Leading Radicals On West Coast t h e MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Back Jack Wright Vol. X X III - No. 6 Í6 7 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1958 PRICE 10c SEATTLE, Feb. 2 — Terry Pettus, Northwest editor of the People’s World, a west coast weekly associated with the Communist Party, today announced his support to Jack W right far the Seattle City Council. W rig h t is running on the platform of the Socialist Work­ ers Party and has the endorse­ SWP Nat’l Committee Urges ment of i/ocal 158, International Mtolders and Foundry Workers, to which he belongs. Growing united socialist support for W rig h t was given strong added impetus w ith the release on Jan. 28 of a letter of endorsement from Vincent Haliinan, 1952 Progres­ United Socialist Ticket in '58 sive Party Presidential candidate, who has been playing a major role in the national movement for Venezuela Revolution united socialist action. DISTRESS SMITH-ACT VICTIM Propose Joint Challenge Terry Pettus, one of the Seattle Smith Act victims who recently OF JOBLESS won reversal of their conviction, declared his support of W right at To Big Business Parties a Washington Pension Union The National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party last week proposed to the forum this afternoon. Pettus told VINCENT HALLINAN GROWING radical movement in the United States the running of a joint socialist ticket in the 1958 the forum that Wright has been FEB. 5 — A bread line in virtually the only candidate to Memphis, Tenn., touched the election. This proposal was presented in an advertisement in the Feb. 3 National Guardian, parties and classes. lie singled inject real issues into the cam­ heart of Sen. Albert Gore, (see text, this page). It wasfej out for special praise the firm paign. Referring to Wright’s Democrat of that state, and anti-labor laws, an opposition­ stand taken by Wright against adopted by the SWP commit­ endorsement by the Socialist brought him to the point of al voice will get a hearing. a city sales tax and against the tee at a meeting, Jan. 18-20. Workers Party and the Malders proposing a national public Only the socialist can provide Union, Pettus stressed the fact Fire Department’s refusal to hire works program to create jobs. The SWP committee said it an answer to these problems Negroes. that the supposedly “non-par­ He watched long lines of un­ had reached the conclusion and to the monstrous war prep­ tisan” character of the Council- •Pettus had previously indicated employed moving slowly to re­ that “an unusual opportunity arations of Big Business. a sympathetic attitude toward manic campaign is really a farce ceive free food taken from gov­ for running joint slates in key "The witch-hunlers, the war­ W right’s campaign in his column ernment surplus stocks. mongers, the segregators w ill in that all candidates, in reality, areas now faces the various represent particular interests, (Continued on page 2) “ I am surprised and disturbed then encounter a united and to find approximately ten per socialist tendencies.” It also effective opposition by the ra­ cent of the people in Shelby suggested a number of propo­ dical forces in fhis country. County standing in lines for sitions for a common election WILL WIN THOUSANDS distress distribution of food,” platform . the Senator said. “That is as “The first united socialist Young Socialists Hold In presenting the proposal to bad as anything I remember Celebrating the overthrow of the hated Venezuelan dictator, campaign may not win elec­ during the depression of the Marcos Jimenez, crowds in the capital city of Caracas swarm the National Committee, Far­ tions. But it w ill win thousands ’30s.” City officials in Memphis over tanks as the army joins the celebrations. The demonstrators rell Dobbs, party National Sec­ of new adherents to socialism Spirited Chicago Parley stated that 10,352 families had freed political prisoners and searched out members of the hated retary stated: from the ranks of the working secret, police. class. As I see it, the task of registered for aid. Many were “The regroupmenl discussion CHICAGO, Feb. 4 — The building of the socialist farm laborers seeking off-sea­ a socialist ticket is to explain youth movement in America made a major advance this son work in Tennessee, accord­ of the last few years has plac­ as in te llig e n tly as possible week with the successful convening of the Midwest Con­ ing to Memphis officials. ed high on the agenda of ra­ what socialism is, to propose Whatever the case might be dical workers the need for concrete objectives for which ference of Socialist Youth Feb. 1 — farm laborers in Tennessee, Sobell Freedom Appeal united action on issues where the working people can strug­ and 2. in a beautifully decorated miners in depressed metal in­ gle now to advance the cause Southern Editor all can agree. The election Hall at the University of Chicago. dustries, auto workers in De­ of peace and of jobs, and to About 140 young workers and Greets Conference troit, steel workers in Ohio and campaign in 1958 presents an explain the need for independ­ students from more than 16 cities Eugene Feldman, editor of Pittsburgh — reports of grow­ opportunity for a concentrated ent labor political action and 12 colleges and high schools, Gets Youth Backing FARRELL DOBBS, National Southern News, delivered an ing layoffs and rising applica­ action on civil liberties, civil Secretary of the Socialist against the Big Business par­ representing nearly every shade ties. I am sure that if the idea inspiring address to the Mid­ tions for relief continue. The FEB. 5 — The struggle to free Morton Sobell from rights and the all-important Workers Party and candidate of socialist political opinion, met of a united socialist campaign west Conference of Socialist Feb. 5 Wall Street Journal re­ Alcatraz won many new participants when the frame-up for United States President in to discuss the problems facing questions of the struggle for is agreed on, we will be able Youth, held in Chicago, Feb. 1 ports that the rubber industry 1956. today’s youth and to outline steps of the young scientist was explained to those who attended peace and full employment. through friendly discussion, to and 2. “ You are the future,” is now down-grading its 1958 to deal with them. All young so­ the Midwest Socialist Youth Oon------work out the kind of platform he said. “Not the young Re­ production estimates. “Passen­ 1957 EXPERIENCE cialists had been invited regard­ ference in Chicago Feb. 1 and 2. ducting a nation-wide petition that will best, embody our publicans. not the young Demo­ ger tires were heaped high at pression of the desire for a less of political a ffilia tio n . the end of 1957 . . . The build­ These young people, eager to fight drive appealing to the President “In 1957 a growing tendency united socialist campaign. common objectives.” crats. lull you are the future.” The Conference passed w ith but up in the final quarter of 1957 for justice in this country, to release the young scientist for united election activity was “Opposition to the two cap­ Another decision of the Na­ The Conference sent a message one dissenting vote a resolution was considered abnormal, av­ listened w ith shock as the story from prison. The Committee has manifest. The support, of the italist parties, the Democrats tional Committee was the of greetings to Mrs. Daisy- demanding that the State Depart­ eraging more than a million a was told and determined, unani­ ofifees at 940 Broadway, New National Guardian and many and Republicans, is urgently launching of a $20,000 fund Rates of L ittle Rock, Ark., and ment return the passports of the m onth.” mously. to fight for Sobell’s York 10, N. Y. and is keeping prominent radicals to the slate needed. With the growth of drive in the spring. Special at­ the Negro students of Central 42 students who visited China in release from prison. doors open to those who have of candidates placed on the unemployment, mounting in­ tention would be given to the High School for their courage­ detfiance of an unwarranted gov­ LAYOFFS IN RUBBER Morton Sobell was tried in the time to help every night, Monday ballot by the SWP was an ex- flation and the threat of new expansion of the party press. ernment ban. This resolution and ous fig h t against the racists. The rubber industry, like auto so-called “atom spy” case of through Friday until 9 P.WI. others that were passed w ill go and steel, does not try to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. So- Those outside of New York City to the appropriate government “whittle away at this tire holl himself was never charged who want to join the appeal for agencies as well as to youth bulletin will be published, the mountain” by price cuts. That with stealing atomic secrets nor Sobell’s freedom should write to groups in this country, Europe group declared. The hoard of would reduce profits. Big Busi­ any oilier kind of secrets. Under the Committee’s office for peti­ Text of Socialist Workers Party and Asia. editors will not have the right ness answers w ith production the “conspiracy” law, all that the tions, inform ation on the case, etc. The conference heard a report to refuse any article. In this way, cuts and layoffs. The United government had to do was show If it is possible for the govern­ on the case of ‘Morton Sohelil and (he bulletin w ill be representative Rubber Workers union esti­ that, the accused were associated ment to frameup and persecute a passed a resolution unanimously of all points of view, and cannot mates close to 2,000 have been in some way or other. young scientist like ¡Mbrtoji So­ backing efforts to free him from become the mouthpiece of any laid off in Akron rubber plants Proposal to Radical Movement Sobelil was nevertheless sen­ bell, no one is secure in his free­ Alcatraz. I t also condemned as an particular tendency. Cost of pub­ alone with another 1.000 lay­ tenced to the monstrous term of dom. Those who are genuinely infringement of civil liberties the lication is to he borne by sup­ offs expected in a week or so. (The following is the text of a statement, tion or modification as may finally be agreed 30 .veal's in prison. Persecution concerned with the struggle for conviction of Gil Green and Henry porting dubs. But the jobless are not the against him did not stop there. "For a United Socialist Ticket in the 1958 upon, be included as planks in the platform of only ones with problems. The full restoration of civil liberties Winston under the Smith Act, Tbc Conference worked in He was placed in the most ter­ Elections — A Proposal to the Radical Move­ a united socialist ticket for 1958: Feb. 6 N. Y. Mirror reports. in this country have an obliga­ called for a halt to the testing of seminars, panels and general rible, “security” prison in the ment," by the National Committee of the So­ (1) Socialism offers a realistic alternative nuclear weapons and an end to “When the President's council tion do contribute to the move­ cialist Workers Party, 116 University Place, sessions, ft heard reports o r country — Alcatraz — where lo the insane drive towards thermonuclear war of economic advisers wrote his ment to free Sobell. restrictions on passports. youth activities in various cities, prison life is limited almost to New York 3, N.Y. It was printed as an adver­ which the two parties of Big Business have economic message to Congress, tisement in the Feb. 3 National Guardian, an discussed economic problems, c iv il mere existence. been conducting. Replace the bipartisan, cold- SET UP BULLETIN they were given strict in­ liberties, civil rights and the Sobell has always insisted on A medical corps officer in Ger­ independent radical weekly published at 197 war, imperialist foreign policy of the Demo­ In a further action, the group structions not to use that fate­ E. 4th St.. New York 9, N.Y.) crats and Republicans with a socialist policy voted to establish a mimeograph­ struggle fo r peace. The entire his innocence. Still the Supreme many publicly refused to shake fu l w ord ‘recession.’ As a re ­ In considering what to do in the 1958 of friendship and aid to the countries of the ed bulletin containing news of conference met Saturday after- Court last fall refused to review hands with his new commanding sult Chairman Raymond Saul- elections, we have reached the conclusion that Soviet orbit and the colonial peoples of Asia, the activities of all dubs rep­ neon fo r the discussion on civil his conviction. It refused to test officer — a Negro. To avoid pos­ nier. who wrote most of the an unusual opportunity for tunning joint Africa and Latin America who are fighting for resented at the Conference as liberties. Norman Hodgetit of the message, kept a d ictionary on in court impressive new evidence sible court martial “ for conduct Denver Yeung Socialist Club obtained by Sobell’s defenders unbecoming an officer and gentle­ slates in some key areas now faces the vari­ their freedom. End the atom-bomb tests. Dis­ well as discussion material on hand to look up words that ous socialist tendencies. mantle the stockpiles of atomic weapons. political and theoretical questions. spoke on the struggle against the meant the same th in g as ‘re ­ th a t Sobell told the tru th and the man,” he resigned. Back in the (2) Socialism offers the only permanent Each club w ill be asked to appoint witch hunlt on the campus. I. cession’ but sounded better ..." prosecution lied. U.'S. he changed his min'd. The We are of the opinion, moreover, that a solution to the problem of capitalist depres­ a correspondent to the bulletin. Wai-wick of Chicago spoke on (See other stories on jobless, Tlie Committee to Secure Jus­ Pentagon tore up the resignation united socialist ticket, challenging the two parties of Big Business, would meet with the sion. As an immediate measure to counterbal­ All material submitted to the (Continued on page 2) page four.) tice. for Morton Sobell is now con­ and gave him back his rank. approval and perhaps the enthusiasm of tens ance the decline in employment, shorten the and even hundreds of thousands of militant work-week at no decrease in take-home pay. workers. Let the government guarantee full employment For example, the response to the Socialist or adequate permanent relief. Convert the Egypt and Syria Form Single Arab State Workers candidates in the 1957 New York, armaments program into a program of public Detroit and San Francisco elections indicates works. posal for union of the “antj-Com- Cairo press reports that the By Myra Tanner Weiss Baghdad paot. The present mica's ments were quick to reply with a widespread sentiment among radical-minded of these countries are stooges of (¡liferent kind of “unity.” On the munist Arab states.” Certainly preamble to the constitution, workers for independent socialist electoral DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS The Arab answer fo the attempt guarantees freedom of assembly, imperialism but the Arab popula­ same day the E gypt-S yria union Nasser is no democrat.. He is a a ctivity. to bolster thp U.S. - sponsored speech and press as well as the (3) Socialism can realize the full equality tions exert strong pressure to­ was announced, Feb. 1, King Hus­ military dictator. But the im­ In addition, the stand taken by the Na­ Baghdad 1’act came in the an­ sanctity of private property. To and brotherhood of all races and nationalities. ward independence from Wes/tern sein of Joixian invited King Faisal perialist powers have no case in tional Guardian and such representative radi­ nouncement in Cairo on Feb. 1 of v.hat extent civil liberties are- Right now let the labor movement rally full control. The.re is speculation now of Iraq and King Saud of Saudi condemning Nasser while embrac­ cal spokesmen as Vincent Haliinan. Muriel the formation of a new state, the support to the struggle of the Negro people that the small country of Yemen Arabia to confer on the question ing the fa r less popular and fa r assured remains to be seen. McAvoy, Warren K. Billings. George Hitch­ United Arab Republic, unifying for their civil rights and civil liberties. For at the southern tip of tihe Arabian o f the need to unite the Arab peo­ more tyrannical absolute monar­ One thing, however, is certain. cock, and George Olshausen in favor of the Egypt and Syria. The union of effective FEPC legislation. For immediate en­ peninsula is already preparing to ples. chies of Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Political freedom will be secured Socialist Workers candidates as against the these two Arab countries met w ith forcement of the Supreme Court order to end federate with the new state. Asked if this proposal meant Arabia. in the Arab world only to the capitalist tickets, despite important disagree­ great popular enthusiasm in bolh desegregation in the schools. Syria was under French rule union of all Arab countries or The union of Egypt, and Syria extent that the domination of the ments with them on a number of questions, (4) Socialism stands for the deepening and Cairo and Damascus. It bad been as a “ protectorate” after the first just the three invited to confer, a may well mean at least a tem­ provides persuasive evidence, we believe, for Mideast by foreign oil profiteers extension of democracy. Repeal the witch­ planned since 1956, and prelim in­ world War. Egypt 'vas dominated “ reliable source,” according to the porary curtailm ent of democratic- the view that common action by the various is successfully resisted. The union hunt legislation at home and free such politic­ ary to it the armies of the two by Britain through the Egyptian N. Y. Times, Feb. 2, replied that rights fo r the Syrian people. Syria socialist tendencies is possible. of Syria and Egypt is a big aid al prisoners as Morton Sobell, Gil Green, countries had been placed under King Farouk. The U.S. and “ it. is quite natural that when has enjoyed a fa r greater degree in carrying through the resist­ Henry Winston and Irving Potash. For poli­ joint command. Britain welcomed France's loss they get. together, the kings will of democracy than has Egypt. ance. SUGGESTIONS FOR PLATFORM tical freedom throughout the Soviet bloc. End A fte r t.lio election of the Na­ :n Syria as th e ir gain. And the fir s t, discuss the realization of Part, of the merger agreement is the ballot restrictions on minority parties in tional Front, in Jordan in October United States sought to make unity among their countries, the decision to dissolve the con­ ' Can this promising beginning in 1957 lead the United States. 1956, the plans for union also in­ inroads in Egypt as the which we hope w ill bring to tending political parties of Syria That the current upsurge of to something more substantial in 1958? We believe it can. A united campaign in 1958 cluded that, country. But the m ili­ British got squeezed out. But the reality the old dream of Arab inito one. political organization, militancy goes beyond Latin (5) Socialists favor the building of a labor might well end the present isolation of the tary coup of King Hussain, carried Arab peoples were not satisfied nationalists.” the National Front. America to the Caribbean Is­ party based on the unions and would urge a through w ith the aid of the U.S. lo exchange one master for an- This conference of pro-im­ Nasser, who is proposed as the lands is shown by the continu­ American socialist movement and bring it into party to adopt a socialist program. In the the main stream of political life where it Sixth Fleet, crashed the demo­ oilhrr. Two factors made a perialist Arab rulers is not likely President of the United Arab Re­ ing general strike of the work­ absence of a labor party, the socialist move­ rightfully belongs. cratically elected Parliament last greater degree of national inde­ 1« impress the Arab peoples who public, will have the power t.o ap­ ers of Nassau in the British ment calls on unionists to register their pro­ The first step in working for a united spring and prevented the fusion pendence possible: the revolu« undesfand all too well the sub­ point a national Cabinet, a na­ Bahamas Islands. There the test against the anti-labor policies of the capi­ socialist ticket, it seems to us, is to open a of Jordan with Syria as a first tionary capacity of the Arab ordination of these monarchs to tional Legislature and two ex­ Negro workers, 85% of the talist parties by voting socialist. Against the discussion on its feasibility. step in the unification of both masses to struggle — as demon­ the United States and Britain. ecutive councils for the transi­ population, are exploited eco­ support of capitalist parties and candidates; In our opinion it should be possible to foi independent political action. wiitth Egypt. strated in the wake of the French- Blit the imperialist powers are tional period. He will appoint nomically and frozen out poli­ work out a platform on which the various Knglish-lsraeli attack on Egypt desperate for some reply to the three Egyptians to one Syrian to tically by the tiny white mi­ We urge that, our proposal for a united Primary value of the Kgypt- tendencies can agree for the purpose of com­ in lil.'ifi — and the readiness of powerful political appeal of the the new government bodies — nority. The hotel workers of socialist ticket in 1958 be considered with Syria merger is a political one — bined action in the 1958 elections. Once ihis fraternal understanding. We want to arrive at the Soviet Union to answer Syria-Egypt merger. roughly equivalent to their this “paradise” are forbidden strengthening E gypt and Syria as is achieved, (lie organization of the campaign, the most effective electoral policy in 1958 and Western trade and financial boy­ The New York Times editors*, present proportional strength. by law to organize unions. an at attractive pole for all Arab the choice of candidates and electioneering are ready to consider all other viewpoints. cotts with attractive trade and in a veritable frenzy of rage, The provisional constitution Since Jan. 12 the workers have countries — namely, Jordan, Le­ plans should not offer too many difficulties. May we hear from you either directly or arms deals. likened Nasser to Hitler, Feb. 4, will be submitted to a vote of the steadfastly kept Nassau shut banon and Saudi Arabia as well To start the discussion, we suggest !.hat through your comments to the National and hailed the “ more logical” pro­ two legislatures this month. The as Iraq which is lined up in the The pro-Western Arab govern- down. the following propositions, with such elabora­ Guardian? Page 2 TME MILITANT Monday. February 10. lO.'R Denial of Jersey Nathan Discusses War and Peace was rejected by The Worker. Bv George Lavan (*j ©possessing its own military f y ' Hall to Radicals force, and with various changes Dr. Nathan, a veteran fighter "War and Peace in the such as end of the great-power fo r peace, is honored by The Atomic Age" was Ihe subject veto. Worker. The Trotskyites, who of a lecture by Dr. Otto Na­ Saying that he knew many term ‘peaceful coexistence’ as than. distinguished M arxist Hit by ACLU w ould be com pletely opposed ‘international class collabora­ economist and executor of ihe to his proposal, Dr. Nathan tion’ are another matter en­ estate of his late friend. Albert NEWARK, Feb. 4 — The American Civil Liberties continued: “But as socialists we tirely. The Worker does not Einstein, before the Militant must have the abolition of war care to accept their ads." Union today protested actions by red-baiters here and in Labor Forum in New York City as our guidepost. . . . Unless we It was in reference to the nearbv Paterson trampling on the rights to free speech on Feb. 1. The interest of the build a world movement against banning of the advertisement ®------audience of 100 in ihe speaker's ami assembly. Rental of a hall war the abolition of war will for the meeting that Dr. Nathan groups to meet in the building.” views was attested by the pro­ was cancelled here for a meet­ never come-." said in his opening remarks: “I ing: schc-diulcd to hear Tilm The roceptiom in Paterson fo r longation of the question-and- feel honored that I was asked Wohlflorth. editor of the Young Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and' discussion period by popular DISCUSSION PERIOD to appear before you tonight. Socialist. Last month, in Paterson, Martha Stone had been scheduled demand for well over an hour. In the lively discussion per­ . . . And I feel it my duty to a meeting hall rented for a in the “ Sons o f Veterans H all,” After the adjournment a large iod that followed, all speakers accept. Whether it is the M ili­ reception for Elizabeth Gurley a privately-owned building. Can­ portion of the audience re­ agreed with Dr. Nathan about tant or Socialist Workers Party, mained for informal discussions Flynn and Martha Stone of the cellation came after a press the paramount need of socialists or whether it is the Commu­ of ihe subject of the evening. Gomnvunisit Party was cancelled. announcement of the reception to crusade fo r w orld peace. nist Party, or whether it is any Dr. Nathan’s thesis was that The hall cancelled for the and apparently alfter pressure by However, many challenged as independent forum — wherever “war in the atomic age is qual­ Wohlforth meeting is in the local politicians purporting to unrealistic his belief that Amer­ freedom of speech is guaran­ itatively different from what speak fo r Paterson* w ar veterans. ica’s capitalist ruling class would teed, I shall be there. Ma/sonic Auditorium , 188 Belmont war was in the pre-atomic age.” OTTO NATHAN A fte r the cancellation the ¡Pater­ ever agree to permanent and Avenue. On Jan. 31, the rental The principal differences were "And I wish we would deal son Evening Niews proclaimed total disarmament or to world payment was returned along with that the imperialist wars be­ with each other w ith hum ility to do with the announcement that the “historic building” had government in which it would a letter which slated : “It is tween capitalist nations such and tolerance, that we would of this meeting. Unless we ac­ learned by the management, been “ saved from desecration” by have to abide by the majority not deny to each other the an­ cord to one another . . . toler­ as we have known in the past vote of all nations. through sources which cannot be barring Miss Flynn and Miss are today unlikely. What we nouncement of one another's ance and decency we shall disclosed, that the name of your Stone. face today is “a war which A crusade to abolish war w ill lectures. . . . I hope that the never be able to build up the organization is ‘Un - American’ gel an increasingly favorable M ilitant would not do the same kind of movement which we COP PUSHES PRIVATE BAN would be fought for an ideology and not the labor group as desig- to determine what kind of an response from the American as that other newspaper tried all hope for." ignated. Therefore, it is the The News also reported that n economic and political system working people, one speaker This poisonous mushroom cloud was released by the ex­ policy . . . not to allow such local captain of detectives, active should exist throughout the said. Socialists must organize plosion of a giant hydrogen bomb at the United States testing in “veteran« circles,” says “he w orld.” that sentiment, expose Ameri­ plans to put before the Veterans site at Eniwetok in the Pacific. Realization that an H-bomb can Big Business as the source Council a proposal to request all SOURCE OF WAR DANGER war could mean the end of civilization has made the fight for of the war danger, and work 'Future of U. S. Bronx Reception owners of public meeting places Analyzing the development peace the number one issue confronting humanity. for the elimination of its rule to scan all requests fo r meetings, of this antagonism in the last and for the democratic rule of To Honor Eliz. and if there is any reason to be­ 12 years of cold war. Dr. Na­ friends, if war should come to­ Einstein and Russell warned the working people. This would lieve that the sponsors of any than called the audience’s at­ day the entire territory of the that mankind now faced “the lead to world peace and to so­ Socialism' Topic meeting are motivated by Com­ tention particularly to an arti­ world would be war territory.” risk of universal death.” cialism. Gurley Flynn munist sympathies that the meet­ cle by Joseph Hansen [Three Dr. Nathan, himself a victim Posing ihe question of what Dr. Nathan defended his ing place be denied them, and that Programs for Peace] in the of the witch hunt who has dis­ policies could cope with the views vigorously, and from the FEB. 3—The Bronx Commit­ the FBI be informed.” Winter issue of International tinguished himself by his prin­ war danger. Dr. Nathan re­ stimulating clash of ideas many A t Bronx Forum tee for Civil Liberties is spon­ Socialist Review. While de­ cipled stand against the House jected the idea that only ihe interesting arguments emerged. soring a reception for Eliza­ A letter from Patrick Malin claring that he neither gave Un-American Activities Com­ achievement of socialism could However, it is quite safe to say NEW YORK, Feb. 4 — A major step in extending the beth Gurley Flynn on Satur­ Muiphy, executive director of the nor had given blanket justifi­ mittee and the passport divis­ avert it. "I want to go on that when the chairman reluct­ regroupment discussion initiated by the American Forum day, Feb. 22, 8:30 P.M., at 683 American Civil Liberties Union, cation to all the acts of the ion of the State Department, fighting for socialism . . . but antly declared the meeting ad­ Allerton Ave., in the Bronx, addressed to the editors of the for Socialist Education to the New York boroughs was Soviet government in the cold then gave an eloquent descrip­ I don't think, my friends, in journed the question remained New York. Miss Flynn spent Paterson Newts and the Paterson taken when the newly formedlS>- war, the speaker said: "But I tion of yet another change that the immediate future — in the far from exhausted or settled. three years in Alderson federal Call, said in part: ", . . we deplore slate run on a minimum pro­ am quite convinced, as Mr. modern war has brought about. next three to five years — this Bronx Socialist Forum held prison after being framed on what is an admitted discrimina­ gram of opposition to the U.S. Hansen is, thal we [the United This is the perversion of values is the solution to ihe war 'WORKER' ATTACK its first public symposium government's war plans, for Smith-Act charges. Ironically, tory denial of the hall because States] have been more aggres­ and institutions in peacetime scare." In fact, Dr. Nathan Several weeks prior to Dr. last Sunday. civil rights, against support to it was only after men and of the meeting's political colo,ra­ sive. And I think if we honest­ by the preparations for H-bomb argued, it was largely the war Nathan’s appearance at the M il­ A lively crowd of experienced capitalist politicians, and for women like her had been con­ tion . . . the Paterson community ly understand the nature of war. Not only is there a slash­ scare and total preparation for itant Labor Forum, the weekly socialist activists of various po­ Socialism. victed and served their sen­ has been treated to an example the conflict, the capitalist na­ ing of all social benefits and war which was preventing the newspaper. The Worker, refus­ litical tendencies heard four Joseph Clark stated he was tences that the Supreme Court of the thw arting o f free speech. tion must be more aggres­ legislation but a total "security" building of a powerful social­ ed to accept a paid advertise­ speakers discuss "The Future re-reading Marx and reviewing ruled against some of the un­ The decision reached ill Paterson sive . . ." or witch hunt preparation of ist movement and which made ment of the meeting. Represen­ of Socialism in the United all aspects of socialist tactics just features of the Smith-Act, may have affected freedom of In addition to what he term­ the home front is undertaken. masses o f workers, who should tatives of the forum could got States." Close to a m ajority of and strategy. He expressed making convictions much more speech in other communities, too, ed the “ideological” character be socialists and international­ no explanation or justification those present were young peo­ doubt that many of Marx’ ten­ difficult to obtain. of the threatening war, Dr. RISK TO MANKIND fo r we have been informed that ists, nationalistic at heart. of this action from the man­ ple, deeply interested in the ets were valid today. He warn­ As a result of these Supreme Nathan declared a second The decisive change however, She Young Socialist Alliance in The only solution, Dr. Nathan agement of the Worker. The controversial issues. ed socialists of the dangers of Court decisions in June of last change is its total involvement Newark has been denied the the speaker said, is the change held, was “that you and I, all next issue (Feb. 2) of that The four speakers were Dr. self-delusion, and declared that year, new Smith-Act cases of civilian populations. Unlike in the character of weapons. facilities of the Masonic Temple of us, take a position for the paper, however, carried a news Albert Blumberg, member of adding all the present socialist were dropped. But the limita­ World War I which, outside of He cited the findings of the building for a meeting. . . all-out abolition of war” through item to the effect that Dr. the New York Slate Committee groups together would still tions placed thereby on the the combat zones, did not phys­ scientific conference called by total disarmament. For inspec­ Nathan would speak at the persecution of workers for “ We note in the press that per­ of the Communist Party. Far­ produce‘a zero. He did not in­ ically, endanger the civilian Bertrand Russell in England in tion, enforcement and arbitra­ Militant Labor Forum on Feb. their political views came too sons w ill request veterans groups rell Dobbs, National Secretary dicate what form a new so­ populations, World War II be­ 1955. At that conference, Dr. tion of disagreements between 1. This was followed by the late to save Elizabeth Gurley to urge all owners of public meet­ of the Socialist Workers Party, cialist movement would have, gan with the bombing of cities. Nathan recounted, he first real­ nations. Dr. Nathan suggested statement: “A paid advertise­ Flynn and others from years in ing places to scan carefully all Joseph Clark, former foreign nor what its program would But, the U. S., because of its ized that if H-bombs were making the United Nations an ment for the above, submitted future requests for their facilities, editor of the Daily Worker and be. He advised socialists to prison. favored geographical position, used every human being in the organization with obligatory by the Trotskyite group run­ and if there is any question of Rev. A. J. Muste, Chairman of overcome their isolation and At the reception Miss Flynn was not bombed. “But, my world might be annihilated, membership for all countries, ning the Militant Labor Forum, will be greeted by Ammon Communist connection to deny the the American Forum for So­ enter the mass organizations Hennacy, “Pop” Mindel and assembly. Wre hope public au­ cialist Education. of the workers. Rev. A. J. Muste hailed the others. A musical program has thorities and private hall owners REASONS FOR LOW EBB formation of the Bronx Forum been arranged and refresh­ will stand firm against this pres­ ments w ill be served. A contri­ Dr. Blumberg was the first as widening the circles of so­ sure and uphold the spirit of free Young Socialists Hold Parley to speak. He began with an cialist discussion initiated by bution of $1.00 w ill be asked ... from those attending. assembly.” (Continued from page 1) sale or distribution of the “ Young the individual’s “reliability.” conversations with the Riosen- analysis of the low ebb in the American Forum. While Army Security and Civil Liber­ Socialist” He asserted that “This is clearly a mechanism for bergs. It was not alleged that he’ which the socialist movement pointing out that the Bronx ties. Gil Turner of New York university adm inistration and restricting political activity,” she had actually passed any secrets finds itself today. He cited three Forum is not now affiliated spoke on. “ The Right to- Travel.” newspaper attacks on the paper said. to anyone, Tourmour pointed out. reasons for this ebb: McCarthy- with the AFSE, he said he wel­ Socialist Studies Program The case o f M orion Sobell was had only heightened interest in Gil Turner of New York re­ Yet Sobell must spend 30 years ism, the expansion of U.S. comed its establishment and presented by Gene Tonm our of the publication. Groups such as viewed the ease of the 42 students in Alcatraz unless efforts to free capitalism following World War was giving it every assistance St. Louis. Steve Max of New York the American Civil Liberties who traveled to China in defiance him are successful. II and the errors of the radical in getting started. parties. The latter consisted of spoke an “ Freedom for Political Union joined in actions to enforce o f the State Departments ban. The fight against the Smith five mistakes, according to FOR MORE DISCUSSION To Feature Nathan, LamontPrisoners — the Green, Winston the protection of the First “We are not going to let the State Act must continue, declared Steve Blumberg. “The socialist move­ Rev. Muste warned against The Socialist Unity Forum davs, beginning Feb. 11, at 8:30 Case.” Sam Reed, a defendant in Amendment on the campuses. Departm ent tell us where we can Max of New Y’ork who reviewed1 ment in all of its varieties has sterile dogmatism in the Amer­ has announced its Winter Ses­ P.M. the Cleveland Taft-Hartley case, I. Warwick, who reviewed the go,’’ Mr. Turner said, “although the Green and Winston case. A been the victim of sectarian ican left. “No party or group,” sion of “A Program of So­ Kumar Goshal, of the Na­ spope on his fig h t against gov­ army's “security” program was we reserve the right to tell them petition for review of the Smith practices,” he said. In addition he declared, “can expect to cialist Studies." Corliss Lamont tional Guardian, will give six ernment persecution. himself given less than ain honor­ at some tim e in the future where Act was refused recently by the socialists had a “dogmatic and succeed merely by adding and Dr. Barrows Dunham will lectures on the social and po­ able discharge as a result of they can go.” Supreme Court. The defense is •YOUNG SOCIALIST’ intolerant attitude.” Thirdly, members and getting bigger. deliver six lectures on "A Phil­ litical developments in China alleged pre-induction political ■Both the Justice Department trying also for a review of the “We Communists were wrong He called for continuing and osophy for Socialists." The and India. Classes w ill be held The fin a l session of the Con­ views and associations. As a and the courts have a stake in contempt charges against the in thinking we had some kind broader discussion with special class w ill be held on Tuesdays on Wednesdays, beginning Feb. ference was devoted to a discus­ result of the protest raised preventing justice for Morton So­ two, which arose when the mem of monopoly” on socialism. But. attention to the peril of atomic beginning Feb. 11, at 6:45 P.M. 12, at 6:45 P.M. sion of the youth paper, the against the “security” program, bell, declared Gene Tourneur of jumped baiL Green and Winston Blumberg added, “We are not war and the problems posed Dr. Otto Nathan will speak Science writer Irving Adler Young Socialist. Tim Wohlforth, the army was forced to retreat, St. Louis,. I f Sobell’s conviction is are the first two in America to going to relinquish this mon­ by automation. under the heading, “A Socialist will head six sessions on “Sci­ its editor, discussed the policy of he said. But it has now shifted reversed, the government thereby receive jail sentences for jumping opoly so that other groups can Members of the audience Looks at the American Econ­ ence and Modern Life.” Dr. the paper and the problem of ex­ its ground and an additional1 admits something was wrong with bail, Max stated. This fact points claim a monopoly. . . . participated in a lively discus­ omy.” He will discuss boom Chandler Davis, of Columbia tending its circulation, especially pretest is needed. the case against the Rosenbeigs, up the punitive nature of the “The Communist Party was sion. Several speakers support­ and depression, prices, wages University, and Dr. Vernon to high school and working-class At present, Warwick pointed now executed. Sobell him self was prosecution against them, he said. wrong with its blind accept­ ed the proposal for a united and in flation, international King, a research chemist, will youth. out, the army is screening young convicted on the testimony of one ance of the Soviet Union with­ socialist ticket. Others argued trade, and imperialism. His be guest lecturers. The sessions Norman Hodgett of Denver des­ OHIO T-H CASE men before induction. The draft witness, a confessed perjurer. The out developing its own inde­ against the idea that the Amer­ eight lectures will be on Tues- are on Wednesdays, beginning cribed the successful campaigns card is then marked in accordance charge against Sobell was that Sam Reed, recently convicted pendent view,” he said and ican left had accomplished Feb. 12, at 8:30 P.M. on several campuses to assure with the army’s determination of he allegedly engaged in certain along with six others of con­ nothing in the past, and must, “The Contemporary Novel — added, “Other groups also made spiracy to violate the Taft- scrap everything and start all English and American” will be the mistake of blind rejection H artley Afct, pointed out that of everything that happened in over. the theme of eight lectures by “ What is a Peace theirs was the first “conspiracy’’ the Soviet Union.” And finally, Literature of several tenden­ Dr. Annette T. Rubenstein on conviction under this acit. Only cies was on hand. Arrange-- Thursdays, beginning Feb. 13. the “socialist movement of . . . Prominent Radicals Back W right two o f the defendants, Fred and these years was characterized menls were made to keep iha Program?” at 6:45 P.M. Marie Haug, were actually ac­ by a great disunity.” audience informed and to in­ Dr. Stanley Moore will give (Continued from page 1) should give him all support. In platform. . . . The nation is in cused o f falsely signing non-Com- Blumberg came to three con­ vite their participation in plan­ six lectures on “State and So­ in the Jan. 11 People’s W orld addition, they should feel grateful dire need o f alternatives and one m uni st. affidavits. The others clusions on the basis of his an­ ning future affairs of the So­ By Leon Trotsky ciety,” dealing with various where he wrote: “At this writ- to him and the Socialist Workers such alternative ¡is the election of were accused of aiding the Haugs alysis. Our first task, he said, cialist Forum in the Bronx. Marxist and non-Marxist con­ ing, only one candidate, Jack Party for the sacrifice of their socialists to public office. I wish to do so by such acts as meeting is to plunge into the broad cepts of the state, on Thurs­ Wright, a molder, has taken a time and labor in presenting the to make it clear, however, that 88 pp. 25 cents w ith them or drivin g “ co-oon- movements of the people days, beginning Feb. 13, at 8:30 flat position against the city gales electorate with an opportunity to my endorsement of your candi­ spirators” in a car. “The govern­ around such issues as peace, P.M. learn and approve Socialist prin­ dacy does not include endorse­ tax. Wright is a delegate to the ment, now that it has won this the economic crisis and civil All classes will be held at ciples. I hope this campaign ment of the .Socialist Workers Jenitnil Labor Council as well as fir s t case, plans to try to convict rights. Secondly we must spread ♦ Adelphi Hall, 74 Fifth Ave., „o the Metal Trades Council. . results in victory, at least to the Party per se. I feel it more im­ others in the- same way,” he New York. Admission for single and deepen the process of dis­ The Soviet Union At the Pension Union, Pettits extent of procuring enough votes portant at this time to unite all warned. Reed urged the mobiliza­ Pioneer Publishers lectures is $1.50. Six lecture cussion among the radicals and said he favored a “coalition” vote to encourage support in future socialist icalBy inclined individuals tion of all youth around the fight courses are $7.50 and eight lec­ lastly, we must seek "an in­ WHAT IT IS in the election and named four struggles.” behind outspoken socialist candi­ for civil liberties. creasing joint action of various 116 University Place tu re courses ate $10. A 20% other candidates whom he thought dates, irrespective of party af­ WHERE IT IS GOING reduction will be made for DR. C. H. FISHER’S STAND The “Young Socialist” is dedi­ socialist currents." should be voted foT on the ground filia tio n and without championing cated to the building of a broad, New Y ork 3. N .Y. couples or for registrants in Another gratifying message of FOR JOINT SLATE that they were the best of those any particular organization, . .” independent youth movement, A guide to the study of Leon two courses. support came to the rally from running. All four have ties with One of the featured speakers at editor Tim Wohlforth told the Farrell Dobbs, the second Trotsky’s “The Revolution Be­ Dr. C. H. Fisher, President of the the Republicans or Democrats. the rally was the noted civil liber­ Sunday session o f tVie Con­ speaker, made a concrete pro­ trayed.” Washington Pension Union. Dr. ties attorney, Jay Sykes, who is ference. “The regreupment of so­ posal for joint action. He pro­ WANTS RACE Fisher wrote: “We had the posed a united socialist ticket AGAINST JACKSON particularly well known for his cialist youth is only one aim,” he By Theodore Edwards THE MILITANT pleasure of hearing Jack Wright, defense of the Pension Union be­ asserted. “We want to do much for the 1958 New York elec­ In response to a question, City Gouncil candidate, speak to fore the witch-hunting Subversive more. We w ant to bring the ideas tions. He pointed to the sharp­ A Weekly Newspaper Published in the ening contradictions of capital­ Ptlhtus said he would be inclined the regular Sunday Afternoon Activities Control Board. He of socialism to the youth of (Bulletin of Marxist Studies Interests of the Working People to favor the idea now being dis­ Forum of the Pension Union,, and ism on the world arena that in No. 2) urged the audience, which rep- America, to build a movement cussed among socialist groups of we who heaixi him are in complete turn are producing worsening l-esented a cross section o f the 116 U niversity Place, New York J, N. Y. that is m ilita n t and can fig h t fo r conditions and dissatisfaction an independent ticket for the sympathy with his program and variions radical tendencies, to coming Congressional elections. civ il liberties and fo r peace. . .” among the masses at home. endorse his position on the ques­ support W rig h t’s campaign and Please enter my subscription as follows: Pettus said it m ight be even more The past year, he declared, has tions of the day. We are glad he to think in terms of a united so­ The Conference ended on a note desirable to run a candidate is running as an independent and shown increasing signs of a 88 mimeographed pages $1.50 fo r 6 months o f The M ilita n t cialist ticket in the coming Con­ of optimism about the prospects against U.S. Senator Jackson who socialist candidate, and wish him desire of advanced workers to $1.00 gressional and state elections. for a national movement of so­ $3.00 fo r 1 year of The M ilita n t will be up for re - election. A success in his campaign.” break out of the strait jacket liberal Democrat, Jackson has At the rally a declaration of The meeting was ably chaired by cialist youth. The feeling of the of two-party politics. “The sup­ been

wo*eor1plK>n M per year t im e d article« eoatrtb- ntore do eot neoeeearily rep­ «.DO for 0 month« Fomlrn: Form National Group resent The Militant'« pollai««. 0t.BO per year; for 6 t h e MILITANT These are expressed In Ite Seek Funds to Publish month«. Canadian: $3.50 per Published Weekly In the Interest« of the Working People editorial«. year: $1.75 for 6 months. THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION "Entered aa second olaaa Bundle Order«: 5 or more 116 U n ive rs ity P L , N . Y. 3. N . Y. Phone: AL 5-740$ m a tte r M a rc h T, 1944 a t the Post Office at New York. To Aid Spanish Sailors ooplea 6c each fn D .S ., 7o Editor: DANIEL ROBERTS N.Y., under the act of March «nob In foreign countries ft. 1879." U u n I ii v n i) Manager: FRANCE® JAMES JAN. 20 — Organization of the Committee to Defend Book of Gray Cartoons the Anti-Franco Sailors, headed by a group of labor and Vol. W ill - No. 6 Monday, February 10. 1958 civic representatives, was announced by the Workers A number of messages re-(j) Defense League. & ceived from various parts of The committee will raise government admits it made a the country to be read at the The Only Victor funds fo r appealing the cases mistake in returning these sail­ Laura Gray memorial meeting That '54 Support to Harriman of five Spanish Sailors facing ors to the United States and is held in New York on January On Feb. 4 Democratic Governor Karri- much a carbon copy of the liberal Demo­ deportation to Spain where now willing to grant them po­ 16 strongly urged the publica­ they would face years of im­ litical asylum, why doesn't the tion, in book form, of a selec­ man of New York recommended reenact­ crat. Yet, in that campaign, the Daily prisonment or death. Members Immigration Service and the tion of her cartoons covering ment of the witch-hunting Security Risk Worker, ostensibly pledged to the Ameri­ of the committee include: James A m erican State Department the period from 1944 to the can Labor Party ticket, began whooping B. Carey. Norman Thomas. Vic­ permit that?” lime of her death in January Law, as well as amendment of the Civil it up for a Democratic victory. tor Reuther, Dwight MacDon­ 1958. Service law to make Communist Party Undoubtedly many radical workers fell ald, Charles S. Zimmerman, When the idea was projected Professor Paul R. Hays, W illiam at the memorial meeting it re­ membership evidence for firing state em­ for this piece of Stalinist jesuitism. H. Fitelson, Harry Laidler. Ar­ More Los Angeles ceived an enthusiastic response. ployes. This latter would take off the Whether they constituted the slim margin nold Zander, Rudolph Faupl, Over $350 was pledged at the state and put on the victimized employe of Harriman’s victory, they certainly con­ and Sal B. Hoffman. Unions Back 5 meeting to defray the expense the burden of proof about advocating Francis Heisler, west coast at­ of publication. Since then sev­ stituted the vote deficit that lost the ALP LOS ANGELES. Jan. 28 — eral small contributions have “ overthrow of the government by force its place on the ballot. Those radical work­ torney for the Workers Defense Union support continues to League has joined A. L. Wirin, been received to finance a me­ and violence.” ers should now read Harriman’s witch­ m ount in the case of the Five morial edition of Laura Gray's southern California attorney for Spanish Sailors as the five are Harriman’s moves to prolong the witch­ hunt recommendations and ponder the the American Civil Liberties cartoons. It is estimated that a waiting for a court decision fol­ m inim um of $2.000 w ill be re ­ hunt atmosphere call to mind his election lesson. Not as an abstract lesson in his­ Union as defense lawyer. lowing a December hearing. The case is now before the quired to defray the expense in 1954. Then his opponent was liberal tory, but as preparation for what should The large United Shoe Work­ of publication. Republican Irving Ives, politically pretty ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Ap­ be done in this year’s election. peals and in the event of an ers, Local 122, passed a resolu­ Each contributor donating adverse decision it will be tion protesting “the jeopardiz­ $5.00 or over, w ill be entitled taken to the U.S. Supreme ing of the lives of the five to receive a copy of the book. Spanish sailors in consideration High Priest of the Dollar Court. The five sailors defected Contributions should be sent to from a Spanish ship in San of such agreements as the Pioneer Publishers, 116 Uni­ That outstanding hypocrite of our time, part to “ the repeated statements of g ra n tin g o f U.S. a ir bases in versity Place, New York 3, Diego harbor because of their Reprinted from the Militant, August 18, 1945 pietistical, sanctimonious Secretary of John Foster Dulles blessing the dictator­ anti-Franco convictions. They Franco’s totalitarian Spain." N. Y. * * ♦ State Dulles, tries to portray U.S. im­ ship of President Perez Jimenez and calling fled to Mexico but were brought "As trade unionists," the reso­ lution said, "we express our perialist policy as pure moral endeavor on it, in effect, a model for South America.” back to the U.S. under false The MESA Educator, pub­ messages from individuals and much appreciated by militant pretenses by an American im­ solidarity not only with the organizations expressing sorrow workers here as in the USA. behalf of a free world. This “ free world,” Now that rebel leader Fidel Castro has five sailors but the workers of lished by the Mechanics Edu­ migration official, who intended cational Society of America, over the death of Laura Gray. This was especially true during of course, includes such figures as the launched a campaign against dictator Spain who are crushed by to return the sailors to their A F L - C I O . reprinted Laura We print excerpts below.) the Korean War, when it be­ Franco's Falange." recently overthrown tyrant of Venezuela. Batista that may damage the considerable ship. The Mexican government Gray’s famous “Live Plants, “If a book of her cartoons came necessary to hold the The police-state brutalities and concentra­ U.S. holdings in Cuba, the New York Times has announced its willingness Local 116 of the Painters, Dead Men; Dead Plants, Live is to be published, place my banner of socialism aloft with tion camps of that unhappy country (Feb. 3) notes “ the U.S. State Depart­ to provide asylum, but the Decorators and Paperhangers Men” cartoon in its January name at the head of the list firm hands. escaped Dulles’ moral fulminations and ment’s attitude toward Senor Castro” may State Department has refused passed a similar resolution, issue with the following com­ of purchasers. I only hope you London to permit the sailors to leave. backed up by a $10 donation. ment: “The cartoon printed will not forget to include my received a minimum of notice from the change “ from one of apparent neutrality In recent oral argument be­ The lead story in the Janu­ We who knew Laura quite above is . . . by the very fine favorite, the crocodile tears . . . well personally realize what a capitalist press in the U.S. For they were to outright hostility.” fore the appeals courts, Judge ary “On The Beam,” issued by labor artist, Laura Gray. Her With deepest sympathy. Chase A. C lark asked the U.S. Local 2058 of the U nited Steel loss her death is, both in terms useful in the protection of over $3 billion Thus Dulles draws inspiration for his recent u n tim e ly death is a loss of the wonderful human being attorney: “Since the Mexican Workers, was on the local’s sup­ B. M. . in LT.S. capital invested there. “ moral” and “ free-world” policies in Latin to workers everywhere. We she was and in terms of her port of the Spanish sailors. Cambridge, Mass. Now that a wave of anti-U.S. imperial­ America not from Holy W rit but from the join others in saying ‘Thanks, contributions to our struggle “On The Beam” pointed out Laura, your contribution was USSR Reports '57 “Here in England we have by her cartoons which we ism is sweeping Latin America, critics of foreign investment tables of U.S. Big that “In Franco Spain, the m ig h ty.’ ” reproduced her work on many looked forward to every week. Dulles like Drew Pearson attribute it in Business. Economic Data unions are outlawed. The Span­ * * * occasions, and I think it is Through Radio Moscow the ish workers’ living standards E. H . S. (We have received further true to say that she was as Soviet Union made public on are the lowest in western Paris It W on't Help the Teamster Ranks Jan. 27 its economic report Europe. In view of these facts, from 1957. According to an it is not difficult to understand One Federal judge, Ploffa’s lawyers, and see the finances, elections and qualifica­ AP dispatch from Ixmdon the why the five Spanish sailors lawyers representing 13 members of tions for elective office of the entire union. report said there were 37 mil­ are politically opposed to their 3 Unions Score Gains the Teamsters union have usurped the This board of monitors is to serve for at lion metric tons of pig iron government.” produced, an increase of 4% Local 2058 sent in $25 to sup­ prerogatives of the union’s membership least one year and thereafter until a con­ over the previous year; steel port the sailors in their court and given a Federal court the power to rule vention is held to elect new officers. It will 51 million tons, an increase of case. In St. Paul Press Strike the union. All this in the name of defend­ also draw up a “ model code of local union 5% ; coal, 163 m illion tons, an Happiest news of financial ing the rights of the membership — which bylaws.” increase of 8%; electric power, support locally is that the Joe By Winifred Nelson spoke of the exorbitant de­ St. Paul Sentinel, daily strike Springer Com m ittee, w hich has mands of the striking unions, newspaper, describing the was not consulted. more than 209 billion kilowatt ST. PAUL, Feb. 1—St. Paul's The lawyer for the 13 members w'ho successfully concluded its own the wonderful wages and work­ speed-up conditions in the mail­ hours, an increase of 9%. Also, 46 - day - old newspaper strike The suit which gave rise to the deal was brought the suit, Godfrey Schmidt, has auto and trucks, 495,500, an civil liberties fight, is donating ing conditions at their news­ ing room where the same nura- filed last fall in the name of 13 TRT mem­ $200 to the Committee to Save ended in victory at noon today, paper. the willingness of man­ ber of mailers handle papers been appointed one of the “ monitors.” increase of 7%; tractors, 210,- when members of four striking bers who charged that 50 G of the dele­ Schmidt first gained fame as legal counsel 000, an increase of 11%: cotton the Five Spanish Sailors. (Joe agement to aibitrate. coming off today’s high-speed Springer, an active trade union­ unions voted to accept the re­ “Open the books!” was the presses as they did w ith th e gates to the September IBT convention to Cardinal Spellman when Spellman was fabric, 5.6 billion meters, an port of their negotiating com­ increase of 3%. Wage and ist, had been charged with per­ demand of the Union Advocate slower press runs of a decade: had not been selected according to the breaking the famous New York cemetery jury because he told an Un- mittees. in answer to this boss propa­ ago. salary earners increased by The Newspaper Guild was the union’s constitution. The suit did nothing strike in 1949. He was an outspoken 2.1 million to a total of 52.1 American Activities Committee ganda. In the issue of Jan. 23, Typographical workers have last of five unions at the St. the Advocate challenged the to change the convention which selected McCarthyite and the head of AWARE, a m illion. that he had not been known complained about the lack of by another name.) Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press to company: “Tell all the people, Hoffa and a partially new IBT executive blacklisting agency which ran roughshod reach agreement in contract adequate rest-room time to at­ you owners of the D-PP (Dis­ tend to personal needs, and board. But Federal Judge F. Dickenson over the democratic rights of Radio and talks. (The Stereotypers were patch-Pioneer Press), how out not on strike but had thrown circulation department employ­ Letts issued an injunction barring the new' TV union members during the height of of the profits of the D-PP and ees have long been poorly paid, officials from taking office until a decision in their contract demands with its use as collateral fo r loans to the McCarthy era. He has also spoken on the striking unions.) Previously, with some workers in both de­ on the suit was reached. radio in favor of “right-to-work” laws. buy other properties that quick­ partments being barred from other unions involved had ten­ ly paid for themselves out of The trial was begun in December and The entire deal has been denounced by W orld Events tatively settled — but with the unions in control there. their own profits, your pub­ And all the striking unions attorneys for the 13 members rested their the major, organized anti-Hoffa forces in the stipulation that they would lishing family was able to build not go back to work till all have objected to the pay differ­ case last w'eek. Then, during a recess, New York, w'ho have called instead for a "TREASON" FRAME-UP IN General James E. Moore, U. S. the following newspaper, radio ential with Minneapolis, St. unions involved had come to a lawyers for both sides wmrked out a “ com­ union-wide referendum to pick a new set S. AFRICA reached a new gauleiter of the occupied is­ and television empire.” And the Paul’s twin city, where news­ satisfactory agreement. Advocate went on to list hold­ promise” which was agreed to by Judge of international officers. stage as 95 of the originally land, ousted Kanejiro Senaga, paper wages are higher and arrested 156 opponents of the the elected mayor of Naha, be­ WIN MAIN DEMANDS ings of the Ridders — two working conditions better. Letts. Under this deal, Letts dissolved A committee for the “ New Deal” slate daily papers, radio and TV sta­ government’s apartheid (white cause of his leftist program and In spite of company efforts Principal demands of all the tions in Duluth, Minn.; a daily the restraining order barring Hoffa and that is seeking to unseat Hoffa’s chief supremacy) policy were com­ his demands that Okinawa be to discourage public support, striking unions were won, in­ newspaper and radio station in the new executive board from taking local supporter, John J. O’Rorke, as presi­ mitted for trial. Since the mass returned to Japan. The newly “the citywide spirit of sympa­ cluding a two-year contract Grand Forks, N. D.; three arrests of Dec. 1956, these A f­ elected mayor, Saichi Kaneshi, thy and support for the strik­ office. But the court retains jurisdiction dent of the Teamsters Joint Council in (which only the News Guild other d a ily papers in San Jose, rican, colored and white lead­ has proved to be just as much ers has become more wide­ over the case and the Judge can suspend New York, issued the following statement opposed) with wage raises of Long Beach and Pasadena, ers have been subjected to one a thorn in the side of the spread each week,” according from 10 to 14 cents the first Calif.,* a big interest in a large the IBT officials any time he finds a which is right to the point: “ Unions must of the longest “preliminary” U.S. high commissioner. In to the Union Advocate. Support year fo r most w orkers and an TV station in the Twin Cities “ breach of good faith.” be controlled by their membership. The examinations in history. The what the U. S. papers call an­ of the strike paper was such additional 10 cents the second and in a Seattle, Wash., daily indictment charges “high trea­ other anti-A m erican (it is that the Sentinel found it had To watch over the “ good faith” of the appointment of outside czars, dictators or year; reduction of hours from paper — and then apologized son” for which the maximum really anti-U.S.-o ccupation) to double its press run and IBT officials, a three-man board of ‘monitors’ does not contribute to this 37% to 36 W for Stereotypers, if they had left out any of the penalty is death. If not con­ vote, the people of outlying Mailers and Machinists (they more than double its size to monitors w'as agreed upon. They will over­ Ridder properties! objective.” victed of treason, the defend­ suburbs, recently united to keep up with the demand. had asked for 35 hours) and a All this flies in the face of ants can be sentenced under Naha by U.S. order, elected This, despite a boycott of the five-day week for 30 country the company’s pica of inability the Suppression of Communism seven city assemblymen of the Sentinel for advertising pur­ newspaper salesmen in the to pay made prior to the Act. Though the accused are Okinawa Peoples’ Party — the poses by the big department News Guild who had been strike. Their “newsletter” also mostly liberals, pacifists and party of Senaga and Kaneshi. working six days. Fringe bene­ stores who issued their own tries to cover up workers’ re­ " Give Me that Pencil; fighters for racial equality, the fits were also won — increased “Downtown St. Paul News” ports that company spokesmen South African government has hospitalization and severance rather than support the strike FRANCE'S PHONY LAW to had predicted the strike before by law declared that opposition pay, job reclassification, jury paper. to racism constitutes “commu “reform” its rule in Algeria it happened, and statements of was finally enacted on Jan. 31. duty and holiday pay tor the striking unions on intoler­ Solidarity of the organized I'm a 'Communist' Too" nism.” Contributions for the le­ Typos and Guild members. The labor movement was expressed gal defense and to aid in sup­ However, ail indications are able working conditions in the “ Sure I’ll sign. I have no money, wars. I'm all for you. Seems Mailers union accepted a com­ throughout the strike in many By Ruth Norton porting the families of the de­ that it will in no degree ap­ plant. no job. and it doesn’t look like to me we’ve been needing so­ pease the Algerian people’s de­ pany offer on manning (more “They scarcely dare stop to ads taken in the Sentinel wish­ For those who in the past fendants, who have been pre­ men to handle the work) which the situation is getting any bet­ cialism for a long time.” sire for independence and that blow their noses,” said Harold ing good luck and a speedy years may have experienced vented from working by the ter. I don't have anything to the civil war there will con­ was not disclosed. Hoi, president of the Mailers victory. It helped considerably apathy and red-baiting while 13 YEARS WITH FIRM year-long “preliminary” exam­ lose.” tinue to rage. The rival move­ However, nearly half of the union, in a statement to the in winning the strike. trying to get petitions signed ination, may be sent to: South striking Guild members, those One signature solicitor had Another man said bitterly: ments leading the Algerian for some working-class or civil- Africa Defense Fund, 4 West in the lower wage brackets, an amusing experience in re­ “You know, I’ve been with one freedom fight, the Algerian lib e rtie s cause, there is a w e l­ 40th St., N. Y. 18. N. Y. received smaller wage increas­ verse red-baiting. An unem­ company for 13 years— 13 years. National Movement (MNA) and come change in the atmosphere. * m * es. These are the workers who ployed worker, standing in the Had seniority, a good job. And N ational L iberation Front This is being proved by the most badly need more pay, for Calendar of Events midst of a group, loudly de­ what did it get me? The com­ THE BAHAMAS ISLANDS (FLN), both denounced the response in Michigan to the the great majority are under­ manded, "Are you a commu­ pany picked up and moved. constitution has come under new French law and predicted Socialist Workers Party cam­ paid clerical help. nist?" And before she could Now I have no job — I don’t attack by Labor Party mem­ that the fighting in Algeria paign to put a ticket on the The lie was given to the Chicago and playlet “An Incident in the reply, said, "I'm a communist have anything.” bers of the parliament in Great would continue despite it. ballot for the coming election. company statement that the 27 Life erf Harriet Tubman.” by too. Gimme that pencil." Where­ M ingled through the re ­ Britain. They are demanding Friday, Feb. 14, 8:15 PM State laws require 15,000 names members of the Mailers union professional Touring Actors upon the rest of the group fol­ sponses— and expressed with that a commission of inquiry “Prospects for American Labor on a petition to put an inde­ INDONESIA has cancelled caused the strike, which idled Group. (2) Eleanor Letba Cary, lowed suit. anger and bitterness—was the be sent to the West Indian In 1958.” Ausp.: M ilita n t Labor pendent party on the ballot. As 900 workers, when that union militant trade unionist; and so­ feeling that neither the Dem­ colony. The recent 18-day gen­ two oil field concessions of a Forum. the SWP sees it the state of­ Family differences on politics settled last Tuesday, ahead of cialist will speak on “Eisen­ ocrats or Republicans are real­ eral strike in Nassau, principal subsidiary of the Royal Dutch • ficials can do less finagling if were revealed when a wife said the Guild. In truth, it was hower’s Emergency Educational ly going to do much for the city of the Bahamas, was as Shell interests. it subm its 30.000 — so th a t’s to her husband: “Don’t sign the company who provoked the Detroit Aid Program and Desegregation working people but that some­ much a political movement by the number it’s shooting for. that, it’s for a socialist workers strike. Confident that they in the Schools.” Chairman: Mil- how somebody would have to. the Negro workers, who consti­ See the great American film , If you are a doubting-Thomas party.” The man, while signing, CUBAN DICTATOR Batista ton Alvin, prominent lecturer. tute the overwhelming majority would not lose their monopoly “ Salt of Che Earth.” Friday, Feb. b u t s till w ould lik e to see a remarked to the petitioner, “My It's cold working outside at eased up on press censorship of the population, as an eco­ profits, the Ridder family (only 14, 8 P.M. at Debs H all, 3737 Friday, Feb. 14, 8:15 PJM., Forum- working-class ticket on the bal­ wife thinks she’s an aristocrat, this time of year in Michigan, and civil liberties immediately nomic strike. A tiny handful newspaper publishers in St. Woodward. Contribution: 50c. Hall, 1702 East 4th St. Sponsor: lot, ju s t go down to 3737 W ood­ a blueblood.” But in other but knowledge of the import­ after the overthrow of Vene Paul) carried strike insurance, of ruling white proprietors con­ Ausp.: Friday Night Socialist Intel-national Socialist Review1» ward Ave., in Detroit and pick cases, however, the w ife signed ance of putting a working- zuela’s dictator Jimenez. Nev­ trol the Bahamas by effectively a new gimmick of the Ameri­ Forum. Contribution: $1.00. up a couple of SWP petition despite the husband’s admon­ class slate on the ballot as an ertheless opposition to Batista disfranchising the Negroes and can Newspaper Publishers As­ boards. Here’s a description in ishments. alternative to the two capitalist continues to grow. Rebel guer­ • by maintaining such laws as sociation, which insured IheiT A. .T. Musste, chairman, Aimeri- general and particular of the In one case a young man parties, and the welcome re­ rilla chief Fidel Castro’s forces that which forbids hotel work­ profits while they tried to ean Forum — For Socialist kind of responses you’ll run commented while signing: “I’ve sponse you get from the work­ have become more aggressive New York ers of the “vacation paradise” starve out the strikers and Education, will speak on “Sput­ into — especially at the unem­ been out of the army for over ers, will warm you up consid­ in the eastern mountains and a Conrad Lynn, prominent Civil from organizing unions. break their unionsl niks, Missiles and W orld Peace.” ployment compensation offices a year now, and I’ve been out erably. “second front” has been open­ Liberties Attorney and fighter * * * A 'NEWS' LETTER Thursday, Feb. 20, 8 P.M., Cen­ where long lines are always of work for most that time. I’d ed up by a g u e rrilla force in tra l M ethodist Church, 23 E. for Civil Rights, will apeak oni found these clays. sure hate to go back into the SUCH UNPOPULARI­ the center of the island. Cas­ Last week the Ridders sent Adams at Woodward. army, but a man's got to eat. 13,739 business failures were TY MUST BE DESERVED. tro has announced that an “in­ out a “news letter without a “The Political Future of the Ne­ 'ARE YOU FOR LABOR?' I hope you people can do some­ recorded by Dun and Bradstreet The voters of Okinawa gave dustrial” campaign is to be union label” (in the words of • gro People.” Friday, Feb. 21, 8 A common question to the thing.” fo r 1967, the highest since 1939 another smashing repudiation launched to consummate Batis the Union Advocate, St. Paul’s P.M. 116 University Place. Trades and Labor Assembly’s Los Angeles SWP signature gatherers was: “I'm over 70 years old,” was and a sharp rise from the 2,686 of U. S. occupation, in the Feb. ta’s overthrow. It will feature Auspices: Militant Labor Forum. ‘‘A re you fo r labor? Then I ’m another comment, “and I’ve business casualties recorded in 2 elections in Naha, the island’s action, including sabotage, by official organ) to all the resi­ Negro History Week Celebra­ Contribution: $1.00. with you.” Also typical was: seen too m any depressions and 1956. main city. Last year Lieut. factory workers. dents of this city. In it, they tion: (1) “Songs of Free Men” It's Legal If You're Rich the M ILITANT By Joyce Cowley VOLUME XXIII M O NDAY, FEBR U AR Y 10, 1958 N U M B E R 6 I have just read a brochure put out by Several of the methods recommended Prentice-Hall addressed to the successful arouse curiosity and doubt: •businessman who wants to acquire a “ Greatly increase your ‘Take’ from the fortune. I ’m not a businessman but I ’ve company . . . This.” they say enthusias­ had daydreams about money in the bank, tically, “ is where the big money lies.” Walkout Closes Westinghouse and I thought I might pick up some useful “ Company profits can be credited to information. I’m sorry to say that while your personal account tax free . . This is Prentice-Hall throws a good deal of light a natural for the successful man who on how businessmen accumulate money, wants to build up personal wealth quickly, there is nothing in their brochure that say an extra $100,000 in the next few Tenement Workers at would help an employe. They briefly dis­ years," miss the idea that anyone on a salary — I wonder, as a layman who knows very Phila. Plant no matter how big — can become wealthy. little about accounting procedures, whether Fire in Chi. Acquiring a fortune is obviously not a the businessman can stay out of jail as he matter of hard work, talent, or starting a rapidly accumulates $100,000 by crediting Fight Layoff savings account. company profits to his personal account. I K ills 20 P H IL A D E L P H IA , Jan. 28 — suppose more details are available in the Production at the South Phila­ I knew all along I didn’t have a chance, CHICAGO, Jan. 28 — Twenty but I was surprised to learn that it’s the Tax Ideas Manual. delphia Steam Turbine Works more human beings, including at of Weslinghouse was at a com­ man with a cooperative bookkeeper who is “ The tax bonanza in the Short Term Trust.” This one is easier to understand least seven children, are now dead plete standstill after a week of most likely to succeed. According to Pren­ as a direct result of landlord gradually increasing walkouts and I ’ll outline it briefly so that you can which started Jan. 20. On this tice-Hall, special lax methods are “ the greed coupled with the criminal pass it along to any property owner who day several “A” clerks (produc­ foundation of virtually every fortune now refusal of city officials to enforce being built.” I had been thinking in terms is groaning about his tax burdens. He tion) were notified that their won’t have to pay taxes at all. If he has the law. When the four - story jobs were being eliminated and of the robber barons, of iron men who reconverted tenement at 4211 they were to report to new lo­ income-producing property (real estate, cations where they would destroy competitors and ruthlessly force Luke Park erupted into a sudden stocks or bonds) he can set up a trust. “bump” men with less seniority their way to the top. I find it difficult to blazing inferno there was just no adjust to the idea that building a fortune The income from the trust is not taxable off their jobs. The company and the property itself is returned when chance fo r escape fo r these 20 had agreed, toward the end of is primarily an accounting problem, that if victims. 1957 that they would not in­ the trust terminates. stitute any action of this kind you juggle figures successfully you can The city building department come out a million or so ahead. This is All of these fortune building techniques without first negotiating with boil down to one simple formula: don’t pay insists that the building was in­ the union. apparently legal, too, because Prentice- spected regularly and no serious Hall winds up by offering a Tax Ideas taxes! I’d like to figure this out so a When the men refused to be worker could take advantage of it, too, violation of any ordinance had reassigned without first having Manual, “ indispensable for any man who been found. But independent in­ the matter negotiated they were wishes to accumulate a substantial amount but tax experts don’t show much interest indefinitely suspended (fired). vestigation by John Hamilton, of money.” He must show some aptitude in the problems of men making less than Stewards were given the same chairman of the Washington Park for accumulating money even before he $25,000 a year, who obviously can’t afford treatment for not instructing Forum, disclosed that huge quan­ the men to go to work. Other buys the book, since it costs $24.50. their services. The worker faces the same kind of difficulty when he looks for loop­ tities of highly inflammable paint clerks stopped work and went to a meeting to discuss the As a teaser, the brochure outlines seven thinner were stored in the base­ holes in the law. The men who made these problem . “fortune building” tax methods. For ex­ laws — businessmen or their representa­ ment of this fire trap and that When the foreman proceeded Reprinted from the Militant, December 30, 1957 ample : tives — provided ways out at the top. The the tenants had repeatedly but to issue work tickets, blue­ “ Lim it the tax rate to 25%.” man who works for wages can’t set up a vainly demanded its removal. prints, etc., the production It was Hamilton who also made workers refused to work on I thought the government, set the tax trust fund or convert his regular income jobs which normally should rate, but it seems you can easily adjust it into capital gain. He’s trapped until he known bhie fact that 20 persons have been issued by the union yourself by “ converting ordinary income uses the same methods that the business­ had perished in the fire and not Buffalo-Area Chevrolet clerks. This led to more fur­ into capital gain,” and there are nine good man is using and sends his representatives seven as orig in a lly reported by loughs and indefinite suspen­ the daily press. sions. In this manner the stop­ ways to do this. down to Washington to make the laws. page spread. The workers as­ The building was so thoroughly Workers Hit by Layoff sumed that when other mem­ gutted by the blaze that efforts By A. Ritchie laid off four months ahead of The attitude of the men who bers were furloughed or sus­ to dig fo r the bodies of those lost 1956’s schedule, and the w ork­ were laid off can be described pended they had to support TONAWANDA, N.Y„ Jan. 24. them and their fight, even resulted in the structure collapsing — W ith dramatic suddenness, ers involved have as much as as two-sided. On one hand, "Out of the Depths" without official union sanction. completely. a layoff of unprecedented pro­ 33 months seniority. At present, there is a unanimous sigh of The extent of the overcrowding the plant produces both W-8 relief at being released from The company met with the portions has hit this key Chev­ committee but refused to dis­ OUT OF THU DEPTHS by Barron B. Beshoar. ers in the public press to exposing the role of the (and rent-gouging) being prac­ rolet Engine Plant, located in and V-8 engines but only the the energy-sapping GM speed­ Denver: Golden Bell Press, 372 pp. 83.50. bosses, including John D. Rockefeller Jr., in slate ticed in this four-story building W-8 is operating on two shifts. up. On the other hand, an cuss tiie immediate issue on this highly industrialized town the technicality that the griev­ and Congressional hearings and in the courts. is indicated by the fact that it Employment is down to ap­ equally unanimous feeling of The Ludlow Massacre, famed in labor history just outside Buffalo. ance procedure had not been The hypocritical role of John 1). Rockefeller Jr. was bringing in 82,000 a month proximately 3,300 from a high anxiety is evident, as the men and folk song, took place April 21. 1911 when the There are conflicting figures, complied with. As the stoppage is also carefully documented. Ite backed his in rent! o* 5.200 in 1955. wonder where they can get Colorado state militia, with its heavy complement but thus far, it is estimated spread and the company stub­ subordinates in every vicious step they took Only three days before this Speed-up, always a very real jobs to support themselves and of company guards and detectives, attacked and th a t approxim ately 500 men bornly refused to discuss the while at the same time he proclaimed his disaster, three adults and a child problem, has been increased as their families. They are fully burned the striking miners’ tent colony, killing 21 were laid off, with seniority issue and the firings, the union philanthropies and churchly piety. He hired high met death in another blaze at the company strives for more aware that the meager hand­ women and children. The tragedy focused national dating back to early April, 1955. had no alternative but to give priced propagandists to discredit the miners and 4419 Drexel where a th ird -flo o r production with less men. As outs of the State Unemploy­ attention on the bitter 15-month-old strike against Although the amount of work­ a three-day strike notice, tech­ their leaders. He fought unions ‘‘on principle” ballroom had been converted into usual, the assembly line bears m ent Service, even when the autocratic coal companies. ers involved is comparatively nically on other, older griev­ and when public pressure forced him to com­ five “apartments.” According to the brunt of this man-killing coupled with SUB, will not Any complete account of Lhe Strike in the small, this layoff is very signifi­ ances. promise established the prototype of lhe company (he Chicago Sun-Times, it had method of boosting profits. The solve their problems. Southern Colorado open-shop coal fields must cant for a number of reasons. A meeting outside the union union, (he brainchild of \V. L. Mackenzie King, a insufficient exits, substandard union leadership, even if it In addition, at least half of necessarily show the domination of the Rockefeller hall was arranged for Monday Rockefeller hireling and future Prime Minister of MAKES ALL W-8 ENGINES were more militant than it is the men who were laid off have interests. It must show their influence over state wallhoard partitions and inade­ morning, a week after the ac­ C anada. First, Chevrolet Motors is the on this issue, w ould s till be less than one year’s seniority, and county officials that enabled them to violate quate light and ventilation. A tion had started. At 8:00 A.M. heavy locked door trapped the largest manufacturing unit in shackled by the grievance pro­ which makes them ineligible state labor law's w ith im punity. I t must portray “ R EM EM B ICR LU DLO W ” that m orning 5,000 members of the GM Auto Empire. This par­ cedure. As a result, more and for any SUB payments. The the miserable conditions in the mines ami com­ victims, preventing their escape." Local 107-UE gathered outside Rrslioar portrays many of the colorful rank ticular engine plant is one of more workers have become dis­ sentiments of many workers pany .towns that drove the miners to strike. the union hall and were ad­ and file leaders as well as the legendary Mother only two Chevy engine plants illusioned with the union’s were expressed best by one dressed by their officials. A FULLY DOCUMENTED Jones who came in to help the miners. lie also in the country (the other is lo­ ability to cope with their prob­ who put it this way. "If push vote was taken to authorize a shows the limitations in the thinking of Lawson Coffee Break Out of the Depths is such an account. I t is cated in Flint, Michigan) and lems and have become bitter comes to shove I can just about secret ballot to be held imme­ and other labor leaders. They hoped to change •written by the son of a local doctor whose life, Without Coffee produces 40% of all Chevrolet about the situation. As one get by on food and rent ex­ diately lor a strike vote. The company practices by supporting Hire Democratic engines. In addition, this plant worker put it, “There doesn’t penses if I skimp a little. Bui final count was 3.738 for strike, of necessity, was closely bound to those of the The steel industry is operat­ candidate against the incumbent Republican produces all the new W-8 (or seem to be any sense in w ritin g how can I make my install­ 1,042 against and 14 voided. miners. The book is a carefully compiled docu­ ing at 55% of capacity, some Governor only to find, after victory, that the Turbo-Thrust) engines, which a speed-up grievance. I’m still ment payments unless I get a With this strong vote and ment of every stage of the stiuggle and provides tin producers announced 40% new Governor was little different from hfe were put into production to working my neck off, because good-paying job? This year the solid shutdown on Monday, the student of labor history with an example of slashes in output for the first predecessors. boost the sales of ’58 Chevys. I've got to wait for the union may be a Golden Milestone tor a sudden favorable spurt in the class struggle in its most naked form. half of 1958, there’s a slump As a result of the strike the miners improved Then, to further underline and the company to settle my Generous Motors, but for us, negotiations took place so that The book is at the same time a biography of in shipping, demand for oil is their conditions although they failed to win the seriousness of this situation, grievance, which may take a this layoff is more like a tomb­ by early this morning the ne­ John R. Lawson, a member of lhe Executive off conspicuously, power out­ Boai-d of the United Mimeworkers Union and recognition of the union. “ Remember Ludlow” in 1956, when the first major couple of months, and even stone!" gotiating committee was able was the battle cry of the miners for years after put has been cut. but. U niver­ layoff in the plant's history oc­ then, from past experience, I These layoffs which are part to send out a recommendation leader of the organizing drive and of the strike. sity of Nebraska agricultural ■Lawson exemplifies the keen, fearless and devoted until the United Mine W orkers won. recognition curred, it took almost three know that the company refuses of a nationwide pattern, not that the men return to work economists classify it as a workers’ leader that always emerges in the heroic in Colorado in 1!>34, as part of the organizing months to lay off 800 workers, to recognize that there is such only in auto, but in industry pending further negotiations. “gold-plated” recession, they periods of union organization. A self-educated drive that built the CIO. Today a few pickets the final layoffs occurring in a thing as speed-up. Where we in general, accentuate the seri­ The first obstacle had been re­ call it “a sort of economic miner, (he was able to meet every problem of the can shut down a mine without fear of strike­ May, with seniority going back really need a speed-up is in ousness of the economic crisis moved when the company lift­ coffee break.” struggle: from the careful underground organ­ breakers, but it took struggles such as those in only 13 months. This year, in a this fouled-up and outmoded that capitalism is undergoing ed all indefinite suspensions ization drive to the strategy of setting up camp Colorado to prepare the victories that won these two-week period, Chevrolet has grievance procedure.” once again. and furloughs. colonics for the strikers and for picketing the far gains. Robert Chester flung mines; from combatting the lies and sland­ 'Like Depression Days’ Say M inn. Jobless By Tom Leonard “ Some 3,400 iron ore m iners are state has felt in a long time, fice. There workers often have can't even get an interview. now unemployed in Range cities but that it is not spectacular to stand in line outside the I can't remember it being this MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 12 — A — most of them victims of an because there are only small building in sub-freezing tem­ bad, even during the depres­ bi-monthly report of the Min­ early shutdown of some ore but general layoffs in the peratures, when they report for sion.” nesota department of employ­ operations because of the slack­ plants.” He also said that “the their compensation checks. Per­ ment security released in late I asked one unemployed mem­ ening steel industry.” first six months of the year are sonal conversations with these December revealed that the ber of a Teamsters local if he is our D reyfus case, outdoing Most of the miners laid oft going to be rough.” unemployed workers revealed REGROUPMENT — A Pro­ I the American Forum-For So­ number of unemployed workers thought he could get his union the first in sordidness, cruelty have less than two years seni­ that many of them are deeply to do something about unem­ grammatic Basis for Discussion cialist Education. 29 pp., 25 in the Twin Cities would in­ ority and are not entitled to FOR SHORTER WORK WEEK in debt. ployment. He replied “What of Socialist Unity. 8 pp. 10 cents. and terror.” crease by 18.400 in the period * * * SUB benefits. In addition, some Jerome J. Utecht, Head of One of them told me that could they do?” cents. Lens, a trade union official from mid-November to mid- mining firms have "cut older two locals of the Amalgamated “my wife and I went into debt An analysis of the present and author, poses seven ques­ THE NAKED GOD — The January. This figure added to I reminded him that there employees to a 32 hour week," Butcher Workmen of America nearly $900 tw o days before I situation confronting those so­ tions, which he considers re­ Writer and the Communist the 22,800 unemployed in mid- were a lot of union men un­ says the Tribune. (AFL-CIO) reported that an got laid off. They didn’t even cialist-minded w orker s w ho quire reconsideration by all so­ Party. By Howard Fast. 197 November — an increase of employed and unable to meet autumn gain in employment give me any notice. wish to break down the bar­ cialists, and gives his views on pp., $3.50. 7.000 over November of '56 — The same article stated that their debts. Did he think it failed to materialize and as a Another worker standing next riers w'hich heretofore have iso­ them. Critical comments by The recently published ac­ indicates that the number of more than 500 w orkers had was possible that the union result the number of members to us who had five dependents lated workers in the various John Dickinson, Tim Wohlforth, count by the well-known Amer­ unemployed in the Twin Cities been laid off at the American could, for one thing, demand a working part time had increas­ said bitterly “You’re not the radical organizations from one Stephen Grattan, Farrell Dobbs. ican author of his experiences is now about 40.000. Steel and Wire division of debt-freeze or moratorium on ed 10% since October. He said only one.” another. It presents a practical Conrad Lynn and Albert Blum- in the Communist Party and The Dec. 27 Minnesota Trib­ United States Steel in Duluth. debts for the duration of the his union expects to push for program of steps to facilitate berg. In troduction by A. J. the reasons for his quitting it. une which featured the report D u rin g 1957 over 76,000 u n ­ LIKE DEPRESSION YEARS unemployment crisis. His eyes employment claims were filed a shorter work week with no lit up at this idea, but then he the discussion for a regrouping Muste. The first printed dis­ The most thorough account yet stated that “The estimated de­ Several of the older workers in Minnesota. Of these, 14,000 reduction in take home pay said Look! l naa a neck or a of socialist forces in present- cussion pamphlet of the AFFSE, of the bureaucratic regime in­ cline would be the most serious I spoke to compared the pres­ were exhausted. Workers who when current contracts expire. job getting the union to move day America. This is a state­ founded to facilitate free dis­ side the CPUSA, its thought year-end drop since the winter ent unemployment to the de­ have exhausted their claims He observed that “loo many while I was working. Do you ment officially adopted by the cussion among all socialist control and lhe impact of the of 1948-49 when jobs dropped pression in the 1930’s. One of along with civil service work­ union people have come to de­ National Committee of lhe So­ groups and individuals on the Khrushchev revelations on the 19.000 from November to Jan­ them said “I’ve been tramping think they'll do anything now ers and others not covered by pend on overtime pay — they cialist Workers Party. basis of non-cxclusion. members. uary.” all over town looking for a job. that I'm laid off!" * * * compensation laws are not in­ can’t make ends meet when the * * ♦ * * + The report (based on employ­ overtime is eliminated.” (Order the shove from Pioneer ers’ forecasts) indicated that cluded in the reports released THE JUDGMENT OF JUL­ RUSSIAN YOUTH AWAKES Publishers, 116 University Place, “The situation may become by the Minnesota Department A spokesman for the em­ IUS AND ETHEL ROSEN­ — An Eyewitness Report. By New York 3, N. Y.) worse by Mareh. . . .’’ Without of Employment Security. ployers, Paul Wishart, President BERG. By John Wexley, 672 Maurice Pelter. 14 pp. 10 cents. any explanation however. 1he In addition to the so-called of Minneapolis Honeywell Reg­ What Radical Youth Need pp., $5.00. "normal” seasonal layoffs, the ulator Company, which normal­ This pamphlet, from Groat clever pencils of lhe statistic­ An organization independent of control by any adult, Britain by a young man of po­ An intensive, carefully doc­ ians have reduced the estimated biggest cause for mounting un­ ly employs 14,000 workers, tendency is the paramount need of socialist youth, says Tim litical perspicacity, who attend­ umented examination of the BOOKS - PAMPHLETS unemployed by March to about employment is a cutback in claims that “we have the op­ ed the Youth Festival in Mos­ trial of the Rosenbergs and On Socialism 34,000. This is 2.000 below the production affecting virtually portunity to improve our posi­ Wohlforth, Managing Editor of the Young Socialist in the Morton Sobell. Of this book, every segment of manufactur­ tion both for sales and for cow last summer, gives the and the Labor 36.000 w hich w ould designate Winter Issue of International Socialist Review. most startling and illuminating a review in the Western Po­ the Twin Cities as a “distress ing in the area. profits.” However he said, “I account of the present frame litical Quarterly by Prof. Fran­ Movement unemployment” area entitled to Neil C. Sherburne, secretary- don't mean to say that we shall Send 35c for a copy of mind of Soviet students and cis D. Wormuth said: “Obvi­ Order Free Catalog from: federal relief aid. treasurer of the Minnesota not have any further reductions ously the Department of Jus­ in the work force. Wc may intellectuals. 116 University Place AFL-CIO State Federation of International Socialist Review tice cannot answer all criti­ STATE-WIDE PICTURE Labor stated in an interview well have - - !” ♦ * * PIONEER PUBLISHER cisms. But unless it answers Figures on state-wide unem­ in the Jan. 1 Tribune that The full impact of unemploy­ New York 3, N. Y. QUESTIONS FOR THE LEFT. Mr. Wexlcy’s, wc must con­ New York 3, N. Y. ployment are equally grim. The “there has been a sharper de­ ment however, is best seen at 116 University Place By Sidney Lens. Published by clude that the Rosenberg case Jan. 7 Tribune reports that cline in employment than the the State Unemployment Of-