Workers of the World, Unite ! MAY DAY AND THE FIGHT FOR THE 30-HOUR WEEK By Ruth Johnson — See Page 3 — THE MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE

Vol. X III - No. 17 2*1 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1949 PRICE: FIVE CENTS The Spirit of May Day Un ion Chiefs Shadow Box With T-H, Unemployment SKOGLUND FACES RENEWED Fail to Mobilize Membership For United Action Campaign THREAT OF DEPORTATION By Art Preis , .j An examiner of the Federal Department of Immigration “ It’s Time io Slug Back!” is the headline over a last week over-ruled the application of Karl Skoglund’s attorney big special-feature editorial in the April issue of the to set aside the deportation order that has been pending against the Minneapolis labor reader-^ United Automobile Worker, national paper of the since 1941. Skoglund, who is now in his CIO auto workers union. But th e ^ - This latest decision in the case tixtics, has been a resident of kind of “ slugging” proposed to Western Union’s profits, but it of iSkoglund, former president of the United States for 38 years. halt the “all-out campaign” of hasn’t made a dent on Congress. famed Minneapolis Drivers Local He came here from Sweden in the reactionary forces in America Two weeks ago a check of Con­ 544, is being appealed to the 1911. He has been active in the looks more like a slap on the gress revealed that a m ajority1 Board of Immigration Appeals, socialist and labor movements wrist. The editorial winds up by in both houses are against Taft- final administrative authority of since he firs t came to the U. S. telling the workers only to “ make IIartley Act repeal, the key elec^ the Department of Immigration. ‘ In 1923, he was chairman of known to their senators and con­ tion promise of Truman and thé Friends of Skoglund are organ­ the Burlington, Great Western gressmen their support of the Democratic Party. izing a defense committee in his and North Western during the Fair Deal. program and their This bestirred the CIO leaders behalf and have engaged attorney railway shopmen’s strike. Later determination to use their votes” to the point where they adopted Stanley H. Lowell of New York he served as a delegate from the KARL SKOGLUND in the next election. a “grand Baster strategy.” If City to represent him in the pro­ Railroad Carmen and AFL This is typical of the kind of they couldn’t move Congress ceedings before the appeals board. Teamsters to the Minneapolis 2,018 Votes Cast for vague, ineffectual and fumbling collectively in Washington with Central Labor Union. program the top labor leaders are their tidal wave of paper and He twice made application for now advocating in the face oi ink, they’d work on the legisla­ American citizenship, but each Filomena Goelman such immediate threats as defeat tors individually back in their t me his application was rejected of the Taft-IIartley repeal bill, home towns over the Easter because of his activities in the Oakland Candidate growing unemployment and the recess. CIO President Philip Mur­ May Day Manifesto labor movement. • i • obvious retreat of the Trumanite ray even sent a letter to 300 CIO local leaders to try to get His first application was re­ OAKLAND, April 20 Democrats in Congress on all meetings with the various con­ jected in 1922 at the time he was Fllomena Goelman, Socialist ■their pledged “ Fair Deal” re­ gressmen and senators and let serving as chairman of the Twin Workers Party candidate for forms. . City Councilman-at-large, re­ them know labor is “ dissatisfied” Of Socialist Workers Party Cities strike committee of the Ever since the Senate buried ceived 2,018 votes in yester- with the record of Congress since Railway Shopmen. He was presi­ the civil rights promises of both iay’s municipal prim ary elec­ i t convened in January. . Capitalism's deadly triple-threat — war. dictatorship and And now the workers directly face the specter that has dent of the Minneapolis truck major parties under the filibuster tion. So here and • there little, com­ unemployment — hangs over the American Workers on this May haunted them since the end of the war unemployment. Five drivers union when the present and disemboweled the promised mittees of local unionists paid million are already out of work, while another 11 to 12.million proceedings were brought against This was the SWP’s .first “strengthened” rent control bill, Day. Easter calls on sometimes polite him. This was in 1941 during the election campaign in Oakland the top union leaders, CIO and are reduced to part-time employment of one to four days a week. but little impressed congressmen! Four years after a war for the "four freedoms,” American big fight of Local 544 against and the vote, representing AFL, have been urging their While the monopoly corporations report record_profits, labor's Because the only thing that ever, iriiperialism’s drive for world-domination has placed the Amer­ the Tobin bureaucracy. . ’ moie than three per cent .of members-to flood their congress­ living standards have been drastically slashed. The classic con­ movfes these political agents of ican people, together with all mankind, under a pall of fear — the total, is regarded as a good men and senators with letters ARRESTED IN 1941 Big Business and the vested in­ tradiction of capitalist production for private profit is assert­ beginning in local electoral and telegrams. This may , have fear of the atomic bomb, fear of brutal regimentation, fear of terests is an overwhelming show ing itself once more ;— millions of tons of goods are piling up During tire midst of this strug-^ activity. helped to defray the Postal De­ insecurity and hunger. cf mass labor strength. Ha«J while the mass of peopleware too impoverished to buy. gle fo r union democracy, Skoglund partment’s deficit and to boost The rulers of America talk of "peace,” but they plan war. ivas arrested and held in ja il for thousands of workers in every War, dictatorship and depression — the unholy trin ity of community been mobilized as a They howl about the “ aggressions" of the Kremlin, while they 30 days on a bond of $5,000. This capitalism — today confront American labor with its greatest “ committee of the whole” to plant their air and naval bases on every continent. Their United was part of the general persecu­ challenge. The mighty American working-class, mobilized in tion of the leaders of Local 544 greet the home-coming legisla­ Nations serves merely as a screen for secret diplomacy, interna­ unions 16-million strong, holds in its hands the hope of peace, and the Socialist Workers Party POLICE-SPY ATMOSPHERE tors, there might have been a tional intrigue arid maneuvers, feverish war preparations. Be­ different result. democracy and plenty for America and the world. But, as yet, which culminated in the indict­ hind this facade stands the reality of the North Atlantic Pact, ment, tria l and imprisonment of V irtually the entire emphasis the American workers have not taken up the challenge. of the labor leaders is on the the greatest m ilitary alliance in history. 18 SWP and Local 544-CIO lead­ PERVADES TRIAL OF CP (Continued on page 3) ers under the Smith “ Gag” Act. Taft-Hartley issue. They are not By Farrell Dobbs only making little visible head­ War Drive Speeded Dp Skoglund was one of the 1$ convicted in the Minneapolis FEDERAL COURTROOM, NEW YORK, April 19 _ way on, this question, but are al­ The first weeks of this pact have seen .a tremendous speed­ Labor Trial and served a 16- most completely neglecting the William O. Nowell’s unsavory biograpljy is in some respects a other major issues, such as the up of the ,war drive. Truman publicly hurls the threat of the Novack Describes Progress month sentence in the fedora’ ^symbol of corrupt Stalinism and at the same lime a b a rk of the penitentiary at Sandstone, Minn. growing menace of unemploy­ atomic bomb. The W all Street-Brass Hat clique speaks openly government’s brutal methods, in ;------1------As a result of his prosecution f/’j” ° T •“''** a« ment and part-time employment. oi a "preventive” war against the Soviet Union. Congress moves and imprisonment, the deportation i . ,.g , *vnc 11 "K 0 scientific Homer. Martin, then president oi On this latter vital issue, the In Rallying Kutcher Defense the UAW, and went back to Ford to gouge from the American people even more billions for the preceding* were held in abeyance, SOCla',Sm here on Fole* CIO offers its local bodies only A 44-year-old Negro born jit in .1939 where he remained until m ilitary machine than Truman himself has demanded in his By Larissa Reed but Skoglund was kept under platonic advice to initiate “ Com­ Georgia, Nowell migrated to De­ driven off the job by UAW bond all the time. Now the im­ munity Service Committees” to biggest peace-time m ilitary budget. Truman calls for extra bilj “ What attitude toward civil rights did you find in the troit in 1922 where he went ,to Local 600 in 1944. He denied that migration authorities are preced­ help their members file fo r un­ lions to rearm Washington’s pact partners, while the latter clamor cities you visited?” 1 asked George Novack, National Secretary work for Henry Ford. He joined, he finked during the 1941 Ford ing actively against him on the employment compensation or re­ of the Kutcher C ivil Rights Committee, who recently concluded the Communist Party in 1929, strike but admitted that he latei for speedy increase of American troops in Europe and prompt grounds that he had been a mem­ lief. No basic attack on unem­ was soon assigned to direct Negro asked the company for protec­ down-payments on promised arms. a speaking tour on behalf of the ber of the Socialist Workers ployment has been launched. The outstanding .figures in the Negro work in Detroit and later spent tion because some of the workers legless veteran. Party, which Attorney General program of the 30-hour week at And the war industries monopolists — the Merchants of community, prominent local AFL a year at the Lenin Institute in “ I have traveled the country Clark has put on his political were “trying to drop things” on 40-hours pay, adopted a decade, Death — rub their hands in anticipation of more armaments officials, together with young Moscow. He claimed lie was him. many times on various cases,” blacklist of so-called “ subversive” ago by the CIO and AFL, is s till veterans and teachers from the taught that “ Marxism means the He spoke at public meetings profits and prepare for M-Day —« Mobilization Day — when he remarked, “ but never before organizations. gathering dust. Meanwhile, sur­ the brass hats and gold braid will stalk into the factories, mines, have I observed such keen in­ Akron university. At the organ- government must, be overthrown 'vith the fascist Gerald L. K veys in New York, Connecticut izng luncheon, Paul Fessenden, The attempt to deport Karl by violence.” power stations, railroad terminals, etc., and damp an iron m ili­ terest in problems connected with Smith during 1940-41 and did and other industrial states sho^ Akron CIO Council Secretary, Skoglund, who has lived the Nowell said he disagreed with work on Smith’s files for which unemployment rising at the tary rule on the workers. democratic rights. This trip coin­ greater part of his life in this cided with the Senate filibuster. was chosen chairman and Mrs. the CP’s 1930 decision to advocate Smith paid him. fastest rate in 11 years. . ‘ ‘ John Spears, secretary of the country, is a clcar-cut case of creation of a Negro state in the Nowell testified before the Dies It IS time for labor to slug The blocking of civil rights victimization and reprisal for his Democratic Rights Under Assault legislation in Washington pro­ local FEPC Committee, accepted South. When he refused to Committee in 1939 and has more back! That means more than the post of secretary of the local political views and hisk loyal and “ correct his error,” he was recently testified against Gerhart confetti showers of letters and The drive toward military dictatorship and total war has vided the main topic of conversa­ m ilitant service to the cause of tion whenever I went. Kutcher Committee. denounced for “ factionalism and Eisler and a number of Stalinists an occasional polite little ' delega­ “ In the steel centers of Pitts­ labor. already torn great gaps in the barrier of civil liberties erected “ A t the same time, furious disruption" and finally quit the up for deportation. Shortly after tion. The labor movement mu&( to protect democratic rights. fights were in progress around burgh and Youngstown I met a His friends have announced CP in 1936. he was lined up as a witness ir unite in mass action, spearheaded very encouraging response not their intention of raising a fund The Stalinist lawyers tried to Starting with Truman's "loyalty” purge of federal workers FEPC measures pending in both the present tria l he was given a by the mobilization in Washing­ the Pennsylvania and Oh o State only from union officials but for his legal defense in the make h’m admit he had “ con­ clerical job with the Department ton. D. C., of a giant United Con­ and blacklist of "subversive" organizations, a witch-hunt has from educators. I was invited to legislatures. I believe civil fights federal courts in the event the fessed” to the charges of “ fac­ of Justice without a civil service gress of Labor. The “ all-out cam­ been unloosed on the land. Federal and state legislatures are is the Number One political issue ddress a sociology class at the Immigration appeals board, which tionalism and disruption.” i They examination. paign” of reaction can be halted churning out gag-laws to victimize and silence anyone who dares in the minds of thinking Ameri­ university in Youngstown, where is expected to rule in a short contended he was expelled in The Stalinists claim that Nowell in its tracks only by an all-out to speak for peace and an end to the war plotting. Professors cans today.” the students shot questions at me time, hands down an adverse 1936. was a Ford spy when he first fighting counter - offensive s>f (Continued on page 2) decision. Nowell worked in 1937-38 for and teachers are being hounded from the educational institu­ How much interest had he (Continued on page 2) labor. 1 ” -4’ tions. Journalists are being fired. Liberal-minded religious lead­ found in the Kutcher case in par­ ticular? ers and pacifist religious groups like the Jehovah’s Witnesses are “ The case of the legless veteran being persecuted. C ivil rights for the Negro people are buried has not received much publicity in the grave of a Senate filibuster. Leaders of the Communist in the daily press, outside of a few large c'ties,” Novack replied. The Outrage in Cleveland-A Grim Warning (Stalinist) Party are being framed up in a thought-control trial under the Smith "Cag'’ Law ;— first used to imprison 18 leaders “ A real or alleged spy story w ill be featured material for weeks, By Bert Cochran the Taft-Hartley affidavits. The picket line. Surely here is an at an end.” To make sure lha: Of course, cops and judges of the Socialist Workers Party, the American Trotskyists, dur­ while news such as this abomin­ company had no trouble in inspiring demonstration of the there would be "no more gen­ breaking strikes and jailing union ing the last war. able persecution is played down The strike at the Fawick-Air- getting a complaint judge to superiorities of free American eralissimos,” the judge meted out men and women are. nothing new. or suppressed. flex Company in Cleveland, re­ issue an • injunction lim iting the unionism to Stalinist' totalitarian­ lail sentences totalling 440 days in this land of the free and home Specter of Unemployment “ However, most people and or­ ported in last week’s M ilitant, union to seven pickets. So fa r ism. for the 12 strike leaders and held of the brave. But honest demof ganizations who follow important as a small affair involving only everything is running according The Stalinist leaders' thereupon (hem for 82,060,000 bail. crats and lovers of freedom, not The American labor movement is assailed by reaction from events in tfce civil liberties field 125 workers. But it was like a to schedule. mobilize a mass picket line and The next day, when it was to talk of labor leaders, are sup­ without and within. The infamous T aft-IIartley Act remains are fam iliar with this case. And magnesium flash, which for an Then the AFL auto union steps blockade the gates. The Fawick pointed out to him that declaring posed to get indignant at such on the books. Strikebreaking has once more become standard thanks to the efforts of our local instant illumined the whole scene in like a skulking traitor arid workers battle like Trojans to a strike “ judicially at an end’ travesties of justice. They arie practice, as employer, and police — and even a Catholic Cardi­ committees, more and more peo- with a blinding glare and piti­ petit'ons fo r an election under maintain the union of their own was kind of raw, maybe ever supposed to battle the minions lessly exposed the present gan­ the Taft-Hartley slave law. In choosing. There are a number of illegal, the judge blandly ordered nal — brazenly flout picket lines and herd scabs. In' Cleveland pel are getting to know the and timeservers of Big Business, facts.” 1 grenous condition of the labor this instance, the wheels of justice clashes with the police and special the journal entry not to includ and not aid and abet them 'ih a labor-hating judge has slapped $2,060,000 bail on 12 CIO The committee launched in anions. How have the mighty grind without any delay. An deputies. Then 12 of the strike this statement, “ because I do no their nefarious suppressions, pickets for "contempt” of his anti-strike injunction. Akron during Novack’s stay there fallen! How has the once-proud election is held pronto and the leaders are hauled into court and consider that there is a strik' aren’t they? The AFL officials The top” union bureaucrats are engaged in their own witch typifies the kind of organization CIO, whose very name was ma­ AFL loses, with the majority of the judge proceeds to throw thè, out there, and therefore canno' have again made clear that when the Kutcher committee is aiming gic, become the habitat of red- the workers voting “ No Union” book at them. Judge Connell order an end to it.” hunt, inserting new gag-laws in union constitutions, expelling they were dubbed “ labor lieu­ to build, he said. baiters and conscienceless career­ on the advice of their leaders. delivered himself of the follow When the Court of Appeal; tenants of the capitalist class,” rank-and-file militants, encouraging the penetration of sinister “ The initiating members com­ ists! But the AFL, which is spending ing judical pronouncements- fixed lower bail fo r the 12 strike this was not an epithet, but ultra-reactionary elements like the Association of Catholic Tirade pose a representative cross section The strike was called March /7 bushels of money to teach the “ There w ill no more picketing. leaders, Judge Conell ordered th literal truth. Like Judas, they Unionists, They are transmitting into the unions the atmos­ of progressive opinion in this by the Stalinist leadership of the benighted workers of Europe and There will be a journal entry that Sheriff to continue keeping then- have since received, in payment phere and methods of the police-state that the capitalist politi­ center of the rubber industry, CIO United Electrical Union be­ Asia the beauties of “ free union­ ♦ here w ill be no more, gen­ in jail, and they were finally for their treachery, the tradi­ leading Protestant clergymen, cause the company withdretv ism,” has not yet finished. They eralissimos, or speakers, or equip­ leleased only by direct order oi cians and militarists are trying to impose on the population as tional 30 pieces of silver. The Among them are the president recognition on the pretense that now start running carloads of ment of any kind. . . The phoney the Court of Appeals when thr company recognized A FL strike,- a whole. o f' the Akron CIO Council, two the union officers had not signed scabs through the seven - man strike w ill be declared judicially higher court overruled the judge. (Continued on Page 2) Paffe Two THE MILITANT Mònday, April 25, 1949 Labor Union Trends STOOL-PIGEON Witch-Hunt B ill Signed The Outrage ATMOSPHERE Fund Lags 21% as Drive AT TRIAL OF CP Goes into Second Half In Cleveland (Continued from Page 1) By Reba Aubrey joined the CP, but it isn’t necessarily so. He may be just Campaign Manager another of the many once-sincere Branches of the Socialist Work­ SCOREBOARD FOR MILITANT FUND 2’ (Continued from Page 1) labors in connection with the ers Pariy sent in $1,023 on their persons who became corrupted by Branch breakers — pardon, Auto.Work­ strike. $7,500 M ilitant Fund quotas Quota Paid Percent Stalinism. Morgantown ers Local 967 — as the bargain­ You can redd reams of pages during the week, but the national $ 25 S 30 120 ing agent for the plant workers. about Rauther’s global plans, or ' Whichever the .case may be, campaign is still lagging behind Seattle 50 50 100 Toledo ■ And what was the CIO doing Murray’s industry - management? Nowell’s presence on the witness schedule by 11% Those branches 60 40 80 Youngstown While all this backstabbing and councils, or Catholic trade union stand is a mark of the stoolpigeon that have not fulfilled at least 300 240 80 union - busting was afoot and morality, and all this w ill not mentality which pervades this 50% of their quotas are not keep­ Newark 250 190 76 Boston while the cause of honest union­ tell you one-tenth as much, o f the thought-control prosecution. ing pace with the campaign, . 150 91 61 F lint ism was being dealt blow upon real character and aims of this While the police spy Herbert which accounts for the 11% lag. 200 . 106 53 Philadelphia BlptV? Did the Cleveland CIO of­ hureacracy as its conduct in the A. Philbrick was testifying, the Toledo leaped from the zero 400 211 53 ficials come to the rescue of their Fawiek strike. The Bible says: prosecutor read to the ju ry the column to third place in this New Britain 50 25 50 New; York ¿ister CIO local ? Not quite. Like “ Where your treasure is, there last five paragraphs of the Com­ week’s “ Scoreboard” withh 80%. 2,000 952 48 i^ohtius Pilate, the CIO “labor w ill your heart be also.” Their munist Manifesto. The prosecutor Another leap and Toledo w ill Minneapolis 400 178 45 stàtesmen” decided to wash their alliance with the capitalist gov-J next read excerpts from Stalin’s finish before the May 15 dead­ Pittsburgh 100 45 45 hands of the whole business. They ernment is obviously more im­ false explanation of Marxism. line. New Haven 35 15 43 sat back, unshaken, and unmoved, portant to them than their duties Then Philbrick explained what Youngstown moved into fourth Baltimore 100 _ 40 40 Stalin meant. while a CIO local was being cut to the CIO rank and file. Their place with a $100 payment, San Francisco-Oakland 500 194 39 to ribbons, as if it didn’t concern prosecution of the State Depart­ Th is FBI stoolpigeon’s inter­ boosting it to 80%/. Buffalo 500 175 35 Reading them, or the workers, whose in­ ment’s “ cold war” inside the pretation of the traitor Stalin’s Despite protests from several labor and teacher organizations, Newark makes sure it stays 50 17 34 terests, presumably, they re­ unions is a greater objective interpretation of the ideas set Gov. Thomas E. Dewey signs the Feinberg bill, which gives the high on the “ Scoreboard”^ by Lynn 50 14 28 present. Finally, on April 13 — than elementary solidarity in a forth in the Communist Mani­ New York Board of Regents power to draw up its own “ disloyalty” sending in regular weekly pay­ St. Paul 200 55 28 Chicago OVER ONE MONTH AFTER strike. festo was palmed o ff on the jury list and to.bar alleged “ subversives” from teaching. ments on its pledge. 250 68 27 THE STRIKE WAS IN PRO­ as — “Marxism.” Boston Branch jumped from Cleveland 150 38 25 THE STALINIST RECORD GRESS — when they ¿ould no Two more experts called to the zero column to sixth place Detroit 500 112 22 longer remain silent, the CIO Of course, the Stalinist UE testify on Marxism-Leninism as with 61%. Worcester 25 . 6 20 a philosophy of “force and cèntral labor body adopted a leaders are no unsullied militants H0VACX MAKES REPORT Dottie B .of New Britain while St. Louis , 50 6 12 violence” were FBI agents Eugene resolution. And what a resolu­ undauntedly battling the forces on a visit to New York turned in Milwaukee 150 2 1 II. Stewart and Fred G. 'Cook. tion! In times to come, it will be of evil. For ten years, they ran $25 — 50% of that branch’s Akron 200 0 0 They claimed to have heard the reprinted in the labor text-books the Cleveland Union Council like quota — “ because it looks bad»'to Allentown 25 0 0 defendant Carl W inter say at a OH KUTCHER DEFEASE äs a horrible example of how a “ little Kremlin” and taught \ be in the zero column.” Los Angeles 600 0 0 Detroit meeting in 1946 that “ the (Continued from page 1) participated in a radio interview low the labor movement sank in the present CIO leaders all the New York Local is keeping Rochester 25 0 0 time is coming when Lenin’s for an hour and a half. Ex-GI’s with an official of UE-CIO Local the late 1940’s under the leader scabby tricks and class collabora­ pace w ith the campaign, which General 115 18 16 teachings will be put into action.” I met on the campus were angry 610, which has endorsed our ship of the Murray-Reuther- tion villainies that these gentle­ is no small 'achievement consider­ The Stalinists didn’t cross- about Kutcher’s mistreatment at work. In Cleveland I was the ACTU bureaucracy. men are now employing. It is ing its $2,000 quota. “ We can , Total through April 19 $7,500 §2,917 ' 39 examine Stewart, but they made the hands of the VA. guest of A. I. Davey, vice presi­ ' ; The resolution — let us give only too true that the Stalinists proudly say that the comrades of Cook admit he has never read a He had addressed university dent of the Cleveland A F L and credit where credit is due — does helped nurture the “ cobras’ nest the New York Local are not only word of Lenin’s writings. Cook audiences in almost every city- editor of the .Cleveland Citizen, , Cbitte out with the four-square which is now strangling them. keeping the M ilitant Fund money is no doubt iequally ignorant of on the tour. “ There is considerable on his regular Sunday radio declaration that the “Fawiek Even in their present turn of rolling in,” Janice M. says, “ but the fact that Winter, who only alarm in the universities about labor program.” THE MILITAN T A workers were clearly within their pseudo-militancy, they ran true at the same time they are keep­ pretends to be a Leninist, is the effects of the witch-hunt on Summing up on the results of rights in wanting to choose their to form and played the cheapest ing up their regular contribu­ nothing but a cynical Stalinist academic freedom. This deep his trip, he said: oWn bargaining agent without kind of factional politics at the tions to the local organization.” Election Campaign interested people and now we hack who has betrayed Lenin’s concern doesn’t always find public -management interference.” That’s expense of the best interests of “ Unfortunately illness forced Grace Carlson, organizer of the learn, second-hand, that' a local program time and again. expression but it simmers below me to cut the tour short in Chi­ telling them. But don’t get the (he Fawiek strikers. In all the Minneapolis Branch, sent this Helps Los Angeles leader o f the CIO has commented Frank S. Meyer, a 40-year-old the surface. Several professors'I cago, but I believe we have made -potion from this that you can weeks of AFL strikebreaking note with a $138 payment on its very favorably on the UE report perennial student, was teaching spoke with hesitated to join our an excellent beginning in secur­ Increase Circulation juSt do anything, ihe resolution while the newspapers were quota: “ We have had a very by Bert Cochran. One article such at the Stalinist Jefferson School committee, but assured me that ing support in m§ny cities. It “ I have a llo t of good news to makes clear that the CIO states- shrieking for the strikers’ blood gratifying response to The M ili­ as this can interest a reader in when the Duclos letter arrived in they admired the forthright stand report,” Writes A1 Lynn, Litera­ ■ men have “ duties as loyal citi- the Stalinist leaders didn’t once requires considerable time and tant appeal, which we regard as the entire contents of The M ili­ 1945. He said several members we were taking and hoped we sustained effort to organize an ture Agent fo r Los Angeles. . Zens of this American democracy” call on the Cleveland CIO to come a tribute to the fact that our tant. and in our presentation ■ of of the faculty lined up in support would win our fight. The initia­ effective defense campaign even “One very ' happy and' therefore they cannot help to their defense. The A pril 17 people know that The M ilitant all the news. In such a way we of Earl Browder untjl Jack tive taken by Professor Urey around a case so dramatic and carry-over from our bftt make clear that “ Those per­ Sunday Worker carries a state­ is their best weapon in the fight build our subscription list and Stachel came over to “ straighten decisive as this. I have heard sons who (Committed the violence ment against the Atlantic Pact and his colleagues at the Univer­ against the red - baiters.. Ten election camp a i g n adherents to our program.” them out.” sity of Chicago has been a source complaints about the indifference had no right to take the law into signed by sixteen midwest A F L dollars of this amount was con­ has been sales of Literature Agent Winifred N. Meyer" submitted a pro-Browder of the average person toward the their own hands and must suffer and CIO officials. Ten of these of considerable encouragement tributed by Martin Soderberg — M ilitants to union writes us that the St. Paul com­ discussion article to the Daily threats to civil liberties. In my the consequences.” As fo r the arc from Cleveland. Yet not one for others to come out in Kut­ our much - revered, 82 - year old meetings. In the rades thought the A pril 4 issue Worker but it' wasn’t printed. He opinion most people are simply ÙE leaders, “ I t was their duty to of these ten spoke a mumbling cher’s defense.” member. Out of his small old past week or so, we “ a splendid paper — James P. protested to Eugene Dennis and uninformed. They cannot learn show respect fo r the court by word on behalf of the Fawiek There was only ‘one place where age pension, he made this con­ sold 5 copies to a Cannon’s statement on the united was told that “ Browder can speak obeying its orders, and not taking strikers while they were battling he Van into open opposition. through ordinary channels either tribution to The Militant because Carpenters Union front for civil rights, Farrell with their backs to the wall. for himself.” “ That was at Wayne University about the facts in this case or thè position that two wrongs he was very troubled by the news meeting (three of Dobbs’ articles on the conscien­ Meyer quit the CP in December the importance of the issues at make a right.” That is why the CIO tin horn in Detroit, where a faculty com­ of the fire in the office and all them at a dime tious objectors and the thought- 1945, after 11 years in the party, Our stern task-masters don’t leaders could/ get away with mittee tried to prevent the stake. That is why the activity of the other growing expenses each), 4 copies to control trial of the 11 Stalinist because he was against the so- of our committees is so in­ .lèt off the strikebreaking judge their scandalous conduct. Student League fo r Industrial that our paper has had. He reads UAW Council meeting, 9 leaders and the interview w ith -scot-free, either. Another resolu­ But all this Stalinist vileness, called “ return to Marxism- Democracy from holding an open dispensable. The M ilitant through each week copies to a Workers Party meet­ the nearly-deposed 70 - year - old — past and present — . does not tion, in straight-from-the-should- Leninism.” meeting there on the Kutcher “I can best illustrate this by — line by line — and appreciates ing, 5 copies plus a copy of the minister — all were excellent mitigate the infamy of the Mur- The testimony of every witness the following incident. A studept er fashion, condemns Judge Con- case. The pretext was that our it very much.” pamphlet, Socialism on Trial, to examples of the fact that we .nell’s “inexpert handling of the ray-Reuther-ACTU ‘ crew, who and every speech ,by the prose­ Committee was ‘promoting a editor of the* university paper in Genora Dollingcr of Flint a meeting of the Socialist Civil don’t fight fo r civil rights 'only •Fawiek strike.” are now in the saddle. As the cutor in this tria l is aimed special interest.’ However, I did Akron turned down a request for writes: “ I f all branches are as Rights Congress — until they for ourselves. . We really be­ publicity and support. This'young That’s making the punishment CIO resolution pontificated, “ two straight at the theory of scien­ speak, although the meeting had determined to make their quotas called the cops — and 9 copies lieve in civil rights for all!” fit the crime. wrongs don’t make a right.” tific socialism, just as the prosecu­ to be confined to SLID members cx-Gl told our committee repre­ as the Flint branch is to fulfill to an Amalgamated Clothing The St. Paul comrades likewise And that about sums up their Yes, you Murray bureaucrats tion in 1925 of John Thomas only. The Detroit Collegian the sentative that Kutcher got a raw its pfledge, we’ll put this fund Workers local. We -have also thought the A p ril 11 issue was are now in the saddle. You are Scopes in a Tehnessee court was following day published a state­ deal but he personally could not drive over the top on the placed 10 copies^ of Socialism on “ excellent” especially the em­ riding mighty high these days. aimed at the theory of evolu­ ment by me, pointing out how see how the inclusion of the So­ scheduled date. There is no finer Trial on one of the major news­ phasis on the working class de­ First 50 Get Them But, remember, you have at­ tion. But there the similarity odd it waS that a national non­ cialist Workers Party on the or better paper for the workers stands and hope to push it on fense of civil liberties and “ Albert We have just received 50 tained your exalted positions not ends. partisan committee composed of ‘subversive’ list concerned him, than The M ilitant, and it deserves stands and in stores.” Parker’s good analysis of the bound copies of the 1948 M ili­ because of your own genius, but Darwin had on his side the many distinguished figures in the since he- believed in World our best efforts of support.” Comrade Lynn says that Los trend of things in the USA. tant from the bindery. The because fifteen million men and honest disciple Scopes and the educational world should find its Federalism and opposed socialist Akron, Allentown, Los An­ Angeles plans to devote more These are just exactly the kind first SO to send in their orders women’ have lifted you up on sincere defenders of freedom of freedom of expression restricted ideas. . geles, Rochester — let’s get out attention to increasing circula­ of things we should be saying in get this limited edition. Ad­ their backs and shoulders and thought, Clarence Darrow and in a city-supported college. I ad­ “ That same week, ironically of the zero column before next tion of The M ilitant and Fourth this period. I liked the story on ditional copies may not be made you what you hre. And; Arthur Garfield Hays. Marx has mitted that our committee had a enough, the Akron papers report­ week’s “ Scoreboard.” International, monthly magazine Spellman — particularly your available fo r some months. there is a galling dissatisfaction no one to address the jury but’ special interest, in James Kutcher, ed a resolution passed by a Vet­ Every single brSnch and local of American Trotskyism. “I can taking note of he fact that there A complete banner year of building up in these ranks. And a gang of treacherous Stalinists but that the underlying issues in eran of Foreign Wars conven­ should specifically aim to come report that both publications are is a more liberal grouping The Militant in durable book if you xlo not mend yo\ir ways, who pretend to represent ’scien­ his victimization were of general tion, demanding that World Fed­ under the wire with 100% of its resulting, in many complimentary (Catholic Worker) within the form for handy reference! the time is not so far o ff when tific socialism only to betray i) concern to everyone concerned eralism be outlawed as sub­ quota on or before the deadline remarks from the comrades, and Catholic Church which objects, to Only $4.50, postage prepaid. these masses, who have raised at every turn. with freedom of opinion.” versive! The next issue ' of the of May 15. the strengthening of the editorial the ACTU’s role in breaking the you so high, w ill ii) their anger, The Scopes trial sought to ob­ But he got a much friendlier university paper published an staffs, etc., is really paying o ff.” cemetery workers’ strike. One of The Militant hurl you o ff their backs, and editorial denouncing this exten­ scure man’s knowledge of the reception from the labor move­ Woolen Textiles Skid The Minneapolis comrades are our members has contact with a 116 Universtiy Place trample upon you, because you true facts of life. The present ment in Detroit. sion of the witch-hunt to the I.kewise “very appreciative of nuhiber' of Catholic workers in New York 3, N. Y. have usurped their rights and tria l of the Stalinists threatens “ Our Detroit Committee held World Federalist movement, as More than half of the workers the strengthening of The Mill* his shop and a recognition of the are now jobless in Lawrence, have betrayed their trust. the very preservation of life a fine meeting at UAW-CIO Local well as an ' article captioned: tant staff and the improved fact that not all Catholics are Mass., one of the biggest wool itself, because its aim is to out­ 174 hall, where prominent spokes­ ‘Men of Principle Take Up Cry coverage of the news of national behind Spellman and the ACTU centers. Local authorities are law scientific socialism, the only men for Detroit labor shared/the for James Kutcher’.” and international working class makes a much better point- pleading for federal work-relief road to peace, and to set a platform with me. I also presented After chuckling over this story, activities which has resulted,” driven-home than an all-out* ham­ precedent fo r the gagging of all the case over the UAW radio Novack concluded: “ Seriously projects in the city. The CIO according to Grace Carlson, Vice- mering away at the Catholic speaking, I think that caption Textile Workers Union has in­ WOMEN UNDERSTAND who are opposed to the atomic station.” Presidential candidate of the Church.” . . augurated a “ share - the - work war of conquest now in prepara­ He had made other radio talks is a good slogan fo r everyone Socialist Workers Party in the Literature Agent J. C. of Flint tion. i the case. “In Pittsburgh I of principle to adopt.” plan.” 1948 elections. “ This has alrqpdy sent in some subs. “ Our campaign THE NEED FOR PEACE been reflected in the sales of for renewals is geting under way. 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In the smoke and confusion silence in the grave w ill'be morq* by which eight hours shall be dreds of thousands into the Vol. X III - No. 17 Monday, A pril 25, 1949 they killed some of their fellow- eloquent than our " speeches.” I On the first May Day, 1886, a the normal working day in States Knights of Labor, the dominant officers as well. In spite of all terror and re«.- call for the 8-hour day was in­ of the American Union.” trade union of the time. The 8- pression the labor movement^ “ . . . the trade unions in the present epoch cannot simply scribed on banners of workers But resolutions alone are houv day became their central CLASS JUSTICE VICTIMS surged forward again and again,« be the organs of democracy as they were in the epoch of free throughout the United States. powerless to change Conditions. demand, and to win it, they called No one has eCei^ proved con­ The 8-hour day was followed, fiT capitalism and they cannot any longer remain politically neu­ Today, under the pressure of For 20 years this resolution re­ a nation-wide strike for May 1, clusively who threw the bomb, tlve formative years of the- CIO; tral, that is, lim it themselves to serving the daily needs of growing unemployment, the mained on the record books, and 1886. but it is common belief that the by 'the 40-hour week. Some unions; the working class. They cannot any longer be anarchistic, i.e. problem returns on,a new level, in the dreams of the. toilers. It In every important -industrial culprit was a provocateur paid by went still further—the Oil Works, ignore the decisive influence of the state t>n the life of peoples with the need for a 30-hour week took the depression of the 1880’s, city, tens and hundreds of thou­ the bosses. Certainly the retalia­ ers to a 36-hour week, the Minè- and classes. They can not longer be reformist, because the ob­ to safeguard the livelihood of with its million unemployed in sands of workers laid down their tion had been planned before the Workers to a 35-hour week anil" jective conditions leav^/no room for serious and lasting re­ labor in 1949. the streets, to change a desire tools and paraded through the explosion; Mass arrests were un­ the Akron Rubber Workers to a. forms. The trade unions of our time can either serve as sec­ But no great demonstrations info fierce determination, and a streets. derway almost instantly, from 6-hour day, before World War If, ondary instruments of imperialist capitalism for the subordi­ are, planned this year. No real resolution into getion. Their solidarity and militancy lists conveniently arranged to in­ nation and disciplining of workers and for obstructing the intervened and hours were sruggles have yet been launched. The prevailing 10 and 12-hour were so impressive that in many clude almost every labor leader lengthened. revolution, or, on the contrary, the trade unions can become It is all the more vital, therefore, days had been bad enough but in the city. the instrument of the revolutionary movement of the prole­ cities the employers yielded im Now, with the war days of full* to turn back the pages of history as the economic crisis spread, mediately, and the victorious The chief victims had also been production over and unemploy,. TROTSKY tariat.” — Leon Trotsky, 1940 chosen beforehand; the eight LENIN and study the lessons writteh 63 the workers of -the ’80s saw their workers returned to their job on ment striking millions from thé years ago. hours stretched into 14 and 16 a May 2. The 8-hour day was so anarchist leaders, Albert R. Par­ payrolls, the American workers sons, August Spies, George Engel, The 8-hour day had been set day, while Wages -dropped and in­ surely won, that even the terrible once more must fight fo r shorter, creasing numbers were laid off. A. Fischer, Louis Lingg, Samuel as an objective of the working repression unleashed against the hours. . Jr; Fielden, Michael Schwab, * and The Truth Comes Out class as early as August 16, 1866, In the textile mills men were workers in Chicago, could not The CIO Oil Workers U nioiï Oscar Neebe. They were charged when the General Congress of slaving fo r the miserable sum of destroy the gain. Although in Executive Board, citing the 36. with “ first degree murder” and “ W illi the signing of the Atlantic Treaty of the North Atlantic Pact. It is a pact to Labor met in Baltimore.. $1.25 a day, women fo r 89c. a some cases the longer day was hour week they had before thé convicted in a frame-up tria l that we have the bases, and all we need now are secure foreign bases as close as possible to day, and little children fo r the temporarily restored under the war, now Urge “ industry, labor, r e s o l u t io n in t o a c t io n ignored all proof of their in­ the planes to deliver the bombs . . . the atom the Soviet Union from which to “ pulverize” magnificent wage of a dime a “anti-radical” hysteria, the 8- the President and Congress of the “ The first and great necessity nocence. Parsons, Spies, Engel day. heur standard had been establish­ United States and other appro» bomb must be delivered at the right time its cities. And despite his declarations to the of the present,” this Congress and Fischer were hanged in Driven beyond endurance by ed and destined to remain. priate government agencies td and right point. In the first three weeks of the* contrary, the war prepared by the pact will declared, “ to free the labor of 1887; Lingg committed, suicide in these intolerable conditiohs, the take immediate steps as a matter war we must make the atomic bomb pulverize this country from capitalist his cell, to rob the capitalists of take the lives of (nil lions of American as well workers took the road of strug- IMMORTAL SYMBOL of foresight to provide for a the satisfaction of executing him. every m ilitary center in Russia. . . We will as European youth. In Chicago, a rapidly growing reduction of the weekly hours of The others went to prison. blast at the centers of operation and then let I he, I louse was “ startled” only because industrial stronghold and then a work, whenever and. wherevei But the outrageous massacre our allies send the army in, other boys,* not center of radical labor tendencies, necessary, without loss of take- Rep. Cannon spilled the beans about the Vincent Dunne, Pioneer Trotskyist, in Haymarket Square and the May Day became an immortal home pay, and to the extent our boys, to hold the ground we win." Atlantic Pact, which is being palmed o ff as judicial murder of working class symbol. The powerful capitalist necessary to keep America’^ These are direct quotations from the A pril a measure for “ peace." He was so careless as leaders, could not k ill the 8-hour Honored on His Sixtieth Birthday class and its police stooges pre­ working force employed.” /• 13 speech by Rep. Clarence Cannon in the day — or the labor movement. to openly state its real 3ims — and so un­ pared in advance to crush the ,CIO Shoe Workers in St. Louis MINNEAPOLIS, April 17 —■§- Instead, May Day became some­ Mouse of Representatives. The first sentences diplomatic as to let the people of Europe workers. Above all, they feared have asked for-the 30-hour week Vincent R. Dunne, pioneer Trot­ thing more than the date of the quoted above are from the A pril 14 N. Y. and hated the anarchist leaders for workers at the Brown Shoe know about the future American imperialism skyist and former organizer of 5886 general strike. I t became of the Chicago unions who had Company, but in this ease the Herald Tribune; the Lqst sentence, from the has planned for them. Truckdrivers Local 544, was also the international holiday of A pril 14 N. Y. Times. honored at a social held here on played a prominent role in calling union has failed to mention take- Now frantic efforts are being made to cover the national strike. the working class, and the con­ These words were so blunt and revealing the occasion of his sixtieth birth­ stant reminder of capitalist in­ home pay. up for this “ blunder.” The Congressional day. The 80,000 May Day marchers that, said the Herald Tribune, they “ startled justice. , Both resolutions are important Record hasi been doctored. The N. Y. Herald Dozens of telegrams, letters in Chicago arrayed their forces signs of an awakening. But i f the Housç.” In fact, after the debate on arms Tribune quotes the doctored version edi­ and greeting cards sent to Com­ in support of the workers who RENEW MAY DAY SPIRIT! they remain on paper — like the had been locked out of the Mc­ appropriations on which Rep. Cannon had torially and with wide-eyed innocence asks rade Dunne from Socialist W ork­ The bosses were not allowed 8-hour resolution of 1866 — they Cormick Harvester works for spoken, the I louse unanimously voted per­ what was so shocking in Rep. Cannon’s re­ ers Party branches throughout to forget the last words of w ill mean little. I f they are taken two months. The following day, mission to all members for “ revising and ex­ the country as well as from in­ August Spies, spoken as the hang­ into action, in the spirit of May marks. A Scripps-Howard columnist Thomas the demonstrators found that they dividual comrades and friends man’s noose tightened around his Day 1886, they can mean a tending their remarks” in the Congressional L. Stokes, admits that “what he [Cannon] too were locked out. Another com­ were read by Grace -Carlson, who throat: giant step forward for the Ameri­ Record. A few days later, the Congressional said on the floor, as quoted in the news­ bined demonstration was held on served as master of ceremonies. “The time will come when our can working class. Record carried a “cleaned-up" version of papers, was much more b lu n t/’ but why Minnesota comrades presented May 3. As the Workers peacefully Rep. Cannon’s speech, minus the above- worry about “ loose! talk from garrulous Con­ him with a signed testimonial, marched’ outside the Harvester quoted statements and others of similar “ The Case of V. R. Dunne vs. plant, cops opened fire on the gressmen.” pickets, killin g four and wound­ import. The ' 'Capitalist System,” which MEETING IN PARIS CONDEMNS Rep. Cannon wasn’t indulging in “ loose listed the achievements that made ing’ many more. Bpt the cat was out of the bag. Rep. Can­ talk.” In an unguarded moment, a Con­ his name an outstanding one in A gigantic mass meeting was non, chairman of the key House Appropria­ gressional leader put into plain words what the trade union movement of the VINCENT R. DUNNE then called fo r May 4 in Hay- FRENCH WAR ON INDO CHINA tions Committee and on the inside of all the America’s ruling politicians and militarists Northwest. He was also given a market Square, to protest the PARIS, April 16 — A mass protest meeting against thë saddle leather, tough, flexible and secret discussions by administration and are plotting but don’t dare to tell the people new hat and several personal murderous assaults. The meeting French war on Indo-China was attended by some 3,000 people long-lasting,” and that it had was quiet and orderly, and about m ilitary leaders, had revealed the real intent of America and the world. gifts. at the Mutualité here. The meeting was held under the auspices Among other gifts received by been purchased because “ it fits to adjourn because of rain. The of the People’s Congress A gainst^ Comrade Dunne was a beautiful the man.” last speaker stood on- the p la t­ Imperialism, which was organized of the Ceylon Trotskyists, received ## travelling bag sent by friends These sentiments were heartily form. last summer by non-Stalinist con­ an especially warm reception from the SWP National Office, cheered by the comrades and The May 3 killings had been The Paris "World Peace Congress trolled organizations of s the when he pointed out how the im­ 116 University Place. Accompany­ friends who -had gathered at the only a beginning. A bomb burst colonial people, a number of sec­ perialists of the world collaborate The fraud of the Paris “ World Peace Con­ refutation of all such opinion; to declare that ing the g ift was a letter from Minneapolis SWP headquarters to in the midst of the crowd, and tions of the Fourth International, against colonial rebellions and gress” found its most insidious expression in J. P. Cannon, asserting that the pay tribute to an outstanding as if on a signal, the police blazed especially now, after the recent war [1914- the British Independent Labor emphasized the need fo r the bag was made of “ top-grain revolutionary socialist leader. at the workers from all direc- the keynote speeches at the- opening session. 1918], only the most hopelessly stupid o r Party, the French RDR, etc. ,Most colonial peoples to cooperate Joliot-Curie, French atomic scientist, and confirmed hypocrites can believe that such of the audience were workers actively in the struggle against other speakers after him, claimed that this an answer to the question of the struggle from various colonies under the imperialists and to forge a i evolutionary alliance with the conclave would reply to war “ with tha revolt against war would have the slightest effect French rule. workers in the imperialist coun­ of the peoples.” anywhere.” . Speakers at the meeting were May Day Manifesto representatives of the Socialist tries against their common enemy. The capitalist press in this country pretends What Lenin meant was war’ is unavoidable Party of India, the Tunisian Neo In the colonial * struggle for to be shocked by. this bombast. But as a so long as capitalism remains the dominant (Continued from page 1) Against the gigantic war budget devouring the Destour (nationalist party, fight­ independence, he continued, ho substance of thé people, fig h t for: matter of fact the warmakers have nothing world system; that unless the masses have It is not the power of the capitalists that has ing fo r independence), the PPA confidence can be placed in the kept the American working class passive. The ALL WAR FUNDS FOR GOVERNMENT- colonial capitalists and land- at all to fear from such empty “threats.” been mobilized for the struggle to establish (Algerian Liberation Party), the capitalist ruling class could not stand up Very long BUILT LOW RENT HOUSING AND OTHER Morrocan Independence Party, the owners who betray the aspira­ Similar statements designed to “ frighten” the socialism, talk of preventing war by “ the against the massive weight of the American work­ SOCIALLY BENEFICIAL PROJECTS! Viet-Namese Workers in France, tions of the toilers and seek to imperialists have been made countless times revolt of the peoples” can only deflect these ers advancing in united battle formation. It is la­ Against the imperialist military alliances to en­ the RDR, the Spanish POUM, arrive at compromises with the by all reformists. Their only effect is to lull masses from a successful struggle against war. bor’s own present leaders who block the way. slave the world, demand: the PCI (French Trotskyists), imperialists. their own followers into a feeling of false The Stalinists have done everything in These leaders — the Murrays, Greenes, Dubin- WITHDRAWAL OF ALL TROOPS FROM FOR­ and the Bolshevik Samasamaja The meeting was very _ en­ security, to demoralize the labor movement their power to peddle the idea that it is skys, Reuthers, etc. are demonstrating their bank­ EIGN SOIL! NOT ONE CENT, NOT ONE GUN Party (Ceylon section of the thusiastic and especialy well- ruptcy as never before. Their program for “ peace” organized against attack by the possible to have peace under capitalism FOR IMPERIALIST BUTCHERS AND COLON­ Fourth International). and obstruct a genuine anti-war struggle. merely echoes thé lies of the State Department, IAL DESPOTS LIKE BRITAIN, HOLLAND, de Gaullists, who have made i t The futility of such threats as a way of through a deal between the Stalinist bureau­ the m ilitarists and Truman about the “ peaceful” FRANCE AND BELGIUM AND DICTATORSHIPS DE SILVA’S SPEECH a practice to break Up meetings combatting the danger of war was clearly cracy in the Soviet Union and American, im ­ intents of ECA and the Atlantic Pact. They are LIKE GREECE AND PORTUGAL! A ll speakers were Unanimous protesting the war on IndoJChina. the top sei-geants fo r American imperialism inside pointed out by Lenin back in 1922. In a perialism. To this end they have consistently Against the tide of .police-state measures and in denouncing the crimes of the The excellent organization of the suppressed every independent action by the the labor movement. assaults on democratic rights, unite all sincere de­ French imperialists. Mostapha of guards discouraged the ,-de letter to the Soviet delegation at the “ Hague fenders of civil rights to fight for: masses that would have led them onto the They offer only for-the-record occasional verbal the PPA, who is the elected Gaullists from any violent in­ A nti-W ar Conference,” Lenin wrote: protests against the monstrous • attacks on civil FULL FREEDOM OF SPEECH, PRESS AND representative of Algeria to the terference with the meeting! highway to socialism — the only answer to rights that are being perpetrated every day. They ASSEMBLY! NO RESTRICTIONS ON THE “ ‘Our reply to war will be a strike or a Council of the French Union, war. condone and even applaud the “ thought-control” RIGHT TO STRIKE AND PICKET! UNCONDI­ received thunderous applause revolution,’ say the reformist leaders when The very “ Peace Congress” that utters attacks on the Stalinists, who, it must be admitted, TIONAL REPEAL OF THE TAFT-HARTLEY when he condemned the French ACT, THE SMITH “GAG” ACT AND ALL OTHER addressing The working class. And very often empty threats of "revolt” remains deliberately have invited the indifference of the labor move­ government’s use of Algerian READ ment by their own refusal to defend the civil rights LEGAL RESTRAINTS ON LABOR’S UNION the apparent radicalism of this statement silent about — socialism. That is why it is troops against the Indo-Chinese. of others, such as James Kutcher, the legless vet­ AND POLITICAL RIGHTS! FOR FEDERAL CIV­ Lambert of the PCI called on satisfies and appeases the workers and IL RIGHTS LAWS, WITH TEETH, GUARAN­ not and can never 4>e an instrument for peace, eran fired from government employment because the French workers to arouse the peasants. but only a wretched masquerade Which, like of membership in the Socialist Workers Party. TEEING FULL PROTECTION TO THE NEGRO PEOPLE ANÎ) ALL OTHER OPPRESSED MI­ trade unions against the war and “ Perhaps the most correct approach to this all its predecessors, provides so much grist to boycott the French war effort. Failing Miserably NORITIES! FOR THE IMMEDIATE END OF problem would be to begin with a sharp to the war-mills. ALL WITCH-HUNT COMMITTEES, “LOYAL­ Colvin De Silva, member of These top labor leaders are failing most miser­ TY” PURGES A N D THOUGHT-CONTROL the Ceylon Parliament and leader ably even in the elementary task of unionism — TRIALS. Clericalism Versus Social Welfare to defènd the living standards and working co-ndi* Against the threat of depression and unemploy­ tions of the union members. They have retreated ment, labor must unite for: , . r) The Roman Catholic hierarchy has now vide for big donations of federal money to all down the line on wage demands. They have THE 30-HOUR WEEK AT 40 HOURS PAY! V isit your local headquarters of the kept virtual silence on the slogan that almost every joined with the American Medical Associa­ private insurance schemes and medical A SLIDING SCALE OF HOURS IN ALL UNION union made a part of its program against unem­ CONTRACTS TO SPREAD AVAILABLE WORK tion, the .medical monopoly, in bitter opposi­ agencies — with Catholic sectarian institu­ ployment ten years ago: The 30-hour week at 40 AMONG ALL EMPLOYES WITH NO REDUC­ SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY tion to a government health insurance tions grabbing o ff a sizable share, naturally, hours pay. TIONS IN WEEKLY PAY! UNEMPLOYMENT system. Through the National Catholic Wel­ And, naturally, the government would have Above all, these union leaders are keeping labor COMPENSATION EQUAL TO TRADE-UNION A K R O N — 4 So. H ow ard St.. 2nd f l. NEW HAVEN—For information tOMfc every afternoon 1 to 4 p. m. Meetings phope 7-8T80. ’ fare Conference, the National Conference of little say about the uses to which such con­ bound to the capitalist political machines through WAGES FOR THE ENTIRE PERIOD OF UN­ Suroday 2 p. m . Catholic Charities and the Catholic Hospital tributions would be put. their alliance with the Truman Democrats. Today EMPLOYMENT! GOVERNMENT EXPROPRIA­ NEWARK—423 Springfield Ave. PhonO they cover up for Democratic betrayals of election TION AND OPERATION UNDER WORKERS BALTIMORE — 1121 E. Baltimore’ St. Bigelow 3-2574. Reading room. Open Association, the authoritarian hierarchy has 3rd floor, -front. Phohe WOlfe 9321M. daily. 12-4 and 7-10 p.m. What particularly concerns the Catholic promises and offer only feeble protests against CONTROL OF ALL IDLE PRODUCTION FA­ Open dally 5-9 p.m. MILITANT- and . •- \ taken up the hue and cry o f the medical and FOURTH INTERNATIONAL on sale. NEW YORK CITY (Hq.>—116 Untvef. vested theological interests is a government the butcher’s job the Democratic Congress is do­ CILITIES! A FULL-SCALE PROGRAM OF SO- alty m ace. P hone.G R 5-8149. drug trusts against the Truman Administra­ "monopoly” that would interfere in any way ing on the pledged “ Fair Deal” reforms. CIALLY-USEFUL PUBLIC WORKS! BOSTON—W orker^ Educational Center, This is a necessary and realistic program. I t 30 Stuart St., open‘Mon. 5:30-9:00 p.m., HARLEM—1(8 W. 110 St., Rm, 23, tion’s proposed national health insurance with their own use of “charity” as a means The Stalinists, who yesterday worked hand-in­ Wed. 7-10 p.m. Phone MO 2-1868. Open discussion, glove With the pro-imperialist union bureaucrats, can be achieved — but not by reliance on capital­ F rid a y , 8 p.m. plan. of raising funds, winning converts-and mak­ B U F F A L O —M ilita n t F orum , 029 M ain ist politicians or letters to Congressmen. I t is a BRONX**—103-1 Prospect Ave., 1st fl, Against the "compulsory” health insurance today pose as a “progressive” opposition. But St., 2nd fl. Phone M Adison 3900. E ve ry ing the Catholic poor dependent for medical they continue, as in the past, to rule the unions program that will be realized only through na­ afternoon except Sun. Phone L.U 9-0101. plan of Truman — limited and inadequate relief on'the priest-csste. That the poor would tion-wide militant labor struggle. Labor’s full \ BROOKI.YN—635 Fulton St. Phone still under their control with an iron hand, sub­ emCAGO—777 W. Adams (corner ttal- ST 3-1438. as it is — the most powerful theological trust ■thereby continue to be deprived of decent ordinate the interests of the workers to the diplo­ power must be mobilized by: 8tCd). Phone D earborn 2-4707. D a ily ex­ A UNITED CONGRESS OF LABOR, W ITH cept Sun,, 11:30 to 3:30; or phono for CHEI-SBA—130 W. 23rd St. Phonè in America comes forward with a scheme, medical care, that the workters would con­ matic needs of the Kremlin, play the game of an appointment. A I, 5-2488. - ■ '* * ." capitalist politics through the Wallace party and REPRESENTATION OF THE RANK AND FILE ¿H suspiciously similar to the AMA’s, for ex­ tinue to be bled white by medical profiteers FROM ALL UNIONS, TO CONVENE IN WASH­ CLldVTLAND — Peck« Hall. 144G E. O A K L A N D (C al.) — 1403- Webster.; uphold the United Nations, that cover'for war 82nd St. (Off Wade Pk. Ave.) Monthly tension of “ voluntary” private insurance and phony private insurance schemes does preparations, as a vehicle for peace. INGTON, D. C„ AS SPEEDILY AS POSSIBLE. Public Forum. 1st Sun., S p.m. PH n.ADKI.rniA — )303-fl5 W. Gtr&rd This Congress o f Labor not only would spear­ Ave., 2nd f l. -Phone Stevenson 4-6820. plans like the Blue Cross, Blue Shield, etc., not concern the clerics. DETROIT—BIOS Linwood Ave. Phone Open dally. Forum, Fri., 8 p.m . that have proved more profitable to their Thus, the Catholic hierarchy once again Time for Stock-Taking head the offensive fo r labor’s immediate demands, T Y 7-6267, Mon. through S at., 12-5 p.m. *’ but could become the spring-board for a new for­ PITTSBURGH—1418 Fifth Ave., 2nd tl. sponsors than adequate to meet the medical starids in the forefront o f opposition to pro­ FLINT—Socialist Workers .Patty ITall, Forums 2nd Fri. each month. Mar^Jgt This May Day should be the occasion fo r a ward leap toward: 215 E a st N in th Street. Phone: 2-2496. class 4 p.m. every Sat. Meetings everjr needs of those with small incomes. gressive government measures for the benefit thorough stock-taking by m ilitant-and class-con­ AN INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY, BASED Open House Saturday evening«. Thurs., 7:30 p.m. , The chief argument of the Catholic clerics of the people. As it opposed the proposed scious workers of the words and deeds of the union ON THE UNIONS, OPPOSED TO ALL CAPITAL­ ¥,OS A N G E L E S -M ilita n t P ubl. Assn., ■ SAN FRANCISCO—1T39 iflltm or* Ave., bureaucrats of -all stripes. I t should be an occa­ IST PARTIES AND CANDIDATES! Room 325, 124 W . 6th St. Phone VAndyke 4th fl. Phone F I 6-0410. D a lly except is that a government system of health in­ cgild labor amendment to the Constitution Sun., 12-4:30 p.m. sion fo r inspiring and rallying the m ilitant ranks 8061. . • surance “ w ill necessarily involve a loss of A genuine class party of the toiling masses w ill -V‘ ’¿TVs', back in 1934, as it recently denounced of labor to fig h t the misleaders and traitors who provide a political instrument fo r the fu ll eman­ SAN PED RO —M ilita n t. 1008 S. P a c ific SEATTLE—Maynard Bldg., 1st Ava.< freedom for voluntary health agencies and Room 214. R. 201, So. & W ashington. Tel. M ain 9278. proposed federal legislation for increased sell themselves to labor’s enemies. cipation of society from war, dictatorship and de­ Mon. threfugh Sat.. 12-5 p.m. Brand* put an end to private initiative to the ultimate child welfarp as a "dangerous step toward On this May Day let us advance the program pression by fighting for: LYNN, (Mass.)—M ilitant Publ. Assn., meeting, Fri., 8 p.m. Library, bookstore, 44 Central Ave., office open Tues., Wed. detriment of the nation,” according to Bishop the ‘slave state’,” so now this powerful agency that alone can pave the way fo r peace, plenty and A WORKERS AND FARMERS GOVERNMENT 7:30-9:30 p.m. ST. LOUIS—Jefferson and Lafayette Karl J. Alter of Toledo. This “ private initia­ security. AND THE SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION OF Ave., U nited H a lls , H a ll NO. 3. M ilit a n t of reaction would condemn millions of poor Against the war-makers and their drive to'a new MILWAUKEE—917 N. 3rd St., 3rd fl. Forums. Thurs., 7:30-10 p.m. tive” — including that of Catholic charities SOCIETY! Sun. through Fri., 7:30*9:30 p.m. Phone Catholic workers, along with the non-Catholic world war, assert the rig ht of the people to decide To all who want a country and a world without H opkins 2-5337. TOLEDO — Monthly open meeting« and institutions — has resulted in a scandal­ the fateful question of war or peace: Third Thurs. 8 p.m., K apps H a ll, £13. m ajority, to ill-health, neglect of needed fear, poverty, exploitation and war, we appeal: MINNEAPOLIS—10 So. 4th St. Phone S um m it, Room 3. \ ous condition of health in-the richest country medical care and the extortions of profit- TAKE THE WAR-MAKING POWERS OUT JOIN THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY — M ain 7781. D a ily except Sun., 19 a.m .- OF THE HANDS OF THE PRESIDENT AND 6 p.m. Library, bookstore. WORCESTER, (Mass.) — Fur Ihrorixia« in ¿he world. seeking medical practitioners and institu­ THE ONLY PARTY ON THIS MAY DAY THAT tlon Write pro. Box 534, W orcester. CONGRESS! LET THE PEOPLE VOTE ON THE HOLDS ALOFT THE TRUE BANNER OF SO­ NEW BRITAIN,, (Conn.) — For infor­ YOUNG STO W N — 234 E . Federal S t., The Catholic hierarchy’s plan would pro­ tions. QUESTION OF WAR AND PEACE! mation write P. D. Box No. C59 or Phone 3-1355. Wod., Fri., Sat., .1:30 t* CIALISM! JOIN TODAY! phone 3-3287. 4 P*in» Atlantic Pact and the ADA t h e MILITANT By John G. Wright A significant section of the delegates to the industry itsglf, if not the policy of the “ cold war” VOLUME XIII MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1949 NUMBER 17 recent convention of the Americans fo r Demo­ and all its corresponding measures from the Mar­ cratic Action'unquestionably came to Chicago in shall Plan to the Atlantic Pact? How is it possi­ order, they hoped, to organize a showdown strug­ ble to approve all-out support to such dictatorial gle against the reactionary Democratic-Republi­ regimes as in Greece, Turkey or Portugal with­ can coalition which has dominated the 81st Con­ out playing directly into the hands o f the Taft- gress. Hartleyites whose ultimate aim is to destroy or­ .. This aim was expressed most clearly by vari­ ganized labor at home? NMU Port Officials in N. Y. ous young trade unionists and representatives It is a mockery to talk about fighting to pre­ from university campuses. In this sense the ADA serve civil liberties while in the same breath ap­ convention was both a reflection and continuation proving huge arms expenditures which strength­ o f the moods and desires expressed by the over­ en the role of the m ilitary, increase their specific whelming m ajority of the people during the last weight in the government and in the country’s presidential elections. Hit ‘Yellow-Dog' Amendment social life. , Instead of striking blows at reaction, those Yet this was precisely the trap in which so : ------* ByBy R. R. B e B ll e ll participants who actually came to Chicago for many well-meaning and honest delegates found this purpose, found themselves stymied at every BrOfld M innp^ofa New York College Strike Twenty-fourTwenty-four officials officials of of the the CIO CIO National National Maritime Maritime Unior Union themselves caught at the ADA convention. I t was Broadu u Minnesota111■■ Vw W M I . jn t |le port jsjew York have publicly declared their oppositior turn. Instead of effectively challenging the domin­ this that tied their hands completely and thwart­ in the Port of New York have publicly declared their opposition ant bloc in Congress and' its policies, the ADA ed their own aims and desires.. to the proposed yellow-dog amendments to the union’s constitu­ Convention proved a complete dud.. It may be said that the leaders acted only out Committee to Help tion recently adopted by the'1------This outcome was predetermined by the .very the above stated principle of non­ firs t action into which these delegates round of political innocence or ignorance. Perhaps some, NMU National Council. but certainly not all of them. In any case, when A statement distributed to the discrimination. themselves maneuvered. Their leaders asked and James Kutcher “ Now, the National Council, at Obtained approval fo r the Atlantic Pact and, in one presumes to lead a political struggle, ignor­ membership over the signatures ance or naivete borders closely upon a crime. It MINNEAPOLIS—42 prominent of Jack Lawrence, Vice-President its recent meeting, adopts a effect, for the administration’s entire foreign resolution proposing to change policy. is a crime to play the game of reaction regard­ citizens “ deeply concerned with in charge of Education and the NMU constitution, by amend­ £ -There is a direct and intimate cdnnection be­ less of whether this is clone deliberately or un­ the state of civil liberties today” Publicity, David Drummond, New ments which include the worst tween foreign and domestic policy, and not at wittingly. Most criminal of all is to persist in have joined ’the newly-organized York Port Agent, and 22 field a ll an unbridgeable gulf between the two, as one’s ignorance or mistakes^ after the experiences Minnesota section of the national patrolmen, patrolmen and dis­ features of Taft-Hartleyism such many ADA delegates have been mistakenly led of life glaringly reveal the fatal consequences. 'Kutcher Civil Rights Committee. patchers, calls upon the mem­ as: Loyalty oath, thought con­ to believe. Foreign policy can never serve as any­ It is a fact that instead of launching a fight Their public statement announc­ bership to defeat the proposed trol, yellow - dog affidavit and thing else than an extension of policies applied against reaction, the ADA convention ended only ing the state committee’s forma­ amendments. witch-hunts. home. I f the one is reactionary, so must be the in feeding it fuel, This miserable fiasco resulted tion protested the denial of free­ The constitutional amendments, “ If adopted, these Council other. Nor is it possible to fig h t at home-if you directly from the failure of many delegates to dom of thought and association to be submitted at a 30-day amendments would enable union capitulate in advance to reactionary policy ap­ assimilate an elementary political lesson, namely, in the case of the legless veteran referendum, would require all officials to brand as ‘subversive’ plied abroad. that the struggle against reaction is indivisible. and asked that he be given “ a members to sign a -“ non-com­ any member who disagrees with 'The Truman administration’s foreign policy I t must be fought on both the home and foreign fa ir public hearing in accordance munist affidavit” and would sub­ them, yank his union hook, expel has been the fountainhead of all the reactionary fronts, or it cannot be fought at all. with accepted judicial and civil ject to expulsion those persons him from the union, and deprive assaults we have witnessed in this country since Those delegates and members of the ADA who procedures.” who “ subscribe to, support, him of his livelihood without trial. the termination of the hostilities. are really serious and mean what they say should Among the signers are Robert sponsor or otherwise follow a This is a weapon of such great waste little time in reviewing their latest ex­ - What has spurred the witch-hunt in the unions, Wishart, .Carl Boye, and Otto course of action consistent with power that NO official should be perience and drawing this basic lesson from it. in the schools, among the federal employees and Wagner, top officials of the and demonstrating membership given it and no official with the Hennepin County CIO Council; in or adherence to the policy and welfare of the union and the Paul Chelstrom, secretary of AFL program of the Communist Party membership at heart should Sheet Metal Workers, Local 209; or any other subversive or totali­ demand it as is now being done. Aftermath of the Filibuster Rev. Horace H. Goodell, F jfth tarian doctrines.” “ The entire labor movement to­ Avenue Congregational Church; Declaring that the yellow-dog day stands opposed to these most By J. Meyer Rev. Eugene Prosser, Canon, St. amendments were a violation of undemocratic devices, advanced Mark’s Cathedral; Michael Sut­ Interference and a general pushing around by police did not under the pretext of providing ~ The response of the Negro press to the civil A. N. Fields in the Chicago Defender takes a the program upon which they ton, AFL Highway Employees succeed in dispersing pickets at City College in New York, who were elected, .the 24 officials, safeguards against ‘communism’ .rights fiasco marks a very high stage in the similar line, and links the struggle over Negro Local 1152. Eleven members of struck to force suspension and trial of two professors accused of rights to the problem of “ a perplexed and con­ most of whom were elected on but which, in reality, are designed rdevelopment of political consciousness among the the University of Minnesota racial and religious bias. The strike was resumed after the Easter fused world [turning] from the horrors and trage­ the Rank & File Caucus slate to strip- the rank and file mem­ [Negroes, which is to say, a very important sec­ faculty joined in the appeal, in­ holidays, then suspended because the strike had “ already had a dies of today tb visualize some ray of ligh t with which ousted the Stalinists, call bership of its rights.” tion of the American people. Many of the Negro cluding the atomic research maximum effect.” writers refused to place the main blame upon the the coming of the dawn of the future.” This upon the membership to vote Pointing out that both the scientist, Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, Southern senators. They turned their fire on the hope the Congress betrayal has cast into the mud. "NO” in the referendum on the AFL and CIO went on record at and Prof. E. W. Ziebarth, chair­ -Truman administration for its patent hypocrisy The best piece of political w riting on the f ili­ amendments. their last conventions against the man of the Speech Department and dishonesty in making no fight at all. But buster fiasco comes from Lem Graves, the Wash­ SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS “ In the program of the. Rank loyalty oath purges, the statement and news commentator over the that was not all. From there many made the leap ington correspondent of the Pittsburgh Courier. & File Caucus,” the statement reminds NMU President Joseph to condemnation of the whole American demo­ In a masterly article summing up the crisis, he locaP CBS station. DEMANDED BY NEW YORK NAACP points out, “ distributed over the Curran of his own words, written cratic system. They did this not merely in regard Officers of the Minnesota K ut­ in the union’s paper, the Pilot, shows that his attitude to the actual civil rights NEW YORK, April 19 — The New York-Branch of the signature of Joseph Curran and to Negro rights. They weighed the shameful be­ program is realistic to the last degree: Congress cher Committee are Milton Siegel, hundreds of other members, point July 16, 1948: havior of Congress on this issue as a test of its was never going to pass any legislation which field representative of the CIO NAACP voted ilnanimously tonight to ask the 40th annual con­ number ONE of the program “ Some union members,” wrote capacity to serve the country in a period where would give the federal government the power to United Packinghouse Workers, ference of the NAACP to call bn President Truman for a special leads: Curran, “ in a spirit of vengeance, chairman; Rev. James Claypool, so many vital problems are demanding solution. interfere with the states on Negro segregation. session of Congress this summer ’' “ ‘Equality for all members are now proposing that there be pastor, Grace Luthran Church, Finally they drew to the full the international im­ That, said Graves, is out,, whatever the rules on for action on the civil rights to press for the passage of the regardless of race, creed or color a mass expulsion of members vice chairman; Waldo E. Byrne, plications. filibuster may be. “ The best that could come out program. It also advocated thfe civil rights bills.” or political belief and favoritism simply because of their political The Amsterdam News columnist, Earl Brown, secretary; and Robert West, vice- of such legislation would be a general statement holding of a united Negro and The speaker who presented the to none.’ beliefs and affiliations., Expul­ writes: “ In the meantime, when the Senate voted president of the Twin Cities Work­ of Federal policy, which, incidentally,, needs sore­ labor conference in Washington, resolution to the meeting ex­ “ The .following proposition,” sions on this basis cannot, and •to kill the civil rights bills last Friday it did ly to be made.” ers Defense League, treasurer. plained that it did not mean any continues the statement, “ was must not take place. Every more damage to democracy everywhere in the at the same time as the proposed That is a very just appraisal of the whole civil slackening by the NAACP of its sponsored by the Rank & File member of our union has the world than a thousand Communist spies could special session, in order to mobi­ rights program. For the Negroes and the labor efforts to secure passage of the Caucus at the last convention and inalienable rights to his own poli­ do in this country in a decade. By voting against lize pressure for favorable action movement it could never be much more th an . a by Congress. civil . rights bills during the incorporated in Article I, Section tical beliefs and affiliations. This civil rights the Senate let the world know again basis for mass struggle. That, however, was very James T. Farrell present session of Congress. light is one of the foundations The resolution, adopted at a D, of our constitution by a vote that America is no land of freedom and equal­ .-important. But Congress would not tolerate any However, it is acknowledged of our union democracy and ity .” True, Brown praises Truman but he con­ meeting at the Harlem YWCA, of better than 15 to 1 in the rank such measure. Graves goes on to say that what on all' sides that there is little unity, which must not be under­ demns the system: “ The Senate is making a mock­ Explains Why He was addressed to the national and file membership referendum: was at stake was “ fundamentally, the validity of possibility of progress on these mined.” ery of democracy, human decency and our vaunt­ conference of the NAACP, which “ ‘To completely eliminate and the U. S. legislative system and the question of bills during the present session, The statement then concludes ed legislative system of government by proving w ill be held in Los Angeles outlaw Jim Crowism, anti-Semit­ whether that system can, by retreat to the pro­ Supports Kutcher which is already lagging far ism, and all forms of discrimina­ by expressing “regret that Presi­ that whenever it desires it w ill ignore, emasculate tective arms of an unyielding fascism, thwart beginning July 12. It read as behind schedule. This means that tion against racial, religious, na­ dent Currah and other Council and prostitute the ideal of majority rule.” a world-wide trend toward socialism or whether , NEW YORK — James T. Far­ follows: in all likelihood none of the civil tional, or political minorities.’ members now repudiate their own Brown takes up the problem in another article. it can, by mature statesmanship, find the elusive rell, noted novelist, has issued “ Be it resolved: That the 40th The action of Congress, he says, encouraged Ne­ rights measures w ill be ^enacted “ We, the undersigned officials words” and by urging “ all mem­ middle ground which will preserve our liberties the following statement on the annual conference of the NAACP groes to join* with the Communists. The Senators before Congress adjourns. were elected by the membership bers to DEFEAT THESE and yet accomodate our system to the needs of ease of the legless veteran: shall call on the President of the not only knifed civil rights and the Negroes, but “ I have read the material con­ NAACP annual conference rules on the basis of carrying out the AMENDMENTS which would the present hour. I would say our Legislative United States to convene a special provide for the introduction of they hurt America, discredited the country as flunked the test.” He develops the theme fu lly: cerning the case of James Kutch Rank & File program, which destroy ‘the foundations of our session of Congress this summer resolutions by the branches at leader of the struggle against Communism. Is the system ready “to meet the challenge of er. Mr. Kutcher, a legless veteran emphasized over and over again Union democracy and unity’.” Brown is obviously very much affected by the for action on all of the civil least 60 days before the con­ socialism ? . . . Can democracy survive the moral of World War II, was dimissed rights bills not enacted when it prevailing red-baiting. But he makes it clear and intellectual inadequacies of its legislature?” lrom a minor governmental post ference. What happens to the that while he is anxious to keep Negroes clear adjourns, and New York resolution will depend Graves is no revolutionary, but his paper in because he admits to membership of the. Stalinist taint, he is ready to go to any “ Be it further resolved: That not only on the conference but a four-column front-page editorial finally came in the Socialist Workers Party. M Y M WEISS SETS 1,506 lengths against this Congress. The Negro, he the 40th annual conference of the also on what the NAACP national to the conclusion that Negroes are orphans in The Socialist Workers Party has says, “ must fig h t with both mental and physical NAACP instructs the NAACP ex­ leadership thinks about it. A the political storm and “ neither the Democratic been a rb itrarily placed upon A t­ eourage.” Physical courage! Very interesting. ecutive officers to convene a nor Republican party is a safe haven. . . There torney General Tom Clark’s sub­ resolution calling fo r a delegated, Against whom is this “physical courage” to be united Negro and labor con­ united Negro conference on civil VOTES IN LOS AN6ELES is talk of Walter Reuther and other labor chiefs versive list. Mr. Kutcher has not exercised? “ Insofar as the United States Con­ ference, representing Negro and establishing a labor party which would eventually been granted a public hearing. rights was passed by the 39th gress is concerned, Ithe Negro] must be w illing labor organizations in all parts break up the Democratic solidarity o f the South. He is demanding a public hearing NAACP conference last year, but By J. Blake to lay down his life fo r the rig ht to enjoy free­ of the country, to meet in Wash­ Maybe, this will, in time, offer an alternative both for himself, and fo r his the NAACP leadership did not do dom in his own country.” This democrat is say­ ington simultaneously with the LOS ANGELES, A pril 16 — Broadcasting from the Lös from the ‘great dilemma’ now facing the Negro party. I support that demand. anything to implement the resolu­ ing that in a war he will not be “ a traitor” to his special session of Congress and Angeles C ity Hall election night, Myra Tanner Weiss, Socialist people.” “ I am not opposed to fair pro­ tion. country, "he is trying to say that he is no Stalinist. ■ Workers Party candidate for mayor, told the radio audience that But against the reactionary Congress, Negroes Once again it is made clear how deeply im­ cedures which w ill be used in a bedded in the whole social and political life of democratic way in order to rid while she was not elected this ®------:------must be ready to fight to the death, physical candidates fo r mayor, in a run­ the country as a whole is the question of Negro the American government of year, she is confident that “ it death. The confusion in Brown’s thinking is only Two More Unionists at Westinghouse o ff May 31. These two capitalist on the surface. He expresses clearly enough a rights. Precisely because of this the Negro peo­ espionage agents and spies. In will not be many more elections candidates have no fundamental (Current of profound revolutionary sentiment ple, fighting fo r their democratic rights, are im­ the case of genuine espionage before a workers’ administration among Negroes, which the filibuster fiasco has pelled to far-reaching conclusions on both a na­ agents and spies, I do not believe Victimized as ‘Poor Security Risks’ w ill be elected and w ill oust Big differences and have begun their final election race as a typical done much to clarify. tional and international scale. a clear-cut civil liberties case is PHILADELPHIA — Two more active unionists at the Business from City H all!” capitalist mud - slinging, petty indicated. The Kutcher case is The Trotskyist candidate, con­ Westinghouse Electric’s South Philadelphia Works have been personality fight. different in character. I do not ducting her campaign around the labeled “ poor security risks’’ by Navy officials and have been Ellis Patterson, who was sup­ agree at all with the Socialist removed from the work on which-®------*— ;------*------working class slogan of “ Oust Big Workers Party. I would assert Business from City Hall,” re­ ported by the Independent Pro­ Notes from the News they have been regularly em­ publicly branded without even a gressive Party and the Stalinists, that it has a fu ll rig ht to the ployed. hearing. I f they ever try to gel ceived 1506 votes. This was 500 maintenance of its position more than in the 19th Con­ and officially endorsed by the Norman Smith and Fred Bentz, work anywhere else, they will be Democratic Party County Cen­ LOANED FOR THE CAMPAIGN — Senator to oust Rev. Dr. John Howard Melish from the publicly, and that James Kutcher, members of CIO United Electrical blacklisted. And what would have gressional District race last as a citizen of this country, has November and almost a thousand tral Committee, received 57,286 Glen H. Taylor is going to run for renomination pulpit he has held fo r 45 years. Melish’s “ crime” Workers Local 107, were branded happened to (hem — what will votes. State Senator 'Jack Ten­ in, the Idaho Democratic primary next year. “I is that his son and assistant rector is active in the same right. The dismissal of as “poor security risks” and the happen to others so labeled in the more than she received . in the Kutcher seems.‘ to me to be in­ 1945 mayoral campaign. ney, the “ Little Dies” of Cali­ never felt I left the Democratic Party,” explained the National Council of American-Soviet Friend­ company was ordered by the Navy future — if there were no “ i fornia, came in fourth with 48,- excusable. Henry Wallace’s running mate in laist year’s elec­ ship, a group on Clark’s “ subversive” list. The to dismiss them fo r the “ sensi­ .sensitive” jobs available? Comrade Weiss spoke on the 162 votes. tion, “ I was just like a player that M.G.M. loaned decision may be appealed. “It is clear that the current tive” aviation gas turbine divi­ Last July, two well-known and regular election night broadcast The only upset in the council- to another company.” He said he saw no need to * * * handling of loyalty cases is not sion. respected m ilitants of Local 107, from City Hall in which candi­ manic elections came in the Ninth resign from the Progressive Party because he had BANNER-BEARER OF CONFUSION — “I only resulting in unfairness, in Fortunately, as the result of a Herb Lewin and Frank Carrier, dates are introduced during the never taken any formal action to join it. “ I just have been about the country and have found that injustice, and in endangering our District, where Edwai-d Roybal, partial victory fo r the union in a were summarily removed from reporting of election returns as ran, and now I ’m back with the Democrats,” who there is a growing conviction that President Tru­ civil rights. I t is also having a campaigning prim arily as the similar case last year, Smith and the Westinghouse plant after the they arrive from the precincts. are not discriminating against him on committee man is a socialist, although he doesn’t know; it,” most serious demoralizing effect. candidate of the large Mexican Bentz were not thrown, out of Navy termed them “ poor security She thanked the workers and minority seeking representation hosts. says Norman Thomas who isn’t a socialist either, If it continue^, intelligent men socialists who had voted fo r her . work. They were .transferred to risks.” Realizing that this was a * * * although he doesn’t know it. with a sense of honor and dignity in the city government, received * * * the steam turbine division, which, dangerous blow at union security and invited her audience to join LORA ALBRO — The M ilitant mourns the will merely refuse to participate 11,139 votes, forcing incumbent presumably, is not “sensitive.” and a weapon which the company the Socialist Workers Party in death of its friend, Lora Albro of Flint, after a ITALIAN COLONIES — The NAACP has ex­ in any kind of necessary govern­ Parley Parker Christensen, with However, the basic issue remains could use to weaken the union by its activities 365 days a year, not Serious operation. Sincere condolences to her pressed “ unqualified opposition to the restoration mental enterprise. The practice 9,521 votes, into a run-off. Roybal unresolved. firing its best fighters, the work­ merely during elections. daughters, Genora Dollinger and Bea Allen. of Italian administration in any form over the of arbitrary exclusion, so clearly had SWP support in the cam­ former Italian colonies.” But instead of advocating These two workers have been ers promptly answered with a She was also interviewed on paign. ¡ £ ¿ ,1 * * * indicated in the Kutcher case, is immediate independence of these colonies, the strike that shut the plant down. television by a reporter on City In the Board of Education race MORALITY OF CONFESSIONS»— The U. S. one which can only help to rot NAACP leaders are asking the State Department Hall steps the same night, and [Army used duress, false promises of immunity, the moral fiber of the nation. Next Week: As a result of this militant ac­ for Office No. 2, Attorney Leo and the UN for “collective trusteeship with a introduced Hugo Rasmussen, mock trials and force and violence to obtain con­ The Text of Harry Braver- tion, the company was forced to Gallagher; who ran as a “ com­ view to eventual independence.” “ I hope that James Kutcher chairman of the Southern Cali­ cessions from German soldiers charged with raan’s radio talk on socialized reinstate ^Lewin and Carner, but munist” and on a “workingclass * * * wins 'his right to a hearing, and fornia Kutcher Civil Rights com­ Slaughtering American prisoners near Malmedy. medicine. Medical care today in a different, “ non - classified” program” but was opposed by the UAW-FE FIGHT —‘ After the UAW won an that he is restored to his post. mittee, who was in the audience. Last week Secretary of the Army Royall told a is sold at luxury prices. M il­ department. An agreement was Stalinists, received 28,244 VtStes, NLRB vote at two Allis-Chaimers plants in This kind of treatment, especially Rasmussen spoke on the Kutcher congressional committee he did not think con­ lions cannot afford to go to reached that the company there­ coming in fourth in a field of 14 Springfield, 111. (UAW — 1,974 votes, FE — 722), in the case of a legless veteran case, then answered questions fessions should be “ disregarded, merely because of the World War-, is shameful the doctor. Needless death is after would not immediately re­ candidates. Raphael Königsberg, -trickery or deception has been practiced in ob­ the Farm Equipment Workers won the election move any accused worker, but from the audience. Later, on the supported by the Stalinists and at the McCormick Works of International Har­ and inexcusable.” rampant. Under socialized taining them. As perhaps every member of this medicine, America can have would permit him to remain on same program, the roving tele­ running on a • watered - down vester in Chicago'(FE — 2,474, UAW — 2,059). vision reporter put the' spot on committee knows, confessions are rarely obtain­ * * * free clinics, hospitals and the same job fo r ten more days liberal program, came in sixth, ed without some such tactics.” Comrade Weiss and a man in with 24,653 votes. YOU’D NEVER KNOW — R. Fahan, a staff Detroit Lecture on medical service. Prevent ill while arrangements would be * * * health by making medicine a made to transfer him to the steam the audience as they discussed The only offic al Stalinist candi­ member of the Shachtmanite Labor Action, has Labor Leader's Role the Soviet Union. NOT MUCH HELP — Truman’s economic ad­an article in the British ILP paper referring to public service like the postal turbine division on commercial date in the election, Henry Stein­ visers frankly admit they don’t know what’s com-_ James T. Farrell, although delicately not naming DETROIT — A lecture on C. system! Read this smashing work. 'Hie incumbent mayor, Fletcher berg, one of the 17 persons sen­ jng next fo r the nation’s economy. The best ad­ him, as “one of the. last [socialist intellectual] W right M ills’ book, The New answer to the profiteers on But the fundamental issue of Bowron, received the highest tenced to jail fo r contempt of vice they can give him is to prepare for “any stal;warts [who] seems to have recently abandon­ Men of Power — America’s Labor illness and death. brass hat and gold braid inter­ number of votes but not the court in the current witch-hunt­ .eventuality.” ed the idea of independent socialist politics by Leaders, w ill be given Friday, * * * vention against union members m ajority o f votes cast, which is ing grand jury trials, received * * * < ■ participating in a welcoming committee for Sen­ A pril 29 at 8 P. M., at the Social­ Send to The Militant for in the employ of private com­ necessary for election in the 33;943 votes fo r Board of Educa­ ' COURT SETBACK FOR MELISH — A New ator Hubert Humphrey, a New Deal liberal.” ist Workers Party hall, 6108 extra copies. Only 3c. each in panies and the whole arbitrary- primary. He w ill face Lloyd tion Office No. 4, second in a Y ork Supreme Court judge has sustained the Labor Action has never bothered to make this in­ Linwood Ave. Admission w ill be bundles of five or more. use of the “ poor security risk” Aldrich, city engineer who came field of five, but too fa r behind ¥lght of Episcopal Bishop James P. De .Wolfe formation knoWn to its readers in the U. S. 25 cents. label has not been settled. in second in the field of nine the winner to figure in a run-off.