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Vol. XXII — No. 26 222 N E W Y O R K . N . Y ., M O N D A Y , J U N E 30. 1958 P ric e 10c War Threat Lebanon’s Civil War

Debate Over In Lebanon Court» Restores Continues Socialist By Myra Tanner Weiss JUNE 25 — The civil war in Lebanon grows sharper. The Jim Crow in U. S. Sixth Fleet hovers men­ Political Action acingly nearby in the Mediter­ ranean with marines ready for By Harry Ring combat. U. S. helicopters flutter about Beirut, the capital. And One central issue dominated the United Independent- United N a t i o n s' "observers" Little Rock HS Socialist Election Conference held in New York June 13- slink around the Lebanese bor­ ders looking for Arab "infiltra­ 15. Should socialists stand in clear-cut opposition to the tors." Republicans and Democrats oi*- John Foster Dulles, June 23, Gives Legal Formula That Can should they support and work apron strings of the old parties, mainly the Democratic, by tra­ briefed a Senate committee on inside the Democratic party? the crisis in Lebanon. Accord­ The great majority of the con­ dition and through their con­ servative leaders.” ing to Senator John Sparkman Nullify Supreme Court Decision ference sponsors and delegates ID.-Ala.], the Secretary of recorded themselves in favor of This is a fa ir enough state­ State said that “almost daily JUNE 25 — On June 21 Federal District Jud^-e Harry J. Lemley ordered the expul­ militant socialist opposition to ment of the problem. The la­ for three weeks there has been the two capitalist parties. In bor movement and its allies are sion of all Negrd students from Little Rock's Central High School and the "postpone­ the fear that the spark might taking this stand the conference presently tied to the capitalist ment" of any integration moves in that city until 1961. This decision comes against the come which would ignite a collided with the policy advo­ parties. How then are socialists background of a steady slow-f——------*------chain of events which might cated by the leadership of the to help break them away and down in school desegregation. school integration. Where Negro involve our forces." According Communist party which strong­ yvin them'to a socialist pro­ The high point of desegrega- children finally made their way to Sparkman, Dulles “obviously ly favors trying to work in­ gram? According to Hathaway, lion came in 1955 when school through the jungle of legal ob­ while popular sentiment for a hopes we will not have to in­ struction into a lilywhite school, side the Democratic Party. Rebel in Tripoli resists assault of government troops. districts covering almost 6% of break with the capitalist par­ tervene.” the racists would merely have The fact that the conference On June 7 a pitched battle raged in this section of the the Negro children affected by took a decisive stand on the ties is at its lowest ebb, there W hat w ill U. S. marines be I he Supreme Court decision to stuge riots and disturbances city, controlled by the rebels. The government of Chamoun issue by no means ends the is a new and progressive de- fighting for in Lebanon if look desegregation steps. Next within and without the schools. attacked with tanks, planes and artillery. The United Slates debate. The CP leadership is velqpmdnt now beginning to Dulles’ “hopes" are not real­ September the figure dropped This would constitute legal has been supplying weapons to the unpopular regime. continuing to. marshal argu­ take place whicK can provide ized and the U. S. goes to w ar below 3%. September 1957 saw “proof” that the normal educa­ ments against the idea of in­ the basis fo r an ultim ate mass in the Middle East, aafrher in it slum p to 1%. M oreover each tional process was being dis­ dependent socialist p o litica l *ac- break away from the capitalist its own name or under the U.N. mid-year there had been some rupted because of integration. tion and in support of its pro- parties. The “new” ingredient banner as in Korea? desegregation for the second At the end of the two-and-a- Democrafic party “coalition" presented by H athaw ay is a The Lebanese crisis was pre- lei m. But this past mid-year half years suspension, the same, policy. “growing (but still only 'grow­ cipatcd1 by President Camille U.S. M ilitary not a single school district an­ procedure would be repeated The case for “ coalition” has ing') feeling that labor must Chamoun’s announcement of his nounced second semester de­ to “prove” integration still im­ been put forward in a discus­ have more voice in formulat­ intention of changing the segregation. possible. sion article by Clarence Hath­ ing the platform and selecting Lebanese constitution so that Bases Abroad JIM-CROW WEAPON RACISTS JUBILANT away in the June 22 Worker the candidates of the Demo­ he could serve another six-year Judge Lemley’s decision, il No wonder Gov. Faubus, the and by Arnold Johnson in the cratic party.” (Emphasis in or­ term. Chamoun, however, isn’t 1 An Editorial ------allowed to stand, will give the White Citizens Council and the June issue of Political Affairs. iginal.) that popular. He is an agent in white supremacists the legal Democratic Pa ty machine H athaw ay poses the issue as If socialists will only forget the Arab world of U. S. foreign Efforts of the U.S. military to further encircle the weapon for killing all school throughout the South are jubi­ "a real and serious" one that the idea of acting like socialists policy. On May 10 opposition Soviet Union with a world network of long-range missile desegregation attempts in the lant. Last September they suf­ "involves the question of the in the elections, he argues, and to the President expressed it­ Deep South and for possible fered defeat when nation-wide, effectiveness of the entire Left devote their energies to seeing self in street battles. Today the bases is m eeting strong popular opposition abroad. More re-segregation in the border Ernest Green, first Negro >ndeed w orld-w ide. pressure that this “ new” sentim ent “ is to graduate from Little Rock forced Eisenhower to open the in working among the broad country is torn apart with civil than 48',( of the people in six European countries and states. The Little Rock, decision masses of the people to w in developed and encouraged,” strife. simply puts into legal language High School, Ark. Unless re­ loots of Central High to nine them away from the old par­ then on the basis of the fight ATTACK EXPECTED •Japan are against having these bases in th e ir countries the racist vows that “You can’t versed, the federal district Negro students with federal ties and for a socialist solution for a greater voice in the Dem­ The Lebanese government ex­ and onlf 22G are in favor, of them, according to a re­ force integration on us,” and court decision restoring seg­ troops. Now they believe that to present day problems ; . . " ocratic party, “the quicker will pects a major attack from the Eisenhower's argument that regation means the other defeat has been canceled out. cent survey by the New York Herald Tribune World Poll. The starting point of his an­ come the disillusionment of rebels tomorrow. The N. Y. “First you have to change the eight Negro students will The L ittle Rock case Was alysis is the fact that the labor. these people in the old parties Times reports today, "For four In West Germany, 54'J of those queried opposed the hearts of men.” It declares the have to return to a Jim Crow watched carefully by everyone Negro and farmers' 'movements and real foundations laid for days women and children have opponents of integration in school. — while or colored — in the “are pretty well tied to the (C o ntin ued on Page 2) been moving out of areas along bases. Seven percent were in favor of them and 29/f were Little Rock had prevented nor­ South. It became the test of Besta Street in the center of undecided. mal education' at Central High, law upheld. In this case of the Supreme Court decisiori. the city |Be;rut]. This is the therefore integration must be Negro children's rights, the Defeat of integration in Little Who Says “It Can't Happen ” area that harbors most of the In Japan, the poll ran 44' < against the bases and 9'/c ended for at least two and a court has upheld the law's op­ Rock cannot but tremendously rebels. Barricades that have in favor. In Denmark, 58'v said “no” and I8'/r “yes." In half years, ponents and ordered the law embolden all racists. The les­ Heretofore whenever oppon­ (school desegregation) suspend­ sons they have draw n from it barred the Basla area since the Sweden it was 4 6 'i against and 28'.' for. In Ita ly 39'/. revolt began have been sup­ ents had obstructed the opera­ ed. already is that it pays to riot plemented by concrete pill­ opposed the bases and 30' i favored them and in C?reat tion of a law .or Constitutional Judge Lemley’s formula and beat and kick Negroes as boxes . . . Hundreds of armed Britain the poll showed a 40-40 split, with 20' . undecided. provision, U.S. judges have or­ would give the racists a fool­ was done before Central High; men have filtered into the dered them punished and the proof system for stopping (Continued on Page 4) Bssta area from outside Beirut The main reason why most of those queried were recently. opposed to the bases is that they recognize that the “Kamal Jumblatt, rebel lead­ missiles buildup serves only to increase the war danger. New Strikes er of the sect of Druses a few They obviously have not been convinced by the U.S. TV Networks Fire Two miles southeast of Beirut, is propaganda claim 'that missile bases are needed to deter said to have sent in several hundred men,” the Times re­ the Soviets from allegedly launching war. Break Out port continues. “Traveling as Equally significant is a further reason given in all For Defying Witch Hunt sim ple w orkm en or peasants, they can carry pistols inside countries polled for opposing the bases. This is the fear By Henry Gitano of becoming a U.S. “satellite." In fact, in Sweden this At Chrysler their belts . . . NEW YORK, June 25 — All 18 witnesses appearing In growing desperation, Cha­ was found to be the principal reason for wanting no part JUNE 25 — Members of the here before a subcommittee of the House Un-American moun is expected to ask the of the bases. United Automobile Workers U. S. or the United Nations took "unauthoi^ted" strike ac­ Activities Committee on June 13-19, boldly defied the for troops to keep him in This strong sentiment against the suicidal arms build­ tion last week against two vitch-hunters who attempted' piece of paper with these words power. up is obviously cause for concern for the cold-war archi­ Chrysler Corporation plants. lo pry into their alleged po­ The union's contract with the litical beliefs and associations: typed: “The circumstances sur­ The UN Security Council de­ tects in Washington. But it should be warmly greeted rounding the case of M r. Papp company expired June 1, and most refused lo give more than bated whether or not partisans by the American people who have no more stake in the are such that we have decided work has proceeded without their names, one refused to of the United Arab Republic to dismiss him from our em­ plans for war against the Soviet Union than do the people contract since then. The Cor­ give the committee the time of were “infiltrating" across the ploy.” This air view shows the gaping pit left by the acci­ Lebanese borders to add to of the rest of the world. poration's Maywood assembly day, all the witnesses used the W D L STAND dental explosion of eight Nike missiles in Middletown, Chamoun’s woe. But there can plant in California was shut First (free speech) or Fif'.h (no- In fact the American people should reinforce this The Workers Defense League N. J. Seven persons were killed instantly when one of the be no debate over threatened down when 200 workers walk­ ;elf - incrimination) amendment world peace sentiment by demanding that the interna­ protested to CBS: “ so serious missiles exploded end touched off seven more in a chain U.S. intervention into a civil ed off the job. They protested in refusing to answer questions. Because lhey refus’d Jo co­ :n economic reprisal against an reaction. Previously, officials had assured that the set-up war within an Arab country tional netw ork o f U.S. missile bases be dism antled and foremen's reports to the com­ operate wilh the inquisitors, individual who invokes a con­ was accident-proof. and among the Arab people. that the American troops be brought back home. pany against 23 workers who had left their posts to com­ headed by Rep. Morgan Mould­ stitutional privilege will surely plain against a line speed-up er (D-Mo.), Charles Dubin. a di­ render that privilege obsolete.” from 38 to more lhan 40 cars rector at NBC and Joseph Papp, The WDL also urged Papp’s per hour. a siege manaqer at CBS were union to back him up. Cold-Warriors Exploit -Murder of Nagy immediately deprived of their Charles S. Dubin, director of Tom Smith, president of livelihood by the networks. fhe NBC quiz show "Twenty- UAW Local 230 whose mem­ By Herman Chauka jointly sponsored by Hubert succeeded in projecting a pic­ convicted and executed in se­ been so thoroughly condemned. Joseph Papp, stage managei One," "Omnibus" and other TV Humphrey (D-Minn.) and W il­ cret . . . is appalling to us in It was still more disheartening bers work at the plant, said prog^ms refused lo answer Spearheaded by the bi-parii- ture of itself as reasonable and of the Garry Moore TV show another sense. To portray the to find socialists seeking to kill other grievances were also in­ whether he now opposed ihe san cold warriors in Washing­ liam F. K now land (R -C alif.) peace-loving, and of the United “I've Got A Secret” and found­ Hungarian people as ‘unani­ ideas by killing those who hold volved including a three-day Communist Party or knew any ton, world capitalism is utiliz­ hypocritically declared “deep States as belligerent and un­ er-producer of the widely ac­ mous and deeply satisfied' with them .” suspension of chief steward claimed Shakespeare Festival members: "Whatever my differ­ ing its propaganda machine to indignation" at the “barbarism willing to negotiate. . . . The the executions is barbaric John Seko. who led the pro­ was asked by Moulder if hr ences w ith any p o litica l or­ capitalize to the fullest on the and perfidy" of the killing. The United States Information 'DANGEROUS THOUGHTS' journalism. We reject the ar­ test against speed-up and had the opportunity to inject ganization, those are my be- international revulsion and in­ resolution was unanimously Agency is therefore publiciz­ In a dispatch from Britain, gument that comment such as against management attempts communist ideas into his Shake­ ’ iefs." dignation created by the Krem­ adopted by a Congress that has ing the execution of Mr. Nagy Konni Zilliactis, Labor member this may be unw arranted in te r­ to cut down grievance-handling spearean productions. NBC stigmatized Dubin as lin-ordered murder of Imre given billions of dollars with­ and related events by every of Parliament, writes in the time previously allowed lo DID SHAKESPEARE 'unacceptable” on its future out hesitation to aid blood­ possible means." ference in the internal affairs same issue: "In practice, the Nagy in Hungary. plant committeemen. CARRY A CARD? programs. The New York Civil stained despots across the globe. SOCIALIST OPPOSITION of a sovereign state. Such an Soviet. Chinese and other Com­ At his press conference fol­ About 400 members of UAW This evoked a burst of laugh- Liberties Union said NBC’s fir­ W hile pretending horror, U.S. As opposed to the imperialists argument might just as easily munist leaders are, in the long lowing the announcement of the Local 1245 of the Rcdstone- tcr from the spectators in the ing “can only help preserve Mc- politicians could scarcely con­ who seek to exploit the affair have been raised in the fight run, hardly more lik e ly to be execution, Eisenhower, who has Jupitcr missile plant in De­ hearing room and a vigorous C arthyism , it is an indefensible ceal their glee at the manner as a cold-war weapon, increas­ to keep Ethel and Julius Rosen­ successful in stifling ‘danger­ constantly sought to resist troit, struck in protest over ‘■eply from Mr. Papp: “When capitulation lo the committee.” in which the Nagy affair had ing numbers of Soviet partisans berg from going to the electric ous’ thoughts . . . and imposing world pressure for a liquidation company attempts to freeze out -hakespeare says. ‘This above The Woikcrs Defense League offered them a handle to repair have denounced the executions chair . . . limits to freedom in their own of the cold war, was quick to all: to thine own self bo true,' --aid: “ To deprive an Am erican some of their devastated inter­ as gross violation of socialist “The first job is to fight the union through discrimina­ piously declare: “The whole countries than Dulles, Mac­ would that be subversive? His of his job because he lias national prestige. Increasingly, principle. They are convinced against the pessimism being tion in hiring end overtime thing has been a very great millan and the other defenders plays speak for themselves." chosen his constitutional rights in the past several years, m il­ that silence about, or condoning peddled by the hypocrites in procedures. The 400 arc the setback to my hopes . . . I of the old order will be in the A cting outraged. Richard s in th e . most serious sense a lions of people throughout the of, Ihis crime can only encour­ high places . . . as to the only union members out of th in k the whole sense of shock west." Mens, chief counsel and hat- subversive action, for it sub­ world have come to recognize age fu rth e r K re m lin outrages possibility of dealing with about 4.500 working at the to the free world is going to be This reaction by Zilliacis •het man for the com m ittee verts the Constitution.” Today's the U. S. ruling class as the and allow American imperial­ 'those whose hands are stained plant. Picket lines were, placed a very great obstacle to further seemed to express a general “lustcred: “No suggestion has New York Times attacked the reel source of the war danger. ism to capitalize on the crimes with blood.’ All hands are at 16 entrances to plant park­ [summtt negotiations!.” seething indignation in the Bri­ been made here that William hearings editorially, question­ Its claims of defending freedom for its own reactionary, anti- stained with blood — whether ing lots, causing a traffic jam tish labor and radical move­ Shakespeare promoted a Cnm- ing whether its purpose was to SELWYN LLOYD SMIRKS everywhere have rung hollow Soviet objectives. they have triggered napalm which backed cars up for a ment. The most dramatic re­ nunist line. You are trying to “undermine . . . liberalism in In Great Britain, where the to these millions because of the bombs in Korea, electric tor­ mile or more in the area. In this country, the pro-so­ flection of this sentiment came 'wist the questions to make it thought and speech . . . perse­ brutal suppression of Negro Tory government has also stub­ cialist weekly, the National ture in Algeria or in the rifles when Arthur Horner, a long­ The strikers have refused the appear that Shakespeare might cuting people for holding radi­ bornly bucked strong popular rights in America. G uardian, in its June 23 issue, of a firing squad in Buda­ time Stalinist die-hard in the request of their local president, Re listed as a subversive.” cal beliefs?” pressure for summit negotia­ According to a June 25 declared editorially: “. . . we pest. . . .” British Communist Party lead­ Milan Matich,. to return to Papp was asked "If commun­ No House Un-Amei icon Ac­ tions, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Washington dispatch to the can only regard the execution An article by staff writer ership, and general-secretary of work. The union’s Chrysler de­ ism is not subversive, w hy is tivities Committee performance Lloyd cynically asserted: “Our New York Timos, "United of Imre Nagy and his colleagues Elmer Beridincr on “The the National Union of Mine- partment, temporarily under it wrong to name them?" His is complete without “expert” caution ts now, perhaps, a little States government specialists in the October uprising as 'Crimes’ for which Imre Nagy workers. vigorously assailed the the direction of Waller P. ready reply was: "There is a testimony from a professional better understood." believe the execution . . . may shocking and appalling. We was killed” declares in part: execution in public statements. Reuther, UAW president, order­ blacklisting in industry which informer. John Lautner, one of Back in the U. S., both have turned the tables in the have long campaigned against "It was dismaying to find the "This is horrifying, absolute­ ed the workers IfSek on the keeps people from working and the highest paid "talents” in houses of Congress joined in East-West propaganda war in the death sentence and political socialist countries still using ly horrifying," Horner is re­ jobs. Emil Mazey, secrclary- this is te rrib ly u n fa ir." the fingering world discussed seizing on the execution as a i favor of the West.” death sentences certainly seem the methods of secret trial and ported as declaring. "I can't lreasurer of the UAW , has After the "hearing” Pcpp re­ the “wad and see communists, new stick for pounding the “In many areas," the special­ to us no exception. That the secret executions after the 'ex­ keep quiet any longer." Stating threatened to place an admin­ ported for work at CBS. A su­ who have technical dilLerences, anti-Soviet drum. A resolution ists note, “the Soviet Union men should have been tried, cesses' o f earlier years had (Continued on Page J J istrator in charge of the local. perior handed him a plain (Continued on Page 4) Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, June 2G, 1958 'State - Depa rt men t They Favor a Full Socialist Slate this conference. It is the cul­ meetings in the early part of U.S. Senator — and the ques­ Socialists' Fuse (We print below excerpts mination of what we, along 1957 with the purpose of re­ tion of a full ticket including from speeches by. three mem­ with many others, have been sumption of independent po­ especially a candidate for gov­ By Frances James bers of the presiding com­ working for. For this is a high­ litical action at some level. . . . ernor, it was the considered mittee at the United Indepen­ ly important conference. Much At the beginning of this year, opinion of tire sponsoring com­ dent-Socialist Election Confer­ depends upon tire outcome of I The Socialisl Party-Social Democratic Federation at its my two colleagues resumed mittee that if the effort under­ ence, held in New York, June this first serious attempt to national convention. May 31-June 3, finally decided to recognize these conferences hoping to taken for one candidate were 13-15. Speeches by H enry unite the left in a socialist that the Independent Socialisl League is acceptable in the lead to independent political undertaken for all the candi­ Abrams, a co-chairman of the campaign. We face an im­ circle of "democratic socialists." The majority resolution on action. To the meetings were dates, | it would] thereby pro­ conference, and by Muriel Mc- portant test this weekend — unity recommended taking the ISL membership into the party- invited a wide spectrum of in­ vide the voters of the state for Avoy were made at the open­ tlie test of whether or not the federation. (Final decision on unity was referred to a national dividuals, fas well asl mem­ fu tu re use, if they so desired, ing session, Friday, June 13. le ft is yet ready to jo in in membership referendum.) bers and leaders of the Com­ with a political instrument of John T. McManus' speech came bringing our beliefs before the By “democratic socialist” these people mean lending “so­ munist Party, the Socialist their own, independent of the al the Saturday m orning ses­ people of this state. Of whether, cialist” cover to a pro-State-Department program. The SP-SDF Workers Party, the Socialist machine parties, devoted to the sion in presentation of the pre­ in spite of varying points of 1957 convention resolution demanded “no appeasement of the Labor Party and rank-and-file development of a socialist pro­ siding committee's recommen­ view, we can join to challenge Communist imperialism" and came out for "democratically members of the Socialist Party gram for this country, inviting dation that the conference established military agencies” to “guard against the military the two old-party machines and many others. . . . — not rejecting — the partici­ drive of the Communist dictators." nominate a full slale of can­ head-on. Of whether we can pation and concurrence of all The 1958 convention resolution contains essentially the didates for slale offices.—Ed.) say to Tammany Hall as well In discussing what would go the socialist groupings in the same program and is touted as the means “to restore world­ . ______* as to Big Business, “You shall into the call and what would state. not have our connivance in be taken up at this conference, wide confidence in our American concern for peace.” DISRESPECT FOR VOTERS Essentially the same line is presented in an article, “For your lies to the people of New the sponsoring committee felt A Democratic Foreign Policy" printed in the May 19 Labor Muriel McAvoy York State.” . . . that there was overwhelming 1 now cite my own opinion Action, newspaper of the ISL. It criticizes the State Department We will vote tomorrow on proof that the machine parties . . . that a lesser effort — an for its “negative anti-communism" and complains that “the We are meeting here tonight, matters as to whether or not had no difference on brink-of- effort for example to seek to Struggles of the subjugated peoples of Eastern Europe for free­ typically enough, to launch a we will have a full ticket, of war world positions and neither put a single candidate on the dom from the Stalinist empire” have not resulted in their new venture. Some of us are which we all share the honor could or would establish the ballot, that for U. S. Senator — “flocking to SLpport of U. S.” It complains further that “Even strangers who have never as well as the hard work be­ rights of the Negro people, the in effect has embodied in it a at the time of the great crisis in the Stalinist empire — worked together on a common fore us. Is it possible that even Puerto Rican people, the Mexi­ kind of disrespect for the in­ Hungary — American policy was helpless to exploit the crisis." project. Some of us are old now, even here, a majority will Muriel G. McAvoy and John T. McManus were mem­ can people or others making dependent voter in the state. The ISLers do not fighl American Big Business as the source friends. Some of us are old vote to sit out this campaign bers of the presiding Committee al ttfe United Independent- up our country’s population to It is as if to say th a t we do of the war danger, but oppose its policies as not effective enemies. We have all been except perhaps in one or two Socialist Election Conference held in New York June equal participation in the not dare or venture to put be­ enough in combatting what they consider to be the main through a period of defeat and Congressional districts? Or to 13-15. Mrs. McAvoy was an early organizer for the Pro­ bounty and wealth which their fore the independent voter an danger in the world — namely, the Soviet Union. of confusion, doubt and dis­ reduce the campaign to a mild gressive Party. McManus is general manager of the Na­ labor produces and in the free­ opportunity to dislodge either The June 16 Labor Action pretends that the 1958 SP-SDF trust. Probably all of us at one protest that will not offend the tional Guardian. dom which should be enjoyed one or the other political ma­ position is a development to the left from that of 1957 — a time or another have been Democratic Party? equally by all. chine from power because he guilty of bad temper, and hot “change from one spirit to another, totally different in tone." I have of course, thought a< 1958 election give the voter in We believe that the people of HARRIMAN RECORD m ig h t use it, [because] he The ISL needs to claim a "change” in the SP-SDF program to words. Probably all too many great deal rdbently about what might create a political instru­ of us have been equally guilty New York State a chance not our state deserve a better Both machine parties have help justify its dissolution into the SP-SDF. Actually, the only my husband would have only to express his dissatisfac­ choice than a Rockefeller or a been and are now parties of ment to unbalance the present noteworthy change is the acceptance by the SP-SDF of the of not having fought hard thought of this conference. But machine balance in the state. enough for what we believed tion with the two major par­ Harriman. . . . the witch hunt. This is specific­ ISL’s pledge to dissolve its organization, put its paper, Labor I think none of us who knew Therefore it seems to me that in. ties and their Liberal Party In California, the Holland ally true of the present Demo­ Action, and its magazine, New International, at the disposal Cliff and worked with him the effort required to put on We have all spent, in the replica but also to cast a posi­ Roberts campaign proves that cratic governor, Averell Harri­ of the party-federation and work loyally for the program of could re a lly doubt that he a campaign such as we would last few years, a great deal of tive vote on the great issues it can be done. Let us show man. It is also true of Harri­ State-Department socialism. would have expected and want­ that face us. . . . our brothers in California that man that he was one of the lik e to put on should not be time at forums and symposiums, ed us to be here tonight. As To clear up any misunder­ New York can do it too. earliest architects of the cold limited to a single candidate discussing with people of dif­ well as most people, Cliff standing sis to our purpose, we In closing, let me repeat thal w ar and that he has used the as has been proposed but ISL Electoral Policy ferent views where we’ve gone knew the self-sacrifice that are not trying to build a farm­ we are not here to settle long­ position of the office to which should be devoted to p u ttin g wrong in the past, whgt dif­ goes into such an effort as the er-labor party. There is no sign standing doctrinal disputes. If he was elected w ith the votes on the ballot Alternatives that To advocate a "democratic foreign policy,” ISL style, means ferent things we should do in realization of a meeting like that this is a realizable goal for anyone insists that he is the of independents and by the to advocate “democratic socialism” at home, too — Democratic tire future. I think that many this. Specific tactical errors 1 the voters of the state can be 1958. Nor ere we try in g to sole repository of political wis­ slimmest of margins to oppose Party "socialism," that is. For a number of years, the ISL has of us here to night feel we am sure he w ould forgive us trusted to use w ith the great should continue this debate form a new ideological party dom, he will not serve the best a summit meeting and a com­ ceased to consider socialist electoral activity as an important B ut he w ould expect us to try wisdom they have always of socialism. We are trying to interests of this conference. But ing to an understanding for function of the socialist movement. Instead, it has advocated about why we differ, but we to do all we can, to fight as if everyone approaches our peaceful competition between shown, and this goes especially activity within such organizations as Americans for Democratic should also act on the basis of create, however, for those who hard as we can, to keep at it. problems with tolerance, for the reigning social systems in Action, the Liberal Party in New York and the AFL-CIO‘s the many points on which we have a basic agreement that for the independent voters. For if this conference fails views of others and with a the world. He is a banker and COPE even though the major attention of these organizations are in agreement. For this is a our country would enjoy a hap­ in doing what it was called to flexibility designed to reach an a capitalist, and he has not has been on electioneering for Democratic Party candidates. time of mounting unemploy­ pier, a more peaceful and more do, if it is beguiled down the agreement we can present the been a traitor to his class. He As a result, in June 1957, the ISL adopted the policy of ment and social stress. And fruitful life under socialism, primrose path of coalition, let platform that not only gives is furtherm ore a true and u n ­ not placing themselves "in the position of campaigning among the mushroom shaped clouds an organization where such London Bus are still hanging over the hori­ us face the fact that this will people — regardless of doc­ immediate answers but also be­ yielding anti-Soviet, unlike workers to reject the advice of their unioni in the midst of a be a serious setback for us. zon. This is a time when the trinaire differences of past dec­ gins to indicate the only last­ some at this conference who political campaign." Concretely, the ISL holds that if the union If we fail, we disappoint peo­ Strike Settled American people need to have ades — can act in concert ing cure for the nation's prob­ have been accused of this in leaders say "Vote for Mr. Democrat," socialists should not ple all across the country who JUNE 20 — The strike of pointed out to them the solu­ around issues on w hich a ll can lems — socialism...... some of the pre-conference reply by saying "Do not vole for Mr. Democrat." are watching with eager hope. 50,000 London bus drivers tion that socialism offers to the agree, leaving them free to dis­ polemics in our le ft press. The electoral policy adopted by the recent SP-SDF con­ If we fail, we prejudice efforts came to an end today afler problems that we all face. cuss their differences in some Correctly, I believe, assum­ vention endorses participation in, primary elections of the cap­ nearly seven weeks of strug­ AN IMPORTANT TEST for some time to come, and other medium. ing this situation in the mS- italist parties — with the convention discussion emphasizing cast a shadow for forthcoming gle. A bout 36,000 men w ill And there is no better way The committee in *the course John T. ehine parties, the sponsoring particularly the Democratic Party. The objection raised by election years. And so we must receive an increase of $1.19 to reach Americans, no other of the conference will submit committee turned to the ques­ the ISLers is not that this violates the principle of working not fail to achieve our goal for a week, alloied in arbitra­ way half as good, really, than seme proposals arrived at with tion of how to challenge the class political independence. They object to socialists trying a full ticket of independent- McManus tion before the strike. A new through the medium of the old- substantially unanimous con­ machines. All arguments were to run in the primaries as socialists. Labor Action-is for getting socialist candidates. concession won will be a fashioned radical election cam­ For the benefit of the many aired. But the final unanimous into Democratic Party politics in support of the AFL-CIO sent. Matters on which no such pay rise, unspecified as yel, paign. We in the Socialist who may not know the genesis view was that the machine par­ bureaucracy’s maneuvering rather than “finding some new consent was forthcoming were for 700 drivers. In addition Unity Forum, of which my hus­ of this effort [the United In­ ties must be challenged where device” for the SP-SDF’s own electoral activity. With this discarded. We proposed to chal­ the pay of* other drivers and band was chairman, have long dependent-Socialist Confer­ it hurts, where the contest be­ line the ISLers find themselves supporting the right-wing of lenge the two major parties at conductors will be reviewed stubbornly believed in two Henry Abrams ence], my tempo Ary co-chair­ tween them is close, and whore the SP-SDF in the electoral policy debate the polls with a socialist- for "an upward trend in things: in independent political Friends, we are gathered man, Mr. Henry Abrams and the independent voter holds the As can be seen, it isn’t lack of political agreement that oriented platform, with hard­ wage levels." Settlement of action and in socialist unity. here tonight and over the Mr. Morris Goldin, former ex­ balance of power. . . . Held up formal unity of the ISL and the SP-SDF. It was the hitting planks on immediate is­ a London dockworkers strike We are proud and happy to­ weekend to reach an agree- ecutive officer of the American question of renunciation of “Leninism.” Those in the SP-SDF sues. The fu tu re of these pro­ In considering a single can­ is expected soon. who opposed admission of the ISLers held that the ISL has night to see the launching of meifl as to how we can in the posals rests on your decision. Labor Party, began to call didate — say for the post of not sufficiently repudiated Lenin, especially his conception of the character and role of a revolutionary party in the struggle for workers power. The majority held that the ISL has proved in action that it is anti-Leninist and that it can • • • CP Opposes United Socialist Election Policy work in “comradely harmony with social democracy.” The ISL began its break with revolutionary socialism when (Continued from Page 1) view of the labor bureaucracy politicians. The break with this “For Hillman, the first and mating capilalisl-parly candi­ round out ihe score. its tendency, led by Max Shachtman, split with the Socialist a new party truly committed to since 1936. principle Leon Trotsky cialism .” collaboration is today known timent for independent work­ people . . . Many pf the union when other forces pressed suc­ people to the need for a break and the SWP predicted at that time that their break with the In fact, Hathaway grandly officially as the "people’s anti- ing class political action. On members, especially in New cessfully for independent can­ with the two-party system has first workers’ state would lead them to abandon class-struggle promises, "By the Left staying monopoly coalition." In 1936. the contrary, such sentiment York and Chicago, had grown didacies, the CP leadership gave been equally dismal. The wide politics and head them into the camp of social-democratic re­ with . .. stich progressive forces lhe same course was pursued was at its peak in the 1936-40 up in the tradition of support­ formal endorsement while ac­ socialist sentiment of the 1930’s formism. They have arrived at this point in their political . . , substantial progress could under the title of "people's period. ing the Socialist party, at least tually throwing their votes to has been largely dissipated, evolution. They have proved to the satisfaction of the majority be made this year and by 1960 front" or "popular front." How In fact it was so deeply im­ locally and shunning our Tam­ the Democrats. The bid bv and the strong rank-and-file of the SP-SDF convention delegates that they are full-fledged lhe forces of progress and So­ well has it worked up to now? bedded that in New York it many Halls.” Clifford T. McAvoy for Mayor demands of that period in the social democrats. The SP-SDF referendum is expected to ap­ cialism could be a real power.” The CP’s adoption of that was necessary to line up radic­ Did the CP leadership view in 1953 and John T. McManus UAW and other unions for a prove the unity. NOTHING NEW policy in 1936, coinciding with al votes for the Democratic the founding of the ALP any fo r G overnor in 1954 are cases labor party lias also been beat­ Before examining this prom- a similar turn by the right- party by forming a new or­ differently? Not according to in point. en down. sory note, it is worth getting wing of the Socialist Party, ganization— the American La­ an article in the May 1954 Po­ In all basic respects, the CP This 22-year period of the :he facts straight about the marked a qualitative change in bor Party. litical Affairs by Jonathan attitude toward the Progressive stifling of the consciousness of “new” incipient demand by the state of the radical move­ While many in the ALP saw Swift which states in equally party was the same. Originally the working class clearly dic­ N a t 7 Re vie w Publisher labor for a greater voice in ment. W hat happened. in es­ the new organization as the candid fashion that the ALP it viewed thé PP as a means tates not a course of more of lhe Democratic party, The fact sence is that these tendencies first step toward a national la­ was so organized “that it en­ of bringing pressure on fhe the same but a complete break •s that the labor movement—or swung behind the official la­ bor party, this was by no abled the independent voters in Democratic party through the by all those who are serious Wriggles Out ofDebate more precisely, its top leaders bor leadership which had en­ means the views of its initia­ New York to form a new party candidacy of Henry Wallace, about building a socialist move­ —have been making this de­ tered into a coalition with the tors who included Sidney H ill­ without thereby endangering who, like all other capitalist ment. The socialist movement mand for more than 20 years. Northern wing of the Demo­ man of the Amalgamated the election of those major politicans, q u ic k ly proved he NEW YORK, June 20 — The Socialist Party-Social has the opportunity of again They have responded to every cratic partv as part of the Clothing Workers, David Du- party candidates who . . . still had no -intention of turning becoming a meaningful force Democratic Federation last night cooperated with the oroposal for independent poli­ “New Deal.” binsky of the International La­ deserved support. In practice against his class. in this country. Bui experience ultra-rightist National Review against other socialists to tical action with the argument The CP - Social - Democratic dies’ Garment Workers ’as well this performed the function of After Wallace’s desertion, the shows that it won't do it in the keep a spokesman for the anti-4------;------that this would isolate the turn came as a sharp break as many union leaders who fol­ delivering an even larger vote CP leaders rejected the argu­ Democratic party. labor extremist magazine off ordinary tests of intellec unions politically and that the with the long established tradi­ lowed the line of the CP. to tHe Dem ocratic party Presi­ ment that, since those remain­ a socialist platform. The Young tual candor, I regretfully de­ only realistic course is to try tion of the radical movement. That Hillman saw the ALP dential, state and Congressional ing in the PP were virtually all Socialist, a monthly published cline to debate at all. 'William to gain greater influence within Previously, regardless of all as a device for corailing other­ tickets." pro-socialist, it should adopt a at 144 Second Avenue, Man­ Rusher.” the Democratic party. And. ap­ other differences, the move­ wise unavailable votes for From the outset the ALP ran pro-socialist program. By the Stalin's School hattan, had scheduled a de­ Mr. Friedman verified by pearances in certain brief pe­ ment was united on the ele­ Dem ocratic nominees is candid­ a minimum number of inde­ time of the 1952 presidential bate between its editor, Tim telephone that Mr. Rusher had riods notwithstanding, the CP mentary principle that social­ ly explained by his biographer. pendent candidates for top city campaign for Vincent Hallinan. Of Quotations Wohlforth. and William Rusher, quoted him correctly. leadership has promoted this ists did not support capitalist Matthew Josephson, who wrote: and state offices, mainly nom- the CP had lost all enthusiasm Both Clarence Hathaway publisher ol the National Re­ for the PP because it failed to The debate was nonetheless and Arnold Johnson try to view, on the subject: "Which held, with a chair on the plat­ hold the capitalist elements smear independent sponsors Road for .France: Gaullism or form left open for any who represented by Wallace and of the united independent- Socialism?” Rusher backed out cared to defend the Gaullist gave but token support to Hal- The Worker’s Report of N.Y. Conference Mnan w hile again hustling socialist ticket as linked with of the debate at the last min­ point of view. "anti - Soviet Trotskyites." ute with the endorsement of The m eeting’s chairman, votes for the Democrats with The June 22 issue of the ciation with all those who want the attendance, with leaders that the decision had closed the double-talking slogan that Johnson goes so fa r as to the SP-SDF’s state chairman Richard DeHaan, member of Worker carries an account by such unity.” and members of the Communist the door on further discussion.” the Republicans were the “main make the vile charge that in and the editor of the Socialist the Young Socialisl Editorial Tlie Worker then infers that Party, Socialist Workers Party However, as the Worker it­ danger.” Shortly afterward the the SWP program "one finds Call. Board and chairman of the Erik Bert of the United Inde­ the possibility of achieving and Young Socialisl Alliance self reports further down, the CP leadership decided the PP the infamous, 'Project X' and Rusher sent a telegram to Young Socialist Alliance, read pendent-Socialist Election Con­ unity with the CP in the cam­ estimated to make up the conference took a clear-cut experience was a “left-sectar­ Allen Dulles' program!" As the meeting at the Great a statement including the fol­ ference held in New York. paign was cut off when the rest.") stand in favor of keeping the ian” adventure, moved in to "proof." he offers the fol­ Northern Hotel reading: “I ac­ lowing: “On May 28, more than June 13-15. The article seeks conference registered its stand door open to negotiations with scuttle it along with the ALP, lowing: "This Socialisl cepted the invitation of the three weeks ago, James R obert­ Before that the Worker ar­ to portray the conference as in favor of a full ticket rather the CP and others to enlist and announced the need for W orkers P arty placed an ad Young Socialist to debate this son. Business Manager of the ticle states: “The conference, one where the Communist than a single candidate on a their support for the campaign. concentrating on the Demo­ in the National Guardian evening under the impression Young Socialisl, and myself, however, went on record for a Party fought for socialist unity platform limited to the peace In electing a continuations cratic Party to build the “anti- calling for a United Social­ that it was an organization ap­ met with Mr. Rusher in his fell slate of candidates . . . on in the coming New York elec­ issue such as the CP had urged. committee, the conference voted monopoly coalition.” isl Ticket and listed planks proved by the Socialist Party, office, subsequent to a tele­ a ‘socialist’ program. It thus in tion campaign but was defeat­ unanimously that the committee The result of this 22-year ex­ including 'aid to the coun­ with which I violently disagree phoned proposal from us for The Worker says that "The effect closed the door on the ed in its endeavors. Headlined, be empowered to add to its perience in "coalition” politics tries of the Soviet orbit who but whose good faith 1 have this debate . . . die was cast Friday night in further discussion the Commu­ "CP presses for Unity of Left own membership and to “ex­ is painfully clear. From the are fighting for their free­ never questioned. 1 have now the opening session when Vin­ nist Party had urged.” “Rusher asked specifically at N. Y. Election Conference," plore all avenues of enlisting time when the New Deal turn­ dom.' " been advised, however, by Sam­ whether we had any connec­ cent Hallinan . . . urged a full the article opens with the The crucial point of the con­ the participation of additional ed into the w ar deal in 1938. This is the text of the uel Friedman, the state chair­ tion with the Socialist Party- slate of candidates on a ‘so­ statement: "Unity of lhe left ference, according to the Work­ socialist and independent for­ labor has not won a single plank as it appeared in the man of the Socialist Party, and Social Democratic Federation. I cialist’ ticket and launched a on a minimum basis in the er report, came when the dele­ ces in a united independent- major piece of progressive so­ Feb. 3 National Guardian: Herman Singer, the editor of specifically replied that we did bitter attack on the Communist 1958 New York election cam­ gates voted against an amend­ socialist campaign.” cial legislation. But it did get "Replace the bi-partisan, the Socialisl Call, that the not. Indeed, so emphatic was Party.” And again “A heavy paign was urged strongly, but ment that would have avoided If, as the W orker seems to Taft-Hart.ley and the current cold-war, imperialist foreign Young Socialist is not approved my reply, that Rusher felt concentration of Trotskyites in vain, by the Communist registering the stand of the say, the door is really closed to anti-labor drive. With the sup­ policy of the Democrats and by the Socialist Party and in obliged to comment on it. When among the participants was the Party. . . ." conference on whether to fun u n ity, it is the Communist port of the labor leadership in Republicans with a socialist fact has no greater claim to I spoke to Rusher on the phone decisive factor in closing the The report quotes party lead­ a full state ticket or only one Parly leaders who have closed its vest pocket, the northern policy of friendship and aid the name ‘socialist’ than the a little while ago, he could not door on unity of the left in er Benjamip Davis’ statement to candidate. The Worker says: it. This, notwithstanding Ben­ liberal wing of the Democratic to the countries of the Soviet Communist Party or the Na- manage to recall this incident.” the campaign." the conference that “Regard­ “Following defeat of the jamin Davis' statement that party has felt free to continue orbit and ihe colonial peo­ tional Socialist of Germany. Prof. Saul K. Padover, sched­ less of the outcome o f the (The June 23 National Guard­ amendment a Communist the Communist Party would its alliance with the Dixiecrats ples of Asia, Africa and Accordingly, rather than par­ uled moderator of the debate, conference, the Communist ian estimated the conference spokesman reiterating the po­ work for unity of the Left "re­ thus blocking the movement Latin America who are light­ ticipate in a debate that can­ also absented himself after con­ Party would continue to fight composition as follows: "Inde­ sition presented earlier by Ben­ gardless of the outcome of the for civil rights. Korea, the ing for their freedom." not be depended upon to meet sultation with Mr. Rusher. for unity of the Left in asso­ pendent« made up some 300 of jamin J. Davis . . . indicated conference." cold war and the witch hunt Monday, Juna 30, 1958 T H E MILITANT Pag» Three

Subscription: $3 per year; _ . - Signed article* by con* $1.50 fo r 6 month* For- \ JUl MM M tk A f MM tributor. do not ntcM .arlly THE m lLITANT London Busmen Prevail Over Strike-Breaking for 6 month*. Canadian: * »»d In lta editorial». $3.50 per year; $1.75 for 6 By Philip Maghri working class that they mean Negotiations dragged out over Fleet Street”) opened a vicious month. Bundle order»- 5 Publl.hed Weekly In the Interest» of the Working People "Entered a. .econd cla». business. They found that the months and months, the bus­ campaign agaisnt the “leftist” , . THE MILITANT PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION matter March 7. 1944 at the LONDON, June 20 — In an or more cop.ea 6c each In llfl Univeri„ y p, _ N y 3, N.y. Phone: xL s.74eo Post office at New y o rk , ur.precendented display of in­ working class could get tough, men gradually reducing their leader Rf the TGWU, Frank Paratroopers U.S.: 7c each in foreign Editor: DANIEL • ROBERTS N.Y.. under tho act of dependence and militancy, the too. demand to 10‘/ 2 shillings ($1.47) Cousins, and against the bus­ countries. Business Manager: BEATRICE ALLEN M arch 3, 1879.” 50.000 London bus workers who MODEST DEMAND a week, just 3% cents an hour, men. This didn't disturb them, Active they knew what to expect. As have been on strike for six More than nine months ago the LTE repeating, "We don’t Fascists forces in France Vol. X X II — No. 26 Monday, June 30, 1958 one militant bus driver put it, weeks have rejected a proposal the busmen put in their claim have any money.” Finally, the have stepped up their anti- “All 1 want from the Tory by their official leadership to for a 25 shilling ($3^0) a week question was referred to the labor provocations. On June press is vilification and slan­ return to work on terms scarce­ increase. This very modest mediation of a government-ap­ 17 paratroopers in. the Py-. der.” The scab buses, too, were ly better than those offered be­ amount would only partly make pointed "Industrial Court.” The renean town of Pau sacked an occasion for ridicule, not Hungary: 1. Where's the Proof? fore the strike began. Their up for the loss in real wages “Court” proposed a settlement the office of a labor organi­ w orry. strike remains solid and this due to the inflation and would g ivin g 36,000 C entral London zation and installed a "Com­ A communique by the official Hun­ “proof” boils down to mere assertion by The government had far more sprawling metropolis remains only narrow the gap between drivers and conductors three mittee of Public Safety." On garian news agency announced the execu­ the executioners. serious weapons, and it has without bus service except for the wages of busmen and those cents an hour, and giving noth­ June 19. 200 soldiers pre­ used them to the full. Sir John tions of Nagy. Maleter et al, and detailed Merely by literary evidence some of a few near-empty scab buses of industrial workers. ing at all to the suburban driv­ vented a Committee of Re­ Elliot said he was willing to charges of subversion, treason, conspiracy the accusations in the communique have being run by an organization Nevertheless, the "publicly ers and maintenance workers. publican and Anti-Fascist let the strike last till Christ­ with fascist and imperialist elements, etc., already been disproved. Allegedly “secret jocularly calling itself the "Peo­ owned" London Transport Ex­ Even this measly increase was Defense from placing a, mas — a long time for strikers ple's League for The Defense ecutive (an exact British coun­ to be taken out of the workers’ wreath on a war memorial etc. ad nauseam, of which they had been documents” written by Nagy in 1955 and to keep their families on three of Freedorq." terpart of the New York Tran­ hides in the form of “econo­ just south of Paris. On June found guilty. 1956 are cited as1 calls to overthrow pounds ($8.40) a week strike This long and bitter fight sit Authority) opposed a stony mies" (i.e., speed-up and wor­ 20 explosions in Toulouse But who can believe in the truth of “people’s democracy” and piece Hungary pay. And this was no empty was forced upon the busmen by refusal to the busmen's plea. sened conditions). damaged three buildings that threat. By adding extra cars the charges or the justice of the verdict? “in the hands of the imperialists.” Far the Tory government, acting as "We don't have any money for STRIKE OR SURRENDER housed an anti-fascist news­ to its subway trains the LTE The trial was secret! (A fact that the from being secret, these documents were the militant leader of the Bri­ a wage increase," they inces­ Faced with this insolent pro­ paper and anti-fascist or­ has been able to handle most tish capitalist class. G overn­ santly repeated. And to under­ vocation, the workers could ganizations. Broadcasts from Worker article (June 22) reporting the originally circulated by Nagy ,in the two of the normal London traffic ment policy is to cut the living line the desperate financial only strike or capitulate. They the Algerian Public Safety executions “ neglected” to mention.) years preceding the October 1956 Revo­ and make up much of its loss standards of the workers by plight of the LTE, Chairman chose solidly to strike, with the Committees, June 21, called After the Moscow Trials, after the lution to all the members of the Central in revenue. freezing wages while prices Sir John Elliot and the other official support of their union, for a press boycott of "sub­ The only thing the govern­ Rajk, Slansky. Kostov frame-ups in East Committee of the Hungarian Communist continue to rise. Their aim in seven members voted them-, the giant .Transport and Gen­ versive minorities" and asked ment had to fear was the ex­ Europe, after the “irrefutable” evidence Party. Their meaning, when put back in resisting the bus strike so ten­ selves wage increases amount­ eral Workers Union. The Tory each Frenchman to "make tension of the strike to the of the Jewish Doctors’ Plot repudiated at context, is not what the communique pre­ aciously has not been to save ing to 8,500 pounds ($23.800) a government was prepared for of France a water in which a fight. Its kept press (called subway workers. If both rail a few hundred thousand year, retroactive to the pre­ the 'Red fish' w ill be asphyx­ the last moment, and after the Khrush­ tends, as any person can readily verify and bus services were shut pounds, but to show the entire vious July, collectively “The Harlot of iated." chev revelations, could any politically since they have been available for a year down, the LTE would be forced conscious worker anywhere in the world in the book “Imre Nagy on Communism.” to its knees. Against this threat, help but scrutinize carefully a political (Published in New York by F. Praeger.) Paris Fascists Demonstrate the government had to call on and end the strike right away. The result was last week’s set­ trial in the Sdviet orbit? Such suspicion Why did the Kremlin prefer a secret its “loyal opponents,” the trade- union officials. First the rail­ tlement proposal, accepted by would be justified in the case of a public to a show trial? Certainly one important way union bureaucrats were Cousins and the delegate con­ trial. What could then be a greater ad­ reason was the memory of Poznan. The bought off with a 3% increase ference. The Central London mission of frame-up on the part of the trial of the Poznan rioters was prepared for the subway workers — busmen were to get the origi­ Kremlin and its stooge regime in Hun­ by official statements about “provocateur even less than the busmen nal three-cent an hour offer, tl>e suburban drivers and mainten­ gary than a secret trial? imperialist agents in the pay of foreign were offered and also to be paid for by “economies.” ance men were to get an in­ Towards the end of the communique governments” and defendants who “had Then the Trades Union Con­ crease whose size would be de­ from Budapest detailing the “crimes” of been inspired by foreign sources hostile gress, while giving verbal sup­ termined unilaterally by the Nagy and the others this paragraph ap­ to Poland.” But in the courtroom the port to the busmen, strongly LTE several weeks after the pears: “All this has been proved by ir­ frame-up fell to pieces: confessions were opposed extension of the strike. strike was over. refutable evidence in the course of sub­ repudiated, the foreign agent and foreign (This convinced some busmen SURPRISE FOR BOSSES that the initials TUC should The T o ry press greeted th^9 sequent investigations and at the present inspiration charges shown to be flimsy stand for “Traitors, Underlings, trial.” On the contrary not one thing has fabrications. Since the frame-up of Nagy agreement with exultant head­ Cowards,” or “Tory Union lines — “Busmen Surrender,- been proved. It may well be that the and the others was basically the same as Council.” Another cause for “Strike Crumbles.” Sure of its defendants effectively disproved the the unsuccessful one against the Poznan workers’ scorn was the num­ victory, the LTE posted notices charges; or that they had no opportunity rioters, the Kremlin wisely decided on a ber of knights and candidates of new and harder work sched­ to cross-examine their accusers; or even secret trial — hiding even the date from for knighthood on the TUC — ules in the garages. The first “they seem more loyal to the that no trial actually was held. The the Hungarian and world public. garages to vote showed a heavy bosses than to the w orkers lead in favor of a return to they are supposed to represent,” work. And then the tide turn­ one driver said.) ed. Only after 100 garages had 2. Dulles Gets An Assist COUSINS GIVES IN voted did the “no’s” get the As loathsome as vultures circling a of the workers and which is historically The official leader of the lead, but the trend piled up to human corpse is the sight of Secretary of progressive. strike, Frank Cousins, wavered a 64-54 m a jo rity , m any gar­ State Dulles and other imperialist spokes­ At the same time class-conscious for a time and then he too gave ages rejecting the agreement in to TUC pressure and op­ by near-u n a n i m o u s votes. men running around flapping their arms workers try to throw out privileged bu­ Scene above shows fascists in Paris on May 17 as they marched on the French Na­ posed extension of the strike “ SWbek,” “ Sensation,” cried the in pretended grief at the deaths of Nagy reaucrats who have usurped control of the to other sections of the TGWU, tional Assembly. This assault followed close on the heels of the successful coup in Algeria Tory press. Papers which once and Maleter. The true unconcern of cap­ union and to restore it to the rank-and- notably oil-truck drivers and denounced Cousins for drag­ of the "Committees of Public Safety." The derponstrators demanded war to the end against italist rulers over frame-ups and human file. This is not merely an optional task subway powerhouse workers. ging “unwilling” busmen into lives is symbolized by the graves of theix but a fundamental necessity. the Moslem population's national independence revolution. He Succeeded in blocking this a strike now denounced him extension by a narrow ma­ for letting the busmen vote on victims in every land (here at home' from The Russian Revolution may be com­ jority of the busmen’s delegate the settlement offer. Given the. Haymarket martyrs, Satco ancfVan- pared to a trade union winning state conference only because of his their chance in a democratic zetti down to the Rosenber^s) as well as power. Under Lenin and Trotsky there immense personal prestige vote, the workers had pro­ by the mountains of corpses of Hiroshima, was workers’ democracy. External and among the strikers. duced a tremendous surprise, Nagasaki. Korea and Algeria. internal difficulties resulted in a degen­ What Is DeCäullism? Abandoned by the enthre of­ overruling a leadership which ficial union leadership (includ­ had enjoyed their complete eration of the workers’ state and the rank That the perpetrators and accomp­ —— By Trent Huiter — — — —— ing the "Communist" leaders of confidence in order to continue lices of such wholesale murder are now and file were stripped of political rights. the Electrical Trades Union) a bitter strike. able to derive world-wide political ad­ No# the rank and file are beginning to (Trent Hutter has been a (3) In the broadest sense, de let us not forget that the Span­ the busmen nevertheless got At this moment a new set­ ish Republic meant something vantage for their cold-war plans and H- stir and exert pressures for cleaning up close student of European poli­ Gaulle is undoubtedly the agent powerful help — indirect aid tlement proposal has been ne­ of the French capitalist class. to the workers. It had intro­ from the successful dockers' gotiated, and seems certain to the organization and restoring internal tics for 25 years. The follow­ bomb diplomacy is devastating evidence This does not mean he is any­ duced important social reforms, strike against scab labor (to be democracy. be accepted by the busmen. It of the terrible cost of the Kremlin bu­ ing is a letter to the Militant one’s puppet. He is and has al­ while the Fourth Republic reported on in next week's is clearly an advance ovei* the reaucracy to the Soviet Union and to the The Kremlin’s denial of the most ele­ setting forth his views on de ways been a very independent gave the workers little more Militant) and direct help from rejected proposal and, while struggle for a socialist world. mentary democratic rights to the popula­ Gaulle's rise to power.—Ed.) figure; and while he again takes than had the Third Republic. an "unofficial" group of Lon­ not a real victory (that chance tion and such crimes as the execution of care of French capitalism’s in­ The French workers are not don subway workers who held was destroyed by the official (1) Charles de Gaulle, in m y But because Dulles and his ilk hypo­ Nagy furnish the imperialists with pow­ terests, he does so in his own eager to fight now, in my opin­ a one-day token strike (which leaders’ refusal to extend the opinion, is not heading toward critically make a big propaganda show of way, on his own terms which ion, although an actual fascist was only partly successful) and strike), it looks like an honor­ erful cold-war advantages. Those in the a fascist dictatorship. Not only deploring the secret trial and execution the capitalists finally found to danger might change their at­ who threatened more and bet­ able settlement, not a capitula­ U.S. who defend these crimes help Dulles is de Gaulle not a fascist (he roughly correspond to their titude. The big demonstrations ter organized strikes in the tion. In any case, w hatever has of Nagy and the lack of the most ele­ and the imperialists by discrediting social­ favors a kind of bonapartist needs after the political bank­ against de Gaulle were not too future if the bus strike went been won is due to the mili­ mentary freedoms in the Soviet bloc, republic with a strong execu­ ism. The true and effective opponents of ruptcy and financial distress of turbulent — a warning, but on. tancy and determination of the does this mean that opponents of the tive, yet preserving many of the imperialist campaign against the the Fourth Republic. (These not a political action of de­ The situation was clear from rank-and-file busmen, the dem­ the traditional liberties of cap­ cold war and defenders of planned econ­ financial problems of the state cisive importance, not an of­ the beginning — if the strike ocratic conduct of the strike, USSR are those who deprive Dulles of italist democracy), he is def­ omy in the Soviet bloc, should be silent? coincided with an industrial fensive. For the moment, the was extended it would be won; and the solidarity of other his ammunition by showing that frame- initely not the instrument of Or worse, try to justify the executions? boom . . .) French workers prefer to wait if not, it would be lost. When workers — in spite of the up is an excrescence, removable by the the various fascist elements De Gaulle wishes to serve and see w hat de G aulle w ill do. Cousins and the official leaders treachery of some leaders and who helped him seize power. The problem is not as complex as it Soviet workers, rather than an organic the interests of "France," that They have become cautious finally renounced extension the weakness of others. And On the contrary, there exists a m ight seem. R ight here in the U.S. we part of the Soviet system. is, capitalist France as a whole and do not yearn for battle. they had to try to end the one decisively important vic­ The idea that falsehood and injustice lot of tension between him and — not the particular interests strike as an acknowledged de­ tory has clearly been won — have unions which are run dictatorially W hat should they have the fascists. And he undoubted­ of the French "colons" in Al­ feat. And when the group of the Tory government failed to by corrupt bureaucrats. Class-conscious can serve the workers’ movement or build fought for? The crumbling, im­ ly means business when he is geria. If saving the French Em­ “unofficial” subway workers break the strike despite all it* workers instinctively defend such a union socialism comes from Stalinism. Marx and potent Fourth Republic with attempting to keep them out pire, saving Algeria for France threatened to end the strike on efforts. Other sections of the when the employers move to smash it. In Lenin taught that truth was an indispen­ of the government. The compo­ implies sacrificing some of the its scheming politicians, its their own, the LTE had to British working class w ill fol­ ever changing cabinets all do­ so doing the workers are not defending sable weapon for socialism — a weapon sition of his cabinet corresponds special privileges of the French make some concessions to try low up the busmen's success. the ruling bureaucracy of that union, but that in our era can serve no privileged to the present needs of the "colons," he w ill not hesitate ing and neglecting the same French bourgeoisie: They are things, its bloody colonial wars? caste or class other than the working to do so. Hence his opposition the union itself — that economic organ­ not yet backing fascism but The slogan raised by the Com­ ization which is to the material advantage class. to the political line and role of need a more stable govern­ the "Public Safety Commit­ munist Party leadership of “De­ ment — a “strong” leadership. fending the Republic” had no . . . Murder of Nagy tees." Nor does he want to meaning to the workers at all. THE FASCISTS share power w ith a second the executions as “ another It might have been different if (Continued from Page 1) 11 Years of Taft-Hartley government in Algiers. black crime.” (2) A potential fascist danger the CP leadership had injected that he was still a member of Yugoslavia, which was direct­ now exists in France. It is De Gaulle is willing to make a socialist content into the the CP, Horner added, "But I June 23 marked eleven years since ening the workers with injunctions, tying ly linked to the frameup charge represented by the French “co­ concessions to the Algerian campaign, had made an issue refuse to be gagged by anyone Congress enacted the Taft-Hartley Act. the unions’ resources up in long litiga­ against Nagy of “conspiracy lons” in Algeria and their Moslems that go beyond any­ of tlfe class character of the when I see folly and futility. The authors of this law did not- hope to tions — this was the smart strategy of with imperialism,” roundly con­ "Public Safety Committees,” by thing his predecessors ever of* state, or had urged an offensive I am determined to speak out." demned the charges as “ u n ­ legislate the powerful American labor Big Business. The Taft-Hartley Act was Soustelle’s maneuvers, by Gen­ fered. He makes these conces­ against the rule of the capital­ Among the British unions true and staged from beginning movement out of existence. They knew a beginning. eral Massu’s paratroopers, by sions in order to stop the costly ist class as such. scoring the execution were two to end.” this could not be done. But they did aim Fred A. Hartley, co-author of the act, various fascist groups in met­ Algerian war and to weaken The French workers think in which the CP has exerted In Poland, where the govern­ ropolitan France that are, how­ the Algerian independence to shackle labor, tie it up with red tape explained that this legislation was only twice before actually going considerable influence, the Am­ ment is deeply alarmed over ever, much weaker as of now movement. Let us not believe and weaken it for the final kill. designed to “equalize the positions of into action because they have algamated Engineering Union the threat to its own future than the French fascists in A l­ de Gaulle is just a clumsy, been betrayed and disappointed and the Fire Brigade Union. presented by the present turn The late Senator Robert A. Taft in management and labor in this nation.” A geria, although they might brutal militarist: He is a very too often. Their energies have The killing was also sharply of the Kremlin, official de­ defending his law claimed, “There is a pretty piece of double-talk. Before the soon try to organize on a larg­ clever politician, far more in­ been partly spent in the CP’s hit by the prominent indepen­ nunciation was withheld, bqt public demand for compulsory arbitra­ mass production workers won the right er scale. But the French cap- telligent than most of France’s foolish “rotating strikes” and dent socialist weekly, the New a series of “leaks” to the press ilalisl class, with a relatively parliamentarians. And he is a tion aAd a complete prohibition of strikes.” to organize in the 1930’s, no one in the in demonstrations with false Statesman, which has been in made clear their condemnation. prosperous economy, does not very stubborn one (as witness Taft resisted this imaginary “public de­ capitalist government was interested in slogans and false promises. the forefront of the demand tor The day after the executions yet need fascism to stay in his attitude toward Roosevelt mand” and insisted that a regimented “equalizing the positions of management Thus the mood of the working an end to the cold war. And were announced, the Chopin power. Of course, all this may in World War II). class seems to be one of scep­ the left-wing Labor weekly, concert on the stale radio of­ economy was not desirable. “It may be and labor.” The New Deal only recognized change, but I am briefly ana­ It is a m istake to see in de tical patience (for the time be­ Tribune, bluntly characterized fered Chopin's funeral music. that in time the world will become so what labor had already won on its lyzing the situation as of now. Gaulle the lackey of any clique ing). There was no question of The catastrophic leadership of and an even bigger mistake to complicated that a free economy can no picket lines. an uprising for a resurrection the working class is also a see in him a lackey of the longer be maintained,” he pointed out. When the government intervened to of the completely rotten Fourth great help to the capitalists. fascists. Then presumably the workers would have change labor-management relations, it Republic. The ruling class may find the COMPARISON WITH SPAIN? Introductory Offer to be enslaved. passed Taft-Hartley to weaken labor and existence of General Massu and Taft gave another reason for not pile more advantages in the hands of the Monsieur Delbecque quite use­ (4) Is there a comparison A 6-Month Subscription openly outlawing the right to strike: “In boss. ful: “You never can tell how with Spain in 1936? If Massu Every Test Kills the last analysis,” he said, “it is difficult Ever since that defeat in 1947 labor you might use them some and Company are potential By Linus Pauling To the Militant Only $1.00 day . . .” But at present, the Francos, de G aulle h a rd ly is. indeed to prohibit by law a nation-wide bureaucrats have begged for repeal or at The Nobel prize winning policy of the French capitalist Moreover, the Spanish working strike if all the men in the industry really least amendment of T-H. They have been scientist speaks out against class as a w hole is certainly class of 1936, with its revolu­ The Militant the nuclear bomb tests. want to strike. The leaders can be re­ given lavish promises — in election cam­ not identical with that of the tionary committees and strong 116 University Place strained. The strike can be discouraged. paigns — from President Eisenhower on “Public Safety Committees.” anarcho-syndicalist movement, 10 cents New York 3, N. Y. But no democracy can put a million men down. But none of the promises were The capitalists prefer the less was different from the French Order from: Name ...... - ...... in jail or put them to work at the point kept. Isn’t it time labor stopped begging costly method of democratic working class of 1958, with its rights, or “republican legality,” mass organizations under the PIONEER PUBLISHERS of a gun.” for its freedom? Isn’t it time to build a C ity ...... Stale ...... as long as they do not re a lly Communist Party’s bureaucratic 116 University Place The slow process of weakening labor labor party that will wipe the Taft- need fascism to preserve their control and its reformists col­ New Y o rk 3, N . Y . Street ...... Zone by restricting the right to strike, threat­ Hartley Act off the books? rule. laborating with de Gaulle. And t h e MILITANT THE HISTORY OF THE HAYMARKET whose identity, motives and accomplices AFFAIR. A Study in the American if any, remain unknown to this day, ac­ Social - Revolutionary and Labor cording to the author. VOLUME XXII MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1958 N U M B ER 26 Movements. By Henry David. Russell David sketches the economic basis of and Russell, 1958, 579 pp., $6.75. the labor struggles of 1886, in which The Case for Wage Increase some of the eight martyrs were leading Seventy-two years ago on May 4, figures. He delves into the particular Mich. SWP Candidates 1886, a column of 180 city police advanced wing of the young American revolution­ on a peaceful meeting of workmen near ary movement with which the eight were Haymarket square in Chicago. The meet­ associated — the “anarchist - socialist” In­ ing, which had been called in protest Address U A W Locals ternational Working People’s Association over the killing and wounding of strikers DETROIT, June 22 — The close relationship between “the struggle of organized of Chicago. One cannot read of the ideol­ by police at the McCormick Harvester labor to secure and maintain a higher standard of living and the efforts of the Negro ogical and practical struggles of ' these plant the day before, was almost over and people to gain first-class citizenship,” was stressed in a speech prepared for delivery pioneers without being impressed with the crowd had dwindled to less than 1,000. today to units of Ford Local 600 of the United Auto Workers by Frank Lovell, Social­ how much the American working class Suddenly someone threw a bomb which ist Workers Party candidate for Governor of Michigan. and revolutionary movement have learn­ exploded near the first rank of police, “This major fact,” Lovell said, “is underlined by the recent report in Drew Pear- ed since then—some of it from the in­ wounding about 70 of them, several fatal­ '►jon’s column of a political deal sight and courage of these people and made again between Southern ly. The remaining police opened fire and some of it from their mistakes. Democrats and the liberal Dem­ the crowd dispersed. David documents the changing reac­ ...TVNetworks Purge ocratic and Republican Senat­ The capitalist class, which in 1886 ors. This time the deal revolv­ tions of the labor movement to the ac­ ed around passage of the Ives- was faced with the first powerful nation­ cused men: From shock or frightened in­ (Continued from ?a%e 1) way to build the American theatre is to subsidize it — not Kennedy bill, a ‘mild’ introduc­ wide upsurge of labor in the form of the difference in the beginning of the wave fo r whom the official party line tion to complete state control is a lia b ility ." to investigate it. Brooks Atkin­ eight-hour-day strikes, chose this incident of manufactured hysteria; to concern over son in the New York Times, over the labor movement. In Benjamin Steinberg, violinist return for support of this anti- around which to organize a counter of­ the anti-labor attacks accompanying the and assistant conductor of the says: ‘ignorant heresy-hunters and bigoted character assassin­ labor measure, the Southern fensive. In a matter of seconds, says the “anti-anarchist” campaigns; and finally to Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Auto Work­ “Music Man,” top Broadway ation’ are draining ‘the vitality Democrats won agreement to author of this book, "the Haymarket ‘riot’ identification with those supremely brave ers, whose contracts with the Big Three Auto companies musical comedy, refused on the of the American theatre’.” leave the filibuster—which they was over—and the Haymarket Affair had expired about June 1, The chart Reuther holds shows profit basis of free speech to answer men who died as they lived, denouncing Rep. Gordon Scherer, his use to talk progressive legisla­ picture of companies, Unauthorized strikes have occurred w hether he or anyone else is begun.” oppression. blackjack ever at his side, tion to death—untouched for at in several plants protesting anti-union company moves. or was a “Communist.” He ac­ least two years.” This, the second printing of a work Working people everywhere who cused Dolores Scotti, committee threatened Mann that he would "It is this atmosphere in published in 1936, is a detailed account have any knowledge of the Haymarket slhuth (who was sitting at the see to it "that the Department of Justice has a transcript” Congress," Lovell charged, and analysis of the affair proper — the affair know this much about it: In 1886, table with Arens) of a “thinly veiled threat to ruin, my career with a view to “denaturaliza­ "which encouraged the recent men were sentenced to death or impris­ frame-up and trial of eight Chicago ...Little Rock Ruling unless I turn informer,” he al­ tion proceedings." Invoking the ruling in the U.S. District radicals accused of the bombing and the onment by the American capitalist class so charged that Scotti in te r­ First and Fifth Amendments, Court in Arkansas to suspend integration in Little Rock death sentences executed against five of because they fought for labor, fit the (Continued from Page 1) made no promises of any kind fered in internal union affairs, Mann noted “one must be ap­ schools for at least lwo-and-a- them, as well as of the social and political eight-hour day and for a better future. it pays to incite their children, on their list of requests. More­ where he was concerned. prehensive before this Commit­ over continuation of Justice tee.” half years." background and aftermath of America’s David’s scholarly, detailed and document­ to insult, harass, threaten, spit After a verbal nudge by upon, beat and kick Negro Department participation in the Scherer, Moulder ordered the The "hearings" of the House MURDERERS AIDED first red-scare hysteria. The new preface ed social and legal analysis proves this Un-Amerjcan Activities Com­ children in the school for that L ittle Rock case is now in court reporter to strike refer­ “These political deals,” Lov­ judgment to the hilt. mittee justified in full the de­ examines the most recent discoveries in will make their integration doubt. Attorney General Rog­ ences regarding Scotti from the ell concluded, “give aid and connection with the actual bomb-thrower, — Fired Halstead tem porary. ers says it is "under study" but record. During the rCcess, Scotti mand of prominent liberals that it be abolished as a men­ comfort to the .murderers in The National Association for most Washington sources pre­ sulked to her fellow gumshoes: Dawson, Georgia. They prove ace to c iv il lib e rty . the Advancement of Colored dict a withdrawal. “The nerve he had!” to the hilt the utter hypocrisy People is appealing Judge Lem- The administration has never HARASSMENT of both the Republican and iev's decision to the Eighth displayed any desire to enforce Steinberg lashed into the Democratic parties. Only a la­ Circuit Court of Appeals in St. the school desegregation deci­ witch-hunters: "This is illegal Wise. Socialists bor party, built by the work­ Louis. Win or lose there, it sion. Eisenhower sent troops to and inhuman harassment of the ing people in alliance with the will be appealed the next step Arkansas only after the great­ entertainment industry. The Negro people, can truly repre­ to the U.S. Supreme Court. est resistance. To get the Little questions are not pertinent. Will Nominate sent the interests of both.” For Summer Reading This will take considerable Rock issue out of the way till Since I will not testify as to Speaking before Dc Soto Lo­ time, however. Normal tempo 1961—that is until after he has my own beliefs and associa­ For those who plan to use himself dictator of France un­ of the origins of Christianity. cal 227, U AW , Evelyn Sell, So­ le ft the W hite House— must be tions, I certainly will not test- part of their vacations for der circumstances and in a A M a rxist classic. would bring the NAACP ap­ Candidates cialist Workers candidate for peal before the Circuit Court regarded as a real windfall by tify as to others. Eleven years reading or study Pioneer Pub­ manner that foreshadowed the ... U.S. Senator, urged that the next October—after school had Eisenhower. Similarly with the of investigating the entertain­ The Socialist Workers Party lishers recommends the fol­ rise of “strong-man” rule in THE NAKED GOD. By How­ war-making powers be taken begun in Little Rock. Hence Democratic politicians. If the ment industry is a little too in Wisconsin has announced a lowing list. modern times. Highly pertinent ard Fast. 197 pp. Regular price from Congress and the Presi­ the NAACP is asking that court whole Little Rock scandal can much. One has the right to de­ three-day encampment over the as an aid in understanding de $3.50. Special price, $2.85, plus dent. “Let the people vote on LITERATURE AND REVOLU­ to issue a stay, or suspension, be suspended until 1961 by fend an unpopular cause. Free July 4 weekend at Point Beach Gaulle’s rise to power in 15 c^nls postage. war and peace through a na­ TION. By Leon Trotsky, 2S6 of Judge Lemle.v’s ruling, be­ court order, it will make it speech and free association are State Park. Wise., which will France today. tional referendum,” she said, pp. P reviously $3.75. N ow $1.98 An absorbing and informative fore the appeal has been heard. that much easier for the Dixie- inviolate.” include the nomination of so­ * * * pointing to the current crisis in plus 15 cents postage. account of the author's per­ Unless a stay is granted or crals and Northern liberals to Bernard Gerslen, stage man­ cialist candidates for the 1958 OUT OF THE DEPTHS. By Lebanon as additional proof of The finest and most conjpre- sonal experiences with Stalin­ the Circuit Court holds emer­ get through the convention and ager for the American Shake­ election and a discussion of the Barron B. Beshoar 372 pp. the need for such a measure. hensive Marxist work on art ism. gency sessions and overrules 1960 presidential campaign with speare Festival at Stratford, prospects of a united socialist Regular price $3.50. Special for yet written. Trotsky not only * * * Judge Lemley, Central High the party unity both desire. Conn., was quizzed about his ticket in the election. “All so­ “The Eisenhower Doctrine.” this column $3.00 plus 15 cents extends and enriches earlier THE JUDGMENT OF JULIUS will open lilywhite next Sep­ politics while speaking at a re­ cialists, progressives and sup­ she said, “which states that postage. American troops w ill be sent to Marxist studies of literature; he AND ETHEL ROSENBERG. By tember. Even if the NAACP cent Actors Equity meeting, in porters of independent labor foreign countries only upon re­ deals with questions history The Ludlow Massacre was the John Wexley. 672 pp. Original wins a stay, the persecution of Walter Threatens favor of granting a passport to political action” are invited to quest of those governments and had not placed before them: end result of a bitterly fought price $6.00. Now $3.00 plus 20 the seven Negro children there "international communist agent attend. where there is a so-called threat the attitude of the working strike of coal miners against cents postage. will be greatly intensified. For Passport Victory P&U1 Robeson." Gersten angrily The rates for all or part of of ‘com m unist-dom ination,’ is class and its party to art and the Colorado Rockefeller inter­ the case will still be in litiga­ JUNE 25 — Following the demanded: "I would like to An intensive, carefully docu­ the weekend, including cabin bad enough. But neither of artists after the conquest of est. It has become the prime tion and the racists will at­ victory of the Emergency know whether there is a stool mented examination-jof the trial or tent accomodations, are ex­ these factors can be claimed in state power. exaffiple of the class struggle tempt to furnish additional Civil Liberties Committee on pigeon on the executive com­ of the Rosenbergs and Morton tremely low. Accomodations the Lebanon situation, yet * * * in its most naked form. This “proof” that integration must mittee. I would like to know Sobell. Of this book. Prof. its passport cases, the Stale for an individual for the three book is a carefully compiled be suspended in L ittle Rock. how private deliberations be­ Am erican tr.oops are being p re­ UNADDRESSED LETTERS and Francis D. Wormuth the West­ Department announced it days is $12.50 and fa m ily rates document of every stage of the fore a union meeting come to p a id ft>r intervention in the ART AND SOCIAL LIFE. By ern Political Review said: “Ob­ PULLING OUT was also issuing passports to are lower. struggle and reads like an ex­ this committee." internal affairs of Lebanon.” G. Plekhanov. 243 pp $1.00. viously the Department of Jus­ The long-promisc^l meeting Paul Robeson, Corliss La- citing novel. Then he added: “I am afraid Reservations and deposits Mrs. Sell cited the plank in This little book is valuable tice cannot answer all criti­ of Eisenhower with Negro mont and others who have » * * should be made with: James E. the platform of the Socialist leaders took place on June 23— been denied the right to I anticipated the Supreme for its materialist analysis of cisms. But unless it answers Boulton, Socialist Workers Workers Parly which declares: AUTOMATION AND SOCIAL by unforeseen coincidence two travel. However, Rep. Fran­ Court decision." (The Supreme the role and meaning of art Mr. Wexley’s, we must con­ Party, 150 E. Juneau Ave., "Withdraw all troops from for­ PROGRESS. B y S. L ille y . 224 days after Judge Lemlev’s cis E. Walter (D.-Pa.) intro­ Court held last week that the from primitive times to the clude th a t the Rosenberg case Milwaukee 2, and must be re­ eign soil. Send Americans pp. Regular price. $3.75. 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Communist Party to the launch­ In the generation since the This Is the Story of How We Took Over City Hall ing of the Socialist Workers assassination of this great revo­ sleeping either, thinking about until the Mayor’s people call­ Party in 1938. lutionary leader there has been By Carol Blackman for help when things are not veteran had died there from argument was that we'd get • * * only one other biography of going so good w ith us. ' pneumonia and lots of people something of what our tax finding us down in the m orn­ ed some of us in to ta lk “ it ” ing when he came in, so he over. ANTI-DUHRING. By Frederick him written and it has not been We took over City Hall. Yes, Things just grew naturally. were sick. money bought. phoned the police to get us Looks like the really impor­ Engels. 546 pp. $1.35. translated from the German. we did! You say you didn't When you get a lot of poor We asked her how come The Mayor as I said wasn’t This new biography in English some food and to put us up in tant folks, the people who saw Starting out as a polemic, people together in one place, people d id n ’t move, and she exactly outgoing and didn’t ex­ will fill a deplorable gap in the hear about it? I know you hotel rooms. Wc agreed since us in the lobby, told the Mayor this work developed into a you're bound to get a lot of said that nobody wanted to actly favor our staying there. bookcases of socialist-minded didn't, that's why I'm telling we were tired and hungry. But he’d better do something about positive exposition of the dia­ problems in one place, natural­ rent to colored people unless Before he went, he asked some you now. Remember that poem we refused to go in police cars all those people who needed lectic method and the socialist Americans. ly. That's what poor people for high rent, which they policemen to watch all his * * • — "Listen my children and and so they brought us taxis homes. And he got worried, world outlook. have plenty of — problems. So couldn't afford That wc knew, stuff. Sollie said he probably THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTI­ you shall hear of the midnight and wc were taken to hotels especially when he began to • « • we got together and called our­ but we weren’t really thinking didn’t think we looked too ANITY. By Ludwig Feuerbach. ride of Paul Revere?" It's the to sleep. count all the votes of their DIALECTICS OF NATURE. By selves a Tenants' Council, and when we asked. honest. Or maybe we looked 340 pp. Paper. $1.45 plus 15 same, nearly — "Listen my relatives, etc., loo. F rederick Engels 496 pp. $1.50. pretty soon we got together So people asked lots more kinda poor and needy. Anyway, Next morning while the kids cents postage. people and you shall hear So his people said that every­ Engels explains the basic with other projects' tenant questions and she gave lots one policeman locked himself ran up and down the hotel cor­ about how we took over City body who hadn’t a home and laws of dialectical thought, The first materialist analysis councils and found ourselves more answers. People got hotter inside the office with us. The ridors getting their exercise, Hall." Well you can see I'm was in C ity H a ll w ould be and ^illustrates their workings of religion, important in the having a City Tenant Council. and hotter until somebody made others put themselves at the the older folks got together and not much of a hand at writing given a home in a project right by examples' from natural sci­ development of Marxist a motion we should go over to corner of each hall in City decided since the Mayor still rhym es. Well, one day wc were hold­ away, and the City would be ence and mathematics. thought. the building and meet with Hall — which is a lot of cor­ wouldn’t do anything about the • • • ing one of our meetings when responsible to move all the * » * Sollie and I were sitting the neighbors there. Everybody ners. people in “Mecca” we’d let the this Mrs. Broun got up and folks’ belongings to the new TH E EIGHTEENTH BRU- FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTI­ around the other night watch­ voted yes. I got put on the people who elected him know said she’d like for us to hear Now after awhile the kids houses. MAIRE OF LOUIS BONA­ ANITY. By Karl Kauisky. 400 ing TV. He said, “They call com m ittee lik e I usually do that. So we decided to set up from her cousin, Mrs. Krew, got to w anting to go. You know What a cheering went up! PARTE. By Karl Marx. Cloth pp. O riginal price $5.50. Now that a play? Why when we (that’s because I got a big house in the lobby of City Hall who’d like to know if we could how it is with kids.- Anyway, City Hall never had it so good. $1.50. Paper 75 cents. $3.00 plus 15 cents postage. took over City Hall it was a m outh, Sollie says.) where we were sure to see lots te ll her w hat to do. You know there they were asking to go. By this time, we had begun to In 1852, an adventurer made A profound historical study better story than that.” And When we got over to the of folks. how it is with people. They're The policeman was very glad tire of camping out anyway, then he said (Sollie’s my hus­ building, we saw what Mrs. Now anybody knows if any­ more than happy to give ad­ to hear this, and got all ready and we relished the idea of go­ band), “Why don’t you write Krew said was more than true body intends to stay awhile vice, so she was begged to to push all the kids out to the ing back to living in a house, down the story about City — it was just downright aw­ anywhere, he’s got to have take the floor and tell her john. But we got suspicious so we said, “Okay." Hall?” He always gets good ful. So we all decided, with the something to sleep on and story. Which she did. that he intended to keep the We got a lot of new neigh­ ideas. Only thing I somehow people there, to see somebody something to eat. So we came kids out, and then we’d have to bors who'd learned the impor­ always find myself doing the She told us how she lived who was important about it. down all ready with mattresses, go out after them. We couldn’t tance of being neighborly. BOSTON nepin Ave., 2nd floor. Open noon to work. “Besides,” he said, “it’s in “Mecca.” That was the name We saw lots of "important" let such fine folks go back to pots and pans, dishes, food and After that whenever we’d have Workers Educational Center, Gains* 0 P.M. daily except Sundays. like writing your memoirs. Our of a huge old building that had people. They were all very that cold Mecca building. all the things needed to keep any trouble, we’d go straight borough Bldg., 295 Huntington Ave. been one of the showplaces of the kids occupied. And we sat NEWARK kids could show -it to their sorry and everything but they By this time wc were getting the World's Fair. Not the one to the Mayor's office instead BUFFALO Newark Labor Forum, Box 381, kids.” said we must see somebody sorta mad. We were beginning in. during the depression but the of spending all that carfare and Militant Forum, 831 Main St, Newark, N. J. else. to enjoy what our taxes helped It got mighty comfy. When­ Well, like they say, I better World’s Fair before that — time messing around with the After a while we got tired buy — like the thick rugs, the ever the pay phone rang, the CHICAGO NEW YORK CITY begin at the beginning. The be­ 1893, I think it was. After the small fry. We never got to see Militant Labor Forum, 116 Unlvar* and began to run out of street fine furniture and the heat. We people answered it with “Mec­ Socialist Workers Party, 777 W. ginning started when Sollie, Fair the Mecca building was the Mayor — he’s an unneigh- Adams. DE 2*9736. sity Place, AL 6-7852. car fare. So we decided to see didn't intend moving out so ca tenants residence.” A nd our three kids and I got tired turned into a big tenement. b o rly cuss, but we bad to camp the Mayor. But I guess the fast — not until the Mayor since Christmas was only a few CLEVELAND OAKLAND - BERKELEY of living in three rooms, and Now R was to be torn down. out only one other time because Mayor is shy because he let us showed a little neighborliness days off we put up wreaths, Socialist Workers Party 10609 Su­ P.O. Box 341, Berkeley 1, Calif. having the landlord raising our The city officials had promised the Mayor’s people ’ and us perior Ave., Room 301, SW 1-1818. rent everytime he thought we cool our heels in his outer at least. and the kids made lots of pa­ PHILADELPHIA to find homes for everybody couldn't see eye to eye. But Open Friday nights 7 to 9. office. per chains, and drew lots of MiNtant Labor Forum and Cam­ began to look a little better before it. was to rn down. But So we decided that one kid that’s another story. paign Hdqtrs. Socialist W o rke r» nourished. So we applied for a Since we were pretty tired should go out at a time. The pictures about Xmas and some Sollie is nodding his head as DETROIT this was a big lie, Mrs. Krew about the house tftey’d like to Eugene V. Debs Hall, 3737 Wood­ Party, 1303 W. Girard Ave. house in a project here in and had no place else to go, we cop said, "A ll at once or none." I read out this written story to said, because they hadn’t got live in and the Mecca building w a rd . SAN FRANCISCO Chicago. Eventually, we got everybody a home. She told sat all day in the Mayor’s outer With that we got the Mayor's him . "Yep, th a t’s rig h t." he The Militant, 1145 Polk St., Rm. 4 called in, and filled out all the office. For such an important wastepaper baskets and spit­ they had lived in. Some kid LOS ANGELES * how about 25 families still were says, "We sure can write a Open Wed. 4-8 P.M.; Sat. 11 A.ML to drew a picture of how he Forum Hall and Modern Book Shop, papers and were handed the man, you’d think he'd have had toons and said, 'These are as good story." 3 P.M . in the building and the water thought the Mayor looked, but 1702 E. 4th St. AN 9-4953 or AN 3- front, back and mailbox key. better manners and at least good as any." Then we lined had been turned off. People had since he hadn’t got to see him , 1533. Book Shop open Mon. 7-9 P.M.; SEATTLE After that things went from to get water from the fire hy­ come out to say hello. the kids up. Then the police­ HOW GENEROUS1 Wed. 8-10 P.M.; Sat. 12-5 P.M. 655 Main St.. MU 2-7139. Library, the Mayor didn’t look so good. meeting to meeting. You see. drants in the street. She told By nighttime we had got man moved fast. He opened In Arkansas the legal mini­ bookstore. Classes every Friday eve­ the door, "Okay, you win, one We even invited friends down mum wage for women is 16 M IL W A U K E E ning at 8 P.M. Open House following Sollie and I are joiners. We how the heat was turned off pretty used to the place and 150 East Juneau Ave. at 10:30 P.M. like people and we like to be and everybody was cold since since it was awful cold out and at a time." to visit and have tea with us. cents an hour. But nineteen It was three o'clock in the It was mighty nice and neigh­ states have no minimum wage ST. L O U IS of service to our neighbors as it was the middle of December. it was nice and warm there, MINNEAPOLIS borly. We stayed three days laws whatsoever. Socialist Workers Party, 322 Hen­ For information phone MO 4-7194 well as have a place to go to She said one old World War wa decided to stay. One good morning and the Mayor wasn't