New War Moves Bring Blows at Civil Rights

Workers Ilf The World, Unite! U. S. Capitalism Heads Into New Depression See Page 5 THE MILITANTPUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE VOL. XI — No. 13 NEW YORK, N. Y„ SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1947 401 PRICE: FIVE CENTS Stalinist Press Still Silent On NEW WAR MOVES BRING Trotsky Murder “ W orker" Article Suppresses All Mention BLOWS AT CIVIL RIGHTS O f Budenz's Evidence That Stalin Is Guilty By Evelyn Atwood Piling On The Load After a total silence of more than twQ weeks, the Congress Worried By Lack [Truman Edict March 23 Worker finally takes note of the book This Is My Story, written by its former editor and Communist Party national committee member, Louis F. Budenz. Its evasive Of Support For Truman Plan Means New treatment of the Budenz?*— By George Breitman confessional is even more Now The Worker is trying to Congress opened hearings last week on Truman’s de Witch-Hunts damning than its previous divert attention from Budenz’s , disclosures of GPU activities and mand for authority to use money and military forces in silence. By A rt Preis . crimes, by deliberately restrict Greece and Turkey. But the members of Congress were only The article does not have a ing its comment upon his book half-listening to the diplomatic double-talk of State De Truman’s prepara single word to say about the evi to the issue of Catholicism ver partment officials; their at-® tions for a war of “ demo dence presented by Budenz that sus Stalinism. The article con- i tention was fastened above , Leon Trotsky’s murder was pre demns Budenz for being a “ hy- Still Going Where cracy against totalitar pared in New York City by GPU ■%tll on the reactions of the ianism” find the first po&rite,” whose “real conversion American people. "They Damn Please" agents, assisted by prominent is from the cause of labor to the blow being struck leaders of the American CP. cause of labor’s enemies.” In They were worried because the The Navy Department on great majority of the American against the liberties of The Worker says nothing about truth, Budenz's switch from March 18 confirmed that the masses were apprehensive about Budenz’s admissions that he him Stalinism to U.S. imperialism U.S.S. Leyte, a 27,000-ton air jthe American people Truman’s demands, or openly self was drawn into this plot. It means that he has gone from craft carrier, Is being sent to antagonistic to them. They hoped themselves. does not even attempt to refute the camp of labor’s enemies in the Mediterranean, and will that somehow, some way the Hard on the heels of his his charges that Earl Browder, side the labor movement into visit ports in both Greece and State Department spokesmen new foreign policy announce Jack Stachel and other CP lead the camp of their op:n enemies. Turkey. would help to still the doubts j ment, Truman has launched ers had a hand in the plot. The reader of The Worker ar This announcement follows and neutralize the opposition. Not a word about Budenz’s de ticle is not given a single clue Truman’s new foreign policy a sweeping “ anti-red” witch Congress, the administration tailed account showing how about the nature of Budenz's speech calling for financial hunt to terrorize all persons and the Big Business press had the assassin “ Frank Jacson” was charges. There is simply a blank and m ilitary aid to the Greek | and groups opposed to Wall reason to be upset. Never before selected and groomed for the et statement that his sensation and Turkish dictatorships. i Street’s drive toward war on in modern U.S. history had such job, which blows up the Stalin al revelations are “ lies.” None Navy officials claimed the ; the Soviet Union, ist falsehood that “ Jacson” was of the facts about the crimes of a carefully prepared move by sending of the Leyte to the the White House failed so mis Mediterranean now is just a j The first stage of a vast as a disillusioned Trotskyist. Bu- the GPU that Budenz cites in sault on civil rights is outlined denz makes it quite plain that his book are referred to—no at- erably as Truman’s speech in coincidence and in accord winning mass support. ance with plans for "rotating” ! in Truman's March 24 order for “ Jacson” was a GPU agent, pro- tempt is made to refute them, an unprecedented “ disloyalty” vided with a false Canadian pass- For these facts are dynamite, Truman publicly expressed U.S. fleet units for “training satisfaction with the support his purposes.” j purge among 2,200,000 federal port, who utilized Sylvia Ageloff , This silent treatment is in ac- administrative employes. to gain access to Trotsky's home, cord with the policy followed by program had received from the This sensational confirmation the Stalinists in the past. Bu- capitalist press. But he could powerful CIO and AFL unions ! This order sets the pattern of Stalin’s guilt in Trotskv’s denz himself cites the example not say anything about the trend has maintained the most cow . and precedent for persecution murder was first released to the of the case of Ignace Reiss, mur- of White House mail. ardly silence. The CIO national and victimization that will ex public in the March 8 M ilitant dered in 1937 after he broke “The White House received executive board met the day tend into every walk of life and 1,200 messages and 3,000 letters and then headlined in the daily with Stalinism and joined the after Truman’s speech and re right down into the plants and press in New York City and Fourth International. The Stal- in direct response to the speech,” fused to utter a word one way workshops. the Mar. 23 N. Y. Times report throughout the country. But the inist press in this country was ! or the other about the most sig GO-AHEAD SIGNAL ed. “ At first the great majority Worker remained silent. forbidden to mention the case nificant national development Through his purge edict, Tur It maintained silence even because it was “ too hot to han- I were in agreement with the j since the end of the war — a President; more recently there man has given a go-ahead sig after March 17 when District die.” Although Budenz does not 1 development which everyone has been large proportion of cri nal for drastic, anti-democratc Attorney Frank J. Rr«a;.i..was give the reason, the fact is that j knows has the most direct bear-' ticism.” urged by a delegation of promin the Swiss police caught the GPU I ing on the future of labor’s laws to outlaw working class po ent citizens to summon a special red-handed in the crime. The Times discreetly neglect struggles and rights. litical parties and empower em ed to report on the majority grand jury to investigate the Budenz also relates that when ployers to fire workers they opinion of these 4,200 commun Truman and Congress could choose to label “ communist” or GPU murders hatched in New he wras editor, he was instructed get some consolation from the York. The delegation, headed by not to touch the case of Juliet ications- and of the mail received “subversive.” Truman’s order by Congress. All it would con fact that the mass opposition to was timed to immediately pre Socialist Party leader Norman Stuart Poyntz. who in 1937 Wall Street’s imperialist pro Thomas, N. Y. City Councilman 'walked into Nowhere one day Senate And House Vote clude was that the chief tone cede public hearings on “ anti gram is unorganized, but not Louis P. Goldberg and novelist on the streets of New York.” Bu “ has been one of inquiry. Peo communist” bills being held this ple, it seems, want more inform- enough to satisfy them. They James T. Farrell, demanded “ of denz says that a "Comrade H,” week before the notorious House at-ion in order to make up their were worried just the same, be- Un-American Activities Com ficial examination and such jud i a prominent CP national com minds.” : cause they know how quickly cial action as the facts may war mittee. mittee member, told him that This evasion only pointed up ! certain events can help an un- rant" of “ Earl Browder, Jack Miss Poyntz had been "liquid To Knife Wage-Hour Law Truman’s blue-print for fer the fact: Despite the biggest organized opposition to become Stachel, Budenz himself and all reting out alleged “ disloyal” gov ated” by the GPU. Budenz was propaganda mobilization and I organized and powerful, other Communist Party leaders, instructed not even to “ allude j ernment employes includes Climaxing an employer- Even the Senators who o p -, reduces to two years the time scare-campaign since the war. 1 Their deep concern over this past or present, who are known to it in the press” because it methods always held abominable government conspiracy to posed the bill in its present dras- in which a worker may sue for despite the worst red-baiting matter, expressed in the half- to have been involved in the acti was “ hot cargo.” swindle American workers by the American people and as vities of the Soviet Secret police Obviously Budenz’s revelations tic form expressed approval of any claim under the minimum drive in 25 years, the American conciliatory tones of the State out of billions in back wages, sociated in their minds with the in our community, or who are about the GPU, confirming Stal provisions for outlawing portal * wage laws.

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