CP Heads in N. Y. Back Big Business Candidates & Openly Oppose Independent Socialist Votes THE MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE By Herman Chauka i , A policy statement on the New York elections by Ben Vol. XXI ■ No. 45 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1957 P R IC E 10c Pavis and George Blake Charney, co-chairmen of the New York State Communist Party was published in the Worker Nov. 3. I t aligns the Comm unist-3------Party with the cold-war, red- 9 2 5 V O T E S baiting union bureaucrats of the Liberal Party in support of Tammany’s candidate, Mayor Wagner. The main fire of the statement is directed against the “Buy Less” -- Eisenhower’s Socialist W orkers Party whose candidates campaigned vigorous­ ly to popularize the need for a labor party and a labor admin­ istration and to spread the mes­ sage of socialism. UNITED DRIVE Answer on Rocketing Prices Davis and Charney are spokes­ men for the Foster and Gates wing of the OP leadership. Their A Husky in Space statement represents a united ef­ fo rt by the UP tops to throttle Will Nikita Khrushchev Callously Tells People an apparently growing rank-and- file opposition 10 the party's "co­ alition” line of supporting cap­ italist candidates endorsed by Become Another Stalin? To Resign Themselves to the labor bureaucracy. (The JOYCE COWLEY, Socialist statement takes issue w ith “the By George Lavan Workers Party candidate for argument fo r abstention in out­ New York M ayor polled 13,915 NOV. 6 — After being kept in the dark for a week, ranks,” that is, witn tne auituue votes by unofficial count. In the Soviet people were finally informed by the Kremlin of Lower Living Standards of those wfto saw no real clioice 1953 the SW P M ayoralty vote the fate of the second most powerful figure among their ibetween W agner and Christen- was under 4,000. By Fred Halstead berry.) A t cue same time the rulers, former Defense Minister^ statement is a malicious attack Zhukov. At the (bidding of member .Zhukov will, like the re­ President Eisenhower has strongly implied that the Communist Party’s support to Khrushchev he had been expelled cently-purged Molotov, iMalenkov on independent radicals who sup­ government expects the American workers to cut their ported the Socialist Workers Wagner. True, Wagner’s anti-la­ not only from the Communist and Kaganovich, be given a mi­ ticket in this election. bor record has created such a Party’s Presidium, th e commit-, nor job in some remote p art of standard of living in tihe coming period. He was asked at stench that the statement of sup­ the USSR. After dismissing the .Socialist tee at the very pinnacle of pow­ his Oct. 30 press conference, port is couched in a hypocritical Laoor Party as an electoral er in the UIS'SR, but also from way. ANTI-ZHUKOV CAMPAIGN how best the “American con­ choice because of its hopeless the CP Central Committee. The propaganda campaign sumer . . . particularly in the This action was voted unani­ sectarianism, the Ui' statement WHAT IT ADDS UP TO against the former Defense Min­ mously by the 133-member Cen­ fieid of the white collar worker” says: "Tne situation witn re­ Christenberry, we are in­ ister has reached new heights. tral Committee which is the up­ could cope w ith the fact that the spect to the SW if is somewhat formed, is the main enemy. To Meetings to undermine Zhukov’s per crust of the whoie bureau­ dilferent. Vve must take into ac­ abstain or vote for the iSLP is position, which prior to the Cen­ cost of living has risen for the cracy and in which there are nu­ count tne position of a number bad; to vote for the SWP far tral Committee’s action had been 13th straight month. He replied merous generals and admirals. of socianst-minoed individuals m- worse; Wagner’s administration held only in the armed forces, that “people should attempt to Zhukov was himself a member ciuding tne editors oi tne i\a- has “accomplishments which we have now spread to all party and not only voted for his own purchase less.” tionai Guardian tnat the SWP do not desire to minimize,” and units in the USSR. Thousands expulsion but made a speech ' As advice, this statement was provides tn« only socialist aitei- a big vote on the Liberal Party of telegrams from such meet­ errors’ hardly necessary. The vast ma­ nauve in the elections, anu tnus line would ibe progressive. But, hlS ings “unanimously” endorsing merits our ¿uppoit." the statement coyly adds, “We! ««“**» * the committee for mak- Zhukov’s ouster are pouring into jority of American workers, The statement then presents a neither endorse or take responsi-1 ,B* th?.m cl*ar lo, hlm- i hf °nly Moscow'. Khrushchev is employ­ whose wages have not kept pace faisineu version oi tm P views bility for any candidate or party! ¡" !ga .. . ^en n^e ing- dozens of the most impor­ with price rises and whose total A Husky-type dog, like the one in Sputnik II, in a rocket on - “peaceful - ' co-existence," ■ ...... on tne in this Mayoralty election.” The kov s «pitulat.on brought was tant generals and admirals to that he was not expelled from 130 miles above the earth. It was not harmed by the state of income is already required to ‘ ann-monopoiy coalition” and on authors safely assume that any­ make public condemnations of the party itself. It is expected “dynamic weightlessness’’ it occupied aloft for six minutes, meet current ■‘bills, are being the ruling bureaucracy lit tne one of voting age will be able his vanquished opponent on po­ that shortly rank-and-file party according to the Russian navy newspaper, Soviet Fleet. forced to c'ut purchases. But as Soviet Union. (See answer to to deduce from all this that the litical, personal and military the CP’s laisificat'ions on this Communist Party favors a vote grounds. a warning as to who is expected page.) This purported “analysis” for Wagner on the Liberal Par- The denigration of Zhukov as to pay for announced increases EISENHOWER oi the SW P program concludes ty line. IN THIS ISSUE a military ngure went lurthest in armaments expenditures, the with a scurmoua biann - ijpe A major justification offered S Million Unemployed in a re-writing of tne History oi President’s statement is packed ed, and unemployment claitns, smear: “A vote lor the SWl' is by Charney and |)avis for sup- the military campaigns of with meaning. which usually drop in October, a vote that objectively gives porting Wagner is that Christen- World War II toy Marshal Ivan In spite of a continuing rise of went up in the fall of this year sonie measure oi support to berry “is a candidate of the What the Sputniks Forecast for 1958 S. Konev. Printed in full in consumer prices, Eisenhower as they did in 1953. In addition, counter-revolutions. Some good Daily News crowd and the Mc- Pravda, this lengthy article be­ Conservative business spokesmen are almost unani­ himself admitted in the same the freight car loadings total— progressives do not take this Carthyite (¡lement in New York.” Mean for Peace littles Zhukov’s record at tne press conference that the na­ a sensitive 'barometer of business sulncicnt'iy into account.” j Overlooked is the fact that on mous in their predictions that 1958 wiH be a year of “re­ battles of Stalingrad and Berlin, tional economy was “taking a activity — is off 10% from a After presenting the SWP and, Oct. 30 the Daily News en- And Socialism cession” with at least five million unemployed. couples him witn Stalin in re­ breather” as indicated by rising year ago. those who supported its ticket as dorsed not Christenberry but At the fifth annual Confer- sponsibility for the USSR’s de­ unemployment and the failure of The already astronomical arms See Page 2 enee on the Economic Outlook j ly in primary metals and some abetting “counter - revolutions,” W'agner. And the News was not feats at the beginning oi tne business to pick up as much as budget is simply not enough to held Nov. 5 at the University of fabricated metal products. In Davis and Charney announce the! (Continued on page 4) war, and portrays him as a con­ expected this fall. The economy, keep the economy going. While Michigan at Ann Arbor, profes­ New York, state unemployment ceited and unscrupulous glory- said Eisenhower, “always seems warning the workers to cope seeker. sor Daniel B. Suits said th at un­ insurance claims are up 51,000 to be balanced between a with inflation by tightening their employment will increase by two over last year. Jobless aircraft Khrushchev's victory over Zhu­ possibility of deflation and in­ belts, Eisenhower announced that million in 1958. Added to the workers are jamming unemploy­ kov thus appears to be com­ flation.” This is another way of the $38 billion ceiling would be present figure of close to three ment offices on Long Island fol­ plete. From the power struggle saying that the alternatives are exceeded this fiscal year. The lowing government cutbacks CP’s Latest Smear o f SWP in the topmost reaches ot me million, that would be seven per amotints presently assigned to another depression or vastly in­ cent of the nation’s work force. which idled 9,000 in the last few bureaucracy which since Stalin's creased armaments production be squandered on armaments By Harry Ring (Any single area having over weeks. Textile layoffs in New death has seen the successive leading to World War III. “are but interim figures, step­ six per cent unemployment is Jersey affect ‘‘some who have elimination of Beria, Malenkov, At present the economy is ping-stones, if you will, on the The attack against the Socialist Work­ Korea and demanded the withdrawal of •presently classified as “critical” been working there 3.5 to 40 Molotov, Kaganovich and ¿nu- teetering between these alter­ road to very much larger appro­ U.S. troops. It campaigns for recognition by the government.) Suits said years and know no other work,” ers Parly by Ben Davis and George Blake kov, now Khrushchev emerges as natives with the bad effects of priations and budgets for de­ the increased unemployment according to the Passaic Joint Charney in the Nov. 3 Worker demon­ to the People’s Republic of China and for the single predominant ngure. each already in evidence. fense,” said Assistant Secretary would stem from a decline in Board of the »Textile Workers strates that the leaders of the Commirnist an end to the trade embargo against it. He is witndut visible challengers. of Navy, J. Sinclair Armstrong production, increased productiv­ Union, in a speech Oct 30. Does this mean that history is JOBLESS CLAIMS UP Party remain supporters of the political It demands that the U.S. government im­ ity, and an increase of 400,000 about to repeat itself, that The estimate of five million “The present situation,’’ ac­ Meanwhile, Democratic House program developed by Stalin — a program mediately cease all nuclear tests. It is a in the nation’s work force. Khrushchev is to be another Sta­ jobless for 1958 refers only to cording to a national economic floor chief McCormack (Mass.) that has .nothing in common with the partisan of the great Asian and African lin? According to the Oct. 31 New those workers who will be reg­ survey published in Scripps- has told the Eisenhower Ad­ Marxism- to which tihey profess national independence movements. Here York World-Telegram, “most ob­ istered with the state unemploy­ Howard newspapers Oct. 31, “is ministration that he will back at home, it stands in opposition to the TREND TO ONE-MAN RULE servers” expect th^ number of ment offices. The actual num­ being compared w ith 1948 and any move to lift the legal na­ adherence. jobless to reach four to 4.5 m il­ and all its Big Business and The inherent tendency of the ber of unemployed will be con­ 1953 when declines in business tional debt of §275 billion “to The key plank in this'program is the Soviet bureaucracy is, as T ro t­ lion by February or March 1958. siderably higher, even if next j foreshadowed the mild recessions whatever level is deemed essen­ labor-bureaucratic proponents. The SWP -Across the country, layoffs year turns out to be no worse ■ of 1949 and 1953.” Overtime pay tial to provide the country . . . concept of peaceful co-existence as sky has pointed out, toward one- developed by Stalin and reiterated by thus would have no basic quarrel with a are already rising sharply in air­ than U.S. businessmen now ex- “has virtually disappeared in with the military measures that (Continued on page 2) craft and textiles and particular- pect it to be. | many areas,” the survey reveal- are required.” Khrushchev. According to DavisJCharney concept of “co-existence” which simply “ it is incompatible fo r people to oppose meant opposition to imperialism’s prepara­ the concept of peaceful co-existence and tion for a Third World War against the yet profess to speak for socialism.” Soviet Union and the colonial peoples. We are further informed that the Look Tries to Bolster Frame-Up o t Rosenbergs SWP’s rejection “of the idea that it is Struggle for Peace By Myra Tanner Weiss I to have obtained atomic stecretsj “M r. Gold: W ait, now. I've water. The problem was “solved” This indeed is a weird man possible to achieve a lasting peace in the But the SWP does differ sharply with MOV K lu«t a« ;• Hif ^rom ^r- Klaus Fuchs in Santa got to get this straight. Some by the fact that human memory w ith a weird memory. In 1951 present world with imperialism” is the Stalinist “co-existence” concept. This ficilt\o c7mmifa crime and! fl'°m ^ GleenSlass’ of these - you see, I was over is faulty. he leaves the uncontradicted im­ a crime and Kthel Rosenberg’s brother, in j this about six years ago. The pression the trip was made by leave no evidence, so it is dif- However, the Justice Depart­ “ disorienting and dangerous.” obviously does not mean — the record Albuquerque. [events actually, happened eleven train. In the spring of 1956, he ficul to construct a frame-up ment, either unawrare of this The SWP has consistently opposed im ­ refutes the contention — that the SWP A t the tria l in 1951 Gold was years ago, anti there is a ten- is in doubt about how he made that w ill stand up under close testimony in the spring of 1956, asked: En route to New \o rk ! dency to blur. the trip, but is sure it wasn’t perialist war. Despite its political opposi­ is pro-war, as Charney and Davis malici­ scrutiny. The Rosenberg-Sobell or having forgotten it, found a did you at any time inspect the 1 by air. In the winter of 1956-57, tion to the Kremlin bureaucracy, it has ously hint. tria l of 1951 is a case in point. new answer to Wexley’s argu­ material which you had received STILL NOT BY PLANE he remembers not only that he The Rosenbergs were executed ment in the winter of 1956-57. unreservedly denounced every act of U.S. Nor does it mean that it thinks im­ from Greenglass? “W hat I want to say now is flew, but on which airlinty and and Morton Sobell is spending According- to Look magazine imperialist aggression against the Soviet perialist war “ inevitable” in the sense that 'A. Yes, I did, on the train my present recollection. I want Benjamin F. Pollack, Justice De­ at approximately w'hat time. his eighth year in prison on a : from Albuquerque to Chicago orbit. It opposed Trum an’s police action in the working people cannot prevent it. It to say, as I recall it now, it is partment attorney, assigned to If this third account of the 30-year sentence on charges of and somewhere in Kansas, I be- certainly not going to be an trip was the first account after means that the SWP proceeds from the conspiracy to commit espion-1 ]jeve » prepare the new report took exact duplication as fa r as the ‘‘exactly three days to demolish Gold’s arrest, why was it not historically tested Leninist premise that But\ the S°ver“ i-j J„hn Wexley, author of the minutest details go. I am trying this point in the Wexley argu­ pointed out to Gold at the trial still trying to convince the world [ book -The Judgement of Julius National Guardian Blasts the drive to war is lodged in the imperial­ to think, how did I get out of ment.” in 1951? And why wasn’t the the tria l was just. j and Ethcl Rosenberg>>. c|,ecked ist system and that the struggle for peace Santa Fe that particular time? correction made when Gold was In order to do that, the Justice the train schedules from Al- CONSISTENT STORY? cannot be successfully divorced from the That particular time I w'ent by on the stand at the Senate hear­ CP Support of Wagner Departm ent has attempted to buquerque to New York and train. 1 hated waiting, but I According to Look magazine, ing in 1956? I t has been con­ revolutionary struggle for workers’ power patch up at least some of the found that Gold could not pos­ went back by train. I am trying Pollsck visited Gold in pri on. He clusively proved that Gold was In its column “Report to Readers,” the — that is, fo r socialism. holes in its Case. But patchwork sibly have arrived in New York to remember. I remember why was “told by the ex-spy that he an inveterate liar. But that is Nov. 11 NationaJ Guardian says the follow­ often only proves the shoddy at the tim e he claimed. I didn’t fly. I was running short traveled by train only from apparently not all. Is someone ing about the Benjamin J. Davis and This is the heart of the difference with condition of the garment. And so In A pril, 1956, an attem pt to funds.” Albuquerque to Chicago on ‘the prompting him or putting time­ George Bl.ike Charney attack on the SW P the CP leadership. About the only factually it is w ith the job done, Oct. 29, answer Wexley’s charge was This sudden memory difficulty Santa Fe Railroad's California tables in his mouth ? and their calí on progressives to vote for correct statement of SWP views in the in Look magazine w ith the help made at a Senate hearing. Gold was not evident at the 1951 trial. Lim ited. From Chicago, said The Look magazine article was Wagner on the Liberal line: Davis-Charney article is that the SWP of the FBI. was hauled out of jail to tell the In all his testimony Gold men­ Gold, he took a United Air Lines meant to reassure people that “We marvel, as at a fancy boxer protect­ regards the CP concept of co-existence “as Senators about Soviet espionage. tioned not even one trip by p’.ane, plane to Washington ‘at about justice was done to the Rosen­ ing a glass jaw, at the facile logic which HOW DID GOLD TRAVEL Robert M orris, Chief Counsel for though he told of bus trips and 9:30’ and completed the trip to bergs and Sobell. For anyone can anathematize a socialist campaign as an abandonment of the fight against im­ There is only one “new'’ argu­ the International Security sub­ train trips. And his testimony New York by train, leaving who has studied the record of not advancing the cause of socialism; and perialism.” ment presented in this re-hash of committee, asked him: “Did you was full of minor details. Washington late in the after­ the Rosenberg-Sobell! case ob­ in the same combination can approve (p a r­ The co-existence line pushed by the the story given by the prosecu­ go by train or did you fly ? Anyway the Senate hearing noon. A check of the F B I files jectively, it will have the op­ don: approve the approval of) a tailist tion witnesses at the trial. That “Mr. Gold: I went by train. would show that on this trip confirmed to Pollack that this posite effect. Unfortunately, the camp ign which hates socialism like the Kremlin and supported by the CP leader­ concerns the trip made by H a rry “Mr. Morris: And when you from 'New Mexico, Gold’s memory was the same story Gold had told voice of the Sobell defenders is devil hates holy water.” ship is one of trying to get a “live and let Gold from New Mexico to New V returned to New York, what did wasn’t so good and therefore on July 10, 1950, a fte r he was not as loud as the voice of the (Continued on page 2) York in 1945. Gold was supposed you do with the material? Wexley’s charge couldn’t hold arrested.” FBI. Page 2 Tl/E MILITANT Monday, November 11, 1957 N-Y. Conference, Peace, Socialism and Soviet Sputniks By Art Preis <í > <«)40th anniversary of the Russian |r Panels Set by ►Revolution, Radio Moscow -boast­ No one can fail to he im ­ ed: “W hat other government in pressed by the Soviet firin g of the world can provide as well for two man-made “ moons” into full its people?” orbit around the earth. The American Forum (The following is a letter to challenging the supremacy of the second, launched Nov. 3, carried MARXIST CRITERIA the Militant from a Detroit A tlantic fleet of the United the firs t live space traveller, a What is the real criterion for NOV. 5 — A. J. Muste, chairman of the American Fo­ Worker. — Ed.) States. small dog. There is even talk of social pi'ogress ? Is it to be firs t rum — For Socialist Education, announced yesterday that a third rocket on its way to the Herein lies the essence of the in some outstanding scientific There are several implications Moon. a conference on “ America’s Future in the Age of Automa­ field, particularly armaments ? to be drawn from the launch­ world bourgeoisie’s fear. They are being outproduced! The bour­ tion and Atomic Energy” will 'be­ Peoples of more economically By that criterion, Nazi Germany ing of the Soviet Sputnik. The geoisie is being outproduced in held Sat., Dec. 7, at the Great backward countries, especially, would have stood for the summit announcement by the Soviet the field they have always con­ Northern Hotel, 118 W. 57 Street must see in this dramatic scien­ of human progress in Hitler s Union that they possess a long- sidered as most vital—the mili­ in New York City. tific achievement a symbol of heyday. The U.S. of the “firsts” range ballistic missile capable of tary field. Consternation sur- The conference will hear the potentialities offered undev­ in A-bomb atrocities and pollu­ carrying the 'atomic warhead rounds them. How can any other speakers representing’ many dif­ eloped lands by a non-profit, na­ tion of the atmosphere with H- must now be accepted as a con­ tionalized, planned economy such country • outproduce America? ferent points of view. Prominent bomb radiations would be the crete fact. The military mean The capitalist press repeated writer?, journalists, scientists as enabled the Soviet Union supreme embodiment of man’s ing of the long-range missile to make an immense leap in just upon every occasion, “Socialism will participate as well as repre­ aspirations. sent a cold shock do\\;n the backs can’t work. There» is no initia­ sentatives of unions and work­ 40 years. Many workers in the In the epoch of the transition of the chief imperialists and tive under Socialism, etc., etc.” ing class political narties, includ­ more developed countries will be from capitalism to socialism their chief agents, because all How then, can the Soviets sur­ ing the Communist Party and moved to view more warily the Marxists measure social pro­ the airfields and military bases Capitalist propaganda that a pass the U.S. in the m ilita ry the Socialist Workers Party. gress Iby the productivity of that the had so non-profit economy is incapable field? What has happened? labor, by the degree of social carefully built around the So­ MUSTE TO PRESIDE of the most advanced scientific and economic equality, and by viet Union are now targets for One reason given is that there A. J. Muste will preside in the and technological feats. the disappearance of the oppres­ the long-range missile. Further­ has been too much overlapping of research and program. Too opening session at 10:30 A.M. NEW ARMS FEVER sion of Plan by man. By Com­ more, these target areas cannot Two of the speakers will be parison with Russian capitalism much duplicity, too much rival­ The ruling U.S. capitalists, as be defended. They are now ob­ Carl Dreher, engineer and au­ under Czarism, the Soviet eco­ solete. Military bases and air­ ry. Duplicity and rivalry, how­ represented by their political thor, and Jack Cypin, writer. nomy has made titanic strides strips cannot be concealed or ever, are just other words for spokesmen and Ipress, have The object of the opening ses­ despite the draw-backs of a camouflaged, for their locations competition, and didn’t the bour­ responded to the Sputniks with sion is to pose some of the parasitic, voracious bureaucracy are already known. But rocket geoisie teach that competition is snarls of chagrin and frustra­ problems that the conference wlil and the restrictions of an isolated what made this country great. tion. They see in the latest ac­ The black line indicates the orbit, of the Soviet space satellite launchers are small; they can be discuss and to provide factual backward country largely cut off concealed and camouflaged. But the essence of competition complishments of Soviet scient­ launched Oct. 4 (Sputnik I). The white line indicates the expected material for the consideration of from wftrld economy. We can say These hard, cold military facts is now cited as one of the rea­ ists only a challenge to their orbit of a U.S. satellite to be launched next year, which is participants. that if the Russian workers took inevitably will penetrate into the sons fo r Am erica’s lag. vaunted military superiority and similar to the orbit actually traveled by Sputnik II, launched At '1-1:30 A.M. the conference democratic control of the Soviet Another reason advanced to a brake, if only temporary, on Nov. 3. military alliances which the U.S. will move into three panels deal­ Union and if the workers of has, at very high cost, built up explain why the long-range mis­ A. J. MUSTE their -drive toward im perialist ing with youth, trade unions and advanced countries like the U.S. for an attack against the So­ sile was not developed is that penetration of other lands and Leninist concept of the nature capitalism, to follow “a course culture. Each panel will be com­ established a socialist society in viet Union and other liberation a central authority is lacking. er or not these are represented war against the Soviet orbit. of imperialism and the cause of non-imperialism and non-ag­ posed of about six persons cho­ Cooperation with the Soviet movements. One can now predict Lack of centralization, lack of in the American Forum’s nation­ Sputnik has inspired them only and cure of war in a dominantly gression abroad and a course of sen to represent varying view­ workers, the Soviet Union and that cracks will appear within coordination cause}! waste, dupli­ to an intensified arms race. capitalist world. democracy and people’s welfare points and for their knowledge al committee. all nations would speedily sur­ the NATO structure, cracks cation and the lack of maximum We cited Lenin in particular at home.’’ Even Kautsky never of the field. A moderator in each The Soviet bureaucracy, as pass the highest levels of capital­ which w ill deepen, widen, and direction and experience. What PANEL ON SOCIALISM to show that imperialism is a expressed his Kautskyism in panel w ill pose a series of ques­ represented by the Kremlin lead­ ism, both in standards of living then split NATO. this really means, however, is AND DEMOCRACY ers and their servitors of the stage in the development of such bald terms. tions to the participants, who and social and economic equality. The Soviet Union is no longer that there is a lack of planning, The afternoon panels will be­ Communist Parties throughout capitalism — the stage of will comment briefly on them, REPEAT U.S. ERROR but planning is reminiscent of gin at 2:30 P.M. and w ill con­ the world, for its part has been monopolies and finance capital But Soviet production and a weak, isolated state. The members of the audience will The Stalinist press even goes launching of Sputnik signalizes “creeping socialism.” And any clude at 5 P.M. One panel will quick to use the latest achieve­ which was already reached be­ labor productivity remain far be given an opportunity to join to the extent of proclaiming the the military superiority of the taint of Socialism will never do. discuss ‘‘Socialism and Democra­ ments of Soviet science, to fore the first world war. We below that of the U.S. For in­ in the discussion. “absolute superiority” of Soviet Soviets over the combined im Ask any of the Senators. cy,” moderated bv Russell John­ bolster its own positions and quoted Lenin’s arguments against stance, the USSR has but a tenth Sidney Lens will moderate the military power and implying that perialists of the world. This su­ son. In this panel all questions claims. Kautsky’s idea that imperialist of U.S. railway lines, an even Here is the fundamental ques­ labor panel. Participants will be U.S. capitalism and world im­ smaller percentage of hard-sur­ periority is no sudden climax of of the type of government in s First of all, the Soviet rulers poliaies and war are a mere tion underlying those polemics; Stephan Gratten, Sam Pollack, perialism are now hopelessly faced roads. In the sphere of a mere isolated, spectacular socialist societv, as well as of and their echoes in the capital­ m atter of personal choice w ith “Is the Socialist method of pro­ Fred Fine, Tom Kerry, Bert outstripped and Cannot duplicate, living standards for the great achievement in just one field of the prohlem of civil liberties in ist countries represent the Xhe imperialist powers — a duction superior to the capitalist Cochran and Russ Nixon. let alone surpass, the latest majority, the Soviet Union still novelty. The Sputnik was pre­ the Soviet-orbit countries will be development of the long-range choice they can change a t w ill method?” It is the question that The panel on culture will be Sioviet scientific feats. This is ceded by the atom bomb, by the considered. Speakers will be: missiles used to propel the Sput­ Lenin scored the misleading remains far below the U.S. The haunts the keepers o£ the capi­ moderated by Stringfellow Barr to repeat, in reverse, the think­ form er Counts its autos in the rapid development of the hydro­ Murrav Kemnton, Dave Dellin- niks into outer space as a notion that imperialist countries talist system, and the liberals John Dickinson and Harvey Swa- ing of the capitalists about the hundreds of thousands, the latter gen bomb, by the mass develop­ trer. Farrell Dobbs. Frederick L. definitive war preventive. The can follow non-imperialist aims who pretend intellectual know­ dos w ill participate. and policies and thereby prevent Soviet Union. They deluded them­ in scores of millions. From cloth­ ment of a first-rate air force, how and wherewith. But there The youth panel* w ill be mod­ Schuman, John L. Lewine. Herb­ imperialists, they insist, can be war. selves into believing th a t the ing and shoes, to radios, T V ’s ■by a capable submarine force w ill be many who w ill take a erated 'by Sheldon Weeks. Tim ert Aptheker and Steve Nelson. Forced into a position of per­ Soviet Union, because it did not and refrigerators, the Soviet outnumbering all competitors and second look at this whole busi­ Wohlforth, Dave MeReynoids, The other afternoon panel will manent truce from fear of This does not rule out tem ­ follow the profit motive, could Union is immeasurably below the by the building of a naval fleet ness. discuss political action. I t w ill Soviet “massive retaliation.” porary deals.between the Soviet Michael Harrington, Tony Rami­ never meet or surpass the per capita output of the U.S. consider what action may be de­ Union and the capitalist powers rez, Earl Durham and Nina Lan­ scientific accomplishments of Only last year, the USSR reduced sirable for the construction of KHRUSHCHEV’S ARGUMENT — particularly if the Kremlin dau wall participate. Capitalism and derided the its work-week from 48 to 46 a democratic socialist movement Thus, Khrushchev’s first public bureaucracy uses its good of­ These panels will seek the Soviet development of nuclear hours and boosted its minimum widest participation of all those in the United States. This panel pronouncement after the firing fices, through its political allies of Sputnik I was to emphasize in other countries, to muffle weapons as the mere work of wage to about $48 for a work- Another Stalin? w ill be moderated bv Conrad in attendance and the presenta­ “ spies.” month of 200 hours, compared Lynn. Participants will he James its function as a demonstration the workers7 struggles for so­ (Continued from page 1) in the 1920’s and the defeats of tion of all points of view, wheth- to the U.S. minimum of $176 for Aronson, ¿Tovce Cowlev, Albert of m ilitary power and a deter­ cialism. Indeed such a quid pro Both U.S. and Soviet science the working class abroad. This rent to imperialist aggression. are b ’.sed upon the findings of 176 hours. man rule. An usurping caste Blumberg. M ilton Zaslow and quo is being offered the U.S. enabled liirti and the bureaucra­ He said the rocket “is a terrible rulers in return for a deal. Alex world science. Scientists from formation, the bureaucracy must Tyrell Wilson. To conceal or deny the gross cy he represented to intensify and pitiless weapon. We do not Bittelman’s series last month in Germany, Italy, France, Den­ social and economic inequality, present a strongly united front The Scab-Herding M r. Muste will address the repression and terror at home closing session from 5:0-0 to 5:30 want to misuse our superiority. the D aily W orker spelled out mark, England and other coun­ the extremely low general against the workers whom they and political betrayal abroad. But . . . we are flow entering the sordid terms of betrayal. He tries laid the basis fo r the standard of living in the Soviet have expropriated politically. A Texas Rangers P.M. This will not be in the na­ The spiral ran its downward ture of a statement of- concen­ the period when fighters and wrote on Oct. 8: development of atomic fission Union and the oppressive bureau­ pillaging caste, the bureaucracv The type of strikebreaking course for two decades. sus since the American Forum bombers will have to be confined “The full establishment, and and fusion. This enabled both cratic regime is to do the cause must, conceal the facts about its tactics commonly used prior is “solely a project in discus­ to museums. . .” Pravda, the consolidation of the emerging the U.S. and USSR to solve the of socialism a great disservice. misrule and its scandalously dis­ to the 1930’s was again demon­ THREAT OF EXPLOSION sion and thinking together,” the Kremlin’s chief newspaper, pro­ period of peaceful co-existence prcblem of atomic power. We must not let the flash of the proportionate share of the na­ strated during the course of But despite the terrible re­ results of which each partici­ claimed that the U.S. imperial­ and competition does not call for Similarly, German scientists Sputniks in the sky blind us to tional income. Tt cannot rule bv a wildcat strike at the Lone pressions and bureaucratic mis­ pant is free to use in his own ists now face “the inexorable the abolition of capitalism in the who had worked for the Nazis the real conditions on the Soviet some sort of bureaucratic par­ Star Steel Company in Lone management, the nationalized way. Participants are not nec­ necessity of peaceful coexistence, U.S. What it does call for is a and developed the V -l and V -2 earth. For the Soviet workers, liament masnueradintr as the ru’e Star, Texas which began and planned economy in the essarily affiliated with the cessation of the arms race, and consistent struggle by the Amer­ rockets played and are playing the task remains the political of the. workers because public September 21 when an American Forum. renunciation of their cold w ar ican people to keep the mo­ a vital role in the field of revolution against, the reactionary knowledge of its inner divisions LTSSR me"nt t.be steadv nu­ estimated 2,500 workers in On Friday evening, Dec. 6, at policy.” nopolies in check. . . To use the rocket power for both contend- bureaucracy. For the workers would make it appear vulnerable merical and cnHutal o-rowth of the oil-pipe plant walked out the Great Northern Hotel, the After the flight of Sputnik II scientific terminology of Marx­ ing countries today. Indeed, the everywhere under capitalism, the in the workers’ eyes and public the w orkin" clnss. Given self- over grievances. Some 600 American Forum— For Socialist and coincident with the purge ism-Leninism, the social and present superior productivity of fight for security, equality and knowledge of the f«cts and is­ confidence by its victm-v over scabs were daily escorted Education will give a reception of Mai'shall Zhukov, the Nov. 5 political nature of this struggle American industry might well peace remains the struggle fo r a sues over which the division« the Nazi war machine, its isola- through a line of several at which appreciation will be ex­ Daily Worker managed to wrap will be generally democratic, not argue that once the U.S. per­ socialist society. took place would embolden and tlorl broken by the addition of hundred pickets by Texas pressed to A. J. Muste for his both events into a neat bundle socialist.” fects its own rockets and imnefl the masses to intervention. | U n it Europe to the Soviet Rangers and local cops who role in promoting ‘‘untrammeled support of the thesis that Nothing in Marx or Lenin “ moon,'” they w ill begin to efface Thus government by the bn- orbit, by the Chinese Revolution, patrolled the area, backed up political discussion including “different though they are proclaims the possibility of the stars and carry neon ad­ reaucracv must be carried on and bv developing anti-imperial- by two court orders obtained spokesmen of ?.ll points of view” both are trends in the direction keeping the monopolies “in vertising signs, to boot. above the heads and out of view, revolutions ^ elsewhere in by the company. Strikers were during the past two years. of peace.” check” except the class struggle The same thinking that attri­ We Apologize of the rnas'es. Yet the socialj -Asia aT|d A frica, it was no long- charged with a bombing iij Among those who will speak at In a previous article, “The for socialism and the elimination butes unbeatable superiority in contradictions and tensions that Pr the cowed proletariat of the the area of the United Steel The review of Leon Trotsky’s t h e reception are: Roger N. Sputnik and Disarm ament” (the of the profit system on a world­ the military sphere to Russian exist in the USSR, despite po­ pre-w ar epoch. The rule bv re­ W orkers union hall, and -with Baldwin; Russell Johnson of the Militant, Oct. 21), we demon­ wide scale. Certainly, those science by virtue of the “firs t” History of the Russian Revolu­ litical repression, find distorted pression and purge now threat­ shootings and heatings. The American Friends Service Com­ strated that the concept that im­ great social revolutionists would in Sputnik, likewise finds in the tion in last week’s issue of the but acute expression in conflicts ened to bring about the very op­ company fired all the strikers mittee; Elizabeth Gurley Flvnn; perialist capitalism will peace­ have had nothing but burning Sputniks “proof” of the super­ Militant was by Bert Deck. This within the bureaucracy itself. posite of it? intent— an explosion on September 21 and has Tim Wohlforth, editor of the fully tolerate for any long period contempt for Bittelman’s con­ iority of the Soviet economic There must he some method of of the masses against the re­ since rehired about 600, cut­ byline was inadvertently omit­ Young Socialist, and John T. the existence of a competing non­ tention that it is possible to system, not simply as a potential, resolving those conflicts. The gime. ting off seniority rights. ted. — Editor. McManus, business manager of capitalist group of countries, Compel the most powerful im - but as a fact today. Thus, on the most suitable method, the one Tt is this danger from the So­ the National Guardian. violates the entire Marxist- perialist force ever known, U.S. eve of the celebration of the that puts the bureaucracv in the viet masses, expressed in a strongest posture aeainst the mood so intense that the thick­ masses is the single dictator. As est-skinned bureaucrat can sense super-arbiter, as Trotsky called it. It was 1 the need to placate him, he settles conflicts between this mood- that led the bureau­ ... CP'S LATEST SMEAR AGAINST SWP the various factions of the bu­ cracv to attempt to disassociate (Continued from page 1) cratic Party. Yet with out a blush, Char- But the real question is: How can any push fo r some o f its rights. We believe reaucracy without exhausting itself from Stalin at the 20th and dangerous struggles. As Congress and to forswear his live” deal w ith the capitalist world. And ney and Davis accuse the SWP o f “ die­ socialist concerned about democracy in that this developing mood of the Soviet methods. Tt. is the pressure of workers will inevitably culminate in a guardian of the whole caste he recognizing- that any deals presupposes a hard opposition” to a labor-led coalition. the USSR reconcile his socialist faith with wields its total power in one these masses throughout the So­ The fact is that the SWP has consistent­ support to the Khrushchev regime? This working-class political revolution which fis t that can -be used against viet orbit that has brought price, the effort to win “friendship” pacts about those concessions and re ­ with the ruling capitalist class of one or ly pushed for a genuine labor-led coalition. question has been posed fo r every p a rti­ will end the power of the dictatorial caste the workers. This was the role that Stalin played. , forms announced to date. I t is another country is based on abandoning It advocates formation of a labor party san of the USSR in crucial form since the and re-establish Soviet democracy based this pressure that burst its class-struggle opposition to them. based on class-struggle opposition to the 20th Congress. upon the present nationalized property MAKESHIFT bonds in the East^German up­ For example, during both the Indo- twin cold-war parties of the monopolists. It is a year and ten months since forms. This trend of development is being The much-touted “collective rising, in the strikes at Vor­ Such a party, built by the unions in al­ Khrushchev catalogued to the 20th Con­ recognized and discussed today by ever leadership” which succeeded S ta ­ kuta and other Soviet slave-la­ Chinese and present Algerian wars for bor camps, in Poznan, Warsaw liance with the organizations of the Ne­ wider circles of the radical movement. lin has proven to be but a liberation, Communist Party deputies in gress some o f the foul crimes o f Stalin makeshift— a mutual non-aggi’es- and Budapest. the French Assembly voted war credits to gro people and small farmers, could do ef­ and pledged basic reforms. Since then the sion pact between the leaders The Soviet , bureaucracy has the government. Another example — At fective battle against the reactionary do­ Hungarian revolution for national inde­ The Soviet Workers of the various wings of the bu­ been able to achieve a tempora­ ry resolution of its inner con­ the recent British CP convention, the lead­ mestic and foreign policies of the Big Busi­ pendence and socialist democracy was The SWP holds that a successful politi­ reaucracy. As with most non­ ness parties and in the process w in the aggression pacts, it has been flicts on a relatively level ers showed wihat good “Britishers” they drowned in blood. In the Soviet Union, cal revolution led by the Soviet, workers more honored in the breach than stretch of the ascending revolu­ were by defeating a resolution calling for allegiance of decisive sections of the badly the Jewish people are still denied their will give undreamed-of new impetus to in the observance as the steady tionary spiral. This level stretch unconditional independence for all sec­ squeezed middle class. rights as a national minority, while the Soviet economy and will make the purging of the original leader­ is the temporary arrest or re­ tions of the British empire. These be­ Khrushchev — the head o f a workers USSR the great beacon for the world ship testifies. tarding of the ma°ses as a re­ sult of - the smashing of the trayals of the anti-imperialist struggles Still Apologizing Blindly state — regales correspondents with a working class that it was before the Khrushchev’s triumph in the. power struggle over his co-lead­ Hungarian reyolution. But those of the colonial peoples were perpetrated The rejection of sudh a class-struggle chauvinistic joke about “ a little Jew.” The crimes of Stalinism alienated millions of ers of yesterday thus represents who imagine /ithat the blood bath in pursuit of “peaceful co-existence” pacts policy by the CP leaders springs from iron restrictions on freedom of artistic workers from it. a unification of command within in Hungary has reversed the with imperialism. their continuing ideological subservience expression — eased after the 20th Con­ the bureaucracy and thereby a process are totally mistaken. The “Whose interests are served by such a very haste with which Khrush­ Here in the U.S., the CP co-existence line to the Kremlin bureaucracy whose op­ gress — have been almost completely re­ stabilization. But this does not position?” ask Davis and Charney. We mean that he w ill be a second chev had to move in the inner- currently expresses itself in the “Anti- pressive rule as a privileged caste in the established. And most decisive, the So­ bureaucratic power struggle was reply: The same interests that are served Stalin. monopoly coalition” whose projected aim Soviet Union, the “peaceful coexistence” viet workers still endure privations while The stabilization is con.iunc- dictated by the danger that a is to guarantee peaceful co-existence with line is designed to serve. The extent to a parasitic bureaucracy appropriates the when militant unionists band together to tural and temporary. Neither little later the masses m ight in­ drive racketeering bureaucrats from power those conditions in the Soviet tervene either at the invitation the USSR. This w ill be done, we are told, which they remain blind apologists for lion’s share of the good things in life of the “adventurist” Zhukov, or and denies them any political voice. Union nor on the world arena by building a multiclass coalition embrac­ Stalin’s heirs is indicated by the fury and re-establish internal democracy and which made possible the rise of completely uninvited. ing even “sections of the non-monopoly of the Charney-David attack on the SWP’s The present political situation in the So­ militant policies in their union. Stalin now exist. Indeed today’s bourgeoisie.” Obviously such a coalition opposition to these bureaucrats: viet Union is the first stage in a profound conditions are the very opposite The analogy applies a hundred fold to Introductory Offer precludes an anti-capitalist program. “They [the SWP] advocate overthrow new development. For many years a weak and make it impossible for even the giant Soviet working class that stands a pale copy of Stalin long to That’s why the CP leaders are beating the of the regime. How can any honest so­ and isolated Soviet working class suf­ A Three-Month Subscription on the tradtion of the 1917 revolution survive. To the Militant drum for support to the reformist trade cialist, concerned about questions of demo­ fered the smashing of the workers’ demo­ Stalin was the product of the Only 50 cents union bureaucracy and to its policy of cracy in the USSR, reconcile such a posi­ cracy they established under Lenin. To­ and has no intention of giving up the na­ descending spiral of the com­ keeping the workers tied to capitalist tion with his socialist faith. Whose inter­ tionalized property created by that revo­ munist movement whose impel­ 116 University Place day an advanced, self-confident working New Y ork 3, N .Y . politics through the vehicle of the Demo- ling factors were the exhaustion ests are served by such a position?” class is growing restive and beginning to lution. of the small Soviet working class THE MILITANT Page 3 Why Howard Fast Quit the CP [We publish below, for the in­ February, 1957. Earlier, in June, if my delegation should learn, of such growth and fruition as formation of Militant readers, 1956, I wrote in the Daily Work­ not what I told you, but simply was never dreamed of in the excerpts from “The W rite r and er a bitter denunciation of the that I met with you alone, I firs t decades of this century— the Commissar” by Howard Fifet, lack of civil rights and liberties will be arrested when I return even as the whole world stands prominent novelist who resigned in the Soviet Union. to my homeland and in all likeli­ on the doorstep of an interna­ from the American Communist hood put to death. I am not tionally functioning civilization Party last winter. This article TALKS WITH DIPLOMATS pleading for myself; but my wife that can forever abolish w ar and will appear in a new magazine, Between the appearance of and children need me. It is hard want. Prospectus, scheduled for pub­ that denunciation and the public for a woman and children to be NO ASSETS lication this week. An abridged announcement of my .leaving the alone today in what my country version appeared in the Nov. 2 party, a number of diplomats has become, harder for them Only a fool can believe that Like a voice from the past, the Sunday, support to counter-revolution. But is issue of Peter Fryer's Newslet­ and newspapermen from the than any joy on my part in the clique of madmen who, by Nov. 3, issue of the Worker called to mind ■cautious slander all that the apologies of ter, from which the following “satellite nations” sought me out. continuing to live.” .. Khrushchev’s own testimony, al­ several decades o f frame-ups, slander and 1056 have yielded? excerpts are taken. — Ed.] Some were very high-placed per­ Thus did both this man and 1 most lost the war with Germany come to understand the stuff of arc a positive asset in the build­ calumny. In those days the Socialist Work­ sons in the foreign service of The Daily Worker may consider the Along the way I will, inevita­ their countries; others not so which our dreams had been ing of Russian civilization. ers P arty was accused by Stalin o f being' SWP election campaign “ineffective.” Our bly, (be asked: Where am I go­ high-placed. made. There is nothing conceivable of ing? Thousands have already creation in the Soviet Union that “counter-revolutionary” and “ fascist.” The candidates were not elected. The Daily Because of my past reputation, I could say, there but for the asked. For it is, I think a char­ its people— the workers and en­ Communist P arty in this country echoed and the fact that, as a part of grace of God go I; he could not. Worker told its readers to vote for Wagner acteristic of men of good w ill to I could leave the Communist gineers and scientists, the teach­ the communist movement, I had every slander w ith the zeal o f lieutenants and the majority of New Yorkers did see our brief time on earth as ers and artists— cannot create. openly ranged myself against P arty and live; he could not. anxious to prove their worth. a passage—wherefore the desti­ Rid of the parasitic burden of vote for Wagner. the Stalinist forces in the Com­ In this sense, then, he, this nation assumes supreme import­ the Communist Party, given a After publication of the “secret” revela­ Our campaign for working-class and munist Party of the United nameless diplomat, is the ghost ance. Y et even when the destina­ and the spirit of this essay. It democratic government upon tions of Khrushchev in 1956 the Daily States, they felt free to talk to socialist candidates can be considered tion becomes a faith akin nearly ... 'Vt*.&1 ' me. is of his agony, m ultiplied a their industrial base, they could Worker grew somewhat contrite. In an to certainty, there are those who hundred thousand times, that I in short order turn their land effective only if one has the perspective They spread before my already editorial on June 7, 1956, there appeared see it as secondary to the par­ HOWARD FAST w rite; my own is insignificant into a garden of plenty. of educating voters about socialism. In tortured eyes such a picture of ticular roads leading to it. and unim portant beside it. the now-famous apology: “ We were wholly th is sense, we believe the SWP electoral terror, injustice, and sheer night­ * * * For me, the destination has re­ ignorant that these crimes [of Stalin] had communism,” as we know it in mare as to make a Khrushchev * * * H istory appears to have activity was extremely effective. We be­ mained unchanged—total broth­ America, is as fraudulent as ‘‘secret” speech seem but a mod­ No force on earth can destroy spelled out the finish of the been committed, yet there was reputable lieve it succeeded in breaking down a erhood of man, a world-wide en­ “anti-Sovietism” is dangerous. erate outline of a never-to-be- the Communist Party, but the time of the Communist Party, evidence ’had we but listened. How then tity of love and creativity, in great many misconceptions purposely itemized totality. application of truth will melt it and perhaps the dawn of social­ explain our consistent denunciation of which life is neither wasted nor *« * * developed by the capitalist opponents of They talked coldly, they talked as rain melts salt. Its time is ist dcmoci'acy and humanism. despised. - There is an addendum to the many people as ‘enemies’ of the working with passion, they talked with past. But only the people of the lands socialism. For many of us, the road to a'bove, almost in the way of a class because they condemned these hatred. Some wept as they The Russian people and the ruled by Communist Parties can this goal was the Communist footnote, yet a little more than Davis and Charney do not charge the talked. Some relived the agony Chinese people are on the brink decide this issue. crimes? We were wrong, terribly Party, and in all too many of that. I t concerns a moment of of cherished comrades murdered wrong. . . What was unforgivable and SWP alone of “objectively” giving “sup­ us the road became primary to bitter decision, the moment by the Soviet secret police, of port to counter-revolution.” Vincent Hal- the destination. In time, the road when I ceased to be a commu­ inexcusable was the manner in which we men tortured arid beaten, of oth­ became sacred, whereas the des­ nist, and turns upon a pledge passed judgm ent — harsh and sometimes linan, former Progressive Party presiden­ ers robbed of every sense of tination blurred with increasing not to remain silent when I know tial candidate and the National Guardian their own human quality. vindictive in tone — on many of our fellow unreality. I must speak. Fund Scoreboard editors must also be guilty of this crime. Some cried out, in strangely Americans based solely on th e ir criticism In what follows, I shall reveal I will speak to the harm of no City Quota Paid Percent Both urged support of the SWP candi­ something of the particular ex­ man and name no man ever, if similar words, “We have learned of the Stalin rule.” Youngstown $ 300 $225.00 75 dates. perience of a writer within the naming him confronts him, in how to wait. My land will not T hat was one mood. Today another is Milwaukee 250 182.00 73 Communist Party of the United his turn, with injustice. But be another Hungary.” Others Buffalo 1,800 1,236,00 69 evident. We read in the Worker, Nov. 3, To say that a campaign for socialism in States, and also as a part of when men coast on the awful said, “We will wait and wait. Chicago 1,560 1,010X)0 65 in an article signed by B enjam in J. Davis any way “objectively” supports counter­ the world communist movement. tides of history, they must be History has a w a y of being Cleveland 600 380.00 63 spoken of. tru th fu l.” and George B. Charney, “A vote for the revolution and to use the perfidious Allentown 102 60.00 59 N O T B IT T E R The story of this moment of But one spoke quietly, never SWP is a vote that objectively gives some reasoning employed by Charney and D e tro it 825 441.00 53 This is not a record of disillu­ bitter decision is the story of raising his voice, spoke over a Newark 240 125.00 52 measure of support to counter-revolu­ Davis is to substitute vindictiveness, mis­ sionment, for a broadening of such a man, but I cannot name luncheon table, in the quiet sim­ Tw in Cities 1,584 816.00 52 tio n.” » representation and slander —t the old knowledge and deepening of ex­ him, fo r it woi»ld bring death to ple tones one uses discussing the Los Angeles 4,000 2,035.25 50 perience must be the very op­ him. I will therefore never iden­ weather. So quiet and simple Perhaps there is some distance between Stalinist techniques — for open and Boston 600 293.00 49 posite of disenchantment. tify him, or even the country he that there was never room for calling one’s working-class opponents honest argumentation. We believe the Philadelphia 480 215.00 45 Nor am I bitter. If so many represented, and you must take doubt. New York 4,500 1,800.00 40 “fascist mad-dogs” and using the more radical movement in America, including others, have paid a considerable the story on my word. He spoke of the pall of fear Seattle 500 200.00 * 40 cautious formulation that Trotskyists the CP ranks, has had its bellyful of price for certain knowledge, no He will know that the story is over his land, of the enshrine­ Oakland 240 100.000 24 “objectively” give “some measure” of knowledge comes cheaply and true, and others will recognize ment of ignorance, of the punish­ Stalinist-type polemics. San Francisco 450 110.00 24 others have paid in larger sums. the genre. I call him the diplo­ ment meted -out to those who St. Louis 80 10.00 13 I have not turned “anti-com­ mat. dared to disagree or offer a General — 150.00 — munist,” for I believe that “antir I left the Communist Party in fresh opinion. Totals ------A Vital Right Attacked LIFE OF BUREAUCRATS Totals as of Nov. 6 $18,111 $9,388.25 52 He told how the communist The right of trade unions to engage in In the Detroit trial, the government is leaders who ruled his country lived, of their sleek black limou­ political activity is under attack in the attempting to punish the UAW for taking sines, servants, country homes, current trial of the United Automobile up political questions during election time and bejeweled wives, of their Fund Past Half-Way Mark But Must Workers on charges that the UAW’s tele­ on its regular year-round television show Hiistresses and their passions. vision program violated the Federal Cor­ “Meet the UAW.” GE's "Concern" ism, toward historical truth He talked about the crumb Speed Up to Finish in Three Weeks rupt Practices Act. That act states that and rectification, Mao’s speech that belonged to the people, and. The right of labor unions to engage in Editor: has been seized upon by the because he was a Jew, he talked it is illegal for “unions or corporations” By Constance Fan- of $125 from friend| in the political activity must be defended, not Stalinists to bolster up the last about anti-Semitism, Most hor­ Deep South and $25 from a In the Oct. 11 issue of Gen­ National Campaign Director to give financial backing to candidates in only on the grounds of the defense of eral Electric News "published in remaining illusions that the rifying of all, he spoke of this Buffalo couple who send us best Federal elections. civil liberties, but also because w orking the interests of its employees,” faithful may still retain in Sta­ hatred of Jews as something I With four more weeks to go, wishes fo r a successful cam­ As far as corporations are concerned, people cannot solve their problems without GE gave its whole front page linism. was familiar with, both long and the Press and Publications paign. well. Fund is lagging 20% behind the law is a complete farce. Corporations organizing for political action. We disa­ over to a thing against the 32- What is as yet lacking from The Twin Cities Press Fund hour week at 40 hours pay. They reports coming from China is When I explained, that I knew schedule. Only Youngstown and Committee had a highly success­ dictate the political policies of all the gree with the way the UAW officialdom had a cartoon on there, too—a the extent to which the bureau­ it neither long nor well, but Milwaukee are ahead of the ful ‘^Garage Sale” a t which $118 major propaganda media in the country exei*cises tha t rig h t — it helps keep the bewildered guy opening a pack­ cracy has emerged as a caste have only recently learned of percentage which should be was realized. This unique af­ by direct ownership or the money they unions chained to Big Business politicians age and two eyes peeping out. on the Russian model. Facts | Russia’s anti-Semitism, and on­ paid in by this date. Other fair might inspire other cities spend on advertising. Corporation ex­ primarily in the Democratic Party. But The caption said, “Wrapped like and figures which Trotsky ly this very moment of its ex­ cities will have to step up