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Carlo Tresca Assassinated Government's Citations THE MILITANT PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE 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.
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