Dixiecrats Plan Evasion of New the PUBLISHEDMILITANT WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Anti-Bias Ruling V ol. X IX — No. 4 6 -« C ii» '"" NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1955 PRICE: 10 Cent» By Carl Goodman The Nov. 7 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that racial Lynchers Go Scot Free segregation in public parks, playgrounds, beaches and golf GOP, Democrats courses is unconstitutional, was greeted by Dixiecrats with the same threats of defiance •1------Nail Each Other Arrogant Racists that met last year’s court ruling legislatures and judges (the against school segregation. Federal included) would block Thus Governor Marvin Grif­ enforcement of their decision. On Taft-Hartley Yet the court, which can get its fin declared on Nov. 8 that A fter a conference with Eisen­ Georgia would abandon all state decisions enforced when it wants to, put no teeth in its ban against hower on labor legislation Nov. Free Till Killers parks before “ co-mingling of 2, Secretary of Labor Mitchell the races” would be allowed. This Jim Crow. Nor is the Eisenhower Ad­ told the press that there was is similar to threats made last no chance for amending the ministration moving to insure year by governors and legisla­ Taft-Hartley law in the next compliance with the court’s de­ tures in a number of Southern session of Congress and laid the cision, although it wishes to take On Kidnap Count states to close down public blame, for this at the door of schools rather than permit inte­ political credit fo r the desegre­ gation rulings. Last May, the the Democrats. Labor supporters gration. of the Democratic party imme­ In handing down the new de­ Anti-Discrimination Confei'ence of the Southern locals of the diately rejoined by citing the cision, the Supreme Court failed absence of a Republican record Unions Back to issue instructions as to how CIO Packinghouse Workers de­ Lynch Tide manded that the Administration to push for such amendments. and when segregation in public Both have impressive evidence place the Southern school sys­ parks and playgrounds should to prove their charges. tem “ under Federal control and Plan for Rally be ended. In all likelihood, these Mitchell’s contention that the questions w ill be le ft up to the open . . . them to all students Mounts All Northern and Southern Demo­ lower Federal courts as in the regardless of race, creed, color crats are in a coalition to block J. W. Milam (center) and his half-brother Roy Bryant case of the rulings on school or national origin.” But this In Washington goes ’way beyond the real pur­ amendments to Taft-Hartley is confer with their lawyer (le ft) during the Sumner, Miss., trial segregation. These courts are born out by the recent legisla­ Since the Oct. 27 letter of pose of the U.S. Big Business for the lynch-murder of 14-year-old Negro boy Emmett Louis UAW-CIO President Walter Over South under immediate pressure of tive strategy session of the Till. The all-white jury returned a whitewash verdict which white supremacists and are ready dominated government in ruling Reuther, revealing that the Na­ Democratic Senate chieftains. The aroused bitter, world-wide protest. Now a Mississippi grand to accept every stall devised to against Jim Crow. tional Association for the Ad­ By Fred Hart N.Y. Times reported Oct. 27 jury has let them go scot free on the remaining kidnap charge. prevent enforcement. For the oourt’s anti-segrega­ that they had agreed to avoid vancement of Colored People and NOV. 9 — Today an all- The nine Supreme Court jus­ tion decision is designed to any action in 1956 for “ repeal the unions were planning “ a na­ white grand jury in Missis­ tices who unanimously voted serve prim arily propaganda aims or basic alteration of the Taft- tion-wide civil rights mobilization sippi gave a clean bill of in the dealings of the U.S. State against segregation knew in ad­ Hartley Labor Act.” to be convened in Washington health to J. W. Milam and Roy WORKERS GO IN DEBT early next year,” the need for vance that Southern governors, (Continued on page 2) Although he has the goods Bryant, lynchers of the 14-ycar- such a gathering has increased against the Democrats on the old Negro boy, Emmett Louis T ill considerably. issue, Mitchell didn’t prosecute as a mounting wave of terror and AS PROFITS ZOOM UP The CIO Packinghouse Work­ his case very effectively. He out­ murder sweeps through the South. Thick as Thieves With Dixiecrats ers also announced, Oct. 24, that lined to the press the labor laws By Farrell Dobbs Despite the fact that Milam when Congress meets again in presented to Congress by the National Secretary Socialist Workers Party and Bryant confessed to the January, “ it is probable that administration and completely kidnaping charge, despite the Secretary of Commerce Weeks recently summed up there will be a gigantic assembly forgot to mention the Taft- testimony of Moses Wright, T ill’s the latest economic blessings of capitalism in these words, in Washington under the auspices Hartley amendments. It was uncle, who identified the pair as “ Inflationary pressures are less than a few months ago . . . of the NAACP to lobby for civil only after newsmen reminded the men who abducted the youth, prosperity just keeps rolling® rights lawns and unseating the him of them that he piously the Leflore county grand jury along.” Mississippi delegation.” levelled his attack on the Demo­ and according lo union reports the MOSES WRIGHT brazenly refused an indictment. For Weeks there can be no Since Reuther’s announcement crats. In reply to questions he number is considerably greater. And the Mississippi authorities higher proof of prosperity than there has been a disquieting said they had presented 12 In some economically distressed consider the T ill case closed. the fact that General Motors is silence from both* the NAACP Taft-Hartley amendments but areas of the country the jobless But the ease is not closed fo r about to set an all-time record leaders and the labor officials could only remember three or rate runs as high as 15 percent. the Negro people of the South with a net pro- about the mobilization. California CIO four of them. Clearly prosperity is not ex­ who are being subjected to an fits grab of over The “probability” of a “gigantic He also revealed that in his actly “rolling along” for every­ intensified campaign of terror $1 billion for assembly” w ill have to be turned discussion with Eisenhower on body. Nor are the inflationary Demands Federal since the whitewash of T ill’s 1955. In fact into a reality if Congress is to labor legislation, he had ne­ pressures diminishing as Weeks murderers. ail the monop­ be moved to action. Such glected to inform the President claims. A check of the facts w ill Action on Miss. The latest victim of the rac­ oly capitalists demands as were raised by the of the dim prospects fo r the reveal the truth as just the op­ LONG BEACH, CALIF., Nov. ists is 16-year-old John Earl are having a Chicago and Illinois NAACP Taft-Hartley amendments. Eisen­ posite. 6 — The Mississippi lynching real good year. that federal troops be sent to Reese o f . Longview, Texas. He hower, like the Democrats, had Basic to the inflationary pro­ of young Emmett T ill was de­ died in a hail of bullets fired Total corpora­ Mississippi will require over­ made vigorous campaign prom­ cess is the- expanding m ilitary nounced by more than 600 dele­ into a cafe from a speeding car tion profits after whelming pressure before they ises to fight fo r various amend­ budget financed by a. mounting gates to the sixth annual con­ that drove through the Negro taxes for 1955 can be realized. ments to the hated law. governmental deficit that has al­ vention of the California state neighborhood pouring bullets will run well A mobilization in Washington, It doesn’t take a psychologist ready imposed a huge public.debt, above -$21 biL- hacked up by mass delegations, CIO, meeting here in a four-day into homes,, stores,. the .School to figure out Mitchell’s memory on the people. Nothing -whatever lion, the second- from union locals and Negro or­ session to discuss merger of the building’ and a school has. lapse on Taft-Hartley. He’s not DOBBS is added to the national wealth biggest take in ganizations, w ill be confronted by CIO and' AFL. Taking note that Racism flared in Longview really absent-minded. Like the by the vast m ilitary output. In­ in the South “ a climate of history. This vast sum, amassed the avowed determination of the over the proposed construction of Democrats, he just doesn’t give stead the deficit spending for opinion has been generated that through a steady increase in the Democratic Party Northern a new $200,000 school fo r Negro a hoot. arms puts a government mort­ threatens not only the civil Adlai .Stevenson (le ft) and former Pres. Harry Truman rate of profits gain, will come liberals to scuttle all action on children. Sheriff Noble Crawford gage on future national income. rights but the life itself of many was quoted in the Pittsburgh meet in Chicago for private political confab. The two top leaders very close to the total profits for civil rights in order to maintain Ait the same time it feeds a gen­ of Northern Democrats are busy nending political fences with the banner year 1950. In the their political alliance with the citizens,” the convention con­ Courier: “It is a nasty eral tendency toward higher Dixiecrats. Recent decision of Congressional Democratic strateg­ latter year the corporations had Dixiecrats. demned the “ recent series of situation . . . It could be whites prices and thus impairs the real ists to dump even pretense of fight for civil rights was notice Company Speedup the exceptional advantage of a The Negro people have spoken. murders such as Emmett Till, just as well as N----s; ain’t no wages of the working masses. to Negro and labor movements on what to expect in 1956. sudden leap in arms production They broke all attendance records a 14-year-old, and Rev. George point to duck it.” Deputy Sheriff Main Strike Issue for the Korean war from which The current annual rate o-f arms at overflow protest meetings in Lee,” and demanded that A t­ Caven told white reporters, “ The they wrung record profits. expenditures stands close to $44 every major city of the country. torney General Brownell make lead we got, we think it is white. In addition to the rosy profits billion, an amount more than In the deep South, the movement a complete investigation. We have not enough to pin on At Westinghouse picture, capitalist spokesmen point triple the rate of m ilitary spend­ lias made powerful strides. Last Arthur Morrison, regional di­ ’em yet.” to other factors implying general ing on the eve of the Korean war. week in Jackson, Miss., an un­ rector of the Packinghouse Work­ In Hcathsvillet Virginia,, a Huge Oil Empire Seen NEW YORK, Nov. 8—Fifty- ers of America, called upon the young Negro laborer, Howard Under these conditions the in­ five thousand production work­ prosperity. As of September in­ precedented gathering of thou­ flationary pressures cannot help leaders of the CIO to get off Bromley, 23, was killed by a ers of the Westinghouse Cor­ dustrial production was up 12 sands packed the Masonic Temple but mount. their hands and get into action. white storekeeper, Ira. D. Hinton poration are now entering the percent over 1954 and retail sales e.nd filled the streets to protest In an attempt to picture the He called them to order for ex­ Jr. The N.Y. Post reports Nov. As Stake in Mid-East fourth week of their strike up 7 percent. Construction activity against racist terror. current boom as self-sustaining tolling America as a beacon of 9 that. Hinton was transferred against the corporation. continued at a high level. Total Also a second round of protest employment was reaching new capitalist economists point to the meetings has been started — this hope for people abroad “ after to a neighboring county jail By Daniel Roberts Westinghouse, second only to peaks. fact that the annual rate of per­ time under joint auspices of the what’s happened in Mississippi when 100 angry Negroes gather­ General Electric in the industry, The Egypt-Israel conflict threatens to transform the Personal income had risen to a sonal expenditures is uip some $12 Negro and labor movement. . . . Let’s straighten out Ameri­ ed demanding justice. There he has elected to give its workers a whole Middle East into a new arena of the cold war. record annual rate of $307 bil­ billion over 1954. But this rate These developments demand ca,” he told them. was quickly released on bond. hard fight with the objective of imperialists are beginning to lion, an increase of $20 billion of purchase has been attained dramatic and effective national The convention resolution on The killer’s family are “ certainly U.S., British and French demoralizing and routing the line up in support of the Israeli over 1954, reflecting in part through measures going beyond expression. A gigantic mobiliza­ the reign of terror in the South one of the leading families in strong rank-and-file resistance Northumberland County,” Sher­ capitalist class. On the other exploiters. Furthermore, imper­ recent wage gains won by the current personal earnings. tion in Washington will provide demanded that. Congress enact to company speed-up plans. if f English said.” They own side, Egypt and Syria — enjoy­ ialism wants to shut out Soviet unions. Average weekly earnings The universal story was told just that expression. It can well anti-lynching laws and anti-poll ing the moral backing of last trade with the Middle East for A fte r th irty days of fruitless for industrial workers reportedly simply by a Charleston man when upset the treacherous schemes of tax legislation and called upon farms, mills and power stations. Spring’s Bandung Conference of oil. negotiations the International stood at $77.90. asked by a census taker if he the Democratic and Republican its affiliated locals to support There is grave suspicion that Asian and African nations which The instrument to achieve these Union of Electrical Workers, On the other side of the ledger, lived within his income. “ Cer­ parties to bury civil rights the NAACP and Congressman a 12-year-old Negro boy, Timel denounced Israel as an agency ends was shaped by British im­ CIO, was forced to call the walk­ however, is the fact of a steady tainly not," he replied, ‘‘It is all I legislation for the duration of the Charles (Diggs of Mich, in his Hudson, was lynched in Lamar, of imperialism — are receiving perialism and taken over by the out. Just prior to the walkout decline in farm income. In 1954 can do, sir, to live within my presidential election period. challenge of the seating of the Miss., 90 miles from the scene m ilitary aid from the Soviet bloc. State Department, which is now and at the eleventh hour the farm earnings fell 25 percent credit.” The great need of the moment Miss, delegation in Congress. of the T ill murder. company had proposed a five- National statistics show that is to organize, rigorously and CIO locals are now in a po­ Despite this fresh evidence of What started as a conflict be­ in overall charge of defending below the 1953 level. A further year contract with a very tricky the blunt Charleston citizen is far widely, the movement to converge sition Ko take immediate action wanton racist terror, and des­ tween Egypt and Israel is thus imperialist holdings in the Middle drop of at least 6 percent has arbitration clause. But in its es­ from alone in copying the gov­ on Washington in January and to support the Olympic Audi­ pite persistent demands fo r fed­ developing into a collision in the East. I t consists of alliances been recorded so far this year sence it would have allowed the ernment’s policy of deficit financ­ tell Congress: We w ill no longer torium meeting on the Till case, eral intervention, Congress and Middle East between imperialism with Arab kings and other feud­ and there is every sign of a company to continue its speed­ ing. The consumer debt is rising accept vague promises; the time Nov. 15, in Los Angeles and the the Administration haven’t lifted and its most immediate agents al rulers. These are kept loyal further decline bo come. up of day workers without even to new record heights almost has come for action to end Jim Rally in San Francisco at the a finger to defend the civil rights on one side and the colonial rev­ to imperialism by huge bribes Over 2 million people remain the sop of added compensation. (Continued on page 2) Crow now! Cow Palace on Nov. 13. of the Negro people. olution and the Soviet Union on and their own fear of the Arab unemployed by government count the other. masses. They have further been In actual money the company kept in line by imperialist ma­ offered an inferior package than The major problem now con­ neuvering with Israel's ambitions what had been secured in even fronting the U.S. government is to build a Jewish state in the the inferior General Electric how to avert a hardening of the Middle East. Imperialism plays settlement earlier. line-ups. For such hardening Automation Hastens Doom of Capitalism Israel off against the Arab rul­ would completely disrupt the However the critical issue re­ ers to keep its «way in the Mid­ The development of automa­ “ 1953-54 when telephones in­ omy continues to expand, dis­ four-day work week of eight present pattern of imperialist volves around the right and By Myra Tanner dle East. tion is by no means at its cli­ creased 4.6%, daily conversa­ placed workers can be absorbed hours a day. rule in the Middle East. freedom of the company to con­ The 15-day Congressional hear­ But everything is not working tinue its production speed-up ings on automation that opened max, but its extension into ever tions 3.8%, yet employment fell and unemployment is temporarily We welcome this demand from Imperialism has a huge stake in out according to plan. Despite without interference and hin­ Oct. 14 in Washington discussed broader sectors of the economy by 10,000 persons, and Western averted. But no technological Reuther and other labor leaders. the region. First, the Middle East setbacks, the tide of colonial drance from the union either the problem of automation ns is already inevitable as long as Electric employment by an addi­ progress ever solved the capital­ The Socialist Workers Party has is the gateway by land and sea revolution is clearly rising among from the top or from the local if it belonged to the future and the present boom continues. The tional 8,000.” (CIO News, Oct. ist boom depression cycle. In the long favored the 30-hour week from Europe to the Orient. Sec­ the Arabs in the Middle East, grievance machinery. not the present. Chairman Wright development of the economic 24.) Thirties the U.S. had the highest at 40-hours’ pay as an answer ond, this is where • a new oil just as it is steadily mounting Other corporations met this (D. Tex.), head of the Senate- crisis into the approaching de­ Similar testimony came from productivity in the world. Nev­ to the threat, of unemployment. empire has been established since among the Arabs in French problem by making concessions House Economic subcommittee, pression w ill stop the growth of representatives of other unions ertheless, the depression came But Reuther has opposed this de­ the end of World War II. North Africa. In Egypt and that the union leaders could sell explained that Congress wanted automation before it is anywhere j including the AFL Office Em­ and with it came unemployment, mand in contractual fights with The Middle East has the rich­ Syria, m ilitary leaders have to the ranks and thus in turn to know if it will be a “ curse near realizing its potentialities. ployes Union, AFL Chemical lower-living standards and the the auto barons up to now. est known stores of oil in the emerged who, though they have, secured top leadership co-opera­ or a blessing.” The effects of automation on | Workers and the United Auto ruination of the farmers and If the labor officials hope to entire world — twice as great kept the mass movement sup­ tion in damping and cutting off Automated production has al­ the working class were clearly Workers, CIO. A representative small business. realize this demand through leg­ as those of the United States. pressed, have had to give ex­ indicated by the labor officials of the Brotherhood of Railroad islative action, they should quit resistance to speed-up at the ready started on an international BOOM-BUST CYCLE Furthermore, the average oil- pression to the nationalist aspir­ point of production. Westing­ scale. Its consequences need not who testified at the subcommit­ Trainmen estimated that techno­ wasting time with the Democrats Automation only temporarily well output is the highest and ations of the Arab masses. house has chosen the course of be a matter of speculation or tee hearings. James B. Carey, logical developments have cost who haven’t even delivered on boosts production by increasing labor costs are the cheapest in The Egyptian government has a frontal attack against the theoretical inquiry. The effect of President of the CIO Electrical rail workers about 200,000 jobs the labor movement’s modest re­ profits. In the long run it sharp­ the world. As former U.S. Sec­ continuously refused to join U.S. union which gives this strike its this technological progress can Workers pointed out that “ Pro­ since 1947. quests for a minimum wage of en« the crisis of capitalism and retary of the Interior Harold sponsored m ilitary alliances. In­ national importance. already be observed and measured. duction of electrical machines As long as the capitalist econ- $1.25 and amendment of the hastens the doom of (he profit Ickes once said, “ The most im­ stead Premier Gamal Abdel Nas­ IU E ’s rival, the independent Prime Minister Eden put the jumped 87% but employment Taft-Hartley Slave Labor Act. system. Even the war economy portant fact today is that the ser backed the “ neutralist” stand United Electrical Workers join­ problem quite categorically to climbed only 20% and production They should begin the job of that has been maintained over capital of oil is no longer the of Indian Prime Minister Nehru ed the strike, calling out their the British National Lhiion of workers by only 14%.” In the building a Labor Party. Next Week two and a half decades w ill not United States; it is the Middle and actively promoted the Ban­ m embers in Westinghouse Manufacturers, Nov. 3, when he period of the most rapid techno-1 In the final analysis, socialism East.” dung conference. plants. This solidarity action of said “ the world was no longer logical advances in the electrical What’s Happening suffice (o keep production going. alone can utilize the progress of In the meantime (his war econ­ UE does not prevent the IU E on the threshold of a new age lines — 1953 through the first science for the welfare of man. HOW IMPERIALISM RULES SOVIET-EGYPT DEAL To Ford Empire? omy prevents even the tempor­ officials from continuing its of technology; it had passed half of 1955 — “ the total num­ For only under socialism w ill By Sam Marcy ary social benefit of lower prices Although U.S., British and However, the Egyptian act red-baiting attacks upon that through the door.” Eden was ber of employes in the industry I the production of goods depend that would normally result from French corporations are compet­ that has infuriated the U.S. and union even in the very midst of speaking under the pressure of declined 9% and production • solely on the needs of the peo­ increased productivity. ing fiercely for supremacy in British governments most is the the strike. the growing economic crisis in worker employment declined Analysis of Election ple. Any economic system that purchase of arms from Czecho­ 13%.” Walter Reuther, CIO president, must investigate and debate the the area, they are united in their This course only has the ef­ Great Britain — and the sharp­ Returns fear that the Arab masses will slovakia in exchange for cotton. fect of weakening the morale of ening of competition with goods Joseph A. Beirne, President of proposed, among other things, a “ curse or blessing” effect of By Farrell Dobbs rise up and take back their own The deal is estimated by the the strikers and giving aid and produced under more automated the CIO Communication Workers shorter work week with no de­ higher productivity shows by oil resources from the foreign (Continued on page 3) comfort to the union’s enemies. conditions in the United States. of America, testified that in crease in pay. He suggested a this fact alone its bankruptcy. Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, November 14, 1955 The Teen-Age The Unnatural Birth and Sudden The Honored Sex "Scandal” Death of the Progressive Party U.S. Guest By Joyce Cowley By Harry Ring italist politicians. When the U.S. and the Stalinists agreed to sup­ danger and capitalist evils to The 1956 elections will serve opened the cold war against the port “ progressive” Democratic the Wallace phrasemongers and ------By Shirley Clark ------candidates. A few weeks ago the District Attorney of Richmond as the occasion for the burial of Soviet Union, Henry Wallace, Stalinist sellout artists. At the The current visit to the United States of the Guate­ County (Staten Island) rounded up a group of teen-agers what remains of the Progressive then a cabinet member, argued The new party was launched same time, in our criticism of Party. Organized in 1948 to sup­ that from the viewpoint of the with great fanfare, with Wallace the Wallace movement, it is im­ malan dictator, Carlos Castillo Armas, has been the and made a public declaration that they had “ committed port the candidacy of Henry preservation of capitalism it was freely spouting his devotion to portant to acknowledge the va­ occasi-cn for many obscene speeches and ceremonies. He every known crime against hu-$— ------Wallace, it ran a token campaign necessary to pursue a policy of peace, the rights -of labor and lidity of many of its arguments has been wined, dined and d!aco--s> manity.” Thinking of Hiroshima quite normal at twenty-five. To for Vincent Hallinan in 1952. In conciliation with the Kremlin. the Negro people. This had un­ against the present bi-partisan rated — and paraded through the try — and Wall Street saw a and the Dachau concentration make matters as tough as pos­ the coming elections, by decision Representing at the time a m i­ doubted appeal, but the single government and its policies. streets of New York City as a chance to crush it. The United camps, I wondered what these sible, all forms of public enter­ of the Stalinists who now dom­ nority viewpoint, he was booted factor necessary to assure a These constitute a common bond great democratic hero, an inspira­ F ru it Co. dominates the economy youngsters could have done. tainment — movies, television, inate it, the remnants of the out of the cabinet by Truman. future for a real third party between us and the rank-and- tion to the “ free” world and a and feared that this business of After carefully reading the radio, comic books, popular mag­ organization will refrain from Defeated within the Democrat­ movement — the break with the file supporters of this movement defender of the “ security” of this reclaiming one’s own land might charges, I can summarize them azines — are designed to arouse running its own national ticket ic Party on the foreign policy capitalist parties by organized and differentiate our condemna­ hemisphere. become infectious and spread to as follows: drinking parties and interest in sex, as if young peo­ in order to more effectively sup­ issue, Wallace decided to throw labor — was absent. A few tion of Wallace from the utterly Dr. Grayson K'irk, president of its other central American pre­ sex. A t 16 or 17 these activities ple needed any prodding. port the Democratic Party. his hat into the Presidential ring Stalinist-dominated unions were reactionary opposition of the Columbia University, cited Armas serves. So the Arbenz government are considered criminal, but I The current issue of “ See” The manner of death of the as an independent. In this move rallied. behind Wallace, but that labor bureaucrats.” as a “ soldier who inspired his was overthrown. still fee] that the D.A. overstat­ provides a typical example. Progressive Party calls fo r an he received the unqualified sup­ was all. That common bond remains fellow citizens to overthrow the FORCE AND VIOLENCE ed his case. There’s a lead article featured' on autopsy by those who contribut­ port of the Stalinists who saw Despite Wallace’s radical dem­ today. For those genuine m ili­ rule of a desport.” The Rev. its cover: “Is Sex Hysteria Grip­ In recent months there has ed their energies to it because in it the means to further the agogy, the party was, from the tants who worked for seven Laurence J. McGinley, president What a strange thing to hear been a series of “ teen-age sex ping Our Youth?” Glancing they sincerely believed that it Kremlin policy of “ peaceful co­ viewpoint of actual program and years in an effort to build the of Fordham University, praised the Mayor of the City of New scandals” in Westchester, Long through the other articles, I could help to rally U.S. labor existence.” leadership, a capitalist splinter Progressive Party as a weapon General Castillo Armas and ex­ York and university presidents Island, and other suburban spots counted roughly fo rty pictures for a struggle against capitalist They immediately proceeded to party. Lacking a base in the of struggle against the twin cap­ plained, “ his is the only country praise a man for organizing the where opportunities are appar­ of seductive women in various war, witch hunting, Jim Crow organize the “ Gideon’s army” trade unions it constituted a poor italist parties we have the fu ll­ that has expelled a Communist overthrow of a legally elected ently greater than in crowded states of undress. Many of the and economic insecurity. Such with the multi-millionaire, ex- substitute for a labor party and est respect. The working class regime.” government by force and violence. metropolitan areas. The curious other photographs were of a U.S. citizens are imprisoned, not an autopsy w ill reveal that the Vice President cast in the role was doomed in advance to disin­ as a whole has, and will, for the Just before Armas arrived a thing about this particular in­ sadistic character. Obviously, if for overthrowing governments, death of the movement was or­ of the modern Gideon. An una­ tegration. period immediately ahead, enter $16 million pay-off to the dicta­ vestigation is how the police got there isn’t any hysteria, “ See” but for allegedly conspiring to ad­ dained by the nature of its birth bashed defender of capitalism The perfidious role of Wallace on false paths in the search for tor’s regime was announced in on to it. According to their w ill do its best to promote some. vocate such action. and that the two events are and “Americanism,” Wallace in the movement is now a mat­ the resolution of its great prob­ Washington. On Oct. 24 the Na­ story, they were on another case, Hundred^ of other magazines The difference is quite simple. directly interrelated. made no secret of the fact that ter of history. Two years after lems. This same process holds tional Planning Association urged probably some routine matter of specialize in voluptuous illustna Anything goes if it is in the in­ The Progressive Party was his primary concern was to "re­ its formation, he cynically aban­ true also for the more class the U.S. government to provide assault or robbery, when they tions and frankly provocative terests of United F ruit or other born as the result of a differ­ form” the Democratic party and doned the “ great peace crusade” conscious elements who have al­ “ extraordinary assistance” to stopped in at a luncheonette for stories. I f you’re a “ minor,” it’s U.S. Big Business concerns. ence of opinion among the cap- re-unite with it. At the outset he to support one of the foulest ready learned the nature of cap­ Guatemala to make it a “ show­ coffee. It was evidently a teen­ O.K. to read the stuff, but don’t Armas destroyed the labor move­ actions of American imperialism, italist politics and are actively case” of democratic advantages age hangout and these cops discuss it in a luncheonette. How the cruel war to keep the Kor­ seeking the means to oppose it. ment of Guatemala. He returned couldn’t help overhearing (so over eorntniunisim. can the cops tell if you’re talk ean people divided and oppres­ We firm ly believe that our Guatemalan land to the United they say) some pretty lively ing about a movie, a magazine, In order to represent this F ruit Co. He is on the side of the New Ordeal for Hiroshima Victim sed. Marxist program has been tested conversation about sex. This or maybe your private life? United Fruit Co. cutthroat as a rich and especially the Wall Street W ith Wallace’s unceremonious and confirmed by events. As gave them a wonderful idea and On a more intellectual level, a democrat a considerable amount variety. For this, “ force and departure, the Stalinists took revolutionary socialists we also they abandoned their other case recent issue of the Ladies Home of redecorating and camouflage is violence” is quite justified. over the reins of the party and believe that bureaucratic ultima- in order to concentrate on this Journal discusses “ Questions necessary. The legally constituted A ll’s fa ir in love and war. And consistently hewed to the orig­ tism is no substitute for critical interesting new material. They that Teen-Agers Really Ask government of Guatemala that in this case it’s war — war be­ inal course charted by Wallace, appraisal of experience. We do Castillo Armas overthrew is now tween the people of Latin Amer­ decided to really get the dirt on About Sex.” Having spent most that of acting as a pressure not demand, “ accept our pro­ teen-age sex crimes, of the article assuring young referred to as a “ communist ica and UiS. imperialist interests force on the Democratic party. gram forthwith or suffer damn­ The investigation took weeks people that sex feelings are nor­ regime.” No responsible observers there. Frame-ups, lies, force and To maintain the amorphous “ peo­ ation.” W ith the workers who and weeks but at last they were mal, that you shouldn’t be guilty tried to get away with this fraud violence — anything goes. And we ples” character of the move­ today support the Democratic able to charge about sixteen or ashamed, they conclude: Be at the time of the events in June, come to this — that blood-stained ment, they beat down all efforts party we proceed to discuss each young men with statutory rape sure you don’t do anything about 1854. tyrants are termed heroes, that a to include socialist planks in its experience with them and persis­ and a number of young girls it! The Victorians were at least Actually, the Arbenz govern­ dictator who was never elected by program. Their actual support tently and patiently explain the with sex delinquency. (The more consistent. They knew sex ment that was destroyed was a the people is touted a» a great of Stevenson in 1952, while spon­ need fo r a different course. strangely contradictory charac­ was a sin and that was why you mildly reformist regime, in which liberty-loving democrat, that a soring a token campaign for To those who fought in vain ter of our sex laws is illustrated should avoid it. The “ modern” the Stalinists, who only masquer­ country that has no constitution Hallinan and Bass, laid the for the independence of the PP by rape charges brought against attitude — it’s not a sin but ade as “ communists,” were a small no liberty, no unions is to be made ground for the present policy of we now urge one thing: You one young man, the prosecution avoid it anyway — is harder to minority. But the Arbenz govern­ the “ showcase” of freedom. abandoning even the fiction of have gone through an experience. being contingent upon whether explain. ment bucked the United Fruit Then let it be. Let the showcase an independent perspective. You failed to realize what you or not the g irl could get her Company and other dollar in­ reveal what capitalist democracy In February, 1948, a resolution expected from it. Study and ana­ parents’ consent to their mar­ REAL SEX CRIME terests in behalf of land reforms really is. And then let Wagner, of the Socialist Workers Party’s lyze that experience. Extract the and concessions to labor. Unions riage.) While the police are busy full lesson from it. Eisenhower and university presi­ tracking down young “ sex crim­ National Committee on the new­ won the right to existence under dents go on to prepare a similar COOL AS ICE inals,” no steps are taken in ly formed Progressive Party de­ Arbenz, land was confiscated — welcome for Franco, the fascist clared the need for “ sharp ex­ According to Asst. D.A. Cohen, cases of adult men with a rec­ the owners compensated — s< dictator of Spain. the most outrageous thing about ord of sadistic and violent acts posure of its fake ‘peace’ pro­ that Guatemalans might reap th- And finally — let’s invent a these young “ criminals” was of a sexually abnormal charac­ gram, its subservience to imper­ benefits of Guatemalan resources. completely new language so that their defiant attitude. He said ter. This is because they have ialism, its reformist panaceas, Other governments have done words may once more have some and false methods of struggle that he was questioning one girl been “ punished” with an appro­ as much without being labeled meaning. and “ you would expect her to priate jail sentence and allowed against war and capitalist dom­ “ communist” and getting over­ Soyoko Kamatsu eats lunch at Mt. Sinai Hospital, N. Y., be ashamed, to feel like crawl­ to go free, on the assumption ination. thrown. Mexico confiscated its oi where she is undergoing plastic surgery to repair scars from the ing in a hole, but she was cool that a certain number of years “ Instead of joining the Wal­ '.eso '-rces and undertook agrariar atomic explosion that leveled Hiroshima in 1945. She is one of Junkets as ice . . . There seemed to be in ja il w ill cure a diseased mind. lace party or giving it critical reform under Cardenas. India the 25 survivors being treated here. Truman, who ordered the* no guilt complex. They were Nothing happens until a partic­ support,” the resolution said, Egypt-, and many other colonial The United Press estimates that atom-bombing of Hiroshima, boasts in his recently-published tough and frank and when they ularly savage crime brings a “ we must counterpose our work­ nations have committed the same the cost of overseas trips by memoirs that he deserves'full credit for this monstrous capitalist didn’t talk, it wasn’t a matter round-up of “ known gener­ ing class program and methods “ crimes.’’ Congressmen and tbear wives of shame. I t was more a matter ates.” I f they find the right man, crime against humanity. of struggle against the war But Guatemala is a small coun­ adds up to $5 million a year. of self-preservation.” no one among the officials sug­ The New York Post com­ gests the others should be refer­ mented: “ The coolness was some­ red to hospitals for psychiatric ... Profits and Workers’ Debts thing the authorities said they treatment. The police just let ... ANTI-BIAS RULING ran into with most of the them go until next time. (Continued from page 1) mandatory down payments were girls.” It seems natural that a I don’t have a solution to all (Continued from page 1) terests to keep the Negroes monthly. Recently this indebted­ increased. girl might be a bit chilly toward these problems but as a first Department w ith the colonial confined to ghettoes. ness climbed above total savings, Mortgage bankers now predict The 100th anniversary of Debs’ minutes at the City College a police official prying into the step I would suggest that they be peoples of Asia and Africa. In Private enterprise has built marking a new sign of the times. fewer new homes w ill be built birthday was celebrated by the Campus. We have been selling intimate details of her life. taken out of the hands of the their revolutionary drive to win 9,000,000 new houses since 1935, •Buyers of new homes owe some next year becau-se government Socialist Workers Party in all out our bundle every week.” These young people probably Police Dept, and referred to peo­ political and economic indepen­ and just 100,000 have gone to $79 billion in unpaid mortgages. restrictions on housing credit are parts of the “ We have sold approximately haven’t read any psychology and ple who have training and ex­ dence these peoples have seized Negroes. Although many North­ U ntil recently these purchases creating a ‘“tight sales market.” country. This twenty Militants each for the may not know what “vicarious” perience in this type of work upon the treatment of Negroes ern states have laws prohibiting were often made with little or no Auto dealers are also complain­ celebration coin­ past three weeks,” writes San means. They just figui-e the cops Confused teen-agers might get in the U.S. in order to expose segregation in schools, the down payment and the mortgages ing about the recent credit restric­ cides with the Francisco’s Joan Jenkins, “ at get a kick out of a case like some help from a psychologist the undemocratic nature of Wall schools are in fact segregated, scheduled to be paid o ff in 30 tions. Already holding large M ilitant sub cam­ housing projects, open street this. or an intelligent counseling ser­ Street’s rule at home and abroad. because Negroes are confined to years. Additional consumer debt stocks of used cars from trade-ins paign, and W ini- sales and some door to door In our society, teen-agers are vice. Sadists and dangerous per­ Desegregation measures in the definite residential areas. These from general installment buying on 1955 models, they are now fred Nelson sales in the Fillmore district. in a very difficult spot. Although verts should be treated by physi­ armed forces and the Supreme schools, as a recent study made and other credit arrangements being flooded with 1956 models. writes from the One of our youngest salesmen adults are supposed to be more cians or confined to hospitals for Court decisions against Jam in New York City by a com­ stands currently above $34 b il­ To make the necessary sales they Twin Cities : sold on her very first time out mature and to have more self- the mentally ill. Crow have been designed to dis­ mittee of- the Public Education lion, a jump of over $5 billion in must accept low down payments “ Debs is a 40 of the first big T ill issue. One control, the antiquated sex laws We live in a society that dis­ arm the criticism of the colon­ Association shows, are generally a year. and grant long terms for full well-known, well­ of our friends who usually has in our statute books are rarely torts and inhibits the develop­ ial masses. inferior to those for white stu­ Payments on mortgages and payment. To do so they need easy loved name in trouble selling because of shy­ dents. invoked against them. But if ment of human beings, where But while forced to grant re­ installment debts — presently credit. this area, partic­ ness was on Fillmore Street in you’re sixteen or seventeen, you Racial violence — as in Trum­ their normal feelings find no forms, 'Big Business has no in­ running at $38 billion a year — From these symptoms it can be ularly with it being the railroad the heart of a working class may spend years in a reform bull Park in Chicago — backs outlet and their physical and tention of wiping out the Jim are the biggest single item in the seen that attempts to curb the center it is. A t the Debs meeting shopping district. A man going school for activities considered up the determination of real emotional needs are not met, Crow system. On the contrary, consumer budget after food and inflationary pressures soon imply we sold our entire supply of by in a bus casually glanced at Then, when their behavior devi­ estate interests to confine Ne­ shelter. Despite all the payments, the impairment of production. The books on Debs, single copies of the big headline about Emmett the capitalist rulers of America groes to certain slum areas. And ates from what an arbitrary require racial segregation and however, the outstanding total immediate form of impending the Militant, as well as some T ill, did a quick double-take and the police connive with the hood­ capitalist crisis tends to shift authority considers “ moral,” they discrimination as a means of personal debt continues to climb. subs. Helen Sherman has been jumped up to get off. He man­ lums. from the threat of runaway prices are branded as criminals and dividing the working class in Indeed the rate of debt increase doing excellent neighborhood aged to get o ff at the next The alternation of gains and BOOKS sent to jail. The responsibility order to oppress and exploit it. has outstripped the rise in per­ to the danger, of rising unemploy­ work. She sold eight papers on block and he walked back to set-backs leads the Negro people ment. Such symptoms of a fun­ and guilt for sex problems be­ That is why the Supreme Court sonal income. her route and a sub to a new buy the Militant. A brand new to pose a fundamental question: damental crisis have grown so longs to society itself, not to the decisions banning Jim Crow are With people thus being thrust reader. Alice Nelson and -I sold salesman went out to a project Is Jim Crow really on the way severe that capitalism can no teen-agers who are its victims. le ft to a great extent unen­ deeper into debt all the time any thirteen papers in our neighbor­ we have covered consistently fo r AND out in the U. S. today? sag in personal income quickly longer dream of functioning in its forced. hood work as well as a new sub, years and sold 36 papers. On the A fte r the court decisions plac­ threatens the family with an once-normal manner. and Charles Haddon sold ten third week of T ill sales five peo­ Just the same, the desegrega­ ing the constitution on the side economic crisis. Without inflationary govern­ papers to his railroad buddies. PAMPHLETS tion rulings represent genuine ple went out and sold 120 papers Detroit Fri. Night of desegregation, every road­ A new danger to the fam ily ment spending fo r arms the The rest of our papers were victories for the Negro people as well as a sub.” block thrown by racists in the budget and further signs of in­ present peak employment would sold at the Forum or in the box by Socialist Forum who, supported by their white path of achieving equality, every flationary pressure are found in tumble overnight. The 1953-54 in front of the Labor 'Book • allies in the working class, as­ JAMES P. 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Sukhanov, Oxford University Press, Three Revolutionary Leaders to October completely refuted 1955, 668 pp., $10. this schema, just as Trotsky had theoretically refuted it as early By Murry Weiss as 1904. Labor's Political Picket Line The translator and editor of this book, Joel Carmichael, For those who rtvay think that remarks in his preface that Sukhanov’s memoirs “ must a study of Sukhanov’s book is of be one of the most completely forgotten books in con­ no interest to American workers, AFL President George Meany, speaking enemy that is attacking on the political we offer this interesting fact. at the opening of the new, ornate Team­ front? He tells us labor “ will endorse temporary history.” This is not■s- oiily up to the time when it was The American labor bureaucrats, correct. Leon Trotsky in his ster’s Washington, D. C., headquarters, liberal and progressive candidates from necessary to carry it into action.’’ like the Russian Mensheviks, are masterpiece, The History of the used the occasion to present his view's on all parties.” To show his rugged inde­ In reading Sukhanov himself also convinced that the workers Russian Revolution, has numerous pendence, he insists that labor will not one almost gets the impression can never and should never be­ the political tasks of the merging AFL- citations from Sukhanov’s book that he agreed with Trotsky’s ap­ come the political power in this CIO. subjugate itself to any political party. (originally in seven volumes) and praisal of him. From the begin­ country. They don’t even believe What nonsense! discusses at length the psycho- We w'ere glad to note his implicit ning to the end of his recollec­ the workers should form their logical-ipolitioal tyipe Sukhanov recognition that unions will have to solve Everyone knows that the CIO and AFL tions, which cover the period from own independent political party. represented. their problems by political action. Meany bureaucrats are thick as thieves with the February to October, 1917, (old Like the Sukhanovs of 38 y&ars ago, they see themselves as a go- says the “ scene of battle is no longer the Democratic machine. If some Democrats A whole generation of students style calendar) he reveals with are too odiously anti-labor for even these of the Russian revolution, educat­ the utmost frankness the traits between, enlightened representa­ company plant or picket line. It has moved ed by Trotsky, are thus fam iliar tives of the workers, wftio, if only lieutenants of the Democratic Party, that that characterized the leadership into the legislative halls of Congress and with Sukhanov’s Notebook which of the revolution in its first the rank and file don’t kick over the state legislatures.” doesn’t change Meany’s basic strategy — was firs t published in the Soviet stage. the traces, can reason with, and to transform the great power of the U.S. Union in 1922, The publication of even manipulate, the more respon­ It would be more correct to say that the Sukhanov was not officially in labor movement into a vote-catching ap­ this volume in English, containing sible and intelligent American scene of battle has been extended to Con­ the Menshevik party until after paratus for the Democratic Party. roughly half of the original work, the revolution of 1917 had begun. capi-talislts. gress. But the question is how and why the is a Wellcome addition to the body Thus Reuther, for example, „ Witness the fact that the news reports During the war he considered trade union struggle has become a political of literature on the greatest social himself an internationalist, and Three of the Bolshevik leaders, Trotsky (left) Lenin (center) thinks he has annulled the law of Meany’s speech do not even mention struggle — and how shall it be conducted ? upheaval in human history. thereby opposed to the majority and Kamenev are discussed at length in Sukhanov’s book of the class struggle and replaced civil rights. Yet this question, especially When Trbtsky first quotes Suk­ of the Mensheviks (night wing (reviewed on this page). Lenin and Trotsky led the revolution to it with his skill as a clever Big Business chose the political battle since the Till lynching, has been in the hanov in his History, he explains, socialists) who, like the Social workers’ power in ¡October, 1917. negotiator. He firm ly believes ground and has managed to completely “ We have referred to Sukhanov Democrats in Europe betrayed that if the Workers leave every­ very forefront of American politics. Only thing to him and his machine he dominate the field. Neither the former a week before his speech, Democratic fo r a reason. In the firs t period their principles and supported soldiers, Sukhanov is depressed,' the people’s revolution had al­ Democratic administration, nor the present the inspirer of the Executive their respective fatherlands as at a loss, frightened and con­ ready developed to its fu ll extent. w ill teach the capitalists how to bigwigs decided to forego any action on This bourgeoisie of ours le ft no give concessions — in their own Democratic Congress, changed that. With Committee (of the Soviet) was. . . soon as war broke out. fused. He is fearful of the “lower civil rights or the Taft-Hartley law in thus very Sukhanov, a man, gen­ The extent of Sukhanov’s in­ depths.” He has no confidence in room for doubt as to it® goals.” interests of course. fabulous profits coming in, the capitalists order to maintain unity with the Dixie- erally speaking, totally unsuited ternationalism, however, can be himself. Only when the leaders of Knowing this, Sukhanov still Sukhanov’s personal record is, didn’t want to provoke strikes by refusing crats. Meany didn’t utter even a complaint fo r revolutionary leadership. gauged by the fact that the the capitalist class decide to yield breathed his sigh of relief when in a way, an advanced textbook on the psychology and social philo­ a few concessions to the unions. They about this. Semi-Narodnik, semi-Marxist, a moment the revolution against to his entreaties and take the the capitalists announced they conscientious observer rather Czarism broke out he was ready power — away from the workers would take power. Everything sophy of our own Labor bureau­ preferred to shift their offensive to Big Business opened its offensive was now in order, he felt. The cracy. Since the inevitable radi- politics where they are strong and labor than a statesman, a journalist to install the Russian capitalists and soldiers — does this “ social­ against labor on the legislative front. bather than a revolutionist, a in power, knowing they would ist” feel joy and peace “in all his Ship of revolution had “ acquired calizaticm of the American work­ has nothing. Meany proposes to lead the battle — by rationalizer rather than- a jour­ continue the imperialist war to being.” stability and obedience” — now ing class w ill, at its very firs t The capitalists chose to reinforce their remaining in the left flank of the enemy’s nalist — he wla's capable of stand­ the last drop Of workers and It isn’t that Sukhanov is unintel­ that the counter-revolutionary upsurge, come into collision with union-busting program with anti-labor ing by a revolutionary conception peasants’ blood. ligent. In his own way he under­ liberal bourgeoisie had taken the this bureaucracy, we should learn ranks. Out of such “ battles” labor will get stands the nature of this Russian helm. all we can, from every source, legislation. The unions, as a result, have nothing. Company unions never won vic­ capitalist class to whom he was A ll of the theoretical arguments about the species. been confronted with a barrage of reac­ tories for the workers on the picket line. The “Sukhanov Type” handing the power in the name of the Russian Mensheviks to sup­ It is one of the ironies of his­ tionary laws from the Taft-Hartley “Slave Neither will capitalist politics stop the b f the self-appointed Soviet lead­ port this kind of treachery boiled tory that a man like Sukhanov, Labor" law to the state’s “ Right-to-Scab” anti-labor offensive in legislation, let alone Sukhanov is of great interest their lives. They possessed un­ ers. He writes, “'Our bourgeoisie, down to one central idea: the by u n fittin g ly giving us a deeper usual talents and used them' in insight into the labor bureaucrat laws. win some political benefits for the work­ to us because the traits he ex­ unlike others, betrayed the peo­ workers were incapable of taking pressed are by no means in­ the struggle to build a Russian ple not the day after the over­ power and if they did they as a social type, w ill help educate If, with a few tragic exceptions, the ing class. labor movement under difficult Wouldn’t be able bo hold it. This the revolutionary cadres of this dividual; he merely articulated turn but even before the overturn unions can’t be broken on the picket line and dangerous conditions. In this incapacity of the working class generation. For this, at least, The picket line is extended to the poli­ them with greater intellecitbal took place; it hadn’t started a they were often indistinguishable they ascribed to Russia’s back­ we should be grateful to him. at this stage, the bosses, through their tical scene. Then let’s keep our ranks force and frankness. revolution with the intention of Control of the government, can hog-tie the from the Bolsheviks — for a long turning against the people at an wardness, the imm aturity of a [First, of series of review straight. Labor can form its own party and The ‘‘Sukhanov type” is a social period of time. unions, tangle them up in litigation, opportune moment, but had been proletariat in a country that was articles. Watch for next install­ rally the small farmers, the oppressed type. It is representative of that But the unusual conditions of dragged by the hair [by the Suk­ just emerging from medievalism ment: Can the Working Class demoralize and distract them with witch minorities — the majority of the people social strata known as the petty Clzarist oppression and the under­ hanovs!] Into the movement when and embarking on a capitalist Take State Power?] hunts, and get them ready for the future — behind a program that will benefit the bourgeoisie or middle class. More ground revolutionary movement precisely it is that element which ggve way to the democratic con­ kill. majority instead of the Big Business passes from the middle class into So how does Meany propose to meet the ditions ushered in by the Feb­ profiteers. the ranks of the labor bureau­ ruary revolution. The true char­ cracy. The specific Russian type, ... Mid-East acter of every political tendency before the October revolution, had of the working class began to (Continued from page 1) many qualities which marked stand out in bold relief against State Department at $100 mil­ Send Federal Troops to Mississippi them o ff from the hreed of labor the background of the open arena lion. bureaucrats in Western countries. of the class struggle in the course In addition, according to Jo­ MARGARET’S DECISION not discriminates against the Tamil The stubborn refusal of the federal gov­ sion and publicly proclaimed their decision These differences, however, of a titanic revolution. It was seph C. Harsch, writing in the to marry Group Capt. Peter population whereas a bi-lingual ernment to intervene in the Till case has that it does not apply to them. “ Law en­ Were not fundamental. The Rus­ dqring this period that the fatal Nov. 5 Christian Science Moni­ Townsend “ has strengthened the state w ill help forge unity in exposed its criminal and deliberate failure forcement” , agencies .have, openly, .joined in sian Menshevik leaders. were flaw of Menshevism — discerned to r, conclusion, is imminent of position of the monarchy,” , ac­ the struggle against imperial­ to enforce the United States Constitution. the hounding and killing of Negro leaders devoted revolutionary opponents so accurately and early by Lenin an agreement whereby the Soviet cording to Benjamin Welles;..re-: ism. of Cziarism fo r a good part of — became manifest. government would build a $600 porting from England in the * * « The shameful whitewash of the lynchers who spoke out for the rights of their peo­ Nov. 6 N.Y. Times. Whether or of young Emmett Till, as every one well million dam on the Nile River to THAT THE LONARDI RE­ ple. The time is clearly at hand to enforce provide electric power and ir r i­ not this is really so, it was the GIME faces a serious crisis in knows, was not an isolated miscarriage of the law in Mississippi and nothing less The Middle Class and Revolution gation for Egypt. intention of the lords of British its dealings with organized labor imperialism to win prestige for justice. The exoneration of the killers was then the presence of the force of arms can That flaw, as we have already the world socialist movement. These developments have caus­ is made clear by the Nov. 5 made possible by the power of a vast Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, ed Walter Lippmann, one of the the crown by Margaret's exhibi­ Business Week. Lonardi is seek­ compel the racist rulers of that state to mentioned, was the essentially tion of “ sacrifice to duty.” The criminal conspiracy. In open defiance of obey the law. They have themselves clearly Luxemburg and others, had most astute of Wall Street jour­ ing to impose an “ austerity” middle-class character of their nalists, to wail: “After all that Times of London — an ex­ the Constitution the rulers of Mississippi declared so. middle-class origin. But more program on the nation. His ad­ radicalism. Modern society is often the radicalized middle class has been done to ‘contain’ the tremely conservative newspaper visor is Raul Prebisch, Argen­ have been waging a ruthless campaign to It is necessary for the organized move­ divided into two basic social supplies hordes of careerists and Soviet Union by a series of — expressed “ gratitude” to the tine economist who was fired by deprive the Negro people of their legal ment of the Negro people and the trade classes, the industrial working seif-appointed leaders wiho swarm pacts set up on its southern princess for taking the “ selfless Peron. Prebisch’s recommenda­ rights. unions to launch a powerful mass campaign class and the capitalists. The into the workers organizations, flank [the Latest includes Eng­ royal way,” and the Roman tion is to reverse the Peronist It is the sworn responsibility of the middle class, that numerous con­ particularly when they are in land, Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Catholic Universe cited her de­ program — which called for sub­ to compel the federal authorities to in­ glomeration of small farmers, cision as one “ in the highest federal authorities to smash that illegal tervene at once in Mississippi. Nothing less formation, grab posts, f ill the Pakistan], the Soviet Union has sidies to Argentine-owned indus­ shopkeepers, their educated sons committees, and talk everybody jumped right over the whole traditions of the monarchy.” The try — by giving first. priority to conspiracy and to ensure the Negro people will get them to act. and daughters, clerks, teachers, down. containing structure and has monarchy is a symbol of British agriculture in rebuilding the the rights guaranteed them by the law. By their whole record the Congress and journalists, professionals, foremen Such was the case in the early landed behind it . . . at the stra­ imperialism and could in a per­ economy and inducing foreign The reign of terror against the Negro peo­ the administration have demonstrated and in general the functionaries Soviet organization of the Feb­ tegic center of the Mediterran­ iod of social crisis become a ral­ capital to make the investments ple has reached the stage where it is and brain workers of capitalism, ruary revolution. The radical ean and the Middle East.” (N.Y. lying point fo r reaction. Genuine the country needs. The pro-agri­ their tacit support of the Mississippi ter­ vacilate in their social conscious­ socialists in England favor the mandatory on Washington to intervene rorists. An FBI which leaps into action petty bourgeois type came into Herald Tribune, Nov. 5.) And culture program — favoring the ness between the workers and the Soviets in droves and “ joined” he calls for an “agonizing reap­ abolition of the monarchy. big landowners — confronts the with its full powers to uphold the Con­ (and headlines) when a white child is capitalists. the revolution which had been praisal” of U.S. policy in the * * * working class with new inflation. stitution. Federal troops must be dis­ kidnaped stubbornly refuses to budge They are incapable of inde­ made in the streets by the Bol­ Middle East and a big program THE COMMUNIST PARTY The General Confederation of patched to Mississippi to protect the lives, when a Negro youth is kidnaped, blud­ pendent struggle against Big shevik-trained factory workers of of financial aid to Egypt and OF THE SOVIET UNION has Labor charged adoption of the property and,civil rights of the million geoned and shot to death. Congress over Business — and yet, with the the Vyborg district of Petrograd. other Arab regimes. set the date fo r its 20th Con­ Prebisch program violates Lon- Negroes who are living under a tyrannical the years has refused to pass anti-lynch decline of capitalism, they feel The Social Revolutionary and Lippmann’s chagrin does not gress on Feb. 14, 1956, according ardi’s promise not to undermine the brutal whip of the monopol­ Menshevik parties became the mean that imperialism is on the to a recent issue of Pravda. The the power of organized labor. and bloody dictatorship of the white and anti-poll tax laws. The office of the ists. Under the impact of social pole of attraction for this strata. way out in the Middle East. supremacists. agenda was adopted last July * * * President has remained silent as a tomb crisis they can become extremely These parties also recruited the Neither the Kremlin bureaucrats and w ill consist of (1) Report For too long the Mississippi rulers have in the face of wholesale trampling on the radical. But as a class they can mass of uneducated soldiers, nor the Egyptian rulers want to ARGENTINE WORKERS of the Central Committee, with went on strike last week after openly defied the law. With arms in hand laws it so piously defends in words. never rise above their inter­ (peasants in uniform) and the oust imperialism. They want only Khrushchev as reporter; (2) Re­ mediate position'. Given firm just-awakened stratas of the to deal with it on more favor leaders of the General Confeder­ they have prevented the Negro people from Force Washington to act! Demand that port of the Central Revision Com­ ation of Labor (C.G.T.) cancel­ leadership from the working working class. Before Bolshevism able terms. The Stalinists seek mission of tlhe OPSU (a newly or­ going to the polls. They have mocked the it send federal troops to uphold the Con­ class, sections of the petty bour­ had its turn, the masses had to to break up the military alli­ led a general strike call. In the Supreme Court’s school-integration deci­ stitution in Mississippi! ganized commission), with P. G. industrial city of Avellaneda, geoisie become powerful allies of pass through a bitter experience ances against them and possibly Moskatov — a new power in the near Buenos Aires, almost all the revolutionary struggle against with these parties. gain access to Middle Eastern Stalinist hierarchy and chairman meat-packing, tire, match and capitalism. Without workers In this way a man like Suk­ oil. The Egyptian army caste of the commission — as reporter; glass factories were closed by leadership they supply the mass hanov was suddenly lifted to wants more power in the Middle (3) “ Directives of the 29th Con­ 100% “ absenteeism” according Two Supreme Court Decisions support fo r fascism. prominence and found himself East and concessions made to gress on the Sixth Five-Year to observers. “ Absenteeism” was The radical youth of the middle playing a key part in the political the Egyptian capitalist class. Plan,” with Bulganin as report­ estimated at 65% throughout The difference between the Supreme pelled to issue direct, positive decisions on class can break individually with machinations between the Soviet However, the crisis of thé er; and (4) Election of central Court’s action last week on segregation Jim Crow because of the organized pres­ their class and join whole­ leaders and the liberal capitalists present imperialist pattern of the country. The Lonardi Gov­ xidies of the party. The 19th ernment took over the CGT’s heartedly in the proletarian strug­ — hammering out, as he was fond rule in the Middle East prom­ Congress was held in October, and its action on federal housing loyalty sure of the Negro people coupled with papers, La Prensa and El Lider, gle. The founders and leaders of of saying, “ high policy.” ises to bring the Arab workers 1952, a few months before iStalin oaths are part of a pattern worth careful world opinion. There has been no significant in order to prevent any mention and peasants into the struggle. died. consideration. trend of the Negro people to interpret These masses under revolution­ * * * of the strikes. Lonardi, himself, took over negotiations with the Both court actions are certainly wel­ favorable court decisions as a token that While Workers Fought on Streets ary leadership can end imperial­ OVER ONE MILLION RUHR leader of the CCi, wihose come. In outlawing the segregation o f Ne­ they can relax their efforts. On the con­ couriers to the Czar to negotiate ist rule in the region forever. métal workers in West Germany While the Petrograd workers membership numbers six million. groes into “separate but equal” parks, golf trary, the Negro people, despite con­ were conquering Czarism by w in­ some scheme for saving the may go on strike this month in clubs and beaches it gave an additional servative leadership, have seized upon ning over the soldiers during five monarchy. When it was clear that an effort to win higher wages. * * * days of huge street demonstra­ the game was up, and thlat the The Union of Metal Workers in IN JAPAN, Left and Right weapon to the Negro people in the fight each legal decision and utilized it as a monarchy was utterly destroyed ANEW powerful weapon to push forward their tions, Sukhanov and his friends North Rhine-Westphalia ordered Wing Socialists joined to form to abolish Jim Crow. were at a loss. In his book, recol­ by the revolution, Miliukov, the a strike ballot following break­ a reunited Socialist Party. A By refusing to review the decision of struggle towards the final destruction of lecting those days, Sukhanov leader of the Russian bourgeoisie Important down of negotiations. Workers split occurred in 1951 between the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which had segregation. The very logic of this ap­ says, “ My dejection at being in came to Sukhanov and said, “ A want raises to make up fo r loss the two groups over the 1951 •ruled against the practice of requiring proach tends to force one favorable de­ the miserable position of an decision has been reached, we’re Pamphlet in real wages through sharply San Francisco Peace Treaty. “ anti-subversive” oaths from federal hous­ cision to breed another. observer of great events reached taking the power. . .” rising prices. The Left-W ing opposed signing its lowest depths.” “ I didn’t ask who this ‘we’ was,’’ of the treaty by the Japanese ing occupants, the high court placed a new In contrast to this, the legal limitations But Sukhanov came to life the Sukhanov says, “ I didn’t ask any­ government and also opposed re­ Egypt THE LANKA SAMA SAMA- restraint on the witch hunt. on the witch hunt have not derived from moment the frightened bour- thing further. But in all my being, arming Japan. The Right-wing "A People Rising” JA PARTY, Ceylonese Section The different manner in which the mass pressure on the courts. American geoisife emerged from hiding, and as they say, I sensed a new and socialists voted fo r the treaty, of the Fourth International and the leaders of t)he Menshevik and favorable position of the revolu­ although they oppofeed continued Supreme Court enacted the two decisions capitalism has been compelled to postpone By Abu Hashim largest working class party in Social Revolutionary parties tion. . . I felt that the ship of the stationing of U.S. troops in Jap­ is of more than legal significance. World War III and consequently to ease the country, is waging a militant began to “ take initiative,” ap­ revolution, tossed about in those an. The united party now holds the cold war tension. That is the primary 42 pages 25 cents campaign fo r the adoption of On the segregation issue, the court took pointing themselves to the top hours by a squall and at the the largest number of members Sinhalese and Tamil as two of­ positive action, declaring the practice un­ reason why they have taken steps to curb committees of the Soviets while mercy of the elements, had spread in the Diet (Parliament), with Pioneer Publishers ficial languages of Ceylon. About constitutional. However, on the loyalty the “excesses” of the witch hunt while at the revolutionary fighting was its sails, acquired stability and the Left-wing having a majority two-thirds of the population oath question the court deliberately the same time taking extreme care not to Still in process. obedience to the helm in the midst 116 University Place of the Socialist representatives. of the buffetings of the terrible speak Sinhalese and the rest refrained from expressing its own opinion. eliminate its basic structure. He found his place as a “ cog New York 3, N.Y. in these events” by running back storm, and had taken a definite Tamil. In 1938, the LSSP be­ Instead it upheld the action of the Wis­ As the Negro people have done in the and forth between the two wings course. . . The gear was all in came the first party to demand The American Civil Liberties consin court through the device of refusing field of civil rights, so must the civil of the Tauride Palace where the order, the engines were begin­ that government business be a review. This leaves the issue unsettled. liberties movement seize upon each partial liberal capitalists and Soviet Ex­ ning to turn over; the only thing conducted in the native tongue Union monthly newsletter re­ of the people instead of in Eng­ ports: “ There is now at least This kind of evasion of constitutional legal concession and use it as a weapon to ecutive Committees met. needed was skilful navigation.” For only $1.25 you can get a Here is the self-portrait cf the lish. The capitalist UNP and one desegregated gambling es­ issues involved in the witch hunt has char­ smash away at the basic foundation of the ■Sukhanov recounts one of the one-year subscription to the most self-revealing episodes of soul of petty-bourgeois radical­ Marxist quarterly, Fourth In­ the Stalinists now say they fa­ tablishment in Las Vegas where acterized the decision of a number of witch hunt as a whole. Failure to do so this period: During the firs t days ism. As long as the revolution is ternational, 116 University PL, ctor this program, but want to a Negro can lose his money as federal courts in recent months. can leave the door open to an ominous of the revolution the capitalist in the hands of those who are New York 8, N . Y. make only Sinhalese the official quickly and comfortably as any We believe the Courts have been com­ revitalization of McCarthyism. liberals were busy dispatching fighting for it, the workers and language. This, says the LSSP, white man.” The Negro Struggle rut ' By George Lavan ------M illTANT VOLUME XIX MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1955 NUMBER 46 The Work of Madmen? ■■ M The daily press brings news of more NAACP brought this case to light. violent deaths of Negroes in the country Are these murders the actions of de­ where King Jim Crow reigns openly and mented individuals? Many liberals in the unashamedly. North in their shock and revulsion at the How the Boss Press Functions in a Strike In Heathsville, Virginia, 23-year-old violence of Jim Crow would have us be­ Howard Bromley was cold-bloodedly shot lieve that is the case. By Henry Gitano ®- (■»broke out as the demonstrators smashing formula did the fo l­ marched on about 100 nonstrik­ lowing: Organized a large “vol­ to death by one of the town’s leading citi­ Yet that simple and easy explanation The Big Business press had a field day in falsifying labor news National Guard Still There ers inside the plant. The non- untary police force to maintain zens. His “ crime,” according to the Sheriff, hides and distorts what is actually taking during the last few months strikers apparently opened fire “ law and order.” Emphasized was being too “ familiar” with the white place. while reporting the brutal shoot­ first.” This was published in the the violence pf pickets wherever man. The murderers turn out to be leading ing of peaceful pickets by com­ Washington Post, btit the cru­ possible. Organized a back-to- About the same time a Negro lad of 12, pany-armed scabs at the Perfect cial last sentence, vanished in work movement, using extensive and respectable citizens of their towns. AP 9tories carried in other pa­ advertising on a “right to work” reported missing by his family, was found They are the solid-citizen type who have Circle foundry in New Castle, Indiana, Oct. 5. The newspaper pers. Subsequent reports that the theme. Staged a dramatic re­ a week later — a corpse on the private a stake in the economic structure of the ■overage of this event and its firing originated inside the plant, opening of struck plants. There­ driveway of a plantation in Mississippi. South. And they, as well as their neighbors, aftermath should be compiled in were acknowledged w ith the ex­ after, intensified the show of The case was “closed” by the Sheriff there are actually outraged at the wide atten­ a book with the title : How the planation that the scabs were police force. Finally, with plants with the verdict of death by a “ hit and run tion and indignation these crimes arouse Free Press operates. afraid they were going to be operating at near-capacity with slaughtered, even though they newly hired workers, it suddenly driver.” The mother charges that her son not only in the North but over the entire “ A shouting, shooting mob of 5,000 sympathy demonstrators were armed and most of the city stopped all publicity. The 1955 was murdered. The family says the lad world. marched on the struck Perfect cops were within the fortress­ version of the Mohawk Valley was accused of being “ too friendly” with Violence, including the murder of Circle .Corp. foundry today and like foundry — and the pickets Formula is the Perfect Circle a white girl. Negroes, is part of the pattern of racial eight persons, including a wom­ were unarmed. Formula. There is nothing new in these latest segregation. As this segregation is an, were shot.” Thus read the The commercial press took its cue from Clyde Hoffman, PC SCABS VOTE cases of terror following the Till case. This threatened by legal victories of the Negro Associated Press story published by the New York World Tele­ attorney, who arrogantly said: Perfect Circle Corp. after arm­ has been going on for some time and the people in the high courts, the white gram, October 5. The AP ser­ “ What do you expect those peo­ ing scabs and provoking violence only thing that is new is the fact that supremacists of the South seek to frus­ vices 1,000 American dailies ple to do. Lie down and be in order to enlist the National reports are breaking into the press and trate these gains by the weapons of their reaching most newspaper read­ slaughtered? They thought they Guard’s aid to break the strike, receiving wider attention. There are a system. ers. were protecting their lives. We is now using the Taft-H artley were attacked, we were besieged.” law in its attempt to smash the number of reasons for this, but immedi­ No, it is not madmen or depraved goons The Indianapolis News printed a special dispatch, saying: “ Eight The Chicago Tribune remained union. Under the Taft-H artley ately it is because Southern Negroes are who do the killing down South. It is the persons were shot today in a intransigent, facts to the con­ law decertification elections are refusing to keep quiet and accept these cold-blooded supporters of Jim Crow pitched battle between city po­ National Guard troops (above) check car carrying scabs into trary notwithstanding, its eight being held in which scabs vote, acts of terror. In the Virginia murder over segregation from which the open-shop lice and an estimated 5,000 sym­ strikebound New Castle, Ind., plant after m artial law was column streamer proclaimed, while strikers are barred. 100 of the murdered man’s neighbors Southern economy gains so much. They pathy demonstrators outside the declared following the shooting of pickets by armed scabs. State “ Troops Move in CIO Riot.” The press did its part in the troopers .were brought in ostensibly to end violence but they “5,000 Goons Storm Plant; Eight interest of the open-shop cru­ gathered in an angry crowd before the kill with the simple slogan of Mathew strike-plagued Perfect Circle plant.” In bold face, it printed reopened plant and prevented picketing. Although martial law Shot in Gun Battle.” The T rib­ sade by contriving headlines county courthouse. This made news. County, Georgia, whites on their lips: a scoop: “ State police reported was lifted Oct. 20 guardsmen still remain in New Castle to help une w riter with an adequate about imaginary violence of the In Mississippi the protests of the family “ The bottom rail ain’t never gonna be the here a man was killed in today’s break strike of UAW-CIO w'orkers. knowledge of which side his auto workers and their sympa­ and the intervention of the Mississippi top rail.” fracas around the Perfect Circle bread was buttered on, declared thizers, thereby helping enlist in his lead, “ A t least eight per­ the National Guard for strike­ Corp. foundry in New Castle.” New Castle’s Courier Times, police officials estimated the The Baltimore Evening Sun sons suffered gunshot wounds breaking. I t gave widespread _ \ in type reserved fo r the Second demonstrators at 1,000, not 5,000. when 5,000 CIO strikers and publicity to the declaration of had an AP story, under an eight Coming of the Saviour, heralded: The Wild West dynamite threat sympathizers stormed the struck martial law for the protection column streamer: “ 5,000 Battle “ 6 Shot As Mob Storms P.C.” was too much even for those Perfect Circle Corp. foundry.” and encouragement of scabs, Notes from the News Police In Indiana Strike; 8 iShot.” The local story said: “ An at­ who substitute fiction for fact, The Tribune insisted that “ there Now, with production resumed The story elaborated that “ five tempt by strikers of the Perfect when it suits their purpose, and demonstrators were wounded as was disagreement as to which under the shadow of National W. AVERELL HARRIMAN is described by the Circle Co. aided by more than was never repeated. AUTO MECHANICS AND SERVICERS, mem­ city police fired from inside the side fired first.” Guard bayonets, it is doing Per­ New York Times analyst, reviewing 1956 presi­ bers of Local 259 CIO United Auto Workers are 2,000 CIO workers from several The AP’s stories about an “ at­ The Washington Star in an plant.” states to storm the gates of the fect Circle’s dirty work by dential possibilities, as a “ scion of one of Amer­ out on strike against new car dealers in New tack” on the plant by “shooting” indignant editorial on “ Mob clamping a powerful conspiracy plant shortly after 10 A.M. re­ ica’s ‘sixty tap families.’ ” The designation comes York City. Their contract expired last July 1 and DYNAMITE THREAT strikers, stuck through the after­ Rule,” talked of “ mobsters” of silence on the corporation’s sulted in the most serious riot from the famous book by Ferdinand Lundberg they have not been able to negotiate a new one. noon of Oct. 5 and into some of among the auto workers and de­ use of Washington’s legal heavy An eight column head in the in the history of the city.’’ which says “ The United States .is owned and Workers protest that while the big corporations Indianapolis Times, said: “ 5 or the morning papers the next manded to know where was In­ artillery — the Taft-Hartley dominated today by a hierarchy of its sixty richest are squeezing the dealer's, that is no reason for 6 Reported Shot in Burst of Thus a reader of the Oct. 5 day. The Wall Street Journal’s diana’s law and order. The New law. families . . . the living center of the modern news stories would picture a story of Oct. 6 persisted in the dealers to squeeze them. They are striking New Castle Strike Violence,” York Times saw fit to print a While vigorously editorializing oligarchy which dominates the United States. . . wild mob of 5,000 shooting, for a base rate increase of from $82 to $95 for with the sensational sub-head: labeling the demonstrators as page-one story On Oct. 6 about on the glories of freedom of the I t is the government of money in a dollar democ­ shouting strikers in pitched bat­ “ shooting marchers.” “ State po­ regular .mechanics and a proportionate increase in “Threat to Dynamite Plant 5,000 rock throwing demonstrat­ press, the capitalist newspapers racy.” tle with cops, ready to dynamite piece rates fo r men on that system, two more paid Told.” The Times reporter dram­ lice,” they reported, “ closed the ors, then switched to the back suppress and pervert facts, with * $ * the Perfect Circle foundry. holidays a year, three weeks vacation after seven atized: “ ‘Five or six’ persons struck Perfect Circle Corp. foun­ page the next two days when a touching concern for justifying VOLUME AUTO SALES are forcing drastic years, and a hospital and welfare plan. were reported shot today in a The falsifications are glaring. dry here yesterday after a march some hard facts broke through * * * the corporation, while smearing changes in retail sales practices, writes Joseph wild gun battle and huge dem­ Actually the shooting originated of 5,000 shooting sympathy dem­ the surface. labor. The treatment by the cap­ Lofitus in the New York Times. The vicious battle CHEMICAL AND GERM WARFARE have a onstration at the Perfect Circle not with the strikers, but with onstrators left eight persons During the Thirties, the bosses italist press of the Perfect Circle by the auto giants fo r supremacy has led to the proper place in m ilitary planning, a committee to foundry here. Demonstrators scabs inside the plant, as ad­ wounded, none seriously.” used the Mohawk Valley For­ strike, its crimes of commission emergence of the high volume auto “ super­ recommend measures to improve the effectiveness were reported threatening to mitted by Clyde Hoffman, Per­ mula to smash strikes. Accord­ KEY SENTENCE DISAPPEARS and omission, are part of an market.” Old type dealers find they cannot charge of the Army Chemical Corp reported. “ Recogni­ dynamite the plant unless non- fect Circle attorney. No shots ing to National Labor Relations their usual markups, and are protesting to the tion must be given to these weapons as having strikers left the foundry within were exchanged between police The next AP version somer­ Board charges, Remington Rand, exhibit, exposing its fraudulent National Automobile Dealers Association. Many unique potential in warfare without associate« an hour.” and demonstrators. Union and saulted, landing with, “ Shooting original crusader for this union- claim of impartiality. dealers who cannot maintain the present pace destruction of facilities and the attendant prob­ w ill be forced out. Manufacturers' sales- managers, lems of rehabilitation,’’ the committee said. Army out to beat all previous record's, are bearing down Secretary Brucker on Nov. 6 approved “im­ hard on dealers, and are not concerned if some plementation” of the report. get hurt. General Motors, fo r example, has offered * * * Workers’ Demands Championed JIM CROW FIRE CHIEF to buy back any cars the dealer's considered ex­ LIE DETECTOR TESTS for the Paterson, cessive but an NADA official noted “we have yet N. J., Police force were protested by the American to find a dealer who would dare to do if.” Civil Liberties Union. Police Chief Rutter claimed OFFERS RESIGNATION * * * that he had asked1 the men to take the test By Barbaria and James in S. F. “ voluntarily” to learn who stole a file cabinet By Thelma Clyde VETERANS BUYING HOMES are being from die police headquarters. By Joan Jenkins 16,000,000 strong and yet in­ ing (all under 20 years old) for LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 — In the face of mounting gouged by loan sharks on government guaranteed * * * creasingly more anti-labor legis­ using abusive language “ con­ SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30 — pressure, arrogant and cunning Fire Chief John H. Alder- housing loans, Rep. Patman of Texas has changed. STEEL WORKERS VOTES for vice president lation is being passed — Taft- ducive to inciting rio t or violence” Frank Barbaria and Frances The practice of exacting “flagrant mortgage dis­ of the CIO Steelworkers Union are now being Hartley, Smith Gag Act, Huan- — they called a scab a scab. One son this week made a surprise move in his determined and James have been conducting a counts” adds from $600 to $1,000 to the cost of a tallied by locals all over the country. First returns phrey-Butler Acts — and in most of them was also arrested fo r well organized fight to maintain®------working man’s campaign in the $12,000 bouse. The racket works this way: Lenders and unofficial estimates show that President cases passed with a m ajority of shoving. She said, the cop told her segregation in the ' Los Angeles the Los Angeles Fire Depart­ San Francisco municipal election. buy the government guaranteed loan fo r less than McDonald’s man Howard Hague is winning by a Democratic votes. Out of 18 states to stop, so she stopped, blocking Fire Department. He tearfully ment w ill continue. The demand Running for mayor and super­ its face amount. Interest rates are set up to nine 2 Vi to 1 maigin. Joseph MoLony who opposed that passed right to work laws, the pickets who. were walking announced to a press confer­ of rthe National Association for visor respectively, they have percent even though Veterans Administration Hague was the firs t opposition candidate to run which we call right-to-scab laws, behind her and also blocking the ence on Monday his intention the Advancement of Colored carried their campaign into the loans are not supposed to exceed four and one half against the top leadership of the Steelwoi'kers 14 are Democratic controlled.” On way of a scab. to retire not later than Jan. 1, People and several local unions percent. Union. union halls and the organizations his support of proposition “ N” he Mrs. James presented the same 1956, complaining, “it is very that Alderson be removed has of minority groups. stated that he not only supported hard-hitting line, that has been apparent to me that I have lost been persistently ignored by the One of the most impressive it, but had been calling for a carried through the w'hole election the confidence of the Board of Board of Fire Commissioners, things about accompanying the 30-hour week at 40-hours’ pay for — a break with the bass parties, Fire Commissioners.” which is appointed by the Mayor candidates to the unions is tht years. A t this statement, there an independent Labor Party, a 30- Alderson’s press conference and approved by the City Coun­ CHRISTMAS BOOK SALE large number of workers who was tumultuous applause. hour week for 40-hours’ pay, city- followed on the heels of an in­ cil. (Use this ad as your order form) remember them from past cam­ Mr. Barbaria pointed out that wide and national FEPC, low cost quiry into charges of abuse and As late as Nov. 1, Commission paigns; “ You’ve been here three those who spoke for FEPC at the housing, and child-care centers for President G. William Shea stat­ THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEGEL by W. T. Stacs harrassment made by three of THE CASE OF THE LEGLESS VETERAN by or four times before — I remem­ working mothers. ed that he and two other com­ — the best exposition of the HegeLian dialectic. NAACP meeting have been silent six “integrated” firemen recent­ Janies Kutcher — the story of one of the most ber you” or “It’s about time we A final election rally was held missioners had rejected Alder­ Out of .print for decades. cloth $3.98 □ everywhere else . , . especially at ly transferred to Engine Co. 30 important test cases against the witch hunt got a Socialist in there — I voted the union meetings. He showed on Oct. 29. Chairman Paul Cal­ son’s offer to retire at a meet­ paper $1.98 □ written by the victim. paper $1.00 □ from the two Jim Crow stations fo r you last time.” that the cause of discrimination houn showed the relation between 14 and 30. Firemen Carl B. ing the day before. “ A ll comJ DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE NEGRO THE JEWISH QUESTION — A MARXIST IN­ Barbaria and Frances James was a greater profit through the election campaign and the Cotlerell, Frank' J. Harrison and missioners present at that meet­ PEOPLE IN THE U.S. — edited by Herbert TERPRETATION by A. Leon — the pre­ have spoken to the Carpenters, division of the working class. party activity and education of Ernest Roberts had complained ing told the chief, Shea said, Ajptheker, 2 vols. (originally $9.00) $3.95 □ eminent book on the subject. Cloth $1.50 □ Ironworkers, Laborers', Garment (There was much applause at the members. He quoted from a through channels that they were “ not once but several times that JACK LONDON — AMERICAN REBEL, His paper $1.00 □ Cutters, Plasterers, NAACP, Culi­ this point although only about recent pamphlet, published by the subjected to abusive and ob­ they did not want him to retire nary and Shipscalers unions, Ne­ one-fifth of those present were revolutionary socialist Lanka under the existing circum­ Social Writings, by Philip Foner. Contains ex­ HOMAGE TO CATALONIA by George Orwell — scene language over the station’s Samasamaja Party of Ceylon, stances.” Despite overwhelming cellent biography, (originally $3.50) $1.95 □ a marvelous account of revolution and counter­ gro churches, etc. Negroes.) But the movement of public address system, that their Among the most interesting of history itself was forcing labor which stated that winning the evidence to the contrary, the revolution in Loyalist Spain. paper $1.25 □ sheets and pillowcases were SELECTED PROSE AND POETRY OF HEIN­ the meetings, that they attended to unite to find a common solu­ municipal elections was not soiled with filth and that they commissioners “ believed th e RICH HEINE — edited by Frederic Ewen. Con­ THE LOGIC OF MARXISM by William F. Warde were the CIO Communications tion to its problems. possible simply through aittemp- were denied the use of facilities problem of integration could tains excellent biography, (originally $6.00) — popular study course on Marxist philosophy, Workers who were on strike His talk ended on the need for ing to ride in on a wave of and comforts paid for out of the still be most quickly and effec­ $1.95 □ (mimeographed, 73 pages) $1.00 □ against the Pacific Telephone and a change beginning with the in­ changed popular Opinion, but due station kitty. tively solved by the chief engin­ eer himself.” THE NEGRO FAM ILY IN THE U.S. by E. WHAT IS ECONOMICS? by Rosa Luxemburg — Telegraph Co. at the time, and tervention into politics of the to consistent and conscious effort This persecution is reminiscent Two days later, Nov. 3, the Franklin Frazier. A brillia nt social study, first English translation, (mimeographed, 54 the CIO Carmen’s Union. The working class wth a Labor Party in the labor movement. of the experiences of Firemen “chief himself” threatened to (originally $5.00) $1.95 □ pages, staff covers) $1.00 □ members of the Carmen's Union — not this “friends of labor” line Frances James spoke on what James Chichester and Reynaldo had fought to get the 65,000 that has resulted in the political the SWP was attempting to withdraw his unofficial announce­ THE SIN OF THE PROPHET by Truman Nel­ * * * Lopez o n ’ their transfer to En­ signatures necessary for an in i­ hog tying of labor. achieve through an election cam­ gine Co. 46 earlier this year. ment. “ I f politics is injected into son. Novel of abolitionist Boston and the de­ paign in relation to the workers, Books by Leon Trotsky tiative proposal on the ballot Barbaria was listened to at­ The campaign against Chichester the selection of my successor I portation of fugitive slave Anthony Burns, which w ill give then a 35-hour the local branch’s political educa­ THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF THE COMIN­ tentively and his speech was in­ and Lopez can be considered to w ill not retire,” he declared. (originally $4.00) •' $1.00 □ week and better working condi­ tion and the party as a whole. TERN Vol. I (doth only) $3.50 □ terrupted five times with ap­ have been successful, since En­ NAACP attorneys, suspecting a Frank Barbaria spoke on the crafty maneuver, had warned on THE BENDING CROSS by Ray Ginger — best Vol. II (paper only) $3.00 □ tions. plause. gine Co. 46 is now again an all- Several hundred were present strategic goals of the Socialist Nov. 1, “The effect of Chief biography of Eugene V. Debs, (originally Both fo r $6.00 □ white station. Chichester, after and excited about their proposi­ TELEPHONE STRIKERS Workers Party and how things $5.00) $1.00D four days, was transferred back Alderson’s announcement remains THE LIVING THOUGHTS OF KARL MARX tion and taking pictures with During her speech to the Com­ would change under a socialist to be seen. This may be a grand­ INTERVIEW WITH INDIA by John Frederick to 14; Lopez, sticking it out for cloth $1.50 □ Reilly, the Democratic machine munications Workers, Frances government. stand play.” Miuehl — travel book — social study of modern three months without buckling, man whom they had endorsed James pointed out that a Work­ A number of friends attended I t would indeed be the height India, (originally $3.50) $1.00 □ THE REVOLUTION BETRAYED cloth $2.50 □ was transfeiTed to Station 78 and whom the Stalinists were ers and Farmers Government the rally which was one of our of folly to relax the pressure on in Cold Water Canyon, which is TWO FRIENDS OF MAN by Ralph Korngold — IN DEFENSE OF MARXISM cloth $2.50 □ throwing their weight behind. would encourage newspapers that most successful to date. city officials for Alderson’s re­ manned entirely by firemen William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, paper $2.00 □ Frank Barbaria opened with an supported the workers in their moval. The reluctant steps to­ abruptly transferred there for (originally $5.00) $1.00 □ THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION — introduction of himself and news slants, editorials, political ward integration that have been line, etc. They would have a police their refusal to support Alder- FERDINAND LASSALLE by David Footman — FROM OCTOBER TO BREST - LITOVSK Frances James (who was unable taken so fa r have resulted only force that supported the strikers son’s Jim Crow policy. an excellent biographv. (originally $3.50) paper $1.00 □ to attend that meeting) as work­ from persistent demands of the * * ♦ and arrested the scabs instead of Two of the three white fire ­ $ 1.00 □ ing-class candidates running on a NAACP supported by other sec­ working-class program and en­ arresting the strikers. America’s men friendly to Lopez were THE .STRUGGLE FOR A PROLETARIAN tions of the community. THE NEGRO GHETTO by Robert Weaver — a dorsed by the Socialist Workers Three young women strikers transferred out of Station 46 study of segregated housing, (originally $3.75) PARTY by Janies P. Cannon. cloth $2.50 □ had been arrested that very moni- and the third, Keith Kenworthy, paper $2.00 □ Party. He struck at the sup­ $ 1.00 □ posedly non-biased character of Road to then Acting Chief, was suspend­ ed for six months for “insub­ Chicago Meeting KARL MARX AND THE CLOSE OF HIS HISTORY OF AMERICAN TROTSKYISM by the election and showed that ordination” by the Board of SYSTEM by Bohm-Bawerk, with a reply by James P. Cannon. cloth $2.75 □ every candidate running belonged • NEW YORK Rights. 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