Workers Of The World, Unite! Fight Against Stalinist Clique In The NMU See Page 2 t h e MILITANTPUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE W ORKING PEOPLE VOL. XI — No. 3 NEW YORK, N. Y., SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1947 401 PRICE: FIVE CENTS Marshall Choice Reflects Growth TRUMAN ASKS BILLIONS Of Officer Caste Brass Hat Placed In Charge Of State Dept. FOR WAR PREPARATIONS To Emphasize Military Basis O f Foreign Policy By Joseph Hansen Truman’s nomination of Gen. George C. Marshall as Secretary of State Jan. 7 to replace James F. Byrnes re­ 80thCongress flects the growing weight of the miltary caste in Amejican Human Needs Ignored politics and the new military preponderance of Wall Street in world affairs. For the first time in history a brass hat BeginsAssault has been elevated to the second®— -------._------. t ~ ~ . In Budget Proposals highest office in the land and ,Tl™es ' ?>• “ wa? obvlous; placed in charge of Washing- U,med ior tha March Against Labor By Art Preis f ¡Conference in Moscow when the tons foreign policy. Six times as much money for war as for the „ . .. ... vital question of Germany’s dis- Aims Bills To Break Marshall s activities in China, position comes UD on the agenda needs of the people! That is what Truman asks are a gauge of the line he will Qf the Allled Powers. Backbone O f Unions the government to spend in 1948 in his proposed follow elsewhere. Since V-J Day, “Undoubtedly,” said Krock, twice as much military equip­ Wall Street’s political . 37V2 billion dollar budget. ment has been handed the reac­ “the President considered the agents devoted the first For Army, Navy and other military expendi­ effect on other nations, especial­ tionary Chiang Kai-shek dictat­ week of the 80th Congress tures, directly listed for ®------- ■ ■ ■ ■.. orship for use in the civil war ly Soviet Russia, of the choice of a professional military man to loading the legislative as in the eight years of the military purposes, Tru­Tru- Some ContrastsContrast’s for his premier.” hopper w ith bills designed man demands an outlay Chinese - Japanese war. While to smash the labor move­ In The Budget mouthing diplomatic phrases Although Marshall was twice ment. ' of 11% billion dollars. Among revealing contrasts about the need for democracy in decorated by Stalin with the Truman told Congress he For all forms of social secur­ in Truman’s new war budget China, Marshall has backed Chi­ Order of Suvorov, he was not se­ wanted laws to prevent juris­ ity, health, housing and educa­ are the following: ang to the hilt. Wall Street’s lected as a gesture of concilia­ dictional strikes, bar secondary tion, his budget provides less For military-Naval research, aim is to repress the Chinese tion toward the Kremlin. No boycotts and the "use of eco­ than two billion dollars. excluding the atom bomb, a people, secure advance military matter what tactics Marshall nomic force by labor” in reply­ The military budget does not total of 530 million dollars. For bases for future attack on the follows, the appointment means, ing to employers’ violations of include 444 million dollars for Public Health research, a to­ Soviet Union, and open up China as the conservative Business I contracts. the atom bomb, which is listed' tal of 17 million. to American dollars. Week observed Jan. 11, "a shift | Rep. Francis Case, Republican | under “natural resources not pri­ For “research and develop­ The appointment was not ac­ in emphasis in foreign policy, marily agricultural” and given puts a new force behind moves of South Dakota, introduced a ment” of Chemical Warfare, cidental. It had been arranged the innocent-sounding title: “De­ to strengthen the military basis ¡bill to legalize the use of the 6 million dollars. For “re­ as long ago as last May, accord­ velopment and control of atomic of that policy.” federal injunction to break search into cause, diagnosis ing to Arthur Krock of the N. V. strikes; provide stiff . penalties energy.” and treatment” 'of cancer, On the chess board of inter­ for whatever actions of employes It does not include 645 mil­ $1,300,000. national politics, Wall Street has the courts interpret as coercion, lions for military rule of con­ Army ordinance research advanced the piece that will most quered lands. This comes under gets 40 million dollars. Re­ clearly indicate its readiness to violence or seizure of property; legalize filing of charges against “Foreign Relief,” subtitle, “War search into cause and treat­ resort to military force. M ar­ unions; bar unions from financ­ Department (occupied coun­ ment of mental disease — shall is the outstanding spokes­ ing political activités; and com­ tries).” $78,950. man of the military caste in pel a 60-day "cooling off” per­ charge of stockpiling atomic BURIED ITEMS iod for any strikes not otherwise j bombs and coordinating the Scores of other “little items” the coffers of the bankers and banned. armed forces of the Western for war preparations are bur­ industrial monopolists. This in­ A similar bill introduced in Hemisphere and Great Britain. j ied under headings like "Trans­ cludes five billion dollars annual the Senate by Ball of Minnesota. As head of this caste, Marshall portation and Communication,” interest on the federal debt of Taft of Ohio and Smith of New is the logical choice to determine where the War Department gets 260 billions; over two billions in Jersey also prohibits industry­ what can and what cannot be 120 millions for “provision of tax rebates; and 112 million for wide bargaining. Ball intro­ conceded at the “peace” table in Chicago SWP Nominates navigation aids and facilities.” the promotion of “finance, com­ duced still another bill to out- ( , the light of Wall Street’s blue­ Twice as much will be spent merce and industry.” law the closed shop, the union prints for World War III. in 1948 to develop bigger and By the end of the fiscal year shop and maintenance of mem­ Marshall’s views can be judged better atom bombs as for “hous­ 1948, on the basis of Truman’s bership provisions in'agreements. from the report on the war which ing and community facilities.” budget, the American people will he issued after V-J Day. (See Two For City Elections This assault on the unions Housing will receive only 225 be burdened with a federal debt The Militant, Oct. 20, 1945.) “If went virtually unopposed in Con­ million dollars. The estimated of 260 billion dollars. This is GENERAL MARSHALL gress, since the trade unions, de­ nearly the value of all wealth in man does find the solution for By Robert L. Birchman s>—:------■------ :----------------------- expenditures In 1948 for new world peace,” said the general cratic Party is “an effort to es­ spite 15,000,000 members, are dwellings will be less than half the United States, including cynically, “it will be the most (Special to The Militant) cape the rising tide of resentment unorganized on the political of the housing budget for 1947. land. Marshall's Attitude against the corrupt, anti-labor field; and consequently do not The federal debt next year will revolutionary reversal of his rec­ CHICAGO, Jan'. 14—The Chicago Local of the Socialist The atom bomb will take five Kelly machine” by putting “a have a single representative in be only 200 millions less than To Labor Movement ord we have ever known.” Look­ Workers Party has announced the candidacy of Michael times the total of 88 millions to new face on this rotting hulk.” Congress to defnd labor’s rights this year. At that rate, it will General Marshall’s attitude ing forward to another slaugh­ Bartell for Mayor and Homer Lewis, m ilitant Negro worker, be spent for “education and gen­ It condemns those union leaders against the Big Business poli­ be paid off in about 1,200 years. toward labor is not widely ter, Marshall said there is no ef­ eral research.” It will take three for Third Ward Alderman. ®------------------------- — - and liberals who are supporting ticians. Now there is an average of $1,143 known. One sign of the new fective defense except the “pow­ elections. times the amount allocated in An enthusiastic meeting of Kennedy as “a friend of labor.” of federal debt for every man, Secretary of State’s talent for er of attack.” He advocated a members and friends of the SWP In a statement on the issues the budget for ’ "promotion of diplomacy is the care with huge military force to come to and candidates, the SWP declar­ i Kennedy, the SWP shows, is woman and child in the Unitedf last week mapped out plans for . “completely tied up with Big public health.” which he has kept this atti­ “close grips with the enemy and ed: “The Socialist Workers States. Next year it will be $12' a vigorous campaign on behalf Business. He is the owner of The 37% billion dollars in tude off the record. tear his operating bases and his Party has named Michael Bartell Senators Draft less—if no new debts are added. of the SWP banner-bearers of i Kennelly-Werner Bros. Co. He is Truman’s budget is four times But in December 1943 when productive establishment away as its candidate for Mayor. We Truman, in his budget mes­ revolutionary socialism in the : also a director of Wilson & Co., the total federal expenditures in the railway workers were con­ from him . place him before the workers of sage, piously said: “We have not \ one of the Big Four of the meat Bill To Demolish 1939. At least 40 per cent of sidering a strike to gain de­ The Senate, of course, unani­ Chicago as a man who represents yet done enough to secure good trust.” this monumental budget is for mously backed the nomination their interests and not the inter­ health for the Nation .