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. It handed out 10 dismissal plied his union-raiding activities. French and Dutch have been un­ do not require visitors to do their own measuring They take sumers arc priced out of the notices, 31 pe na lty la y -o ffs o f one Beck was a star performer in glad to put my knowledge at the able to suppress the uprisings of ported on July 29 that the crank­ market. Then comes a glut of to four weeks, and hundreds of them to the 15th step of the that Tobin show. disposal of the striking machi­ neighboring Indo-China and In­ shaft men “have been subjected production, factory shut-downs “reprimands” in a move to halt State Capitol, where it is plainly The Socialist Workers Party In St. Louis, the rank and file nists and the Seattle truck driv­ donesia, and are losing the wars, to speed-up beyond anything im­ and depression. the long-established practice of marked that, election campaign attracted con­ of a Teamsters Local Union sent ers who are fighting against the it is obvious that the British are aginable since the days of the at that spot, siderable attention in both the Marriner Eccles, former head a committee to protest to Tobin Boeing corporation and strike­ in for a long struggle yrith every open shop.” The previous quota taking a few minutes daily for a Salt Lake City and Denver news­ of the Federal Reserve Board, de­ because the union contract was breaker Beck. chance of defeat. had been in e ffe ct 12 years, and little lunch on the job. This ac- one stands 5280 feet a- papers. The fact that there are clared flatly before the Senate bove sea level: national candidates, who are at­ Banking Committee three weeks I f th is does tacking the Communist Party ago: “We certainly arc going to not seem colos­ from the left during these red­ have a bust, hut as to just'when sal enough to baiting days, seems to be news­ it w ill be. I can’t predict.” Asked Taft-Hartley Act Incites Inter-Union Warfare the visitor, worthy. I think that the readers “what would you say?,” if he ether superla- of The Militant will be interested were given full power to set up in a few paragraphs from a press enging union raiders combine to I AFL union naturally “won.” The Workers to pieces, rushing in to ! narrow-minded A FL leaders re­ t i v e s aré protective measures against a By Art Preis interview run in the Denver Post try to destroy an established latter began to scab-herd for the grab off locals through direct I fused to take this necessary step, brought f o r - bust, Eccles replied: “ I would say of Aug. 6. They follow: One of the deadliest booby- union is shown in the case of company, which obtained an in­ raiding, or cooperating with the They turned inward, engaged in ward, such as it was too late.” traps in the Taft-H artley Slave Oppenheim, Collins & Co., a large junction limiting pickets of the Taft-Hartley Board in govern­ jurisdictional squabbles, forced the fact that “Mrs. Carlson differs with the PRICE LOCKOUT Labor Law is now spreading Manhattan department store, striking union and placed a huge ment-run elections from which the unions to devour themselves. Colorado has ‘crude idea’ that Stalin is setting UE locals are excluded. Reuther It is too late for decayed capi­ havoc among the trade unions. which refused to renew the con­ sign over its entrance:.“ The Issue The present situation flow's the largest out to conquer the world. She Is COMMUNISM!” is also conducting raids on the talism to “ solve” inflation except This is the “ yellow dog” affidavit, tra c t o f Local 1250, CIO U n ited from the fact that the top union number of high believes that the Kremlin is set­ Farm Equipment Workers and by depression. That is what makes a device cleverly designed to split Retail, Wholesale and Department leaders again are drawing back peaks o f any state — 1,080, ting out tp construct a set of buf­ FINAL TOUCH Mine, M ill and Smelter Workers. sheer demagogy out of the Stalin­ the unions along “communist”- Store Employes. from the next great forward step which are more than 10,000 feet fer states for the protection of The final touch was added when Murray’s catch-all set-up, the ist and Wallaceite yapping about and “ anti-communist” lines. It has Several weeks before the old demanded by the times. Unable high. Russia. national officials of the CIO un­ Shipyard Workers beaded by John to advance a step further because “buyers’ strikes.” If you can’t touched off virtual civil war with­ contract was to expire, the com­ Like every visitor to the Col- “ ‘Rut from both the Marxist ion itself, opponents of the Stalin­ Green, is splitting off sections of they reject genuine independent exist at present, high prices, thgy in the labor movement at a time pany announced it would not re­ oi ado Rockies, 1 was impressed the Public Workers, Mine, Mill and military points of view, this when all organized labor is un­ new the Local 1250 contract on ist leaders of the New York lo­ labor political action through the say — eat even less! Telling peo­ and Smelter Workers, and other by the superb scenery and the action is futile,’ ” she declared. der the heaviest assault in dec­ the grounds that the union was cals, gave aid and comfort to the formation of a labor party, hav­ ple who can't buy to go on a unions as remote from the ship­ wonderful climate. Different from ades. “run by Communists” who had employers, government witch- ing no program to advance the And I think that Militant read­ “buyers’ strike” is idiocy. The yard industry as the North Pole other visitors, 1 was more im­ Employers and government, refused to sign Taft-Hartley a ffi­ hunters and AFL raiders. URWD- interests of the workers or to ers will also be interested to truth is the workers are suffers is from the South Pole. pressed by the fact that here acting in collusion, are employing davits. In response to an appeal SE-CIO President Samuel Wol- defend them from government as­ know that we are getting in a iiig from a LOCKOUT — a prieg chok, on A ug. 9, stated: “ The were the. early outposts of the the refusal of unions to sign “ yel­ from Oppenheim Collins and other One of the latest developments sault, these union leaders are try ­ few licks at Norman Thomas, lockout from the necessities T>f ing to protect their own narrow militant American labor union low dog” oaths as the chief legal big department stores, the House Taft-Hartley law is the law of the of this disruptive internal war­ who still poses as a “Socialist.” life . land and it must be obeyed. There interests and salvage a little for movement. To mention the names, pretext to break strikes and deny Labor and Education Committee fare is the move of the CIO paper Here are a couple of additional The only effective program is no reason why officers of lo­ themselves no matter if the rest Ludlow, Cripple Creek, Boulder, collective bargaining rights to sent a sub-committee to New York workers to raid the CIO Office paragraphs from the same inter­ against high prices is the pro­ cals should not sign the non-com­ and Professional Workers, where of the union movement goes to is to recall the brave struggles of previously recognized unions. The to “investigate” the “Commu­ view : gram advanced by Farrell Dobbs munist affidavits.” the sole similarity between the hell in a high-speed-elevator. the labor pioneers of the Western union-busters are effectively nists” in New York department “ ‘Thomas was boasting in a and Grace Carlson, Socialist The type of jurisdictional War­ two occupations is that one manu­ Federation of Miners and the using this weapon because of the store unions. NEW LEADERSHIP magazine article that the Dem­ Workers Party candidates Tor connivance of many unscrupulous This committee hauled the local fare now being carried out under factures paper and the other uses early IWW against the ruthless, So long as the n a rro w outlook ocrats and Republicans have President and Vice President; union officials who are working union leaders before a typical in­ cover of the Taft-Hartley Act is it. labor-hating mine bosses of the and primitive aims of these union stolen his platform,’ Mrs. Carlson 1. For a sliding scale of wages hand-in-glove with anti-labor em­ quisition. Naturally, the company far from limited to AFL raids W est. UGLY PICTURE leaders continue to dominate the declared, ‘But there isn’t any (cost-of-living escalator clause) ployers to raid established unions loudly proclaimed it would have on CIO unions. In fact, the Philip labor movement, the unions will Thai we arc now organizing danger of them stealing our in all union contracts, providing and even scab-herd in strikes. no dealings with “ enemies of our Murray machine in the CIO— That is the ugly picture we see be torn with internal strife and (he outposts of the new, militant p la tfo rm .’ ” automatic pay increases, abdtg These scavengers — some of government.” which howls the loudest about today. AFL unions raiding other dissension. Only a new leader­ workers’ movement in Colorado whom have shown exceptional in­ At the same time, scenting “ raiding” by the AFL—has turned AFL unions and CIO unions; CIO the basic wage rate, for aUrises ship, with a broad and fundamen­ and Utah was still more impres­ TOUR DATES eptness in organizing workers prey, officials of the AFL Retail the CIO itself into a battlefield unions rushing in to tear apart in the cost of living. 2. For mass tal understanding of the great sive to me. They are small groups, The following are the coming within their own jurisdiction and Clerks claimed jurisdiction. The of warring unions seeking to dis­ other CIO unions; the top leader­ consumer committees of worker!',’ class issues and with will and to be sure, but they are the first dates of Dr. Carlson’s tour: in defending the interests of their NLRB ordered an election—with member and steal . dues-payers ships of both completely indiffer­ housewives and dirt farmers ep)j£ courage to lead the unions into a own members—swarm down like the CIO union kept off the ballot away from other CIO unions— ent to the fate of the labor move­ Trotskyist centers to be estab­ Aug. 15-21 M ichigan powered to fix prices and enforce? new political avenue, can save the vultures on unions made vulner­ because it had not signed a “ yel­ chiefly Stalinist-led—which are ment. lished in this area for many years. price ceilings. 3. For the nation-; labor movement, restore its unity Aug. 22-23 en route able by their refusal to submit low dog” oath. On the day the under Taft-Hartley attack. We saw a similar situation in I am confident that, in time, this alization of all basic industries Aug. 24-26 Cleveland to the Taft-Hartley Act. old contract ended and the CIO The W alter Reuther leadership the AFL during the Twenties. and inspire the workers to suc­ will mean that the voice of revo­ and their operation under the A flagrant example of how union went on strike, the NLRB in the auto union is trying to tear Then the great need was for in­ cessful struggle against their lutionary socialism will once (For Dobbs’ opening tour democratic control of the work­ employers, government and scav- held its “Ja” election, which the the large CIO United Electrical dustrial Organization. But the enemies. again be widely heard. dates, see Page 4.) ers. P a g e T w o THE M ILITANT Monday, August 16, 1948

Rebels in American History The Tito Affair a n d Stalinism JO H N B R O W N By E. Germain in the Stalinist parties such per­ Chiang Kai-shek in China — a 5 sonalities as the Rumanian Bod- formidable trump card in his The T ito affair has thrown naras, who have no past of any bargaining with Washington — By George Lavan slave power would be singing his | eluded pursuers and struck when considerable light on Ihe much sort in the Communist movement considers with growing uneasiness name. he chose. He astounded Kansas On the morning of December debated question of th e social of their countries and who spent any definitive victory on the part B row n was born in 1800 and by defeating and capturing a nature of Stalinism. With one a decade or two of their lives in of Mao Tse-dun. If Tito, in a 2, 1859, they led the old man named after his grandfather who larger force than his own at blow, Stalinism has lost the Russia. This is why he seeks to country so tiny in comparison to out of jail. His steps were slow had died in the Revolutionary Black Jack under Captain Pate. peculiar fascination of success, maintain the non - Communist Russia, has already dared to because his wounds had not War. He was brought up on the Brown’s methods finally re­ which, since the end of the war, political organizations while im­ lebel, what would be the attitude healed completely. All around Ohio frontier, and was deeply solved the situation in Kansas. it exerted even on certain revolu­ posing on them a new leadership tomorrow of a CP dominating a him were soldiers with fixed le lig io u s. The free-soilers took heart and tionists. The Russian regime, subservient to the Kremlin. That country such as China? The more bayonets. On the road was a D u rin g the IV a r o f 1812 he the slavery elements became whose admirers as well as whose is why in Eastern Germany he Stalinism expands, the greater wagon with a pine coffin. The old witnessed the horror of slavery. cautious. Kansas’ status as a ¡host implacable enemies — in authorizes and even favors the become the centrifugal forces it man got up on the wagon and He was then 12 years old and free state was assured. The fore­ words! — proclaim its “ astonish­ creation of a new middle class unleashes. sat on the coffin. The procession was delivering cattle to the army. most leader of the free-soilers ing stability,” has become a nationalist party which serves Smelling the sensational aspect finally reached the execution There he saw- a boy slave, with later said of Brown: “He was regime devoured by internal him as a counter weight to the of the conflict, the ignorant sec­ grounds. Around the scaffold 1,- whom he had become friends, the only man who comprehended crisis. The territorial expansion Stalinist SED party. tion of the capitalist press shouts 500 troops were massed in a cruelly manhandled. As he later tlie situation, and saw the ab­ of Russia, cited by so many of from the roof tops that the Tito great hollow square with cannon wrote, this “made him a most solute necessity of some such NOT AN ACCIDENT determined Abolitionist, and led our superficial critics as a “de­ defection breaches the strategic trained on all approaches. blow and had the nerve to strike It is not by accident that Stalin finitive refutation” of the Trot­ potential of the USSR in Eastern They put a hood over his head him to declare, or swear eternal it . ” has seen his firs t fa ilu re in skyist thesis, revealed itself as Europe. It is true that Tito has and led him onto the drop of the war with slavery.” Yugoslavia, where the Tito created a breach, but not in the scaffold. The rope was adjusted In 183-7 Elijah Lovejoy, an “ONLY ONE DEATH” a projection outside the Russian regime has the greatest mass borders of the internal contradic­ place where the capitalists are around his neck. Then they made anti-slavery editor, was lynched With victory sure in Kansas, support, where the country . has looking for it. A breach has just him wait. They were still hoping by a mob at Alton, 111. This the old fighter decided to get on tions gnawing Stalinism. experienced the most profound been created in the ossified con­ for a display of weakness from murder convinced Johr. Brown with his plan for an invasion of social overturn, and where the INTENSE CONTRADICTION sciousness of scores of thousands the old fighter whom they hated that the slave power could be the slave country itself. “ I have bourgeois opposition is the most The Tito affair defines the of Communist members in Yugo­ ar.d feared. Minutes passed as the destroyed only by force. It was only a short time to live,” he said, insignificant and prostrate. Stalin essential elements of Soviet policy slavia, in Switzerland, in all the troops were put through parade in this period that he first con­ “and only one death to die, and wants to decapitate the most in Eastern Europe. This policy countries of Eastern Europe, and maneuvers. The old man with the ceived his plan of invading the I will die fighting for this cause. solid CP. It is wholly logical that seeks to utilize and exploit these one hopes, of the entire world; hood over his head and the rope South and freeing the slaves. There will be no peace in this lice first refusal to capitulate countries for the strategic, poli­ a breach in their belief in the On the platform for the opening session of the New York about his neck never flinched. He kept his plan secret and went land until slavery is done for. I should come from there. tical and economic objectives pur­ infallibility of Stalin. This means State Federation of Labor convention are (1. to r.) Francis Car­ Finally after 12 interminable about his business as a wool will give them something else to sued by the Soviet bureaucracy. SEEKS COMPROMISE a breach in the whole ideological dinal Spellman, state AFL President Thomas A. Murray and minutes the commanding officer merchant. On business trips east do than to extend slavery. I will Mayor William O’Dwyer of New York. Federated Pictures It is true that experience has Contrary to all false appear­ edifice so painstakingly con­ gave the signal and the trap was he visited leading Abolitionists carry the war to Africa.” taught Stalin that it is becoming ances, we have never ceased to structed on the basis of the sprung. The body jerked and then and sounded them out. He collected picked Negro and increasingly difficult to obtain repeat that Stalin, far from seek­ USSR as “the only fatherland of hung quietly. white men, who were fighters The colonel’s voice rang out: AROUSED THE NATION the desired results through col­ ing to extend a new social system all the workers.” The word "de­ and ready to die to destroy laboration with the traditional generation” is already circulat­ CALIFORNIA SWP OPENS “So perish all such enemies of His plans were interrupted by slavery. He collected arms and over the entire world, sought the passage of the Kansas- capitalist elements. But the fundamentally a compromise with ing in the Yugoslav CP cadres, Virginia! All such enemies of the ammunition. He tried to raise Nebraska Act which opened the Kremlin has also learned another world imperialism. The Tito and not only there! Union! A ll such foes of the human money from wealthy Abolitionists territories to slavery until the no less important lesson. The affair provides explosive con­ It is now ten years since the race!” Then he marched his band from CONGRESSIONAL DRIVE settlers should vote on the issue. elimination of the. bourgeoisie firmation of our analysis. It in­ end of the Moscow trial when' Iowa to the mountains of Virginia SINGING HIS NAME The opening of hitherto free from control of the economy and contestably shows how impossible Stalin massacred the old Bol­ LOS A N G E L E S , A ug. 9. — the Men, the Parties, the Issues.” His plan was to take a town and John Brown was dead. But his territory to slavery aroused the the state cannot be realized w ith­ it is for Stalinism to expand in shevik guard. That was the erd James P. Cannon, national secre­ The meeting- will be held at 8 arm the slaves with pikes using indomitable spirit was to inspire nation. Northern settlers went to out a mobilization, however lim it­ an unlimited fashion. ci the initial period of Stalin­ tary of the Socialist Workers p.m. in the Assembly Hall, Em­ his camp in the mountains as a the anti-slavery forces of the Kansas to make it a free state ed, of the masses. The Communist The relation between the Krem­ ism, during which Stalin did not Tarty, w ill address a public meet­ bassy A u d ito riu m b u ild in g, 837 base. nation. And two years later Union while the slave owners sent parties of these countries can lin and the Stalinist parties in yet dare break openly with the ing launching the presidential South Grand. With 21 men he started to­ troops marching to smash the hordes of hired gunmen to insure achieve such a mobilization only “power” are modified to the formulas of Leninism. The fol­ and congressional campaign of wards Harpers Ferry. By early Comrade Myra Tanner Weiss, a victory for human bondage. to the extent that they maintain extent that these parties enjoy lowing period witnessed a series the Los Angeles Local on Aug. selected at a membership meet­ morning the town and the heavily their effective influence among The planters openly campaign­ Hie confidence of large masses. It of abject crimes, not the least of 20. The date was selected as f i t ­ ing of the Los Angeles Local last stocked arsenal were in his hands. ed to win Kansas by force. the laboring masses. But the more ■ s evident that Stalin, who views which was the systematic poison­ ting tribute to the memory of week as SWP candidate for Con­ Mich. Candidate To avoid harming civilians he Southern Senators and military these parties seek to keep their favorably the armies of Mao ing of the workers of the USSR Leon Trotsky, founder of the gress in the 19th district, will permitted a train to pass through. mass base, the more sensitive they men called for the wiping out of Tse-dun harassing the forces of and the entire world with nation­ Fourth International, who was speak on the local campaign. The news thus spread and quickly become to the pressure of the all opposition in Kansas. General alist poison. murdered by a Stalinist assassin California’s undemocratic elec­ Speaks on Fight brought federal troops and the Stringfellow, addressing a band workers. The more they take into Today history is beginning to on that day eight years ago. tion laws, which practically bar Virginia National Guard on the account the sentiments of the of gunmen about to leave for revenge itself on Stalin. We Comrade Cannon w ill speak on minority parties from the ballot, double. For two days Brown and Workers, the more their power For Civil Rights Kansas, stated, “I tell you to cannot but feel a certain satisfac­ “The Presidential Campaign — make it necessary to cast a write- his men held out, with half of his tends to correspond to the social mark every scoundrel among you tion before the spectacle which in vote for Dobbs and Carlson ELINT. Aug. 4 — William men, including two of his sons, conditions of their own countries makes the very instruments of who is the least tainted with in this state. The Aug. 20 meet­ II. Yancey, candidate on the dead or dying. Finally the troops, —and to become independent of abolitionism and exterminate him Stalin’s crimes, the instrument of ing will launch a campaign to led by Robert E. Lee, broke into the rigorous control of the Michigan Socialist Workers Neither give nor take any his punishment. place the .name of Comrade Weiss the arsenal. K re m lin . Party ticket for Secretary of quarter, as the cause demands it.” on the ballot in the 19th district The Virginia authorities, panic- T E N Y E A R S State, gave an inspiring speech Seven of Brown’s sons went to by securing the signatures of stricken by Brown’s raid abandon­ STALINIST PUPPETS If the Communist advance Sunday, July 23, to a large audi­ Kansas • as settlers. They wrote 3,000 registered voters who did ed all pretense of judicial calm. That is why it is not enough guard of several countries will ence at Bethel M.E. Church, him of the rule of terror in­ not vote in the primary election. Brown, badly wounded in the for Stalin to rid himself of succeed in drawing conclusions located on E.. 12th and Liberty stituted by the slave power. . “ 1 welcome the opportunity to raid, was carried to the court­ Petkov, Mikolaczyk and Masaryk. from the Tito affair—and they Streets, of which Rev. Arthur Brown went out to Kansas to counterpose our program to that house on a stretcher and the trial He has to seek to eliminate the should be helped in this task with Davis is pastor. lead the fight. He found the of the Truman, Dewey and Wal­ jbegan a week after his capture. Stalinist leaders who are most all our strength—it will signify Yancey’s main theme was “ The leadership of the free settlers in lace candidates in the 19th dis­ The verdict of guilty' was closely connected with the work­ an important step toward the Negro Struggle for Civil Rights.” the hands of timid compromisers. trict race,” Comrade Weiss said. predetermined from the begin­ ers’ movement and replace them regeneration of the world labor Mr. Yancey wasted no time in Outrage after outrage was visited “Our campaign will provide the ning of the trial. But Brown’s with mere puppets who owe then- movement as well as the regen­ pointing out the real enemies of on the anti - slavery settlers. O rd e r from only working class alternative to utter fearlessness and his noble power exclusively to the Kremlin. eration of the USSR. civil rights and the Negro peo­ Finally their main city, Lawrence, the capitalist parties for voters bearing in the courtroom im­ That is why Stalin tries in PIONEER PUBLISHERS (Condensed from the July 5, ple. was captured and looted by the in that district, just as the Dobbs- pressed the whole nation. Rumania, Hungary, Poland and I 16 University PI., N. Y. 3, N. Y. 1948 issue of La L u tte O uvriere, Yancey stated, “ F o r 150 years •'border ruffians.” Brown saw Carlson campaign does on the Brown was the revolutionary elsewhere to push into prominence organ of the Belgian Trotskyists.) Big Business and the agents of that the only way to fight the MYRA TANNER WEISS national scene.” man - of - action in the struggle capitalism have been lulling us terror of the slave-owners was Readers of The Militant and against the slavocracy. He in­ to sleep with nothing but empty with terror. He led a raid upon friends of the Socialist Workers a slave settlement and executed jured a whole generation by his Party who are interested in aiding promises. We only get what we five men named on his slave­ dauntlessness and heroism. His the Los Angeles campaign may organize and struggle for, and owners’ list. The slavery men raid on Harper’s Ferry did not Manifesto Calls for O verthrow obtain information by calling that struggle must he directed inaugurate the Negro upris:ng against this capitalist system were quick in reprisal. They Richmond 4644 or writing M ili­ he hoped for, but it was one of which breeds race prejudice, with captured two of his sons who tant Publishing Ass’n, 316V6 W. the sparks that ignited the powder its horrible lynchings and shame­ had not been in the raiding Pico B lvd. barrel of the slavery system and ful persecutions.” force and massacred them. They O f the Stalinist Bureaucracy could not capture Brown’s finally destroyed the slave power Mr. Yancey is a veteran of guerrilla band, however. A genius in four years of bitterly fought This is a continuation of the Manifesto issued by the recent workers and peasants would put up if American troops occupied World War II, and said he needed World Congress of the Fourth International. of partisan warfare. Brown c iv il w ar. Soviet territories, Yankee imperialism would install there a Newark Readers! no one to tell him about the evils of imperialist wars. “I have ex­ terror regime similar to H itler’s. For the Overthrow of the Stalinist Bureaucracy! Election Rally Picnic and perienced,” he said, “the suffer­ The imperialist war not only would not liberate the work­ For the Defense of the October Conquests Trotsky Memorial Meeting ing, discrimination and jim crow ers from the totalitarian dictatorship, but it would prevent them that goes with imperialist wars.” THE MILITANT ARMY Against Imperialism! from proceeding along the socialist road. Imperialism would at Speakers: Mr. Yancey pointed out that GEORGE CLARKE, Nation­ the Socialist Workers Party was inghouse union meeting and in Confronted by the incredible degeneration of the Soviet the most combine its search for capitalist profits with the waste­ fulness engendered by the Stalinist bureaucracy. Far from al SWP Campaign Mgr. not out making promises of what Subs Make Possible a short time sold four subs, two Union, a number of disillusioned revolutionaries identify the | would be done when they got in cleansing the structure of planning and eliminating the gangrene W ILLIAM E. BOHANNAN, 2 Michigan Branches at 25c and two at $1 each. This Stalinist dictatorship with what still remains of the October SWP Candidate for Con­ office, but stated they were ac­ makes six sold at distributions of profiteering from it, imperialism would bring the whole conquests and refuse to defend the latter. On the other hand, gress from the 11th Dist. tively engaged now in the fight Two new Michigan branches of in the last two weeks,” reports structure down with the hammer blows of its own exports and for civil liberties and rights of the Socialist Workers Party are all the ‘‘fellow travelers" who, only yesterday, sang praises to Dinner, Swimming, Baseball, George. He sent 16 subs. capital. Negroes. He cited cases like the in prospect as hundreds of new the “ victorious Red Arm y” when it was a question of “ fighting Games * * * Hickman Case of Chicago, the Militant readers in Pontiac and The violent ejection of the bureaucratic regime is today the anti-fascist war,” suddenly again become conscious of NAT L WILLOW GROVE Corainey James case of Flint, Saginaw are being signed up in “ Here are 24 subscriptions ob­ Stalinist barbarism at the moment when it collides with the an urgent task of .the Russian working class; otherwise what W. Caldwell & Harrison Ave. and the O’Day Short case of Cali­ subscription campaigns. Philadel­ tained at the opening of our sub remains of the October conquests is in danger of being stifled fo rn ia . phia, Seattle, San Francisco and campaign,” writes Sarah Ross of interests of their own capitalists. The militants of the Fourth Transportation provided; cars He said, “The Socialist Work­ I,os Angeles are also getting into International, who were the first in the workers’ movement to under the weight of this parasitic regime. That is precisely the leave for the Grove at 10 A.M. San Francisco. ers Party is for a Workers and high gear in sub drives, while denounce all that is monstrous and reactionary in the Stalinist reason why the Russian workers cannot farm out this task to from 423 Springfield Avenue. P’armers Government, the aboli­ radio listeners throughout the imperialism and w ill fiercely defend the remnants of the October SUNDAY, AUGUST 22 regime, are the only ones who conduct a genuine struggle against tion of capitalism, and the es­ country continue to pour in Jtheir Los Angeles East Side branch Stalin within the rigid framework of defending the interests of conquests against imperialism without for a single moment tablishment of Socialism — the own subscriptions. sent 18, “ results of first mobiliza­ the Russian and world proletariat. relaxing their revolutionary struggle for the overthrow of the only political party on the ballot tio n .” The war which Washington is preparing against the USSR Stalinist Bonapartist clique. worthy of the Negroes’ support.” ? ! * * does not at all pursue the aim of introducing political democracy Detroit branch has already sold Fourteen from Seattle included Revolutionary Defense of USSR 73 subs in Pontiac and plans to or respect for the rights of man in Soviet Russia. On the con­ Southern California subs donated to the library of the set up a branch there. University of Washington and trary, in the face of the ferocious resistance which the Soviet By his reactionary policies in the countries occupied by the Militant Readers! to the Pacific Dispatch. “ We are Russian army, Stalin prim arily defends the privileges of the experimenting with door-to-door H ear “ Sixty-four of these (69) subs bureaucracy. Just as the bureaucracy undermines the founda­ sales of individual copies of the were obtained on a trip to Sagi­ tions of the workers’ state in the USSR, its counter-revolutionary JAMES P. CANNON Special Convention Issue and re­ SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SUB naw last Saturday,” reports National Secretary, Socialist turning one week later to get policies outside the USSR constitute a permanent threat to these Genora Dollinger of Flint branch. Workers Party subs,” writes Dan Roberts. same conquests. The Fourth International defends what remains “Most of these new readers had of October -solely by revolutionary class struggle methods. Speaking on never heard of The Militant or T H E MILITANT Everything which weakens the proletariat inside and outside the “THE PRESIDENTIAL our party before. However, they Subs from radio listeners came 116 U N IV E R S IT Y P L A C E N E W YO R K 3, N . Y. USSR; everything which poisons its thinking or lowers its con­ CAMPAIGN — THE MEN, displayed great interest in social­ from Florida, California, Wash­ THE PARTIES, sciousness is a direct blow against the revolutionary defense of ism and our program for attain­ ington state, New Jersey, New THE ISSUES” 15 25 in g it. York and Connecticut. New York the USSR. That is why to defend the conquests of October “One comrade called at 17 today means to struggle against the reactionary Stalinist bureau­ Friday, August 20th - 8 P. M. comrades obtaining petition sig­ weeks cents houses and obtained 15 subs! natures in upstate counties to Another stood on a corner by cracy, against its oppression, looting and occupation of “ buffer- Assembly Hall, Embassy put the SWP on the ballot are neighborhood stores and sold 20 zone” countries, against its secret treaties and deals on the backs Auditorium Bldg. also selling subs in many com­ of the peoples. The only form of defense of the USSR advocated subs. Our comrades ran across m unities. I I Special 15-week subscription 25c 837 So. Grand, Los Angeles many auto workers who wanted by the Fourth International is the revolutionary struggle of the * * * WILLIAM YANCEY to attend meetings and classes. Gene P. of LOS ANGELES r] Regular 6-montli “ 50c proletariat in each country against its "own” bourgeoisie— the One woman who answered the struggle to smash all obstacles in the path of socialist revolution, sold 19 subs on his w a y home further reconstruction proceeds, the further the rate of accumula­ door replied ‘Oh yes, I read The even when these consist of Russian occupation troops. Militant. I get it in Chicago. I’m from the Convention; 14 in Mem­ tion declines as a result of bureaucratic leadership, all the I I Regular 1-year “ $1.00 In the absence of a powerful revolutionary pole of mass just visiting here.’ phis, three in Chicago and one sharper w ill be the economic difficulties and all the more mobilization, the war, the defense of the Soviet State, and the “From this first campaign ef­ in Cleveland. Congratulations, exasperating will become the social inequality. In the course of fort we have every reason to be pressing needs of reconstruction have assuredly brought about Gene. We’re sure some of your Name constant upheavals which Soviet society w ill experience, the confident that by the end of our an acceptance of the bureaucracy by advanced workers as an experiences getting these subs young worker generations w ill gain consciousness of their own election campaign a new branch unavoidable, lesser evil. On the other hand, the partisan strug­ would make interesting reading. Address interests. W ith the assistance of-the revolutionary movement? of the party will be blossoming gles, the m ilitary victories and contacts with the advanced coun­ out in Saginaw.” That gives L.A. a good start on in capitalist countries they w ill find the way to overthrow the tries of Europe have also undoubtedly increased the critical the Presidential Campaign drive. C ity bureaucracy and will open up a new revolutionary chapter in spirit of the Soviet workers, their hatred of the parasites respon­ E. Smith of L. A. South Side the history of Russia. Philadelphia “had two mobiliza­ State Zone. sible for all the frauds and thefts; and has tempered their w ill tions this week, one in the rain. sent five regulars and a M ilitant- to take the direction of the state into their own hands again. The (To be continued, next -week.) 'Three comrades went to a West- Fourth International combination. P it w G ir o * Subscriptions: fl per year; Bundle Orders (5 or more COc for 8 months. Foreign: copies): 3o each In U .S ., 4c $2 per p ear; $1 fo? 6 m onths. each In foreign countries. “ Entered as second class t h e MILITANT Signed articles by contribu­ m a tte r M a r. 7. 1944 a t the Published Weekly in the Interests of the Working People tors do not necessarily rep­ Post Office at New York, THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION resent The M ilitant's policies. N. Y., under the act of Mar. 116 University PI., N. Y. 3. N. Y. (Phone: AL 4-9330) These are expressed in Its Contributions Average $2500 a Week 8, 1879/* FARRELL DOBBS, Editor editorials.

Vol. X II— No. 33 Monday, A ug ust 16, 1918

“The human race has a right to be proud of its Aristotle, Shakespeare, Darwin, Beethoven, Goethe, Marx, Edison and As Election Fund Reaches 30% o f Quota Lenin. But why are they so rare? Above all, because almost without exception, they came out of the upper and middle By William F. Warde, National Fund Director classes. Apart from rare exceptions, the sparks of genius in the suppressed depths of the people are choked before they It’s 30 per cent of the total on the third scoreboard of the Forces of “Law and Order” in Action can burst into flame. But also because the processes of creating, §25,000 SWP Flection Campaign and Party Building Fund. developing and educating a human being have been and re­ main essentially a matter of chance, not illuminated by theory The branches have been raising5^ the good average of §2,500 each radio, I ’m sending you $10. Hope and practice, not subjected to consciousness and will. . . So­ I could send you more. Yours for cialism will mean a leap from the realm of necessity into the week. the emancipation of the workers.” realm of freedom in this sense also, that the man of today, Philadelphia goes to the top of John Miller of Harrisburgh, with all his contradictions and lack of harmony, w ill open the the list this week with $340 of Pa. urges our candidates to “ Keep road for a new and happier race.” TROTSKY LENIN its $500 pledge already collected. Fighting. Wall Street Monopoly —LEON TROTSKY, Copenhagen Speech, 1932. Congratulations, Phillie, on your Capitalism must go.” And he’s pace-setting. doing his bit to hustle it toward Youngstow n leaped in one the grave. bound from zero to tenth place From far-off Wiseton in Cana­ w ith a money order fo r $290 da, Jim Seward encloses' $5 to which represents 36 per cent of help Dobbs and Carlon. “ It thrills Univis Strike and Labor Solidarity its quota. Milwaukee expects that me through and through to read its picnic will-boost pledge pay­ their speeches which are so full One consequence of supporting the. T aft- the Governor directed National Guards into ments quite a hit. of courage and determination and San Francisco-Oakland reports Ilartley “ yellow dog’’ oath is revealed in the loyalty to the working class. They Dayton to smash the strike, the CIO Council that “by all appearances we will w ill not go down to any disgrace­ Oppenheim Collins strike, as reported on leaders announced the cancellation of all go over our $1,500 quota. The ful defeat. Their aim and object Page 1. In this case, an APL union lias taken further demonstrations in aid of the Univis comrades are making every ef­ is a noble one.” advantage of the Taft-1 lartley Act and is Lens strikers. The CIO Council leaders fort to get the money in early. We want to thank these readers scab-herding against a striking CIO union. preferred to have a CIO local smashed rather We’ll open our local election cam­ for their donations and urge paign with a meeting on August The API. leaders justify their scabbery with than support a strike whose leaders they others to follow their example. 22 a t w hich James P. Cannon w ill Help the voice of socialist truth the pretext that the striking union is “ com­ oppose politically. The strikers have been be the fea tu red speaker.” to be heard by sending your dimes munist.’’ forced to return to work, with eleven of them In New York City the Painters and dollars to the Dobbs-Carlson What damage such a viewpoint can cause victimized and without union recognition. Branch has been successfully Fund, 116 U n iv e rs ity Place, New securing contributions from their Y o rk 3, N .Y. tlje labor movement is further shown in the The logic of this policy is borne out to its inevitable conclusion in the Seattle Boeing shopmates and fellow-workers on case of the Univis Lens strike in Dayton, the job. Over $30 taken in to date. Support the Ohio. In this instance, the workers went on strike. This strike involves the International Dobbs-Carlson collection lists strike May 5 after the company discontinued Association of Machinists, a conservative have been sent out to all branches. Dobbs-Carlson Three cops hauling off to jail picket Marylin Hasselbeck, member of the CIO Electrical and union whicli was one of the first to sign the Use them for circulating among Radio Workers, on strike at the Unjvis Lens Co., Dayton, O. “Send her to the morgue,” yelled recognition and demanded, an NLRB decer­ Fund! one cop. Federated Pictures tification election. A bitter struggle ensued, Taft-I lartley affidavits. But if you can scab- your neighbors and fellow-work­ herd against allegedly "communist” -led ers and for mailing to contacts. lasting over three months. The issue was FROM OAKLAND, CALIF. rules and regulations set up by unions, you can always find a pretext for In response to our appeal, M ili­ unionism or non-unionism. tant readers are mailing in contri­ SCOREBOARD FOR $25,000 Listened to your program over the ruling capitalist society, and strikebreaking against any other union. And the air. Please send literature and working very hard in order to Because the striking union was a local of butions. Here are a few of the that’s just what Daniel J. Tobin’s lieutenant, encouraging letters received. all information. I would like to make a decent living. the CIO Electrical Workers, which is Stalin­ David Beck, lias ordered the A FL Teamsters H. Anderson of Chicago writes: SWP ELECTION FUND work for this party in the cam­ I returned home from the ser­ paign. W ill the candidate be on ist-led, the right-wing controlled county CIO to do against the Boeing strike. “To show you my appreciation Branch Quota Paid Perce vice and have since contracted a the ballot in November? Council for months denied support to the for the courageous work you are Philadelphia 500 340 68 disease which required imme­ Union leaders who advocate a policy that E.Z. doing in educating the workers diate hospitalization. As a re­ strikers, in spite of repeated appeals for aid. encourages or condones scabbing and strike­ St. Louis 50 34 68 * * * to know their economic interest Tacoma 50 30 60 ward for my service for “dem­ Only when the police began slugging strikers FROM SEATTLE, WASH. breaking for any reason should be branded as in society in times like these A lle n to w n 50 25 50 ocracy,” I was informed by a right and left, when an NLRB “ Ja” election moral lepers and quarantined from ihe society when there is so much confusion, West Virginia 100 50 50 Thank you for sending me your government agency that I would was held decertifying the established union of healthy union men. The great principle misunderstanding and misinfor­ Reading 150 75 50 literature. From it I find that I have to wait on a long list before could not support you if you were and when Dayton CIO workers were out­ from which organized labor has always mation in the press and over the F lin t 400 160 40 I could be hospitalized in a gov­ D e tro it 1,600 610 38 the only candidate running. How ernment hospital even though my raged by the CIO Council’s conduct, did the anyone can bear so much hate in derived its strength is: "An injury to one is M innesota 2,000 767 38 condition required immediate right-wing leaders permit the Council to vote their hearts is beyond me. If I an injury to all.” That is the principle the Youngstow n 800 290 36 hospitalization. support of the strikers on July 20. were as unhappy in this country workers must always uphold, regardless of Attention Flint & M ilw aukee 400 140 35 As a result, my fam ily has had as you are then I would get out But just as the crucial moment of this organizational or political differences, when New York City 7,500 2,584 34 to work extra hard to pay the Saginaw Readers San Francisco- of it and go to Russia where your bitterly-fought strike was reached on the day any union is under boss attack. kin d w ould be welcomed, as i t high hospitalization fee of $45 GRACE CARLSON Oakland 1,500 473 31 per week. 15 30 would be a more fertile field for SWP Vice-Presidential B a ltim o re 50 After reading The Militant, Chicago 2,000 596 29 your kind of philosophy. Candidate 1 came to the conclusion that it is N ew ark 750 2Ö0 27 H.M.O. -•:< * * the only workingman’s paper w ill speak Los Angeles 2,500 510 20 that fights for labor’s advance­ CP Convention P itts b u rg h 200 35 18 FROM HAMBURG, N.-Y. Thursday, A ug . 19 - 7:30 P.M . ment and against capitalist ideo« Cleveland 400 70 18 Oddly enough, I first heard of COLUMBUS HALL the Socialist Workers Party in a logy and capitalist domination. The French have a saying, “ The more among other things, believe it or not, because Boston-Lynn 400 60 15 201 N . 6th S tree t Toledo 200 31 15 list of organizations classified by If all my fellow ex-servicemen things change, the more they remain the his very “ request for readmission was in SAGINAW, MICHIGAN Seattle 600 70 11 the Department of Justice as would realize my views, and pass itself a disguised form of anti-party activity.” 37 4 “ subversive or un-American,” and them on to friends and relatives, same.” This just about describes the recent F rid a y, A ug . 20 - 7:30 P.M. B u ffa lo 1,000 national convention of the American Com­ At the same lime the Foster-Dennis leader­ A k ro n 400 10 3 I got your address from the 1948 we w ould be able to prevent a 11th floor, CIO BUILDING World Almanac. It interested me munist Party. ship expelled another prominent Stalinist, Connecticut 250 0 0 third capitalist world war. FLINT, MICHIGAN Rochester 25 0 0 to find three political parties on There was a lot of loud ballyhoo about the .Max Bedacht, formerly leading theoretician Ex-Army-Sgt. L. San Diego 50 0 0 the list; the Communist, SWP Liberty, N. Y. Auspices: new Marxist line of The Foster-Dennis leader­ of tlie party, because he had the temerity to General 1,075 69 6 and the Proletarian Party. I don’t ship and a lot of cussing about the revision­ declare that the Wallace movement was Socialist Workers Party know what classification the SWP capitalist and opposed the GP policy of sup­ ;al thru Aug. 11 $25,000 $7,581 30 is under, but if it is “subversive” ism and pro-capitalism of the past leadership and “ un-American” to oppose the SWP Chides CP of Browder. But beneath the radical-sounding porting it. control of the government by a The Socialist Workers’ Par­ catch phrases everything remains as before. The unregeneratc character of the Stalinist handful of quasi-Fascists of Wall ty, through Farrell Dobbs, its Stalinist politics are still Peop'es Front party is further illustrated by the conven­ Street, and if it is “reactionary” Presidential candidate, has to fight the NAMzis, J. P. Morgan politics—that is the politics of an alliance tion's conduct on the Smith Gag Law. At called on the Communist Party Letters on Broadcasts and the Du Ponts who would push to forget “our profound politi­ between the workers and the capitalists on the very time that 12 of their own leaders us into World Fraud III, then the cal difference” and form a the basis of a pro-capitalist program. Under are under indictment and face possible jail Socialist Workers Party should be “broad united front” against us know in plenty of time if you From the flood of apprecia­ what I know of it I like it and 1 on that list! the Smith Act, under which 12 Browder this alliance was carried through sentences, the convention is not permitted to get more time on the air. tions, criticisms and inquiries think it is a sincere effort to I heard Farrell Dobbs’ speech top CP leaders have been in­ by hacking Roosevelt and the Democratic even discuss the united front offer of the improve this nation and not cater Also enclosed is $3.00 toward coming into our office in last Friday on NBC and it was ex­ dicted. Party. Now that the Democratic Party is Socialist Workers Party to form a broad to monopolies. Election and Party-Building Fund cellent. You are getting some fine Dobbs recalls that in 1941 part of the bi-partisan coalition pushing the committee representing all tendencies of the response to radio broadcasts, I ’m 26 years o f age and have I see no hope outside o f the radio publicity. the SWP had been the first vic­ "cold war” against Russia, the Stalinists labor movement to fight the indictments and we are printing these excerpts been going to college 5 years. At Fourth International program, R.W.G. tim of the Smith Act and 18 and it is our responsibility to attempt to carry through the policy through seek the nullification of the Smith Act. of a number of the letters. the quickest possible time I would SWP leaders were tried and like information on your party prevent World War III. We have Ex-Veteran jailed. He recalled that the CP their alliance with Wallace and the creation In the same way the convention ignored and its platfoi'm and if it is suit­ the program but we still have to at that time “ ignored the dan­ of a new pro-capitalist Peoples Front under the communication of the C ivil Rights From St. Louis, Mo. able, as I think it is, I will be a get it to the masses. The elec­ Addresses Buddies ger inherent in the conviction” tion campaign will meet with a and “sought to obstruct all ef­ his leadership. Defense Committee, which called upon the I heard a broadcast by your vigorous campaigner for the E d ito r: good response. forts to arouse the labor move­ The old Browder line was a direct sellout convention to record .«itself in favor of a presidential candidate last Fri­ cause. My advice to Ex-Servicemen: D.T.D. B.J. ment.” “While you did not of the American workers and their class in­ presidential pardon for the 18 SWP and day night. I wish to request a I am an average fellow, 25 years $ * * * •+• * come to the defense of the terests. It was simply designed to cement an Minneapolis CIO Truck Drivers Union copy of his address and your of age, married, and a veteran of Trotskyists, we have already alliance between the Stalin regime and Amer­ leaders, who were the first victims of the party platform. I know you will From Pensacola, Fla. FROM SAGINAW, MICHIGAN. three years, including 2 years of made public our opposition to overseas service in the U.S. ican imperialism. The new Foster-Dennis line Smith Gag Act, and whose conviction is the not win in this election, hut some I enjoyed very much your Please send me a copy of the your indictment,” Dobbs said. day enlightened Americans will A rm y . speech on Friday night on NBC aims and platform of the Socialist (Reprint from CIO News, is no less a sellout of the American working precedent for the present indictment of the All my life has been spent in choose between the Socialist par­ and I wish all the workers, fann­ Workers Party. A u g u st 9, 1948.) class. It is a variant of the same policy CP leaders. doing right, by living within ties instead of from the rotten ers and small businessmen of the If it’s anything like England’s designed to aid Stalin in forcing through Thus at a time when the CP is under capitalist parties. entire country had listened to the poor socialist system, we don’t another deal with Washington. fierce attack from the American capitalists Also would you kindly send me true words you spoke. If those w ant it ! The phony character of the CP’s new “ left” it reveals itself again as a hard-boiled foe the address of your party head­ words don’t open their eyes and M rs. G. H. Activities of ‘M ilitant’ Readers and the quarters here in St. Louis. * * * policy is shown up in the ludicrous incident of the solidarity of the working class; as an ears at the same time, nothing B.K.K. in connection with Browder’s reapplication for organization that puts its own unworthy w ill. . . FROM VINELAND, N.J. * * * Would like for you to send me membership. The convention— unanimously, factional interests above the interests of the Please send me information as SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY From South New Berlin, N.Y. a copy of that speech, I consider to what the Socialist Workers it goes without saying— rejected Browder’s broad labor movement and as a venal agency it a masterpiece. If you can spare I am writing for a copy of the Party stands for and your presi­ application for readmission because he was of the reactionary, anti-internationalist Stalin me several copies of that speech AKRON—4 So. Howard St., 2nd fl. Mon. NEWARK—423 Springfield Ave. Phono speech which was delivered over dential candidate’s speech of May through Fri., 7 to 9 p. in.; Branch meet­ B ige lo w 3-2574. R eading room . Open I w ill appreciate it and give it to still supporting a pro-capitalist policy ami regime in Russia. NBC August 6 by your candidate, 15, 1948. ing every T hurs. 8 p.jm. d aily, 12-4 and 7-10 p.m . some friends to bring those true BALTIMORE—1121 E. Baltimore St., N E W Y O R K C IT Y (H q .)— 116 U n lre re - M r. Dobbs. M . B. words to the people who should Phone W o lfe 1753J, D a ily 9 a.m. -9 p.m ., ity PI. Phone GR. 5-8149. I have a copy of The Militant * * * O. Coover Sr.. MILITANT and FOURTH EAST SIDE—251 E. Houston St. know the facts and realize that INTERNATIONAL on »ale. 1st fl. where your party platform is out­ the commentators, dramatizers on FROM ISANTI, MINN. BOSTON—30 Stuart St., Sat., 1-5 p. m.. H A R L E M — 103 W . 110 St., R m . 28 lined, but if you would send a Tues., 7:30-9:30 p. m. Phone MO. 2-1866. Open discussion', the air and would-be writers on Please send me a copy of the T h u rs., 8 p. rn. The National Guard few copies of it, I would be very BUFFALO—Militant Forum, 829 Main the editorial pages are only for acceptance speech of the nominee St., 2nd fl. Phone M Adison 3980. E very BRONX—1034 Prospect Ave., 1st fl. happy to distribute them for you. afternoon except Sun. Phone L U . 9-0101. the oil interests, trusts and cor­ for president on the Socialist B R O O K LY N —635 F u lto n St. Phone Many youth have been fooled by the During the GIO packinghouse workers In conclusion, I wish to say I CHICAGO—777 W. Adams (comer Hal- ST. 3-7433. porations. Your speech should be Workers Party, which I heard in sted). Phone DEArborn 4787. Daily except think your party is just what this C H E L S E A — 130 W . 23rd St. Phone ‘ out” given them in the Selective Service strike, the National Guard was sent in to spread not only all over this part over WCCO one evening last Sun., 11 a. m.-5 p. m. Library, book- GH. 2-9434. country has needed for a long Btore. Act. They are joining the National Guard subdue under-paid meat packing workers de­ countrv but all over the world. week. OAKLAND (Cal.)—Write P. O. Box time. I’ve gotten vefy tired of CLEVELAND—Militant Forum, Sun., 1351, O akland 4. manding a decent wage. They were sent in L.R. A.J.P. 8:30 p. m.. Peck's Hall. 1448 E. 82nd St. in the belief that it provides a “ lesser evil” wondering where the next penny (off Wade Park Ave.). P H IL A D E L P H IA — 1303-05 W . G ira rd * * * Ave., 2nd fl. Phone Stevenson 4-5820. tc conscription for. possible overseas war to protect the profits of the meat trust, now is coming from. I am the daughter D E T R O IT — 6108 Linw ood Ave. Phone Open daily. Forum, Fri., 8 p. m. TY 7-6267. M on. through S at., 12-5 p. m. duty. demanding as much as §1.50 a pound for of a construction worker, but you From Houston, Texas PITTSBURGH—1418 Fifth Ave.. 2nd fl. Stay On FLINT—Socialist Workers Party Hall, Sunday evening: discussions on “The 215 E. N in th Street. Phone: 2-2496. They are going to find out quickly enough beef. can’t build roads in the winter. Will you please send me 4 SWP Election Program” . Every week, Open House Saturday evenings. copies of Mr. Dobbs’ address The Picket Line 7:30 P. M. that by joining the National Guard they are We have just witnessed the shameful P.T. LOS ANGELES—M ilitant Publ. Assn.. * * * heard over a Houston radio sta­ Stay on the picket line and fight... Room 201, 124 W . 6th St. Phone V A ndyke SAN DIEGO (Cal.) — For Information signing up for possible m ilitary duty against spectacle of 1,500 National Guardsmen w rite P. O. B ox 857. tion today and a copy of the L ike h e ll! 8061. their own fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, armed to the teeth and led by a tank unit, Trom Rochester, N.Y. S A N PE D R O —M ilita n t. 1008 S. P a cific SAN FRANCISCO—1739 Fillmore Are., party’s platform. Wherein is Workers black and white unite, Room 214. 4th fl. Phono FI. G-0410. Daily except 1 am extremely interested in Sun., 12-4:30 p. m. relatives and neighbors. sent against a few hundred strikers in Day- your party different from the one That’s swell... WATTS—Militant. 1720 E. 97th St. the platform of your party. I SEATTLE—Maynard Bldg., 1st Ave., The capitalist m ilitary machine lias a two­ ton, Ohio, who were whipped back to work led by Norman Thomas? M ay be a long pinch, so w h at? LYNN, (Mass.)—14 Central Sq., Rm. South & W ashington, phone M a in 9278. loathe Henry Wallace and almost R.H. Don’t give up an inch... 11, Sat. 1-5 p. m. Discussion, Tues., Mon. through Sat., 12-5 p. m. Branch fold function. One is for foreign conquest. without a contract. feel the same about the Democra­ T :30 p. m., meeting, Fri., 8 p. m. Library, bookstore. * * * Hold what you’ve got. MILW AUKEE—Militant Bookshop, 808 ST. LOUIS—1023 N. Grand Blvd., Rm. 1 he other is for the subjugation of the No, those who conceived the D raft Act, tic and Republican parties. It is Let the bosses blab, S. 5th St. Mon. through Fri., 7:30-9:30 312. F orum , Thurs., 7-30-10 p. m From British Columbia, Canada ST. PAUL—540 Cedar St. Phone Gaj> American people themselves. The National didn’t do the youth any favor by putting my opinion that the people don’t BUT STOP THAT SCAB! p. m. Phono BR oadw ay 9645. MINNEAPOLIS—10 So. 4th St. Phone field 1137. Open dally. Bookstore. Guard is specifically organized for the latter in the tricky “ escape clause” on the National have much of a choice in candi­ Enclosed is $1125 and five spe­ Fight for what you want, M ain 7781. D a ily except Sun., 10 a. m .- TACOMA (Wash.)—Write P. O. Box dates such as Wallace, Truman cial 25c 15-week subs. Hope to 6 p. m. Library, bookstore. 1079. M eeting, W ed., 8 p. m ., Odd F e llo w purpose. Guard. They understood full well that they It’s up to you... Hall, 6th & Fawcett. and Dewey. have more soon. But if you don’t, NEW BRITAIN, (Conn.)—M ilitant Dis­ TOLEDO- — Weekly meetings every cussion Group every Fri. 7:30 p.m. M ili­ We have had two proofs of this very re­ were preparing the instrument for a two­ Heard the acceptance radio BY GOD, YOU’RE THROUGH! Friday night at 7:30, Kappa Hall, 413 I have a sketchy knowledge of tant Labor Club. 165 Main St. (next to S um m it, Room 1, top fl. Strand Theatre). cently, last spring in Minnesota and Iowa, pronged war. Against the working people your platform and I would like speeches and Comrade Dobbs’ last Bill Armstrong YOUNG STO W N — 234 E . F ederal St., network speech. Be sure to let NEW HAVEN — Labor School, 855 Phone 3-1355. W ed., F r i., S at., 1:30 to and last week in Dayton, Ohio. abroad — and the working people at home. to have more material on it. Of D e tro it Grand Ave., 3rd fl., Tues; 8-10:30 p. me 4 p. m . Diary of a Steel Worker The Tombstone the MILITANT By Theodore Kovalesky VO LUM E X II MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1948 N U M B E R 33 Jimmy and I sat quietly by the side of the They protested to the authorities. With the creek. The current moved steadily by, tugging logic of red-baiters, they showed how a dead man gently at the bright little corks on our fishing had no right to have such a symbol on his tomb­ lines. We had worked the night stone. And the authorities gave ear to their shift and driven straight out to protest. They saw the indecency of the situation the creek, for we were off the and ordered the hammer and sickle removed. N. Y. Transit Interests Move next day and could afford not to However, with the liberalism of these times, they sleep for a while.' Bo there we otherwise left the tombstone intact. sat, talking when we felt like it “ You think they’ll dig him up to stand trial?” and enjoying the warm morning Jimmy asked. sun on our backs. I shook my head. “ You got to be careful even After one very long pause, after you’re dead nowadays,” I said. To Put Over New Fare Steal Jimmy pushed a hand into his “Who was the guy?” pocket and said, “Hey, I been meaning to show “I don’t know, Jimmy,” I said. “I don’t know By Art Sharon you th is .” who he was, but he was my friend. Any guy that AFL Raiding NEW YORK. Aug. 9 — and still maintain the rate of re­ I took the crumpled bit of paper. It was a will have ‘Workers of the world, unite!’ on his Fight Pressed turn on their invested capital. newspaper photograph of a tombstone, one like tombstone is sure as hell a friend of yours and Fourteen private corporations The transit barons turned I had never seen before. m ine.” controlling practically all sur­ down the cent increase with Jimmy spat into the creek, and we watched the It was a large stone. Near the top were the Against Police face transportation in thc.city scorn. When asked what they words, “WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE.” widening circles move slowly down toward the are again reaching into the considered a fair return on their Also at the top was r. five pointed star with a lake. “ I got mad when I saw that,” Jimmy said. pockets of the city’s working investment the leading spokes­ hammer and sickle cut into it. Bfeneath the star “ What are you going to do when people act like Loudspeaker Ban class population. They reason man answered: “We’re entitled was the name of the man who lay in the grave, th a t? ” NEW YORK CITY — The that if the city and the little to an 8 per cent return and we’re Morris Wohansky, 1882-1934. The inscription I grinned. “You know what we’re going to do, opening of the presidential coterie of bankers on the inside e n title d to as much o f a fare as read, “ Mourn not the dead, but rather mourn the all right. We’re going to build the kind of world election 'c a m p a ig n period in track of the city’s subways could we can get.” apathetic throng, who sees the world’s great that won’t produce half-witted slobs who want raise their fares then they too New York City finds the Socialist The favorite financial swindle anguish and its wrongs, yet dare not speak.” to desecrate tombstones and rob the dead. But are entitled to more. Workers Party, the Americans of public utilities is to load them Jimmy watched me with a cynical smile as I there’s something in that picture that’s pretty This outrageous hijacking is for Democratic Action and the down with paper debts, and thus read the little news item that accompanied the •wonderful to me.” being attempted in broad day­ American Labor Party engaged drain off more than would come photograph. It seemed that the Canadian Legion “What’s that?” Jimmy asked, looking at the light. The excuse for a fare hike in a struggle with the police over as a so-called normal return. In had found out about Comrade Woliansky’s clipping . is the new 24-cent wage increase the right to use loud-speakers at the case of the Third Avenue gravestone in Mt. Hope. Cemetery, Waterloo, “You won’t see it there,” I said, “ but there’s granted the transit workers or­ street meetings without police lines the Mayor’s experts state Ont., and it had displeased them. They didn’t act the picture of the victory of the workers. When ganized in the CIO Transport permits and the payment of big that there is only $11,000,000 in­ like the Nazis; they didn’t steal into the grave­ the ruling class and the scummy, elements who Workers Union. fees: The police have been making vested. The Third Avenue’s at­ yard in the dead of night and smear it with do its thug work begin to fear the dead and the Simple arithmetic reveals the arrests, issuing summonses and torney claims that there is $59,- paint or oil or hack it with hammer and chisel. ideas of the dead, it shows the great power of extent of the proposed steal. The otherwise harrassing the street 000,000 more invested. “There Had it been necessary, they probably would have the ideas of our movement. It shows that not largest of the transit corpora­ speakers of the minority parties were actually 59 million iron men done so, but it wasn’t necessary. even death-itself can stop us.” tions, the Third Avenue Line and in brazen violation of the June 7 that went into the Third Avenue the N.Y. City Omnibus and Fifth Supreme Court ruling on this Company,” he declared. question. Avenue Coach Company employ “Loudspeakers arc today indis­ 7,C00 workers and carry 4,000,000 WATERED STOCK A 100 Percent American passengers daily. The companies pensable instruments of effective This is so badly fraudulent that want to raise fares three cents. public speech,” states the ruling it brought laughter from the ------By Art Preis ------The additional daily take thus written by Justice William O. witnesses at the hearing. The would come to $120,000. The pro­ The Chicago Tribune’s biography of John munism” and “subversive” is a wonderful aid to Douglas. “The sound truck has CIO members picket Oppenheim Collins Dept. Store in New Mayor answered: “They went in, posed increase in wages amounts Parnell Thomas observes: “ He seems to have Thomas and his colleagues of the Un-American become an accepted method of York exhorting management to “Negotiate, Don’t Redbait.” The but they came right out again.” Stalinist-led union is trying to save its bargaining rights from a to $13,440. been molded by life for the job he now faces.” Committee. He can make these terms fit just political .campaigning. It is the “ How long do you expect the joint employer-governmcnt-AFL attack. Federated Pictures in order to put this scheme That job is chairman of the House Un-American about anyone he dislikes or who disagrees with way people are reached. Must a Third Avenue riders to carry that over, the transit corporations have Activities Committee, first made notorious under him. Moreover, Congressional immunity gives candidate for Governor or the 860,000,000 in water that you to get the approval of Mayor ex-Congressman Dies and which is currently seek­ him the right to question, accuse, smear or other­ Congress depend 'on the whim or have up there?” the Mayor O’Dwyer and his Tammany pals. ing to hold the spotlight in whipping, up the spy wise “expose” anyone, without fear of suit for caprice of the Chief of Police in asked. order to use his sound truck for The Mayor’s board has tried dur­ scare. libel or even cross-questioning. Seattle SWP Plans Extensive The corporation attorney had campaigning? Must he prove to ing the course of several hear­ In a more critical appraisal of Thomas, “ White The two terms Thomas seems to have most d if­ the unbeatable answer: “ We won­ the satisfaction of that official ings to get the corporations to Knight or False Prophet?” by Milton Lehman, ficulty in defining are “ fascism” and “ democracy.” der how much water there is in that his noise will not be annoy­ moderate their appetite. One cor­ published by the Aug. 1 N. Y. Times, the job for He told Mr. Lehman: “Fascism—I guess I’ve the city’s bonds?” ing to people ? Program for Dobbs on Visit poration spokesman explained which “ the stocky, florid Congressman” has been never been asked to define it. I’d say it’s just Neither got an answer. Both On the strength of this decision, their point of view which bears molded is as “a hunter . . . he tracks down people like communism, dangerous to America. And quickly passed over to a less em­ the SWP, ADA and ALP have By C. Kaye, Wash. State District Campaign Mgr. repeating. he considers subversive, un-American and danger­ democracy—why, everybody knows what that is.” barrassing point. ous to the national welfare”—as defined by J. been holding street meetings ------® With respect to fascism, Congressman Thomas SEATTLE, Aug. 5 — The THIS IS AMERICA With the hearings concluded Parnell Thomas. without applying for special po­ is in the same position as a man with halitosis— sprawling city of Seattle, Wash., “This is America . . . 1 hold last week, the 'corporations can “In his hunt,” says Mr. Lehman, “he is usually lice permits. There have been even his best friend won’t tell him. His sub­ bonds in this company and if it’s now take the next legal step with flanked by a battery of photographers and report­ numerous arrests. But when the Goldman Quits WP scene of the 1919 General committee on fascism recently reported there any crime to hold a bond and seven cents recommended as the ers, and when he fires, he sometimes brings down cases, which were in the nature Strike and currently the site of was “no danger of fascism in America” and make a profit I don’t know what “compromise” fare. a few of his quarry. But his buckshot has also hit of tests of the police ordinances the 110-day-old Boeing strike, declared that such organizations as the Colum­ i t is.” a number of innocent bystanders.” on sound devices, were brought To Campaign for will play host to Farrell Dobbs These hearings simply served bians of Georgia and the Ku Klux Klan are The Mayor and his cronies ex­ Congressman Thomas has a very simple defini­ into court, the Police Department, fpr the opening lap of his nation­ to momentarily lift the veil and “ nativc-American institutions and not subject to plained to the arrogant corpora­ reveal the cesspool of corruption tion of “Americanism.” He told Mr. Lehman that fearing adverse court decisions, wide tour as the presidential investigation by the committee.” Which just goes Norman Thomas tion attorneys that they, too, “ Americanism is conservative. We’ve got to stop deliberately pressed for post­ candidate of the Socialist Work­ and legalized thievery that goes to show how nature blunts people to their own CHICAGO, Aug. 3—Stalinist wished to see them g e t a r eason­ the radicals and stop them now.” You’d better not ponement. At the same time, the ers P arty. on daily in every city of this sm ell. able return on their investment. differ with his definition, either. Several who police continue to insist on their disruption and rule - or - ruin A full schedule has been ar­ country. As the transit corpora­ A city expert had estimated a have done so in his presence are now studying We might add to this portrait of a 100% arbitrary rulings and restric­ tactics were displayed last week ranged by the Washington State tion attorney boasted, fleecing cent increase as being more than his definition in jail under a conviction for “con­ American—who looks like a Laura Gray cartoon tions. at the University of Chicago. A District from Aug. 18 to Aug. 21. the poor and gouging the public ample to cover increased costs is no crime under capitalism. te m p t.” cf a Wall Street capitalist—that h’s zeal for Under pressure of the continued Civil Rights Committee was or­ A public mass meeting will be W’hen Mr. Lehman asked Thomas during an hunting down “subversives” was undoubtedly violation of these police rules by ganized and met on Monday, July l.eld on Friday evening, Aug. 20, interview to define such terms as “communist,” nurtured in his years as a successful W all Street the minority parties, the Police 26, to plan a campaign of protest 8 P.M. at the Swedish Club Hall “fascist,” “subversive” and “un-American,” the bond and insurance salesman. He also managed Department has now announced against the Smith “ Gag” Act, and on 1627 E ig h th Ave. On S a tu r­ man.who can smear you at w ill and send you to to get through the University of Pennsylvania’s that its Legal Bureau is drafting the latest use of that infamous day evening, Aug. 21, at 8 P.M. PETITION GOAL REACHED jail for any of these things “buzzed for his Wharton Business School, where, he now modestly new legislation on the use of law — this time against 12 lead­ the public is invited to a recep­ secretary and asked her to bring in ‘that list on admits: “ I was never a good student, but I could sound devices. This may result ers of the Communist Party. At tion for Mr. Dobbs at the local communism and the rest of it 1 always use.’ He always tell a troublemaker.” And a trouble­ in regulations that- merely get the initial meeting, it was voted party headquarters, fourth floor, wagged his finger. ‘Every time 1 define them,’ he maker, for the New Jersey Republican who likes around the Supreme Court ruling, to sponsor a public meeting on Maynard Building, First Ave. at IN 53 N. Y. COUNTIES to make up definitions as he goes along, is any­ while withholding the concession Washington St. said, ‘I do it differently.’ ” Wednesday, July 28 in defense of By Irving Beinin, N. Y. State Campaign Manager This flexibility in defining terms like “com­ body who makes trouble for J. Parnell Thomas. which the ruling represents. The civil rights. Students at the University of Washington will have the oppor­ Socialist Workers Party in New The Stalinists present were tunity of hearing the SWP candi­ Aug. 11—A mobilization called Saturday night by the New York City is demanding that the voted down on their attefnpt to date on Thursday afternoon, Aug. York Local for petition gathering netted L2(X) signatures on Mayor call a public hearing at prevent the selection, as a sched­ 19 at 3 P.M., in the lounge of Dobbs and Carlson petitions. ^------? The “Four Freedoms" which spokesmen of all organiza­ uled speaker, of Albert Goldman, Eagelson Hall, the YMCA build­ tions concerned with, this legisla­ defendant and attorney in the Signers of petitions included Reports continue to come in of ------— ------tion can present their views. ing across the street from the By Dinah Sanders Minneapolis labor trial for the residents of all the boroughs of support for the SWP and its university campus. In the evening, 18 leaders of the Socialist Work­ Greater .New York. Friends of candidates from many upstate August marks the anniversaries of two proud their first taste of the “four freedoms” in the Dobbs will speak in Tacoma, ers Party, the first to be im­ the party aided in the mobiliza­ areas. Two new friends not only achievements of American imperialism—the “ A t­ form of tear gas and bullets from Churchill’s Wash., in an informal session. prisoned under the Smith Act. tion. One brought in 6(5 signatures support the party but offered to lantic Charter” and Hiroshima! In August 1941, troops. L. A. School Board Tacoma readers are urged to and joined the party the same begin building the SWP in their Roosevelt and Churchill met A ug . 1943. IT A L Y : A llie d leaders throu gh The m a jo rity voted to in v ite Gi>ld- write or call Campaign Head­ nigh t. localities. aboard a battleship some­ AM'GOT prevent Italian masses from driving out man and several other speakers, quarters in Seattle for informa­ The New York State total now where in the Atlantic Ocean, the fascists and setting up their own government. Hit on Prejudice including a spokesman for the PACE SETTERS Communist Party. On Tuesday, tion concerning this meeting. stands a t 15,000. This means th a t and announced with great Aug. 1945. BERLIN: “The Big Three” (U.S., A pace-setter’s squad captained By A l Lynn the Stalinists again tried to get On Wednesday evening, Aug. in 15 days of a 30-day campaign fanfare the signing of the Britain, Russia) completed plans for enslaving by George Rock is sparking the the German people by dismembering the country, the committee to reverse its de­ 18 at 8 P.M., Mr. Dobbs will 00% of the 25,000 goal has been "Atlantic Charter” guaran­ LOS A N G E L E S , J u ly 20. — campaign in New York City. teeing the “four freedoms” permanent strangulation of its economy and in­ cision by refusing to invite Gold­ speak before the Yesler Terrace reached. The reactionary Los Angeles Squad members circulate in fac­ to the peoples of the world definite m ilitary occupation. man. Again they were voted Summer Forum. This, is a series The Buffalo Branch is doing Board of Education twisted into tory areas at noon and gather forever. This was supposed to In 1945 U . S. im p e ria lism staged a special down. of nine forum sessions organized yeoman’s work in this campaign. its opposite charges of racial signature's from hundreds of represent the great principles commemoration ceremony in honor of the “four by the residents of Yesler Ter­ Its members have successfully prejudice and anti-labor senti­ On Wednesday, the day of the workers» daily. With this and for which millions were asked freedoms”—especially freedom from fear—by race, a government housing pro­ organized all SWP petition work ments brought against one of its meeting, signs were posted every­ other special measures, petition to shed their blood. dropping the first atomic bomb as an “experi­ ject. One evening has been devo­ in Western New York State. The principals at a hearing last night. where listing Goldman among the work is expected to be concluded While the muddleheaded ment” on Hiroshima’s 344,000 inhabitants. Four ted to each political party, as reports show that three times the A committee to Combat Racial speakers and mentioning that a well within the 30-day period. liberals cheered themselves days later they dropped the second atom bomb well as to speakers on housing, necessary minimum signatures Discrimination in the Los Angeles spokesman for the Stalinist Party Plans are now being made for hoarse, The Militant de­ on the 250,000 men, women and children of Naga­ and Mr. Dobbs will have the op­ have now been obtained in each Schools brought to lighf several would be present. At the last wind-up demonstrations and nounced the “charter” as a saki. Just before the bombs were dropped, Wash­ portunity of presenting an ana­ county of Western New York. The ington assured the world that “ We do not intend months ago, a confidential memo­ nioment the Stalinists pulled out street meetings in the working fraud. Who was right? lysis of the SW'P platform. The comrades expect to concentrate that the Japanese shall be enslaved as a race randum from Mrs. Nell Haas, and decided to boycott the meet­ class sections where the bulk of F o u r years later, when the forum will be held at the Yesler their work in the city of Buffalo application of the Charter was being questioned, or destroyed as a nation.” principal of the 28th St. School, in ing. They then attended the meet­ the signatures was obtained. C hild Care. Center, Broadw ay at its e lf and tu rn in 1,500 additional Roosevelt blandly announced that actually there On A ug. 18, 1945, The M ilita n t’s banner head­ which she wrote her superiors ing on Wednesday evening and Yesler. signatures. An Active Workers Conference never was any such document. Millions had gone line warned the world that “THERE IS NO that she wanted “ to separate my proceeded — as only Stalinists A press interview is being ar- Three times (he required min­ is scheduled for August 29, upon to their deaths on behalf of a non-existent “ Char­ PEACE!” This warning has unfortunately been union clique if possible,” also know how — to disrupt the meet­ > anged on Wednesday, Aug. 18 imum of 50 signatures per county the completion of the petition te r ” ! confirmed over and over again in the past three “ please do not send me any more ing, to smear Goldman, and to at the Frye Hotel. have been obtained in 53 of the work. The conference will map As originally dictated to the press by Roosevelt, years—in China, Indonesia, Indo-China, Burma, Jewish teachers who want to re­ whoop it up for the Communist Mr. Dobbs will also seek to plans for an effective campaign Point Three.of this non-existent document read Palestine, Greece, in the “cold war” between the form the world.” P arty. (51 counties of the state. Petition address several local union meet­ as follows: U. S. and Russia and the ever more feverish prep­ She also asked for “a Cauca­ work in the remaining counties to aggressively bring the party’s ings, and he will participate on “ They (Roosevelt and Churchill) respect the arations for the shooting war. sian teacher as all of my primary G O L D M A N ’S S T A N D has already been started and it program to the working class of the picketline around the strike­ right of all peoples to choose the form of govern­ In this seventh year of the “Atlantic Charter,” teachers, with one exception, are Both Goldman and a speaker is expected that all county re­ New York and bring out the vote bound Boeing Aircraft plant. ment under which they will live; and they wish the world has less of the four freedoms proclaim­ colored.” for the American Civil Liberties quirements will be shortly ful­ for Dobbs and Carlson on elec­ A sound truck to advertise the filled. to see sovereign rights and self-government re­ ed by Roosevelt than before the second world The Board of Education, elec­ Union condemned the Smith Act tion day. holocaust began. Dobbs appearances is in construc­ stored to those who have been forcibly deprived ted despite labor opposition at and protested against the arrest o f them .” The prospect under imperialist rule is not a tion and huge banners and pic­ the last elections demonstrated of the Communist Party leaders. The M ilitant files give an interesting account greater perspective of freedom, but a new world tures are being prepared for use the necessity for labor to aggres­ 4 number of students present, of how the imperialists have “celebrated” the war—this time of annihilation. That is why the on the truck and at all meetings. sively enter the political field. It however, were surprised to hear LEON TROTSKY MEMORIAL succeeding anniversaries of this momentous proc­ fight to take power out of the hands of the im­ reprimanded Mrs. Haas for being Goldman state that he would Readers of The Militant who la m a tio n : perialists and place it in the hands of the work­ live in the state of Washington MEETING “ indiscreet and unwise in the use even defend the “rights” of Aug. 1942. INDIA: On the first anniversary of ers and' farmers has become a life and death ere invited to these meetings and of certain terminology.” But its fascists, a point of view that has the “Atlantic Charter” the Indian masses got question for the American people and mankind. are urged to mail or bring in And Presidential Campaign Rally real fire was directed against nothing in common with Marxist their campaign contributions to Harry Jung, CIO representative class politics. Goldman’s position Speakers: Campaign Headquarters. and Harold Orr, president of on this question was warmly MURRY WEISS, National Committee member, AFL Teachers Union, Local 430, praised by the spokesman for the ’ Organizer, Los Angeles SWP Notes from the News who were accused of acting in an ACLU, an organization that has. GEORGE CLARKE, National Campaign Director, SWP unfair and undemocratic manner irequently given legal aid to I ax the RICH, not the poor! MIKE BARTELL, New York Citv Organizer and of circulating “false, mali­ PRESIDENTIAL STAKES — Whoever wins POISON GAS — An NBC correspondent stated fascists. “SWP ON THE MARCH” cious and un-American slurs on the presidential elections w ill have about 500,- that Greek War Minister George Stratos charged Goldman’s decision to defend Motion picture of the SWP Convention, launching 000 federal jobs to dispense as patronage. II. the good names of the ladies and “even fascists” came almost at U. S. officials with failure to make good on their its first presidential campaign Eliot Kaplan, Director of the Civil Service League, gentlemen who teach and who the same time that he decided to estimated that the total annual “patronage pay­ promise to deliver poison gas for use against the administer the Los Angeles City ‘suit the Shachtmanite “ Workers THE MILITANT CHORUS roll” totals about one billion dollars. guerrilla forces. He claimed that American Schools.” Party” in order to stump more HOTEL DIPLOMAT j* * * representatives, including Gen. Wedemeyer, made freely for Norman Thomas in the SHAME-FACED SUPPORT—Jack Kroll, Na­ the promise. election campaign. Actually, this 108 West 43rd St. FRIDAY, AUG. 27 tional Director of CIO-PAC strongly hinted that * * * SUBSCRIBE TO was not necessary, since Chicago the CIO leaders would back Truman for re- Shachtmanites are currently en­ New York City 8 P. M. CHINESE DOLLARS—100,000 Chinese dollars election in November. He said the formal decision gaged in circulating petitions to Auspices: Socialist Workers Party would probably be made at a meeting of CIO are now worth one United States cent, as in­ THE MILITANT get the Socialist Party’s Maynard yiee-presidents in Washington oh Aug. 19. flation continues to rage in China. Krueger on the ballot.