FERMENT IN COMMUNIST PARTIES Members Seek Explanation of Stalinism By Farrell Dobbs Stalin’s great service to the revolution was the defeat of trade agreements with capitalist countries but the Com­ At the recent congress of the Soviet Communist Party the political policy of Trotsky that would have brought munist Parties in those countries went right on fighting Nikita Khrushchev admitted that the Moscow Trials of disaster to the Soviet Union.” to overturn capitalist rule. the 1930’s were frame-ups perpetrated by Stalin against Gollan is correct when he says the Russians should talk Stalin subverted these basic tenets of Leninism. As he loyal revolutionists who simply differed with Stalin po­ about Trotsky. But so should the British, Chinese, French, killed off Lenin’s Central Committee he strangled litically. Khrushchev’s new revelations have caused deep Italians, Japanese, so should the Americans and all workers’ democracy within the Communist movement political repercussions within the Communist Parties gen­ revolutionists throughout the world. What was Trotsky’s and within the Soviets. He turned the Communist Parties erally. policy against which Gollan still claims Stalin was right? abroad into diplomatic outposts of the Soviet state, dan­ In Japan angry demands have arisen, particularly When Stalin suppressed Trotsky’s writings was he trying gerously stripping them of their revolutionary vitality. among CP youth, for a full political explanation. Central to murder truth as he murdered Lenin’s trusted co-work­ “De-Stalinization” has not yet corrected these corrup­ Committee members of the Italian CP have voiced the ers through the Moscow Trials? tions of Lenin. need to go deeply into the causes of Stalinism . One of To discuss the political conflict between Stalin and Trotsky fought to continue Lenin’s basic policies. He Stalin’s staunchest defenders, Maurice Thorez, head of the Trotsky is not simply to rehash old fights. At the root sought to keep up to date the application of genuine French CP, today finds it necessary to tip his hat to lies the question of what happened to Leninist policy Marxism-Leninism to the unfolding world revolutionary “ de-Stalinization.” after Lenin died. Important lessons can be learned from struggles. John Gollan, general secretary of the British CP, when the Stalin-Trotsky conflict that w ill benefit revolutionists Communist militants seeking the whole truth owe it confronted at a party rally with the need to say where today. to themselves to break the Stalinist taboo against Trotsky he now stands on past attacks on Leon Trotsky, is quoted Under Lenin’s leadership there was genuine workers’ and to read what he had to say. Let Trotsky speak for as replying: “It is for the Russians to talk about Trotsky democracy in the Communist Parties and the Soviets. Un­ himself through his writings. Let each Communist m ili­ and not us here in Britain. I would say however that der Lenin the Soviet state made diplomatic treaties and tant form his own judgement of Trotsky’s views. THE American Gunboats Threaten Rights o f Dominican People MILITANT By Herman Chauka respondent aptly described as an Published in the interests of the Working People NOV. 29 — The continued pres­ act of “refined gunboat diplo­ ence of U.S. warships o ff the macy” was to bar a return to V o l. 25 - No. 44 M onday, D ecem ber 4, 1961 P rice 10c coast of the Dominican Republic power by the Trujillo family. But while the Dominican workers are the Trujillos have been comfort­ engaged in a general strike to oust ably established in $125-a-day Trujillo’s appointee, President Miami hotel suites for nine days Balaguer, makes clear that Wash­ now and the U.S. warships still Conference Maps Program ington’s intervention is not in­ remain poised off the Dominican tended to bring democracy to that coast. island. The real reason for their pres­ The menace of the Marine-filled ence was blurted out yesterday by To Achieve Left-Wing Unity a Dominican politician who would ships was further emphasized by By Harry Ring Adlai Stevenson’s sudden flight to like nothing better than to be able Trinidad Monday. His object was to go down the line with U.S. policy. NEW YORK — Efforts to Negro emancipation. Two years to pressure Argentine President strengthen the radical movement ago, she ran fo r public office on Frondizi into supporting OAS ac­ When Cuba originally demanded in this country were given a signi­ the Communist ticket in a fight tion for what he described as “the that the UN Security Council ficant boost by a conference held to defend the party’s legal status. security of the continent against brand the Dominican action of the here Nov. 25. The conference was Prior to the conference, Coggins intervention from extra-continen­ U.S. an act of aggression, special dedicated- to forging unity in ac­ sent a telegram to Benjamin J. tal sources.” provisions were made to give tem­ tion of presently divided revolu­ Davis, national secretary of the The urgency of this diplomati­ porary UN delegate’s status to Dr. tionary forces, with such action Communist Party, congratulating cally worded demand for support José Bonilla Atiles, a representa­ paving the way for building a new the party on its refusal to register tive of the opposition Dominican of a gang-up against Cuba is par­ Stevenson united party based upon a class- its members with the government ticularly ominous. A reliable re­ National Civic Union. He then struggle program. as demanded by the Justice De­ port from Guatemala indicates the Dominican coast the few miles spoke in support of the U.S. m ili­ tary action. Described as a “conference pre­ partment. He invited Davis to ad­ that operations are under way across to Cuba. liminary to the founding conven­ dress.. the conference. The in v ita ­ there for what may be a care­ Washington’s capacity to engage But when the Security Council tion of a new, American Labor- tion was rejected with a sharp at­ fully faked “Cuban invasion” of in such a reactionary adventure meeting ended yesterday, Dr. Negro Vanguard Party,” the call tack. A statement by the New the country. Such an engineered is demonstrated by the duplicity Bonilla was no longer participat­ for the gathering was issued by York State CP branded the con- “attack” could provide the pretext of its Dominican intervention. The ing. He explained to newsmen: “I spoke the other day while provisional chairman Clarence (Continued on Page 2) for sending the U.S. ships now off original pretext for what one cor- Coggins, a Negro unionist from there was a hope that Balaguer New Jersey. would take a democratic direc­ tion.” But, he added, he now sees Attendance was urged upon all “with alarm that this government groups and individuals who op­ Jail for Those Helping Evicted Farmers is returning to its old tricks.” pose Washington’s anti-Soviet White-supremacist officials of Friends are concerned for Henry Dr. Bonilla disclosed that in drive, support the world-wide Haywood County to see what they might do to help. because no one has seen h im since negotiations for the creation of a anti-imperialist movement, oppose Fayette and Haywood Counties, David Henry, Philadelphia pa­ his arrest. “The jailer knocked me coalition provisional government, the reformist policies of the trade Tennessee, are jailing those who cifist and McCrackin supporter, through the door when I asked Balaguer insisted that the official union bureaucracy, support the come to aid the embattled Negroes permission to visit Henry,” Rev. party of the Trujillo tyranny be of the area. Imprisoned since Oct. was jailed in Brownsville Nov. 14 tiim iuitiiiM iiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiim iim iim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiii included in any new government. 29 is Rev. Maurice McCrackin, on a trumped-up speeding charge. Ernest Bromley reports. The National Civic Union, while The government drive to out­ well-known Cincinnati pacifist. law the Communist Party is a bent on “moderating” the popular McCrackin is treasurer of Oper­ struggle against Balaguer, ap­ grave threat to the fight for ation Freedom organized last year parently realizes that the Domini- peace. See editorial, “A Menace to aid tenant farmers and share­ can masses w ill not tolerate con- to Peace,” page 3. croppers evicted in retaliation tinuing power by any part of the against efforts of Negroes to reg­ iiim iiiim iim m iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiim iiiiiim iiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiiiilii old order. ister to vote in the two counties. There is good reason for this Negro rights struggle, favor inde­ Operation Freedom set up Tent sentiment. The people want pendent political action and back City for homeless families, rented democracy and freedom from the civil liberties for all. Special em­ land and made crop loans to per­ long years of U.S. dom ination phasis was placed on the need to secuted Negro farmers. which brought them such terrible resolutely oppose the drive to out­ McCrackin was in Brownsville, poverty and oppression. The ex­ law the Communist Party. Tenn., to settle the year’s crop tent of the exploitation they have More than 50 people partici­ loans and investigate the needs suffered was graphically indicated pated in the conference, some as arising from the impending evic­ by two of the concessions offered individuals, others representing in­ tion of 60 more families in Hay­ by Balaguer in return for an end terested groups. Among the areas wood County. Neither friends nor to the general strike. One was a represented were New York, New newsmen were allowed to attend promise to taxi-drivers to cut the Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, his trial for “loitering.” Upon price of U.S.-provided gasoline Connecticut and Rhode Island. being asked how he pleaded, he from 52 cents a gallon to 35 cents. Coggins said that an announce­ replied: “I am pleading for justice The other was a promise that ment of the conference in the Na­ in Africa, India, Cincinnati and in the coming harvest sugar work­ tional Guardian had brought an Brownsville and everywhere.” Mc­ ers would be paid $3 a day. Last encouraging response from people Crackin refused to pay the fine year the wage was $2 a day. in other parts of the country who and was jailed. He immediately The promised concessions are were not able to be present. went on a hunger strike which he overshadowed by a brutal club. The participants included a good intends to continue until his re­ Virtual martial law has been number of students and young lease scheduled for Dec. 9. established under Gen. Pedro workers, Negro and white. Pre­ Rev. Richard Hudson, secretary Rodriguez Echavarria who sees sent were veterans of the labor of Operation Freedom was arrest­ “the hand of communism” behind and radical movement. The chair­ ed almost as soon as he arrived in the general strike and who crudely man paid tribute to the confer­ Brownsville to continue McCrac- warns the public: “The only rea­ ence’s oldest participant — Carrie kin’s work. Freedom Riders Heath son they are inviting you to a Belle Harvey, 86, of New Jersey Rush and Ed Bromberg have been A mother and her five children living in a tent near Somer­ strike is to produce a clash be­ who has devoted more than 40 arrested twice and jailed over­ ville, Tenn. They are one of the sharecropper families evicted for tween United States armed forces years to the struggle for labor and night each time since they went to daring to vote in the 1960 presidential election. and the Dominican people.” Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, December 4, 1961 JohnT. McManus, ... Conference for Left-Wing Unity (Continued from Page 1) brevity, seriousness and optimism. gether on common issues while 56, Dies Suddenly ference “provocative” and “divi­ An electrical worker from Phila­ conducting a fraternal discussion sive.” delphia described the growing to deepen collaboration.” John T. McManus, general man­ In his keynote speech to the process of cooperation among rad­ He particularly welcomed the ager of the National Guardian, conference, Coggins reiterated the icals of differing views there and stress placed on developing within died of a heart attack Nov. 22 at need for a united defense of the expressed confidence that the news the union movement a conscious­ his home in Montrose, N. Y. His civil rights of the Communist Par­ of the conference would be greet­ ness of the necessity fo r labor act­ sudden death was a heavy blow to ty and all other targets of the ed with enthusiasm. A young man ing in its own interests. “We can his many friends and admirers. witch hunt. He called for an end from New York discussed the certainly work in common to de­ Funeral services were held at to bickering among left-wing need for linking the struggle of velop that consciousness,” he said. the youth with that of the labor Montrose on Nov. 25, which would groups and urged, instead, ef­ The task is made difficult now, movement. A student from Rhode have been his 57th birthday. The forts to find areas of agreement he continued, by the reaction that Island reported a growing recep­ affection and esteem in which he for action and an accompanying prevails in this country, but this was held was evidenced by the fraternal discussion of political tivity to socialist ideas on the cam­ reaction is an expression of des­ hundreds of neighbors and friends differences. pus. A Negro unionist pointed to peration by a ruling class being who came to pay their last re­ the need for pressing for a union Outlining the advances made by pushed into a corner of the planet spects. The funeral home could organizing drive in the South and socialist forces on a world scale, by a rising world revolutionary not accommodate the large num­ he said that the defeats being suf­ iiiim iiiim im iiiiiiiitiim iim m im iiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiitiiim uiiiiiitiiiim iiiiiii movement. bers and many were unable to fered by U.S. imperialism offered hear the eulogies by Al Warren, Those interested in joining in “ There is a clear basis for broad new and bright prospects for so­ a neighbor, Dr. Morton Lindsay, the work mapped out by the unity,” he said, “in defense of the cialist advances in this country. a boyhood friend, Corliss Lamont, conference, or desiring further Cuban revolution and, certainly, The left progressive movement, he an election running mate, and in the fight against the bureaucra­ said, was at a low ebb because it information, should contact James Aronson, editor of the Na­ cy that is hamstringing the union had lost fa ith in its own cause Clarence Coggins, Provisional tional Guardian. movement.” and had adopted a self-defeating Chairman, 18 Gardner Avenue, Jack McManus had a long Dobbs, too, underscored the policy of tail-ending the liberal Jersey City, N.J. career in the fields of journalism, urgency of the fight against Jim w ing of the capitalist class. Financial contributions to Crow. Calling for stepped-up back­ unionism and politics. Beginning John T. McManus as a copy boy on the New Y ork “We must get to know each further the activities of the ing for the Monroe victims, he other better,” he said, “and learn continuations committee may said the SWP would press for uni­ Times in 1921, he became police and of the state committee of to work with each other. If we be sent to the same address. ty in that defense movement. reporter, bridge expert and finally New York’s American Labor movie critic. He left the Times in set minimum goals we can test iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiiiiiiiiim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiniiiniiiiiiiiiiiHHi Declaring defense of the legal Party, he was twice the ALP can­ in life our ability to do things.” rights of the Communist Party a 1937 fo r Time magazine where he didate for governor. In 1950 he Among the im mediate issues he showed how the union bureau­ crucial issue, he said, “If we be­ was movie and radio critic. He received 220,000 votes. In 1954, cited as a basis for united action crats’ ties with the capitalist pol­ lieve in democracy, we are honor then became picture entertain­ when the ALP had already been within the radical movement was iticians stood in the way of such bound to rally behind them. ment editor of the now defunct pretty well scuttled he received a campaign to win working-class a drive. A young woman said we Agreement or disagreement with New York daily, PM. In 1947, 46,800 votes. along with Cedric Belfrage and support for a negotiated settle­ owe a great debt to the Cuban the policies of the CP has nothing James Aronson, he founded the McManus played a key role in ment of the Berlin crisis. Along revolution which is helping to re­ to do with it. the regroupment process which National Guardian, which became with this, he said, there should be vitalize the left in this country. “The best way to counter the the principal paper of the Pro­ took place in the radical move­ anti-bomb agitation. We can win She emphasized that a new, unit­ legal attack,” he added, “ is to car­ gressive Party movement. ment in the late 1950’s. A mem­ popular support, he declared, for ed movement should be based on ry the fight back on the political McManus was a former vice ber of the sponsoring committee the idea that it’s easier to ban a clear-cut socialist program. field — a fight in behalf of the president of the American News­ of the American Forum for So­ the bomb than to build shelters. Farrell Dobbs, national secre­ interests and needs of the ex­ cialist Education, he did much to tary of the Socialist Workers Par­ paper Guild and from 1943 to Stressing the need to win labor ploited.” break down the internal barriers ty, who attended as an observer, 1947 was president of the New backing for the civil rights strug­ Following the discussion, the of mistrust and hostility which said he was confident the SWP York Newspaper Guild. He also gle, Coggins declared: “We should report by Coggins was approved had divided the left. He played would “respond in a fraternal way served on the New York State CIO demand that the next AFL-CIO unanimously. A continuations a key role in the formation of to the spirit and objectives of the Council and the NYC CIO Coun­ board meeting be held in a South­ committee, representing those al­ the United Independent-Socialist conference.” He said he was deep­ cil. ern city and that all the local un­ ready participating and open to Campaign Committee. It was this ly impressed “by the spirit of so­ A member of the national com­ ion fair employment committees those who may wish to join, will coalition movement which, re­ cialist-minded individuals Jand mittee of the Progressive Party be invited to attend and that they carry on the work of implement­ jecting support of the Democratic groups seeking ways to act to- go in integrated buses. If they ing the conference perspectives. Party, ran an independent slate sent down 10,000 union Freedom under the ballot name, Independ- Riders, bus segregation would be ent-Socialist Party, in 1958. Mc­ smashed!” Weekly Calendar Manus was the gubernatorial can­ He urged support for the de­ Detroit Memorial Meeting didate. He received 31,658 votes. fendants in the Monroe “kidnap” A friendly, warm-hearted man CHICAGO frame-up and said his committee Edward Shaw, Midwest representative w ith a gay sense of hum or and would lend its efforts to achieving Is Held for Larry Dolinski of Fair Play for Cuba Committee, just an original wit, McManus had a a united Monroe defense move­ returned from a seven-week tour of talent for friendship. But beneath By Jim Campbell ment. Cuba, will report on latest develop­ the easy going exterior of his per­ ments there and show color slides of In an eloquent plea for united DETROIT — About a hundred had an abiding hatred for all who sonality was a granite foundation socialist action aimed at the his trip. Fri., Dec. 8, 8 p.m. John Wool- of integrity. This was demon­ friends and comrades assembled stood in the way of the rank-and- m an H a ll, 1174 East 57th St. Contrib. $! formation of a new party, he dec­ strated by his conduct before at a memorial meeting at Debs file workers’ struggle for true (students, 50c). Ausp. South Side Chap­ lared, “if we join together no witch-hunting committees, by his Hall Nov. 21 to pay tribute to democracy. te r FPC C . 0 force can stop the formation of Larry Dolinski who died of a unswerving devotion to what he such a party. Come hell or high In the four years since his re­ DETROIT considered right and by his stroke Nov. 18 at the age of 46. turn (he had left with a dissident The Truth About Robert Williams and water, we will fight for these espousal of causes, unpopular at The chairman, A rt Fox, pointed group in 1953) L a rry had been an the North Carolina "Kidnap" Frame- aims!” to the injustice of a system of pri­ U p . Speakers, civil rights attorney C o n ­ the time but destined in all jus­ The floor discussion following SWP candidate in state and na­ vate medicine which made it im­ tional elections five times. rad Lynn, Rev. Charles Hill, Bernard tice to triumph in the end. Coggins’ report was marked by Feiger, John Williams (brother of Ro­ possible for a worker like Larry In 1958 he suffered a prolonged bert W illiam s). Fri.. Dec. 8, 8 p.m . H a rt­ to receive adequate medical care period of unemployment due in ford Ave. Baptist Church, 6300 Hartford NEW YORK in time to overcome his ailment. good measure to an unofficial (A t M ilford). Contrib. $1 (Unemployed The personal affection in which blacklist by the auto shops. But free). Ausp. Committee to Aid Monroe Larry was held throughout the with uncanny resourcefulness Lar­ Defendants. Detroit labor movement was at­ • ry found his way back into an tested by the broad representation auto plant as a boiler operator. LOS ANGELES RALLY to ABOLISH A reception honoring Marxist lec­ of workers at the meeting and the His job required long hours and tu re rs W illiam F. W a rd e and Evelyn diverse political views of the oddball shifts, and scrounging to Reed, veteran Minneapolis labor leader The House Un-American Activities Committee speakers who paid tribute to him. recoup the financial losses of the V. R. Dunne, and Socialist Workers Party George Breitman spoke for the and long period of unemployment. This Nat'l Chairman James P. Cannon. Re­ Socialist Workers Party. Other contributed to wearing out his freshments from 5 p.m., smorgasbord TO URGE Christmas Clemency for FRANK WILKINSON and speakers were Ernest Mazey, Gen- thin frame. •from 6:30 p.m. Contrib. $1.75 (Students, CARL BRADEN ora Dollinger and Ernest Dillard. $1.25). Sat.. Dec. 9. Forum Hall, 1702 The thought that came first to TO PAY TRIBUTE to First Amendment Defendants who have fought E. 4th St. Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. Union Associates his wife, Rosemary, when he died * * * for years in the courts against HUAC and similar committees was that he was not able to W illiam F. W a rd e speaks on O p pos­ Genora Dollinger and Ernest achieve his greatest wish — to ing Trends in the U.S. and USSR. Sat., Speakers Dillard, who had worked closely live to see a socialist America. Dec. 9, 8:30 p.m. Contrib. 75c (Students with Larry in the United Auto 35c), M ilitant Labor Forum, 1702 E. 4th This, too, was the regret of his Prof. Fowler Harper Gore Vidal W orkers’ struggles of the 1940’s, many friends. St. Yale Law School Playwright, author "The Best Man" * * * told of the generous impulses and personal concern with which HOLD THE DATE for the gala New Ring Lardner Jr. Ernest Mazey Larry treated everyone with whom Year's Eve Dance of the Socialist Work­ Acad. Award-Winning Screenwriter Detroit trade union official ers Party. Music by a top-flight band. he came in contact. Special Offer • Pete Seeger Rev. F. Shuttlesworth Ernest Mazey said that Larry N E W Y O R K Folklorist, 1st Amendment defendant Birmingham, Ala., integration leader was one for whom the word “com­ To New Readers The Dominican Crisis and the New rade” was, in a broad, non-par­ Threat to Cuba. Speaker, Harry Ring, James Higgins Mrs. Jean Wilkinson tisan sense, the most fittin g tr ib ­ A four-month trial sub­ Militant staff writer. Fri., Dec. 8, 8:30 Assistant Editor, York, Pa., Wife of HUAC abolition leader ute that could be paid to him. scription to The Militant for p.m . 116 University Place. Contrib. 50c. Gazette and Daily Frank Wilkinson, now in ¡ail Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. It was this quality of Larry’s — only 50 cents. Send this cou­ * * * his firm confidence in the ulti­ pon with payment to: The A PARTY. M usic b y Jerry Brewster mate destiny of the American WED., DEC. 6 8 P.M. SHARP Militant, 116 U niversity and his Jazz Band. Sat., Dec. 9, 10 p.m . workers to take power into their 116 University Place. Contrib. $1.50. MANHATTAN CENTER, 34th St. & 8th Ave. own hands — that infected every­ Place, New York 3, N.Y. Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. ♦ * * body who came in contact with Contribution 99c him . So said George Breitm an, Two Saturday Afternoon Classes, Name ...... through Dec. 16. From 11 a.m . to 12:30 who had gotten to know him well p.m ., Marxism and Problems of Bureau­ AUSPICES: N. Y. COUNCIL TO ABOLISH HUAC only after Larry rejoined the SWP Street ...... cracy. Instructor, Murry Weiss. From I 150 West 34th St., N.Y. I in 1957. Breitman recalled that to 2:30 p.m., Strategy and Tactics In Larry’s voice would quaver with C ity ...... Zone___ the Fight for Negro Equality. Instructor, Dr. Otto Nathan, Chmn. Dr. Alexander Melklejohn, Hen. Chmn. indignation whenever he uttered Claude DeBruce. Contrib. 25c per ses­ Rev. Lee H. Ball, Treas. and Youth to Abolish HUAC the words, “ bosses,” “ cops,” State ...... sion. M ilitant Labor School, 116 U niver­ Mrs. Sandra Rosenblum, Chairman “scab,” or union “bureaucrat.” He sity Place. Monday, December 4, 1961 THE MILITANT Page Three CIA's Cambodia Photos Flop t h e MILITANT By George Lavan utilize Cambodian territory for at­ From Oct. 21 Sihanouk, chief of The neutralist government of tacks against South Vietnamese state of Cambodia, attempted to Editor: JOSEPH HANSEN Cambodia scotched an elaborate outposts . . . Competent inform­ counter the Saigon-Washington Managing Editor: GEORGE LAV AN Business Manager: KAROLYN KERRY frame-up attempt so quickly and ants have stated that intelligence propaganda campaign about “se­ m aterials in th e ir possession cret red bases” in his country Published weekly, except for omission of five summer issues, by The Militant effectively that the faces of top Publishing Ass’n., 118 University PI., New York 3, N.Y. Phone CH 3-2140. Second- officials in South Vietnam and in leaves no doubt of the character with invitations to “any nation class postage paid at New York, N.Y. Subscription: $3 a year; Canadian, $3.50; Washington’s Central Intelligence of these bases.” that wishes” to send inspecting foreign, $4.50. Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent The Agency are burning bright red. Never before had a case been teams into the border areas. On M ilitant’s views. These are expressed in editorials. Cambodia has been a thorn in so well “documented.” U.S. papers Nov. 16 Sihanouk in vain asked Washington’s far-eastern plans blossomed forth with aerial photo­ South Vietnam to send a “per­ V o l. 25 - No. 44 M onday, D ecem ber 4, 1961 since 1954, for it alone of the graphs of first rate quality show­ manent control team” to the sus­ small countries on the Indo-Chi­ ing the secret installations, maps pected areas. But he did finally nese peninsula has faithfully fol­ showing eight locations of eight succeed in getting an inspection lowed the neutralization policy bases w ith data about how many made by New York Times fa r- A Menace to Peace prescribed by the Geneva pact thousands of troops were at each, eastern correspondent Robert which ended the French-Indo where military hospitals and sup­ Trumbull. For four days, traveling in helicopters and jeeps furnished The Militant vigorously endorses the stand taken by the Chinese War. Of its neighbors, ply dumps were, etc., etc. How did the South Vietnamese m ilitary by the Cambodians, Trumbull preliminary conference for the foundation of a new labor-Negro South Vietnam is a dictatorship get so efficient? criss-crossed all eight specific vanguard party in declaring unalterable opposition to the gov­ ruled by U.S. puppet, Ngo Dinh Diem; Thailand, ruled by dicta­ The Associated Press gave the areas supposedly harboring Viet ernment’s efforts to smash the Communist Party. tor Sarit Thanarat, is also a U.S. answer on Nov. 13 when it re­ Cong forces. Humanity today is living through a grave crisis, survival — puppet; while Laos is in a period ported: “Reliable informants said “Hundreds of square miles of the most fundamental of all issues — is the overriding question of of uneasy truce in a civil war today that U.S. Air Force jets forest, jungle and swampland the day. If the peril of atomic war is to be averted, the American caused by the Central Intelligence were flying reconnaissance mis­ were surveyed from the air,” people must have the opportunity to consider and choose among Agency’s attempt to overthrow sions over South Vietnam to pin­ Trumbull writes (Nov. 22) . . . point build-ups and movements of “But no identifiable military in­ all possible viewpoints on how to establish enduring peace. To the neutralist regime of Souvanna Phouma. Communist rebel forces and their stallations other than Cambodian the degree that American liberties are curbed, the prospects of But the politically conservative secret bases . . . Presumably the were detected in the air search, survival are narrowed. government of Cambodia, headed jets could also have provided what which extended almost the entire The federal move to outlaw the Communist Party is not in­ by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Vietnamese authorities have length of the twisting border from tended simply to throttle that particular viewpoint. It w ill set despite bribes, blandishments and termed conclusive photographic the Gulf of Siam to southern an ominous precedent for proscribing other viewpoints which may threats, has refused to abandon his evidence that Communist rebels Laos. Landings were made at be unfavorable to those who command political power today. neutralist policy. Cambodia will had extensive bases and large many Cambodian Army and pol­ troop units in neighboring neutral­ ice camps and numerous villages Anyone who seriously doubts that the present administra­ deal with all countries, he de­ clares, w ill accept aid from all if ist Cambodia.” to check ground activity . . . Of­ tion would readily use such a precedent against others who op­ no strings are attached and will That U.S. planes were p a rti­ ficial Saigon intelligence reports pose it£ pro-war policies need only consider how ready Washing­ not join any military blocs. cipating in the civil war in South had pinpointed eight asserted sites ton is to dispatch troops to any section of the globe where its Anti-American? Viet Nam is not surprising news. of various Viet Cong command power and policies may be challenged. Would a government, w ill­ Washington and the U.S. press, U.S. troops there in the guise of headquarters, supply centers, ing to risk world war to maintain its power in Berlin, hesitate to of course, consider such a stand as training and advisory units have training areas and medical facil­ lash out, if it deemed it necessary, against critics at home? anti-American and “favorable to been participating in combat as ities, including one 250-bed hos­ Defense of the Communist Party is everybody’s business. Communism.” So Sihanouk’s gov­ the acknowledged wounding in pital. As nearly as could be de­ ernment has long been unpopular action of a U.S. officer a week ago termined from the approximate with U.S. policy makers. But in revealed. It is possible that Air locations given by Saigon, all the past months things have been Force planes have been flying these places were thoroughly cov­ Kennedy's Izvestia Interview coming to a head. Inspired stories combat missions as well. But ered in the four day survey. No have appeared with greater fre­ photographic reconnaissance over signs of secret bases were seen President Kennedy stood the issue on its head when he told quency about Sihanouk’s anti- the a ir space of a neutral country and the only hospital noted was the editor of Iz v e s tia that the major barrier to world peace was Americanism, infiltration of Cam­ is a specialty of the Central In­ one at the town of Lomphs.” alleged Soviet efforts to spread communism throughout the globe. bodia by Soviet agents, and how telligence Agency as the notorious As they used to say down at the CIA. one good picture is worth The real threat to peace has been Washington’s m ilitary en­ it was affording use of its ter­ U-2 flights over the Soviet Union made known. a thousand words of fiction. circlement of the Soviet Union, its aggressive policy toward China ritory to North Vietnamese troops and its financial and m ilitary backing of imperialist efforts to to invade South Vietnam where smash the world-wide colonial movement for independence. they pass themselves off as Viet Cong guerrillas, as the rebels It was the United States that dropped atom bombs on Hiro­ there are called. 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What Mrs. Shepard Doesn’t Know Letters from Our Readers Southern white supremacists ing some rich woman’s house, to feels she is big enough to betray a poor bug-and-rat-infested build­ my confidence and that of all the and Northern reactionaries are Congo to protect his blood-stained ing, or leaving her own children poor citizens in order to get the The Cuban Revolution forging a close working alliance. mining interests. That was just to go take care of some rich per­ few bucks someone must be pay­ Ashland, Ohio One of the fabricated issues which before heroic Lumumba was slain, son’s spoiled brats. ing her to mouth her propaganda. The Cuban Revolution is here they are jointly pushing is an a crime that stunned every work­ She would not dare meet me be­ to stay. It happened without attack on the Aid to Dependent “She doesn’t have to pay the ing class patriot on earth. Remem­ fore the public on something like Eisenhower’s permission and it Children program. This pitifully high rents Negroes have to pay. ber that Rocky demanded that “Eye on St. Louis,” where I could will continue without Kennedy”s inadequate program makes a pit­ Marguerite has not been so down U.S. planes bomb liberated Cuba tear up the whole distorted false permission. tance in federal funds available she had to apply fo r w elfare. She to recapture the confiscated slave- picture she has painted. W ith all Another invasion is now being through local relief agencies to has not had a caseworker ask her holdings. The bombs fell, but her formal education, I would tear planned against Cuba. Forces are mothers who are unable otherwise about her relationships with men, Rocky lost. Liberated Cubans held her up with humanity and com­ now being trained in 29 camps in to feed their children. and . what she had better do and fast to their ground. mon sense. Does the Globe Demo­ the U.S. and Latin America for The attack began over a year not do in this regard. She has not The next state election is already crat have to stoop so low in order the slaughter. These hired killers ago in Louisiana when racists been talked to as if she were a ripe for a big labor-progressive- to sell its rag? First they try will have quite a job on their struck from the relief rolls Negro child of three or four. She has not united socialist coalition. No puzzle contests. After that wears hands. If one looks back into his­ mothers of illegitimate children been treated as though she were energy must be spared to beat out they stir up some race hate. tory one will find the fact that who were receiving ADC assist­ a brainless slave, w ith the case­ Rocky. As a private citizen, Rocke­ They are trying to get the poor never has a revolutionary govern­ ance. “ADC subsidized immorality worker, the slavemaster. She has feller is a menace to mankind, but white and Negro taxpayers to fuss­ ment been overthrown or con­ and illegitimacy,” was the argu­ not had to live in fear of being as a “public” official, he is a ing with each other as though quered. ment of these sadistic hypocrites. watched day and night by welfare greater menace. In North Carolina a legislator in­ investigators, who are really de­ these little ADC families are the When this invasion takes place troduced a bill to sterilize Negro tectives from the police depart­ cause of all the trouble in St. there is certain to be a hatred of Robert Joseph Burros women who had illegitimate chil­ ment hired by the City Welfare Louis today . . . .” our “government policy” in Latin dren and received ADC help. Office. They come late at night America the likes our universe has ‘Ban the Ban' never witnessed. New York, N. Y. Hatred of humanity appears to showing a badge when they walk in the ADC homes. The Rebel Army of Cuba shouts Several interesting aspects of be a strong bond uniting the Ohio Educators Hit “Victory or death — We shall “ She has not had these investi­ the student strike action at several Southern racists and the ultra win!” To the last man, woman gators look all through her dresser New York City colleges protesting reactionaries of the North, for the and child they are playing their latter quickly embraced the cam- drawers and closets, under the the administration’s ban on Com­ 'Shelter' Program game and their aims in earnest. bed, or in the bathroom, then pro­ munist Party speakers should be pàign against ADC and are pro­ A ll power to the Cuban people pagandizing against it in most ceed to ask all manner of em­ A large group of prominent added to the report in your Nov. and their brilliant leaders. They 20 issue. Northern cities today. It is, for barrassing questions. She has not Cleveland professors has joined a are underdogs no more. They have had these investigators lie and say similar group in the Boston area There were many heartening example, a feature of the attack a perfect right to liberty and they found evidence of a man in in protesting U.S. government en­ responses among the faculty to the on people on relief by the un­ self-determination and w ill fight speakable city manager of New­ her home. She has not had her couragement of fallout shelter two-hour class boycott by stu­ to the last drop of blood for that welfare check — her only means construction. The educators de­ dents at City College. Several pro­ burgh, N. Y. right. of support — cut off because her clare that such shelters are not ef­ fessors actually dismissed their A New Attack father or her brother came to fective against modern nuclear at­ Friend of Cuba classes. One is reported to have v is it her. tack and th a t the false sense of dismissed the students who did Typical of this nationwide cam­ security which the shelter pro­ show up for his class and ex­ “She doesn’t know what it is to Source of Truth paign was a recent series of ar­ gram creates “prepares the people pressed his disgust at their having try to rent from the projects or St. Paul, M inn. ticles in the St. Louis Globe Dem­ for the acceptance of a thermonu­ crossed the picket line. Another the real estates with her and her Enclosed is $2 for The Militant. ocrat by one Marguerite Shepard. clear war as an instrument of na­ dismissed his class with the re­ children on the ADC. Children This is the least I can do to sup­ Not typical enough, however, was tional policy.” mark that he didn’t want any the answer given to the Globe- are being refused by the very port one of the few sources of The statement originally ap­ scabs among his students. Others Democrat’s propaganda build-up projects that were built for them, truth in this nation’s mass media. peared in an open letter to Presi­ held th e ir classes b u t postponed for depriving poverty-stricken and or the families are being put out Keep up the good work. dent Kennedy signed by 183 edu­ scheduled mid-term exams so harried mothers and their help­ when a new baby arrives .... G.T. cators from the Boston area and boycotters wouldn’t be penalized. less children of the few ADC cents “ Shepard did not try to take her published as an advertisement in Following the “ban-the-ban” a day they are trying to live on. Rockefeller Critic sick child to the city hospital with the Nov. 10 New York Times. I t strikes at Hunter and CCNY, a Elmhurst, N. Y. The Committee of the People no money for treatment, only to was reprinted as an advertisement bigger and even more effective Arch-reactionary Gov. Rocke­ of St. Louis, a militant group of be told to bring it back next week in the Nov. 22 Cleveland Plain strike was held at Queens College fe lle r has ju st throw n $100 m illio n the Negro community, put a to the clinic. She w ill never know Dealer signed by 193 educators Nov. 16. This one was an all-day into the laps of his friends, the picket line around the newspaper what it is to be an unemployed from Western Reserve University, boycott of classes and a careful fallout shelter builders. The Al­ and called for a campaign of pro­ veteran, and have laws, like these Case Institute of Technology and check by students showed a 70% bany shelter lobby is one of the test letters and phone calls. in Missouri,telling you you must Fenn College. participation, about double that at special interest groups. Rocky In a speech, reprinted in the run off and leave your family The statement pointed out that CCNY and Hunter. naturally gives special interest Oct. 23 St. Louis Evening Whirl, before the state w ill keep them a modern nuclear bomb “exploded Despite this strong student and groups, which also means slum­ a paper serving the colored com­ from starving to death. She will in the ah- would have an 18-mile faculty opposition, there are signs, lord Rocky’s personal interests, munity, Mrs. Delores Richardson, never know what it was like to be radius of total destruction of or­ however, that the administration top priority when it comes to the a leader of the Committee of the wounded fighting for freedom, but dinary structures, and would ignite is still looking for ways to main­ distribution of lush easy bucks. People of St. Louis, revealed that find out it was for someone else’s most wooden buildings in a radius tain the ban. Now that the law But the workers of New York she had endeavored to get Mrs. freedom, not your own. of 60 miles. Within that area, a professors and ACLU have City get last priority, that is no Shepard, prior to the appearance “ She has not, I am sure, gotten large proportion of the population knocked the props from under electric and gas bills that were would be suffocated by lack of priority, when it comes to decent their “legal” arguments, they are of the series, to visit a typical schools. family receiving ADC help. It was outrageously high, know ing she oxygen or poisoned by carbon beginning to speak of the dual Rocky is working overtime to to no avail. Mrs. Shepard pre­ didn’t use that much. In order to monoxide. Basement shelters un­ issue — that is, the “educational” brainwash the kids of New York ferred cold statistics to’ living get it back on, you pay what you der burning buildings would be as well as the legal. They may into accepting and digesting the mothers and children. Mrs. Rich­ owe, besides the three or five useless, as would blast shelters now take responsibility for main­ unpalatable, monstrous, war-in- ardson’s speech continued: dollars extra, then you get a letter without a reserve air supply.” taining the ban, not on the basis sanity psychology. Rocky is ex­ “What does she [Marguerite telling you to deposit fifty dollars The open letter called for “a of the Supreme Court McCarran pending much energy and many Shepard] know about trying to or more to keep in good faith with positive program for peace with Act decision, but solely on the dollars to sabotage U.S.-USSR dis­ make ends meet with nothing? these companies. Every way the freedom” and declares that “at the ground that they don’t think that armament bomb-ban talks, by She never tried to do day work Negro turns there is a wall in the present time the nation is not the Communists should have spitting on the efforts of peace­ and get nothing for it except in­ way. Marguerite, we are breaking ready to consider such a program the same right as others to present makers. Why? Because Rocky has sults and a couple of dollars. We through all these walls whether largely because of widespread their views on city campuses. a big stake in big armaments and have to do a week’s work in one you like it or not. lack of understanding of just how The students realize that sus­ big bomb piles — and that stake day for peanuts. She doesn’t know “Now, after a few days of what catastrophic war today would tained protest is necessary and an is dollars! Rocky knows that the about coming home, after clean- she thinks was research, Shepard be.” all-city picket line has been called U.S. military superstructure is fo r Sat., Dec. 2, from 1 to 3 p.m., mightier than .the military of the at the Administrative Council’s socialist lands, yet he is ranting headquarters, 535 East 80th Street. fo r more U.S. atmospheric tests and more U.S. arms. As the para­ Fred Mazelis It Was Reported in the Press site Rockefeller derives his bread, so does the predatory animal Moscow vs. Peking Relax — “Protection against in 33 cases involving property that company explained: “ It is so very speak. Cleveland, Ohio nuclear weapons is relatively sim­ he managed. important, we believe, for our Rocky doesn’t care to know how The Militant should not take young people to understand our ple.” — Robert Condon, director Concern for the Elderly — “ The many deformed children are ex­ sides in the apparent conflict be­ free-enterprise system particularly of New York City Office of Civil Library Commission authorized isting at Willowbrook State Hos­ tween Moscow and Peking. They in these times of great interna­ Defense. Librarian William R. Holman yes­ pital — mutations that are the are attacks on capitalism from the tional tension.” result of the Yucca Flats tests, the Note on “Featherbedding” — In terday to begin a campaign to get standpoint of their respective filth ie s t of the d irty bomb tests. areas and not a divergence in 1923 the railroads employed 1,- rid of elderly itinerants who haunt Sensitive Palates — The pub­ He cares not about the twisted Communist ideology. The conflict 800.000 shop and road workers and the Main branch. Holman said the licity director of New York’s Plaza tiny limbs, the blistered bodies, is make-believe, not a reality. 16,000- executives. Today the rail­ daily newspaper files which at­ Hotel explained why the annual the pain-tortured organs of the Moreover, capitalism, which is roads em ploy 750,000 w orkers and tract the unwanted clientele w ill Fall Ball for the Boys Club is a little ones. Rocky only cares about 16,000 executives. be moved to the Business favorite among the city’s wealthy: founded on deception, does not Rocky and his slimy breed who permit frank procedures. Branch ...” — The Nov. 14 San “These poor kids show up and Thought for Your Town? — For built the Nazi conquest machines The Militant should be aware Francisco Chronicle. sing every year. Why, it warms the eighth straight year the Mad- of yesterday and today. of these contingencies and not ex­ the young married’s hearts to see isonville, Ky., City Council voted A Bright Note — “During the Remember that Rocky demand­ ploit them. a fat boy singing his lungs out to exempt, residents from prop­ last two weeks, White House aides ed U.S. armed intervention in the Joseph Manlet erty and poll taxes. Income from report, mail from the citizenry and a tiny one missing a note or city-owned light and water plants has been concerned largely with two. It’s certainly more palatable makes the taxes unnecessary. foreign affairs . . . The biggest than most charities. After all, you Thought for the Week question bothering those who can’t trundle out the heart pa­ “Being ready to strike our enemies with hydrogen bombs [is ] a Slum Clearance — The Conser­ write the President is the possible tients and such.” primitive, savage and indeed schizoid kind of behavior . . . Do any vation, Rehabilitation and Re­ resumption of nuclear testing in newal Foundation, Inc., a New Wonder Why? — M. Wilfred of you remember the shock that the civilized world felt when the the atmosphere, and most of the Goding, U.S. High Commissioner Nazis murdered everyone in the Czechoslovakian village of Lidice? York group dedicated to the im­ mail opposes it.” — The Nov. 27 of the Trust Territories of the This cold-blooded act of revenge was the Nazi answer to an attack by provement of slum properties New York Times. through private investment, has P acific Islands, says a resumption the Czech underground. It was massive retaliation. In what way is our asked for the resignation of di­ H a rd Sell — Cadre Industries of nuclear tests by the United present policy any different? But where now is the editorial concern? rector David B. Solove. A City Corp. has issued a special booklet States at Eniwetok “would not be Where the thunder from our pulpits?" — From a Nov. 17 speech by Dr. Housing Court warrant has been for children of its shareholders en­ taken warmly by the people of George W. Albee, professor of psychology at Western Reserve Univer­ issued for him for 582 violations titled, A Share for Johnny. The the Marshall Islands.” sity.