Spellman's Letters the MILITANT PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE

VOL. V II—No. 42 NEW YORK, N. Y., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1943 PRICE: FIVE CENTS Soviet Advances Auto Workers Fight 'Sacrifice' Cast Shadow On Moscow Parley Policies But Support Roosevelt Despite Mutual Fear of Revolution, Allies Biggest Union at Work in Convention And Stalin Can't Agree On European Setup Convention Defeats Incentive Pay Plan; By Felix Morrow Officers Win Renewal No-Strike Pledge After a brief lull, the Red Army offensive last week took on new momentum. Bridgeheads were Delegates Disgusted With Unprincipled Struggle of Addes and thrown across the Dnieper — a move which could Reuther Factions, Reject Bid of Both for Sole Union Control have been undertaken only with the expectation of By Art Preis launching a drive across the Dnieper which, if at all comparable to the last one, would bring the Red for­ BUFFALO, Oct. 10.— The 2,000-od start er of the Turin garrison, [Bado­ manded arms “were told by the ican Civil Liberties Union, the the bosses. strike resolution. I when many of the rank and file revolution any more than do his a world-wide Communist move­ glio’s appointee] General Adami- military commander that only a Workers Defense League, and the capitalist allies. Speeches and in­ ment that might reduce Stalin’s rossi, and asked for arms to re- few outmoded rifles were avail- Civil Rights Defense Committee, The tremendous dissatisfaction The overwhelming bulk of thej ?el_egat;es . had , already > ^ t for home in weariness and disgust, sertions in the Congressional Rec­ stature and perhaps threaten his pel an eventual attack on the | able.” the Associated Press re­ will appear before the Board of of the convention delegates was delegations from Toledo Local 12, and most of the remainder were ord last week by Representatives position.” part of German armored troops ported Sept. 12. Pardons together with the Min­ highlighted by the completely fourth largest in the country, anxious to adjourn as quickly as Rankin and Sabath underlined which they knew were advancing In Milan General Ruggiero, nesota attorney retained by the apathetic response to the im­ Long Island Brewster Aero­ The central fact that Stalin possible. this point. fears the German and European on Turin. frightened by the success of the CRDC, to plead for Postal’s free­ passioned patriotic pleas for nautical Local 365, one of the The fundamental reason for this Rankin on Oct. 4 assured Con­ revolution is indubitable and well- “The workers’ representatives workers and soldiers who had dom. adoption of the no-strike resolu­ ten largest, and other sizable failure, however, was the lack of gress that “Russia has abolished understood in Washington and assumed full responsibility for wiped out the Nazi forces in the Petitions bearing over 5,000 sig­ tion by President R. J. Thomas, locals such as Detroit Briggs adequate leadership and organiza­ the Trotsky commissars,” “has London. the distribution of arms to then- city, declared the city surrender­ natures already gathered in sup­ Secretary-Treasurer George F. Local 212, Chicago Buick Local 6 torn down the streamer that organized supporters, promising ed to the Nazis at a time when port of Postal were forwarded to Addes and Resolutions Committee and Buffalo Bell Aircraft Local tion among the genuine militants. THE BASIC CONFLICT Trotsky placed across the gates not to give them to suspicious ele­ the Nazi army had not even the board on Oct. 8 by the Twin Chairman Victor Reuther. 501 also voted against reaffirming Pinning their hopes on the “pro­ of Moscow that ‘religion is the But Stalin and the bureaucratic ments. reached the outskirts of the city. City branch of the W DL. Buick Not a rank and file voice was the no-strike pledge. gressive” Reuther, who merely opium of the people,’ ” and intro­ clique that he heads arc not thé “General Adamirossi courteous­ He also agreed to maintain in­ Local 6, UAW -CIO of Melrose raised in favor of the resolution. accepted their votes for office but duced capitalist-type m ilitary dis­ same thing as the Soviet Union. ly asked them to be patient dur­ ternal order in the Milan area— Park, 111. sent a strongly worded The only spontaneous response MILITANTS OUT ON LIMB cynically repudiated them on the cipline “instead of every man That, too, is understood by Roose­ ing the few hours necessary for act as police agent for the Nazis. telegram stating that its 10,000 from the floor came when The convention’s continued sup­ basic issues, the militants found Two days later, continued resist­ greeting his superior officer mere­ velt and Churchill. They know transportation and delivery of the aircraft workers “have taken a Delegate Emil Mazey, of Briggs port of the no-strike pledge was themselves left out on a limb ance of the workers forced the ly as ‘comrade.’ ” Rankin conclud­ that Stalin’s dictatorial regime arms. stand foursquare in support of Local 212, Detroit, received con­ unenthusiastic, reluctant and re­ after the convention elections were Nazis to take over the task them­ ed that the Kremlin has no revo­ rests on the nationalized property “However, a tragic betrayal the freedom of Kelly Postal.” siderable applause at the con­ flected obvious misgivings. No over. selves. lutionary designs on Europe. Si­ created by the October revolution. was being prepared: the workers’ In a resolution addressed to clusion of a Strong plea to cheers were "raised when the no­ Above all, the fight on the no- milar conclusions were drawn by leaders were handed over to the (See Editorial, page 4: “ Who rescind the no-strike pledge. strike resolution carried this time Sabath quoting Rickenbacker’s (Continued on page 3) I Germans who had arrived in the 1 Defends Italy? ”) (Continued on page 2) When the actual vote was as is typical in U AW conven­ (Continued on page 2) Open Letter to the Members of the Young Communist League By the Editors of THE M ILITANT fam ily,” “educating in the spirit of our democratic ideals,” etc. main aim is to checkmate the Red Army and to take the place the best trade union, under adverse conditions, falls into the hands — these jingo ideas constitute the program dictated to you. of the Nazis as the oppressors of the peoples of Europe. of bureaucrats. These adverse conditions, in the case of the Dear Comrades: This program is based on the perspective of long-term colla­ Already the capitalist press is discreetly preparing its read­ USSR, were the defeats of the workers revolutions in western Eu­ We address those among you who consider yourselves com- , boration between the “democracies” and the Soviet Union. Yet ers to expect nothing from the U. S.-British-Soviet conference rope and the consequent isolation of the Soviet Union amid capi­ munists; you who defend the Soviet Union because it is the first events already arc giving the lie to the anti-Marxist assertion in Moscow. Washington is playing a waiting game with the talist encirclement. workers’ state and the first step toward the world revolution. that the workers’ state which emerged from the October revolu­ Kremlin until a gigantic U. S.-British army is firm ly established Just as all bureaucrats fear the revival of militant activity tion can live indefinitely in brotherly collaboration with the great We know that there are others in the YCL who joined be­ on the European continent. Then Washington will talk — and in the labor movement as a whole, so does Stalin fear success­ capitalist powers. cause the YCL no longer requires as a condition for membership everything it will say will be in deadly opposition to the interests ful proletarian revolutions in western Europe. For those revolu­ support to the principle of 6 future socialist society. As Max The U. S. Arm y’s Special Training Program for military of the Soviet Union and the European proletariat. tions. freeing the Soviet masses from the fear of imperialist in­ Weiss reported in the September Communist, “in actual fact a government and occupation work includes instruction which char­ Your leaders are blinding you to this inevitable develop­ vasion, would inspire the Soviet proletariat to revive the Soviets substantial part of the membership of the YCL today is not so­ acterized the Soviet Union as the enemy of tomorrow. The Oct. ment. They are preaching collaboration with the “democratic” which Stalin destroyed — to recreate the Soviet democracy of the cialist in its belief or outlook.” We are not talking to members 10 Daily Worker blames this fact on the “army instructors” in­ capitalist gang and covering up the existence of the fundamental days of Lenin and Trotsky. The Kremlin bureaucracy would be of that type. volved. But can you believe for one moment that this anti-Soviet antagonism between the Soviet Union and the “democratic” capi­ displaced by the democratic rule of the Soviets. The great revolu­ Tomorrow, when events reveal to the full the real game of indoctrination of the U. S. Army comes from any source other talist states. tion would then move forward again after the long reaction. the “democracies” in this war, most of those so-called YCL’ers, than the highest circles of the U. S. government? Do you not You want a socialist world. Can it come through supporting Rather than let that happen, Stalin seeks one deal after another recruited not to communism but to the banner of Roosevelt, realize that such a system of education in the army could be in­ the “democrats” who put Darlan and Giraud in office, who back with the capitalist powers. That is the fundamental source of the Churchill & Co., will desert your organization and turn up in the stituted only with the consent of the W ar Department — and of Franco in Spain, Salazar in Portugal, Badoglio in Italy, Vargas reactionary policy which is foisted upon you, and which benefits camp of the enemies of socialism and the Soviet Union. the White House, yes, of the same Roosevelt whom Browder con­ in Brazil, Britain’s totalitarian rule of India, etc., etc.? Can so­ neither the Soviet Union nor the American and world working Your convention meets under a leadership which is going tinues to hail as “our” commander-in-chief? cialism be furthered by Browder’s strikebreaking condemnation class. even further in the direction of the jingoes. The very name According to the September Communist, one of the main of militancy in the factories and the Communist Party’s support We stand for the original program of Lenin and Trotsky —• “Communist” is to be wiped out of your organization, and the tasks of your convention was “to speed the opening of the Second of “incentive pay” — the new name for the old fink piecework the program of world revolution. That program is represented last vestiges of lip-service to Marxism expunged from your pro­ Front.” But before your convention opens, it has become clear system ? today on a world scale by the Fourth International, in America gram. that the main purpose of an Anglo-U. S. front in western Europe Why do Stalin and his bureaucratic caste hand down such a by the Socialist Workers Party. You have been told many lies What class is aided by this policy of your leadership? Only would be to “beat the Reds to Berlin.” The “democracies” were reactionary policy? It is because this degenerate bureaucracy is about the Trotskyists. It is time, however, for you to find out the capitalist class. The working class is only miseducated and well content to let the Soviet Union bleed itself white while in the concerned with its own bureaucratic privileges — interests dif­ for yourselves. Study our program. Read our press. In comrade­ disoriented by the vile spectacle of “communists” proclaiming battle against the Nazis. Only now, when the Red Army is nearing ferent from and alien to those of the masses of the Soviet Union. ly discussion, we know that we can convince you that ours is the the virtues of “democratic” capitalism: “pledging to protect and the borders of Germany and other capitalist states, do the capi­ For the Soviet Union is a great labor organization which road — the only road — for the defense of the Soviet Union and defend the Constitution,” “safeguarding the American home and talist spokesmen speed preparations for the second front. Their has fallen into the hands of a bureaucratic clique, much as even the struggle for world socialism. r w o - ÎTHÊ M ILITA N T SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1945 Auto Workers Convention Report (Continued from page 1) Resolutions Committee. Reuther’: unstinting praise for Roosevelt discussion, that the numerous received. But he received a good insisted on his motion. He said: majority resolution reaffirmed the and unqualified endorsement of a delegates who were dissatisfied round of applause on his con­ “ If we hold up the voting on the strike resolution revealed once no-strike pledge unconditionally, fourth term. with Roosevelt’s policies placed clusion when he declared: “This officers until these three issues more, and in the clearest fashion, but voiced a few complaints in With so little difference in chief emphasis in their minds on convention ought to take a strong have been disposed of we folks By Marvel Scholl that the auto workers, despite the “whereases.” The resolution principle between the two resolu­ the “conditional” character of the position to do away With com­ can vote more intelligently.” their traditional and continued urged the government to take tions, the leaders of both factions resolution, while the Stalinists pany-unionism policies on poli­ Delegate Lacey of Local 235 3,200 over - the ■ road drivers, Despite the Smith-Connally anti­ militancy, are not yet prepared to over the plants where manage­ were anxious to prevent any and the leadership were prin tical action and we should start stated: "We are tired of this ment refused “fair collective bar­ members of the International strike law. and Roosevelt’s “sanc­ hurdle the principle obstacle to strong rank and file debate dur­ cipally concerned with the positive building now for a real la,bor pussy-footing business. I want gaining.” Brotherhood of Teamsters, AFL. tions” decree, the workers find their aspirations— their continued ing which anti-Roosevelt, pro­ aspect of the fourth term endorse party, and we won’t be part of everybody to take a stand, those The minority resolution, spon­ from St. Louis, Memphis, Nash­ numerous ways to fight for their alliance with Roosevelt. labor party advocates might have ment. the bosses’ parties.” who are responsible for the sored by the Stalinists with the ville, Atlanta, Birmingham. Mo­ demands. And there is absolutely They are dissatisfied and dis­ the opportunity to open up a The only lively feature of the policies of our union. I want them support of Addes and Franken- FOR LABOR PARTY bile and New Orleans early last nothing illegal about workers get­ gruntled with the consequences fundamental political discussion. discussion occured. when Mazey to come out and tell us just where steen, contained a different final week began walking out in pro­ ting sick—even when large groups of their political position. They That explains why at the last spoke in opposition to the resolu­ The favorable response to the they stand.” test against the W LB’s run­ of them all get sick at once. At know that this position has left proposal urging the U A W to moment before anyone could ob­ tion. He was repeatedly inter­ labor party proposal established The Reuther caucus leaders, around of the drivers’ demands least, it is not illegal yet. their hands tied in the face of the substitute for the strike weapon tain the floor on the resolutions, rupted by the heckling and booing that the delegates made a distinc­ who understood that they held the for wage increases and vacations. * # * government - employer onslaught “ labor’s most powerful weapon Victor Reuther declared that he of a small number of delegates, tion between supporting a labor popular position on the incentive The strike began in St. Louis and that their union is unable to | of political action,” by which they was “very happy” to announce led chiefly by the Stalinists. party and breaking with Roose­ The case of R. J. Thomas, presi­ pay question, were all for this and spread rapidly. Millions of use its tremendous power in meant active campaigning for that the minority had withdrawn Mazey stated that, the delegates velt. They are beginning to see dent of the UAW -CIO, recently procedure at this juncture. The pounds of freight are now chok­ defense of their interests. Bewil­ ■ Roosevelt administration candi- its resolution in favor of the should not act on the question of in the labor party, an alternative arrested in Texas for violating the next day, however, they were just ing the docks all over the south. dered and disoriented by this con­ ] dates and pro-capitalist “friends majority resolution. the fourth term until the next to the boss parties. But they still anti-labor Manford Aot, will be as anxious as the Addes-Frank- Employer representatives from tradiction, the majority of the I of labor.” convention “after we have an believe it is necessary to support argued in the Texas Supreme ensteen clique to get on with the the fifty-eight companies involved delegates at this convention could No sooner had Victor Reuther NO ENTHUSIASM opportunity of seeing what the Roosevelt. Court Oct. 23. elections before the no-strike report they expect local truck Thomas was sentenced to three only yield reluctantly to the flag- finished his speech demonstrating The discussion on this resolu­ administration is going to do with Unfortunately, the top bureau­ issue could get on the floor. They drivers to join the strike unless days in jail and fined $100 by a waving appeals of the leadership. the “difference” between the tion, as on the no-strike resolution the basic problems facing the crats succeeded in preventing the supported a motion to hold the a settlement is reached very soon. lower court. That some of the leading mili­ majority and minority resolutions, later, revealed hardly an iota of workers.” convention from discussing the elections of the top officers be­ * * * The Manford Act makes it man­ tants, like Emil Mazey, grasp this than the Stalinist floor leader, enthusiasm for Roosevelt. As a specific question of the labor party fore the no-strike resolution and A “wave of illness” struck datory to secure a license before fundamental fact, is clear from Anderson, rose and asked Presi­ matter of fact, the mention of ROOSEVELT RESPONSIBLE The “qualified” endorsement re­ W ar Labor Board resolutions 4,000 A FL milk drivers in New soliciting union members. And to his talk against the no-strike dent Thomas: Roosevelt’s name brought little In his speech, Mazey charged solution, which passed with only a could be discussed. York City last week following a get a license one must be a resi­ pledge. Mazey declared emphatic­ “ How can a delegate like response, in contrast with correctly that Roosevelt could not handful of votes in opposition, W LB decision granting the Shef­ dent of Texas for one year. ally: “ Despite the war, the in­ myself get the floor who wants the tremendously enthusiastic be absolved from responsibility ended the political discussion. INCENTIVE PAY Other provisions of the Man­ terests of the employers and the to speak not in favor of one demonstrations aroused by Roose­ for such anti-labor acts as the field and Borden milk companies Just prior to the debate on Incentive pay was the only issue ford Act require all unions to workers remain diametrically op­ resolution against the other but velt’s name at all previous UAW the right to institute an every- Smith-Connally Law, and that incentive pay, occurred one of the on which Reuther felt he could file statements of income and ex­ in favor of both resolutions?” conventions. “the veto message of the Presi­ other-day delivery system which posed. We have given up our rank and file upsurges which have safely adopt an unequivocal will throw out of jobs several pense oiice a year, prohibit the struggle against the employers, The entire executive board, dent on the Smith-Connally bill characterized every UAW con­ REUTHER “DELIGHTED” position. On this issue, the Addes- hundred drivers. issuing of “work permits,” lim it but the employers have not ceased including Reuther and Thomas was ten limes more vicious than vention. The rules called for elec­ Frankensteen caucus leaders were 1 Members of the Newspaper and' the amount of initiation fees and their class struggle against us Victor Reuther expressed spoke in favor of this resolution. the bill itself.” tion of officers on the fourth day slick enough to blur the lines of Mail Delivery Drivers Union (in­ dues, and forbid the contribution during the war.” “delight” at this unexpected sup­ It was clear, from the floor He pointed to the convention’s of the convention. None of the difference bv introducing a resolu­ dependent) also were hit with an of any union funds to political Turning to John Anderson, port for the majority resolution. criticism of the W ar Labor Board basic issues had come before the tion which differed from Heuther’s epidemic of illness, tying up the parties. Stalinist whip from Local 155, He offered to accept the main and Little Steel formula, and delegates by Wednesday after­ local unions to introduce incentive delivery of New York evening * * * “difference” in the Stalinist asked, “Who appointed the War Mazey issued a direct challenge: noon, the third day. pay systems if they desired. papers in Queens, Brooklyn, and Unofficial figures reported last resolution and to incorporate it BoardHears Labor Board?” On criticism of "Yes, ’ Brother Anderson, the The Addes - Frankensteen Long Island. week show that since the Smith- into his majority resolution. the rationing program and the DECIDE ISSUES FIRST class struggle does go on in spite spokesmen demagogically at- Not long ago, it will be remem­ Connally Act was passed, 1,319 of the war!” Anderson gave no Addes jumped up declaring his manpower policies, he asked, A t the start of the Wednesday bered, an official of the Coal Op­ strike notices have been filed, 201 answer. willingness to support the com­ Postal Plea “Who appointed the people to the afternoon session, delegate M ur­ erators Association complained in of these were later withdrawn, bined resolution if the section rationing program? Who appoint­ phy of Briggs Local 212 in­ (Continued on page 3) the press at the amount of ab­ and 54 strike ballots were con­ ! MAZEY’S FALSE TACTICS about plants being taken over by For Pardon ed McNutt, the Hoosier Hitler, as troduced a motion that the elec­ senteeism among the coal miners ducted by the NLRB with the Yet Mazey himself contributed the government had a “safeguard” the Director of the Manpower tion of officers take place only (Continued from page 1) and said that the miners were ap­ voting heavily favoring strike ac­ ! not a little to the disorientation that it be done under “the war Commission ? Each and every one after the resolutions on incentive plying the slogan: “no contract, tions. Four “legal” strikes have of the militants by his pre-con­ powers of the President and not of those appointments was made pay, no-strike and the fourth Governor Thyc, 17 members of no sweat.” been conducted, one by a District vention and convention tactics. under the Smith-Connally Act. by the President of the United term had been acted upon, and the executive board of United These incidents show the won­ 50, UM W union, one by an inde­ 1 Mazey has worked to line up the and with full guarantees of all States. after all the candidates for of­ Furniture Workers of America, derful ingenuity of the working pendent union, and two by A FL ; militants behind Reuther’s caucus. bargaining rights of workers in “Instead of raising hell with ficers’ posts had stated then- CIO', Local 415. Grand Rapids, class, and its inherent militancy. unions. ' He has given them false ideas the plants and with elimination of some of the chairman of the position on these question. This Mich, declared that the charge of that there exist serious “dif­ all profits by employers.” agencies, we ought to raise hell motion was amended to include embezzlement was a frame-up ferences” ' between Reuther and Reuther and the Stalinists were with the person who is making all the executive boar^ members “instigated by Daniel J. Tobin, the rest of the leadership. He has happy to agree to this inclusion, the appointments and who has as well. Ship Workers Needs Sharply Posed president of A FL Teamsters in blurred over the fact that poli­ and thus the entire leadership worked out these policies. We’ve Despite the protests of Thomas retaliation for the leading role tical principles are decisive and united, resolved their phony dif­ and other officers that this would played by Postal in the struggle got the Little Steel formula. He that Reuther and his caucus lead- ferences and together iorced the take a great deal of time, Murphy By Treachery of Union Bureaucrats of Local 544 against the dictato­ dictated the policy of the W ar j ers are in fundamental agreement passage of the no-strike pledge. rial policies of Tobin.” Similar Labor Board.” President John Green put the mands, grievances, etc., to gov­ on program with the Addes- UNITY MANEUVER letters and resolutions were sent It is interesting and important following question to the dele­ ernment agencies, which are be­ Frankensteen-Stalinist clique. to note that Mazey’s correct An identical unity maneuver this week by the U tility Workers gates of the ninth annual CIO ing staffed with men “acceptable” Mazey’s organization bloc with attack on Roosevelt was not well In Detroit-, Mich. took place on the question of en­ Organizing Committee Local 104, Shipyard Workers Convention to reaction. Reuther’s caucus served to give dorsing a fourth term for Roose­ Saginaw, Mich., Boilermakers Lo­ You can get held in New York City in Sep­ Green who called Roosevelt in a “left” cover to Reuther and velt. The pro-Roosevelt resolu­ cal 104, Seattle, Wash., United to the Postal Pardon Fund are tember: “ If we cannot find some his convention report “the con­ . helped conceal for a time THE MILITANT other way to win our demands sistent fighter for the basic rights tions were introduced on Thursday Furnture Workers Local 577, San Columbia River District Council Reuther's reactionary position. at the with the purpose of getting the Diego, Cal., International Long­ No. 5, Lumber and Sawmill Work­ than to cease production of war of labor and of the common peo­ The militants Were thus diverted material (strike), it simply means ple” made another flip-flop from convoiption on record behind shoremen and Warehousemen’s ers Union, Portland, Ore; U tility FAMILY THEATRE from their real task of organizing PIONEER PUBLISHERS his opinion one month ago. This Roosevelt before the no-strike or Union Local 29, San Diego, Cal., Workers Organizing Committee we are mentally bankrupt and un­ their own group on their own in­ NEWSSTAND worthy of leading great masses is what he had to say to Roosevelt labor party questions could be and the Accion Democrata Espa­ Local 104. Saginaw, Mich., Uni­ 116 University Place dependent program. opposite the theatre at that time: “Now as a conse­ discussed. ñola of San Francisco. ted Furniture Workers Local of American citizens.” (Shipyard In reality, Reuther’s game to New York City Worker, Sept. 24, 1943.) quence of the enactment of the The Reuther majority on the “Here is a case in which not one 415, Grand Rapids, Mich., Mech­ win support on the basis of cook­ An examination of the “other Smith-Connally Act, comes your resolutions committee reported man’s fate is alone involved, but anics Educational Society Local ing up “principled differences” way” that Green. Van Gelder and executive order which provides out a resolution which proposed also the integrity of the democra­ 6, Detroit, Mich., United Electri­ with the Addes-Frankensteen- Co. have found and practiced to sanctions and penalties against “qualified” endorsement of a tic process in the labor move­ cal, Radio and Machine Workers Stalinist crowd was exploded win the demands of the union, individual ■workers and labor fourth term for Roosevelt. These ment,” wrote Clinton J. Taft, D i­ Local 301' Schenectady, N. Y.. when the reactionaries and Stalin­ proves beyond a shadow of doubt unions in order to implement com­ “qualifications,” like those in the rector of the ACLU in Southern UAW -CIO Lincoln Local 900, De­ ists accepted Reuther’s quibbling, California. that they are truly mentally pliance with rulings of the WLB. no-strike resolution, were simply troit, Mich, and Accion Democra­ meaningless “differences” and THE NEW YORK SCHOOL bankrupt and unfit to lead the The breach has been made, and verbal and largely meaningless Among this week’s contributors ta Española. San Francisco, Cal. joined with him to fight the rank shipyard workers. in each step, further retreat to concessions to the rank and file and file. reaction follows progressively!” dissatisfaction with the Roose­ Of SOCIAL SCIENCE DENIED INCREASE Green and the tqp union bu­ TWO RESOLUTIONS velt anti-labor policies. PRESENTS THE SECOND IN A SERIES OF In his opening remarks to the reaucracy have tied their fate to Two resolutions were reported The Addes-Frankensteen-Stalin- TEN LECTURES ON convention, Green, who made the Roosevelt. That is why they must out on the no-strike pledge by the ist minority resolution contained Another new pamphlet principle defense of the union try to shove Roosevelt’s program administration, boasted of the ad­ of wage and labor freezing down off the press! The History of Labor vances in wages and working con­ the throats of the shipyard work­ ditions which the union had won. ers. Internationalism But he forgot to mention that all By William F. Warde and John G. Wright these advances had been won be­ UNION POLICEMEN THE END OF THE COMINTERN fore Pearl Harbor, when the union The recent contract negotia­ Title: “TH E FIR ST IN T E R N A T IO N A L — 1865-1878” tions brought the hot breath of was not hogtied by the no-strike By James P. Cannon Wednesday, October 20 at 8:00 P. M. policy. Since then a 15% wage in­ the rank and file on the necks of crease to which the shipyard these bureaucrats. After this con­ 116 University Place (Cor. 13th Street) vention of the union, Green and workers were entitled under the with New York City contract rising cost of living the other fakers have openly clause has been cut to 8% in 1942. taken the role of policemen The M ilitant agent in St. Paul San Francisco has officially Roosevelt personally assured the against the union rank and file, sent us the fbllowing information wound-up their one-month sub­ The Manifesto of the shipyard Union at this time that j The shipyard workers can place which shows the excellent work scription campaign with a total he would hold down the cost of | no confidence or trust in the being done there: of 139 subs: Fourth International living. The union’s modest de­ Green-Van Gelder leadership. “St. Paul has had considerable “Enclosed find money order for mand of a 9% general wage in­ They must tackle the job of form­ success with its regular Militant 28 subs. This concludes our four- week drive on subscriptions and crease in 1943, in face of the offi­ ing a new leadership out of the distribution. Two of the comrades 36 PAGES 10 CENTS cially admitted 18% increase in ranks of the most militant stew- have a route which they follow we have gone over the top. Our Sunday Open Forum the cost of living, was flatly re­ ; ards and rank and file fighters. each week in the Negro district, goal was 100. “The winning team will be jected by the W ar Labor Board. They must break with the coward­ which covers a section of approx­ Subject: “THE UAWr CONVENTION” Green and the top union lead­ ly and treacherous program of imately two miles long, and each given their prizes at a party next ership, however, assured the con­ Green and his fellow bureaucrats house is covered. Sunday night which is being held Discussion Leader: HARRY FR A N K E L vention that the union could solve and begin a struggle to regain “From time to time a ‘Tag Day’ i in celebration of the success of its problems by continued support the right to strike, nuffet launch is held in this neighborhood and our campaign. The party will also PIONEER PUBLISHERS of the “W ar Labor Board machi­ the fight for wage increases to results are quite good. Usually mark the opening of our new of­ nery,” and of President Roose­ meet the rising cost of living and five or six comrades go out on fice which we have been working Sunday, October 17, 1943, 8 P. M. velt, “the consistent fighter for must regain the independence of a Sunday morning with copies of on for the past few weeks and it 116 University Place New York 3, N. Y. the basic rights of labor.” their union. one or two pamphlets, such as is now a real headquarters.” ‘Negroes in the Post-War World’ * * * DOUBLE TALK and ‘Your Standard of Living.’ Our Los Angeles agent writes: Auspices: New York School of Social Science Yet this same John Green wrote In about two hours, 100 pamph­ “Enclosed is $17 to cover the at­ an open letter to President Roose­ Timely Subjects lets or so are sold. tached subs to The M ilitant and 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE (Cor. 13th Street) velt printed in the Shipyard “That these sales, in a great Fourth International. The sub W orker of Aug. 27, 1943: contest is coming along fine, a In October F. I. many cases, are due to the con­ NEW YORK CITY “Recent developments have sistent distribution of The M ili­ little over half-way, with San Pe­ FOURTH INTERNATIONAL caused us much concern. In order The October 1943 issue of the dro leading.” tant has been proven many times. OCTOBER 1943 to give its all-out support to the monthly magazine Fourth Inter­ One of the comrades encountered * * * war effort, labor bared its chest national, just published, features a colored woman who didn’t ap­ We received the following re­ Contents : to its traditional enemies. We pear interested. However, when quest from Scotland: an analysis by the editors of the voluntarily gave up our strong­ the comrade mentioned that the “As I am very interested in the CLASS JUSTICE AT WORK est economic weapon, the right to U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals pamphlet was published by the Minneapolis Trial of 1941, could The Court of Appeals Decision in the Minneapolis Trial strike — for the duration, in or­ decision upholding the convictions Socialist Workers Party, she hur­ you send me the copies of The —By The Editors SUBSCRIBE NOW TO der that there might be no impe­ of the 18 defendants in the Min­ ried to get her nickel to purchase Militant in which was printed the diment to production for victory. neapolis Smith “Gag” Act case. the pamphlet. In many cases, peo­ version of this trial.” SOVIET LIFE IN WARTIME Now we want to know whether ple have shown interest when John G. W right, noted com­ — By John G. 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“LABOR W ITH A WHl’i'M ggIN OAM- NOT EMANCIPATE) ITSELF 1 W H E R E T h e LABOR WITH A BLACK SKIN HI Auto Workers Convention Milk Drivers Get Lesson BRANDED” — KARL MARX. Negro Struggle Fights ‘Sacrifice ProgramOn Effects Of Monopoly ------By M. Morrison ■ ------(Continued from page 2) received from the convention an law and in fact of the rights of contract negotiations for wage in­ all minority groups to fully par­ creases sufficient to restore the _ _ _ j _ By Albert Parker . .... unmistakably sharp warning. The order of the War Labor of increase. And it can be takeif ticipate in our social, political and relationship between wages and tempted to represent themselves Last year he was the most popular Board providing for the discharge for granted that the real benefi- industrial life.” It provided for the cost of living, with an escala­ as the defenders of “union officer on the board. This year he of hundreds of drivers by the New Why Roosevelt Keeps Mum the disciplining by the Interna­ tor clause to provide for automa­ ciaries of subsidies will be the democracy” and “local autonomy,” retained his office by a hair­ York milk companies in order to tional Union of all participants tic wage increases if prices con­ monopolists. “Do you believe race tensions everyone should be concentrating while hypocritically denying that breadth margin. conserve gas and rubber furnish­ or instigators of “hate strikes.” tinue to rise.” * * # would be allayed if President on the war. Why can’t people they supported the idea of in­ es an excellent example of how, MINORITIES DEPT. It demanded that the Federal gov­ The most hopeful sign at the Roosevelt spoke frankly to the forget issues like this at the centive pay. in the functioning of the capitalist Some time ago Harold Ickes ernment set an example “through convention was the repeated ex­ nation?” A wide range of Negroes present time and wait until the The Stalinist delegates how­ To win the support of the many system under* war conditions, made the charge that if theie was' the elimination of discrimination pression of the rank and file abi­ in all parts of the country, asked war is over?” ever, actually tried to prove tliat militant Negro workers at the monopoly capitalism invariably anything wrong with the war ef­ in the aimed forces and all other lity to take control whenever the for their views on this question The actual effect of a frank incentive pay could be a pretty convention, particularly from the comes out on top. It. may be ar­ fort it is the business men Who' government agencies.” The reso­ issues were clear to them, in spitq by the Pittsburgh Courier, an­ statement by Roosevelt would good thing for the auto workers, Ford local, the Stalinist-influenced gued that it is necessary to con­ are in control who should bo lution further provided that “ade­ of the heavy pressure from the swered as follows: therefore be to lend support to holding out the lure of higher minority of the resolutions com­ serve gas ,and rubber, but it still blamed and not the New Dealers. quate Negro representation be top officers. maintaining conditions as they mittee reported out a resolution remains that the milk companies He thereby merely brought out 83.4% said Yes. pay. They challenged Reuther to employed in all departments of Just as they did last year, the are. Roosevelt does not approve are the gainers from that neces­ into the open what every inform­ 11.2% said No. state how he proposed to get aimed at securing an extra the International Union.” delegates f>y almost unanimous of lynch attacks on Negroes, but sity and the workers are the ed person knew. His purpose in 5.4% were uncertain. higher wages for the workers Stalinist-Addes addition to the For once, President Thomas vote rejected a constitutional pro­ he tolerates them. He does not losers. The milk companies would making the charge was to relieve Leaving aside for the moment under the Little Steel formula board. The Reuther majority had “took a position.” He challenged posal, backed by all officers and approve of the fight for Negro have had a hard time to get rid the New Dealers of responsibility the many interesting questions and no-strike .policy without introduced a resolution to set up any delegate who did not subscribe executive board members except rights, but his policies stand in of almost a thousand drivers were but he also made clear that ari about Negro opinion raised by resorting to incentive pay. a Minorities Department in order to the resolution to “have the Gosser of Toledo, to increase dues the way of its success. A frank it not for the fact that war con­ administration priding itself on this survey, this fact looms to organize and aid the work of guts” to take the floor and state through a 50 cents additional statement of what he thinks REUTHER EVADES ditions enable the government to its alleged hostility to monopoly prominently above everything the international in combatting his views. monthly assessment. would not improve present condi­ Reuther, of course, evaded the step in and use its power on their capitalism had to submit to the else: More than four out of every racial discrimination, educating Several backward delegates, CONVENTION DATE behalf. representatives of monopoly in tions at all. challenge of the Stalinists because the members against anti-Negro who were roundly booed, express­ five Negroes believe that Roose­ £ % & In peace time, as well as during order to get cooperation for pro­ he did not intend to support any prejudices, securing equal rights ed opposition to the inclusion Addes and Thomas pleaded velt is not doing what he can to war, governmental measures ducing war material. The lesson But suppose that Roosevelt, aggressive 'labor struggle. He and proper conditions for women of the phrase “social” in without avail for the delegates prevent further attacks on the adopted for the purpose of mak­ is there for everybody to read despite what he thinks, were to argued instead that incentive pay workers, etc. The resolution the resolution. A number of to vote more dues for a “post­ Negro people and their rights. ing the capitalist system function, and see: where industry is under issue some strong statements would result in decreased produc­ provided for the appointment of white delegates took the floor war fund.” But the delegates, ever In other words, they are dissa­ somehow or other, turn out to the the control of monopoly, a gov­ against lynch violence and the in­ tion and “disorganization and a director of the department by to give vigorous endorsement to suspicious of the leadership and tisfied with the administration’s benefit of the monopolists. But it ernment accepting that control is creasing assaults on Negro chaos in the plants.” the International President. The the resolution. An overwhelming unwilling to give more funds than attitude toward the Negroes and is war conditions that bring out helpless to cope with the monopo­ rights? Wouldn’t that affect con­ Most of the rank and file Reuther caucus hoped by this vote was cast for the resolution, are immediately required for the their problems. so clearly the hold which mono­ ly and, to get its cooperation, ditions to some extent? The delegates, and several of the manuever to win the appointment with only a sprinkling of hands functioning of the International, This feeling of dissatisfaction poly capitalism has upon the eco­ must feed it with profits. answer is: Yes, but not much. board members, particularly of W alter Hardin, a Negro sup­ against. overwhelmingly repudiated the is, of course, more than justified nomic life of the nation. It could not have much of a bene­ Richard Gosser of Toledo Local porter of Reuther. In the closing hours of the con­ plea. When one delegate even pro­ Prior to the war there was & by the facts. The Negro people When Congress, during Roose­ good deal of talk about drafting ficial effect so long as Roosevelt 12, described their own bitter ex­ The Stalinists, supported by vention, two important resolu­ posed to return to the locals one- understand that the administra­ velt’s first administration, enact­ wealth as well as men for this permitted the continuation of the perience with the incentive pay Addes and Frankensteen, counter­ tions, one on the W ar Labor third of the dollar assessment the tion could take a number of steps ed the National Recovery Act, it war. The American Legion pass­ government’s own Jim Crow systems. ed with a resolution also calling Board and Little Steel formula, International is permitted to levy which would at least make it during the year, Thomas aroused wras done for the purpose of help­ ed quite a few resolutions in fa­ policies. Granted that Roosevelt The delegates, breaking all for the setting up of a Minorities and the other on the cost of liv­ more difficult for the enemies of the mirth of the delegates by de­ ing a prostrated industry to re­ vor of that principle. When war still has a good deal of prestige factional lines, voted overwhelm­ Department, but specifying that ing and the price rollback, were the Negroes to carry on their claring that “he wanted to take cover. Its effect was to place Big actually came the drafting of and influence over the general ingly against incentive pay in any the director should be a Negro, hastily discussed and adopted. obnoxious activities. a position on this question,” and Business in a more advantageous wealth was entirely forgotten. population, no speeches or fire­ form prohibited its extension to and that he should be elected by They know, for example, that KEY RESOLUTIONS frantically besought the conven­ position as against the small busi­ The capitalist system does not side chats he would deliver could new plants and directed the in­ the convention to serve as an ad­ Roosevelt could throw the weight The first resolution demanded tion not to take “this little” away. ness man. function effectively by the draft­ seriouslY alter the present situa­ ternational officials and represen­ ditional member of the executive of his administration behind the that the President and the gov­ Earlier in the convention, a con­ Admitting that the chief pur­ ing of wealth and no capitalist tion if the reaction'aries were able tatives to vigorously oppose it at board with a vote equal to the anti-poll tax bill. They know that ernment agencies involved termi­ stitutional amendment to hold the pose of the Roosevelt administra­ administration would attempt to to show that they are only doing all times. average vote of all the board his support could do a lot to bring nate Roosevelt’s “Hold the Line” next convention in October 1944 tion is to win the war and not to pass any such measure at a time what the government itself does Flushed with victory on this members. The Addes - Stalinist about the adoption of a federal wage-freezing order and “scrap was rejected, because it was ar­ benefit monopoly capitalism, it, of war when it is anxious to have to the Negro people. issuf, the Reuther forces were group had in mind securing the anti-lynch bill. They know that the Little Steel formula.” It also gued the leaders and members nevertheless, remains a fact that the capitalist system function What the Negro people must more than anxious to go ahead election of a Stalinist Negro monopoly capitalism has been the he has the power to institute called for “an immediate rollback should be active in the presiden­ most effectively. demand of Roosevelt is not so with the elections without further prosecutions against the “white delegate to the board. of prices, or general wage in­ tial campaign during October chief beneficiary of all the war # * * •much frank speeches or strong delay. They believed that the in­ supremacy” — Ku Klux Klan — The Stalinists tried to hold up crease” to restore wages to the 1944. measures taken with reference to statements as more action. And hoodlum elements who played a centive plan vote assured them of the elections on Friday by in­ purchasing power in May 1942; The resolutions committee re­ industry. Representatives of the m iddle like charity, this action should * *■ * leading part in the anti-Negro victory in the elections as well. sisting that this resolution be industry-wide agreements provid­ turned with a proposal to hold class and top trade union bureau­ begin at home. If he doesn’t take terror in Detroit and other cities. They were due for a rude sur­ acted upon before the election of ing equal pay for equal work in the convention in November 1944, And it could not be otherwise. crats are pleading for different such action, then all the speeches They know that he can give the prise. board members. They were voted all plants throughout the coun­ after the presidential elections. Could any administration, basing dollar-a-year men or for their in the world won’t be worth a F air Employment Practices Com­ Tn a roll-cail vote that took down. The delegates understood try; a post-war “labor security The obvious motive for this pro­ itself on the capitalist system, complete elimination. Thus do mittee the power to enforce anti- plugged nickel anyhow. several hours, Richard T. Leonard, that this was a political maneuver fund” to be provided by the cor­ posal was the fear on the part of prevent monopoly capitalism from they expect to change a situation Jim Crow regulations for in­ * * * director of the U AW Ford De­ to win Negro support for porations for unemployed and the leaders that a convention be­ getting complete control of the where Big Business is waxing fa t­ dustry. They know that he has The Negro militants must learn partment, the Reuther can­ Frankensteen before the elections. partially-employed workers. It de­ fore the elections might result in war economy ? When the navy ter and fatter at the expense of the authority, as commander-in- to keep their eyes on the ball and didate for secretary-treasurer manded direct negotiations be­ a big shift in the political senti­ requires huge warships it cannot little business and the working UGLY SITUATION masses. To them it is only a ques­ chief of the armed forces, to not permit themselves to be against the incumbent Addes tween management and labor with ment of the auto workers from get them by calling upon cock­ On Saturday night, the conven­ tion of changing the officials in order the end of segregation of diverted from the main tasks was defeated by the narrow the right, if agreement is reached, support of Roosevelt to building roach business men to build them. Washington. They close their Negro servicemen. facing them. In the final analysis margin of 71 votes. It was ob­ tion was thrust into one of the to make a final settlement with­ their own independent labor par­ When the army needs tanks and eyes to the real reason: the very And when Roosevelt refuses to it does not make much difference vious that the delegates saw no bitterest and ugliest situations in out WLB interference. ty. The delegates, however, saw planes it cannot call upon two- existence of monopoly capitalism. take any of these measures, what Roosevelt or any other fundamental difference between U AW convention history. The fundamental shortcoming through this and set the date for by-four manufacturers to pro­ when he confines himself to politician at the head of the Addes and Leonard, despite their Nat Canley a, leading Stalinist of the resolution was that it con­ the convention in September 1944. duce them. Naturally the men at To prevent Big Business from a feeble general statement on opposing stands on the incentive whip, introduced thè minority tinued to place reliance • on the the head of the army and navy utilizing the war for increasing capitalist government says or INNATE MILITANCY the question once or twice a year, does not say. Whatever they say, pay issue. resolution. But sensing that it Roosevelt government and the and the dollar-a-year men do not its profits and for getting a Despite the feeling of frustra­ when he balks at even giving a their policies will be substan­ would not pass in its original employer-dominated W ar Labor go out of their way to help small strangle hold on the economic life PHONY DIFFERENCES tion and dissatisfaction with public expression of his disap­ tially the same—anti-Negro. And form, he announced the deletion Board to protect labor’s interests. business. Undoubtedly there is a of the nation there is and can be which very many of the dele­ only one effective measure: to do proval of the Detroit violence — they have to be the same— Complete confusion prevailed in of the section specifying that the It reflected nevertheless the ex­ lot of conscious steering away of gates left the convention, one away with its ownership of the then the Negro people know that whether carried out by a hypo­ the minds of the delegates as to director should be a Negro, and treme resentment of the auto and orders from little business. But could not help but get a strong big war industries. M ilitant work­ part of the fault for the present critical Roosevelt or a maker of the issues—because there were changed the proposed voting aircraft workers to the wage malevolent intention plays a very impression of the innate militan­ ers must fight every measure such situation belongs on his shoulders, noble speeches such as W illkie— no genuine differences, only strength for this new executive freeze and the other W LB poli­ small role in the process. What cy, democratic character and dy­ as the one which compels hun­ and their knowledge is reflected because the preservation of cooked-up ones. M ilitant delegates board member to but one vote. cies. determines the giving of orders namic qualities of this tremend­ dreds of drivers to be laid off, not only in their answer to polls capitalism in this period is in­ who opposed the no-strike pledge, The discussion on the resolution to Big Business is that the real REJECT DUES INCREASE ous union of over 1,000,000 mem­ thus increasing the profits of the but also in their readiness to separably linked to the preserva­ like those from the Flint Buick even in this revised form led to capacity to produce is in its The resolution on cost of living bers. hands. companies. But they must go to conduct independent struggles tion of Jim Crow and the double local, cast block votes for Addes, a very embittered debate. Many and price rollback, expressed dis­ The present leaders — agents the root, of the whole question against Jim Crow oppression. because they were fed up with delegates with Jim Crow pre­ When the decision was made exploitation of the Negro masses. appointment at the failure of the of the Roosevelt administration and demand the nationalization of * * * Reuther’s policies as General judices regarded it as an extreme to set ceiling prices on commodi­ The job facing the fighters administration to carry out its and the war machine — continue industry and its operation under Motors Department Director. provocation. Many more delegates, ties it need not be assumed that What would happen if Roose­ against Jim Crow is the organiza­ price rollback promise. The reso­ to hold leadership only because workers’ control. velt were to speak “frankly” on tion and education of their forces Leonard secured only a slim who supported absolutely the it was done with the purpose of lution stated that if this program the auto workers have not yet It can be said that it will still this question? If he were to speak for an uncompromising struggle Majority of the tremendous Ford principle of social, political and benefiting the monopolists at the “is not immediately put into ef­ been able to resolve the contradic­ be necessary with nationalized in­ and say what he really thinks, to replace capitalism with social­ delegation votes although as Ford economic equality for the Negroes, expense of the little business men. fect, demand shall be made in all tion between their desire to fight dustry to save gas and rubber and then of course race tensions ism, the only kind of system Department Director he was sup­ were forced into a position of op­ It was done with the idea of avoid­ militantly in defense of their in­ hence to lay off drivers in the would not be allayed at all. For under which the Negro people posed to have had the Ford votes position by the patently factional ing inflation which carries grave terests as workers and their con­ milk industry. Assuming even what he would say would be sub­ will ever attain equality in this “in the bag.” The bulk of the and unprincipled motivations of dangers to the capitalist system. tinued support, though in an ever that such will be the case, the stantially the following: country. We are interested in the huge Toledo Local 12 vote went the Stalinist proposal. Soviet Advances But price ceilings and rationing more reluctant fashion, of Roose­ have brought economic death to workers will be sure that the com­ “ I don’t wish to be bothered by reasons why Roosevelt maintains against Addes, a “hometown boy.” Negro delegates, desiring quite velt and boss-class politics. many a small business man. panies will not make additional this question at all. I don’t like silence on the questions directly The Reuther hopes soared once correctly to see a Negro elected The Thomas - Reuther - Addes - And it must be remembered profits out of the necessity to to have lynch mobs attacking the affecting 13 million people not more the next morning, when to the International Board, were Cast Shadow On Frankensteen leadership deliber­ that price ceilings are not applic­ save rubber and gas and that they Negroes in wartime because it because we expect him to act dif­ Reuther defeated Frankensteen heatedly aroused. They were given ately maneuvered throughout the able to war contracts. The army will be assured of a return to diverts attention and energy ferently, but because an explana­ for one of the vice-president posts leadership principally by the convention to keep the labor par­ and navy people understand that their regular jobs when the war better used in winning the war. tion of his attitude helps to dispel by 345 votes. But these hopes Moscow Parley Stalinist, Hodges Mason, of Loqal ty question off the floor, although the only reliable guarantee of is over. Similarly I don’t like to have the illusions among the Negro masses; were precipitately dashed the 208. Other Negro delegates just (Continued from page 1) the Michigan CIO convention, rep­ their getting material from pa­ To permit monopoly capitalism Negro people fighting to obtain and to win them over to the anti- same afternoon, when Franken­ as vigorously opposed the resolu­ resenting 700,000 auto workers, triotic Big Business is patriotic to continue the ownership of in­ equality in wartime because that Jim Crow, anti-capitalist strug­ steen defeated Leonard for the tion, charging that such a provi­ They fear that with a more fa­ had recently passed a resolution profits. dustry is to guarantee that all too raises disputes at a time when gle. other vice-presiedncy. The “smart- sion was in itself a form of vorable relationship of forces favoring immediate formation of Effective price freezing has of the burdens of the war will be guys” couldn’t figure it out. patronage and segregation, and after H itler’s collapse, the Soviet an independent labor party, and thus fa r been limited to wages. placed on the shoulders of the PIONEER PARAGRAPHS But the answer was simple. that they wanted “no favors.” masses will wrest the power from though a number of resolutions It is only by means of subsidies workers, with the monopolists The majority of the delegates the Stalinist usurpers and turn it favoring such a step were sent DELEGATE PROTESTS that the government can expect to coming out richer and more pow­ voted in such a fashion as to back into the service of world by local unions to the convention. hold down prices to a slower rate erful than ever before. WE DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION prevent either clique from gain­ Horace Sheffield, Negro dele­ revolution. But before the next convention ing decisive control of the board. gate of Ford Local 600, denounc­ Even while Stalin still rules, rolls around, the auto workers They shifted their votes back and ed the maneuver, declaring: “This the fundamental antagonism be­ may be insisting, with perhaps AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION forth sufficiently to put Reuther resolution has been sent in by tween the capitalist world and irresistable strength, on the es­ on the board to watch Addes and those who have no interest in a the workers’ state continues to as­ tablishment of a labor party. By James P. Cannon Frankensteen, and Addes and real meeting of the minorities sert itself. Stalin fears the “demo­ Roosevelt will fu lfill none of the IN DEFENSE OF SOCIALISM Frankensteen to watch Thomas problem. I submit that the Ne­ cratic” imperialists and their conditions which the convention The Russian question is no lite­ revolution has proved for all time groes in this convention have schemes for seizing control of laid down in its “qualified” en­ the superiority of nationalized and Reuther. THE OFFICIAL COURT RECORD OF ALBERT rary exercise to be taken up or been made the victims of political Europe. He wants neither the rev­ dorsement of the fourth term. property and planned economy cast aside according to the mood OUTCOME OF ELECTIONS demagogy. We don’t want favors. olution nor Anglo-U. S. rulership The present leadership which GOLDMAN’S SPEECH TO THE JURY IN THE over capitalist private property, of the moment. The Russian ques­ Their feelings were expressed I resent the low political dema­ over Europe. Yet the only sure keeps the UAW tied to the anti­ FAMOUS MINNEAPOLIS “SEDITION” TRIAL. and planless Competition and an­ tion has been and remains the by delegate MacDonnell of Detroit gogy of this move.” way to prevent Anglo-U.S. rule labor Roosevelt administration archy in production. question of the revolution. The Murray Body Local 2, who Sheffield received a great ova­ is by encouraging the European stands on very shakey ground. The question of the Russian 95 pages 10 cents Russian Bolsheviks on November nominated Frankensteen for vice- tion from the convention. masses to take their fate into All the top factions are viewed revolution — and the Soviet state 7, 1917, once and for all, took the president against Leonard. Local A minority of backward dele­ their own hands— and that means, by the auto workers with pro­ which is its creation — has drawn question of the workers’ revolu­ 2 had cast a block vote for gates with varying degrees of Jim in the end, revolution. found distrust and disrespect. a sharp dividing line through the tion out of tlie realm of abstrac­ Reuther against Frankensteen in Crow prejudice, combined first This is Stalin’s insoluble con­ They are accepted so fa r only be­ labor movement of all countries DEFENSE POLICY tion and gave it flesh and blood the morning. But MacDonnell with the Reuther supporters to tradiction. The answer to it re­ cause a more vigorous, militant for 22 years. The attitude taken reality. defeat the Stalinist resolution. mains an enigma to him, for there and class-conscious leadership has toward the Soviet Union through­ stated in the afternoon: “our local IN T H E They then blocked with the Sta­ is no choice other than revolution not yet emerged to challenge It was said once of a book — out all these years has been the union wants a good democratic linists, and other delegates gen­ or capitalist control of Europe. them. To help develop such a I think it was Whitman’s “Leaves decisive criterion separating the union in this International, and uinely disgusted with the maneu­ This is what underlines the “rid­ leadership is the essential duty of of Grass” — “who touches this genuine revolutionary tendency we don’t want all top officers book, touches a man.” In the same being on one side.” vering and demagogy of both fac­ dle of the Kremlin” which so dis­ every class-conscious militant in MINNEAPOLIS TRIAL from all shades and degrees of tions, to defeat the majority reso­ turbs Washington and London. the UAW . sense it can also be said, “Who waverers, backsliders and capitu­ The final outcome of the elec­ touches the Russian question, tions for officers and board lution. 1 — A CRITICISM BY GRANDIZO MUNIS lators to the pressure of the bour­ Unfortunately, no delegate rose touches a revolution.” Therefore, members was—an almost equal geois world the Mensheviks, to expose the demagogy of both be serious about it. Don’t play division of power between the two 2 — AN ANSWER BY JAMES P. CANNON Social Democrats, Anarchists and factions by asking why neither with it. cliques, with the identical officers Syndicalists, Centrists, Stalin­ group had put a Negro candidate, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LOGIC retained. Thomas, who is sup­ Marxist principles, strategy and tactics — how they were The October revolution put so­ ists. . . . or candidates, on their regular cialism on the order of the day posed to he a “neutral” and shifts O F M A R X IS M Our position on the Russian slate of candidates. applied in the historic Minneapolis Trial. throughout the world. It revived back and forth with each wind question is programmatic. In The defeat of both resolutions and shaped and developed the that blows, was re-elected presi­ By WILLIAM F. WARDE 64 pages — 20 cents brief: The theoretical analysis — produced a very unfavorable im­ revolutionary labor movement of dent by acclamation to hold the a degenerated Workers’ State. pression on the many Negro dele­ the world out of the bloody chaos 8 Lectures (80 mimeographed pages) The political conclusion — uncon­ balance of power on the board. gates. This impression was only of the war. The Russian revolu­ ditional defense against external None of the re-elected officers partially compensated for Sun­ PRICE 50 CENTS tion showed in practice, by ex­ attack of imperialism or internal could gain much consolation from day morning by a strong resolu­ ample, how the workers’ revolu­ attempts at capitalist restoration. the elections. Their bids for out­ tion, supported by both factions, O rder fro m tion is to be made. It revealed (From Pages 211-213, “The right control were frustrated. which denounced every form of jn life the role of the party. It Struggle for a Proletarian Par­ Addes once had the reputation anti-Negro manifestation in the Pioneer Publishers Pioneer Publishers showed in life what kind of a par­ ty,” 1943, 320 pages, cloth $2.00; for being a progressive. He has UAW , including the “hate strikes’’ ty the workers must have. By its 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE NEW YORK 3, N. Y. 116 UNIVERSITY PLACE NEW YORK 3, N. Y. paper $1.50. Order from Pioneer been following a reactionary line that had occured in certain plants. victory, and its reorganization of Publishers, 116 University Place, in the past two years and acting The resolution pledged the the social system, the Russian New York 3, N. Y.) as a cover for the Stalinists. He U A W to “fight for protection in POUR — fTHE MILITANT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1943

ican liberal historian, Gaetano Salvemini, has just said: ‘‘America sent bombers to bomb the people of Sidelights Of Auto Corporate Profits Go Up; THE MILITANT Milan, Genoa, Turin in August to smash the revo­ Published in the interests of the lution. There were demonstrations in the streets, Railroad Wages Stay Down Working People but instead of bombing the Brenner Pass, America Workers Convention bombed the-Italians. Badoglio’s soldiers wouldn’t VOL. VII—No. 42 — Saturday, Oct. 16, 1943 There is a vast difference between the financial shoot Italian demonstrators. So we sent bombers By Harry Frankel well-being of the large railway companies and the —American Liberators.” (PM, Oct. 10.) Published Weekly by BUFFALO, Oct. 10 — The question of a raise in dues. They a new name for it. ‘Piece work’ plight of the railway workers who have so fa r been THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASS’N Against the masses, the exploiters of both war farsightedness of many of the defeated every proposal to go is so universally hated, that the unable -to obtain any wage increases. at 116 University Place, New York 3, N. Y. camps w ill unite when they feel it necessary. That delegates to the auto workers above the traditional buck a Stalinists use the term “incentive Profit figures released by the Association of Amer­ month and even proposed an pay.” But by the time the con­ Telephone: ALgonquin 4-8547 is the lesson of Italy. convention was illustrated by the ican Railroads reveal how profits have zoomed up­ speech of delegate Geiger from amendment to take one-third of vention got into a discussion of ward in the past year. A t the same time the railway FARRELL DOBBS, Editor Flint Buick Local 599 on the the present dollar a year assess­ the issue, even that term was workers’ living standards have been pressed down resolution dealing with the or­ ment away from the international discredited, and some of the by higher prices and taxes. T H E M IL IT A N T follows the policy of permit­ ganization of ex-servicemen. After and keep it in the locals. speakers for piece work such as According to these figures, Class I railroads had ting its contributors to present their own views Spellman's Letters pointing out that “the Manufac­ That’s where Thomas really Vice-President Frankensteen were a net income of $159,614,334 higher for the first six in signed articles. These views therefore do not Colliers magazine prints in its current issue the turers Association today is trying took a fit. He got the mike and using a new term : “increased pay months of 1943 than in the same period of 1942. Even necessarily represent the policies of T H E M IL I­ to give the American Legion fifty made ait agitated speech, ending for increased output.” letters of Archbishop Spellman to his father. This with increased taxes, the big railway magnates re­ TA N T which are expressed in its editorials. million dollars for the purpose of up: “I beg of this convention, at But the delegates to the UAW is the same Spellman who acted as unofficial en­ port a rate of return on property investment of 6.06% organizing the returned veterans,” the very least, to vote down the convention work by the old adage: voy of President Roosevelt to the Vatican and as as against 4.19% in 1942. Subscriptions: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for 6 months. Geiger went on to say: amendment. . .” He was really No matter how you slice it, it’s Foreign: $3.00 per year, $1.50 for 6 months. Bun­ general errand boy around Europe and the vari­ “1 would like to see this resolu­ on his knees that time. But still boloney. In reality, these figures actually conceal the sky­ dle orders: 3 cents per copy in the United States; tion defeated here today and sent the delegates were only good- rocketing of railway profits. The railroad companies ous war fronts for the State Department. * * * 4 cents per copy in all foreign countries. Single Here is what Spellman has to say about Spain. back to the committee so they naturedly cuffing him a bit, and have increased by tremendous amounts the salaries copies: 5 cents. can bring one out with some teeth they let things stand the way McHatton of Local 174 ex­ of their leading executives. They are in addition pil­ He met Franco and according to him this fascist pressed the indignation of many in it and we can have a veterans’ they were. ing up the largest reserves in the history of the Application for entry as second-class butcher “ is a very sincere, serious and intelligent organization that will be a union * * * of the delegates to the conven­ American railroad industry. matter is pending. man.” The Archbishop is also sure that this fascist organization and not one for the During the discussion on the tion at the government runaround The railway unions have asked for wage increases swine was “ a man loyal to his God. devoted to his big shots in the automobile and date for the next convention one they get on their grievances. He of the delegates objected to a said in the course of the discus­ to meet the soaring cost of living. The demands of the country’s welfare and definitely willing to sacri­ other industries to play with.” To defend the USSR as * * * suggestion to hold the convention sion on piece work. “You have non-operating employees were whittled down to eight fice himself in any capacity and to any extent for the main fortress of the R. J. Thomas, in reporting the during one of the summer months no agency whereby you can defend cents an hour by Roosevelt’s emergency board. Then, Spain.” on the ground that “any part of yourselves today.” with Roosevelt’s backing, Director of Economic Sta­ world proletariat, against attitude of the International Ex­ Spellman makes no bones of the fact that he ecutive Board on the Little Steel the month of August . . . is the “ We have gone to all the bilization Vinson refused to approve even this small all assaults of world im­ is heart and soul in favor of the State Department's formula, stated that: “the com­ very worst season for hay fever agencies. We have been down to increase.' sufferers.” perialism and of internal policy of propping up the crumbling Franco dicta­ plete Board is opposed to the the Regional Board in Detroit. Similarly the operating employees were handed the Little Steel formula.” We sympathize with this dele­ They sent it to Washington. It paltry offer of four cents an hour by the emergency counter-revolution, is the torship. “ Spain’s attitude toward the United States,” gate, but then, think of the in­ One of the alternate delegates has been kicked back to Detroit. board. Again Roosevelt and Vinson stand firm against he writes, “ has improved immeasurably. . .This ternational officers. They get 75 most important duty of in the gallery muttered disgusted­ Now we are going to take it to even this pittance of an increase. different kinds of fever every Washington and it is a damned every class-conscious change of feeling was at least partially due to the ly: “Opposed... opposed! What are Thus the railway workers have been getting the you going to do about it? That’s time the U AW has a convention. slow procedure and they let you fact that America sent petroleum and cotton to run-around while the big corporations rake in extra worker. what counts!” * * * sweat and the company rolls back Spain, and both products are vita lly needed by the profits. Six months of 1943 show over $150,000,000 — LEON TROTSKY * * * Wednesday’s Daily Worker re­ in their swivel chair and laughs Spaniards. . . Thus,, by improving our country’s ported : “The ‘MILITANT,’ at vou and says, “W H A T ARE extra profits for a small handful of railway barons, Nat Ganley, Stalinist whip from relations with Spain, Dr. Hayes (fascist-loving Trotzkyite organ, was distributed YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT but not a single penny to the 1,300,000 railway work­ Local 155 got his usual razzing as usual, and contains its usual IT?” ers. U. S. ambassador to Spain) fulfills the mission of at the convention. The delegates JOIN US IN FIGHTING FOR: Fifth Column poison.” As usu*l, * * Of course, this is termed “equality of sacrifice” by an ambassador. Some criticize this policy as ap­ have developed a duck-like “quack The Militant was read with in­ 1. Military training of workers, financed peasement. The inexorable implication is that ap­ quack” which is a perfect imita­ One of the most applauded all the propagandists for the war. But the cold facts terest by hundreds of delegates, tion of Ganley’s voice, and they speeches in the convention was demonstrate that this slogan is a hypocritical screen by the government, but under control peasement is something inherently evil, and that and as usual, it called every turn used it to good effect every time made by delegate Crump, Flint to conceal Roosevelt’s program of fattening industry; of the trade unions. Special officers’ an expedient thing cannot be a good thing.” in advance. he got up to speak. Ganley earned * * * Buick Local 599. Speaking on the and starving labor. training camps, financed by the gov­ Spellman’s support of the clerical-reactionary every bit of razzing he got. It unprincipled character of the The leaders of both the Addes ernment but controlled by the trade Franco dictatorship is of course not surprising. was obvious to nine-tenths of the Addes-Frankensteen and Reuther- He is part and parcel of the Catholic hierarchy that convention that he led the most and the Reuther caucuses did their Leonard factions he said: “There unions, to train workers to become level best to stall the main issues, is trying to rebuild the whole of Europe along the reactionary wing at the conven­ is no need of kidding ourselves, officers. tion. but the auto locals had their delegates, if this report of the Congress Plans Heavy New reactionary lines of the Franco dictatorship. The « * * number. On Friday morning, the majority (on incentive pay) had 2. Trade union wages for all workers Pope himself waxes lyrical when he discusses the After the unsuccessful attempt convention received the following come from the other side of the Tax Load On Low Incomes drafted into the army. bloody Franco regime. The Osservatore Romano, of the leadership to ram a dues telegram: fence, then, by God, they would official organ of the Vatican writes that the Franco increase down the throats of Detroit, Mich., Oct. — R. J. be fighting just as hard from the Thomas, CIO Convention, Buffalo. The consensus of opinion at the hearings of the new S. Full equality for Negroes in the armed government is a “ model state.” the delegates, Secretary-Treasurer other side of the fence as they — Object to discussion of 2nd tax bill before the House Ways and Means Committee forces and the war industries— Down Addes approached the microphone are against it. 1 know that, and But why does Roosevelt choose a Spellman as and wisecracked: “A good, try, front. Discuss equalization of you know it. is: 1) that Big Business cannot shoulder any appre­ with Jim Crowism everywhere. his personal envoy? W hy does Roosevelt make an anyhow.” He couldn't say as much wages instead and kill Little Steel “I, as one individual delegate, ciable portion of the new taxes, but, on the contrary alliance with the Vatican, the world center of ob­ for the attempts of the leader­ formula.— Chrysler Gun Plant. am not on either side of the fence, must be relieved of some of the “confiscatory” taxes 4. Confiscation of all war profits. Expro­ scurantism and reaction? Only people who cherish ship to raise wage-rates for the * * * and I don’t give a damn who is already legislated; and 2) that the bulk of the taxes priation of all war industries and their illusions or who consciously seek to spread confu­ auto-worlkers. When the Stalinists decided to elected, if they are all elected or must come from the so-called “low income groups,” * * * all defeated. Personally, I would operation under workers’ control. sion are surprised. The program of Roosevelt and try to sell the fink piece work preferably in the shape of a federal sales tax which, The delegates wouldn’t even let system to the union movement, like to see them clean out the as the N. Y. Times, Oct. 5, explains would reach all 5. A rising scale of wages to meet the the State Department is the same rotten reactionary President Thomas speak on the the first thing they did was find whole political bunch.” program as the program of Spellman and the V ati­ those who “may not now be paying their fair share of income taxes.” rising cost of living. can. That is w’hy Spellman’s letters tell us so much The Treasilty Dbpai-tment has asked for an addi­ 6. Workers Defense Guards against vig­ about Rooseveft’s real policies. That is why Roose­ tional ten and a half billions in taxes. W ith billions ilante and fascist attacks. velt chooses Spellman as his personal envoy and in profits rolling in at an unprecedented rate, spokes­ concludes an alliance with the Vatican. Birds of a men of Big Business propose to raise the bulk of this 7. An Independent Labor Party based on feather flock together. huge sum through a “victory” sales tax of 10% and the Trade Unions. more. Mr. M. L. Seidman, speaking for the New York Board of Trade told the House Committee that while 8. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern­ “By the repeal of the Chinese exclusion laws we can correct a historic mistake and silence the distorted it was true that a sales tax “bore disproportionately m ent. RETREAT FROM ROSTOV by The actual job of killing the their love of Mother Russia. upon those least able to pay,” such a tax was eminent­ Japanese propaganda. . .The Chinese quota would. . . fifth columnist falls, symbolically, An historical novel must have Paul Hughes. Random House, ly fair at this time. He said that if “ever a federal be only about 100 immigrants a year. . .While it would to one Kaaron Terenski, who rep­ some degree of verisimilitude. It 9. The defense of the Soviet Union 1943. 586 pages, $2.75. sales tax is justified, now is the time.” (N . Y. Times, give the Chinese a preferred status over certain other resents the average Soviet citi­ must not run counter to what we against imperialist attack. Oct. 6.) The representatives of the New York State Oriental people, their great contribution to the cause The first hint that German in­ zen. A t the beginning of the novel, know about the society it de­ of decency and freedom entitles them to such prefer­ vincibility was a destructible le­ she is simultaneously engaged in scribes. You would never grasp Chamber of Commerce find that a sales levy “would ence. . .Action by the Congress now will be an earn­ gend came when the armies of debating the virtues of two dif­ from Mr. Hughes’ version of So­ not be over-burdensome.” The Times editors concur: est of our purpose to apply the policy of the good Von Kliest were sent reeling back ferent hair-styles and in plunging viet society that the corrupt and “ It. seems clear therefore that the bulk of the new into a love affair with a young ruthless Stalin bureaucracy was Who Defends Italy? neighbor to our relations with other peoples.” (E x ­ from Rostov in November 1941 taxes must come from those earning under $5,000 and by the aroused masses of that So­ musician. Inspired by her love responsible for the 1941-42 de­ On page 1 of this week's issue we publish the cerpts from Roosevelt’s Oct. 11 message to Congress that they are in a position to pay them.” (N. Y. Times, viet city and Red Army forces. for Tchaikowsky’s music, the Don feats of the Red Army. Oct. 11.) authoritative story from Libera Stampa of Lugano on the Chinese exclusion laws.) river, and the Rostov cathedral, This first disaster for the Ger­ He accepts the Stalinist fabri­ In summing up the hearings before the House There are almost. 500,000,000 Chinese in Asia. They mans and initial success of the she undergoes a transformation cation that Tukhachevsky and his describing how Badoglio’s officers betrayed the ■Committee, the N. Y. Times, Oct. 9, gleefully pre­ workers of Turin to the Nazis. There is a profound­ will be greatly impressed by Roosevelt’s generous of­ Soviet Union serves as back­ from an idler into a patriot. Her staff were fascist agents. Natur­ fer to let 100 of them enter the U. S. each year. They ground for “Retreat from Ro­ patriotism is of things Russian ally, he fails to understand that dicted that any drastic revisions in the higher income ly important lesson to be drawn from this and will also feel highly honored by their “preferred sta­ stov.” not Soviet. Her love is for the the mass purges of 1937-38 be­ tax schedules “are much more likely to be downward similar occurrences in other cities of Italy. tus” over “certain other Oriental people” who, to­ The author’s intent is to por­ Russian earth and never enter­ headed the Red Army; that the than upward.” And as Godfrey N. Nelson, a financial tains thoughts of the Russian The workers who tried to get arms and resist the gether with the Chinese, comprise half the world tray the psychological changes Soviet masses paid for the purges expert, explained with a straight face such action is revolution. with two years of defeats, and long overdue inasmuch as the “so-called rich are Nazis were moved by a profoundly correct instinct. population. ' going on behind the battlelines during the course of the struggle. Once Kaaron has eliminated the that only from the crucible of war being- liquidated.” (N. Y. Times, Oct. 10.) They were right in sensing that they could not de­ On the Soviet side of the line, fifth columnist, the doom of the did a new military cadre emerge. No burden is too great for the masses to bear in pend on Badoglio's officers to drive out the Nazi Mr. Hughes tries to disclose the Nazis is predestined, even though There are in this novel clerks, the opinion of these war-profiteers who are now hotel keepers, peasants, GPU invader; they were right in feeling that they had Post-War Jobs secret of Soviet resistance in they fight their way into the city. mobilizing all their forces to make another deep slash agents, American correspondents, to arm and fight as an organized working class terms of personal motivation. Every window holds a sniper, in the living standards of the American people. A great many workers do not believe that after Had the author succeeded in every building is mined; food and Timoshenko, the voice of Stalin— -force. the present world blood bath there w ill be “ free­ grasping the social forces that water are poisoned. Bloody re­ but no workers. Thus the prole­ Where they — more accurately, their leaders — dom from want” as promised by Roosevelt in the fire the i-esistance of the Soviet prisals by the Germans fail to tarian backbone of Soviet resist­ worker and peasant, his novel ance finds no place in Mr. Hughes’ made their mistake was in depending on Badoglio’s Atlantic Charter. They correctly expect that capi­ halt the resistance of Rostov. Life would have had first rate impor­ anatomy of Soviet morale. An talism after the war, like capitalism before and dur­ becomes unendurable for the Ger­ False Promises Will Not officer caste to arm the workers. They should have tance. Unfortunately, M r. Hughes mans. The final blow to their mo­ art that fails to include and con­ been forewarned that the reactionary officer caste ing the war, will continue to bring fabulous wealth has squandered his modest talents rale is the killing of a group of cretize the typical is worthless. would do anything rather than permit the creation to America’s Sixty Families, while the mass of the by accepting a completely false Nazi officers inside the Rostov It is obvious that the presence Liberate Philippines of an armed working class. Amid the revolutionary population lives in privation and misery. version of Soviet resistance and cathedral by machine guns at­ of workers would have called for a different kind of book. Instead In a recent Gallup poll, 58% of those interviewed Soviet society. tached to the organ. The organist The cause of Philippine independence is receiving ferment in Italy, the armed workers would have turns out to be the musician who of Tchaikowsky and the Russian To begin with, he depicts the these days special and almost simultaneous attention inevitably gone on, not merely to fight against expressed the opinion that the greatest post-war battle of Rostov as being lost be­ has been courting Kaaron. soul, the author would have been both in Washington and Tokio. On October 6 Roose­ the Nazis, but also to fight for an Italy which problem w ill be to get a job and find economic cause a fifth columnist, a Colonel Since Mr. Hughes’ characters compelled to explain the Russian velt suddenly discovered that it was no longer neces­ would be forever free of the monarchy and of capi­ security. If in a general cross section of the popu­ Blazonny, is radioing vital m ili­ are symbolic types, his interpret­ revolution and what it means to sary to wait until July 4, 1946 — the date previous­ lation 58% believe that unemployment w ill be the tary information to the Nazis. ation of Soviet events is clear. the Soviet workers. He would talist exploitation. Rather than let that happen, have been forced to explain the ly set by Congress — in order to grant independence major post-war problem, then an even bigger per­ Blazonny barely escaped the The original Soviet defeats were Badoglio and his officers PREFERRED to betray purge of the Red Army staffs, caused by traitors like Blazonny muted struggle between the bu­ to the Filipino people, but asked for authorization to the industrial cities to the Nazis. centage of the workers must hold this same view. and is ready to serve the enemy_ and the indifference of the gen­ reaucracy and the workers. Mr. grant this independence “as soon as feasible,” and There is far less inclination to accept as good because promotion has been de­ eral population represented by Hughes gives us puppets filled for taking all “safeguards so that the United States What happened in northern Italy is only the with Stalinist sawdust instead of coin the propaganda of Big Business in this war nied him since that time. The job Kaaron and the young musician. might protect that independence as well as the is­ latest instance of the fact that the exploiting class a working class and peasantry than was the case in 1917-18. Reports of conversa­ of tracking down this traitor is However, inspired by the bravery land’s economic security.” (N. Y. Times, Oct. 7.) always betrays its ‘‘own” country to the foreign in the hands of two “heroic” GPU of the two GPU agents— Stalin’s defending the great remaining tions on the job, speeches at union meetings and On the very next day, Tokio announced by radio that enemy rather than let the masses take over the agents, Boris Guidenny and Pa- emissaries—the citizens of Rostov conquests of the October revolu­ conventions, the m ilitant fight of the coal miners pushka, who also lead peasant tion. the Philippines did not have to wait at all but would country. The ruling class does not defend the na­ arise and fight. Their motive for and the widespread mass support of the miners— guerrilla bands. repelling the foreign invader is Reviewed by David Ransom. become independent on Oct. 14 as part of the Jap­ tion but only the private property, privileges and anese “co-prosperity sphere” in Asia. This announce­ all these and similar manifestations attest to the profits of fhe exploiters. After the October revolu­ ment was made in the name of “president-elect Jose workers’ distrust of Big Business and their grow­ tion, the Russian capitalists and landlords fought P. Laurel” who was elected the week before at a spe­ ing realization of the need to fight in defense of in the capitalist armies of intervention against their NOW ON SALE cially convened “constitutional assembly.” (N . Y, their economic interests. own former fatherland. In the Spanish civil war, Times, Oct. 8.) The workers went through a decade of mass un­ the bourgeoisie called in Mussolini and H itler Washington of course brands the Tokio proclama­ employment before the war production began. Now tion as a brazen fraud. Japanese propaganda is equal­ against their own people. After the French army The Struggle For A Proletarian Party that they are employed in the war industries, the ly emphatic in denouncing Washington’s pretended cracked, Petain capitulated to H itler rather than government is driving down their standard of liv ­ By JAMES P. CANNON concern for the independence of the Philippines. permit the masses to organize themselves for strug­ ing by freezing wages while prices shoot upwards. Both sides come closest to the truth when they gle against the Nazis. One could cite many other And once the war production ends, capitalism can Price: Paper Cover, $1.50 warn the Filipino people not to trust the high-sound­ examples from the last hundred years. Official ing promises and protestations made by the rival only plunge them back into mass unemployment. patriotism is a mask for the exploiters; they throw Clothbound, $2.00 “guarantor.” Politically the workers still support Roosevelt, it o ff and help the foreign enemy whenever it but their economic position drives them into an serves their interests. ever sharper clash with the capitalist class which PIONEER PUBLISHERS It Is Time to Build An Independent Nor was the Italian officer caste the only "Uni­ Roosevelt represents. The end result of this con­ 116 University Place New York 3, N. Y. ted Nations” force which considered the Italian tradiction can only be the mass radicalization of the Labor Party working class as an enemy. As the Italian-Amer- American workers*