainted, lie complained of the treatment he’d subscription by sending in a dollar and your name company lays you off for.any­ greatest weapon. be a truce until October 31, then trust or reliance can be placed in the federal authorities, the received from the miners. “Why, I came out here and address. This w ill bring the paper to you for where from a day to 30 days, if you turn in a load with more than Christmas, and finally it w ill be army, state or municipal police, the good-will of the capitalist to get the miners’ side of the picture, but they six months, every week. Of course, The M ilitant “CAPTIVE MINE” LOCALS 83 pounds of dirt. Why, the men until next contract time.” rulers, the aption of Congress or the President. They have shown will do its best to see that the bundles that have Nowhere was the bitterness and don’t want to talk to me.” have to work on a face sometimes All these ideas reflect the fact that they w ill not take the steps needed to protect Negro lives been going into the mining towns continue, and fighting fury of the miners more “ Sure,” I said, as I winked back at the three with as high as five feet of slate, that the miners suspect any form forcefully demonstrated than at and rights. miners in the back seat and they grinned back we hope that those getting copies w ill make sure in water from six inches to a of settlement short of a contract the m eetings o f the “ captive nvrne” The Negro people have both the right and the duty to pro­ at me. “ Sure, you print a few lines of statements to share them around. foot-and-a half deep. And still embodying their minimum de­ locals. tect themselves against lawless attacks of the lynch mobs. They from miners buried among a lot of other stuff, “The M ilitant has told the truth about us” — they penalize the men. They lay mands. The terms of the latest A typical “captive mine” local truce have not reassured them have the right to demand that, in event of any future attacks, and then you print columns of editorials and ar­ that is the verdict of thousands of miners in the the men off whenever they want meeting I had' the privilege of on this score. Negro troops alone be used and Negroes be deputized to defend ticles saying the miners should be jailed and Monongahela valley. Depend upon it, The M ili­ to, all right, but when we lay attending was held last Thursday off to get our just pay, they yell them . shot.” tant w ill continue to tell the truth. One weakness of the miners’ in the Hungarian Hall at Walkers- But the Negroes constitute only a' small m inority of the popu­ like murder!” position is their sense of isola­ town, just outside California, Pa., So-called government supervi­ lation. For their protection they require strong and reliable allies. tion from the rest of the organ­ site of the Jones & Laughlin sion of the mines so far hasn’t ized workers. Most of them, sur­ These allies w ill come above all from organized labor in which mines. Here the strikers, members meant anything, according to rounded as they are by capitalist the colored workers form a significant section. The prejudices of Local 2399, working in Vesta Harris, because the same manage­ press and radio propaganda, do exhibited by some workers should not blind the Negroes to the Dobbs Tour Covers No. 4, world’s largest coal mine, ment is running the mine and car­ not realize the tremendous necessity of uniting with the labor movement. Prejudices im­ expressed in no uncertain terms rying out the same policies as be­ amount of sentiment in support planted in the minds of white workers by their enemies have been their feeling's about the trickery fore. He pointed out that the of their fight among the auto, and can be overcome through action and education in joint strug­ and intimidation being used to management has been laying men rubber, maritime and other im­ Key Midwest Cities thrust the War Labor Board’s off in the middle of the week portant sectors of the American gle of black and white workers against their enemies and ex­ in order to avoid paying them ploiters. The fundamental interests and aims of the white and divide and weaken the working inspiring address not only with “ yellow-dog” contract down their w orkers. throats. time and a half for the sixth day Many miners informed me that colored workers in their fight for equality and emancipation are class. The favoritism shown by questions and discussion, but by of work. “The company gets paid the police to the white hoodlums political solidarity in the form of Although it was a stifling hot they learned of this support’only the same. 23 cents a ton for time-and-a- Detroit is exactly the same as theif fav­ generous financial contributions. day, the men filled every seat and through the columns of The M ili­ half costs,” he explained, “but it oritism to scabs attacking picket When the chairman announced all the aisles, out through the tant, which has. after all, only DETROIT, Mich., June 27— is cheating the men of this.” lines, and to fascists in their as­ that the collection had brought in doorway and into the entrance­ a very limited circulation in the Responsibility of the Unions Farrell Dobbs, National Labor Another meeting I attended $382 in cash and pledges, ad­ way leading into the basement mine fields. Secretary of the Socialist Work­ saults against workers. was that of Local 78, Montour ditional contributions and pledges hall. When I arrived, the meet­ The chief responsibility for defending the Negro people rests ers Party, brought his visit to “The trade unions must now’ No. 10 mine of the Pittsburgh FIGHT NOT ENDED were-made to bring the total to ing was already underway. It was today upon the trade unions. The CIO, most powerful organiza­ Detroit to a close tonight by rebuild what has been torn down, Coal Co., at Library. Pa. This exactly 8400. clear that the men were strongly No group in this struggle, least tion of the working people in Michigan, was established and grew speaking to a large and enthus­ and organize workers’ defense was held Wednesday afternoon opposed to an immediate ac­ of all the operators, are deceiv­ strong because of its policy of non-discrimination against any iastic audience of members and guards to insure that labor as a During Comrade Dobbs’ stay in just after the announcement of ceptance of the truce. There was ing themselves that the battle, is close friends, of the party. whole, or any section of it, will Detroit, many new friends and the new truce. worker, regardless of color, race, religion or political affiliation. a burst of loud protest every time over. The pressure for a contract His exposure of the drive of Big be adequately protected against one new member were gained for Here too was expressed the same The labor leaders must do more than deplore these attacks upon a member or official spoke in will continue, even during the Business and the entire govern­ future attacks,” said Comrade the p a rty. strong sentiment against going the Negro people. They must do more than order their members favor of going back to work. truce. As a District 5 official sta­ mental apparatus against the Dobbs. “ We must drive home the back to work without a contract. to stay off the streets and appeal for grand-jury investigations. Above the general noise of the ted: “Now I ask you, do you standards of labor was especially lesson of the need for political The feelings were particularly think the operators w ill ever get They must summon their membership to take determined and or­ meeting at frequent intervals timely in view of the assaults action, of the kind which will St. Louis bitter about the threat of being normal production until the mi­ would rip the shout, “No con­ ganized aotion against the instigators and organizers of these against colored workers which weld workers together. The time drafted and the impending anti­ ners get a contract? The men ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 20 — tract, no work!” lynch mobs. The unions of Detroit could have repulsed this threat have been sweeping the country, has come to start an aggressive strike bill. can’t be expected to put any heart Speaking to an audience composed to their very existence as they repulsed General Motors in 1937 and which reached their tragic campaign for the formation of an The meeting expressed the gen­ into their work under conditions predominantly of CIO and AFL “NONE LIKE DECISION” and Ford in 1941. Detroit would be far different today and the culmination in Detroit only a few independent labor party, a party eral arguments and sentiments I as they face them now. The op­ trade unionists here last night, days ago. which will fight for complete have heard up and down the As one old veteran of the mines erators are worried stiff right native fascists would be cowering in their holes, demoralized Farrell Dobbs outlined the need unity and equality of all workers, Monongahela Valley since the expressed it: now. They know that production instead cf triumphant, had tUe union leaders called out the vet­ Comrade Dobbs pointed out and prospects for independent la­ and which will raise their level truce announcement. “Going into a mine is no easy will continué chaotic until a de­ eran flying squadrons to defend the Negro people. that these anti-Negro riots were bor political action in this coun­ not accidental, nor the result of of political consciousness to that “Let ’em throw us into the thing. Every time you go in, you cent contract is signed.” . These attacks are an alarm-signal. They involve issues no try . army! Let ’em try to make slave spontaneous reactions of individ­ pinnacle where they w ill he ready never know if you’re coming out. The miners have faced the less important to the unions than the fight waged against the The meeting was under the uals but were a new device, con­ to come to grips w'ith the forces labor out of us!” If they want to pass such a law greatest array of anti-labor pow­ auto-barons in 1937. The hoodlums and hooligans who are today auspices of the local branch of sciously organized by Big Busi­ now opposing them.” “They don’t have to risk their on us men, let ’em pass it. We’ve er ever mustered in this country assailing the Negroes are training themselves for other acts of the Socialist Workers Party, and lives every day. They’re drawing ness and its hoodlum gangs, to The audience responded to this worked in these mines and risked against a single union. But their violence. Tomorrow or the day after they can be unleashed by was attended by a considerable their fat salaries that we’re pay­ our lives, and damned near at forces remain intact, defiant and the Fords, Wilsons and Chryslers as storm troops and strike­ number of non-party members at­ ing for. They can order us back times had to eat grass and frozen united. provocateurs who try' to stir up dissension between white and breakers against the unions themselves. Workers, take warning! tending an SWP meeting.for the into the mine without a contract colored workers. The unions must carry on educational activities first time. Their discussion of the This is how fascist gangs were formed and fascism arose in to explain the backward workers the reactionary meaning of race issues raised by Comrade Dobbs Europe and crushed the labor movement. Do not permit them prejudice and its menace to their own interests ana organizations. was a reflection of the growing to take root here: The prejudices inculcated by capitalist institutions can and must interest shown by union militants be eradicated by union education. In addition, the Detroit labor in the question of the labor party. Program of Action for Labor movement should set up its own investigating committee and A collection of $80 was taken, conduct its own public hearing, where the truth can be told about and the ground was laid for For their own self-protection the unions must use the same the causes, instigators and beneficiaries of the anti-Negro terror, recruitment of some workers into the SWP and thé securing of sub­ methods of struggle, the same fighting program that proved so and where plans to prevent new attacks can be mapped out. scriptions to The Militant. effective against Harry Bennett’s mobsters. Let the union offi­ Such immediate steps in Detroit must be extended on a na­ cials call a great meeting of all the shop stewards in the Detroit tional scale. The unions can be content with nothing less than area, acquaint them with the seriousness of the situation and the leadership of the struggle to abolish Jim Crowism and to Flint inform them of the union’s plan of campaign. The members of secure full economic, political and social equality for the Negro necessity for a labor party based each local should be mobilized for action. Flying squadrons of people. FLINT, Mich., June 24 — A on the trade unions and how to union militants should stand ready to protect the rights of their Such a program of action would help restore the shaken militant young Negro factory create' it was enjoyed also by worker was recruited into the Negro fellow-workers menaced by the mobs. The various local faith of the Negroes in the entire labor movement. It would several other friends of the Socialist Workers Party here yes­ branch, who participated in an unions should maintain order and clear their respective territories create unbreakable bonds of unity between white and colored terday at the meeting addressed enthusiastic question and discus­ of anti-Negro, anti-labor gangs. workers. By establishing the solidarity of the working class as by Farrell Dobbs at a time when sion period at the most success­ a whole, it would clear the way to smash the capitalist anti-labor Every local union should set up a vigorous anti-discrimina­ the anti-Negro rioting in nearby ful meeting run by the branch tion committee to combat employer-instituted discrimination in offensive all along the line. Black and white, unite and fight Detroit had not yet subsided. in many months. A collection of the shops and to ferret out the conscious Ku-Klux agents and your common enemies! Comrade Dobbs’ talk on the $25 was taken. SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1943 THn MILITANT THREE

THE DETROIT MASSACRE Basic Issues Involved In Police, Politicians And The Kelly Postal Case By M. Morrison

By David Ransom I doubt whether there is a fearing that Tobin would get hold Press A ll Share In Guilt single intelligent and honest of the money. Kelly Postal fol­ The Kind of "Justice" Negroes Get By PHILIP BLAKE lawyer in the United States, lowed instructions. The Local, by no matter how conservative, who a majority vote, decided to with­ “This court makes no distinc up, for more than an hour, while “Freedom from fear” — we’ve Bloody Lynch Attack would not be shocked by the deci­ draw from Tobin’s International tion of color,” declared Detroit the police searched the building. heard a lot about that in recent sion of the Supreme Court of and join the CIO. Kelly Postal Judge John P. Scallon on June It is said that the law enforce-1 months. The pictures in the pa­ Minnesota upholding the convic­ abided by the instructions. 24, while imposing 90-day sent­ ment officers numbered at least pers showed that it was some­ tion of Kelly Postal. Very few These are the essential and thing very much absent in Detroit ences on five white defendants 200, and th a t m ore than 1,000 lawyers would openly condemn it, undisputed facts. last week. arrested in the anti-Negro riots shots and rounds of tear gas but very few would privately ap­ Judge Levi Hall, before whom On Tuesday, June 22, w hile By sentencing some white hood­ were fired into the building.” prove of it. the first indictment was tried, in- the anti-Negro riot was still going lums to jail and raising a hue This brand of justice is not con­ ; For it is a decision too crassly stiucted the jury on these facts on in Detroit, there was a and cry about it, Scallon appar­ fined to Detroit alone. During ! stupid and reactionary to moot that they must find Postal not strike aboard the ship, “City of ently sought to convey the im­ the “zoot suit riots” in Los An­ ‘ the approval of the intelligent, g u ilty . Detroit,” by white members of pression that the Detroit author­ geles earlier in June, the police conservative lawyer. It is a deci­ The prosecution then found a the deck and engine departments. ities had acted and were acting stood by laughing and joking sion which too obviously shows judge willing to try a second in­ The pickets weren’t out longer with impartial justice toward while Negroes and Mexicans the determination of the judges to dictment based on the same facts than five minutes before the both white and Negro. Behind were assaulted hy mobs of sailors j “ get” Postal, regardless of logic, but involving a different sum of Negro longshoremen walked out this hypocritical statement and and civilians. It-is the same kind decency, or law. money. This judge instructed in sympathy. Several tons of action lies the desire to hide and of police justice which Council­ ! The decision is judge-made law the jury that under the facts butter and perishable cargo were cover up the brutal role played by man Adam Clayton Powell den­ at its very worst. The statute they could, if they wanted to, find on the Detroit docks. The grie­ the Detroit police during those ounced at a meeting of the New does not say that the treasurer Postal guilty of grand larcency. vance—concerning overtime pay long hours of violence against Yoidt Council last week when he of a local union, following in­ The ju ro rs ho stile to Local 544 as —was settled in a short time and the Negro population. charged that “there have- been structions of his executive board they must have been, found P-os- the men went back to work. The B ut the N egro people know as cases of police brutality toward and the majority of the member­ tal guilty. fact that the longshoremen went * * * well as does Judge Scallon that Negroes in recent months and ship to take the funds of the lo­ on a sympathy strike caused the so-called agencies of justice, that complaints about them have cal union when it disaffiliates The main question on appeal much favorable comment among the police and courts, were ar­ been ignored or the matters from its international, is guilty W'as whether, on the undisputed the white workers. They had been rayed against the Negroes of De­ ‘whitewashed.’ ” (N. Y. Times, of grand larcency or emblezzle- facts which Judge Levi Hall given added proof of the necessity troit in their hour of need. They June 25). ment. It simply defines the crime deemed to be insufficient for a for solidarity between workers of know that the police, upholders A: Jim Crow attitude which ex­ of emblezzlement or grand lar­ verdict of guilty, the judge be­ both races. of'“justice” and defenders of pub­ plodes in mob violence is not the » » » cency as appropriating funds of fore whom the second indictment lic “ peace,” stood on the side of exclusive property of the lowest an organization or person for was being tried should have per­ the hoodlums and rioters; that dregs of society. Race prejudice The official report of the De­ one’s own use or for the use of mitted the case to go to the jury. troit Police Department admits their guns and dubs were turned is carefully nurtured by the rul­ someone else. In other words, did the essential ing class and all its state and that 15 of the 24 .Negroes killed not against the white terrorists ■Only vicious and cynical people and undisputed facts constitute, were shot by the ¡police. None of but against the defenseless Ne­ cultural agencies. The capitalist could interpret such a statute to in law, a case of larceny or cm-' •class is as strong as the workers the whites who died were killed groes. apply to a man who believed that, bezzlement ? are disorganized and divided. The by the police. The report listed 3400 people were arrested by as an officer of a local union, he The Supreme Court made the 227 seriously injured. Of these the Detroit police; 35'U were N e­ fostering of race antagonisms is was bound to follow the in­ shocking and vicious decision 135 were whites, not counting the groes. 31 persons were shot dead; one way of dividing the working structions of the local union that Postal was guilty of grand class. police and one soldier. Only 7 of 24 “ happened” , to be Negroes. O f with reference to its funds. larceny. Essentially, the ques­ the dead Negroes at least 15, by This the Negro in many cases these, according to the police, tion of Postal’s guilt is a legal | I do not knov,' whether Postal admission of the Detroit police, does hot see. But every day in were injured by other whites or question, and the Supreme Court or the E xecutive Board o f 544 Were shot by the defenders of the year he learns that the blood by unknown assailants; thus at of Minnesota shares the dubious asked the advice of attorneys be­ “ law and order.” This, then, is brothers of the Ku Klux Rian most 7 whites were severely in­ (Federated Picture) honor with the prosecution of fore taking the funds of the local Judge Scallon’s brand of justice, rule capitalist society. Every jured by the police. Here is how sending to jail a man who they The above picture shows a helpless Negro dragged from a car and beaten unmercifully by a union with them when they with­ administered with out “distinc­ day in the year he sees the courts the police accounted for the 73 know is innocent. gang of hoodlums bent on terrorizing the Negro people and splitting the labor movement. draw' from the AFL and joined tion of color.” and the police administer a seriously injured Negroes: 36 * * * the CIO. I presume it never oc­ Let us examine this "justice” at brand of justice which victimizes beaten by whites; 11 shot by curred to any of them that there work a bit more closely. On June m in oritie s. He sees them preach “unknowns” ; one shot by an­ the white hoodlums and on the White members of the armed fessional Bldg, told the press: In writing the opinion the could possibly be anything wrong 22, the day the rioting reached and practice a creed of “racism” other Negro; 4 wounded by stray victims of these hoodlums. As for forces were also revolted by the “ These white hoodlums had a car judges were obviously aware of with taking money for the local its height, the Pittsburgh Courier of which lynch law and mob vio­ bullets; 4 wounded by police the murderous role played by the lynch assaults. In some cases^they loaded with bricks and iron bars, the terrible crime they were com­ that belonged to the local. Had mitting, for they attempt to cover reports, “ At a noon-day meeting lence are inevitable conse­ “while looting stores” ; 7 wound- police, there was little comment sent letters and petitions to De­ parked at the curb, where they they consulted any attorneys, I ■it up by stating that the jury in the Lucy Thurman branch of quences. Is it any wonder, then, e.d by police “who were at­ of any kind on this question by troit expressing their indignation. were going for supplies. Their doubt whether it w'ould have oc­ found from the evidence -that the YWCA, Negro and civic lead­ that the Negro, seeing all the tempting to enforce order” ; 6 the press. Sixty soldiers in Camp McCoy, leaders could be seen directing * * * curred to any attorney to suggest ers complained to the mayor, -forces of so-called white justice “injured otherwise hy police” ; and Wisconsin, sent a letter to the them, pulling Negroes from cars there was bad faith on the part the possibility of a criminal pro­ of the defendant. The alleged about the obvious partiality allied with the dregs of society, one “accidentally wounded by No conflicts were reported in mayor of Detroit asking: “Of and beating them mercilessly.” * * * secution. bad faith consisted mainly in the shown by members of the Detroit begins to be attracted to the creed police.” those neighborhoods inhabited by what use is it if we defeat, world .* * * * S V * .fact that a month before the ac­ police force, they stated that the of “black nationalism” ? both Negro and white. The fight­ fascism, only to find that while But federal, state and city au­ tual withdrawal of the Local, police are confining their activi­ Who can doubt that at 'this mo­ It is generally agreed that a ing took place only in areas from we paid with our lives for demo­ thorities don’t appear to be much As everyone knows, there have Kelly Postal, on instructions ties to shooting and clubbing Ne­ ment anti-white sentiment is firm stand by the police could which Negro tenants are excluded cracy, the fascist rule of the mob interested in determining what been man'' frarvui-'- the his­ flip Executive Board, told groes. crystallizing in the minds of ma­ have checked the outbreaks at or in which they are segregated. has been established at ho«ie?” caused and 'who aggravated the tory of the American labor move­ his secretary not to bank the “They said that Hastings, St. ny Negroes? Louis Martin, edi­ the very beginning. In those few What a powerful argument, * * Detroit tragedy. * Despite the ment. Judges have rendered the tor of the Michigan Chronicle, cash receipts in the regular ac­ Antoine and Brush streets are cases where individual police against restrictive housing and White sailors are segregated evidence contained in newspaper rawest decisions imaginable a- count of the Local arid instead the scenes of police brutality, said...this week, “ We’d better be showed they meant business, tire; all other forms of segregation! from Negro.es in the Navy, but photographs and despite eye­ gainst trade union militants and went through the formality of and that Negroes are being frank about this. The race riot hoodlums retreated. But apparent­ * * * apparently there are quite a witness accounts reporting or­ revolutionary' workers. The two and all that has gone before have making a loan of the cash to an­ roughly handled and warned to ly the police didn’t think it would There were also no outbreaks number who refuse to accept the ganized leadership of the hoodlum most famous frameups are the made my people more national­ other local union. Postal stated ‘get off the streets.’ do any harm to let a little blood or conflicts within the factories “ white supremacy” ideas on which bands, John S. Bugas, head of Tom Mooney and the Sacco-Van- istic and more chauvinistic and openly that this was done to prev­ “They claimed that whites are flow . of Detroit. The union officials and segregation is based. Three sailors the FBI in Detroit, pooh-poohed zetti cases. It is my opinion that anti-white than they were before. * * * ent Tobin from getting hold of the permitted to roam at will on stewards took special steps to defended a Negro from ’a roving- the whole business — and, in­ the decision in the Postal case is Even those of us who were half­ money, and the judges dare to Woodward Avenue, a boulevard One of the white hoodlums was prevent any' provocative acts on hand of whites in front of the cidentally, showed how uncon­ worse than any of the decisions lib e ra l -and were w illin g to believe label this fact sufficient evidence running parallel to the afore­ loudly bragging that every lime the part of their members. Many City Hall, and when a white cerned he was about it — by say­ made by any of the judges in­ in the possibilities of jmproving of bad faith to go to the jury. mentioned streets, and the police the police stopped him, they workers were heard to say that hoodlum asked what business it in g : “ Do you th in k th a t 200 kids, volved either in the Mooney or the race relations have begun to What monstrous hypocrisy! don’t stop them from congregat­ would walk him down a block this was a terrible blow to the was of theirs, one of the sailors hoys between the ages of 14 and Sacco-Vanzetti cases. doubt — and worse, they have I do not know what caused the ing. and then tell him to go home. labor movement of Detroit. A answered: “Plenty! There was a 18, who stopped a street car, For the reason that in the Pos­ given up hope.” jury to knuckle under to the evi­ “They say Negroes are not number of others expressed the colored guy in our outfit and he pulled off Negroes and pummeled tal case the judges were not call­ For the Negro people to take * * * dent desire of the . trial judge to permitted to approach nor cross opinion that the union should saved a couple of lives. Besides, them, were acting on orders? I ed upon to decide facts but to the blind road of “nationalism” The mayor, the governor and have them find Postal guilty. It Woodward Avenue. . . that all but have acted more positively to halt you guys are stirring up some- don’t.” interpret a law. would be a tragic error. Being the commander of the armed * * * takes an exceptional man in a the Negro district has been prac­ the rioting. (hing that we’re trying to stop.” In the Mooney and Sacco-Van­ in the minorityv their struggle jury to withstand the pressure of tically declared ‘off limits for forces in Detroit all joined in * * * * * * Despite a lot of strong talk on zetti cases the judges had this ex­ for equality requires the support a judge. This jury did not con­ Negroes.’ ” praising the press in the helpful the part of Governor H. F. Kelly cuse: that" a jury had rendered of their ally, the White workers. A t Fort Custer, Michigan, mem­ In the midst of the violence on tain this exceptional person. It The same report cites an ex­ and cooperative way in which they and Mayor Jeffries at the be­ its verdict after listening to all Without the aid of the organized bers of a Negro quartermaster June 21, the local Negro weekly, consisted of persons of average ample of police terror, the ma­ handled the rioting. The truth is ginning of the week, they had of the evidence. The judges took labor movement they cannot suc­ battalion tried to secure arms and Michigan Chronicle, received the middle-class mentality without a chine-gunning of an apartment that many of their stories were cooled down in a few days. Said the attitude that it was not up ceed in w in n in g th e ir dem ocratic trucks, but were arrested. The following phone call: “We had spark of rebellious, honesty in house in the Negro community: biased. The Detroit News, for ex­ Kelly on June 23: “Now our job to them to reverse the verdict of rig h ts . post commander explained, “ The plenty trouble today, and this is then. Such persons in such a “ According to information I have ample, dismissed the charges is to see th a t those who took p a rt a jury that had an opportunity to The working class must prove men had become restless over the not the last of it. This is the case accept the plea of the prose­ been able to gather, it seems against the Ku Klux Klan by say­ in the rioting are punished and listen to and observe all the w it­ by its actions that it stands on disturbances in Detroit and Klan calling, just to give you a cutor and are decisively influ­ that one colored occupant had ing: "As to instigation by the to find out what the causes were nesses. The fram eu p was p r i­ the side of the Negro people a- wanted to go to assist their warning that we will drive every enced by the attitude of the trial fired out of one of the windows. Klan, we know that Negro hood­ and who was responsible. Every m arily due to the prosecutors who gainst that lawlessness which families.” He added that they nigger out of Detroit.” judge. “Immediately, state troopers lums were aggressors just as often effort will be made to bring them obtained the verdict by perjured passes for law and order. The were being held “for investiga­ * *• * But I do know what influ­ and municipal police machine- and quite as early in the proceed­ to the bar of justice so that such testimony. The judges simply reasons are plain. A union-hat­ tion.” An hopest investigation There were many evidences that enced the Supreme Court judges gunned every window in the ings as their white counterparts.” things w ill never again happen in shut their eyes to that fact and ing employer class will be quick should' disclose only that these the rioting against the Negroes in their , opinion. — a vicious building, killing two occupants That was the general line followed Michigan.” He then appointed a took what might be deemed by to take advantage of any divi­ soldiers wanted to fight for did not lack organization. One hatred of everything and every­ immediately and seriously wound­ by most of the Detroit papers— committee to report to him on intelligent lawyers a technically sions created within the working democracy. physician watching from the Pro- body connected with Local 544, ing more than half a dozen to place equal responsibility on these questions. correct legal position. others. They then invaded the class. To use Negro against * * * representing honest and m ilitant In the Postal case the main trade unionism. building and brought out every white worker is .the classic dev­ The governor’s “fact-finding” facts are ¡not disputed. He was occupant. ice of the American ruling class. committee was composed of four Kelly Postal — a thief and em­ Treasurer of Local 544. When “Using Gestapo methods, they A great responsibility rests today men; two of them were the heads bezzler? You are liars, Messrs, Tobin threatened to appoint a prosecutor and judges. He is a forced the occupants 'to stand on with organized labor. Now is the We Saw Murder On of the city and state police who receiver for the Local, the Exe­ the Brush Street sidewalk a- time to prove to the Negro peo had played such a criminal role class-conscious militant worker cutive Board instructed Postal who will never cringe before the gainst the building, with hands pie that they do not stand alone. in the rioting; the dther two were not to bank the money of the Lo­ thé county prosecutor and the hypocrites and liars on the cal in the regular Local •account, judges’ bench. The Streets O f Detroit state attorney. It is not surpris­ ing therefore that the committee for a new attack, many hurled cdid not recommend further in­ bricks under the friendly watch­ vestigation. By Two White ful eyes of the cops. Many open- ■By a Negro \ * * * ly carried knives — also under- The committee report, issued Eyewitnesses the eyes of the cops. Observer Con June 25, said: “ We find no At around i> P. M. the white evidence of any plan or plans or DETROIT — The undersigned DETRIOT Regardless of * mob surged forward and was any inspiration coming from we re witnesses on Monday of published reports to the contrary, ‘ again driven back. Then the city ■ enemy influence or any other or­ certain events at the height of the I know the “ Paradise Valley” riot * police and state troopers went to , ganized influence which brought assaults on the Negro people. began as a defensive one. At _ town. W ith machine guns, pistols about the recent rioting. Because Woodward Ave. from Vernorto 1:40 A. M. Monday I was stand- ‘ and rifles they fired hundreds of of this conclusion by your com­ Watson was completely domin­ ing among a group of orderly shots into the Negro ranks even mittee or because of the lack of ated by organized “white hun­ people at the corner of St. An- . while the hoodlums were still •information as to planning or in­ dreds” mobs. The white hood­ toine and Adams. There was no hurling bricks at the Negroes. spired enemy influence it is the violence of any kind on that cor- j lums were constantly rushing one consensus of your committee that On the comer of John R and, ner at that time although we block east toward John R, in at­ no grand jury be called at this Montcalm the whites suddenly heard rumors of brawls on Belle tempts to penetrate the heavily- time.” The governor immediately populated Negro district beyond surrounded a Negro apartment Isle. | house and began hurling bricks announced, that he would not call that street. When they pene-1 Suddenly police in several . through the windows. From the for a grand jury investigation. trated the Negro district, the Ne­ squad cars drove up and without house came, a shot in an atte m p t groes drove them back west of warning began throwing tear gas to drive off the mob. With neither state, city or fed­ •John R. bombs and shooting at men and eral authorities wanting to see an The police who were shooting Then the police who had let women as they began to run. investigation, jt was natural that at Negroes elsewhere, turned all the white mob through finished a reactionary like Representative their .fire into the building. They A t 8:30 A.M. I saw police drive the job for the mob by machine- Dies should step forward and shot to kill, and hundreds of bul­ up to the corner of Hastings and gunning the Negro defenders. In announce that his committee wall lets and rounds of tear gas were Farnsworth and fire indiscrimin­ order to show their “impartial­ “investigate.” Dies thinks the poured into the building. The ately in all directions. ity,” the cops gave the white trouble is that the Negro people Negroes were finally driven out At 8:30 P.M. I heard state mob the same dose — except with are being “coddled” too much. — that is, those who weren’t troopers cursing colored women tear gas fired high like Skyrock­ It is easy to imagine what he killed or wounded — and lined up ets and completely harmless. This at Oakland and Owen. When the w ill “ discover.” “equality” treatment went on against the wall. name-calling was returned by the * * * Later the cops hurried them continuously. I crowd, the troopers fired repeat­ If the workers of Detroit want , away in cars while the crowd After the retreat of the white edly at point-blank range. Two an honest investigation of the crowd west of John R everybody. cheered its uniformed brothers. causes of the rioting, it looks as , were killed and many more lives laughed — and the cops joinedI Then of course the police drove though they’ll have to organize it in the exultant fraternization.. the whites back — with tear gas5 endangered. These are not “ rum­ themselves through their own la­ When the hoodlums prepared1 fired high in the air. ors.” They are facts. bor organizations. FOUR THE MILITANT SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1943

The Slave-Labor And No-Strike Bill Climax War Writers Board Hits Anti-Poll Tax Bill ‘Mission To Moscow’ On June 24 Senator McFarland, chairman of In Anti-Labor Drive the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee in charge of The Davies whitewash film, “Mission To Moscow,” ç Continued from page 1) came law. They reached a new the anti-poll-tax bill already passed by the House, is boomeranging on its inspirers, sponsors and pro­ announced that action on the bill would be post­ low in grovelling, in toadyism, in His own substitute “work or Enactment of Bill treachery. ducers. The GPU lies and framepps are too much to poned until after The summer congressional recess fight” program, through which he Elates Wall Street “Despite our disappointment ram down the throats of the American public, de­ because the subcommittee members were too busy proposes to put all workers be­ over the action today by Con­ spite the Hollywood sauce and the “ unofficial” bless­ to consider it at this time. tween the ages of 18 and 65 under Big Business was pleased as gress,” Murray wrote Roosevelt, ing of the State Department. The very next day the Senate set a new record the draft law, is just as vicious, punch by the enactment of the .“ I hasten to assure you that our Among the latest to denounce the film is the W riters organizations \yill maintain their ust as reactionary, just as hostile Smith-Connally slave-labor bill War Board, representing more than 2,000 feature for speed. At 3:13 P. M. Roosevelt vetoed the to labor, just as totalitarian as no-strike pledge.” Murray' knows on-June 25. The prices of stocks writers for newspapers and periodicals. This board, Smith-Connally bill on the ground that two of its the slave-labor law. on the New York Stock Ex­ just what the five million mem­ bers of the CIO w ill do before he which issues reports on war movies, last week award­ provisions were not sufficiently effective anti-strike The coal controversy has made change rose the next morning it abundantly clear that under the has even bothered to ask them. ed “three duds” to the Warner Brothers screen justi­ measures. By 5:28 P. M. both Houses had acted to “the highest levels in three pressure of Big Business Roose­ Green informed Roosevelt in fication of the Moscow frameups. The board further and voted the bill into law. years,” according to the N. Y. velt has been forced to push with his letter that the AFL and its found that Hollywood has tried to “falsify facts” for Tim es of June 27, w h ile “ vol­ There is a direef connection between the turtle­ greater fury and ferocity hjs constituent organizations “ stand the sake of appeasing Stalin and goes on to add: like behavior of Congress on the first issue and hunger „program. Roosevelt no ume on the New York Curb committed to our no-strike pledge “ Every movement for appeasement is based on the the greascd-lightning speed with which it acted on longer has the lee-way to tempor­ Exchange was also unusually for the duration of the war.” idea that an untruth or a distortion is excusable if it ize very much with the labor heavy for a Saturday. . . and the second. The Murrays and Greens are serves a greater good. We cannot subscribe to such movement or grant it even minor prices generally were higher.” determined, come what may, to The first issue affects the right to vote of ten a doctrine, however desirable the immediate effect.” concessions. The war is costing All observers attributed these hang on to the coat-tails of the b illio n s every -week and p ilin g up (N. Y. Times, June 26.) million Southern industrial and agricultural work­ signs of confidence and jubila­ Roosevelt administration. They an unprecedented burden of debt. The report bears the names of Rex Stout, chairman; ers. It has the support of the whole labor move­ tion in W all Street to the adop­ are scared out of their wits by Under capitalism it is the masses the independence and militancy Franklin P. Adams, Pearl S. Buck, Carl Carmer, Rob­ ment. It is a measure in the interest of all the tion of the anti-strike bill. of the people who must bear the displayed by the rank and file of ert T. Colwell, Russell Crouse, Clifton Fadiman, Paul To defend the USSR as masses. brunt of the load. Roosevelt as thé unions and are holding on to Gallico, Jack Goodman, Oscar Hammerstein, Rita The second bill attempts to destroy the demo­ agent and spokesman o f the main fortress of the when the coal negotiations first Roosevelt for dear life to protect Halle Kleeman, Robert J. Landry, Margaret Leech, the whole capitalist class must cratic right to strike. It is opposed by the whole started. Today half a million them from their own membership. John P. Marquand, Katharine Seymour, William L. world proletariat, against now proceed, with no further de­ trade union movement. It is a measure in the in­ miners are bitter towards him, But fortunately, the Murrays and Shirer, and Frederica Barach, executive secretary. lay, to drive down the wage Greens are not all there is to the all assaults of world im­ terest of the capitalist class exclusively. and this feeling is spreading to There is one glaring omission in the report of the standards of the working class millions of other workers.' Roose­ labor movement. Besides the perialism and of internal Writers War Beard. They pretend that Warner The representatives of Big Business in Congress and to silence ev.ery voice that velt sought to wreck Lewis as a treacherous bureaucrats, there counter-revolution, is the stall action on the anti-poll tax bill in order to protests. labor leader. Lewis has emerged are approximately 13 million men Brothers (“ Hollywood” ) was alone responsible for the and women in the ranks of or­ falsification of facts. There is not a single reference most important duty of make it easier to pass legislation like the anti­ A PYRRHIC VICTORY as the national trade union lead­ strike bill. Delay on the anti-poll tax bill helps er possessing the greatest moral ganized labor. to the State Department and its “ unofficial” endorse­ every class-conscious Roosevelt has held the line authority among the workers. ment of the film. the poll taxers, who hope to k ill the bill in the against the United Mine Workers. A CHANGING SITUATION worker. The coal' controversy and its same way they did last year — by postponing ac­ The miners are returning to work These workers supported Roose­ — LEON TROTSKY sequel in the passage of the slave- without having won any of their velt only so long as they believed tion as long as possible and then conducting or labor law, rather than strength­ basic demands. And yet appar­ that he was “labor’s friend” and threatening to conduct a filibuster against it. Main­ ening the authority of the gov­ Bank and Corporation ently the feeling persists in the was helping them improve their ernment has weakened it; rather tenance of the poll tax means the continued elec­ Roosevelt administration that the lot and supporting their aspira­ JOIN US IN FIGHTING FOR: than increasing Roosevelt’s hol<] tion to Congress of a sizeable group from districts victory was a pyrrhic one. The tions for a better life. Now their over the labor movement, has Profits Reach New High 1. M ilitary training of workers, financed W ar Labor Board is still denounc­ illusions are beginning to fade where the masses cannot vote and therefore cannot lessened it. The three coal strikes ing the miners’ union and still away. They are already beginning by the government, but under control exert much pressure. have upset Roosevelt’s existing demanding that Roosevelt force to resist the encroachment of the “WASHINGTON, June 21.—Despite increased ex­ W ithout the poll tax bloc, it would not have coalition with the labor movement of the trade unions. Special officers* the UMW to sign their “yellow Roosevelt administration upon and have ushered in a new period penses and taxes, current operating earnings of in­ been so easy to put over similar reactionary meas­ dog” contract for two years. Sug­ their rights. They are already training camps, financed by the gov­ of dynamic labor effort and ac­ sured commercial banks increased in 1942 to the ures aimed against the whole working class in the gestions are made that the check­ beginning to fight the Roosevelt ernment but controlled by the trade tiv ity . highest figures on record, it was announced today by future. off of union dues be abolished program to drive their wage stan­ unions, to train workers to become or that the UMW treasury be Leo T. Crowley, chairman of the Federal Deposit In­ The attitude of Congress toward these two bills THE LABOR ZOMBIES dards down to coolie levels. They o ffic e rs . seized, if Lewis and the union will continue this fight regard­ surance Corporation.” — N. Y. Times, June 25. is an argument not only for the speedy creation policy committee refuse to accept 2. Trade union wages for all workers Roosevelt possesses powerful less of and despite the Murrays Most of the increase, the report continued, was due of an Independent Labor Party based on the trade the WLB contract. allies inside the trade union move­ and Greens. to “interest on larger holdings of obligations of the drafted into the army. ment who are scheming and work­ unions, but also for an intensified drive by the Have they determined in Wash­ Several weeks ago, Green wrote United States Government.” As a result of these ington that they w ill not rest con­ ing to keep labor subservient to S. Full equality fo r Negroes in the armed labor movement to abolish the poll tax system to Roosevelt that “The workers holdings bank profits were highest in history, except tent until they have succeeded in Roosevelt. The top bureaucrats of of this country would never be­ forces and the war industries— Down fo r the years 1941 and 1936. which threatens the welfare of the workers in all wrecking the miners’ union ? Isn’t the AFL and CIO, the Murrays come reconciled to this legisla­ with Jim Crowism everywhere. parts of the country. it enough that they forced the and Greens, are planning to keep tion (Smith-Connally bill). They At the same- time, the Department of Commerce 4. Confiscation of all war profits. Expro­ miners back to work without labor hog-tied to the war mach­ would protest it and rebel against revealed last week, the industrial corpbrations are ine, bound in the chains of the priation of all war industries and their granting them any significant it in the event it would become doing all right for themselves too. After payment of concessions ? no-strike pledge and ineffective the law of the land.” their taxes, they show profits for the first quarter of operation under workers’ control. by continued support and backing No, Roosevelt feels that it is For Green this was only an 1943 amounting to 18% more than they made during not enough. Roosevelt feels that of the capitalist Democratic and empty threat. But the workers 5. A rising scale of wages to meet the the first quarter of 1942. Biggest profit rises were ini Only One Line in spite of everything he has Republican Parties. Murray and meant it. They are not going to rising cost of living. come out of the fight second best. Green bared their cowardly souls become reconciled to this law. the automobile-aircraft industry. The N. Y. Times 6. Workers Defense Guards against vig­ Roosevelt was the first leader of in their last letter to Roosevelt They are going to rebel against of June 27 reported that the net income of 41 auto­ ilante and fascist attacks. Is Being Held American labor on March 10, after the Smith-Connally bill be- it. mobile, automotive equipment and aircraft manufac­ turers during the first 3 months of* 1943 was 29% It is now plain as a pikestaff that the only part 7. An Independent Labor Party based on high er than in the same period in 1942. the Trade Unions. of the government's “anti-inflation” program that The question is: How many industrial workers, 8. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern­ is being carried out in practice is the drive to keep Michigan CIO Strongly after paying their taxes, can claim that their stand­ m e n t. wages down. The objective effect is not to prevent ard of living today is 18% higher than a year ago? 9. The defense of the Soviet Union inflation at all, but to impose the burden of the war on the masses. against im perialist attack. What has happened to the promise to curb Condemns Lynch Attack profits? Otto Ruehle Is Bead (Continued from page 1) are isolated incidents in our na­ homemade. . . This combination Corporate profits after fax payments, which tional community or that they are of hate mongers was doing a Railroad Workers reached their highest point in the nation’s history thoroughgoing investigation of all inspired from Berlin, Rome thriving business long before the In Mexico City in 1941 and 1942, were 18% higher during the first the city authorities for the handl­ and Tokio,” he said. “It’s the cowardly Mussolini marched on very same forces that are foment­ Rome or before Schickelgruber quarter of 1943 than in the same period last year, ing of the critical situation in According to newspaper reports Otto Ruehle died And The Mine Case Detroit. But the Stalinists in­ ing racial strife that no more planned his beer hall putsch.” according'to the Department of Commerce survey. of a heart attack at the age of 69 on June 24 in Every muddle-headed liberal, every hypocritical sisted on placing the blame for than three days ago pushed Operating earnings of insured commercial banks through Congress a slave-labor THE BASIC CAUSE Mtexico City. Otto Ruehle belonged to the old revo­ labor faker, every Stalinist fink has advised the the rio ts on H itle r and M us­ increased in 1942 to the highest figure on record, solini. The reactionaries seized bill over the President’s veto. Not Townsend’s evaluation did not lutionary generation. He served as a Social-Democra­ miners that they would have received consideration the Federal Deposit Insurance Corpofation an­ upon this opportunity to try to only are these forces fomenting end here. tic Deputy in the German Reichstag. In the first for their demands if they had only docilely laid racial strife but labor and na­ nounced last week. place responsibility for the De­ “The basic causes for these world war he held a consistent internationalist posi­ their case before the War Labor Board and peace­ troit clashes on the Japanese as tionality strife as well. They are tion. Together with Liebknecht he voted against What has happened to the promise to stop price racial incidents are found at the fu lly continued to mine coal. The Murrays and well as on all aliens residing in the very same forces that are very roots of our social and eco­ granting war credits to the Kaiser and the German rises? this country. fighting against effective price- nomic system. A system which imperialists in 1914. He was one of the leaders of Greens, not so good at winning wage increases for control, anti-poll tax legislation, Prices arc rising sky high, as any housewife can These two force« combined and promotes discord among races, the German Spartacist movement and in November their own members, know exactly how the miners anti-lynch legislation, effective testify, and as even the conservative figures of the voted down the original resolu­ classes, and nationality groups 1918 led the Saxon revo lu tion. could have won. tion. When the delegates realized social security legislation and government show. The Department of Labor ad­ as insurance against its own In 1919 he joined the German Communist Party, The experience of the railroad workers proves what had happened, they im­ everythin^ that is decent and destruction. A system which by mits that on May 15 of this year prices (living human in our American way of but later became a left Communist. H itler’s victory that this advice is not worth a continental. Fifteen mediately asked the Resolutions its very nature cannot effectively costs) were over 24% above those of January, 1941. Committee to bring back another life . drove him into exile, and six years ago he found railroad unions, representing approximately 750,- challenge slavery, insecurity, These figures of course do not take into considera­ resolution on this subject em­ “While many were rioting in class and race antagonism. Divide refuge in Mexico. He is the author of a biography of 000 workers, have been negotiating for a 20% tion the fact that workers have to pay far higher bodying the real wishes of the Detroit, the reactionary Congress the common people and rule has Marx. During his stay in Mexico he served as a mem­ wage increase since February, 1943. The railroad prices than are shown in the official price ceiling ranks. This resolution will un­ was passing laws to enslave not been the economic keystone of ber of the International Commission which under the doubtedly be submitted at tomor­ only Negroes but all workers. chairmanship of John Dewey investigated the Mos­ corporations are bloated with profits. Class I roads lists. those who control the economic had a net operating income of one billion 480 row's session. The Smith-Connally Bill was destiny of America. . . cow trials and rendered the verdict that they were OPA Administrator Prentiss Brown, speaking TOWNSEND EXPLAINS passed not against Negroes but million dollars after all taxes in 1942. They paid “The Negro is a scapegoat in fram eups. before a congressional committee two weeks ago, The feelings of the delegates against the working people of America because certain people o ff over 428 million dollars in debts to the banks asserted that without subsidies it would be “ im­ were clearly expressed in their this country. Prices are being can profit by his suppression. thunderous ovation to the speech pushed higher. Not only Negroes and the bond holders. They are making more possible” for the government to put through the Race antipathy will die when money in 1943. They are more than able to con­ of W illard S. Townsend, member but all the people will suffer as nobody can profit by it.” meager roll-back program which it promised when of the national executive board of a consequence. All must join to Negro Woman Worker tinue paying out huge dividends to their stockhold­ (A complete report on the the miners began their fight for increased wages. the CIO and president of the kill reaction in America. Michigan CIO convention will be ers and lush salaries to their executives and still Taking him at his word, the agents of Big Business United Transport Service Em­ “Axis propoganda? Bosh! This printed in next week’s issue of Comments On Pamphlet grant a sizable wage increase to their overworked in both Houses of Congress have now ruled out ployes Union (Red Caps), who combination of hate mongers is The Militant.) minced no words in exposing the and underpaid workers. the subsidy program sought by the administration. Unlike Lewis,, the officials of the 13 railroad real causes of the events of the After reading “The Struggle For Negro Equality,” This not only ends the fiction of rolling back la st week: the new Pioneer Publishers pamphlet- by John Saun­ unions did not fight the government. They did not prices but foreshadows a drive for higher prices . "Don’t make the mistake of ders and Albert Parker, a Negro woman worker in challenge the authority of the Rail Labor Board. in the immediate period ahead. believing these racial outbreaks Boston SWP Explains How To They did not call their workers out on strike. New York City last week submitted the following The only place where President Roosevelt’s com m ent: They placed their faith in the government. These “ line” is being held "is on the wage front — and- union officials have been trudging hat in hand, Archbishop Gives Combat Lies In Davies’ Film “In referring to the source of race prejudice, it is there, as is shown by the War Labor Board's mine true no one is born with it, but children of race pre­ for six months, from government board to board, BOSTON, June 25. — The Bos­ object of the slanders and lies wage decision and Economic Stabilizer Vinson’s A Fair Appraisal judiced parents acquire it before even the primary presenting statistical data, pleading for considera­ ton premiere of the Davies white­ in ‘Mission To Moscow’ believe railroad wage decision, it is being held with all the age. One reason that it is hard to overcome Jim tion for the railroad workers. Of Stalinist' Party wash film , “ Mission To Moscow,” truth would be better served by tenacity and ferocity at the command of the capi­ scheduled for one of the largest exposing the historical falsity of Crowism and discrimination is that the Negro was W ith what results? Vinson, Director of Economic talist class. During an interview in Costa theatres in this city, has been the film than by banning it. brought here as a slave at that time uneducated and Stabilization, ha% set aside the paltry eight cent in­ The program of Big Business, put into operation Rica last week. Archbishop postponed for one week and w ill “ The International Commission at the mercy of his so-called master, to be beaten an(l Sanabria denied that there was crease granted by even the Rail Labor Board. The through its control of industry and its domination be shown at a smaller theatre. headed by John Dewey proved the sold like cattle. any truth in the report that This is the upshot of a controver­ Moscow trials of 1936-38 to be railroad workers have received nothing. The Rail­ over Lite government, has been bared in all its “ Since then he has been ridiculed and pictured in Catholics could join the Com­ sy around the film which began frameups and published several road union officials have been so polite and quiet papers and books to look like nothing human — big nakedness: the highest profits of all time for the munist Party of that country. with a resolution passed by the volumes of conclusive evidence about the whole thing that most people are not employers: the freezing of wages for the workers, Said the Archbishop rn a sper- Boston City Council, influenced and testimony. . . mouth, white eyes, and a grin stretching from ear sonally prepared statement to ear, just a big clown; naturally with all this in ­ even aware of the raw deal that the railroad work­ and the reduction of their living standards through by the Hearst press, the Catholic “This film, produced with the printed in the June 26 issue of hierarchy and other reactionary ers are getting. tacit approval of the State De­ stilled in the white race from one generation to an­ price rises and increased taxes. Catholic News, official organ of anti-Soviet propagandists, asking partment, whitewashes Stalin’s other, it's very hard for them to realize there is a Isn’t it obvious that if instead of isolating and The labor movement can counteract this pro­ the Archdiocese of New York: the mayor to ban the film. record in the past decade. . . The new Negro today, who can cope with the white race knifing the mine workers the railroad union offi­ “The Communist Party was The proposed suppression of gram only by rejecting outright the “Little Steel security of the Soviet Union de­ in any field of endeavor. dissolved on June 13. A new the film was,protested by the lo­ cials had joined with the miners in fighting Roose­ formula,” only by withdrawing its’ representatives pends upon the establishment of cal CIO cbuncils who advanced “ If the Socialist Workers Party can do and will do velt’s wage freeze policy, if instead of cooperating party, Vanguardia Popular, a Socialist United States of Eu­ from the WI..B. only by asserting the economic and the wonderful things that are written in this book, was created with its own pro­ the Stalinist-inspired argument rope. By fostering the illusion with Roosevelt against the miners they cooperated political independence of the labor movement in that “ it would harm the relations I feel that each and every Negro should join that gram. The latter was submit­ that Stalin’s crimes are iden­ with the miners against Roosevelt, then not only between two freedom-loving peo­ its fight to maintain the rights of American labor ted for study by the Hierarchy tical with socialist justice, this party. As the saying goes, nothing ventured, nothing the miners but the railroad workers would be fur­ ples.” and a standard of living that w ill permit the of Costa Rica, which found it film will confuse and alienate gained, and we certainly haven’t gained anything The Boston Branch of the So­ ther ahead today? working man to live in decency and health. to contain nothing Communist those very labor and political from either the Republican or Democratic party. This nor Socialist. It is tolerated cialist Workers Party came out U nity of labor in action against Roosevelt’s groups which must be won to little book should be a must in every Negro’s home.” that a Catholic join the new strongly against the proposed wage freeze— that is the task of the hour for the this program if the Soviet Union Pioneer Publishers announced last week that the It Is Time to Build An Independent p a rty on the same ground as ban. The statement issued to the miners, for the railroad workers, for all of Amer­ other parties.” local press declares: and the Bolshevik ideas of Lenin first edition of the pamphlet, which is selling very ican labor. Labor Party “We Trotskyists who are the are to survive.” rapidly, has almost been exhausted.