Rockwell Kent Backs Cleveland the MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Socialist Parley Vol. X X II — No. 47 « ^ ¡ ¡ ^ 2 2 2 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1958 PricB 10c NOV. 16 — Enthusiasm and mounting support from across the country has greeted the call for a National Housing Bias Conference of American Socialists to convene in Cleve- land, Nov. 28-30. ♦ - Arms Hotel, Carnegie at E. 107 Hits 27 Million A list of additional sponsors St., Cleveland, Ohio. The Commission on Race for the conference was an­ PROPOSED AGENDA and Housing, a private re­ Dixiecrats to Keep nounced today by Eric Rein­ The proposed agenda of the search organization, reported thaler, conference secretary. conference calls for an informal on Nov. 9 that 27 million They include: Rockwell Kent, reception Friday night at the Americans are not free to James Aronson, Scott Nearing, Tudor Arms and the convening live in neighborhoods of their Dr. Annette T. Rubinstein, of the conference Saturday choice because of race, color Terry Pettus, Carl Haessler, morning promptly at 9 A.M., or ethnic reasons. Of these, Reuben Borough, Dr. A. J. with the first session devoted to 18.7 million are nonwhite Lewis, Herbert Rosenfeld, Mil- Key Congress Posts “electoral activity and the ad­ (95% of them Negro), 5 m il­ ton Zaslow, Martin Hall, Carl vancing of labor’s independent lion Jews, 2.5 million of Mexi­ Feingold and Leo Gallagher. political action.” This w ill be can ancestry and 800,000 Registration and checking in followed by a panel discussion Puerto Ricans. The report Face a Long, Cold Winter of delegates w ill take place all on the issue of peace and a pointed out that federal day Friday, Nov. 28, at con­ Northern Democrats session on civil rights and civil housing policies that permit ference headquarters, Tudor liberties. discrimination have led to Saturday evening there will increasing segregation in pub­ be a buffet supper followed by lic housing. The Commission Accepting Leadership Featured Speaker a public session of the confer­ was composed of business ence with Harvey O’Connor, executives from the North Vincent Hallinan. John T. Mc­ and the South. Its research Of Johnson, Rayburn Manus, Joseph P. King and was financed by the Fund for Annette T. Rubinstein as par­ the Republic. What may be realistically expected from the incom­ ticipants in the program, plus folk singer Earl Robinson. ing overwhelmingly Democratic Congress is revealed b y The wind-up session Sunday two items. (1) Immediately following election day the morning w ill be devoted to the SocialistVote stock market took off like a4------question of “Where Do We Go sky rocket. The Wall Street From Here?” boom is so spectacular that it Democratic Whip The Conference Committee Reported in has become front-page news and assures that "a ll sessions of the even the President of the Slock conference w ill be organized to Exchange is calling for re­ guarantee maximum discussion straint. (2) AFL-CIO President and participation by those al- Five States George Meany’s public state­ | tending." "Socialists of all ten­ ments deliberately minimize The socialist vote in 1958 if dencies who are considering at­ labor's role in bringing about slow in being reported. Social­ tending the conference are the Democratic sweep. ist campaign committees in the urged to make advance regis­ The precise line and tone that various states are still trying to trations if at all possible." pry their vote from their re­ the Democratic 86th Congress There is an urgent need for spective election boards. In will adopt cannot yet be de­ financial help to defray the Minnesota and Pennsylvania termined because the jockeying cost of the conference. Send there is indications of modest between its disparate elements registrations (with $2 registra­ increases over 1956. —labor-backed liberals, big city John. T. McManus. General tion fee) and contributions to: But it was not only to the machines and Southern racists Manager of the National Eric J. Reinthaler, Conference vote that socialist campaigners —has not yet resulted in a com­ Guardian, will speak at the Sec’y, 177 East 316th St„ W il- looked for the measure of their promise or deal. N ational Conference of lowick, Ohio. achievements this year. It was The South is still firmly in American Socialists when it The call to the Conference also to the scope of their cam­ There are still long lines at the New York unemployment offices despite the business up­ the saddle through its chair­ meets in Cleveland Nov. 28. (Continued on Page 2) paigning as measured by turn. Any reduction in the number drawing unemployment benefits is due, in large part, manships of most of Congress's amounts of radio and TV time, to the jobless exhausting their benefit right. In September 383,000 ran out of regular or ex­ powerful standing committees, num ber of union meetings at tended unemployment insurance payments. though the increased numbers Speaker of the House Sam which they spoke, size of audi­ of Northern Democrats may Rayburn of Texas will con­ Best Week for Fund; ences at street meetings, and to force a little shortening of the tinue to direct the House a greater interest in socialist stirrups. These Northerners (in­ Democrats when the 86th ideas they saw manifested this cluding an increased number of Congress convenes in January. year. Socialist Political Action liberal Republicans) are pub­ Banquet Nets S700 SOCIALIST VOTE licly committed to some action big wrangles now going on in In New York Stale, on on civil rights. the back room between North­ the basis of unofficial returns By George Lavan R ULE 22 ern Democrats and Congress’s from 48 of 62 counties, the In­ In Light of '58 Elections It is hard to see how they tv/o plantation overseers from dependent-Socialists now have Texas — Senate boss Lyndon The best, week so far — that is what the statistics of - An Editorial ■ can avoid changing Senate Rule the M ilitant’s 30th Anniversary Fund show on this score- over 41,000 votes fo r Corliss La- 22 which permits the filibuster. Johnson and House boss Sara mont, candidate for U.S. Sen­ Rayburn. board. The sum of $1,935 in checks, money orders and cash Barring an open sell-out as in ate, and nearly 27.000 for John United socialist electoral activity was great difficulties. These difficulties prob­ dropped into the fund’s coffers out of letters from near and tested in the 1958 elections, principally in 1955, in which Senators Humph­ Congressional criticism of the T. McManus, candidate for Gov­ ably prevented the ISP from reaching the rey, Douglas et al should have cold-war w ill not be basic and far, from individuals and groups. Out of one envelope fluttered ernor. New York State. How did it fare? What 50,000 mark and permanent ballot status a donation of 56 cents worth of air mail stamps. learned a lesson, or a rotten apparently much less than some In Minnesota, where the So­ conclusions are to be drawn about its that the party aimed for. The most im­ "compromise” which the South­ thought likely. The tip-off was The other big news this week is that Militant supporters cialist Workers Party ran W il­ validity? Has it realistic prospects for portant of these handicaps were the man­ erners are now seeking, the Democratic chief Johnson's ap­ in Oakland have already crossed the finish line and intend to liam Curran for the U.S. Sen­ 1960? euvers employed by Secretary of State filibuster should be abolished pearance in the UN for the ad­ keep going. Oakland zoomed from 18th place on the score- ate, the final SWP vote was Carmine De Sapio to keep the ISP off the at the beginning of this Con­ ministration. There he backed board last week to a lofty 105%. Not satisfied, they simultan­ 5,407. The Socialist Labor Party We believe that the tryout was a suc­ gress fo r the prom ised votes to the hilt State Dept, opposi­ eously asked us to change their quota from the previous $300 ballot. The ISP defeated the Tammany polled 10,858. cess and that serious consideration should are there in sufficient number. tion to the Soviet proposal of to $340 (those people just don’t care how much clerical work In Chicago’s Second Con­ boss in an unprecedented victory. But it be given to broadening united socialist To make a “record” on which banning military use of outer they make for us in this office). gressional District, Rev. Joseph was achieved only ten days before Nov. 4. to garner workers’ votes in the space. Johnson w ill next go to After considerable discussion pro and con, we decided P. King, United Socialist can­ electoral activity on a nationwide basis That left the ISP ten days in which to 1960 Presidential elections, the Mexico for Dulles to confer to accede to Oakland's somewhat unorthodox request. Such a didate, received 925 votes in the looking toward a united socialist ticket in campaign. The turnout under those cir­ Northern Democrats are expect­ with President Lopez Mateos. precedent, of course, gives us no choice but to grant the same face of a sweep of landslide I960. ed to propose more social legis­ As for the cold-war arms build­ favor to all others requesting it. But please — a little re­ proportions for the Democratic cumstances — and in face of opposition lation. How much of this is to up, the disposition of most straint! Just consider the extra clerical work, to say nothing incumbent, Barrett O’Hara. An As to the achievements of the Inde­ to the ISP from leaders of the Commu­ be actually passed and how Democrats in Congress is to at­ of all the addition, long division, calculus and general havoc initial united socialist endeavor, pendent-Socialist Party in New York in nist, Socialist and Socialist Labor Parties much, if any, passed over Eis­ tack the administration for "too it puts us to. the King forces, like the ISP in this year’s campaign, we concur with the — was excellent. enhower’s veto, is one of the little and too late." The lion's share — $911 — of this week’s contributions came New York, had to wage a major National Guardian, which like ourselves struggle against the “pro-labor” from Los Angeles. Bob Strauss, the local fund director, sends supported the ISP slate. The ISP, says the an excellent account of a double anniversary banquet which O'Hara machine to win a place Workers Sought Reforms made this possible. The banquet celebrated the 41st anniversary on the ballot. Nov. 17 Guardian, “ had three proud feath­ of the October Revolution and the 30th birthday of the Militant. PENNA. VOTE ers in its cap: (1) a smashing victory over Under the best of conditions, further­ 36,500 on Strike “Opening the program, the chairman, William F. Warde, The Pennsylvania Socialist Tammany in its petition fight; (2) the more, the scope of the response to the pointed out that, despite the difference in historical magnitude, Workers Party, whose ballot introduction of meaningful issues as wide­ socialist ticket would have been sharply the October Revolution of 1917 and the launching of the M ilitant designation was “Workers Party,” has not yet obtained its ly as possible in an otherwise no-issues circumscribed by the thinking of the At Int’l Harvester in 1928, had certain features in common. Both actions came statewide returns. In Phila­ contest between two millionaire-led polit­ working people at this stage. Some re­ about through the initiative of Marxists animated by the same CHICAGO, Nov. 14 — The International Harvester fundamental ideas and world outlook. delphia, it received the follow­ ical machines; and (3) beginnings of social­ cruits to socialism were made and more ing vote: 906 for Ethel Peter­ strike is now in its second day, 36,500 United Auto Worker “The first speaker, Arne Swabeck, further developed this ist unity in New York.” could have been made had the ISP had son, candidate fo r the U.S. Sen­ more time and resources to campaign. But members have shut 15 manufacturing plants and 21 other theme. Both of these events, he recalled, represented decisive ate; 699 for Herbert Lewin and turning points in his personal, political life. The victory of the the day for a big socialist vote was not facilities across the country. In* Eloise Fickland, candidates for Beginning of a Process Chicago, four plants and 12.200 Russian Revolution served to reorient the political direction of pany. Under the “zone” senior­ Governor and Lt.-Governor; 707 yet at hand. workers are on strike. Two his whole generation. In founding the Militant, he and his ity, “nobody could get out of (Continued on Page 2) To this we would add: the ISP set an thousand pickets massed at the (Continued on Page }) example of working-class political oppo­ The American working people show­ a foundry and nobody could get ed dissatisfaction in the election. They big Chicago Tractor plant at into skilled trades.” “Promotions sition to the Big Business parties. This is 6 A M. yesterday. and transfers would be limited showed great anger at unemployment and Score FHA the beginning of a process that must cul­ Strike Bulletin Volume One, to departments.” The new seni­ minate eventually in similar action by anti-labor attacks. They wanted a change Number One, issued jointly by ority law would be by “skill the entire class. in foreign policy away from the menace Locals 1301 and 1382, UAW. re­ and ability.” and the company For Refusing of war. But they were not ready to em­ ported that Pat Greathouse, In­ would be “judge, jury, and Su­ The platform of the ISP, because it brace socialist solutions. To listen to such ternational Vice-President, pre­ preme Court,” “Grievance pro­ was based on m inim um agreement of d if­ sented the union’s demands to cedure would go back to the solutions, yes. Socialist campaigners the company. “The demands busted-strike days of 1952.” To Fight Bias fering tendencies, had inevitable defects, throughout the country report a greater were not earth-shaking,” stated The right of overrates “to Clark Foreman. Director of in our opinion. But it was an approach to interest in socialist ideas than in previous the Bulletin. “They were simp­ hold on to their overrate if the Emergency Civil Liberties the kind of socialist platform that is need­ ly some of the gains negotiated bumped would be taken away.” Committee, on Nov. 14 denoun­ campaigns. Many workers are willing to ed on the American scene. Through by our Union with John Deere The Company is also holding ced the refusal of the Federal consider and discuss the socialist alter­ further discussion and evaluation of the and the auto industry which out for a cut of 10% in the housing authority to push a native — if only for future reference. was the pattern, plus an exten­ campaign experience the differences of night bonus, and the right to fight against racial discrimina­ sion of our present contract.” work the employes two. three, tion in residential building and But in the main, even the most po­ opinion can gradually be resolved and a or four days a week as they see renting. Strikers from the picket line more adequate socialist program can be litically advanced workers outside the fit. (The present contract guar­ In a telegram to President radical movement sought reforms and not report that negotiations broke hammered out. off when the company insisted antees five days work a week Eisenhower Foreman declared, fundamental change. They still hoped to except for emergencies.) “All “Albert M. Cole, Administrator upon denying work standards realize these reforms through the work­ that had been won when the in all 13 major changes for the of Housing and Home Finance TV and Radio Time worse and a number of minor Agency, is quoted in today’s ings of the capitalist two-party system and union was organized 20 years ago. The company is seriously contract impairments” are be­ New York Times as saying that The ISP radio and TV time set a more particularly through electing Dem­ ing demanded by the company. he believed the Federal Gov­ trying to replace plant-wide record for socialists in New York, the ocratic Party candidates endorsed by the with “zone” senorit.v. This The T-H strike follow s on the ernment had no responsibility union officials. to promote the ending of racial highlight being the four-way debate would enable it to keep m ilit­ heels of a settlement with I-H’s next largest competitor, the discrimination in residential ac­ among gubernatorial candidates over CBS- Does the fact that no significant new ant unionists out of the shop comodations. If this report is TV on Oct. 25. The full text of the de­ indefinitely—even if they have John Deere Company. The sections of the working class were ready accurate it is another example bate was also published in the New York long seniority—by manipulating union characterizes the Deere to go over to socialism mean that the the “zone” provision. The right settlement as “smashing through of the abandonment by the Ad­ Herald Tribune. ministration of its responsibil­ socialist election ventures in 1958 went to be absent on sick leave for with some 40 contract improve­ ity in carrying out the spirit of one year without loss of senior­ ments and an economic pattern The vote (still not completely tallied for nothing? That the example of inde­ ity is now to be reduced to six that is above the package nego­ the Supreme Court's unanimous pendence set by the ISP and other social­ decision, in the B row n case.” but estimated at 30,000 for John T. Mc­ months, if the company has its tiated for the auto big three.” The ECLC urged the Federal Manus and at 45,000 for Corliss Lamont) ist tickets throughout the country was a way. I-II is considered to be the Government to assume its full was impressive. meaningless gesture? That “ taking the The u n io n ’s “Negotiations “only company in the industry, responsibility in setting an ex­ census” of the socialist-minded workers Newsletter,” isssued just be­ in fact the only major company ample of integration for the It was the highest vote for a social­ fore the strike lists the “medi­ in the country that is demand- rest of the country. ist since the 1930’s. It was won under (Continued on Page 3) eval” demands of the I-Ii Com­ (Continued on Page 4) r Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, November 24, 1958 People's World Peace Issue in the Nov. 4 Vote By Harry Ring was unable to express itself committed to the cause of peace “That position,” he continues, mont campaigned as vigorously through the vehicle of the Dem­ A few days after the election, through either major party. than there are to the cause of “was that the Left should for socialism as McManus did. ocratic Party. a Democratic politician in Wash­ Across the country, there were­ socialism, and since the preven­ unite behind a single peace On what basis then can it be For socialists to accept this Fails to Follow n’t h a lf - a - dozen Dem ocratic tion of an atomic holocaust is candidate, preferably Corliss claimed that the 14.000 addi­ ington told the New York Post proposition means abandoning that popular opposition to the candidates who campaigned the crucial issue of our time, Lamont, without encumbering tional voters for Lamont were their fundamental convictions. Administration's foreign policy against the bi-partisan cold wouldn’t the ISP have been him and the issue of peace with ready to “embrace” peace but Earlier, I said the ISP stood on was undoubtedly a factor in the war. Working people who more effective if it had limited a full ticket and with the con­ not socialism? the socialist principle that bas­ Through sought to express themselves itself to a “peace” campaign cept that it is necessary to em­ Democratic Parly's sweep on CP DIDN'T ACCOUNT ically the struggle against war brace socialism in order to be Nov. 4. "We'd only mention for peace, within the frame­ ra ther than a socialist one? FOR THE DIFFERENCE is the struggle against capital­ By Myra Tanner Weiss Quemoy and Matsu, but people work of the two-party system, QUICK LOOK for peace.” The reason for the difference ism. For those who take the seemed to get the point," he found themselves registering AT THE VOTE The ISP, of course, did not The editors of the People’s World, which generally in the vote is neither startling socialist analysis of contempor­ said. their opposition to the Admin­ This was the main argument advance the nonsensical propo­ expresses the viewpoint of the Communist Party on the or difficult to establish. By the ary society seriously, this is not The real point is obvious istration’s war program by vot­ made by the Communist Party sition that you have to be for abstract propaganda, but the way, the difference was not West Coast, addressed themselves, Nov. 8, to the question enough. Democratic candidates, ing for Democrats who stood leadership to justify its opposi­ socialism to be for peace. It did due to the Worker’s endorse­ keystone of an effective social­ “ what next” after the 1958 elections. They correctly made sensing the widespread uneasi­ for the very same thing—and tion to the ISP campaign. It is take the traditional socialist m ent of Lam ont, as some CP ist peace policy. their point of departure the victory of the working people ness and fear created by brink­ often, more of it. also the principal conclusion stand that the way to establish spokesmen would now imply. SOCIALIST CONCEPTS manship, would holler, “And I lhink this fact alone more drawn by the CP leaders from enduring peace is to abolish the of California against the Big Business-inspired “right to The Worker also endorsed Cap­ what about Quemoy and Mat­ than justifies the united social­ a rather cursory examination of capitalist system which breeds Some elementary and well work” campaign. They urged that “The enthusiasm gen tain Mulzac, ISP candidate for su?” and then leave the issue ist efforts that were realized in the ISP vote. The point made war. At the same time it ham­ known socialist concepts need Comptroller, and he led Mc­ erated by the smashing defeat of ‘right to work’ and quickly before anyone could the '58 elections — particularly by CP state secretary William mered away at such crucial im ­ repeating. War and the threat Manus by only 3,500 votes in Knbwland should not be permitted to dissipate. A ll efforts get to ask where they actually the Independent-Socialist cam­ Albertson in an analysis of the mediate issues as the withdrawal of war in the 20th century New York City. Only a portion should be made to channel it into independent political stood on the question of the paign in New York, the most New York election results in of U.S. troops from the M id ­ arise from the irrepressible o f these 3,500 votes can be off-shore Chinese islands. extensive of such efforts. The the Nov. 16 Worker. east and Far East. drive of imperialism to expand. action by labor and its allies.” credited to the Worker’s en­ NOT 6 DEMOCRATS ISP campaign was a significant “Parenthetically,” says Al­ But to get back to the claim The present Wall Street drive The PW editors warn that the victorious Democrats dorsement of Mulzac, at that. The important thing that job of spadework for the build­ bertson, “the fact that John that the 14,000-vote spread be­ against the Soviet Union, China That McManus polled less are prone to “ indecision, compromise and surrender to the emerges from this is not mere­ ing of a vitally needed, mean­ McManus, candidate for gov­ tween Lamont and McManus and the colonial world certain­ than the rest of the slate fol­ Very pressures against which the people voted.” “ More ly the well-known fact that ingful alternative to the Big ernor on the ISP ticket, receiv­ bears out that the CP was right ly demonstrates this. lows the vote pattern over the fundamentally,” they say, “ big business attentions and capitalist politicians are addict­ Business parties both of which ed in New Y o rk C ity 23,538 all the time. The point might Further, political parties dom­ ed to cheap demagogy. The are irrevocably bound to the votes while Corliss Lamont, appear plausible had Lamont years for minority tickets in inated by the capitalist class favors w ill be increasingly lavished on the party . . . We New York and other states. m oral of the story, as borne perspective of eventual war candidate for the U.S. Senate, campaigned on a different plat­ and firmly committed to its have witnessed such a development in California. As Ed­ There is always a certain num­ out by the national 1958 elec­ against the Soviet bloc. received 37.992 votes, indicates form than McManus, th a t is, system have no basis for op­ ber of people who want to reg­ mund G. Brown gained in his race against Knowland, so tion experience, is that the anti­ But, it may be argued, since the correctness of the Commun­ had he confined his campaign posing the capitalist war drive. ister a protest vote but are re­ did he gain big money adherents, including the Hearst war sentiment in this country there are many morg people ist position in that campaign. to the issue of peace. But La- The bi-partisan prosecution of press.” Whereupon Brown watered down the issues, says luctant to do so for the partic­ the cold war certainly verifies ular top office that is being this too. PW. Campaigned Against Big Business Rule most hotly and closely contest­ It would seem from these warnings that the People's Harold Davies ed by the two major party can­ If, then, these facts are cor­ World is urging a struggle to end labor's political sub­ didates. These voters mark then- rect, as socialists insist they are, ballot for the major party can­ doesn’t it follow that an effec­ servience to the Democratic machine. It would seem that Greets Parley tive struggle against war must it considers the time ripe for pressing for a labor party. didate they prefer to see in of­ fice and then register their gen­ be directed against the system Unfortunately, that is not the case. In the same ed­ In Cleveland eral protest by voting for min­ from which the war danger itorial PW also asks for strengthening the Democratic or party candidates for other springs and against the politic­ Clubs and strengthening of the Negro and Mexican- The sponsoring Committee of offices. In this election, the ex­ al parties that execute capital­ ist policies? Doesn’t it mean American minority bloc “ within the Democratic Party.” the National Conference of citement was over the Rocke- American Socialists which will feller-Harriman contest for gov­ that above all else the fight for meet in Cleveland, Ohio, No­ ernor rather than the Keating- peace demands consistent work More of the Same? vem ber 28-30 to discuss and Hogan senatorial contest. Thus to build independent working- study problems of united so­ Lamont was favored by more class political opposition to the This kind of “ independent political action” is not new. cialist action, received greet­ voters than McManus. capitalist war parties? Labor has been “independent” in this fashion since mass ings from British Labor Party Lamont was additionally fa­ Such a stand by socialists Member of Parliament Harold vored because he was the most does not imply abstention from industrial unions were organized in the 1930’s. By asking specific anti-war struggles—no for such “ independent” action on the part of the labor Davies and from British Labor- widely known personality on ite journalist Sydney Hyam, the ISP slate. But those voters matter how limited the de­ movement, the editors of the People’s World, are merely BLP candidate for Member of who knew about Lamont’s rec­ mands they raise. But socialists, asking the workers to continue as before—as an “ inde- Parliament from the Midlands. ord of opposition to cold war— if they are to be consistent with pfendent” appendage to the Democratic machine, garnering and in defense of civil liberties their convictions, have an add­ votes for capitalist politicians in return for the privilege Their message read in part — —also knew about his long rec­ ed responsibility. They must “Harold Davies and I wish to show the link between every of begging or pressuring them for a few modest, but still ord of advocating socialism. In send greetings to the National th e ir case, clearly, the peace— such struggle and the overall denied, concessions. Conference of American Social­ but-not-socialism issue would struggle against the capitalist The Militant agrees with the editors of the Peoples’ ists meeting in Cleveland. . . . not apply. order. There is no lack of sen­ We were delighted to hear of the timent for peace in this coun­ World that we must press for “ independent political ac­ REAL REASON tion by labor and its allies.” To do this, socialist and com- Capiain Hugh N. Mulzac (1), 1958 Independent-Socialist candidate for New York Comp­ results of the Nov. 4 elections, try or of a capacity to fight for troller, and Scott K. Gray, Jr., (r), I-SP candidate for Attorney General, hold dinner conversa­ particularly in Ohio and Cali­ Actually, the CP leaders’ real it. What is lacking is an effec­ njunist workers in the union movement should take ad­ tion with British Labor MP Harold Davies during his recent visit here. The I-SP candidates fornia, but we recognize that beef against the ISP is not its tive program and consistent vantage of every opportunity to explain the enthusiasm have expressed their support of the Cleveland united socialist conference and Davies has the battle against anti-labor complaint that peace gets more leadership in the fight for engendered by labor’s independent campaign on the issue sent greetings to the gathering. legislation and the China lobby votes than socialism. According peace. Who besides socialists, o f “ right-to-work” propositions. The potentialities of or­ is not won merely by exchang­ to Albertson, the ISP “weaken­ acting on their socialist prin­ ing illiberal capitalist senators ed the united struggle of the ciples, can provide that pro­ ganized labor, as seen in this campaign, should free the Left needed to help labor and gram and leadership? working class of its feeling of political impotence. for more liberal capitalist sen­ ators. We believe that there is the Negro people defeat Rocke­ Discussions should be encouraged in the shops, in ... Cleveland Conference feller.” Or, to put it plainly. NO HELP WANTED no possibility of real world union meetings and in special conferences on the lessons (Continued fro m Page 1) for refusing to participate in Friedm an, Stephen G rattan, peace and prosperity until there Lamont should have run as an Some 850' corporation execu­ Vincent Hallinan, John Hamil­ of the fight against anti-labor laws. The program and was sent to all socialists — the Independent-Socialist elec­ are representatives of the "independent peace" candidate, tives. attending an American organized and unaffiliated. It tion campaign in New York. ton, George Hitchcock. American workers in control of concentrated his fire on Rocke­ Management Association con­ pplitical demands of labor should be discussed. We should The SLP repeated its long- feller, and thus helped hustle ference in New York City, in­ declared: “The November, 1958, Rev. Joseph P. King, George the effective organs of Govern­ advance the idea that the unions should put up candidates held view that it alone repre­ voles for Harriman. The propo­ dicated that stepped-up produc­ elections have offered new op­ Larrabee, John T. McManus, ment in the United States. We o f their own to run for public office—independent of the sents socialism in America, with sition is based on the thorough­ tivity will allow them to op­ portunities for promoting so­ David Michael, Don Mullen, know from our own experiences all others who lay claim to the ly false contention that it's pos­ erate at pre-slump levels with old parties. In some areas this is not an unrealistic cialist unity and revitalization. Captain Hugh N. Mulzac, Nas- in Britain that there is little word being imposters. The SP- sible to win the fight for peace their current working forces. perspective for the next local elections. The experiences of a dozen sau-Suffolk Committee for the hope of such effective respre- SDF condemned the projected The formation of an independent labor party—like the areas confirm this. They are of Independent Socialist Ticket, sentation until the labor and conference as “pro-Soviet.” sufficient scope and impor­ Ohio Sponsoring Committee for Socialist movements are united formation of industrial unions in the 1930's — w ill not The Communist Party has >» appear out of the clear blue sky. It must be considered, tance to warrant socialist inter­ a Socialist Conference. change and analysis. given no public indication of ... 1958Socialist Vote by politically advanced workers, agitated for, ex­ “In fact a genuine need has its attitude toward the con­ Harvey O’Connor, George paign worker, “was a conscious, p la in e d patiently, and presented simply. The next two developed to find the time and ference. The Socialist Workers Olshausen, Sam Pavlovic, Dr. URGES UNITY ON LEFT (Continued from Page 1) deliberate vote for us which place for socialists from all Party is urging a maximum Holland Roberts, George Shen- The newly formed National for Louis Shoemaker, for State years w ill provide ample material to press home the need came from the precincts we over America to convene and participation by socialists of all kar, George Stryker, Pauline Guardian Club of San Diego Secretary of Internal Affairs. fo r labor's own political parly. did hard campaigning in and — with the November elections viewpoints. Taylor, United Liberals and So­ was addressed by Vincent Hal­ In Michigan, New Jersey and the friends we made through as a starting point — to ask linan, Chairman of the Califor­ Wisconsin, statewide candidates SPONSORS cialists Party of Washington, our campaign activity.” and answer the question: Where nia Socialist Political Action of the Socialist Workers Party Let’s Show the Way Original sponsors of the Call Rev. Hugh W. Weston, Geoffrey A Pennsylvania campaigner do we go from here?" Committee. He denounced both are still awaiting their returns. The work of socialists and communists in the union are: Rev. William T. Baird, White, Prof. W illiam Appleman major parties and urged unity who participated in the SWP WIDE RESPONSE Jerry Barrett, Bay Area Com­ In the state of Washington, campaign in Philadelphia in movement can be greatly aided by the united efforts of Williams, Jack Wright. among the independent leftist the United Liberals and Social­ The call has evoked a wide, mittee for the Cleveland Con­ groupings. Professor Harry 1956 and this year, reports a ists Party, a new coalition ef­ t(ieir parties in socialist election campaigns. The campaign favorable response throughout ference, Elmer A. Benson, Max Steinmetz, noted civil rights definite, observable increase of fort similar to the New York of the Independent-Socialist Party in New York and the radical movement. Two Bedacht, Warren K. Billings, FARM SURPLUS fighter, chaired the meeting, willingness to consider socialist and Chicago tickets, reports similar campaigns elsewhere marked a beginning. They groups, however, .the Socialist Clyde Carter, Jack Child, W ini­ which was attended, by about ideas in that city. This was I t costs the taxpayer $450,000 these returns: Jay Sykes, can­ Party-Social Democratic Feder­ fred Chelstrom. 70 Guardian readers and pro­ particularly true in the Negro can accelerate the .inevitable process of extending class- a day to store the 1.3 billion didate for the U.S. Senate, 1,138 ation and the Socialist Labor Melvin Dahlman, Richard De- gressives. The next meetings of community. The SWP vote in consciousness of workers to the political arena. bushels of surplus wheat ac­ votes (incomplete); Clyde Car­ Party, have refused to partici­ Haan, Joel Doty, Elinor Ferry, the club will be held Nov. 21 the city tripled over '56 and the As socialist-minded workers our task is to point the ter, for State Representative in pate. Their reasons were basic­ Frederick J. Field, Dr. C. H. cumulated under the Govern­ and Dec. 5, at 4561 North Ave. final campaign rally this year the 33rd D istrict, 167; Jack way to a solution. The labor bureaucrats cannot forever a lly the same as those given Fisher, Arthur Fox, Dr. J. W. ment’s agricultural policy. 8 P.M. was the largest and most suc­ block the road to working class politics. They couldn’t Wright, for State Senator in the cessful yet. stem the tide of industrial unions in the 1930’s- And they 37th D istrict, 151; Thomas J. In Chicago, Rev. King told a Barrett, for State Senator in the meeting of the Washington w ill be unable to keep the workers out of politics as an 32nd District, 118. Park Forum that the United independent class force forever. On the side of their activity Socialist campaign was “a dem­ ■In reality the policy of working “ within the Demo­ Socialist Critics of Attack on Pasternak and their response, socialist onstration of how a few people cratic Party” means abandoning even education for the campaigners report the follow­ with a clear program can reach in the Soviet Union, in England novel ‘Dr. Zhivago,’ there can formation of a labor party. The confusion of the People’s The unbridled attack by the “But the cultural world was ing: thousands with a socialist mes­ Soviet government against au­ stunned by the virulence of the — and especially in Ireland — surely be only one possible re­ In Washington State, the sage and put a socialist candi­ World editorial demonstrates this fact. How much more thor Boris Pasternak for his attack against him . . . . everywhere in fact — political action by socialists to the be­ highlight was participation of date on the ballot, despite all progress could be made if all who favor such a perspective novel. Dr. Zhivago, has brought “The thaw in intellectual fellas run out and shout down havior of Soviet officialdom the United Liberals and Social­ odds. Would work for it openly, without fancy stralegems that forth strong criticism from so­ freedom tin the USSR] seemed any new effort to give a more towards the author. ists candidates in the Seattle “No one can deny this is an • n d up burying even the smallest beginnings. cialists throughout the world. to have frozen over as deeply modern slant or a new sign to “The abuse and penalization campaign against Initiative 202, important step on the road to Especially important is the cri­ as before, and Pasternak him­ any kind of artistic thought or to which he is being subjected the “Right-to-Work” measure. building for the socialist tomor­ imagination; menacing any un­ discredit socialism in the eyes Advertisement Advertisement ticism of those who uphold the self — with his wife and three There they helped in organiz­ row,” declared King as he economic foundation and sons, a pianist, an engineer and familiar thing appearing in pic­ of millions who still think the ing a rally in the Negro com­ urged a continuation of the achievements of the Soviet a physics student — was not ture, song, poem or play. They Soviet Union a socialist state. munity against the intiative Chicago effort. He also urged Trotsky's Diary in Exile: 1935 Union and who combat the U.S. only deprived of any future are fools, but they are menac­ "How very different was the and exposing those community deepening ties with united so­ government's cold war against livelihood but was invited to ing fools, and should be fought attitude to writers taken by the spokesmen who had lent their cialist movements across the This work has never before been published the USSR. get out of his country and go everywhere they shake a fist, leaders of the October Revolu­ backing to the reactionary bill. country “with a view toward a “Our vote,” says an active cam­ in any language. — $4.00 Thus Corliss Lamont, then In­ back where he never came be they priest, peasant, prime tion may be seen from Klara national socialist ticke t in 1960.” dependent - Socialist candidate from .” minister or proletarian. To dis­ Zetkin’s ‘Reminiscences of Len­ cuss and argue about these in’ and Trotsky’s 'Literature for Senator in New York, said AND SUPPRESSION HERE Order now through: things is fine and, if the dis­ and Revolution.’ A new edition in a Nov. 3 radio interview: I. F. Stone wrote in his week­ cussion be sincere, can but lead of the latter appeared not long Pioneer Publishers, 116 University Place, New York 3 “We can’t imagine under the ly on Nov. 3: Local Directory to a wider knowledge of all ago, and the Pasternak affair socialism that I am advocating “I read Pasternak’s Dr. Zhi­ things; but when hateful ignor­ makes it most topical." — a democratic socialism — vago with joy and admiration. ance rushes out and tries to BOSTON nepin Ave., 2nd floor. Open noon to any such violation of freedom In its sensitive pages one is TREASON CHARGE down the artist with a bawl, it Boston Labor Forum, 295 Hunting- 6 P.M. daily except Sundays. of speech as we have seen re ­ back in the wonderful world France-Observateur, an inde­ is high time to cry a halt!” ton Ave., Room 200. NEWARK cently . . . in the Soviet Union of the 19th Century Russian pendent socialist weekly publi­ In a trans-Atlantic telephone Every Sunday night, round table dis­ Newark Labor Forum, Box 381, in the case of Boris' Pasternak novelists. He is a fine writer cation published in Paris, wrote, cussion, 8 P.M. Room 200. Daumier—Political Artist interview with the N. Y. Herald- Newark. N. J. and his novel. . . . And there­ and a brave man; there are Oct. 30: BUFFALO Tribune (Nov. 16) O’Casey said: NEW YORK CITY fore I want to make it perfect­ passages which, read against “Tuesday we learned the M ilitant Forum, 831 Main St. M ilitant Labor Forum, 118 Univer­ A tribute to the originator of modern politi­ "I think it was a sad mistake ly clear that I . . . reject en­ the background of Soviet re­ stupefying news: Pasternak ex­ CHICAGO sity Place, AL 5-7852. to expel Pasternak. But I be­ cal cartooning. His caricatures delighted millions. tirely that kind of suppression alities, are of sublime courage. pelled from the Soviet Writers’ Socialist Workers Party, 777 W. OAKLAND - BERKELEY lieve myself that the donation P.O. Box 341, Berkeley 1, Calif. His integrity remains an example for radicals to for writers or for anybody else.” “But I find myself more and Union, deprived of ‘the title of a Adams, DE 2-9736. of the Nobel Prize had a poli­ CLEVELAND PHILADELPHIA Lawrence Emery, writing in more annoyed by the chorus of writer’ as if servile or frighten­ this day. tical basis . . . it was given to Socialist Workers Party 10609 Su­ Militant Labor Forum and Cam­ the Nov. 10 National Guardian, Pasternak’s admirers in this ed men could obliterate such perior Ave., Room 301, SW 1-1818. him for the wrong reason . . . paign Hdqtrs. S o c ia lis t W o r k e rs Read this instructive and entertaining estimate said: country. I do not remember a striking fact. The brutality of Open Friday nights 7 to 9. Party, 1303 W. Girard Ave. what makes me very bitter DETROIT “Pasternak himself seems to that Life Magazine, which the language — which speaks SAN FRANCISCO about this sort of thing is that . Eugene V. Debs Hall, 3737 Wood­ of Daumier’s significance in the fall International have done no worse than to glorifies Pasternak, ever show­ of treason — recalls the worst The M ilitant, 1145 Polk St., Rm. 4. w a rd . there's no comment when other Sat. 11 A.M. to 3 P.M. Phone PR 6- Socialist Review. Send 50 cents for a copy. have examined the meaning of ed itself any different from the moments of the Stalinist era LOS ANGELES writers in other countries are 7296; if no answer, VA 4-2321. his own life and the lives of Pravda-Kommunist crowd in when death was meted out to Forum Hall and Modern Book Shop, persecuted." many he knew in the possibly dealing with our own Paster­ such a large number of intel­ 1702 E. 4th St. AN 9-4953 or AN 3- SEATTLE 655 Main St.. MU 2-7139. Library, outmoded terms of his 19th naks. . . .” The Nov. 1 Newsletter (Lon­ lectuals. . . . After Hungary, 1533. Book Shop open Mon. 7-9 P.M.; International Socialist Review bookstore. Classes every Friday eve­ Century precepts, as though he From England, Sean O’Casey, don) said: once more alas, we have e v i­ Wed. 8-10 P.M.; Sat. 12-5 P.M. M IL W A U K E E ning at 8 P.M. Open House following 116 U n iv e rs ity Place N ew Y o rk 3, N .Y . were trying to rescue an old the great playwright, wrote in “Whatever views one may dence of the situation in which 150 East Juneau Ave. at 10:30 P.M. trunkful of keepsakes from the the Nov. 9 N. Y. Times: “Politi­ have about the merits, literary the writers and artists of the MINNEAPOLIS S T . L O U IS attic of history. cal fellas in the United States, or other, of Boris Pasternak’s communist world are kept.” Socialist Workers Party, 322 Hen­ For Information phone MO 4-7194. Monday, November 24, 1958 T H E MILITANT Page Three

S u b s c r ip tio n : S3 p e r y e a r: Second class postage paid foreign: $4 50 per year; the MILITANT at New York. N Y. Visit of Ceylonese Trotskyists to China Canadian: $3.50 per year. (This is the second install­ have suffered a lot. others were Dr. N. M. Perera, Q. The factory workers — Published W eekly by the M ilitant Publishing Association do they have their own inde­ 116 University PI.. N. Y. 3. N. Y. é Phone: CH 3-2140 ment of an interview with Rob­ Q."In what fields? the leader of the Opposition [in ert Gunawardena, central com­ A. Well, in dominantly Sin­ Parliament!; H. D. Alexander, pendent unions? Do they bar­ Editor: DANIEL ROBERTS Business Manager: BEATRICE ALLEN mittee member of Ceylon's halese areas where they were the Secretary of the United gain with the employer or Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent the M ilitant’s policies. These are expressed in Lanka Sama Samaja Parly, living they have more or less Port Workers Union; D. G. W il­ with the state? Just how do its editorials. and a member of Parliament given up the idea of staying liams, the Secretary of Whole­ they defend their interests as sale and Shop Employes Union; workers. Vol. X X II — No. 47 Monday, November 24, 1958 Tom Kerry. Organizational Sec­ as a result of the riots and are retary of the Socialist Workers returning back to those areas and Bernard Soysa, the Mem­ A. As workers they have Party, conducted the interview. that are mostly Tamil. ber of Parliament for Colombo their unions and no one can be The LSSP, a Trotskyist party, Q. In other words, tenden­ South. dismissed by the industrialists is the country's largest w o rk ­ cies toward segregation? Q. How long did you spend who control it yet. The indus­ ...Socialist Political Action ing class parly and is the of­ A. Yes, tendencies toward in China? tria l magnates more or less ficial Opposition in Parliament. segregation. A. I spent ten days. The rest seem to be sort of managers (Continued from Page 1) movement within the ranks of labor for This installment deals further Q. A nd this w ould of course, of the delegates, nearly a at the moment. had no significance since socialism is not working class political independence will with the comunal divisions in be an even deeper division be­ month. Q. You mean Chinese indus­ yet an issue in the thinking of the great manifest itself. First hundreds of thous­ Ceylon and with the trip of tween the people? Q. To what extent, accord­ trial magnates? majority of the working people? ands, then millions, then tens of millions five LSSP leading members to A. That is correct. ing to your observation, has A. Yes. We visited some fac­ China in 1957. — Ed.) Q. The LSSP is com m itted, if the nationalization proceeded? tories and also the industrial To answer these questions in such a of workers w ill embrace the socialist pro­ Q. Now the form communal- it becomes a majority in the Robert Gunawardena, Trot­ A. It has proceeded very magnates who are there yet — way as to deny the validity of socialist gram as social instability grows. ism takes in Ceylon is that of government, to adopt both Ta­ skyist member of Ceylonese good among the agricultural they threw a party for us. The campaigns is to reckon without the basic The tasks of socialists, we believe, is the language question? What is m il and Sinhalese as" the official Parliament, addresses Inter­ sector. We found that the land­ industrial magnates have got a trends operating in the country. to prepare for these developments. Social­ the LSSP position on this par­ languages? parliamentary Conference in lords have been completely special association. We had a Brazil last August. The Democrats in office w ill grant ists should continue to regroup and unify ticular aspect of the communal A. Yes. . . . eliminated and that the peas­ discussion with them too on question? CHINESE GOVT. antry have taken cooperatives, their position. far less reforms than the working people their forces. They should develop a social­ A. The LSSP took the stand INVITES LSSP he gave us an open invitation working in large blocs. Q. Are they comparable to who voted for them demanded. Further­ ist program that fits the needs of the that there should be a parity Q. I understand the LSSP to the party to visit the Peo­ Q. In cooperatives, they do the capitalists in the capitalist more as the crisis of capitalism becomes American working people. They should of both languages. That both last year received an official ple’s Republic of China. not work in collectives? countries? more severe, the demands of the working continue to educate for socialism, especial­ Sinhalese and Tamil should be invitation from both the gov­ Q. Did he know when he is­ A. No collectives as yet. A. No. people w ill increase. The disparity be­ ly using their best forum — the election the official- languages of the ernment of the Soviet Union — sued the invitation that the Q. Then it is cooperation Q. What is the difference? tween what the workers want and what campaigns. country. That Tamil should be A. The LSSP received an LSSP was a Trotskyist organ­ among small peasant producers LEGAL STATUS given an official status, equal official invitation from the ization? on the land. Do they consider OF 'OWNERS’ they get w ill grow. Their disillusionment They should continue intransigently status, for the Tamil person to Prime Minister of the People’s A. Oh, yes. It was quite evi­ this as a step tow ard collec­ A. The difference there is with the Democratic Party w ill lead them to oppose the Democrats and Republicans carry on his business and Republic of China, not from the dent right through. During his tivization? What is their per­ that the state generally con­ to organize for basic political change. and to set the example of political inde­ transactions with the govern­ Soviet Union. From the Soviet stay in Ceylon we were hav­ spective in agriculture? trols all the raw materials that Only a part of this process, of course, pendence from both big business parties ment in it, and for the Sin­ Union there was also an invi­ ing meetings, our press, our A. That is right. They con­ are supplied to these factories may manifest itself by 1960. But socialism at the polls. halese people to do likewise in tation to the members of Par­ propaganda. There is no one sider that it is a progress on and also the commodities pro­ liament to come see the So­ who could fail to understand it This course of action w ill be the their language. We find that in working with different small duced have to be given to the in America is not the outlook of a dim many countries there are four viet Union. That invitation was was a Trotskyist organization. peasant blocs — it is a pro­ state. The industrialists just get and faraway future, either. greatest service to the American working or five languages operating in to the Parliament of Ceylon. Q. The LSSP accepted the gress on that. But they do not the bare margin of profit at the The threat of war, another depression, class that socialists can render. For it w ill government. That position Q. The People’s Republic of invitation? yet visualize the collective sys­ moment. When we discussed inflation, a turn of Big Business to reac­ aid the working class in drawing its own should be given to the Tamil China issued an invitation di­ A. Yes. We accepted the in­ tem. with them, they explained that tion looking to the installation of fascism conclusions from the experience with the language. . . . rectly to the LSSP? vitation. PEASANT SUPPORT by 1961 they would just dis­ FIVE GO TO CHINA — all these are lodged in American cap­ Democratic Party liberals and speed its OTHER DISCRIMINATION A. Yes. When Prime Minister Q. Have they won the sup­ appear completely and the Q. As a minority, do the Ta­ Chou En-lai came to Ceylon it Q. How many representatives port of the peasantry on the state would take over. Also the italist society today. break away from the capitalist two-party mil suffer from any other forms was at the end of 1956 on the of the LSSP visited China? basis of the division of the Prime Minister (Chou En-lai) Class struggles w ill break out. A system. of discrimination aside from invitation of the Prime Minis­ A. Five Central Committee land and the elimination of the and. when we discussed it with language? ter of Ceylon. He moved about members of the LSSP visited landlords? him, Mao Tse-tung, head of the A. A fte r this government a lot in the country and I feel China. A. Yes, They have definitely People’s Republic, stated that came in and language was that he saw the strength of our Q. Including yourself? got the complete sympathy and position too. No worker can be The "Atomic Stalemate" brought up as an issue, they party too at that stage. Then A. Including myself. The support of the peasantry. dismissed by the industrialists. They more or less seem to be Some people believe the stupendous ity of war has disappeared from the sort of managers at the mo­ destructive power of H-Bombs has made earth,” the reality is “the war which ment. Still that has been de­ war impossible and that “ a balance of looms so menacingly before us.” veloped perhaps. They are Throughout its history capitalism has ...M ilitant Fund Has Best W eek there till the workers come to terror” assures peace. Such self-delusion bred wars. It has produced governments a position to do special execu­ (Continued from Page 1) was widespread in the 1920’s about the capable of exterminating millions in gas tive jobs. That is the position “impossibility” of World War II. associates were defending the Bolshevik program of international that I could understand at the chambers, of incinerating the men, women socialism against the Stalinist abandonment of it. moment. Ex-Secretary of A ir Finletter recently and children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki- FUND SCOREBOARD “The National Chairman of the Socialist Workers Party, James Q. Do the workers exercise advised, “ We had better stop consoling Not only is it capable of a third world any control with management P. Cannon, began by reminiscing about his 45 years as a work­ C ity Quota Paid Percent ourselves with the idea that the possibil- war, it is organically driven towards it. ing journalist for the radical press. A t various times he had been through any sort of committees Oakland ...... $ 340 $ 357 105 editor of six different journals, beginning with a pre-World War in the factories? Or is it done St. Louis ...... 80 70 88 I IWW paper. 'Of all these, I am most proud of my continuous done through representatives in Boston ...... 450 360 80 association with the M ilitant,’ he declared. the government? Labor Did It Itself Chicago ...... 1.000 716 72 A. They do exercise control "He lold of the key role played by the Militant in helping N ew ark ...... 265 190 72 in the factories. Once again we return to the extreme­ were convinced by fellow unionists that to educate and organize, not only the socialist vanguard in this B uffalo ...... 1,500 1,065 71 Q. Through what medium? ly important conclusions to be drawn their class interest was involved in the country, but pioneer Trotskyist groups in a series of countries Connecticut ...... 300 200 67 A. Through their committees. from labor’s fight against the misnamed RTW issue. extending from England to China. Twin Cities ...... 1,742 1,152 66 Q. Are these committees elec­ M ilw aukee ...... 250 155 62 ted by the workers or are they right - to - work referendums. American Supporters of “ right-to-work” had “ ‘Nowadays the Militant has its critics. These say that we San Diego ...... 300 180 60 appointed by the government? did not support the imperialists in their wars. We acknowledge workers can rejoice in their victory in hoped .to use the farm vote against labor. New Y o rk ...... 4,500 2,481 55 A. There are some appointed this. What good is a socialist organ that opposes the capitalist defeating these laws in five out o fusix But union campaigners went to the farm­ A lle n to w n ...... 112 60 54 by the government, mainly by r-egime only in peace time and then neglects its duty when states. They should also draw some con­ ers and convinced many of them that the Los Angeles ...... 4,600 2.440 53 the union itself. war comes?’ clusions. same monopoly interests which squeezed Youngstown ...... 300 150 50 Q. When you were in China D etroit ...... The “ right-to-work” measures were the farmers were behind RTW. Working “ ‘Our critics also say that the Militant is sectarian. This ...... 600 284 47 did you have any opportunity is not true. While we stick by our principles, we have always Cleveland ...... -750 340 45 of talking to any of the work­ not defeated by Democratic party ma­ farmers, like Negroes and middle-class Seattle ...... been willing to collaborate with others for any progressive ...... 550 235 43 ers, the peasants, the people in chines, nor by liberal Democratic politic­ voters, responded to this appeal for soli­ purpose, as we have just demonstrated in the united socialist Philadelphia ...... 528 201 38 China? Pittsburgh ...... ians carrying the ball for labor. For in­ darity with labor on this issue. In 70 out tickets.’ ...... 10 2 20 LANGUAGE BARRIER San Francisco ...... stance, in Ohio, Democratic Gubernatorial of 88 rural counties in Ohio, RTW was ...... 440 90 20 A. In certain places we had. “ ‘The third accusation is that we dared tell the truth about D enver ...... Candidate Mike DiSalle admits he did not voted down; while in the 18 others the ...... 50 But the difficulty was the Stalinism before it was time. We admit that we did not wait for South ...... 200 _ language. We had to go through campaign against RTW, and Sen. Frank margin was very close. General ...... Khrushchev to give us permission. It is always timely to tell — 269 — an interpreter always. Lausche (Democrat) supported the meas­ Election figures prove that labor was the truth to the workers and the Militant will continue to do ' ’ Q. And what was the atti­ Total through ure. If the workers had depended on the able to bring out a vote on this issue in th a t.’ ” tude expressed in such discus­ Nov. 18 ...... $18,867 $10,997 61 Democratic party they would have lost excess of the vote for the Democratic- $700 C O N TR IBU TED sions? the fight. politician “ friends of labor.” In Ohio, A. They were fully with the Realizing this, labor campaigned on Democratic Governor Mike DiSalle got The audience of 140 responded enthusiastically to the state and government. They speakers and gave $700 in contributions and payments on pre­ were fully cooperating at the its own, independent of the party ma­ 1,887,925 votes, whereas 2,007,467 voted viously-made pledges. against RTW. This meant that at least moment. chines. Forming rank-and-file campaign Q. In your discussions with committees, they mustered union locals 119,365 ‘extra voters were mobilized by Minneapolis-St. Paul sent in $144 and the announcement The Militant Army that they are planning a 30th Anniversary Banquet for Dec. 13. Chou En-lai did you discuss the into united fighting fronts to battle the labor’s campaign on the “ right-to-work” That will give them just two days to clean up the dishes and political regime in China, that open-shoppers. amendment. get the money to us before the Fund’s Dee. 15 deadline. By Karolyn Kerry is, m anifestations of bureauc­ A ll this shows that labor could elect racy, which they themselves First they mobilized hundreds of rank- Subscription Campaign Director and-file campaigners who carried the fight its own candidates on a program that S. Contin, fund director in Boston, sent in $60, which keeps have recently admitted exist? the Hub of the Universe among the scoreboard elite, and com­ A. We discussed about the In the past two weeks we in their Club Subscription Plan into the shops and the neighborhoods. commanded the support of its members, mented, ‘‘Won’t be long before we complete our quota.” received a total of 102 renewals subs by sending 12 to start bureaucratism that exists in Few of these voluntary election workers working farmers, minority peoples and both the Soviet Union and From Connecticut came $95, part of which was given by a and new subscriptions to swell with. That’s a good beginning. would have responded to an appeal from the lower middle class. Labor already has China. The reply in the talk young M ilitant reader whose job has taken him away from home our list of Militant subscribers. And to complete our poll of we had was: some of us are the Democratic party, but when called on the human resources for the job. The but who returned for a visit. “When I told him his friends From the beginning of the cam­ the Pacific Coast Militant sup­ old people — those tendencies by their unions they were willing to go framework of organization is partly in needed financial help,” the local fund director writes, “he gave paign we have averaged better porters— do happen to develop in the existence. There is no lack of real eco­ me $20 and said he was glad to help.” than 50 subs per week. Seattle encloses four subscrip­ out and campaign. older sections but as we get nomic, social and political issues which This week, a new subscriber, tions with a short, note stating: The union campaign committees were A letter from Denver promises: “A ll the money is pledged. on, when the younger ele­ the ' two capitalist parties keep out of Mrs. B. P. of Seattle, sets the “Here is the result of our first able to rouse thousands of workers from It will be in before Dec. 15th.” Then comes a list of the ac­ proper tone for our nationwide Militant mobilization.” This was ments come, I think this will their apathy and get them to register and elections. But the “ labor statesmen” ob­ tivities which have kept the Militant’s Colorado friends up to sub drive when she writes: “En­ a banner week for the West disappear. That was the ans­ then to vote ‘No.’ Many who saw little tusely say “ No.” Isn’t it about time for their ears in socialist work and which has delayed payments closed is a dollar bill for your Coast. Moving to the Middle w er to us. difference between the various candidates, the ranks to get in on this conversation? on their fund quota. splendid, educating working­ West, we hear first from— Q. Was the question of Trot­ man’s paper and I shall be glad Milwaukee, which sends 7 skyism ever raised in any of DESPITE ILLNESS to pass the 'good work along.” subs without any comment. these discussions? The Militant’s supporters both in Pittsburgh and in the Thank you Mrs. B. P. and w e l­ Thanks for the subs, comrades, A. No. We could not raise South have been plagued with a number of serious illnesses come to the ranks of our M ilit­ b u t don’t be so close-mouthed the question of Trotskyism. and other misfortunes. As everyone knows under the “Free En­ ant supporters. Another new about it. Let us know what Q. Chou d id n 't raise it terprise” system it’s not bad enough to be sick and hospitalized subscriber sends us a five dol­ you’ve got up your sleeve. either? Five Will Get You Six! A. No. and have other troubles but these are all automatically com­ lar bill for six 6-month trial Twin Cities sends 4 and in $5 w ill get you six half-year trial subscriptions to pounded into financial troubles. We are happy to learn that subs under our Club Subscrip­ addition 2 trial subs wore re­ both in Pittsburgh and the South the worst seems to be over tion Plan—one sub for herself ceived from a veteran Minne­ Advertisement for our friends. From the former has come a first payment and five fo r her friends. “ Pass apolis railroader for several of THE M ILITANT and from the latter a pledge to do- the utmost. the good work along,” that is his friends. Again Available: Ask your friends to join you in the fight for a socialist world. 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One of the enclosed 1-year new ------Please subscribe me to the M ilitan t for 6 months and send me five prepaid to our ears in pre-election re­ Only four more weeks remain! subs was gotten by a new sup­ half-year trial subscription blanks. groupment activity the sub International drive is off to a slow start. porter who has set himself a Please send me six half-year trial subscription blanks. These 11 subs are mainly from quota of one new sub a week.” friends made in the last several Buffalo sends 10 subs with an And the German Introductory Offer months. However, we have a encouraging comment: “The sub considerable list of people campaign is coming along fine S itu a tio n whom we haven’t had time to . . . 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Stale ...... what words of tongue or pen PIONEER PUBLISHERS Jack S. are tied for second with can surpass the eloquence of 12 116 University Place 3 each.” Street ...... Zone...... paid subscriptions to the M il­ New York 3. N. Y. San Francisco begins to cash itant? Letters from Our Readers t h e MILITANT Suggests Name tarianism and fundamental so­ Now ideas to me are a novelty, cial change, yet holds a pro­ I was as proud, as proud could For New Party mise of order, peace and abun­ be VOLUME XXII MONDAY. NOVEMBER 24, 1958 NUMBER 47 dance in a troubled, unjust and As I unveiled him for all to E ditor: chaotic world. see. As a sponsor oi the Cleve­ As it has been used previous­ Office Workers Strike Auto Plant land Conference of American ly only by Western Europeans Words waxed hot and a bit Socialists, I am interested in and Canadians, it would be new profane seeing the conference establish to Americans, whereas there is As I defended him with might and main. Retreat o f Segregationists or contribute largely to the nothing fresh and appealing in foundation of a national united the name “Socialist” which has With metaphors mixed and socialist ballot party for the been used steadily these many grammar slain. 1960 presidential elections. Not years on the ballot by the SLP, Oh, what a thrill a fight affords that I am for running Left can­ SP-SDF and SWP with no big When we cross our verbal didates for president and gov­ results. Also it might enable Seen in Va. School Fight swords ernor all the time. I hold that principled liberals and labor And the idea drowns in a sea the socialist movement should union officers, as well as the of words. By Lillian Kiezel be built from the bottom up rank and file, to support and Jack Wright, Governor Almond of Virginia continues to call for “massive resistance” to school instead, from the grass roots, even join, the new party. If Seattle integration. However, steps toward token compliance with the Supreme Court’s anti­ where the Socialist candidate we work hard enough at it, it segregation rulings are shaping up in that state. for councilman and alderman might help us in gaining at “Massive resistance” was in­ will be known more personally least the partial support of New Cannibalism voked to keep 51 Negro chil­ ; would have to fight Governor by the voters and thus his whole unions like the ILWU dren from being integrated in Faubus who has stood firm in socialist views can be gotten and MESA. . . . E ditor: WDL Protests nine lily-white Virginia schools. his refusal to open the schools. across more intimately. . . . I know I can depend on the . . . 1 would tell you that Using the state’s school-closing The only remaining member I am for calling the new SWP and the Militant for help­ there is no profit in competi­ Appointment laws, Almond shut six schools of the Board is Dr. Dale Al­ party the “Cooperative Com­ ing to work out a good program tion, and thus that there is no in Norfolk, two in Charlottes­ On Nov. 7 the Workers ford, a puppet of Faubus and monwealth Party” because the for the new party, and I hope pure net profit in American ville, and one in Front Royal Defense League protested an outspoken segregationist. He name “Socialist” only means to readers of the Militant w ill dis­ competitive society. And you at the eyid of September thus the appointment of Jackson was the write-in Congressional Americans big government, and cuss this question regarding the would think me wrong, for locking out approximately 13,- E. Spears as Chairman of the candidate in the Nov. 4 elec­ all-powerful state, and the name and w ill concur with me every day you see some men 000 white students. annual fund drive of the tions who defeated incumbent tyranny of the USSR. Not that and others who favor this idea. growing wealthy and corpora­ A shift in policy is now indi­ Foreign Policy Association. Representative Brooks Hays. I think we should try to fool George L. tions making profits. But that When 8,000 office and engineering employes of Chrysler cated by a change of line in Spears is a Vice-President of Hays, a segregationist now be­ the voters with different names, Pennsylvania w hich you see is m erely p ro fi­ Corporation went on strike in Detroit, Nov. 13, production Virginia’s top segregationist Burlington Mills, a firm that ing touted as a “moderate” can as the Stalinists try to do with teering and economic bucaneer- workers refused to cross their picket lines. The salaried em­ newspapers. The Times - Dis­ resorts to anti-Semitism in be considered such only rela­ their various fronts (“Progres­ ing. ployes, members of the UAW, settled the strike after five patch and News - Leader of combatting unions in its tive to Faubus’ stooge, Alford. sive Party," “People’s Rights Idea Overboard! The profit system is merely days on the bricks. Richmond editorially urged a plants. As an official of Bur- The Arkansas Governor backed Party”) as that would be sui­ economic cannibalism with one “new approach” following con­ linlon Mills, Spears shares Alford with the full weight of cide. It is the reputation that (In Verse) man to consume the substance sultation of the editors with responsibility for the circula­ his political machine in order counts, and such a party would E ditor: of another man by economic Governor Almond. The Nov. 15 tion of a leaflet describing to get his direct representative clearly have a socialist reputa­ The following is a bit of sa­ means. The strong prey upon . . . Internat’l-Harvester Arthur Spingarn, President in Congress. News Leader proposed that op­ tion, no matter what its name. tire on long and gabby execu­ the weak. It is the survival of eration of integrated schools be of the NAACP, as "The Jew SIX VACANCIES B ut “Cooperative Common­ tive board meetings. the fittest with the weak to be (Continued from Pane 1) having an army of over 300 permitted in any community who has headed that trouble- Alford will be leaving for wealth Party" would explain to eliminated by economic means. ing drastic, downward revision police protecting w hatever A little idea in my cranium where a majority of the voters making organization. . . Washington soon so that all six ♦he public w hat we mean by stored Unemployed people are not of its old contract." rights the company may fear approved of it through referen­ Another leaflet distributed in | seats on the Board of Education Socialism. It is attractive to just unemployed — they are The mass response to the first are being threatened by the Kicked around like a flea in a dum. one of Burlington's 40 South­ w ill be vacated. Fourteen can­ both the idealistic and the eliminated people. picket line indicates that the strike. gourd, SEGREGATIONISTS ern plants bore the carica­ didates are in the race for the practical-minded alike. It reeks workers have no intention of Last Sept. 21, Local 1301 sent Tenderly, I carried him to the F. O. RETREAT ture of an ugly carpetbagger Board which will be decided with democracy, with equali- Board. Paola, Kansas accepting anything less than an a resolution to Daley request­ captioned "The NAACP sent I improved contract. ing that Chicago stop singling This proposal constitutes a on Dec. 6. Five of them are retreat on the part of segrega­ me down here to desegregate running as a slate backed by a The strike has been “pend­ out the labor m ovem ent “ as a tionists largely due to mount­ you trashy bastards." This group of business men. They ing" since July when the old group that needs special atten­ ing opposition to the school­ virulent racist propaganda declared that they would "not New York contract expired and a strike tion from Barnes [head of the LA. United Socialists closing among white parents was used to defeat an or­ voluntarily integrate” schools. vote was overwhelmingly voted “Labor Detail"] and his local and teachers in the cities affect­ ganizing drive of the Textile James T. Karam, close friend Bazaar by the membership. When the Storm Troopers.” However, ed. A nother im p o rta n t factor is Workers Union. of Faubus. was one of the first There w ill be an unusually union finally served the five- while another police officer was that there is a good possibility announced candidates. Karam wide selection of gift items day notice of termination of the formally in charge at the strike Hold First Symposium the school-closing laws would ing the schools on an integrated was prominent in directing the at low prices at the Annual agreement, the workers viewed scene, the strikers were anger­ be held unconstitutional by the basis. The referendum was de­ activities of a white racist mob Christmas Bazaar to be held the strike deadline as “it’s ed at seeing Barnes present and By Della Rossa courts. feated two to one. This vote is which assaulted Negroes in Saturday, Dec. 13. from noon about time.” The Chicago Daily apparently acting as usual. LOS ANGELES — The newly formed United Social­ White parents are responsible not a true expression of Nor­ front of Central High School on, at 116 University Place, News, reflecting the company’s for two suits now pending folk opinion. Everyone knew on Sept. 23, 1957. He has also ist Political Action Committee sponsored its first public New Y ork. I views, printed a strike story RECESSION COST symposium here Oct. 30 with a discussion on “A Socialist against Almond and the State that if the schools were put headed a professional strike­ A partial selection includes: with a headline foreseeing a “At the very least this reces­ Answer to Bi-Partisan War*------of Virginia. In Norfolk, 26 par­ under local authority it would breaking agency — disguised as hand made leather belts, “long strike." It is possible that sion will cost $60 billion in of foreign policy. Pointing to ents filed suit on Oct. 27 to mean that the people of that a Veterans Industrial Associ­ Policy in Asia.” The speakers jewelry, rope beads. Virgin some of the company’s arro­ goods and services we could were Martin Hall, author and the fact that 88% of U.S. for­ gance towards its workers force reopening of the city’s city would have to fool the en­ ation. This organization — Island straw baskets, chil­ have produced and didn’t . . . eign aid is really military aid, comes from its overextended schools. Another suit was filed tire bill for the operation of formed in 1946 — was active in lecturer; Carl Feingold, Los dren's toys and books, wom­ That’s the equivalent of about he urged a complete reconsti­ by a white parent asking the I the public schools through high­ Arkansas, Florida, Texas, and Angeles organizer, Socialist en's Bnd children's clothes, inventories. The company ask­ ten years of foreign aid or tution of the American political ed for this showndown, but the court to open schools in all | er local taxes. Louisiana. It was financed by Workers Party; and Herbert hand made aprons, hats, seven or eight years spending Rosenfeld, president of the structure. militancy of the workers indi­ three cities. On Oct. 29, the In Little Rock five of the six business men and pledged to steam irons, waffle irons, on higher education in this Feingold declared the Chin­ cates that the company may get NAACP filed a third suit in members of the Board of E du­ combat “foreign dominated la­ Southern California Chapter of radios and other appliances, country.” Quote from John P. the American Humanist Society. ese revolution the greatest more than it bargained for. which they asked that the Nor­ cation resigned on Nov. 12. bor unions that are today keep­ books, cosmetics, perfumes, Lewis, professor of business ad­ Milton Zaslow presided. event since the 1917 Russian folk schools be reopened to They had originally been in ing our country in grief, tor­ ceramics, men's clothing and During the period of the ex- ministration at Indiana Univer­ Revolution and explained that admit 17 Negro pupils assigned favor of minimum compliance ment and strife.” Hall, the principal speaker of a special "thrift department." tention of the old contract, one sity. the evening, is an active mem­ the victory of the Chinese rev­ of the reasons given by the to them by Federal court order. with the decision of the Su­ Karam has withdrawn from olution had thrown a major The first case w ill be heard be­ preme Court. the race for school board on ber of the USPAC. An anti­ union leadership for dallying THE HARD SELL fascist fighter, he was a mem­ monkey wrench into U.S. war with the company’s refusal to fore a three-judge Federal Last week the Board was the request "of a close friend." ber of the German underground plans. Discussing a socialist bargain seriously was to “wait “Constructive nagging” by Court in Norfolk this week. caught between a permanent The "close friend" perhaps felt movement against Hitler from peace program, Feingold said until after the November elec­ salesmen’s wives is encouraged An “informational referen­ injunction from the Circuit that Karam was too crass a socialists have the job of rally­ Calendar by the Admiral Corporation. dum” was staged in Norfolk on Court which ordered them to symbol of the type of element 1933 to 1937. tions.” Despite the landslide Discussing the Formosa crisis, ing the workers for independ­ vote to the Democrats, Mayor TV manufacturers, who are of­ Nov. 18 to “inform” the rabidly take positive action toward re­ that people such as Faubus like Hall said, “We watch these ent, anti-capitalist struggle. Urg­ Daley acted, as usual, on be­ fering diamond rings to the segregationist City Council of suming the school’s integrated to have on school boards and events with the fascination of ing the unity of all socialists Of Events half of the I-H Company by wives of top-rating salesmen. the public’s opinion of reopen- status and the fact that they! in Congress. a person watching a madman who oppose the bi-partisan for­ with a knife ready to cut the eign policy, he said, “every world to pieces. vote for capitalist candidates is NEW YO R K a vote for a rifle to Chiang • UNSINKABLE CARRIER Kai-shek.” Attend a FALL FESTIVAL, 40 Yrs. Ago: German Revolution Began Formosa is viewed by the Greetings were read from Saturday, Nov. 29, 9 P.M., at U.S. as a “very nice unsinkable Reuben Borough who was un- 116 University Place. Music, By John Black capitalist paper that had al­ balcony. In a desperate attempt aircraft carrier," he said, and able to chair the meeting as dancing, refreshments. Contrib. After four years of imperial­ ready been set up. Thus in one to stem the tide to Liebknecht, issue the paper mirrored the the U.S. has not gone to war | scheduled because of illness. 50 cents. Ausp.: Militant Labor ist mass m urder, disease, hun­ he proclaimed the Kaiser’s end of the imperial rule and over Quemoy only because of The meeting adopted a resolu­ Forum . ger and untold misery for the abdication, the fall of the im­ the declaration by the USSR tion protesting U.S. interven­ • w o rkin g class— of suffering that the beginning of Council rule. perial government and the for­ that it would defend China and tion in the Far East and an­ HOLD THIS DATE — Fri­ contrasted so glaringly with the But even while the German mation of a Labor government because the U.S. military al­ other demanding an immediate day, Dec. 5, 8 P.M., William F. enormous profits of the muni­ workers, embittered by their headed by the conservative So­ lies refused to be dragged into halt to nuclear tests, citing the Warde, Chairman, Los Angeles tion makers and other capital­ experiences and inspired by cial Democrat Ebert. a suicidal adventure. Recalling recent dangerous increase in Socialist Workers Party, speaks ists — the German Revolution the example of the Russian HEAD TO BEHEAD that the Democratic Party pol­ fallout here as a result of the on national perspectives for broke out forty years ago. Revolution, were striving to icy in Korea was as bad as the Nevada tests. The pressure o f the masses united socialist political action The outbreak of the first grasp the political power into present Republican brinkman­ The USPAC announced that on the Social Democratic lead­ and reports on socialist re­ world war had witnessed the their own hands, the cowardly ship in Formosa, he said “the it is forming socialist study ers was great. They could not groupment developments i n betrayal of the organized Ger­ top leaders of the organized only way out is for the labor classes and that it is aiming at oppose the revolution out-right. California. PLUS — A report man labor movement by most labor movement were plotting movement to rise up and or­ establishment of a permanent The next best thing was to on the Cleveland united social­ of its Social Democratic lead­ inside the Parliament building ganize' toward socialism." socialist school. The committee agree to head and lead the ist political action conference ers, who went into the service how to salvage capitalist rule. Rosenfeld charged that those also announced it is laying movement, break its momen­ by Murry Weiss. Adelphi Hall, of German imperialism and really guilty of "subversion" in plans for participation in the Fearing the workers more tum and then crush it at a 74 Fifth Ave. (at 13th St.) Con­ supported the war. this country are the architects local elections next spring. than the reactionary army offi­ later date with the aid of the trib. — $1.00, Ausp. Militant Only a handful of steadfast, cer corps, they were busy reassembled forces of reaction. Labor Forum. international socialists, gather­ ed around such leaders as Karl working out a deal that would On Nov. 9. 1918, few would • enable them to turn back the MOUNTAIN SPRING CAMP Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, have believed that the mighty, Leo Jogiches and Franz Mehr- revolutionary tide and to crush Enjoy a sumptuous Thanks­ popular rising of workers could ROSA LUXEMBOURG KARL LIEBKNECHT it. giving turkey dinner with all ing, held aloft the banner of be halted. The Councils had working class struggle and in­ the trimmings at this camp in Since that day, memoirs have power in their hands and with OUT OF THE DEPTHS, by value lies in showing the role ternationalism. This small group the lovely Pocono foothills. The Bolshevik political propaganda ’ ies. Councils had taken power revealed the whole sordid story the flight of the Emperor and Berron S. Beshoar. 372 p. of the maritime industry in in­ was organized in the tendency cost — only $2.25. 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