Workers of the World, Unite ! The Kind ot Unity Workers t h e MILITANT Want and Need PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE By A rt Preis Vol. XIV - No. 15 2*7 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1950 PRICE: FIVE CENTS CIO President Philip Murray and his nine vice-presi­ dents have addressed a broad unity proposal to all the major labor unions. Murray emphasized that it is “ the most CIO Hits Mundt Bill significant proposal of its kind’' ^ At House Hearing he A F L leaders to whom his that the CIO has ever made. I Thomas E. Harris, assistant proposal is principally addressed. comes as a counter to Mine general counsel of the CIO, It is noteworthy that neither Workers President John L. Lewis told the House Un-American the CIO nor the AFL leaders recent plea for a “mutual aid” Activities Committee hearing Bridges Verdict Strikes showed the slightest initiative in pact in defense of strikes. on A p ril 4 th a t the M undt- seeking joint action during the In a letter sent to the official? Nixon bill for the registration lecent coal and steel strikes. Th< of the AFL, United Mine Work of “subversives” would “not AFL leaders even rejected an ers, International Association o ! only deny civil rights to Com­ appeal for legal aid to the miners Machinists and leading railway munists but would put at hi combatting Taft-Hartley in unions, the CIO leaders propose hazard the civil rights of junctions. Murray brushed off the establishment of a standing everyone else.” Lewis’ proposal for concfete Blow at Labor’s Rights joint committee. This committee The bill, he said, “imposes measures of mutual defense in they said, would serve a two-fold penalties upon association and strikes. At no time have Murray function. It would work im­ opinion rather than overt ac­ mediately to coordinate the ac­ and AFL President W illiam Green Frame-up Menaces All Who tions” and “could impose a evinced interest in* forging unity- It IS Happening Here tivities of all its member organ blackout upon the civil rights izations on economic, legislative on the firing line against the bosses. of thousands of individuals and political problems. It would who would be driven from Oppose Government Policies But for the past months we consider means toward the organic progressive organizations out have heard from within the top merger of these unions into one of fear that the vague provi­ Any union leader who does not submit to the dictates circles of the AFL bureaucracy For many years, The Militant sions (o f the b ill) m ig h t be of the U. S. State Department or who opposes the “ cold that recent developments affect­ has consistently put forth a pro­ made applicable to them.” It war” policies of the Truman administration faces the gram of united labor action for ing the CIO have inspired “new contains “a serious threat to threat of frame-up and imprison-® ------a fighting defense of the Ameri­ thinking” on the question of our most cherished constitu­ ment. That is the meaning of the enemies of Bridges in the labor can working class. During the unity and that the AFL chiefs tional safeguards.” conviction on a trumped - up movement. One of them gave the first great post-war strike wave, (Continued on page 2) “perjury” charge of CIO Long­ frame-up away when he testified before and after passage of the shoremen’s leader Harry Bridges that in October 1948 he had been Taft-Hartley Act, from the very in an 85-day trial before a federal called into conference by the start of the recent mine struggle, court in San Francisco. then - Attorney General, Tom we have vigorously advocated a AEC Censors " And any lawyers who assume Clark, who told the witness that joint action program. the defense of persons accused of “they wanted to remove the in­ WHO, WHY, WHAT being “Communists” and “sub­ fluence of Mr. Bridges and others AmericanBurns Copies versives” do so at the risk of their from the labor movement.” At the same time, we have al­ The new move to victimize ways stated the indispensable By Joseph Keller own freedom. That is the mean­ Bridges came last year in the conditions for a sound unity that ing of the vindictive jail sentences Washington is preparing to suppress, through direct midst of the bitter Hawaiian dock w ill really strengthen labor. We for “contempt” imposed by the trial judge on Bridges’ attorneys. workers strike led by Bridges’ have advised unionists to examine censorship, all public discussion on Truman’s H-Bomb union. On June 26, 1949, C lark with a critical eye every proposal policy. Symbolically, the first major move in the censor­ The witch-hunters, who set out said in a speech before the Am eri­ for unity — particularly organic ship drive is a Nazi-like book- ® di-liberately to “get” Bridges and can Relief for Germany Commit­ merger of the CIO and AFL — burning carried out under the pression to which American then cooked up the charge that tee at the University Club in to see that it met the conditions orders and the direct supervision scientists have been increasingly he lied in swearing that he had Milwaukee: “If we are successful for a progressive unity. We have of the Atomic Energy Com­ subjected in the witch - hunt never been a member of the Com­ in our prosecution of Bridges it always asked who initiated the m ission. initiated under Truman’s “loyalty” munist Party when he got his may be that we can break the proposal, what purposes do they The Scientific American, a program. Dr. Bethe was one of n a tu ra liza tio n papers in 1945, are Hawaiian strike without anyv in­ have in mind, what kind of unity popular science monthly over 100 12 leading atomic scientists who saying that Bridges got a “fair” tervention.” do they want? years old, was forced to burn warned last February that the trial before a “jury of his peers.” No, Bridges got a trial before No doubt Murray’s latest pro­ 3,000 copies of its April issue Il-Bomb could lead to the anni­ RESULT OF COLD WAR containing an article on the H- hilation of humanity and called a handpicked middle - class jury, posal will find wide response Bridges isn’t facing seven years Bomb which the AEC censored surrounded by a poisonous witch­ among the workers. If there is c-n Truman to pledge that the in prison because he broke any after the magazine had gone to hunt atmosphere, who were under anything they desire above all U. S. would never use the H- laws or even because he is an press. Dr. Hans A. Bethe, Cornell Bomb first. pressure to bring in a conviction else — a desire intensified by the alleged agent of the Kremlin. University physics professor and lest they themselves be victimized recent lessons of the coal, steel When Bridges was an outspoken former chief of the theoretical CALCULATED TEST and branded as “disloyal” for and other strikes — it is labor supporter of American imperial­ physics division of the Los Alamos The AEC’s action was un­ acquitting a man that the govern­ Unity to effectively fight for Italian Trotskyists ism, when he was a leading war­ doubtedly a calculated move to SOLICIT GREETINGS FOR ment said is “ subversive.” Scientific Laboratory, is the labor’s interests and to defend time strikebreaker and exponent author of the censored article. extend the insidious tentacles of From start to finish, the Bridges their unions against the Big Busi­ of the permanent no-strike pledge, Although the artidfe contained censorship deeper in American Step Up Activity in case has reeked of frame - up. ness attempts to smash them “ one then the administration in Wash­ no material that the AEC had life. It selected the most distin­ N.Y. KUTCHER JOURNAL Three tirties before, the govern­ at a time.” ment had attempted to have ington took him to its bosom and But is this the sort of unity called “classified” and all in­ guished and widely-read publica­ NEW YORK, April 4 — The New York Chapter Of Rome, Other Cities Bridges deported to his native protected him from prosecuton, M u rra y has in m ind? Does he formation in it had been published tion in the field and the man who ROME, Mar. 16 — The first Australia on the grounds of his regardless of his Stalinist con­ intend a fighting unity to defeat elsewhere, the AEC officials in­ has made some of the chief the Kutcher Civil Rights Committee today announced and highly successful public meet­ alleged membership in the Com­ nections. But now lie does not sup­ labor’s enemy, the capitalist ex­ sisted that certain portions of the theoretical contributions on which plans for a benefit entertainment and dance to raise fuhds ing of the Italian Trotskyist or­ munist Party. And three times, port the administration’s foreign ploiting class? Does he want to article be deleted, that the printed the development of the new H- to carry forward the fight in be- ® ganization — the Revolutionary rulings against him were re­ policy. That is why he has suf­ unify the ranks for battle? Or is issues of the magazine containing Bomb is based. If it can got half of the legless veteran, James KCRC that it has voted to give Communist Groups — was held versed — the last time by the fered a relentless frame-up. he thinking of unity on top, the the undeleted article be burned, away with so drastic and arbi­ Kutcher, who was purged from both moral and financial aid to­ in this city on March '5. More than U. S. Supreme Court. The judge The Bridges case is one more consolidation of the bureaucrats that all proofs and galleys also trary a censorship of this maga­ his government job because of ward Kutcher’s fight. 200 people gathered in the hall, in the latest trial did not even nail in the coffin of cHil liberties into one powerful machine to be burned and that the type of zine and this scientist, it can his p o litic a l ideas. So has the A F L B rotherhood of decorated with portraits of Lenin permit these vital facts to be in the United States. It is one keep down the ranks, to suppress the censored passages be melted proceed to censor almost any pub­ In conjunction with the -dance, Sleeping Car Porters. In a letter and Trotsky and a banner of the more warning to all defenders of down. lica tio n . given the jury. militancy and to tie the unions which will be held June 16 at the signed by President A. Philip Fourth International, to listen to It was not byr accident that the Gerard Piel, editor of Scientific The government’s case was civil rights of the need for a more tightly to the capitalist Hotel Capitol, the committee is Randolph, the KCRC was inform­ a speech on the programmatic Truman - appointed AEC picked American, revealed the censorship based entirely on the testimony of united mass movement in defense government and, more specifically, publishing a souvenir journal ed: “ The Brotherhood of Sleeping foundations of the Trotskyist on March 31. He said the burning stoolpigeons, most of them sworn of all witch-hunt victims. to the Truman administration and cut the Scientific American and which will contain greetings and Car Porters unequivocally lends movement delivered by Livio of the magazine was carried out the Democratic Party? Dr. Bethe for victimization. The advertisements from labor and its support to the Kutcher Com Maitan, secretary of the organiz­ “under pressure.” Bethe himself Recent events throw much light magazine has been critical of the liberal supporters of the legless mittee and resolves to assist in ation. (Continued on page 31 on the unity aims of Murray and intimidation, surveillance and sup­ veteran as well as friends and the removal of this blot and mis­ Maitan was former secretary of merchants in the metropolitan carriage from our democracy and. the Italian Socialist Youth and PROGRESS REPORTED ON area. thereby, help/ restore James former member of the National Members and sympathizers of Kutcher to his job.” Executive of the Democratic Peo­ MATTHIESSEN COMMITS the committee are already engaged Kutcher himself will be active ple’s Front. The meeting was PENN., MICH. PETITIONS in soliciting ads for the journal, in coming weeks in speaking be­ widely covered by the daily and PHILADELPHIA, April 2 — 5> w hich w ill range fro m $60 fo r a fore organizations in this area. weekly press in Rome. The signature campaign to win SUICIDE OVER COLD WAR full page down to individual Last Sunday he appeared before OTHER MEETINGS a place on the ballot for the can­ greetings at $1 apiece. a successful meeting of the A similar meeting has already didates of the Militant Workers By Sidney Crabbe Prooklyn NAACP Youth Council, AMALGAMATED BOARD been held at Palermo, the capi­ Party — Clyde Turner for U. S. which passed a resolution in his BOSTON, April 3 — With the death by suicide of Although the project is just tal of Sicily, and a third is sched­ Senator, and Herbert Lewin for Francis O. Matthiessen early in the morning of April 1 getting under way, the committee support. uled in Milan. In addition, the Governor — achieved a hearten­ the working people have lost a true friend and fearless has already had an encouraging Typical of the response Kutcher Italian Trotskyists have also ing start this week. (The MWP defender. Famous in scholarly'® ' response. The New York Joint gets from union members was scheduled a public meeting on is the Pennsylvania ballot desig­ Board of the CIO Amalgamated the incident at last week’s meet­ circles throughout the world for money-makers and careerists is Y ugoslavia to be held in Rome nation of the Socialist Workers his critical writings on American trying to befoul the reputation of Clothing Workers has subscribed ing of IU E -C IO Local 447 in on A p ril 2. P a rty .) Nutley, N.. J. After hearing him, life and literature, this Harvard fhis independent thinker and to the first full-page greeting and The Italian Trotskyists have! In this area party members over $100 has been contributed by the members passed a motion to University professor actively apd pervert the meaning of his death completed all the necessary ar- and sympathizers secured 3,579 merchants and friends of I be com­ publicly associated himself with by placing the brand of Stalinism donate $20 toward his fight. An­ rangements for the publication o f! signers for the nomination papers other motion was then made from the cause of labor and the move­ upon him. In the note left behind m ittee. a regular periodical, Bandiera ! >n the first six days of the 30r day period provided -by Pennsyl- ment for emancipation from in the 12th-floor room from The CIO National Maritime the floor for a collection, which Rossa (Red Flag). The first is­ Union last week notified the netted $50.96. j vania law. The goal is 12,000 sig­ capitalist bondage. which he leaped to his death. F. O. MATTHIESSEN sue will appear on April 1. natures in the state. Reports from Modest, kind and courageous, Prof. Matthiessen made plain both other parts of the state are not he was never known to refuse his his views and the motive for his yet available. services in any case involving the suicide. Despite the heightened red-bait­ violation of the rights of an in­ “I am a Christian and I also ing atmosphere, Philadelphia dividual, group or radical party. am a Socialist. I believe firmly workers demonstrated a readiness He was among the charter na­ ADA S till Tied to Truman Polity in international peace. I am to help place the SWP on the bal­ tional committee members of the against any order that interferes lot and a sympathetic interest in CLYDE TURNER Most of the leaders of Amer- to the Truman machine and machine and policies. Most of support of progressive elements Civil Rights Defense Committee with that objective.” He sacrificed what its candidates stand for. icans for Democratic Action, at through it to the Democratic Par­ them, in fact, are affiliated with of the Republican party.” w hich was form ed in 1941 to the rest of his life as an act of Trade unionists, Negroes and the already been collected in six coun­ its national convention April 1-3 ty . the Democratic Party and now Opposition to this was express­ defend the leaders of the Social­ political protest against capital­ unemployed showed a willingness ties as of last Thursday night. in Washington, showed them­ or in the recent past have repre­ ed from the floor. Finally, these ist Workers Party and Min­ ism, its wars and its witch-hunts. PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY to help. Many asked to be allowed Thus half of the petition goal has neapolis Truckdrivers Union who selves not ‘only willing but anxi­ sented that party in government. statements were stricken from been reached in less than half the The convention made plain that to aid by circulating nomination were the first to be jailed under “INDEPENDENT RADICAL” ous to retain their position of un­ At the start of the convention, the platform by a narrow major­ time allotted to the campaign. the principal political activity of papers themselves, and others re­ disguised servitude to the corrupt ADA chairman Senator Hubert ity. Adopted instead was the dec­ Canvassers continue to report the Smith “Gag” Act. The Trotskyists of Massa­ ADA would be to continue mus­ quested further information about Democratic Party of northern city Humphrey voiced the position of laration that ADA “reaffirms its friendly receptions from most of chusetts and elsewhere had ample tering votes for Truman Demo­ the SW P. AIDED KUTCHER bosses and southern white supre­ most of the top leaders when he political and organizational in­ the workers approached. A num­ reason to respect and revere this crats, but left the door open for The candidacy of Clyde Turner The pressure of FBI investiga­ m acists. said the organization will work dependence. We will continue to ber of older people have signed scholar with the spirit of the old endorsements of “progressive” has aroused widespread interest. tions, Congressional and state But they met the obstacle of var­ as a “full partner” of Truman in work for the nomination and elec­ with a comment about having A b o litio n ists. He recent',;,- visited Republicans as well. On both do­ She is the first woman candidate legislature committee red-baiting, ious elements within the organiz­ the coming Congressional elec­ tion of candidates for public of­ voted for Debs, and wishing luck the Boston headquarters. of the mestic and foreign policies, the for the U. S. Senate in the his­ and newspaper smear attacks ation who, on one ground or an­ tions. He said that “we intend fice of whatever party, when their to the SWP. Socialist Workers Party to hear convention went down the line for tory of Pennsylvania and also the other, were opposed to what they to preserve our independence, but records are consistent with the The least favorable response to could not terrify him into Vincent R. Dunne talk on civil Truman’s fundamental program, first Negro candidate for the U. called the “atmosphere of captiv­ to work for those candidates who principles of ADA.” By “ whatever date was met in Lansing, the renouncing his solidarity with all rights and the labor movement. daring only a pip-squeak of criti­ S. Senate, anywhere in the coun­ ity” of the ADA to the Demo­ support our platform, which is party” is meant “ Democratic and state capital. Government and victims > f the mounting cold wai He was a great admirer of the cism on this or that incidental try, since Hiram Revels and cratic Party. These insurgent almost identical with the Demo­ Republican parties only.” For the state employees often apologize against civil liberties and labor’s men who built the powerful issue. Finally, the convention ca­ Blanche K. Bruce represented elements were able — not all for cratic platform of 1948.” declaration also reaffirmed the and wish the canvassers! luck, but rights. One of his last challenges teamster unions in the North­ tegorically rejected the idea of Mississippi in the Reconstruction the same reasons and not all for ADA’s opposition to any third frankly explain that, they fear to the witch-hunters was the any break with the capitalist two- In conformity with the ADA’s period that followed the Civil west. progressive reasons — to push party as “injurious to liberal pur­ the loss of their jobs if they were initiation of an appeal to his col­ party system in favor of a third traditional platform, the leader­ W ar. At that time he remarked: through a statement avowing the ship introduced a policy state­ poses.” to sign. leagues on the Harvard faculty, p a rty. “They say I am a Stalinist. But “ political and organizational in­ Trying to explain how the ADA The best results have been ob­ calling upon them in the name of Nothing better indicates that ment unambiguously declaring it is not true; do not believe dependence” of the ADA from could be both “independent” and DETROIT, April 1 — The So­ tained in front of unemployment academic freedom to back the case the ADA was and remains a cap­ that “for the achievement of lib­ them.” Although active in the any particular political party. continue chiefly as a vote-catcher cialist Workers Party is making- compensation offices. Large num­ of James Kutcher and declare tive and servant of the Democra­ eral purposes, cooperation w ith the Progressive Party, he would not This formal “declaration of in- for the Trumanites, the newly excellent progress in the cam­ bers of laid-off workers have ex­ their opposition to the “ loyalty” tic Party than the national offi­ Fair Deal elements of the Demo­ accept the designation of liberal, dependence” was nothing but a elected ADA national chairman, paign to collect 15,000 signatures pressed their discontent with ex­ purge. Fifty-nine fellow pro­ cers elected by the convention. cratic Party affords the best op­ Often in conversation he would verbal concession to independent former Attorney General Francis so that its candidates will win a isting conditions by signing the fessors responded to this appeal. In the main, these officials are portunity on the national level at brush such references aside with political action. It did not break Biddle, said that Humphrey’s ref­ place on this year’s ballot in SWP petitions. In one case, 108 The hireling press which praises the elements most eager to com­ this time,” but that this did not a single one of the numerous and erence to the ADA’s “ full partner- M ichigan. signatures were given in front of all kinds of respectable rascals. (Continued on page 4) mit the ADA openly to Truman’s preclude “cooperation with and strong fetters that bind the ADA (Continued on page 2) A total of 7,439 signatures had one office in a period of 1 Ya houra» Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, April 10, 1950 European Notebook The 'National Front1 — Labor Unity-What Kind? (Continued from Page 1) Unions. They have achieved unity I internal democracy, the dictates are more optimistic about the to fight “communism” in- Europe, of Truman’s State Department Stalin's German Policy prospects for unity now. to spl.t the European trade unions and the needs of Truman’s poli- First of all, the AFI, leaders and to swing the European work- tical machine — these are some By Ernest Germain have hailed the bureaucratic c-rs over to support of- U . S. im ­ of the conditions for unity that purges and expulsions of the perialism’s cold war. William Green was thinking of The combination of adventurism bership of a fighter for German fro m 446 in 1949 to 761 in 1950. Stalinists and Stalinist-led unions when he observed, following-Mur- and opportunism which char­ unity is actually working against The Ruhr industrialists protested “BEST” CHANCES in the CIO, the centralization and ray’s proposal, that the chances acterized- the so-called “Third the National Front, . .” (Speech violently against the ban on steel tightening of top machine con­ Finally, Clb and AFL leaders for organic merger are “ the best” Period” policy of the Communist on May 17, 1949.) deliveries by the Western High trol over the CIO and the increas­ in many states and localities have in many years. Does he also have International [1929-34J, found its Commissioners a few months ago, And a political resolution of ing stifling of the CIO ranks. been working together in joint the hope that the CIO leaders are clearest expression in Germany. as a counter-measure against the the Central Committee of the SED 'Iliis, they say, has made Ihe idea committees for months past to prepared to make concessions on The theory of social - fascism “ little blockade of Berlin” by the on Oct. 4, 1949 makes th is s till of unity with the CIO more ac­ further the political fortunes of the major issue that has barred [that Social Democracy is the Russians. And the more the clearer: ceptable. the Truman Democrats and “pro­ unity all along—industrial union­ twin of fascism 1 was combined economy of Western Germany “ No one can be excluded fro m Then, both-the CIO and AFL gressive" Republicans. And Mur­ ism ? there with the practice of “na­ sinks into stagnation and decay,' the National Front movement if leaders, who could not get to­ ray’s unity letter to the other CIO,members must be especially tional - communism” (the search the more will the appeal of the he is ready to defend the justified gether for a minute to defend the union leaders puts special stress cautious in approaching the ques­ for an alliance with petty- vast market of Eastern Europe national rights of the people, in­ striking steel workers and coal on “effective unity of action” in tion of organic unity. Any bourgeois nationalist elements) the USSR and China exercise an cluding among them, former func­ miners or to fight the infamous (he 1950 Congressional elections merger with (he AFL which does And once again today, the new undeniable attraction for the tionaries, soldiers, officers and Taft-Hartlcy Act, have hailed ar — that is, joint political action not provide iron-clad guarantees third period of criminal Stalinist capitalists of Western Germany. generals (!) of the German armed a harbinger of unity the fact that to support the corrupt Democratic tor the preservation of the in­ post-war policy in Western Europe Party and ensure the victory of forces, . . In addition to the work­ GROWING MISTRUST they have already joined together dustrial unions would contain the is most clearly expressed in Ger­ the Trumanites. ing masses, the present situation Does this mean that the “ Na- in one organization on the in­ gravest dangers for the American many,. The witch-hunt and red-baiting permits the mobilization, in the tional Front” policy will enable ternational field, the Internationa! labor movement. The denunciation of the Social !n the CIO and the stifling of its National Front of Democratic German Stalinism to score some Confederation of Free Trade Democracy as an “ agency of the MEMBERS MUST CONTROL Germany, of the section of the real political gains? Quite the ■warmongers” — “Basically, it is The only kind of unity that German bourgeoisie which, is loyal contrary! Whatever favorable the same thing whether Mr. will effectively protect and ad­ to Germany (!) and which has not- trade agreements emerge from Attlee or Mr. Churchill becomes vance the interests of American sold out to foreign imperial­ the present international con­ prime minister in March.” (Nord- ism. . . ” ADA Still Bound to Truman labor is one that ensures demo­ juncture for the Stalinist gov­ bajeripcho Volkszeitung, Feb. 26) cratic rights and control by the In fact, these Stalinist efforts ernment of Eastern Germany, the — is combined with a frenzied (Continued from Page 1) functions for which it was first membership, that solidifies labor’s for the constitution of a National Western German capitalists will set up. Originally established to appeal for the constitution of a ship” with the Fair Deal Demo­ ranks for militant struggle 'on Front are addressed to two dif­ do business with them because of combat the Wallaceite third-party “National Front” embracing all crats did not mean that there the economic and political fields ferent circles: on the one side, tc their need for markets and not tendency, the ADA will remain “the patriotic foi'ces of the na­ could be but one partner. “A se­ end that completely preserves the the cadres of the army and the because they take the ultra-na a catch-all for “ anti-communist,” tio n .” nior partner might he the Demo­ independence of the unions from Nazi party; and on the other, tc tionalist phraseology of the Slab cold-war liberals. It will serve as To whom are these siren calls cratic party and you might find the capitalists, their government the capitalists in the occupied inist bureaucrats seriously. In its an “independent” decoy to lure of the German Stalinists ad- a junior partner in the Republican and their parties and candidates. zone of Western Germany. The leaction on public opinion, among liberal votes for the Truman Dem­ aressed ? The central organ of the This is the kind of unity the Stalinist propagandists do not use the masses of workers, the im­ P a rty .” ocrats that the Democratic Party SED (the Stalinist party in East­ The actuality, of course, is that workers need. But it will not be the same language or the same poverished middle classes, the re is no longer able to win in its the ADA is just a junior partner ¡achieved from above, by the Mttr- ern Germany), Neues Deutsch­ perspectives to these two circles, fugees and other declassed ele­ Steel-helmeted Italian police drive a jeep on a Milan sidewalk own name. It will give a “liberal” land, explains this very clearly in in the Democratic set-up, or rath­ jrays and Greens. To guarantee a and it is interesting to examine ments, the Stalinist “National to smash a demonstration during 12-hour general strike. Bottom, blessing to capitalist party candi­ its issue o f M ay 18, 1949. U nder er just an office boy who aspires '¡unity in the interests of the ranks, these quite subtle differences. Front” policy clashes against an police herd strikers against walls of nearby buildings. dates, particularly of the Demo­ the, heading, “From the worker to be a junior partner. the unity program must be draft­ ever growing mistrust and cratic machine. to the factory owner," the paper APPEAL TO NAZIS ed and put into effect by the h o s tility . NATURE OF OPPOSITION Finally, it will act as a press­ writes as follows: To former Nazis, the Stalinists ranks themselves. How could it be otherwise, when The opposition at the convene ure group for aspiring “Fair “ The objective conditions exist speak approximately along these Let a United Congress of Labor they know that the same Stalin­ Chicago, Milwaukee Forums Hear tion was widely assorted and di­ Deal” politicians, former New for a vast National Front extend­ lines: “You want the ‘glory of he called. Let the members of the ists who shout themselves hoarse versely motivated. Some repre­ Dealers out of office, disgruntled the Fatherland’ and so do we. You local unions of every affiliation ing from the worker to the Ger­ against the annexation of the sented tendencies from New Trumanites, ambitious liberals, want to get rid of the Anglo elect delegates from their own man owners of Western fac­ Saar by France justify the an­ Cochran Flay Misleaders of Labor York’s Liberal Party, who had op­ Social Democrats and “welfare American occupation and so do ranks to this Congress of Labor. tories.” And then, as if to nexation by Stalinist Poland of posed Mayor O’Dwyer in the last staters” of various hues, who are CHICAGO, April 1 — “ The present leaders of the Let these representative spokes­ eliminate for all time the fiction we. Why not go down the road the German provinces beyond the New York City elections and who trying to exert power as an or­ men of the membership work out of the “ democratic employers” so to g e th e r? ” Oder-Neisse line? How could it be CIO and AFL have developed into a privileged caste as­ want to be free to play both ends ganized bloc to strengthen their in free and democratic debate and dear heretofore to all the Stalinist Hence the open attempts of the otherwise when the same German signed the task of lining up the American workers behind against the middle in New York influence inside the Democratic discussion a program for united parties in their “ People’s Front” SED to enlist the support of the CP which today carries on a noisy A all Street’s im perialist schemes,” state politics. Others represent Party and win “fair shares” in action and organization. This is period, Walter Ulbricht, the real “ little Nazis” through the medium agitation against the dismantling Bert Cochran, chairman of the gram and firm cadres in the labor groups who resent Truman’s poli­ the Allocation of party jobs, gov­ the way to effect a sound labor leader of the SED, says ex­ of the “National - Democratic in the Western zones, yesterday Trade Union Committee of the movement on which to build.” cies on one or another foreign ernmental appointments and can­ p lic itly : Party.” Hence the attempts of the justified these same dismantlings Socialist Workers Party, told a After a ■ well - attended social issue, such as his position on “in­ didacies for public office. u n ity. German CP in the Western zones in the self-same zones, and today Chicago audience last Wednesday held in his honor last night, ternationalizing” Jerusalem or his ULBRICHT CLARIFIES to form alliances with extreme- continues to justify dismantling night. The meeting was held to Cochran continued on the tour move to recognize Franco Spain. “It is erroneous to pose the right. wing circles like the “Youth in the Eastern zones and to uphold consider the topic, “ The Outlook that will take him to the West One of the most revealing acts question as if all the supporters of the German Party” (which the Potsdam agreement, that is for Labor in 1950.” Coast and back. of the convention *was its rejec­ Of German u n ity are convinced recently expelled its general sec­ the obligation to pay billions in Cochran likened the labor tion of a strong plea by a num­ democrats. The question of de­ retary for “ national - Bolshevist' reparations! “statesmen” serving on American MILWAUKEE, March 28 — ber of Negro delegates for a dec­ termining who was or was not a leanings” ). Hence the publication missions abroad to nineteenth Those who saw the sweep of laration of opposition to Federal The Detroit branch of the and Ben reported an encouraging N a zi is in no way w hatever on of appeals openly signed by INSIDE THE CP century missionaries who prepar­ union organization in the ’30’s housing, health and education Socialist Workers Party “has jump in newsstand sales on 42nd the agenda today. . • Whoever former Storm Troopers and lead­ • The great majority of German ed native populations for im­ transform the unorganized Amer­ bills which maintain segregation. decided to extend its campaign Street. under present conditions raises ers of the Hitler Youth., Hence workers view the Stalinist “Na­ perialist. conquest, “The American ican workers into militant and Here the leaders argued that such for subscriptions to G.R.S. of Bay port, N. Y., wrote the question of the previous mem- the attempts to organize “circles tional Front” policy as a “tricki” imperialist today,” he said, “is powerful industrial organizations a stand would not be “practical” The Militant an us on renewing his subscription: and that they “did not believe it of veteran officers” working for a booby trap which fools nobody. preceded by a swarm of these cannot doubt their political poten­ other two ’peeks,” “ No 'organization has fought and wise to tie the hands of our the revival of “ Bismark’s policy And. even inside the CP itself, labor {Jqoh-bahs who soften up tialities once they begin tq move, w rits s Shirley is fighting more courageously in friends in Congress.” This meant of a German - Rpssian alliance the older and more conscious the foreign workers and facilitate said Bert Cochran, speaking in Mason. Although the cause of humanity than the not to “tie the hands” of ADA’ers under whose aegis Germany has workers are revolted by the na­ Wall Street’s intervention in Milwaukee at the SWP Hall. the Detroit com­ Socialist Workers Party. You like Senator Humphrey and Rep always won its most brilliant tionalist phraseology, by the open their countries.” This affirmation of confidence rades'are working alone have remained true to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who victories.” appeal for class collaboration and On the domestic scene Cochran in the revolutionary future of the strenuously gather­ socialism and steadfast in your had voted for pro-segregation collaboration with former Nazis. predicted an inevitable economic American working class was ing signatures to refusal to betray the working Is it necessary to add that such measures. The only tangible product of the crash that will speedily shatter made in reply to the question: a desperado venture can have Where the ADA demonstrated put the SWP on ciass at a time when other so- “ National Front” policy has been any confidence the workers now “W ill the workers be able to meet only the most meager success, and its strongest attachment to the the Michigan bal­ called ‘socialists’ have sold out the disintegration of the German have in capitalism. “ Radicaliza- the tasks that will confront them that the active elements of the Truman Democrats was on for­ lot, they didn’t their very souls to the Wall CP. where there now exists tion of the workers will lead to when the inevitable economic former military caste and the eign policy. The convention went want to pass up Street-Vatican axis or to the opposition far surpassing any­ the formation of a left wing in blow-up hits?” former Nazi dignitaries in their down the line — with minor com­ any opportunities to increase the Stalin gangsters. It may truly be thing that exists in the Commun­ Cochran stated that the forma­ great majority prefer by class the labor movement that will plaints about the strengthening circulation of The Militant. said that today the Socialist ist Parties of Western Europe. tion of a Labor Party is not a instinct to seek collaboration with wrest control from the Murrays, of the Nazi elements in Germany Shirley enclosed 14 subscriptions Workers Party is the conscience It was for good reason that the matter of “rounding up here and American imperialism against the Greens and other labor lieutenants and the projected support of on account. of the American radical move­ Central Committee of the German there all those who like the idea, USSR, rather than an alliance of Wall Street,” he said. Franco Spain — with the Mar­ She reports that unemployment ment. CP had to admit: “We know that but simply of proclaiming its with Stalin against.Western im­ Cochran pointed out that im­ shall Plan, the Atlantic m ilitary and the financial stress that fol­ “For a Socialist America in a our work is hindered at every existence. The apparatus already pe ria lism ? petus for left wing movements in alliance, the cold war and the lows being forced out on strike Socialist World.” step by the lack of understanding organized labor has always come exists in the PAC’s and political building of the H-Bomb. They have hit many Detroit workers. APPEAL TO BOSSES among the comrades of the need from the radical parties. He show­ education leagues of labor. All demonstratively declared their However, the percentage of for our national policy.” (Nord- ed how the anti-G om pers move­ that is necessary to make a Labor The Stalinist message to the support of the State Department renewal subscriptions to The bayerische Volkszeitung, Feb. 25.) ment in the old A FL had depended Party of the union forces now Western German industrialists is, apd Secretary Acheson. Militant is unusually high, par­ It is up to the Trotskyists to do on the Social Democrats for its tied to the Democratic Party is a on the contrary, much more ticularly among shop workers. Local Addresses realistic. They base themselves everything in their power to pre­ ideas. new policy reflecting the pressure ORIGINAL FUNCTIONS The Philadelphia comrades too essentially on the following argu­ vent this disintegration of the “This time,” he declared, “ the of the rank and file for a solu­ Despite its claimed “ independ- are up to their necks in work to ments: “ We know that you despise CP from redounding to the impetus can come only from the tion of the most pressing I ence,” the ADA will continue to Of Socialist get the SWP on the ballot ir communism and ‘peoples’ demo­ benefit of reaction! Trotskyists. We have the pro-1 problems.” I perform with unabated zeal the Pennsylvania. Nevertheless, they cracy’ and we will not insult you sent in seven subscriptions last Workers Party by demanding your support for week. the installation of such a regime AKRON— For Information, write P.O. Despite “ exceptionally r. o u g h Box 1342. in Western Germany. But look at BOSTON—W orkers Educational Center. your dismantled factories, or Letters from Our Readers weather” including the “worst J0 Stuart St., open Wed. 5:30-9:00 p.m., social last Sat. of month. those that are idle. Look at your blizzard of the season,” according of the Fourth International also in other words, made the mon­ inist and reform ist leaders, whose BUFFALO—M11 Itant Forum, 620 M ain exports which have not succeeded Objects to Line of to Literature Agent C.E.S., the St., 2nd fl. Phone M Adlson 3980. E very in increasing. Look at the ‘West­ follow this line in the national archy a stepping stone for policy of class collaboration again Minneapolis comrades scored 7 afternoon except Sun. Articles on Belgium areas where the peasantry and fascism. King Alfonso of Spain strengthened the bourgeoisie, renewals. “The weather should CHICAGO—160 W. Washington Street, ern’ markets glutted with Ameri­ Rm . 312-314. Tel. 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Mon. through Sat., 12-5 p.m . tory and tradition of the country? themselves, as did King Boris of results, the downfall of the FLINT—Socialist Workers Party Hall, business together to our mutual who wrote the article in the rianne Stanley writes that the I am not raising any voice in Bulgaria and King Carol of Italian monarchy in itself surely 215 E a s t N in th S treet. Phone: 2-2496. p ro fit? ” March 20 issue on the recent comrades are setting their sights Open House Saturday evenings. defense of the old, parasitic, Rumania. The reactionary role of was no unimportant event. This phrase, “the market from Leopold vote in Belgium. on a sub a month as the goal for LOS ANGELES—M ilitant Publ. Assn., useless royal houses in Europe. King George and Prince Paul of Room 325, 124 W . 6th St. Phone V A ndyke Brest-Litovsk to Shanghai,” was Apparently the Belgian work­ The Socialist militants who every subgetter. Judging from 8061. 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Economic Affairs of the Eastern cepted the throne and in voting Farty some 70 years ago, clearly odds are most of the Seattle sug- for a monarchic figurehead in 7:30*9:30 p.m. German Government at the open­ they were not expressing any As for King Leopold III of understood the anti - proletarian getters w ill hit. that bull’s eye on MILWAUKEE—9t7 N. 3rd St., *rd fl. place of republican president Sun. through Frl., 7:30-9:30 p.m. Phone ing of the 1950 Leipzig Fair a sentiment of anti-monarchism or Belgium, his reactionary role has ole of the constitutional monarchy schedule. figureheads, then there should be been adequately dealt with al­ .nd adopted a republican platform H opkins 2-5337. few weeks ago. It sums up admir­ republicanism but just exercising Reporting for Boston, Litera­ M IN N E A P O L IS — 10 So. 4th St. Phone no objection to the revolutionary ably the business appeal which their voice as to who shall head ready. which is still the official program ture Agent Rena Breshi says that M ain 7781. D a ily except Sun., 10 a.m .- socialist parties in the regional 6 p.m. Library, bookstore. the Stalinist bureaucracy and all the institution, just as we in Far from being mere “figure­ of the Belgian SP. It is not the ‘after the Easter holiday you will areas concerned altering their NEW HAVEN—For information its agents in Eastern Europe now America vote for an individual heads,” kings can and do play an workers of Wallonia who have be­ be hearing from us very soon.” w rite, P.O. 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Open dlscum lqn. of the bureaucrats’ treacherous Thurs., 8 p.m. peasantry voted for Leopold but terests,” “national unity,” and at the recent debate between Earl The number of exhibits main­ A Reply by BROOKLYN — Mandel’a Manor, the like. policy of class collaboration. Browder and Max Shachtman. In tained by Western Germany at th a t the w orkers were ju s t as 343 Pennsylvania Ave., off Sutter, Criarles Hanley The workers and university addition to distributing a leaflet meetings every Thura. evening a t B. the Leipzig Fair has increased solidly against him. But we have It is not at all indifferent to students who fraternally co­ C IIE L S E A — 130 W . 23rd St. Pfcon# no proof that they were express­ E d ito r: the bourgeoisie whether they on “Trotskyism vs. Shachtman- A L 5-2488. ing an anti-royalist tendency for Reader R. 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M ein 9278. yy Mon. through Sat., 12-5 p.m. Brandy Cleveland 23-24 i.e., regional and national varia­ and reaction since its beginnings against the monarchy, which was, then they also are likely to suc­ sold two Militants at Brooklyn mooting Tues., 7:30 p.m. Library, book­ yy A k ro n 25 tions in tactics, such as the en­ but never the interests of the in fact, an offensive against a ceed in in flic tin g fu rth e r defeats College in the first of a sales store. yy TOLEDO — Address inquiries to So­ Youngstown 26-27 dorsement and passive support of w o rk in g class. btronghold of bourgeois reaction on the Belgian working class and furies which Youth Literature cialist Workers Party, P.O. Box 1508, P ittsb u rg h yy 28 in eventually setting "n an Agent Ethel P. aims to place on a Toledo 3. a royal house which is popular. To mention only a few historical and could open the road to further WORCESTER, (Mass.) — For informa­ New Y o rk A p ril 30 - M ay 1 This has not been a reformist facts. It was King Victor Em­ advances. But as the Italian authoritarian regime. regular basis. Youth comrades tion w rite P.O. Box 554, W orcester. yy YOUNGSTOWN — 234 E. Federal Bt., Philadelphia 2-3 policy, but a rational one. manuel of Italy who in 1922 ap­ workers’ struggle was being con­ Charles Hanley Dotty and Beezie sold nine M ili­ yy Phone 3-1355. W ed., F ri., S at., 1:30 to N e w ark 6 Should not the various parties pointed Mussolini Prime Minister, tinuously betrayed by their Stal­ New York, N. Y tants st Ntw York University; 4 *.». Page Three

ftnttoorlpttaft* ¡ |3 j>#r y*»rs Bundle Order* (6 or mm II for 6 month*. Foreign: copies): 8c each to O.B.. do IS.PiO per y r ; $2 for I mo*. t h e MILITANT *aoh In foreign oountrlea. "Entered as second claa* Published Weekly in the Interests of the Working People Signed articles by contrlba* matter Mar. 7. 1944 at the ' THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION tors do not necessarily rep- Poet Office at Nee York Super Witch-Hunt Set eseut The M ilitant'* pollole*. WHAT WROTE 116 U nive rsity PI., N. Y. 8. N . Y. (P hone: A L 4~9S30j BETHE S. Y.. under the act o f M ar. lOditor: GEORGE BREITMAN Theee are expressed to It* * 1879." Business Manager: JOSEPH HANSEN editorials. ABOUT THE H-BOMB Vol. XIV - No. 15 O ff by Senator McCarthy Monday, A p ril 10, 1950 By Paul G. Stevens witch-hunt technique for partisan der for the rise of a fascist move­ Anyone who takes the trouble to read Dr. Hans Bethe’s article purposes in capitalist polities. ment that can quickly overtake on "The Hydrogen Bomb” in the April Scientific American, even “ . . . to save society, it is not necessary either to check For over a month an obscure The McCarthy affair has a symp­ traditional capitalist politics in in its censored form, will see that the Atomic- Energy Commission the development of technique, to shut down factories, to award, Senator from Wisconsin has had tomatic significance all its owp. the United States. ordered the magazine burned for strictly political- reasons. premiums to farmers for .sabotaging- agriculture, to turn a Washington in an uproar over his Whatever immediate fate Mc­ The fact that this brew has The first part of the article explains the theoretical basis for third of the workers into paupers, or to call upon maniacs to be constant flow of sensational Carthy’s campaign encounters — been stirred by an obscure legis­ the new super-bomb. It tells what makes the bomb possible and dictators. . . Wlmt is indispensable and urgent is to separate charges about “Reds” and “top" and it is quite possible that un­ lator is an additional symptom. why its possibilities for annihilation have no foreseeable limits. It the means of production from their present parasitic owners Soviet spies” in the State Depart­ der the rising “bi-partisan” pres­ By all accounts, McCarthy is not is this section of the article, almost half, that the AEC originally and to organize society in accordance with a rational plan. ment’s highest places. Although sure it may fizzle out for the at all a machine man. A former ordered struck out in toto. Then it would at once he possible really to cure society of its lacking official support from the present — it marks a certain Marine, he “muscled” his way into Understanding the general nature of the H-Bomb, we can ap­ ills. Ail those able to work would find a job. The work-day Republican Party, Senator Joseph turning point in political develop­ office by bucking the regular Re­ preciate how truthfully Dr. Bethe then describes the effect of an would gradually decrease. The wants of all members of so­ McCarthy has been given strong ments within the United States. publican organization. He won his H-Bomb. Even with a bomb limited to “ 1000 times as much energy ciety would secure increasing satisfaction. The words ‘prop­ enough backing by such of his This is evident not so much from Senatorial post in a contest as the Hiroshima bomb” — and Dr. Bethe makes clear there is no erty,’ ‘crisis,’ ‘exploitation,’ would drop out of circulation. party’s bigwigs as Senators what the Senator or his col­ against the popular “radical” Re­ fixed lim it to its potential size — “an H-Bomb would cause almost Mankind would at last cross the threshold into true humanity.” Wherry, Bridges and Taft. His leagues have said and done, as publican, Robert LaFollette. He complete destruction of buildings up to a radius of 10 miles. By TROTSKY —I.eon Trotsky, Marxism in the United States, 1939. stand has been the subject of a LENIN from the response that McCarthy undertook his campaign of “red” the blast effect alone a single bomb could obliterate almost all of sharp public exchange between has evoked. accusations against the State De­ Greater New York or Moscow or London or any of the largest Truman and Taft, in which these partment entirely on his own, ac­ cities of the world.” leaders of the two big capitalist CAUSE OF ALARM, cording to informed reporters, But this is not all. Even worse, if possible, is the heat effect. 'Shooting Soldiers in the Back' parties accused each other of pur­ McCarthy’s fan mail, it is re­ with his party leadership tend­ At Hiroshima, fatal burns occurred up to 4,000 to 5,000 feet from suing policies aiding and abetting the center of the A-bomb explosion. But the H-Bomb “ would widen At- the March 30 press conference ported, is growing to vast pro­ ing to frown upon it. Although proscribes working class -organizations the purposes of the Kremlin. portions. A Times correspondent he admits that some of his data the range of fatal heat by a factor of 30; it would burn people to where President Truman branded Re­ like the Socialist Workers Party, and vic­ All the elder statesmen have writes as follows about it: “In­ comes from, private investigations death over a radius of up to 20 miles or more. . . one must visualize timizes government employees like the deplored the McCarthy “revela­ formants with many years of ex­ made by former FBI agents re­ what it would mean if, for instance, Chicago with all its suburbs publican Senators McCarthy, Wherry and tions” as detrimental to the na­ legless veteran, James Kutcher, solely be­ perience in evaluating postcard tained by him, he claims that and most of their inhabitants were wiped out in a single flash.” Bridges as saboteurs of U. S. foreign poli­ tional interests. Above all, the and letter campaigns are con­ most of his information comes cause they refuse to endorse the preda­ liberal and labor supporters of cy and the Kremlin’s greatest asset, he vinced that this one, whether mis­ from volunteer sources. In any Moral and Political Implications tory program of U. S. imperialism. the Fair Deal have been loud in guided or not, is genuine. They ease, a ll press observers agree In addition, there would be the even more prolonged and wider said something else that got less publicity The only thing new about Truman’s their laments over the Wisconsin are alarmed at its tone and at I that his campaign has been pretty dispersion of “nuclear radiations” — which penetrate the body and but was much more revealing. Senator’s “character assassina­ what they consider its depth in much of a one-man show. cause horrible illness and death. The radioactive particles “would latest pronouncement is that it shows he tions” that undermine the whole Denouncing the Senate Republican the country.” be carried by the wind over a large area of the bombed country” would like to be able to extend this view fabric of American democracy, A Democratic Senator, who HITLERITE TECHNIQUE and “would contaminate the center of the bombed area for some Policy Committee, he said that it Was to cover the Republicans as well, -even etc., etc. supports the Truman administra­ McCarthy’s “technique" has tim e .” grasping for a political campaign issue though their differences with him are A TURNING POINT tion, reveals that he has received been sim ple enough — it- is pat­ The major emphasis of the article, however, is on the moral, so­ a postcard from a constituent, terned with slight variations after cial and political implications of the use of the H-Bomb. Dr. Bethe through the inquiry of McCarthy’s charg­ not over basic questions but over tactics Since an> important Congres­ which says: “ Why don’t, you get that of all the social demagogues shows that those who would justify bombing the Soviet Union “are es against the State Department, and and strategy. sional election is coming up in the the Red rats out; of the State down to Hitler: Make one accusa­ adhering to the old fallacy that the ends justify the means” —* the fall, and since the Taft-Hartley that “ such a partisan effort at this stage Another significant aspect of the Mc- Department?” among many sim­ tion more sensational than the very accusation of the capitalist moralists against the Marxists. domestic policy of the Republi­ of the.'cold war’ was like shooting Amer­ Carthy-Truman-State Department, con­ ilar ones and that of other col­ other, the bigger the sensation “It is argued that it would be better for us to lose our lives cans is hardly gaining in popu­ leagues have been recipients of the better it goes over. The cu­ than our liberty, and with this view I personally agree. But I be­ ican soldiers in the hack in a hot war.” troversy is the similarity of the methods larity, it is not surprising that mail in an identical tone. mulative effect of the accusa­ lieve this is not the choice facing us here; I believe that in a war (N. Y. Times, March 31.) employed on both sides. For the McCar- some Republican leaders should The real cause for alarm among tions takes the edge off any re­ fought with hydrogen bombs we would lose not only many lives but look for,a more popular foreign Shooting soldiers in the hack at any thys, anyone who doesn’t want to go to the politicians is this popular re­ quirements for proof. What grain all our liberties and human values as well.” policy issue. The failures in the time is a serious crime, punishable by war to save Chiang Kai-shek is a Kremlin sponse to the McCarthy antics. of truth there is in any specific After such a war, presuming there was any human survival at Far East afford the best such is­ death; in wartime it would be classified And it is not an idle fear. For accusation is utilized to make the all, “nothing that resembled present civilization would remain. The agent or spy; for the Trumans, anyone sue for Republicans. as treason at the very least. When Tru­ this response shows that the whole mud stick all the better. fight for mere survival would dominate everything. The destruc­ w’ho won’t go down the line with the What makes it even more at­ man talks in such terms, what he 'is ac­ depths of black reaction are be­ As one administration supporter tion of the cities might set technology back a hundred years or more. State Department’s cold war policy is a tractive however, is the domestic ing stirred all over the country has put it: “The answers so far In a generation even the knowledge of technology and science might tually saying is that, if necessary, he will Kremlin asset. The similarity in the ar­ setting which the Democratic ad­ by the superwitch-hunt. Mc­ have plainly not caught up with disappear, because there would be no opportunity to practice them take drastic measures to silence all cri­ guments is all the more striking because ministration has provided for Carthy’s reactionary fans don’t the charges. We had thought earl­ . . . our own country would be as grievously destroyed as Europe tics of his imperialist bipartisan foreign it is involuntary; the spokesmen of the such an anti-Communist issue. In confine themselves to vicious ha­ ier that they were catching up.. and the USSR. . . ” policy. this setting, McCarthy’s sensa­ tred of the “red rats” in the The liberals’ Wails against Mc­ two capitalist parties want above all to tional accusations fall into their State Department. There have Carthy’s fantastic charges and Political Conclusions Are Inadequate Is this contention — that you are in emphasize “ differences,” especially dur­ proper place as a super-witch been simultaneous revelations their counter-accusations — along Dr. Bethe concludes with an exposition of his views on the pre­ effect a traitor if you question the bipar­ ing an election year. hunt. If the State Department it­ about cases of homosexuals in with the White House — that he vention of an H-Bomb war. He assumes that if a war comes, it will tisan policy — shocking to some people? McCarthy is trying to prove that the self figures in McCarthy’s sub­ the diplomatic service among the is playing Stalin’s game, merely be due entirely to the actions of the Soviet Union — “I refuse to versive list, that is only in the It shouldn’t be for it is not particularly Republicans would make more efficient Senator’s disclosures, and often show that they do not understand believe that the U. S. would start a preventive war.” He does not un­ nature of super-colossal produc­ the spleen of constituents — in either his role or their own in derstand and ignores the real cause of modern war, the internal new — either in full-fledged police states witch-hunters and more thorough police- tions. “unprintable language” — is the unfolding social scene. Their contradictions of capitalism and its struggle for world markets, or here in the U. S. The same viewpoint state administrators than the Democrats. It would be a mistake, however, vented as much ,on this score as own acquiescence and apologetics spheres of influence and fields for capital investment. is at the base of the whole “loyalty” But Truman is making it awfully hard to write off, the whole McCarthy on the “red” issue. What other for the “cold war” witch-hunt Hence, he concludes that “ the one purpose of our development purge program, which just as arbitrarily for McCarthy to prove his point. business as a feeler in Republican elements go into this witch’s with its “loyalty purges” and of the bomb would be to prevent its use” by the Soviet Union, “not pre-election “politics.” Nor is it brew — of minority hatreds and subversive lists have helped to to use it.” So he would have the American government make a merely to be dismissed as an provincial passions — can only pave the way for the McCarthy pledge not to use it first, which would place the moral onus, as he overwrought application of the be surmised. But it is made to or­ a ffa ir. believes, on the “enemy.” Besides, he explains, the U. S. could not Biddle*— the A D A fs #New Voice/ be knocked out with one H-Bomb and could speedily retaliate not only with H-Bombs but with its superior stock of A-Bombs. In an ecstatic editorial entitled “ ADA’s ordered and carried through the first Dr. Bethe’s is no solution at all. But he does give an authentic New Voice,” the N. Y. Post on April 3 prosecutions under the Smith Gag Law, REAL ISSUES WERE NOT DISCUSSED and reliable description of what H-Bomb war would mean. He does hailed the election of Francis Biddle as railroading to jail 18 leaders of the So­ show that any claim that the next war will bring the American peo­ cialist Workers Party on the eve of this ple security or more freedom is a myth. And his warning can help national chairman of Americans for Dem­ arouse the American people to a more urgent search for a funda­ country’s entry into the last war. It was ocratic Action. “ Perhaps more than any­ AT BROWDER-SHACNTMAN DEBATE mental solution to war. Biddle’s “ victory” in 1941 that set the If, as Dr. Bethe points out, the H-Bomb can mean nothing but only in an empty polemical sally one else, he [Biddle] resisted the press­ By David Weiss capitalist party primaries). But the wiping out of civilization and the opening of an age darker than precedent for Foley Square and continues against the other. apparently he was too shy to ure of the know-nothings and guarded to play a prominent role in the unfolding NEW YORK, March 31 — Ad­ anything yet seen, then w ill not the people be ready to consider any Although the debaters ex­ mention his own organization. other alternative, however radical? May they not even accept the our essential freedoms while the country assault on civil rights. vertised as a “ Debate Sensation” pressed many differences, they So fa r as pro le ta rian stra te g y and exploiting the past connec­ one alternative to capitalist world-murder — that is, world social­ fought a two-front war. His election to This by no means exhausts the reac­ had more in common than they and tactics are concerned, ncithei ism? That is why the powers-that-be in Washington want to dis­ tions of the contenders, the realized. For example, although speaker drew any conclusions lead America’s independent liberal forces tionary record of Francis Biddle. Suffice Browder-Shachtman debate, held credit and silence Dr. Bethe, censor any publication that prints for the coming year is a dramatic event the despotic Stalinist bureaucracy from their opposite positions or views like his and intimidate the entire American press. it to add that early in the war years he last night at Webster Hall under acts as a brake on the economic “Is Russia a Socialist Com­ in this era of McCarthyism. . . There is demanded that Negroes in the South be the auspices of the Eugene V. development of the USSR and by munity?” Yet they both have ? a ‘Third Force’ in America and it has restricted from moving into the Northern Debs Society of Brooklyn College, its policies prepares the way for line, and these lines, though dif spoken out again at a time when it needed areas. That was his way of “ solving” the attracted an audience of about the country’s overthrow by capi­ ferent, have their points of AEC CENSORS “SCIENTIFIC 1,000. Many were undoubtedly talism, both speakers made a com­ similarity. to be heard. Francis Biddle will give new racial tensions in cities like Detroit where drawn to this affair in the hope fervor and integrity to that voice,” so plete identification of the parasitic the Km Klux elements ran amok because that they would witness on a regime and the Soviet Union. POINTS OF SIMILARITY AMERICAN,” BURNS COPIES said the Post editors. the Negroes rebelled against segregation public platform the clash of the Nor did either speaker shed any Browder, seeing in the Kremlin (Continued from Page 1) ing prohibition issued to the na­ Who is Francis Biddle? and discrimination. The most rabid ideas of Trotsky and Stalin on theoretical light on the nature of bureaucracy the only progressive had sent advance copies of his tion’s atomic scientists raises the This “ guardian of our essential free­ Southern Bourbon would hardly find the vital question of the nature the Soviet Union. By their method force in the world, wants to subor­ article to a number of his col­ question of whether the com­ of the Soviet Union. mission is thus suppressing in­ doms” happens to be the same individual fault with such a “ solution.” they cast light only on the anti- dinate the interests of the work­ leagues, including a member of who, as wartime Attorney General, com­ But the Browder - Shachtman Marxist nature of Browderism ing class to the interests of the the A E C . On M arch 14, the com­ formation which the American In brief, by his whole record and his debate was a sham. The speakers and Shachtmanism. Imagine a Stalinist oligarchy. His aim is tc mission sent out a telegram for­ people need in order to form in­ piled the first secret “ subversive” list deeds Biddle has an indisputable claim appeared as political ghosts, theoretical discussion of the use the masses as pawns in a new bidding its employees to discus' telligent judgments on this major which was to be later promulgated pub­ to recognition of having done more than leaders of the past and imposters Soviet Union without a single bargain with Washington to per­ “thermo-nuclear weapons with un­ problem .” licly by his successor Tom Clark. Thus any other single person, with the excep­ today, without workers parties reference either to the reactionary petuate the rule of the Kremlin authorized persons regardless o‘ It pointed out that no “ security” during his tenure in office Biddle was behind them any longer. This Stalinist theory of building social­ Shachtman, on the other hand classification of the information” reasons could have justified the tion of Tom Clark, to pave the way for could not fail to reveal itself in ism in a single country or to is a v ic tim and a salesman of — that is, atomic physicists and censorship, since the Bethe article instrumental not only in supplying the the current witch-hunt and onslaught on the course of their debate and Trotsky’s theory of the permanent Stalinophobia. Failing to under­ others could not discus's or write contained no technical informa­ cover for the current witch-hunt but ac­ civil liberties, which the Post misleading­ was in fact pointed out in ad­ revolution! stand that the Stalinist bureau anything about the H-Bomb. tion that had not already been tually in helping lay the cornerstone for ly label as “ the era of McCarthyism.” vance in the statement issued by Browder simply declared Russia cracy is doomed to permanen' Subsequently, the language was widely circulated in the public it. What made McCarthy possible was the Socialist Workers Party. This to be a socialist society on the instability and crisis precisely toned down to a “request” that p^-ess apd in “statements which | have since been made by Robert This “ voice of new fervor and integri­ Clark, and before him, none other than read in part: basis of its great increase of because it is a caste (and not : employees “refrain” from all dis­ production which was made lass) in constant coritradictlo- cussion — but the intent remained Bacher, former member of the ty ” happens to be the same individual who Biddle. BOTH REPUDIATED possible by the conquests of the and conflict with the property clear. commission, in a speech in the “ Neither Browder nor Shacht­ October revo lu tion o f 1917. Demo­ relations in the USSR, he fright­ On M arch 15, the commission I.os Angeles Town Hall on March man officially represent the move­ cracy and equality for the work ens himself into panic magnifying demanded that all technical por­ 27.” The New Censorship Technique ments whose ideas they will ers? Those “trimmings,” he said, the Kremlin’s counter - revolu­ tions of the Bethe article, amount­ The two main points of Bethe’s presume to defend in the debate. will come later. tionary power to the point wherr ing to half of what he wrote, b* article dealt with the probable There is an especially sinister side to of the AEC, which admitted the censor­ In fact, both have been repudiated Shachtman m ainly utilize d it constitutes the greatest danger withheld from publication. As effect of the H-Bomb, showing the Atomic Energy Commission’s cen­ ship of the Scientific American, gave as and rejected by these movements Trotsky’s exposures of the reac­ in the world. the issue was already on the that it can wipe out all civilization sorship of the H-Bomb Article by Dr. its answer: “ No comment.” A t least i t can be said fo r tionary Stalinist regime, the This phobia, which is invariably presses, the editors requested the and destroy even scientific know­ Hans Bethe in the April Scientific Amer­ Browder that, although expelled growing material inequality in coupled with lack of confidence commission to specify its ob­ ledge itself, and a criticism of As Stone observes, this “ represents a id denounced by the Communist the Truman administration’s H- ican. That is the method used to force the USSR, and the disappearance in the capacity of the workers t jections. These finally were cen­ new powerful technique for censorship.” >.rty, he continues to defend the of workers democracy. From these settle scores with both capitalism tered on about one column of Bomb policy. the magazine to comply with the AEC's Any time Washington wants to suppress tten and discredited policies of he went on to a declaration that and Stalinism, increasingly leads type, and subsequently to certain Bethe and other atomic scient­ demand for burning the uncensored an article on the H-Bomb, it picks out a eaCherous Stalinism. Shacht- Russia is a new type of reac­ him to the advocacy of policies passages in the column. ists were recently subjected to a copies. portion of the article and declares it an, however, makes his ap- tionary state called “bureaucratic which subordinate the interests of Under the personal supervision savage attack by former AEC Under a special law passed by Congress, “ classified.” It can thus censor any arti­ larance as a thoroughgoing im collectivism” with a new type of the workers to those of trade rf an AEC representative, Alvin Director David Lilienthal for ister. He has no connection reactionary ruling class. union lieutenants of the State De R. Ryan, the magazines already daring to warn the American peo­ the AEC has control over all technical cle without previously specifying what is liatever with the genuine Trot- But he did not trace the partment like Reuther and Carey off the press were burned, along ple of the real nature of the H data relating to atomic energy. The law “ classified” and what is not. ;yist movement. Together with development of his new class The Trotskyist analysis of the with all proofs of the original Bomb and for denying that such provides harsh penalties, even death sen­ From now on, those who write on this imes Burnham he split with “barbarism.” he did not bother tc class nature of the Soviet Union article and the “objectionable an annihilation weapon could tences in certain instances, for revealing subject and those who publish such w rit­ rotskyism in 1949 and has spent explain how it squares with remains the only one that traces linotype slugs . . . were removed mean “security” for this country. AEC secrets and^gives the AEC power to ings do so at their own risk. After an ar­ e last ten years in fighting' the Marxist theory, and he remained the evolution of the Russian revo­ r.nd delivered to the smelting )cialist Workers Party, the silent on how he differed from lution to the stage where under room," said Mr. Piel. The maga enjoin publication to prevent disclosure. ticle is published, the AEC may slap a ithentic spokesman of Trotsky Trotsky’s analysis and why he Stalin today it is a profoundly zine finally appeared on the news­ LO§ ANGELES These penalties, however, apply only to “ classified” label on it and place author m in the United States.” broke with it. degenerated workers state. Only stands with the article as cen­ what is called “ classified” information. and publication in jeopardy. It will take Browder, although advertised the Trotskyist analysis explains sored. H ear STRANGE OMISSIONS Dr. Bethe’s article contained no such > the “ former General Secretary why and how the remaining con­ In a protest statement, thr a courageous publication indeed to write BERT COCHRAN “ classified” information. Aside from in­ ' the Com m unist P a rty : 1930 Nor did the debaters recom­ quests of the October revolution Scientific American editors stated without fear of restraint on any aspect of mend any movement whatever for SWP National Trade Union timidation and threats of a “disloyalty” )44,” did not once throughout must be preserved and extended that “ we consider the commission’s the H-Bomb, however remote from any le debate mention the Com- the workers to join. Browder has and how counter - revolutionary action with regard to the Bethe C hairm an smear, how could the commission enforce actual “ secrets” involved in its produc­ unist Party or Stalin. For his no organization. His present role Stalinism in the Soviet Union and article and the subsequent sweep- Speak on its censorship of an article in a private tion. art. Shachtman, who was ad is to curry favor with the world in the workers movement can be publication that contained “ unclassified” This is not a measure of “military se­ jrtised as “Editor and Trans Stalinist movement that kicked successfully fought and destroyed The Outlook for Labor him out when his usefulness had Next Week: information already widely publicized? curity.” It is aimed at political suppres­ tor of Works of Leon Trotsky,” in 1950 ith the word “former” being ended, and to act as a loyal scape The Bridges Trial—a report I. F. Stone, columnist for the N. Y. sion. Its purpose is to halt any and all goat for new forms of collabora­ razenly omitted, also studiously Correction from San Francisco. EMBASSY AUDITORIUM Daily Compass, discloses the “ hitherto discussion of the politics of the H-Bomb, voided any reference either to tion between Wall Street and Union Pension Plans — an South Hall Last week’s article, The unpublished story.” The AEC formally as well as its moral and social implica­ le Trotskyist movement to which the Kremlin. analysis by Robert Phillips. State of Civil Liberties in 517 W. 9th Street e once belonged or to Leon Shachtman, however, heads the A discussion of the problem and hastily declared the “ unclassified” tions. In short, it is a move to muzzle India, was written by Ruth rotsky. Independent Socialist League of civil rights and the fascists. Sunday, A p r il 16, a t 8 P. M. and already published -material in Bethe’s any voice that may be raised against the Johnson and not, as errone­ Only one'e throughout the whole (which he is now trying to trans­ Reports on the purges in article “ classified.” When asked about ously stated, by Joseph Keller. D o n a tio n : 25c production of the H-Bomb as such and vening, was the name of Trotsky form into a little election machine Norway and Czechoslovakia. this report, the press information office against World War III. i j i*«* AnnVi cnooVov nufl t.nen C ___ H l n l . a m D rtAvi/liJofnc m 1 The Menace of Education the MILITANT — By Ruth Johnson ...... —

W illiam J. Wallin, Chancellor of the New York You might expect him to propose more schools V O L U M E X IV M O N D A Y , A P R IL 10, 1950 N U M B E R 15 Board of Regents which establishes educational to use the new teachers, more hospitals to use standards for the state’s schools, spoke last week the new doctors, more laboratories to emplcfy the at a dinner in honor of Dwight Eisenhower, the knowledge, training and genius of budding scien­ man who graduated from the Army to the presi­ tists. Not Wallin. He is perfectly content to see dency of Columbia University. Eisenhower had millions of jobless; all he wants is to keep them announced that very day the momentous discovery submissive. Lundeberg Gets that the United States, with its A-Bombs and H- “We shall find that, embittered with their Bomb production, is pitifully disarmed and help­ frustration, these surplus graduates will turn less against foreign foes. W allin devoted himself upon society and the government,” he says. What to protecting capitalism on the home front, base ingratituude, to demand that they have a A Setback in against the deadly menace — of education. chance to use their education in the service of “ In the field of higher education,” he warned, m ankind! “ there is a widespread belief and tenet that the government has a duty to provide everyone who Alas, even that is not the worst. The disinherit­ Seattle Court desires it an opportunity for higher education, ed youth will do more than protest; they will even in the professions.” use all their training and intelligence to seek SEATTLE, March 30 — The Brass Hats of the AFL It isn’t just that Wallin is aghast at the pros­ a better way. The jobless graduates, Wallin fumes, “w ill be more effective and better armed Sailors Union of the Pacific received their first legal pect of some worker’s son or daughter competing setback today to their attempts to throttle union democracy for his lush job. It isn’t only that he believes the in their destructive wrath by the education we halls of learning should remain restricted to the have given them.” and to convert the hiring hall in the nort most convenient to children of the rich. Behind his contempt for the It’s instructive to hear the eminent Chancellor into a union bureaucrats’ crimp aspirations of the youth lies terrified recognition admit that only an illiterate ignoramus will keep joint. Superior Judge Harold A. accuser, accused and witnesses. In that capitalism is in a bad way. on supporting the system of wars and depressions. Seering upheld the complaint o£ the cases involved, the judge held, Wallin is unimpressed by Truman’s promises We might add that many a social ignoramus three sailors, members of the the place of union trial would bo of jobs for all at $12,000 in the year 2,000. He wears the collegiate cap and gown. SUP, who had been victimized Seattle, not San Francisco. sees today’s graduates tramping the streets in the Wallin ought to know that tyrants throughout by the Lundeberg machine. The court decision applies al­ most to the letter to the case of vain search for jobs, and he expects future di­ history have ranted against education for the The three sailors, W alter Flindt, While members of the Atomic Energy Commission listen, acting chairman Sumner T. Pike John Mahoney and to other SUP ploma-holders to face no better prospects. masses, for more or less the same reasons he Norman Combs and James Sever­ (second from right) tells Washington newsmen all atomic workers and consultants have been or­ “We are liable to educate, particularly in the gives. He ought to know they failed. From the son, had been fired from their jobs members expelled for defending dered to cease discussing technical H-Bomb information even though it is not classified secret. his democratic rights. Mahoney post-graduate area, many more men and women days of the slave revolts in the Roman Empire aboard ships by the shipping com­ Enforcing the ban, the AEC forced Scientific American magazine to burn 3,000 copies of an is­ was placed on charges for asking than can earn a living in the field in which they down to our own times, the people have given panies, acting in collusion with sue containing an H-Bomb article. a point of information in a have chosen to be educated, and too often any­ a fitting answer to rulers who were sure that union officials, and had been Seattle union meeting. He asked where else,” he explains. ignorance is bliss. ordered to proceed to San Fran­ who had given Lundeberg and Co. cisco to stand trial in a Lunde- the authority to scab against the berg-rigged kangaroo court. Their Canadian Seamen’s Union strike. “crime” was suspicion of sym­ UAW Leaders' Retreat A membership meeting in Seattle A Lie That Boomerangs pathy with the Mahoney Defense voted overwhelmingly to quash Committee which has been fight­ ------■ By Fred Hart ------the charges. But in a rigged ing for the restoration of demo­ meeting, Lundeberg had Mahoney Joseph Clark is the new foreign editor of the for years in cahoots with all the other “ Trotsky­ Emboldens A uto Barons cracy in the SUP. Daily Worker, more accurately he is their Tito- ite spies.” expelled in his absence in San Francisco. Subsequently other baiting specialist. The grapevine has it that Clark What then is there so newsworthy or remark­ DETROIT, April 2 — New a settlement favorable to the workers have permission to serv­ JUDGE’S RULING replaced Joseph Starobin because of the latter’s able about the coverage of Yugoslav events and supporters of Mahoney, including evidence is piling up to show that corporation. ice machinery and equipment, In his memorandum, the judge ineptitude or remissness in dealing with Yugo­ political statements in The Militant, which has the entire crew of the Island the Big Three — Chrysler, Gen­ Meanwhile, in history-breaking while morale on the picket line recognized the existence of a slav affairs. from the beginning of the Cominform-Tito rift Mail, were expelled in the same eral Motors and Ford — are production, GM piles up cars and is weakened by it. Morale is blacklist prepared by Lundeberg defended Yugoslavia’s struggle against the Krem­ unconstitutional manner. Since assuming his duties, Clark has pulled united in an unholy conspiracy to profits through extra-shifts and further shaken by company and Co., consisting of all op­ lin and against American imperialism ? As every out all stops, allowing no opportunity to pass beat down the auto workers. overtime. Front - page headlines propaganda, since meetings and ponents of the union bureaucracy. N E X T S TA G E one of our readers is aware, our differences with without some new jibe or lie or gob of filth about The Chrysler Corporation has help build an atmosphere of anti­ mass demonstrations to overcome Those on this list, he stated, those Titoist policies which diverge from revolu­ To cover his slimy tracks, the Yugoslavs. The other day this expert depart­ kept the workers out on strike strike sentiment by announcing the effects of this propaganda tionary socialism have never prevented us from “ were required to proceed'to San Lundeberg — who has been work­ ed from the standard pattern of the Stalinist for ten weeks now. Its $30,000,- GM’s “all-time” production high. have been few. extending complete support to the progressive Francisco to explain their posi­ ing hand in glove W'ith Senator anti-Yugoslav propaganda. 000 pension o ffe r had so m any Ihe Detroit News openly poses Yet the assemblies that have Yugoslav fight for independence. tion. . . Failure to do this results Taft — has accused his opponents strings attached that negotiations the question: “ Is the corporation been called indicate the fighting Dealing with O. John Rogge’s junket to Bel­ The whole point is this, that the Yugoslavs in immediate expulsion. . . The of resorting to the Taft-Hartley were called off for the time trying to build up a backlog of w ill of the membership. Only last grade and lecturing him on the impermissibility have recently made factual and damning revela­ union official publication has Law. The charge was a lie out of being. Bargaining has not brought automobiles for its dealers in week 10,000 UAW members of such activities, Clark, on March 29, offers as tions about the Kremlin’s role in Eastern Europe. carried stories of this action and the whole cloth. But it has served any major contract concessions. event of a strike?” gathered to picket and hear a juicy tidbit the “news” that the Trotskyists The M ilitant has been printing these revelations has threatened reprisal as soon Lundeberg as a convenient pretext And all this time the newspapers Reuther and Matthews make “have officially drawn Tito to their bosom.” And for the information of its readers. Unable to an­ as the case is determined.” to try to extort a new assessment reported that the negotiators were FORD PACT EFFECTS speeches. Buth reiterated pledges then adds, “The latest issue of their paper here, swer the Yugoslav charges, Clark apparently de­ While clearing the shipowners from the union membership to The M ilitant, greets the Titoites’ public denuncia­ only a few cents apart. It is per­ UAW leaders have signed a that the union will not weaken cided that the easiest way would be to start of charges of collusion, the judge “protect the hiring hall from tions of the Soviet Union from every conceivable “clarified” agreement with Ford on pension and contract demands. shouting “in passing” about the Trotskyists hav­ fectly clear that Chrysler intends ordered the union officialdom to Trotskyists and disrupters.” point of view.” which released him from a definite Both were cheered loudly when­ ing — at last! — “officially drawn Tito to their to sit tight, banking on starvation cease “discriminating against The next stage of the struggle 83^c.-an-hour payment for pen­ ever they indicated that they Clark has apparently forgotten that according bosom.” among the workers and softness plaintiffs in their employment, will undoubtedly be transferred sions. Ford now need not put any would not retreat. The applause to the Kremlin, according to the Hungarian and The only trouble is that this new lie is not at among the union leaders to force suspending or expelling them to Seattle again. It is expected definite sum into a trust fund, but was emphatic when Reuther Bulgarian “treason trials,” and according to all in harmoney with all the previous Stalinist from membership unless charges that Lundeberg, following Cur­ only guarantee the difference be­ Clark’s own previous columns, all the Yugoslavs, lies. Clark forgot his own previous lies for a mo­ pledged to have a new contract are filed and a hearing held in rant’s example, will import bus­ tween what the government pays before settling the strike. By from Tito down, are nothing but “Trotskyite ment. And for this inexcusable oversight he may accordance with the constitution loads of ringers and goons from spies” to begin with and have allegedly worked F. 0 . Matthiessen in social secu rity and $100 a their response, the strikers show­ yet have to beat his breast in public. of the union.” This provision re­ other ports to uphold the charges month. In spite of the earlier ed they were more than ever quires that the member be tried against oppositionists. Commits Suicide assertions of UAW leaders, this ctetermined to fight. means that no sums can possibly From the Yugoslav Press (ConL from page 1) pile up in the fund which would WHAT OMISSIONS SHOW ihe remark: “ I am an independent make possible automatic pension • Yet, neither speaker explained rad ica l.” raises beyond the $100 maximum. why union leaders had repeatedly MARITIME PARLEY LEFT He understood that capitalism This surrender by the union offered to arbitrate the contract. How the Kremlin exploits Rumania’s industry stock held by the Jew and then Moscow confis­ was responsible for repression Nor did they mention the retreat and natural resources through the medium of cated it as “ German property.” leadership to Ford has set the and that attacks on any segment stage for the frontal assault of at Ford, or the watering-down of “A whole number of other mixed companies for “ mixed companies” was exposed in a detailed ar­ of the working class threaten the C h rysler demands below the 10c. WAY OPEN FOR RAIDING the exploitation of Rumania,” writes Glas, “have the other two giants. These, see­ ticle on March 19 by the Serbian periodical Glas. movement for human freedom and They did not mention a com­ been formed by the Soviet Union on the same ing the union leaders on the run. The Militant has received new information which con­ The field of transportation is dominated by the attainment of the socialist mon Chrysler-GM strategy, or a basis. There is the mixed company Sovroum-Trac- could well determine to force a three “mixed commissions” : Tars for air trans­ goal. On occasions when he spoke common termination date of both firms our statement last week that the March 18-20 Wash­ tcurs, to which the promised deliveries of Soviet showdown: “ Give in peaceably to port; Rata for the traction networks; and So- publicly in behalf of the Trot­ ington conference of maritime unions to defend the hiring machines were never made; there is Sovroum- our imperial will, or we’ll crush these agreements with the Ford vroum for the Danubian shipping system. The skyist victims of the Smith Act, Film which controls 90% of the distribution and you with our might!” Many contract. By these omissions, hall was “a conspiracy of bureau-' manner in which these bodies are constituted is all seamen involved. This “ prin­ import of movies; there is Sovroum-Assurance (an he did not use the platform to pickets beljeve that this actually UAW leaders show they aim to erats against the rank and file of illustrated by the Sovroum where “ the Rumanians ciple” clashes with the entire insurance trust). . . ” dissociate himself from their is the corporations’ strategy. continue the policy that has the seamen rather than a power­ have furnished all the ships and all the ship­ tradition of West Coast maritime In these enterprises, Soviet personnel is assign­ revolutionary program; he uttered In the face of this powerful and brought the union into a blind ful phalanx in defense of their yards, so that no vessels whatever remain at their unionism. In the past when new ed to all the key posts while the Rumanians, in a not a word of apology for their united combination, Reuther alley. interests. . . (It) is directed solely own disposal, while on the Soviet side all that was West Coast companies were or­ subordinate position, play “only a decorative and ideas, not a syllable to establish blindfolds the union with a “one- against militants and critics and furnished were ships seized as war booty by the 1 is own lespectability in the eyes ganized, the deck department honorary role, because all the important ques­ at-a-time” strategy. His lieu­ not against cannibal unionism and Soviet troops.” v.ent under contract to the SUP, tions are decided by the Soviet representatives.” of authority. tenants are now talking openly jurisdictional raiding.” Analyzing the oil industry, the most important Prof. Matthiessen wrote much ITU Local Asks the engine department to the The pay of the Soviet executives goes as high as about calling another national We have learned that prior to sector of Rumania’s economy, Glas points out and lovingly about Walt Whit­ MFOW and the stewards depart­ 200.000 lei, while the Rumanians receive from convention to raise more money, the conference Harry Lundeberg, that the mixed company Sovroum-Petrole con­ man. Whitman’s poem “To a ment to the CIO Marine Cooks 50.000 to 80,000 lei; but the “workers in these but none considers the elementary For Strike Vote at Secretary of the AFL Sailors trols the entire oil output. In the hands of the Foil’d European Revolntionaire” and Stewards. Malone’s capitula­ enterprises do not get more than 4,000 to 5,000 wisdom of shutting off all over­ Union of the Pacific, laid down an Rumanians themselves are only two companies could well serve as his own tion eases the way for Lundeberg lei a month.” time work at GM to prevent the ultimatum to the other unions as Muntenia and Petrol-export and these cannot ex­ epitaph. New York Papers to continue his policy of signing Glas underscores that the methods employed in company’s piling up cars in a condition for his participation. port oil except by Moscow’s authorization. “Courage yet, my brother or sweetheart agreements with the the “mixed companies” are identical with the preparation for a strike. By F. Newman He demanded that no support be The country’s metallurgical industry is likewise “means of exploitation used by capitalist coun­ m y sis te r! given by any union to the shipowners behind the backs of under the Kremlin’s thumb. Sovroum-Metal has Nor do the leaders contemplate NEW YORK, April 2 — “ Big tries in employing the labor force and draining Keep on — Liberty is to be Mahoney Defense Committee in (he other two unions. taken over ltechitsa, the largest and most impor­ breaking off the newly-begun GM Six,” the N. Y. local of the In­ the natural resources of backward countries. subserved whatever occurs; Seattle, which is fighting to tant metallurgical combine in the country. Prior negotiations, and calling workers ternational Typographical Union, The Soviet leadership simply covers itself up That is nothing that is quelled lestore democracy in the SUP. CANNIBAL UNIONISM to the war this combine was held jointly by the cut in an offensive - defensive last week turned down an offer with a mask of pseudo-socialist phraseology when­ by one or two failures, or This ultimatum was aimed Moreover the conference deci­ Rumanian government and a Jewish capitalist. alliance with the Chrysler strik­ of the newspaper'publishers by ever it refers to these mixed companies as alleged­ any number of failures, directly against the MFOW sion is the best cover that Paul During the war the Hitler regime seized the ly generous aid.” ers. Such united strategy, many a vote of 925 to 13, for the third Or by the indifference or in­ ("independent Marine Firemen’s Hall of the SIU and Lundeberg unionists point out, would paralyze time asking the International gratitude of the people, or Union of the Pacific.) have found for their cannibal the scheme of GM to prepare for Executive Council for permission by any unfaithfulness. The MFOW had aided the Seattle unionism to date. This AFL gang a long strike; would unite GM to take a strike vote. Or the show of the tushes of group because its jurisdiction had has openly declared that all other with Chrysler workers and build Employees in the N. Y. news­ IBEW in Chicago Signs 'Loyalty' Contract power, soldiers, cannon, penal been raided time and again by maritime unions on the West and their morale. It could bring the paper composing rooms have been statutes. Lundeberg and because Mahoney East Coasts are dual and hostile An AFL union in Chicago has * * * tremendous pressure of labor and working without a contract for lional Brotherhood of Electrical company’s infamous terms. These and his followers in the SUP had to the SIU. This was their signed a contract with the Stew-1 the whole community to bear the past six months. Negotiations )\ orkers Local 1031, perm its included, in addition to the right Did we think victory great? protested many times against justification for raiding the NMU art-Warner Corporation that I against both GM and Chrysler. have been held throughout this Stewart-Warner to fire any em­ to fire on political grounds, a “no So it is — but now it seems to this resort to cannibal unionism in the oil workers strike and the gives the company the right to But Reuther is not seriously- period. The publishers have re­ ployee it accuses of belonging to strike, no picketing, no slowdown me, when it cannot-be helped, by their own union leadership. CIO engineers in their dispute fire workers for political beliefs considering greater militancy fused to concede any union a “subversive organization” which clause.” that defeat is great, with the Isbrandtsen shipping and associations not approved by even in the Chrysler strike. demands which would add a penny seeks to “alter the form of gov­ Robert E. Ackerberg, NLRB at­ And that death and dismay arc L U N D E B E R G ’S D E M A N D company. Only a few weeks be­ the company. It also gives the Powerhouse and maintenance to their costs — this at a time ernment of the United States by torney in Chicago, has charged great.” A t the conference, Lundeberg’s fore the conference Lundeberg’s company the right to force its when national newspaper adver­ unconstitutional means.” that the signing of the contract demand was put in the form of a paper hailed Beck’s raid on the employers to sign a “loyalty” tising income has reached a new Stewart-Warner also gets the was an unfair labor practice be­ pledge by all unions not to aid any West Coast CIO warehousemen as oath. high . contractual right to require any cause of company collusion in the group in any of the unions which an “important step in making the The contract, signed on March George Novack Protests Newspaper employee or job applicant to sign election. The NLRB has not cer- The Printers’ Ink national ad­ was resorting to the Taft-Hartley entire waterfront AFL. . .” 36 by officials of AFL Interna- an oath th a t he is not a “ Com­ vertising index indicated a new t'fie d Local 1031 as ba rga ining Law. Everyone at the conference For Lundeberg the issue of the munist” or “Communist sym­ peak o f 283.3 fo r 1949, w e ll ahead agent and is investigating the Story on Matthiessen’s Activity knew that this accusation against hiring hall has become only a pathizer” and does not believe in of the previous high of 246 set the Seattle group was a lie, and Dutch Trotskyists Run company’s interference in the point of attack against the other “ Communist” principles. NEW YORK — The Militant has received a copy of ;n 1948. D o lla r expenditures fo r that Lundeberg was using the lie In Provincial Elections election. unions and against militant sea­ Prior to signing this contract the following letter sent on April 3 to the N. Y. World- national newspaper ads were as a pretext to isolate the MFOW. The Stewart-Warner deal with men. His paper reported on March AMSTERDAM, April 1 — The w ith IB E W Local 1031, the com­ the IBEW is part of a natidn-wide Telegram & Sun by George Novack, secretary of the Civil 15.3% ahead o f 1948. The N . Y. In fact, according to Lunde­ Revolutionary Communist Party 24 that Lundeberg had scheduled pany had introduced the oath in move by jthc anti-labor corpora­ Rights Defense Committee: Times in its year-end review' berg’s report at the San Fran­ of Holland (Dutch Trotskyists)! meetings with Senator Taft “in a move to victimize leaders of tions to get the power to fire Communist Party, he defended the asserted that all newspaper ad cisco SUP membership meeting, w ill participate in the provincial an attempt to work out satisfac­ the independent United Electrical workers at will. All they need do Dear S ir: rights of Socialists, Trotskyists expenditures fo r 1950 were ex­ Vincent Malone, MFOW secre­ elections, scheduled for April 26. tory protection for the union W orkers Local 3154, which had under an “ anti-Communist” clause Out of respect for the memory pacifists, Negroes and other pected to be even higher. The tary, protested. He said that he Lists of candidates will be pre­ from the irresponsible elements been the previously recognized is to label a worker “ subversive” of a noble man and friend, I must minorities. One of his last acts Image figures for January 1950 was aiding the Seattle group be­ sented in the two principal prov­ end exponents of un - American union. The company had fired and kick him out. A similar clause indignantly protest the World-Tel­ was an appeal to the Harvard show' that this upward trend still cause Lundeberg was raiding his inces — North and South Holland. ideologies.” five UE shop stewards who re­ was foisted on the W right Aero­ egram & Sun article on April 1 faculty to support the case of the continues. jurisdiction. Then — according te The Central Committee of the | So great was Curran’s anxiety fused to take the yellow - dog nautical workers in Paterson, stating that Professor F. O. Mat­ legless veteran, James Kutcher After each of the first two re­ the same report — it remained party has issued an appeal for an to protect himself against rank- oath. N. J., with the appproval of CIO thiessen of Harvard “ was one of noted victim of the loyalty purge. quests for strike sanction, the for Curran of the NMU, which electoral fund of 1,500 florins. and-file opponents in the NMU Under cover of the general United Auto Workers President the top supporters of Communist He was not a Stalinist, but, as local scale committee and officers lias also suffered from Lunde- The election campaign w ill be con­ that he accepted without a witch - hunt in the country, Walter Reuther. front organizations in the nation’s lie stated in his last testament, • W'ere assisted in the negotiations ber’s raids, to perform the cow­ ducted around a ten-point pro­ whimper Lundeberg’s humiliat­ Stewart-Warner tried for many Workers in other plants have academic world.” Socialist and a Christian, with by International Pres. Randolph ardly chore of laying down the law gram. In addition to a call for ing terms, with no concrete pro­ months to reintroduce the open been fired as “ poor security risks” The truth is that Professor great love for his fellowman and and Vice President Brown, but to Malone. Curran is reported to struggle in defense of the work­ mise of aid if the NMU hiring shop. It refused to renew the UE under War Department regula­ Matthiessen was one of the top an unquenchable belief in social without result. Among other have said that anyone aiding any ers’ living standard, this electoral hall is attacked. program includes the following: contract and waged a ruthless tions. This is an extension of the supporters of civil rights for all, justice. things, the union had demanded group trying to tear down the Today Curran whines that “ the “For the dissolution of the campaign to smash the UE with “loyalty” purge into private in­ no matter what their views or It was precisely this type of $10 wage, increases, pension and h'ring hall of any union docs not seagoing unions are getting an Netherlands Union — complete red-baiting. dustry. But contracts like those affiliations. witch-hunting attack, this smear­ health insurance benefits. But the belong in the conference and will awful kicking around (from the independence to Indonesia!” With the collusion and help of signed at Stewart - W’arner and He was one of those rare figures ing of character and imputation publishers offered only to con­ not receive any help from the "Down with the Monarchy! the company, the IBEW stepped W right put a “union label” on the in American public life today of guilt-by-association that drove tinue the previous contract for 18 ether unions. government and shipowners) for Long Live the Republic!” in to take over the contract and purge. with the courage to come forward this sensitive scholar to the months, with one or two minor At this point Malone caved in. (heir efforts to establish dis­ “ For the defense of Yugoslavia the dues payers. In return for Some reactionary union officials and defend the liberties of all the desperate personal political pro­ changes in working conditions. The principle accepted by the cipline and stability in the mari­ time industry.” What w ill be say against both the Kremlin and I he company’s aid in winning a are inviting such contracts as a persecuted, victimized and op­ test which cut short an extremely The union rejected arbitration participants was “First Come. tomorrow when Hall and Lunde­ Wall Street!” recent collective bargaining elec­ means of ousting rival unions and pressed. _ , valuable life. after six other craft unions had First Served.” The union organ­ “ For the Socialist United States tion against the UE, the IBEW also as a device to get militant To m y knowledge, in ad dit on Sincerely yours, failed to receive any benefits izing a new company first is en­ berg add their kicks to those of of Europe!” Local 1031 officials agreed to the unionists fired from the plants. to members and followers of the GEORGE NOVACK through that method. titled to complete jurisdiction over the shipowners and government?