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VOL. V I.— No. 3 NEW YORK, N. Y„ SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1942 FIVE (3) CENTS NEW BOARD STACKED AGAINST LABOR OPM Parley Rejects Auto Union Plan 3 GROUPS Majority O f The ------gadgets than by converting to iated with the CIO, contributed eral Motors and now OPM direc­ is William H. Davis, who re­ nomics at the privately-endowed wair production, than by speeding money for the work of the Civil tor, flatly refused ¡to consider ceived the condemnation of the University of Pennsylvania, and arms output. Note: Industry no Rights Defense Committee, the Wayne L. Morris, Dean of the any proposals for quickly ex­ CIO when he headed the NDMB lodger can obtain materials for organization conducting the ap­ University of Oregon Law School. panding production which might and supported the open-shop steel peacetime production . . . So peal of the M inneapolis case to corporations against the CIO The four employer representa­ lim it their control or cut into higher courts. there iB every incentive to con­ miners union in the captive mine tives are all of the hard-bitten their profits. vert to war production.” Accompanying the donation dispute. open-shop variety. Thus, the very Auto union leaders who came Shown as they discussed the auto industry situation at the OPM conference in Washington This is a confession that the from the Relief Committee to the Five others of the uew hoard, composition of the board guar­ to Washington hoping to receive are Walter Reuther and It. J. Thomas, officers of the United Automobile Workers, CIO, William big industrialists run.their plants Civil Rights Defense Committee in addition to Davis, were also antees that it will be overwhelm­ only to grab (he greatest, possi­ was a letter which stated: a voice in the planning of produc­ Knudsen and Sidney Hillman of the OPM, and C. E. Wilson, president of General Motors. members of the defunct NDIVH3, ingly pro-employer in attitude. tion in the auto industry, were ble profit in the shortest pos­ “ I am enclosing a-check for including one of the present “ pub­ The powers of this War Labor forced to express "keen disap­ sible time. lic” representatives. Dr. Frank Board go far beyond those of the S50 from the Church Emerg­ pointment" at the outcome of the For a year the UAW and CIO Graham, who also %voted for the old NDMB. The Executive Order conference, as the CIO auto work­ have been proposing a plan to ency R e lie f C om m ittee to be open shop in the captive mines gives it binding authority, in­ pool auto productive forces to ers union President, R. J. Tho­ applied for relief expenses of case. cluding I he power to invoke com­ mas, put it. Youth Play Increasing prevent mass unemployment dur­ pulsory arbitration. The NDMB the families of the Minneapolis The two other "public” repre­ The conference established a ing the transition from automo­ sentatives, who hold the balance conducted only voluntary media­ seven-man joint labor-manage­ bile to military production. This prisoners. This Committee docs of power on the new Board, are tion and its decisions were not ment committee, including one was to be carried out by an In­ not raise money for legal or George Taylor, professor of eco- binding. government representative, "to Role In USSR Defense dustry-labor council. This pro­ - posal was shelved as “impracti­ sory arbitration by executive de­ cal” and “socialistic” by the has for some years raised best methods for the utilization for stock while youths from 14 cree, and its acceptance by the Gaining Confidence As They Bear Brunt of OPM and the employers. They funds for strike relief and re­ of labor, tools, machinery facil­ to the time they enter military union leaders helps to prepare ware busy figuring out the more lief of families of labor prison­ FRED BEAL itie s. e.t&, fo r the mos t expedi­ trapping (the present .age .is 16— the ground for enactment of anti- Struggle A t Front end Behind the Lines “practical” problem of operating ers. tious conversion of the automo- JGW) will undergo a course of strike and compulsory arbitra­ the auto industry to maintain “We would be glad if you mobile industry for the produc­ By JOHN G. WRIGHT tractor and combine operation" tion laws being demanded by tion of war materials.” maximum profits. might convey our good wishes IS RELEASED Congressmen and employers. The (New York Times, Jan. 7). to these families. The money At the demand of the corpora­ In the resurgence of the Soviet masses which came with the It. is clear th a t the K re m lin “PRACTICAL” RESULTS usurpation of the policy making tion representatives it was decid­ comes from liberal-minded powers of the union rank-and- German invasion of the USSR, the youth is playing a role of which Ibegan employing child la­ C. E. Wilson, president of Gen­ ed that this committee’s functions church people from all parts file. whereby a few union leaders exceptional importance. The preponderance of the youth in the bor on a vast scale prior to the eral Motors has admitted that ON PAROLE w ill be purely advisory and “sub­ without the consent of the work­ outbreak of the war has now ex­ General Motors turned out more of the United States. With ject to the determination of the crucial spheres of Soviet life hasi>- ers “voluntarily” surrendered the w orld. tended its plans to include chil­ automobiles in 1941 than at any best wishes, Office of Production Manage­ marked the development of the Leader of Gastonia tlie right to strike, paved the way The predominance of the youth dren of twelve and even younger. time in its history and made Sincerely yours, workers state since its founda­ for this repressive action. Com­ m ent.” is even more accentuated behind This proletarianization of chil­ more profits in 1941 than in any JAMES MYERS, Secretary” tio n in October, 1917. Under the Strike Served Almost pulsory arbitration attacks the COMMITTEE’S impact of the war this prepon­ the lines, especially in industry. dren and youth is taking place other year. In 1941 GM hauled under conditions without paral­ j right to strike, the most funda­ COMPOSITION derance has assumed unprecedent­ In 1940, on the eve of the Nazi in a profit of close to a quarter UNION CONTRIBUTIONS Four Years of Term lel in history. These same chil­ mental right which labor has wot: The committee’s members are ed proportions. invasion, a decisive section of of billion dollars. The Civil Rights Defense Com­ Fred Beal, serving a 17 lo dren are simultaneously being witli its decades of bitter strug­ Edsel Ford, president of Ford The majority of the front line the giant Soviet proletariat con­ This was a quarter of a billion mittee also reported that Local 20 year sentence in a North trained in the art of war. In the gle. Motors, C. E. Wilson, president fighters of the Red Army are sisted of young men and women dollars worth of reasons for GM 103 of the International Typo­ Carolina jail for his labor ac­ above-cited dispatch McLoughlin The union leaders enter this of General Motors and C. C. Carl­ young. A great many are in their under 27. In the year that has to hang onto the automobile graphical Union, independent, of tivities in the Gastonia textile reports that lectures in a Soviet Board in a much wetfker posi­ ton, vipe president of Motor teens. In po in t of age as w ell as since elapsed, children of four­ market and to give the union the Newark, N. J., had pledged moral school he visited were “punctuat­ strike of 1929, was paroled last tion than they held with respect Wheel Corporation, as d ire ct boss formation, the Red officers' corps teen and fifteen have become in­ run-around on its conversion support to the appeal being made ed by the intermittent crackle of week by Gov. J. M. Broughton, to the NDMB. They have already (Continued on page 3) is (he youngest of any army in dispensable parts of the labor plans. It is also a good reason by I he defense movement, and gunfire from the basement, below, after having served 3 years and agreed to a uo-st.rike policy; and force. why General Motors can now af­ sent a donation to aid in the where boys and girls were learn­ 11 months of his sentence. are therefore committed to an ford to take 9 months to con­ w ork. YOUTH IN INDUSTRY ing how to use a rifle . . . This As a member of the Commun­ acceptance of the Board’s deci­ vert , thejlr plants. But 450,000 Local 133 of the Plaything and According to the official report is a picture of a typical Russian ist Party and a leader of the sions irrespective of how biased Novelty Workers of America, of the Labor Reserves Adminis­ school in wartime” (idem.). jobless auto workers will have textile Btrike, Beal was framed and harmful these decisions may CIO. of Bridgeport, Conn., like­ tra tio n issued in Sept. 1941, more no such reserve to fall back up and convicted of conspiracy to be to labor’s interests. The CIO On The 18tht wise sent money to aid the de­ than two million of these chil­ MILITARY TRAINING upon. murder Chief of Police O. F. in particular, by recognizing and fense. dren were already working in tbc FOR CHILDREN U. 8. News. January 2nd. A de rho lt in 1929. serving on a board similar in so basic industries. The official pro­ “As I walked out into the states: "High officials in agencies NEW PAMPHLET Beal, acting on the advice o; many basic particulars to the streets of Kuibyshev,” continues NDMB is in a far less favorable gram called for drafting several concerned with speeding war REVIEWS CASE the Stalinists, forfeited his bond Anniversary of position to defend those policies McLoughlin, “I met boys and more millions not only for indus­ production are continuing to hag­ Announcement was also made and fled to the Soviet Union girls front 14 to 16 practicing where ho remained for 7 years. it upheld in repudiating the try but also for labor on the gle over terms of contracts, try­ this week by the National Office farms. grenade throwing . . . Brushing ing to strike bargains." This is Disgusted with what he saw of NDMB. Moreover, the new board of the Civil Rights Defense Com­ shoulders with me . .». were boys big business double-talk to cover Stalinism in the USSR, Beal is not dependent, on prestige for In a dispatch from Kuibyshev, mittee that a new pamphlet on Lenin's Death a little older than those engaged up the fact th a t it. was the auto broke with the Stalinist move­ its authority, and lias less need Eric McLoughlin, correspondent in the grim grenade-throwing the Minneapolis case is being to maintain a surface appearance of The Sydney Morning Herald, barons who were “ haggling” over ment and returned to the United ’ By C. CHARLES game. They were wearing the prepafed for distribution by local of impartiality. reported: military contracts, both to get States, where he gave himself up Red Army uniform for trainees branches. The pamphlet w ill con­ As outlined in the Executive January 21, 1942 marks the 18th anniversary of the death "The younger children w ill be the most profitable terms, and to to serve out his sentence. The and wero undergoing the tough­ tain a complete review from the Order, the procedure of the Board taught, the cultivation of vege­ postpone military production Communist Party in this country of V. I. Lenin, who together with Leon Trotsky led the Russian est and most exacting course in time the indictment Was handed will result in entwining the un­ table, berry and fruit plots. Boys while they still had a chance to refused to support the movement workers and peasants in 1917 in the revolution which established the business of dealing out death ions’ demands in endless red- and girls 12 to 14 will learn how sell automobiles. down through the trial and j to secure his freedom as the vlc- the Soviet Union. tape and delay. It provides for to handle hand tools and care (Continued on page 1) (Continued on page 3) sentencing by the judge. I tim of a boss frame-up. Lenin, the architect of the Soviet Union, built well, lie six possible separate steps in the laid the foundations of the Soviet Union deep and strong. settlement of a dispute. Each of Neither Hitler's assaults nor the undermining effects of Stalinist these steps alone may entail rule have yet been able to destroy Lenin’s work. weeks if not months of delay. Everywhere Hitler triumphed until he turned east against During (his time, the workers New Tax Plans H it Workers Most must continue to endure the con­ the Soviet Union. In, Lenin’s Soviet Union, after months of bit­ ditions imposed on them by the ter fighting and retreats, the morale and fighting capacity of employers. Sales and excise taxes reach tion income and profits taxes. Un­ the Soviet masses remain so high that H itler’s troops were Front reports of preliminary Congressional lax discussions commendation for a “revision of During (lie last war, a similar doubtedly, there will be. But, the brought to a dead halt for the first time, and now arc actually on the new gigantic war budget of $39 billion, two facls emerge: most deeply into the pockets the excess profits tax, the big is­ procedure preverrfst^, the workers increases w ill not cut very deep­ retreating. 1. Congressional leaders are placing their main emphasis of the low-wage earners, who sue of the 1941 tax program.” from getting 90 per cent of their ly into the augmented profits in spend almost all their income. The “big issue” concerns only grievances even heard by the Why Soviet Morale Is High on raising war revenues through lowered income lax exemptions, the war industries, where prod­ Such taxes affect only a small a difference in the methods for Board. Of the cases considered, payroll, excise and general sales taxes, all calculated to shunt uction and profits are expected ' The capitalist journalists and statemcn cither do not sec, fraction of the incomes of the computing ilie base for profits the 1918 Board made decisions the overw helm ing burden of war£>------to be doubled and tripled. or pretend they do not sec, the real cause for the enthusiasm and wealthy, who save and invest taxes. Neither method proposed in only a third, most of them costs onto the low income earn­ nually (United Press dispatch, morale of the Soviet masses which is: most of their money. is a radical departure from ex­ Such increased taxation as may in favor of tlie employers. The ers. Jan. 10). In place of the ownership of the factories and land by a isting. methods, neither would be placed on big incomes and present size of the union move­ 2. Talk in legislative quarters A United Press Washington result in cutting effectively into small m inority of capitalists and landlords, the Russian Revo­ PAY-ROLL TAX despatch, Jan. 8, reported that profits will be only a gesture to ment. as compared to that of the about “No war millionaires this war profits. lution under Lenin's leadership established the national owner­ time” aud “Take the profits out FINE FOR BOSSES "President Roosevelt's tacit ap­ appease the masses, as Thomas last war. mean:; an even greater L. Stokes, Scripps-lloward staff volume of grievances and the ship by the workers and peasants of the means of production. of w a r” is so much demagogic, Under the proposed pay-roll proval of a general sales tax” in EASY ON PROFITS writer, poiuled out in his Wash­ possibility that the new Board •The Red Army and Soviet masses are fighting for their ballyhoo. Congressional spokes­ tax. a family of two having a his budget speech is being "seized While ready to place stagger­ ington dispatch of Jan. 8: w ill set lie re la tiv e ly few cases. own revolution and not for a band of parasites. They are fight­ men already have announced combined income of $2,000 yearly- upon” by Congressional tax lead­ ing burdens on the workers, Con­ While tile 110-strike agreement theU* strong opposition to effec­ would have approximately $5 a ers. gress is displaying louchiug sol­ "Administration leaders recog­ ing for their socialist future. and Ilie activities of (he Board tive taxation of corporation in­ week deducted from their pay by Commenting on this seetiou of icitude for big business. “Con­ In the Soviet Union alone Hitler has not found any Fifth nize the disturbing effect of tre­ will he a serious impediment to comes and so-called excess pro­ the bosses. Since I he bosses fix President Roosevelt's speech, the gressional tax leaders have taken Column to carry on his work behind the lines. The Fifth Column mendous war profits upon rank- strikes, there is every likelihood fits. their own salaries and would was destroyed—mark well the dale, ex-Ambassador Davies and Unilcd Press, Jau. 8, stated that (he view,” reports the New York and-file labor, particularly with that, the war labor policy will The latest report from Wasli- make their own deductions, they “Congressmen noted that Mr. Times. Jan. 8. “that to cut down you Stalinist pen-prostitutes—in 1917, when under Lenin’s guid­ taxes and living costs going up. not suppress strikes altogether. iugton is that Congressional tax would sec lo it th a t th e ir salaries ance, the government of the capitalists and landlords was re­ Roosevelt said ‘later’, but they corporation profits loo radically Therefore, to prevent unrest As in I lie last war. rising “experts” and Treasury officials would not suffer by taxation. Sig­ believed he might even now ap­ would injure small business, among the great masses from prices, intensified exploitation, placed by the Soviet government of workers and peasants and nificantly, there is as yet no re­ prove a sales tax program as a arc considering the proposal of a would remove a great incentive to whom the administration is ask­ intolerable hours and working when the factories and land were nationalized. port of any proposals for dras­ ‘temporary necessity’.” 15 per cent “salary withholding” efficient operation of industry ing great sacrifices, they see the conditions, aggravated by dissa­ Everywhere else, Hitler’s Fifth Column has found a base tically increasing the rate of tax­ tax, and a reduction of the in­ generally and would in the long necessity of putting a lim it on tisfaction with the delays anc among the large industrialists, bankers and land-owners, who come tax exemption to tax in­ ation on incomes in the highest "THE BIG ISSUE” run hurt the war effort more profits in order to demonstrate bias of the Board, will undoubt­ prefer the foreign invader, Hitler, to revolution by their own comes of single individuals earn­ brackets. But, adds the U. P. dispatch, than help it.” an effort to distribute the bur­ edly arouse the workers to resist­ ing $500 a year, and married per­ Another focus of Congressional “not os well received as the sales This does not mean that there workers. dens of w a r as equitably as pos­ ance which in many instances interest is sales and excise taxes. tax hint” was the President’s re­ w ill be no increases in corpora­ (Continued on page 4) sons receiving $1,000 income an- sible.” will take the torn! of strikes. T WO - THE MILITANT JA N U AR Y 17, 1942 Goldman Discusses The Government Witnesses We must proceed now lo analyze I he testimony of some Yesterday I argued that even if you would consider the of the witnesses for the prosecution but 1 shall confine my­ Defense Counsel Analyzes Testimony O f Government witnesses for the government as absolutely honest, you should self prim arily, ladies and gentlemen, to only one witness. 1 disregard thei r testimony concerning - statements allegedly confine myself largely to the -witness who. in the words of Witnesses In The Minneapolis "Sedition" Trial made by the defendants two or three tears ago because you Mr. Anderson, “continuously rose in stature during the trial have far more reliable, documentary, evidence on which to until he reached way beyond the lim it of the ceiling.’’ Maybe Bartlett is a smart man — he is not an intelligent man the absurdity of that testimony. base vour decision. But you arc not confronted with honest 1 didn’t understand Mr. Anderson correctly. Maybe he was —but he is a smart fellow, there is no question about it. Under Then something occurred which gave the whole show witnesses. On the contrary, you are confronted by witnesses really sarcastic. certain circumstances he would make a good business a g e n t- away. Sidney Brennan got on the stand and of course testi­ who are now officially connected with Local 544-AFL — There obviously are times in a man's life when he changes better perhaps than most business agents. He can read. He fied that he also had a conversation with V. R. Dunne, sub­ some of them paid organizers, most of them having taken his opinions about important questions. 1 would be the last testified that he wrote articles for the Daily Worker. 1 le sequent to the passing of the Selective Service Act, in which the positions of the men who are now in the prisoners’ dock man in the. world to attack anyone who, after spending a admitted that he read the “ Communist Manifesto” before he conversation Dunne told him that the party was trying to — who were opposed to and fought the leadership of the certain number of years in the socialist movement, would joined the Communist Party. He admitted that he read “ State stir up trouble in ihe army. Assistant Attorney-General defendants in 544 and whose testimony is shot through with finally reach the conclusion that the movement is based on and Revolution’’ by Lenin before he joined the Communist Schweinhaut asked Brennan the following question: “ Were falsehoods and perjury. There is nothing else for you to do Party. When I asked him whether he knew that these two a wrong philosophy. you on good terms with M r. Dunne at the time of the con­ but to give no credence whatever to this testimony. books advocated an armed overthrow of the government, he versation?” and Mr. Brennan obediently answered in the af­ THE DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE JAMES BARTLETT , CHIEF WITNESS answered in the affirmative; that is, he knew- that before he firmative. It was so glaringly obvious that Bartlett or some­ If James Bartlett were that type of man, 1 would, of joined the Communist Party. He, also admitted that he read one else realized the absurdity of the claim that Dunne spoke MUST DECIDE course, regret his leaving the movement. But 1 would not at­ a great deal of literature after he joined the Cqmmunist lo these, people after they had ceased to be members and M r. Anderson made much of the fact that most of the tack him. If he were that type of man, he would never testi­ Party, lie said he joined the Communist Party in 1932 and after they had ceased to be on good terms with him. It was testimony of these witnesses stood uncontradicted and unde­ fy against us. Me could not possibly be an honest man and left it in the middle of 1933; and during this year and a therefore necessary to say that Brennan was still on good nied. This is a common trick used by lawyers. If a witness testify as -lie did. half he read the literature of the party, he made speeches and terms with V. R. Dunne. A minor point but very significant! for one side makes 500 statements and the witness for the other side denies only 450 of them; then the other 50, un­ From his testimony Bartlett can be designated as a ca­ wrote articles for the Daily Worker. Another piece of testimony that shows how much per­ denied, prove the case. Suppose 1 had put all the defend­ reerist — a man only interested in carving out a career for And then he states that he left the Communist Party ju ry the government witnesses really committed was their ants on the stand and all the defendants had denied all the himself, lie goes from one party to another, always with because he found out that it advocated the violent overthrow story that the executive board of the union paid Emil Man- statements which ihe government witnesses claimed they had the idea in the back of his mind of assuring for himself a of the government. So; after reading the "Communist Ma­ sen’s weekly salary at the time he was acting as a guard made; wherpin would that be of any help to you? comfortable living. nifesto” and “ State and Revolution” , the two documents for Leon Trotsky. This evidence, of course, could not pos­ In this case, ladies and gentlemen, we are confronted Why does he claim he left the Socialist Workers Party? which, in his opinion, advocated the violent overthrow of sibly help the ju ry arrive at a decision as to whether or not with this situation: Either our program and our documents Because he found out that we were advocating force and the government, it took him another year and a half to find the Socialist Workers Parly conspired to overthrow the gov­ advocate the armed overthrow of the government by force and violence. On the face of it, that is unbelievable. out that the Communist Party advocated that doctrine! ernment by force and violence, but I presume the prosecu­ violence, in which case we are guilty; or else they do not ad­ tion used it lor some effect on the jury. But somebody had vocate such a doctrine, in which case we are not guilty. The lorgotten to coach-Miss Ilanifan, the bookkeeper of Local individual oral statements alleged lo have been made by de­ WITNESS FOR PROSECUTION PROVED A PERJURER 544-AFL, and when I asked her: "D id you issue checks for fendants a year or two or three .years ago should play no Then in 1936 he comes to Mr. Vincent Dunne, and ac­ ers Party. And according to his testimony here he left the Mr. Hansen when lie was in Mexico?” she answered, “ No.” role. I do not try cases simply by denying statements at­ party because he found out that it advocated force and vio­ This admission came from a government witness and now I cording to Bartlett’s testimony, Mr. Dunne asks him to join tributed to defendants. 1 prefer to get to the very heart lence. Where, in the statement he wrote in 1940, is there suppose the government w ill be forced to contend that Mr. the Socialist Workers Party. At that point 1 very quietly any assertion of that kind? It isn’t in that statement! Hansen was paid out of the cash box. of the issue. asked him: “ Did Mr. Dunne tell you or give you to under­ I he charge in this case is conspiracy to overthrow the In the early part of this year Bartlett w'rote a letter to In aqd by itself a minor point like this is not worth much government by force and violence. Was there or was there stand that the Trotskyists claimed to be the real Marxists the Star-Journal, a letter that 1 introduced in evidence. In but when you tajse all the little and big falsehoods testified to not such a conspiracy? The government has introduced more as against the Stalinists?” Bartlett’s answer was yes. Con­ it he claims that he left the Communist Party in the summer by t|te government witnesses, you have before you a case than 150 exhibits consisting of articles, pamphlets and offi­ of 1934 and not in 1933 as he testified to on the witness sider Mr. Bartlett’s testimony! He says he left the Com­ based qn witnesses whose testimony indicated one thing, and cial declarations. Let the jurors determine their decision by stand. It is obvious that he was lying on the witness stand. munist Party because he found out that it advocated the one thing qn|y — they were not afraid of a possible prosecu­ those and not by isolated statements alleged to have been It is obvious that he wanted to justify his statement from violent overthrow of the government. He comes to our party tion for perjury. uttered by some of the defendants two or three years ago. and knows, before joining our party, that we claim to be the the witness stand that during the 1934 strike he told Dunne real Marxists and he also testified that he read books by that he was out of the Communist Party. A liar, no matter Marx and Lenin which, in his opinion, advocated the over­ how clever or how intelligent, finds it impossible to remem­ GOLDMAN SHOWS REAL MOTIVES OF THE WITNESSES throw of the government by force and violence. It must fo l­ ber all the lies that he utters. The government witnesses organized a Committee of 99 Do not misunderstand me, ladies and gentlemen, I do not low, then, from Bartlett’s testimony that he should have Why did he not, in the letter that he wrote to the Star- lo fight socialism in Local 544. That is what they claim. claim that the Committee of 99 was powerful enough to ini­ known before he joined our party that we also advocated Journal, give as his reason for leaving the Socialist Workers Samuel Johnson said: “ Patriotism is the last refuge of a tiate and set into motion this prosecution — not Bartlett, not the violent overthrow of the government. But according lo Party that it advocated the violent overthrow of the gov­ scoundrel” and if ever this phrase applied, it applies to the Tommy Williams, not these witnesses, oh no, men higher his testimony, it took him three years to find that out. He ernment? There is not a single mention of that, lie never government witnesses. These perjurers wrapped themselves in up, men who appointed a Receiver to take the defendants out found that out early in 1940 when he left our party. He join­ mentioned his alleged real reason Tor leaving the party in the American flag, not because they cared a tinker’s damn of their jobs — these are the people who had the power to ed our party in 1936 or 1937 so it took Mr. Bartlett all these any of the statements that he made"before the trial. In the about patriotism, but because in this way they think they can initiate and set into motion — years to find that out. parade of perjury represented by the government witnesses, succeed in gaining a victory over the defendants. Their real MR. SCHWEINHAUT: That is absolutely not true, if Now, ladies and gentlemen, the dumb government w it­ Bartlett “ rose to the ceiling” and way above it. Mr. Anderson did not know that yesterday or the day motive was not lo fight socialism but to gel a few more dol­ your Honor please. nesses who followed Bartlett — Novack, Harris and others lars and get positions to which they could not be elected. THE COURT: I don’t think that is appropriate argu­ whose names 1 don’t remember — testified that at every party before yesterday he, himself, convicted Bartlett of perjury. 1 shall show you how. Mr. Anderson was examining Mr. W ith great difficulty 1 succeeded in presenting the true ment. Mr. Goldman; I don’t think it is appropriate argument meeting they attended there was a discussion in which the motives of the government witnesses. It was the situation in the lace of the state of this record, and I don’t think you violent overthrow of the government was advocated. Violet Dobbs. He had in his hand either the “ ABC of Marxism” or in Ihe Minneapolis Brewery that gave the ju ry a clue as to should pursue it. W illiams testified that she attended many meetings, heard “What is Trotskyism” and he gleefully asked Mr. Dobbs: their real motives. I do not intend to examine the evidence MR. GOLDMAN: The Committee of 99 could not many lectures, did not remember the subject of the lectures “ Well, this w'as written in 1941, wasn’t it?” -M r. Dobbs on that point in detail. You remember what the situation convince the members of Local 544 through argument. Is or the contents of the lectures, but she remembered in gen­ answered: “ That is right.” was there, the struggle between the executive board of the that in the record? Witness after witness testified that they eral that we advocated the violent overthrow of the govern­ When did Bartlett last visit the party headquarters? I local composed largely of the defendants on the one hand, had a chance to run opposition candidates. That is in the ment. So we have people like Novack and Harris and Violet asked him: “Was it March, was it February, was it April?” and government witnesses Holstein, Eugene Williams, A1 W il­ record. Members of the Committee of 99 testified here one Williams — not very smart — and they find out that we ad­ And finally he said that “ It could not have been later than liams and Buckingham, on the other hand. You realized after another lo this effect. vocate the violent overthrow of the government after attend­ April, 1940.” Then 1 had to maneuver carefully — because Bartlett from the testimony of the. government witnesses themselves ing two or three meetings. THE DEFENDANTS BUILT THE UNION is a smart fellow' — to get him to admit that he bought that these people were participating in a racket. The gov­ Bartlett — the smart fellow who read the “ Communist “ What is Trotskyism” and the “ ABC of Marxism” in the ernment witness, Blixt, who worked in the market, was in the “ Under whose leadeship was Local 544 organized?” I Manifesto” and the “ State and Revolution” before he joined party headquarters. He stated definitely that he bought them same boat. When I asked him whether, contrary to the or­ asked some of the government witnesses. They had to admit the Communist Party in 1932, who, while in the Communist in the headquarters. ders of the executive board, he stopped farmers’ trucks from that the union was built by the Dunnes, Dobbs, Carl Skog- Party read all of the Communist Party literature and spoke Now, ladies and gentlemen, if the last time that Bart­ coming into the market, he tried to excuse himself by saying lund, Harry DeBoer and everyone else who is a defendant for that party and wrote in the Daily Worker, w'ho read many lett was at the headquarters was in A pril, 1940 and if the that he stopped only the “ wildcat” operators. and connected with Local 544. From a membership of 200, pamphlets while he was in our party — took three years be­ pamphlets — as is proved by.their internal context — were It was a great racket for these witnesses until the Exe­ the defendants raised the local to 6,000. Do you think any fore he found out that we advocate the violent overthrow written after Trotsky’s death, were published in February cutive Board of Local 544 stepped in and compelled them to of the government witnesses were capable of creating this of the government. or March, 1941, how could Bartlett get those two books in give up their racket of charging small distributors, who want­ powerful union that exerted tremendous influence through­ Mr. Anderson, for you to, stand up now and say that you the headquarters? T ry to solve that riddle, M r. Anderson. ed a load from the Minneapolis Brewery, a minimum of four out the northwest area? Who built the Over-the-Road Com­ believe every word that Bartlett testified to would convict Is there any question but that- Bartlett is a perjurer? hours’ pay regardless of the time that it actually took to load mittee? Farrell Dobbs. And these government witnesses, mem­ you of something more than sarcasm. Would any witness for the defense guilty of such perjury the truck — whether it was 15 minutes or 20 minutes. You bers of the Committee of 99, some of them unfortunate half­ Let us go on. When, on cross-examination, I introduced be permitted to be free at the present time? There W'ould noticed that it was after the executive board compelled these wits, are now in the offices that the defendants had prior to certain statements made by Mr. Bartlett, 1 think that Mr. be an indictment out against him, but Bartlett is a govern­ witnesses to give up the racket that the Committee of 99 was Tobin’s appointment of the Receiver. Schweinhaut and Mr. Anderson were overjoyed. It seemed ment witness and the government wants to prove its case organized to oppose the leadership of the union. “Were you elected to office?” I asked Sidney Brennan, that 1 had made a terrible blunder. 1 introduced the state­ regardless of the evidence and Bartlett, the greatest perjurer And this Committee of 99 could not convince the mem­ who testified that he is now Secretary-Treasurer of 544-AFL. ment that Bartlett made when he joined the Socialist W ork­ and the greatest liar that ever sat in the federal court, is per­ bership of 544, so the Committee invited the FBI to partici­ “ No,” he answered. pate in the meetings of the Committee. The FBI, in fact, ers Party; also the statement that he made when he cam­ mitted to go free. “ Who appointed you?” "Neal,” was the answer. paigned in his own union against an opposition; and also AFTERNOON SESSION became part of the Committee of 99. This testimony comes "You mean the Receiver for Tobin?” “ Yes,” was the the letter that he had written to the Star-Journal. The gen­ Friday, November 28, 1941 from Lite government’s ow'n witness and is uncontradicted. answer. tlemen of the prosecution did not catch the significance of THE COURT: You may’proceed. those statements that I introduced. I did not care what MR. G O LDM AN: Ladies and gentlemen, by this time Bartlett said about himself in those statements. But what 1 you know enough about our theory to understand that it is WHY THE GOVERNMENT WITNESSES JOINED THE PARTY was interested in was one assertion that he didn’t make in difficult for me to speak with bitterness against any indi­ Some of the government witnesses were at one time mem­ MR. G O LD M AN : It is in evidence that the union execu­ any of these statements. vidual. By and large we hold that social conditions are re­ bers of the Socialist Workers Party. What made these people tive board did not permit racketeering. It is in evidence that join the party? Bartlett claims, ladies and gentlemen, that he left the sponsible for the character of an individual and it is almost all these government witnesses who testified that they joined Communist Party because it advocated force and violence. impossible for me as a Marxist to be bitter towards a gov­ In commenting on the testimony of defendants Rainbolt the party in order to get jobs in the union, didn’t get jobs; Now', wouldn’t it be natural to expect that if that w'ere the ernment w'itness regardless of the depths of perjury which he and Orgon, Mr. Anderson said that had these defendants that all the government witnesses who testified that they truth, lie would say so in the statement giving .the reasons reaches. That does not, of-course, prevent me from pointing testified that they joined the party in order to get jobs, then joined the party to hold their jobs, didn’t hold their jobs. why he left the Communist Party? The only reason that out the false testimony which the government witnesses gave. he would have more consideration for them. M r. Ander­ The government witnesses finally succeeded in getting jobs he mentions now for his leaving the Communist Party, he Most of the important government Witnesses—w'hose son doesn’t see the significance of his remarks. He seems to in the union, only when the defendants, who built the union never mentioned in the statement in which he explained why names I enumerated and who are directly or indirectly con­ think that the government witnesses who testified that they by their blood and their sacrifices in the course of many he left the Communist Party. Is there any sense in that? nected with the Tobin administration of Local 544-AFL — joined the party to get jobs have thereby cleansed themselves strike struggles, were pushed out and are now threatened with When Bartlett issued the statement against some of our are helpless people who were motivated by a desire to get’ of any possible sin they committed by joining the party, deprivation of their liberties. Take the testimony of all the members who were running in opposition to him in the ware­ jobs in the local and they could only do so if the defendants while M r. Rainbolt and Mr. Orgon are still criminals. The members of the Committee of 99 and everything that I say house union elections, he had already left the Socialist Work- were pushed out of their positions. conclusion is: If people join the party because of idealistic will be borne out. reasons, because they are convinced that the party represents The government witnesses told the truth when they tes­ a cause worth fighting and dying for, then they belong in tified that they joined the Socialist Workers Party in order THE ONE THING THAT ALL THE WITNESSES REMEMBERED jail; but if they join the party, in order to get a job, they to get jobs. They probably thought that the Socialist Workers should be released. Party was like the Republican or Democratic parties. They Those of the government witnesses who were former mem­ vocated the armed overthrow of the government. And that’s The defendants Rainbolt and Orgon did not know all saw the defendants in charge of a union and they thought bers of our party could testify to nothing about our program, all he remembered. the principles of the party when they joined. They joined they could get jobs by joining the party of which the defend­ with the exception, of course, that they testified that we ad­ Another significant point. A great many of the witness­ because they knew the Dunnes; they knew Farrell Dobbs and ants were members. Quickly, however, they were disillusion­ vocated the armed overthrow of the government. 1 mentioned es claimed that Vincent Ray Dunne who, as the outstanding Carl Skoglund and knew how honest these men were. Had ed. They didn’t get any jobs because men like the defend­ leader of Local 544 -0 0 , is more or less of a chief devil in ants don’t put people into jobs in a union unless these people before that these people never remembered the subject or con­ there been, by the way, the slightest question of the honesty this picture,'discussed with them the question of what our of the defendants in the leadership of 544, it would have are capable. (To be concluded next week) tents of a single pamphlet or party discussion, but always party wanted to do after the passing of the Selective Service surely been brought out in the evidence. No one dares im ­ remembered that the defendants advocated the violent over­ Act. They testified that they had conversations with Dunne pute any dishonest motives to any of the defendants — throw of the government. M r. Eugene Williams, for instance, about this matter long after they were out of the party, even MR. SCHWEINHAUT: Now, just a moment. I wish PIONEER PUBLISHERS on direct examination remembered that Farrell Dobbs spoke after they had fought in the union against our party members. your Honor would instruct the ju ry that we could not have Next week w ill announce the publication of at the first meeting he attended and naturally he also remem­ It looked peculiar, did it not, that Dunne who, you will proved in evidence here that these men were dishonest except one of the most important pamphlets it lias ever bered that Farrell Dobbs advocated the armed overthrow of all agree, is a highly intelligent person, should talk to people by criminal records, if any. issued. See next week’s issue of THE MILITANT the government. On cross-examination he forgot that it was who were no longer members of the party and who were ene­ THE COURT: That is true. Tbe jury will so heed Farrell Dobbs and said that it was Felix Morrow, but still mies of the party, about such delicate questions as inciting that statement. Until a man proves his own character in evi­ for full details. he remembered that, no matter who it was, the speaker ad- insurrection in the army. 1 think the -jury must have seen dence, it can’t be impeached or criticized by the government. JANUARY 17, 1942 IHE MILITANT, —THREE

■LABOR WITH A WHITE SKIN CANNOT EMANCIPATE ITSELF T h e WHERE LABOR WITH A BLACK OPM Parley Rejects Auto Union Plan Relations Between SKIN IS BRANDED" — KARL MARX. voice with management "to de­ damniug admission of complete sist on “freedom” to bargain and Great Britain And Negro Struggle termine and make effective” the 450,000 Face technical incompetence and ig­ maneuver for Jhe best contracts, Bosses, OPM best policies for the operation of norance, or an attempt to hide highest profits, etc. Behind this is the industrial­ By ALBER I' PARKER die auto industry. This idea was the truth behind the so-called The U.S. In the War Are To Blame given a complete brush-off by the Long Term of “mystery” of American industry. ist’s fear that if labor were given auto manufacturers and the OPM. Knudsen hasn’t “bungled,” -as a place in managèment, if rep­ ■ By A. ROLAND = = = = = 15 Other Negro Heroes including Sidney Hillman. some would claim. He deliberate­ resentatives of the workers were For Shut-Down Unemployment ly sought to protect, the indus let into the secrets of manage­ British Resentment About U. S. Role After reading again the other day about the WHY AUTO BARONS (Continued, jrom pape 1) (vialists while they maneuvered ment and given access to the heroic exploits of the Negro mess attendant (Continued from page 1) It was a Labor Party member of parliament OPPOSE POOLING for profit advantages. If the OPM corporation books, the whole sys­ on the sinking battleship, U. S. S. Arizona, my representatives. Walter Reuther. While this “haggling" went on. who' expressed the feeling of resentment of the The attitude of the auto cor­ cannot give “accurate figures” on tem of private ownership and mind went back to the case of 15 other Negro R i c h a r d Frankensteen, and porations toward any delimiting in recent months only 50% of British ruling class over its complete dependence conversion, it is because it never control might be exposed for the mess attendants on another Navy ship, the U. George Addes, officers of the of their control over production, machine tool capacity of Ameri­ seriously tried to gel them. on the United States in the war. He called at­ can industry was being utilized terrible drag on production that tention to the fact that England was in ’danger S. S. P hiladelphia. UAW-CIO, represent labor. even if this would expedite prod­ Walter II. Wheeler Jr., deputy The seventh, and government as the National Association of i t is. The Arizona mess attendant, I thought, “for­ uction. was expressed by C. E. director of OPM’s contract distri­ of becoming the Helgoland base of the United representative, who will act as Wilson. In reply to the question. Manufacturers lias admitted. A The bosses w a n t to be free to Rates in Europe. The world press, including the got his place,” which, according to Navy regula­ bution service, testified before chairman and have the deciding recent survey of the UAW reveal­ convert their plants to military " I f the Governm ent called on the Tolan House Committee late press of the United States, featured the apt ex­ tions, is down in the galley. On Dec. 7, at Pearl vote, is Cyrus Citing, vice presi­ ed that 35% of machine tools in production only in such way as General Motors to pool its facil­ in December 1941 that: pression! without disputing it or commenting Harbcfr, he -“¡forgot his placed and seized a dent of the United States Rubber ities under a joint management- the auto industry were being to protect their privileges and “The OPM is just now ap­ on it. machine gun and used it till his ammunition Corporation. Citing was a member labor-government hoard, would used. profits. They insist on this even proaching the question of conver­ The actual entry of the United States into ra n out. of the National Defense Media­ General Motors do so?’’, Wilson though it will mean continued WHO BLOCKS sion in an industry-wide man­ the war (formally speaking) has tended to re­ The 15 Philadelphia mess attendants also tion Board, and voted against the replied: waste and inefficiency, the ham­ EXPANSION? ner.” i adjust the balance somewhat in the English “forgot their place.” They had joined the Navy union shop for the captive coal “To divide the responsibility pering and future dislocation of . Assistant Attorney General Only now, after the last drop production. to become sailors and soon learned that in the miners. It is obvious that this for management would be to des­ favor and they have not failed to take quick ad­ Thurman Arnold stated on Jan. of profits has been wrung out vantage of this new fact. It w ill be recalled that Navy Negroes can serve only as sea-going dish­ committee, dominated by corpor­ troy the very foundation upon WHAT THE BOSSES ation heads, w ill "assist” the auto 3, 1942 th a t: of "business as usual.” are the washers and lackeys. On top of this, they were which America’s unparalleled re­ COST IN PRODVCTION the United States exerted pressure through its industry according to the dictates cord of industrial accomplish­ “Anti-trust investigations have industrialists and the OPM subjected to all kinds of insult and abuse from W hat the bosses are costing lease-lend aid, to force England to forego ex­ of the auto bosses. ment has been built.” This was shown that there is not an or­ tackling the problem of conver­ this country in production losses porting any real quantity of goods to South their officers. said as over 100,000 auto w orkers ganized basic industry in tbe sion. STATEMENT OF THOMAS is shown by the following figures. America for the duration of the war. Much as They sat down and wrote a letter to a Negro pounded the streets in Detroit United States which has not been i UAW President Thomas sum­ The order has been given by. In the next few months, priorities this action angered JBriilsh -business, it was newspaper, The Pittsburgh Courier, protesting alone. restricting production by some med up the results of the con­ OPM for the complete change­ and industrial dislocation are ex­ compelled to obey and the United States was against the Jim Crow regulations which bar Wilson then showed what was device or other in order to avoid ference by stating: over in the auto industry to mil­ pected to result in the unemploy­ given a free hand in South America. them from Navy positions outside of the mess really sticking in' the craw ol what they call the ‘ruinous over­ itary production. According to "The scope of power accorded ment of 2,500,000 w orkers in a ll United States diplomacy was engaged just division, and expressing the desire to get train­ the auto bosses. “ There is no way production after the war.’ the subcommittee is such that the New York Times, Jan. 4, industries. That is a loss of 70,- to pool the facilities of the coun­ “These groups have been afraid before the fateful Japanese attack on Pearl Har­ ing in the Navy just as all other sailors do. They labor w ill have no effective voice. “The new order .has been ac­ 000.000 man-days of w o rk per try,” he said, “without the social­ to develop production themselves. bor, in trying to come to some agreement with all signed their names to the letter. The attitude of the spokesmen of cepted cheerfully and willingly m onth. In a ll 7,9///, on ly 22,000,- ization of industry.” the English government concerning the post-war As soon as the letter was printed, they were industry, clearly indicated in our They have been afraid to let by the industry.” The same ar­ 000 man-days of labor were lost Wilson, speaking the mind of others come into the field. handling of the return of lease-lend equipment placed under arrest. A few weeks later, during conference, is such that we must ticles admits the auto workers, through strikes. The present cur­ the Industry, cannot argue effec­ They have concealed sliortages looking Lorward to months of tailment of auto production, for —or some equivalent. There can be no illusion the first week of Dee., 1940, almost a year to conclude that conversion will be tively against pooling because it by optimistic predictions of sup­ unemployment, are not so cheer­ w hich the bosses are responsible, that the “loans” made by the United States to the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor, when handled in a leisurely way, and will not achieve greater and plies and talked of production fu l. w ill cost a greater loss of prod­ its allies will ever be repaid in cash. All that the case had reached its end, they were fired out th a t there w ill be no pooling speedier production. He is againsi whatever, between the companies, facilities which do not exist,” uction in one month than all the the United States can do is to try to extract o f ¡the N a v y w ith “ undesirable discharges” — it because it implies possible lim ­ Arnold said. THE CIO PLAN of available machinery and skill­ auto strike s since 1933. whatever advantages it can in place of repay­ for “the good of the service,” as it was put by itations upon the powers of the Why bus tlie OPM refused to ed labor.” In order to preserve their mon­ W hen the bosses raise a hue individual corporations to oper­ accept the CIO plan to pool the ment in cash or in kind. Admiral Nimitz, then chief of the Bureau of opolies, the owners of basic in­ and cry about the loss of produc­ Of course, the auto magnates ate as they please. As between resources of the industry and Thus the press contained references to the Navigation. dustries, including the auto in­ tion duo to strikes, they are try­ will not act "leisurely” in the greater production through “so­ give labor a voice in the man­ 'act that negotiations were going on with a view I was reminded of those 15 Negro sailors sense of w a n tin g to take then- dustry, have disrupted and ham­ ing to cover up the real disrupt­ cialization” — that is. pooling — agement of this conversion? to adjustment of lease-lend aid by the ceding of because to my mind, although they did not get time about converting the indus­ pered production by falsifying ers of production, themselves, as and lesser production through naval bases and territory in the Western Hemis­ try to war production. They will the facts and blocking expansion. Arthur Krock in his New the above figures graphically tes­ honorable mention, although practically nobody “undivided responsibility’ of man­ naturally try to get production What did the Office of Produc­ Y ork Times column, made clear tify . phere to America. This was to be not merely a wrote about their bravery, their action was every agement,” Wilson and bis collea­ started as quickly as they can in tio n Management do to remedy the reasons for this refusal: The situation in the auto in­ matter of long leasing but of actual change of bit as heroic as that which characterized the gues are 100 per cent for lesser “What was proposed was a social order to benefit by their present this situation? dustry merely underlines the in­ sovereignty. Some congressmen had advanced this mess attendant on the Arizona. Their action in production. economic revolution in American sources of profits, war produc­ I capacity and unwillingness of dea when the lease-lend act was first broached. writing that letter should be remembered and KNUDSEN’S ROLE industry.” Pooling was out of the tion. They will be “leisurely” WHITEWASH BY OPM the' industrial monopoly owners honored just as much as the different kind of William S. Knudsen, OPM question, K ro ck insisted, because only in the sense that they will So far as the OPM is concerned, to operate industry in the inter­ The Negotiations Have Halted action of the Arizona sailor. head and former General Motors “the Reuther idea would cut undertake conversion in an in­ its only purpose in calling the est of the masses of people. The magazine Newsweek now points out in P. S. After looking up the stories about President, has repeatedly replied across corporation lines.” dividualistic fashion, without real conference, it seems, was to give Only a Workers and Farmers an editorial that the formal entry of the United the 15 sailors printed in this paper over a to union demands for pooling industry-wide planning, pooling the auto bosses a pu blic w h ite ­ The OPM has made it clear Government, which w ill take over production by referring to the tates into the conflict has halted these nego­ year ago, I find that at the time they signed of resources, etc. They w ill hold washing for the shut-down of the that nothing w ill be done to lim it the operation of the basic indus­ “complex” problems involved. On the power of the corporation own­ tiations and has brought a change in English that letter, the Philadelphia was stationed out for better contract terms. industry and the unemployment tries and run them under the Dec. 22, Knudsen said: “There attitude. Whereas previously the English seemed a t... Pearl Harbor. The various corporations will of hundreds of thousands of ers to completely control and control and management of the isn’t a person living who could quite ready to discuss the matter of post-war compete to get a monopoly of workers. Knudsen and Hillman operate the industry. The system workers, can gear the nation’s give an accurate figure as to the settlement in all its phases, that has now raw material supplies. cooperated in shutting off any of “crossing corporation lines” plants to maximum production. The Symbols of Democracy percentage of American industry and pooling of production will The basic problem of achieving ; discussion by union leaders of Only such a government will changed. From Churchill down to the lower rungs Democracy apparently means different things that could be put to work on maximum production by planned, the past policies of the compa­ not he used, because it conflicts plan the economy in a rational of the diplomatic ladder, the new line is followed military orders” to different people. It certainly doesn’t mean coordinated operation of the in­ nies. with the private interests of the manner that w ill {provide steady of refusing to discuss post-war settlements. This statement is either a self- the same thing to an auto magnate and an auto dustry as one unit thus stands | “That was before Pearl Har­ respective corporations, who in- jobs for all. “First let us win the war; that is the only ques­ worker thrown out of his job. It doesn’t mean as far from solution as ever, j bor,” Knudsen blandly stated. tion of importance now,” says Churchill. He Each of the big three corpora­ the same thing for a worker on strike and a boss “Do you think that that is the prefers leaving other matters to the future. tions. GM. Ford and Chrysler, is Corporation Profits Rising in Spite of Taxes trying to break a strike. It doesn’t mean the problem today before us?” piped This new attitude represents a first faint re­ free to determine its own prod­ same thing for a lynch mob and the intended up Hillman. volt against United States domination. But the uction policies and utilize its fac­ That, however,- was and is the victim of a lynch mob. It doesn’t mean the same PROFITS OF ALL CORPORATIONS, BEFORE AND AFTER FEDERAL TAXES relations between the two countries remain and ilities as it pleases. problem. So long as the private thing for Secretary of the Navy Knox apd.a t l l j 10.000 0QO, must remain pretty much the same, despite the This means that they will pool monopoly owners have control (fir/VATio) Negro mess attendant. facilities and resources only when over industry, they w ill continue fact that they are now “equal partners” in the But what we want to discuss here is not and if they think it profitable. to operate it in the same fashion war. The i fact that all discussions center in democracy, but a symbol of democracy. We are But there will be no central or­ as hitherto, solely with an eye to Washington is evidence of the role of this coun­ certain that there are many symbols of democ­ ganization of production. profits. That is what this con­ try, Churchill travels to Washington not only racy, and that they differ as much and as often RE TOOLING THE ference demonstrated above all because of the war dangers abroad, but because else. as the definitions of democracy itself. To a mem­ INDUSTRY the last word must be said there. The bosses w ill continue to op­ ber of the Sixty Families, democracy’s best sym­ A great to-do lias been made Not only Churchill himself, but the govern­ pose the slightest loosening of bol is probably a dollar sign. A rope and a torch over the fact that the industry ments of the English colonies and dominions their unlimited control, no matter would go good as a symbol of democracy as it is undertaking the fulfillment of recognize their dependence on United States what the cost to the workers and is understood by the defenders of Jim Crow. five billion dollars more of Ar­ help. The situation of Australia is becoming to the A m erican people as a Mr. S. Sloan Colt, Director of the Red Cross my and N avy contracts. C. E. whole. The corporation owners rapidly more critical as the Japanese threaten Wilson, president of ÇM, revealed War Drive, has his own ideas about democracy will "share” nothing with labor, to take Singapore. The loss of this Pacific tase at the conference, however, that and its symbols. least of all any voice in the oper­ 1929 1933 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 would be a tremendous blow at both allies. The his company does not expect to In reply to a letter from a doctor protesting ation and planning of production. Each coin repraienfi 500 million dollari way would become open for the Japanese to be in position to undertake actual tOURCE- U S 'D«portm«ni ©I Commtrc* except ptelimirxxy fiqvf*. which or* ettunoted by reliable tovree» the refusal of the Red Cross to accept blood from They have made it clear that strike further south towards Australia and New production on any considerable Negroes for its’blood bank, Colt wrote as follows: their stranglehold on production scale for from nine months to Zealand. Their complete control of the Asiatic will never ,be broken until the “ The Red Cross-'’ is now able to obtain fro m a year. That is how long it will side of the Pacific Ocgan, would enable the Jap­ government takes over the auto white donors enough blood to keep all the pro­ take to re-tool the industry. This anese to threaten seriously India itself. and other war industries and cessing plants fully occupied so that the total belies the deliberate impression No wonder then that Premier Curtin of Aus­ operates them under workers con­ Contract Negotiations amount of blood plasma available to the armed given the public by the OPM and tro l. tralia appealed for help to the United States forces is not lessened by our inability to- accept auto bosses tha t auto unem ploy­ and made a none too veiled threat to take Aus­ Negro donors.” ment w ill be virtually eliminated tralia out of the Empire. His later denial of any If this statement has any pertinence, it is in a few months. Break Down At Kearny such intention does not change the actual situa­ The auto bosses w ill, of course, that the Red Cross doesn’t care very much if Trotsky’s Last Work tion. In the next period of the war Australia parcel out work to smaller parts ------Negroes are angry about being Jim Crowed w ill be completely dependent on the naval forces and machine tool companies. MANIFESTO OF THE vis. Mediation Board chairman, even when they want to donate their very blood, U. S. Steel Again Rejects "Maintenance of This has been standard practice for "action.” Davis, without that the United States can dispose as a screen as long as they were able to- get the amount of for the big companies up to now. FOURTH INTERNATIONAL Membership" Clause At Federal Shipyard power to enforce any NDMB rul­ between the South Pacific and the Japanese. blood they want from white people. This im­ However, the w o rk w ill be sub­ ing, recommended that the Navy plies that maybe later on, when it needs more contracted on the basis of the on the Contract negotiations between the CIO Industrial Union of take “action.” “The Navy did What Fall of Singapore Would Mean highest and most profitable bids blood than it can get from white donors, the IMPERIALIST WAR Marine and Shipbuilding Workers and the management of the not carry out his decision,” states There is another aspect also to the possible from the thousands of competing Red Cross w ill do something about the protests Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company’s huge shipyard the New York Times, Jan. 7. fall of Singapore. That great base with its naval of the Negro people. small companies. Under genuine and the broke down on Jan. 7, 24 hours after the yard was returned COMPANY BENEFITS facilities, represented one of the most powerful Then after admitting that there are no scien­ industry-wide organization of by the Navy Department to the full control of its U. S. Steel produ etion, the government’ bargaining points for England in its relations tific objections to transfusions of the blood of PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION Although the plant was nomin­ would contract directly with the Corporation owners. with the United States. Should it be taken by Negroes, Colt went on to say: ally under the control of the small companies, issuing orders The principle issue continues to cated by the employer represent­ the Japanese, then England has that much less “It seems that the feelings and perhaps 48 pages 5 cents per copy Navy Department, the private where they can best be fulfilled be the “maintenance ot member­ atives following the Washington to offer to the United States for its help in the even the prejudices of individuals to whom and eliminating hundreds of m il­ ship!’ clause demanded by the agreement on war labor policy, management continued to direct Pacific. There can be little doubt that to gain union. This was the clause which transfusions are given should be respected lions of dollars in added costs PIONEER PUBLISHERS that they w ill cooperate only with operations to very large degrees. an ultimate victory over Japan, America would the company refused to accept as a symbol of democracy.” that go as profits into the pockets a board which w ill ensure them In his statement on turning back have to regain the vital Singapore base. It w ill 116 University Place last August, after it had been If Jim Crow prejudices are the symbol, then of the big auto moguls. in advance that there w ill he no the plant to the company, Ad­ recommended by the National De­ be at heavy sacrifice of American planes, ships what must be the democracy they symbolize for UAW leaders had demanded interference with their tradi­ fense Mediation Board. The com­ m ira l Bowen declared as much, and tanks that the Western Pacific area w ill be which Negroes are called on to give up their that auto labor he given an equal tional open-shop policies. pany’s high-handed attitude then when he said: “I have had to retaken by this country. This will complicate lives ? precipitated a 17-day strike of UNION SECURITY CLAUSE rely on the former management, the status of the colonial empires all the more. 16,000 w orkers, w hich ended Naturally both England and the United NOT ENFORCED BY NAVY yhrd superintendents and fore­ Joe Louis and the Navy when the Navy Department, un­ men and labor in general, for I States w ill fight as desperately as they can to During the 19 weeks in which Joe Louis was on the receiving end of a der orders from President Roos­ brought with me only a small hold Singapore. This is the critical center of evelt, took over operation of the the Navy Department operated lot of applause on Jan. 9 because he risked his s ta ff.” the Pacific War, now and in the future. Here SPECIAL K ea rny pla n t on Aug. 23, 1941. the plant, it consistently refused All the benefits of the plant -’Tain, while most of the fighters may be soldiers title in a bout against ’Buddy Baer without to enforce the "maintenance of Union leaders state they will “seizure," it is now clear, have getting a nickel in return. Even Secretary of membership" provision although of Australia, India, England itself, the equip­ place the issue of union security accrued to the company. It lias the Navy Knox sent a telegram and a special it had nominally taken over the ment in planes, guns and munitions must cohie Subscription O ffer before tbe forthcoming War La­ its plant, and the open shop re­ plant “because the company in the main from the U. S. A. representative for the occasion. All of Louis’ bor Board, asserting at the same mains in full force, would not obey the Mediation The stupendous program of armaments pro- share of the purse was contributed to the Naval time that they will abide by tbe Also, the company is receiving Board recommendation” (New Relief Fund. valid until February 1, 1942 no-strike agreement recently ac­ full profits from operation of the 1 action of Roosevelt means that the dependence cepted by the AFL and CIO York Times, Jan? 7, 1942). of England on the United States will increase But if Louis had gone down to the Naval re­ 2 issues of the FOURTH INTERNATIONAL plant during the time the Navy cruiting station the next morning, he would still heads. Thé local union sought vainly was in control. :n the future rather than decrease. Thus the real have been told that they were sorry, “but Neg- (2 0 c each) But the company, as the New to have the Navy officials dis­ In this connection, the New relation of forces cannot help assert itself ’•oes are admitted into the Navy only as mess York Times, Jan. 9, reported, charge 18 men, under the “main­ York Times, Jan. 7, reports that hrough diplomacy. The English will hardly be “it was learned that the private attendants.” 8 issues of the M ILITANT (5c each) b o th fo r “has taken the view that it could tenance of membership” provi­ able to throw off the “yoke of dependence.” The not undertake to put any issue sion, for failure to keep in good owners would receive the profits voice of the American government is the dom­ before the board until it had been standing with the union. Among for the operations during that inant one in the councils of the “United Na­ time and would pay to the Navy The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.—whose established and tbe scope of its tiie 18, were several -who paid tions.” It will have the last say on any vital authority delimited.” dues to the genuine union while a sum of money to compensate campaign to put over the “ incentive” system of it' for managing the property. questions in dispute. 5 0 Unlike the leaders of the trade aiding in the organization of an more work for less pay on its workers led to a "independent” company union. Both the Navy and the Steel Cor­ union movement, the open-shop poration declined to reveal the AVAILABLE NOW strike recently—has a mighty big incentive of The company outfit flourished employers — for whom U. S. amount of this payment.” Bound volum es o f T H E M IL IT A N T fo r 1941 during the Naval regime in the its own. The net profits for the company—after 7 Z E M I L I T A N T Steel is an outstanding repres­ are now available at the price of $3.00. entative — in no sense have com­ plant. taxes—was $12,455,843 for the first nine months Since the supply is limited, we urge that all mitted themselves to accepting When the union protested the orders be sent in at once to the business office of this year as compared to $5,265,492 for the 116 University Place New York City either the intervention of the failure of the Navy officials to Subscribe to the of the Militant Publishing Association, 116 comparable period of 1940. That’s an increase of Board or its decisions. They are take action, the officials referred holding fast to the attitude indi- the issue back to W illiam H. Da- '*Fourth International" University Place, New York City. 136 per cent. Some incentive! FOUR THE M ILITANT JA N U A R Y 17, 1942

any such heroic action.” But, even after getting a medal, the Negro mess attendant w ill still have to remain in the mess Dewey Refutes Davies On The Eighteenth THE MILITANT steward’s division. There he w ill be able to polish the medal along with the dishes. He— and all other Published in the interests of the Anniversary Of The Negro sailors—will -still be prevented by Navy Working People. Whitewashing Of Trial regulations from securing training in the handling VO L. V I— No. 3 Saturday, January 17, 1942 of a machine gun or in any other fighting capacity. Death of V . I. Lenin Knox evidently does not realize the contradic­ Chairman of International Commission of Inquiry into Moscow Published Weekly by tions in his position. He does not seem to under­ THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASS’N Trials Objects to Davies' New Version of Stalinist Frameups (Continued from page 1) • t 116 University Place. New York, N. Y. stand how hypocritical he appears in offering a Professor John Dewey, in a letter to the New York Times,*) Soviet Union Resists Stalinism Telephone t Algonquin 4-6647 Negro mess steward a medal for heroic conduct Professor Dewey, “And what E d ito r: and then denying him the opportunity to serve Jan. II, refutes the latest attempt to whitewash the Moscow more effective means could Sta­ Stalinism reduced the Soviets and trade unions FELIX MORROW in a capacity where he can continue to demon­ frameup trials, the recently published "Mission to Moscow” by lin have found to discredit these to fictions; established a bureaucratic dictatorship strate his fighting skill. ex-ambassador Joseph Davies, i) ------—------men than to force them to con­ over the Soviet Union, employing a vast GPU terror Sutwcrlptlona: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for six montha fess that they had conspired with to enforce it; purged the Red army of its most able ProfessoT Dewey’s answer is it is impossible to find in the foreign: $1.00 per year, $1.60 for six montha Bundle Under such conditions, all the medals and foreign powers? It is as though officers; saddled the country with a privileged Moscow trials records "any cred­ enters: $ cents per copy In the United States; 4 cents explanations in the world cannot satisfy the Negro based on the voluminous evid­ Aaron Burr had seized power and ible evidence of fifth-column ac­ bureaucracy, and murdered the Bolshevik Old Guard, ence lie helped uncover as head had then consolidated it by p e r copy in all foreign countries. Single copies: t cents. people. Medal or no medal, they, together with tivity out of all the contradic- Lenin’s comrades-in-arms, on monstrous frame-up bringing George Washington, the labor movement, must continue to struggle for of the International Commission | tions, confusion and patent charges of being Hitler’s agents. “ Reentered ns second clans matter February 13. 1041 Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, of Inquiry into the Moscow lying, of accused, witnesses and If Lenin were alive today, he would be accused by a t the post office at New York. N. I , ander the Act ot equal rights for the Negro people in every phase Alexander Hamilton and other M arch 3. 1870.“ prosecution, without even taking of national life, military as well as civilian. T ria ls. American Revolutionary heroes to Stalin of being a Fifth Columnist and Trotskyist! into account such “promptly ex­ Dewey’s letter makes note of trial on charges of having com Stalinism has aided in the destruction of the in­ posed lies as the famous te s ti­ JOIN US IN FIGHTING FOR: the fact that Davies himself ad­ spired with foreign, powers a- ternational working class movement by its criminal mony about the non-existent ‘Ho­ m its th a t he held an opposite gainst the state they had helped policies and thus isolated the Soviet Union. tel Bristol’ or that about Pyata- 1. M ilitary training of workers, financed view of the trials at the time he create. Yet, Stalin could not destroy the forces of the kov's alleged secret midnight by the government, but under control Food Prices Rose witnessed them. “Mr. Davies also chooses to Russian revolution as long as the main work of Lenin, flight to Oslo." Professor Dewey then points overlook the pertinent fact that the abolition of capitalism and the nationalization of the trade unions. Special officers’ Dealing with the political moti­ 25% In Last Year out that Davies’ present view of Stalin himself, at the very time yf the means of production, persist. training camps, financed by the gov­ the credibility of the charges of vations for the trials, the letter of the trials and thousands of A vast majority of American workers are com­ points out that they were an at­ ernment but controlled by the trade “fifth column activities” against executions without' trial, was try­ Lenin Was A Marxist pelled to spend more than half their incomes for the Red Army High Command tempt to kill off ‘‘all potential ing very hard to reach an agree­ unions, to train workers to become Lenin could give leadership to the Russian revo­ food alone. Food prices, therefore, are the most are admittedly based not on "de­ opposition" to Stalin’s rule, as ment with Hitler. o ffic e rs . Davies himself admit, lution as well as the workers’ movement of the world, accurate single gauge of living costs for low-wage tailed and specific proof, but “Seen in tills light, Stalin’s li­ 2. Trade union wages for all workers 'charges” which in retrospect "What more likely foci of op­ quidation of tlie Old Bolsheviki because he was above all a Marxist. He mastered earners. drafted into the army. seem to Mr. Davies to justify the position could there have been in appears not as punishment for the ideas of Karl Marx, the founder of scientific That is why every worker can fully appreciate belief that the generals were Russia than the surviving asso­ their alleged dealings with Hitler socialism. An important part of Lenin’s work was 3. Full equality for Negroes in the armed the significance of the figures put out last week g u ilty .'' ciates of Lenin and heroes of the but as a possible price of success the defense of Marxism, not only against the capital­ forces and the war industries— Down The letter further states that revolution and civil war..,?" asks in his dealings with Hitler.” 'by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, showing ists, hut also against such “socialists” as Bernstein with Jim Crowisni everywhere. and Kautsky who wanted to revise Marxism in line that retail food prices now average 25.5 per cent with their own opportunist ideas. 4. Confiscation of all war profits. Expro­ higher than a year ago. priation of all war industries and their Lenin developed Marxism and applied it to the This fact exposes the hypocrisy in the talk present period of capitalism. Modern capitalism, he operation under workers’ control. Youth Play Increasing about labor making "exorbitant” and "unreason­ showed, must conquer and exploit foreign territories 5. For a rising scale of wages to meet the able” demands when it seeks higher wages during so that the trusts and monopolies can continue to rising cost of living. the war. Most American workers have through reap profits. Modern monopoly capitalism brings the 6. Workers Defense Guards against vig­ price rises already suffered a sharp slash in pur­ Role In USSR Defense millions of Asia, Africa and South and Central Ame­ rica within its arena of exploitation. Using Marxism, ilante and fascist attacks. chasing power. Lenin analyzed present day world economics in his (Continued from page 1) 7. An Independent Labor Party based on During the past year, moreover, only 4,500,000 confidence in themselves. regime which has found itseir book on Imperialism. ' of any army in the world.” Tlye Stalinist lie of building compelled to unleash these forces the Trade Unions. .of the over 40,000,000 non-agricultural wage- Lenin showed the need for. close unity of the T his eyewitness rep ort of Me- “socialism in one country,” which cannot permit them to develop labor and socialist movement of the advanced coun­ 8. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern­ earners secured wage increases— against the bitter Loughlin’s supplies some of the duped above all the Soviet youth, freely. Every attempt to curb the m e n t. opposition of the employers. The average wage most revealing and important in­ has now been exploded by events self-action and participation of tries with the masses' of the colonies and semi­ increase amounted to only ten per cent. Thus, ris­ formation that has recently em­ themselves. As a matter of fact, the masses, firs t and forem ost the colonies. Lenin was an internationalist in the true ing prices in a few short months have wiped out anated from the Soviet Union, It the Kremlin today prohibits any youth, in the defense ot the sense of the word. shows how deeply the war is reference to socialism in the USSR, will make all the more these wage gains. The bulk of workers who secured ploughing up the masses, espe­ struggle both inside and outside untenable the position of Stalin's Lenin During World War I Who Really Holds no wage increases during the past year have re­ cially the youngest generations the USSR. The war is placing regime. Soviet victories which When the first world war broke out, Lenin was ceived an actual wage cut, since their fixed wages in the USSR. Alongside of the the greatest burdens and respon­ have been brought 'about f>y the one of the few socialist leaders who did not betray have been able to buy less and less of the neces­ many-millioned Red Army there s ib ilitie s precisely on the masses, mass upsurge, act to raise not international socialism. Other “ socialist” leaders be­ Back Production? only Soviet morale but also the sities of life. now stands an armed population. and above all the younger gener­ came cabinet members in capitalist governments; On Sept. 1, 1941, a decree was ations. , confidence of the masses. Many steel mills are being shut down in the Lenin told the truth. He showed the aim of the war And price inflation will continue. The United passed instituting universal m ili­ It is still too early to predict United States because of scrap metal shortages, INITIATIVE AND was to determine which group of capitalists would Business Service report of Jan. 12 discounts the tary training for men from 16 to the final outcome of the pro­ Washington officials disclosed on Jan. 9, according SELF RELIANCE dominate the earth and reap profits from the labor effect of the price control bill and fla tly states 50. (It went into effect on Oct. cesses engendered by the war. to a United Press dispatch. 1, 1941). The workers in large A t the fro n t as w ell as in the But the tendency is already clear: of the toilers of the world. He was merciless in his that prices w ill continue upward just as they have The reason? Because of “ large shipments of Soviet cities began training and rear, initiative and self-reliance Without in any way reducing exposure of those “socialists” who had sold them­ in England where, despite government price-fixing are now at a premium. The So­ scrap iron and steel to Japan during the 10 years arming months before. the question of the fate of the selves to the capitalists. and rationing since Sept., 1939, the cost of living Now we learn that without any viet youth is learning how to Soviet Union to the struggle be­ These were the most difficult years in Lenin’s life. prior to the war... Huge exports to Japan in stand on its own feet in the very has gone up 28 per cent. official legislation this military tween two generations — the old To speak to five or six workers was a grand occa­ particular, they said have resulted in a shortage training has been extended to heat of a life and death struggle. and the young — we can never­ sion for him. Yet Lenin remained confident that the theless state with certainty that of scrap. . . ” The present price inflation is attributable school children. These develop­ For every thousand that Is gam­ workers would rally to international socialism. the Soviet youth is now playing Aluminum and copper production is also re­ directly to monopoly practices, speculation and ments can tend only to streng­ ing confidence and authority to­ Above dll, Lenin emphasized the importance of then the fusion between the Red and w ill continue to play a more ported to be grossly inadequate for the needs of profiteering. Assistant Attorney-General Thurman day, hundreds of thousands will the party to the toilers in their struggle for eman­ Army and the population — a and more decisive role in the cipation. The party is the vanguard, the most far- the war program. Arnold, head of the Department of Justice anti­ fusion th a t has already been rise on the morrow. struggle to preserve the conquests The reason? Because of "the desires of pro­ trust division, on Jan. 3 publicly affirmed this fact. welded in battle when the regu­ At the same time, the Stalinist of the October revolution. seeing and self-sacrificing section of the class, which ducers of such materials to maintain and protect Against this deliberate price gouging, the work­ lar army and the workers’ de­ organizes itself into a self-disciplined group to carry on Marxist education and organization for the transi­ what they regard as their vested lights in their ers can have no immediate and assured protection tachment — in Rostov, Lenin­ grad, Moscow — fought side by tion to spcialism. Lenin created the Bolshevik Party other than a rising scale of wages to offset the industries.” (Report of the Special Senate Com­ side to beat back the Nazi offen­ Marshall Field Is Not So of Russia which led the Russian revolution in 1917; mittee Investigating the National Defense Pro­ effects of rising prices. Each passing day gives sive. two years later, in 1919, he formed the world party gram-, Nov. 17, 1941) greater force to the soundness and justice of this STALINISM AND Liberal W ith Own Workers of Bolshevism, the Third International. 250,000 auto workers are already out of work demand. It must become the demand of all labor. tile Labor, official publication of T H E Y O U T H Marshall Field 111, inherit­ Fourth International, SWF, and another 200,000 w ill join them shortly. The entire history of Stalinist or of a huge Chicago mercan­ the Textile Workers Union, CIO, rule in the USSR has been mark­ nine of these mills were organ Leninists of Today The reason ? Because of "the attitude of power­ tile fortune, palms himself off ful private groups dominating basic industries ed by the distrust and hostility ized. But when the TWU sought The Trotskyists, the Fourth International abroad Pooling In Auto of the regime to the youth. In as a liberal. He is financial o renew its contract last month, and the Socialist Workers Party in the United States, who have feared to expand their production be­ 1936 the Kom sonw l (the Russian angel of the New York news­ with “improvements which are are the Leninists of today. cause expansion would endanger their future con­ The auto barons and the OPM last week re­ YCL) was dissolved as a political paper TM, which boasts of its now standard practice” in most Just as Lenin struggled against those who would trol of industry.. .There is not an organized basic jected the CIO auto union’s plan for operation of organization. The reason for this pro-labor slant. His most re­ the industry as a single unit, pooling all facilities step was that Stalin feared it of its contracts,’ the company falsify and emasculate the ideas of Marx, so the industry in the United States which has not been cent undertaking is the financ­ turned thumbs down. Trotskyists battle against the Stalinists who falsify and resources under the direction of a central would develop into an opposition ing and publication of a new restricting production by some device or other political party. and emasculate the ideas of Lenin. The TWU then petitioned the in order to avoid what they call the ‘ruinous over­ joint labor-management board. Chicago newspaper, The Sun, Just as Lenin struggled against the “social- The Kremlin has been able to ballyhooed as a liberal, pro -lab or government for assistance in or­ production after the war’.” (Report of Assistant C. E. Wilson, president bf General Motors, suppress the youth up to now be­ patriots” for working class internationalism during attempt to break the monopoly der to avoid a strike which the Attorney-General Thurman Arnold to Congress, cause the latter lacked' not only World War I, so the Trotskyists today struggle gave as a reason for this rejection: of the reactionary Chicago Trib­ members had voted on Dec. 2. revolutionary traditions but', in against >the Stalinists for working class internation­ Jan. 3.) "There is no way to pool facilities in the une. The U. S. Department of Concili­ general, traditions of struggle. alism during World War II. W ithin six months, according to Arthur J. method suggested without socialization.” A ll these noble endeavors, as ation assigned a panel to medi­ The young men and women who Just as Lenin struggled against the “yellow so­ have grown up in Russia since anyone must admit, take money, j ate. Altmeyer, chairman of the Social Security Board, This argument against the union’s plan for cialists” who betrayed the interests of the workers the 1917 revolution and the Civil big money. In fact they take the | the United States w ill face a “ scarcity in a number pooling is not that it is technically unsound, or On Dec. 20, the conciliators in the first World War, so the Trotskyists struggle W ar of 1918-1920 have know n uo kind of money that Mr. Field III ' of skilled occupations” at the same time that prior­ wired the union a set of recom­ against the Stalinists who betray the interests of that some other method will do the job of conver­ school other than that of Stalin­ is making from his string of tex- , ities unemployment is expected to reach its peak. mendations which the union con­ the workers in the second World War. sion more speedily and ensure greater production. ism. . They were taught only tile mills down South, about ! The reason? Because the depression of 1929 blind obedience to the bureauc­ sidered a favorable basis for fur­ As Lenin fought for socialism, so now the Trot­ In respect to speedy conversion and production which you’ w ill not read in PM or i racy. They found all initiative ther negotiations and which it skyists fight for a socialist world against the Stal­ up till the war broke out deprived millions of it is easily demonstrable that the union's method The Sun. and creative ability suppressed. promptly accepted. These recom­ inists and all who say that “socialism is not on the workers., of the opportunity to learn and perfect "A fter bitter company opposi- i is superior to what the bosses propose. They were without authority mendations covered negotiations ord er o? the day.” themselves in skilled trades. tion,” reports the Jan., 1942 Tex- I What the union proposes is that all the re­ among the masses, and w ith o u t for mills in Draper, Leaksville The capitalist system had matured for a change These examples of how the profit system and sources and facilities of the competing corpora­ and Spray, North Carolina. to socialism in Lenin’s life time; it had reached and the captains of industry are responsible for holding tions be placed at the disposal of a single directing it now remains in a stage of decay and can produce up production could he multiplied a hundred So far. however, the company only unemployment, crisis, fascism and war. body, free to determine what each plant is fitted "FOURTH INT'I FEATURES has ignored these recommenda­ times. In each factory there are workers who out The way to honor Lenin’s memory today is to to produce, to shift materials and equipment where of their own experiences could give examples of tions. It seems that below the continue the struggle against capitalism to which they can best be utilized, and to do this without Mason and Dixon line Mr. Field’s the same thing on a smaller scale. he devoted his entire life. consideration for the narrow competitive interests liberal blood is infected with And yet the bosses have the nerve to try to STATEMENT ON THE WAR Stalinism and Leninism arc worlds apart. of the private owners. typical ■ Bourbonism. ju stify anti-union measures on the grounds that A “Statement on the War,” by cannot obtain your issue at a The spirit, ideas and work of Lenin live in the James P. Cannon, N a tio n a l Se­ local newsstand, write to the mag­ Trotskyist movement. the workers hold up production! The bosses raise no objections to the principle of pooling, but they want pooling by their own cretary of the Socialist Workers azine at 116 University PI., New Join the Socialist Party, is the leading article in York. Single issues are 20 cents, "method." Each corporation wants fo bargain for the January issue of the month­ a year’s sub is $2. Workers Party f = ^ the type of work it thinks most profitable, to build ly, “Fourth International,” which Jim-Crowed Sailor up reserve stocks of materials for its own exclusive came off the press this week. Available Now use, and to let some other corporation use its tools Three other articles deal with various aspects of the war: John and equipment only when it is to its own advant­ May Get A Medal G. Wright on the USSR in the BOUND VOLUMES OF age. A Negro mess steward on the U. S. S. Arizona war: James Cadma’n on "Naval 'I he bosses’ "method” is 'better for protecting Power Today” : aud Leon Trot­ LENIN MEMORIAL NEW INTERNATIONAL and during the bombing of Pearl Harbor so far Torgot profits and monopoly. The union’s method, ob- sky’s "Forecasts on the War” his "place” — as they put it in the deep South and consisting of interviews he gave F e a tu rin g FOURTH INTERNATIONAL in the Navy— that he "manned a machine gun on .viously, is better for expediting production and at. the time to various newspa­ the bridge until his ammunition was exhausted,” more quickly reducing unemployment. permen. "TSAR TO LENIN" fo r although he “ never before bad fired a gun” because But, says Wilson, the union’s method means A roundup summary or the 1910 and 1911 such training is denied Negroes in the Navy. (New “ socialization." It might lim it the control and conclusion of the ¡Minneapolis “sedition” trial is written by Fe­ Famous Full Length Documentary Film of the Russian Revolution profits of the owners. That makes it taboo, eVen York Times, Dec. 22, 19-11). lix Morrow, one of the defend­ Speaker:— ART PREIS For his heroic exploit, this Negro mess attend­ if it is superior to the boss “method” in all other ants. Price $3.00 ant may now gel a medal. The National Associa­ respects. One of the most famous ad­ S U N D A Y JANUARY 25th 8 P. M. Order now from Profits and monopoly— these are the essence dresses by the founder of the tion for the Advancement of Colored People has German labor movement, Ferdi­ asked Secretary of the Navy Knox to grant him of boss patriotism. They explain why 450,000 auto nand Lassallo, “On the Essence WERDER M ANN’S HALL Business Office workers face months of unemployment. They ex­ of Constitutions,” is published the Distinguished Service Cross. Knox has re­ ' j EOURT11 INTERNATIONAL plied: "Please be assured that an investigation w ill plain why it is absolutely imperative that the here for the first time in English 156 3rd A vc. Admission 50c—Tax Included translation. 116 University Place New York City be made relative to the reported heroic action of government take over the war industries and oper­ Auspices:— New York Local, Socialist Workers Party ate .them under the control and management of These are the outstanding the-Negro mess attendant. The Navy Department terns in one of the best issues w ill certainly recommend proper recognition for the workers. of “Fourth International.” If you