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VOL. VII— No. 3 NEW YORK, N. Y„ SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1943 «^^^> 267 FIVE (5) CENTS POST OFFICE WANTS TO SUPPRESS US BECAUSE WE DEFEND LABOR’S RIGHTS Carlo Tresca Assassinated Government's Citations

They Want To Put It Out Show Anti-Labor Bias Believed To Be A Statement by the Editorial Board Government officials want to suppress The Militant because we print the Political Murder truth about the role of Big Business in the war; because we criticize the dom­ estic and foreign policies of the administration; because we urge the workers By Felix Morrow to defend their living standards and democratic rights; because we advocate For years the friends of Carlo Tresca, interna­ a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government and the socialist program as the only tionally famous Italian anti-fascist, had feared that! solution to the problems of war, fascism, unemployment and racial discrimin­ his political enemies would assassinate him. He was a tio n . urged to take precautions, and did so. But on Mon­ This was made crystal-clear last week when the Post Office Depart- ment in Washington listed 27 “ objec- day night, at 9:45 o’clock, as the 64-year old editor These excerpts — obviously carefully chosen left his office, a killer put two bullets into him and lionable” excerpts taken from articles by government agents after many months of and editorials printed in this paper study to find the “best” for the Post Office’s Carlo died on the spot. 5> purposes — in no way bear out the slanderous The assassination of Carlo since Dec. 7, 1941, and notified us to The crime was evident­ charges against The M ilitant. But they do show Tresca occurred as this issue of ly well-planned and ap­ The M ilitant was being prepared show cause, at a hearing to he held on very clearly the real reasons for the Post Of­ fice’s repressive measures against this paper. pears to have involved for the press. Next week’s issue Jan. 21, why our second-class mailing will contain a number of appre­ The excerpts can be divided roughly into three others beside the assassin. ciative articles on Carlo Tresca, privileges should not he revoked. separate categories: 1. Our attacks on the pro­ This move to ban our paper from the mails Tresca’s office — that of his the man and his work. — Ed. gram and aims of Big Business. 2. Our criticisms weekly anti-fascist paper II Mar­ comes after ten weeks during which the author­ of domestic and foreign policies of the adminis­ tello — was in a building with cross over and become "demo­ ities interfered with the mail delivery of The tration, 3. Our analyses of the character of the two entrances on different crats." One of the most recent Militant, destroying four issues and holding the war. streets, one at 96 Fifth Avenue cases of th is kin d was Generoso others up for weeks. and one at 2 W. 15th St, and he Pope, w ealthy owner of two The Post Office authorities are proceeding was in the habit of using either Italian-language dailies in New against The Militant under war-time powers York. II Corriere and II Progre.iso. 1. Our Attack one. which, according to their interpretation, author­ The murderer could not have Notorious as one of Mussolini’s ize the Postmaster-General, without recourse to alone kept watch over both en­ principal agents in this country. On Big Business trances. Tresca had scarcely left Pope sought protective coloration For Services judicial process, to ban from the mails any pe­ in 1911 as the U nited States Roosevelt's Opening rio dica l w hich he believes violates the. “ Espion- What does the Post Office object to in our ar­ moved toward war. Mayor La- Not Rendered ticles dealing with the role of Big Business? Guardia oblingingly named Pope See Page Z for text of Post Office Excerpts The M ilitant was notified by Here is one example: as a member of the New York Speech To Congress “While the bosses demand that the work­ committee to arrange celebrations Post Office officials in New age Act.” The Act prohibits willfully making or York last week that, it would ers sacrifice everything, including life itself, for "I Am an American Day.” To When Roosevelt stood before Congress on January 7 and conveying false reports or statements with in­ have to pay at the regular for the war, they- themselves have but one this day Pope and his fascist as­ delivered his address on the state of the nation, he was confront­ tent to interfere with the operation or success sociates are at large while lesser mailing rate for all issues of aim — to safeguard and increase their prof­ of the armed forces or to promote the success fry are interned as agents of the paper deposited in the ed by a body a m ajority of which consisted of reactionary its .” (E xce rp t 5, June 27, 1942.) of its enemies; or w illfully causing or attempt­ M ussolini. Post Office since the begin­ Republicans and reactionary Democrats determined to wipe out Is that true, or is it false? The Militant not Tresca blasted this situation ning of Novem ber, 1942, in ­ ing to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, the gains labor had made since 1933. only maintains that it is true, but it has pre­ wide open, both in his press and cluding the issues which had or refusal of duty in the armed forces; or w ill­ sented evidence time and again to show that it speeches. II Martello of May 14, been delivered after delays I'he November election gave the Republicans a large in­ fully obstructing the recruitment or enlistment is true. The very article from which this sen­ 1941, fo r exam ple, exposed the ranging from one to two crease in their representation in® service of the U. S. weeks AND THE ISSUES tence was taken contained quotations from two fraud of naming Pope on the This was noticed by everybody Congress, liver since then it has government bodies — the House M ilitary Affairs New York committee and charg­ WHIG II HAD BEEN and it was correctly taken to Excerpts Reveal Real Motive DESTROYED. been accepted as a foregone Committee and the Truman Senate Committee ed that a New York City police mean that Roosevelt wants no memorandum on fascist activities Since fa ilu re to pay as conclusion that an alliance of struggles with the present Con­ To charge The Militant with violating the Es­ Investigating the National Defense Program — had been doctored to c^it out all demanded would provide a Republicans and Southern Demo­ gress. pionage Act is, however, nothing less than a showing that Big Business subordinates every­ references to Generoso Pope. technical pretext for revoking crats would control the Congress But not to struggle against the frameup, as will be seen by an examination of thing, including the needs of the war program, “I know of at least five refer­ the papers’ second class rights the excerpts selected by the postal authorities to its greed for profits. ences to Pope in the memoran­ on the spot, The M ilita n t had and utilize that control to strike present Congress spells danger for the masses. For the present and their Department of Justice collaborators. Another excerpt cited by the government was dum that were taken out,” wrote to pay. at the living standards of the CARLO TRESCA Congress has a majority that is We urge all workers, all sections of the labor based on reports in the N. Y. Times that Ger­ Tresca, and neither LaGuardia nor But the feeling was definitely masses. by the loth Street entrance and anyone else ever dared contradict one of insult added to injury. reactionary to movement, to examine carefully these excerpts. man and British and American businessmen are crossed to the north side of the him . WHAT HE STRESSED the core. We defy anyone to show how a single one of still collaborating in the Switzerland Bank for street when the killer cut him Tresca charged that Generoso No struggle them violates any part of the Espionage Act! Roosevelt chose to ignore the (Continued on page 3) down, ran to an automobile— Pope’s two dailies were “the main with the pres- evidently with the motor running source of fascist propaganda in How the British composition of the Congress and e n t Congress —and the car was immediately the United Slates,” and gave the danger that it holds for the means burden­ 'No Barrier to ing the masses gone westward on 15th Street. masses of this country. He chose Found later, the car proved to be (Continued on page 4) with the cost of ANTI-NEGRO FORCES to concentrate on the subject of Free Expression/ registered under a false name and ‘Tribune’ Explains the war and address. war concerning which there could permitting huge Says Byron Price WIN ANOTHER VICTORY All this indicates careful plan­ CRDC Statement on The Darlan Deal be no sbrious difference of opin­ profits to Big ning, and by more than one in­ Murder of Tresca ion and thus avoid raising the Business. Questioned about the report McNutt Calls Off FEPC Hearings On dividual. The overwhelming prob­ No struggle that government censorship was Perhaps The Tribune, a Labor- issues that mean so much to the ability is that it was a political NEW YORK. Jan. 12— with the pres- preventing news about Negro Jim Crow Policies in Railroad Industry ite weekly, is lucky to be pub­ workers and farmers. assassination. The following telegram of TDR ent Congress and white relations in this coun­ lishing in conservative England. He spoke about the improved means no adequate control of the try from being By ALBERT PARKER WHO WERE HIS ENEMIES? condolences was today sent Its Dec. 18 issue carried an ar­ to Margaret dc Silver, widow outlook as far as the war is con­ prices of goods consumed by the sent abroad, By­ Who stood to gain by having masses. It means legislation to ron Price, direc Jim Crow won another victory this week as War Manpower of Carlo Tresca, by James T. ticle by Jennie Lee, pro-war La- cerned. lie proudly mentioned the Carlo Tresca out of the way? make the masses work harder tor of U.S. cen Commissioner Paul V. M cNutt ordered the •'indefinite” post­ Several attempts or plans on his Farrell, noted novelist and borite, which stated in part: huge increase in production of and get less. sorship, admit­ ponement of an open hearing on discriminatory employment life in previous years he himself chairman of the Civil Rights “ In office, for instance, Roose­ armaments. He uttered confident We of course never considered ted last week had attributed to Italian fascists, Defense Committee, on which velt finds it expedient to sup­ assurances of victory. that censorship policies of the railroads industry, which has been scheduled to either Mussolini's direct agents or | Roosevelt as the champion of the Carlo Tresca served as vice- port Darlan. In opposition Will- au thorities have open in Washington Jan. 23 under the auspices of the Fair Em­ fascist gangs residing here, whom The Republicans from the | masses and consequently never “ sometimes sup Tresca—both through his own chairman : kie finds it enjoyable to have the North, anxious to destroy every ; expected him to rise to their de- ployment Practices Committee.! democratic right of the workers, fense in a critical moment. Let pressed inflam­ The railroad hearings, for 11 Martello Group and through big Dear Friend and Comrade: pleasure of repudiating him. But for employers to disregard the the Democrats from the South the workers consider the signi­ matory utter­ which FEPC attorn eys have been general leadership of anti-fascists Words can but poorly express the great capitalist parties, Dem­ the FEPC altogether. For they determined to keep the Negro ficance of Roosevelt’s deliberate ances regarding preparing for months, were re­ —had pursued relentlessly. one’s indignation on learning ocrat and Republican, that each know now that if they put a Tresca was particularly effective and white masses in complete avoidance of the issues that face racial and reli­ garded by N egro leaders as a the news of the brutal murder belongs to, are owned and man­ little pressure on Washington, it in his struggle against the fascists subjection, could nod in cynical them by virtue of the reaction­ gious conflict “key test” of McNutt’s attitude of Carlo Tresca. In this hour, aged by business interests that gets results. And they will not be because he believed that workers approval when the President ary character of the Congress. simply because toward the FEPC and the whole we wish to say to you, in grief are perfectly satisfied with Dar­ fooled, any more than the enemies organizations should organize said th a t eve ryth in g m ust be of a desire to BYKOKI PR'tc question of Negro discrimination and in an anger that will lan. That is the key to the mys of Jim Crow are, by McNutt’s their own protection against done to win this war for democ­ GAVE NO ANSWER TO w ith h o ld this in industry. McNutt’s decision is never cool, that our thoughts tcry of his American support. . . vague promise to do something fascist gangsters. For more than racy. LABOR’S PROBLEMS material from the enemy. . . such flagrant violation of the ad­ are with you. We who knew “The inwardness of the Darlan about railroad Jim Crow in some twenty years he boldly preached Roosevelt’s speech on the state “ Here at home,” he continued, ministration’s public declarations C arlo 'I'rcsca, as a frie n d , as affair is that the dominant When Roosevelt skid that “ the "ay other than holding hearings. and practiced workers sclf-dctensc 1 men in our armed forces want of the nation gave courage to all “we understand the situation and on this question, that members a comrade, as a collaborator groups in Britain’s Parliament, Last summer Roosevelt tran­ against fascists. The forces he led a lasting peace and equally they the reactionaries. It has increas­ there is no barrier to free ex­ of the FEPC refused to assume clashed more than once in physical in struggles to defend civil and America’s Congress are con­ sferred the FEPC to the jurisdic­ want permanent employment. . . ed the number of workers who pression.” the responsibility of announcing combat with their fascist enemies. liberties—we loved him. Now cerned above all with finding tion of McNutt. In reply to when they arc mustered out at have lost faith in Roosevelt and Unless you would cal! suppress­ the postponement of the hear­ Such methods brought results that he is no more, we live in post-war solutions that establish protests lie stated in December the end of the war,” not even his New Deal as the defender of ing labor papers a “barrier to ings. th a t were not to be gotten by a world that has been robbed capitalist governments in power that the FEPC would continue to the most reactionary of the rep­ the workers’ interests. free expression.” The usefulness of the FEPC, vain pleas to the authorities for of one of its noblest fighting everywhere. The specter that enjoy “free and unhampered resentatives listening could ob­ m-eated by Roosevelt in June. help against the fascists. And spirits. We will never forget haunts them is world revolution. The workers must consider this operation” even under McNutt, ject. So long as Roosevelt offered 1041 in an effort to call off a because he got results 3 rcsca was Carlo Tresca. To us, the spot They w ill accept undisguised fas­ one outstanding fact. There arc and that McNutt would rely no specific measures to guaran­ looked to for leadership by thou­ where he was so ruthlessly cism rather than that. . .” no Labor Party representatives Lack of space makes it neces­ projected Negro March on Wash­ “strongly on the decisions and tee a job to every soldier and ington, was always extremely sands of Italian anti-fascists who destroyed w ill alw ays be a For writing like that in the in Congress with a program for sary for The Militant to post­ recommendations” of the FEPC. every worker for the post-war limited. It had no real power to did not share his syndicalist shrine. United States today, The Tribune the protection of the interests of pone the publication of a num­ McNutt’s action in calling off period, no objection need be We mourn with you the ’oss would soon ha v» the masses. Only a Labor Party ber of informative acticles de­ compel employers to discontinue the railroad hearings, in opposi­ views. raised. of the martyred Carlo Tresca. the Post Office with a m ilitant program can raise scribing the food shortages and Tim Grow policies. It helped to tion to the expressed wishes of HIS RECENT BATTLES Verboten on its neck, try­ the issues close to the hearts of price situation in different parts publicize certain eases o f dis­ NO CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES the FEPC members, indicates JAMES T. FARRELL, the workers and defend their in­ of the country. These articles crimination, and to that extent Nor did Tresca silently stand by ing to revoke its Chairm an. In the U.S. terests. The workers must pro­ aided the fight against them. how well this promise has been and permit leading fascists, when 2nd-class mail­ The President deliberately will be published in an early is­ But now the tendency will be kept. expediency dictated it to them, to ing privileges. avoided all controversial issues. ceed to build such a Labor Party. sue. — Ed. T W O — THE MILITANT JANUARY 16, m 3 27 Excerpts Which The Authorities Dislike They Propose To Revoke Our Second-Class Mailing Privileges On The Basis O f These Statements

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following- scries of excerpts a $25,000 lim it on annual salaries, the child labor bill, (13 ) real war AGAINST FASCISM. It is an imperialist war, which can from The M ilitant has been sent to us by the Post Office mine safety bills, anti-lynching bill, etc. never serve the interests of the working masses of this or afiy Department as its “Exhibit A” for the hearing to con­ "... That China is compelled by practical considerations to other imperialist country. sider revoking The M ilitant’s second-class mailing rights, enter into alliances with imperialist allies can present grave “Continuous and urgent attempts are being made by capitalist to be held in W ashington on Jan. 21, 1943. dangers for the future but does not alter the fundamental char­ politicians on both the state and the national scene to dress up Against Wage Freezing acter of China's struggle today. The designs of Anglo-American the present, bloody, imperialist war as a holy struggle for a ‘free ( 1 ) imperialism to subordinate great China to their own predatory world.' Republicans and Democrats. Farmer-Laborites and Stalin­ AN ADDRESS by Albert Goldman Dec. 27, 1941, P. 4. ( 8 ) struggle are a long way from realization ...” ists, are united in their efforts to convifice American workers afid farmers, disillusioned by the useless slaughter or World War I WAGES FROZEN, ECONOMIC CZAR NAMED, "... In December, 1941 Japan, in answer to Roosevelt's “When we state that this is an imperialist war. it follows and the misery and suffering of the long period of depression COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RESTRICTED ultimatum, smashed at Pearl Harbor and gave Roosevelt the that we cannot possibly support the administration in its war which followed it, that World War II is being fought in the in­ by Joseph Andrews Oct. 11, 1942, P. 2. looked-for occasion to enter the war. By January 1912 all the e ffo rt.” imperialist powers and all peoples had been drawn into the war terests of the common man. "This order is only the first step by Roosevelt in his attempt EDITOR’S NOTE: The above sentence was taken arena ...” “But international socialists know—and now only the Trotsky­ to unload the heavy burdens of the war onlo the backs of the from our reprint of the court record of Albert Goldman’s ists are worthy of the name—that neither the oppressed masses masses of workers and exploited dirt farmers . . . final argument to the jury in the Minneapolis “conspir­ ( 14) of Europe and the Americas nor the exploited colonial peoples of “The. decree powers of the president have thus far been used acy” trial of 28 members of the Socialist Workers Party China. India and Africa, can bo emancipated until the decaying primarily against labor. This is part and parcel of the war "... The ‘democratic’ imperialist gangsters are interested and Local 544-00. capitalist system which breeds war, fascism and colonial tyranny program. Roosevelt, as the wartime representative of Big Busi­ only in recovering the property which has been taken away from is brought to an end. . ( 2 ) ness, is leading Wall Street’s war, not only against Germany and them by the fascist gangsters.” Japan, but against the masses of workers and dirt farmers . . . EDITORS’S NOTE: The above was part of an elec­ WHERE WE STAND by Albert Goldman Jan. 3, 1942, P. 4. “The workers cannot depend on the capitalist government to tion statement issued by Grace Carlson as the Socialist control prices and to insure the democratic rationing of goods. Workers Party candidate for the U. S. Senate from “When we characterize the war as imperialist ... we .. . The capitalist government, like the class it represents, is interested M innesota in the 1942 election cam paign. indicate that it is impermissible for us as revolutionists to sup­ only in protecting the profits and privileges of Big Business...” War Perspectives port either side . . . (2 0 ) "Our task in this war is different from the tasks of the EDITOR’S NOTE: The sentence which followed this ( 15 ) imperialists. They want to defeat their rival to protect their said: “Only committees chosen from the workers and “Since the outbreak of the war, Latin America has more YES, PUNISH THE WAR CRIMINALS imperialistic interests. We cannot and must not support them farmers’ organizations, and including representatives of an editorial Oct. 24, 1942, P. 4. than ever become the private preserve of American imperialism. in such a task. Our task is to organize the working class for housewives, can prevent profiteering and administer a The blockade against the Axis powers and the growing weakness the purpose of taking over power and trahdfofmihg this war price control program in the interests of the masses.” “. . .The English imperialists are not waging a war to destroy into a real war for democracy.” of Great Britain has enabled the United States to climb to a fascism. In order to preserve their smallest colony they would (9) virtually unchallenged position. The United States has dragged readily destroy every democratic right at home. They are sending EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was a reprint from with it info the war, either as actual participants or as non­ the masses into the slaughter only in order to preserve their em­ the March 29, 1941 Militant. We reprinted it for the ROOSEVELT COVERS ANTI-LABOR MOVES WITH belligerent allies, its retinue of vassals among the ruling classes pire. America’s Sixty Families pursue aims no less predatory, information of our readers because it was a principal ‘LIBERAL’ VENEER by A. Roland Oct. 11, 1942, P. 2. of Latin America. Through Export-Import Bank and private reactionary and imperalist than do the Krupps, the Kirdorfs and document in the Minneapolis trial. loans the Yankee imperialists have succeeded in buying the sup­ Boersigs of Germany. "The fixing of wages is therefore intended to prevent earn­ port they could not secure through diplomatic pressure. Their “They all bear the real responsibility for the war. They are all ings from rising with costs. In this way Roosevelt proposes to hand has been strengthened by the fact that the United States equally guilty. They, together with their political representatives, place the entire burden of the war on the backs of the working is today the main market and chief source of machinery and are the war criminals. class. All the talk about keeping down the cost of living was manufactured goods for many Latin American nations ...” “We are wholeheartedly in agreement, with the idea of bringing Prevent Black Market for the purpose of making' wage fixing look a little more pala­ all these criminals and their respective Hesses to trial without table . . . (1 6 ) delay. When the workers of all countries have said their final say, (3 ) “The workers in general have not yet understood the true this is precisely what they will do. . .” BLACK MARKET DIVERTS RATIONS FROM meaning of wage fixing. They tend to accept Roosevelt's demagogy “ In order to camouflage its imperialist policies and objectives, WORKERS by Don Dore March 14, 1942, P. 3. and apparent promises as good coin. Only as the war develops the Roosevelt regime claims that the war is being waged to EDITOR’S NOTE: This excerpt makes it appear further w ill they begin to see how they have been duped ..." defend democracy at home and extend the Four Freedoms that The M ilitant referred only to the capitalists in B rit­ "American workers are getting the first taste of government throughout the world. Roosevelt's slogan of the Four Freedoms ain and the United States, but earlier paragraphs in the rationing when sugar rationing goes into effect within the next is as false as Wilson’s slogan in the last war ‘Make the World same editorial referred to the “war criminals in Ger­ few weeks. This is the beginning of a policy which w ill certainly Safe for Democracy.’ While Roosevelt spouts phrases about demo­ many, the German ruling capitalist class.” be extended to other necessities as the w a r goes on. The Negro Struggle cracy, he seeks to set aside even the forms of the democratic “Ostensibly, this rationing w ill be undertaken to insure an process in favor of government by decree. This effort to substi­ equitable distribution of scarce commodities and to prevent price ( 10) tute dictatorial rule by decree on the part of the executive hfead extortion. The lesson of Britain shows, however, that rationing of the capitalist government has paved the way for the total under government and capitalist control limits the amount of THE NEGRO STRUGGLE Adm. Land’s Statement destruction of democracy and the rise to power of fascism or goods which the masses may secure but does not prevent those by Albert Parker Oct. 11, 1942, P. 3. Bonapartism in Germany, Italy and France ...” ( 2 1 ) with large incomes from obtaining all they want of both neces­ “The fact that the capitalist class does not intend to grant sities and luxuries.” equality to the Negroes is only one reason why advanced Negroes ( 17) TW O WARS, an editorial Oct. 24, 1942, P. 4- EDITOR’S NOTE: The article then continued with should join the revolutionary movement. There is another reason ". . .The statement is significant because, as something whicli several quotations from London correspondents of the which is just as valid and just as important as the one 1 dis­ “The imperialist rulers of both camps are fighting tenaciously could be done by a part of the administration itself, it indicate* N. Y. Times, to show the effects of rationing and the cussed last. week, and T intend to raise it here. to maintain the existing system which has brought about the tlie general direction in which the administration is moving. In Black Market in Britain, and concluded with the declara­ “The Negro must fight for more than equality with the white prevailing slaughter, misery, chaos and hopelessness. The rival this sense, such statements are even helpful in educating the-work­ tion that only the establishment of consumers’ commit­ worker. For let us suppose for the sake of argument that the monopolist cliques want to reconstruct the world for their selfish ers to understand the real nature of this war: not a war against tees controlling prices and supplies could insure “ against Negro could win and did win this equality while the white work­ ends. They have not the slightest concern for the welfare of fascism, but a war against rival business men lor profits abroad the rise of the Black Market in this country.” er’s conditions remain the same as they are now. that is. under their own peoples or the oppressed in other lands. Each strives AND a war against American workers for profits here at home. capitalism. What would the Negro worker have then? to conquer the world or a larger share of it for their own enrich­ “The day isn’t so far off when the American workers w ill he (4 ) “He would have what the white worker has. Like the white ment and power. Both imperialist blocs have the same predatory saying to hell with the phoney Admirals and the parasites they worker, he would still suffer periodical depressions and unem­ aims, although they employ different terms and slogans to justify FREEZES WAGES, BUT LETS BOSSES represent. When that day comes, the Admirals will be singing ployment and go hungry much of the time. their role in the war. Hitler's ‘New Order’ is simply German another tune because that w ill. be the day when the real war OFF EASY M ay 2, 1942, P. I. “Like the white worker, he would still be threatened by the capitalism’s reedition of the old capitalist anarchy and oppression. against fascism begins—where it should begin, at home.” "President Roosevelt’s long-awaited war economy program, oppression and brutality of fascism. The Anglo-American combine has no more radiant prospect to revealed in his message to Congress last Monday and elaborated “Like the white worker, he would still be driven to fight and offer than a new and more monstrous Versailles treaty that can EDITOR’S NOTE: This excerpt does not give the in his Tuesday niglit radio address, is not an 'equality of sacrifice’ die fo r im p e ria lis t wars th a t benefit only the bosses. only lay the groundwork for a Third World War. meaning of the editorial from which it is taken. “The program. On the contrary, it is a program to keep the burden “Like the white worker, he would still be kicked around by “ Imperialism holds out the perspectives of interminable war, statement” mentioned in the first line of the excerpt re­ of the war on the masses, enabling the bankers and industrialists the officers in the armed forces — probably not as much as at deepening reaction, impoverishment and misery for the masses ferred to the speech made on Oct. 19, 1942, by A d m ira l Ho continue to profit from the war and live in luxury ...” present. -— but still plenty. at home, enslavement for the conquered and colonial peoples. The Emory. S. Land of the Maritime Commission, who told “Like the white worker, he would still get low wages — capitalist system has become so decadent, so bankrupt, so retro­ a convention of the Investment Bankers Association that undoubtedly a little higher than he gets now — but still too low gressive that it can no longer give the most meagre reforms or he believed union “organizers ought to be shot at sun­ for decency and comfort, as the worker does ...” improvements. This malignant tumor must be removed before it rise.” The “Admirals” mentioned in the excerpt referred Big Business Aims completely ravages and destroys humanity. . .” to Land and Admiral Ben Moreell, chief of the U. S. ( 11 ) Bureau of Yards and Docks, who told an AFL gathering in Toronto that the country could “damn well live with­ (5) INTERNATIONAL TIES IN THE MIDST OF WAR, out” trade unions. Both these statements attracted wide­ an editorial Oct. 11, 1942, P. 4. THEIR ONE AIM, an editorial June 27, 1942, P. 4. Tremendous Profits spread opposition in labor circles; several unions called "... In spite of their cynical patriotic fervor, the capitalist for the dismissal of Admiral Land. “ W hile the bosses demand tha t the w orkers sacrifice every­ classes always continue to maintain profitable contacts with one thing. including life itself, for the war, they themselves have but (1 8 ) another across the battle lines while millions of workers of the one aim — to safeguard and increase their profits ...” contending countries die. AN ECONOMIC PROGRAM FOR LABOR IN WARTIME EDITOR’S NOTE: This opening sentence was fol­ “The maintenance of numerous international connections on by George Breitman Oct. 24, 1942, P. 2. Labor Party Needed lowed by quotations from a June 23 report of the House the part of the capitalists of all countries offers a lesson and an “Point 2 of the Big Business program is to place the burden Military Affairs Committee, which stated it found “a example to the workers of the world. They too must become so of the war costs on the backs of the working people, that is, to (2 2 ) sordid picture of excessive commissions by brokers, prof­ class conscious that they w ill find ways, especially in war time make the workers pay the costs of the war from which Big Busi­ its by vendors, exhorbitant salaries, bonuses and huge to establish and extend their own international ties, and build ness is making the hugest profits in history. IT IS TIME TO BUILD AN INDEPENDENT fees for management and related services in many War their own international organization ...” “To do this requires the reduction of the masses’ living stan­ LABOR PARTY, an editorial Oct. 31, 1942, P. I. Department contracts.” The editorial also quoted a re­ EDITOR’S' NOTE: The excerpt quoted by the Post dards to the lowest possible point. . . port by the Truman Senate Investigating Committee of ”, . .The Democrats and Republicans are campaigning on Office does not explain the “international ties” referred “Big Business and its government agents have unleashed a the same date, accusing steel firm s of dismantling plants practically identical platforms. Both parties are supporting Wall to in the title of the editorial, but the editorial did, quot­ wave of propaganda about ‘necessity for sacrifice’ and ‘equality of in order, stated the Committee, “to maintain their safety Street’s war of world conquest; both are in favor of Roosevelt’s ing from N. Y. Times dispatches show that Amer­ sacrifice,’ calculated to persuade the working people to give up and security after the war for monopolistic control.” program of unloading ttie costs of the war onto the backs of the ican, British and German businessmen are still collabor­ their social and economic gains won in the last ten years of strug­ working class, both stand for taxing the poor and sparing the ( 6 ) ating financially in the Bank for International Settle­ gle. How fraudulent this talk about ‘equality of sacrifice’ is can be rich; both defend the right of the corporations to make tremend­ ments at Basle, Switzerland. shown by the fact that the employers want the workers to get ous profits; both are for hamstringing the union movement. . .” THE 1942 ELECTION PLATFORM OF THE along on the starvation standards of 1932 while Big Business makes profits bigger than it made in 1929. . .” SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY IN NEW JERSEY ( 2 3 ) Sept. 12, 1942, P. 2. Convention Resolution EDITOR’S NOTE: The above excerpt is part of an "The real quarrel between the capitalists of the Axis Powers election radio address given by the Socialist Workers WORKERS AND THE SECOND IMPERIALIST WAR by James P. Cannon Oct. 31, 1942, P. 2-3. and those of the United Nations is solely over which group shall (1 2 ) Party candidate for the U. S. Senate from New Jersey have first place in exploiting the peoples and the resources of the over Station WPAT in Paterson, N. J., on Oct. 17, 1942. . .When the United States entered the war it certainly was world. The British and American capitalists want to continue THE IMPERIALIST WAR AND THE ROAD TO no surprise to us. It was no surprise to any grown-up person. OUr playing first fiddle. The German capitalists and their satellites WORLD SOCIALISM Oct: 17, 1942, PP. 1, 2, 3. (19 ) position on the war, as I have remarked before and as our resolu­ believe they are now strong enough to replace their rivals. That "... The claim that this is a war of democracy against tion says, was stated in the Minneapolis trial on the basis of the is why armies of millions of poor farmers and workers have been FOR A SOCIALIST WORLD fascism is a fraud. Like the first world war, the second is being programmatic documents that we had previously adopted. Our set at each other's throats ...” by Grace Carlson Oct. 24, 1942, P. 2. fought for seizure of colonies, markets, sources of raw material position today is the same. Not only are we opposed to American and spheres of influence, except that this time the stakes are “After only a short interval of twenty-five years, American imperialism and consequently to its war; we are also opposed to even greater, encompassing the entire world. This objective his­ workers and farmers again find themselves involved in another the theory that American imperialism is invincible and w ill con­ torical meaning of the war, and not the propaganda of the gov­ world-wide holocaust of suffering and death. Against their w ill; quer the world and live a thousand years. We see the United States How Roosevelt Acts ernments, determines our stand. against their interest, they have been plunged into World War II. driven by contradictions. It is caught in the hopeless decay of “All these considerations apply in full force to the United “ Socialists long ago predicted this war. Basing ourselves upon capitalism as a world system and is going down with it. The for­ (7 ) States. Long before its advent we warned the workers of the the teachings of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky, we maintained that mal entry of U. S. imperialism into the war is not an expression inescapable participation of the United States in this war and modern imperialist war was the inevitable result of the commer­ of its strength, but of its incurable malady. ROOSEVELT’S SPEECH: STUDY IN CONTRASTS, stated that such a war could only be an imperialist war. The cial rivalries of capitalist nations. As the Socialist Workers Party “They have day-dreams in Washington of America replacing an editorial Sept. 19, 1942, P. 4. actual entry of the United States into the conflict has not altered candidate for U. S. Senator from Minnesota in 1940, I said, ‘The Britain as master of the world, of policing the whole of this vast “. . .The president’s determination, energy, vigor and dispatch our position, but confirmed it. We do not and cannot give any imperialist government of the United States cannot fail to drag globe with its teeming millions of people, of becoming the center are reserved for use in favor of the capitalist class and against support to this reactionary war undertaken on behalf of America’s this country into war. This will not be a war of defense, or a war of tribute and plunder to be extracted from the toil of all the the masses.” monopolists to ensure their world domination of markets, foreign for democracy or liberation; it can only be a war for markets, peoples of the world. They dream, as this mad-man Hitler dreams, concessions, sources of raw materials and spheres of influence. foreign concessions, sources of raw materials and spheres of in­ of a thousand years of world mastery. They w ill never realize EDITOR’S NOTE: The above was the concluding fluence.’ This is Wall Street’s war, not ours ...” their dream, and we w ill do our part to see that their disillusion­ paragraph in an editorial commenting on Roosevelt’s “This prediction has been tragically fulfilled! The present war. ment does not come too late. . Labor Day ultimatum that if Congress didn’t give him EDITOR’S NOTE: The excerpt quoted above, and in which hundreds of thousands of young American workers and EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an excerpt from the power to set farm price ceilings at parity within 23 Excerpts 13 through 17, are all taken from a resolution farmers w ill have to lay down their lives; this war for which other stenographic record of National Secretary James P. Can- days, he would take the power himself. We contrasted adopted by the Tenth National Convention of the Social­ countless millions of men and women of the American working this with Roosevelt’s failure to demand speedy action on ist Workers Party. class w ill be asked to suffer daily hardship and suffering, is not a (Continued on page 3) JANUARY 16, 1943 THE MILITANT THREE The 27 Excerpts Post Office Wants To Ban ‘M ilitant’ (Continued from page 2) (Continued from page 1) as lo (he character of the yar and what to great majority actively or passively sup­ non’s report to the Socialist Workers Party Tenth Na­ do to win the war against all the capitalists. ports the war program of the Roosevelt ad­ International Settlements. Commenting- on this, fact that the employers want the workers to tio n a l Convention, Oct. 2, 1942. Both our members and the workers whom we ministration. As a minority we must submit we said: get along on the starvation standards of influence must go to war and do what they to that majority in action. We do not 1932 while Big Business makes profits big­ 24 “ In spile of their cynical patriotic fervor, are told by the rulers of this country. So long sabotage the war or obstruct the military ( ) ger than it made in 1929.” (Excerpt 18, Oct. the capitalist classes always continue to as we do not have a majority behind us we forces in any way. The Trotskyists go with 24, 1942.) HOW TO DETROY FASCISM ABROAD AND PREVENT maintain profitable contacts with one an­ are in no position to do anything except obey their generation into the armed forces. We Is that true oh false? Does the Post Office IT A T HOME by George Breitman Oct. 31, 1942, P. 4. other across the battle lines while millions of orders. It is true that we do not assume abide by the decisions of the majority. But claim that there is “equality of sacrifice” in this responsibility for this war in any way what­ we retain our opinions and insist on our right . .There are numerous other policies which prove to us workers of the contending countries die. . .” country today when workers’ wages are frozen ever, but to draw from that fact the con­ to express them.” that this is not a genuine war to destroy fascism or extend demo­ (E x c e rp t 11, Oct, 11, 1942.) and Big Business profits are higher than in the clusion that we thereby help Hitler win, WHEN THE POST OFFICE AND cracy. To mention but a few: Can the Post Office Department deny the truth boom year of 1929? Didn’t Leon Henderson lacks logic and common sense.” JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SEARCHED “What kind of war to destroy fascism is it when President of this statement? Didn’t the Department of himself say that living standards jn list and would THROUGH OUR PAPER FOR “SUI­ Roosevelt openly extends a hand of friendship to the fascist Justice find international capitalist business re­ . .The Socialist Workers Party convention resolu­ be reduced to the 1932 levels by 1943? TABLE” EXCERPTS, THEY UNDOUB­ butcher of Spain, Franco, and offers to help pul the Spanish lationships so widespread and so damaging to As a paper trying to win the masses to support tion (very small sections of which are used for TEDLY CAME ACROSS THESE KEY fascist regime'^on its feet economically?’ What kind of war for the U. S. war program that it had to bring sev­ Excerpts 12-17) refers to another document, of the socialist program, The M ilitant has con­ QUOTATIONS WHICH THEY “IGNORED.” democracy is it that is led by Vargas, the brutal dictator of Brazil, eral of the biggest corporations (Standard Oil, p rin te d in fu ll in The M ilita n t o f Feb. 7, 1942. sistently exposed the true role of Big Business. THAT IS WHY WE CAN ONLY DESIG­ whose record is just as bloody as H ftle r’s? Are fascists cleansed General Electric, etc.) to court in order to get Entitled “ A Statement on the War,” by James But no paper can hope to convince anyone of the NATE AS FRAMEUPS ALL ATTEMPTS of their crimes when they are neutral or allied to the United them to discontinue some of their U. S.-Nazi P. Cannon, National Secretary of the S.W.P., it correctness of its views unless it proves the truth TO ACCUSE US OF TRYING TO INTER­ States? patent pools? of whatever charges it makes. The M ilitant has declared in part: FERE WITH THE ARMED FORCES OR “What kind of war for democracy is it when the Negro people Plain and Sifhple Facts therefore on thousands of occasions backed up “ Our program against Hitlerism and for a TO CAUSE INSUBORDINATION OR TO arc Jim Crowed in industry and in the government’s armed its charges with uncontestable facts, quotations Workers’ and Farmers’ Government is today VIOLATE THE ESPIONAGE ACT IN ANY forces? The world is revolted by Hitler's vicious persecution of Another excerpt stated: from government spokesmen and documents, cap­ the program of only a small minority. The O TH E R W A Y . minority groups, but how much better is the ruling class's treat­ “ Big Business and its government agents italist and liberal papers, etc. Neither the Post ment of the Negro minority in this country? How much better is have unleashed a wave of government pro­ Office nor anyone else has attempted to demon­ the theory of ‘white supremacy’ than the theory of ‘Aryan paganda about ‘necessity for sacrifice’ and strate the falsity of a single one of our charges superiority’? Is discrimination against color any better than ‘equality of sacrifice,’ calculated to persuade against Big Business. TheReason For The Suppression discrimination against religion? the working people to give up their social THE CONCLUSION IS INESCAPABLE: THE “ What kind of war for democracy is it that denies the Indian and economic gains won in the last ten years POST OFFICE IS SUPPRESSING US NOT BE­ But—some people may ask— if The M ilitant is In Britain, for example, this was expressed im­ people the democratic right to rule themselves, a right the Amer­ of struggle. How fraudulent this talk about CAUSE WE PRINT FALSE REPORTS, BUT guilty of nothing' but telling the truth and ex­ mediately in Churchill’s statement to the world ican people fought a revolution to obtain in 1776? If it is criminal ‘equality of sacrifice’ is can be shown by the BECAUSE WE TELL THE THE TRUTH! pressing its opinions; and if the administration that he does not intend to preside over the for Hitler to subject the people of Europe to his rule, is it not knows this, why does it want to suppress this liquidation of the British Empire, that is, he does equally criminal for British imperialism to subject India to its paper? Is it not true that other papers, in no way not intend to grant • freedom to India and the rule or for United States imperialism to subject Puerto Rico to 2. Our Criticisms Of Administration sharing the views of the Trotskyist movement, other colonies. In the United States it was ex­ its rule?” also tell the truth on occasion? Haven’t many pressed by the opening of an attack on the EDITOR’S NOTE: This was from a radio address liberals, shocked and disillusioned by the recent freedom of the press. by the New Jersey candidate for the U. S. Senate, given Policies deals with Darlan and Otto von Hapsburg, also The liberals used to tell us that war necessarily Over S tatio n W P A T on Oct. 24, 1942. expressed some opinions that sound a great deal brings restrictions on the people’s democratic The second of the three categories of excerpts “What kind of war to destroy fascism is it like those of The Militant? rights, but that we needn’t worry because the cited by the Post Office deals with our criticisms when President Roosevelt openly extends a Yes, but there are certain differences. The closer the United States got to victory in the of the administration’s policies at home and hand of friendship to the fascist butcher of M ilitant follows a consistent and aggressive line; war, the more of these restrictions would be abroad. Spain, Franco, and offers to help put the Cannon’s Radio Speech it is not taken in, as the liberals are, by decep­ withdrawn. The very opposite is now taking The M ilitant has always held the socialist view Spanish fascist regime ‘on its feet economic­ tive promises. Furthermore, The M ilitant does place. The closer the administration gets to vic­ that all capitalist governments function as pro­ ally?’ What kind of war for democracy is it ( 2 5 ) not confine itself to analysis and criticism—it tory, the more arrogant it becomes toward the tectors of what they consider the best interests that is led by Vargas, the brutal dictator of follows up that analysis by presenting and ad­ labor movement. Moreover, after the war capital­ of Big Business, and that their legislation and Brazil, whose record is just as bloody as H it­ MOW TO PUT AN END TO IMPERIALIST WAR vocating the Trotskyist program. It takes its own ism will prove at least as bankrupt as it was administration generally favor the economic in­ ler’s? Are fascists cleansed of their crimes by James P. Cannon Nov. 7, 1942, P. 2. words seriously, and it calls on the masses to before the war to solve the problems facing terests of Big Business as against the economiq when they are neutral or allied to the United organize to improve their conditions and safe­ humanity. Unable to solve these problems them­ “. . .Net until the casualties are listed, and the maimed, the interests of the masses. We have been able to States? guard their rights. selves, the reactionaries hope to keep the masses mutilated.- the shell-shocked and the blind come back home to PROVE the truth of this view in our articles “What kind of war for democracy is it from taking the road to socialism by suppressing finish their lives in wheel chairs and hospitals—not until millions about the government’s economic policies. when the Negro people are Jim Crowed in The Militant not only disagrees with the gov­ and eliminating or intimidating into silence all upon millions of young men discharged from the armed forces The Post Office evidently objects to our criti­ industry and in the government’s armed for­ ernment’s methods for price fixing and rationing, papers and groups whose program might meet a start hunting for jobs—will we feel the full impact of this; war. cisms on this score, for it cites several excerpts ces? The world is revolted by Hitler’s vici­ but it proposes methods which can really solve response from the war-weary, capitalist-weary “. . .Not until Big Business has bankrupted the nation, ruined dealing with this question as reasons why The ous persecution of minority groups, but how these problems in the interests of the masses. masses. the economy, plunged the people into mourning and despair and M ilita n t should be suppressed. (E xcerp ts 3, 4, 8, much better is the ruling class’s treatment of We not only demonstrate that the Democratic commenced organizing and financing gangs of American fascists 9, etc.) the Negro minority in this country? How and Republican Parties are indistinguishable on to put an American Hitler in power—not until then w ill wc realize all major questions, but we advocate that the A Threat to All Labor These articles — not merely the excerpts from much better is the theory of ‘white supre­ the full horror of the imperialist war that has been thrust upon union movement create an Independent Labor them — showed that wage freezing benefits macy’ than the theory of ‘Aryan superior­ If The M ilitant can be suppressed for telling us. . .” Party to oppose them. We not only fight vigor­ the employers and penalizes the workers; that ity?’ Is discrimination against color any bet­ the truth about Big Business, so can other papers. ously against all forms of Jim Crowism wherever the new tax legislation cuts down the living ter than discrimination against religion? If The M ilitant can be suppressed for criticizing EDITOR’S NOTE: This was the third address in the they exist, but we call on the advanced Negroes standards of the workers but leaves Big Busi­ “What kind of war for democracy is it domestic and foreign policies of the administra­ New Jersey election series and was delivered over Sta­ to join the revolutionary movement because “ the ness with tremendous profits; that price ceilings that denies the Indian people the democratic tion, no other non-administration group is safe. tio n W P A T on Oct. 31, 1942. The issue of The M ilita n t capitalist class does not intend to grant equality are punctured by government officials in the in­ right to rule themselves, a right the Amer­ If The M ilitant can be suppressed for scientific­ containing this address was the first to be withheld from to the Negroes.” (Excerpt 10.) For these reasons terests of maintaining private profits; that ra­ ican people fought a revolution to obtain in ally analysing the character of the war and for the mails by the Post Office, and was subsequently or­ reaction strikes first-at The M ilitant. 1776? If it is criminal for Hitler to subject presenting a working class program, then dered destroyed. tioning can not insure a just and equitable dis­ the people of Europe to his rule, is it not fascism in the United States w ill have won a new tribution of food and other necessities unless A New Wave of Reaction ( 2 6 ) it is administered by mass committees of unions,, equally criminal for British imperialism to v ic to ry . working farmers, housewives and small retailers. subject India to its rule or for United States But that does not mean that only The Militant For these reasons we say: The fight to preserve TALKING ABOUT STABS IN THE BACK IF ANY OTHER EVIDENCE WERE NEED­ imperialism to subject Puerto Rico to its will be affected by a Post Office gag. Already The M ilitant’s second-class mailing rights is the an editorial Nov. 14, 1942, P. 4. ED TO SHOW THAT THE GOVERNMENT’S ru le ? ” (E x c e rp t 24, Oct. 31, 1942.) the delivery of two other papers, Fourth Inter­ fight of the whole labor movement, of all who ECONOMIC POLICIES FUNCTION IN THE And three weeks later The M ilitant commented national and Labor Action, is being interfered really want to fight fascism. The Post Office . .We have often said that the character of a war cannot he INTERESTS OF BIG BUSINESS, WE NOW as follows on the deal with Darlan that aroused with on orders from Washington. Numerous letter notifying us of the Jan. 21 hearing con­ determined by who strikes the first blow or by diplomatic HAVE THE FACT THAT GOVERNMENT OF­ so much resentment in the U. S. and Britain: other labor and liberal journals—the New Leader, cluded with a paragraph kindly informing us maneuvers employed to prepare the first blow or by the indignant FICIALS WANT TO SUPRESS THIS PAPER “ Before conquering a territory, the propa­ the New Republic, the Nation, the Reading Labor that if we did not wish to appear, it would be complaints of the nation that gets struck the first blow. For these FOR TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE gandists of the ‘United Nations’ assure the Advocate, the Call, etc.—have expressed the fear quite all right and the Postmaster-General would are methods and arguments used interchangeably by all the im­ ROLE OF BIG BUSINESS AND URGING THE people that they will drive out the fascist that the attack on The M ilitant is only the first proceed with the 'revocation of our second-class perialists to serve their own reactionary interests. MASSES TO ORGANIZE TO PUT AN END oppressors and bring the blessings of the step toward the repetition of the kind of Post rig h ts . “We hope that the latest events will open the eyes of the TO WAR PROFITEERING. Four Freedoms. After conquering a territory, Office suppressions that destroyed scores of The Post Office has already been informed that workers and lead them to an examination of the real causes of however, the application of the Four papers in the First World War. And the Postal The M ilitant will be represented at the hearing imperialist war—the capitalist system and the continuous strug­ What Kind of War for Democracy? Freedoms is not only shelved, but. in the case authorities themselves would probably be the by Albert Goldman, its attorney. Those who are gle for profits which it breeds among all capitalist nations.” of Africa and Darlan, the fascists aren’t even Being a consistent defender of democratic rights first to admit that they intend to go after all acquainted with The M ilitant’s policies already, driven out.” (Excerpt 27, Nov. 21, 1942.) papers that carry the kind of material considered ( 2 7 ) at home and abroad, The M ilitant has also se­ know that we w ill fight vigorously in defense of verely criticized the difference between the ad­ Similarly The M ilitant has called attention to “ objectionable” in The Militant. our rights. Our readers and subscribers can help Admiral Land’s statement that union “ organizers The fact is that a new wave of reaction got THE EOUR FREEDOMS IN ALGERIA, ministration’s many fine-sounding speeches on us in this fight by extending financial support ought to be shot a t sunrise” (E x c e rp t 21, Oct. 24, under way in the “democracies” simultaneously an editorial Nov. 21, 1942, P. 4. this question and its actual practices. This is an­ and by giving the widest possible publicity to other “crime” adduced against us by the Post 1942) and other anti-labor statements of govern­ with the launching of the North African invasion. the issues involved in this case. “Before conquering a territory, the propagandists of the Office. Here are some examples cited by au­ ment officials. ‘United Nations’ assure the people that they will drive out the th o ritie s. WHAT KIND OF WAR FOR DEMOCRACY fascist oppressors and bring tire blessings of the Four Freedoms. Before the invasion of North Africa, an article IS THIS? THE MILITANT ASKS. AND After conquering a territory, however, the application of the Four in The M ilitant—note the title: “ How to Destroy WASHINGTON REPLIES: WE’LL SHOW YOU Freedoms is not only shelved, hut in the case of African and Dar- Fascism Abroad and Prevent It at Home”— WHAT KIND OF WAR FOR DEMOCRACY IT lan, the fascists aren’t even driven out.” raised the following questions: IS—BY SUPPRESSING YOU FOR ASKING!

International Notes 3. Our Analysis Of The Character By BETTY KUEHN Of The War R epresenting n e a rly 100 news­ During the intermission of the Discussions of the character of the war make WHEN WE CHARACTERIZE THE WAR papers throughout India, a stand­ Metropolitan Opera Company up the third category of excerpts considered ob­ AS IMPERIALIST, and say that all of the ing committed of the All-India broadcast on Jan. 9, C. J. Harn- jectionable by the Post Office. The most im­ imperialist countries involved are fighting Newspaper Editors Conference bro, president of the Norwegian portant of these are Excerpt 2, an article by for their imperialist interests and not for or Parliament - in - Exile, expressed decided on Jan. 6 to suspend pub­ Albert Goldman, and Excerpts 12-17, from the against democracy, WE thereby simply IN ­ lication for one day, according to the uneasiness of the small na­ main resolution adopted by the Tenth National DICATE THAT IT IS IMPERMISSIBLE the Jan. 7 N. Y. Times. The tions over their fate in the com­ Convention of the Socialist Workers Party, print­ FOR US AS REVOLUTIONISTS TO SUP­ action was “in protest over the ing peace settlement. He declar­ suppression of certain develop­ ed: ed in the Oct. 17, 1942 Militant. PORT EITHER SIDE. ments connected with internal “The small nations fear that The article by Goldman, which by now is quite “Question: But then it means, does it not, po litics.” the longer the war is going to famous, was originally printed in the March 29, that you are willing to sit back and permit * * * last, the greater the risk of the 1941 issue of The M ilitant, at a time when Gold­ Hitler to conquer Britain and the United moral issue being overshadowed man was one of the editors of this paper. The States? Somebody is wrong: by military and political issues, purpose of the article, written in question-and- “ Answer: No, it does not. It simply means On Dec. 17, L in Y uta n g , C h i­ and considerations of immediate answer form, was to clear up a number of miscon­ that OUR TASK IN THIS WAR IS DIF­ nese publicist a n d unofficial expediency. . . ceptions concerning the Marxist attitude to im­ FERENT FROM THE TASK OF THE IM­ spokesman for Chungking, pro­ “They cannot be blind to the perialist war. It later played an important part PERIALISTS. THEY WANT TO DEFEAT tested that China was not being danger that the propaganda ma­ in the famous Minneapolis trial of the 28 Social­ THEIR RIVAL TO PROTECT THEIR IM­ sent the supplies promised by chinery of big countries easily ist Workers Party and Local 544-CIO leaders. PERIALIST INTERESTS. WE CANNOT Washington, that “the monthly can call forth just those currents In response to numerous requests of new read­ AND MUST NOT SUPPORT THEM IN supplies now going in are prob­ of imperialism and national pre­ ers about the trial, The Militant reprinted it on SUCH A TASK. OUR TASK IS TO OR­ ably 1% of the carriage of the judice which constitute the grav­ Burma road at its peak.” est menace to a just and dur­ Jan. 3, 1942. GANIZE THE WORKING CLASS FOR THE On Jan. 8, Roosevelt told Con­ able peace. . . Because it gives a very clear answer to the PURPOSE OF TAKING OVER POWER gress: “Even today we are fly­ “They are not passing through question of The M ilitant’s attitude to the war, AND TRANSFORMING THIS WAR INTO ing as much lend-lease material this furnace of suffering to be and because the postal authorities have very A REAL WAR FOR DEMOCRACY.” as ever traversed the Burma told by other governments what deliberately excerpted only those sections which road.” their fate shall be.” might be useful as “proof” that the article What the Post Office Omitted And Brooks Atkinson, N. Y. violates the Espionage Act, we here quote the Times correspondent in China, * * # These paragraphs read very differently, when first part of the article, printing the parts quoted speaking of the effect of the read as a whole, than the excerpt of the Post by the Post Office in capitals: President’s speech stated in a The Soviet radio station, Slo- Office. But an even more important part of the Jan, 9 dispatch from Chungking: bodna, Yugoslavia, transmitting Questions: When you say that this is an article was not quoted at all by the Post Office. “The tonnage of war materials from Tiflis, has ceased its at­ imperialist war both on the side of Britain I t read as fo llo w s: now being flown over the hump tacks on General Mikhailovitch, and Germany do you mean to say that you “ Question: But are you not helping Hitler according to an Ankara dispatch is declared here to he only a don’t care who wins and that, you contem­ win by not supporting the war? fraction of the lend-lease stuff in the Jan. 9 N. Y. Times. Are plate the victory of Hitler without being “ Answer: Not in the least. A ll that we are delivered over the Burma road the Stalinists, who denounced doing now is educating the workers to our when it was operating at its max­ Mikhailovitch as a Najsi agent, disturbed by it? im um .” changing their line again? “Answer: It means nothing of the kind. point of view. We are telling them the truth FOUR- THE MILITANT — JANUARY 16, 1943

THE m i l i t a n t ! Carlo Tresca Assassinated The Nineteenth Published in the interests of the (Continued from page 1) a wider investigation, including!*) Anniversary Of Working People the Poyntz kidnapping. He was ! detailed biographies showing the reported to have named 15 wit­ V O L. V I I — No. 3 S aturday, January 16, 1943 fascist connections of Pope’s vari­ nesses whom the grand ju ry could Lenin’s Death ous editors and associates. "He is question on this score. Chicago Area Hit By Published Weekly by a fascist to the core and La- Shortly afterward, three men— | By MICHAEL CORT THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASS’N Guardia knows it," declared Ossip Garber, Arthur Sharfin and Lenin died 19 years ago this week, on at 116 University Place, New York, N. Y. Tresca. Edward Blatt—were indicted for January 21, 1924. T h is year the a n n i­ Telephone: ALgonquin 4-8547 Such fascists m asquerading as having secured the false passports High Prices, Less Food turncoats and being accepted as for Robinson-Rubens. versary will be courteously alluded to Editor: such by U. S. authorities inter­ Tresca joined with others in By JOSEPH KELLER labels on—creating a “new in the capitalist press. The Soviet Union GEORGE BREITMAN ested Tresca in the last year establishing publicly that the But the Wealthy product” at higher prices. is a military ally of the United States; more than the obvious agents of three men indicted had Stalinist CHICAGO, Jan. 11—''Hog- Still Manage to An auto worker—now making Stalin poses as the disciple of Lenin, THE MILITANT follows the policy of permit­ Mussolini who, once the country connections, and this exposure Butcher of the World!”—that | aircraft engines—told me he went hence the necessity for such diplomatic was undoubtedly the final blow Get What They Want ting its contributors to present their own views entered the war, belatedly became was how the poet, Carl Sand­ to his butcher shop but was told courtesies on the part of the American the objects of attention by the which forced the Kremlin to in signed articles. These views therefore do not burg, once described this they were all sold out. A woman ruling class. State Department and the De­ abandon the preparations for the stuff on sale before the ceil­ entered and asked the bu teller if necessarily represent the policies of THE M ILI­ tremendous meat-packing cen­ The capitalists will help the Stalin­ partment of Justice. the Robinson - Rubens - Poyntz ing went in and it wasn’t the he had “ any m eat fo r m y dog.” TANT which are expressed in its editorials. ter. But today, tens of thou­ ists to picture him as a harmless ikon tria l. right ceiling price. You pay the “Yes,” the butcher answered LABOR HONORS HIM Those indicted for the passport sands of packinghouse workers price or you do without. You can having no rela­ Subscriptions: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for 6 months. —working a 12-hour day, 72- glumly, “that’s all I have got.” Foreign: $3.00 per year, $1.50 for 6 months. Bun­ On his sixtieth birthday and the fraud were tried and convicted in go see c ity h a ll fo r a ll they care.” I learned of a case where a tionship to the dle orders: 3 cents per copy in the United States; fortieth anniversary of his work New York in 1939 in a trial in hour week—and hundreds of There’s no boost in bread woman brought in a doctor’s problems facing 4 cents per copy in all foreign countries. Single in the labor movement. Carlo which—this was still before the thousands in the other booming prices—yet—hut they’ll stick you prescription in order to get eggs society today. copies: 5 cents. Stalin-Hitler pact—no mention Tresca was tendered a banquet on war industries, find it increas­ for a stale loaf at the regular and butter—nice, if you happen W h a t w ill ba April 14, 1939, by a committee of was made of the Stalinist connec­ •‘Reentered n» second claas matter Febrnary 13. 1841 ingly difficult to get any decent price, or you can go without, if to have a doctor for a relative ignored in both at the post office at New York, N. Y.. under the Act of sponsors whose names indicate tions of those convicted. you get to the store late. And a March 3. 1879.” meat at all, except at pheno­ and he doesn’t charge for the th e capitalist bow universally loved ho was in 10 cent loaf of Silvcrcup, or one prescription. Anyway, eggs aren’t STILL FOUGHT STALINISTS menal prices. press and the the labor movement and by of the other standard brands, is B u tle r is scarcely obtainable always eggs, as I found out, liberals. Tresca never made his peace still 10 cents, although a 1/4 Stalinist memo­ in the poorer working class when I innocently asked if some The committee included trade with the Stalinists. His personal pound loaf is now just a pound. rial meetings is To defend the USSR as districts. They will sell you a pullet eggs—priced at 57 cents a union leaders like Luigi Antonini, influence was the main cause re­ the fact that quarter or a half pound of In personal interviews with dozen in a “ low price” chain store the main fortress of the Socialists like Norman Thomas sponsible for keeping the Stalin­ adulterated bfilk butter, the poor­ working- class housewives from —were “pigeon eggs.” Chicken Le nin w a s a and Adolph Held, Trotskyists like ists from gaining ascendancy in world proletariat, against est grade, fo r 60 to 70 cents a every section of this sprawling eggs sell according to size. proletarian rev- Albert Goldman, anarchists, au­ the Mazzlini Society and other pound. “ When I took it home and city of more than 3,500,000, from o 1 u t i 0 n - all assaults of world im­ thors and editors like John Dewey, Italian anti-fascist organizations IT’S DIFFERENT squeezed the water out of it, my talks with retail butchers and ist, a world rev­ John Dos Passos and Oswald after Pearl Harbor. FOR THE BOSSES perialism and of internal grocery clerks, from observation LENIN Garrison Villard — all tendencies In practically all other fields the half pound shrank to about a olutionist. counter-revolution, is the of food stores with gutted shelves But don’t think that all are indeed, except one: the Stalinists. Stalinists were able to establish quarter pound,” one Buick work­ The real story of Lenin is that of and growing lines of short-tem­ “ sacrificing” alike here. most important duty of “ unity” or close collaboration with er's wife told me. a lifelong revolutionist who led the Rus­ ANTI-STALINIST BATTLES pered women, I obtained a first­ In the small and less expensive trade union officials and liberals sian workers to victory over their ex­ every class-conscious MILK PRICE RISES— hand picture of the food situation restaurants, where a worker Carlo Tresca’s heroic struggles who had fought the Stalinists dur­ CREAM DIMINISHES here in Chicago. might expect to go occasionally ploiters, and left behind a heritage of w orker. against the Stalinist-GPU frame- ing the Stalin-Hitler pact. But in to get a meal, butter and coffee revolutionary theory and practice which, — LEON TROTSKY ups and assassinations constitute the Italian-American organizalions Milk, formerly two quarts for PRICE CEILINGS “BUSTED” are strictly rationed, and many today alone provide the key to the lib­ perhaps the most glorious page and trade unions — notably the 25 cents, was boosted last week “Price ceilings!” exclaimed a restaurants are serving coffee eration of mankind. in his biography. It was relative­ Italian locals of the Ladies Gar­ to 15 cents a quart by OPA butcher in one of the near North substitutes and explaining they ly easy and popular to fight ment Workers Union — Tresca’s order — and it keeps getting Lenin was born in Russia in 1870. At^ Side National Tea Company chain cannot get any butter. But in the JOIN US IN FIGHTING FOR: against Mussolini’s open and influence was successful in keep­ thinner and thinner as more of the age of 25 he organized the “Union ing them from the treacherous stores. “That’s a joke! There ain’t high-priced restaurants you can masked agents. It took far more the precious butter fat and for the Liberation of the W orking Class.’* 1. M ilitary training of workers, financed embrace of the Stalinists. cream is skimmed off. In no price ceiling. They busted long get all the butter you want, and courage to stand up against the For this he was jailed and sent into Si­ His latest clashes with the one neighborhood, where there is ago.” And he went on blandly to real coffee. by the government, but under control GPU. berian exile by the Czar. Stalinists came in connection with an over-supply of babies, canned ask a harassed-looking woman This even applies in the plant Tresca was one of the first in of the trade unions. Special officers’ the Minneapolis “sedition” trial milk is unobtainable, as one 45 cents a pound for the remnants cafeterias, such as Buick and Up to that time the socialist move-; this country to expose the Stalin­ training camps, financed by the gov­ and llio actions of the Post Of­ young mother complained to me: of some sick-looking soup meat Electro-Motive. These plants each ment in Russia remained loosely knit ist murder gangs who assassinated fice Department against The M ili­ “I could get it all right, but in a big, near-empty showcase. have two cafeterias, one for the and ineffective in struggle. Lenin studied ernment but controlled by the trade anarchist, Trotskyist and Socialist tant and Fourth International. As they won’t sell it to you unless It’s not the same scarcity workers and one for the bosses. this problem and when he left Siberia unions, to train workers to become leaders in Spain. One of the more always. Tresca stood with the you buy a big order at the same everywhere. In the “upper-crust” The workers, in their cafeterias, notable cases w h ich Tresca pub­ workers against the capitalist in 1900 he devised the most efficient o ffic e rs . time. The prices keep going up neighborhoods, the “ fancy goods” get one cup of coffee and one licized was that of the murder in repression, and excoriated the instrument of working class struggle, on everything. Even after the groceries and the “prime cuts” slim pat of butter. But the bosses, 2. Trade union wages for all workers Barcelona of his friend and Stalinists for their support of the the centralized yet democratic revolu­ comrade, the noted Italian anarch­ ceiling. My grocer claimed he had butcher shops arc plentifully in (heir cafeterias, arc getting drafted into the army. prosecution. tionary party which was to serve as the ist Camillo Berneri; Tresca stocked. Available food stocks unlimited amounts of butter and In all his batlles, Tresca fought coffee. vanguard in the class struggle. Lenin 3. Full equality for Negroes in the armed charged that, the C.PU agent, the w ith im placable courage, no less are being siphoned off into the taught that the working class could forces and the war industries— Down American George Mink, had led so in the last twenty years of the highest - price neighborhoods, that murder gang. sedentary life of an editor than, Steel Workers where the well-to-do can afford achieve socialism only through political with Jim Crowism everywhere. The American Committee for the in earlier years, as the great to pay to “get theirs.” struggle. And that for this a party was 4. Confiscation of all war profits. Expro­ Defense of Leon Trotsky found strike leader of the Italian-speak­ But a Studebaker worker's wife LEW BROWNSTEIN necessary — a cadre of politically ad­ in Tresca one of its leading and ing workers in the Paterson and Strike for Equal from over in the Englewood area vanced workers who w-ould furnish lead­ priation of all war industries and their most active figures. He was tire­ NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 10 __ Lawrence textile mills and the told me there are long lines in the ership to their class. He said further operation under workers’ control. less in its great work of exposing Newark members of the Socialist iron miners of the Mesabi range Jewel Store—a low priced chain Workers Party today mourned the that, until such a party was created, the the Moscow Trials as frameups. in Minnesota. Pay for Women outfit—where she buys. She has 5. For a rising scale of wages to meet the death of Comrade Lew Brown- workers would be incapable of winning When Trotsky was assassinated in had to wait in line an hour to put GOVERNMENT FRAMEUP Discrimination in wages be­ stein, who succumbed to a heart liberation from their exploiters. rising cost of living. A ugust 1940, Tresca branded in her order, and it’s getting S talin as the m urderer. tween men and women workers attack yesterday at the age of 36. If he might still have had any worse every day. She couldn’t get Lenin founded just such a political 6. Workers Defense Guards against vig­ Perhaps the hardest blow that by the H. K. Porter Company’s Comrade Lew first came into illusions that the “democratic” tea or cocoa, and many other party in Russia, the Bolshevik party. ilante and fascist attacks. Tresca dealt the GPU was in the locomotive plant at Lawrence- contact with the Trotskyist move­ government would help the work­ staples. Her companion told of a ment and its ideas as a member This party won the leadership of the abortive Robinson-Rubcns trial of ville, Pennsylvania, and failure 7. An Independent Labor Party based on ers against fascists, he was taught little store where they would sell of the Socialist Party in the 1938-1939. of the management in several Russian workers. W ithin 14 years from better in 1923 when he was a 10-cent can of cocoa “for 15 spring of 1936. The following the Trade Unions. This couple, “arrested” in Mos­ conferences to agree to adjust the date of its appearance in 1903 as arrested and imprisoned by the. cents, provided you take a big year, when the Trotskyists were cow at the end of 1937, were wages, led on Jan. 5 to a strike an independent political tendency, Bol­ 8. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern­ federal government. Ostensibly he order of other things.” expelled from the S. I’., lie left obviously being groomed for still by 800 members of the United was found guilty of publishing a with them and helped to found shevism led the workers to victory over m e n t. another Moscow Trial directed Steel Workers, CIO. The com­ two-line advertisement for birth ALL GRADES ARE the Socialist Workers Party in the capitalists and Czarism. especially at this country: it was pany was pa yin g women 17 V& 9. Defend the Soviet Union against im ­ control. “ B E S T ” N O W Newark. He did not stop with victory in Rus­ to "prove" connections between Tresca charged, however, that cents under the scale called for Canned vegetables and fruits Although he was physically sia. In the spring of 1919 Lenin took perialist attack. American Trotskyists and Nazis he had been prosecuted at the in­ in the union contract for their handicapped and always in great and serve to whip up a war spirit stigation of the Italian Ambas­ category of work. have disappeared from the the lead in calling a congress of revolu­ pain when he moved about, he —the Kremlin was then still with sador for his anti-fascist ac­ The significant part of the shelves in the working class tionists from all the countries of the played an active part in the New the "democracies.” tiv itie s . strike was the fact that the prin­ neighborhoods, except for some world. This congress welded these vari­ Jersey unemployed movement, A defense movement, organized ciple of equal pay was demand­ small independents who w ill sell EXPOSED POYNTZ functioning as a grievance com­ ous groups and parties into the Com­ by trade unions and liberals, ed not on ly by the women, but to you at three times the price you The Facts O n China KIDNAPPING mitteeman in the relief stations. munist (third) International. This too fought Tresca’s conviction and was vigorously supported by the might expect to pay in a chain Many times his pain was so great w'as a p ro le ta ria n o rg a n iza tio n on a One part of the resolution adopted by the Socialist Fortunately Tresca knew one of created such a public outcry that store—except that you can’t get men. Less than 100 of the em­ that lie had to drop out of picket, world scale and was aimed at the abo­ Workers Party national convention last October read the key figures who was being President Coolidge felt it neces­ the stuff in a chain store. ployees were women but the en­ lines, bill after a few minutes' as follows: prepared in Moscow for this trial: sary to intervene and release As one Negro woman, a school lition of world capitalism. For Lenin tire plant was shut down by the rest, he would always insist on Juliet Stuart Poyntz, formerly a Tresca after he had served four teacher, explained, “ Canned goods knew that a workers’ government in a "The war of China for national independence walk out of the 800 members of getting back on the line. leader of the Communist Party, months. used to conic in three grades, and single country could not achieve social­ the local. F in a lly in 1941 he was unable against the Japanese imperialists must likewise he who in 1934 was withdrawn from Subsequently Maxwell S. Mat- the poor people used to buy The women had been employed to even walk up a flight of stairs, ism or remain secure as long as the ardently supported by every honest worker, above all public work and transferred to the tuck, the federal prosecutor, ad­ second and third grade. Now it’s for over 4 months on the sub­ and had to drop out of activity al­ capitalist enemy was capable of attack. by the workers of China whose fate is bound up with GPU. In May 1937 she bad con­ m itted th a t the case had been all labeled ‘fancy’ and you can standard scale, in spite of re­ together. I think this hurt him fided in Tresca — a friend of initiated at the instigation of F rom 1918 u n til 1920 the S oviet U n ion the struggle for the independence of the country. peated promises by the manage­ only buy ‘first grade' stuff at lop more than a n yth in g else. twenty years — that she was Mussolini’s Ambassador. That was defended itself against the counter-revo­ That China is compelled by practical considerations ment to increase their pay “once prices.” The last time I visited him in disgusted with Stalinism. Some­ the 36th time that Carlo had been lution and the British, French, Japanese to enter into alliances with imperialist allies can their work was satisfactory.” Another Negro housewife re­ 19 42 he expressed the greatest time after that she disappeared arrested, on charges including and American armies of intervention present grave dangers for the future but does not and Tresca became suspicious and Action of the men workers in­ ported that a friend of her hus­ confidence about the coming revo­ sedition and incitement to riot. which attempted to drown the Soviet alter the fundamental character of China's struggle investigated. dicates that they accept the wo­ band who works in one of the big lutionary upsurge. “I probably Union in blood and thus remove this today. The designs of Anglo-American imperialism He made his conclusions pub­ men as equals and recognize that canning companies here, has been won't live to see it." he said, “but doing nothing for weeks but I know I won't miss it by many revolutionary example and inspiration to to subordinate great China to their own predatory lic in a statement to the press (Next week we shall publish discrimination is an employer several articles dealing with the trick to divide the workers and tearing old labels off stocked years. That's the main thing I’m their own workers. struggle arc a long way from realization. . .” on F ebruary 14, 1938 charging cans of food and pasting new sorry about." that Miss Poyntz had been ab­ life of Carlo Tresca.) reduce their bargaining power. The imperialist armies were defeated, Omitting the first sentence in that paragraph, the Like all the other fighters in ducted to Russia by the GPU. our ranks who fall before the final however, for Lenin’s revolutionary pro­ Post Office adduces the rest as one of its excerpts to By that time it had already victory, we will honor Lew by paganda convinced the invading work­ justify the suppression of The Militant. come out that Robinson-Rubens building the kind of society they er-soldier that his own master was his bad gone to Russia on forged Three days after The Militant was notified that this struggled to create. passports. Tresca feared that, the enemy and that hfk welfare was insep* excerpt was considered “objectionable,” the Chicago — G. B. minor detail of the passports arably tied to the fate of the Soviet Daily News, a paper controlled by Secretary of the would be the sole one investigated worker and peasant. Navy Knox, ran a column by Howard Vincent O'Brien and that the far more significant Victory in the Soviet Union was not discussing the U. S. government's attitude toward aspects of the Poyntz-Robinson- followed, however, by workers’ victories China. After citing two technical reasons why the ad­ Itubens situation would be glossed 'Lenin on Women' in other countries. After Lenin died in ministration has failed “to give adequate support to over. Hence he declared in his 1924 the Soviet Union, isolated in a cap­ the Chinese," O’Brien declares: statem ent: Pamphlet- Put Out “We are not dealing with a italist world, with the masses worn out “ There is a third reason — shadowy and explosive: petty passport fraud, but with By N. Y. Local by their great efforts, fell into the hands so delicate that it is dangerous to explore it. This a conspiracy originating in Mos­ of the Stalinist bureaucracy. reason is best expressed by a question, namely: How cow, in which that passport 1 he Bolshevik Party of Lenin was de­ fraud is a mere link. The object victorious do we want China to be? “Lenin on the Women Question” is the staging of a Moscow frame- stroyed by the Stalinist bureaucracy “ Mr. Churchill has declared that he has no inten­ up trial designed to stimulate | by Clara Zctkin lias been re-issued which now clings to the workers’ state tion of liquidating the British Empire. And Queen war fever here through a spy I by the Women's Committee of the as a huge parasite. The Soviets, the Wilhelmina has certainly not suggested any liquida­ scare and thus drive this country | New York Local of the Socialist trade unions and all the other mass or­ tion of the Dutch Empire. But if China conquers Jap­ toward war for Stalin’s benefit. | Workers Party. ganizations of the workers exist today an, is it likely that Hong Kong and Singapore and “ We arc going to gel to the W ith women playing an increas­ in name only. the East Indies will be restored to their former own­ bottom of the Robinson-Rubens- ingly important part in society But Lenin built so well that in spite ers? Is it likely that India will continue resigned Poyntz-GPU case and expose the today, and especially in the mass of the degeneration of the state, the to having its destiny determined on Downing Street; war-mongering conspirators and their master in the Kremlin." industries, it is important that all greatest conquest still remains — na­ or that Indo-China will continue to take orders from tionalized property. It is this national­ the Quai d’Orsay? STALINISTS CALLED workers acquaint themselves with the views of Lenin on this ques­ ized property which the Russian work­ “The simple fact is that a victorious China, like H IM SPY tion. ers defend today with a heroism and a victorious Russia, will present imperialisms — in­ Panic-stricken by Tresca’s rev­ self-sacrifice unparalleled in history. cluding ours — with some embarrassing problems. elations, the Stalinist Daily The pamphlet contains two Worker denounced him as a Jap­ parts: an account of two inter­ 1 rotsky summed up Lenin’s outstand­ “From our standpoint, it is a nice thing to have anese-Fascist spy. esting discussions held between ing gifts in the following words: “To China help us to quell Japanese imperialism. It is fix his revolutionary sight upon the fu­ In the subsequent federal grand author and Lenin, and excerpts probable, however, that the Chinese have no inten­ jury investigation of the passport ture, to grasp and point out the most from a speech made by the leader tion of freeing themselves from one yoke, only to fraud. Tresca was subpoenaed and important, the fundamental, the most of the Russian Revolution to a assume another. . was reported to have pressed for urgently needed — that was the gift The difference between 'J’hc M ilitant and the Chicago conference of working women in peculiar to Lenin in the highest degree.” 1919. Daily Neus is that we urge the masses to organize to The Trotskyist movement is based do something about these questions. But that doesn’t For a Rising Scale of The pamphlet sells for 10 cents, upon Lenin’s teachings and continues his alter the fact that the Post Office wants to suppress Wages to Meet and may be obtained from the struggle. Only Trotskyists really honor The M ilitant for printing FACTS which even Navy Women’s Committee at 116 Uni­ the memory of Lenin for only they fol­ Secretary Knox's paper has to print. Rising Living Costs versity PI., New York City. low his teachings.