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Letter to N.Y. Radicals on '57 Election What Socialist America Will Look Like (See Page 2) t h e MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE W ORKING PEOPLE Vol. X X I - No. 17 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1957 PRICE 10c March-on-Washington Support Grows Peter Fryer Joins Staff of The Militant Report New Peter Fryer, former reporter for the London Daily**)' W orker, w ill become a regular contributor to the M ilitant, Hungary. Shortly after his resig­ nation from the paper, he was Trade Union joining its staff as London correspondent. His first dis­ bureaucratically expelled from patch, scheduled to appear in p ------------------------------------------------------ the British Communist Party for our next issue, will report on ist Party organ since 1948, re­ refusing to remain silent about the British Communist Party signed from the staff of that the real nature of the Hungarian Participation conference held Easter weekend. paper last November after its revolution. His expulsion was 'Fryer, who was a prominent editors mutilated and then sup­ confirmed by the recent Party By Henry Gitano writer for the British Comimun- pressed his dispatches from conference. A PR IL 24— Montgomery’s STILL A COMMUNIST participants in the nation­ In a statement after the con­ wide March on Washington ference, Fryer declared: “1 re­ — or Prayer Pilgrimage, United Socialist May Day main a Communist. I will go qn as it is officially called — fighting for the transformation ol the Communist Party into a will arrive in same station genuine Communist party . wagons that sped the Alabama Rally to be Held in N.Y. My friends will continue the bus boycotters to victory. Rev. struggle inside the Party against Martin Luther King of Mont­ A number of radical tendencies tant in a March 18 editorial en­ the corrupt, 'bankrupt and utter­ gomery, at a New York press will actively participate in a titled, “For a United May Day ly discredited Stalinist leader­ conference today, told of plans united May Day rally here to Rally.” The proposal gained fur­ ship. We will win because events for the Pilgrimage to the na­ make this year’s celebration of ther momentum when a similar tion’s capital which will take in Eastern Europe and Russia PETER FRYER the international working-class editorial appeared in the April are on our side.” place M ay 17 to p ro te st the holiday an historic event in New 1 National Guardian. Since leaving the Daily Work­ Hungary, they wrote: “To im­ Dixie reign of terror. Over York City. It will be held Wed­ er, Fryer has written two works prove our news service from that 50,000 Negroes and whites are nesday, May 1, 8 P.M. in the reporting on and analyzing the vital center, we are sending Pe­ preparing to back the Southern Central Plaza auditorium at 111 Dobbs, Gates Hungarian events, the book, ter Fryer to Hungary. Daily fighters for equal rights at the mass rally. Second Ave. (Near Seventh St.) “Hungarian Tragedy,” and a Worker readers know Fryer’s It will be the first time in al­ Muste to Speak pamphlet, “Hungary and the reputation as an experienced and Dr. King quoted a West Coast most thirty years that so many C om m unist P a rty — A n A ppeal skilled reporter. No one is better organizer for the march as diverse tendencies within the A symposium on “The Road stating that 3,000 people will to Socialism in America” will Against Expulsion.” He is now qualified for such an assign­ radical movement have united on working on a book provisionally m en t.” travel cross-country by plane M ay D a y. be held at the Brighton Com­ entitled, “Marxism and Stalin­ Fryer, who joined the Young and train to participate in the Speakers addressing the rally munity Center on Sunday, May rally. King affirmed there would 5, at 8 p.m. The speakers will ism .” Communist League at the age of will be: George Blake Charney Now 30 years old, Fryer has 15, began his journalistic career be heavy forces Coming from of the N. Y. State Committee, be A. J. Muste, editor of Lib­ the South: pledges of massive eration, John Gates, editor of earned a solid reputation as a shortly afterward as a reporter Communist Party; Bert Cochran, journalist. Among English jour­ foi the Yorkshire Post, a con­ support have been received from editor of the American Socialist; the Daily Worker and Farrell Montgomery, Tallahassee, Birm­ Dobbs, National Secretary of nalists, he is regarded as one of servative daily. In 1947 he was Dorothy Day, editor of the Cath­ fired for refusing to resign from ingham, Atlanta, Baton Rouge M ay Day, 1957: Demand olic Worker; Dr. W. E. B. Du- the Socialist Workers Party. The the top men in the profession. and New Orleans. Brighton Community Center is Prior to his refusal to lie about the Communist Party after par­ Bois, the noted historian; John The Washington Pilgrimage at 32CfO Coney Island Avenue, the Hungarian revolution, that ticipating in a May Day parade T. McManus, editor of the Na­ was called by Rev. King; Roy Brooklyn. It can ,be reached from view was shared by the editors under its banner. tional Guardian; A.J. Muste, Wilkens executive secretary of Manhattan via the BMT Brighton of the London Daily Worker. At He joined the staff of the Daily A Halt to Nuclear Tests! Editor of Liberation; and Myra the NAACP; and A. Philip Ran­ Beach line. the time of his assignment to (Continued on page 3) T. Weiss, Socialist Workers dolph, president of the Brother­ Party Vice-Presidential candi­ hood of Sleeping Car Porters. date in the 19&6 elections. The It will be interracial. Dr. King This May Day the international work­ proposals and all pleas for even this rally will be chaired by Clifford HELP FREE MORTON SOBELL! cited pledges of large delega­ precaution. T. MoAvoy, Chairman of the tions and financial support from ing class celebrates its traditional holiday Committee for ¡Socialist Unity, On A p ril 23, f if t y nations heard the the Auto, Steel, Garment, in an atmosphere charged with the under whose auspices the rally statement made by Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Packinghouse, Department Store, nuclear arms race. The American work­ is being held. In addition, Con­ Electrical and Transport work­ respected scientist and humanist, in a rad Lynn, an attorney for the ers unions. ing class above all must concern itself broadcast sponsored by the Norwegian NAACP, will spe-k on the sched­ District 65 of the Retail, with this terrible fact for which the Big uled prayer pilgrimage to Wash­ Nobel Prize Committee. It was a simple Wholesale and Department Store Business government in the United States ington. Union, AFL-CIO, w ill send 1,000 and eloquent explanation of the dangers is responsible. Although invited to partici­ members to Washington accord­ of radiation. It was broadcast in all coun­ pate the Socialist Party-Social ing to plans drawn up at their Washington ordered the production of tries th a t possess atom bombs— excepting Democratic Federation and the April 22 New York union meet­ the first atom bomb and its use in World the United States. Independent Socialist League de­ ing. Unionists were urged by War II. It forced the production of the clined to send representatives. Cleveland Robinson, Seeretary- We present a part o f this message on The united rally has been or­ even-more deadly hydrogen bomb on a Treasurer of District 65, to get this May Day because we believe th a t the ganized under the banner of together in individual shops and “crash program” basis without the American working class has the duty — tnese demands: “Restore the Bill plan to march as a unit. He slightest regard for the warnings of to itself and all humanity — to force of Rights,’’ “End ¡Segregation — added that the union w ill guar­ scientists concerned with human safety. Enforce the Constitution!” “Ban antee that no disciplinary action the arrogant and irresponsible Big Busi­ Nuclear Weapons — Stop the The Pentagon in Washington has been is taken for absenteeism on that ness government to halt its reckless drive Tests Now,” and “Withdraw Al’. day. “Segregationists and race the only military power to threaten the toward nuclear war. American Troops from Foreign haters . and our lawmakers use of atom bombs in active theaters of From the beginning the Militant has Soil and Waters.” The Committee to Secure Justice for Morton Sobell has chartered this 3,000-passenger will not be able to ignore the war: in Korea, in China and in Indo- A proposal for a united May- steamer for a Hudson River boat ride to Bear Mountain, Sunday, May 26. The boat will leave significance of scores of thou­ urged that nuclear tests be halted. We Day meeting was made from, the China. Only last fall the Eisenhower ad­ have demanded an end to the stock-piling from Battery Park at 10 a.m. and also pick uppassengers at 125 st. pier at 10:30 a.m. Round- sands of us massed before the floor during the discussion at a trip fare is $2.50 for adults and $1 for children. Tickets may be purchased from the committee Lincoln Memorial' on May 17.” ministration ordered troops equipped with of atom bombs. But we also believe that Brooklyn Symposium on Social­ at 940 Broadway, New York, N.Y. In urging support for the outing, Mrs. Helen Sobell said: District 65 also donated $500, nuclear weapons into the Mediterranean this is not enough.
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