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General Motors Workers Resist Intolerable Speed-Up Conditions Workers of the World, Unite! THE TITO AFFAIR AND STALINISM (See Page 2) the MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Vol. X II ■ No. 33 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1948 PRICE: FIVE CENTS BANKERS’ SPOKESMAN PREDICTS ‘BUST’ Malayans Revolt The Same Old Baggage Boss Parties Offer Dobbs Brands For Independence Only Depression Beck 'Traitor' From British Rule To Halt Inflation The flames of national upris­ The pre-election debate ings continue to spread in the Par least and shake to their is raging: Who is respon­ For Scabbery foundations the empires of the Western imperialists. To the sible for the inflation? By Farrell Dobbs growing list of Asiatic peoples Truman says if the Republicans fighting for their independence is had only passed his “anti-infla­ now added Malaya. — ............SWP Candidate for President tion”' program of mild govern­ Malaya forms the long Indo- ment controls, prices would be When a union official helps a corporation fight a striking Chinese peninsula which runs “rolled back.” Taft, the Republi­ down from the mainland of South- union, he is no less a traitor than the copperheads who sabotaged can mouthpiece, answers that East Asia. For upwards of a cen­ prices shot up under far more the Union Army to help the slave owners during the C ivil War. tury, its natives have, been ruled stringent controls than Truman and exploited by British imperial­ Such a traitor in labor’s ^ proposes, and if we’d just get rid imt being enforced; nor could ism through a system of indirect ranks is Dave Beck, West Coast of Democratic tinkering with the they get a financial report from rule of native sultans, the Malay, AFL Teamsters Czar. Beck has “natural laws of economics/’ the local officers. Tobin ignored equivalent of the Indian Rajahs. stabbed in the prices would “level off” by them­ their complaints, despite the fact The country is a key sector of the back the strik­ selves. that the union boss was a gang­ British Empire as it is the world ing Machinists headquarters of the rubber and Taft’s “natural laws” have Union at the ster with a known criminal rec­ ord. tin industries and forms the hin­ been in full force since the end Boeing A i r - terland to Singapore, “The Gibral- of the war. These are the “lawg" craft Company But when these outraged truck ter of the Far East.” enforced by the “ private govern­ in Seattle. He drivers went on strike to force ment” of monopolies that fix has sent the employers to abide by the REVOLT RISING prices, regulate production and trucks through union agreement, Tobin moved ' A t the end of the Second World allocate raw materials on the th e machin- fast. He sent in reinforcements War, Britain tried to ward off i s t s’ picke t to help the local union bosses, basis of what’s best for their the growing nationalist movement profits. Under these “laws,” pri­ lines, signed who united with the employers to by establishing a phony consulta­ ces today are the highest since up B o e in g smash the strike. The rank and tive body under the “Union of the founding of the Republic ■— scabs in the FARRELL file leaders were expelled from Malaya.” But the natives, suffer­ and going up. Teamsters DOBBS the union, fired from their jobs ing from food shortages and a Union, sent his attorneys into and left to take care of their raging inflation, and influenced TRUMAN’S PROGRAM government hearings to parrot families as best they could. by the rising tides of revolution Truman’s program sounds bet­ the corporation’s arguments — 1 am thoroughly familiar with throughout the Far East, have ter. but is just as fraudulent. His in short, Beck has done every­ the methods of Tobin and his now risen in revolt, determined chief proposal is for "stand-by thing he could to break the ma­ henchmen like Beck. I used to be to drive the imperialists out of authority to impose selective con­ ch in ists’ strike. on Tobin’s field staff, but I got the country. trols” — piecemeal price control, The British have replied in the So scandalous is Beck’s conduct out when I saw what it was like. Truman’s “theoretician” on prices, that the Washington State AFL And ivhen Tobin attacked my same manner that Hitler employ­ General Motors Workers Resist former OPA director Paul Porter, home local in Minneapolis in ed against recalcitrant national­ has condemned his tactics. An likened Truman’s program jfctj opposition movement is developing 1941, I learned plenty more about ities in Europe. Regulations have that of Canada. But in the Demo­ inside the Seattle Teamsters The Mad Dog of the Labor Move­ been issued giving the govern­ cratic Digest for July, Porter Union in protest against the in­ ment. ment unlimited powers. Newspa­ pers are suppressed, individuals Intolerable Speed-up Conditions admitted that “stand-by controls dignities and injuries inflicted Tobin tried to impose a dictator arrested and held indefinitely at this time would not bring the upon the membership by this cn the Minneapolis local. His can­ without trial and “ suspicious per­ Speed-up has become the burning issue for General M otors^- American co?t of living in line strikebreaking dictator. didate, by the way, was none tion was taken without even noti­ Reutherite leadership of the UAW sons” in danger areas are shot on workers. Under the recent contract, considered the worst in the with Canada’s relatively low other than Dave Beck. The union fication to the union. Other cor­ gave the company a virtual blank THE MAD DOG sight. Strikes are banned. Mal­ prices. The lid has been off tob membership rose to a man in op­ industry, the corporation is ^ porations are following GM’s check by agreeing to a contract Small wonder that Beck has colm MacDonald, British Gover­ long.” position to this Hitler-like act. putting an intolerable squeeze no technological improvements lead. Ford is reported attempting that provides the most inadequate become the heir-apparent to the nor-General of Malaya, represen­ Tobin shipped scores of his on the workers for more individ­ have been introduced to warrant to boost production by 25%. grievance set-up in the industry Indeed, it appears to have been, throne cf Teamsters President tative of the British labor govern­ goons into Minneapolis. W ith the ual output per hour. an increase. Higher output is to The GM workers have been and permits the company to im­ “off too long” for Canada. The Daniel J. Tobin, who has been ment and son of the late Ramsey help of blackjacks, the local cops be secured by driving the workers placed in a particularly disad­ pose almost any working condi­ Aug. 10 N.Y. Times reports: aptly called “The Mad Dog of the MacDonald, has been denouncing GM workers in the Michigan and the then governor of Minne­ harder. vantageous position because the tions it sees fit. “Steady increases in the price Labor Movement.” Beck has the insurgents, in language re­ auto towns are beginning to re­ On Aug. 5, the entire afternoon of food are mainly responsible learned well in the Tobin school. sota, Harold E. Stassen, the miniscent of Goebbels, as “ Com­ sist the corporation’s drive to shift at the Fisher Body plant in fo r the new record hig h o f 156.9 Tobin is notorious for his goons “persuaded” the truck munist bandits.” impose inhuman increases in pro­ Pontiac walked out in protest in the Canadian June cost of lin­ strikebreaking; smashing of dem­ drivers to sign up for the Tobin duction schedules. The intensified dictatorship. BITTER STRUGGLE speed-up has already provoked against speed-up. They returned CARLSON REPORTS TOUR ing index.” Potatoes, eggs and ocracy in local unions; driving to work and demanded a strike meat rose 41.5 points in 12 workers who oppose him off their Then Tobin hollered for help But British savagery and re­ strikes and strike votes by CIO vote authorization by their local. months. That’s what Truman’s jobs; and organizing gangster at­ from the federal cops. The lead­ pression w ill not save their em­ United Auto Workers members A strike vote was scheduled for | program looks like in practice. tacks in jurisdictional raids on ers of the local union, including pire. Major General Charles in Flint and Pontiac. RECEPTION IN DENVER the Fisher Body local in Flint on other unions. myself, were railroaded to the Boucher, Commander of the B rit­ Crank-shaft workers at the BOOM — BUST ish forces in Malaya, estimated Aug. 11 and 12. Here too the big By Grace Carlson The Brewery Workers Union federal penitentiary under the F lin t C hevrolet pla n t w ent on that it would take at least 15 issue is speed-up. Republicans and Democrats can tell a hair-raising story of Smith Cag Act. That is why I strike Aug. 6 after the company months to wipe out the guerrillas. From the Mile-High City have a common “solution” fojC men beaten with blackjacks, know all about Tobin, Beck and arbitrarily raised the output quo­ At the Flint Buick plant the When it is recalled that despite inflation. It is nothing but the their kind. ta from 40 to 51 cranks per hour. company has put the heat on by Denver’s citizens point with great pride to the fact that workers’ homes destroyed by fire ­ the pouring-in of huge numbers classic capitalist “boom-bust/’ When I visit Seattle on my na­ The Searchlight, official publi­ a sudden frontal attack on the bombs and dynamite, as Tobin of troops and armaments, the their’s is the only mile-high city in the United States And they Let prices zoom until the con­ tional campaign tour, I shall be cation of Chevrolet Local 659, re­ union.
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