Workers of the World, Unite ! Coming SPECIAL SIX-PAGE MAY DAY ISSUE THE MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE

Vol. XV - No. 15 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1951 PRICE: FIVE CENTS AUTO WORKERS HIT TRUMAN RAW DEAL Hansen Exposes I Troops for Europe OK'd by Big Business M inority Pushes I Drive to War I SAN FRANCISCO, April 1 — For Labor Party Senate: the People Ignored Attentive audiences in San Fran­ By John G. W right 9" cisco and Oakland heard Joseph By A rt Preis A fter three months of the “Great Debate,” the Sen­ Hansen speak on the topic “ Am­ CLEVELAND, April 2 — For the first time since the Break the Bonds! erica and the World Crisis — The ate adopted on April 4 a resolution approving by a vote founding of the CIO United Automobile Workers, a na­ Socialist Answer to Capitalist tional convention of America’s largest union has heard a of 69 to 21 the shipment of four U.S. army divisions to M ilitarism ” at a meeting spon­ Europe. This resolution follows*------sored by the Socialist Workers direct attack by its top leaders on the Democratic administra­ •die main lines of the original ad­ pleasure double or triple the cur­ Party. tion in Washington. Yesterday’s ministration “ compromise” which rently estimated number of 100,- “ The police action in Korea opening session here of the had been denounced by the 000 soldiers without “violating” which began as ‘Operation Demo­ BULLETIN UAW ’s 13th Convention, attend­ the “ expressed sentiment” of cracy’ now ends up as ‘Operation Republican opposition, in par­ CLEVELAND, Apr. 5 — It was ed by some 2,500 delegates, was Congress. K ille r’ ” declared Hansen. “ As a ticular by Sen. Bricker as “ a reported tonight that the Resolu­ featured by sharp open criticism chain, a hoax, a fraud on the In the course of the debate Sen. result of this attempt to export tions Committee of the United T aft fla tly asserted that he knew of Truman personally and his ad­ American people.” It is exactly democracy Korea is now two- Automobile Workers convention ministration. that. that more U.S. troops were being thirds destroyed — the worst de­ here is divided over the issue of The American people are being actually ordered to Europe be­ vastation of any war in modern independent political action. TRUMAN NAMED fore Congress had even acted. history.” flim -flam m ed; their expressed A minority report will be UAW Secretary - Treasurer wishes brazeniy fiouted. lrum an Mazey, assailing Truman by WORLD DOMINATION presented to the convention to­ and his associates are responsible. morrow calling for “ a Congress of name, declared that “ the Presi­ Hansen proved conclusively that But the administration is not Bulletin Labor and . . . an Independent dent in this administration has the drive of U.S. financial and in­ alone. Equally responsihle is tne Labor Party.” Following is the given the people of this nation dustrial interests and their Wash­ Republican opposition led by text of the minority position on a raw deal” and that “ President ington tools is to dominate every Taft, Wherry and their asso­ this issue: Truman cannot escape his full ciates. There is not a single voice 18,569 VOTES corner of the globe. “ Truman is share of responsibility fo r the now in the process of spending confusion and for the mess that in either Senate or House that cast fo r MINORITY RESOLUTION today speaks fo r the people, ex­ 98% billion dollars for wars past, “ RESOLVED that this Conven­ the mobilization program finds pressing their w ill and interests. present and future. These costs tion calls upon the United Labor itself in at the present time.” He l ’oll after public poll- has shown Myra Tanner Weiss w ill have to be paid by the Amer­ Policy Committee to convoke a accused Truman of responsibility ican workers.” that the overwhelming majority representative Congress of Labor fo r putting Big Business execu­ Socialist Workers Party tives in complete control of war arc opposed to war and to the In contrast to these prospects, to take steps fo r the speedy mobilization and the govern­ sending of more troops to Europe. endorsed candidate Hansen quoted from the current formation of an Independent book “ Land of Plenty” w ritten ment’s war agencies. This mass anti-war sentiment is in Labor Party in preparation for by the architect Walter Teague, UAW President Walter Reu­ what politicians- like T aft are Los Angeles Election the 1952 elections.” as proof of what progress could ther, in his keynote address at seeking to exploit in jockeying be made “ i f the economy were The members of the resolu­ the start of the convention yes­ for advantages in the 1952 Presi­ See story on page 4 turned loose. But this could only tions Committee sponsoring the terday morning, went as far as dential elections. haptpen when the workers take above position are: he has yet dared to go in public­ The latest Gallup poll shows over the industries and operate Bert Foster, Cleveland Fisher ly pointing the finger of blame that the majority of the American T aft and other Senators have them in their own interests.” Body Local 45 (recently elected at the White House fo r the Big- public are convinced “ that the repeatedly charged that Truman Below is the schedule of Han­ president of this local on a Business domination and policies Truman administration is not has been usurping dictatorial sen’s Coast to Coast tour: Reuther slate); that led to the recent withdraw­ powers. “ I have never witnessed al of the American labor leaders doing as much as it should to James Schuetz, Buffalo Bell such a concerted effort to place from the Wage Stabilization head o ff” war. The fact is, A ircraft Local 501; neither are the Republican op­ such power in the hands of the Board and all other government Trenton Six "Confessed" Robert J. Winters, Bristol GM war agencies. ponents of the administration. President as is now being New Departure Local 626. On Apr. 2 Taft, Wherry and attempted,” stated Sen. McClel­ Reuther still did not mention Truman’s name, but he was un­ their bloc succeeded in passing lan. This, too, is absolutely so. MAJORITY POSITION their “advisory resolution” by a In face of such a grave threat mistakably, if deviously, refer­ — In Pain, Sick, Dazed The majority resolution on ring to Truman when he said that vote of 49 to 43. This unquestion- honest opponents of m ilitary dic­ trial. A main endeavor of the their “ confessions.” W aiting was political action calls for the “Mr. Wilson (war mobilization aL'ly was a vote of no confidence tatorship would demand the im ­ By George Lavan defense is to force the prosecu­ a large group of police officials “holding of a representative con­ czar Charles W. Wilson) is re­ in the Truman administration, but mediate intervention of the peo­ TRENTON, April 4—Argument tion to put Lieut. William Smal­ and the prosecuting attorney. ference of labor for the purpose sponsible for a lot of things in they too underwrote the sending ple. But not the Tafts and the on the admissibility of the forced ley, a key figure in the police Then with Manning as an ob­ of exploring . . . the best means Washington, and people in ad­ of four divisions to Europe. What ?,fcClellans! confessions of the framed - up investigation of the crime, on the server the “ confessions” began. of advancing the general welfare ministrative positions who were divides the opposing sides in The character of these people Trenton Six still continues. The stand. The prosecution has re­ Although he had known two of of the common people.” elected to office may be able to Congress are simply such tactical is disclosed by the fact that they jury is out of the box until the fused so fa r to produce Smalley, the prisoners for about eight This m ajority position coincides delegate authority, but they can­ differences as how many troops just barely failed to pass a reso­ judge makes his ruling. claiming a sore knee confines him years, he made no attempt to with the official line of the ULPC not abdicate responsibility.” should be sent abroad and who lution, sponsored by the notorious The prosecution has first say to bed. talk to them alone, was not to leave the door open for a deal Delegates from the floor quick­ should have the final say: Con­ McCarthy, ordering the inclusion in the argument and is still ly picked up Mazey’s attack on Today the prosecution put spoken to by any of the prisoners. with the Democratic Party by its gress or Truman. Both agree that of Franco Spain in the arms presenting its witnesses in an Truman, which received an ova­ Peyton Manning, a Negro poli­ Defense counsel tried to ask “ wait and see” attitude. the people shall have no say ai plans fo r Europe. But they did attempt to show that despite tion, and pressed to have i t at­ tician, on the stand. This witness’ Manning whether the thought The two positions w ill be all. succeed in including a provision the four-day-and-five-night in­ tached to a resolution in support ever occurred to him “ what am debated on the convention floor As matters stand, Congress has to this effect in the Apr. 4 reso­ credibility had previously been of the program of the United La­ communicado arrest and grilling I doing here?” But the line of no say, either. “ Further Con­ lution! assailed by NAACP attorney R. when the Resolutions Committee bor Policy Committee on which of the six Negro men, they “ con­ questioning was ruled out. In gressional approval” is written The attempts to stampede the P. Alexander who asked a police reports out tomorrow. Full details the UAW secretary - treasurer fessed” voluntarily. When the argument, however, the defense American people wefe underscor­ witness if it was not true that on this important debate w ill be was speaking. Reuther agreed into the Apr. 4 Senate resolution prosecution has finished, the asserted that after the terroriza­ ed last week by the deliberately Manning was “ an informer of the carried in our next issue. (Continued on Page 2) before any more “ ground troops defense w ill begin putting its tion of the prisoners in the long timed “ warning” of Speaker police.” in addition to such four divisions witnesses on the stand. Each side nights of grillin g the police Rayburn of the House that the Manning’s first act on the stand should be sent to Western Euro­ may cross-examine the witnesses brought in the Negro doctor, who l T.S. is already faced with “ maybe was to attempt to explain how pe.” But this is part and parcel of the other. was given a city job a week later, the beginning of World War III.” he "got into the case in the first of the whole fraudulent transac­ Most of the prosecution w it­ and Manning “ merely to observe UAW DELEGATES IN FOREIGN POLICY place.” According to him he tion. It has no legally binding Neither the administration nor nesses to date have been police certain constitutional amenities at received a phone call at his effect on Truman. A previous the Republican opposition w ill and detectives who were involved the signing ceremony.” filling station late one night from attempt in the Senate to enact protect the (people's interests. An in the arrest and extortion of the In cross examination the de­ DEBATE FLAY TRUMAN’S KOREA WAR Dr. Sullivan, a Negro physician. what would amount to a law' in moused people must assert itself “ confessions.” In cross-examina­ fense drew damaging admissions Together, and not knowing what CLEVELAND, Apr. 2 — A this connection was defeated. and demand that it settle through tion defense lawyers have brought from Manning: When Horace W il­ charges, that “ we are also op­ criticized and have been in over­ was pending, they went to the dramatic debate on the Korea Furthermore, an army division a national referendum the whole out many contradictions in the son was brought in to sign he posed to the corrupt reactionary whelming opposition to our in­ police station where the Negro war unexpectedly climaxed this regime of Syngman Rhee,” Wash­ is a higly flexible thing and the ¡¡■sue of peace and war, including testimony of these witnesses with lefused stating: “I didn’t have tervention and to the war in morning’s session of the CIO ington’s puppet dictator in South Pentagon can now ship at their the sending of troops abroad. the testimony given at the first prisoners were about to make anything to do with it and I Korea” and that “ they have been United Automobile Workers con­ Korea. Reuther said that the res­ wasn’t there. You can go to Rob- for the withdrawal of the troops vention at the huge Public Hall olutions committee was agreeable binsville and find a man there in Korea.” here. A half-dozen delegates took to “clarifying” the original i-eso- He recalled that a National CIO who can tell you where I was at the floor to sharply criticize a lution by adding a line express­ the time.” representative in Korea just be­ resolution, presented by Reuther’s ing opposition to Rhee. fore the outbreak of the war Manning also told how Thorpe, resolutions committee, that gave Supporters of the resolution whose arm had been amputated “ gave a lot of factual informa­ Life of a Railway Engineer fu ll and uncritical support to U. did not attempt to answer An­ tion as to what the Syngman eight days before the crime with S. imperialism's intervention in derson’s charges, nor the blister­ Rhee regime represented in Ko­ which he and the others are By One Who Has Lived It Korea. ing indictment of the mistreat­ rea, and it was no different than falsely charged, was in pain, had ment of American Negro troops Chiang Kai-shek and Bao Dai The first time I remember from my previous visits. He miles away. The fireman told me WITHDRAW THE TROOPS very interested in the engine, be­ tears in his eyes and was on the Korean front made by and other puppets of the wealthy wanting to be a locomotive cause lie began talking to me. greeted me by my first name, to sit on the seat box and watch frightened. Furthermore, Man- The debate was touched o ff Ernest Dillard, also of Local 15 class in the Far East.” by John Anderson, of Detroit engineer was one day when my That led up to my asking if he and asked if I still wanted to go him for a few miles to get an rung admitted, Thorpe didn’t and one of the most prominent Anderson related his observa­ Fleetwood Local 15, World War brother and myself were in town would let me come up into the firing. I told him that was what idea of how to keep this big answer questions coherently but Negro unionists in Detroit. Sev­ tions of imperialism while he visiting our cousins. We were on cab. He told me to come on up. I came for. He took me into an­ Mikado engine hot. Locomotives mumbled. Thorpe declared he II veteran and anti-Stalinist un­ eral of the pro-Korea war speak­ was overseas in the U.S. Arm y an errand for my aunt to the That really was a thrill; I still other room and gave me d if­ sure had grown in size since that wouldn’t sign, but after 20 or 25 ion m ilitant, who charged that ers admitted that the opponents during the last war. “I spent two grocery store, and to get to the remember the number of that ferent colored yarns, and told me day years ago when my brother, minutes did sign, saying: “ I the resolution did not express the of the resolution were “ honest years and observed firs t hand the true sentiments of the over­ store we had to cross the ra il­ engine. For several years after to name the color. I must have cousin and myself went to the know I ’m going to get life if I trade-unionists” and not Stalin­ conditions of Asian workers un­ road tracks. A t the depot stood that I ’d go to town every chance passed the test because he gave grocery fo r my aunt. sign.” whelming majority of the Amer­ ists. Their remarks were confin­ der the French rule in a French a freight train with the biggest I got just to get a chance to ride me an application form to fill After a thrilling ride of twenty Manning also admitted that ican people. “ They have been for ed to the theme of “ Communist colony. Of course, the American. engine I had ever seen. The on an engine. T got to know many out. From there, he sent me to miles, the fireman called me down McKinley Forest “seemed to be the withdrawal of our troops in aggression” and the treachery of Arm y was there, and although Korea,” he declared. “ I am fo r engineer was oiling it so we of the men who worked on that the company doctor fo r my on the deck and explained a couple in a daze and was highly the Stalinists. this war was supposed to have the withdrawal of our troops walked over in order to get a division. physical examination. I got of things to me about how to nervous.” Forest had difficulty in Anderson said, “ I f during the been fought for the four free­ from Korea.” past 18 years of my activity in better view of this wonderful A t seventeen, after the fa ll through that and reported back lead a fh-e. By this time, it was signing his initials to the “ con­ doms, I saw these Asian work­ Anderson’s sharp, straight- the labor movement I had not machine. A fter a few minutes the work had been finished on the to the SupeVintendent Clerk, and dark and after that first look fession.” It was brought out that ers treated as abject slaves. from-the-shoulder statement, in been in opposition to the Com­ engineer began talking to us. The farm, I bought a ticket to the was given a letter addressed to into the roaring inferno of that Collis English, a veteran, who “The French overlords had a voice that rang vigorous and munist Party and its policies one thing which I remember he city to see about getting a job engineers. The letter gave my big firebox, the only thing I suffers from malaria and a those workers for ten years in clear throughout the auditorium within our union, I would feel the mines, and I can’t conceive asked us even after 45 years was firing. I was told I was too young, name and stated I was permitted could see was a very bright spot rheumatic heart, was sick and in what we were going to be when to ride locomotives fo r the pur­ that was so hot it singed my need of medical attention. Others packed w ith 3,500 delegates and somewhat embarrassed to make the workers in a Soviet slave but to come back when I became visitors, electrified the assem­ we grew up. I told him, an pose of learning to become a eyebrows off, set fire to my were “ disheveled and incoherent.” a speech criticizing this resolu­ labor camp being treated any of age. blage, which listened in absorbed engineer. fireman. gloves and overalls. Although Manning denies tion. However, I am not trying worse than these workers that I silence punctuated at several A fter about five more years of ON THE JOB That afternon, a cold snowy remembering Dr. Sullivan asking to defend the role the Commun­ saw under French and American FIRE BLIND points by applause. ists are playing in the Korea living on a farm , and always day in December, I embarked on if a prisoner had been smoking rule. The Americans gave the I made that same trip every UAW President W alter Reu­ war or in the Far East generally. dreaming of a job as a railroad my railroad career. Had I known I started shoveling coal, or marijuana, he admits hearing French the arms and the ammu­ fall, trying every railroad that ther, who appeared visibly dis­ But I think a resolution on Korea man, I was in town one day when then what I ’ve learned since, the lather, tried to. I was completely some question or statement with nition to keep these workers in entered the city, always with turbed during Anderson’s power­ should express the sentiments of railroad industry would have had fire blind by this time so I could subjection.” the local freight arrived. I about the same answer. The fall the word “drugs” or “drugged” ful indictment of U.S. policy in the American people better than hurried to the depot to watch the before my 21st. birthday was the one less engineer. r.ot see the steam gauge to know in it. This supports the defense A CIVIL WAR whether or not I was keeping the Korea, broke into the middle of this resolution does.” crew doing their switching. The exception. When I entered the of­ The train was finally gotten contention that sodium amytol the debate following Anderson’s engine hot. A fte r about five He pointed out that “ numerous The Korean war, he said, “ js fireman must have seen by the fice of the Superintendent, the ready, and we started fo r the was used in getting the prisoners talk and hastily announced, in re­ polls” taken throughout the coun­ not just inspired by Soviet agents expression on my face that I was chief clerk there remembered me other end of the division 100 (Continued on page 2) prepared to “ confess.” sponse to the Local 15 president’s try have shown “ the people have (Continued on Page 2) Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, April 9, 1951 Life of a Railway Engineer SWP Fund Campaign (Continued from Page 1) paying my own expenses without iny name with a few more names the times the railroad had. use for minutes of stumbling around on pay. Not all the trips were as below mine, so I could see I would me, it got so that there were no tliat jumping, jiggling deck, rugged as this first one, but the soon be at the top of that list and more places for me to apply. somebody took the shovel out of procedure is still the same as would be called fo r work. I don’t know of any other kind Tops Quota. Hits % years ago; student firemen still 104 my hand and told me I had piled I went back to the beanery, and of skilled work where a person the coal all in one spot. The fire­ spend this time without pay. I had breakfast: then to my room has to serve such a long appren­ By Reba Aubrey penses, if we need it, can be set man helped me up on the seat had to have the signature of three i never made lightly, have always again. That was one of the most ticeship as men in engine service aside. We know this because the bog and explained the blindness engineers on my letter stating I Fund Campaign Manager been as good as money in the lonesome Christmas Days I ever on a railroad. Now after thirty- party branches have promised it would disappear after a while. was qualified to fire locomotives. The Socialist Workers Party bank. It w ill be that way this lived. I didn’t get called for work three years, I ’m an engineer on in the acceptance of their quotas, time too.” The fireman and engineer both Now it requires about twice that three-month campaign to raise an until the next morning. That was the extra board — the same hard­ and their promises, which are That’s just the way it was. told me to put the coal in the many signatures because of the to go to the neighboring town ships to go through again. Being 318.000 Organization, Press and firebox, but every time I ’d make many kinds and sizes of engines. two miles away and relieve a crew subject to call at any hour of Defense fund has ended in a a swing at the firedoor with a On a momentous January day on a freight train that had tied the day and night, Sundays, holi­ smashing success. On March 31 scoop of coal, the firedoor jumped I became a locomotive fireman. up on their sixteen hours. We days, nights in rain, sleet and when the scoreboard was posted either to rig ht or le ft or up or Now all I had to do was return brought the train to the terminal snow, and with no differential fo r the last time, the grand total down with the result that coal the letter to the Superintendent end that same afternoon I was in pay. The same ratq applies for was $18,668. This pushed the was scattered all over the cab. with the signatures of the three cut o ff the extra board again. r.ights and holidays’, Saturdays campaign over the $18,000 goal I kept trying to keep the engineers stating that I was to 104'%. noon, the depot agent in town I didn’t know that on holidays and Sundays. engine hot, putting out the fire on qualified to fire locomotives. called me by phone, and read me more men lay o ff than other Neither does the public realize Not only was the national total my gloves and overalls (after the ON THE CALL BOARD a message from the roundhouse days. The older men that can hold the weeks and months spent quota reached and passed on time, first few times of these things Ik foreman, telling me there would jobs, work every day, I suppose to studying to become an engineer, but every branch scored 100% or catching fire and burning through I got marked up on the extra be a pass fo r me on No. Eight help .make up fo r the days they and how easy it is to make a better on its local quota with the to my skin I got so I could board and was told I would be that night to come to work. I lose. That was the reason I was mistake that w ill cost us our job. exception only of Allentown and distinguish between the smell of called when needed — that I was didn’t have much time to get called back to work ■Christmas Nor do they know of the ex­ St. Louis. burning cloth and all the various about 20 or 22 times out. I didn’t ready, but I wrapped up- a suit Eve. The roundhouse foreman was aminations we have to take every The campaign finished with smells peculiar to locomotives) know what that meant so the of overalls, packed a suitcase with just protecting himself and also few months on rule books and West Virginia in first place with wiping the sweat out of my roundhouse foreman explained that the men that were marked what clothes I thought I would making it possible to relieve timetables, the periodic trips to a score of 173%. Pittsburgh, eyes, feeling around in the dark reed"uhtit I tvobld have a chance these older men that only lay o ff the doctor to see that our eye­ Toledo, Milwaukee, 'Cleveland, fo r the water jug and scraping up on the board ahead of my name would be called before me. I to get home again. I started for on Christmas Day. So back home sight and hearing are up to par. Seattle, New Haven and Buffalo the ice o ff my back. I t had been town on foot. There had been a to the farm again. By this time, The physical examinations and likewise oversubscribed their snowing and blowing all night waited three, days fo r that call, getting more confpsed and finan­ bad snow storm the night before I had learned through my union the ever-present worry that one quotas. But each and every branch and the snow that settled on my cially embarrassed each day. On so there were no roads open. that I had th irty days in which of these times I might not pass. wins top honors fo r the extra clothing melted on my left side the third day the call came for a to report back to work after Because one of our crafts tried push and effort that put the nearest the fire door and froze I waded the nine miles to town four P.M. yard engine. Now my being called. Conditions were to get a little better pay for finishing punch in the campaign. on my rig h t side. through snow over my knees, but name was officially on the getting better though because it these injustices, we’ve been called A letter from Pittsburgh is a I was beginning to doubt I got there in time for the train. seniority list, number 198, the was only two years this time “ a bunch of Russians.’’ Because good indication of the determina­ whether I ’d ever learn how to As things turned out, I could have youngest man on the division. We until I got called again. This we try to get from twenty-seventh tion showm by the branches to fire. I knew the engineer was still left my suitcase at home because tied up on time at midnight and time I took advantage of the 30- place in rates of pay to' a place make this campaign a 109% with us because between all the it was just excess baggage. I the engineer told me years later day provision in our contract a little higher on the ladder, the success. Comrade Carl writes: noises of the whistle, that thing got marked up on the extra board he sure was glad he didn’t have with the company. When I did railroads were taken over by the “If I had been told at the begin­ seemed to me to be screaming again, feeling quite sure that to work overtime that night. after three years I would surely icport I held the extra board army, and we were forced back to ning of the campaign that we continuously, the bell would ring Since becoming an engineer be able to work now. A fter getting about three weeks during the work by a certain hour or lose would be able to go over our at times too. I was afraid of a myself, I know the reasons. maiked up on the extra board heaviest grain rush. our jobs. quota, I would not have believed wreck as it didn’t seem possible When we registered at the about 9:30 that Christmas Eve, In the meantime, I had spent a When I think of the times the it. Our 141'% proves what can be that a machine that rattled and roundhouse the foreman told me I went back to that same rooming couple of months at a trade school army has been sent against the accomplished w ith a hard-hitting pounded so hard and so loud could I was cut off the board and would house I had slept at three long so when I got cut o ff the extra miners, the meat workers, steel branch that never lets anything hang together. I was beginning to not be able to work any more until years before. Sitting there all board, generally in a couple of workers and other branches of daunt their efforts. Even though get tired and hungry. My muscles business picked up. He also told alone I got kind of homesick week’s time, I was able to get labor, why doesn’t the government we made three trips in rainstorms were, sore; I hadn’t known up me that if I le ft the place I was thinking about what the folks at work at my new trade. take the profits too? Why don’t tc get this final $10, we got it.” till then that a person had so Plans for the “ Big League reports a sale last Saturday of rooming, I would have to give him home were doing. I finally went Each time I got laid o ff I was they force big business to do Toledo not only got under the many. My eyes too, by this time, Militant Circulation Campaign” 158 copies, 2 subscriptions, and an address where I could be con­ to bed and to sleep. The next sure it was the last time I would things? I ’ve never heard of the wire but hit 128%. “ Guess this is were so full of cinders that I are well under way in Socialist several contributions, in door-to- tacted in case I was needed. I left morning, Christmas Day, I woke have to look fo r another job, and army forcing a manufacturer to the best we can do,” says Com­ don’t, think I could have seen W orkers Party door work by ten salesmen. him my home address at my dad’s up and wondered why I hadn’t each time it seemed to be getting get into production when he shut rade Alice. Toledo’s “ best” is the anything even if I hadn’t been branches. The idea farm. been called. I walked over to the more and more diffiult to get a down the .plant until he could get Trotskyist tradition. “ A ll of those who • went out fire blind. The reason I knew our of the campaign has Three years later on a Christ­ loundhouse and looked at the job. A fter eighteen years of work­ his price. Sometimes I wonder if W. W. sent in $5 and asked that found it a very pleasant time,” engineer (that important-look­ mas Eve, about three in the after­ board. Sure enough, there was ing at my new trade in between Uncle is entirely fair. really caught hold she writes, “ and that people are ing person) was with us was be­ it be credited to “New Haven’s and the competition quota in the campaign.” This anxious to talk about all the cause I heard him cussing the w ill be stiff. Joseph problems The M ilitant raises. fireman and students in particular contribution boosted New Haven Hansen, Militant from 106% to 111%. The workers are discussing these fo r lack of steam. Business Manager problems and looking fo r an We eventually got to the other UAW Blasts Truman Raw Deal Sam K. of New York, an Old currently on a na­ answer.- Since we have the end of the division and got some­ Guard Trotskyist since 1928, con­ tional speaking tour, answers it’s no wonder The M ili­ (Continued from Page 1) tions of the two major parties in because he campaigned on a pro­ make it a part of the resolution thing to eat. I got a bed at the tributed another dollar, saying, reports that this is tant is so favorably accepted. rooming house, and went right from the chair to have Mazey’s 1952. We ought to get all of la­ gram fo r a fa ir deal. He said so it could go to all Members of “ One more nail in the coffin of certainly true of “ Howard was high scorer with to sleep in spite of the lumpy entire remarks issued in a press bor together in a big national la­ that he was in favor of fu ll em­ Congress and all labor unions, so capitalism.” Seattle. release and to send copies to all bor political conference. Then we ployment, of decent housing, of the people in Washington will 23 copies to his credit; Sy and mattress and bed bugs. I later The group of Socialist Workers He writes, “ The first night we members of Congress. should look at the score in Amer­ decent prices, of a health pro­ know who we are talking about Jack sold 20 each; Chuck and learned how to beat the bed bugs Party supporters near the Mason- Significantly, not a single offi­ ica and ask ourselves, ‘Where gram, decent prices fo r farmers, when we talk about the admin­ had a branch discussion of I-ee, 18 each; Bill L., 17; and — just go to bed with all of my Dixon Line, sent in another pay­ cer or delegate took the floor to are we going and what can we educational program, for civil istration; that we are not talk­ literature and the proposed sub Cynthia, 14.” clothes on, and tie a string around ment of S100 on their $250 pledge, the cuffs of my trousers; that challenge Mazey’s attack on begin to do to fight effectively rights legislation. . . I submit the ing about C. E. Wilson, but talk­ campaign. Naturally, the Seattle Lillian reports good election on the political front?’ We should ing ao 'Ut those responsible for :naking a total of $412 paid, 165% kept them from getting inside of Truman or to defend the Presi­ President has made a very feeble activists, who have a good record sales in Oakland also in connec­ dent. say to the politicians of all the effo rt to put the fa ir deal pro­ naming him. as Brother Mazey of their quota. my underwear, and it also helped in literature work, responded tion wfith the campaign of Filo- However, neither Mazey nor political parties, ‘Nobody owns gram into effect. pointed out?” * * * keep me warm. enthusiastically. From the way mena Goelman, candidate for Reuther issued any call fo r posi­ us; we don’t belong to anybody “ Instead of giving the people Pinned down, Reuther declared After what seemed like just a This grand performance of the they began discussing ways and councilman-at-large. In a recent tive political action in the form and we won’t be the ta il of any of this nation a fa ir deal, I sub­ that Mazey “ made that same gen­ few seconds to me, but was ac­ party branches has fu lly con­ means of upping sales and getting Sunday sale 73 M ilitants V'ere of a complete and permanent political party’s kite.’ ” m it the President has given the eral spech to 700 labor leaders subs, I wouldn’t be surprised if sold in the East Oakland area tually about six hours, someone break with Truman politically people of this nation a raw deal. in Washington last week, so they firmed the prediction of James T. was shaking me and telling me S till to come before the con­ Cannon, National Secretary of they prove to be right up at the with Filomena setting the pace and the formation of labor’s own vention is a resolution dealing President Truman cannot escape heard it,” but “ I am sure we w ill there was an extra west ordered the Socialist Workers Party, at top with some of the experts in at, 11 copies. party. Both le ft the door open specifically with political action. his fu ll share of the responsibility be glad to get copies to all the and that I was to go on it. That the beginning of the campaign: the race fo r the grand prizes.” San Francisco reports a suc­ for a renewal of the politics} al­ There is a good possibility, if suf­ for the confusion and for the Members of Congress so they w ill Ir. the first column launching the The Detroit Branch continues cessful sale on the University of was the call boy from the round liance w ith the Democrats. ficient time is alloted fo r debate, mess that the mobilization pro­ know- also.” campaign in The M ilitant, Feb. 5, to make good sales of The M ili­ California campus in Berkeley of house. In his keynote address, Reuther that the proposal for the forma­ gram finds itself in at the pres­ This was accepted by the con­ he wrote: “ We know that our tant in connection with the elec­ 19 Militants, 3 copies of the A lot of wafer has gone over did vaguely hint at the possi­ tion of an independent labor par­ ent time. A ll of these Big Busi­ vention as giving Mazey’s anti- organizational budget for 1951 tion campaign of Howard Lerner, pamphlet “ The Socialist Workers (he dam since I made that first bility that labor might take a ty may be presented to the con­ ness representatives, Mr. Wilson, Truman attack a formal and offi­ Socialist Workers Party candidate Party, What It Is and What It student trip, and that same call new political direction in ’52, vention by delegates from the Mr. Weinberg, Mr. Clay, Mr. cial character as -an expression w ill be provided, the press for Regent of the University of boy now is getting to be one of when he stated: floor. Eric Johnston, and a score of not of his personal views but ol deficit w ill be guaranteed, and Stands For,” and one copy each us old men, and he calls me for “ I believe we should try to get others have been appointed by the delegates as a whole. an emergency sum for legal ex- Michigan. Comrade B. Allen of “ Socialism on T rial," “ The jobs now as an engineer. the United Labor Policy Com­ MAZEY’S STATEMENT the President, with his authority. Coming American Revolution,” I made seven more such trips mittee (CIO, A F L and independ­ In his statement yesterday on “ I f Mr. Wilson and Company and Fourth International, theore­ as a student fireman, in all about ent unions) to convene well in Truman, Mazey said: “ In 1948 are not carrying out the wishes tical magazine of American a week’s work, on my own time advance of the political conven- President Truman was re-elected and program of the President I Trotskyism. In another more submit he has the responsibility Delegates Flay Asia War recent sale, we hear from and the power to remove Mr. Literature Agent Jane S. of a Wilson and Company from the (Continued from Page 1) ments against the resolution was gates, Vice President John L iv­ sale of 13 Militants at the same job and replace them with some­ as the public press would have made by John DeVito, of Cleve­ ingston cried hysterically that place. Jane also reports that The “ if Joe Stalin and his satellites one who would place the inter­ us believe, but it is to a large land Fisher Body Local 45, a M ilitant is being sold on two ever got a chance to do it they ests of the people of this nation extent a civil war, a revolution­ World War II Navy veteran and new San Francisco newsstands. Labor and War Drive w ill rape the United States.” ahead of the interests of Big ary war such as the American well-known union militant. He Literature Agent Cathy re­ On the vote by show of hands, The development of a social crisis in the Business. The failure of the Pres­ people fought back in 1776 and said, “ I do not want to fig h t for view, etc. The article also makes clear the only a score of delegates dared ports: “At New York Universitv, U.S. predicted in the Jan.-Feb. issue of Fourth importance of mass anti-war feelings as an ident to act on this question our American Civil War, because a war that a guy by the name the student youth sell not only leads one to believe he is in fa ­ it is largely between the prop­ of H arry Truman can cause any to vote against the resolution International in an article by Robert Lane, underlying factor in the debate. openly, but it was apparent that the paper but also such pamphlets raises the question of the great contradic­ 4. Economic Roots of the Labor Crisis by vor of the Program that Mr. W il­ erty classes of Korea and the time he sees f it ” and that he op­ as Socialism on Trial and Stalin­ posed “ giving a free hand to a large number of delegates ab­ tion between U.S. imperialism’s aims and the Arne Swabeck. In this article the basic eco­ son and Company are carrying workers of Korea. The workers ism and Bolshevism, to their Harry Truman, the biggest stained from voting for fear of revolutionary potential of American labor. nomic causes of class struggle in America out at the present time.” in South Korea are as hostile to classmates. Many of these sales the American troops and their strikebreaker this country ever reprisal if they expressed- opposi­ That the class struggle is intervening in the are subjected to a fundamental analysis. This NO PROGRAM tion. The resolution was adopted are made to Stalinists and their schemes of the U.S. ruling class is now a fact veteran proponent of Marxism describes the policies as they have been to the had.” He added that Truman “ has When several delegates started as amended to include opposition sympathizers who seek our not only in Europe and Asia, but at home rise of U.S. economy, the rapid increase of Russian policies.” been silent” and “ has uttered no to the Syngman Rhee regime. But students each week for addi­ as well. The March-April issue of Fourth In ­ labor productivity, the particularly predatory to boo this statement, DeVito public statement as to labor’s JIM CROW ARMY what was significant in the en­ tional literature. ternational includes several articles which dis­ character of U.S. exploitation, and the result­ quickly silenced them by remind­ grievances and labor’s position.” tire debate was the close and “Frank of the Youth reports cuss this problem from various aspects. ing rise of U.S. imperialism as an extension Delegate Dillard drew strong ing them of the recent railroad But Mazey ended up weakly by earnest attention paid to the op­ a good response each week at 1. Foreign Policy and the Workers by Paul of exploitation at home. “ Constant expansion applause when he directed at­ strike that Truman broke and offering no positive program of tention to the investigations of the injunctions and huge fines he position speakers and the small N-Y.U. Marianne and Herman G. Stevens. The Korean war has created a is a prime necessity for the continuation of political action except to “write amount of any violent jingo spir­ sold 20 copies last week, bring­ crisis in U.S. foreign policy, and “ has already capitalist survival,” Swabeck writes, and from the National Association for the initiated against the miners. He to the President and let him it or open hostility displayed by ing the last two weeks’ total shaken up American society more than any de­ that premise, which he unquestionably proves, Advancement of Colored People said he did not want “ the kind know how we feel about these whose representative, Thurgood of war that the big guys make the delegates to the anti-war to 37. velopment since the 1929 crash,” says Stevens. he explains the development of economic and questions” and to do an “ educa­ views. “ Each week. John and Inez sell His article, which places special emphasis social struggles, which today have brought Marshall, had disclosed “ how Ne­ all kinds of money out of.” tional job” among the workers Speakers in favor of the reso­ at CCNY and Yvonne at Wash­ upon the need of the workers for an interna­ about the labor crisis. This article is essential groes were snatched from the so that they will b i “effective in lution appealed fo r its support ington Irving High School. The tionalist policy, probes the process of evolving to a basic understanding-of the changing class foxholes, taken to a kangaroo a political sense.” Youth Branch is also expanding political and social disequilibrium in this coun­ relationships in America, and of the stormy court in Korea in the battlefield on the basis of anti-“ Commun- try. days ahead. When Mazey concluded amidst and given years and years for ism” and the “ threat” of Stalin NEW YORK the circulation of The Militant enthusiastic applause, several taking over the whole world. They by sales at special meetings, such 2. The Union Leaders’ Walkout by Joseph 5. I f America Should Go Communist. By the slightest infraction of war delegates spoke in support of completely evaded the arguments Andrews. The most dramatic effect of Korea Leon Trotsky. This reprint of an article pub­ rules — similar to what they do “MARXIST os the Harlem protest rally on his attack on Truman. A1 Nash to us in GM fo r the slightest about the anti-democratic aims on the home fron t has been the revolt of the lished in Liberty magazine March 23, 1935 the W illie McGee case, covered of Detroit Chrysler Local 7 said infraction of the book of rules.” of U.S. imperialism and directed PHILOSOPHY labor leaders. Andrews explains in his article gives a brilliant preview of the future in by Ethel B. and George R. Forty- that what “ Mazey pointed out their attack at the phoney how the conservative labor bureaucracy was which workers w ill discover that “ Communism Dillard said that “ it is easy to OF two copies were sold in a Man­ in his speech should be incorpor­ see why the papers did not give “peace” program of the Stalin­ driven to act against Truman’s war mobiliza­ far from being *.r intolerah1; bureaucratic hattan Spanish - speaking neigh­ ated in the resolution. The blame tion policies. The article carefully analyzes tyranny and individual regimentation, will be Marshall’s report a great play” ists. HISTORY” borhood by George, Bob and must be placed on President Tru­ because “ the rulers of this coun­ Nevertheless, Bert Foster, who the pressures brought to bear upon the top the means of greater individual liberty and Yvonne, who sold 27 of the total. man fo r the things that are being union officers, impelling them to lead a fig h t shared abundance.” try certainly cannot afford to be recently headed a right-wing a series of three Lou and Fred sold I I M ilitants directed against us.” hollering about fighting for free­ in defense of labor’s standards. Reviewing the 6. The Lysenko Case by R. H. Monroe and group that took control of Local in Harlem, and H arry S. and Paul Silver, of Detroit amal­ dom in Korea and let it be shown 45 from the Stalinists, in an­ lectures 18-year old Democrat-Labor political coalition, Joseph Hansen. This is a continuation of an John K. sold 26 door-to-door in gamated Local 351 and a leading to this nation the conditions un­ swering DeVito acknowledged Andrews explains the differences between the article begun in the Jan-Feb. issue. I t treats Harlem. Brooklyn M ilitant sales­ oppositionist to the Reutherites, der which the black American that “ not one of these disciples Roosevelt-Labor alliance, and that under Tru­ with Stalin’s offensive against the free de­ MONDAYS at 8 PM men report 17 copies sold in pressed the chairman Reuther on GIs must suffer in Korea and on of Stalin has got up on this floor man, especially since the outbreak of the Asian velopment of science in the Soviet Union. Of Brownsville door-to-door and on how it would be possible for a the battlefield.” war. There is little chance, he points out, fo r special interest in this series is the discussion and fought against the resolu­ starting April 16 the street.” delegate to ask the resolutions tion.” He admitted that those a lasting class peace in the U.S. of dialectical materialism as applied to the To D illard’s demand that the 3. The “ Great Debate” by John Saunders. scientific field. committee to “ consider including Korean resolution be sent back who opposed the resolution are International Socialist Brother Mazey’s speech as part to committee to include “ these “ good honest trade union people,” The “ Great Debate” over U.S. foreign policy 7. We Say “ NO” to Remilitarization by BROOKLYN of the resolution, as he named but slanderously accused them “ arises from the hopeless situation in which Georg Jungclas. A reprint from Freie Tribune salient facts,” Reuther promptly Youth names?” of being “ used” by the Stalin­ DISCUSSION SERIES American imperialism finds itself,” Saunders the excellent weekly publication of the new intervened from the chair to Reuther evaded the question by claim that the question of dis­ ists. He also had to admit, “ I 116 University Place declares in his absorbing analysis of the r if t German Independent Workers Party, of an Thur., April 12 8:30 PM saying he was sure that Mazey’s crimination belonged in another agree with Brother Anderson. I in the ruling circles. Saunders gives sober article by one of the outstanding leaders of speech would be publicized since Donation 50 Cents “The Transition from consideration to all shades of capitalist opin­ that organization. resolution and that the resolution have no love fo r dictators any­ “ the newspapers are all here.” where. Syngman Rhee is as much Capitalism to Socialism” ion on U.S. imperialist strategy and tactics, For a copy of this issue on Labor and the under discussion dealt only “ with $1.00 for series But Silver persisted: “ Could it the question of who is basically a dictator as Stalin is in Russia.” DELUXE PALACE dealing with the opinions of the Truman sup­ War Drive send 25c to Fourth International, (the committee) include Brother In a violent wind-up speech Half price for students 558 Howard Ave., near Pitkin porters, the Hoover policy, Taft’s point of 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. responsible fo r aggression in Ko­ Mazey’s speech when he named rea.” trying to whip up the anti-“Com- — Admission Free — names and set responsibility, and One of the strongest state- munist” sentiment of the dele­ Page Three New Wave of Strike Struggles in Frante

By Ernest Germain split trade union movement, this sentatives. On Friday, Mar. 16, vain! The President of France engaged in an adventuristic cam­ France has just experienced a discontent had some difficulties the strike broke out. A ll the had no train to take him to Le paign of anti-American “politi­ in finding expression. unions except the subway con­ Havre where he was to depart calization” of every working-class cabinet crisis which led to no How to Fight High Prices The transport workers of Paris ductors united to demand a for the United States and had to demand. They have suddenly perceptible change in the govern­ on the buses and subways gave monthly increase of “ 6,000 francs make the trip by automobile with given up this line and greeted the “ The official sli-uggle of the government with high prices ment. However a strike-w ave the signal. In February all their for everyone.” A m ajority of the his entourage. strike movement — and have per­ is only a deception of the masses. But the farmers, artisans, which has considerably modified uhions except one, that of the conductors participated in the After its indifference of the mitted it to develop freely on the merchants, in their capacity of consumers, can step into the relations between the classes subway conductors, organized a movement, despite the strike­ first days, the government was whole. Nowhere have they pushed the politics of price-fixing shoulder to shoulder with the has unexpectedly erupted. 24-hour strike which was 100 breaking attitude of their union seized with anxiety. The orders fo r the extension of strikes. Only workers. To the capitalist’s lamentations about costs of pro­ The bourgeois parties and the percent successful; even the sub­ leader. for a draft remained ineffective. in certain places where the duction, of transport and trade, the consumers answer: “Show Social Democracy are squabbling way conductors were swept along. After forty-eight hours of this In some places the police re­ presence of revolutionary mili­ us your books; we demand control over the fixing of prices.’ over which system of voting to This kind of demonstration is strike other sections of industry portedly hesitated even to dis­ The organs of this control should be committees on prices, tants could give rise to the use in the coming election. They traditional in this section of the which together with the Parisian made up of delegates from the factories, trade unions, co­ tribute the draft summons. In­ formation of new leaderships want to reduce the representation transport industry which has ex­ transport workers make up the operatives, farmers organizations, the ‘little man’ of the city, cessant conferences of ministers hâve they intervened to prevent of the Stalinists as well as that tremely diversified working con­ vanguard of the working class, housewives, etc.” followed. Increases of about any such developments. On the of doGaulle. While this dispute — Leon Trotsky: Death Agony of Capitalism. 1938 ditions and where the workers started moving. The gas and 11%"% were granted. The ra il­ other hand, they have offered TROTSKY LENIN was going on, the discontent of want first to see whether unity is electricity workers went out first. road workers’ strike terminated. the leadership of the Workers’ the masses over the considerable realized before participating in Then the railroad workers. The The agitation continued in nu­ Force and of the Catholic unions price-rises in the past six months, large-scale action. movement started by the ranks merous industries and corpora­ a united front for a consultative kept growing. But after the The “ new” government dis­ spread very rapidly throughout tions although by the end of commission on prices. They have "Threats" Are Not Enough serious setbacks of the preceding regarded this warning and refused France. The government issued March most of the strikes, ex­ protested their exclusion from four years and because of the to meet with the workers’ repre- threats, and decreed a draft. In cept that of the Parisian trans­ the negotiations on wages and The labor leaders insist upon "policy” table is the fact that the. union can and w ill port workers, had stopped. These have condemned the inadequacy transport workers’ struggles kept of the results obtained. posts in Washington as befits representatives strike the plant. battling the same as the first day, of 16 million organized workers. They want The mere threat to build a labor party is refusing the pittances offered to STALINIST POLICY How Stalin Destroyed Numerous rank and file m ili­ to transform the entire administration pro­ not very effective in negotiations with the them and remaining firm on then- administration. It must be backed up by demand of “ 6,000 francs for tants of the French Communist gram, which they correctly describe as a “ Big Party have been astonished by organization, with a real power that can be everyone.” These movements have ended their leaders’ lack of policy and Business steal.” But they shy away from put to use to challenge labor’s enemies at the Anti-Fascist Refugees in a working-class victory, not have acted without them. This, of steps to organize labor’s independent political polls. Even the first steps in that direction By Charles Hanley El Campesino had expressed apparently murdered by Stalin’s because of the wage increases course, does not mean they are strength. would change the whole picture in Wash­ When the fa the opinion Russia should pre­ executioners. which are obviously inadequate ready to act against their lead­ pare her defense against Ger­ In the period of the H itler- ers. Matters have not gone as fa r CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers pres­ ington. mous Spanish but because the trend existing Republi many. In 1939-40 this was a he­ Stalin alliance, German and Hun­ since 1947 has been reversed. The as that yet. As for the top Stalin­ ident Potofsky recently threatened a third Even if the government makes some con­ can general, resy; for after concluding his garian refugees, many of them working class is now taking the ist leadership, its attitude is to be pact wityi Hitler, Stalin singled party if "the wrongs in the mobilization pro­ cessions to the United Labor Policy Com­ Valentine Gon of Jewish extraction, were hand­ initiative; it has regained its explained as follows. They have out Britain and France as the im­ ed over to H itler’s Gestapo, after gram are not righted.” But he quickly added mittee, and gives them some top "policy­ zales or El cohesiveness and its self-con­ understood that the present strug­ perialist enemies against whom they had previously served sen­ that labor was working within the framework making” posts, it would not solve the Campesino, an fidence is returning. I t now* knows gle, important as it may be, was authentic hero the Soviet Union was to prepare tences in Stalin’s prisons and only a skirmish before othfer uil- of the two old parties, and would "w ait and problem underlying the labor crisis. As the itself. Moreover, the Spanish gen­ that it is again united for strug­ of the Civil forced labor camps. An eye-wit­ avoidable big battles, the exact eral criticized the attitude of ness account of this is supplied gle and that the bourgeoisie and see.” UAW president Reuther states that all-out war mobilization gets fully under way War, sentenc­ time for which cannot be forecast many Russian officers, saying by Margarete Buber, wife of the government can be forced to labor is “ bargaining for a new contract” with this crisis will become more aggravated. The ed to the death but which are surely not too fa r they had lost contact with the Heinz Neumann, a prominent fig ­ retreat before it. the government. cost of all-out war preparations will weigh penalty by distant. Their hesitancy is in­ people. He further accused sev­ ure in the pre war German CP These struggles have arisen at Thus, the union heads are using typical more and more heavily upon the workers. Franco’s re­ tne very moment of the general tended to put them in a better gime, was on eral Spanish Stalinist leaders who was arrested in 1937, for trade union “ negotiating” methods, including A new economic policy which w ill defend (who had also escaped to Rus­ disagreeing with Stalin’s pro- strike in Barcelona and at a time position in respect to these El Campesino his way to the when in other West European coming struggles which they threats of action, without a political organiza­ labor’s interests and tax the coffers of the Soviet Union sia in 1949), and disposed of suf­ Nazi orientation, and whose sub­ ficient evidence to prove their countries the workers have also wish to manioulate for the tion to back them up None of the labor of­ corporations instead of the workers' meager in May 1949, he asked Ilya Eh- sequent fate is still unknown. misconduct and corruption. Mrs. Buber-Neumann was ar­ entered into struggle. We are benefit of Kremlin diplomacy. ficials challenges the political monopoly of pay envelopes cannot be negotiated, it must renburg, top Stalinist propagan­ witnessing a resurgence of the We are now heading toward a da w riter: “ You mean that the El Campesino was, of course, rested herself in 1938. In her just the capitalist parties; they merely beg the be fought for. labor movement in this part of general struggle of the working Soviet paradise is no paradise?” expelled from the M ilitary Aca­ published book Under Two Dic­ the world. class. Propaganda for preparing capitalist politicians to take them in as A new policy requires a new Congress and (Ebrenburg had explained that demy. This happened in Jan. tators (Dodd, Mead & Co.) she What -has been the attitude of the general strike and for the “ partners.” everything was not so rosy 1941. In March he was put to tells the details of this bestial a new administration. Eor this a labor party the traditional labor organiza­ establishment of a Workers and there.) Ehrenburg replied: “This work at the Moscow subway. Be­ transation. She was in the group The policies of the Truman administration is needed to mobilize the workers, farmers, tions? In the railroad workers’ Farmers Government is the paradise has been created by pro­ fore being sent to the successive of 23 women who had been will not be transformed by collective bargain­ oppressed minorities and poor middle classes prisons and concentration camps, brought back in 1940 from camps strike which began in a genuinely essential task for the revolu­ paganda. The peoples need- not tionary vanguard in the period ing alone, any more than big corporations give around a program diametrically opposed to know the truth. Spain is behind he was an eye-witness of what and prisons all over Russia for spontaneous way we saw a ahead. The Stalinist leaders, concessions through mere persuasion. What the Big Business-controlled Democrats and you. Now your only fatherland took place after the German in­ trans-shipment to Germany. paradox: The reformists and bound to the Kremlin, are is the USSR. Don’t forget it, and. vasion. In this group was the aged Catholic trade unions (Workers’ makes a threat effective at the bargaining Republicans. dependent: upon the outcome of above all, don’t ever engage in Oppositional moods and feel­ Zensl Muesahm, wife of Erich Force and Christian Federation of any discussions!” ings were* by no means limited Muesahm, the famous German Trade Unions) issued the strike the current “Big Four” negotia­ anarchist murdered by the Nazis order at the very moment when tions and cannot onen such a This was both advice — and a to the foreign Communists, but in 1934; Carola Neher, the fa ­ their “ comrades in the Cabinet” perspective to the workers. threat. In fact, the NKVD these were the special targets of U. S. Labor and Spain mous actress; Roberta Gropper, of the Socialist Party and of the (Stalin’s secret police — now Stalin’s secret police. Spanish, One of the most important German, Polish, Hungarian and former Communist deputy of the MRP signed orders fo r the draft aspects of these recent strug­ Moi’e information about the General This appeal was addressed to the A FL the MVD) spied on every fo r­ German Reichstag; W ally Adler, eigner, in fear lest a majority other refugee militants disap­ while the Stalinist leaders of the gles is the increasing number of and the CIO among others. Both these peared — most of them never to Betty Olberg and others, among General Confederation of Labor workers who showed themselves Strike in Barcelona has seeped through of the Communist refugees from them Frau Fekete, a Hungarian. organizations were chief movers in the be seen again. took no official responsibility for ready to struggle without direc­ the censorship. We now learn, that other countries refuse to com­ A total of 150 men and women the strike. tives from the organizations they formation of the International Confeder­ pletely renounce doing their own Out of 5,823 Spaniards who were handed over to the Nazi ex­ demonstrators carried signs inscribed So fa r as the reformist and have followed up to now. Another ation of Free Trade Unions (IC FTU ). thinking — a capital crime under came to the USSR in 1939, only ecutioners, doubtless as a token some 1,200 were still alive when Catholic union leaders are con­ no less important aspect is that “Pan y Libertad” (Bread and Liberty) Stalin. of “good will” on Stalin’s part. The Manifesto of that organization prom­ cerned, the explanation is simple: In his book Life and Death in Campesino escaped; and of these The brutality bared to the the movement has given birth in and that the streets of downtown Bar­ ises: “Free trade unions of the world ’he election is coming and they the USSR which he recently pub­ only 200 have remained Stalin­ world by Campesino, Buber and several places to genuinely feel its breath. celona rang with the singing of the “In­ will support with all their strength the lished in Paris (Editions Plon) ists to this day. Of the 210 Span­ others seems on the surface democratic strike committees and ish airmen who were sent to the As fo r the Stalinists, their even to strike committee meet­ ternationale.” efforts of the peoples suffering under after having escaped to Europe senseless and incredible. But it from the Soviet Union, El Campe­ USSR in 1938 by the Republican is an organic part of Stalinism attitude is more subtle. In the ings where the voice of the ranks These facts alone are sufficient to police state rule — such as those of government to complete their in­ past winter they have been is freely expressed. . . . Franco Spain. . . to free themselves sino reports how he was first re­ which seeks to resolve all issues show that the Spanish working class ceived as a privileged personal­ struction only a handful has sur­ by use of naked force and ruth­ from totalitarian oppression.” vived. Many died in Siberia, some realizes that its fight for the barest ity at the Frunze Military Aca­ less police measures, There- is no demy in Moscow, and how he was were shot or tortured to - dea'th other way in which the privileg­ necessities of life is inextricably bound Shortly before the Barcelona upsurge. in Moscow. Even their girls, Truman opened the gates of the U.S. then accused of “Trotskyism” ed and arbitrary Soviet bureauc­ NEW RAILROAD UNION up with the struggle to overthi’ow Span­ when he ventured to criticize the whether Russian or Spanish, were racy, which has nothing what­ ish fascism. It is also a message to the Treasury to the Spanish Butcher and his Soviet general staff — he who arrested and sentenced to forced ever in common with socialism, labor. outside world that the Spanish working Fascist Falange. Since the Barcelona had himself participated in the can remain in power; and it is MEETS IN MINNEAPOLIS strike Washington has been rushing persecution of Trotskyists dur­ Jose Diaz, general secretary of precisely this that shall ultimate­ class has not forgotten its heroic past By Garl Gustafson In 1937 when 40 - hour week plans to send arms to Franco — arms ing the Spanish war! the Spanish CP, has also been ly spell its doom. and the solidarity workers in other coun­ MINNEAPOLIS, Mar. 29—An legislation was passed, the ra il­ tries displayed during the civil war. What that will be used to massacre the people enthusiastic meeting of 150 op­ road brotherhood bureaucrats con­ was implicit in the singing of the Inter­ of Spain. Yet the labor leaders are silent. erating railroad workers listened sulted the American Association nationale in Barcelona has been made ex­ This shameful betrayal of a solemn to a stirring address tonight of Railroads but not their own given by A. J. Ford, National pledge must end. Just as all labor’s rep­ members. They asked that ra il­ plicit by the appeal of the Spanish under­ Letters from Readers President of the new United Rail- road workers be exempted from ground and groups in exile. The POUM resentatives on the “Defense” Mobiliza­ load Operating Crafts. Ford was the benefits of this legislation. (Workers’ Party of Marxist Unifica­ tion resigned in protest, so all labor rep­ Dutch Friend Gives function by learning about the world the female has to tend to introduced by Richard Cotton, Proposals on wages and working work methods, replies and results her young and the male has to tion), which despite Stalinist murders resentatives with the State Department Minneapolis UROC General Or-' conditions that have been on the Views on Militant of your Militant campaigning. . . hunt for food and provide for and kidnapings of its leaders, still car­ and ECA must resign in protest against ganizer, who reported on the fire fo r two years propose an im­ Editor: A letter thanking me I will end my letter by proposing them. favorable reception which the .U.S. support of Franco. mediate 48-hour week and later ries on the fight against Franco, has and some friends for a C.A.R.E. ar.d asking you some questions. In that process of taking care new union is receiving among a 40-hour week fo r yard crews. appealed to the working class through­ Labor must speak out. Stop U.S. loans package sent to a Dutch comrade First of all, I should be very of the house and children and rail workers of the Midwest. Road crews would be excluded pleased when you were able to out the world to demonstrate its solidar­ and arms to Franco! Solidarity with the contained the following par­ her busband she becomes just a Mr. Ford, on an organization from this provision. connect me with an American subject, a slave. And in her lowly ity with the Spanish people. agraphs which I thought would tour through the Midwest from The agreement signed Dec. 21 Spanish workers! comrade, perhaps among the position she is not expected to be of interest to M ilitant readers: the Pacific Coast, emphasized by the heads of the operating youth who w ill exchange letters know anything. What can one “Soon it will be a year that a three principal points: brotherhoods would make possible and ideas with me on the many expect from a slave? To whom light attack of tuberculosis has 1. The old railroad brother­ the breaking ’down of working European and American prob­ can she complain? kept me to a bed in a sanatorium hoods no longer exist as labor conditions established By 50 years 3 Years of the Marshall Plan lems. . . . When a man does not like in the neighborhood of Amster­ organizations. of bargaining and struggle. The “ Then secondly is there a conditions in his plant, where he dam. It is a sanatorium call­ 2. There is no hope of weld­ small wage increase would come The third anniversary of the Marshall of $4,000 per fam liy a year.” W ith our possibility of obtaining books works, there are avenues through ed “Sonnestraal” (Sun-gleams) ing them together to form an at the expense of men being from Pioneer Publishers, or other which he can express his Plan was hastily celebrated in Washington living standards already deeply slashed, the which was founded 25 years ago effective union. forced out of employment by the American books by sending you grievances. He can even go average fam ily faces only the prospect of by working class solidarity from 3. The UROC can adequately changes in working conditions. on Apr. 2, one day after “April Fool” day flower bulbs (tulip or so) ? I read directly to the boss and tell him further slashes, with demands for more and the Diamond Workers Union. and efficiently represent the in­ Although this agreement was and one day before the actual anniversary book criticisms in the Militant to go to blazes, or even quit his “ The greatest part of the terests of the men in the trans­ later rescinded under rank and more "sacrifices” m ultiplying from Wash­ or Time . . . and it is never job. I f he isn’t satisfied with his which falls on Apr. 3. In a hypocriitcal state­ patients here are young workers portation crafts. file pressure, it was signed by the ington. possible to obtain them. Hoping pay he can ask fo r more. He may ment issued for this occasion, Truman pro­ mainly from the industrial Ford pointed out the stagnation leaders without anv consultation The capitalist economies of Western Euro­ centers of Zaandam and Amster­ to hear soon of you. not get it but he is free to act. of wages and working conditions “ Receive my Trotskyist greet­ with the membership. claimed that the objects of this plan had pe, which the Marshall Plan unquestionably dam in the west of Holland, which In the process he thinks, and as in the operating crafts. Once been “ substantially achieved,” and went on was delivered in the last stage of ings and thanks, (signed) M. K. he thinks for himself, he can be among the highest paid workers Mr. Ford explained the organ­ propped to the exclusive benefit of a handful P.S. Don’t mention my Eng­ izational structure of the United to declare that he would ask Congress to the Second World War to sys­ expected to ascend to a higher in the country, they now receive of the rich, remain sick. Nowhere have prewar lish mistakes for I learned it cultural level. Railroad Operating Crafts, an in­ extend this “ aid” beyond the legal expiration tematic starvation by the Nazi less than most organized work­ living standards been regained. Everywhere occupiers. Many of them also mainly by reading the English The woman is not required to ers. dustrial union with craft divi­ date, next April. they are being driven down and the official constituted a part of the forced printed press.” think for herself. A slave who is With larger engines and more sions each electing their own The total cost to date has been 11 billion demand is — for further "austerity.” Every­ labor used Plainly in the heavy (Any reader wishing to cor­ on a low level carries out his efficient operation productivity representatives by referendum respond with M.K. can get the vote. The rail workers have long dollars, every penny of it coming out of the where arms expenditures are piling up. And bombarded industrial centers of duties better than one who is on has increased many fold, Ford address from the M ilitant.—ed.) a higher level; he is less likely wanted a referendum vote on all American people’s pockets. What did we get if the Marshall “ aid” is extended it is ex­ Germany, as was I in Berlin. pointed out. The old rail unions to revolt. That is all that society officers and on wage and contract for it? Of what benefit was it to the mass of Further there are several soldiers have made no serious attempt to clusively for the purpose of “ helping Europe compelled to fight in Indonesia Housewife Protests asks of woman — that she tend win gains for the workers as a proposals. the European peoples, for whom it was rearm,” as has been done in the last period, who are laying down here after Woman's Slavery te her own business in the kitchen. result of increased productivity The speaker traced the earliest allegedly intended? and as this plan was designed to do from the leturning from Indonesia, often When our social system w ill and technological improvement. movement to build an industrial Far from benefiting, the mass of the peo­ outset. without having a furlough with Editor: I was so pleased to require a higher cultural level it Ford enumerated many griev­ union on the railroads, that of their family. see Rose Karsner’s articles w ill have to free all the slaves ances long overdue fo r solution Eugene V. Debs in 18iM. He ple, here and overseas, have been outrageously The m ilitary aims and evolution of the “ As I wrote I am very much directed to the problems of women from the kitchens and help them in the railroad industry. Road showed how fa r - sighted Debs duped and victimized. After three years of Marshall Plan were seen and predicted by interested in the development of that I feel compelled to set down find a better reason for existence crews, who spend a large part of was in visualizing the shrinking this plan, which solemnly promised security, the Socialist Workers Party. In July 1948, our world movement, therefore my own thoughts and send them than only tending home and their time at away-from-home employment in the industry as a the peoples everywhere are more insecure than the 13th National Convention of the SWP reading precisely our interna­ to you. family. terminals, receive no expense lesult of technological improve­ at anytime since the last war. Instead of the adopted a statemen to the effect that this tional press among which the ■So women have equality! What I think that The Militant allowance. There is no night-shift ments. The Debs movement was Militant with its clear theoretical equality I would like to know? should make a real effort to help smashed by the railroad owners pledged “ peace,” the whole world now plan was not at all a “ relief program” for differential. There is no sick They have the right to vote; does and the government during the trembles under the shadow of w'ar. Instead articles, its appealing cries for the double-enslaved of this miser­ leave. Railroaders pay a very Europe, as the official labor leaders claimed. justice (as the article from that make them equals ? Can they able social system which offers high rate for pensions as con­ great Pullman strike. of prosperity, world-wide inflation rages, of But “ simply a part bf the U.S. imperialist Genora Johnson Dollinger) and leave the home and the children them nothing but subjection and trasted to the employer-financed In conclusion Ford predicted which the first victims have been the Amer­ economic, diplomatic and m ilitary interven­ its brilliant articles of day-to-day and compete in industry with misery. The M ilitant should offer pensions in other industries. (A that the old impotent railroad ican people. tion abroad. . . American workers must op­ workers’ life as described by men? Of course they can’t do them a medium through which railroad worker pays $18 a brotherhood bureaucrats are going that. Who w ill stav home and Only two years ago, in 1949, Truman was pose the Marshall Plan no less vigorously Theodore Kovalesky and others. they too can put their grievances month on a $300 income into the to be in for a big surprise when Also “ The M ilitant Arm y” has take care of the children? into words. pension fund. Average retirement this movement for a united in­ still making his demagogic promise that "we than the Taft-Hartley Law.” alivays my special attention for The woman has been pushed Sylvia R. annuity being paid in Dec. 1950 dustrial rail union sweeps them can establish an income level in the country Events have shown who told the truth. its organizing and stimulating into the home. As in the animal San Pedro, Calif. was $82.75 a month.) from their positions. U AW Convention Notes ------By Art Preis ------t h e MILITANT There’s no doubt about it — the CIO United in his convention address on such matters as the Automobile Workers is the largest union in the wage freeze, big business control of the war VOLUME XV MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1951 NUMBER 15 country. As announced at the convention, the agencies, etc. But he practically got down on his March per capita dues payments totalled 1,264,451. knees and sang “ Mammie” when he pleaded with * » * the delegates to give Walter Reuther more dues A sample of Walter Reuther’s "democracy” was money. You could see he had his heart and soul revealed on the first morning of the convention. in it. He told the delegates that on their decision Two delegates from an amalgamated local union, to vote more dues “ the perpetuity of your organ­ 18,569 Votes Cast in L. A. No. 38, were denied seating by the credentials ization, and the well-being of hundreds of thou­ committee. They had been elected by a meeting sands of other souls.. . is hanging in the balance.” of more than 500 members. Their credentials had * * * been signed by the local president. Then, one week before the convention, the president called The Canadian delegation reported that two of For Myra Tanner Weiss a meeting on 24 hours’ notice of one of the units their number were denied admittance into this of the local, attended by but 19 members, and country and a third held for expulsion back into had himself elected a delegate. He protested Canada for alleged “ security reasons.” The con­ the seating of the delegates elected by the over­ vention addressed a strong protest to Truman SM/P Backs NEXT W EEK whelming m ajority of the members. The creden­ demanding the admission of these Canadian auto Anti-W ar Candidate Polls workers who had been democratically elected to tials committee seated him instead. Reuther gup- Complete review ported the credential committee’s ruling and the represent their fellow-members at the UAYv convention went along. It was said that the gathering. The delegate who had been held for Broussard and analysis Over Six Percent of Vote deportation was finally permitted to attend the original delegates’ opposition to the dues in­ LOS ANGELES, April 4 — Myra Tanner Weiss, crease might have had something to do with convention. of CIO United * * * their meeting. In Oakland Socialist Workers Party-endorsed candidate for the Los * * * One backward delegate, who didn’t use Reuth- OAKLAND, Calif. — The Elec­ Automobile Workers Angeles Board of Education, received 18,569 votes, over six UAW President Walter Reuther, in his opening cr’s diplomatic language to cover his reactionary tion Campaign Committee of the Convention percent of the total votes cast. address this morning, said it would be “ tragic,” position in support of Truman’s “police action” in Socialist Workers Party in this This sizeable support was ral­ Tanner Weiss gave the essence “ dangerous,” and “ unrealistic,” and also a Korea, embarrassed Reuther no end in the debate city decided to extend critical lied by means of an energetic of the Socialist Workers Party “ disservice to the war effort,” if organized labor on the Korean war resolution by declaring “if support to Rev. Warren I. Brous­ by campaign. Comrade Weiss reached stand against the war. A deep, “ in this period of profiteering and runaway prices I had my way about it I would drop the atom sard, a m ilitant Negro minister an estimated 100,000 or more peo­ thoughtful silence came over the MYRA TANNER WEISS would even remotely think of giving a no-strike bomb on Moscow.” He included in his remarks a running from West Oakland in A rt Preis ple with the anti-war message of previously restive audience as pledge.” racial slur about “ the Asiatics multiply like rats.” the Councilmanic elections. Hav­ This Socialist Workers Party the party. she said, “ Some of my opponents He was roundly applauded when he said, “ I This statement was protested by another delegate ing become familiar with the pro­ Militant correspondent leader conducted a vigorous have complained that a discus­ say we have got to keep the right to strike as and Reuther called on the remiss brother to strike gram which the SWP Candidate campaign for the Los Angeles INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN sion of the war is not pertinent our only weapon to fight against injustice in his insulting allusion from the record, explaining for Councilman - at - Large, Filo- Board of Education on a social­ The last week was the most to a School Board election. I America.” that the delegate had been “ carried away in the mena M. Goelman is putting Don’t miss this first - ist, anti-war program. intensive and rewarding of the would like to reply that if we * * * excitement of the discussion” and “ didn’t really forward, Broussard proposed that She spoke before numerous entire campaign. Comrade Weiss cannot provide a future of peace Philip Murray didn’t get particularly excited mean it.” both candidates support each hand report of this trade union, Negro, Mexican spoke to as many as four meet­ for our children then what good other. and other organizations. Her ings in one day and the sound is the rest.” important Cleveland large vote came as. a shock to truck awakened the city with the While rejecting any possibility STALINIST FAKERY of a unified campaign, because C onvention the political machines and as blasts of its anti - war slogans In contrast, the Stalinist candi­ Who is Responsible? of important political differences, an encouragement to the anti­ reaching tens of thousands. Thou­ date gave a real reformist Jinc, the SWP Campaign Committee war and progressive forces. sands of leaflets and campaign ------By Tom C onlan ------maintaining that war is not has agreed to make an offer of platforms were also distributed. inevitable under capitalism “if The Norwegian dramatist and poet Heinrik mittee hearings have shown. support to Rev. Broussard’s Cam­ Especially noteworthy among children are taught the spirit of Ibseif once defined a liberal as an individual This pestilence undoubtedly has its center in paign Committee, because they the many meetings addressed by peace.” lucky enough to be “ unhampered by either char­ Washington, but just as undoubtedly it is also believe the sizeable Negro popula­ FROM THE WASHINGTON the candidate this week were acter or conviction.” Our liberal contemporaries nation-wide. Who then is to blame? tion of Oakland in entitled to three sponsored by units of the This week, the party sound have outstripped in their luck the European Is it capitalist politicians and politics? Is it representation on the council. Independent Progressive Party, truck went right through the prototypes, whom Ibsen had in mind. A case in those who run the “ select few companies” and remnant of the Wallace move­ heart of the downtown business FORMER CIO ORGANIZER CONFERENCE OF LABOR point are the editors of New Republic. everything that these monopolists stand for? ment, dominated as it is by the district, with its anti-war slogans, The stench of gra ft and corruption emanating Thousands of plain citizens, whose eyes and minds Rev. Broussard is a longshore­ A t the National Conference of Labor held by the United Labor Stalinists. I f they had hoped that in the most crowded hours when from Washington; the .partial exposure of the are beginning to open, are starting to probe to man, Chairman of the Harry Policy Committee Mar. 21 in Washington,. Jafnes B. Carey, CIO Comrade Weiss would not answer tens of thousands were in the tie-up between capitalist politics and the under­ the roots, they are beginning to ask themselves: Bridges Defense Committee, and Secretary-Treasurer disclosed the following figures on the rate the formal invitation they sent to process of leaving work. A t every world by the Kefauver committee, and the result­ Is it perhaps the capitalist system itself that formerly CIO organizer in the of exploitation: “In the firsts all candidates, they were soon mention of “anti-war,” heads of ing repercussions among the people have caused spawns crime and corruption? deep South. He demands Negro quarter of 1950, the profits made undeceived. She came and con­ pedestrians would swivel in the these staunch supporters of the Truman ad­ To the handful of super-billionaires, to their representation in the City Coun­ on each hour of work by each of quered. In addition to speaking direction of the loudspeaker. ministration to finally also raise their voices in imperialist rule, to their war plans, such thoughts cil; an end to police brutality the nation’s 13,000,000 production UAW Officer Says against the war, at every one of Other heads would crane out of “ protest.” are indeed dangerous. The task of the liberals is and jim crow. On the war ques­ workers was already at the stag­ the meetings she delivered a streetcar windows and auto­ They have discovered in their Mar. 26 issue to throw sand in the people’s cyds. The evil, they tion he is urging that the City- gering figure of 86% cents an Truman Abdicates lecture against the class col­ mobiles. A friend reported to us that the government “ operates in a climate in shout assuming a highly moral pose, is not the Council hold a public meeting in hour. In short, the employer was laborationist methods of Stalin­ on the following day that he had which . . . g ra ft is taken for granted.” They con­ rule, it is merely the exception. And they even which the people could express making 86% cents on each hour ism, explaining the principled line heard the car from the 11th floor cede that the scandal of the Reconstruction estimate it with mathematical precision — at their opposition; but he clings worked! By the fourth quarter To Big Business of Trotskyism. of a building he was in at the Finance Corporation reeks to high heaven. And one percent. to the fallacy of peace through of 1950, this iprofit had jumped to CLEVELAND, March 31—“Wc A t one of these meetings, held time. the United Nations. at the IlPP County Headquarters, they add, for good measure, other still “ unin­ “Ninety-nine out of every hundred public of­ $1.21 an hour — an increase of not only have the companies to B u rritt Wheeler, a local news vestigated” scandals. ficials meet the test, the one percent is rotten,” This latest development in the 34% cents fo r each hour worked. Comrade Weiss spoke fo r more commentator, made the mistake fight but the government as well. There is the scandal of the Office of the Alien swear the New Republic editors. And who is local election campaign is one Production workers got an in­ than half an hour due to the of urging his audience to beware Property Custodian. There is the Federal Power responsible fo r that teeny-weeny “ one percent” ? indication of the impact being crease of 10 cents an hour for The Truman administration has failure of other candidates to of this “ subversive” candidate. He Commission “ improperly influenced by oil, gas — Why it is one, and only one, individual •— made by Candidate Goelman. their labor, -while the employer abdicated to Big Business,” said appear. The chairman of the felt constrained by pressure a Many workers still remember her and utility interests” both as regards its per­ “ the rottenness is the responsibility of Harry laked in an increase of 34% cents Emil Mazey, CIO United Auto­ meeting became frantic at the few days later, to read the text from the campaign of two years obvious friendliness of the audi­ sonnel and “ its licensing decisions.” There is the Truman,” they conclude. an hour on that same hour of mobile Workers secretary-treas­ of an anti-war socialist state­ prevalent practice of “trading” by the Depart­ Harry Truman has not changed. This henchman ago. Two contacts have offered labor!” ence and attempted to silence her. ment which she had sent to him, urer, at his press conference here ment of Justice in its so-called “ anti-trust” suits. of the Pendergast machine remains what he al­ their homes for their neighbors * * * This gave her another point of and to explain that his use of There is the Maritime Commission out of which ways was; so does the Missouri gang that moved to meet the candidate; one of In revealing the bias of the this afternoon prior to tomorrow’s attack against undemocratic the term “ subversive” was based the shipowners have “ improperly made” several into the White House with him. The “ rottenness” them expressing regret that the income tax laws in favor of the opening of the union’s conven­ Stalinist methods and won addi­ merely on the Attorney General’s millions of dollars (they actually stole several in Washington is not something new, either. It home wasn’t large enough to hold rich, President Hayes of the In ­ tion. tional sympathy from the audi­ “opinion” on the Socialist Work­ billions). There is the Arm y and Naval Ordnance, has been there all this long while. But that did more people who would gladly ternational Association of Ma­ While UAW President Walter ence. ers Party. come. siphoning o ff contracts to a “ select few com­ not prevent the New Republic from keeping mum chinists told the conference: “ This Reuther has thus far kept silent One of the biggest events of Other meetings spoken to dur­ panies.” about Truman’s “ responsibility” which they have provision (permitting splitting of on Truman’s role, Mazey repeated the week was a meeting sponsor­ ing the week were the Echo Park The New Republic’s list is by no means ex­ so suddenly discovered. income between husband and wife his declaration made at the recent ed by the League of Women Women’s Club, which had an haustive, but even as it stands it provides That Truman is responsible is beyond dispute. Largest Locals on tax returns) means exactly national labor conference of the Voters which attracted an audi­ audience of several hundred; the annihilating proof that the federal government The liberal lie consists in minimizing the down nothing to a married person un­ United Labor Policy Committee. ence of more than 1000, and was 102nd St. School in Watts; the is ridden from top to bottom by g ra ft and cor­ to “ one percent” evil and in trying to unload the less he earns $5000 or more a He said in response to reporters’ broadcast on the radio. In the American Jewish Congress; and ruption and, what is more important, dominated “ rottenness” of the whole criminal system of In Auto Oppose year. Here are some examples: questions: alloted three minutes, Myra the Parent Election Study Groupi in each instance by “ select few companies,” that capitalism upon a single individual. But to utter Those receiving incomes of less “ The President can’t escape re­ is, by Big Business. The same is true of state such whopping lies — that is the social role of the Increase of Dues than $5000 save nothing by a sponsibility fo r the .present mess.” and local governments, as the Senate Crime Com­ liberal apologists for capitalism. split income return. CLEVELAND, April 2 — Wal­ Salaries of $7,500 save $53 per POSSIBLE NEW DIRECTION BRIGGS TO CADIM ter Reuther late this afternoon year Asked whether he foresaw any achieved his major objective in Salaries of $10,000 save $168 “ new form of political action” by The Machine is Waiting the 13th Convention of the CIO per year iabor growing out of the current WITH RINDA, SAYS MAZEY United Auto Workers, meeting Salaries of $25,000 save $2,268 rift with the administration, ------By H. F. ------here, when he shoved through a per year Mazey said that there is “ a CLEVELAND, March 31 — no decision had been made on I work in the proof-room (where the printers’ the machine is waiting in another sense too — membership dues increase of $1 Salaries of $100,000 save $13,- possibility that labor may move Em il Mazey, Secretary-Treasurer galley proofs are checked fo r errors) of an av­ in a much bigger sense. And with much more a month, to bring the monthly criminal action and damage suits 170 per year in a new direction, but that of the CIO United Automobile erage union printing shop. The proof room is cause for all of us to get excited. Two world dues to $2.50 minimum. and that they were merely being If this gimmick which benefits depends on what happens between Workers and former leader of “ considered.” a good spot from which to view the constant wars, a terrible worldwide depression, the tragedy only the higher incomes (17% of r.ow and the political conventions MURRAY PRESSURE Briggs Local 212, predicted today Mazey came to the defense of speed-up that goes on in the whole shop. Every of human suffering, and rivers of blood have run, the tax payers) was repealed, it. ;n ’52.” The whole convention has been that the UAW would be successful Walter O. Briggs Jr., executive job is a "rush” job. The foreman comes running because the machine, the m ighty machine of is estimated that an additional geared to this single end of rais­ To the M ilitant reporter’s in its demand that the Briggs vice president of the company and into the proof-room all day long, excitedly shout­ capitalist production, is trying to break out of two billion dollars would be ing, "Drop what you’re reading now — this job the straitjacket of private ownership and nar­ ing Reuther’s treasury by an ad­ question as to what he considered Manufacturing Co. cancel its son of its founder, claiming that ditional million dollars every recovered.” is the minimum the labor leaders scrap-hauling contract with Carl goes before everything! Don’t let anybody stop row national boundaries. American imperialism » * * Briggs “had nothing to do” with you!” tries to drag the world down the road of its solu­ month. Even CIO President Philip would settle for to re-cement the Renda, given as payment to the the Renda contract and did not In his opening speech to the Right on his heels, one of the printers will tion to the crisis of the machine — atomic war. Murray was brought into the political alliance with Truman gangster for the brutal beating Conference CIO President M ur­ know about the company’s re­ rush in with a job to be read, saying, “ This has Yes, fellow shopmates, “ the machine is w ait­ drive. He made an impassioned and the Democrats, Mazey claim­ of several Local 212 militants. He sponsibility for the beatings. plea for Reuther’s demand fo r ray explained the workings of the to be read rig ht away — the machine is w ait­ ing!” It is patiently waiting for us, the millions- ed that the ULPC demands were was confident that, the company’s “ We have gone over the records higher dues to build a $15 mil­ wage stabilization order as fol­ ing!” strong of organized American workers, to release not set up for "bargaining pur­ president, W. Dean Robinson, of the grand jury that first heard lion fund that the UAW leader lows: “ Under the formula, if you “ The machine is w aiting!” I had heard this it from the stranglehold of capitalist property poses” and that the union leaders would soon be discharged. the testimony and these and our said would be used to fig h t for were a $50,000 a year corporation exclamation many times before, but suddenly I forms, of production for private profit, and from would insist on their fu ll demands Here fo r the UAW convention guaranteed annual wages and executive, you could get a $5,000 conversations with Briggs of­ was struck by how deeply significant it really the suffocating confines of outmoded, reaction­ for effective price controls, curbs which starts tomorrow, Mazey 1J200 retirement pensions — in increase — and it wouldn’t be in­ ficials lead me to believe that was. What the harried printer meant was that ary, national boundaries. Today the machine cries on profits, fair taxation, etc. told a special press conference 1955. flationary. But if you were a fifty Briggs had nothing to do with it one of the operators was holding his linotype out to us, the workers, to unfasten the deadly “ If you don’t get these demands, this afternoon in his Hotel Hol- A fter a heated four-hour de­ cent-an-hour service employee in and that President Robinson was machine idle, so he could rush through any cor­ grip of monopolists and bankers and free it so w ill you then advocate a new lenden suite that be was “ given bate the convention approved the some little shop, the Board the bastard in the case.” rections that the proofreader might find. But that it can produce all the goods and services party run by labor?” the M ilitant the assurance by one of the com­ dues increase by a hand vote of majestically decided that a wage The single positive step the idle machines mean no p ro fit for the employer — that mankind needs. The machine cries out to be reporter asked. Mazey replied, pany officials that the Renda three to one. An effort of the raise of six cents an hour — six UAW leaders have taken in this and everybody feels the tension of that idle delivered from production of war materials, of “ Right now we arc interested in contract will not be operative on opponents of the dues increase to cents an hour, I repeat — would scandal that has rocked Detroit machine that is “ waiting.” atom bombs, cannon, jet planes, flame throwers, building political understanding secure a roll-call vote was defeat­ be inflationary!” April 1.” I t was revealed at the i.s the filing of an unfair labor But almost immediately I was reminded that and it is time we heeded that cry. in the ranks to move in any direc­ ed. About 495 delegates voted for * * * Kefauver committee’s hearings in practice charge against the com­ tion we intend to move.” Did this the roll call, but it was short of Telling how the ULPC had Detroit several weeks ago that pany with the NLRB. Mazey ad­ mean the unions “ might go the mysterious beatings of Local the 700 required by convention asked the wage stabilization board mitted that it might be two years Republican?” Mazey laughed as Eviction of a Veteran rules. if the escalator clauses in con­ 212 members in 1946 and 1947 or more before a decision is if this was a ridiculous idea, but were carried out by Renda, son- However, these 495 delegates tracts covering two or three m il­ reached on this appeal and ------By Dave Lands ------then added, “ We might support in-law of the notorious racketeer represented the largest locals and lion workers would be allowed to stated that Local 212 would not Republicans in some spots, and in DETROIT, March 31 — The aroused tenants going that are thrown out of this project?” plants in the union with the high­ run their course, Murray gave Sam Pen-one, at the company’s wait but would strike to enforce some spots we might put forward of the Charles Housing Project took the law in They also stated that they hoped this action est proportional voting strength the board’s reply: “ No, said instigation. its demands for Robinson’s ouster our own people.” their hands last Tuesday night and moved Rob­ would draw attention to the miserable role of in the convention. On a roll call these stabilizers, if a stable cost- Among the victims were Ken and cancelation of the scrap- ert Kaltz and his fam ily of seven (five small the Detroit housing commission. they would have polled almost of-living contract "bumps into our He made it clear that he did Morris, present president of the hauling contract with the Renda- children under 8) back into their project apart­ Instead of spending all available government half the vote based on actual rigid formula, the contract will not advocate the formation of a local, and Genora Dollinger, Perronc mob. ment. funds fo r building more homes fo r the inade­ membership in the UAW. have to be violated. The stabiliz­ labor party at this time. “For leader in 1937 of the famous Kaltz is an unemployed World War II veteran Among the delegations oppos­ quately housed and overcrowded conditions of ers well knew they were risking this period of time,” he said, women’s brigade in the Flint GM who had a couple of bad breaks and fell behind ing the dues increase were Ford the Detroit workers, the city is spending a good instability in half a dozen of our using the union's strength for sit-down strikes and at the time Chicago in his rent. He offered to make arrangements to portion of the funds fo r slum clearance -and Local 600, with 65,000 members, most vital industries; they knew political bargaining with the two of the assault upon her a member May Day Banquet Jubilee pay the back rent, but the project management, turning the land over to private contractors. the F lin t General Motors locals, that the workers had fought fo r major parties “might be benefi­ of the Local 212 committee set showing no interest in his welfare, refused to ac­ Robert Kaltz was very grateful for the actions Detroit Dodge, Budd 306, and cial.” But “ viewed over a long Speaker: FARRELL DOBBS cept any partial rent payment. of his considerate neighbors. He stated “ I don’t big blocs of delegates from De­ those contracts, and would fight, up to investigate previous beat­ on the picket line if necessary, period of time it might have a ings of members. Chairman of Socialist Workers The neighbors realizing that his family (who know who the people were that moved me back tro it locals which are pro-Reuth- different affect.” Party had already spent five nights sleeping in a truck) in. I never was consulted. But now that we are er. These represent the very heart to keep them.” A t this point the DAMAGE SUITS “ Socialism Marches Forward” had no place to go, decided that the only solu­ here out of the rain, we are going to stay.” of the union in Michigan. hall burst into applause. He added that it is “ my hope Asked by The Militant reporter tion to the problem was to put the fam ily back The Charles Tenants Council is backing Mr. This opposition of a large part and desire that in the foreseeable M.C. ARNE SWABECK whether the UAW officials were in. Their few pitiful belongings were being de­ Kaltz in his fig h t to keep a roof over his fam ily’s of the oldest, most experienced Newark future we w ill have our own International Smorgasbord stroyed as they lay out on the lawn day and head. They are providing him with an attorney and traditionally' most militant party.” He did not state how he contemplating criminal action (all the food you can eat!) night. . to cover all the legal angles, such as the break­ sectors of the union reflects a “Trial of Trenton Six” expected this to be brought about against the officials of the com­ Entertainment, Dancing, Singing Although they didn’t divulge their identity be­ ing and entering charge which the project man­ significant and growing shift of Eyewitness account in “ the foreseeable future” if pany and damage suits on be­ Music, Fun fo r A ll cause they feared reprisals on the part of the agement is instituting against Mr. Kaltz. sentiment away from Reuther. Speaker; people like himself do not press half of the assault victims, Mazey project management, their spokesman, who call­ They are also circulating a petition among The debate this afternoon show­ GEORGE LAVAN, for such a solution today, when said only that such steps were NEW CHICAGO ed the press, said, “ They are using every excuse the tenants which they intend to give to Mayor ed a wide m istrust and suspicion M ilitant correspondent he admits the old alliance with “ under consideration” by the HEADQUARTERS available to evict people from their homes here. Cobo drawing attention to the constant threat of the Reuther leadership and of FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 8 P. M. the Truman administration has union’s attorneys. Questioned 734 S. Wabash The idea is to make room for families being of eviction over all their heads, and demanding giving it any greater funds to be 423 Springfield Ave. nothing to offer and Truman further as to the nature of any A pril 28, 7 P. M. - Donation $1.25 made homeless in the ‘slum clearance’ program. more housing fo r the lower and middle income used to strengthen its bureaucra­ SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY himself is responsible for the steps contemplated, the UAW of­ But it is a vicious circle. Where are the people groups. tic control over the UAW. “ mess” labor is in. ficial repeated emphatically that