Build a Labor Party Now! ARE 50,000,000 IN U.S. DOOMED DY H-BOMB? (See Page 2) t h e PUBLISHED WEEKLYMILITANT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Vol. X V II - No. 34 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1953 PRICE: 10 CENTS Brownell Flouts Millions of French Strikers Court Ruling on 'Subversive’ List Defy Government Ultimatum By Farrell Dobbs i ■ ...... ■ — The protest filed by the Socialist Workers Party against its redesignation on the U.S. Attorney General’s “ subversive” list has been arbitrarily rejected*by the Eisen­ Nation-Wide Wall St. Takes Gloomy hower administration. ®- As National .Secretary of the reply, challenged my authority SWjP, I had sent a formal notice as the 'executive officer of the Strike Flairs of contest to the Department of party and ruled that the protest View of Repercussions Justice. According to the &WP was invalid. attorneys, the notice complied This crude violation of the con In Ceylon with all the regulations prescrib­ stitutional rights of the SWP ed by the Attorney General for provides a new demonstration of A general strike flared up in On Global War Plans challenging the “subversive” des­ the hypocritical policy of the Ceylon Aug. 12. The frightened Eisenhower administration. It ignation under the new Eisen­ government declared a state of By Murry Weiss hower “ security” order. represents a cynical flaunting of emergency, called out troops and AUG. 20 — The general strike of the French workers, The Attorney General, in his U.S. Supreme Court rulings con­ cerning the legal rights of those turned its guns on the demon­ now entering its third week, is at this writing more power­ victimized by the witch hunters. strating masses. The press re­ ful than ever. The situation has sharpened to the critical The “subversive” blacklist, ported 21 killed and 215 wounded. point. An all-out showdown between French labor and Police arrested 380, including an Atrocities Reports which is perpetuated and ex­ capital is inevitable. And in the contest the workers are tended under the- Eisenhower unidentified “Communist leader” infinitely more powerful than the®- “security” order, was originated of South Ceylon. capitalists. and broadening their strike. in 1947 Ot>y the Truman ad­ The government decree estab­ On Gl Prisoners The scope and duration of the Union ar.d Socialist leaders were ministration. It quickly became lished the death penalty for movement is unprecedented in the quoted as regarding Laniel’s the principal instrument for at­ arson, looting and trespass. For rich class-struggle history of ultimatum “a veritable declara­ Revealed As False tacks on political opponents by spreading false rumors, 20 years France. The W’all Street - backed tion of war.” The united front of the party in power. in prison can be imposed. Another The prisoner exchange in Korea Laniel government, whose op­ the three labor federations, in­ has provided an occasion for the proviso makes it possible to out­ pressive economic decrees touch stead of being shattered, was CHARGES KEPT SECRET law any political organization in U.S. military brass, with the aid ed off the struggle, attempted to further consolidated by Laniel’s cf the venal pro-war press, to Scores of organizations were opposition to the government. halt the strike throughout the ultimatum. revive their propaganda alleging stigmatized “subversive” by the Truman regime. None of the PREPARED FOR WEEKS week by requisitioning (drafting) The number of strikers had mass atrocities against American reached 4,000,000 by Aug. 13. victims were informed of the The general strike came as no the strikers in government-owned captives in North Korea. How many were out at the begin­ charges against them. They were surprise.. Unions and other or­ industry. This device failed miser, As on previous occasions, a few ning of this week was hard to denied the right to confront their ganizations took weeks preparing ably. individual unchecked stories are Next the millionaire premier determine because of the in­ accusers or to have any kind of u one-dav “hartal” — a peaceful blown up and exaggerated to give tervening vacation period. A ll a hearing. Meanwhile they were work stoppage, and set Aug. 12 attempted to negotiate with the a totally false impression. Ac­ non-Stalinist unions; but the indications are that the strike is publicly smeared in the news as the date. cording to the usually reliable overwhelming pressure of the spreading to private industry and Christian Science Monitor, how­ papers and through televis'd The principal demand was'that witch-hunting orgies by Con workers precluded any deal that has generally gained 1 momentum ever, “those who have talked with the Government resign and call did not meet their basic demands. since Laniel’s ultimatum. scores of returned Allied prison­ gressionai committees. new elections. Many people have been humi­ W ith a “courage” born of the ers” both last April and now This demand arose when the POLITICAL DEMANDS liated before their friends and stiff pressure from American “counsel caution in accepting present Government broke all its capitalism to deal “firmly” with The demands of the workers certain stories that stir sensa­ (Continued on' page 2) election promises about safe­ Chicago Negro Family the strike, Laniel burned all are essentially political in char­ tional headlines. guarding the workers’ standard bridges behind the isolated and acter. Two weeks ago word got “Among those cited,are reports of living. The A ll Ceylon Shop f-otteidji'g . alLcapitElist -govern­ out that the Laniel government concerning atrocities, withholding Employees’ Union, for example, ment and issued an arrogant was using its- special powers, of American prisoners, and Amer­ passed a resolution Aug. 2 that Defies Racist Mobsters ultimatum to the workers: Go voted by -the last session of the icans who do not wish to come stated in part: back to work! “There will be no National Assembly, to prepare home. . . Mistreatment, lack of In a series of riotous mob Authority spokesmen said their workers driving home from- work “The U NP Government has more talks with those who do not economic decrees that cut the medical attention, shortages of attacks, stone-hurling racists in­ conduct was a violation of their were injured by flying glass. forfeited its right to maintain resume work today. There will number of workers in govern­ food and clothing, and outright cited by the real estate interests leases and eviction action is con­ office because (a ) it has reduced be nothing more left but a vast ment - owned enterprises . and torture did occur, according to tried by violence for five nights templated for anyone implicated “HARD TO UNDERSTAND” the rice ration, while increasing national effort directed toward lengthened the time of service eyewitness reports. P e r s o n a 1 to drive a Negro family from in the riots. “We are going to stay here the price; (b) it has deprived ■the need of assuring at all costs by two years before eligibility abuse and torture, however, were Chicago’s oldest, public housing and fight it out,” said Mrs. school children of their free mid­ the country’s essential services.” for pensions. This was the straw fa irly isolated instances. . . Few project, the 26-acre Trumbull VIOLENCE BEGINS Howard. “But it is hard to under­ day meal; (c) it has increased the that broke the back of the stories are written about the Park development. The first violence occurred on stand. When they’re taking men price of sugar and has maintain­ TROOPS MOVED workers’ patience. bulk of men who experienced no Thursday evening, Aug. 6, when into the Army, they don’t worry ed the new price despite mass 'Courageously refusing to budge This strike-breaking declara­ The French workers have been harrowing incidents.” a crowd of about 30 gathered about color, but when you try protests; (d) it has increased the in the face of this terrorism, tion, issued on Tuesday, Aug. 18, suffering from the ravages of Henry S. Hayward, Chief Far menacingly and *!i brick was to find a decent place to live postal rates and railway fares. postal clerk Donald Howard, his was backed by the movement of inflation, exorbitant and dis­ Easter n Correspondent, who wife and two children have had thrown through the Howard it’s a different matter.” troops into Paris. The N. Y. criminating taxation, and other ‘The U'N'P Government must wrote the above in the Aug. 10 to live under heavy police guard living room window. Police dis­ Administrator Roy Wilkins of Times lias nodded approval. The scourges arising from the sick­ be forced to resign and face the Monitor, complains of “heavy since the attacks began on Aug. persed the crowd, but the follow­ the National Association for the troops arc necessary “both to ness and debility of decaying country at a general election and pressure on newsmen” to “distort 6, shortly after the Howards ing night a larger one gathered. Advancement of Colored People, break the strikes' and to prevent French capitalism. hcrefore the H artal and the Gen­ a valid small story into a major moved into the project. Stones and bricks were thrown said: “This Chicago housing riot them from erupting into violence.” The take - home pay of an eral Strike of Aug. 12 as a step rli rough the door and windows of is quite a welcome home party sensation.” The attacks were invited by The workers responded to this j average metal worker of Paris No pressure appears to be put in mass struggle against the UNP the Howard residence. Early Sat­ for released Negro prisoners in the under-cover Jim Crow policy bluster and the threatening ges- j with a family of three is $30 a deserves full and unconditional urday morning two sulphur Korea, some of whom must he on them even to report the of the public housing authorities. tures of violence by intensifying I (Continued on page 2) sensational U.S. admission that support.” candies wei;$ tossed into the wondering why they have been “ We had no idea there were family's living room. shooting Communists in far away 8,440 Communist prisoners have TROTSKYIST ROLE died in U.S. prison camps in no other Negroes here when we By Sunday night a souped-up Asia all these months.” Korea. FARRELL DOBBS In three, special hartal issues, moved in,” said Mrs. Howard. crowd- of from $00 to 2,000 the Lanka .Samasamaja. Party ■fThe Chicago Housing Authority mobilized and on Monday night (Trotskyists) warned that the has a policy of non-discrimination, an estimated 3,000 were on hand Preliminary figures for U. S. Oil Im perialists Back Government was combining minor nut we have learned since tlf trying to deprive the Negro casualties in the Korean war are concessions with open prepara­ trouble started that this proje family of its rights. up to 142,277. This is the fourth Akron, Chicago,Newarktions for violence under excuse and three others have never faken A 1 large c.ontingen t of police bloodiest war in the history of of “the fam iliar Red bogey." Negro tenants.” barricaded off an area of two (he country as far as U.S. losses Royalist Coup in Iran Trotskyists were in the fore­ Very few of the white tenants blocks to keep the screaming are concerned. Casualties inflict­ Take Lead in Fund Drive front of preparations for the of the project were among the race-haters from the project. The ed by the horror weapons on the Wall Street and the Eisenhower administration are general strike but as yet-we have hoodlums trying to force the frustrated mob then moved to a Korean people are far greater. holding their breath in the hope that the royalist military * By Reba Aubrey, Campaign Mapager not received direct news about Howards out. Four of those nearby busy street intersection The Defense Department, said the coup in Teheran which has returned the exiled Shah of Branches of the Socialist Workers Party contributed any reprisals the Government arrested, however, were from the and stoned Negroes in passing list includes 25,604 dead and Iran to power and deposed Pre-®~ may have taken against them. project and a Chicago Housing cars and in taverns. Five steel 103,492 wounded. $1,159 this week to the $18,000 Party-Building and Pub­ mier Mossadegh will prove last­ to him. The present possibility of ing. Mossadegh’s mass popularity a reactionary royalist victory, and lications Fund, raising the total paid through Aug. 17 te rests upon the expropriation of it consequences in working class $8,435 or 4«% of the national-®- the British-American imperialist victims, was laid by the policy push up our standing on the quota. The lag increased agam oil holdings two years hgo. Since of Stalinism in Iran. The Stalin­ this week. W e are now 23% scoreboard.” that time W all Street and London ists have deliberately refrained The above on-schedule branches behind schedule — and only four Labor Next Target of Witch Hunt have been unable to regain con­ from utilizing the mass of the will come in at an easy lope, if weeks to go. trol. workers to organize a revolution they hold to their present pace. Akron crossed t.he goal line t-o By A rt Preis •A major obstacle to this aspira­ appeared to accept the/assurances Such views, of course, minimize Last week the attempt of the that could have cleansed the 117% and first place on the score- But the other 13 branches, some tion remains the narrow organ­ of Labor Secretary Martin Dur­ the danger of political reaction country of monarchist - feudal Since the Republican victory Shah to remove Mossadegh was board. Their $85 contribution did still dawdling around the start­ izational interests of the in­ kin, former Plumbers Union and raise anew the illusion that elements. This would have made ing post, will really haye to last. November, organized labor thwarted. The Shah fled the it. dividual union bureaucrats whose head, that. Eisenhower is prepar­ perhaps some way out can be possible an end to the appalling hustle. has faced greater necessity than country on Sunday, Aug. 16. On Chicago, in second place with tendency is to view every issue, ing amendments to the Taft- found by labor through the old Monday 100,600 workers demon­ poverty of the exploited work­ 78%, is pounding toward the Cleveland and Pittsburgh moved ever of taking effective measures however vital, through the lens Hartley Law “favorable to labor.” bankrupt policy of dependence on ers and peasants. $10 closer -toward their goals, to combat the aggressive anf.i- strated against the royalists in goal. According to Comrade Hilda of the>r own positions, dues and It was significant, that Eisen­ political collaboration and deals the streets of Teheran. They cut The reaction of Wall Street and Smith, they “are now working to and Flint took up some of the labOr forces. The danger facing emoluments. We haye an illustra­ hower waited until after Con­ with the capitalist parties and London to the first news of the organized labor from political down statues of the Shah and his gel. the whole amount in well slack in its percentage with a tion of this type of antipathy to gress had adjourned, and there administrations. They tend to royalist coup was cautious. In $50 check. Comrade Genora says: reaction is emphasized anew by father. They displayed a bitterly before the deadline.” Their check labor unity in William L. Hutche- was no time for labor to press weaken the impulsion toward anti-royalist mass sentiment. London stocks of the expropriated for $90 was “not as much” as Wo may not. be able to keep up „the recent . announcement, that the . . son, President Emeritus of the it for action, to leak a story to labor unity. On Wednesday the royalist cil companies soared in anticipa­ they would have “liked to send,” with the schedule, but you need Senate Internal Security sub-.sub- 800,000-member United Brother- the effect that he had submitted tion of the early return of the That is not to say that AFL- power grab took place when a so they will be glad to know that not. worry about- Flint-.” committee has picked the Jabor|ho0(j of CarpenterS) who resigned T-H amendments, later countered properties to the British capi­ Los Angeles added $258.50 to OlO unity in and of itself will cection of the army, heavily in­ one of their comrades, holding unions as the next target for a as an AipL Executive Council by a second leak that, they were turn back political reaction. The talists. its score; New York added $42; McCarthyite - type witch - hunting vjcc president and . pulied his fested with royalist elements, down a summer job in New pulled withheld because of violent op­ moves toward unity merely However the American State Milwaukee $10. “investigation.” This is precisely attacked Government buildings Jersey, sent, in the full amount, organization out of the AFL position of the most reactionary reflect an awareness of the Department, has indicated its Comrade Frank Powers sent the development about which The and Mossadegh’s residence. The of bar $50 pledge which has been when the council approved a no­ Republicans. serious political menace to labor’s awareness that the issue in Iran this note with $71 from Seattle: Militant, warned when McCarthy army is a tightly knit highly credited to Chicago's score. raiding agreement, between the Durkin himself has gone to the rights and organized existence. is not settled. They fear the “Sorry that, we have fallen behind. in (he Senate and Velde in the specialized apparatus for main­ Newark chalked up a $52 gain AFL and CIO. extent, of a public attack on his But organic unity, to deal ef­ entrance of the working masses We. are .-Till hoping to meet our House dared to turn their in­ taining m ilitary control over the and Philadelphia added $50 to its In general, the top A F L and successor in the Plumbers Union, fectively with this problem, must, into the arena of struggle. This quota JN FULL AND ON TIME, quisitions on the liberal Prote­ masses. A pitched battle 'occurred total. Comrade A. Scion says: CIO officials have gone along acting general president Peter J. be powered with a currect poli­ would upset the tenuous counter­ stant clergy. Labor is next. in the streets in which American- “ According to my reckoning, this but it will take some doing.” with the wide-spread unity senti­ Schoemann, for stating in the revolutionary achievement of the tical program. made Sherman tanks were used. puts Philadelphia ahead of sched­ Youngstown made a $37 gain. Fear of new and deadlier blows ment and have even projected union’s journal that the Ad­ royalist military clique. “Collections on the Party-Building Independent labor political ac- The pro-Shah forces in the army ule. We still intend to go over against labor on the economic organic unity as the answer to ministration is trying “to steal ti„‘n'''H '7 hT| ' ainching "of ‘ labors A year ago a similar attempt the top, and I see no reason why and Publications Fund have been succeeded in seizing control — and political fronts has been the labor’s major problems. A t the from the American people what own party — would provide a to depose Mossadegh resulted in we shouldn’t. So, wish us luck!” slow because of vacations,” writes at least temporarily. principal stimulus to sentiments] same 'time, they have continued is rightfully theirs” in the united labor movement with the mass intervention by the work­ S(. Louis' 73% keeps them M. Jones, “but now that all the among the organized workers for to seek a way out for labor matters of offshore oil reserves, News dispatches indicate that ers, preventing installing an comrades are back we hope to do political weapon it needs to deal among the top seven again this unity of the labor unions. Tile through futile attempts to higher interest rates and disposal i the royalists arc' moving against Anglo-American puppet, regime. .belter in the next couple of the most devastating kind of, the ,vorkcrs. A theatre frequented week. average worker wants to see the achieve collaboration with the of atomic installations to private b lo tto capitalist, reaction and the by members of tbc powerfu] The present coup may well be Buffalo and Minneapolis - St. weeks and we are sure that we A FL and OIO welded together in Republican administration. nterests. On Taft-Hartley, Durkin the signal for civil war. This Paul each scored an on-schedule will be able to complete our order to wage a bigger and more even claimed that Eisenhower anti-labor forces Only through stalinist-controlled Tudeh party The same AFIL council meet­ an independent class party can: was burned down. would moan a fight to the finish bull’s-eye with 69%. — Buffalo quota on time, as we have always powerful fight against the ing that approved the no-raiding “has strictly adhered to his between the workers and the with $96 and the Twin Cities with done.” threats to labor’s conditions and agreement was singularly silent pledge to make these amendments labor defend itself, safeguard its Tho stalinists, who were out- peasants on the one side, and the $238. “This,” writes Comrade V. rights- represented by the grow­ on the anti-labor role of Eisen­ and he is now actively engaged organized existence and win the Hawed under Mossadegh, have landlord-capitalist-royalist forces R. Dunne of Minneapolis, “will (See scoreboard: Page 3) ing capitalist reaction. hower. In particular, the council in preparing them.” gains it aspires to. given indications of friendliness on the other. Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, August 24, 1953

Letters to a1 Stalinist ROLE OF PROVOCATEURS Are 50,Q00,000 Doomed in II. S. H-Bomb? By Joseph Hansen proximately 5,006 miles.” The foster the McCarthy type are not rested with an oppressed class in hostilities in Korea. Before the I inevitable, of course; and this IN E. GERMAN UPRISING ( First of a series.) bomber is more modern than the essentially different in outlook the hour when they were called deadline was reached, the time determines their strategic course, B-De. This means that every from Hitler and his sponsors. on to carry society forward to a table was changed, first to But they also consider that the .Malenkov’s announcement Aug “American target will be within Faced with the continued rise of higher stage. around 1952, then as 1952 neared, I initiative and therefore the timing 8 that “the United States does Dear Pliil. round-trip range of the Soviet revolutionary forces intent on Is it still possible for the Amer­ to 1954. Now it has been post' rests in their hands. This, they not have a monopoly of the advanced bases in Kamchatka and replacing capitalism by a better poned again, this time inde­ feel, gives them a measure of hydrogen bomb" raises once ican working class to stay the In your last letter you cite Paul Sweezy and Leo Hu- on the Arctic fringe.” He adds economic system, these paranoiacs suicidal plunge, into another world finitely, if we are to believe control. Through that control b^rman of the Monthly Review to reinforce your argu­ again the . question of "Wall that American defenses against may decide that no matter what Eisenhower. they hope to lower the risks and Street’s projected time table for conflict ? I think so. First of all, such long-range bombers loaded the risks, the war they have blue­ The several postponements strengthen the possibilities of ments on East Germany: You refer to the August issue World War 111. This question is no automatic process is at work with atom or hydrogen bombs printed offers them the only out. demonstrate in themselves that coming out on top. of this magazine which says, “ What happened in Berlin of intense interest to the gen­ that will push the American are not as effective as Soviet W all Street’s date for the fatal However, from another point thus seems clear enough: the Western cold warriors suc­ erals. capitalist politicians and How can they be stopped ? How capitalists into war, no matter defenses. can their will be paralyzed? How plunge is not rigidly fixed. A of view, this flexibility amounts their billionaire backers,. In the what the forces aiTayed against ceeded in turning perfectly genuine workers’ protest dem­ If nothing worse happened, it is certain flexibility lias been main­ to hesitation, indecisiveness and opposing class camp, the poli­ can the power of deciding Amer­ them, qt a pre-determined date. onstrations into a pitched battle against the East German clear that the opening day of tained. The reasons for this are even procrastination. Tactical tically conscious vanguard is ica’s fate be taken from them? World War III might well go DATES POSTPONED clear enough. The W all Street adaptation at a certain point af­ regime and the Soviet occupation authorities.” even more concerned about the The answers to these questions down in history as the opening It has been clear since shortly masters of destiny would prefer fects the strategic aim, can even You claim that this opinion powerfully substantiates question. It happens to be one of hinge upon the capacity of the day of a new barbarism for after the close of World War II to win their desperate gamble. undermine it and prove t,o be the the Stalinist line because Sweezy and Huberman are “ in­ the most momentous that has American working class to take America. the road of political action with­ that the tempo of preparations Consequently, they estimate world Achilles heel of the war plotters! ever faced mankind. dependent Socialists” and have at times criticized the But even worse might happen. out much delay and build a mass for another holocaust is far political forces, calculate the W ith each postponement the Kremlin. Brien McMahon, chairman of Leading atomic scientists warned revolutionary socialist party. It swifter than was the case after probable consequences of policies, question arises — has not the Believe it or not, Phil, I was waiting for you to pick the Joint Congressional Conn us some years ago that if the hinges upon what each one of us, World W ar I. In 1945-46 Wash­ take into account new develop­ strategic moment been missed? mission on Atomic Energy, ob­ up the arguments of the Monthly Review, particularly H-Bomb were developed, it would particularly the political van­ ington set its first bracket for ments — many of them sur­ Have not the odds risen so high served before his death that a then be technically feasible to guard, does toward furthering possible war as early as 1949-50. prising and unforeseen to them that war means a more swift since I know you have a subscription to the magazine. I few H-Bombs carried to Soviet include certain materials,, which, this development. Truly, the But the world war did not break — and have shown that they are and certain doom than femporiza- was just getting ready to write an article on their “ ana­ cities would incinerate around 16 on dissipating in' the atmosphere American workers might say that out in that period although at capable of making considerable tion? ------lysis” of East Germany because I believe they are mas­ million people; but the same after the explosion and diffusing never before have such terrible I times it was perilously close, tactical adjustments. (N ext week: Why they had to querading as “ independent socialists” and thereby are de­ number dropped on American from pole to pole, would destroy problems and fateful decisions I especially with the outbreak of Thev continue to view war *as postpone the dates.) cities wouId mean about BO mil­ all life — at least life in its higher ceiving people who consider direct Kremlin spokesmen un­ lion casualties. fonns. reliable. In addition to 50 million struck The'first thing to check is just how independent this down, the inventory of the LESSON OF HISTORY source is. The July 10 issue of the official Stalinist news­ catastrophe to America would I am not among those who have to list the smashing of the hopefully believe that such hor­ Millions of Strikers Defy Laniel Ultimatum paper of the Cominform, For a Lasting Peace, etc. says world’s mightiest industrial com­ rors are beyond, the capacity of “ Way back in May this year the American magazine human nature and that not even plex. (Continued from page 1) Kremlin. But the over-all need World War IT. First, Wall Street such a solution to the crisis. In Monthly Review pointed out that individuals Uke Chiang To think that America can a capitalist ruler could bring week. This included government of Wall Street is war — not favors a totalitarian-type regime fact, the international situation Kai-shek, Syngman Rhee, Adenauer and John Foster Dul somehow escape such fearful con­ ■himself to push the button that deals. Thus the dilemma. to secure France as a key in its if exceptionally favorable in view would entail such results. A class bonuses for children. The N. Y. les would surely have a go at organizing ‘super-provoca­ sequences in the, projected war Within France the dilemma is projected war on the Soviet of the spread of anti-capitalist between continents is fatuous facing loss of its ruling position Times admits that during the not Ipss acute. The French capi­ Union. Secondly, such a govern­ revolution. tions.’ The Berlin venture was precisely one of these The well-known columnist Joseph is capable of anything. That is last “ two years inflation has talists under the whip of Wash­ ment would have no more capacity With the victory of the French ‘super-provocations/” In its August issue the Monthly Alsop revealed July 26 that the lesson of history. been whittling down even that ington have forced the situation than the present one to grant the workers — which nothing but the Nothing in H itler’s course, for little purchasing power. That is Review proudly quotes its May comment and draws the “evidence is now available” in­ to a crisis in order to deal with major concessions needed by the example, gives us much cause to why the French workers started treachery of the Stalinists and same conclusion — the East German general strike was dicating the Soviet Union “has the working class and its, organ­ workers. Thirdly, the crisis aris­ consider that the lesson has been (heir strike against a measure Social Demcorats can temporarily started series production of a izations once and for all. Now at ing from colonial revolt and a an imperialist-engineered “ super-provocation.” six-engine turbo-prop bomber outmoded. The McCarthy type which would further cut their pi’event — one of the foundation the moment of crisis they are disintegrating empire would con­ stones of world capitalism would Last March, the Monthly Review whitewashed the in­ with a round-trip range of ap­ and the billionaire rulers that standards, and went on to raise the demand for a general wage whipped before they start. The tinue its explosive pressure on be knocked out. famous Moscow Frame-up Trials with a “ pattern of ex­ the new coalition regime. increase.” possibility that in their despera­ This would open, a completely planation.” This August they whitewash the counter- revo­ The French workers want and But the French workers have tion they will try to resort to p new chapter in the struggle need an end to the capitalist lutionary role of Stalinism in the East German events French Mail Clerks Out Too done more than present a number new coalition is by no means ex­ against another world war. A system. The moment is ripe for with a “ pattern of causation.” I cannot agree that such of reasonable and modest demands cluded. general strike leading to the in­ the slogan of a Workers and a source is either independent or socialist. the capitalist government. The NO SOLUTION stallation of worker’s power in whole course of their action Farmers Government of the So­ France would raise the working The, difference between Sweezy-IIuberman and the For the highly class-conscious demonstrates that they are fed cialist and Communist parties. class of the whole world to its Daily Worker consists in this: The Daily Worker gives French workers the road of a This slogan has been consistently up with whole political struc­ feet. A new example would stand coalition government with, the a crude reproduction of the lies and slanders of the Krem­ ture, with the rule of Big Busi- advanced by the French Trot­ before them even more inspiring capitalists jneans a return to all lin, the Monthly ReviCw gives a slick apology for these nes, with the American-backed skyists. and far-reaching than the victory the political conditions that gave war in Indo - China which is c-f the Russian workers in 1917. crudities and translates the harsh language of Stalinist rise to the present situation. SITUATION FAVORABLE draining their resources, and with All power, we say, to the crimes and frame-ups into a palatable, soothing and queasy iSuch a government would he Nothing in the objective situa­ the passivity of their official terminology. Example: The purges of the top echelons of even more unstable than the one tion, nor in the sentiment of the audacious and determined work­ organizations. the Stalinist parties in East Europe accompanied by fan­ that was set up at the end of workers stands in the way of ers of France. The French workers launched tastic charges of treason and spying are called by Sweezy- the most vigorous protest against Huberman “ more or less extensive personnel shake-ups.” the continuance of the capitalist Let’s consider the pivotal point of the Monthly Re­ regime. Their action has shifted view’s “ pattern of explanation” of the East German events. the balance of class forces in the world to the further disadvantage Republic Steel Firings I will reconstruct carefully: The East German workers en­ of international capitalism. The gaged in “ perfectly genuine workers’ protest demonstra­ N. Y. Times admits editorially tions.” But Westevn-financed provocateurs took over these that there is “a complete deadlock demonstrations and turned them into a pro-capitalist at­ between the Government and the Seen Threat to Union tack on the regime of East Germany and the Soviet Union. disaffected workers that could have serious repercussions on By Jack Wilson The district union leadership, similar developments in the farm The purpose of this giant provocation, according to the France, on Europe and on the YOUNGSTOWN, Aug. 16 — although not publicly supporting equipment field, indicate that the Monthly Review, was to strengthen the move to rearm whole North Atlantic community.” The steel corporations in this those fired, has issued a state­ mai-ket is becoming satui'ated. West Germany, align it with the European Defense Com­ In a word, repercussions that district have launched an attack ment about the presidents of the Ben Fairless, U.S. Steel’s board munity and halt the Soviet peace offensive. could stymie the drive toward on the CIO Steelworkers by locals supporting them. But it is chairman, said a couple of weeks World War III. ago that he expects a last- These striking postal workers in Paris rest on top of a wholesale firing of members and not openly taking the lead to call What proof do Sweez.v-Huberman advance to support quarter reduction in steel produc­ mountain of unsorted, undelivered mail. They have joined in officers of local unions. This on the district’s workers to this “pattern” ? None at all. As a matter of fact, the true GLOOMY VIEW tion. With pressure for produc­ the general strike of four million workers throughout France attack reached its peak when assist the fired men. Republic The Aug. 21 U.S. News and Local 1881 leaders seem to be tion on the companies eased, character of the East German workers’ movement is so against the “economy” measures of the Laniel government which Republic Steel fired 13 union of­ jWorld Rcnort takes a most gloomy paralyzed. This leadership several they feel they are in a more obvious that the facts about it even break into their article. hit at the already low living standards. ficers and members, including the They say: “ For one thing, it is quite clear that if Wash­ view: “Things are going badly locales president. This followed months ago under pressure of favorable position to weaken the for the U.S. in Europe. . . France similar discharges of 11 union the companies gave a public “no- union. ington or Bonn hoped that the East Berlin affair would is perilously close to chaos. . . officials and members at the strike” pledge. They reiterated The attacks on the union and play into the hands of their policy of putting the arming The United States is in danger Valley Mould and Iron Company this notorious pledge after the fo rking conditions in this district of West Germany ahead of German unification, they badly “SUBVERSIVE” RULING of being pushed out of Europe. . . firings. The top leaders in Pitts­ must be resisted to the greatest at Hubbard and 23 dismissals at Soviet Russia hardly has to lift miscalculated.” How did they miscalculate? Sweezy-IIuber- the Mullins Manufacturing Com­ burgh have kept quiet. possible degree. Union militants a finger. . . I t ’s not a revolution pany in nearby Warren. For the last year there have always try to rally the support nym say “ all reports agree that the political content of in France — not yet, anyway. . . FLOUTEU BY BROWNELL Anti - union articles in the been hundreds of work stoppages of the workers for those who are the June 16-17 demonstrations, far from being pro-United This isn’t, the way the U.S. daily Youngstown Vindicator, a in this area, traditionally one of fired, realizing that the workers planned it. But it’s the way things States or pro-Adenauer, centered entirely on unification (Continued from page 1) 192 organizations that had been spokesman for the steel com­ the most1 militant in the country, are the real power which the are going.” and free elections. . . The net result of the East Berlin af­ neighbors, driven from their designated “subversive” by the panies, preceded and accompanied over crew-cutting, crossing-over corporations fear and respect. fair. . . has been to make German unification a hotter issue jobs, framed up and imprisoned Tniman administration. To this These are the repercussions of these dismissals. Last June 21 the on jobs, unsafe practices, in­ The present conflict may be for what they thought or for list he added 62 new groups, in­ the French general strike in the Vindicator issued a .tirade against centive plans, etc. But the strug­ only a testing action by the than ever.” cluding many whose, only purpose consciousness of the U.S. capital­ corporations but it is wisest for Thus, according to Sweezy-IIuberman themselves, the associating with other victims of the union for “wild cat” and slow­ gles have been mostly over the he witch hunt. So brutal is the and function was to defend ists. In France the workers face down strikes. The Ohio Works incentive plans. The international! the union to proceed on the ex­ workers’ demonstrations had an anti-capitalist character •persecution that some have been victims of the witch hunt. a cornered capitalist class, which Organizer, paper of Local 1330 union agreed to incentives and pectation of an all-out fight. This despite the aims and activities of the provocateurs. They driven to suicide. Only after he had smeared is fighting desperately for sur­ at U.S. Steel’s Ohio Works plant, the corporations have been in­ w ill be the basis on which the “ centered entirely on unification and free elections.” They Victimized organizations and these organizations publicly did vival. ' warned that this “vicious bar­ stalling them piecemeal. Incen­ corporations will decide how far ' individuals have resorted to court Brownell present a tricky set of All commentators and obsei’vers rage . . . forecasts further attacks tive plans are speedup schemes they can go in their anti-union were “ far from being pro-United States or pro-Adenauer.” drive. The better the workers actions in an attempt to defend rules of procedure for filing & agree that the Laniel govern­ by the employers in this district.” and the workers have resisted What remains then of the Sweezy-Huberman conten­ themselves against these uncon­ “notice of contest” as the ment doesn’t have much chance. On Aug. 11, three days after the worst of them. Had the leader- mobilize for a fight, the more tion that the East German workers were successfully stitutional government attacks. preliminary to a demand for a What will replace it? Another republic Steel fired 11 millwrights ship • fought for really “sub- like!Y ,the corporations will back down in their aims of aggression. “ taken over” by provocateurs from the West? Perhaps One of these cases led two years hearing. Under these rules he Laniel ? This is excluded by the because of an alleged “illegal” stantial” wage increases instead tumultuous re-entry of the work­ of agreeing to incentives which they will argue that this was prevented by the actions pgo to a U.'S, Supreme Court has arbitrarily rejected the SWP work stoppage, the Vindicator, in - v of the Stalinist regime? But this would be an absurd con­ ruling that the Attorney Genei-al protest. ers on the political scene. The a front page editorial, indicated permit the company to dividd the had flagrantly exceeded his au­ 'Even if a victimized organiza­ special session of the Assembly the steel trust’s real intentions workers, the whole union could tradiction. It was the movement of the workers on June thority in establishing the “sub­ tion should . break through the which the workers demanded by announcing that “the steel have been mobilized for an effec­ 16-17 that they admit had an anti-capitalist character. versive” list. barbed wire of “notice of con­ from the beginning of the stnig- firms are ranidly running out of tive battle. Trotsky All the Stalinist regime did was try to suppress that test” rules, the so-called’ “hear­ gle now appears assured. This will patience with the steel union” RESIST ATTACKS movement. All that remains of the slick Sweezy-Huberman COURT RULING ing” under Brownell’s regulations he the arena for the political and are moving to take “deter­ According to the court, no or­ ’ Even against these odds, the Memorial “ pattern of explanation” is the bald assertion of the Stalin­ would be a kangaroo proceeding showdown. But it. will be an mined measures” against work ganization should be designated without any semblance of the arena where the shadows of the stowages and slowdowns. Youngstown workers continue to ist lie-factory: because the Western Capitalists sent pro­ “subversive” before it has ' been fairness stipulated by the Su­ real class forces, will enact the The Ohio Works Local 1330 resist the attacks on their con­ vocateurs into East Berlin (which is true) and because (1) informed of the evidence on preme Court. drama that is being written in the answered this challenge with a ditions. Up to now, it has not Meetings they tried to make capital out of the workers’ uprising which the designation rests, (2) These facts prove that organ­ strike gatherings and party meet­ statement pledging support to been possible for the official gi-anted an administrative bear­ izations marked down for attack ings of the working class. the victimized workers. On Aug. leadership to openly sabotage (which is true), therefore the East German struggle • New York: ing, and (3) allowed to present through the “subversive” list 13, the presidents of the basic these 1 struggles. Several years against the Stalinist bureaucracy is a venture of capital­ NEW COALITION GOVT.? evidence on its own behalf. will be framed up and publicly steel and large fabricating locals ago, the steelworkers here elected MURRY WEISS, staff writer ist provocateurs (which is a lie). .The procedure indicated by the smeared under Eisenhower just There is talk of a new gov­ declared that “the arbitrary dis­ a rank and filer to - the district for The Militant, will speak on court is being ignored by the as they were under Truman. ernment on the model of the director’s job, something that The role of the provocateurs as the “ causation” of charge of local union officers and “Capitalism and Stalinism Face Depai’tment of Justice, under Popular Front days prior to members . . . cannot he tolerated” has not happened in other dis- ihe uprising is crushingly disproved by two facts. First, SWP F IG H T Their Doom” — The French the East Berlin workers retained fully their independence Eisenhower, just as it was under World War II and shortly after end pledged the full resources of tricts. Under these circumstances Truman. The only difference is The Socialist Workers Party ■the war. This would be a gov­ the workers have waged many | General Strike, East German from the provocateurs and their slogans, as the Monthly their .locals to fight for reinstate­ that the Eisenhower administra­ has waged a consistent fight ernment of coalition between the ment of those fired. battles without the companies Uprising and the Kremlin Review admits. Second, the East Berlin uprising of June tion has rigged up a scheme to against the Tniman political pai'ties of the workers and the being able to “discipline” them. At, this writing, the Mullins Purge. DAVID L. WEISS, 17 showed its deep roots in the plight and political mood create the false impression that blacklist. Nationally celebrated parties of capitalism. Can France workers appear to be getting But because of the changed poli­ SWP candidate for Mayor will of the working class by spreading rapidly to every indus­ they are offering their victims is the challenge to the “sub­ return to this type of regime hack to work; nine out of 12 at tical climate in Washington since j the elections, the corporations trial center of East Germany, turning into a general strike. a hearing. versive” list by James Kutchcr, granting that the workers’ of­ Valley Mould have been reinstat­ also speak. Wed., Aug. 26, 8 Last April Eisenhower revoked a legless war veteran. Fired from ficial', treacherous to the core, ed. with three on the suspended evidently feel the time may be p.m. at Adelphi Hall, 74 Fifth — Murry Weiss will be able to sell this idea to right for them to take “determin­ the Truman “loyalty” order and his government job solely because list; and Republic Steel has Ave. (N r. 14th St.) issued his own “security” order o f his membership in the SWP, the workers? rehired three of the 13. Negotia­ ed measures” against labor here. which includes the fake directive Kutchcr has been’ fighting the Even such a government, which tions are going on to get. them Youngstown is a high-cost area on hearings. The anti-democratic “loyalty” purge for five years is (he only conceivable way the I all back. and the companies have spent Chicago: French capitalist system could relatively nothing for new plants character of Eisenhower’s order and ■will take his eleventh appeal BERT DECK will speak on is revealed by the fact that hie into the federal courts this gain a stay of sentence, would be PRESS FOR REHIRING and equipment here. The grow­ “The East German Uprising.” Subscribe! “cleared it with McCarthy,” the September. a bitter pill for Washington to The firings occurred at Republic ing attacks on the union, it was nation’s No. 1 witch hunter. Even The SWP will now fight with swallow.. With the Socialist and when nearlv 4,000 workers were observed by the July 17 Ohio Fri., Aug. 28, 8:30 p.m. at 734 Start your subscription now. Clip the coupon and mail it more revealing is the application the same persistence and deter­ Communist parties in the gov­ on strike. A meeting was called Works Organizer, come “at a So. Wabash Ave. in today. Send $1 50 for six months subscription or S3 for a full of the order by Attorney General mination against the Eisenhower ernment the advantage of put­ that day and the workers voted rime when the steel market is year to The Militant, 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. Brownell. attack on democratic rights. We ting a firm base under the feeble to return to work until Aug. 18, showing indications of slackening The Supreme Court held that will continue to defend all victims rule of capitalism through the when they would, decide on the and they are preparing now so San Francisco: Name ...... - organizations are entitled to a of the witch hunt, regardless of mechanism of the Socialist and next step if the men were not that when conditions become FRANK BARBA RIA w ill more favorable to them (cor­ hearing before they can be political differences we may have Stalinist labor bureaucracy would jell i red.' Meanwhile. Republic speak on “The German Work- Street ...... Zone ...... designated “subversive” and that with them. We will do so because, be offset, by the inevitable slow seems to be readying for a show­ porations), they can start a more ers’ Uprising — Beginning of they should have a fa ir hear­ 'the SWP believes that in the down of (he cold war. It couldn’t down, reportedly bringing several aggressive drive to weaken and City ...... State ...... ing. Brownell has done just the realm of democratic rights there conceivably be undertaken with­ carloads of refrigerated food eventually destroy the organized End for Stalinism.” Sat., Aug. □ $1.50 Six months Q $3.00 Full year □ New Q Renewal opposite. should be full application of the. out imposing the need for a inlo the mill and instructing labor movement.” 29, 8 p.m. at 2337 Mission St. Without prior notice of any time-honored labor slogan, “ An broader international understand­ foremen to he on hand in the mill Recent slowing down of auto kind, he publicly redesignated injury to one is an injury to all.” ing between Washington and the on Aug. 18. sales and auto cutbacks, and I Page Three

S u b scrip tio ns: $3 per y e a r: 8!rne6 articles by contrib­ utors do not necessarily esp- |1.60 for 6 months. Foreign: rerent The M ilitant’s policies. M«00 per y e a r; $2.25 fo r 6 t h e MILITANT These are expressed In its months. C anadian: $3.50 j>er Published Weekly In the Interests of the Working People editorials. year; $1.76 fo r 6 m onth*. THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION “ Entered ns second class Bundle Orders: 6 or more m a tte r M arch 7, 1944 a t the 116 U n iv e rs ity P I., N . Y. 3, N . Y . Phone: A I. 6-746# 'Chimp-O-Mat' Economy and Ape Nature copies 6c each In U.S., 7c Fost Office at New York, N.Y.. under the act of March Editor: GEOROE BKEITMAN each In foreign countries. 3, 1879.” But “no animal had 'ever work­ chologist’s shoulders back to his the orange slices that were on Business Manager: JOSEPH HANSEN- By Reba Aubrey* * ed hard for wages, in the sense own living quarters.” the menu that day. As Bula, ANIMAL IQ — The Human Side that men work for wages. Would The chimps “soon showed their sucked one orange slice after Vol. X V II - No. 34 Monday, August 21, 1953 of Animals. By Vance Packard. the apes do so?” awareness that blue chips were another, Bimba whined for a The Dial Press, New York The scientist pondered the more valuable than white chips. chance to get at the machine. In ­ N. Y. 192 pp. $2.50. „ problem and came up with “a The once-treasured white chips stead of moving aside, Bula began fiendishly clever device called the were now passed up in favor of handing poor Bimba the peels she Should Physicists Be Caged? Nowadays there arc so many Work Machine. The chimps were the blue (two-grape) chips.” They had sucked dry.” books on the market about the shown that when a large handle would choose a red chip only A t 1 he closing session of the first international Bromfield blames the nuclear scientists for was lifted, they could reach' in when deprived of water until STUPENDOUS SUCCESS animal side of humans that I conference on atomic energy held in Oslo, Nor­ the atom bomb and wants to take vengeance and pick up one grape. When they thirsty; a. yellow only when a rat The experiment thus ended as couldn’t resist this one about th way, more than 100 nuclear scientists voted on them. learned the knack of lifting the was tossed into the cage and they a stupendous success. The chimps’ human side of animals. handle to get the grape, Dr. wanted to get up on the psycholo­ sociable, easy-going, cooperative unanimously in favor of establishing an in­ This attitude toward the physicists is not ,1 was most interested in the Wolfe pulled a switclieroo on gist’s shoulders in a hurry. nature was completely altered. shared by the American >peop!e. The proof is a ternational nuclear energy association that sociable, easy-going, cooperative them. Instead of the grape they (Clumps, like most apes, are ter­ They had become greedy, suspi­ subsequent issue of the Plain Dealer in which would find one poker chip. This rified at the sight of a rat.) cious, bullying, even ferocious you 1 d pool world knowledge about atomic chimpanzees. Their strongly research. They did this in the interest of the readers went after Bromfield with baseball chip would still buy them one Now a strange thing happened. practitioners of “free enterprise.” marked trait of sympathy .is grape at the Chimp-O-Mat. . . the Dr. Wolfe had succeeded in In brief, as the book declares, the bats. developing tile peaceful uses of atomic energy. especially attractive. A sick one money to buy the grape could be changing his hungry apes into chimps developed into “shrewd, The scientists knew that this motion would Virtually all pointed to.the progress made “is waited upon with great obtained in no way except by model workers. But in this com­ crafty, greedy capitalists,” ready to cut any corner to get. “an not meet with favor from official, circles in possible by scientists — the telescope, the anxiety and tenderness by its honest sweat.” petitive laboratory economy, so different from their native honest or crooked dollar.” the United States. In fact the)- ruled America microscope, the X-ray, the electric motor, steam friends, who w ill even sacrifice VOLUNTARY SPEED UP and gasoline engines, pumps, water and sanitary jungle, the highly adaptable Dr. Wolfe’s experiment shows out as a. possible meeting place for their con­ their' favorite dainties in order Although the book doesn’t say chimps began to reveal char­ Yale Laboratories of Primate conclusively that it is possible to ference next year. They were aware that many systems, trucks, railroad trains, the airplane, to offer them to their sick com­ so, no doubt the apes were kept acteristics that might have won Biology. It was an ingenious change the nature of apes. In a of them would be barred by the immigration radio. TV , the refrigerator, surgery, medicine, hungry to give them incentive an approving pat on the back rade.” effort to determine whether the bad environment they can de­ as they don’t seem to think hard from a Rockefeller or Morgan. authorities. etc., etc. One,reader said Bromfield’s article They .will extend sympathy, to generate into “capitalists.” And character of a chimpanzee can be labor is much fun. The handle “The corrupting effects of greed was “ part of a campaign to oppress the their cousins, homo sapiens. For what about human nature, which ll is a common experience, they said. 1o be changed of the Work Machine weighed 18 set in. Once-friendly chimps be­ instance, a scientist pulled a chair He introduced six chimps to an some apes think cannot be denied a visa to the U.S. because American con­ scientist by restricting-his researches” and that pounds. That’s a lot of weight came covetous or suspicious of up before a cage containing an changed? In a decent environ­ suls in Europe "seem to regard any European „ surely great writers should "utilize their talents automatic vendor called the for a young chimp to hoist. Two neighbors. Subtle bullying be­ ape mother and infant. The “Chinvp-O-Mat,” which paid off ment of peace and plenty and ‘of-the chimps “worked at such a came rampant.” Bula, like a W all atomic scientist applying for a visa as a lo co-ordinate the efforts of the people in mother clung to her infant tightly, freedom from fear and worry, it one grape when a white poker frenzied pace to acquire chips, .Street • banker, “took charge of potential spy.” fashioning a better world.” glaring suspiciously at the strange chip was dropped in the slot. shouldn’t be too difficult to when given unlimited access to almost all the chips” and ‘began figure in clothes. As the scientist change even capitalists — some This ignorant, bigoted consular attitude is Another gave it to Bromfield right between At the beginning of the ex­ the Work Machine, that the at­ lording it over Bimba.” picked up his chair to move of them any way — into human to be expected from Washington office-holders the eyes: "O f course; there are some radicals periment the chimps showed tendants soon began fearing for “When the Chimp-O-Mat was closer to the cage, he got a large 'beings. A t least it ’ll be an in­ little interest in poker chips. They their health. They amassed great as it is apparently one of the tests used first who think it would be more to the point to splinter in his finger and naturally rolled up to their cage, both teresting experiment for tho considered them inferior play­ piles of poker chips, and guarded rushed, to spend their money, but by the Democrats and now the Republicans to ' catch up on some of the things we have left for a moment his attention shifted scientists to try after socialism things. But when they learned their piles with a ferocity new to Bula shouldered Bimba aside and away from the apes. “Suddenly docs away with “Chimp-O-Mat” determine fitness for posts. undone. Such people fee! that physicists are that poker chips could bring the chimps. began spending her huge pile on he noticed that the mother had economy. Yet the attitude is not confined to govern­ not . . . ahead o f us and ahead of themselves, grapes from the slot machine, “In one brief 10-minute period,” moved over closer and was star­ “they began- treasuring the chips one of the chimps “hoisted that ment circles. The novelist Louis Bromfield but that society has fallen astern of science and ing sympathetically” at his hand. and fighting- over them.” heavy handle 185 times. That was went even further in a recent issue of the mathematics.” The scientist held it out to her. In addition to white chips the the equivalent of lifting 3,330 Cleveland Plain Dealer. Me called physicists Reading that response to the Dark Age out­ She .clutched it, dipped his fin­ chimpanzees were given brass pounds! He was in such a rush to ger into her mouth, then, set her like Albert Einstein "subhuman.'’ The physicist look of Bromfield and his kind renewed our slugs. The slugs could be thrust earn money that he didn’t even $18,000 Fund Scoreboard thumbnail under the splinter and into the slot but nothing ever pick up each chip as he lifted the is "a kind of ‘hant’ or zombie detached from confidence in the American people. They ap­ “expertly flipped it out.” Branch came out. In short, they were handle, but instead brushed it to Quota Paid Percent the rest of .us. . .” Bromfield held that it might preciate what great promise science holds. And AKRON Chimpanzees like to help each worthless, and the chimps soon the floor where a pile was grow­ $ 150 $ 3 75 117 Chicago be well 1o "shut all physicists up in cages” and they are beginning to understand that it’s not other too. Here is a typical ex­ comprehended that fact. When a ing.” I 3.500 1,170 78 Newark take the “ mystical algebraical formulae” they the physicist who’s to blame but an out-moded periment: A box of food was handful of white chips and brass The experiment could already 500 386 77 Philadelphia placed outside a chimp’s cage — slugs were tossed into the cage, be considered quite a success. 400 291 73 produce and "consign the whole thing to ihc social syslem that perverts his science to evil St. Louis just out of reach, with a rope “the three girl-chimps scrambled The evidence showed that under 75 55 73 kitchen incinerator.” and reactionary ends.. Buffalo attached. He tugged on the rope like human lady gold-diggers for the stimulus provided by a 1,500 1,042 69 Minneapolis-SL Paul but couldn’t budge the box. He the white chips, but never touch certain type of economy, apes 1,200 828 69 Cleveland signaled a second chimp in the ed the brass slugs.” will work hard enough to kill 350 215 61 Pittsburgh Malenkov Was Right on One Point cage, persuaded him to come over themselves and even begin to 30 15 60 APE NATURE IS PLASTIC Flint and give a hand. “The two of manifest the traits of a miser. 250 315 46 Lor Angeles Malenkov in his recent speech reaffirmed the lagging light industry. I f to this are added them together, tugging in unison, By now the experiment had 2,500 3,137 46 \ Boston need and possibility of the "peaceful co- China s needs and those of the East European were able to pull the food within already revealed some remark­ BLUE-CHIP LEVEL 550 231 42 reach.” able things about ape nature and But Dr. Wolfe was still not New York 4,500 1,401 33 existence” of the USSR with the capitalist satelHtes- then ,the Pr?blei? is clearly that of its capacity to respond to changes satisfied. He introduced “a further Milwaukee 400 328 32 DR. WOLFE’S EXPERIMENT Seattle wor d. Me vowed there was not a single issue pew out]ets for ,ut? in environment. The “once- Man-like refinement to the labo­ 450 343 32 Because of his “intellectual su­ innocent apes” had become ratory’s economy. The brass slug Youngstown 450 342 82 in dispute with Washington that could not be As. fo). raw materials> the Soviet bloc encom- periority” over all other animals, “madly in love with money, and was still worthless and the white Detroit 3,500 383 26 settlement by agreement. He denied that Phe s one.third o f the !and areas of the globe. his “extraordinary memory,” his the pleasures that come from its poker chip was worth one grape. San Francisco 3,000 251 25 Kremlin was engaging here in any tactical or jts richest anc| least developed storehouse of “feats of reasoning,” the chim­ acquisition.” Dr. Wolfe wondered But when a blue chip was in­ Allentown 60 10 17 panzee is a favorite subject of Oakland 250 diplomatic maneuvers. It was tht general hue natura, wea]th. To taik of a dearth in this if they would work for it. Per­ serted into the Chimp-O-Mat, two 40 16 psychologists. One of the most haps he visualized the possibility grapes dropped out. A red chip General 385 87 23 o f Moscow s foreign policy, he said. connection is the sheerest nonsense. fascinating and instructive ex­ of enlarging America’s labor inserted brought a drink of In disclaiming any war plans, Malenkov The- Kremlin bureaucracy is a parasitic periments in the book is the one force, tapping a vast new source water. And a yellow chip . . . a Total through Aug. 17 $18,000 $8,335 46 Spoke the truth for a change. 1 he Soviet formation, narrow-minded and conservative worked out by Dr. John Wolfe a t 1of non-union factory hands. piggy-back fide oh the psy­ economic system is the product of the 1917 ,,hr0ugh and through. The Chinese revolution. Russian Revolution and not of the bureaucra- whjch tore the ,heart of Asia and its 500 mi-l­ ey's rule; and there is nothing in Soviet eco- j ion peopje from t he capitalist orbit, was cer- nomy that drives it inexorably to war as is tainly none of the Kremlin’s doing. The Soviet East German Stalinists the case with capitalist economy, with its expansion into Eastern Europe came under need to export capital, its need for new outlets the piessure of H itler’s attack and Washing- World Events for goods and its need of raw materials. ton's "cold war” and not from any initiative on ------By Fred Hart ------The bureaucracy is not plagued by huge the Kremlin’s part. The Kremlin rulers a*re Purge “Soft” Officials “CIGARETTE BUTTS are the The guerrilla forces continue to subject of a thriving illicit trade accumulations of capital which clamor for more than satisfied with the existing relation By Murry Weiss seething mass discontent and Comrade Sturm has been dis­ win volunteer recruits and are in Italy,” according to the Aug. export, as in the U.S. On the contrary, the of world forces. They fear another war above Events in East Germany con­ revolutionary actions. Just one missed from his office.” He ac­ backed by “tens of thousands of 17 Wall Street Journal. “They’re planned Soviet economy requires ever greater all because of the revolutionary consequences tinue to unfold under the sign of week after his famous declara­ cused the District President of supporters.” According to the being collected and sold so the a severe political crisis of the tion, Fechner announced that the postal workers union in N. Y. Times the Stalinists in funds annually for expansion. I f one adds the it entails. It means their doom as well as the tobacco remaining in them can Stalinist regime. The workers in 50,000 workers had been arrested Magdeburg of collecting “all the Malaya have made a change of needs of China and of the East European doom of world capitalism, •be made into full-length smokes the East Gencan factories are for participating in the general- demands he could” (55 in all) line, turning from “indiscriminate again. The government outlaws countries, it would be correct to say that the No, the Kremlin does not lie when it pro- still pressing their demands and strike uprising. i and presenting them to the Gov­ terrorism” to “softer methods of the practice because the stubs Soviet bloc suffers from an acute scarcity of claims its eagerness for peace. The lie consists protests. The official 'Stalinist ernment. “This is not wavering,” infiltration.” are germ-ridden and are said to * * * trade union newspaper Tribune D ID N ’T SAVE H IM Wameke said, “This is an attitude capital funds — and not from a glut as does ;n spreading pacifist illusions that capitalism, contain dangerous concentrations reveals that the movement ex But even these monstrous hostile to the workers and the THE KREMLIN made a con­ U.S. imperialism. which still represents the dominant economic of nicotine. But American cig­ tends to the skilled workers as repressive measures didn’t save state.” ciliatory gesture to Washington arette ends currently command For Soviet economy, markets do not con- force in the world today, is w illing or able to well as the mass of the workers Fechner from the purge. He paid To the workers’ demand that and London Aug. 14 by agrees $2.52 a pound. W ith some 20 in basic industry. for his “soft” statement. First their comrades arrested after ing to end the four-power cen­ stitutc the same problem as for capitalism. live in peace, with one-third of the globe torn tons of butts being discarded in Referring to the workers in he was dismissed from his post June 17 should be released he sorship of letters, telegrams, Instead'of the need for foreign outlets, there out of its orbit. These illusions only help p.tve Rome alone each day, trade has the famous Zeiss optical works as Minister of Justice and then said: “We will not even consider telephonic and teletype conp- become the entire means of sup­ arises flic mounting necessity of meeting short- the way for war. Above all because they at Jena the Tribune says: “It expelled as an enemy of the sponsoring such proposals.” munications in Austria. For six port for some Italian families, ages and a growing demand at home. Soviet disorient and demoralize the workers’ struggle would have been expected that party. According to the top Stal­ years the Stalinists had turned officials report.” And not just domestic needs more than absorb the output for socialism, the only alternative to World through their jobs, which call for inist brass he “showed a waver­ ALLIES SQUABBLE down all Allied proposals to end poor families, we suspect. The an exactitude to one-thousandth ing attitude” in making the Last week, a dispute among the the censorship which cost the of heavy industry, let alone that of the sadly War III. value of the raw material avail­ of a millimeter, they would be “right to strike” declaration. It Allied staffs in West Germany Austrian Government $500,000 a able in Rome for reconditioned more realistic and objective in is clear now that at the very about the American food give/ year. The Western powefs in cigarettes is above $100,000 a their thinking. Therefore, it is moment Fechner was talking away maneuver came to light. response made a conciliatory day, or some $36,600,000 a year. Japanese Labor Answers Dulles surprising that some of the about workers' rights he was The British and French have ex­ gesture towtard Moscow three That’s sufficient to attract many workers' should thoughtlessly ordering mass arrests of strikers pressed doubts as to the wisdom days later by withdrawing their a graduate from the capitalist American newspapers which have been' American imperialism as an exporter not of gossip about Fascist demands.;’ of the tactic. Gaston Coblentz of proposal for a “short treaty” Hilde Benjamin, who replaced school of thought. As Marx ob­ .making capital out of the workers resistance “ liberation” but of anti-labor Taft-Hartleyism. The nature of these “fascist” Fechner, attacked his “leniency” the N. Y. Herald Tribune bureau for Austria and asking the served, .“The capitalist knows against the Stalinist regime in East Germany (2) It indicates the real attitude o f the people demands can be gathered from and announced she would “show in Berlin wrote Aug. ,13 that “the Kremlin to send a deputy *to that all commodities, however an Aug. 15 speech by Herbert no mercy” to those arrested. The British believe prolongation of London Aug. 31 to meet with have deliberately played down or buried the toward the U.S. occupation, scurvy they may look, or how­ Warneke, head of East Germany’s 'Stalinist boss of East Germany, the food program, as a large- delegates of Washington, London ever badly they may smell, are highly important news about the .strike of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had Labor Federation: “We reject Walter Ulbricht, straightened out scale propaganda maneuver in the and Paris to complete a longer in faith and in truth money. . .” 100,000 workers at U.S. military bases in been in Japan recently to try to speed up the demands for now elections of the Fechner deviation by assert­ cold war, is likely to decrease treaty The Soviet Government * * * Japan. ,. Japanese government's own military prepara- factory union leaders or other) ing, “It is intolerable in prin­ whatever possibilities may exist had refused to even consider the union board members when such ciple to strike in the German of getting the Russians to behave HEADS OF NORTH KOREAN “short treaty” proposed by the This 48-hour general strike on all U.S. in- t jons and rearmament. He complained that the Allies. demands are accompanied by so- Democratic Republic. For strik­ reasonably and enter serous government officials continued to stallations in Japan was initiated on Au^. 12 Japanese were failing to tadee a more active * * * called strikes such as took place ing against a workers state, the four-power negotiations with the roll last week in what the N. Y. with huge militant mass demonstrations. The part in war preparations, although the Japanese in the Buna works.” (Buna, workers commit, suicide.” West for a settlement of European Times termed “probably the most ADD MOROCCO to the sea of walkout was waged against what the strikers Constitution specifically prohibits rearming, located at Meresburg, is one of In rejecting the demand of the problems.” drastic purge ever undertaken in troubles besetting imperialist any Communist regime.” In ad­ France. Both Casablanca and called a “non-collective bargaining” contract, Three days after his departure, the strike at the largest synthetic rubber workers for new elections in the An even more revealing British plants in East Germany.) objection is cited by Coblentz: dition to the prominent figures Rabat were placed under martial in violation of Japan’s labor law, which the U.S. bases indicated the temper of the workers unions, Wameke . also attacked the right to strike and indirectly “By inducing East Germans to go reported in the last issue of The law after rioting Aug. 16 that ,Ui>. brass tried to impose on the occupation- and their attitude toward their m ilitary con- REVEALING ATTITUDE ’•evealed the unbreakable spirit of on defying the Communists, the Militant, Pyongyang Radio an­ took the lives of at least 29. The ruled workers. . _ _ querors. * The attitude of the East Ger­ solidarity, militancy and class food program could create the nounced Aug. 12 that seven more French have put heavy pressure had been kicked out of office as on the Sultan for “reforms” The strike was caded by the right-wing The waT p]ans 0f Wall Street include the man Stalinist regime on the pride of the workers by saying:- ciimate for another uprising like fundamental right of the working “There is no cause to be proud that, of June 37. . . The British “anti - party, anti-state.” They which they claim a re -*for the Security Forces Workers Union. Nevertheless, resurrection of Japan as a m ilitary power, class to strike is very revealing. of these strikes because as contend that this is a somewhat were all members of the Stalinist good of Morocco but which reports an abbreviated United^ Press dispatch. under U.S. control, to provide the main assault On June 30,'M ax Fechner, who justified as some of your demands improvident and even irrespon­ party’s Central Committee. Out would cut down the Sultan's the strikers "waved red flags and formed f orce and m ilitary base for the reconquest of was then Minister of Justice in were, you have acted against the sible approach to international of the 15-man body, 11 have now power. Seeking support in the been purged as “counter-revolu­ population itself, the French picket lines 10 and 20 deep around the Q,ina and a drive into Siberia as part of a East Germany, said in an official interests of your class and for affairs.” press interview: “The right to the interests of your class Thus after the weeks of tionary elements” who allegedly used certain elements to put entrances ol the major base installations, the general anti-Soviet assault. strike is constitutionally guar­ enemibs.” ballyhoo about the “cleverness” plotted a “military revolt” in pressure on the Sultan. He ap­ Strike was ended, the UP also reported, when These plans are not going according to anteed. Members of strike com­ of the Dulles - Eisenhower food conspiracy with the U.S. “espion­ pealed to tho world for help "U.S. officials expressed a desire to abide by schedule — prim arily because of the opposition mittees will not be punished for “WE ARE TO BLAME!” maneuver, the sober-minded Brit- age agency in Seoul.” An earlier against French troops and the report that Pak Hong Wong, French government but was re­ Japan labor laws and may sign a new pact. and resistance of the organized Japanese work- their activities as strike leaders.” The workers are not likely to ich military staff in Germany Fechner’s statement gave rise to forget these cynical comments of point lo the danger of the Vice President, Foreign Minister ported to have signed the decrees 1 his strike is significant in two major ers t0 (he u.S. occupation of Japan. The widespread conjecture, not to the Stalinist liars who shouted maneuver “inciting” another June and former General Secretary of demanded by the French. The respects. (1) It puts a spotlight on the role ot Ta.panese masses do not want to become bomb speak of illusions, on a “funda­ from the roof-tops in the first 17. In this way world capitalism the Korean Communist Party, fundamental issue is the effort of the French colonial despots to and cannon fodder in another invasion of mental change” in the policy of days after the uprising: “We arc expresses its fear of another was among those sentenced to Stalinism toward a “new course” completely to blame for what has workers’ uprising in East Ger­ death was corrected by the N . Y. contain the'mounting pressure in China, they want to be free to determine their — a fundamental change in its happened!” “Give ns 15 days to many. As France has demonstrat­ Times. His dismissal was con­ Morocco for freedom and national In Defense of Marxism own fate and set up the kind of government attitude toward the democratic carry out our promises!” ed, general strikes can leap across firmed Aug. 3 by the announce­ sovereignty. With- investments 240 pages cloth $2.00 they feel they need. rights of the workers. As for carrying out promises, borders. ment that Gen. Nam II had been and key air bases in the strife- paper $1.50 American labor has the duty to give all-out Events soon deVnonstrated that the same Wameke indicates what named Foreign Minister, but his torn land, American capitalism the statement of Fechner about present status remains unknown. is involved in the straggle. Every student of modern politics, so­ support to our Japanese brothers who are the Stalinists really meant. In his A 63-year-old Negro is suing the “right to strike” was a thin Aug. 35 speech he mentioned the Greyhound Bus Corp. for * * * fighting Taft-Hartlevism brought to Japan ciology and philosophy should put this piece of demagogy designed to union officials who have been being forced to sit at the rear D ESPITE CONTINUED A One-Year Subscription book on his must list. with U.S. bayonets. They are battling the same veil the ruthless counter-revolu­ purged because of their conduct of the bus during a ride from BOASTS about cleaning up “com­ tionary, repressive measures the to THE MILITANT Order from enemy as the American workers. It is our on June 17: “Comrade Sturm, I.iOs Angeles to Texarkana, Tex. munists” in Malaya and gaining responsibility to demand an end to the U.S. regime was taking to crush the second President of the Power Ben Maddox, Los Angeles at­ the upper hand, the British im­ Only $3 PIONEER PUBLISHERS workers’ uprising. His statement Workers Union, failed to take torney said his client was forced perialists were forced to admit m ilitary occupation and full freedom for 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. expressed the regime’s panic and suitable counter - measures at to give up his seat at Dallas, Aug. 33 that the freedom fighters 116 University PL. N. Y. 3, N. Y. Japanese labor to seek its own emancipation. lack of confidence in the face of certain critical moments'. . . Texas. The suit is for $50,000. “still constitute a grave menace.” The Negro Struggle ■ ...... ■■ Same Old Shell Game t n c MILITANT ------!------By Myra Tanner Weiss ------VOLUME XVII M ONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1953 N UM B ER S i President Eisenhower’s new anti-bias com­ government agencies to conduct anti-prejudice mittee is a transparent fraud. His Aug. 13 educational activities. Theoretically, non-com­ order abolished Truman’s ■defunct Committee pliance can be punished, as before, with Weeps for Last GI Killed on Government Contract Compliance and termination of government contracts. But nc Weiss Hits Opponents1 established a new Government Contract Com­ contracts have ever been revoked as far as car mittee. This is supposed to combat discrimina­ ■be determined despite the fact that dis­ tion in hiring where government contracts are criminatory practices are widespread. Stand on Hearn Strike involved. The old Committee, the majority of whose Eisenhower named Vice President Nixon to members had resigned long before* Eisenhower N EW YORK, Aug. 20 — The Reiterating his own complete tion. I am for the strikers 10096 studied silence of all the capital­ support of the strikers and and denounce the position of the head the new Committee. His main qualification dissolved it. reported that the no-discriminatior ist-party candidates for mayor on sharply denouncing the company, Hearn ownership as a brutal appears to be that he thinks like a Southern clause has had little practical effect. Govern­ the bitter Hearns department Weiss said: “ Not one of my op­ challenge to the rights of all Bourbon, having signed restrictive covenants ment agencies have no effective procedures fo stores strike is proof positive ponents has spoken a word in labor in this city. against Negroes, Jews, etc. ^ checking compliance, and the Government’; that they are against labor what­ defense of the strikers. They are “I am waiting to hear what only enforcement weapon is termination of ever their claims to the contrary, trying to evade the issue because my opponents have to say — Eisenhower’s other appointments to the 15- -barged David Weiss, mayoralty it completely exposes their real contracts. although it doesn’t make any dif­ member Committee give only token representa­ candidate of the Socialist Work­ anti-labor attitude. ference now. Eveh if one of tion to the Negro people through J. Ernest Walter White and Clarence Mitchell of th' ers Party, in a statement here “I have made my position plain them, put on the spot, should Wilkins, a Chicago attorney. Reuther and NAACP hailed the Eisenhower order as they today. from the moment of my nomina- belatedly claim ‘sympathy’ for Meany represent labor and one woman was had previously hailed the Truman order. The' the strikers, it could only be lip service and demagogy.” appointed. Mrs. Helen Rodgers Reid, chairman said Eisenhower’s action “ merits the gratitude of the N. Y. Herald Tribune. W ith a biased of thousands who are now denied a chance t< HAIL CIO ACTION Chairman and a Committee majority who at work or use their highest skills in the mills and NAIL MICHl TRUCKS LAW The SWT banner-bearer, who ■most give only lip service to the struggle factories that hold government contracts.” heads the SWP municipal slate of four candidates, expressed satis­ against prejudice it is clear that the “ strength­ This action, they said, “ reaffirms the im­ AS "TOTALITARIAN” ACT faction at the announcement ening” of Government procedures tq enforce portant principle that those who do business yesterday by the New York Stato non-discrimination contracts, which Eisenhower with the United States shall not refuse employ- A hard-hitting circular against Michigan's Trucks CIO that it has decided to throw 'boasted about in a publicity handout, is not to rrfent to qualified persons solely because or Law, a “ totalitarian measure violating the principles of its full strength behind the He'arn strikers and take over be found in the new personnel. race, religion or national origin.” Mrs. Harold R. Cross Jr. weeps in her Detroit home as she American freedom,” has just been issued by the Citizens receives news that her husband (le ft) was last American soldier Committee Against the Trucks'- active direction of the three- Nor is it to be found in the order itself months-old battle. But working men and w'omen w'ho suffer the to be killed in Korea. Sgt. Cross, 24, was fatally wounded one Law. may be imposed for alleged acts which was issued by Eisenhower. There is no effects of prejudice most acutely cannot g iv hour and 20 minutes before truce went into effect. His wife was of sabotage in labor disputes in­ “The State CIO action cornea The circular gives the' main important difference from the order issued by “gratitude” for an action which merely “ reaf­ a German war bride. Total U.S. casualties in the “police action” volving defense work.” none too soon. It; has been ap­ are officially reported at more than 142,000. facts about the law, discusses Two challenge^ to the law are parent almost from the start of Truman. The new' Committee still has power firms” a principle but does absolutely nothing ihe casts now pending under it, now pending in the courts, one by the strike that the company, only to make “ recommendations” to the Gov­ to carry out this principle in life. They will and cites representative opinion the Socialist Workers Party, the backed by city officials, police, ernment agency that issues the contract. The pay as little attention to Eisenhower’s dema­ from prominent individuals and other by the Communist Party. courts, yellow press, and anti- new Committee, like the old one, has no funds gogic moves as they did to Truman’s and ■organizations opposed to it. The court action was delayed union business interests, has while the Legislature acted on been spearheading an attack on of its own with which to w'ork. And like T ru ­ proceed with their own anti-bias struggle. Only Judge Overrules Book Ban The law, enacted in April 1952, is ostensibly directed against the some proposed amendments which union standards in this city. I f man’s Committee, it can only encourage non­ this struggle can win the w'ar against prejudice. Communist Party but “provides altered nothing fundamental in Hearn can break this strike and To Uphold Right to " Ogle ” broad arbitrary power to the the act. The suits are now ex­ violate the seniority provisions of state attorney general to label pected to come up shortly. the union contract it will be the Youngstown’s “ Battle of the Ogle” ended in a victory individuals and, organizations as green light to every employer in SWP S U IT town to do the same. Another ’29? for the forces of free speech and press when Federal Judge ‘subversive’ or ‘communist fronts,’ ” says the circular. “The constitutional issues ap­ “ It makes my blood boil to ------By Myra Tanner Weiss ------Charles J. MpNamee granted an injunction to a New York pear to be clearly posed in the see elderly women, who have As proof of the dangerous im­ publishing firm against Edward suit of the Socialist Workers served the Hearn stores for plications of the measure, the • The boom since /the end of W orld W ar II businessman put it this way: “ The lazy guys J. Allen Jr., police chief of the Allen objected to another book, Party.” the circular declares. “The decades, forced to. trudge a picket circular cites its use “to ban the Ohio city. Allen, acting as a self- whose cover showed a woman Citizens Committee Against the line in the hot sun to defend their is not a sign of the health of the economy but w ill have to go; the rest w ill work like dogs.” Socialist Workers Party from the elected censor, had forced news­ holding a robe around her, be­ Trucks Law believes this effort jobs from a rotten, penny-pinch­ Michigan ballot although the or­ of mortal sickness. Production capacity has in­ To reduce labor costs. Big Business needs a stand dealers to halt display and cause if the woman dropped her to have the law voided in the ing, ungrateful management. And ganization had complied with all speed-up and, perhaps even more important, sale of pocket-sized books, in­ hand “whatever it is — it looks courts merits support. Their suit I see red at the line-up of cops creased at the rate of $15 billion a year, ac­ the requirements of the election an army of unemployed workers to smash the cluding a number o f famous like an outer garment — would obviously affords a better op­ put there by the present city ad­ laws. The fact that the Socialist cording to the June 6 Business Week. But un­ literarv works, on the grounds of fall.” portunity to secure a ruling on ministration to intimidate the big obstacle organized labor puts in the way Workers Party has been a long obscenity. The judge ruled that “the the issues than that brought by pickets. like the boom of the ’20s, expansion of produc­ standing political opponent of the of wage slashes. They have already learned the In the course of his testimony, defendant Allen possessed no the Communist Party.” “If that Hearn outfit is as Communist Party did not deter tion has required government expenditures that limitations of trying to cripple the labor move­ the police chief said he caused lawful power to suppress publica­ The Committee states that “In broke as it claims, where does it the officials in their application pul the New Deal in the shade. ment with slave-labor legislation. As long as .he removal of the pocket-book tions under threat of prosecu­ lending support to its court ac­ get the dough for huge ads in the of the law.” Business circles are asking whether we are full employment exists no effective major edition of James T. Farrell's tion. He said that “censorship in tion no political support of the So­ public press spreading lies about “Young Lonigan” as “indecent” Under the Trucks Law almost cialist Workers Party is implied. the strike and calling it ‘com­ offensive against the unions can be undertaken. any form is an assualt on freedom heading for another '29 although, as the Aug. and “ immoral” because of its of the press. A censorship that any organization can be designat­ The Committee merely registers munist’ ? Believe me, if I were 17 Wall Street Journal points out, “ By com­ The initial disorganizing effect on the work­ cover, showing a group of young suppresses books in circulation ed by the attorney general as a its opositon to repressive meas­ mayor, I ’d do everything in my mon consent, the word ‘depression’ is studi­ ers of a depression, however, would be a far men glancing at two attractive ■is ah infringement of that free­ “communist front.” Members of ures against people with whose power — which would be plenty girls. dom.” such organizations are required views it does not necessarily — to stop the misuse of public ously avoided.” But this reluctance to say the shorter episode in the development of the crisis to register with the state police. “That is the kind of ogling The Youngstown police chief’s agree.” agencies like the police - to aid nasty word does not conceal the fact that than in the early ’30s precisely because of the Penalties up to $10,000 fine and/or teat goes on at many street book-banning activities are related The Committee is a non-par­ scab-herding. economic prospects in ’29 were many times powerful union movement. Despite the labor corners and which our police of­ to a censorship movement to ten years in prison are provided tisan group consisting of some “Open scfbbing in daylight is for failure to register and submit less critical than today. To list only the most bureaucracy, the workers w ill be impelled to ficers would break up if they boycott and ban. “immoral” 200 prominent Michigan citizens a greater offense to public^ to fingerprinting or refusal to obvious differences: The index for industrial defend their positions by sweeping political saw it,” asserted Allen. ■books initiated by a Catholic including outstanding lexers in decency than running around In Asked by the attorney for the society in a number of cities, in­ testify against oneself or one’s civic, educational, labor, legal, the streets without clothes. The production grew from 110 in ’29 to 192 in organization and mass struggle. And as the)' associates. plaintiff, the New American cluding Chicago, Brooklyn and and religious fields. running of scabs into Hearn’s is 1948. The federal debt has increased from feel their great power as a class they w ill not Library of World Literature, Cleveland, and to Senator Mc­ “A person can be declared a Copies of the circular ,can be a menace to public health, safely Inc., how he defined an ogle, the and welfare and I ’d put a stop roughly $19 billion in ’32 to $259 billion in be satisfied with mere relief handouts. As the Carthy’s book-burning campaign member of an organization even obtained by writing to the Citi­ ’52. And finally, the growth of the colonial June 6 Business Week put it: The great police chief said: though he does not pay dues or zens Committee Against the to it if I were mayor. The rights “An ogle is a peculiar kind of directed at the U.S. overseas hold a membership,” the circular Trucks Law, 1709 Ford Bldg., of labor come first, last and al­ revolution is rapidly eliminating a lush source productive capacity of this country could be a look.” libraries. points out. “S tiff prison terms Detroit 26, Mich. ways with me and my party.” of profits that existed in the pre-’29 days. used to “ raise, across the board, the living American economy is in real trouble. Such standards of the U.S. consumer.” And, we trouble that even an analogy with ’29 is un­ might add, to increase the leisure of the Amer­ realistically optimistic. To escape, American ican workers. capital will try to reduce labor costs. But that But whereas Business Week goes on to show Puerto Ricans in Slums brings us to one more big difference with ’29 — the impossibility of such a solution to the In the Unions the industrial organization of the American crisis, the American workers w ill think d if­ ------By Joseph Keller — Kvprkers. ferently. After 13 years of relatively full em­ O f 'City of Opportunity1 Hearns Department Store strik­ trend toward labor unity through ployment American workers will not take Business Week of Aug. 15 presents a survey ers in New York City have beaten local joint action. pre-natal -care add up to the ■Ricans who have received a of business opinion called "Everybody Expects kindly to the demand of Big Business that they By Harry Ring an attempt by the Commerce and * * * highest infant mortality rate in “warm . welcome” in the back become scabs and beggars. As it becomes clear “Out of the frying pan and into Industry Association to get the Voting to ban racial segrega. a Recession.” The survey shows that in­ the city. As compared with an rooms of local precincts at the the fire.” This is the harsh and cityr to revoke the license of the tion in its 400 local unions, the dustrialists expect “ a big squeeze.” As one that the only way we can have both full em­ average city-wide death rate of •hands of club and hose-swinging bitter fact for the mass of Puerto CIO Distributive Workers to American Federation of Teachers, ployment and peace is through a socialist 24 out of every 1,000 live births, cops. executive put it: “ We’ve been loafing too long. Rican people who have migrated solicit funds publicly to aid the A FL, adopted a constitutional for the Puerto Rican families the Life in this city for a Puerto We’ll have to work 10 times as hard next year. reorganization of economy, the political strug­ to New York in the vain hope 800 workers in the bitter three- amendment at its 33rd annual average death rate is close to 35 Rican was movingly described to gle of the working class w ill be quickly trans­ that they could in this way month fight. This strike in convention in Peoria on Aug. 18 But we’ll find we*can do it. Matter of fact, out of each 1,000 live births. a Post reporter by 17 - year - old escape* the poverty and brutal defense of union seniority rights which states in part that, “the I’m kind of looking forward to it.” Another formed into the struggle for a socialist society Herman Rodriguez. He told him exploitation visited upon them by deserves the moral and material practice of any local in limiting JIM CROW PREJUDICE of his first day in school, two the American Big Business support of all workers^ Remember its membership on account of The cruel whip of racial dis­ years ago: stranglehold on their native is­ that if you are approached for a race or color shall render ttt crimination which has beaten so “The teacher introduced me to land. contribution. charter void.” lpng and savagely upon the backs the class and told me where to There are today some 425,000 • * * * * * * Notes from the News of the city’s Negro population is sit. As soon as I took my seat two first and second generation Puerto The CIO is sponsoring a nation­ now shared by the Puerto Ricans. kids got up from theirs and Steel companies appear to be Ricans living in New York, ac­ wide radio program of news and In every sphere of life — eco­ walked out. W hat could I do? I ■stepping up reprisals against, THE CIO UNITED PACKINGHOUSE WORK­ BOUNCING CHECKS are becoming a big cording to the N. Y. Post, which commentary to begin on Labor nomic, social and political, they didn’t want to make any trouble. union locals and introducing new ERS is crashing down hard in the case of Jim worry to businessmen across the country, ac­ recently made an excellent study Day, Sept. 7. John W. Vander- are subject to all of the rigidly “Lots of people never let you onerous conditions. Crucible Steel Crow practices charged to its Southern District cording to the Wall Street Journal. A Los Angeles of their plight. O f these, 59,103 cook is to be the broadcaster. established Jim Crow laws of forget you’re a (Puerto Rican. The fired seven employes from its 9 Director A. O. McKinney, despite his threats super-market chain executive complains, "Our arrived in “The City of Oppor­ Look for the announcement of the inequality, segregation and dep­ lady next door insulted me just Spaulding Works at Harrison, rt.,0 pull 5,000 members out of the union. A speedy losses from bad checks have, more than doubled tunity” during the past year time and local station in your rivation of rights. the other day. She’s not sick or N . J., for reporting sick on a .trial of McKinney by the International Executive since last year and the situation is getting worse.” alone. Another 30,500 have come hometown newspapers. The records show that the old. She’s young and knew what Saturday after the company had Board was asked by UPW-A Vice President Rus­ Mercantile Trust Co. of St. Louis reports 30% during the first four months of * * * clubs and guns of trigger-happy she was saying. Most of my ordered the men to work from sell R. Lasley and Secretary Treasurer G. R. more bad checks in the last few months, in this year. The Michigan CIO News of members of “New York’s finest” friends feel the same way I do, Tuesday through Saturday in­ Hathaway after they levelled grave charges Philadelphia one group of banks reports that it They came inspired by tine Aug. 13 complains of the “sins have run up a high toll of broken that we don't belong here. You stead of Monday through Friday against him of a “positive conspiracy to undermine is rejecting “about 80 bad checks a day, com­ eternal dream of opportunity for of omission and commission’* heads and bullet-ridden bodies of can’t even go to a movie without as customary. 1,170 members of and sabotage” the union’s anti-discrimination pared with only three to five a year ago.’’ A a decent job at a living wage,, the of the just-adjourned Congress innocent Victims in the Puerto getting into a fight. CIO Steelworkers Local 2194 and policy. The two top UPW A officers who had con­ Pittsburgh banker explains: “Money is harder means to provide their kids with and says that “any worker who Rican communities. “Sometimes I ’m happy but Local 1339 struck to protest the ducted an on-the-spot investigation into com­ to come by, so more people are trying to get it a comfortable home, an educa­ thinks his representative or most of the time I get sick and firings. A. week - long so - called plaints of McKinney’s actions charged that he the easy way.” He ought to know all about the tion, a chance to work their vygV A minimum of ton defenseless senator has played him for a mad about what happens to the ivild-cat strike also closed the had ordered Negroes to leave a social affair of easy way to get money. towards a better life, Their Puerto Ricans and Negroes have sucker in this last session doesn’t Puerto Ricans here. When it hap­ Fairless Works of U.S. Steel at Local 2715 in Atlanta, excluded a Negro staff * * * dreams vanished with the rude been shot down in cold blood iiave to sit back and turn his pens to me, sometimes I get into Morrisville, Pa., over the issue of member from staff meetings and permitted white awakening they got. in New York. during the past two years alone. cheek. All he has to do is use his “THANK GOD for good, patriotic jurors who an argument and then I stop and incentive pay, which is causing staff members to physically threaten the -Negro They have fo r' the most part The guilty cops have had the full vote. . .” Use his vote for what, do not fear to do their duty.” This was the reac­ feel sorry for the people who are a lot of grief and grievances in been given jobs manning the backing of Police Commissioner for whom? Some more phony •member.*McKinney, they said, had been attack­ tion of Judge Frank G. •Schemanske to the., con­ prejudiced. the steel plants these days. ing the union’s anti-discrimination program and worst sweatshops in the city, at- Monaghan. Not one has been capitalist politicians label l'ted viction of 18 Detroiters who attended a social " If people would just try to * * * “spread the lie that our union’s vigorous fight near-staivation wages. They have, punished for his crime. Mon. “friends of labor” by the union gathering sponsored by the Civil Rights Congress know us they’d find out some of The CIO Rubber Workers and against discrimination and equal rights for all been given the opportunity to' aghan has been exposed for officials? The w'orker is “played and were arrested on the pretext of violating the us aren’t so hot, but plenty of AFL Machinists have signed a our members proves’ that t|he union is ‘-Com­ live like sardines in the vermin having made a deal with the for a sucker” every time he' State Liquor ordinance. The witch-hunting char­ us are good, just, the same as any no-raiding agreement as a de­ and rat infested tenements that F B I whereby that agency would listens to advice to vote for any munist.’ ” acter of the trial was given away by the com­ other kind of people. fense against “reactionary em­ were hardly fit for human habita­ not act upon any complaints candidate of the. Democratic or * * * ments of >the judge. He exhorted the court with “Some kids I know are quit­ ployers.” Several months ago the tion when they were built 70 and made to it by victims of police Republican parties. The worker a red-baiting speech that didn't have the remotest ting school and taking any kind Machinists concluded a similar ROCKW ELL K EN T refused to testify before more years ago to house the wave brutality. needs something worth voting connection with any ordinance violation. “The of job they can get, but. not me. pact with the. CIO auto workers the McCarthy committee on his political beliefs. of luckless immigrants who came In the face of all this, Mon­ for — a labor party, labor candi­ voice and conscience of our nation speaks out to M.v stepfather was a merchant * * * A fter placidly rfeusing to go into the ins and then with the same dreams., aghan should be awarded some dates and a fighting ‘program in our enemies at home and abroad through the seaman and got torpedoed in the outs of his political affiliations he was finally kind of medal as the most A far - reaching joint, action labor’s own interests. jury verdicts of free men in such cases as this.” war. I ’m going to study and go dismissed from the witness stand. A reporter' SCOURGE OF TB despicable hypocrite of the year agreement between the CTO Fines and probation sentences were handed down to sea too, so I can take care of asked him confidentially if he ever was a com­ Their kids are subject “to all for his pious statement to a.N. Y. United Packinghouse Workers by the judge. He explained that he didn’t, give my mother and sister and show munist. “Certainly not” said Kent* Bint, he ex­ the infections that, arc prevalent Post reporter that Puerto Ricans and the A F L Amalgamated Meat the maximum 90-day sentence “so the FBI and the people that Puerto Ricans cun plained, lie didn’t want to give McCarthy the in flic areas in which they live,” “have, always received a warm Cutters contains a new feature. Get the Facts Detroit subversive squad can keep track of these make good if they get a chance.” Victor Serge’s graphic story satisfaction of a denial. according to hospital commis­ welcome in this office. We do The unions have agreed in w rit­ people.” sioner Kogel. “Their babies get everything possible to iron out ing to conduct joint wage negotia­ of Stalin’s usurpation of power * * * ¥ * * sick oftener,” he says, “and their difficulties that exist between New York’s subway straphang­ tions wherever both unions have “From Lenin to Stalin” TAKE IT EASY and use some self-restraint is THE LUNCH HOUR RACE caused a Detroit younger age group come into the ■those who have come to our ers, after taking another bearing dealings with the same employer 112 pages 50 cents the advice, of the Cleveland Press to landlords Chrysler worker, Edward McGinehey,,, to run hospitals with more active con­ shore:; recently and the Police in the pocketbook when Impellit- and that neither union is to engaging in an orgy of gouging. With Federal headlong into the side of a ear. He explained: ditions.” Dept. That’s the way I want it tcri raised fares to 15 cents, are reach a settlement with such THEIR MORALS rent control off, the landlords have been going to “The minute the noon buzzer sounds more than The dreaded tuberculosis germ •to be. They all applaud our now promised a beating in the companies without first securing town with reckless profiteering. “In their own 100 guys in my department race across the street breeds like magic in the dark and human relations program that ears. Loudspeakers are to be in­ approval of the other union. AND OURS interest, the owners of rental property must ■to the restaurant.” McGinehey, who is 56, said, dirty hovels they are compellej began several weeks ago.” stalled in the largest stations to * s * By Leon Trotsky exercise plenty of self-restraint. Rent control is “ Seeing I ’m the oldest guy in the ^department, to call home. The death rate from There is no record available bellow advice to the human sar­ Organization of the 'Linden 64 pages 25 cents I can never get a sealt. This time 1 was leading finished. But it may return if landlords do not TB is three times greater among concerning the “warm welcome” dines like “Please don’t crowd.” Labor Council at Linden, N. J., Pioneer Publishers the pack when I ran into the car. I missed lunch recognize the responsibility that goes with eco­ the Puerto Rican people than the extended to Puerto Ricans at Those who have tried them all say comprising AFL, CIO and inde­ 116 University Place altogether.” McGinehey was fined $10. Chrysler, nomic freedom.” (Might as well lecture hogs on city’s population generally. Monaghan’s office. But there is a that New York’s subways are al­ pendent unions, was announced New York 3, N. Y. •the perils of overeating. incidentally, has had a record profit year. Poverty, malnutrition, lack of well established record of Puerto ready the noisiest in the worlds I on Aug. 1*5. This is part of the